speaker,background,speech,type,gender,debate,day,order
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,1,1
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator, good evening to you.",Moderator,female,1,1,2
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Thank you. Good to be here.,Candidate,female,1,1,3
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,4
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,1,1,5
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,female,1,1,6
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,female,1,1,7
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,8
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,9
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,10
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,11
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,12
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"My own dad and my sister got their first degrees with community college. There's many paths to success, as well as certifications.",Candidate,female,1,1,13
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Secondly, 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,14
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,15
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"That's time, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,1,16
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,17
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,18
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,19
Beto O'Rourke,(SPEAKING IN SPANISH),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,20
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,21
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"A 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 . . .",Candidate,male,1,1,22
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Congressman O'Rourke . . .,Moderator,female,1,1,23
Beto O'Rourke,NA,That's how we each have a voice in our democracy and make this economy work for everybody.,Candidate,male,1,1,24
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Congressman, that's time, sir.",Moderator,female,1,1,25
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,26
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,27
Beto O'Rourke,NA,I would support a tax rate and a tax code that is fair to everyone. Tax capital at the same right . . .,Candidate,male,1,1,28
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Seventy percent?,Moderator,female,1,1,29
Beto O'Rourke,NA,. . . that you - you tax ordinary income. Take that corporate tax rate up to 28 percent. You would generate the revenues . . .,Candidate,male,1,1,30
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"okay, that's time.",Moderator,female,1,1,31
Beto O'Rourke,NA,. . . you need to pay for the programs we're talking about.,Candidate,male,1,1,32
Savannah Guthrie,NA,That's time. Thank you.,Moderator,female,1,1,33
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,34
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,35
Cory Booker,NA,We 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.,Candidate,male,1,1,36
Cory Booker,NA,One 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.,Candidate,male,1,1,37
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,38
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,39
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,40
Cory Booker,NA,"At 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 . . .",Candidate,male,1,1,41
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"That's time, sir.",Moderator,female,1,1,42
Cory Booker,NA,We need to have someone that's a champion for them.,Candidate,male,1,1,43
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator Warren, I mentioned you . . .",Moderator,female,1,1,44
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,45
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Are you picking winners and losers?,Moderator,female,1,1,46
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,47
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And it helps constrict real innovation and growth in this economy.,Candidate,female,1,1,48
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,49
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,50
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,1,1,51
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,52
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,53
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,54
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,55
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,56
Julian Castro,NA,And also pursue legislation so that women are paid equal pay for equal work in this country. It's past time that we did that.,Candidate,male,1,1,57
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,58
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,59
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, thank you. I want to put the same question to Congresswoman Gabbard. Your thoughts on equal pay?",Moderator,male,1,1,60
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,61
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,62
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,63
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,64
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,65
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,66
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,67
Bill de Blasio,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,68
Bill de Blasio,NA,"This 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. (APPLAUSE)",Candidate,male,1,1,69
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Congressman Delaney, do you agree?",Moderator,male,1,1,70
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,71
John Delaney,NA,"Then 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,72
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,73
John Delaney,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,74
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Thank you. Governor Inslee, how would you address income inequality?",Moderator,male,1,1,75
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,76
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,77
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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 hash at McDonald's.",Candidate,male,1,1,78
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,79
Jay Inslee,NA,"Carpenters, IBEW 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 . . .",Candidate,male,1,1,80
Jay Inslee,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,81
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,82
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,83
Tim Ryan,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,1,1,84
Tim Ryan,NA,"The 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 . . .",Candidate,male,1,1,85
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,86
Tim Ryan,NA,. . . and manufacture those here in the United States.,Candidate,male,1,1,87
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator Warren, are they coming back? Are these jobs coming back?",Moderator,male,1,1,88
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,89
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,90
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,91
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,92
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,93
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,94
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We can do this.,Candidate,female,1,1,95
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,96
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,97
Lester Holt,NA,"All 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?",Moderator,male,1,1,98
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,99
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,100
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,101
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"For 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,102
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,103
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,104
Lester Holt,NA,Your time is up. Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,105
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,106
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,107
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, yes. I'm with Bernie on Medicare for all. And let me tell you why.",Candidate,female,1,1,108
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,109
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,110
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,1,1,111
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,112
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,113
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,114
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,115
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,116
Beto O'Rourke,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,1,117
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,118
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,119
Lester Holt,NA,Your time is up.,Moderator,male,1,1,120
Beto O'Rourke,NA,We preserve choice by making sure everybody has care.,Candidate,male,1,1,121
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,122
Beto O'Rourke,NA,No. I think the choice is fundamental to our ability to get everybody cared for...,Candidate,male,1,1,123
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,1,1,124
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"That's right. So for those for whom it's not working, they can choose Medicare. For the...",Candidate,male,1,1,125
Beto O'Rourke,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,126
Bill de Blasio,NA,Congressman...,Candidate,male,1,1,127
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... who I listen to...,Candidate,male,1,1,128
Bill de Blasio,NA,... you've got to start by acknowledging the system is not working for people.,Candidate,male,1,1,129
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... they're able to keep them.,Candidate,male,1,1,130
Bill de Blasio,NA,Why are you defending private insurance to begin with?,Candidate,male,1,1,131
John Delaney,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,132
John Delaney,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,133
John Delaney,NA,"I 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?",Candidate,male,1,1,134
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,135
John Delaney,NA,"And 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?",Candidate,male,1,1,136
John Delaney,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,1,1,137
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,138
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,139
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,140
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,I also think that...,Candidate,female,1,1,141
Lester Holt,NA,Senator...,Moderator,male,1,1,142
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,143
Lester Holt,NA,"Congresswoman, Congresswoman, thanks.",Moderator,male,1,1,144
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,145
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,146
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,147
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,148
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,149
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,150
Cory Booker,NA,"Literally, the overhead for insurance 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...",Candidate,male,1,1,151
Lester Holt,NA,"Your time is up, Senator.",Moderator,male,1,1,152
Cory Booker,NA,... which is every American having health care.,Candidate,male,1,1,153
Cory Booker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,154
Lester Holt,NA,"Time is up, Senator. I want to...",Moderator,male,1,1,155
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,156
Lester Holt,NA,"I want to move back, if I can, to Congresswoman Gabbard...",Moderator,male,1,1,157
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,158
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,159
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,160
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,161
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It's time for us to make families come first.,Candidate,female,1,1,162
Jay Inslee,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,1,163
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,164
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,165
Lester Holt,NA,Your time...,Moderator,male,1,1,166
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,167
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, I want to get you...",Moderator,male,1,1,168
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,169
Unknown,NA,That's a false claim.,Moderator,unknown,1,1,170
Lester Holt,NA,I am fascinated by this. Senator -- Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,1,1,171
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,172
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,173
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,174
Amy Klobuchar,NA,So I think it is a beginning and the way you start and the way you move to universal health care.,Candidate,female,1,1,175
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,176
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,177
Julian Castro,NA,"Yes, it would. I don't believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice.",Candidate,male,1,1,178
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,179
Julian Castro,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,180
Julian Castro,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,1,1,181
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,182
Julian Castro,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,183
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Warren, would you put limits on -- any limits on abortion?",Moderator,male,1,1,184
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,185
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,186
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,1,1,187
Lester Holt,NA,"Your time is up, Senator.",Moderator,male,1,1,188
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We now have an America where most people support Roe v. Wade. We need to make that a federal law.,Candidate,female,1,1,189
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, thank you. Jose?",Moderator,male,1,1,190
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,191
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,192
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,193
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, how would you deal with it?",Moderator,male,1,1,194
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,195
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,196
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Unless 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,197
Lester Holt,NA,I know immigration is on a lot of your minds here.,Moderator,male,1,1,198
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,199
Lester Holt,NA,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.,Moderator,male,1,1,200
Lester Holt,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,201
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,202
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"We 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.",Moderator,male,1,1,203
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Secretary Castro, if you were president today, hoy, what would you specifically do?",Moderator,male,1,1,204
Julian Castro,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,1,1,205
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,206
Julian Castro,NA,"... watching that image of Oscar and his daughter, Valeria, is heartbreaking. It should also piss us all off.",Candidate,male,1,1,207
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,208
Julian Castro,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,209
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"On day one. Sorry, I'm just going to ask...",Moderator,male,1,1,210
Jose Diaz-Balart,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,211
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,212
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,213
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,214
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator Booker, what would you do on day one? And this is a situation that the next president will inherit.",Moderator,male,1,1,215
Cory Booker,NA,"Yes. (SPEAKING IN SPANISH) 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,216
Cory Booker,NA,Number two...,Candidate,male,1,1,217
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,218
Cory Booker,NA,".... 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,219
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,220
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,221
Cory Booker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,222
Julian Castro,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,223
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,224
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,225
Unknown,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,unknown,1,1,226
Unknown,NA,Jose...,Moderator,unknown,1,1,227
Julian Castro,NA,And so I want to challenge every single candidate on this stage to support the repeal of Section 1325.,Candidate,male,1,1,228
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,229
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Thirty seconds.,Moderator,male,1,1,230
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,231
Cory Booker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,232
Bill de Blasio,NA,We have to change the discussion about in this country...,Candidate,male,1,1,233
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Mayor?,Moderator,male,1,1,234
Bill de Blasio,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,235
Bill de Blasio,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,236
Bill de Blasio,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,237
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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 corporations who created this mess to begin with. And remind people we're all in this together.",Candidate,male,1,1,238
Bill de Blasio,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,239
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"If I could, I'm sorry. (SPEAKING IN SPANISH) What would you do, Congressman, day one at the White House??",Moderator,male,1,1,240
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"(SPEAKING IN SPANISH) 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...",Candidate,male,1,1,241
Beto O'Rourke,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,242
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... and we would not criminally prosecute any family who is fleeing violence and persecution...,Candidate,male,1,1,243
Beto O'Rourke,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,244
Julian Castro,NA,... repeal of Section 1325.,Candidate,male,1,1,245
Beto O'Rourke,NA,We would make sure...,Candidate,male,1,1,246
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Secretary, let him finish. And I will give you...",Moderator,male,1,1,247
Jose Diaz-Balart,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,248
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,But let him finish. Let him finish.,Moderator,male,1,1,249
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,250
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,251
Jose Diaz-Balart,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,252
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Secretary, I'll give you 30 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,1,253
Julian Castro,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,1,254
Julian Castro,NA,"Some 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,255
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,256
Julian Castro,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,257
Julian Castro,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,1,1,258
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,259
Jose Diaz-Balart,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,260
Julian Castro,NA,... then it might as well be the same policy.,Candidate,male,1,1,261
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,262
Julian Castro,NA,I'm not talking about -- I'm not talking about the ones that are seeking asylum.,Candidate,male,1,1,263
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"If you're fleeing -- if you're fleeing desperation, then I want to make sure...",Candidate,male,1,1,264
Julian Castro,NA,I'm talking about -- I'm talking about everybody else.,Candidate,male,1,1,265
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... I want to make sure you are treated with respect.,Candidate,male,1,1,266
Julian Castro,NA,I'm still talking about everybody else.,Candidate,male,1,1,267
Beto O'Rourke,NA,But you're looking at just one small part of this. I'm talking about a comprehensive rewrite of our immigration laws.,Candidate,male,1,1,268
Julian Castro,NA,That's not true.,Candidate,male,1,1,269
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,270
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,271
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,272
Julian Castro,NA,"But let me tell you what: Section 18, title 18 of the U.S. code, title 21 and title 22, already cover human trafficking.",Candidate,male,1,1,273
Julian Castro,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,274
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,275
Julian Castro,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,276
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"This is an issue that we should and could be talking about for a long time, and we will for a long time.",Moderator,male,1,1,277
John Delaney,NA,Can we talk about the conditions about why people are coming here?,Candidate,male,1,1,278
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Let's -- Lester -- Lester -- I'm sorry, Savannah -- I know, it's just -- we could go on.",Moderator,male,1,1,279
John Delaney,NA,"But rather than talk about specific provisions, we really have to talk about why these people are coming to our country...",Candidate,male,1,1,280
Savannah Guthrie,NA,You'll get your chance.,Moderator,female,1,1,281
John Delaney,NA,... and what we're going to do to actually make a difference in these countries.,Candidate,male,1,1,282
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Congressman, you'll get your chance. Let's continue the discussion.",Moderator,female,1,1,283
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Senator Klobuchar...,Moderator,female,1,1,284
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,1,1,285
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,286
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,287
Amy Klobuchar,NA,What 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.,Candidate,female,1,1,288
Amy Klobuchar,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,1,1,289
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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 doubt down by $158 billion.",Candidate,female,1,1,290
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Senator...,Moderator,female,1,1,291
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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.,Candidate,female,1,1,292
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator, that's time. Thank you.",Moderator,female,1,1,293
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,294
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Congressman Ryan, same question. Should it be a crime to illegally cross the border? Or should it be a civil offense only?",Moderator,female,1,1,295
Tim Ryan,NA,"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 dealing drugs and other things. That's already established in the law. So there's no need to repeat it.",Candidate,male,1,1,296
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,297
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,298
Tim Ryan,NA,"We've got to tell this president that is not a sign of strength, Mr. President. That is a sign of weakness.",Candidate,male,1,1,299
Tim Ryan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,300
Tim Ryan,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,301
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,302
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,303
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,304
Cory Booker,NA,"Donald 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,305
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,306
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,1,307
Jay Inslee,NA,There is no reason...,Candidate,male,1,1,308
Jay Inslee,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,309
Savannah Guthrie,NA,What will you do with the families that will be here?,Moderator,female,1,1,310
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,311
Jay Inslee,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,1,1,312
Jay Inslee,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,1,1,313
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,314
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,315
Jay Inslee,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,316
Lester Holt,NA,We're going to switch to another topic now. We've got a lot to get to. Let's...,Moderator,male,1,1,317
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,318
John Delaney,NA,My grandfather was actually separated from his family when he came to this country.,Candidate,male,1,1,319
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,320
Lester Holt,NA,"I'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?",Moderator,male,1,1,321
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,322
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,323
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,324
Cory Booker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,325
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,326
Unknown,NA,"Yes, it was.",Moderator,unknown,1,1,327
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,328
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,329
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,330
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,331
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,332
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,1,1,333
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, your time is up.",Moderator,male,1,1,334
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... foreign policy in our bathrobe at 5:00 in the morning, which is what he does.",Candidate,female,1,1,335
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,336
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,337
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,338
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,339
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,340
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,341
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,342
Lester Holt,NA,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?,Moderator,male,1,1,343
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,344
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,345
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Hey, but wait a minute...",Candidate,male,1,1,346
Bill de Blasio,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,347
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"... 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.",Moderator,female,1,1,348
Savannah Guthrie,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,349
Lester Holt,NA,"And welcome back, everyone, to the first Democratic presidential debate from the Arsht Center in Miami.",Moderator,male,1,1,350
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"And as we continue the questioning, time to get more members of our team in the mix.",Moderator,female,1,1,351
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"So right now, let's turn it over to Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow. Take it away.",Moderator,male,1,1,352
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,353
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,1,354
Chuck Todd,NA,We can do that.,Moderator,male,1,1,355
Chuck Todd,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,356
Chuck Todd,NA,"By the way, hi, Rachel.",Moderator,male,1,1,357
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Hi, Chuck.",Moderator,female,1,1,358
Chuck Todd,NA,How are you doing?,Moderator,male,1,1,359
Rachel Maddow,NA,Good.,Moderator,female,1,1,360
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,361
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,362
Unknown,NA,Their mikes are on.,Moderator,unknown,1,1,363
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,364
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Control room, we've got...",Moderator,female,1,1,365
Rachel Maddow,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,366
Chuck Todd,NA,"We had the -- I think we heard -- yeah, we have the audience audio. All right.",Moderator,male,1,1,367
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,368
Chuck Todd,NA,"Many 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?",Moderator,male,1,1,369
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,370
Rachel Maddow,NA,What's happening?,Moderator,female,1,1,371
Chuck Todd,NA,We are hearing our colleague's audio. If the control room could turn off the mikes...,Moderator,male,1,1,372
Chuck Todd,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,373
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,374
Chuck Todd,NA,"Yeah, if the control room could turn off the mikes of our previous moderators, we will...",Moderator,male,1,1,375
Rachel Maddow,NA,"You know, we've prepared for everything.",Moderator,female,1,1,376
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,377
Chuck Todd,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,378
Chuck Todd,NA,We believe we have the technical difficulties fixed.,Moderator,male,1,1,379
Rachel Maddow,NA,Never say that.,Moderator,female,1,1,380
Chuck Todd,NA,Never say never. But we will march forward here and I will lean forward here a little bit.,Moderator,male,1,1,381
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,1,1,382
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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?",Candidate,female,1,1,383
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,female,1,1,384
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Gun violence is a national health emergency in this country. And we need to treat it like that.,Candidate,female,1,1,385
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,386
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,387
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,388
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,389
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,390
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator Booker, you have a program...",Moderator,male,1,1,391
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We need to fight for our children.,Candidate,female,1,1,392
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,393
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Booker, you have a federal government buyback program in your plan. How is that going to work?",Moderator,male,1,1,394
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,395
Cory Booker,NA,"For 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,396
Cory Booker,NA,"This is something that I'm tired of. And I'm tired of hearing people all, they have to offer is thoughts and prayers.",Candidate,male,1,1,397
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,398
Cory Booker,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,399
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker.",Moderator,male,1,1,400
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,1,401
Rachel Maddow,NA,"As 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?",Moderator,female,1,1,402
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,403
Julian Castro,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,404
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,405
Julian Castro,NA,"And the activists of Parkland, folks from Moms Demand who have risen up across the United States and inspired so many people...",Candidate,male,1,1,406
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,407
Julian Castro,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,408
Chuck Todd,NA,"Secretary Castro, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,1,409
Tim Ryan,NA,"Rachel, I have something to add to this briefly, because...",Candidate,male,1,1,410
Rachel Maddow,NA,We'll give you -- it'll be 30 seconds for a follow-up on that question -- on that answer from Secretary Castro. Congressman Ryan?,Moderator,female,1,1,411
Tim Ryan,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,1,412
Tim Ryan,NA,"Ninety 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,413
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Congressman Ryan.",Moderator,female,1,1,414
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,415
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,416
Beto O'Rourke,NA,We 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.,Candidate,male,1,1,417
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,418
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Red 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,419
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,420
Beto O'Rourke,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,421
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman O'Rourke.",Moderator,male,1,1,422
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,423
Chuck Todd,NA,"Hang 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?",Moderator,male,1,1,424
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, that's not confiscation. You could give them the offer to buy back their gun.",Candidate,female,1,1,425
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,426
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,427
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"You 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...",Candidate,female,1,1,428
Chuck Todd,NA,"All right, Senator, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,1,429
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... it's the best thing that ever happened. We need to get...,Candidate,female,1,1,430
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,431
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator, thank you. Senator, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,1,432
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Booker, let me go to you on another matter actually.",Moderator,female,1,1,433
Chuck Todd,NA,We've got to...,Moderator,male,1,1,434
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,435
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,436
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,437
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,438
Cory Booker,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,439
Cory Booker,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,440
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,441
Rachel Maddow,NA,Mayor De Blasio...,Moderator,female,1,1,442
Rachel Maddow,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,443
John Delaney,NA,"Rachel, we have to actually...",Candidate,male,1,1,444
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congressman Delaney, you'll have some time in a moment on this issue.",Moderator,female,1,1,445
Rachel Maddow,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,446
John Delaney,NA,This issue is related...,Candidate,male,1,1,447
John Delaney,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,448
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,449
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,450
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,451
Bill de Blasio,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,452
Bill de Blasio,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,453
Bill de Blasio,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,454
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,1,1,455
Bill de Blasio,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,456
Rachel Maddow,NA,That's time.,Moderator,female,1,1,457
Rachel Maddow,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,458
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,459
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I do.,Candidate,female,1,1,460
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,461
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I do.,Candidate,female,1,1,462
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,463
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,464
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"They 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,465
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Well, 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,466
Chuck Todd,NA,I'm going to get to -- I'm going to get a couple of you in here.,Moderator,male,1,1,467
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,468
Chuck Todd,NA,"I'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?",Moderator,male,1,1,469
John Delaney,NA,I think we need to get things done. That's why I believe we need to operate in a bipartisan manner.,Candidate,male,1,1,470
John Delaney,NA,"Listen, 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,471
John Delaney,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,472
John Delaney,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,473
Chuck Todd,NA,OK.,Moderator,male,1,1,474
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,475
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,476
John Delaney,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,477
Chuck Todd,NA,I promised...,Moderator,male,1,1,478
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,479
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,480
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,481
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,482
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,483
Cory Booker,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,male,1,1,484
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker. Rachel has got the next question.",Moderator,male,1,1,485
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,486
Rachel Maddow,NA,"We are going to -- hold on. Governor, you're going to be happy with where we go.",Moderator,female,1,1,487
Chuck Todd,NA,Just give us a second.,Moderator,male,1,1,488
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Governor Inslee, the next question is to you. You got me?",Moderator,female,1,1,489
Jay Inslee,NA,Rachel.,Candidate,male,1,1,490
Jay Inslee,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,491
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,1,492
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Let'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?",Moderator,female,1,1,493
Jay Inslee,NA,"Yes, first by taking away the filibuster from Mitch McConnell, to start with. We have to do that.",Candidate,male,1,1,494
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,495
Jay Inslee,NA,"Look 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,496
Jay Inslee,NA,"And we have to understand, this is a climate crisis, an emergency (OFF-MIKE) this 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,497
Jay Inslee,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,498
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Governor Inslee, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,1,499
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,500
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,501
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,502
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,503
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,504
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,505
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,506
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,507
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,508
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,509
Julian Castro,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,510
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,511
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,512
Julian Castro,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,1,1,513
Julian Castro,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,514
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,1,515
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,516
Tim Ryan,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,517
Tim Ryan,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,518
Tim Ryan,NA,"But 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...",Candidate,male,1,1,519
Tim Ryan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,520
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman Ryan.",Moderator,male,1,1,521
Tim Ryan,NA,All I'm saying here...,Candidate,male,1,1,522
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman Ryan.",Moderator,male,1,1,523
Julian Castro,NA,"So, Chuck, Chuck...",Candidate,male,1,1,524
Julian Castro,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,525
Tim Ryan,NA,"All I'm saying is here, if we don't address that fundamental prob with our connection to workers -- white, black, brown, gay, straight -- working-class people...",Candidate,male,1,1,526
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,1,1,527
Tim Ryan,NA,"... none of this is going to get done, Chuck.",Candidate,male,1,1,528
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,male,1,1,529
Unknown,NA,Chuck...,Moderator,unknown,1,1,530
Unknown,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,unknown,1,1,531
Chuck Todd,NA,"I want to you -- we're going to keep moving. Congressman Delaney, I'm going to get to you...",Moderator,male,1,1,532
John Delaney,NA,This is -- I introduced the only bipartisan carbon tax bill...,Candidate,male,1,1,533
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thirty seconds -- all right, 30 seconds, go.",Moderator,male,1,1,534
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,535
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,536
John Delaney,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,537
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,1,1,538
John Delaney,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,1,539
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you. Congressman, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,1,540
John Delaney,NA,"Because Republicans in Florida, they actually care about this issue.",Candidate,male,1,1,541
Chuck Todd,NA,OK. Thank you very much.,Moderator,male,1,1,542
John Delaney,NA,This has got to be our way forward if we're actually serious about this issue.,Candidate,male,1,1,543
John Delaney,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,544
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,545
Chuck Todd,NA,"Congresswoman 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?",Moderator,male,1,1,546
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,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.,Candidate,female,1,1,547
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,548
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,My 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.,Candidate,female,1,1,549
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Maybe 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,550
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I've served with LGBTQ service members, 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,551
Cory Booker,NA,But it's not enough.,Candidate,male,1,1,552
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman Gabbard.",Moderator,male,1,1,553
Cory Booker,NA,"It's not enough. If I can add to this, it's very important.",Candidate,male,1,1,554
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thirty seconds, Senator.",Moderator,male,1,1,555
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,556
Cory Booker,NA,"We do not talk enough about trans Americans, especially African-American trans Americans...",Candidate,male,1,1,557
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,558
Cory Booker,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,559
Cory Booker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,560
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,561
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,562
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,563
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,564
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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...",Candidate,female,1,1,565
Rachel Maddow,NA,"That's time, Senator.",Moderator,female,1,1,566
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,567
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,1,568
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,569
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Is 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?",Moderator,female,1,1,570
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,571
Julian Castro,NA,"Well, 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,572
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Secretary Castro, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,1,573
Chuck Todd,NA,"Let me go over to Lester Holt, who's got a question, I believe a viewer question.",Moderator,male,1,1,574
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,575
Lester Holt,NA,"He 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.",Moderator,male,1,1,576
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,577
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,578
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"He'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.",Candidate,male,1,1,579
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,580
Bill de Blasio,NA,But what about the War Powers Act?,Candidate,male,1,1,581
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,1,582
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,583
Bill de Blasio,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,584
Bill de Blasio,NA,"And, 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...",Candidate,male,1,1,585
Bill de Blasio,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,586
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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 service members 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?",Moderator,female,1,1,587
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,588
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,589
Tim Ryan,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,590
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,1,1,591
Tim Ryan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,592
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, I'm going to give you 30 seconds, actually, to jump off what he said. He described engagement as the problem.",Moderator,female,1,1,593
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,594
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,595
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,596
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,1,1,597
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,598
Tulsi Gabbard,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,599
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,600
Tim Ryan,NA,Thank you. You're a very good man. I appreciate that.,Candidate,male,1,1,601
Chuck Todd,NA,Fair enough. I hear what you're saying. She invoked your name.,Moderator,male,1,1,602
Tim Ryan,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,1,1,603
Tim Ryan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,604
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,The Taliban was there long before we came in. They're going to be there long before we leave.,Candidate,female,1,1,605
Tim Ryan,NA,"And they were -- yeah, exactly. Well, we were.",Candidate,male,1,1,606
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,607
Tim Ryan,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,1,1,608
Tim Ryan,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,609
Tim Ryan,NA,... we have an obligation...,Candidate,male,1,1,610
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/11. Al Qaida did.,Candidate,female,1,1,611
Tim Ryan,NA,"Well, I -- I understand...",Candidate,male,1,1,612
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,613
Tim Ryan,NA,I understand that. The Taliban...,Candidate,male,1,1,614
Tim Ryan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,615
Chuck Todd,NA,"Go ahead, Congressman. Finish up, 10 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,1,616
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,617
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,You know who's protecting Al Qaida right now? It's Saudi Arabia.,Candidate,female,1,1,618
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,619
John Delaney,NA,Could you repeat the question?,Candidate,male,1,1,620
Chuck Todd,NA,Greatest geopolitical threat to the United States right now. Congressman Delaney?,Moderator,male,1,1,621
John Delaney,NA,"Well, the biggest geopolitical challenge is China. But the biggest geopolitical threat remains nuclear weapons.",Candidate,male,1,1,622
Chuck Todd,NA,OK.,Moderator,male,1,1,623
John Delaney,NA,"Right, so those are -- you know, those are different questions.",Candidate,male,1,1,624
Chuck Todd,NA,I got you. Totally get it. Go ahead. Governor Inslee?,Moderator,male,1,1,625
Jay Inslee,NA,The biggest threat to the security of the United States is Donald Trump. And there's no question about it.,Candidate,male,1,1,626
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,627
Chuck Todd,NA,Congresswoman Gabbard?,Moderator,male,1,1,628
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,The greatest...,Candidate,female,1,1,629
Chuck Todd,NA,Greatest geopolitical threat.,Moderator,male,1,1,630
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,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.,Candidate,female,1,1,631
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,1,1,632
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,1,1,633
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,634
Chuck Todd,NA,"OK, try to keep it at one -- slimmer than what we've been going here. One or two words.",Moderator,male,1,1,635
Beto O'Rourke,NA,Our existential threat is climate change. We have to confront it before it's too late.,Candidate,male,1,1,636
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,1,1,637
Jay Inslee,NA,Climate change.,Candidate,male,1,1,638
Chuck Todd,NA,Yeah. Senator Booker?,Moderator,male,1,1,639
Cory Booker,NA,Nuclear proliferation and climate change.,Candidate,male,1,1,640
Chuck Todd,NA,Secretary Castro?,Moderator,male,1,1,641
Julian Castro,NA,China and climate change.,Candidate,male,1,1,642
Chuck Todd,NA,Congressman Ryan?,Moderator,male,1,1,643
Tim Ryan,NA,"China, without a question. They're wiping us around the world economically.",Candidate,male,1,1,644
Chuck Todd,NA,And Mr. Mayor?,Moderator,male,1,1,645
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,646
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,647
Chuck Todd,NA,"Congressman 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?",Moderator,male,1,1,648
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Yes, and I'll tell you why.",Candidate,male,1,1,649
Chuck Todd,NA,"How, by the way? If the answer is yes.",Moderator,male,1,1,650
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"One 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,651
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,652
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,653
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman O'Rourke.",Moderator,male,1,1,654
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,655
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,1,656
John Delaney,NA,I guess there's always a first.,Candidate,male,1,1,657
Rachel Maddow,NA,Should he be?,Moderator,female,1,1,658
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,659
Rachel Maddow,NA,Conceded. On the issue of prosecution...,Moderator,female,1,1,660
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,661
John Delaney,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,male,1,1,662
John Delaney,NA,"You know, last year in our country, 80 percent of the money for start-up businesses went to 50 counties in this country.",Candidate,male,1,1,663
John Delaney,NA,"There'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...",Candidate,male,1,1,664
Rachel Maddow,NA,Understood.,Moderator,female,1,1,665
John Delaney,NA,... are actually what most Americans care about. They never ask about the Mueller Report.,Candidate,male,1,1,666
John Delaney,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,667
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congressman, thank you. Your time is up.",Moderator,female,1,1,668
John Delaney,NA,They never ask about it. They want to know how we're going to solve these problems.,Candidate,male,1,1,669
Rachel Maddow,NA,Your time's...,Moderator,female,1,1,670
Rachel Maddow,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,671
Chuck Todd,NA,Here's the thing. I still -- Senator...,Moderator,male,1,1,672
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,673
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,674
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,675
Chuck Todd,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,676
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,1,677
John Delaney,NA,Closing now?,Candidate,male,1,1,678
Lester Holt,NA,"Closing, 45 seconds. We could make -- we could go on.",Moderator,male,1,1,679
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,680
John Delaney,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,681
Lester Holt,NA,Your...,Moderator,male,1,1,682
John Delaney,NA,I just don't want to be your president to be your president.,Candidate,male,1,1,683
Lester Holt,NA,"Congressman, your 45 seconds is over.",Moderator,male,1,1,684
John Delaney,NA,I want to be your president to do the job.,Candidate,male,1,1,685
Lester Holt,NA,"Thank you, sir.",Moderator,male,1,1,686
John Delaney,NA,This is not about me. This is about getting America working again.,Candidate,male,1,1,687
Lester Holt,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,1,688
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,689
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Mayor De Blasio. Mayor, your closing statement.",Moderator,female,1,1,690
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,691
Bill de Blasio,NA,It 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.,Candidate,male,1,1,692
Bill de Blasio,NA,"These 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,693
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Thank you, Mayor De Blasio. Right on time.",Moderator,female,1,1,694
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,695
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Governor Inslee, 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,1,696
Jay Inslee,NA,"(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.",Candidate,male,1,1,697
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,698
Jay Inslee,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,699
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Governor, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,1,700
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,701
Chuck Todd,NA,"Congressman Ryan, your 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,1,702
Tim Ryan,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,1,703
Tim Ryan,NA,"They'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.",Candidate,male,1,1,704
Tim Ryan,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,705
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,1,1,706
Tim Ryan,NA,"I will only promise you one thing. When I walk into that Oval Office every morning, you will not be forgotten.",Candidate,male,1,1,707
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,1,1,708
Tim Ryan,NA,Your voice will be heard. Thank you.,Candidate,male,1,1,709
Tim Ryan,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,710
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, you have 45 seconds for your closing.",Moderator,female,1,1,711
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,712
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,713
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congresswoman, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,1,714
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,1,715
Lester Holt,NA,"Secretary Castro, you have 45 seconds, sir.",Moderator,male,1,1,716
Julian Castro,NA,"Me llamo Julian Castro, y estoy postolando por presidente de los Estados Unidos.",Candidate,male,1,1,717
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,718
Julian Castro,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,719
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,720
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,721
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,722
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, the floor is yours.",Moderator,female,1,1,723
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,1,724
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Secondly, 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,725
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,726
Amy Klobuchar,NA,But I can promise you this. I am going to govern with integrity. I'm going to (OFF-MIKE) I'm going to govern for you.,Candidate,female,1,1,727
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,1,1,728
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,(SPEAKING IN SPANISH),Moderator,male,1,1,729
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,1,730
Cory Booker,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,1,1,731
Cory Booker,NA,"Donald 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,732
Cory Booker,NA,It'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.,Candidate,male,1,1,733
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,1,734
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,1,735
Chuck Todd,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,1,736
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,737
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,1,1,738
Beto O'Rourke,NA,We'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.,Candidate,male,1,1,739
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,1,740
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,1,1,741
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Warren, you have 45 seconds for the final, final statement of the evening.",Moderator,female,1,1,742
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,1,1,743
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,744
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But 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.,Candidate,female,1,1,745
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,1,746
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,1,747
Savannah Guthrie,NA,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.,Moderator,female,1,1,748
Lester Holt,NA,"We certainly hope you will join us then. But for now, that concludes our coverage of this first Democratic debate from Miami. For Savannah, Jose, Chuck, and Rachel, I'm Lester Holt. Have a good night, everyone.",Moderator,male,1,1,749
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,1
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"You'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?",Moderator,female,1,2,2
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,3
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,4
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,5
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,6
Bernie Sanders,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,1,2,7
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,8
Bernie Sanders,NA,Every proposal that I have brought forth is fully paid for.,Candidate,male,1,2,9
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,2,10
Bernie Sanders,NA,"People who have health care under Medicare-for-all will have no premiums, no deductibles, no co-payments, no out-of-pocket expenses. Yes, they will pay more in taxes, but less in health care for what they get.",Candidate,male,1,2,11
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,12
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,1,2,13
Savannah Guthrie,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,14
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator Bennet, we're going to get to everybody, I promise.",Moderator,female,1,2,15
Michael Bennet,NA,"No, I'd like to say something.",Candidate,male,1,2,16
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,2,17
Joe Biden,NA,"What I meant by that is, look, Donald Trump thinks Wall Street built America.",Candidate,male,1,2,18
Joe Biden,NA,"Ordinary, 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 okay.",Candidate,male,1,2,19
Joe Biden,NA,"Too 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 straightforward. 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,20
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,21
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Vice President Biden, thank you. Senator Harris . ..",Moderator,female,1,2,22
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,23
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,2,24
Kamala Harris,NA,"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?",Candidate,female,1,2,25
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,26
Kamala Harris,NA,"Contributing at least $1 trillion to the debt of America, which middle-class families will pay for one way or another.",Candidate,female,1,2,27
Kamala Harris,NA,"Working 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,28
Kamala Harris,NA,"And on day one, I will repeal that tax bill that benefits the top 1 percent and the biggest corporations of America.",Candidate,female,1,2,29
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,30
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator Harris, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,31
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Governor 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""?",Moderator,female,1,2,32
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,33
John Hickenlooper,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,34
John Hickenlooper,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,35
John Hickenlooper,NA,We'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.,Candidate,male,1,2,36
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Governor, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,37
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator Sanders, I'll give you a chance to . ..",Moderator,female,1,2,38
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,39
Savannah Guthrie,NA,". . . to weigh in here. What is your response to those who say nominating a ""socialist"" would reelect Donald Trump?",Moderator,female,1,2,40
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,41
Bernie Sanders,NA,"He 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,42
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,43
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,44
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, 30 seconds.",Moderator,female,1,2,45
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,46
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,47
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Senator Gillibrand . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,48
Savannah Guthrie,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,49
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"So there need not be disagreement in the party because, in truth, we want healthy capitalism.",Candidate,female,1,2,50
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,51
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,We don't want corrupted capitalism.,Candidate,female,1,2,52
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Thank you. I want to be fair to all the candidates. Thank you.,Moderator,female,1,2,53
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,54
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,2,55
Michael Bennet,NA,Was that directed to me?,Candidate,male,1,2,56
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Yes, that was your quote.",Moderator,female,1,2,57
Michael Bennet,NA,That sounded like me. Thank you.,Candidate,male,1,2,58
Michael Bennet,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,59
Savannah Guthrie,NA,It was you.,Moderator,female,1,2,60
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,61
Michael Bennet,NA,"Where 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,62
Michael Bennet,NA,I believe we will get there much more quickly if we do that.,Candidate,male,1,2,63
Savannah Guthrie,NA,But wait . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,64
Michael Bennet,NA,Bernie . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,65
Michael Bennet,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,66
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,67
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Senator . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,68
Bernie Sanders,NA,Hold on.,Candidate,male,1,2,69
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,70
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"In Bernie's bill - in Bernie's bill, I wrote . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,71
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator, please, we are going to talk about health care at length, Senator, but for the moment, my colleague . ..",Moderator,female,1,2,72
Unknown,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,unknown,1,2,73
Savannah Guthrie,NA,. . . wants to continue the questions on the economy.,Moderator,female,1,2,74
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,75
Unknown,NA,Senator . ..,Moderator,unknown,1,2,76
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,77
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator, we will get to this.",Moderator,male,1,2,78
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,79
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,We will get to this.,Moderator,male,1,2,80
Bernie Sanders,NA,I just . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,81
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Before we do, I want to say hello and good evening, Buenas Noches, to Mayor Pete Buttigieg.",Moderator,male,1,2,82
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Buenas Noches. Gracias (UNTRANSLATED).,Candidate,male,1,2,83
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,(UNTRANSLATED).,Moderator,male,1,2,84
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Many of your colleagues onstage support free college. You do not. Why not?,Moderator,male,1,2,85
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,86
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,87
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,88
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, 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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,89
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,90
Pete Buttigieg,NA,". . . to your church and Little League, whether you went to college or not.",Candidate,male,1,2,91
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,92
Andrew Yang,NA,"Jose, I've got $100,000 in student loan debt myself.",Candidate,male,1,2,93
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Let me get to you in . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,94
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,95
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Mr. Yang, your - your signature policy is to give every adult in the United States $1,000 a month, no questions asked.",Moderator,male,1,2,96
Andrew Yang,NA,That's right.,Candidate,male,1,2,97
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,I think that's like $3.2 trillion a year. How would do you that?,Moderator,male,1,2,98
Andrew Yang,NA,I'm sorry?,Candidate,male,1,2,99
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,How would you do that.,Moderator,male,1,2,100
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,101
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,102
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,103
Andrew Yang,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,104
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,105
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,106
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"okay. 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?",Moderator,male,1,2,107
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,108
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,109
Eric Swalwell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,110
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,111
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Vice President, would you like to sing a torch song?",Moderator,male,1,2,112
Jose Diaz-Balart,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,113
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,114
Joe Biden,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,1,2,115
Joe Biden,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,1,2,116
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,117
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,118
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"As the youngest guy on the stage, I feel like I probably ought to contribute to the generational . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,119
Bernie Sanders,NA,"As part of Joe's generation, let me respond.",Candidate,male,1,2,120
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,121
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,Before we move on from education . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,122
Kirsten Gillibrand,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,123
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Please, please. Senator Sanders. And then I'll let . ..",Moderator,male,1,2,124
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,1,2,125
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,126
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator Harris - Senator Harris, I'm so sorry. We will allow all of you to speak. Senator Harris.",Moderator,male,1,2,127
Jose Diaz-Balart,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,128
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator Harris - please, we will let you all speak. Senator Harris.",Moderator,male,1,2,129
Jose Diaz-Balart,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,130
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,131
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,132
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,133
Kamala Harris,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,134
Kamala Harris,NA,"Well, yeah, people in America are working. They're working two and three jobs.",Candidate,female,1,2,135
Kamala Harris,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,136
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,137
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Thank you very much, Senator.",Moderator,male,1,2,138
Jose Diaz-Balart,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,139
Lester Holt,NA,"Yes, you have all - you've all expressed an interest in talking about health care. So let's talk about health care.",Moderator,male,1,2,140
Unknown,NA,"I'd like to say something, if I might.",Moderator,unknown,1,2,141
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,142
Lester Holt,NA,All right.,Moderator,male,1,2,143
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,144
Lester Holt,NA,"Kristin Gillibrand, Senator Gillibrand?",Moderator,male,1,2,145
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"Yeah, so now it's my turn.",Candidate,female,1,2,146
Michael Bennet,NA,Good.,Candidate,male,1,2,147
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,148
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,149
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,150
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,151
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, your time is up. I want to put that same question to Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,male,1,2,152
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,153
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,154
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,155
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,156
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,157
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,158
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,159
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,160
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,161
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,162
Joe Biden,NA,"The fact of the matter is that the quickest, fastest way to do it is build on Obamacare, to build on what we did.",Candidate,male,1,2,163
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,164
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,165
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,166
Lester Holt,NA,Vice president Biden . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,167
Joe Biden,NA,. . . and takes down Obamacare and any Republican who wants to get rid of Obamacare.,Candidate,male,1,2,168
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,169
Lester Holt,NA,"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 in those states, how would you implement it on a national level? How does this work?",Moderator,male,1,2,170
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,171
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,172
Bernie Sanders,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,173
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,174
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, Senator, I just have - I just have to follow up there. How do you implement it on a national level?",Moderator,male,1,2,175
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,176
Bernie Sanders,NA,I'm sorry?,Candidate,male,1,2,177
Lester Holt,NA,How do you implement it on a national level?,Moderator,male,1,2,178
Bernie Sanders,NA,okay.,Candidate,male,1,2,179
Lester Holt,NA,Given the fact that it's not succeeded and other states have tried?,Moderator,male,1,2,180
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,181
Lester Holt,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,182
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Ms. Williamson . ..",Moderator,male,1,2,183
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,184
Lester Holt,NA,"Ms. Williamson, this is a question for you.",Moderator,male,1,2,185
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,186
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,187
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,188
Marianne Williamson,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,189
Marianne Williamson,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,female,1,2,190
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,191
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,192
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Ms. Williamson, your time is expired.",Moderator,male,1,2,193
Marianne Williamson,NA,It has to do with food policies.,Candidate,female,1,2,194
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,195
Marianne Williamson,NA,It has to do with drug policies. It has to do with environment policies.,Candidate,female,1,2,196
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,197
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,198
Michael Bennet,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,199
Michael Bennet,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,1,2,200
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,201
Michael Bennet,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,202
Michael Bennet,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,203
Lester Holt,NA,"Let's go a little longer, but . ..",Moderator,male,1,2,204
Kamala Harris,NA,I'd like to add a point here.,Candidate,female,1,2,205
Lester Holt,NA,"But I want - but obviously, Senator Sanders, you get a response.",Moderator,male,1,2,206
Kamala Harris,NA,I'd like to add a point here.,Candidate,female,1,2,207
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Sanders, just respond to that.",Moderator,male,1,2,208
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Just very briefly, you know, Mike, Medicare is the most popular . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,209
Michael Bennet,NA,I agree.,Candidate,male,1,2,210
Bernie Sanders,NA,". . . 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,211
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,212
Kamala Harris,NA,. . . on this issue we have to think about how this affects real people.,Candidate,female,1,2,213
Kamala Harris,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,214
Lester Holt,NA,Senator Harris.,Moderator,male,1,2,215
Kamala Harris,NA,And the reality of how this affects real people is captured in a story that many of us heard and I will paraphrase.,Candidate,female,1,2,216
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,217
Kamala Harris,NA,That's what insurance companies are doing in America today.,Candidate,female,1,2,218
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,219
Savannah Guthrie,NA,We are going to continue this discussion. I wanted to . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,220
Savannah Guthrie,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,221
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Candidates, please. Candidates, please.",Moderator,female,1,2,222
Eric Swalwell,NA,I'm one of those parents. I was just in the emergency room. And I'm telling you . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,223
Unknown,NA,"Congressman, thank you.",Moderator,unknown,1,2,224
Eric Swalwell,NA,. . . we fight health insurance companies every single week.,Candidate,male,1,2,225
Unknown,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,unknown,1,2,226
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,227
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"okay. 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",Moderator,female,1,2,228
Savannah Guthrie,NA,government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.,Moderator,female,1,2,229
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,230
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"okay. Let me start with you, Mayor Buttigieg, why? Mayor Buttigieg, why?",Moderator,female,1,2,231
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,232
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,233
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,234
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,235
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,236
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,237
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Mayor, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,238
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,239
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Vice President Biden, I believe you said that your health care plan would not cover undocumented immigrants. Could you explain your position?",Moderator,female,1,2,240
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm sorry, I beg your pardon?",Candidate,male,1,2,241
Savannah Guthrie,NA,I believe at the show of hands you did not raise your hand. Did you raise your hand?,Moderator,female,1,2,242
Joe Biden,NA,"No, I did.",Candidate,male,1,2,243
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"okay. Sorry, sorry. So you said that they would be covered under your plan, which is different than Obamacare.",Moderator,female,1,2,244
Joe Biden,NA,Yes. But here's the thing . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,245
Savannah Guthrie,NA,Can you explain that change?,Moderator,female,1,2,246
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,247
Joe Biden,NA,"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 life span 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 life span.",Candidate,male,1,2,248
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,249
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,250
Joe Biden,NA,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?,Candidate,male,1,2,251
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,252
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,253
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,254
Lester Holt,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,255
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,256
Lester Holt,NA,Welcome back from Miami.,Moderator,male,1,2,257
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,258
Lester Holt,NA,Jose is going to lead off the questioning in this round.,Moderator,male,1,2,259
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,male,1,2,260
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator 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.",Moderator,male,1,2,261
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"On 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?",Moderator,male,1,2,262
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,263
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,264
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,265
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,266
Kamala Harris,NA,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 . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,267
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,268
Kamala Harris,NA,. . . of the private detention centers.,Candidate,female,1,2,269
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,270
Kamala Harris,NA,And I will ensure that this microphone that the president of the United States holds in her hand is used in a way . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,271
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,272
Kamala Harris,NA,". . . 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?",Candidate,female,1,2,273
Kamala Harris,NA,I will tell you. Because she has decided for that child to remain where they are is worse.,Candidate,female,1,2,274
Kamala Harris,NA,"But what does Donald Trump do? He says, ""Go back to where you came from.""",Candidate,female,1,2,275
Kamala Harris,NA,"That is not reflective of our America and our values, and it's got to end.",Candidate,female,1,2,276
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,277
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Governor Hickenlooper . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,278
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,279
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Governor Hickenlooper . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,280
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,281
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Governor Hickenlooper, day one, if you are . ..",Moderator,male,1,2,282
Marianne Williamson,NA,"Another thing, I . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,283
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Day one, at the White House, how do you respond?",Moderator,male,1,2,284
Marianne Williamson,NA,. . . deal with these - with these children?,Candidate,female,1,2,285
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,I - let me get to you in just a second.,Moderator,male,1,2,286
Marianne Williamson,NA,I'm sorry.,Candidate,female,1,2,287
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Governor, day one, thousands of men, women and children cross the border, asking for asylum, for a better life. What do you do?",Moderator,male,1,2,288
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"One - day one, hour one?",Moderator,male,1,2,289
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,290
John Hickenlooper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,291
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,292
John Hickenlooper,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,293
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Ms. Williamson?,Moderator,male,1,2,294
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,295
Marianne Williamson,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,296
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,297
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,298
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,299
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Congressman . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,300
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,301
Marianne Williamson,NA,"This 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 . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,302
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,303
Marianne Williamson,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,304
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, what would you do as president, with a reality?",Moderator,male,1,2,305
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,306
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,307
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,308
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,309
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,310
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,311
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,312
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,1,2,313
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But we should call out hypocrisy when we see it. And for a party that associates itself with Christianity, to say that it is okay 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,314
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,315
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,316
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,317
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,318
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,319
Joe Biden,NA,We all talk about these things. I did it. I did it.,Candidate,male,1,2,320
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,321
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,322
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,323
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Vice President - Vice President . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,324
Joe Biden,NA,And we'll stop it.,Candidate,male,1,2,325
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,". . . 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?",Moderator,male,1,2,326
Unknown,NA,No.,Moderator,unknown,1,2,327
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,328
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,329
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,330
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,331
Joe Biden,NA,That person should not be the focus of deportation. We should fundamentally change the way we deal with things.,Candidate,male,1,2,332
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,333
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Senator . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,334
Unknown,NA,I think it's important . ..,Moderator,unknown,1,2,335
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,336
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,337
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,338
Bernie Sanders,NA,What 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.,Candidate,male,1,2,339
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,340
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Thank you. Congressman Swalwell, what do you do?",Moderator,male,1,2,341
Eric Swalwell,NA,Day one?,Candidate,male,1,2,342
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"No, if someone is here without documents, and that is their only offense, is that person to be deported?",Moderator,male,1,2,343
Eric Swalwell,NA,No. That person can be a part of this great American experience.,Candidate,male,1,2,344
Unknown,NA,Exactly.,Moderator,unknown,1,2,345
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,346
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,347
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Senator Harris?,Moderator,male,1,2,348
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,349
Kamala Harris,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,350
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,351
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,352
Kamala Harris,NA,And - 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 . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,353
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Senator, Senator . ..",Moderator,male,1,2,354
Kamala Harris,NA,". . . 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,355
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,356
Kamala Harris,NA,It is wrong. It is wrong.,Candidate,female,1,2,357
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,358
Lester Holt,NA,"I want to ask this to Senator Bennet, to start off with. How would you stand up to China?",Moderator,male,1,2,359
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,360
Michael Bennet,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,361
Michael Bennet,NA,"I'd like to answer the other question before this, as well.",Candidate,male,1,2,362
Lester Holt,NA,You have the time . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,363
Michael Bennet,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,364
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, your time is expired.",Moderator,male,1,2,365
Michael Bennet,NA,. . . and the president has turned the border of the United States into a symbol of nativist hostility . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,366
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, thank you . ..",Moderator,male,1,2,367
Michael Bennet,NA,". . . 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,368
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,369
Lester Holt,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,370
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,371
Andrew Yang,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,372
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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 producers 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,373
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Mayor Buttigieg . ..",Moderator,male,1,2,374
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,375
Lester Holt,NA,How would you - how would you stand up against China?,Moderator,male,1,2,376
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,377
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,378
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Tariffs 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,379
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,380
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Mayor, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,2,381
Pete Buttigieg,NA,". . . 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,382
Lester Holt,NA,Thank you for your answer.,Moderator,male,1,2,383
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,384
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,385
Savannah Guthrie,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,386
Lester Holt,NA,Welcome back to the Democratic Presidential Debate from the Arsht Center in Miami.,Moderator,male,1,2,387
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"As we continue the questioning, we want to bring in more members of our team.",Moderator,female,1,2,388
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,So let's turn it over to Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow.,Moderator,male,1,2,389
Jose Diaz-Balart,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,390
Chuck Todd,NA,"Well, Rachel, I had a dream that we have done this before.",Moderator,male,1,2,391
Rachel Maddow,NA,No.,Moderator,female,1,2,392
Chuck Todd,NA,No.,Moderator,male,1,2,393
Rachel Maddow,NA,No.,Moderator,female,1,2,394
Chuck Todd,NA,No. Didn't happen.,Moderator,male,1,2,395
Rachel Maddow,NA,This is definitely the first time.,Moderator,female,1,2,396
Chuck Todd,NA,Definitely first time.,Moderator,male,1,2,397
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Lester, Savannah and Jose.",Moderator,male,1,2,398
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,399
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,400
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,401
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,402
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,403
Rachel Maddow,NA,Why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor?,Moderator,female,1,2,404
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,405
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,406
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,407
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,408
Rachel Maddow,NA,Mr. Mayor . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,409
Pete Buttigieg,NA,. . . a feeling not of fear but of safety. I am determined to bring that day about.,Candidate,male,1,2,410
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,1,2,411
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg - Mayor Buttigieg, if I could . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,412
John Hickenlooper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,413
John Hickenlooper,NA,". . . if I could have one question, just because I think . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,414
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Governor, I'll give you 30 seconds.",Moderator,female,1,2,415
John Hickenlooper,NA,I think that the question they're asking in South Bend and I think across the country is why has it taken so long?,Candidate,male,1,2,416
John Hickenlooper,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,417
John Hickenlooper,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,418
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Governor Hickenlooper, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,419
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,420
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,421
Eric Swalwell,NA,"If the camera wasn't on and that was the policy, you should fire the chief.",Candidate,male,1,2,422
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"So under Indiana law, this will be investigated and there will be accountability for the officer involved.",Candidate,male,1,2,423
Eric Swalwell,NA,But you're the mayor. You should fire the chief - if that's the policy and someone died.,Candidate,male,1,2,424
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,425
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,426
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,427
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Ms. Williamson, thank you very much . ..",Moderator,female,1,2,428
Rachel Maddow,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,429
Chuck Todd,NA,Vice President Biden - I'm going to - we're going to get to you . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,430
Kamala Harris,NA,"As the only black person on this stage, I would like to speak . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,431
Chuck Todd,NA,I . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,432
Kamala Harris,NA,. . . on the issue of race.,Candidate,female,1,2,433
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,434
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator Harris . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,435
Kamala Harris,NA,And so what I will say . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,436
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,437
Kamala Harris,NA,"okay. 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 co-worker, who has not been the subject of some form of profiling or discrimination.",Candidate,female,1,2,438
Kamala Harris,NA,"Growing 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,439
Kamala Harris,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,440
Kamala Harris,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,441
Kamala Harris,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,442
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,443
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Harris, thank you. Vice President Biden, you have been invoked. We're going to give you a chance to respond.",Moderator,female,1,2,444
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,445
Rachel Maddow,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,female,1,2,446
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,447
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,448
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,449
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,450
Joe Biden,NA,". . . when, in fact, my city was in flames because of the assassination of Dr. King, number one.",Candidate,male,1,2,451
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,452
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,453
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,454
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,455
Kamala Harris,NA,"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?",Candidate,female,1,2,456
Joe Biden,NA,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 . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,457
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,458
Joe Biden,NA,Because your city council made that decision. It was a local decision.,Candidate,male,1,2,459
Kamala Harris,NA,So that's where the federal government must step in.,Candidate,female,1,2,460
Joe Biden,NA,The federal government . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,461
Kamala Harris,NA,That's why we have the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act.,Candidate,female,1,2,462
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,463
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,464
Joe Biden,NA,I've supported the ERA from the very beginning when I ran for . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,465
Chuck Todd,NA,"Vice President Biden, 30 seconds, because I want to bring other people into this.",Moderator,male,1,2,466
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,467
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Vice President.",Moderator,male,1,2,468
Kamala Harris,NA,All of these things have to do . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,469
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,470
Chuck Todd,NA,Many 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.,Moderator,male,1,2,471
Bernie Sanders,NA,Absolutely.,Candidate,male,1,2,472
Chuck Todd,NA,Are you telling Democratic voters that diversity shouldn't matter when they make this decision?,Moderator,male,1,2,473
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, absolutely not. Unlike the Republican Party, we encourage diversity, we believe in diversity. That's what America is about.",Candidate,male,1,2,474
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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?",Candidate,male,1,2,475
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,476
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, I want to give you 30 seconds on this.",Moderator,male,1,2,477
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,478
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,479
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,480
Joe Biden,NA,And the first constitutional amendment to do that was introduced by me when I was young senator.,Candidate,male,1,2,481
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Vice President. We want to shift topics here. Senator Bennet, the next question is for you.",Moderator,male,1,2,482
Chuck Todd,NA,"On 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.",Moderator,male,1,2,483
Chuck Todd,NA,Should voters believe that somehow if there is a Democratic president in 2021 that gridlock is going to magically disappear?,Moderator,male,1,2,484
Michael Bennet,NA,"Gridlock will not magically disappear as long as Mitch McConnell is there, first.",Candidate,male,1,2,485
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,486
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,487
Michael Bennet,NA,We need to end gerrymandering in Washington. We need to end political gerrymandering in Washington.,Candidate,male,1,2,488
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,489
Michael Bennet,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,490
Michael Bennet,NA,"All 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,491
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,492
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,493
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,494
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,495
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,496
Michael Bennet,NA,"Chuck, the problem with what the vice president . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,497
Chuck Todd,NA,"Go ahead, 30 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,2,498
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,499
Michael Bennet,NA,The problem with what . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,500
Chuck Todd,NA,"Yeah, 30 seconds. Go ahead.",Moderator,male,1,2,501
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,502
Michael Bennet,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,503
Joe Biden,NA,"Oh, come on.",Candidate,male,1,2,504
Michael Bennet,NA,It was a terrible deal for America.,Candidate,male,1,2,505
Michael Bennet,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,506
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator Bennet.",Moderator,male,1,2,507
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,And you heard . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,508
Chuck Todd,NA,"Go ahead, 30 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,2,509
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,510
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,511
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,1,2,512
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator Gillibrand.",Moderator,male,1,2,513
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,Imagine their voices carrying farther and wider than anyone else because their voice is needed.,Candidate,female,1,2,514
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,515
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, I'm trying to get everybody in here.",Moderator,male,1,2,516
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And as president, it's the first thing I'm going to do . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,517
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,518
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,". . . because nothing else is possible, whether it's education or health care or ending institutional racism.",Candidate,female,1,2,519
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,male,1,2,520
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,2,521
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,522
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,523
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,524
Bernie Sanders,NA,Third of all . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,525
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,526
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,527
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,528
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Hold on, I'm going to give you 10 additional seconds because the question was . ..",Moderator,female,1,2,529
Bernie Sanders,NA,I'm sorry?,Candidate,male,1,2,530
Rachel Maddow,NA,". . . 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?",Moderator,female,1,2,531
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,532
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,1,2,533
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,534
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,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.,Candidate,female,1,2,535
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"But let me tell you one thing about politics, because it goes to the corruption and the dealmaking. 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,536
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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?",Candidate,female,1,2,537
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,538
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,539
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,540
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,541
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,542
Chuck Todd,NA,Last night voters heard many of the candidates weigh in on their proposals. Explain specifically what yours is.,Moderator,male,1,2,543
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,544
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,545
Kamala Harris,NA,"That is why I support a Green New Deal. It is why I believe on day one and as president will reenter 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?",Candidate,female,1,2,546
Kamala Harris,NA,It's Donald Trump.,Candidate,female,1,2,547
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,548
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,549
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,550
Chuck Todd,NA,"I hear you. Thank you, Senator Harris.",Moderator,male,1,2,551
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,552
Chuck Todd,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,1,2,553
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,554
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,555
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,556
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This 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.,Candidate,male,1,2,557
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,558
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And secondly, we've got to look to the leadership of local communities, you know, those networks of mayors in cities from around the world . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,559
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,560
Chuck Todd,NA,I'm trying to stick with the time as best we can.,Moderator,male,1,2,561
Pete Buttigieg,NA,". . . 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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,562
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,male,1,2,563
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,564
Rachel Maddow,NA,I want to bring Governor Hickenlooper into this for a moment.,Moderator,female,1,2,565
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Governor, you have said that oil and gas companies should be a part of the solution on climate change. Lots of your colleagues onstage tonight have talked about moving away from fossil fuels entirely. Can oil and gas companies be real partners in this fight?",Moderator,female,1,2,566
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,567
John Hickenlooper,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,568
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Methane 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,569
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,570
Rachel Maddow,NA,Governor . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,571
John Hickenlooper,NA,. . . we will be doomed to failure. We have no way of doing this without bringing everyone together.,Candidate,male,1,2,572
Rachel Maddow,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,1,2,573
Rachel Maddow,NA,Vice President Biden . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,574
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,575
Rachel Maddow,NA,". . . 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.",Moderator,female,1,2,576
Rachel Maddow,NA,So are there significant ways you can cut carbon emissions if you have to do it with no support from Congress?,Moderator,female,1,2,577
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,578
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,579
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,580
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator Sanders . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,581
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,582
Rachel Maddow,NA,". . . I want to give you 30 seconds to follow-up, but I'm going to hold to you 30.",Moderator,female,1,2,583
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,584
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,1,2,585
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,586
Chuck Todd,NA,Before we go - hang on . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,587
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,588
Rachel Maddow,NA,Before we leave this topic . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,589
Eric Swalwell,NA,Here's the solution. Pass the torch. Pass the torch to the generation that's going to feel the effects of climate change.,Candidate,male,1,2,590
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, take on the fossil fuels, and that's the solution.",Candidate,male,1,2,591
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Before we leave this topic, here's something you all want to weigh in on.",Moderator,female,1,2,592
Rachel Maddow,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,593
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,. . . to the Republican Party.,Candidate,female,1,2,594
Chuck Todd,NA,Just - just . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,595
Rachel Maddow,NA,Hold one moment.,Moderator,female,1,2,596
Chuck Todd,NA,Just trust us on this. We're going to . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,597
Marianne Williamson,NA,The fact that somebody has a younger body doesn't mean you don't have old ideas. John Kennedy - John Kennedy . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,598
Marianne Williamson,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,599
Marianne Williamson,NA,". . . 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,600
Marianne Williamson,NA,Because John Kennedy was back in the day when politics included the people and included imagination and included great dreams and included great plans.,Candidate,female,1,2,601
Rachel Maddow,NA,Ms. Williamson . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,602
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Ms. Williamson.",Moderator,male,1,2,603
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,604
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Ms. Williamson.",Moderator,male,1,2,605
Marianne Williamson,NA,When we know that when we say . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,606
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,607
Marianne Williamson,NA,". . . 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,608
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Ms. Williamson.",Moderator,male,1,2,609
Marianne Williamson,NA,Then it will happen.,Candidate,female,1,2,610
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,611
Chuck Todd,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,612
Rachel Maddow,NA,Really.,Moderator,female,1,2,613
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,614
Chuck Todd,NA,"Eric Swalwell, you're first.",Moderator,male,1,2,615
Eric Swalwell,NA,"For Parkland, for Orlando, for every community affected by gun violence, ending gun violence.",Candidate,male,1,2,616
Eric Swalwell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,617
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Bennet?,Moderator,male,1,2,618
Michael Bennet,NA,Climate change and the lack of economic mobility Bernie talks about.,Candidate,male,1,2,619
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Gillibrand?,Moderator,male,1,2,620
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"Passing a family bill of rights that includes a national paid leave plan, universal pre-K, affordable day care, and making sure that women and families can thrive in the workplace no matter who they are.",Candidate,female,1,2,621
Kamala Harris,NA,"Oh, I like that.",Candidate,female,1,2,622
Chuck Todd,NA,That was pretty good. Senator Harris?,Moderator,male,1,2,623
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,624
Kamala Harris,NA,". . . so, passing a middle-class and working families tax cut . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,625
Chuck Todd,NA,That's one.,Moderator,male,1,2,626
Kamala Harris,NA,". . . DACA, guns, and . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,627
Chuck Todd,NA,"I've given you credit for the first thing you said, the tax cuts.",Moderator,male,1,2,628
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,629
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Sanders, first thing?",Moderator,male,1,2,630
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Chuck, the premise that there's only one or two issues out there . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,631
Chuck Todd,NA,I'm not saying there isn't one or two.,Moderator,male,1,2,632
Bernie Sanders,NA,This country faces enormous crises.,Candidate,male,1,2,633
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Sanders . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,634
Bernie Sanders,NA,We need a political revolution. People have got to stand up and take on the special interests. We can transform this country.,Candidate,male,1,2,635
Chuck Todd,NA,"Vice President Biden, your first issue, Mr. Vice President?",Moderator,male,1,2,636
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,637
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,638
Joe Biden,NA,"So I don't buy that. But the first thing I would do is make sure that we defeat Donald Trump, period.",Candidate,male,1,2,639
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,640
Chuck Todd,NA,"okay, Mayor Buttigieg, your first priority, your first issue as president that you are going to block and tackle.",Moderator,male,1,2,641
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We've got to fix our democracy before it's too late. Get that right, climate, immigration, taxes, and every other issue gets better.",Candidate,male,1,2,642
Chuck Todd,NA,Mr. Yang?,Moderator,male,1,2,643
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,644
Chuck Todd,NA,okay. Governor Hickenlooper?,Moderator,male,1,2,645
John Hickenlooper,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,646
Chuck Todd,NA,"And Ms. Williamson, the last word.",Moderator,male,1,2,647
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,648
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,649
Marianne Williamson,NA,We are going to have . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,650
Chuck Todd,NA,You guys were close with the short - at least it was shorter responses.,Moderator,male,1,2,651
Rachel Maddow,NA,"No, they weren't. Not at all.",Moderator,female,1,2,652
Chuck Todd,NA,All right. C-minus.,Moderator,male,1,2,653
Rachel Maddow,NA,We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with these candidates right after this.,Moderator,female,1,2,654
Rachel Maddow,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,655
Rachel Maddow,NA,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.,Moderator,female,1,2,656
Rachel Maddow,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,657
Chuck Todd,NA,Let's go to - we're going to go to the issue of guns. And . ..,Moderator,male,1,2,658
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,1,2,659
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,660
Eric Swalwell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,661
Eric Swalwell,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,662
Eric Swalwell,NA,"I 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 be a country who loves our children more than we love our guns.",Candidate,male,1,2,663
Eric Swalwell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,664
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.""",Moderator,female,1,2,665
Bernie Sanders,NA,No.,Candidate,male,1,2,666
Rachel Maddow,NA,Has your thinking changed since then? Do you now think there is a federal role to play?,Moderator,female,1,2,667
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, that's a mischaracterization of my thinking.",Candidate,male,1,2,668
Rachel Maddow,NA,It's a quote of you.,Moderator,female,1,2,669
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Look, we have a gun . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,670
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,671
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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 straw man provision, and I believed in 1988 and I believe today.",Candidate,male,1,2,672
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,673
Bernie Sanders,NA,Assault weapons are weapons from the military and that they should not be on the streets of America.,Candidate,male,1,2,674
Eric Swalwell,NA,Your plan leaves them on the streets. You leave 15 million on the streets.,Candidate,male,1,2,675
Bernie Sanders,NA,We ban the sale - we ban the sale and distribution . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,676
Eric Swalwell,NA,Will you buy them back?,Candidate,male,1,2,677
Bernie Sanders,NA,. . . and that's what I've believed for many years.,Candidate,male,1,2,678
Eric Swalwell,NA,Will you buy them back?,Candidate,male,1,2,679
Bernie Sanders,NA,"If people want to buy - if the government wants to do that and people want to bring them back, yes.",Candidate,male,1,2,680
Eric Swalwell,NA,"You are going to be the government, will you buy them back?",Candidate,male,1,2,681
Bernie Sanders,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,1,2,682
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Harris, we're going to give you 30 seconds.",Moderator,female,1,2,683
Kamala Harris,NA,"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 . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,684
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,685
Kamala Harris,NA,". . . 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,686
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,687
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,1,2,688
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,689
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,690
Rachel Maddow,NA,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?,Moderator,female,1,2,691
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,692
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,693
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,694
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,695
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,696
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Vice President Biden, 30 seconds.",Moderator,female,1,2,697
Joe Biden,NA,A real 30 seconds?,Candidate,male,1,2,698
Rachel Maddow,NA,A real 30 seconds.,Moderator,female,1,2,699
Joe Biden,NA,"okay. 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,700
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,701
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,702
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,703
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,704
Rachel Maddow,NA,Mr. Vice President . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,705
Eric Swalwell,NA,"But the NRA is taking orders from the gun manufacturers, that's the problem.",Candidate,male,1,2,706
Chuck Todd,NA,All right. Lester Holt has our next question.,Moderator,male,1,2,707
Chuck Todd,NA,"Lester, take it away.",Moderator,male,1,2,708
Lester Holt,NA,"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 Kathleen (ph) from 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.",Moderator,male,1,2,709
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,710
Michael Bennet,NA,"Second, 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 G-20 last night and attacked Japan, Germany, and a third ally of ours without saying anything about North Korea or Russia.",Candidate,male,1,2,711
Michael Bennet,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,712
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,713
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,714
Marianne Williamson,NA,"Well, one of my first phone calls would be to call the European leaders and say we're back . ..",Candidate,female,1,2,715
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,716
Marianne Williamson,NA,. . . because I totally understand how important it is that the United States be part of the Western alliance.,Candidate,female,1,2,717
Chuck Todd,NA,"okay, I want - I'm trying to get one or two words here. I hear you. Governor Hickenlooper?",Moderator,male,1,2,718
John Hickenlooper,NA,"You know, I talk about constant engagement. And I think the first person - the first country I would go to . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,719
Chuck Todd,NA,Yeah.,Moderator,male,1,2,720
John Hickenlooper,NA,. . . and I understand they've been cheating and stealing and (inaudible) would be China . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,721
Chuck Todd,NA,okay.,Moderator,male,1,2,722
John Hickenlooper,NA,". . . because if we're going to do - deal with public health pandemics, if we're doing to deal with . ..",Candidate,male,1,2,723
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,724
John Hickenlooper,NA,". . . all the challenges of the globe, we've got to have relationships with everyone.",Candidate,male,1,2,725
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mr. Yang, we're trying to squeeze in a couple more things before we go to another break. Mr. Yang?",Moderator,male,1,2,726
Andrew Yang,NA,"China. We need cooperate with them on climate change, AI, and other issues, North Korea.",Candidate,male,1,2,727
Chuck Todd,NA,Thanks for the quickness. Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,1,2,728
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,729
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,730
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And it starts by modeling American values at home.,Candidate,male,1,2,731
Chuck Todd,NA,"okay. Mr. Vice President, I'm trying to be quick.",Moderator,male,1,2,732
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,733
Chuck Todd,NA,okay. Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,1,2,734
Bernie Sanders,NA,It's not one country. I think it is rebuilding trust in the United Nations and understand that we can solve . ..,Candidate,male,1,2,735
Chuck Todd,NA,"okay, got it.",Moderator,male,1,2,736
Bernie Sanders,NA,". . . conflicts without war, but with diplomacy.",Candidate,male,1,2,737
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Harris?,Moderator,male,1,2,738
Kamala Harris,NA,All the members of the NATO alliance.,Candidate,female,1,2,739
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Gillibrand?,Moderator,male,1,2,740
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,President Trump is hellbent on starting a war with Iran. My first act . ..,Candidate,female,1,2,741
Chuck Todd,NA,Right.,Moderator,male,1,2,742
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,". . . will be to engage Iran to stabilize the Middle East and make sure we do not start an unwanted, never-ending war.",Candidate,female,1,2,743
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you. Senator Bennet, quickly.",Moderator,male,1,2,744
Michael Bennet,NA,Our European allies and every Latin American country that's willing to have a conversation about how to deal with the refugee crisis.,Candidate,male,1,2,745
Chuck Todd,NA,okay.,Moderator,male,1,2,746
Chuck Todd,NA,And Congressman Swalwell?,Moderator,male,1,2,747
Eric Swalwell,NA,"My first act in foreign policy, we're breaking up with Russia and making up with NATO.",Candidate,male,1,2,748
Rachel Maddow,NA,Thank you all. Thank you all. We have one . ..,Moderator,female,1,2,749
Michael Bennet,NA,That's a good plan.,Candidate,male,1,2,750
Rachel Maddow,NA,". . . 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?",Moderator,female,1,2,751
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,752
Joe Biden,NA,I also think we should not have combat troops in Afghanistan. It's long overdue. It should end.,Candidate,male,1,2,753
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,754
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,755
Joe Biden,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,756
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Sanders, 30 seconds.",Moderator,female,1,2,757
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,758
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,759
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,760
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,761
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,762
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,763
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,764
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,765
Chuck Todd,NA,"All right, guys.",Moderator,male,1,2,766
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,767
Joe Biden,NA,. . . American people.,Candidate,male,1,2,768
Chuck Todd,NA,"We got - good news is, you get more time to talk, but I have to sneak in one more break.",Moderator,male,1,2,769
Rachel Maddow,NA,We'll be right back.,Moderator,female,1,2,770
Chuck Todd,NA,We'll be right back with more debate.,Moderator,male,1,2,771
Chuck Todd,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,772
Lester Holt,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,773
Eric Swalwell,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,774
Eric Swalwell,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,775
Eric Swalwell,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,776
Lester Holt,NA,"Congressman, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,2,777
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Ms. Williamson, 45 seconds for your closing.",Moderator,female,1,2,778
Marianne Williamson,NA,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.,Candidate,female,1,2,779
Marianne Williamson,NA,"He'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.",Candidate,female,1,2,780
Marianne Williamson,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,781
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Ms. Williamson, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,782
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,783
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Senator Bennet?,Moderator,male,1,2,784
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,785
Michael Bennet,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,786
Michael Bennet,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,1,2,787
Michael Bennet,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,788
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator.,Moderator,female,1,2,789
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,790
Chuck Todd,NA,Governor Hickenlooper?,Moderator,male,1,2,791
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,792
John Hickenlooper,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,793
John Hickenlooper,NA,"You 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 reelect the worst president in American history.",Candidate,male,1,2,794
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,male,1,2,795
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,796
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, you have the floor for 45 seconds.",Moderator,female,1,2,797
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,798
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,799
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"Now 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,800
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,801
Lester Holt,NA,"Mr. Yang, you have 45 seconds for your closing.",Moderator,male,1,2,802
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,803
Andrew Yang,NA,"First, I want to thank everyone who put me on this stage tonight. I am proof that our democracy still works.",Candidate,male,1,2,804
Andrew Yang,NA,"Democrats 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.",Candidate,male,1,2,805
Andrew Yang,NA,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.,Candidate,male,1,2,806
Lester Holt,NA,"Mr. Yang, thank you.",Moderator,male,1,2,807
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator Harris, Senator Harris, the floor is yours.",Moderator,female,1,2,808
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,809
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,1,2,810
Kamala Harris,NA,"Second, 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,811
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,1,2,812
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,813
Savannah Guthrie,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,814
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,1,2,815
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,816
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,817
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,818
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Help me deliver that new generation to Washington before it's too late.,Candidate,male,1,2,819
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,820
Chuck Todd,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,1,2,821
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Sanders, 45 seconds, the floor is yours.",Moderator,male,1,2,822
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,1,2,823
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,824
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,825
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,1,2,826
Rachel Maddow,NA,"And lastly, we'll hear from Vice President Biden. Sir, you have 45 seconds.",Moderator,female,1,2,827
Joe Biden,NA,Thank you very much.,Candidate,male,1,2,828
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,829
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm, secondly, running for president because I think we have to restore the backbone of America, the poor and hard-working middle class people. You can't do that without replacing them with the dignity they once had.",Candidate,male,1,2,830
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,1,2,831
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,1,2,832
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Vice President Biden, thank you.",Moderator,female,1,2,833
Savannah Guthrie,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,1,2,834
Chuck Todd,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,1,2,835
Rachel Maddow,NA,I would also like to thank the audience for completely ignoring our suggestion not to react. You made it a lot more fun.,Moderator,female,1,2,836
Rachel Maddow,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,837
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,1,2,838
Jose Diaz-Balart,NA,"Also thanks to the Democratic National Committee, and the Florida Democratic Party.",Moderator,male,1,2,839
Lester Holt,NA,"And, of course, thank you to everyone at the Adrienne Arsht Center for hosting us here, and our terrific audience, as Chuck mentioned.",Moderator,male,1,2,840
Rachel Maddow,NA,Terrific.,Moderator,female,1,2,841
Lester Holt,NA,"For Savannah, Jose, Chuck, and Rachel, I'm Lester Holt. Good night, everyone, from Miami.",Moderator,male,1,2,842
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,1,2,843
Lester Holt,NA,"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 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.",Moderator,male,2,1,1
Lester Holt,NA,We 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.,Moderator,male,2,1,2
Dana Bash,NA,"Time, now, for opening statements. You'll each receive one minute.",Moderator,female,2,1,3
Dana Bash,NA,"Governor Steve Bullock, please begin.",Moderator,female,2,1,4
Steve Bullock,NA,"Thanks, Dana,",Candidate,male,2,1,5
Steve Bullock,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,6
Steve Bullock,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,7
Steve Bullock,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,8
Steve Bullock,NA,"I'm a progressive, emphasis on progress, and I'm running for president to get stuff done for all those Americans Washington has left behind.",Candidate,male,2,1,9
Dana Bash,NA,Marianne Williamson?,Moderator,female,2,1,10
Marianne Williamson,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,2,1,11
Marianne Williamson,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,12
Marianne Williamson,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,13
Marianne Williamson,NA,"Conventional 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,14
Marianne Williamson,NA,"I'm Marianne Williamson, and that's why I'm running for president.",Candidate,female,2,1,15
Dana Bash,NA,Congressman John Delaney?,Moderator,female,2,1,16
John Delaney,NA,"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's what happened with McGovern. That's what happened with Mondale. That'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,17
John Delaney,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,18
Dana Bash,NA,Congressman Tim Ryan?,Moderator,female,2,1,19
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,20
Tim Ryan,NA,"Most 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,21
Tim Ryan,NA,"And tonight, I will offer solutions that are bold, that are realistic and that are a clean break from the past.",Candidate,male,2,1,22
Dana Bash,NA,Governor John Hickenlooper?,Moderator,female,2,1,23
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,24
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,25
John Hickenlooper,NA,We also expanded health care and reproductive rights. We attacked climate change head-on. We beat the NRA. We did not build massive government expansions.,Candidate,male,2,1,26
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,27
Dana Bash,NA,Senator Amy Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,2,1,28
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,29
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,female,2,1,30
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"You'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.",Candidate,female,2,1,31
Dana Bash,NA,Congressman Beto O'Rourke?,Moderator,female,2,1,32
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,33
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,34
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,35
Dana Bash,NA,Mayor Pete Buttigieg?,Moderator,female,2,1,36
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,1,37
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,38
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And it'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's right to choose may not even exist.",Candidate,male,2,1,39
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,40
Dana Bash,NA,Senator Elizabeth Warren?,Moderator,female,2,1,41
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,42
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,43
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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. We need to be the party that fights for our democracy and our economy to work for everyone.,Candidate,female,2,1,44
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, I know what's broken in this country, I know how to fix it, and I will fight to make it happen.",Candidate,female,2,1,45
Dana Bash,NA,Senator Bernie Sanders?,Moderator,female,2,1,46
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,47
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Tonight, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,48
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Tonight, half of the American people are living paycheck to paycheck, and yet 49 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.",Candidate,male,2,1,49
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,50
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,2,1,51
Jake Tapper,NA,"Let'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.",Moderator,male,2,1,52
Jake Tapper,NA,"Congressman 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,53
Bernie Sanders,NA,You're wrong.,Candidate,male,2,1,54
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,55
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,56
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,57
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Five 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,58
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,59
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,2,1,60
Jake Tapper,NA,Congressman Delaney?,Moderator,male,2,1,61
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,62
John Delaney,NA,"My 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,63
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,64
John Delaney,NA,... and it's bad policy.,Candidate,male,2,1,65
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Sanders, I want to -- I...",Moderator,male,2,1,66
Elizabeth Warren,NA,My name was also mentioned in this.,Candidate,female,2,1,67
Jake Tapper,NA,"We're going to come to you in one second, but let me go to Senator Sanders right now.",Moderator,male,2,1,68
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,2,1,69
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,2,1,70
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,71
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... and the insurance companies, move to Medicare for all.",Candidate,male,2,1,72
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,73
Jake Tapper,NA,Congressman Delaney?,Moderator,male,2,1,74
John Delaney,NA,But now he's talking about a different issue. What I'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?,Candidate,male,2,1,75
Elizabeth Warren,NA,No. No one is the party...,Candidate,female,2,1,76
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,77
Jake Tapper,NA,"Hold on one second, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,78
John Delaney,NA,That's what they're running on. They're running on...,Candidate,male,2,1,79
Elizabeth Warren,NA,No.,Candidate,female,2,1,80
John Delaney,NA,... telling half the country that your health insurance is illegal. It says it right in the bill.,Candidate,male,2,1,81
Jake Tapper,NA,"All right, thank you.",Moderator,male,2,1,82
John Delaney,NA,We don't have to do that. We can give everyone health care...,Candidate,male,2,1,83
Jake Tapper,NA,OK.,Moderator,male,2,1,84
John Delaney,NA,... and allow people to have choice. That's the American way.,Candidate,male,2,1,85
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,86
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,2,1,87
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,88
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,89
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And we should stop using Republican talking points in order to talk with each other about how to best provide that health care.,Candidate,female,2,1,90
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Now, 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...",Candidate,female,2,1,91
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator?,Moderator,male,2,1,92
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... and it's not nearly enough.,Candidate,female,2,1,93
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator? I want to -- I'm coming right...,Moderator,male,2,1,94
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No, this is important.",Candidate,female,2,1,95
Jake Tapper,NA,"... 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.",Moderator,male,2,1,96
Elizabeth Warren,NA,All right.,Candidate,female,2,1,97
Jake Tapper,NA,"At the last debate, you said you're, quote, ""with Bernie on Medicare for all."" 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, ""with Bernie"" on Medicare for all when it comes to raising taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for it?",Moderator,male,2,1,98
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,2,1,99
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,100
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This isn'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't cover. His wife, Rachael, is on the phone for hours and hours and hours, begging the insurance company, ""Please cover what the doctors say he needs.""",Candidate,female,2,1,101
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"He 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,102
Elizabeth Warren,NA,The 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...,Candidate,female,2,1,103
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,1,104
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... across this country...,Candidate,female,2,1,105
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,106
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Medicare for All will fix that, and that's why I'll fight for it.",Candidate,female,2,1,107
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Just a point of clarification...",Moderator,male,2,1,108
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,109
Jake Tapper,NA,"... 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,110
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Costs will go up for billionaires and go up for corporations. For middle-class families, costs -- total costs -- will go down.",Candidate,female,2,1,111
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,112
Jake Tapper,NA,"Governor Bullock, I want to bring you in. You do not support Medicare for All. How do you respond to Senator Warren?",Moderator,male,2,1,113
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,114
Steve Bullock,NA,"At 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,115
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Governor Bullock.",Moderator,male,2,1,116
Jake Tapper,NA,"I 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,117
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,1,118
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,119
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,120
Jake Tapper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,1,121
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,122
Jake Tapper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,1,123
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,124
Beto O'Rourke,NA,Medicare for America. Everyone who is uninsured is enrolled in Medicare tomorrow. Those who are insufficiently insured are enrolled...,Candidate,male,2,1,125
Jake Tapper,NA,Congressman...,Moderator,male,2,1,126
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... in Medicare...,Candidate,male,2,1,127
Jake Tapper,NA,Just a 15 seconds...,Moderator,male,2,1,128
Beto O'Rourke,NA,And those who have employer-sponsored insurance...,Candidate,male,2,1,129
Jake Tapper,NA,Who is offering -- who is offering a false choice here?,Moderator,male,2,1,130
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Jake, this is important.",Candidate,male,2,1,131
Jake Tapper,NA,Who's offering a false choice here?,Moderator,male,2,1,132
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"You have some. Governor Bullock, who'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's choice for the private insurance they have or members of unions. I was listening to Dee Taylor in Nevada...",Candidate,male,2,1,133
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. Governor Bullock...",Moderator,male,2,1,134
Jake Tapper,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,135
Jake Tapper,NA,"... he just said you're offering a false choice, sir.",Moderator,male,2,1,136
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,137
Steve Bullock,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,138
Jake Tapper,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, you can respond. Congressman O'Rourke, you can respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,139
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,140
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Our 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,141
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,142
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... and our plan does that.,Candidate,male,2,1,143
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. I want to bring in Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,2,1,144
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,145
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,146
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,147
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,148
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Clearly, 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,149
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator...,Moderator,male,2,1,150
Bernie Sanders,NA,Jake.,Candidate,male,2,1,151
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And Bernie and I have worked on pharmaceutical issues together.,Candidate,female,2,1,152
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,153
Amy Klobuchar,NA,We can get less expensive drugs.,Candidate,female,2,1,154
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Sanders -- I'm going to go to Senator Sanders, then Senator Warren, because you both were mentioned. Senator Sanders?",Moderator,male,2,1,155
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,1,156
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,157
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,158
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,159
Bernie Sanders,NA,And by the way -- and by the way -- by the way -- the health care industry will be advertising tonight on this program.,Candidate,male,2,1,160
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,161
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator Warren, it's your turn.",Moderator,male,2,1,162
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Oh, can I complete that, please?",Candidate,male,2,1,163
Jake Tapper,NA,Your time is up. Thirty seconds.,Moderator,male,2,1,164
Bernie Sanders,NA,They will be advertising tonight with that talking point.,Candidate,male,2,1,165
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,2,1,166
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,2,1,167
Elizabeth Warren,NA,What 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.,Candidate,female,2,1,168
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,169
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,170
Elizabeth Warren,NA,They do not have a God-given right...,Candidate,female,2,1,171
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,172
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,173
Amy Klobuchar,NA,On page eight of the bill it says...,Candidate,female,2,1,174
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... to put...,Candidate,female,2,1,175
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,176
Jake Tapper,NA,I want to let Congressman Delaney in.,Moderator,male,2,1,177
Jake Tapper,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,178
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. If we could all just stick to the rules of the time, that would be great. Congressman Delaney?",Moderator,male,2,1,179
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,180
Bernie Sanders,NA,It's not a business!,Candidate,male,2,1,181
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,182
John Delaney,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,2,1,183
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,184
John Delaney,NA,"There's Medicare for All, which is extreme...",Candidate,male,2,1,185
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,186
John Delaney,NA,I was interrupted.,Candidate,male,2,1,187
John Delaney,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,188
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,1,189
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,190
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Governor. Senator Warren?",Moderator,male,2,1,191
Elizabeth Warren,NA,You know...,Candidate,female,2,1,192
Unknown,NA,Jake?,Moderator,unknown,2,1,193
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... 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.,Candidate,female,2,1,194
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Why 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,195
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,196
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,2,1,197
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That's what we have to fight.,Candidate,female,2,1,198
Jake Tapper,NA,"I want to bring in Marianne Williamson. Ms. Williamson, how do you respond to the criticism from Senator Warren that you're not willing to fight for Medicare for All?",Moderator,male,2,1,199
Marianne Williamson,NA,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.,Candidate,female,2,1,200
Marianne Williamson,NA,"But 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 --",Candidate,female,2,1,201
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Ms. Williamson.,Moderator,male,2,1,202
Marianne Williamson,NA,The Republicans will so shut us down on everything else.,Candidate,female,2,1,203
Jake Tapper,NA,"I want to bring in Mayor Buttigieg -- Mayor Buttigieg, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,204
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It is time to stop worrying about what the Republicans will say. Look, if --",Candidate,male,2,1,205
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,206
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,207
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"So 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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,208
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you Mayor Buttigieg, Senator Sanders your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,209
Bernie Sanders,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,1,210
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That 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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,211
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you Senator. I want to bring in Congressman Tim Ryan, Congressman Ryan your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,212
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,213
Tim Ryan,NA,"This 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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,214
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Congressman.,Moderator,male,2,1,215
Tim Ryan,NA,A 40 percent reduction --,Candidate,male,2,1,216
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Congressman.,Moderator,male,2,1,217
Tim Ryan,NA,"In their healthcare cost, let businesses buy-in, Jake --",Candidate,male,2,1,218
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,1,219
Jake Tapper,NA,"Now, 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,220
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,221
Tim Ryan,NA,"But you don't know that -- you don't know that, Bernie.",Candidate,male,2,1,222
Bernie Sanders,NA,Second of all --,Candidate,male,2,1,223
Jake Tapper,NA,"I'll come to you in a second, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,224
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,225
Jake Tapper,NA,I want to bring in Congressman Ryan to respond to what Senator Sanders just said.,Moderator,male,2,1,226
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,227
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,228
Jake Tapper,NA,Congressman Delaney.,Moderator,male,2,1,229
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,230
John Delaney,NA,"And 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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,231
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Congressman.,Moderator,male,2,1,232
John Delaney,NA,Will have that healthcare plan taken away from him --,Candidate,male,2,1,233
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Congressman --,Moderator,male,2,1,234
John Delaney,NA,They will be forced into an underfunded system.,Candidate,male,2,1,235
Jake Tapper,NA,I want to give Senator Sanders -- I want to give Senator Sanders a chance to respond.,Moderator,male,2,1,236
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,237
Bernie Sanders,NA,Second of all --,Candidate,male,2,1,238
John Delaney,NA,"I've done the math, it doesn't add up.",Candidate,male,2,1,239
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,240
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Senator.,Moderator,male,2,1,241
Bernie Sanders,NA,Hospitals will be better off than they are today.,Candidate,male,2,1,242
Jake Tapper,NA,"Congressman Delaney, I want to let you have a chance to respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,243
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,244
John Delaney,NA,"I'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?""",Candidate,male,2,1,245
John Delaney,NA,"And they all look at me and say, ""We would close.""",Candidate,male,2,1,246
John Delaney,NA,"But 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?",Candidate,male,2,1,247
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,female,2,1,248
John Delaney,NA,I'm starting to think this is not about health care...,Candidate,male,2,1,249
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman...",Moderator,female,2,1,250
John Delaney,NA,This is an anti-private-sector...,Candidate,male,2,1,251
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you Congressman. We're going to move on.,Moderator,female,2,1,252
John Delaney,NA,... strategy.,Candidate,male,2,1,253
Dana Bash,NA,We're going to move on to the issue of immigration now. There is...,Moderator,female,2,1,254
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,1,255
Dana Bash,NA,"... 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.",Moderator,female,2,1,256
Dana Bash,NA,"Mayor 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?",Moderator,female,2,1,257
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,258
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Americans 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,259
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,260
Dana Bash,NA,"But just a point of clarification, you did raise your hand in the last debate. You do want to decriminalize crossing the border illegally?",Moderator,female,2,1,261
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,262
Dana Bash,NA,"Well, we're not -- we're not doing that here.",Moderator,female,2,1,263
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And we appreciate that.,Candidate,male,2,1,264
Dana Bash,NA,Congressman -- thank you. Congressman...,Moderator,female,2,1,265
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,1,266
Dana Bash,NA,"... 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.",Moderator,female,2,1,267
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,2,1,268
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,269
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,270
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,female,2,1,271
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Warren, you say the provision making illegal border crossings a crime is totally unnecessary. Please respond.",Moderator,female,2,1,272
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,273
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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...",Candidate,female,2,1,274
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,2,1,275
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... make it a crime...,Candidate,female,2,1,276
Dana Bash,NA,Just to clarify...,Moderator,female,2,1,277
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... when someone...,Candidate,female,2,1,278
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Just to clarify, would you decriminalize...",Moderator,female,2,1,279
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,2,1,280
Dana Bash,NA,... illegal border crossings?,Moderator,female,2,1,281
Elizabeth Warren,NA,The point is not about criminalization. That has given Donald Trump the tool to break families apart.,Candidate,female,2,1,282
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,1,283
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We need...,Candidate,female,2,1,284
Dana Bash,NA,"Governor Hickenlooper, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,285
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,1,286
John Hickenlooper,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,287
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Well, and one way to fix it is to decriminalize. That's the whole point. What we're...",Candidate,female,2,1,288
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,289
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... looking for here is a way to take away the tool that Donald Trump has used...,Candidate,female,2,1,290
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,2,1,291
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... to break up families.,Candidate,female,2,1,292
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren. Senator Klobuchar, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,293
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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...,Candidate,female,2,1,294
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,295
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... about border security, you first of all change the rules so people can seek asylum in those Northern Triangle countries.",Candidate,female,2,1,296
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Then, 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,297
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Because this is not just about the border...,Candidate,female,2,1,298
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,299
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... Donald Trump wants to use these people as political pawns, when we have people...",Candidate,female,2,1,300
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,2,1,301
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... all over our country that simply want to work...,Candidate,female,2,1,302
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,303
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... and obey the law.,Candidate,female,2,1,304
Dana Bash,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,2,1,305
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Because we'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,306
Bernie Sanders,NA,"If a mother and a child walk thousands of miles on a dangerous path, in my view, they are not criminals.",Candidate,male,2,1,307
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,308
Bernie Sanders,NA,"They are people fleeing violence. And I think the main thing that we've got to do -- among many others, and Beto made this point -- we've got to ask ourselves, ""Why are people walking 2,000 miles to a strange country where they don't know the language?""",Candidate,male,2,1,309
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,310
Dana Bash,NA,Thank...,Moderator,female,2,1,311
Bernie Sanders,NA,... Guatemala and El Salvador so people do not have to flee their own countries.,Candidate,male,2,1,312
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,1,313
Dana Bash,NA,"Governor 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?",Moderator,female,2,1,314
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,315
Steve Bullock,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,316
Steve Bullock,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,317
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, I just wanted to...",Candidate,female,2,1,318
Dana Bash,NA,Senator...,Moderator,female,2,1,319
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... add on this...,Candidate,female,2,1,320
Dana Bash,NA,... he just said your plan in unrealistic. How do you respond?,Moderator,female,2,1,321
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,2,1,322
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,323
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,324
Steve Bullock,NA,But...,Candidate,male,2,1,325
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,326
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,2,1,327
Dana Bash,NA,"Governor Bullock, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,328
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,329
Steve Bullock,NA,A sane immigration system needs a sane leader. And we can do that without decriminalizing and providing health care for everyone.,Candidate,male,2,1,330
Steve Bullock,NA,"And it's not me saying that, that's Obama's Homeland Security secretary...",Candidate,male,2,1,331
Elizabeth Warren,NA,No.,Candidate,female,2,1,332
Steve Bullock,NA,"... that said you'll cause further problems at the border, not making it better.",Candidate,male,2,1,333
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,2,1,334
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,2,1,335
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... of a mother fleeing here for safety.,Candidate,female,2,1,336
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,337
Steve Bullock,NA,"Dana, I must correct the record",Candidate,male,2,1,338
Dana Bash,NA,"Congressman Ryan, are Senator Sanders' proposals going to incentivize undocumented immigrants to come into this country illegally?",Moderator,female,2,1,339
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,340
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,341
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,342
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Sanders, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,343
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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't have incredible backlogs that we have right now.",Candidate,male,2,1,344
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,345
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,346
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you. And Ms. Williamson, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,347
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,348
Marianne Williamson,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,349
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you --,Moderator,male,2,1,350
Marianne Williamson,NA,That's what the democratic -- but I want to say more --,Candidate,female,2,1,351
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Ms. Williamson.",Moderator,male,2,1,352
Marianne Williamson,NA,-- about. OK.,Candidate,female,2,1,353
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Ms. Williamson.",Moderator,male,2,1,354
Marianne Williamson,NA,I hope you'll come back to me this time.,Candidate,female,2,1,355
Don Lemon,NA,"Go ahead. Thank you, Ms. Williamson. Let'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're you specially going to do to stop this epidemic of gun violence?",Moderator,male,2,1,356
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, this epidemic of gun violence has hit my community too, far too many times. It's the worst part of being there, getting the phone call, consoling, grieving parents. And we have a mass shooting's worth of killings everyday in this country. What we're doing hasn't worked because we haven't had a system in Washington capable of delivering what the American people have told us they want.",Candidate,male,2,1,357
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Eighty, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,358
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I was at an event a few days ago, and a 13-year-old asked me what we'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're supposed to be dealing with this so you don't have to. High school is hard enough, without having to worry about whether you're going to get shot.",Candidate,male,2,1,359
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,1,360
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And when 90 percent of Americans want something to happen --,Candidate,male,2,1,361
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,1,362
Pete Buttigieg,NA,-- and Washington --,Candidate,male,2,1,363
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,364
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Governor Hickenlooper, your response please?",Moderator,male,2,1,365
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I disagree - I disagree with his diagnosis of the problem.,Candidate,female,2,1,366
Don Lemon,NA,"Please standby, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,367
Amy Klobuchar,NA,OK.,Candidate,female,2,1,368
Don Lemon,NA,"Please stick to the rules. We'll get to you - we'll come to you in a just a minute. Governor Hickenlooper, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,369
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,370
John Hickenlooper,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,371
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Governor. Senator Klobuchar, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,372
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yes, this isn't just about a system, or it's not just about words. This is about the NRA. I sat across from the president of the United States after Parkland, because I've been a leader on these issues and have the will to close to a boyfriend loophole.",Candidate,female,2,1,373
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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's only 6 years old, all I can -",Candidate,female,2,1,374
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,375
Amy Klobuchar,NA,- say is he's 6 years old.,Candidate,female,2,1,376
Don Lemon,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,377
Amy Klobuchar,NA,We have to remember that.,Candidate,female,2,1,378
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This is the exact same conversation we'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't prevent every incident. They won't save every life. But we know what to do, and it has not happened.",Candidate,male,2,1,379
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,380
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Senator Klobuchar, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,381
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,382
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"After Parkland, those students just didn'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's doorstep because of the money and the power of the NRA. As president, I will take them on.",Candidate,female,2,1,383
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,384
Amy Klobuchar,NA,This is not about systems and words.,Candidate,female,2,1,385
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,2,1,386
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,387
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,388
Steve Bullock,NA,"You know, like 40 percent of American households, I'm a gun-owner. I hunt. Like far too many people in America, I've been personally impacted by gun violence. Had an 11-year-old nephew, Jeremy, shot and killed on a playground.",Candidate,male,2,1,389
Steve Bullock,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,390
Steve Bullock,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,391
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,392
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,393
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,394
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,395
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,396
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,397
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,398
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,399
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,400
Don Lemon,NA,"Yeah. Mayor Buttigieg, your response.",Moderator,male,2,1,401
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,402
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Does 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,403
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,1,404
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And you're telling me we can't reform our democracy in our time?,Candidate,male,2,1,405
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,1,406
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We have to or we'll be having the same argument 20 years from now.,Candidate,male,2,1,407
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,408
Don Lemon,NA,"Please respond, Governor Bullock.",Moderator,male,2,1,409
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,410
Steve Bullock,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,411
Steve Bullock,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,412
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor Bullock, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,413
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'd like to have a chance on this.,Candidate,female,2,1,414
Don Lemon,NA,"Ms. Williamson, how do you respond to this issue of gun safety?",Moderator,male,2,1,415
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,416
Marianne Williamson,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,417
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,418
Marianne Williamson,NA,It 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.,Candidate,female,2,1,419
Marianne Williamson,NA,We need to have a constitutional amendment. We need to have -- we need to have legislation to do it.,Candidate,female,2,1,420
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,1,421
Marianne Williamson,NA,"And until we do it, it's just the same old, same old.",Candidate,female,2,1,422
Marianne Williamson,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,423
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Williamson. The debate will be right back right after this short break.",Moderator,male,2,1,424
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,1,425
Jake Tapper,NA,"Governor 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,426
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,427
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Or 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,428
John Hickenlooper,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,429
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Donald 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?",Candidate,male,2,1,430
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Why 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,431
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you Governor. Senator Sanders you are a proud Democratic-Socialist, how do you respond to Governor Hickenlooper?",Moderator,male,2,1,432
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,433
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And the reason we are going to defeat Trump, and beat him badly is that he is a fraud and a phony and we'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've helped lead that effort.",Candidate,male,2,1,434
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The American people want to pay reasonable prices for prescription drugs, not the highest prices in the world --",Candidate,male,2,1,435
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,436
Bernie Sanders,NA,I've helped lead the effort for that as well.,Candidate,male,2,1,437
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you Senator. Governor Hickenlooper, I want to bring you back to respond?",Moderator,male,2,1,438
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,439
Bernie Sanders,NA,All right --,Candidate,male,2,1,440
John Hickenlooper,NA,"Oh-ho, I can do it. But you haven't implemented the plans, us governors and mayors are the ones, we have to pick up all the pieces when suddenly the government's supposed to take over all these responsibilities, and there's no preparation, the details aren't worked. You can't just spring a plan on the world and expect it to succeed --",Candidate,male,2,1,441
Bernie Sanders,NA,John --,Candidate,male,2,1,442
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,2,1,443
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,444
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Please don'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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,445
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Senator.,Moderator,male,2,1,446
Bernie Sanders,NA,We are the odd dog out.,Candidate,male,2,1,447
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,1,448
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,449
Tim Ryan,NA,"Now 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,450
Tim Ryan,NA,"I 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 --",Candidate,male,2,1,451
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you -- thank you Congressman --,Moderator,male,2,1,452
Tim Ryan,NA,"If we focus on that, we'll win the election.",Candidate,male,2,1,453
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you Congressman, I want to bring Congressman O'Rourke, your response, sir?",Moderator,male,2,1,454
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,455
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,456
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,1,457
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... and now we have a chance to beat Donald Trump with Texas.,Candidate,male,2,1,458
Jake Tapper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,1,459
Steve Bullock,NA,"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're ever going to win.",Candidate,male,2,1,460
Steve Bullock,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,461
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,male,2,1,462
Steve Bullock,NA,That's how I win. That's how we can take back the office.,Candidate,male,2,1,463
Jake Tapper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,1,464
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,465
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,466
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,467
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Democrats 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,468
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,469
Jake Tapper,NA,"Congressman Delaney, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,470
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,471
John Delaney,NA,"Look 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,472
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,473
John Delaney,NA,"... creating universal health care, and lowering drug prices.",Candidate,male,2,1,474
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. Senator Warren?",Moderator,male,2,1,475
John Delaney,NA,We can do it.,Candidate,male,2,1,476
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,477
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,478
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I don't get it.,Candidate,female,2,1,479
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,480
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,481
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Well, I'm ready to get in this fight. I'm ready to win this fight.",Candidate,female,2,1,482
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,483
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Congressman Delaney?",Moderator,male,2,1,484
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,485
John Delaney,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,486
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. Senator Warren?",Moderator,male,2,1,487
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, look, he talks...",Candidate,female,2,1,488
Bernie Sanders,NA,He just mentioned my name.,Candidate,male,2,1,489
Jake Tapper,NA,We'll come to you right after that.,Moderator,male,2,1,490
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,2,1,491
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,492
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,493
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And 2020 is our chance to stop it.,Candidate,female,2,1,494
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator Sanders?",Moderator,male,2,1,495
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,496
Bernie Sanders,NA,"To 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,497
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,498
Bernie Sanders,NA,... and universities tuition-free and canceling student debt.,Candidate,male,2,1,499
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,500
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,501
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,502
Jake Tapper,NA,"I 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,503
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,504
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,505
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Do 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,506
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,507
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,508
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,2,1,509
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,2,1,510
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... and bringing metro people with me in the state that had the highest voter turnout in the country.,Candidate,female,2,1,511
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,512
Amy Klobuchar,NA,That's what we want.,Candidate,female,2,1,513
Jake Tapper,NA,"I want to bring in Congressman O'Rourke. Congressman O'Rourke, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,514
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,515
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"We 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,516
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,517
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"... before party, before any other concern.",Candidate,male,2,1,518
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman O'Rourke.",Moderator,female,2,1,519
Dana Bash,NA,"We'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.",Moderator,female,2,1,520
Dana Bash,NA,"Congressman Delaney, I'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't this sweeping plan to fight the climate crisis realistic?",Moderator,female,2,1,521
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,522
John Delaney,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,523
John Delaney,NA,"I'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'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't think we'll get to net zero by 2050 unless we have those things. I'm going to increase investment in renewables and I'm going to create something called the Climate Corps.",Candidate,male,2,1,524
John Delaney,NA,That 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,525
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Congressman. Senator Warren, you're a cosponsor of the Green New Deal. Your response to Congressman Delaney?",Moderator,female,2,1,526
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,527
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,528
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,2,1,529
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,530
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... spends trying to market around the world...,Candidate,female,2,1,531
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,2,1,532
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... China is spending $100.,Candidate,female,2,1,533
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,2,1,534
Dana Bash,NA,"Governor Hickenlooper, you take issue with the green new deal. Please respond.",Moderator,female,2,1,535
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,536
John Hickenlooper,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,537
John Hickenlooper,NA,"So we'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're going to really deal with climate change in a realistic way.",Candidate,male,2,1,538
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Senator Warren, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,539
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.""",Candidate,female,2,1,540
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That's the problem we've got in Washington right now.,Candidate,female,2,1,541
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,542
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It continues to be a Washington that works great for oil companies, just not for people worried about climate change.",Candidate,female,2,1,543
Dana Bash,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,2,1,544
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,2,1,545
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,546
Tim Ryan,NA,"China 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,547
Tim Ryan,NA,"So this person will work in the White House, report directly to me, and we're going to start making things again.",Candidate,male,2,1,548
Tim Ryan,NA,But 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...,Candidate,male,2,1,549
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I agree.,Candidate,female,2,1,550
Tim Ryan,NA,... that actually sequesters carbon...,Candidate,male,2,1,551
Tim Ryan,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,552
Tim Ryan,NA,"... 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,553
Tim Ryan,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,554
Tim Ryan,NA,... 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...,Candidate,male,2,1,555
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,556
Tim Ryan,NA,... that we didn't even have. How do we start talking about health...,Candidate,male,2,1,557
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman Ryan.",Moderator,female,2,1,558
Tim Ryan,NA,... instead of just disease care?,Candidate,male,2,1,559
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Senator Sanders, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,560
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,1,561
Bernie Sanders,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,1,562
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,563
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Here 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,564
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,2,1,565
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,1,566
Dana Bash,NA,"Congressman, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,567
Tim Ryan,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,2,1,568
Tim Ryan,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,569
Tim Ryan,NA,"All 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,570
Tim Ryan,NA,And then here's what I'll do as president...,Candidate,male,2,1,571
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,female,2,1,572
Tim Ryan,NA,... 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,573
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Sanders, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,574
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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'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 ...",Candidate,male,2,1,575
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator ...",Moderator,female,2,1,576
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... system, and we have to lead the world ...",Candidate,male,2,1,577
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,2,1,578
Bernie Sanders,NA,... because this is not just an American issue.,Candidate,male,2,1,579
Dana Bash,NA,"Governor Bullock, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,580
Steve Bullock,NA,"You know, all of us agree that we have address climate change. No one on this stage is talking about it. The Republicans won't even acknowledge that climate change is real, Dana, and that's because of the corrupting influence and money. That has been the fight of my career.",Candidate,male,2,1,581
Steve Bullock,NA,"And second of which, as we transition to this clean energy economy, you've got to recognize, there are folks that have spent their whole life powering our country, and far too often, Democrats sound like they'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,582
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Governor. Just to clarify, who is part of the problem?",Moderator,female,2,1,583
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,584
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,585
Steve Bullock,NA,"Look, we're having this discussion, and we can talk about competing plans...",Candidate,male,2,1,586
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Governor. I want to give Senator Sanders a chance to respond.",Moderator,female,2,1,587
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,588
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,1,589
Steve Bullock,NA,And look ...,Candidate,male,2,1,590
Dana Bash,NA,"Governor Bullock, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,591
Steve Bullock,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,1,592
Steve Bullock,NA,"You 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 ...",Candidate,male,2,1,593
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,female,2,1,594
Steve Bullock,NA,... that the climate's changing.,Candidate,male,2,1,595
Dana Bash,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,596
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,597
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Those 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,598
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. Mayor Buttigieg, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,599
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,600
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Nominate 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 ...",Candidate,male,2,1,601
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,602
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... or the cost of prescription drugs. And he has done nothing about it except ...,Candidate,male,2,1,603
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,2,1,604
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... the tax cuts for the corporations.,Candidate,male,2,1,605
Dana Bash,NA,"Hi, Senator Klobuchar. I want to ask you about something that CNN heard from a Michigan Democratic primary voter, but we're reaching out and getting their questions.",Moderator,female,2,1,606
Dana Bash,NA,"Kimber from Birmingham, Michigan has this question, ""what is your plan to address infrastructure, including the water issue so another Flint, Michigan does not happen again?""",Moderator,female,2,1,607
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,608
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I think the Governor here in Michigan smartly ran on the slogan, ""fix the damn roads,"" and it is an issue for union jobs. And so I think what we need to do is not have a president that's promised he was going to do that on election night, if anyone remembers. And then he hasn't followed through -- he has done nothing, he blew up a meeting at the White House.",Candidate,female,2,1,609
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,610
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,611
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And I truly believe that if we're going to move on infrastructure --,Candidate,female,2,1,612
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you --,Moderator,female,2,1,613
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And climate change, you need a voice from the Heartlands.",Candidate,female,2,1,614
Dana Bash,NA,"Is this -- thank you Senator Klobuchar, Ms. Williamson, what's your response on the Flint water crisis?",Moderator,female,2,1,615
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,616
Marianne Williamson,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,617
Marianne Williamson,NA,"I 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'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'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days.",Candidate,female,2,1,618
Marianne Williamson,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,619
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you very much Ms. Williamson.,Moderator,male,2,1,620
Marianne Williamson,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,2,1,621
Don Lemon,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,1,622
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,623
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,624
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,625
Beto O'Rourke,NA,We will show that our diversity --,Candidate,male,2,1,626
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,1,627
Don Lemon,NA,O'ROURKE Is our strength in my administration.,Moderator,male,2,1,628
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, thank you very much. Governor Hickenlooper, why are you the best nominee to heal the racial divide in America, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,629
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,630
John Hickenlooper,NA,In 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?,Candidate,male,2,1,631
John Hickenlooper,NA,How 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,632
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you Governor. Senator Warren, I'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'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?",Moderator,male,2,1,633
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We need to call out white supremacy for what it is: domestic terrorism. And it poses a threat to the United States of America.,Candidate,female,2,1,634
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,635
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,636
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,637
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,638
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It cancels student loan debt for 95 percent of the kids with student loan debt and helps close the black-white wealth gap in America.,Candidate,female,2,1,639
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,640
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator, very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,641
Don Lemon,NA,"Mayor 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,642
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,643
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,644
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,645
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,646
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Systemic 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,647
Pete Buttigieg,NA,It's why I've proposed that we do everything from investing in historically red-lined neighborhoods...,Candidate,male,2,1,648
Don Lemon,NA,Mayor...,Moderator,male,2,1,649
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... to build black wealth in homeownership...,Candidate,male,2,1,650
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,1,651
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... to supporting entrepreneurship for black Americans.,Candidate,male,2,1,652
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,male,2,1,653
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,654
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, what do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president's bigotry?",Moderator,male,2,1,655
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,656
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,657
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,658
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,659
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,660
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,661
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,662
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,663
Beto O'Rourke,NA,The legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression is alive and well in every aspect of the economy and in the country.,Candidate,male,2,1,664
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Today, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,665
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,666
Don Lemon,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,1,667
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,668
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,669
Marianne Williamson,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,2,1,670
Marianne Williamson,NA,"All 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,671
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,672
Marianne Williamson,NA,That great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another hundred years of domestic terrorism.,Candidate,female,2,1,673
Marianne Williamson,NA,"What makes me qualified to say $200 billion to $500 billion? I'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.",Candidate,female,2,1,674
Marianne Williamson,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,675
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,male,2,1,676
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,677
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,678
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,679
Bernie Sanders,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,680
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,681
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you very much. The debate continues right after this short break.",Moderator,male,2,1,682
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,683
Don Lemon,NA,"Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate, live from Detroit.",Moderator,male,2,1,684
Don Lemon,NA,Let's turn now to the economy.,Moderator,male,2,1,685
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,686
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,687
Tim Ryan,NA,So 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,688
Tim Ryan,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,689
Tim Ryan,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,690
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman, thank you. Just as a point of clarification, as president, would you consider President Trump's steel tariffs, yes or no?",Moderator,male,2,1,691
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,692
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. Congressman Delaney, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,693
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,694
John Delaney,NA,"So, listen. This is what I don'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'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,695
John Delaney,NA,Senator Warren just issued a trade plan...,Candidate,male,2,1,696
Elizabeth Warren,NA,You bet I did.,Candidate,female,2,1,697
John Delaney,NA,... 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...,Candidate,male,2,1,698
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,1,699
John Delaney,NA,"... with fair, rules-based trade.",Candidate,male,2,1,700
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Congressman Delaney. Senator Warren, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,701
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,702
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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...",Candidate,female,2,1,703
John Delaney,NA,That was the TPP.,Candidate,male,2,1,704
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'll finish.,Candidate,female,2,1,705
Don Lemon,NA,Congressman Delaney...,Moderator,male,2,1,706
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... is everyone wants to get to America's markets.,Candidate,female,2,1,707
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,708
Elizabeth Warren,NA,No. So the question is...,Candidate,female,2,1,709
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator, thank you. Please abide by the rules.",Moderator,male,2,1,710
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... how we need to raise our standards.,Candidate,female,2,1,711
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman Delaney, it's your turn. Thank you, Senator. Congressman Delaney?",Moderator,male,2,1,712
John Delaney,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,1,713
John Delaney,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,714
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No, what this is about...",Candidate,female,2,1,715
John Delaney,NA,We would not be able to trade with the E.U. It is so extreme that it will isolate...,Candidate,male,2,1,716
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Congressman Delaney. Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,717
John Delaney,NA,... the American economy from the world.,Candidate,male,2,1,718
Don Lemon,NA,Senator? Senator Warren. Senator Warren.,Moderator,male,2,1,719
Bernie Sanders,NA,I was...,Candidate,male,2,1,720
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I think he said...,Candidate,female,2,1,721
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,722
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Sanders, please let Senator Warren respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,723
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Oh, I'm sorry.",Candidate,male,2,1,724
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,725
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,726
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"People 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,727
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,728
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator, thank you very much. Congressman O'Rourke, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,729
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,730
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,731
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"When 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...",Candidate,male,2,1,732
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, thank you so much. Senator Sanders, please respond to Congressman O'Rourke.",Moderator,male,2,1,733
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'd like to respond to this.,Candidate,female,2,1,734
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,735
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,736
Bernie Sanders,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,737
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you very much. Governor Hickenlooper, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,738
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'd like a chance to respond.,Candidate,female,2,1,739
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,740
John Hickenlooper,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,741
John Hickenlooper,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,742
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor, thank you. Senator Warren?",Moderator,male,2,1,743
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Anyone who thinks that these trade deals are mostly about tariffs just doesn't understand what's going on. Look at the new NAFTA 2.0. What's the central feature? It's to help pharmaceutical companies get longer periods of exclusivity so they can charge Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans more money and make more profits.",Candidate,female,2,1,744
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That'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.,Candidate,female,2,1,745
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator, thank you. Governor Bullock, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,746
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,747
Steve Bullock,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,748
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,749
Don Lemon,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,750
Don Lemon,NA,"Mayor -- 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.",Moderator,male,2,1,751
Don Lemon,NA,What is your plan for retraining workers whose jobs are at risk?,Moderator,male,2,1,752
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,753
Pete Buttigieg,NA,It'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.,Candidate,male,2,1,754
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"There 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,755
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,756
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,1,757
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,758
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,759
Don Lemon,NA,"Mayor, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,760
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,761
John Delaney,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,762
John Delaney,NA,The 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's ridiculous. It's the biggest loophole in our tax code.,Candidate,male,2,1,763
John Delaney,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,764
John Delaney,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,765
John Delaney,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,766
Don Lemon,NA,"Congressman, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,767
John Delaney,NA,Raise the capital gains tax. Roll back the taxes on wealthy Americans.,Candidate,male,2,1,768
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,769
John Delaney,NA,That we can do in our first few months as president.,Candidate,male,2,1,770
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Warren, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,771
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,772
Elizabeth Warren,NA,What 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.,Candidate,female,2,1,773
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It tells you how badly broken this economy is...,Candidate,female,2,1,774
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator, thank you very much. Congressman Delaney...",Moderator,male,2,1,775
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... that two cents from the wealthiest in this country...,Candidate,female,2,1,776
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,777
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... would let us invest in the rest of America.,Candidate,female,2,1,778
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator, please. Congressman, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,779
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,780
John Delaney,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,1,781
John Delaney,NA,We 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,782
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,783
Dana Bash,NA,But we don't need to come up with new taxes that are arguably unconstitutional...,Moderator,female,2,1,784
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman Delaney.",Moderator,female,2,1,785
John Delaney,NA,... will be fought in court for years.,Candidate,male,2,1,786
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. I want to turn to the issue of student debt.",Moderator,female,2,1,787
Elizabeth Warren,NA,This is...,Candidate,female,2,1,788
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,789
Bernie Sanders,NA,Can I just respond to that?,Candidate,male,2,1,790
Dana Bash,NA,"I'm going to turn to the issue of student debt now. Mayor Buttigieg, you've talked about how you and your husband are...",Moderator,female,2,1,791
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,1,792
Dana Bash,NA,"... 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?",Moderator,female,2,1,793
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,794
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,795
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,796
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"On 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,797
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,2,1,798
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Sanders, you want to forgive all student loan debt. Your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,799
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,800
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You'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've got 500,000 people sleeping out on the street.",Candidate,male,2,1,801
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,802
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,803
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders. Ms. Williamson?",Moderator,female,2,1,804
Marianne Williamson,NA,I'd like to respond.,Candidate,female,2,1,805
Dana Bash,NA,You are proposing to make college free for all qualified students. Should the government pay for children from wealthier families to go to college?,Moderator,female,2,1,806
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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'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'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.",Candidate,female,2,1,807
Marianne Williamson,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,808
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,809
Marianne Williamson,NA,"This is not just about a plan to to do it. It's about a philosophy of governing. And I've heard some people here tonight, I almost wonder why you're Democrats. You seem to think there's something wrong about using...",Candidate,female,2,1,810
Marianne Williamson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,811
Marianne Williamson,NA,... 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...,Candidate,female,2,1,812
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,1,813
Marianne Williamson,NA,... and that is how we will have prosperity.,Candidate,female,2,1,814
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Ms. Williamson. Congressman O'Rourke, you don't support free four-year college. Your response to Ms. Williamson?",Moderator,female,2,1,815
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,816
Beto O'Rourke,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,817
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Congressman. Senator Klobuchar, your response?",Moderator,female,2,1,818
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,1,819
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,820
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,821
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I think we need to mesh what we were just talking about with the economy with our education policy.,Candidate,female,2,1,822
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator. I want to turn to foreign policy now.",Moderator,male,2,1,823
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,824
Bernie Sanders,NA,Trump is a pathological liar. I tell the truth.,Candidate,male,2,1,825
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,826
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,827
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,828
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,829
Bernie Sanders,NA,The United States cannot be the policeman of the world.,Candidate,male,2,1,830
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Governor Hickenlooper, how do you respond to Senator Sanders' vision for America's role in the world?",Moderator,male,2,1,831
John Hickenlooper,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,832
John Hickenlooper,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,833
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,male,2,1,834
John Hickenlooper,NA,They're for losers.,Candidate,male,2,1,835
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,male,2,1,836
Jake Tapper,NA,"I 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,837
Tim Ryan,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,838
Tim Ryan,NA,"We 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's lobbing more missiles. That doesn't make any sense.",Candidate,male,2,1,839
Tim Ryan,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,840
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,841
Tim Ryan,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,842
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,843
Tim Ryan,NA,Go fix the problem at its source and use diplomacy to do it.,Candidate,male,2,1,844
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,845
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,846
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"He'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.",Candidate,female,2,1,847
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,848
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,1,849
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama, lost their life in a church at the height of the civil rights amendment.",Candidate,female,2,1,850
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,851
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So I do believe you meet with people, but you'd better have an agenda...",Candidate,female,2,1,852
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,853
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... and you better put our interests of our country first, not the Russians'.",Candidate,female,2,1,854
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,2,1,855
Jake Tapper,NA,"Mayor 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,856
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We will withdraw. We have to.,Candidate,male,2,1,857
Jake Tapper,NA,In your first year?,Moderator,male,2,1,858
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,859
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Every 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,860
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We'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.,Candidate,male,2,1,861
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,862
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,863
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,1,864
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,865
Jake Tapper,NA,"I 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,866
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,867
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"There 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,868
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,2,1,869
Jake Tapper,NA,"Governor Hickenlooper, you disagree. You've said that you're open to keeping some servicemembers in Afghanistan beyond your first term.",Moderator,male,2,1,870
John Hickenlooper,NA,I look at it as a...,Candidate,male,2,1,871
Jake Tapper,NA,Please respond.,Moderator,male,2,1,872
John Hickenlooper,NA,"... humanitarian issue. And with all due respect, you're looking at the condition of women...",Candidate,male,2,1,873
Marianne Williamson,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,2,1,874
John Hickenlooper,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,875
John Hickenlooper,NA,We're going to have to be in Afghanistan. Look at the progress that's happened in that country. We'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?,Candidate,male,2,1,876
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Governor. Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,male,2,1,877
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,878
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,879
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,880
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, we talk about what'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're going to send someone into war, we better have a plan for how we're going to get them out on the other end.",Candidate,female,2,1,881
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,1,882
Jake Tapper,NA,"Governor Bullock, your response to Senator Warren's proposal to the U.S. never use a nuclear weapon first?",Moderator,male,2,1,883
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,884
Steve Bullock,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,885
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Governor. Senator Warren. your response?",Moderator,male,2,1,886
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,887
Steve Bullock,NA,"Senator, that...",Candidate,male,2,1,888
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,889
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor Bullock, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,1,890
Steve Bullock,NA,"Part, I agree with. But by the same token, like, we need to get back to nuclear proliferation.",Candidate,male,2,1,891
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Why?,Candidate,female,2,1,892
Steve Bullock,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,893
Steve Bullock,NA,Part of the strength really is the ability to deter.,Candidate,male,2,1,894
Don Lemon,NA,Governor Bullock...,Moderator,male,2,1,895
Elizabeth Warren,NA,So...,Candidate,female,2,1,896
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,1,897
Don Lemon,NA,Moving on now...,Moderator,male,2,1,898
Bernie Sanders,NA,Could I add something to that...,Candidate,male,2,1,899
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,900
Don Lemon,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,1,901
Don Lemon,NA,"So 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?",Moderator,male,2,1,902
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,2,1,903
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,904
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,905
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,906
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You know, when...",Candidate,male,2,1,907
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,908
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,909
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,910
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,1,911
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Sanders, as the senior statesman of the group, please respond to Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,male,2,1,912
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,913
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,914
Bernie Sanders,NA,"A 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,915
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,2,1,916
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I'd like to respond on that, too.",Candidate,female,2,1,917
Don Lemon,NA,The debate continues right after this -- please.,Moderator,male,2,1,918
Don Lemon,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,919
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you. The debate continues right after this short break.,Moderator,male,2,1,920
Don Lemon,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,2,1,921
Jake Tapper,NA,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.,Moderator,male,2,1,922
Jake Tapper,NA,"Governor Bullock, we're going to begin with you.",Moderator,male,2,1,923
Steve Bullock,NA,"Thanks, Jake.",Candidate,male,2,1,924
Steve Bullock,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,925
Steve Bullock,NA,"But, 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,926
Steve Bullock,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,927
Steve Bullock,NA,This 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,928
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you. Ms. Williamson?,Moderator,male,2,1,929
Marianne Williamson,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,930
Marianne Williamson,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,931
Marianne Williamson,NA,"Even 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,932
Marianne Williamson,NA,"There'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.",Candidate,female,2,1,933
Marianne Williamson,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,934
Marianne Williamson,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,935
Jake Tapper,NA,Congressman Delaney?,Moderator,male,2,1,936
John Delaney,NA,"Thank you, Jake.",Candidate,male,2,1,937
John Delaney,NA,"John 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,938
John Delaney,NA,"Donald 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,939
John Delaney,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,940
John Delaney,NA,"Isn'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,941
John Delaney,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,2,1,942
Jake Tapper,NA,Congressman Ryan?,Moderator,male,2,1,943
Tim Ryan,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,1,944
Tim Ryan,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,945
Tim Ryan,NA,"A 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,946
Tim Ryan,NA,"There'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,947
Jake Tapper,NA,Governor Hickenlooper?,Moderator,male,2,1,948
John Hickenlooper,NA,Thank you. And what a night. I've loved it.,Candidate,male,2,1,949
John Hickenlooper,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,950
John Hickenlooper,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,951
John Hickenlooper,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,1,952
John Hickenlooper,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,2,1,953
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,2,1,954
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,955
Amy Klobuchar,NA,A 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.,Candidate,female,2,1,956
Amy Klobuchar,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,2,1,957
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,958
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,959
Jake Tapper,NA,Congressman O'Rourke?,Moderator,male,2,1,960
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,961
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,962
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,963
Beto O'Rourke,NA,That 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,964
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,965
Jake Tapper,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,2,1,966
Steve Bullock,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,1,967
Steve Bullock,NA,"By 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,968
Steve Bullock,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,969
Steve Bullock,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,970
Steve Bullock,NA,"Join me, and let's make it happen.",Candidate,male,2,1,971
Steve Bullock,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,972
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,2,1,973
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,1,974
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"For 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?",Candidate,female,2,1,975
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,female,2,1,976
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"How 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.""",Candidate,female,2,1,977
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I will not only beat Donald Trump in 2020, I'll start to make real change come 2021.",Candidate,female,2,1,978
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,1,979
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,2,1,980
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,1,981
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Two 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.",Candidate,male,2,1,982
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,983
Bernie Sanders,NA,But 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.,Candidate,male,2,1,984
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,985
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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's create a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent.",Candidate,male,2,1,986
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,1,987
Jake Tapper,NA,"Candidates, thank you so much. That completes tonight's debate. Join us tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time for round two, 10 more Democratic candidates for president, right back here in Detroit.",Moderator,male,2,1,988
Jake Tapper,NA,Now stay tuned for special coverage of tonight's debate with Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo. That begins right now.,Moderator,male,2,1,989
Jake Tapper,NA,"As 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.",Moderator,male,2,2,1
Jake Tapper,NA,"We, 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.",Moderator,male,2,2,2
Dana Bash,NA,"Let's start with opening statements. You will each receive one minute. Mayor Bill de Blasio, please begin.",Moderator,female,2,2,3
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,4
Bill de Blasio,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,5
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,6
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Joe 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,7
Bill de Blasio,NA,"For 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,8
Protester,NA,(OFF-MIKE),Protest,unknown,2,2,9
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mayor de Blasio. Senator Michael Bennet?",Moderator,female,2,2,10
Michael Bennet,NA,"Thank you. Last week, I saw one of those Trump signs that says, ""America, love it or leave it."" And it was on the outside of a church.",Candidate,male,2,2,11
Michael Bennet,NA,I love America. And I know we can make it better.,Candidate,male,2,2,12
Michael Bennet,NA,Before coming to the Senate I ran (inaudible) school district where most of the kids live in poverty. Those kids have exactly the same hopes that I had.,Candidate,male,2,2,13
Michael Bennet,NA,"Their 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,14
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,15
Michael Bennet,NA,"And they deserve something better than a bully in the White House. Let's end this three ringed circus in Washington and make - 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,16
Dana Bash,NA,Governor Jay Inslee.,Moderator,female,2,2,17
Jay Inslee,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,18
Jay Inslee,NA,"If - 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,19
Jay Inslee,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,20
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,21
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,22
Dana Bash,NA,Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.,Moderator,female,2,2,23
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,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.,Candidate,female,2,2,24
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"If 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?",Candidate,female,2,2,25
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"We stood up to the Pentagon and we got it done. Not impossible. 10 years ago I was told you couldn't pass health care for our 9/11 first responders, those heroes who raced up the towers when others were coming down.",Candidate,female,2,2,26
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"Even when Congress turned its back on them, we kept fighting. Just last week we made the 9/11 health bill permanent.",Candidate,female,2,2,27
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,28
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,Beating 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,29
Dana Bash,NA,Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.,Moderator,female,2,2,30
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,31
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,32
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,33
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,female,2,2,34
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,35
Dana Bash,NA,Secretary Julian Castro.,Moderator,female,2,2,36
Julian Castro,NA,"Thank you, Dana, and good evening.",Candidate,male,2,2,37
Julian Castro,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,38
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,39
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,40
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,41
Dana Bash,NA,Andrew Yang?,Moderator,female,2,2,42
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,43
Andrew Yang,NA,"Let 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,44
Andrew Yang,NA,"How 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,45
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,46
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,47
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,48
Dana Bash,NA,Senator Cory Booker?,Moderator,female,2,2,49
Cory Booker,NA,"Thank you, Dana.",Candidate,male,2,2,50
Cory Booker,NA,"Last week the president of the United States attacked an American city, calling it ""a disgusting, rat-infested rodent mess.""",Candidate,male,2,2,51
Unknown,NA,(inaudible),Moderator,unknown,2,2,52
Cory Booker,NA,"We need a nation that understands that this tired old language, the...",Candidate,male,2,2,53
Unknown,NA,(chanting),Moderator,unknown,2,2,54
Don Lemon,NA,"Stand by, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,55
Unknown,NA,(chanting),Moderator,unknown,2,2,56
Cory Booker,NA,I will stand by.,Candidate,male,2,2,57
Unknown,NA,(chanting),Moderator,unknown,2,2,58
Don Lemon,NA,Please stand by.,Moderator,male,2,2,59
Unknown,NA,(chanting),Moderator,unknown,2,2,60
Unknown,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,unknown,2,2,61
Don Lemon,NA,"Please, continue, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,62
Cory Booker,NA,Thank you very much.,Candidate,male,2,2,63
Cory Booker,NA,"Donald 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?",Candidate,male,2,2,64
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,65
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,66
Dana Bash,NA,Senator Kamala Harris?,Moderator,female,2,2,67
Kamala Harris,NA,"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?""",Candidate,female,2,2,68
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,69
Kamala Harris,NA,And 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,70
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,71
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,72
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,73
Dana Bash,NA,Vice President Joe Biden.,Moderator,female,2,2,74
Joe Biden,NA,"Tonight, I think Democrats are expecting some engagement here. And I expect we'll get it.",Candidate,male,2,2,75
Joe Biden,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,76
Joe Biden,NA,"Just 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,77
Joe Biden,NA,"Mr. President, this is America. And we are stronger and great because of this diversity, Mr. President, not in spite of it, Mr. President.",Candidate,male,2,2,78
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,79
Joe Biden,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,80
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,81
Dana Bash,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,2,2,82
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator 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's campaign calls your plan, quote, ""a have-it-every-which-way approach"" and says it's just part of a confusing pattern of equivocating about your health care stance. What do you say to that?",Moderator,female,2,2,83
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,84
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,85
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,86
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,87
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator Harris. Vice President Biden, your response.",Moderator,female,2,2,88
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,89
Joe Biden,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,90
Dana Bash,NA,"Your response, Senator Harris?",Moderator,female,2,2,91
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,92
Kamala Harris,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,93
Kamala Harris,NA,"Your 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,94
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Harris, thank you. Vice President Biden, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,95
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,96
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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?",Candidate,male,2,2,97
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,98
Kamala Harris,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,99
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Harris.",Moderator,female,2,2,100
Dana Bash,NA,"Mayor de Blasio, let's bring you in here. What's your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,101
Bill de Blasio,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,102
Bill de Blasio,NA,"There's tens of millions of Americans who don'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,103
Bill de Blasio,NA,"There'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...",Candidate,male,2,2,104
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,2,2,105
Bill de Blasio,NA,"... dental care, the things that would be full coverage for all Americans.",Candidate,male,2,2,106
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,2,2,107
Dana Bash,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,female,2,2,108
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,109
Joe Biden,NA,"It would take place immediately. It would move quickly. And it would insure the vast, vast, vast majority of Americans.",Candidate,male,2,2,110
Joe Biden,NA,"In the meantime, what happens? Did anybody tell you how much their plans cost? My plan costs $750 billion. That's what it costs. Not $30 trillion.",Candidate,male,2,2,111
Dana Bash,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,2,2,112
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,113
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,114
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,115
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,They 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,116
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,117
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,2,118
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"To make it harder for you to afford it, even if you have pre-existing conditions.",Candidate,female,2,2,119
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Gillibrand. Senator Harris, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,120
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,121
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,122
Kamala Harris,NA,"In 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...",Candidate,female,2,2,123
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,124
Kamala Harris,NA,It will still be the situation that people going to an emergency room...,Candidate,female,2,2,125
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Harris. Vice President Biden, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,126
Kamala Harris,NA,"... have to come out $5,000.",Candidate,female,2,2,127
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,128
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,129
Joe Biden,NA,"It 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 -",Candidate,male,2,2,130
Dana Bash,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,2,2,131
Dana Bash,NA,So how do you square that?,Moderator,female,2,2,132
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,133
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,134
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,135
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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 -",Candidate,male,2,2,136
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,137
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,138
Cory Booker,NA,- going to keep fighting for that.,Candidate,male,2,2,139
Dana Bash,NA,"Congressman Gabbard, what's your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,140
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"The reality is right now, we don'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've been profiting off the backs of sick people have had a seat at the table, writing this legislation.",Candidate,female,2,2,141
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Now, 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're seeking to really reform our healthcare system, we'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.",Candidate,female,2,2,142
Dana Bash,NA,"Senior Harris, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,143
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,144
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,145
Kamala Harris,NA,"By 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 -",Candidate,female,2,2,146
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,147
Kamala Harris,NA,- and gives people choice,Candidate,female,2,2,148
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,149
Joe Biden,NA,"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's no longer chemicals. It's about all these breakthroughs that we have, with the whole - excuse me, immune system.",Candidate,male,2,2,150
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,151
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,2,152
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,153
Michael Bennet,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,154
Michael Bennet,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,155
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Secretary Castro, I want to bring you in ...",Moderator,male,2,2,156
Kamala Harris,NA,I -- I need to respond.,Candidate,female,2,2,157
Jake Tapper,NA,Your response. I'll come to you right after Secretary Castro. Secretary Castro.,Moderator,male,2,2,158
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,159
Julian Castro,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,160
Julian Castro,NA,"What I don'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,161
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Secretary Castro. Senator Harris, Senator Bennet had suggested that you support banning employer based health insurance. Is that true?",Moderator,male,2,2,162
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,163
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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'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 ....",Candidate,female,2,2,164
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,165
Kamala Harris,NA,Who will not be called in and who will not be taken to task by Senator Biden or Senator Bennet's plan ...,Candidate,female,2,2,166
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,167
Kamala Harris,NA,We will do that.,Candidate,female,2,2,168
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Bennet, I want to bring you back.",Moderator,male,2,2,169
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,170
Michael Bennet,NA,We 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,171
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,172
Michael Bennet,NA,We don't need to do that.,Candidate,male,2,2,173
Michael Bennet,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,174
Michael Bennet,NA,We can have a public option to have universal healthcare in this country.,Candidate,male,2,2,175
Jake Tapper,NA,I do want to bring in Senator Harris because he just suggested you were not being honest.,Moderator,male,2,2,176
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,177
Kamala Harris,NA,"Private 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,178
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,2,179
Jake Tapper,NA,But 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?,Moderator,male,2,2,180
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,181
Jay Inslee,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,182
Jay Inslee,NA,"I'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 ...",Candidate,male,2,2,183
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,184
Jay Inslee,NA,We are having -- we've had some success in integrating mental health with physical health. There's no reason we should distinguish between your physiological and your mental health.,Candidate,male,2,2,185
Jay Inslee,NA,"And the last thing we're doing, I think it's very instructive for the nation. We know we'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,186
Jay Inslee,NA,"We have had one of, if not the most innovative way to drive down pharmaceuticals for life-saving medications in the United States. That's a record of Washington state I'd like to take to Washington, D.C.",Candidate,male,2,2,187
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Governor Inslee.",Moderator,male,2,2,188
Jake Tapper,NA,"Mr. Yang, I want to bring you in. You support a Medicare for All system. How do you respond to Governor Inslee?",Moderator,male,2,2,189
Andrew Yang,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,2,190
Andrew Yang,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,191
Andrew Yang,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,192
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,193
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,male,2,2,194
Jake Tapper,NA,Mayor de Blasio?,Moderator,male,2,2,195
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Yeah, I don'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's holding back their families because they can't get the coverage they need. They get a lot of noes. They don't get a lot of help from health insurance companies.",Candidate,male,2,2,196
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Why 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?",Candidate,male,2,2,197
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you. Mr. Mayor, just a 15-second point of clarification. Who are you talking about? Who's fearmongering?",Moderator,male,2,2,198
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,199
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,2,200
Bill de Blasio,NA,"That's worse than any tax, and people are paying that right now.",Candidate,male,2,2,201
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,2,202
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Bennet?,Moderator,male,2,2,203
Michael Bennet,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,204
Michael Bennet,NA,"Bernie 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,205
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Bennet.",Moderator,male,2,2,206
Michael Bennet,NA,You can't hide from the truth.,Candidate,male,2,2,207
Jake Tapper,NA,"I want to let Mayor de Blasio -- and then I'm going to come to you, Vice President Biden.",Moderator,male,2,2,208
Michael Bennet,NA,We need to be for universal health care.,Candidate,male,2,2,209
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,210
Bill de Blasio,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,211
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,2,212
Bill de Blasio,NA,Give them a chance to make that decision through an election.,Candidate,male,2,2,213
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,2,214
Jake Tapper,NA,"Vice President Biden, your response, sir?",Moderator,male,2,2,215
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,216
Joe Biden,NA,"No 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,217
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,218
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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't know what math you do in New York, I don't know what math you do in California, but I tell ya, that's a lot of money, and there will be a deductible. The deductible will be out of your paycheck, because that's what will be required.",Candidate,male,2,2,219
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Harris, I want to bring you in here. Your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,220
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,221
Kamala Harris,NA,"Yeah, let's talk about math. Let's talk about math. Let'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.",Candidate,female,2,2,222
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,2,2,223
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,224
Kamala Harris,NA,"... for those people who have overdosed from an opioid, there is a syringe that costs $4,000 that will save their life.",Candidate,female,2,2,225
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,226
Kamala Harris,NA,It is immoral. It is untenable.,Candidate,female,2,2,227
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,228
Kamala Harris,NA,And it must change with Medicare for All.,Candidate,female,2,2,229
Jake Tapper,NA,"Your time is up, Senator. Vice President Biden, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,230
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,231
Joe Biden,NA,"Real quick. I have the only plan that limits the ability of insurance companies to charge unreasonable prices, flat out, number one.",Candidate,male,2,2,232
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,233
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,234
Joe Biden,NA,They are misrepresenting to the American people what needs to be done.,Candidate,male,2,2,235
Joe Biden,NA,"And, 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...",Candidate,male,2,2,236
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you.",Moderator,male,2,2,237
Don Lemon,NA,"Let'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?",Moderator,male,2,2,238
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,239
Julian Castro,NA,"The only way that we're going to guarantee that we don'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,240
Julian Castro,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,241
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Secretary Castro.",Moderator,male,2,2,242
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,243
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Bennet, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,244
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,245
Michael Bennet,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,2,2,246
Don Lemon,NA,Senator...,Moderator,male,2,2,247
Michael Bennet,NA,... and a lot of Republicans. That should be our position.,Candidate,male,2,2,248
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,249
Michael Bennet,NA,That is our position as Democrats.,Candidate,male,2,2,250
Don Lemon,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,2,251
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,252
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,2,2,253
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,254
Kamala Harris,NA,... that allow them to be incarcerated as though they've committed crimes.,Candidate,female,2,2,255
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,256
Kamala Harris,NA,These children have not committed crimes...,Candidate,female,2,2,257
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator Harris.",Moderator,male,2,2,258
Kamala Harris,NA,... and should be not treated like criminals.,Candidate,female,2,2,259
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,260
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Bennet, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,261
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,262
Michael Bennet,NA,I think this is one in the end that we agree with. There'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...,Candidate,male,2,2,263
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,264
Michael Bennet,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,265
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator Bennet.",Moderator,male,2,2,266
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, I want to bring you in. What's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,267
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,268
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,Another woman was raped.,Candidate,female,2,2,269
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,That's why she fled.,Candidate,female,2,2,270
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,271
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,So 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,272
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,273
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,274
Don Lemon,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,male,2,2,275
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,276
Unknown,NA,Three million (inaudible),Moderator,unknown,2,2,277
Don Lemon,NA,Please be respectful. Please be respectful in the crowd.,Moderator,male,2,2,278
Unknown,NA,Three million (inaudible),Moderator,unknown,2,2,279
Don Lemon,NA,"Please continue, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,male,2,2,280
Unknown,NA,Three million (inaudible),Moderator,unknown,2,2,281
Joe Biden,NA,The fact is -- the fact is...,Candidate,male,2,2,282
Unknown,NA,Three million (inaudible),Moderator,unknown,2,2,283
Joe Biden,NA,I don't know if you can hear. I can hear. But anyway...,Candidate,male,2,2,284
Don Lemon,NA,"We can hear fine, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,male,2,2,285
Joe Biden,NA,OK.,Candidate,male,2,2,286
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,287
Don Lemon,NA,"Please continue, if you will.",Moderator,male,2,2,288
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,289
Joe Biden,NA,"With regard to -- with regard to the secretary's point, I already proposed and passed...",Candidate,male,2,2,290
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,291
Joe Biden,NA,"... $750 million for Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, to be able to change the circumstance why people fled in the first place.",Candidate,male,2,2,292
Joe Biden,NA,"In 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...",Candidate,male,2,2,293
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank -- thank you, Mr. Vice President. Secretary Castro, please, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,294
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,295
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,296
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,297
Julian Castro,NA,"Let 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,298
Joe Biden,NA,I agree.,Candidate,male,2,2,299
Julian Castro,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,2,2,300
Don Lemon,NA,"Secretary Castro, thank you.",Moderator,male,2,2,301
Julian Castro,NA,What we need are politicians that actually...,Candidate,male,2,2,302
Don Lemon,NA,Your time is up.,Moderator,male,2,2,303
Julian Castro,NA,... have some guts on this issue.,Candidate,male,2,2,304
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Secretary.",Moderator,male,2,2,305
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,306
Don Lemon,NA,"Mr. Vice President, please, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,307
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,308
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,309
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you. Congresswoman Gabbard, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,310
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,311
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"We will have to stop separating children from their parents, make it so that it'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.",Candidate,female,2,2,312
Don Lemon,NA,"Mr. Yang, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,313
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,314
Andrew Yang,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,315
Andrew Yang,NA,"We can'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,316
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,317
Don Lemon,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,2,318
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,319
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,320
Cory Booker,NA,"This 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 -",Candidate,male,2,2,321
Don Lemon,NA,Senator -,Moderator,male,2,2,322
Cory Booker,NA,- and making ourselves less safe.,Candidate,male,2,2,323
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Booker, thank you very much. Mr. Vice President, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,324
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,325
Joe Biden,NA,This 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,326
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,2,327
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,328
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. Governor Inslee, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,329
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,330
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,331
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,332
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,333
Don Lemon,NA,"Go ahead. Mayor de Blasio, please your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,334
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,2,335
Bill de Blasio,NA,"And 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?",Candidate,male,2,2,336
Don Lemon,NA,Mr. Vice President -,Moderator,male,2,2,337
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,338
Joe Biden,NA,"Lastly, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,339
Don Lemon,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,2,340
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,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.,Candidate,female,2,2,341
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,342
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,343
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman. Mayor de Blasio, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,344
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,345
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Mr. 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?",Candidate,male,2,2,346
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,347
Joe Biden,NA,What 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,348
Bill de Blasio,NA,I still don't hear an answer.,Candidate,male,2,2,349
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Booker, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,2,350
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,351
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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's playing into what the republicans want, to pit some immigrants against other immigrants.",Candidate,male,2,2,352
Cory Booker,NA,From 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,353
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,354
Cory Booker,NA,Don't let the republicans divide this party against itself.,Candidate,male,2,2,355
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator, thank you. Mr. Vice President, your response.",Moderator,male,2,2,356
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,357
Joe Biden,NA,"(Inaudible) that's what we're talking about. That'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,358
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,359
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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're talking about what we will do to change America.",Candidate,female,2,2,360
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,361
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, thank you very much. The debate will be right back right after this short break.",Moderator,male,2,2,362
Don Lemon,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,363
Jake Tapper,NA,Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate. We are live from Detroit.,Moderator,male,2,2,364
Jake Tapper,NA,"I 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?",Moderator,male,2,2,365
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,366
Joe Biden,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,367
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,368
Joe Biden,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,369
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Booker, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,370
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,371
Cory Booker,NA,And...,Candidate,male,2,2,372
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,373
Cory Booker,NA,"... 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...",Candidate,male,2,2,374
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,375
Cory Booker,NA,"... marijuana justice, which means that we legalize it on a federal level...",Candidate,male,2,2,376
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker.",Moderator,male,2,2,377
Cory Booker,NA,... and reinvest the profits in communities that have been...,Candidate,male,2,2,378
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker.",Moderator,male,2,2,379
Cory Booker,NA,... disproportionately targeted by marijuana enforcement.,Candidate,male,2,2,380
Jake Tapper,NA,"Vice President Biden, I want to give you a chance to respond.",Moderator,male,2,2,381
Joe Biden,NA,"The fact is that the bills that the president -- that, excuse me, the future president here -- that...",Candidate,male,2,2,382
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,383
Joe Biden,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,384
Joe Biden,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,385
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you. Senator Booker, you want to respond?",Moderator,male,2,2,386
Cory Booker,NA,"Well, first of all, I'm grateful that he endorsed my presidency already. But I'll tell you this, it'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,387
Joe Biden,NA,That's...,Candidate,male,2,2,388
Cory Booker,NA,"Mr. Vice President -- Mr. Vice President, I didn't interrupt you. Please show me that respect, sir.",Candidate,male,2,2,389
Joe Biden,NA,I'm sorry (inaudible),Candidate,male,2,2,390
Cory Booker,NA,"We have a system right now that's broken. And if you want to compare records -- and, frankly, I'm shocked that you do...",Candidate,male,2,2,391
Cory Booker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,392
Cory Booker,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,393
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden?",Moderator,male,2,2,394
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,395
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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?",Candidate,male,2,2,396
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,397
Cory Booker,NA,"Sir, 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 ""tough on crime"" phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine. This isn't about the past, sir. This is about the present right now. I believe in redemption.",Candidate,male,2,2,398
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,399
Cory Booker,NA,I'm happy you evolved.,Candidate,male,2,2,400
Jake Tapper,NA,I want to bring in Secretary...,Moderator,male,2,2,401
Cory Booker,NA,But you've offered no redemption to the people in prison right now for life.,Candidate,male,2,2,402
Jake Tapper,NA,"I want to bring in Secretary Castro. Your response, sir?",Moderator,male,2,2,403
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,404
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,405
Julian Castro,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,406
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,2,2,407
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,408
Julian Castro,NA,... 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,409
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Secretary Castro.",Moderator,male,2,2,410
Jake Tapper,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,411
Jake Tapper,NA,"I want to bring in -- I want to bring in Governor Inslee. Governor Inslee, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,412
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,413
Jay Inslee,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,414
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,415
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,416
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,2,2,417
Jay Inslee,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,418
Jake Tapper,NA,"Secretary -- Secretary Castro, your response to Governor Inslee?",Moderator,male,2,2,419
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,420
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,421
Jake Tapper,NA,"Mayor de Blasio? Mayor de Blasio, why is that police officer still on the force, the one who killed Eric Garner? Please respond.",Moderator,male,2,2,422
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,423
Bill de Blasio,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,424
Bill de Blasio,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,425
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,2,2,426
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,2,2,427
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor de Blasio.",Moderator,male,2,2,428
Jake Tapper,NA,"Vice President Biden, you can respond to that.",Moderator,male,2,2,429
Joe Biden,NA,"We did a lot. Number one, we made sure we reduced the federal prison population by 38,000 people, number one.",Candidate,male,2,2,430
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,431
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,432
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,male,2,2,433
Andrew Yang,NA,"May I, please?",Candidate,male,2,2,434
Jake Tapper,NA,"Mr. Yang, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,435
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,436
Andrew Yang,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,437
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,438
Andrew Yang,NA,We cannot tear each other down. We have to focus on beating Donald Trump in 2020.,Candidate,male,2,2,439
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,440
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,male,2,2,441
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,442
Jake Tapper,NA,I 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.,Moderator,male,2,2,443
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,No. He should be fired. He should be fired now.,Candidate,female,2,2,444
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,445
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,446
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,447
Jake Tapper,NA,I want to bring in Senator Harris now.,Moderator,male,2,2,448
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,449
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,2,2,450
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,451
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,452
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,453
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,454
Kamala Harris,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,455
Kamala Harris,NA,"On that case, we also know that the...",Candidate,female,2,2,456
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,457
Kamala Harris,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,458
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,459
Kamala Harris,NA,"Under my administration, the Civil Rights Division...",Candidate,female,2,2,460
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,461
Kamala Harris,NA,... will rein and there will be independent investigations.,Candidate,female,2,2,462
Jake Tapper,NA,"Vice President Biden, Vice President Biden, I want to give you a chance to respond to what Senator Harris just said.",Moderator,male,2,2,463
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,464
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,465
Joe Biden,NA,And 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 what (inaudible) your -- your client. She didn't do that. She never did it. And so what happened.,Candidate,male,2,2,466
Joe Biden,NA,"Along 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,467
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Vice President Biden. Senator Harris, your response.",Moderator,male,2,2,468
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,469
Kamala Harris,NA,Work 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,470
Kamala Harris,NA,It was the work of creating the -- one of the first in the nation initiatives around reentering former offenders and getting them jobs and counseling.,Candidate,female,2,2,471
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,472
Kamala Harris,NA,I did the work as attorney general of putting body cameras on special agents in the state of California.,Candidate,female,2,2,473
Kamala Harris,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,474
Jake Tapper,NA,I want to bring in Congresswoman ....,Moderator,male,2,2,475
Kamala Harris,NA,And I'm proud of that work.,Candidate,female,2,2,476
Jake Tapper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,2,477
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,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.,Candidate,female,2,2,478
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,479
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,480
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,She 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,481
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,482
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,And she fought to keep ...,Candidate,female,2,2,483
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,male,2,2,484
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,Bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.,Candidate,female,2,2,485
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman. Senator Harris, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,486
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,487
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,488
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,489
Kamala Harris,NA,That is why we created initiatives that were about reentering former offenders and getting them counseling.,Candidate,female,2,2,490
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,2,491
Kamala Harris,NA,It is why and because I know that criminal justice system is so broken ...,Candidate,female,2,2,492
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,2,2,493
Kamala Harris,NA,"That I am an advocate for what we need to do to not only decriminalize, but legalize marijuana in the United States.",Candidate,female,2,2,494
Kamala Harris,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,495
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Your time is up. I want to -- I want to bring Congresswoman Gabbard back in. Your response, please.",Moderator,male,2,2,496
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,497
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,498
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,There is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor owe -- you owe them an apology.,Candidate,female,2,2,499
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Harris?,Moderator,male,2,2,500
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,501
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,502
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,503
Kamala Harris,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,504
Don Lemon,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,2,505
Michael Bennet,NA,"Yes. First of all, the president's racist rhetoric should be enough grounds for everybody in this country to vote him out of office.",Candidate,male,2,2,506
Michael Bennet,NA,That one thing alone should be enough.,Candidate,male,2,2,507
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,508
Michael Bennet,NA,"Second, 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...",Candidate,male,2,2,509
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,510
Michael Bennet,NA,... when our schools are as segregated today as they were 50 years ago.,Candidate,male,2,2,511
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,512
Michael Bennet,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,513
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,514
Michael Bennet,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,515
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,516
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator Bennet.",Moderator,male,2,2,517
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,518
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor Inslee, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,519
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,520
Don Lemon,NA,"Governor Inslee, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,2,521
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,522
Jay Inslee,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,523
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,524
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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 antediluvinal (sic) super-majority thing called the filibuster, Mitch McConnell is going to run the U.S. Senate even if we take a majority.",Candidate,male,2,2,525
Don Lemon,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,2,526
Jay Inslee,NA,We've got to get rid of the filibuster so we can govern the United States.,Candidate,male,2,2,527
Don Lemon,NA,Mister...,Moderator,male,2,2,528
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,529
Don Lemon,NA,"Mr. Yang, why are you the best candidate to heal the racial divide in America -- your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,530
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,531
Andrew Yang,NA,"They'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,532
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,533
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,534
Don Lemon,NA,"Mr. Yang, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,2,2,535
Don Lemon,NA,"Secretary 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.""",Moderator,male,2,2,536
Don Lemon,NA,So what would you do for Baltimore and other cities that need help?,Moderator,male,2,2,537
Julian Castro,NA,"First of all, the president is a racist, and that was just one more example of it.",Candidate,male,2,2,538
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,539
Julian Castro,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,540
Julian Castro,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,541
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Secretary Castro. Senator Gillibrand, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,542
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,543
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,544
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,545
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,546
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator Gillibrand.",Moderator,female,2,2,547
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,548
Dana Bash,NA,"Let'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?",Moderator,female,2,2,549
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,550
Jay Inslee,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,551
Jay Inslee,NA,"Too 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 -",Candidate,male,2,2,552
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you -,Moderator,female,2,2,553
Jay Inslee,NA,I believe this; it doesn't matter what your zip code is -,Candidate,male,2,2,554
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,female,2,2,555
Jay Inslee,NA,"- it doesn't matter what your color is, you ought to have clear -",Candidate,male,2,2,556
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,female,2,2,557
Jay Inslee,NA,- air and clear water in America. That's what I believe.,Candidate,male,2,2,558
Dana Bash,NA,"Vice President Biden, I'd like to get you to respond.",Moderator,female,2,2,559
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,560
Dana Bash,NA,Governor Inslee just said that your plan is middling.,Moderator,female,2,2,561
Joe Biden,NA,"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",Candidate,male,2,2,562
Joe Biden,NA,"But h's the deal; in area, there'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,563
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President",Moderator,female,2,2,564
Joe Biden,NA,I also invested $400 billion -,Candidate,male,2,2,565
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, sir.",Moderator,female,2,2,566
Joe Biden,NA,- in research for new alternatives to deal with climate change.,Candidate,male,2,2,567
Dana Bash,NA,"Mr. Yang, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,568
Joe Biden,NA,And that's bigger than any other person.,Candidate,male,2,2,569
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,570
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,571
Andrew Yang,NA,And the best way to do that is to put economic resources into your hands so you can protect yourself and your families.,Candidate,male,2,2,572
Jay Inslee,NA,I was challenged by the vice president.,Candidate,male,2,2,573
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,574
Jay Inslee,NA,May I be heard on this for a moment?,Candidate,male,2,2,575
Dana Bash,NA,"Go ahead, Governor.",Moderator,female,2,2,576
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,577
Jay Inslee,NA,I've heard you say that we need a realistic plan. Here's what I believe...,Candidate,male,2,2,578
Joe Biden,NA,"No, I didn't say that.",Candidate,male,2,2,579
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,580
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,581
Joe Biden,NA,We 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,582
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,583
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Just to clarify, would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration?",Moderator,female,2,2,584
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,585
Jay Inslee,NA,We can't...,Candidate,male,2,2,586
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, sir.",Moderator,female,2,2,587
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,588
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Harris, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,589
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,590
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,2,2,591
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,2,592
Kamala Harris,NA,... I would re-enter us in the Paris agreement.,Candidate,female,2,2,593
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,594
Kamala Harris,NA,And put in place so we would be carbon neutral by 2030.,Candidate,female,2,2,595
Dana Bash,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,2,2,596
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,So the first thing that I'm going to do when I'm president is I'm going to Clorox the Oval Office.,Candidate,female,2,2,597
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,598
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,599
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,600
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,601
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,He 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?,Candidate,female,2,2,602
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,603
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,Why not rebuild our infrastructure? Why not actually invest in the green jobs? That's what the Green New Deal is about.,Candidate,female,2,2,604
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,2,605
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"Not only will I pass it, but I will put a price on carbon to make market forces help us.",Candidate,female,2,2,606
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,607
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Congresswoman Gabbard, you are not a cosponsor of the Green New Deal. Please respond.",Moderator,female,2,2,608
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,609
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,610
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,female,2,2,611
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Booker, what's your response? Is the job guarantee in the Green New Deal realistic?",Moderator,female,2,2,612
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,613
Jay Inslee,NA,"Second, Cory. Second, but close. You're just close.",Candidate,male,2,2,614
Jay Inslee,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,615
Cory Booker,NA,"I'm -- hey, hey. I want to say very clearly -- thank you, man. Thank you. I'll try harder.",Candidate,male,2,2,616
Cory Booker,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,617
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,618
Cory Booker,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,619
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,620
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,621
Dana Bash,NA,"Mayor 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.",Moderator,female,2,2,622
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,623
Dana Bash,NA,How can you assure the people of Flint and across the nation that you are the right person to handle such a problem?,Moderator,female,2,2,624
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,625
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Lead 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,626
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,627
Bill de Blasio,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,628
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,2,2,629
Bill de Blasio,NA,It can be done.,Candidate,male,2,2,630
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,2,2,631
Dana Bash,NA,"Secretary Castro, why are you the right candidate to solve this problem? Please respond.",Moderator,female,2,2,632
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,633
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,634
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Secretary Castro.",Moderator,male,2,2,635
Unknown,NA,May I get in on this?,Moderator,unknown,2,2,636
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,2,637
Jake Tapper,NA,"Vice 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.""",Moderator,male,2,2,638
Jake Tapper,NA,"What 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?",Moderator,male,2,2,639
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,640
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,641
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,642
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,643
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,644
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Vice President Biden. Senator Gillibrand, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,645
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,646
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"Not 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,647
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,648
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,2,649
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,650
Kirsten Gillibrand,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,651
Jake Tapper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,2,652
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,653
Andrew Yang,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,654
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,655
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,656
Andrew Yang,NA,If we change the measurements for the 21st century economy to revolve around our own well being then we will win this election.,Candidate,male,2,2,657
Andrew Yang,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,658
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang. Congresswoman Gabbard, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,659
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,660
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,661
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I'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 ...",Candidate,female,2,2,662
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,male,2,2,663
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,That's the kind of leadership that I'll bring.,Candidate,female,2,2,664
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman. Senator Booker, your response.",Moderator,male,2,2,665
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,666
Cory Booker,NA,We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.,Candidate,male,2,2,667
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,668
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,669
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,670
Cory Booker,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,671
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you. Senator Harris?,Moderator,male,2,2,672
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,673
Kamala Harris,NA,"Farmers 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,674
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because 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 ...",Candidate,female,2,2,675
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,2,676
Kamala Harris,NA,-- 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,677
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Harris.",Moderator,male,2,2,678
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,679
Jake Tapper,NA,"The debate is back, right after this short break.",Moderator,male,2,2,680
Jake Tapper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,681
Jake Tapper,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,682
Jake Tapper,NA,We're back with the CNN Democratic presidential debate. We want to turn now to the economy.,Moderator,male,2,2,683
Jake Tapper,NA,"Secretary 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?",Moderator,male,2,2,684
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,685
Julian Castro,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,686
Julian Castro,NA,"Over 80 months of that was due to President Barack Obama. Thank you, Barack Obama. Thank you, Barack Obama.",Candidate,male,2,2,687
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,688
Julian Castro,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,689
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Secretary Castro.",Moderator,female,2,2,690
Dana Bash,NA,I 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?,Moderator,female,2,2,691
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,692
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,693
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,What 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,694
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,695
Dana Bash,NA,"So to be clear, Congresswoman, would you keep President Trump's tariffs on China in place?",Moderator,female,2,2,696
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,697
Dana Bash,NA,"Vice President Biden, would you rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which, of course, President Trump withdrew from? Please respond.",Moderator,female,2,2,698
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,699
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,700
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Thank you. Vice President Biden, just to be clear, would you or would you not rejoin the TPP, yes or no?",Moderator,female,2,2,701
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,702
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, sir. Mayor de Blasio, you also oppose the deal. Please respond.",Moderator,female,2,2,703
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,704
Bill de Blasio,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,705
Dana Bash,NA,Mr. Vice President?,Moderator,female,2,2,706
Joe Biden,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,2,2,707
Dana Bash,NA,"Your response? Your response, sir?",Moderator,female,2,2,708
Dana Bash,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,709
Joe Biden,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,2,2,710
Dana Bash,NA,That's it?,Moderator,female,2,2,711
Joe Biden,NA,"No, he said, would I insist that labor be engaged?",Candidate,male,2,2,712
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,713
Joe Biden,NA,The answer is yes.,Candidate,male,2,2,714
Bill de Blasio,NA,I consider that a victory.,Candidate,male,2,2,715
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, I love your affection for me. You spend a lot of time with me.",Candidate,male,2,2,716
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,717
Bill de Blasio,NA,"You know what? We believe in redemption, Joe. We believe in redemption in this party.",Candidate,male,2,2,718
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, I tell you what, I hope you're part of it.",Candidate,male,2,2,719
Dana Bash,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,2,2,720
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,721
Michael Bennet,NA,"Since 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,722
Michael Bennet,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,723
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,2,2,724
Michael Bennet,NA,We could have made Social Security solvent for my children.,Candidate,male,2,2,725
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,726
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,727
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Bennet, thank you very much. Your time is up, sir.",Moderator,female,2,2,728
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,729
Michael Bennet,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,2,2,730
Dana Bash,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,2,2,731
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,732
Andrew Yang,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,733
Andrew Yang,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,734
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,735
Andrew Yang,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,736
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,737
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Harris, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,738
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,739
Kamala Harris,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,female,2,2,740
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,2,2,741
Kamala Harris,NA,Time for action.,Candidate,female,2,2,742
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Gillibrand, what's your response? Will fining companies help solve the problem?",Moderator,female,2,2,743
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,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.,Candidate,female,2,2,744
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And 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.""",Candidate,female,2,2,745
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,746
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,747
Joe Biden,NA,"That was a long time ago, and here'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's what it was about.",Candidate,male,2,2,748
Joe Biden,NA,"As a single father who in fact raised three children for five years by myself, I have some idea what it cost.",Candidate,male,2,2,749
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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?",Candidate,male,2,2,750
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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 ...",Candidate,female,2,2,751
Joe Biden,NA,"No, what I ...",Candidate,male,2,2,752
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,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.,Candidate,female,2,2,753
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,8 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.,Candidate,female,2,2,754
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Let the vice president respond now, thank you.",Moderator,female,2,2,755
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,So either you don't believe it today or what did you mean when you said it then?,Candidate,female,2,2,756
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,757
Joe Biden,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,758
Joe Biden,NA,You 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,759
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,760
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,761
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,My grandmother worked outside the home. My -- my mother worked outside the home. And -- and ....,Candidate,female,2,2,762
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator GILLIBRAND.",Moderator,female,2,2,763
Dana Bash,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,764
Dana Bash,NA,I want to bring Senator Harris into this conversation.,Moderator,female,2,2,765
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,Either he no longer believes it -- I mean I just think he needs to ...,Candidate,female,2,2,766
Joe Biden,NA,I never believed it.,Candidate,male,2,2,767
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Senator Harris, please respond.",Moderator,female,2,2,768
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,769
Kamala Harris,NA,"Do 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,770
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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 ...",Candidate,female,2,2,771
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Let the Vice President ...",Moderator,female,2,2,772
Kamala Harris,NA,I think is -- is unacceptable.,Candidate,female,2,2,773
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,774
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,775
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,776
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you -- thank you, Mr. Vice President. Governor Inslee, your response.",Moderator,female,2,2,777
Dana Bash,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,2,2,778
Kamala Harris,NA,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?,Candidate,female,2,2,779
Joe Biden,NA,Because there was not full federal funding for all reproductive services prior to this point.,Candidate,male,2,2,780
Dana Bash,NA,"OK. Thank you. Governor Inslee, your response?",Moderator,female,2,2,781
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,782
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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 ...",Candidate,male,2,2,783
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Governor.",Moderator,male,2,2,784
Jay Inslee,NA,So unions can stand up for women as well.,Candidate,male,2,2,785
Jay Inslee,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,786
Jake Tapper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,2,2,787
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,788
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,789
Jake Tapper,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, you're the only veteran on this stage. Please respond.",Moderator,male,2,2,790
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,791
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,792
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"For 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,793
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,794
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,male,2,2,795
Jake Tapper,NA,"Mr. 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?",Moderator,male,2,2,796
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,797
Andrew Yang,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,798
Andrew Yang,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,799
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,800
Jake Tapper,NA,"Governor Inslee, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,801
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,802
Jay Inslee,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,803
Jay Inslee,NA,"Now 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,804
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,2,805
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,806
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,807
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,2,2,808
Joe Biden,NA,"I opposed the surge in Afghanistan, this long overdue -- we should have not, in fact, gone into Afghanistan the way...",Candidate,male,2,2,809
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,810
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I want to bring in...",Moderator,male,2,2,811
Jay Inslee,NA,Mr. Vice President -- I'd like to comment.,Candidate,male,2,2,812
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,2,813
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,814
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,815
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,816
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,male,2,2,817
Bill de Blasio,NA,We didn't talk about Iran.,Candidate,male,2,2,818
Don Lemon,NA,"Let's talk about -- thank you, please.",Moderator,male,2,2,819
Bill de Blasio,NA,We didn't talk about Iran.,Candidate,male,2,2,820
Don Lemon,NA,Please.,Moderator,male,2,2,821
Bill de Blasio,NA,"We're on the march to war in Iran right now, and we blew by it.",Candidate,male,2,2,822
Don Lemon,NA,"Please, Mayor. The rules -- please follow the rules.",Moderator,male,2,2,823
Bill de Blasio,NA,"I respect the rules, but we have to stop this march to war in Iran.",Candidate,male,2,2,824
Don Lemon,NA,"Mayor, thank you very much. We're going on...",Moderator,male,2,2,825
Bill de Blasio,NA,And the Democratic Party has to stand up for it.,Candidate,male,2,2,826
Don Lemon,NA,"... and we're going to talk about another subject. Mayor, thank you very much. I appreciate that.",Moderator,male,2,2,827
Don Lemon,NA,"Let'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.",Moderator,male,2,2,828
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,2,2,829
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,830
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,831
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,832
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,833
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Booker, your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,834
Cory Booker,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,835
Cory Booker,NA,And 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...,Candidate,male,2,2,836
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,837
Cory Booker,NA,"Debbie 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,838
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Booker, thank you very much. Secretary Castro, what's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,839
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,840
Julian Castro,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,841
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Secretary.",Moderator,male,2,2,842
Don Lemon,NA,"Mayor de Blasio, I'm going to bring you in. What's your response?",Moderator,male,2,2,843
Bill de Blasio,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,844
Bill de Blasio,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,845
Bill de Blasio,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,846
Bill de Blasio,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,847
Don Lemon,NA,"Mayor, thank you very much. Senator Bennet, how do you respond to this conversation?",Moderator,male,2,2,848
Michael Bennet,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,849
Michael Bennet,NA,I believe we have a moral obligation to beat Donald Trump.,Candidate,male,2,2,850
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,851
Michael Bennet,NA,He 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,852
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Bennet, thank you very much. Secretary Castro, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,2,853
Michael Bennet,NA,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.,Candidate,male,2,2,854
Don Lemon,NA,"Secretary, please, your turn.",Moderator,male,2,2,855
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,856
Julian Castro,NA,"At 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,857
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.""",Candidate,male,2,2,858
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,859
Julian Castro,NA,"These 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.""",Candidate,male,2,2,860
Julian Castro,NA,"Conversely, if Mitch McConnell is the one that lets him off the hook, we're going to be able to say...",Candidate,male,2,2,861
Don Lemon,NA,Secretary...,Moderator,male,2,2,862
Julian Castro,NA,"""Well, sure, they impeached him in the House, but his friend, Mitch McConnell, Moscow Mitch, let him off the hook.""",Candidate,male,2,2,863
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,864
Don Lemon,NA,"Senator Bennet, please respond.",Moderator,male,2,2,865
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,866
Michael Bennet,NA,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...,Candidate,male,2,2,867
Julian Castro,NA,"Well, my brother can. He's here tonight.",Candidate,male,2,2,868
Michael Bennet,NA,"Ah, that's what I was going to say. It's your brother that's given you that good feeling about the Congress.",Candidate,male,2,2,869
Michael Bennet,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,870
Michael Bennet,NA,That's what we should do.,Candidate,male,2,2,871
Don Lemon,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, gentlemen.",Moderator,male,2,2,872
Don Lemon,NA,"The debate continues, right after this.",Moderator,male,2,2,873
Don Lemon,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,874
Don Lemon,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,2,2,875
Jake Tapper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,2,2,876
Bill de Blasio,NA,"Thank you. For the last three years, we'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,877
Bill de Blasio,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,878
Bill de Blasio,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,879
Bill de Blasio,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,880
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Bennet?,Moderator,male,2,2,881
Michael Bennet,NA,Thank you. Thank you very much.,Candidate,male,2,2,882
Michael Bennet,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,883
Michael Bennet,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,884
Michael Bennet,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,885
Michael Bennet,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,886
Michael Bennet,NA,Please join me at michaelbennet.com. Thanks for being here tonight.,Candidate,male,2,2,887
Michael Bennet,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,888
Jake Tapper,NA,Governor Inslee?,Moderator,male,2,2,889
Jay Inslee,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,890
Jay Inslee,NA,Think 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.,Candidate,male,2,2,891
Jay Inslee,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,892
Jay Inslee,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,893
Jay Inslee,NA,This is our moral responsibility. And we will fulfill it. Thank you very much.,Candidate,male,2,2,894
Jay Inslee,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,895
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Gillibrand?,Moderator,male,2,2,896
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,897
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,female,2,2,898
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,899
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,900
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,901
Kirsten Gillibrand,NA,Please go to kirstengillibrand.com so I can make the next debate stage.,Candidate,female,2,2,902
Kirsten Gillibrand,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,903
Jake Tapper,NA,Congresswoman Gabbard?,Moderator,male,2,2,904
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,2,2,905
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,906
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Now, 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.""",Candidate,female,2,2,907
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,908
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,909
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"The needs are great. As your president, I will put your interests above all else.",Candidate,female,2,2,910
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,911
Jake Tapper,NA,Secretary Castro?,Moderator,male,2,2,912
Julian Castro,NA,"Well, first of all, let me say thank you to you, Jake, Dana, and to Don, and to everybody here and to those watching.",Candidate,male,2,2,913
Julian Castro,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,914
Julian Castro,NA,"Donald Trump has not been bashful in his cruelty. And I'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.",Candidate,male,2,2,915
Julian Castro,NA,"Our destiny in the years to come is to be the smartest, the healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on Earth.",Candidate,male,2,2,916
Julian Castro,NA,"If you want to help me build that America for the future, I hope you'll go to juliancastro.com. And on January 20th, 2021, we'll say together, ""Adios to Donald Trump.""",Candidate,male,2,2,917
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,918
Jake Tapper,NA,Mr. Yang?,Moderator,male,2,2,919
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,920
Andrew Yang,NA,It's one reason why we elected a reality TV star as our president.,Candidate,male,2,2,921
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,922
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,923
Andrew Yang,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,924
Andrew Yang,NA,"If 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's not left; it's not right. It's forward. And that is how we're going to beat Donald Trump in 2020.",Candidate,male,2,2,925
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,926
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Booker?,Moderator,male,2,2,927
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,2,2,928
Cory Booker,NA,"That's the history of this city. My mom is sitting there who was born in the city of Detroit, born to a guy...",Candidate,male,2,2,929
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,930
Cory Booker,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,931
Cory Booker,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,932
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,933
Cory Booker,NA,"And if you believe like I do, please go to corybooker.com and join the mission.",Candidate,male,2,2,934
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,935
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Harris?,Moderator,male,2,2,936
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,2,2,937
Kamala Harris,NA,"And I will tell you, we have a predator living in the White House.",Candidate,female,2,2,938
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,939
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,940
Kamala Harris,NA,"What 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've got a long rap sheet. We'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'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.",Candidate,female,2,2,941
Kamala Harris,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,2,2,942
Kamala Harris,NA,So please join me at kamalaharris.org. And I thank you for your time.,Candidate,female,2,2,943
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,2,2,944
Jake Tapper,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,male,2,2,945
Joe Biden,NA,"Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you, Mr. Mayor, for Detroit hosting this.",Candidate,male,2,2,946
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,947
Joe Biden,NA,"Everybody 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.",Candidate,male,2,2,948
Joe Biden,NA,"If you agree with me, go to joe30330 and help me in this fight. Thank you very much.",Candidate,male,2,2,949
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,2,2,950
Dana Bash,NA,"Candidates, thank you so much. We appreciate it. And stay with CNN for special coverage of tonight's debate. Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo are coming up. That begins right now.",Moderator,female,2,2,951
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,3,1,1
Dana Bash,NA,"There will be life after Donald Trump. But the truth is that our problems didn't start just with Donald Trump, and we won'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.",Moderator,female,3,1,2
Dana Bash,NA,"But first, we have to win. And that means exciting a young, diverse coalition of Americans who are ready for a bold future. That's what Kennedy did, it's what Carter did, it's what Clinton did, it's what Barack Obama did, and it'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.",Moderator,female,3,1,3
Dana Bash,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,3,1,4
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,3,1,5
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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's true of our country, too.",Candidate,female,3,1,6
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Now, I may not be the loudest person up here, but I think we've already got that in the White House.",Candidate,female,3,1,7
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,8
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Houston, we have a problem. This - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,9
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I am someone that tells the truth. I don't make promises that I can't keep. I have people's back. And I believe that to win, you bring people with you and that is how you govern, as well.",Candidate,female,3,1,10
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So, you'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'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've got a home with me, because I don't want to be the president for half of America. I want to be the president for all of America.",Candidate,female,3,1,11
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,12
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Congressman Beto O'Rourke?,Moderator,male,3,1,13
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"It's an honor to be on this debate stage. It is wonderful to be back in Texas, in Houston, back here at TSU.",Candidate,male,3,1,14
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"On 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,15
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"A 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,16
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,17
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,18
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Cory Booker?,Moderator,male,3,1,19
Cory Booker,NA,"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 - the gun violence, the substandard housing.",Candidate,male,3,1,20
Cory Booker,NA,"But it was my greatest mentor, a woman named Ms. Virginia Jones, who challenged me. She said, ""Boy, if all you see in this neighborhood is problems, that's all there's ever going to be. But if you're stubborn and defiant and can put forth a vision that can unify people, then we can make transformative change."" She was a church woman that said, ""Without vision, the people will perish.""",Candidate,male,3,1,21
Cory Booker,NA,"Well, that's exactly what we did. We created extraordinary unity in our community, and we did things that other people think - thought was impossible.",Candidate,male,3,1,22
Cory Booker,NA,"That'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's why I'm running for president, and that's how I will lead this nation.",Candidate,male,3,1,23
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,24
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Entrepreneur Andrew Yang?,Moderator,male,3,1,25
Andrew Yang,NA,"In America today, everything revolves around the almighty dollar - our schools, our hospitals, our media, even our government. It's why we don'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,26
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,27
Andrew Yang,NA,"When 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's time to trust ourselves more than our politicians.",Candidate,male,3,1,28
Andrew Yang,NA,"That's why I'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,29
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,30
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mayor Pete Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,3,1,31
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It's original, I'll give you that.",Candidate,male,3,1,32
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The American people are divided and doubtful at the very moment we need to rise to some of the greatest challenges we'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's at stake in our national leadership.",Candidate,male,3,1,33
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,34
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We just marked the anniversary of 9/11. All day today, I'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's what presidential leadership can do. That's what the presidency is for. And that is why I'm asking for your vote.",Candidate,male,3,1,35
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,36
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Kamala Harris?,Moderator,male,3,1,37
Kamala Harris,NA,Thank you. It's great to be back at TSU.,Candidate,female,3,1,38
Kamala Harris,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,39
Kamala Harris,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,40
Kamala Harris,NA,"So, President Trump, you've spent the last two-and-a-half years full time trying to sow hate and division among us, and that is why we'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'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.",Candidate,female,3,1,41
Kamala Harris,NA,"But here's what you don't get: What you don'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'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.",Candidate,female,3,1,42
Kamala Harris,NA,"And now, President Trump, you can go back to watching Fox News.",Candidate,female,3,1,43
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,44
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Bernie Sanders? Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,3,1,45
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let me be blunt and tell you what you don'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,46
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,47
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,48
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Yes, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,49
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,50
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Elizabeth Warren?,Moderator,male,3,1,51
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, I was born and raised in Oklahoma, but I'm sure glad to be in Texas tonight.",Candidate,female,3,1,52
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,53
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"All 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,54
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,55
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"For 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,56
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"By then, I had two little kids, and when child care nearly brought me down, my Aunt Bee moved in and saved us all.",Candidate,female,3,1,57
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"The paths to America'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.",Candidate,female,3,1,58
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,59
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I know what's broken. I know how to fix it. And I'm going to lead the fight to get it done.,Candidate,female,3,1,60
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,61
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Vice President Joe Biden.,Moderator,male,3,1,62
Joe Biden,NA,"You know, when President Kennedy announced the moon shot, he used a phrase that sticks with me my whole life. He said, we're doing it because we refuse to postpone. Well, I refuse to postpone one more minute spending billions of dollars on curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and other diseases which, if we invest in them, we can find cures.",Candidate,male,3,1,63
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,64
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, this is the United States of America. There has never been a single solitary time when we've set our mind to something we've been unable to do it. We're walking around with our heads down like woe is me. We're the best-equipped nation in the world to take this on. It's no longer time to postpone. We should get moving. There's enormous, enormous opportunities once we get rid of Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,3,1,65
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,66
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,3,1,67
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"And, 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,68
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Are Sens. Warren and Sanders pushing too far beyond where Democrats want to go and where the country needs to go?,Moderator,male,3,1,69
Joe Biden,NA,"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 - I know that the senator says she's for Bernie, well, I'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,70
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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't cost $30 trillion, $3.4 trillion a year, it turns out, is twice what the entire federal budget is. That's before - exists now, without interest on the debt. How are we going to pay for it? I want to hear that tonight how that's happened.",Candidate,male,3,1,71
Joe Biden,NA,"Thus 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's going to pay for it, but it gets him about halfway there. There's a lot of other things that need to be done.",Candidate,male,3,1,72
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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're talking about, I lay out how I can pay for it, how I can get it done, and why it's better.",Candidate,male,3,1,73
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"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 - 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,74
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, let's be clear about health care. And let'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.",Candidate,female,3,1,75
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,76
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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's how this is going to work.",Candidate,female,3,1,77
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,78
George Stephanopoulos,NA,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?,Moderator,male,3,1,79
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, what families have to deal with is cost, total cost. That'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, ""Sorry, you can't see that specialist."" Every time an insurance company says, ""Sorry, that doctor is out of network. Sorry, we are not covering that prescription.",Candidate,female,3,1,80
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Families are paying every time they don't get a prescription filled because they can't pay for it. They don't have a lump checked out because they can't afford the co-pay. What we're talking about here is what's going to happen in families' pockets, what's going to happen in their budgets.",Candidate,female,3,1,81
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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's how it should work under Medicare-for-all in our health care system.",Candidate,female,3,1,82
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,83
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Sen. Sanders, you were invoked by the vice president, also take on that question about taxes.",Moderator,male,3,1,84
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, Joe said that Medicare-for-all would cost over $30 trillion.",Candidate,male,3,1,85
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That's right, Joe.",Candidate,male,3,1,86
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Status 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...",Candidate,male,3,1,87
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,88
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,89
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,90
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We need - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,91
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And I'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,92
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,93
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Vice president Biden...,Moderator,male,3,1,94
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"If I could respond, George.",Candidate,female,3,1,95
George Stephanopoulos,NA,You get a response and then we're going to broaden out the discussion.,Moderator,male,3,1,96
Joe Biden,NA,"Okay, number one, my health care plan does significantly cut the costs of - the largest out-of-pocket payment you'll pay is $1,000. You'll be able to get into a - anyone who can't afford it gets automatically enrolled in the Medicare-type option we have, et cetera.",Candidate,male,3,1,97
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,98
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,99
Joe Biden,NA,"The senator said before, it's going to cost you in your pay - there will be a deductible, in your paycheck. You're going to - the middle class person, someone making 60 grand with three kids, they're going to end up paying $5,000 more. They're going to end up paying 4 percent more on their income tax. That's a reality. Now, it's not a bad idea if you like it. I don't like it.",Candidate,male,3,1,100
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Okay, now I want everybody to keep to the time, but you did invoke both senators. I have to get responses from them...",Moderator,male,3,1,101
Joe Biden,NA,"Sure, no, that's good.",Candidate,male,3,1,102
George Stephanopoulos,NA,... and then we will broaden it out.,Moderator,male,3,1,103
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Warren, you go first.",Moderator,male,3,1,104
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, let's be clear, I've actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company.",Candidate,female,3,1,105
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,106
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'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.,Candidate,female,3,1,107
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Instead 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?",Candidate,female,3,1,108
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,male,3,1,109
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,110
Joe Biden,NA,This is America.,Candidate,male,3,1,111
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,112
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,113
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, you said in your opening statement you don't - you want to represent the people stuck in the middle of the extremes. Who represents the extreme on this stage?",Moderator,male,3,1,114
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I think you know that I don't agree with some of these proposals up here, George, so I'm talking about...",Candidate,female,3,1,115
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Which ones?,Moderator,male,3,1,116
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"If I could - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,117
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,118
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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 - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,119
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,female,3,1,120
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,121
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Warren, page eight of the bill, she says, 149 people will lose their health insurance.",Moderator,male,3,1,122
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'm sorry.,Candidate,female,3,1,123
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"She said, page eight of the bill, 149 million people will lose their health insurance.",Moderator,male,3,1,124
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Current health insurance.,Candidate,female,3,1,125
Joe Biden,NA,One hundred forty-nine million.,Candidate,male,3,1,126
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Million, excuse me.",Moderator,male,3,1,127
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,128
Elizabeth Warren,NA,What 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,129
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,3,1,130
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,131
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now 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?",Candidate,male,3,1,132
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Sanders, 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,3,1,133
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,134
Bernie Sanders,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,135
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,136
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Harris, you startled out co-sponsoring Senator Sanders's bill, you now say you're uncomfortable with it. Why?",Moderator,male,3,1,137
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,138
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,139
Kamala Harris,NA,"Which is about offering people choice, not taking that from them.",Candidate,female,3,1,140
Kamala Harris,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,141
Kamala Harris,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,142
Kamala Harris,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,143
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,144
Kamala Harris,NA,"Fast 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,145
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,146
Joe Biden,NA,"George, 15 seconds? Fifteen seconds?",Candidate,male,3,1,147
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,148
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Let me get to Congressman O'Rourke and then bring you - go ahead, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,male,3,1,149
Joe Biden,NA,"Fifteen seconds. Look, everybody says we want an option. The option I'm proposing is Medicare-for-all - Medicare for choice. If you want Medicare, if you lose the job from your insurance - from your employer, you automatically can buy into this. You don't have - no pre-existing condition can stop you from buying in. You get covered, period.",Candidate,male,3,1,150
Joe Biden,NA,"And if you notice, nobody's yet said how much it's going to cost the taxpayer. I hear this large savings, the president thinks - 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?",Candidate,male,3,1,151
Bernie Sanders,NA,"As a matter of fact, they will in our bill.",Candidate,male,3,1,152
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, let me tell you something. For a socialist, you've got - for a socialist, you've got a lot more confidence in corporate America than I do.",Candidate,male,3,1,153
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,3,1,154
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Okay, one minute, George?",Candidate,male,3,1,155
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Go ahead.,Moderator,male,3,1,156
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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 - cancer or heart disease.",Candidate,male,3,1,157
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Under 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,158
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,159
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,160
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,161
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Congressman O'Rourke?,Moderator,male,3,1,162
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,163
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,164
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,165
Joe Biden,NA,You just described my plan.,Candidate,male,3,1,166
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"This is - 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,167
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,168
Julian Castro,NA,"Now, on the last debate stage in Detroit, you said that wasn't true, when Senator Harris brought that up. There was a fact check of that, and they said that was true.",Candidate,male,3,1,169
Julian Castro,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,170
Julian Castro,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,171
Julian Castro,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,172
Joe Biden,NA,They do not have to buy in. They do not have to buy in.,Candidate,male,3,1,173
Julian Castro,NA,You just said that. You just said that two minutes ago. You just two minutes ago that they would have to buy in.,Candidate,male,3,1,174
Joe Biden,NA,Do not have to buy in if you can't afford it.,Candidate,male,3,1,175
Julian Castro,NA,You said they would have to buy in.,Candidate,male,3,1,176
Joe Biden,NA,"Your grandmother would not have to buy in. If she qualifies for Medicaid, she would automatically be enrolled.",Candidate,male,3,1,177
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,178
Joe Biden,NA,I said anyone like your grandmother who has no money.,Candidate,male,3,1,179
Julian Castro,NA,"I mean, look, look, we need a health care system...",Candidate,male,3,1,180
Joe Biden,NA,She - you're automatically enrolled.,Candidate,male,3,1,181
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,182
Joe Biden,NA,That'll be a surprise to him.,Candidate,male,3,1,183
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Andrew Yang?,Moderator,male,3,1,184
Andrew Yang,NA,"Come on, guys.",Candidate,male,3,1,185
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This is why presidential debates are becoming unwatchable.,Candidate,male,3,1,186
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Yeah.,Candidate,female,3,1,187
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about Washington, scoring points against each other, poking at each other, and telling each other that - my plan, your plan. Look, we all have different visions for what is better...",Candidate,male,3,1,188
Julian Castro,NA,"Yeah, that's called the Democratic primary election, Pete. That's called an election.",Candidate,male,3,1,189
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,190
Julian Castro,NA,That's an election. You know? This is what we're here for. It's an election.,Candidate,male,3,1,191
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yes, but a house - a house divided cannot stand. And that is not how we're going to win this.",Candidate,female,3,1,192
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,193
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,194
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,195
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,196
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,197
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Booker...,Moderator,male,3,1,198
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,199
Andrew Yang,NA,"And the Cleveland Clinic, where they're paid not based upon how many procedures they prescribe - shocker - they prescribe fewer procedures, and patient health stays the same or improves. That is the pitch to the American people.",Candidate,male,3,1,200
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Booker, close out this discussion.",Moderator,male,3,1,201
Cory Booker,NA,"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't have health insurance. Their health insurance doesn't go far enough. They can't afford their prescription drugs.",Candidate,male,3,1,202
Cory Booker,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,203
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,204
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,205
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,206
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,207
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Candidates, thank you. Linsey Davis?",Moderator,male,3,1,208
Lindsey Davis,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,3,1,209
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Now, 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?",Moderator,female,3,1,210
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,211
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Racism 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...",Candidate,male,3,1,212
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,213
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... 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.,Candidate,male,3,1,214
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,215
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,216
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,217
Beto O'Rourke,NA,I'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.,Candidate,male,3,1,218
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,219
Beto O'Rourke,NA,But 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.,Candidate,male,3,1,220
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,221
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Secretary Castro, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,female,3,1,222
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,223
Julian Castro,NA,"Look, a few weeks ago, a shooter drove 10 miles inspired by this - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,224
Julian Castro,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,225
Lindsey Davis,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,3,1,226
Cory Booker,NA,"Well, first and foremost, I want to hit that point, because we know Donald Trump's a racist, but there is no red badge of courage for calling him that. Racism exists. The question isn't who isn't a racist. It's who is and isn't doing something about racism.",Candidate,male,3,1,227
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,228
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,229
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,230
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,231
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,232
Lindsey Davis,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,3,1,233
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I believe what's deepened divisions in the country is the conduct of this president, and we have a chance to change all of that.",Candidate,male,3,1,234
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, 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 - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,235
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,3,1,236
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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're not only dealing with things like the over-incarceration of black Americans, but also black solutions, entrepreneurship, raising to 25 percent...",Candidate,male,3,1,237
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,238
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,239
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,240
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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 - 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...",Candidate,male,3,1,241
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,242
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... and bring people together.,Candidate,male,3,1,243
Lindsey Davis,NA,Also a concern for people of color is criminal justice reform.,Moderator,female,3,1,244
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Senator 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.""",Moderator,female,3,1,245
Lindsey Davis,NA,"But when you had the power, why didn't you try to effect change then?",Moderator,female,3,1,246
Lindsey Davis,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,3,1,247
Kamala Harris,NA,"So, there have been - there have been - I'm glad you asked me this question, and there have been many distortions of my record.",Candidate,female,3,1,248
Kamala Harris,NA,"Let 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,249
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,250
Kamala Harris,NA,I 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,251
Kamala Harris,NA,I 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,252
Kamala Harris,NA,"Was 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,253
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,254
Kamala Harris,NA,"It will be about what we need to do to hold law enforcement, including prosecutors, accountable.",Candidate,female,3,1,255
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,256
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,257
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator Harris.",Moderator,female,3,1,258
Lindsey Davis,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,3,1,259
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Senator 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.",Moderator,female,3,1,260
Lindsey Davis,NA,The 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?,Moderator,female,3,1,261
Amy Klobuchar,NA,That's not my record.,Candidate,female,3,1,262
Unknown,NA,(inaudible),Moderator,unknown,3,1,263
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.""",Candidate,female,3,1,264
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,265
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,266
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,267
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"There 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,268
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,269
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,270
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,271
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,3,1,272
Lindsey Davis,NA,You all believe that the war on drugs has put too many Americans behind bars.,Moderator,female,3,1,273
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,female,3,1,274
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, first of all, let me say that, when I came back from law school, I had a job with a great - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,275
Joe Biden,NA,"I've been involved from the beginning. As a young congressman - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,276
Joe Biden,NA,The 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.,Candidate,male,3,1,277
Joe Biden,NA,"Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime. As - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,278
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,279
Joe Biden,NA,"We - 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 - nobody who got in prison for marijuana, for example, immediately upon being released - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,280
Joe Biden,NA,"When 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...",Candidate,male,3,1,281
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,282
Joe Biden,NA,"... 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...",Candidate,male,3,1,283
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,3,1,284
Joe Biden,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,3,1,285
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Senator Booker, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,female,3,1,286
Cory Booker,NA,"Our criminal justice system is so savagely broken. There'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,287
Cory Booker,NA,And so much of this comes down to privilege. We have a criminal justice system that Brian Stephenson says treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent.,Candidate,male,3,1,288
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,289
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,290
Cory Booker,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,291
Cory Booker,NA,"Everyone 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,292
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker.",Moderator,female,3,1,293
Lindsey Davis,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,3,1,294
Lindsey Davis,NA,David?,Moderator,female,3,1,295
David Muir,NA,"Thank you, Linsey.",Moderator,male,3,1,296
David Muir,NA,"I 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,297
David Muir,NA,"Vice 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,298
David Muir,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,3,1,299
David Muir,NA,"You 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,300
David Muir,NA,"If you couldn't get it done after Sandy Hook, why should voters give you another chance?",Moderator,male,3,1,301
Joe Biden,NA,Because I got it done before. I'm the only one up here that's ever beat the NRA -only one ever to beat the NRA nationally. I'm the guy that brought the Brady bill into - into focus and became law.,Candidate,male,3,1,302
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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 - the organization - mothers against violence - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,303
Joe Biden,NA,"There has been a sea change. Those proposals I put forward for the president had over 50 percent of gun - of gun - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,304
Joe Biden,NA,Over 90% of the American people think we have to get assault weapons off the street - period. And we have to get buy-backs and get them out of their basements.,Candidate,male,3,1,305
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,306
Joe Biden,NA,"So the point is, things have changed. And things have changed a lot. And now what's happening is - and, by the way, the way Beto handled - excuse me for saying Beto. What the congressman...",Candidate,male,3,1,307
Beto O'Rourke,NA,That's all right. Beto's good.,Candidate,male,3,1,308
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,309
Joe Biden,NA,"The way he handled what happened in his hometown is meaningful, to look in the eyes of those people, to see those kids...",Candidate,male,3,1,310
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,311
Joe Biden,NA,"... to understand those parents, you understand the heartache.",Candidate,male,3,1,312
Unknown,NA,But this is the problem.,Moderator,unknown,3,1,313
Joe Biden,NA,We are ready to do this.,Candidate,male,3,1,314
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,315
David Muir,NA,Mr. Vice President...,Moderator,male,3,1,316
Unknown,NA,This is the problem.,Moderator,unknown,3,1,317
Beto O'Rourke,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,3,1,318
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,319
David Muir,NA,... you did bring up assault weapons here.,Moderator,male,3,1,320
David Muir,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,321
David Muir,NA,"You did bring up assault weapons here, and many of you on this stage have talked about executive order.",Moderator,male,3,1,322
David Muir,NA,"Senator Harris, you have said that you would take executive action on guns within your first 100 days...",Moderator,male,3,1,323
Kamala Harris,NA,Correct.,Candidate,female,3,1,324
David Muir,NA,... including banning imports of AR-15 assault weapons.,Moderator,male,3,1,325
Kamala Harris,NA,That's right.,Candidate,female,3,1,326
David Muir,NA,"President Obama, after Sandy Hook, more than 23 executive actions, and yet here we all are today.",Moderator,male,3,1,327
David Muir,NA,"In 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.""",Moderator,male,3,1,328
David Muir,NA,Does the vice president have a point there?,Moderator,male,3,1,329
Joe Biden,NA,Some things you can. Many things you can't.,Candidate,male,3,1,330
David Muir,NA,Let's let the senator answer.,Moderator,male,3,1,331
Kamala Harris,NA,"Well, I mean, I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying, no, we can't, let's say yes, we can.",Candidate,female,3,1,332
Kamala Harris,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,333
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,334
Joe Biden,NA,Let's be constitutional. We've got a Constitution.,Candidate,male,3,1,335
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,336
Kamala Harris,NA,"And the idea that we would wait for this Congress, which has just done nothing, to act, is just - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,337
Kamala Harris,NA,"I was talking about this at one of my town halls, and - and this child who was eight years old, probably, came up to me - 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.""",Candidate,female,3,1,338
Kamala Harris,NA,"It is traumatizing our children. El Paso - and, Beto, God love you for standing so courageously in the midst of that tragedy. You know, people asked me...",Candidate,female,3,1,339
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,340
Kamala Harris,NA,"... in El Paso - 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?""",Candidate,female,3,1,341
Kamala Harris,NA,"And I said, ""Well, look, I mean, obviously, he didn't pull the trigger, but he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition.""",Candidate,female,3,1,342
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,343
David Muir,NA,"Senator Harris, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,344
David Muir,NA,"Vice President Biden, do you still stand by what you said on an executive order?",Moderator,male,3,1,345
Joe Biden,NA,"No, what I said was - the question - 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"" - check with constitutional scholars. Now, you can say...",Candidate,male,3,1,346
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice President, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,347
David Muir,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, I want to get to you on this.",Moderator,male,3,1,348
David Muir,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,349
Kamala Harris,NA,"John, could I tell you what you could do in 100 days?",Candidate,female,3,1,350
David Muir,NA,"I'm going to - 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,351
David Muir,NA,"You'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?",Moderator,male,3,1,352
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"I am, if it's a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefield...",Candidate,male,3,1,353
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,354
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,355
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,356
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,357
Beto O'Rourke,NA,We're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.,Candidate,male,3,1,358
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,359
David Muir,NA,"Congressman, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,360
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,361
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,362
Unknown,NA,May I make a point?,Moderator,unknown,3,1,363
David Muir,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,364
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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.,Candidate,female,3,1,365
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Everyone 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,366
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"You 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 - universal background checks, closing the Charleston loophole, and passing my bill to make sure that domestic abusers don't get AK-47s.",Candidate,female,3,1,367
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,368
David Muir,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,3,1,369
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So if we want to get something done - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,370
David Muir,NA,Senator Klobuchar...,Moderator,male,3,1,371
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Because we cannot spare another innocent life.,Candidate,female,3,1,372
David Muir,NA,Thank you. Thank you.,Moderator,male,3,1,373
David Muir,NA,"I 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,374
David Muir,NA,"You 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,375
David Muir,NA,"If 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,376
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,377
Cory Booker,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,378
Cory Booker,NA,But 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.,Candidate,male,3,1,379
Cory Booker,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,380
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,381
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,382
David Muir,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,383
Cory Booker,NA,"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't get it done because of the situation in the Senate, I'm looking to lead a movement. The number-one reason why governments are formed is to protect the citizenry.",Candidate,male,3,1,384
Cory Booker,NA,"Think 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,385
Cory Booker,NA,"That is the kind of fight - because the majority of homicide victims - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,386
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,387
Joe Biden,NA,Go beat them.,Candidate,male,3,1,388
David Muir,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,389
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So let'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.",Candidate,female,3,1,390
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And we agree on many steps we could take to fix it. My view on this is, we're going to - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,391
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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 - I like registration - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,392
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,393
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,394
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Until 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,395
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,396
David Muir,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,397
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,398
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,399
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,400
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I am proud - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,401
David Muir,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,402
Kamala Harris,NA,May I respond...,Candidate,female,3,1,403
Jorge Ramos,NA,"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 - and you know this - is very real.",Moderator,male,3,1,404
Jorge Ramos,NA,"So 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,405
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Then 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,406
Joe Biden,NA,"What Latinos should look at is - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,407
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two - number two, by the time - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,408
Joe Biden,NA,"What I would do as president is several more things, because things have changed. I would, in fact, make sure that there is - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,409
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,410
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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. Now (inaudible) back...",Candidate,male,3,1,411
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Yeah, but you didn't answer the question.",Moderator,male,3,1,412
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, I did answer the question.",Candidate,male,3,1,413
Jorge Ramos,NA,"No, did you make a mistake with those deportations?",Moderator,male,3,1,414
Joe Biden,NA,The president did the best thing that was able to be done at the time.,Candidate,male,3,1,415
Jorge Ramos,NA,How about you?,Moderator,male,3,1,416
Joe Biden,NA,I'm the vice president of the United States.,Candidate,male,3,1,417
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Secretary Castro, would you want to respond to Vice President Biden?",Moderator,male,3,1,418
Julian Castro,NA,"I mean, look...",Candidate,male,3,1,419
Jorge Ramos,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,420
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,421
Julian Castro,NA,"But my problem with Vice President Biden - and Cory pointed this out last time - 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...",Candidate,male,3,1,422
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,423
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Vice President Biden, you have - you have 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,3,1,424
Julian Castro,NA,Let me just say...,Candidate,male,3,1,425
Joe Biden,NA,That's not what I said.,Candidate,male,3,1,426
Julian Castro,NA,Let me just say...,Candidate,male,3,1,427
Joe Biden,NA,That's not what I said.,Candidate,male,3,1,428
Julian Castro,NA,"Jorge, let me just say that I would - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,429
Julian Castro,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,430
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Vice President, 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,3,1,431
Joe Biden,NA,"I did not say I don't - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,432
Jorge Ramos,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,3,1,433
Jorge Ramos,NA,"You want ICE, the agency in charge of rounding up undocumented immigrants.",Moderator,male,3,1,434
Jorge Ramos,NA,So 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.?,Moderator,male,3,1,435
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Well, I start with a statement of principles, and that is, in this country, immigration does not make us weaker, immigration makes us stronger.",Candidate,female,3,1,436
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,437
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,438
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Down 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,439
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,440
Jorge Ramos,NA,Mr. Yang...,Moderator,male,3,1,441
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We need - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,442
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,443
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,444
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,445
Jorge Ramos,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,446
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, yes - oh, I'm sorry. Did you me or...",Candidate,female,3,1,447
Andrew Yang,NA,It was me.,Candidate,male,3,1,448
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Oh, he said it. Okay. Sorry.",Candidate,female,3,1,449
Andrew Yang,NA,My - 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...,Candidate,male,3,1,450
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,451
Andrew Yang,NA,... to be able to share with the American people.,Candidate,male,3,1,452
Andrew Yang,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,453
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,454
Andrew Yang,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,455
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,456
Jorge Ramos,NA,(SPEAKING SPANISH),Moderator,male,3,1,457
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Gracias.,Candidate,male,3,1,458
Jorge Ramos,NA,"(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.",Moderator,male,3,1,459
Jorge Ramos,NA,"He 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,460
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Anyone who supports this is supporting racism.,Candidate,male,3,1,461
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,462
Pete Buttigieg,NA,(SPEAKING SPANISH),Candidate,male,3,1,463
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The only people, though, who actually buy into this president's hateful rhetoric around immigrants are people who don'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,464
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,465
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,466
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,467
Jorge Ramos,NA,(SPEAKING SPANISH),Moderator,male,3,1,468
Jorge Ramos,NA,"In 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,469
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,470
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,471
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,472
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,473
Beto O'Rourke,NA,(SPEAKING SPANISH),Candidate,male,3,1,474
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,475
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,476
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,477
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Legalize America, begin with those more than 1 million DREAMers, make them U.S. citizens right now in this, their true home country...",Candidate,male,3,1,478
Beto O'Rourke,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,479
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,480
Jorge Ramos,NA,Thank you. George.,Moderator,male,3,1,481
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Jorge, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,482
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"We'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.",Moderator,male,3,1,483
George Stephanopoulos,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,484
Announcer,NA,"Live from Texas Southern University in Houston, the ""Democratic Debate.""",Moderator,unknown,3,1,485
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,3,1,486
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"And, 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,487
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,488
Andrew Yang,NA,"A 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,489
Andrew Yang,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,490
Andrew Yang,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,491
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Pete, let me take that question - 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,492
George Stephanopoulos,NA,How do you think about China? We've seen President Trump call President Xi both an enemy and a friend.,Moderator,male,3,1,493
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, the president clearly has no strategy.",Candidate,male,3,1,494
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,495
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,496
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Is 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,497
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,498
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,499
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Would you repeal the tariffs?,Moderator,male,3,1,500
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,501
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, you've actually supported the tariffs on steel.",Moderator,male,3,1,502
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,503
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"One 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,504
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So what I think we need to do is to go back to the negotiating table - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,505
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,506
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,507
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,508
Julian Castro,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,509
Julian Castro,NA,"We have millions of Uighurs, for instance, in China that right now are being imprisoned and mistreated.",Candidate,male,3,1,510
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,511
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,512
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,513
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,514
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,515
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,516
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,3,1,517
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,518
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,519
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,520
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Harris, how would your trade policy differ from President Obama's?",Moderator,male,3,1,521
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,522
Kamala Harris,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,523
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,524
Kamala Harris,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,525
Kamala Harris,NA,We 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 - and I think the only person on this stage - the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee. We need a partner on the issue of North Korea.,Candidate,female,3,1,526
Kamala Harris,NA,"But 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?",Candidate,female,3,1,527
Kamala Harris,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,528
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Okay. I'm not even going to take the bait, Senator Harris. But I am going to take...",Moderator,male,3,1,529
Kamala Harris,NA,"Oh, George, it wasn't about you.",Candidate,female,3,1,530
George Stephanopoulos,NA,I'm going to take this to Senator Sanders right now.,Moderator,male,3,1,531
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, there is a reason - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,532
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,533
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,534
Bernie Sanders,NA,And what happened is people who had those jobs ended up getting other jobs making 50 percent of what they made in manufacturing.,Candidate,male,3,1,535
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,536
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Vice President Biden, he invoked your name.",Moderator,male,3,1,537
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,538
Joe Biden,NA,"And I think Elizabeth - 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 - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,539
Joe Biden,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,540
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Booker, close out this round.",Moderator,male,3,1,541
Cory Booker,NA,"Sure. There's one point we're really missing on the stage right now, which is the fact that Donald Trump's America first policy is actually an America isolated, an America alone policy.",Candidate,male,3,1,542
Joe Biden,NA,Exactly right.,Candidate,male,3,1,543
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,544
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,545
Cory Booker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,546
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,547
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,548
George Stephanopoulos,NA,David?,Moderator,male,3,1,549
David Muir,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,3,1,550
David Muir,NA,"Many 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,551
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,3,1,552
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And then we need to make a big shift. We cannot ask our military to keep solving problems that cannot be solved militarily.,Candidate,female,3,1,553
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,554
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,female,3,1,555
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,556
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,3,1,557
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 - we did - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,558
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,559
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,560
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,561
David Muir,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,562
David Muir,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,563
David Muir,NA,"I 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,564
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You know, I served under General Dunford, way under General Dunford, in Afghanistan.",Candidate,male,3,1,565
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,566
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,567
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,568
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Let 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,569
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,570
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,571
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,572
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"By 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?",Candidate,male,3,1,573
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,574
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,575
David Muir,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,576
David Muir,NA,"I 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,577
David Muir,NA,"When 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,578
Joe Biden,NA,"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 - and it's an open secret, you reported a long time ago, George, that I was opposed to the surge in Afghanistan.",Candidate,male,3,1,579
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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 - the three provinces in the east. They're not any part of - the Haqqanis run it. I will go on and on.",Candidate,male,3,1,580
Joe Biden,NA,But 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 - insist the Pakistanis provide bases for us to air lift from and to move against what we know.,Candidate,male,3,1,581
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,582
Joe Biden,NA,"With regard to - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,583
Joe Biden,NA,I said something that was not meant the way I said it.,Candidate,male,3,1,584
Joe Biden,NA,"I said - from that point on - 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 - we didn't have allies with us, et cetera.",Candidate,male,3,1,585
Joe Biden,NA,"And it was later, when we came into office, that Barack turned - the president turned to me and said, ""Joe"" - 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.""",Candidate,male,3,1,586
Joe Biden,NA,"My son spent a year in Iraq, and I understand. It made - 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 - from moving in.",Candidate,male,3,1,587
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice President, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,588
David Muir,NA,I 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.,Moderator,male,3,1,589
David Muir,NA,"What 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,590
Bernie Sanders,NA,"David, let me answer that, but let me just comment on something that the vice president said.",Candidate,male,3,1,591
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You 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...",Candidate,male,3,1,592
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,593
Joe Biden,NA,You're right.,Candidate,male,3,1,594
Bernie Sanders,NA,I voted against the war in Iraq,Candidate,male,3,1,595
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,596
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... and helped lead the opposition. And it's sad to say - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,597
Bernie Sanders,NA,"As 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 - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,598
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,599
Bernie Sanders,NA,I don't think we have to spend $750 billion a year on the military when we don't even know who our enemy is.,Candidate,male,3,1,600
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,601
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I think that what we have got to do is bring this world together - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,602
David Muir,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,603
David Muir,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,604
David Muir,NA,"I 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.",Moderator,male,3,1,605
David Muir,NA,"As you share the stage with these candidates, what makes you the most qualified on this stage to be commander in chief?",Moderator,male,3,1,606
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,607
Andrew Yang,NA,"And if you want proof, all you have to do is look within our own country of Puerto Rico.",Candidate,male,3,1,608
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,609
Andrew Yang,NA,"We've spent trillions of dollars to unclear benefits, lost thousands of lives - and thank you, Pete, for your service. And the goal has to be to rebuild the relationships that have made America strong for decades.",Candidate,male,3,1,610
Andrew Yang,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,3,1,611
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Yang, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,612
David Muir,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,613
David Muir,NA,Jorge?,Moderator,male,3,1,614
Jorge Ramos,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,male,3,1,615
Jorge Ramos,(SPEAKING IN SPANISH),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,616
Jorge Ramos,NA,"You haven't been asked about Latin America in the previous debates, so let'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.",Moderator,male,3,1,617
Jorge Ramos,NA,"You admit that Venezuela does not have free elections, but still you refuse to call Nicolas Maduro a dictator - a dictator. Can you explain why?",Moderator,male,3,1,618
Jorge Ramos,NA,"And what are the main differences between your kind of socialism and the one being imposed in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua?",Moderator,male,3,1,619
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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 - can create their own future.",Candidate,male,3,1,620
Bernie Sanders,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,621
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,622
Bernie Sanders,NA,I believe that the United States should not be the only major country on earth not to provide paid family and medical leave.,Candidate,male,3,1,623
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,624
Bernie Sanders,NA,I believe that every worker in this country deserves a living wage and that we expand the trade union movement.,Candidate,male,3,1,625
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,626
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I happen to believe also that what, to me, democratic socialism means, is we deal with an issue we do not discuss enough, Jorge - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,627
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Maybe, just maybe, what we should be doing is creating an economy...",Candidate,male,3,1,628
Jorge Ramos,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,3,1,629
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... that works for all of us, not 1 percent. That's my understanding of democratic socialism.",Candidate,male,3,1,630
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,631
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Secretary, you wanted to say a quick response - 45 seconds?",Moderator,male,3,1,632
Julian Castro,NA,"Sure, thank you, Jorge. I'll call Maduro a dictator, because he is a dictator.",Candidate,male,3,1,633
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,634
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,635
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,636
Julian Castro,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,637
Julian Castro,NA,"I also believe that we need to do things like a 21st century Marshall plan for Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala...",Candidate,male,3,1,638
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,639
Julian Castro,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,640
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,3,1,641
Julian Castro,NA,And I will,Candidate,male,3,1,642
Jorge Ramos,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,3,1,643
Jorge Ramos,NA,"So should more Americans, including those here in Texas, and in Iowa...",Moderator,male,3,1,644
Jorge Ramos,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,645
Jorge Ramos,NA,... follow your diet?,Moderator,male,3,1,646
Jorge Ramos,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,647
Cory Booker,NA,"Um, you know, first of all, I want to say no. Actually, I want to translate that into Spanish. No.",Candidate,male,3,1,648
Cory Booker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,649
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,650
Cory Booker,NA,"Look, on - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,651
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,652
Cory Booker,NA,"But I want to - I want to switch, because we don't have - 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't say one word about veterans in our country.",Candidate,male,3,1,653
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,654
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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 - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,655
Cory Booker,NA,"We end our national anthem with ""home of the brave."" It's about time we make this a better home for our bravest.",Candidate,male,3,1,656
Cory Booker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,657
Cory Booker,NA,"Congressman 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,658
Cory Booker,NA,What 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?,Candidate,male,3,1,659
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,660
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,661
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,662
Beto O'Rourke,NA,That's the way that we're going to meet this challenge and we're going to bring everyone into the solution.,Candidate,male,3,1,663
Jorge Ramos,NA,Many of you want to comment. Let's see if we can go very fast. Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,3,1,664
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,3,1,665
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"This is the existential crisis of our time. It's - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,666
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"On 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,667
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"On 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,668
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Senator Warren, should American foreign policy be based around the principle of climate change?",Moderator,male,3,1,669
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,670
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,671
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,672
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,673
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Sen. Harris, 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,3,1,674
Kamala Harris,NA,"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'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't know what they see, but it's a lack of courage.",Candidate,female,3,1,675
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,676
Kamala Harris,NA,"I took on - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,677
Kamala Harris,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,678
Jorge Ramos,NA,Mr. Yang?,Moderator,male,3,1,679
Andrew Yang,NA,"So, to follow up on what Elizabeth said, why are we losing to the fossil fuel companies?",Candidate,male,3,1,680
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,3,1,681
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,682
Andrew Yang,NA,"Money will find its way back in. So, what is the answer? The answer is to wash the money out with people-powered money.",Candidate,male,3,1,683
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,684
Andrew Yang,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,685
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,686
Jorge Ramos,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,male,3,1,687
Jorge Ramos,NA,Linsey.,Moderator,male,3,1,688
Lindsey Davis,NA,I'd like to have an academic discussion now about education.,Moderator,female,3,1,689
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Mr. 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.",Moderator,female,3,1,690
Lindsey Davis,NA,"You'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?",Moderator,female,3,1,691
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,692
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,693
Andrew Yang,NA,"So, we need to pay teachers more, because the data clearly shows that a good teacher is worth his or her weight in gold.",Candidate,male,3,1,694
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,695
Andrew Yang,NA,"We need to lighten up the emphasis on standardized tests, which do not measure anything fundamental about our character or human worth.",Candidate,male,3,1,696
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,697
Andrew Yang,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,698
Andrew Yang,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,699
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,700
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,female,3,1,701
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Step one is appoint a secretary of education who actually believes in public education.,Candidate,male,3,1,702
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,703
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,704
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,3,1,705
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,706
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,707
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Sen. Warren, to use Mr. Yang's term, are you just jumping into bed with teachers unions?",Moderator,female,3,1,708
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, I think I'm the only person on this stage who has been a public school teacher.",Candidate,female,3,1,709
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,710
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,711
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,712
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I've already made my commitment. I will - we will have a secretary of education who has been a public school teacher.,Candidate,female,3,1,713
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,714
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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...",Candidate,female,3,1,715
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,716
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 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've got it...",Candidate,female,3,1,717
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,718
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,719
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,720
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Sen. Harris, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,female,3,1,721
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,722
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,723
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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...",Candidate,female,3,1,724
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,725
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because - because, one, as a proud graduate of a historically black college and university, I will say - I will say that it is our HBCUs that disproportionately produce teachers and those who serve in these may professions, but also...",Candidate,female,3,1,726
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,727
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,728
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,729
Kamala Harris,NA,"If 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...",Candidate,female,3,1,730
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,731
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Sen. Sanders, 45 seconds.",Moderator,female,3,1,732
Kamala Harris,NA,... and I strongly believe you can judge a society based on how it treats its children. And we are failing on this issue.,Candidate,female,3,1,733
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,734
Lindsey Davis,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,3,1,735
Bernie Sanders,NA,Guess what?,Candidate,male,3,1,736
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,737
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,738
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Which is why, under my legislation, we'll move to see that every teacher in America makings at least $60,000 a year.",Candidate,male,3,1,739
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,740
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,741
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,742
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,743
Bernie Sanders,NA,And we are going to do that by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculation.,Candidate,male,3,1,744
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,745
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,746
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Mr. 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.""",Moderator,female,3,1,747
Lindsey Davis,NA,"You 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?",Moderator,female,3,1,748
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, they have to deal with the - 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 - 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 - the $60,000 level.",Candidate,male,3,1,749
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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 - we have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It's crazy.",Candidate,male,3,1,750
Joe Biden,NA,"The teachers are - I'm married to a teacher. My deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. We have - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,751
Joe Biden,NA,"It's not want they don't want to help. They don't - they don't know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television - excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the - the - make sure that kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school - a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there.",Candidate,male,3,1,752
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,3,1,753
Joe Biden,NA,"There's so much we - no, I'm going to go like the rest of them do, twice over, okay?",Candidate,male,3,1,754
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,755
Joe Biden,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,756
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,757
Lindsey Davis,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,female,3,1,758
Lindsey Davis,NA,Secretary Castro?,Moderator,female,3,1,759
Julian Castro,NA,"Thank you very much. Well, that's - that's quite a lot.",Candidate,male,3,1,760
Joe Biden,NA,(OFF-MIKE),Candidate,male,3,1,761
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,762
Julian Castro,NA,"But, you know - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,763
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,764
Julian Castro,NA,"Those 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,765
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,766
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Secretary.",Moderator,female,3,1,767
Julian Castro,NA,"And so while I'm not categorically against charter schools, I would require more transparency and accountability from them than is required right now.",Candidate,male,3,1,768
Lindsey Davis,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,3,1,769
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Nonwhite 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.",Moderator,female,3,1,770
Cory Booker,NA,"So, I'm hearing a lot of conversations on the stage that - and the way we talk about communities of color. Look, I live in a black and brown community below the poverty line. I'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't have a school that serves their genius.",Candidate,male,3,1,771
Cory Booker,NA,"I think I'm the only person on the stage - even though I had no formal authority as mayor to run a school system - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,772
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,773
Cory Booker,NA,"Strategies 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,774
Cory Booker,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,775
Cory Booker,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,776
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,777
Cory Booker,NA,"And so if I'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...",Candidate,male,3,1,778
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,3,1,779
Cory Booker,NA,"... that takes parents away from their kids, and dealing with environmental justice as a major pillar of any climate policy.",Candidate,male,3,1,780
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Thank you, Linsey. One final question coming up. We'll be right back.",Moderator,male,3,1,781
George Stephanopoulos,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,782
George Stephanopoulos,NA,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.,Moderator,male,3,1,783
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"And, 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?",Moderator,male,3,1,784
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,male,3,1,785
Joe Biden,NA,I - I never counted any professional setback like I have as a serious setback. There's things that are important. Things that are unimportant.,Candidate,male,3,1,786
Protester,NA,(OFF-MIKE),Protest,unknown,3,1,787
George Stephanopoulos,NA,We're going to clear the protesters now. Just one minute.,Moderator,male,3,1,788
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Biden, we'll start the clock again.",Moderator,male,3,1,789
Protester,NA,(OFF-MIKE),Protest,unknown,3,1,790
Joe Biden,NA,I'm sorry.,Candidate,male,3,1,791
George Stephanopoulos,NA,We're sorry. Go ahead.,Moderator,male,3,1,792
Joe Biden,NA,"There's setbacks, and there's setbacks. And I think the most critical setback that can occur to anyone is to lose - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,793
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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 - it took - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,794
Joe Biden,NA,"And then later, when my son Beau came home from Iraq and - with a terminal disease, and a year later, year-and-a-half later, losing him was like losing part of my soul.",Candidate,male,3,1,795
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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 - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,796
Joe Biden,NA,"And it just takes - it just - 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 - 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,797
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Senator Warren?",Moderator,male,3,1,798
George Stephanopoulos,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,799
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,800
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,801
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"By 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,802
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I 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.,Candidate,female,3,1,803
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But at the end of that first year, I was visibly pregnant. And back in the day, that meant that the principal said to me - wished me luck and hired someone else for the job.",Candidate,female,3,1,804
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, 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 - I practiced law for about 45 minutes and then went back to my first love, which was teaching.",Candidate,female,3,1,805
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,806
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,3,1,807
George Stephanopoulos,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,808
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,3,1,809
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,810
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Professional 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,811
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,812
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,813
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,3,1,814
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Harris?,Moderator,male,3,1,815
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,816
Kamala Harris,NA,"When I ran for attorney general of California, I was elected - because I didn't listen. And I was the only black elected - woman black elected attorney general in the state - in the country.",Candidate,female,3,1,817
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,818
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,819
Kamala Harris,NA,"And when I look around the town halls that we do in this race for president of the United States, and I look at the - 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,820
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,3,1,821
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Harris, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,3,1,822
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,3,1,823
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,824
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I came back from the deployment and realized that you only get to live one life.,Candidate,male,3,1,825
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,826
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,827
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,828
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,829
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,830
George Stephanopoulos,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,831
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mr. Yang?,Moderator,male,3,1,832
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,833
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,834
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,835
Andrew Yang,NA,"Then 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'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,836
Andrew Yang,NA,But the goal of my campaign is to make this an economy that allows us to live our human values and aspirations.,Candidate,male,3,1,837
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,male,3,1,838
George Stephanopoulos,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,839
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Booker?,Moderator,male,3,1,840
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,841
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,842
Cory Booker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,843
Cory Booker,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,844
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,845
Cory Booker,NA,"There'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,846
Cory Booker,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,847
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,848
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Booker, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,849
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Congressman O'Rourke?,Moderator,male,3,1,850
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,3,1,851
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,852
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Yesterday, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,853
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Memo, 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'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,854
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Congressman, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,855
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,3,1,856
George Stephanopoulos,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,857
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,3,1,858
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,859
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,860
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,861
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,female,3,1,862
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,male,3,1,863
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Secretary Castro?,Moderator,male,3,1,864
Julian Castro,NA,"And thank you, George, to Jorge, to Linsey, and to David, and to all of y'all for tuning in tonight. In many ways, I shouldn't be here on this stage. You know, Castro is my mother's name and was my grandmother'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,865
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,866
Julian Castro,NA,"Well, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,867
Julian Castro,NA,"But under the ethics rules for lawyers in Texas - because believe it or not, lawyers have ethics rules - you can't just go against the interest of a client. So I was stuck.",Candidate,male,3,1,868
Julian Castro,NA,"On 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,869
Julian Castro,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,870
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,3,1,871
Julian Castro,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,male,3,1,872
Julian Castro,NA,"There'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.",Candidate,male,3,1,873
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Thank you, Secretary Castro. Thank you to all of our candidates. It was a great debate. I think we learned a lot tonight thanks to you. Thanks to Texas Southern University for hosting us tonight. It was a great crowd, as well, tonight, thanks to you.",Moderator,male,3,1,874
George Stephanopoulos,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,3,1,875
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Thanks to everyone at home. The debate is over. Our coverage continues with Tom Llamas.,Moderator,male,3,1,876
Anderson Cooper,NA,"And live from Otterbein University, just north of Columbus, Ohio, this is the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate.",Moderator,male,4,1,1
Anderson Cooper,NA,"We 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's Facebook page, and listening on the Westwood One radio network, SiriusXM satellite radio, NPR, and the American Forces Network.",Moderator,male,4,1,2
Anderson Cooper,NA,"I'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.",Moderator,male,4,1,3
Erin Burnett,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,4,1,4
Mark Lacey,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,5
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,6
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Since 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,7
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Because sometimes there are issues that are bigger than politics. And I think that's the case with this impeachment inquiry.,Candidate,female,4,1,8
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,9
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,10
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Impeachment 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,11
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren. You'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.",Moderator,male,4,1,12
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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 - 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,13
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,14
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Vice President Biden, during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, you said, and I quote, ""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."" With the country now split, have Democrats been careful enough in pursuing the impeachment of President Trump?",Moderator,male,4,1,15
Joe Biden,NA,"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 - no choice - but to begin an impeachment proceeding, which gives them more power to seek more information.",Candidate,male,4,1,16
Joe Biden,NA,"This president - and I agree with Bernie, Senator Sanders - 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,17
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,18
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,19
Kamala Harris,NA,"During 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,20
Kamala Harris,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,21
Kamala Harris,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,22
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Booker, you have said that President Trump's, quote, ""moral vandalism"" disqualifies him from being president. Can you be fair in an impeachment trial? Please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,23
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,24
Cory Booker,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,25
Cory Booker,NA,"Anybody 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,26
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker.",Moderator,male,4,1,27
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, you have - 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,28
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,29
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"He has not been standing up for the workers of Ohio. He'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's digging up dirt on an opponent. That's illegal conduct. That's what he was doing. He didn't talk to him about the Russian invasion. He talked to him about that.",Candidate,female,4,1,30
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,31
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"It 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 ...",Candidate,female,4,1,32
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,33
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... and I will not do that.,Candidate,female,4,1,34
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you. Secretary Castro, is impeachment a distraction?",Moderator,male,4,1,35
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,36
Julian Castro,NA,"Not 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 - in an ongoing way violating his oath of office and abusing his power.",Candidate,male,4,1,37
Julian Castro,NA,"We have to impeach this president. And the majority of Americans not only support impeachment, they support removal. He should be removed.",Candidate,male,4,1,38
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,39
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,40
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, 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'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,41
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,42
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,43
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I'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.,Candidate,male,4,1,44
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Congresswoman Gabbard, you're the only sitting House member on this stage. How do you respond?",Moderator,male,4,1,45
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,46
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,47
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,48
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,male,4,1,49
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Mr. Steyer, you've been calling for impeachment for two years. Does there need to be bipartisan support?",Moderator,male,4,1,50
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,51
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,52
Tom Steyer,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,53
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Mr. Yang, do you think there's already enough evidence out there to impeach the president? Please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,54
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,55
Andrew Yang,NA,"Why 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,56
Andrew Yang,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,57
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,58
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, on impeachment, please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,59
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,60
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,61
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,4,1,62
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,63
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,64
Beto O'Rourke,NA,And we cannot do that.,Candidate,male,4,1,65
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,66
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Having 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,67
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,68
Joe Biden,NA,And what I wanted to make a point about - 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.,Candidate,male,4,1,69
Joe Biden,NA,"On the - 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 - three occasions - has invited foreign governments and heads of government to get engaged in trying to alter our elections. The fact is that it is outrageous.",Candidate,male,4,1,70
Joe Biden,NA,"Rudy 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,71
Unknown,NA,Anderson - Anderson ...,Moderator,unknown,4,1,72
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,73
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,74
Joe Biden,NA,My 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.,Candidate,male,4,1,75
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Sanders, your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,76
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,77
Bernie Sanders,NA,But we cannot and must not turn our backs on the pain of the working class of this country.,Candidate,male,4,1,78
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you. Mark?",Moderator,male,4,1,79
Mark Lacey,NA,We want to move now to the economy.,Moderator,male,4,1,80
Unknown,NA,"May I get in, please?",Moderator,unknown,4,1,81
Mark Lacey,NA,You've proposed some sweeping plans...,Moderator,male,4,1,82
Mark Lacey,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,83
Mark Lacey,NA,... free public college...,Moderator,male,4,1,84
Mark Lacey,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,85
Unknown,NA,It is wrong to move on.,Moderator,unknown,4,1,86
Mark Lacey,NA,Thank you. We're going to -- Senator Warren.,Moderator,male,4,1,87
Unknown,NA,It is wrong to move on.,Moderator,unknown,4,1,88
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,89
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,90
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,91
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,92
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,93
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,94
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,95
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,96
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,97
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"No 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,98
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,99
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Senator, your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,100
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,101
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Medicare 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,102
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,103
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I've been studying this, you know, for the biggest part of my life...",Candidate,female,4,1,104
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Can the -- can the...",Moderator,male,4,1,105
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... why people go bankrupt.,Candidate,female,4,1,106
Mark Lacey,NA,... mayor respond?,Moderator,male,4,1,107
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Sure.,Candidate,female,4,1,108
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,109
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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?",Candidate,male,4,1,110
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Senator Sanders?",Moderator,male,4,1,111
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'd like to be able to respond...,Candidate,female,4,1,112
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,113
Bernie Sanders,NA,"At 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,114
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, at least that's a straightforward answer, but there's a better way.",Candidate,male,4,1,115
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator Warren, will you acknowledge what the senator just said about taxes going up?",Moderator,male,4,1,116
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.""",Candidate,female,4,1,117
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator Klobuchar...",Moderator,male,4,1,118
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"""We're not covering what you need.""",Candidate,female,4,1,119
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,120
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I 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'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.,Candidate,female,4,1,121
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I'm tired of hearing, whenever I say these things, oh, it's Republican talking points. You are making Republican talking points right now in this room by coming out for a plan that's going to do that. I think there is a better way that is bold, that will cover more people, and it's the one we should get behind.",Candidate,female,4,1,122
Mark Lacey,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,4,1,123
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, I didn'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.",Candidate,female,4,1,124
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,4,1,125
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,126
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... Americans from going bankrupt over health care costs.,Candidate,female,4,1,127
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, do you want to respond?",Moderator,male,4,1,128
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yes, I do. And I appreciate Elizabeth'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.",Candidate,female,4,1,129
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,130
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,131
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,132
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Those are the issues that I hear about when I'm in Toledo.,Candidate,female,4,1,133
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden...",Moderator,male,4,1,134
Mark Lacey,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,135
Kamala Harris,NA,I'd like to be...,Candidate,female,4,1,136
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,137
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,138
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,139
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,140
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator Sanders, do you want to respond to -- we were coming to you.",Moderator,male,4,1,141
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,142
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,143
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,144
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And if we don't have the guts to do that, if all we can do is take their money, we should be ashamed of ourselves.",Candidate,male,4,1,145
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,4,1,146
Joe Biden,NA,We can stand up to them.,Candidate,male,4,1,147
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator Harris, your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,148
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,149
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,150
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,151
Kamala Harris,NA,Women 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,152
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,153
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,154
Kamala Harris,NA,And let's talk about that.,Candidate,female,4,1,155
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,156
Kamala Harris,NA,That is a significant health care issue in America today.,Candidate,female,4,1,157
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,158
Erin Burnett,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,4,1,159
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,4,1,160
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,161
Bernie Sanders,NA,Furthermore -- 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.,Candidate,male,4,1,162
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,163
Erin Burnett,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,4,1,164
Andrew Yang,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,4,1,165
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,166
Andrew Yang,NA,"Also, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,167
Andrew Yang,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,168
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Booker, a federal jobs guarantee or $1,000 a month, are those the best solutions there? Please respond.",Moderator,female,4,1,169
Cory Booker,NA,"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.""",Candidate,male,4,1,170
Cory Booker,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,171
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,172
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,173
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,174
Cory Booker,NA,And men...,Candidate,male,4,1,175
Erin Burnett,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,4,1,176
Cory Booker,NA,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.,Candidate,male,4,1,177
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator, thank you. We are going to get to that issue later on tonight.",Moderator,female,4,1,178
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,4,1,179
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,180
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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?",Candidate,female,4,1,181
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We also need to make it easier to join a union and give unions more power when they negotiate.,Candidate,female,4,1,182
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,183
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We need to restructure strength in this economy, and that's where it starts.",Candidate,female,4,1,184
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,185
Erin Burnett,NA,"Secretary Castro, what's your response to Senator Warren's claim that automation is a good story, except it's not really true?",Moderator,female,4,1,186
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,187
Julian Castro,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,188
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,189
Julian Castro,NA,"On top of that, let me just say this. We need to support working families. We need to invest in things like...",Candidate,male,4,1,190
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Secretary.",Moderator,female,4,1,191
Julian Castro,NA,"... universal childcare, so that people can afford childcare instead of having to pay 20 percent of their income for it.",Candidate,male,4,1,192
Andrew Yang,NA,"Senator Warren, I just need -- I just need to address this.",Candidate,male,4,1,193
Erin Burnett,NA,"Go ahead, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,4,1,194
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,195
Andrew Yang,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,196
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Warren, respond, please.",Moderator,female,4,1,197
Erin Burnett,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,198
Erin Burnett,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,199
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,200
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"That $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.",Candidate,female,4,1,201
Erin Burnett,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,4,1,202
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So after a lifetime of hard work, people are entitled to retire with dignity.",Candidate,female,4,1,203
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,4,1,204
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I see this as an important question about just -- I want to understand the data on this.,Candidate,female,4,1,205
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator, thank you very much.",Moderator,female,4,1,206
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And I want to make sure we're responding to make this work.,Candidate,female,4,1,207
Erin Burnett,NA,Your time is up.,Moderator,female,4,1,208
Erin Burnett,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,209
Erin Burnett,NA,I want to give Congresswoman Gabbard a chance to respond.,Moderator,female,4,1,210
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,211
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,212
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,213
Erin Burnett,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,female,4,1,214
Mark Lacey,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,215
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,216
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,217
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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't put workers at the center of every trade deal.",Candidate,male,4,1,218
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,219
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,220
Cory Booker,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,221
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,222
Mark Lacey,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, same question for you. How would you convince GM to bring production back to the United States from Mexico?",Moderator,male,4,1,223
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,224
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,225
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,226
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"They 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,227
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,4,1,228
Erin Burnett,NA,"Income inequality is growing in the United States at an alarming rate. The top 1 percent now own more of this nation'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, ""Billionaires should not exist."" Is the goal of your plan to tax billionaires out of existence?",Moderator,female,4,1,229
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,230
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,231
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,232
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,233
Erin Burnett,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,234
Erin Burnett,NA,"Mr. Steyer, you are the lone billionaire on this stage. What's your plan for closing the income gap?",Moderator,female,4,1,235
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,236
Tom Steyer,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,237
Tom Steyer,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,238
Tom Steyer,NA,"There'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...",Candidate,male,4,1,239
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,4,1,240
Tom Steyer,NA,... unless we break the power of these corporations.,Candidate,male,4,1,241
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,4,1,242
Erin Burnett,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,243
Erin Burnett,NA,"Vice President Biden, you have warned against demonizing rich people. Do you believe that Senator Sanders and Senator Warren's wealth tax plans do that?",Moderator,female,4,1,244
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,245
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,246
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, the idea that we, in fact, engage in this notion that there are -- there's $1,640,000,000,000 in tax loopholes. You can't justify a minimum $600 billion of that. We could eliminate it all. I could go into detail had I the time.",Candidate,male,4,1,247
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly -- 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,248
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,249
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,4,1,250
Joe Biden,NA,"See, I'm doing the same thing.",Candidate,male,4,1,251
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,4,1,252
Erin Burnett,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,253
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Warren, your response.",Moderator,female,4,1,254
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,255
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,4,1,256
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,4,1,257
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 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?",Candidate,female,4,1,258
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,4,1,259
Joe Biden,NA,No one is supporting billionaires.,Candidate,male,4,1,260
Erin Burnett,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg? Mayor Buttigieg, your response?",Moderator,female,4,1,261
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,262
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Washington 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,263
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,264
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,4,1,265
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... to who sounded better on a debate stage or in a committee hearing...,Candidate,male,4,1,266
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,267
Erin Burnett,NA,Senator Klobuchar -- Senator Klobuchar...,Moderator,female,4,1,268
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This is what it's going to take to get something done.,Candidate,male,4,1,269
Erin Burnett,NA,Will a wealth tax -- will a wealth tax work?,Moderator,female,4,1,270
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,271
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,272
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,273
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,274
Erin Burnett,NA,Thank you. Senator...,Moderator,female,4,1,275
Amy Klobuchar,NA,It is not one idea that rules here.,Candidate,female,4,1,276
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Senator Warren, please respond.",Moderator,female,4,1,277
Erin Burnett,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,278
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,279
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,280
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I would like to respond to that.,Candidate,female,4,1,281
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, respond, please.",Moderator,female,4,1,282
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,283
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,284
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,285
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Harris, you want to give working families a tax credit of up to $6,000 a year to help close the income gap.",Moderator,female,4,1,286
Kamala Harris,NA,Right.,Candidate,female,4,1,287
Erin Burnett,NA,Is that a better solution than a wealth tax?,Moderator,female,4,1,288
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,289
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,290
Kamala Harris,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,291
Kamala Harris,NA,"That'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...",Candidate,female,4,1,292
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,293
Kamala Harris,NA,... when he's trying to get through to the end of the month.,Candidate,female,4,1,294
Erin Burnett,NA,"Mr. Yang, your response. Would you impose a wealth tax?",Moderator,female,4,1,295
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,296
Andrew Yang,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,297
Erin Burnett,NA,Thank you. Thank you.,Moderator,female,4,1,298
Erin Burnett,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, do you think a wealth tax is the best way to address income inequality? Your response.",Moderator,female,4,1,299
Beto O'Rourke,NA,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.,Candidate,male,4,1,300
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,301
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,302
Beto O'Rourke,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,303
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,female,4,1,304
Unknown,NA,"Erin, let me say...",Moderator,unknown,4,1,305
Erin Burnett,NA,I want to give Senator Warren a chance to respond.,Moderator,female,4,1,306
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,307
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,308
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,4,1,309
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That's what this is about.,Candidate,female,4,1,310
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Castro, your response?",Moderator,female,4,1,311
Beto O'Rourke,NA,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...,Candidate,male,4,1,312
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But that is...,Candidate,female,4,1,313
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,314
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... which we will do in my administration.,Candidate,male,4,1,315
Erin Burnett,NA,"Go ahead, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,316
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,317
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"But in addition to that, will they see a tax increase?",Candidate,male,4,1,318
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,4,1,319
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator...",Moderator,female,4,1,320
Erin Burnett,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,321
Beto O'Rourke,NA,... I just want to know if working families are going to see a tax increase.,Candidate,male,4,1,322
Beto O'Rourke,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,323
Erin Burnett,NA,"I want to get Secretary Castro in here, please, Congressman. Go ahead, Secretary.",Moderator,female,4,1,324
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,325
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,326
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,327
Julian Castro,NA,"We 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,328
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Secretary.",Moderator,female,4,1,329
Julian Castro,NA,... and investing in things like universal childcare and affordable housing.,Candidate,male,4,1,330
Erin Burnett,NA,"All right. Senator Booker, please respond.",Moderator,female,4,1,331
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,332
Cory Booker,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,333
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,334
Cory Booker,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,335
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,336
Cory Booker,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,337
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker.",Moderator,female,4,1,338
Erin Burnett,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,339
Anderson Cooper,NA,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.,Moderator,male,4,1,340
Anderson Cooper,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,341
Anderson Cooper,NA,"And welcome back to the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate live from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.",Moderator,male,4,1,342
Anderson Cooper,NA,"I 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.",Moderator,male,4,1,343
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,344
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,345
Joe Biden,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,346
Joe Biden,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,347
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Just to clarify, Mr. Vice President, would you want American troops back in northern Syria?",Moderator,male,4,1,348
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,349
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,350
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,351
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,352
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Donald 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,353
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Not 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,354
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,355
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,356
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,357
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,358
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,359
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I sit on the Armed Services Committee. I talk with our military leaders about this.,Candidate,female,4,1,360
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,361
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I was in Iraq and went through the neighborhoods that ISIS destroyed.,Candidate,female,4,1,362
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,363
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We need to get out, but we need to do this through a negotiated solution. There is no military solution in this region.",Candidate,female,4,1,364
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,365
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,366
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,367
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Meanwhile, 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?",Candidate,male,4,1,368
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,369
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,4,1,370
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You take that away, you are taking away what makes America America.",Candidate,male,4,1,371
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,4,1,372
Pete Buttigieg,NA,It makes our troops and the world a much more dangerous place.,Candidate,male,4,1,373
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,374
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,375
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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?",Candidate,female,4,1,376
Anderson Cooper,NA,Mayor Pete -- Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,4,1,377
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"No, you can embrace -- or you can put an end to endless war without embracing Donald Trump's policy, as you're doing.",Candidate,male,4,1,378
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Will you end the regime change war, is the question.",Candidate,female,4,1,379
Pete Buttigieg,NA,What we are doing...,Candidate,male,4,1,380
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,What is an endless war if it's not a regime change war?,Candidate,female,4,1,381
Anderson Cooper,NA,Allow him to respond. Please allow him to respond.,Moderator,male,4,1,382
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,383
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,384
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This president has betrayed American values. Our credibility has been tattered.,Candidate,male,4,1,385
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,386
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I will restore U.S. credibility before it is finally too late.,Candidate,male,4,1,387
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Sanders, is Turkey still a U.S. ally? Should they remain in NATO?",Moderator,male,4,1,388
Bernie Sanders,NA,I'm sorry. Say that again?,Candidate,male,4,1,389
Anderson Cooper,NA,Is Turkey still a U.S. ally? Should they remain in NATO?,Moderator,male,4,1,390
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, Turkey is not a U.S. ally when they invade another country and engage in mass slaughter.",Candidate,male,4,1,391
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The 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, ""We're with you, we're standing with you."" And then suddenly, one day after a phone call with Erdogan, announced by tweet, Trump reverses that policy.",Candidate,male,4,1,392
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,393
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,394
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,395
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,396
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,397
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,4,1,398
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... from the world stage.,Candidate,male,4,1,399
Anderson Cooper,NA,Senator...,Moderator,male,4,1,400
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And that makes this entire world a more dangerous place.,Candidate,male,4,1,401
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, should Turkey remain in NATO? Your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,402
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,403
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,404
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Think 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,405
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,406
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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.,Candidate,female,4,1,407
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,408
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,409
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,410
Kamala Harris,NA,I 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,411
Kamala Harris,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,412
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,413
Kamala Harris,NA,"This is a crisis of Donald Trump's making. And it is on a long list of crises of Donald Trump's making. And that's why dude got to go. And when I am commander-in-chief, we will stop this madness.",Candidate,female,4,1,414
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Secretary Castro, your response.",Moderator,male,4,1,415
Anderson Cooper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,416
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,417
Julian Castro,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,418
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,419
Julian Castro,NA,"He 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?",Candidate,male,4,1,420
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,421
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Secretary.",Moderator,male,4,1,422
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,423
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,424
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,425
Cory Booker,NA,"Russia 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,426
Cory Booker,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,427
Cory Booker,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,428
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vice President?",Moderator,male,4,1,429
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,430
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,431
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,432
Joe Biden,NA,"Think 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.""",Candidate,male,4,1,433
Bernie Sanders,NA,You're suggesting I'm Vladimir Putin here.,Candidate,male,4,1,434
Joe Biden,NA,"No, no, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm not.",Candidate,male,4,1,435
Bernie Sanders,NA,I know.,Candidate,male,4,1,436
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,437
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,438
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,439
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,440
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,male,4,1,441
Mark Lacey,NA,"Congressman 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,442
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,443
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,444
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,445
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,446
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Congressman. Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,4,1,447
Mark Lacey,NA,"Mr. Steyer, would you publicly reveal what the U.S. knows about Putin's corruption or work to freeze his bank accounts? Please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,448
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,449
Tom Steyer,NA,"Let'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,450
Tom Steyer,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,451
Tom Steyer,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,452
Mark Lacey,NA,"Mr. Yang, your response to Putin and Russia.",Moderator,male,4,1,453
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,454
Andrew Yang,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,455
Andrew Yang,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,456
Andrew Yang,NA,"We 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,457
Mark Lacey,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,458
Mark Lacey,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,459
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I want to respond to Mr. Yang.,Candidate,female,4,1,460
Andrew Yang,NA,... and that's going to be the responsibility of the next president.,Candidate,male,4,1,461
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,462
Amy Klobuchar,NA,This 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,463
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,464
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,465
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,4,1,466
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,467
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... to become president to get that done. We need to get it done now.,Candidate,female,4,1,468
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,469
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,470
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Congressman 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.",Moderator,male,4,1,471
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,472
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Those 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,473
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,474
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Just 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,475
Anderson Cooper,NA,Congressman...,Moderator,male,4,1,476
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,477
Anderson Cooper,NA,OK.,Moderator,male,4,1,478
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,479
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,480
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,481
Beto O'Rourke,NA,But 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.,Candidate,male,4,1,482
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,483
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,484
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,485
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, your response.",Moderator,male,4,1,486
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,487
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,488
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"No, 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,489
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,4,1,490
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"... 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,491
Beto O'Rourke,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,492
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, your response? Mayor Buttigieg?",Moderator,male,4,1,493
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,494
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The problem is the National Rifle Association and their enablers in Congress, and we should be united in taking the fight to them.",Candidate,male,4,1,495
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,496
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,497
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,498
Beto O'Rourke,NA,We must buy them back.,Candidate,male,4,1,499
Anderson Cooper,NA,Congressman...,Moderator,male,4,1,500
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,501
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,4,1,502
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,4,1,503
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Your time is up.",Moderator,male,4,1,504
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... to deliver health care to everybody, and some on this stage are saying it doesn't count unless we obliterate...",Candidate,male,4,1,505
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,506
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,507
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,508
Cory Booker,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,509
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,510
Cory Booker,NA,"But it's frustrating that when the American people, 77 percent of Americans agree on licensing, we don'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're surrendering our freedoms...",Candidate,male,4,1,511
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,512
Cory Booker,NA,"... 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""...",Candidate,male,4,1,513
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,514
Cory Booker,NA,"... ""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.",Candidate,male,4,1,515
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,516
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,517
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,518
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,519
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,520
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,521
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Warren, you support a voluntary gun buyback of assault-style weapons, as well. Why not a mandatory one?",Moderator,male,4,1,522
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,523
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But the problem here that we need to focus on is, first, how widespread gun violence is. As you've rightly identified, it's not just about mass shootings. It's what happens in neighborhoods all across this country. It is about suicide, and it is about domestic violence.",Candidate,female,4,1,524
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This 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?",Candidate,female,4,1,525
Elizabeth Warren,NA,You say we're so close. We have been so close. I stood in the United States Senate in 2013...,Candidate,female,4,1,526
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,527
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... when 54 senators voted in favor of gun legislation and it didn't pass because of the filibuster.,Candidate,female,4,1,528
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator...",Moderator,male,4,1,529
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We have got to attack the corruption and repeal the filibuster or the gun industry will always have a veto over what happens.,Candidate,female,4,1,530
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Harris? Senator Harris, you disagree with Senator Warren. You think the buyback should be mandatory. Please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,531
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,532
Kamala Harris,NA,This 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,533
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,534
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Biden -- Vice President Biden, your response.",Moderator,male,4,1,535
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,536
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,537
Joe Biden,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,538
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,539
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,male,4,1,540
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Secretary 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,541
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,542
Julian Castro,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,543
Julian Castro,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,544
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,545
Julian Castro,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,546
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Secretary Castro, thank you.",Moderator,male,4,1,547
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,548
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,549
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"As 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.""",Candidate,female,4,1,550
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,551
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,552
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,553
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,554
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Mr. Steyer, how would you address the opioid epidemic that exists here in Ohio and around the country? Please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,555
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,556
Tom Steyer,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,4,1,557
Tom Steyer,NA,But 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.,Candidate,male,4,1,558
Tom Steyer,NA,"We 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",Candidate,male,4,1,559
Tom Steyer,NA,"These corporations have taken over our government. And 72,000 deaths...",Candidate,male,4,1,560
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,4,1,561
Tom Steyer,NA,... last year are the tragic result.,Candidate,male,4,1,562
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,563
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,564
Andrew Yang,NA,"They 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,565
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,566
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,567
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,568
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang. Congressman O'Rourke, is decriminalizing opioids part of the solution? Please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,569
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,570
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"I 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....",Candidate,male,4,1,571
Andrew Yang,NA,"Yes, preach, Beto.",Candidate,male,4,1,572
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,573
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,574
Mark Lacey,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,575
Beto O'Rourke,NA,They're an opportunity for our public health system in America.,Candidate,male,4,1,576
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,577
Kamala Harris,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,4,1,578
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,579
Kamala Harris,NA,And 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,580
Kamala Harris,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,581
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,582
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,583
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Secretary Castro, are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to prison? Please respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,584
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,585
Mark Lacey,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,586
Erin Burnett,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,4,1,587
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I'm healthy. I'm feeling great, but I would like to respond to that question.",Candidate,male,4,1,588
Erin Burnett,NA,I want to -- I want start by saying...,Moderator,female,4,1,589
Erin Burnett,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,590
Cory Booker,NA,"And Senator Sanders is in favor of medical marijuana. I want to make sure that's clear, as well.",Candidate,male,4,1,591
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Sanders, this debate does mark your...",Moderator,female,4,1,592
Bernie Sanders,NA,I do. I'm not on it tonight.,Candidate,male,4,1,593
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,594
Erin Burnett,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,4,1,595
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,596
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,597
Bernie Sanders,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,598
Erin Burnett,NA,Senator...,Moderator,female,4,1,599
Bernie Sanders,NA,That is why we need a political revolution...,Candidate,male,4,1,600
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,601
Bernie Sanders,NA,... that says enough is enough to this behavior.,Candidate,male,4,1,602
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,603
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator, we are all very glad you're feeling well...",Moderator,female,4,1,604
Bernie Sanders,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,4,1,605
Erin Burnett,NA,"... 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?",Moderator,female,4,1,606
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, let me invite you all to a major rally we're having in Queens, New York, berniesanders.com. We'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,607
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,608
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,609
Erin Burnett,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,4,1,610
Joe Biden,NA,Because I've watched it. I know what the job is. I've been engaged.,Candidate,male,4,1,611
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,612
Joe Biden,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,613
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,614
Erin Burnett,NA,"Just to be clear, Mr. Vice President, when will you release those records?",Moderator,female,4,1,615
Joe Biden,NA,Before the first vote.,Candidate,male,4,1,616
Erin Burnett,NA,Before Iowa?,Moderator,female,4,1,617
Joe Biden,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,4,1,618
Erin Burnett,NA,Not by the end of this year?,Moderator,female,4,1,619
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,620
Erin Burnett,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,4,1,621
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,622
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,623
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,624
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,625
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,626
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,4,1,627
Erin Burnett,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, you're 38 years old, and you would be the youngest president if elected. Should age matter when choosing a president?",Moderator,female,4,1,628
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,629
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,630
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Bringing 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,631
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,632
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,female,4,1,633
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,I'd like to ask our other candidates this question. I'd like to start with Senator Warren...,Candidate,female,4,1,634
Erin Burnett,NA,"Sorry, Congressman, I'm sorry.",Moderator,female,4,1,635
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,... what her experience and background is to serve as commander-in-chief.,Candidate,female,4,1,636
Erin Burnett,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,4,1,637
Erin Burnett,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,4,1,638
Anderson Cooper,NA,And welcome back to the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate. Mark Lacey from the New York Times starts off our questioning. Mark?,Moderator,male,4,1,639
Mark Lacey,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,4,1,640
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,641
Andrew Yang,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,642
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,643
Andrew Yang,NA,Breaking 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.,Candidate,male,4,1,644
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you. Senator Warren, is Mr. Yang wrong? Your response, please.",Moderator,male,4,1,645
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,646
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,647
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,648
Mark Lacey,NA,"Mr. Steyer, your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,649
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,650
Tom Steyer,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,651
Tom Steyer,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,652
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,4,1,653
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator Booker, how do you respond? Would a President Booker break up big tech companies like Facebook and Amazon?",Moderator,male,4,1,654
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,655
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,656
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,657
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,658
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,659
Mark Lacey,NA,"Congressman 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,660
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,661
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,662
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,663
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"So tough rules of the road, protect your personal information, privacy, and data, and be fearless in the face of these tech giants.",Candidate,male,4,1,664
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator Sanders, your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,665
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,666
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,667
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,668
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,669
Kamala Harris,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,670
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,671
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,672
Kamala Harris,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,673
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you. Senator Warren, you can respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,674
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,675
Kamala Harris,NA,"Well, join me -- join me in saying that his Twitter account should be shut down.",Candidate,female,4,1,676
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But let's figure -- no. Let's figure out...,Candidate,female,4,1,677
Kamala Harris,NA,No?,Candidate,female,4,1,678
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,679
Kamala Harris,NA,You can't say you're for corporate responsibility if it doesn't apply to everyone.,Candidate,female,4,1,680
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,681
Elizabeth Warren,NA,You 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...,Candidate,female,4,1,682
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren. Senator Harris?",Moderator,male,4,1,683
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... that support us all.,Candidate,female,4,1,684
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,685
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,4,1,686
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,687
Mark Lacey,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, let me bring you in here.",Moderator,male,4,1,688
Mark Lacey,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,689
Mark Lacey,NA,Your response?,Moderator,male,4,1,690
Kamala Harris,NA,I'm not finished. I'm not finished.,Candidate,female,4,1,691
Kamala Harris,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,692
Kamala Harris,NA,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.,Candidate,female,4,1,693
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I think all of the rules should apply across the board. I don't have a problem with that.",Candidate,female,4,1,694
Kamala Harris,NA,So you will join me in saying Twitter should shut down that account?,Candidate,female,4,1,695
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,696
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator Klobuchar, let's bring you in here.",Moderator,male,4,1,697
Mark Lacey,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,698
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,699
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,700
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,701
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Secretary Castro, would you like to weigh in?",Moderator,male,4,1,702
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And this means everything from tech on down.,Candidate,female,4,1,703
Mark Lacey,NA,Please respond.,Moderator,male,4,1,704
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,705
Julian Castro,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,706
Mark Lacey,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Secretary.",Moderator,male,4,1,707
Mark Lacey,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,708
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,709
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,4,1,710
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,There's a bigger issue here...,Candidate,female,4,1,711
Erin Burnett,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,4,1,712
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,713
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,714
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,715
Kamala Harris,NA,"But, 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,716
Kamala Harris,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,717
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,718
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Harris, thank you.",Moderator,female,4,1,719
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, what would you do to stop states from prevailing? Your response?",Moderator,female,4,1,720
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,721
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,722
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,4,1,723
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Booker, if states prevail on restricting abortion, how would you stop them? Please respond.",Moderator,female,4,1,724
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,725
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,726
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,727
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,728
Erin Burnett,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, your response?",Moderator,female,4,1,729
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,730
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,731
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,732
Erin Burnett,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,female,4,1,733
Erin Burnett,NA,The 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.,Moderator,female,4,1,734
Erin Burnett,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,female,4,1,735
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,736
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,737
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,738
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,739
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,740
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,4,1,741
Erin Burnett,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you have discussed expanding the court from 9 to 15 justices. What's your response to the vice president?",Moderator,female,4,1,742
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,743
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,744
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,745
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"There 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,746
Erin Burnett,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,4,1,747
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'm not wedded to a particular solution, but I am committed to establishing a commission on day one...",Candidate,male,4,1,748
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,4,1,749
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... that will propose reforms to depoliticize the Supreme Court, because we can't go on like this.",Candidate,male,4,1,750
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you very much, Mayor Buttigieg. Secretary Castro, he's talking about making the court bigger. Your response? Is it a good idea?",Moderator,female,4,1,751
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,752
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,753
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator Warren, would you consider adding more justices to the Supreme Court to protect Roe v. Wade? Your response?",Moderator,female,4,1,754
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,755
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,756
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,757
Erin Burnett,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,4,1,758
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We should not leave this to the Supreme Court. We should do it through democracy, because we can.",Candidate,female,4,1,759
Erin Burnett,NA,"Thank you very much, Senator.",Moderator,female,4,1,760
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,761
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,male,4,1,762
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,763
Joe Biden,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,764
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,765
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Just to clarify, Vice President, who are you saying is being vague?",Moderator,male,4,1,766
Joe Biden,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,4,1,767
Anderson Cooper,NA,You'll both get in.,Moderator,male,4,1,768
Joe Biden,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,4,1,769
Bernie Sanders,NA,Two things. Let me explain in two ways.,Candidate,male,4,1,770
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Sanders, respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,771
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,772
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,773
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,774
Bernie Sanders,NA,"If we stood together, we could create the greatest health care system in the world.",Candidate,male,4,1,775
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Vice President Biden, you can respond, and then Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,4,1,776
Joe Biden,NA,We can do that without Medicare for all. We can do that by adding a public option.,Candidate,male,4,1,777
Bernie Sanders,NA,No.,Candidate,male,4,1,778
Joe Biden,NA,We can.,Candidate,male,4,1,779
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, you can't.",Candidate,male,4,1,780
Joe Biden,NA,And we can afford to do it.,Candidate,male,4,1,781
Bernie Sanders,NA,You've got to take on the greed and the profiteering of the health care industry.,Candidate,male,4,1,782
Joe Biden,NA,"By the way, the greed and...",Candidate,male,4,1,783
Anderson Cooper,NA,Let him respond. Mr. Vice President?,Moderator,male,4,1,784
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,785
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Warren, your response?",Moderator,male,4,1,786
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,787
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,788
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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...",Candidate,female,4,1,789
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,790
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... and repeal the filibuster. And the third, we want to get something done in America, we have to get out there and fight...",Candidate,female,4,1,791
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,792
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... for the things that touch people's lives.,Candidate,female,4,1,793
Anderson Cooper,NA,Mayor...,Moderator,male,4,1,794
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,795
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Warren, do you want to respond?",Moderator,male,4,1,796
Anderson Cooper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,797
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,4,1,798
Joe Biden,NA,You did a hell of a job in your job.,Candidate,male,4,1,799
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,4,1,800
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,801
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,802
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,4,1,803
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I said, no, let's go for an agency that will make structural change in our economy.",Candidate,female,4,1,804
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,male,4,1,805
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And President Obama said, I will fight for that, and he sometimes had to fight against people in his own administration. We have...",Candidate,female,4,1,806
Joe Biden,NA,Not me.,Candidate,male,4,1,807
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We have to be willing to make good, big, structural change.",Candidate,female,4,1,808
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, which is the right vision for a Democrat to beat Donald Trump? That's the essential question.",Moderator,male,4,1,809
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,810
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,811
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,812
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yet 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,813
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,male,4,1,814
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... in my lifetime...,Candidate,male,4,1,815
Anderson Cooper,NA,Senator?,Moderator,male,4,1,816
Joe Biden,NA,I did not say back to normal.,Candidate,male,4,1,817
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,818
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Senator Klobuchar? Senator Klobuchar?",Moderator,male,4,1,819
Anderson Cooper,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,820
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,821
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,822
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,823
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you. Senator Warren, she referenced you, so you can respond.",Moderator,male,4,1,824
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,825
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,826
Anderson Cooper,NA,Senator Sanders...,Moderator,male,4,1,827
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"There's a missing people, and that is...",Candidate,male,4,1,828
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,829
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Sanders, why is your approach more likely to beat President Trump?",Moderator,male,4,1,830
Bernie Sanders,NA,I'll tell you why.,Candidate,male,4,1,831
Anderson Cooper,NA,Please respond.,Moderator,male,4,1,832
Bernie Sanders,NA,And here's the radical reason why. It's what the American people want.,Candidate,male,4,1,833
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,4,1,834
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,835
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,836
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you. Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,837
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... because they know you stand for them, not corporate America.",Candidate,male,4,1,838
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,839
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Congressman O'Rourke, is political revolution what the American people want? Your response.",Moderator,male,4,1,840
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,841
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,842
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And then in Texas, one of what was thought to be the reddest states in the country, going to every single county...",Candidate,male,4,1,843
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Congressman.",Moderator,male,4,1,844
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,845
Anderson Cooper,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,4,1,846
Anderson Cooper,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,847
Anderson Cooper,NA,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.,Moderator,male,4,1,848
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Last 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.",Moderator,male,4,1,849
Anderson Cooper,NA,"So 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.",Moderator,male,4,1,850
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Secretary Castro, let's begin with you.",Moderator,male,4,1,851
Julian Castro,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,852
Julian Castro,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,853
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,854
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,855
Julian Castro,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,856
Julian Castro,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,857
Anderson Cooper,NA,Congresswoman Gabbard?,Moderator,male,4,1,858
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,859
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,860
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,861
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,862
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,863
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,male,4,1,864
Anderson Cooper,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,4,1,865
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.""",Candidate,female,4,1,866
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.""",Candidate,female,4,1,867
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,female,4,1,868
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,869
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,4,1,870
Anderson Cooper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,871
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Mr. Steyer, tell us about your most surprising friendship.",Moderator,male,4,1,872
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,873
Tom Steyer,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,874
Tom Steyer,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,875
Tom Steyer,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,876
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,4,1,877
Anderson Cooper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,878
Anderson Cooper,NA,Congressman O'Rourke?,Moderator,male,4,1,879
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,880
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"Did 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,881
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"As 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?",Candidate,male,4,1,882
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,883
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"By 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,884
Beto O'Rourke,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,885
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Booker, tell us about your most surprising friendship.",Moderator,male,4,1,886
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,887
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,888
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,889
Cory Booker,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,890
Cory Booker,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,891
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,male,4,1,892
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,893
Cory Booker,NA,"... our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. I am running for president to restore that sacred honor.",Candidate,male,4,1,894
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,895
Cory Booker,NA,"And if you believe in that like I do, please join me by going to corybooker.com. Thank you.",Candidate,male,4,1,896
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,897
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Mr. Yang?",Moderator,male,4,1,898
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,899
Andrew Yang,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,900
Andrew Yang,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,901
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,902
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,903
Andrew Yang,NA,"Donald 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,904
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,905
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Mr. Yang, thank you very much. Senator Harris?",Moderator,male,4,1,906
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,907
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,908
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,909
Kamala Harris,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,910
Kamala Harris,NA,And 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,911
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,912
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Harris. Mayor Buttigieg?",Moderator,male,4,1,913
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,914
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,915
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"In 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'll follow in the pattern tonight and point out you can go to peteforamerica.com and read all about it.",Candidate,male,4,1,916
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,male,4,1,917
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,918
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,919
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Mr. Mayor, thank you. Senator Sanders?",Moderator,male,4,1,920
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,921
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,922
Bernie Sanders,NA,"More 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,923
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,924
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,925
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,926
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you. Senator Warren?",Moderator,male,4,1,927
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,4,1,928
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,929
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,930
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,4,1,931
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,932
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"People 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.",Candidate,female,4,1,933
Anderson Cooper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,4,1,934
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,4,1,935
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,4,1,936
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren. Vice President Biden?",Moderator,male,4,1,937
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,4,1,938
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,939
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,940
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,941
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,942
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,4,1,943
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,4,1,944
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Candidates, thank you. That concludes the fourth Democratic presidential debate. We want to thank Otterbein University for hosting us. Now please stay tuned to CNN for special coverage of tonight's debate with Jake Tapper and Chris Cuomo.",Moderator,male,4,1,945
Anderson Cooper,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,4,1,946
Anderson Cooper,NA,END,Moderator,male,4,1,947
Anderson Cooper,NA,This transcript has been updated.,Moderator,male,4,1,948
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Moderators: Rachel Maddow, MSNBC anchor; Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent; Kristen Welker, NBC News White House Correspondent; Ashley Parker, Washington Post White House reporter",Moderator,male,5,1,1
Anderson Cooper,NA,[*],Moderator,male,5,1,2
Announcer,NA,"The MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic presidential debate, live from Atlanta, Georgia, and the Tyler Perry Studios. Here is Rachel Maddow.",Moderator,unknown,5,1,3
Announcer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,unknown,5,1,4
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Hello, and welcome to the MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic maandidates debate. At least some of us are very, very happy to be here tonight. I'm Rachel Maddow here in Atlanta, Georgia, tonight with my fellow moderators. Andrea Mitchell is NBC news foreign affairs correspondent and the host of ""Andrea Mitchell Reports"" on MSNBC. Ashley Parker is White House reporter for the Washington Post. And Kristen Welker is NBC News White House correspondent.",Moderator,female,5,1,5
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,5,1,6
Rachel Maddow,NA,There's 10 candidates here tonight. No time to waste. Let's get right to it.,Moderator,female,5,1,7
Rachel Maddow,NA,We'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.,Moderator,female,5,1,8
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,9
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,10
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We have to establish the principle: no one is above the law. We have a constitutional responsibility, and we need to meet it.",Candidate,female,5,1,11
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,12
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,13
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I 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.,Candidate,female,5,1,14
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,15
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,16
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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.,Candidate,female,5,1,17
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,18
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,19
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,20
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,21
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,22
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,23
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,24
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,25
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,26
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,27
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Under 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,28
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,29
Rachel Maddow,NA,Mr. Mayor.,Moderator,female,5,1,30
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Those are the crises that will be awaiting the next president and will be at the heart of our campaign.,Candidate,male,5,1,31
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mr. Mayor, thank you. Andrea?",Moderator,female,5,1,32
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,33
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,34
Joe Biden,NA,"You 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?",Candidate,male,5,1,35
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,36
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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?",Candidate,male,5,1,37
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator Harris, your thoughts about that?",Moderator,female,5,1,38
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,39
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,40
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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?",Candidate,female,5,1,41
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,42
Kamala Harris,NA,"Because 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,43
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,44
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,45
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,46
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,47
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Here'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.",Candidate,female,5,1,48
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,49
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,50
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,51
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator Booker, do you agree with that strategy?",Moderator,female,5,1,52
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,53
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,54
Cory Booker,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,55
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,56
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator Warren, you wanted to respond?",Moderator,female,5,1,57
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,58
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,59
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,5,1,60
Andrea Mitchell,NA,All right. Let me let Senator Booker respond.,Moderator,female,5,1,61
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Sure.,Candidate,female,5,1,62
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,63
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,64
Cory Booker,NA,"But, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,65
Cory Booker,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,66
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,67
Cory Booker,NA,We need to give more new entrepreneurs access to wealth.,Candidate,male,5,1,68
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator Warren, briefly, just your last thoughts on this.",Moderator,female,5,1,69
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,70
Cory Booker,NA,I'm not disagreeing with that.,Candidate,male,5,1,71
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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...",Candidate,female,5,1,72
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,73
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"... Senator Booker, Senator Warren...",Moderator,female,5,1,74
Cory Booker,NA,Everybody's tired of corporations getting away with paying zero taxes.,Candidate,male,5,1,75
Andrea Mitchell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,5,1,76
Cory Booker,NA,I'm not disagreeing with that.,Candidate,male,5,1,77
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you very much, Senator Warren. Thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,78
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Mayor 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,79
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,80
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Even 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,81
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,82
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,5,1,83
Andrea Mitchell,NA,Kristen Welker?,Moderator,female,5,1,84
Kristen Welker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,85
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,86
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,87
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,88
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,89
Kristen Welker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,90
Kristen Welker,NA,"Senator Sanders, let me bring you into this conversation and ask you the question...",Moderator,female,5,1,91
Bernie Sanders,NA,Thank you. I wrote the damn bill.,Candidate,male,5,1,92
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,93
Kristen Welker,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,5,1,94
Bernie Sanders,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,5,1,95
Kristen Welker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,96
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,97
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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?",Candidate,male,5,1,98
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,99
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,100
Kristen Welker,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders. Vice President Biden?",Moderator,female,5,1,101
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,102
Bernie Sanders,NA,Not true.,Candidate,male,5,1,103
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,5,1,104
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,105
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,106
Kristen Welker,NA,"Vice President Biden, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,107
Kristen Welker,NA,Ashley?,Moderator,female,5,1,108
Ashley Parker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,109
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,110
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,female,5,1,111
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"These 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,112
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,female,5,1,113
Ashley Parker,NA,"Senator Harris, any response?",Moderator,female,5,1,114
Kamala Harris,NA,"Oh, sure.",Candidate,female,5,1,115
Kamala Harris,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,116
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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...",Candidate,female,5,1,117
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"That's ridiculous, Senator Harris. That's ridiculous.",Candidate,female,5,1,118
Kamala Harris,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,119
Kamala Harris,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,120
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,121
Ashley Parker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,122
Ashley Parker,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, I'll give you a chance to respond.",Moderator,female,5,1,123
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,124
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,125
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman. I want to -- I want to briefly give Senator Harris a final second to respond.",Moderator,female,5,1,126
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,127
Kamala Harris,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,128
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,129
Kamala Harris,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,5,1,130
Ashley Parker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,131
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,132
Tom Steyer,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,133
Tom Steyer,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,134
Tom Steyer,NA,"Term 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,135
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Mr. Steyer, thank you. Senator Klobuchar, a brief response.",Moderator,female,5,1,136
Ashley Parker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,137
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,138
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,139
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,140
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,141
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,142
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,143
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I'd like to point out, it is not an expanding base.",Candidate,female,5,1,144
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,145
Amy Klobuchar,NA,So I don't just think this with my head. I feel it in my heart.,Candidate,female,5,1,146
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,5,1,147
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Since I was named, I'd like to have time...",Candidate,male,5,1,148
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,149
Ashley Parker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,150
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,151
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,152
Tom Steyer,NA,"Thanks, Andrew.",Candidate,male,5,1,153
Andrew Yang,NA,No problem.,Candidate,male,5,1,154
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,155
Andrew Yang,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,156
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,157
Andrew Yang,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,158
Andrew Yang,NA,The 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,159
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,5,1,160
Ashley Parker,NA,Andrea?,Moderator,female,5,1,161
Ashley Parker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,162
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,163
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,164
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,165
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,166
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,167
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,168
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,169
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,female,5,1,170
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,171
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,172
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,173
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,174
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,175
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,176
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,177
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Vice President, just a quick response?",Moderator,female,5,1,178
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,179
Joe Biden,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,180
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,181
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,182
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,5,1,183
Andrea Mitchell,NA,Ashley?,Moderator,female,5,1,184
Ashley Parker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,185
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,186
Cory Booker,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,187
Cory Booker,NA,When 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,188
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,189
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,190
Cory Booker,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,191
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,192
Ashley Parker,NA,Rachel?,Moderator,female,5,1,193
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,194
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,195
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,196
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,197
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Even 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,198
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,199
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,200
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,201
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,202
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,203
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,204
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Sanders, let me ask you briefly to respond to that, the difference of opinion there with Vice President Biden.",Moderator,female,5,1,205
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,206
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,207
Joe Biden,NA,Can I respond very quickly?,Candidate,male,5,1,208
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Briefly, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,209
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,210
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mr. Vice President, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,211
Rachel Maddow,NA,Ashley?,Moderator,female,5,1,212
Ashley Parker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,213
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,214
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,215
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,216
Andrew Yang,NA,"Studies 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,217
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,218
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,5,1,219
Ashley Parker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,220
Ashley Parker,NA,"Sticking 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,221
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,222
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,223
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,224
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,225
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,226
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,227
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I just think we have to be smart about how we do this.,Candidate,female,5,1,228
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator. And, Senator Harris, why six months? And also, how would you pay for that?",Moderator,female,5,1,229
Kamala Harris,NA,"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'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.",Candidate,female,5,1,230
Kamala Harris,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,231
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,232
Kamala Harris,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,233
Ashley Parker,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,5,1,234
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,235
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,236
Ashley Parker,NA,Kristen?,Moderator,female,5,1,237
Kristen Welker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,238
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,239
Tom Steyer,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,240
Tom Steyer,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,241
Tom Steyer,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,242
Tom Steyer,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,243
Kristen Welker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Senator Warren, I see your hand raised.",Moderator,female,5,1,244
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,245
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Also, 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,246
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,247
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But 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.,Candidate,female,5,1,248
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,249
Kristen Welker,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator. Senator Booker?",Moderator,female,5,1,250
Kristen Welker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,251
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,252
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,253
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,254
Kristen Welker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,255
Kristen Welker,NA,Rachel?,Moderator,female,5,1,256
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,5,1,257
Rachel Maddow,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,258
Rachel Maddow,NA,Welcome back to the MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic candidates debate. Let's get right back into it.,Moderator,female,5,1,259
Rachel Maddow,NA,American 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.,Moderator,female,5,1,260
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, would you continue those farm subsidies?",Moderator,female,5,1,261
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,262
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"By 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,263
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,264
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,265
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,266
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mr. Mayor, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need you to answer the question. Would you continue those subsidies or not?",Moderator,female,5,1,267
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yes, but we won't need them because we're going to fix the trade war.",Candidate,male,5,1,268
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, sir.",Moderator,female,5,1,269
Rachel Maddow,NA,"The 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.",Moderator,female,5,1,270
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Calista 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,271
Rachel Maddow,NA,Congresswoman Gabbard?,Moderator,female,5,1,272
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,273
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,274
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,275
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,276
Tom Steyer,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,277
Tom Steyer,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,278
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Quickly, Vice President Biden, you were name-checked there. I'd like to give you a chance to respond.",Moderator,female,5,1,279
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,280
Joe Biden,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,281
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,282
Tom Steyer,NA,"Can I respond to that, Rachel?",Candidate,male,5,1,283
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. You may respond, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,5,1,284
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,285
Tom Steyer,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,286
Tom Steyer,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,287
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Sanders, I'm going to ask you to jump in here.",Moderator,female,5,1,288
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I was also named in that.,Candidate,female,5,1,289
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Tom, you stated...",Candidate,male,5,1,290
Rachel Maddow,NA,You were.,Moderator,female,5,1,291
Bernie Sanders,NA,You talked about the need to make climate change a national emergency. I've introduced legislation to just do that.,Candidate,male,5,1,292
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,293
Bernie Sanders,NA,The 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,294
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,295
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,5,1,296
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,297
Rachel Maddow,NA,Andrea?,Moderator,female,5,1,298
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,5,1,299
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,300
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,301
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,302
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,303
Kamala Harris,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,304
Andrea Mitchell,NA,But would you make concessions to North Korea to keep talks...,Moderator,female,5,1,305
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,306
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,307
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Mr. 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,308
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,309
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But other than that, you like him.",Candidate,male,5,1,310
Joe Biden,NA,"Other than that, I like him.",Candidate,male,5,1,311
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,312
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,313
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,314
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,5,1,315
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Two 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,316
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,317
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,318
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,319
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,320
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,321
Andrea Mitchell,NA,Ashley?,Moderator,female,5,1,322
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you. Mr. Yang, if you win the 2020 election, what would you say in your first call with Russian President Vladimir Putin?",Moderator,female,5,1,323
Ashley Parker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,324
Andrew Yang,NA,"Well, first, I'd say I'm sorry I beat your guy.",Candidate,male,5,1,325
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,326
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,327
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It's a sorry, not sorry.",Candidate,female,5,1,328
Andrew Yang,NA,Or not sorry.,Candidate,male,5,1,329
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,330
Andrew Yang,NA,"And, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,331
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,332
Andrew Yang,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,333
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,334
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,5,1,335
Ashley Parker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,336
Ashley Parker,NA,Rachel?,Moderator,female,5,1,337
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,338
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,339
Cory Booker,NA,"There'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,340
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,341
Cory Booker,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,342
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Andrea?",Moderator,female,5,1,343
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,344
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,345
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,346
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,347
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, just to follow up, would you go against the Saudis, even though that would potentially help Iran, their adversaries?",Moderator,female,5,1,348
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,349
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,350
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,351
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,352
Andrea Mitchell,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,5,1,353
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,354
Bernie Sanders,NA,We 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,355
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,356
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,357
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,358
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Rachel?",Moderator,female,5,1,359
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Warren, only about 1 percent of Americans serve in the United States military right now. Should that number be higher?",Moderator,female,5,1,360
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,361
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,female,5,1,362
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,363
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,364
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,365
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,366
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,367
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,368
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,369
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"There is no concept of strategic planning for how civilian, diplomatic, and military security work needs to take place for the future.",Candidate,male,5,1,370
Cory Booker,NA,Can I respond?,Candidate,male,5,1,371
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,372
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Could I respond on this?,Candidate,female,5,1,373
Kristen Welker,NA,"Coming up, we will have much more from the candidates. We're going to take a quick break, just a moment. Stay with us.",Moderator,female,5,1,374
Kristen Welker,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,375
Kristen Welker,NA,"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.""",Moderator,female,5,1,376
Kristen Welker,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, to you. As president, would you direct the federal government to do something about this problem that it is not currently doing?",Moderator,female,5,1,377
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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'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.",Candidate,female,5,1,378
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,379
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,380
Kristen Welker,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, thank you for that.",Moderator,female,5,1,381
Kristen Welker,NA,"Mr. Yang, what would you do about the issue of white supremacist violence?",Moderator,female,5,1,382
Andrew Yang,NA,"Well, first, we have to designate white supremacist terrorism as domestic terrorism so that the Department of Justice can properly measure it.",Candidate,male,5,1,383
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,384
Andrew Yang,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,385
Andrew Yang,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,386
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,387
Kristen Welker,NA,"Mr. Yang, thank you for that.",Moderator,female,5,1,388
Kristen Welker,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,389
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,390
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,391
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,392
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,393
Kristen Welker,NA,"Mr. Vice President, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,394
Kristen Welker,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,395
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,396
Kamala Harris,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,397
Kamala Harris,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,398
Kamala Harris,NA,Because when black women...,Candidate,female,5,1,399
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,400
Kamala Harris,NA,"When 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?",Candidate,female,5,1,401
Kamala Harris,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,402
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,403
Kristen Welker,NA,"Senator Harris, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,404
Kristen Welker,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, your response to that.",Moderator,female,5,1,405
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"My response is, I completely agree. And I welcome the challenge of connecting with black voters in America who don't yet know me.",Candidate,male,5,1,406
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,407
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,408
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,409
Kristen Welker,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, thank you very much.",Moderator,female,5,1,410
Kristen Welker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,411
Kristen Welker,NA,"Senator Harris, quick response?",Moderator,female,5,1,412
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,413
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,414
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,415
Kristen Welker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,416
Kristen Welker,NA,"Senator Warren, quickly?",Moderator,female,5,1,417
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,5,1,418
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Let 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,419
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I 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.,Candidate,female,5,1,420
Kristen Welker,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you. Ashley?",Moderator,female,5,1,421
Ashley Parker,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,422
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,423
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Trump 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,424
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,425
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,426
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We 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.,Candidate,female,5,1,427
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,428
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,429
Ashley Parker,NA,"Senator Booker, a quick response.",Moderator,female,5,1,430
Cory Booker,NA,"Look, I want to be quick on this because I'd like to get back to something I wasn't included in, is...",Candidate,male,5,1,431
Elizabeth Warren,NA,So would we all.,Candidate,female,5,1,432
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,433
Cory Booker,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,434
Cory Booker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,435
Cory Booker,NA,"Nobody 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,436
Cory Booker,NA,"And so that's what'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't think we should legalize marijuana. I thought you might have been high when you said it.",Candidate,male,5,1,437
Cory Booker,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,438
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,439
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,440
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,441
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,442
Cory Booker,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,443
Ashley Parker,NA,"Quickly. Quickly, please.",Moderator,female,5,1,444
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,445
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Senator Booker. Vice President Biden, you can respond to that.",Moderator,female,5,1,446
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,447
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,448
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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...",Candidate,male,5,1,449
Kamala Harris,NA,"No, that's not true.",Candidate,female,5,1,450
Cory Booker,NA,That's not true.,Candidate,male,5,1,451
Kamala Harris,NA,The other one is here.,Candidate,female,5,1,452
Kamala Harris,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,453
Joe Biden,NA,"No, I said the first. I said the first African-American woman. The first African-American woman.",Candidate,male,5,1,454
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,455
Joe Biden,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,456
Ashley Parker,NA,Thank you. Kristen?,Moderator,female,5,1,457
Kristen Welker,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,5,1,458
Kristen Welker,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,459
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,460
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,5,1,461
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, of course. We should codify Roe v. Wade into law. That is what we should do.",Candidate,female,5,1,462
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,463
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,464
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And 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.,Candidate,female,5,1,465
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,466
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"He 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,467
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,468
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,female,5,1,469
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,470
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Understand 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,471
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,472
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,473
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,5,1,474
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,475
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you. Senator Sanders, I'll give you 30 seconds.",Moderator,female,5,1,476
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,477
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,478
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,479
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,480
Cory Booker,NA,This is a voting issue.,Candidate,male,5,1,481
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator Booker?,Moderator,female,5,1,482
Cory Booker,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,483
Cory Booker,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,484
Cory Booker,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,485
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Booker, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,486
Rachel Maddow,NA,"And 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.",Moderator,female,5,1,487
Rachel Maddow,NA,"With 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?",Moderator,female,5,1,488
Rachel Maddow,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,female,5,1,489
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,490
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,491
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Right 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,492
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I just -- I want to add this...,Candidate,female,5,1,493
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,5,1,494
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,495
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator Klobuchar...,Moderator,female,5,1,496
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... like we do in every other election, giving it to the person who got the most votes.",Candidate,male,5,1,497
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I want to point out...,Candidate,female,5,1,498
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,499
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,500
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,501
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,502
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, I'll let you respond to that.",Moderator,female,5,1,503
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,5,1,504
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,505
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mr. Mayor, thank you. Congresswoman Gabbard, on the original question of voting rights, please.",Moderator,female,5,1,506
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,507
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,508
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"As 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...",Candidate,female,5,1,509
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congresswoman, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,510
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,511
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congresswoman, thank you. Mr. Mayor, I'll allow you to respond.",Moderator,female,5,1,512
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,513
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,Are you saying that you didn't say that?,Candidate,female,5,1,514
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,5,1,515
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,516
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,That's not what I said. That's not what I said.,Candidate,female,5,1,517
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,518
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,519
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, let me allow you to respond.",Moderator,female,5,1,520
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,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.,Candidate,female,5,1,521
Pete Buttigieg,NA,No.,Candidate,male,5,1,522
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,523
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Like Donald Trump who met with Kim.,Candidate,male,5,1,524
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,525
Tulsi Gabbard,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,526
Rachel Maddow,NA,Congresswoman Gabbard...,Moderator,female,5,1,527
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I've got to respond to this. This is a direct...,Candidate,male,5,1,528
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,529
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Sanders, I'm going to have you respond.",Moderator,female,5,1,530
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,531
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,532
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,533
Bernie Sanders,NA,We have to overturn Citizens United. We need to move toward public funding of elections.,Candidate,male,5,1,534
Rachel Maddow,NA,"On this last point, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,5,1,535
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,536
Tom Steyer,NA,"In 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?",Candidate,male,5,1,537
Tom Steyer,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,538
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,5,1,539
Tom Steyer,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,5,1,540
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Mr. Steyer, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,541
Tom Steyer,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,542
Rachel Maddow,NA,Thank you very much.,Moderator,female,5,1,543
Bernie Sanders,NA,Exactly right. That's exactly right.,Candidate,male,5,1,544
Rachel Maddow,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,5,1,545
Cory Booker,NA,"Thank you, Rachel. It's an honor to be here tonight.",Candidate,male,5,1,546
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,547
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,548
Cory Booker,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,549
Cory Booker,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,550
Cory Booker,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,551
Cory Booker,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,552
Cory Booker,NA,"If 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...",Candidate,male,5,1,553
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,554
Cory Booker,NA,... 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.,Candidate,male,5,1,555
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Booker, thank you very much.",Moderator,female,5,1,556
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,557
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Mr. Steyer, your closing statement.",Moderator,female,5,1,558
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,559
Tom Steyer,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,560
Tom Steyer,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,561
Tom Steyer,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,562
Tom Steyer,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,563
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,5,1,564
Tom Steyer,NA,I have spent a decade trusting the American people...,Candidate,male,5,1,565
Tom Steyer,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,566
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank -- thank -- thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,5,1,567
Tom Steyer,NA,I'm asking you to trust me.,Candidate,male,5,1,568
Andrea Mitchell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,5,1,569
Andrea Mitchell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,570
Ashley Parker,NA,"Congresswoman Gabbard, go ahead.",Moderator,female,5,1,571
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,572
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,573
Tulsi Gabbard,NA,"Working 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,574
Ashley Parker,NA,"Thank you, Congresswoman.",Moderator,female,5,1,575
Kristen Welker,NA,"Mr. Yang, your turn.",Moderator,female,5,1,576
Andrew Yang,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,5,1,577
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,578
Andrew Yang,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,579
Andrew Yang,NA,"Now, my first move was not to run for president of the United States, because I am not insane.",Candidate,male,5,1,580
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,581
Andrew Yang,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,582
Andrew Yang,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,583
Andrew Yang,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,584
Kristen Welker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,5,1,585
Rachel Maddow,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,5,1,586
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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?""",Candidate,female,5,1,587
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,588
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,589
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,590
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,591
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,592
Rachel Maddow,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,593
Andrea Mitchell,NA,Senator Harris?,Moderator,female,5,1,594
Kamala Harris,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,595
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,596
Kamala Harris,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,597
Kamala Harris,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,598
Kamala Harris,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,599
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Thank you, Senator Harris.",Moderator,female,5,1,600
Andrea Mitchell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,5,1,601
Ashley Parker,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, go ahead.",Moderator,female,5,1,602
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,5,1,603
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,604
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,605
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,606
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I hope you go to peteforamerica.com, join this effort, and help us create a better era for the American people beginning in November 2020.",Candidate,male,5,1,607
Ashley Parker,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,5,1,608
Kristen Welker,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,5,1,609
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Thank you. Let me say a word about myself, unusual as it may seem.",Candidate,male,5,1,610
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,611
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,612
Bernie Sanders,NA,"At 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,613
Bernie Sanders,NA,"During 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,614
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,615
Bernie Sanders,NA,"If you want to be part of a movement that is not only going to beat Trump, but transform America, that doesn't have a super PAC, doesn't do fundraisers at wealthy people's homes, please join us at berniesanders.com. Thank you.",Candidate,male,5,1,616
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,617
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Senator Warren, the floor is yours.",Moderator,female,5,1,618
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,5,1,619
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"What 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?",Candidate,female,5,1,620
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Because 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.,Candidate,female,5,1,621
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,622
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,623
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,5,1,624
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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...",Candidate,female,5,1,625
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,5,1,626
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... and a chance to become candidate for president of the United States. Thank you.,Candidate,female,5,1,627
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,5,1,628
Andrea Mitchell,NA,"Vice President Biden, your closing statement.",Moderator,female,5,1,629
Joe Biden,NA,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.,Candidate,male,5,1,630
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,631
Joe Biden,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,632
Joe Biden,NA,"Folks, 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,633
Joe Biden,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,5,1,634
Joe Biden,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,5,1,635
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,5,1,636
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Vice President Biden, thank you.",Moderator,female,5,1,637
Rachel Maddow,NA,"And let me take this opportunity to thank all of the candidates for a spirited and excellent debate. I want to thank all of you, and I want to tell you that on MSNBC tonight, my colleague, Brian Williams, is going to pick up our coverage in just a moment. I also, before we go, want to thank everybody here in the audience. I want to thank the city of Atlanta. And from all of us here at the dais, thank you so much for watching. Good night.",Moderator,female,5,1,638
Rachel Maddow,NA,"Moderators: Judy Woodruff, Yamiche Alcindor and Amna Nawaz of PBS; Tim Alberta of Politico",Moderator,female,6,1,1
Announcer,NA,"This is the PBS ""NewsHour"" ""Politico"" Democratic Debate.",Moderator,unknown,6,1,2
Announcer,NA,"Now, live from Los Angeles, Judy Woodruff.",Moderator,unknown,6,1,3
Judy Woodruff,NA,Welcome back.,Moderator,female,6,1,4
Judy Woodruff,NA,"A 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,5
Judy Woodruff,NA,Tonight's podium order on the stage was determined by an average of recent polls.,Moderator,female,6,1,6
Judy Woodruff,NA,And let's begin.,Moderator,female,6,1,7
Judy Woodruff,NA,"To 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,8
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Why 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,9
Judy Woodruff,NA,"I want to ask all of you to respond, but to begin with Vice President Biden.",Moderator,female,6,1,10
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,11
Joe Biden,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,12
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Senator Sanders, why do you think more people are not in support of impeachment and what else can you do?",Moderator,female,6,1,13
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,14
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,15
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,16
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Senator Warren, why do you think --",Moderator,female,6,1,17
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,18
Judy Woodruff,NA,-- why do you think more Americans don't agree that this is the right thing to do? And what more can you say?,Moderator,female,6,1,19
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,20
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,21
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,22
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,23
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,24
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Senator Klobuchar -- Senator Klobuchar, what argument can you make to persuade more Americans this is the right thing?",Moderator,female,6,1,25
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,26
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,27
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,28
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Watergate -- 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,29
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,30
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,31
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,32
Amy Klobuchar,NA,We should hear from Bolton who told his own staff to go see a lawyer after they met with the president. That is the case.,Candidate,female,6,1,33
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"If President Trump thinks he should not be impeached, he should not be scared to put forward his own witnesses.",Candidate,female,6,1,34
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mayor Buttigieg --,Moderator,female,6,1,35
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,36
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, what additional argument can you make to the American people?",Moderator,female,6,1,37
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"At the end of the day, this is beyond public opinions. This is beyond polls. This is beyond politics.",Candidate,male,6,1,38
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,39
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,40
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Here'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,41
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,42
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,43
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Mr. Yang, what more --",Moderator,female,6,1,44
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,45
Andrew Yang,NA,I'm over here.,Candidate,male,6,1,46
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Mr. Yang, what more can you say (ph) to the American people?",Moderator,female,6,1,47
Judy Woodruff,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,48
Andrew Yang,NA,Judy --,Candidate,male,6,1,49
Judy Woodruff,NA,"I'm sorry, Mr. Steyer. I'm sorry.",Moderator,female,6,1,50
Tom Steyer,NA,"Well, let me remind everyone that I'm the person who started the Need to Impeach Movement over two years ago because I --",Candidate,male,6,1,51
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,52
Tom Steyer,NA,"-- 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,53
Tom Steyer,NA,"So, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,54
Tom Steyer,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,55
Tom Steyer,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,56
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mr. Yang?,Moderator,female,6,1,57
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,58
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,59
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,60
Andrew Yang,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,61
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,62
Andrew Yang,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,63
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,6,1,64
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,65
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Let's turn now to an issue that is on the minds of all Americans, and that is the economy.",Moderator,female,6,1,66
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Senator 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,67
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Senator, my question is, will you support this deal? And, if not, why not?",Moderator,female,6,1,68
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,69
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,70
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,71
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,72
Judy Woodruff,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,6,1,73
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,74
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,75
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Ninety-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.",Candidate,female,6,1,76
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,77
Judy Woodruff,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,6,1,78
Judy Woodruff,NA,"This 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,79
Judy Woodruff,NA,"My 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,80
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,81
Joe Biden,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,82
Joe Biden,NA,The 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,83
Joe Biden,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,84
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,85
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, is that your -- is that your assessment?",Moderator,female,6,1,86
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,87
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,88
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,89
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,90
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mr. Yang? Mr. Yang?,Moderator,female,6,1,91
Andrew Yang,NA,"GDP and corporate profits are at record highs in America today. Also at record highs? Depression, financial insecurity, student loan debt.",Candidate,male,6,1,92
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,93
Andrew Yang,NA,Even 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,94
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,95
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,96
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Senator Warren, you have your hand up.",Moderator,female,6,1,97
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I do.,Candidate,female,6,1,98
Judy Woodruff,NA,And I have a question for you.,Moderator,female,6,1,99
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Well, I want to answer this question.",Candidate,female,6,1,100
Judy Woodruff,NA,Go ahead. Go ahead.,Moderator,female,6,1,101
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,102
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,103
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Works 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,104
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,105
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,106
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,107
Judy Woodruff,NA,"I want -- I want, Senator Sanders, if you would, a brief response, and then I have another question.",Moderator,female,6,1,108
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,109
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Tonight, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,110
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,111
Judy Woodruff,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,112
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Oh, they're just wrong.",Candidate,female,6,1,113
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,114
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Let'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.",Candidate,female,6,1,115
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,116
Judy Woodruff,NA,And...,Moderator,female,6,1,117
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,118
Judy Woodruff,NA,Brief answers -- brief responses from Mr. Steyer and Mr. Buttigieg.,Moderator,female,6,1,119
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,120
Tom Steyer,NA,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.,Candidate,male,6,1,121
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,122
Tom Steyer,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,123
Tom Steyer,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,124
Tom Steyer,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,125
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,female,6,1,126
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We're also being -- right now, I think we're being offered a false choice that you either have to go all the way to the extreme or it'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,127
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,128
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It'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?",Candidate,male,6,1,129
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"On 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,130
Judy Woodruff,NA,We're going to take a short break and we'll be right back in two minutes with questions from my fellow moderators.,Moderator,female,6,1,131
Judy Woodruff,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,132
Announcer,NA,"Live from Los Angeles, the PBS NewsHour/Politico Democratic...",Moderator,unknown,6,1,133
Announcer,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,unknown,6,1,134
Announcer,NA,"Live from Los Angeles, the PBS NewsHour/Politico Democratic debate continues. Once again, Judy Woodruff.",Moderator,unknown,6,1,135
Judy Woodruff,NA,Welcome back to the PBS NewsHour/Politico Democratic presidential debate. The next question is from Tim Alberta of Politico.,Moderator,female,6,1,136
Tim Alberta,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,6,1,137
Tim Alberta,NA,"So 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?",Moderator,male,6,1,138
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,139
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,140
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,141
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,142
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,143
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,6,1,144
Tim Alberta,NA,"Mr. Steyer, would you support such a new federal program, again, to help subsidize the relocation of these families?",Moderator,male,6,1,145
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,146
Tom Steyer,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,147
Tom Steyer,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,148
Tom Steyer,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,149
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, 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...",Candidate,male,6,1,150
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,6,1,151
Tom Steyer,NA,... the greatest opportunity to rebuild and reinvent America.,Candidate,male,6,1,152
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Mr. Buttigieg, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,male,6,1,153
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,154
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,155
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,156
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,157
Tim Alberta,NA,We'd like to switch...,Moderator,male,6,1,158
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,159
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We'd like to switch gears slightly.",Moderator,male,6,1,160
Tim Alberta,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,male,6,1,161
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,162
Joe Biden,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,163
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,164
Joe Biden,NA,"For 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,165
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Vice President Biden.",Moderator,male,6,1,166
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,167
Tim Alberta,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,6,1,168
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,169
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,170
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,171
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,172
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders. Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,6,1,173
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,174
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,male,6,1,175
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,6,1,176
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,177
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,178
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"America 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,179
Tim Alberta,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,6,1,180
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We need a Washington that doesn't just work for the rich and the powerful. We need one that works for our families.,Candidate,female,6,1,181
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,182
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,6,1,183
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, and then I would like to bring in Mr. Yang and Mr. Steyer for follow-ups.",Moderator,male,6,1,184
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,185
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,186
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,187
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,188
Tim Alberta,NA,"Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang, 45 seconds, on the issue of nuclear energy.",Moderator,male,6,1,189
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,190
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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?",Candidate,male,6,1,191
Andrew Yang,NA,"Part 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,192
Andrew Yang,NA,"On 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...",Candidate,male,6,1,193
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,male,6,1,194
Andrew Yang,NA,"... Elizabeth is saying, then we have to have nuclear on the table.",Candidate,male,6,1,195
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang. The last word climate to you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,6,1,196
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,197
Tom Steyer,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,198
Tom Steyer,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,199
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Amna?",Moderator,male,6,1,200
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,201
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thanks, Tim.",Moderator,female,6,1,202
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,203
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,204
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,205
Joe Biden,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,206
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,207
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,208
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,209
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Biden.",Moderator,female,6,1,210
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Mr. 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,211
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,212
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,213
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,214
Andrew Yang,NA,"These 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,215
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,216
Andrew Yang,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,217
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,218
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,6,1,219
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Senator Sanders, I do want to put the same question to you, Senator Sanders. What message do you think...",Moderator,female,6,1,220
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,221
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Senator, with all respect, this question is about race. Can you answer the question as it was asked?",Moderator,female,6,1,222
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,223
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,224
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,225
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,226
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So we need an economy that focuses on the needs of oppressed, exploited people, and that is the African-American community.",Candidate,male,6,1,227
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,6,1,228
Amna Nawaz,NA,Yamiche?,Moderator,female,6,1,229
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Amna.",Moderator,female,6,1,230
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,231
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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.,Candidate,female,6,1,232
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,233
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,234
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,235
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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?",Candidate,female,6,1,236
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,237
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,238
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,239
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But what -- but what U.S. foreign policy must be about is not just being pro-Israel. We must be pro-Palestinian, as well.",Candidate,male,6,1,240
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,241
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,242
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,243
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,6,1,244
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,female,6,1,245
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,246
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,247
Pete Buttigieg,NA,It'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.,Candidate,male,6,1,248
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,249
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,250
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,6,1,251
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Senator 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,252
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes. It is time to close this detention facility. It not only costs us money, it is an international embarrassment.",Candidate,female,6,1,253
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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?",Candidate,female,6,1,254
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,255
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And we need to treat our allies better than we treat the dictators. That needs to be our job as an America.,Candidate,female,6,1,256
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,257
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,258
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,6,1,259
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Vice President Biden, why couldn't you close Guantanamo Bay? Why couldn't the Obama administration close Guantanamo Bay?",Moderator,female,6,1,260
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,261
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,262
Joe Biden,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,263
Joe Biden,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,264
Joe Biden,NA,"And lastly, I think that...",Candidate,male,6,1,265
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Vice President Biden.",Moderator,female,6,1,266
Joe Biden,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,267
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Vice President Biden. Judy?",Moderator,female,6,1,268
Yamiche Alcindor,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,269
Judy Woodruff,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,270
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I think that any tool ought to be on the table, especially diplomatic, economic, and social tools, like what you're describing.",Candidate,male,6,1,271
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,272
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,273
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That 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?",Candidate,male,6,1,274
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,275
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,276
Judy Woodruff,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,277
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,278
Tom Steyer,NA,"In 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,279
Tom Steyer,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,280
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,6,1,281
Tom Steyer,NA,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.,Candidate,male,6,1,282
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,6,1,283
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Vice 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,284
Judy Woodruff,NA,"National 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,285
Joe Biden,NA,It's not...,Candidate,male,6,1,286
Judy Woodruff,NA,What steps could you take as president?,Moderator,female,6,1,287
Joe Biden,NA,"It'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've done. A million Uighurs, as you pointed out, Muslims, are in concentration camps. That's where they are right now. They're being abused. They're in concentration camps.",Candidate,male,6,1,288
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,289
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,290
Joe Biden,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,291
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,292
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mr. Yang and then Senator Klobuchar.,Moderator,female,6,1,293
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,294
Andrew Yang,NA,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.,Candidate,male,6,1,295
Andrew Yang,NA,This 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,296
Andrew Yang,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,297
Andrew Yang,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,298
Judy Woodruff,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,6,1,299
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,300
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,301
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,302
Amy Klobuchar,NA,The point of it was that he couldn't even tolerate it. He is so thin-skinned that he walked. He quit.,Candidate,female,6,1,303
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"America 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,304
Amy Klobuchar,NA,returning to sanity.,Candidate,female,6,1,305
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,306
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, and then we're going to take a break.",Moderator,female,6,1,307
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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.,Candidate,male,6,1,308
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,309
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I respond?,Candidate,female,6,1,310
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This is our chance.,Candidate,male,6,1,311
Judy Woodruff,NA,Very brief. Very brief.,Moderator,female,6,1,312
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,313
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"They 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,314
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,315
Judy Woodruff,NA,"We are going to take a short break, and we will be -- we'll be right back with more questions.",Moderator,female,6,1,316
Judy Woodruff,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,317
Judy Woodruff,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,6,1,318
Judy Woodruff,NA,Now let's turn to the next question from Tim.,Moderator,female,6,1,319
Tim Alberta,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,6,1,320
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,321
Tim Alberta,NA,"He 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.""",Moderator,male,6,1,322
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,323
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Sanders, you are the oldest candidate on stage this evening.",Moderator,male,6,1,324
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And I'm white, as well. Yes.",Candidate,male,6,1,325
Tim Alberta,NA,How do you respond to what the former president had to say?,Moderator,male,6,1,326
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,327
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Here 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,328
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,329
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,330
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,6,1,331
Tim Alberta,NA,"Vice President Biden, I'm going to guess that President Obama did not clear that remark through your campaign ahead of time.",Moderator,male,6,1,332
Joe Biden,NA,And I'm going to guess...,Candidate,male,6,1,333
Tim Alberta,NA,What do you say to it?,Moderator,male,6,1,334
Joe Biden,NA,"And I'm going to guess he wasn't talking about me, either.",Candidate,male,6,1,335
Joe Biden,NA,MORE,Candidate,male,6,1,336
Joe Biden,NA,"XXX about me, either.",Candidate,male,6,1,337
Tim Alberta,NA,OK.,Moderator,male,6,1,338
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,339
Joe Biden,NA,And that's what -- that's the reason I'm running. I have more experience in doing that than anybody on this stage.,Candidate,male,6,1,340
Tim Alberta,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,6,1,341
Joe Biden,NA,More like Winston Churchill.,Candidate,male,6,1,342
Tim Alberta,NA,Are you willing -- are you willing to commit -- American history.,Moderator,male,6,1,343
Joe Biden,NA,"Oh, American history.",Candidate,male,6,1,344
Tim Alberta,NA,Yes. Are you...,Moderator,male,6,1,345
Joe Biden,NA,I was joking. That was a joke.,Candidate,male,6,1,346
Tim Alberta,NA,OK.,Moderator,male,6,1,347
Tim Alberta,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,348
Tim Alberta,NA,Appreciate it.,Moderator,male,6,1,349
Joe Biden,NA,Politico doesn't have much of a sense of humor.,Candidate,male,6,1,350
Tim Alberta,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,6,1,351
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,352
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,353
Joe Biden,NA,But it's a nice thought.,Candidate,male,6,1,354
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, you had your hand raised.",Moderator,male,6,1,355
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Thank you for asking a woman this question. I think...,Candidate,female,6,1,356
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,357
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"First 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,358
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,359
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"However, 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,360
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,361
Tim Alberta,NA,Senator Warren...,Moderator,male,6,1,362
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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.,Candidate,female,6,1,363
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,6,1,364
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,365
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Warren, you would be the oldest president ever inaugurated. I'd like you to weigh in, as well.",Moderator,male,6,1,366
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'd also be the youngest woman ever inaugurated.,Candidate,female,6,1,367
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,368
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,369
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,370
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,371
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,372
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,6,1,373
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,374
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,375
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I want -- I'm running a campaign where people whose voices get heard. We can't have...,Candidate,female,6,1,376
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren. We're...",Moderator,male,6,1,377
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We can't have people who can put down $5,000 for a check drown out the voices of everyone else.",Candidate,female,6,1,378
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,6,1,379
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"They don't in my campaign, and they won't in my White House.",Candidate,female,6,1,380
Tim Alberta,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg -- Mayor Buttigieg, you had your hand raised.",Moderator,male,6,1,381
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,382
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,383
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,384
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,385
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,386
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,male,6,1,387
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,388
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Warren, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,male,6,1,389
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,390
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,391
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.,Candidate,female,6,1,392
Tim Alberta,NA,"Mr. Mayor, your response?",Moderator,male,6,1,393
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You know, according to Forbes magazine, I am literally the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire.",Candidate,male,6,1,394
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,395
Pete Buttigieg,NA,So if -- this is important. This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass.,Candidate,male,6,1,396
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,397
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,398
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,399
Tim Alberta,NA,"We would like to bring everyone, but obviously, Senator Warren, would like to give you a chance to respond.",Moderator,male,6,1,400
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I do not sell access to my time. I don't do call time with millionaires and billionaires.,Candidate,female,6,1,401
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Hold on a second. Sorry, as of when, Senator?",Candidate,male,6,1,402
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,403
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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?",Candidate,female,6,1,404
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,405
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Judy -- Judy...,Candidate,female,6,1,406
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Senator, Senator, I've got to respond.",Candidate,male,6,1,407
Tim Alberta,NA,"Mr. Mayor, we're going to give you one more chance to respond.",Moderator,male,6,1,408
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,409
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"So 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...",Candidate,male,6,1,410
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,411
Tim Alberta,NA,We'd like to bring everyone in. We'd like to bring everyone in.,Moderator,male,6,1,412
Tim Alberta,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,413
Tim Alberta,NA,"But, Senator Klobuchar, had your hand up first. We'd like to call on you.",Moderator,male,6,1,414
Tim Alberta,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,415
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,416
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,417
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,6,1,418
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Not by arguing with each other, but by finding what unites us and getting this done.",Candidate,female,6,1,419
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,420
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I came to make a case for progress.,Candidate,female,6,1,421
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Senator Sanders?",Moderator,male,6,1,422
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,423
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,424
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,425
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,6,1,426
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,427
Tim Alberta,NA,"Vice President Biden, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,male,6,1,428
Joe Biden,NA,"My average contributions is $43, number one. That's number one.",Candidate,male,6,1,429
Joe Biden,NA,"Number 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,430
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,431
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,432
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Vice President. Mr. Steyer, I would like to bring you in.",Moderator,male,6,1,433
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,434
Tom Steyer,NA,"But let me say this. There's someone who is loving this conversation, and his name is Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,6,1,435
Joe Biden,NA,That's right.,Candidate,male,6,1,436
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.""",Candidate,male,6,1,437
Tom Steyer,NA,"We 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...",Candidate,male,6,1,438
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,6,1,439
Tom Steyer,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,440
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. We're going to end it there.",Moderator,male,6,1,441
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,442
Tim Alberta,NA,Amna?,Moderator,male,6,1,443
Amna Nawaz,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,444
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,445
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,446
Andrew Yang,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,447
Andrew Yang,NA,"The fact is, strong societies would elect more female leaders. Strong men treat women well for the same reasons.",Candidate,male,6,1,448
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,449
Andrew Yang,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,450
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,451
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,452
Andrew Yang,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,453
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,454
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang. I do...",Moderator,female,6,1,455
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I address...,Candidate,female,6,1,456
Amna Nawaz,NA,"I'd like to follow up. The question, again, Mr. Yang, was about Dreamers.",Moderator,female,6,1,457
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I address immigration reform?,Candidate,female,6,1,458
Amna Nawaz,NA,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?,Moderator,female,6,1,459
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,460
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,461
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,462
Andrew Yang,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,463
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang.",Moderator,female,6,1,464
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,465
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Senator Sanders, a related question to you.",Moderator,female,6,1,466
Bernie Sanders,NA,Donald Trump...,Candidate,male,6,1,467
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Actually, Senator Sanders -- Senator Sanders, I have a new question for you. You can respond to Mr. Yang's comments, as well.",Moderator,female,6,1,468
Bernie Sanders,NA,I can't respond to the immigration question?,Candidate,male,6,1,469
Amna Nawaz,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,470
Bernie Sanders,NA,"This is what I would do. Day one, executive order, restore the legal status of 1.8 million young people in the DACA program.",Candidate,male,6,1,471
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,472
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Day one, we change border policy so that federal agents will never snatch babies from the arms of their mothers.",Candidate,male,6,1,473
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,474
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Day 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,475
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,476
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Trump 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,477
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,478
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, you had your hand up.",Moderator,female,6,1,479
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,480
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,481
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Then 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.,Candidate,female,6,1,482
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Then 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.,Candidate,female,6,1,483
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,6,1,484
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I will take my views. I will take this experience. I will get this done because immigrants don't diminish America. They are America.,Candidate,female,6,1,485
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Mr. Steyer, briefly, your response?",Moderator,female,6,1,486
Tom Steyer,NA,"Listen, I think it's important to note that this president is not against immigration. He's against immigration by nonwhite people.",Candidate,male,6,1,487
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,6,1,488
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,489
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,490
Tom Steyer,NA,"And as somebody who lives in a majority-minority state, which is California, what he's doing is so wrong on so many different levels.",Candidate,male,6,1,491
Tom Steyer,NA,I 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,492
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,6,1,493
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,494
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Mayor 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,495
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,496
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,497
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,498
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I respond?,Candidate,female,6,1,499
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,6,1,500
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Mr. Mayor, just...",Moderator,female,6,1,501
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,502
Amna Nawaz,NA,Mr. Mayor...,Moderator,female,6,1,503
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We cannot wait 4 years, 10 years. We cannot wait anymore to do something about this.",Candidate,male,6,1,504
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just to follow up...",Moderator,female,6,1,505
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,506
Amna Nawaz,NA,"... 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,507
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,508
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Remember, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,509
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Harms 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,510
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Vice President Biden, do you support reparations?",Moderator,female,6,1,511
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,512
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,513
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,514
Joe Biden,NA,"They 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,515
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,516
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Biden. Senator Klobuchar, you had your hand up.",Moderator,female,6,1,517
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, I was -- I was harkening back. I made my case on immigration to what the mayor said about Washington.",Candidate,female,6,1,518
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,519
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,520
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,521
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,522
Pete Buttigieg,NA,You know -- I'm sorry.,Candidate,male,6,1,523
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I just think you should respect our experience when you look at how you evaluate someone who can get things done.,Candidate,female,6,1,524
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,6,1,525
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Mr. Mayor, I'll give you a chance to respond.",Moderator,female,6,1,526
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,527
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,6,1,528
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Oh, I don't think we have bigger fish to fry than picking a president of the United States.",Candidate,female,6,1,529
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,530
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Let 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,531
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,6,1,532
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, you have 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,female,6,1,533
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I have been -- I certainly respect your military experience. That's not what this is about. This is about choosing a president.,Candidate,female,6,1,534
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,535
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,536
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Yamiche?",Moderator,female,6,1,537
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,538
Bernie Sanders,NA,Excuse me.,Candidate,male,6,1,539
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,540
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,541
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,542
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,543
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,544
Bernie Sanders,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,545
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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...",Candidate,male,6,1,546
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,6,1,547
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... because we have free tuition, and canceling all student debt in this country.",Candidate,male,6,1,548
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,6,1,549
Yamiche Alcindor,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,550
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"I'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?",Moderator,female,6,1,551
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,552
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,553
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,554
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Senator. I see some hands, but I want to go to Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,6,1,555
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Can I respond?,Candidate,male,6,1,556
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,557
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,558
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,559
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,560
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,6,1,561
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So -- no, wait, wait, wait.",Candidate,female,6,1,562
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,I want to...,Moderator,female,6,1,563
Elizabeth Warren,NA,No. He mentioned me by name.,Candidate,female,6,1,564
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"I'm going to let -- I'm going to let you respond, Senator Warren. Go ahead.",Moderator,female,6,1,565
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,566
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,567
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We want to make an investment in the future? Then open up education for all of our kids. That's how we build a future.,Candidate,female,6,1,568
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Senator Sanders?",Moderator,female,6,1,569
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I respond after Bernie?,Candidate,female,6,1,570
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,571
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,572
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,573
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,6,1,574
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,Tim?,Moderator,female,6,1,575
Tim Alberta,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,6,1,576
Tim Alberta,NA,"Bill 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?",Moderator,male,6,1,577
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,578
Tom Steyer,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,579
Tom Steyer,NA,"Last year, the top 400 corporations paid an 11 percent tax. That is absolutely ludicrous.",Candidate,male,6,1,580
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I answer the question?,Candidate,female,6,1,581
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,582
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,583
Tom Steyer,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,584
Tim Alberta,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,6,1,585
Andrew Yang,NA,"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?",Candidate,male,6,1,586
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,587
Andrew Yang,NA,"As 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,588
Andrew Yang,NA,We 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.,Candidate,male,6,1,589
Andrew Yang,NA,"We'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,590
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Yang. We have to move on. Judy?",Moderator,male,6,1,591
Tim Alberta,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,592
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No, no, no. No, no, no. Come on.",Candidate,female,6,1,593
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,594
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Warren, 45 seconds to you, please.",Moderator,male,6,1,595
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,596
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,597
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,598
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,599
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You'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.",Candidate,female,6,1,600
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,601
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren. Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,6,1,602
Tim Alberta,NA,Judy?,Moderator,male,6,1,603
Judy Woodruff,NA,I know we have a lot of hands up. We have so many important topics to discuss.,Moderator,female,6,1,604
Judy Woodruff,NA,"I 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,605
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Some 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?",Moderator,female,6,1,606
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,607
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,608
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,609
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,610
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,611
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,612
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,613
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,614
Judy Woodruff,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,615
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,616
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,617
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,618
Judy Woodruff,NA,Yamiche?,Moderator,female,6,1,619
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,620
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,621
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,622
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,623
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders. Senator Warren?",Moderator,female,6,1,624
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,625
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Here'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.",Candidate,female,6,1,626
Yamiche Alcindor,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren. Amna?",Moderator,female,6,1,627
Amna Nawaz,NA,"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...",Moderator,female,6,1,628
Joe Biden,NA,"Afghanistan, you said?",Candidate,male,6,1,629
Amna Nawaz,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,630
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,631
Joe Biden,NA,"Rebuilding 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,632
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,633
Joe Biden,NA,That'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.,Candidate,male,6,1,634
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Mr. Biden, the question was about your time in the White House, though.",Moderator,female,6,1,635
Joe Biden,NA,I'm talking about the White House.,Candidate,male,6,1,636
Amna Nawaz,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,637
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,638
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Senator Sanders, you had your hand up.",Moderator,female,6,1,639
Amna Nawaz,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,640
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,641
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,642
Amna Nawaz,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,6,1,643
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,644
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,645
Amna Nawaz,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,6,1,646
Amna Nawaz,NA,So should you as president still withdraw all those U.S. troops if the country could once again become a haven for terrorists?,Moderator,female,6,1,647
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,648
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,649
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"There 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,650
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,651
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,652
Amna Nawaz,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,6,1,653
Amna Nawaz,NA,Tim?,Moderator,female,6,1,654
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thanks, Amna.",Moderator,male,6,1,655
Tim Alberta,NA,"Moving 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.",Moderator,male,6,1,656
Tim Alberta,NA,"So 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?",Moderator,male,6,1,657
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,658
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,659
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,6,1,660
Tim Alberta,NA,"Vice 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?",Moderator,male,6,1,661
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,662
Joe Biden,NA,"But 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?",Candidate,male,6,1,663
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,664
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Just waving to you, Joe.",Candidate,male,6,1,665
Joe Biden,NA,I know. I know.,Candidate,male,6,1,666
Bernie Sanders,NA,Saying hello.,Candidate,male,6,1,667
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,668
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Vice President Biden.",Moderator,male,6,1,669
Joe Biden,NA,That's a...,Candidate,male,6,1,670
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,671
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Sanders, 45 seconds to respond.",Moderator,male,6,1,672
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Under Joe's plan, essentially we retain the status quo.",Candidate,male,6,1,673
Joe Biden,NA,That's not true.,Candidate,male,6,1,674
Bernie Sanders,NA,It is exactly true.,Candidate,male,6,1,675
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"No, that's not right.",Candidate,female,6,1,676
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,677
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, I'm going to come to you...",Moderator,male,6,1,678
Tim Alberta,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,679
Joe Biden,NA,My name was mentioned.,Candidate,male,6,1,680
Tim Alberta,NA,"I'm going to come to you, but 45 seconds...",Moderator,male,6,1,681
Joe Biden,NA,I'm the only guy that's not interrupted.,Candidate,male,6,1,682
Tim Alberta,NA,Forty-five seconds for Vice President Biden.,Moderator,male,6,1,683
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,684
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,685
Bernie Sanders,NA,Joe...,Candidate,male,6,1,686
Joe Biden,NA,It's going to increase personal taxes. There are going to be...,Candidate,male,6,1,687
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,688
Amy Klobuchar,NA,OK.,Candidate,female,6,1,689
Tim Alberta,NA,Senator Klobuchar...,Moderator,male,6,1,690
Tim Alberta,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,691
Bernie Sanders,NA,... our plan will save the average worker...,Candidate,male,6,1,692
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,693
Tim Alberta,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, we'd like to hear from -- we'd like to hear from you...",Moderator,male,6,1,694
Tim Alberta,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,695
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Whoa, guys, hey.",Candidate,female,6,1,696
Joe Biden,NA,It's the first time I did this.,Candidate,male,6,1,697
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,698
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,699
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,700
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,701
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,702
Bernie Sanders,NA,She mentioned my name...,Candidate,male,6,1,703
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Senator Warren, we would like to bring you in.",Moderator,male,6,1,704
Bernie Sanders,NA,Excuse me. She mentioned -- she took my name in vain.,Candidate,male,6,1,705
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Oh.,Candidate,female,6,1,706
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,707
Bernie Sanders,NA,She hurt my feelings. I am crushed. Can I respond?,Candidate,male,6,1,708
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I would never do that to you. I would never, never, never.",Candidate,female,6,1,709
Bernie Sanders,NA,"My fight, Amy...",Candidate,male,6,1,710
Tim Alberta,NA,"All right. Forty-five seconds, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,6,1,711
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,712
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,713
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders. Senator Warren...",Moderator,male,6,1,714
Tim Alberta,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,6,1,715
Tim Alberta,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,6,1,716
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,717
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,718
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And 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...",Candidate,female,6,1,719
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,6,1,720
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... 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.,Candidate,female,6,1,721
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,6,1,722
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"For others, it will be at a low cost. We have got to start moving and move fast.",Candidate,female,6,1,723
Tim Alberta,NA,We do have to move on.,Moderator,male,6,1,724
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We can do that -- we can do that on 50 votes.,Candidate,female,6,1,725
Tim Alberta,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Judy?",Moderator,male,6,1,726
Judy Woodruff,NA,"We are coming to the end of our time. A lot of hands up, we apologize for that.",Moderator,female,6,1,727
Judy Woodruff,NA,"But 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.",Moderator,female,6,1,728
Andrew Yang,NA,Wow.,Candidate,male,6,1,729
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,730
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We can do a labor action and just all go on strike on this one, Andrew.",Candidate,female,6,1,731
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,732
Andrew Yang,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,733
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,6,1,734
Andrew Yang,NA,I would love to give each of you a copy of my book.,Candidate,male,6,1,735
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,736
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,737
Andrew Yang,NA,"It'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,738
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,739
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg. Mayor Buttigieg, ask forgiveness or give a gift?",Moderator,female,6,1,740
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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...",Candidate,male,6,1,741
Andrew Yang,NA,Your publisher will thank you.,Candidate,male,6,1,742
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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.,Candidate,male,6,1,743
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,744
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,745
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,746
Judy Woodruff,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,female,6,1,747
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,748
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"What happens is, when you do 100,000 selfies with people...",Candidate,female,6,1,749
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,750
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,751
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,752
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,753
Judy Woodruff,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,female,6,1,754
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,755
Joe Biden,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,756
Joe Biden,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,757
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,758
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Senator Sanders, forgiveness or a gift?",Moderator,female,6,1,759
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, I can give out any one of four books that I wrote.",Candidate,male,6,1,760
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,761
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,762
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,763
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,764
Judy Woodruff,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,6,1,765
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,6,1,766
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,767
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"When 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,768
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,769
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,6,1,770
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mr. Steyer?,Moderator,female,6,1,771
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,772
Tom Steyer,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,773
Tom Steyer,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,774
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,775
Judy Woodruff,NA,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.,Moderator,female,6,1,776
Judy Woodruff,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,777
Judy Woodruff,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,6,1,778
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,779
Tom Steyer,NA,"That'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,780
Tom Steyer,NA,"I'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.",Candidate,male,6,1,781
Tom Steyer,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,782
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mr. Yang. I'm sorry. My apology for interrupting.,Moderator,female,6,1,783
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,784
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mr. Yang?,Moderator,female,6,1,785
Andrew Yang,NA,"I know what you're thinking, America. How am I still on this stage with them?",Candidate,male,6,1,786
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,787
Andrew Yang,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,788
Andrew Yang,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,789
Andrew Yang,NA,"Our 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?",Candidate,male,6,1,790
Andrew Yang,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,791
Andrew Yang,NA,"We 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,792
Andrew Yang,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,793
Judy Woodruff,NA,Thank you. Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,6,1,794
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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?",Candidate,female,6,1,795
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,796
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,797
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Our 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,798
Judy Woodruff,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,6,1,799
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,800
Judy Woodruff,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,female,6,1,801
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,802
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,803
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,804
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,805
Judy Woodruff,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,female,6,1,806
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Did you call my name?,Candidate,female,6,1,807
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,808
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"My 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,809
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"America 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,810
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I 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.",Candidate,female,6,1,811
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,6,1,812
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,813
Judy Woodruff,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,6,1,814
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,6,1,815
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,816
Bernie Sanders,NA,Please join the political revolution at berniesanders.com. Let's defeat Trump. Let's transform this country. Thank you.,Candidate,male,6,1,817
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,6,1,818
Judy Woodruff,NA,"And finally, Vice President Biden.",Moderator,female,6,1,819
Joe Biden,NA,I want to thank everyone listening seven days out from Christmas. Thank you very much.,Candidate,male,6,1,820
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, 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?",Candidate,male,6,1,821
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, who can help elect Democrats to the United States Senate in states like North Carolina and Georgia and Arizona and other states?",Candidate,male,6,1,822
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,823
Joe Biden,NA,"And 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.",Candidate,male,6,1,824
Joe Biden,NA,"God bless you all, and may you have a great, great holiday season. And thank you guys for doing this, as well.",Candidate,male,6,1,825
Judy Woodruff,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,6,1,826
Judy Woodruff,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,6,1,827
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Thank you very much. And that concludes the PBS NewsHour-Politico debate. I do want to thank my colleagues here at the moderator table, Tim Alberta of Politico, Amna Nawaz and Yamiche Alcindor of the PBS NewsHour.",Moderator,female,6,1,828
Judy Woodruff,NA,Thank you all for joining us. Please stick around and watch PBS for some analysis. Thank you to the candidates.,Moderator,female,6,1,829
Judy Woodruff,NA,END,Moderator,female,6,1,830
Judy Woodruff,NA,.ETX,Moderator,female,6,1,831
Judy Woodruff,NA,"Dec 19, 2019 23:36 ET .EOF",Moderator,female,6,1,832
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Live from Drake University in Iowa, this is the CNN Democratic presidential debate, in partnership with the Des Moines Register. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer, along with CNN's Abby Phillip and the Des Moines Register's chief politics reporter Brianne Pfannenstiel.",Moderator,male,7,1,1
Abby Phillip,NA,The top six Democratic presidential candidates are in place. This is their final debate before the first votes of the 2020 presidential campaign. The Iowa caucuses are 20 days away.,Moderator,female,7,1,2
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"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.",Moderator,female,7,1,3
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"All right, so let'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's role in the world and which of you is best prepared to be commander-in-chief. So let's have the debate right now.",Moderator,male,7,1,4
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Sanders, why are you best prepared — the best prepared person on this stage to be commander-in-chief?",Moderator,male,7,1,5
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Yes, I think my record speaks to that, Wolf. In 2002, 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 not only voted against the war, I helped lead the effort against that war.",Candidate,male,7,1,6
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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. 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,7
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,8
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"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 on this stage to be commander-in-chief?",Moderator,male,7,1,9
Joe Biden,NA,"I said 13 years ago it was a mistake to give the president the authority to go to war if, in fact, he couldn'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,10
Joe Biden,NA,"But right — the man who also argued against that war, Barack Obama, picked me to be his vice president. And once we — once we were elected president, he turned — and vice president, he turned to me and asked me to end that war.",Candidate,male,7,1,11
Joe Biden,NA,"I know what it's like to send a son or daughter, like our colleague has gone to war in Afghanistan, my son for a year in Iraq, and that's why I do it very, very reluctantly. That'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 interests of the United States are at stake. They were not at stake there. They were not at stake in Iraq. And it was a mistaken vote.",Candidate,male,7,1,12
Joe Biden,NA,But I think my record overall on everything we've done has been — I'm — I'm prepared to compare it to anybody on this stage.,Candidate,male,7,1,13
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Sanders, you have been attacking Vice President Biden'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 both acknowledged mistakes. Why should the American people trust your judgment more?",Moderator,male,7,1,14
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, it'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,15
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But what I understood 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. We have spent trillions of dollars on that endless war, money which should go into health care and education and infrastructure in this country.",Candidate,male,7,1,16
Bernie Sanders,NA,Joe and I listened to what Dick Cheney and George Bush and Rumsfeld had to say. I thought they were lying. I didn't believe them for a moment. I took to the floor. I did everything I could to prevent that war. Joe saw it differently.,Candidate,male,7,1,17
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,male,7,1,18
Joe Biden,NA,"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'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,19
Joe Biden,NA,"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've voted to — I moved to bring those troops home.",Candidate,male,7,1,20
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, you've publicly questioned Mayor Buttigieg's experience when it comes to being commander-in-chief. Why is your time as a U.S. senator more valuable than his time as a U.S. naval intelligence officer in Afghanistan and as mayor?",Moderator,male,7,1,21
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Thank you, Wolf. And I have been very clear that I respect the mayor's experience very much in the military. I just have different experience.",Candidate,female,7,1,22
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I've been in the U.S. 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.,Candidate,female,7,1,23
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I will look at my position on the Iraq war first. I wasn'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,24
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Then I have dealt with every issue, from Afghanistan to keeping our troops with good health care 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 our education and with their jobs and also with their health care.",Candidate,female,7,1,25
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I think right now what we should be talking about, though, Wolf, 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. We just found out today that four Republicans are joining Democrats to go to him and say: You must have an authorization of military force if you're going to go to war with Iran.",Candidate,female,7,1,26
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That is so important, because we have a situation where he got us out of the Iranian nuclear agreement, something I worked on for a significant period of time. As president, I will get us back into that agreement. I will take an oath...",Candidate,female,7,1,27
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,7,1,28
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... to protect and defend our Constitution.,Candidate,female,7,1,29
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,7,1,30
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And I will mean it.,Candidate,female,7,1,31
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar. We're going to continue talking about who's best prepared to be commander-in-chief. Mayor Buttigieg?",Moderator,male,7,1,32
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,33
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The next president is going to be confronted with national security challenges different in scope and in kind from anything we've seen before, not just conventional military challenges, not just stateless terrorism, but cybersecurity challenges, climate security challenges, foreign interference in our elections. It'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,34
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Warren, in 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?",Moderator,male,7,1,35
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I believe the principal job of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. And I think that'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,36
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I've been to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Jordan, to South Korea. I'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've been promised, that they don't get cheated by giant financial institutions.",Candidate,female,7,1,37
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, I have three brothers who were 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.",Candidate,female,7,1,38
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,39
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"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?",Moderator,male,7,1,40
Tom Steyer,NA,"I worked internationally around the world for decades. I traveled, I met with governments, I met with businesses, and I understand how America interacts with other countries.",Candidate,male,7,1,41
Tom Steyer,NA,"And you asked what is the reason that the — the experience really counts, and to me, I believe that Sen. Warren made a great point. It isn't so much about experience, it's about judgment.",Candidate,male,7,1,42
Tom Steyer,NA,"If you'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,43
Tom Steyer,NA,"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 congresswoman, Barbara Lee from Oakland, California, who stood up against the original vote, who was the only person in Congress.",Candidate,male,7,1,44
Tom Steyer,NA,"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're looking for now. I agree with Sen. Warren. We are spending dramatically too much money on defense. The money that we're spending there, we could spend in the other parts of the budget, and it's time for someone from the outside to have a strategic view about what we're trying to do and how to do it.",Candidate,male,7,1,45
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Sanders, in the wake of the Iran crisis, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei has again called for all U.S. troops to be pulled out of the Middle East, something you'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?",Moderator,male,7,1,46
Bernie Sanders,NA,"O.K., I'm going to tell you, but before I tell you that, let me tell you something else.",Candidate,male,7,1,47
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,48
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And that is — and I don'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 were 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,49
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,50
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,male,7,1,51
Joe Biden,NA,"I was part of that deal to get the nuclear agreement with Iran, bringing together the rest of the world, including some of the folks who aren'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,52
Joe Biden,NA,"And look what's happened. He went ahead — and it was predictable from the day he pulled out of the agreement, Trump, what exactly would happen. We're now isolated. We'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,53
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,54
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"So just to be clear, Vice President Biden, would you leave troops in the Middle East or would you pull them out?",Moderator,male,7,1,55
Joe Biden,NA,"I would leave troops in the Middle East in terms of patrolling the Gulf, where we have — where we are now, small numbers of troops, and I think it's a mistake to pull out the small number of troops that are there now to deal with ISIS.",Candidate,male,7,1,56
Joe Biden,NA,"What's happened is, now that he's gone ahead, the president, and started this whole process moving, what's happening? ISIS is going to reconstitute itself. We're in a position where we have to pull our forces out. Americans have to leave the entire region. And quite frankly, I think he's flat-out lied about saying the reason he went after — the reason he made the strike was because our embassies were about to be bombed.",Candidate,male,7,1,57
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, what's your response?",Moderator,male,7,1,58
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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 counterterrorism and training.",Candidate,female,7,1,59
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"In Syria, I would not have removed the 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.",Candidate,female,7,1,60
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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 asked them what their alternatives were. And they gave very vague, vague answers.",Candidate,female,7,1,61
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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 interests, his private interests, in front of our country's. I would put our country's interests first as commander-in-chief.",Candidate,female,7,1,62
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Warren, leave combat troops, at least some combat troops in the Middle East, or bring them home?",Moderator,male,7,1,63
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,64
Elizabeth Warren,NA,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.,Candidate,female,7,1,65
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Now, look, I understand, there are people on this stage, when it comes to Afghanistan, for example, who talk about 5 more years, 10 more years. Shoot, Lindsey Graham talks about leaving troops there for a hundred more years. No one has a solution and an endpoint. We need to get our combat troops out. They are not helping create more safety for the United States or the region.",Candidate,female,7,1,66
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Vice President Biden, is Sen. Warren right?",Moderator,male,7,1,67
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, I tell you what, there's a difference between combat troops and leaving special forces in a position. I was part of the coalition to put together 68 countries to deal with stateless terror as well as failed states. Not us alone, 68 other countries.",Candidate,male,7,1,68
Joe Biden,NA,"That's how we were able to defeat and end the caliphate for ISIS. They'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,69
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you served in Afghanistan. Who's right?",Moderator,male,7,1,70
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We can continue to remain engaged without having an endless commitment of ground troops. But what's going on right now is the president'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 — although we know that's not true — now has more troops going to the Middle East.",Candidate,male,7,1,71
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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. 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'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,72
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That is happening by the thousands right now, as we see so many more troops sent into harm's way. And my perspective is to ensure that that will never happen when there is an alternative as commander-in-chief.",Candidate,male,7,1,73
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Sen. Sanders?,Moderator,male,7,1,74
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Wolf, in America today, our infrastructure is crumbling. Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. Eighty-seven million people have no health care or are uninsured or underinsured. We got 500,000 people sleeping out on the streets tonight.",Candidate,male,7,1,75
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,76
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"We're going to get to everyone, but, Vice President Biden, you criticized President Trump'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?",Moderator,male,7,1,77
Joe Biden,NA,I ran the first time as a 29-year-old kid against the war in Vietnam on the grounds that the only way to take a nation to war is with the informed consent of the American people. The informed consent of the American people.,Candidate,male,7,1,78
Joe Biden,NA,"And with regard to this idea that we can walk away and not have any troops anywhere, including special forces, we — there's no way you negotiate or have been able to negotiate with terrorists. You have to be able to form coalitions to be able to defeat them or contain them. If you don't, we end up being the world's policeman again.",Candidate,male,7,1,79
Joe Biden,NA,They're going to come to us. They've come to us before. They'll come to us again. So it's a fundamental difference than negotiating with other countries. It's fundamentally the requirement that we use our special forces in small numbers to coordinate with other countries to bring together coalitions.,Candidate,male,7,1,80
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"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 would the Biden doctrine be different?",Moderator,male,7,1,81
Joe Biden,NA,"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. It does not give authority to go into Iran. It gave authority to deal with these other issues.",Candidate,male,7,1,82
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,7,1,83
Pete Buttigieg,NA,That authorization needs to be replaced.,Candidate,male,7,1,84
Joe Biden,NA,Exactly. And we tried to.,Candidate,male,7,1,85
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"When we lost troops in Niger, there were members of Congress who admitted they didn't even know we had troops there. And it was all pursuant to an authorization that was passed to deal with Al Qaida and 9/11. And often, Congress has been all too happy to leave aside its role. Now, thanks to Democrats in Congress, that's changing. But the reality is, year after year, Congress didn't want to touch this, either, because it was so politically difficult.",Candidate,male,7,1,86
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Fundamental truth is, if our troops can summon the courage to go overseas into harm's way, often on deployment after deployment, then we'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 am compelled to use force and seek that authorization, we will have a three-year sunset, so that the American people are included ...",Candidate,male,7,1,87
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,7,1,88
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... not only in the decision about whether to send troops, but whether to continue.",Candidate,male,7,1,89
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Thank you. Sen. Warren — we're going to get to everyone — but, Sen. 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?",Moderator,male,7,1,90
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 is what as commander-in-chief I will do.",Candidate,female,7,1,91
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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?",Candidate,female,7,1,92
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, on the Senate Armed Services Committee, we have one general after another in Afghanistan who comes in and says, you know, we've just turned the corner and now it's all going to be different. And then what happens? It's all the same for another year. Someone new comes in and we've just turned the corner.",Candidate,female,7,1,93
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We've turned the corner so many times, we're going in circles in these regions. This has got to stop. It's not enough to say some day we're going to get out. No one on the ground, none of our military can describe what the conditions are for getting out. It's time to get our combat troops home.",Candidate,female,7,1,94
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Mr. Steyer, would a President Steyer use military force as a deterrent? And if not, under what circumstances would you take military action?",Moderator,male,7,1,95
Tom Steyer,NA,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're trying to accomplish in what we're doing in the Middle East.,Candidate,male,7,1,96
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,97
Tom Steyer,NA,"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're confronted by this issue which everyone is talking about.",Candidate,male,7,1,98
Tom Steyer,NA,"But at the same time, there'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 should do should follow into that strategy. And it's just not happening in Washington, D.C.",Candidate,male,7,1,99
Abby Phillip,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, another critical issue you'd face as president is the threat of nuclear weapons. Last week, President Trump said, quote, ""As long as I am president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon."" Would a President Buttigieg make that same promise?",Moderator,female,7,1,100
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Ensuring that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons will, of course, be a priority, because it'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,101
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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 are now dealing with as it escalates even closer to the brink of outright war.",Candidate,male,7,1,102
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Now — yes?,Candidate,male,7,1,103
Abby Phillip,NA,Continue.,Moderator,female,7,1,104
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"In order to get that done, we'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't do this alone, even less so now after everything that has happened.",Candidate,male,7,1,105
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,106
Abby Phillip,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, to be clear, would you allow Iran to become a nuclear power, yes or no?",Moderator,female,7,1,107
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"No. Our security depends on ensuring that Iran does not become nuclear. And by the way, we've got a lot of other challenges with nuclear proliferation around the world.",Candidate,male,7,1,108
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Despite this president'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'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,109
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg. Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,7,1,110
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, if you become president, it's very possible there won't be an Iran nuclear deal for the United States to rejoin. Given that, how would you prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon?",Moderator,female,7,1,111
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I would start negotiations again. And I won'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,112
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,113
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And in 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. I think there are changes you can make to the agreement that are sunset, some changes to the inspections, but overall, that is what we should do.",Candidate,female,7,1,114
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,115
Abby Phillip,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,7,1,116
Joe Biden,NA,"No, not now. I wouldn't meet with them without any preconditions. Look, what — we gave him everything he's looking for, legitimacy. The president showed up, met with him, gave him legitimacy, weakened the sanctions we have against him.",Candidate,male,7,1,117
Joe Biden,NA,"I would be putting what I did as vice president — I 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, that we would — and when China said to me, when Xi Jinping said to me, that's a threat to us, I said, we're going to move and protect our interests unless you get involved and protect it.",Candidate,male,7,1,118
Joe Biden,NA,"I would reignite the relationship between Japan and South Korea, and I would put enormous pressure, enormous pressure on China, because that's also in their interests for them to put pressure on North Korea to cease and desist.",Candidate,male,7,1,119
Joe Biden,NA,"But I would not, I would not meet with — absent preconditions, I would not meet with the, quote, ""Supreme Leader,"" who said Joe Biden is a rabid dog, he should be beaten to death with a stick. I count that ...",Candidate,male,7,1,120
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Other than that, you like him?",Candidate,male,7,1,121
Joe Biden,NA,"Other than that, I like him, and he — he ...",Candidate,male,7,1,122
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,123
Joe Biden,NA,And he got a love letter from Trump right after that.,Candidate,male,7,1,124
Abby Phillip,NA,"Mr. Steyer, would you meet with North Korea without any preconditions?",Moderator,female,7,1,125
Tom Steyer,NA,"No. It's very clear that if we're going to do something with North Korea, we'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,126
Tom Steyer,NA,"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's face it. Iran is under great pressure economically. So every single discussion we'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...",Candidate,male,7,1,127
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,128
Tom Steyer,NA,"... than just us, as the policeman of the world spending money.",Candidate,male,7,1,129
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Let's stay with the theme of America'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's largest trading partners.",Moderator,female,7,1,130
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. Sanders, you have said that new deal, the USMCA, quote, ""makes some modest improvements,"" yet you are going to vote against it. Aren't modest improvements better than no improvements...",Moderator,female,7,1,131
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, we can do much ...",Candidate,male,7,1,132
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,... for the farmers and manufacturers who have been devastated here in Iowa?,Moderator,female,7,1,133
Bernie Sanders,NA,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.,Candidate,male,7,1,134
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The heart and soul of our disastrous trade agreements — and I'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, $1 or $2 an hour.",Candidate,male,7,1,135
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,136
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"But, Sen. Sanders, to be clear, the AFL-CIO supports this deal. Are you unwilling to compromise?",Moderator,female,7,1,137
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,138
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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're going to be leaving our kids and our children — and our grandchildren will be increasingly unlivable and uninhabitable.",Candidate,male,7,1,139
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"We're going to get to climate change, but I'd like to stay on trade. Sen. Warren ...",Moderator,female,7,1,140
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, they are the same in this issue.",Candidate,male,7,1,141
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. Warren, you support the USMCA. Why is Sen. Sanders wrong?",Moderator,female,7,1,142
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I do. I wasn't here. I haven'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't think it was in the interests of the American people, the American workers, or environmental interests.",Candidate,female,7,1,143
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But we have farmers here in Iowa who are hurting. And they are hurting because of Donald Trump's initiated trade wars. We have workers who are hurting because the agreements that have already been cut really don't have enforcement on workers' rights.,Candidate,female,7,1,144
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This new trade deal is a modest improvement. Sen. 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.",Candidate,female,7,1,145
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 to trade policy written for big, international companies. I'm ready to have that fight, but let's help the people who need help right now.",Candidate,female,7,1,146
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you. Sen. Sanders, can you please respond to Sen. Warren?",Moderator,female,7,1,147
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,148
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Sen. Warren is right in saying we need to bring the stakeholders to the table, that — it is the family farmers here in Iowa and 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 behind doors.",Candidate,male,7,1,149
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, I'd like to bring you in here.",Moderator,female,7,1,150
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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 — and I went to this plant and there was one worker left in that plant. That plant had been shut down because of Donald Trump'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. That worker brought out a coat rack of uniforms and he said, these are my friends, they don't work anymore. And their names were embroidered on those uniforms, Derek, Mark, Salvador. And that guy started to cry.",Candidate,female,7,1,151
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"These are real people hurt by Donald Trump'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 and on pharma, the sweetheart deal...",Candidate,female,7,1,152
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,153
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... because I think we need a big trading block...,Candidate,female,7,1,154
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,155
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... with North America to take on China. And the way you are stronger...,Candidate,female,7,1,156
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, your time is up.",Moderator,female,7,1,157
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... China is with our allies.,Candidate,female,7,1,158
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, do you support the USMCA, yes or no?",Moderator,female,7,1,159
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,160
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But let's acknowledge why there is such fear and frustration. You know, my part of the country, in the industrial Midwest, I remember when they came around in the '90s, selling trade deals, telling us, don't worry about your slice of the pie, the pie will get so much bigger that everyone will be better off. And that promise was broken.",Candidate,male,7,1,161
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The part about the pie getting bigger happened. It's just that the part about it getting to most people where I live did not. That is why there is such frustration, the sense that these decisions in boardrooms...",Candidate,male,7,1,162
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,163
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... and in committee rooms in Washington are being made not based on what's best for us...,Candidate,male,7,1,164
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,7,1,165
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... but based on their own gain.,Candidate,male,7,1,166
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Vice President Biden, Sen. Sanders has said that 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?",Moderator,female,7,1,167
Joe Biden,NA,"There will be no trade agreements signed in my administration without environmentalists 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 American workers to compete in the 21st Century on the high-tech side, dealing with all artificial intelligence. We should be focusing on equipping American workers to do that.",Candidate,male,7,1,168
Joe Biden,NA,"And by the way, the idea — I don't know that there's any trade agreement that the senator would ever think made any sense, but the problem is that 95 percent of the customers are out there. So we better figure out how we begin to write the rules of the road, not China.",Candidate,male,7,1,169
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Sen. Sanders?,Moderator,female,7,1,170
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Joe and I have a fundamental disagreement here, in case you haven'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 multi-national corporations. And 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,171
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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're going to get on line for our generous federal contract, they've got another thing going.",Candidate,male,7,1,172
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We need some corporate responsibility here and we need to protect good-paying jobs in America, not see them go to China, Mexico, Vietnam, and all these other countries.",Candidate,male,7,1,173
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mr. Vice president, what's your response?",Moderator,female,7,1,174
Joe Biden,NA,We need corporate responsibility and I agree with that completely. But we also need to have enforcement mechanisms in the agreements we make. Enforceable agreements. That's one of the things that has been improved with the trade agreement with Mexico. And that's what we should be doing in any agreement we have.,Candidate,male,7,1,175
Joe Biden,NA,"But let's get back to the basics here. If we don't set the rules of the road by going out to our partners, instead of poking our eye — excuse me, poking our finger in the eye of all of our friends and allies, we make up 25 percent of the world's economy. We've got to bring the other 25 percent of our allies along with us to set the rules of the road so China cannot continue to abuse their power by stealing our intellectual property and doing all the other things, using their corporate state system to our significant disadvantage.",Candidate,male,7,1,176
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Sen. Warren?,Moderator,female,7,1,177
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, our problem is not just that we need corporate responsibility. It has been the structure of how these trade deals have been negotiated. The United States has had this strategy for decades. And that strategy has been to have government trade negotiators, a small number, and then surround them with giant multi-national corporation lobbyists and corporate executives, who whisper in the ears of our negotiators and then get deals cut that are great for the giant multi-national corporations, not good for America, not good for American workers, not good for the environment.",Candidate,female,7,1,178
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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've got to meet some environmental standards. You've got to meet labor standards.",Candidate,female,7,1,179
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Warren.",Moderator,female,7,1,180
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We need a...,Candidate,female,7,1,181
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,182
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... approach.,Candidate,female,7,1,183
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,I would like to bring in Mr. Steyer here.,Moderator,female,7,1,184
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mr. Steyer, even though farmers and manufacturers here in Iowa and around the country could see some relief from the China deal, they've been crushed by the current administration's trade war. What will you do as president to help them get back on their feet?",Moderator,female,7,1,185
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, on the first day, I would undo Mr. Trump's tariffs. On the first day, I would get rid of his waivers that Sen. Klobuchar was referring to, to oil refiners, so that not having to use corn-based ethanol.",Candidate,male,7,1,186
Tom Steyer,NA,"In fact, these trade deals have been exactly what Sen. Sanders and Warren have been saying, which is that they'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,187
Tom Steyer,NA,"So let me say this. I'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't sign a deal, even if it's marginally better for working people until climate is also taken into consideration.",Candidate,male,7,1,188
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, I'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're their generation. I think you would be standing up more — look, that's why I'm standing up for it.",Candidate,male,7,1,189
Tom Steyer,NA,"We cannot put climate on the backseat all the time and say we're going to sign this one more deal, we're going to do one more thing without putting climate first. That's why it's my number one priority. We can do it in a way that makes us richer, but we have to do it.",Candidate,male,7,1,190
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, your response?",Moderator,female,7,1,191
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, that's right. This issue is personal for me. It's why we're going to tackle climate from day one. It's why we've got to make sure that we have better answers than we do today. Now, what I'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,192
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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. 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 90s in the year 2100.",Candidate,male,7,1,193
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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 re-joining the Paris Climate Accord, that's table stakes, but to actually move on from the fossil-dependent economy we live in today.",Candidate,male,7,1,194
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,195
Abby Phillip,NA,"Let's now turn to — let's now turn to an issue that's come up in the last 48 hours. Sen. Sanders, CNN reported yesterday that — and Sen. Sanders, Sen. 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?",Moderator,female,7,1,196
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't say it. And I don'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 knows me knows that it's incomprehensible that I would think that a woman cannot be president of the United States.",Candidate,male,7,1,197
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Go to YouTube today. There's a video of me 30 years ago talking about how a woman could become president of the United States. In 2015, I deferred, in fact, to Sen. Warren. There was a movement to draft Sen. Warren to run for president. And you know what, I said — stayed back. Sen. Warren decided not to run, and I then — I did run afterwards.",Candidate,male,7,1,198
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million votes. How could anybody in a million years not believe that a woman could become president of the United States? And let me be very clear. If any of the women on this stage or any of the men on this stage win the nomination, I hope that's not the case, I hope it's me.",Candidate,male,7,1,199
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,200
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,201
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,202
Abby Phillip,NA,"So Sen. Sanders — Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you're saying that you never told Sen. Warren that a woman could not win the election?",Moderator,female,7,1,203
Bernie Sanders,NA,That is correct.,Candidate,male,7,1,204
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Warren, what did you think when Sen. Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?",Moderator,female,7,1,205
Abby Phillip,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,206
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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's time for us to attack it head-on.",Candidate,female,7,1,207
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And I think the best way to talk about who can win is by looking at people's winning record. So, can a woman beat Donald Trump?",Candidate,female,7,1,208
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections.",Candidate,female,7,1,209
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,210
Elizabeth Warren,NA,The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women...,Candidate,female,7,1,211
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,212
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... Amy and me.,Candidate,female,7,1,213
Amy Klobuchar,NA,So true.,Candidate,female,7,1,214
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,215
Amy Klobuchar,NA,So true.,Candidate,female,7,1,216
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,217
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And the only person on this stage who has beaten an incumbent Republican any time in the past 30 years is me.,Candidate,female,7,1,218
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And here's what I know. The real danger that we face as Democrats is picking a candidate who can't pull our party together or someone who takes for granted big parts of the Democratic constituency.,Candidate,female,7,1,219
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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's my plan and that is why I'm going to win.",Candidate,female,7,1,220
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Klobuchar...,Moderator,female,7,1,221
Abby Phillip,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,222
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,7,1,223
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, what do you say to people who don't...",Moderator,female,7,1,224
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Thank you, Elizabeth.",Candidate,female,7,1,225
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, what do you say...",Moderator,female,7,1,226
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I would like to point out...,Candidate,female,7,1,227
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, let me finish my question.",Moderator,female,7,1,228
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Oh, OK.",Candidate,female,7,1,229
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,230
Abby Phillip,NA,What do you say to people who...,Moderator,female,7,1,231
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I thought it was such an open-end — I wasn't at the meeting, so I can't comment, but I was going to say...",Candidate,female,7,1,232
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,233
Abby Phillip,NA,What do you say to people who say that a woman can't win this election?,Moderator,female,7,1,234
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I hear that. People have said it. That's why I've addressed it from this stage. I point out that you don't have to be the tallest person in the room. James Madison was 5'4"". You don't have to be the skinniest person in the room. You don't have to be the loudest person. You have to be competent.",Candidate,female,7,1,235
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And 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. And her name is — I'm very proud to know her, and her name is Governor Kelly. Thank you.",Candidate,female,7,1,236
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Third, I would add to this, you have to be competent to win and you have to know what you're doing. And when you look at what I have done, I have won every race, every place, every time. I have won in the reddest of districts. I have won in the suburban areas, in the rural areas. I have brought people with me.",Candidate,female,7,1,237
Amy Klobuchar,NA,That is why I have the most endorsements of current Iowa legislators and former Iowa legislators in this race.,Candidate,female,7,1,238
Abby Phillip,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,239
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Because they know I bring people with me.,Candidate,female,7,1,240
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And finally, every single person...",Candidate,female,7,1,241
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,242
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... that I have beaten, my Republican opponents, have gotten out of politics for good.",Candidate,female,7,1,243
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,244
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And I think — I think that sounds pretty good. I think that sounds pretty good with the guy we have in the White House right now.,Candidate,female,7,1,245
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,246
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Sanders, you can respond.",Moderator,female,7,1,247
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, just to set the record straight, I defeated an incumbent Republican running for Congress.",Candidate,male,7,1,248
Elizabeth Warren,NA,When?,Candidate,female,7,1,249
Bernie Sanders,NA,Nineteen-ninety.,Candidate,male,7,1,250
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That's how I won, beat a republican congressman.",Candidate,male,7,1,251
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,252
Bernie Sanders,NA,Number two...,Candidate,male,7,1,253
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Thirty years ago.,Candidate,female,7,1,254
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... of course, I don't think there's any debate up here...",Candidate,male,7,1,255
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Wasn't it 30 years ago?,Candidate,female,7,1,256
Bernie Sanders,NA,I beat an incumbent Republican congressman.,Candidate,male,7,1,257
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And I said I was the only one who's beaten an incumbent Republican in 30 years.,Candidate,female,7,1,258
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,259
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, 30 years ago is 1990, as a matter of fact.",Candidate,male,7,1,260
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,261
Bernie Sanders,NA,But I don't know that that's the major issue of the day. I think what the major issue of the day is — let's — does anybody in their right mind think that a woman cannot be elected president?,Candidate,male,7,1,262
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That's — nobody believes that. Of — Hillary Clinton got 3 million votes, more votes than Trump. So who believes that a woman can't win? Of course, a woman can win.",Candidate,male,7,1,263
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But the real question is, how do we beat Trump?",Candidate,male,7,1,264
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And 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. And I believe that our campaign has the strongest grassroots movement...",Candidate,male,7,1,265
Abby Phillip,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,266
Bernie Sanders,NA,We have been endorsed by many grassroots organizations...,Candidate,male,7,1,267
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Warren —,Moderator,female,7,1,268
Bernie Sanders,NA,That's why...,Candidate,male,7,1,269
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,270
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Warren, I want to give you the final word.",Moderator,female,7,1,271
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So I do think it's the right question, ""How do we beat Trump?""",Candidate,female,7,1,272
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And here's the thing. Since Donald Trump was elected, women candidates have out-performed men candidates in competitive races. And in 2018, we took back the House; we took back statehouses, because of women candidates and women voters.",Candidate,female,7,1,273
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, don't deny that the question is there. Back in the 1960s, people asked, ""Could a Catholic win?""",Candidate,female,7,1,274
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Back in 2008, people asked if an African-American could win.",Candidate,female,7,1,275
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"In both times the Democratic Party stepped up and said yes, got behind their candidate and we changed America. That's who we are.",Candidate,female,7,1,276
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,277
Abby Phillip,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,female,7,1,278
Abby Phillip,NA,"Vice President Biden, go ahead.",Moderator,female,7,1,279
Joe Biden,NA,"I agree women can win. And I have went in and campaigned for 27 of them this last — in 2018, the best group I've ever campaigned for, in terms of competence",Candidate,male,7,1,280
Joe Biden,NA,"But the real issue is who can bring the whole party together, represents all elements of the party, African-American, 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,281
Abby Phillip,NA,"All right. We're going to take a short break now. The CNN Democratic presidential debate, live from Drake University, will be back right after this.",Moderator,female,7,1,282
Abby Phillip,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,283
Abby Phillip,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,284
Abby Phillip,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,285
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate, live from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.",Moderator,male,7,1,286
Wolf Blitzer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,7,1,287
Abby Phillip,NA,"Let's turn to health care, the top issue for Iowa Democrats.",Moderator,female,7,1,288
Abby Phillip,NA,"Donald Trump is trying to repeal Obamacare, including the protections for pre-existing conditions. We all know that each of you vigorously opposes that. Still, there are some questions about what each of you would do.",Moderator,female,7,1,289
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Sanders, you have consistently refused to say exactly how much your Medicare For All plan is going to cost. Don't voters deserve to see the price tag before you send them a bill that could cost tens of trillions of dollars?",Moderator,female,7,1,290
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, what I will tell you is Medicare For All, which will guarantee comprehensive health care to every man, woman and child, will cost substantially less than the status quo.",Candidate,male,7,1,291
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Medicare For All will end the absurdity of the United States paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs and health care in general, while we have 87 million uninsured — uninsured and underinsured, and while 30,000 people die each year.",Candidate,male,7,1,292
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Under Medicare For All, one of the provisions we have to pay for it is a 4 percent 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,293
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We save money, comprehensive health care, because we take on the greed and the profiteering and the administrative nightmare that currently exists in our dysfunctional system.",Candidate,male,7,1,294
Abby Phillip,NA,"Vice President Biden, does Sen. Sanders owe voters a price tag on his health care plan?",Moderator,female,7,1,295
Joe Biden,NA,"I think we need to be candid with voters. I think we have to tell them what we're going to do and what it's going to cost. And a 4 percent tax on income over $24,000 doesn't even come close to paying for between $30 trillion, and some estimates as high as $40 trillion over 10 years.",Candidate,male,7,1,296
Joe Biden,NA,"That's doubling the entire federal budget per year. There's a way to do that. The way to do that is to take Obamacare, reinstate — 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 cost of — of drug prices, reduce the cost of being able to buy into the — subsidize it further, and make it everybody — available to everyone.",Candidate,male,7,1,297
Joe Biden,NA,Here's the deal. That costs a lot of money. That costs $740 billion over 10 years. I lay out how I'd pay for that.,Candidate,male,7,1,298
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Sanders?,Moderator,female,7,1,299
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, first of all, what Joe forgets to say is, when you leave the current system as it is, what you are talking about are workers paying on average 20 percent of their incomes for health care. That is insane.",Candidate,male,7,1,300
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You've got 500,000 people going bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills. We're spending twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country.",Candidate,male,7,1,301
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Look, we have talked about health care for all — in this country — for over 100 years. Now is the time to take on the greed and corruption of the health care industry, of the drug companies, and finally provide health care to all through a Medicare For All single-payer program.",Candidate,male,7,1,302
Bernie Sanders,NA,"It won't be easy, but that is what we have to do.",Candidate,male,7,1,303
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,304
Joe Biden,NA,You can do it without that. You can do it without Medicare For All. You can get the same place.,Candidate,male,7,1,305
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, you can't.",Candidate,male,7,1,306
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, your response?",Moderator,female,7,1,307
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yeah. Sen. Sanders and I have worked together on pharmaceuticals for a long, long time. And we agree on this. But what I don't agree with is that we — his position on health care.",Candidate,female,7,1,308
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"This debate isn't real. I was in Vegas the other day and someone said ""Don't put your chips on a number on the wheel that isn't even on the wheel.""",Candidate,female,7,1,309
Amy Klobuchar,NA,That's the problem. Over two-thirds of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are not on the bill that you and Sen. Warren on on. You have numerous governors that are Democratic that don't support this. You have numerous House members that put Nancy Pelosi in as speaker.,Candidate,female,7,1,310
Amy Klobuchar,NA,The answer is a non-profit 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.,Candidate,female,7,1,311
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And then, finally, what should we do about long-term care? The elephant that doesn'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,312
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"My own dad, I know when his long-term care insurance ends, and then we have some savings for him. He's in assisted living. He got married three times — whole other story — so there isn't much there.",Candidate,female,7,1,313
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,314
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But then we go to Medicaid, and I've already talked to Catholic Elder Care.",Candidate,female,7,1,315
Abby Phillip,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,316
Amy Klobuchar,NA,They're willing to take him in. Our story is better than so many other families. We have to make it easier for long-term care.,Candidate,female,7,1,317
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,318
Amy Klobuchar,NA,It's not just for seniors. It's also for the sandwich generation.,Candidate,female,7,1,319
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,320
Amy Klobuchar,NA,People trying to help their parents.,Candidate,female,7,1,321
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Warren?,Moderator,female,7,1,322
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So we need to start with what's happening in America. People are suffering. I'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't afford to have the prescription filled. They looked at it and said it's either groceries or this prescription.",Candidate,female,7,1,323
Elizabeth Warren,NA,My approach to this is we've got to get as much as 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.,Candidate,female,7,1,324
Elizabeth Warren,NA,What I can do are the things I can do as president on the first day. We can cut the cost of prescription drugs. I'll use the power that's already given to the president to reduce the cost of insulin and EpiPens and HIV-AIDS drugs. Let's get some relief to those families. And I will defend the Affordable Care Act.,Candidate,female,7,1,325
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I've got a plan to expand health care, but let's keep in mind, when we come to a general election, we Democrats may argue among each other about the best way to do health care, but we're going to be up against a Republican incumbent who has cut health care for millions of people and is still trying to do that. I'll take our side of the argument any day. We're going to beat him on this.",Candidate,female,7,1,326
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Sen. Warren. Vice President Biden?",Moderator,female,7,1,327
Abby Phillip,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,328
Joe Biden,NA,"The proposal I lay out does, in fact, limit drug cost. It sets up — it allows all the drug companies — excuse me, it allows you to — Medicare to negotiate with drug companies for the price. It sets a system whereby you cannot raise the price of a drug beyond the cost of medical inflation. And by the way, there's mental health parity that I call for in the Obamacare expanded with the Biden option.",Candidate,male,7,1,329
Abby Phillip,NA,Mr. Steyer?,Moderator,female,7,1,330
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, we've had this conversation on this stage so many times. Everybody on this stage believes that affordable health care is a right for every single American. Everybody on this stage knows that Americans are paying twice as much for health care as any other advanced country in the world. And it makes no sense and the government has to step in.",Candidate,male,7,1,331
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,332
Tom Steyer,NA,"That's what I'm talking about. How do we get back government of, by, and for the people? How do we actually break...",Candidate,male,7,1,333
Abby Phillip,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,334
Tom Steyer,NA,... the corporate stranglehold on our government so that we can get any of these things passed?,Candidate,male,7,1,335
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,7,1,336
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. 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?",Moderator,female,7,1,337
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, our plan wouldn't bankrupt the country. And, in fact, it would much improve the well-being of working-class families and the middle class.",Candidate,male,7,1,338
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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 10 times more for the same prescription drugs sold abroad as sold here.",Candidate,male,7,1,339
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What we will do through a Medicare for all single-payer program is substantially lower the cost of health care for employers and workers, because we end the $100 billion a year that the health care industry makes and the $500 billion a year we spend in administrative — the administrative nightmare of dealing with thousands of separate insurance plans.",Candidate,male,7,1,340
Bernie Sanders,NA,Health care is a human right. Every other major country on Earth is guaranteeing health care for all. The time is long overdue for us to do the same.,Candidate,male,7,1,341
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,7,1,342
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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 pipedream, you have to show how you're going to pay for it.",Candidate,female,7,1,343
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And I would also note practically that the Affordable Care Act right now is 10 points more popular than the president of the United States. So I think the answer is to build on it.,Candidate,female,7,1,344
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And, yes, I think you should show how you're going to pay for things, Bernie. I do. This president is treating people out there like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos the way he is adding to our debt.",Candidate,female,7,1,345
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,346
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,347
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And I have shown how I'm going to pay for every single plan...,Candidate,female,7,1,348
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,349
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... capital gains tax going to the personal level, getting rid of oil giveaways.",Candidate,female,7,1,350
Abby Phillip,NA,Let's move on.,Moderator,female,7,1,351
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Doing something about the hedge fund loophole. You can go through...,Candidate,female,7,1,352
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, your time is up. Let's move on to the next question.",Moderator,female,7,1,353
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... and we can get the money to pay for things.,Candidate,female,7,1,354
Abby Phillip,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you'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't want it, and force them to pay for it. How is that truth in advertising?",Moderator,female,7,1,355
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, it'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't work if there are free riders.",Candidate,male,7,1,356
Pete Buttigieg,NA,What I'm offering is a choice. You don't have to be in my plan if there's another plan that you would rather keep. And there's no need to kick Americans off the plans that they want in order to deliver health care for all.,Candidate,male,7,1,357
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And my plan is paid for. Look, our party should no longer hesitate to talk about the issue of the debt and the deficit. Now, we've got a dramatically better track record on it than Republicans do. In my lifetime, it's almost invariably Republican presidents who have added to the deficit, a trillion dollars under this president. And it's why everything I've put forward — from Medicare for all who want it to the historic investments we're going to make in infrastructure to dealing with climate change — is fully paid for.",Candidate,male,7,1,358
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"When it comes to health care, 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 trillion, $30 trillion, $40 trillion that we're hearing about from the others. All you've got to do is two things, both of them are commonsense. Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and roll back the Trump corporate tax cuts that went to corporations and the wealthy that didn't even need it.",Candidate,male,7,1,359
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Warren?,Moderator,female,7,1,360
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So I started this by talking about 36 million Americans, including Americans with insurance, who just can't even afford to have a prescription filled. We all talk about plans, health care plans that we have, and these plans are paid for.",Candidate,female,7,1,361
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"The problem is that plans like the mayor's and like the vice president's is that they are an improvement. They are an improvement over where we are right now. But they're a small improvement. And that's why it is that they cost so much less, because by themselves, they're not going to be enough to cover prescriptions for 36 million people who can't afford to get them filled.",Candidate,female,7,1,362
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 percent, 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 health care for all our people.",Candidate,female,7,1,363
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes, we build on the Affordable Care Act, but where we end up is we offer health care to all of our people. And we can offer it at no cost or low cost to all of them.",Candidate,female,7,1,364
Abby Phillip,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,female,7,1,365
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It's just not true that the plan I'm proposing is small. We'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,366
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This would be a game-changer. This would be the biggest thing we've done to American health care in a half-century. Let's measure the effects of our plans based on what they would do in our everyday lives.,Candidate,male,7,1,367
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And, yes, we're taking on cost. On prescription drugs, we'll have an out-of-pocket cap, even if you don't get the subsidies that would make it free, a $250 monthly cap. And here's why it's got to be monthly. You ever been in that situation or known somebody who finds that they'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?",Candidate,male,7,1,368
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It makes no sense medically because most of us don't experience the economy on an annual basis. Our bills don't come in every year. They come in every month. Same with our paychecks, biweekly or monthly.",Candidate,male,7,1,369
Abby Phillip,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,370
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That's why we set this up in a way to solve the problem without running up $20 trillion, $30 trillion, $40 trillion bills.",Candidate,male,7,1,371
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg. Sen. Warren, your response?",Moderator,female,7,1,372
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, the numbers that the mayor is offering just don't add up. The average family in America last year paid $12,000 in some combination of deductibles and co-pays and uncovered expenses and fees. You can't cover that with the kind of money that the mayor is talking about.",Candidate,female,7,1,373
Elizabeth Warren,NA,The way we have to approach this is we've got to build this and we'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.,Candidate,female,7,1,374
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But we have to be willing to work together. We can let people experience what health care is like when it's you and your doctor, your mental health professional, your nurse practitioner, with no insurance company standing in the middle.",Candidate,female,7,1,375
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Sen. Warren.",Moderator,female,7,1,376
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"When people try it and use it, then...",Candidate,female,7,1,377
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,7,1,378
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Sen. Warren, you acknowledged that Medicare for all — that you couldn't get there right away. You got on the bill that said on page eight, which is why I didn't get on it, that you would kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance. Then, a few months ago, you said, no, you're going to wait a while to get there.",Candidate,female,7,1,379
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I think that was some acknowledgment that maybe what we're talking about is true. And I don't buy that it's not enough. It is a big, big step to say to people making $100,000 that your premiums will be cut in half, which is what the nonprofit public option will do.",Candidate,female,7,1,380
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And as you talk, Mayor Buttigieg, about Medicare and having negotiation, I actually have led that bill for years. I have 34 cosponsors. 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't negotiate for better prices for our seniors.",Candidate,female,7,1,381
Abby Phillip,NA,Senator...,Moderator,female,7,1,382
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I will get it done.,Candidate,female,7,1,383
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Sanders, coming to you now. CNN reached out to Iowa Democratic voters for their most pressing questions. Edward from here in Des Moines writes, ""Des Moines is an insurance town. What happens to all the insurance industry — 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?""",Moderator,female,7,1,384
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We build in to our Medicare for all program a transition fund of many, many billions of dollars that will provide for up to five years income and health care and job training for those people.",Candidate,male,7,1,385
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But here is the issue. Tom Steyer made the point a moment ago. We are now spending twice as much per person on health care 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,386
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And if we want to do what every other major country on Earth does and guarantee people health care is a human right, not a privilege, you know what we have to do? We are finally going to have to stand up to the health care industry...",Candidate,male,7,1,387
Tom Steyer,NA,Can I respond to this?,Candidate,male,7,1,388
Bernie Sanders,NA,... and end hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and profiteering.,Candidate,male,7,1,389
Abby Phillip,NA,Mr. Steyer?,Moderator,female,7,1,390
Tom Steyer,NA,"I just want to emphasize what Sen. Sanders said. This is not a complicated problem. Between what Sen. Warren and Sen. Sanders said, it's clear. There are two problems. We're spending way too much because corporations own the system and we're not negotiating against those corporations.",Candidate,male,7,1,391
Tom Steyer,NA,And we've given tax cuts to the richest Americans and the biggest corporations for decades. That's all this is. We have corporations who are having their way with the American people and people are suffering.,Candidate,male,7,1,392
Tom Steyer,NA,"Sen. Warren is right. This is cruelty for money. In order to break this, we're going to have to break the corporate stranglehold and solve both the tax and the negotiating problem. That's why I'm for term limits. We need to redo Washington, D.C., and...",Candidate,male,7,1,393
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,7,1,394
Tom Steyer,NA,... actually take back the government from the corporations who've bought it.,Candidate,male,7,1,395
Abby Phillip,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Vice President Biden?",Moderator,female,7,1,396
Joe Biden,NA,"I would argue that the biggest breakthrough in recent time was us being able to do in our administration what five — five Democratic presidents couldn't get done, and that is pass Obamacare. It was a big deal.",Candidate,male,7,1,397
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, I would argue that the way you control drug prices is you limit what they can charge for those prices. You don't have to pay the price. Limit what they can charge. If, in fact, they charge more than we set the price for, they can — they can, in fact — we can — people can import from abroad, assuming that it is — it is — it is safe.",Candidate,male,7,1,398
Joe Biden,NA,"We, in fact — it's only yellow, Wolf, OK? 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't like it, or the employer gets rid of it, they can buy into a Medicare plan in the Biden plan.",Candidate,male,7,1,399
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Let'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's about $60 billion more than they paid a decade ago.",Moderator,male,7,1,400
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Warren, you'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 — for the government to manufacture drugs, especially when public trust in government is near historic lows?",Moderator,male,7,1,401
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, let's do this both ways. What I also have said is, I'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,402
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We already have the legal authority with the president to do that. The president just hasn't picked up and used it. I will lower the price of EpiPens, of HIV-AIDS drugs. That's going to bring a lot of relief to a lot of families immediately.",Candidate,female,7,1,403
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But, you know, there are a whole lot of drugs, about 90 percent of drugs, that are not under patent. They'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,404
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So my view is, let's give them a little competition. The government lets contracts for all kind of things. They let contracts to build buildings. They let contracts to build military weapons. Let's let the contracts out. Put the contracts out so that we can put more generic drugs out there and drive down those prices.",Candidate,female,7,1,405
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This is a way to make markets work, not to try to move away from the market. You don'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,406
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, do you believe the government should be manufacturing drugs?",Moderator,male,7,1,407
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I am open to looking at it, but I would try these things first. Number one, I mention the Medicare negotiation. Number two, I have a plan, 137 things I've found that a president can do herself in the first 100 days without Congress — that are legal.",Candidate,female,7,1,408
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,409
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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 have not known what they were voting for. But we got that.,Candidate,female,7,1,410
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,411
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I now have an actual bill with Sen. 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.",Candidate,female,7,1,412
Amy Klobuchar,NA,The issue here is that there are two pharma lobbyists for every member of the Congress.,Candidate,female,7,1,413
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,7,1,414
Amy Klobuchar,NA,They think they own Washington. They don't own me.,Candidate,female,7,1,415
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,416
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And as president, I will get this done.",Candidate,female,7,1,417
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"We're going to turn now to childcare, a huge expense for many new families and a problem that's especially acute in rural Iowa. We have another question for an Iowa Democratic voter.",Moderator,female,7,1,418
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, this is for you. Tiffany from Clive writes, 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'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've seen in Iowa over the last few years. How will you prioritize accessing quality, affordable child care in your first 100 days in office?",Moderator,female,7,1,419
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It makes no sense for childcare to cost two-thirds of somebody's income. We've to drive it to 7 percent or below, and zero for those families who are living in poverty.",Candidate,male,7,1,420
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But this is happening to folks at every level of the income spectrum. I meet professionals who sometimes say that they'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't be afraid to put federal dollars into making that a reality.",Candidate,male,7,1,421
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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 writ large. We can do that.",Candidate,male,7,1,422
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And until we do, this will be one of the biggest drivers of the gender pay gap. Because when somebody like 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,423
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. 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?",Moderator,female,7,1,424
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No, actually, my plan is universal childcare for everyone. It just has some people adding a small payment.",Candidate,female,7,1,425
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But understand this about the plan. I'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't work.",Candidate,female,7,1,426
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"If I hadn'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's generation get knocked off the track and don't get back on, how many mamas and daddies today are getting knocked off the track and never get back on.",Candidate,female,7,1,427
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 3-year-old and 4-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's an investment in our babies. That's an investment in their mamas and their daddies. And it's an investment in our teachers and in our economy.",Candidate,female,7,1,428
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. Sanders, will your...",Moderator,female,7,1,429
Brianne Pfannenstiel,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,430
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It's what we need to do.,Candidate,female,7,1,431
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,... universal childcare program be free for everyone regardless of income?,Moderator,female,7,1,432
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Yeah. Let me pick up on this childcare thing. Every psychologist in the world knows zero through 4 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's workers.",Candidate,male,7,1,433
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We need to fundamentally change priorities in America. We should not be one of a few countries that does not have universal high-quality affordable childcare. We should not be one of the only major countries not to guarantee health care 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 tell the moms and dads in this country we cannot have high-quality affordable childcare.",Candidate,male,7,1,434
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden, I'm coming to you now.",Moderator,female,7,1,435
Bernie Sanders,NA,That is wrong.,Candidate,male,7,1,436
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"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?",Moderator,female,7,1,437
Joe Biden,NA,"There should be free universal infant care, but here's the deal. You know, I was a single parent, too. When my wife and daughter were killed, my two boys I had to raise. I was a senator, a young senator. I just hadn't been sworn in yet. And I was making $42,000 a year.",Candidate,male,7,1,438
Joe Biden,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,439
Joe Biden,NA,"And that's why there are several things we do. When I triple the amount of money for Title I schools, every child, 3, 4, and 5 years old, will, in fact, have full schooling. They'll go to school and after-school programs, which will release some of the burden.",Candidate,male,7,1,440
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, I think we should have an $8,000 tax credit which would put 7 million women back to work that 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,441
Joe Biden,NA,"But Bernie'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'm not going to go over like everybody.",Candidate,male,7,1,442
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,443
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg — Mayor Buttigieg, higher education is another huge expense for families. You oppose free public college for all because you don't want to make it, quote, ""free for the kids of millionaires."" 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?",Moderator,female,7,1,444
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, it's simple. We expect and hope for everyone to get through 12th grade. It's not the same for college. Now, again, I don't want cost ever to be a barrier to somebody seeking to attend college. And under my plan, it won't be.",Candidate,male,7,1,445
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"As a matter of fact, for the first 80 percent of Americans by income, it is free at public colleges. But if you're in that top income bracket, don'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,446
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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't come up very much tonight but deserves a lot of attention, poverty.",Candidate,male,7,1,447
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You know, the Poor People'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're supposed to talk middle class, they know there's no scripture that says as you've done unto the middle class, so you've done unto me.",Candidate,male,7,1,448
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We've got to be making sure that we target our tax dollars where they will make the biggest difference. And I don't think subsidizing the children of millionaires and billionaires to pay absolutely zero in tuition at public colleges is the best use of those scarce taxpayer dollars.,Candidate,male,7,1,449
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Sen. Warren?,Moderator,female,7,1,450
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,451
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"If he wants to send his kid to public university, then I'm OK 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's how we build an economy and, for those who want to talk about it, bring down the national debt.",Candidate,female,7,1,452
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You do universal childcare and you've 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've got a lot of people who...",Candidate,female,7,1,453
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,454
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Sen. Klobuchar?",Moderator,female,7,1,455
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yeah, you know, I 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't actually thinking big enough.",Candidate,female,7,1,456
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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 health care workers that we don'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're going to have over 70,000 openings for electricians.",Candidate,female,7,1,457
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We're not going to have a shortage of MBAs. We'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 through 12. It should go into free one- and two-year degrees, like my dad got, like my sister got.",Candidate,female,7,1,458
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,459
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And then we should double the Pell grants, because we're going to need four-year degrees...",Candidate,female,7,1,460
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar. Mr. Steyer...",Moderator,female,7,1,461
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... so the money goes where it should go, instead of to rich kids going to college.",Candidate,female,7,1,462
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mr. Steyer, as a billionaire, should your children have been entitled to free public college?",Moderator,female,7,1,463
Tom Steyer,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,464
Tom Steyer,NA,"But I want to go beyond this and go back to this question about education, because we're talking a lot about college. But, in fact, if you talk about the Poor People's Campaign, you have to realize that for the youngest kids, they are getting an education that's relative to the taxes in their neighborhoods. We need to redistribute money so every kid has a chance, so we'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,465
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"We'll be back with more from CNN's Democratic presidential debate, live from Des Moines, Iowa. Stay right here.",Moderator,male,7,1,466
Wolf Blitzer,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,7,1,467
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Welcome back to CNN's Democratic presidential debate. We're live in Des Moines, Iowa.",Moderator,male,7,1,468
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Tomorrow, the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, will send articles of impeachment against President Trump to the United States Senate, launching the third trial of a U.S. president. The Republican-led Senate has signaled that it is likely to acquit him.",Moderator,male,7,1,469
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Vice President Biden, if you're the nominee, is it going to be harder to run against President Trump if he's been acquitted and able to claim vindication, especially after what he's said about your family?",Moderator,male,7,1,470
Joe Biden,NA,"It's irrelevant. There's no — there's no choice but to — for Nancy Pelosi and the House to move. He has, in fact, committed impeachable offenses. Whether the Senate makes that judgment or not, it's for them to decide.",Candidate,male,7,1,471
Joe Biden,NA,"But — and, by the way, I'm told that, you know, we — that I don't — I say we have to unite the country and it'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've got gone after — savaged my surviving son, gone after me, told lies that your networks and others won't even carry on television because they're flat-out lies.",Candidate,male,7,1,472
Joe Biden,NA,"And I did my job. The question is whether or not he did his job. And he hasn't done his job. And so it doesn't really matter whether or not he's gone after me. I've got to be in a position that I think of the American people. I can't hold a grudge. I have to be able to not only fight, but also heal.",Candidate,male,7,1,473
Joe Biden,NA,"And as president of the United States, that's what I will attempt to do, notwithstanding that — we're going to be more division after he's defeated by me this next time.",Candidate,male,7,1,474
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, you're going to be a juror in the trial in the Senate that's about to start. Do you worry President Trump will be emboldened by acquittal?",Moderator,male,7,1,475
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"No. We have a constitutional duty to do — to perform here. And when I look at what the issue is, it's whether or not we're going to be able to have witnesses. We've asked for only four people as witnesses. And if our Republican colleagues won'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't want to be ruled by a king.",Candidate,female,7,1,476
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I think the best way to think about this is trial and what we'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,477
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Everyone that was afraid, they were afraid of being blacklisted, Joseph Welch, he stood up and looked at McCarthy and said, have you no sense of decency, sir? Have you no sense of decency. This is a decency check on our government. This is a patriotism check. Not only is this trial that...",Candidate,female,7,1,478
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,7,1,479
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... but also this election. And no matter if you agree with everyone here on the stage, I say this...",Candidate,female,7,1,480
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,7,1,481
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... to Americans, you know this is a decency check on this president.",Candidate,female,7,1,482
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Mr. Steyer, you have spent millions and millions of dollars telling the American people that President Trump deserves to be impeached. Will it have been worth if it he has been impeached but not removed from office?",Moderator,male,7,1,483
Tom Steyer,NA,"Well, Wolf, actually what I have done is to organize a petition drive of 8.5 million Americans to sign and say this president deserves to be impeached and removed from office. And those 8.5 million people have called their congresspeople, have emailed their congresspeople, and have actually dragged Washington, D.C., to see that in fact this is a question of right and wrong and not of political expediency.",Candidate,male,7,1,484
Tom Steyer,NA,"So if you ask me whether standing up for what'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't worth it, then you don't share the idea that I do about what America is about.",Candidate,male,7,1,485
Tom Steyer,NA,"Standing up for what's right is always worth it, Wolf. And I will never back down from that.",Candidate,male,7,1,486
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,487
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Sen. 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're making your closing pitch to voters here?",Moderator,male,7,1,488
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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. We have an impeachment trial. I will be there because it is my responsibility.",Candidate,female,7,1,489
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 is what lies at 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 helping Ukraine defend against Russia.",Candidate,female,7,1,490
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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'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's why we're here.",Candidate,female,7,1,491
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Let's turn now to the climate crisis. Here in Iowa parts of the state remain under water after record-breaking flooding began last spring, racking up an estimated $2 billion in damages. Today many Iowans are still displaced from their homes.",Moderator,female,7,1,492
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you have talked about helping people move from areas at high risk of flooding. But what do you do about farms and factories that simply can't be moved?",Moderator,female,7,1,493
Pete Buttigieg,NA,That's why we have to fight climate change with such urgency. Climate change has come to America from coast to coast. Seeing it in Iowa. We have seen it in historic floods in my community. I had to activate our emergency operation center for a once-in-a-millennium flood. Then two years later had to do the same thing.,Candidate,male,7,1,494
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"In Australia there are literally tornadoes made of fire taking place. This is no longer theoretical and this is no longer off in the future. We have got to act, yes, to adapt, to make sure communities are more resilient, to make sure our economy is ready for the consequences that are going to happen one way or the other.",Candidate,male,7,1,495
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But we also have to ensure that we don't allow this to get any worse. And if we get 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're talking about farmers or industrial workers in my community, and make clear that we need to enlist them...",Candidate,male,7,1,496
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"But, Mayor Buttigieg...",Moderator,female,7,1,497
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... in the national project to do something about it.,Candidate,male,7,1,498
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"... to clarify, what do you do about farms and factories that cannot be relocated?",Moderator,female,7,1,499
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We are going to have to use federal 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 disproportionately 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,500
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,7,1,501
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mr. Steyer, what's your response?",Moderator,female,7,1,502
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, what you're talking about is what's called managed retreat. It's basically saying we're going to have to move things because this crisis is out of control. And it's unbelievably expensive. And of course we'll come to the rescue of Americans who are in trouble.",Candidate,male,7,1,503
Tom Steyer,NA,But this is why climate is my number one priority. And I'm still shocked that I'm the only person on this stage who will say this. I would declare a state of emergency on day one on climate.,Candidate,male,7,1,504
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,505
Tom Steyer,NA,"I would do it from the standpoint of environmental justice and make sure we go to the black and brown communities where you can't breathe the air or drink the water that comes out of the tap safely. But I also know this, we're going to create millions of good-paying union jobs across this country. It's going to be the biggest job program in American history.",Candidate,male,7,1,506
Tom Steyer,NA,"So I know we have to do it. I know we can do it. And I know that we can 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're going to have to do it and we're going to have to make the whole world come along with us. And it's going to have to be...",Candidate,male,7,1,507
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Mr. Steyer...,Moderator,female,7,1,508
Tom Steyer,NA,... priority one.,Candidate,male,7,1,509
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Mr. Steyer, to clarify, you say you'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?",Moderator,female,7,1,510
Tom Steyer,NA,"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'm alive. And for 12 years I have been fighting the climate crisis.",Candidate,male,7,1,511
Tom Steyer,NA,"I have beat oil companies in terms of clean air laws. I have 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,512
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,7,1,513
Tom Steyer,NA,"So actually, yes, I am the person here who has the chops and the history that says, I'll make it priority one, because I have been doing it for a long time.",Candidate,male,7,1,514
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,7,1,515
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. Warren, President Trump is rolling back major environmental rules to allow pipeline 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't overturn?",Moderator,female,7,1,516
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 will help us get in the right directions. I'll bring in the farmers. Farmers can be part of the climate solution.",Candidate,female,7,1,517
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We should see this 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.",Candidate,female,7,1,518
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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 health care, on all of the issues that matter to us.",Candidate,female,7,1,519
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Warren.",Moderator,female,7,1,520
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, some of your competitors on this stage have called for an all-out ban on fracking. You haven't. Why not?",Moderator,female,7,1,521
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, first of all, I would note that I have 100 percent 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.",Candidate,female,7,1,522
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And one thing that hasn'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,523
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"When it comes to the issue of fracking, I actually see natural gas as a transition fuel. It's a transition fuel to where we get to carbon neutral.",Candidate,female,7,1,524
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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 to a 45 percent reduction.",Candidate,female,7,1,525
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I want to add one thing that no one'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...",Candidate,female,7,1,526
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,527
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... then we have to make sure the money goes back to the people...,Candidate,female,7,1,528
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,I want to...,Moderator,female,7,1,529
Brianne Pfannenstiel,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,530
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,... into this conversation.,Moderator,female,7,1,531
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... that will be hurt by it.,Candidate,female,7,1,532
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Thank you, Sen. Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,7,1,533
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... to help with their energy bills and to bring jobs to areas that will lose jobs.,Candidate,female,7,1,534
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,Sen. Sanders?,Moderator,female,7,1,535
Bernie Sanders,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,7,1,536
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,537
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,538
Bernie Sanders,NA,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.,Candidate,male,7,1,539
Bernie Sanders,NA,This is of course a national crisis. I introduced legislation to indicate it's a national 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's what the Green New Deal does. That's what my legislation does. And that is what we have to do.,Candidate,male,7,1,540
Brianne Pfannenstiel,NA,"Vice President Biden, your response?",Moderator,female,7,1,541
Joe Biden,NA,"My response is, back in 1986, I introduced the first climate change bill — and check PolitiFacts (sic); they said it was a game-changer. I'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 — to solar and wind energy than ever has occurred in the history of America.",Candidate,male,7,1,542
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, what we have to do is we have to act right away. And the way we act right away is, immediately if I'm elected president, I'll reinstate all the mileage standards that existed in our administration which were taken down. That's 12 billion gallons of gasoline — barrels of gasoline to be saved immediately.",Candidate,male,7,1,543
Joe Biden,NA,"And with regard to those folks who in fact are going to be victimized by what's already happened, we should be investing in infrastructure that raises roads, makes sure that we're in a position where we have — that every new highway built is a green highway, having 550,000 charging stations.",Candidate,male,7,1,544
Joe Biden,NA,"We can create — and this is where I agree with Tom — we can create millions of good-paying jobs. We're the only country in the world that's ever taken great crisis and turned it into 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 — there's more to say, but I know my time is...",Candidate,male,7,1,545
Abby Phillip,NA,A key part of your mission in this primary is going to be to prove to Democratic voters that you're strong enough to take on Donald Trump. Each of you face unique challenges in doing that.,Moderator,female,7,1,546
Abby Phillip,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you say you've had trouble earning the support of black voters because you're unknown. But you've been campaigning for a year now and polling shows you with next to no black support, support that you'll need in order to beat Donald Trump. Is it possible that black voters have gotten to know you and have simply decided to choose another candidate?",Moderator,female,7,1,547
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The black voters who know me best are supporting me. It's why I have the most support in South Bend. It's why, among elected black officials in my community who have gotten into this race, by far most of them are supporting me.",Candidate,male,7,1,548
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And now, nationally, I am proud that my campaign is 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,549
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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'm perfect. It's because of the work that we have done facing some of the toughest issues that communities can, not from the luxury of — of a debate or a television panel or a committee room but on the ground, issues from poverty to justice in policing.",Candidate,male,7,1,550
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And I'm proud to say we have 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,551
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,552
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Sanders, you call yourself a Democratic Socialist. But more than two-thirds of voters say they are not enthusiastic about voting for a socialist. Doesn't that put your chances of beating Donald Trump at risk?",Moderator,female,7,1,553
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,554
Bernie Sanders,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,555
Bernie Sanders,NA,"My Democratic Socialism says health care is a human right. We're going to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free. We'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,556
Abby Phillip,NA,"Mr. Steyer, you've spent more than $100 million of your own dollars on television ads. How do you convince voters that you're more than just your money?",Moderator,female,7,1,557
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, we know how Donald Trump is going to run for president. He's going to run on the economy. He's already told Americans last month in Florida, ""You don't like me and I don't like you, but you're all going to vote for me because the Democrats are going to destroy the economy in 15 minutes if they get in control.""",Candidate,male,7,1,558
Tom Steyer,NA,So let's be clear. I started a business by myself in one room. I didn'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.,Candidate,male,7,1,559
Tom Steyer,NA,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's a fake there and a fraud.,Candidate,male,7,1,560
Tom Steyer,NA,"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'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,561
Abby Phillip,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,female,7,1,562
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You demoted me. I was actually an associate, but that's OK.",Candidate,male,7,1,563
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,564
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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.",Candidate,male,7,1,565
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"When, at the beginning of the decade, I took office, we were described as a dying city. I'm ready to take on Donald Trump because, when he gets to the tough talk and the chest-thumping, he'll have to stand next to an American war veteran and explain how he pretended bone spurs made him ineligible to serve.",Candidate,male,7,1,566
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And if — and if he keeps trying...,Candidate,male,7,1,567
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,568
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... to use religion...,Candidate,male,7,1,569
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,570
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If a guy like Donald Trump keeps trying to use religion to somehow recruit Christianity into the GOP, 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...",Candidate,male,7,1,571
Abby Phillip,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,572
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... on everything.,Candidate,male,7,1,573
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,574
Abby Phillip,NA,Sen. Klobuchar...,Moderator,female,7,1,575
Abby Phillip,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,7,1,576
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Klobuchar, you're pitching yourself as a practical candidate who can get things done. And even tonight you've dismissed some of the ideas that are offered in this primary as pipe-dreams. How are you going to inspire Democratic voters with a message of pragmatism?",Moderator,female,7,1,577
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,578
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.""",Candidate,female,7,1,579
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I'm going to be able to look at him and say, ""You've treated these workers and farmers like poker chips. For me, these are my friends and these are my neighbors.""",Candidate,female,7,1,580
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I'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's how you built your fortune."" And what I'm going to say is this. ""My grandpa worked 1,500 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's my family trust. And when you have been given an opportunity like that, you go into the world not with a sense of entitlement, Donald — Donald Trump, but with a sense of obligation.""",Candidate,female,7,1,581
Abby Phillip,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,7,1,582
Abby Phillip,NA,"Sen. Warren, what do you say to voters who like your policies but they're worried they will scare away swing voters you need to win this race in November?",Moderator,female,7,1,583
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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's a whole lot we agree on.",Candidate,female,7,1,584
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, my brother is just furious over Chevron and Eli Lilly and Amazon, that are giant corporations making billions of dollars in tax — make billions of dollars in profits and pay nothing in taxes.",Candidate,female,7,1,585
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"My brother said, ""I don'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.""",Candidate,female,7,1,586
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"They understand that we have an America right now that's working great for those at the top; it'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's working great for the politicians that are taking the money; it's working great for the lobbyists; it's working great for the corporate executives, it's just not working for everyone else.",Candidate,female,7,1,587
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I'm building the grassroots movement, leading the fight. We're going to make this America work for everyone else. That is how we're going to beat Donald Trump.",Candidate,female,7,1,588
Abby Phillip,NA,"Vice President Biden, the eventual nominee will face President Trump, who has no problem mocking people, using insulting nicknames, slinging mud and telling lies. The debate against him will make tonight's debate look like child's play.",Moderator,female,7,1,589
Abby Phillip,NA,Are you prepared for that?,Moderator,female,7,1,590
Joe Biden,NA,"I am prepared for that. Look, I've been the object of his affection now more than anybody else on this stage.",Candidate,male,7,1,591
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,592
Joe Biden,NA,"I've taken all the hits he can deliver, and I'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,593
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, working-class people, where I come from, in Pennsylvania and the places I come from Delaware, I have great support.",Candidate,male,7,1,594
Joe Biden,NA,"I have support across the board, and I'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 neighbors I come from, they're in real trouble, working-class people and middle-class people.",Candidate,male,7,1,595
Joe Biden,NA,"When the middle class does well, the working class has a way up and the wealthy do well. But what's happening now? They're being clobbered. They're being killed. They now have a situation where if they — the vast majority believe their children will never reach the stage that they've — they've reached in economic security.",Candidate,male,7,1,596
Joe Biden,NA,"We — I love that debate because the American public is getting clobbered. The wealthy are the only ones doing well, period. I'm looking forward to the economic debate.",Candidate,male,7,1,597
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"We'll be right back with more from CNN's Democratic presidential debate, live from Des Moines, Iowa.",Moderator,male,7,1,598
Wolf Blitzer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,7,1,599
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Stay right here.,Moderator,male,7,1,600
Wolf Blitzer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,7,1,601
Wolf Blitzer,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,7,1,602
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"Welcome back to CNN's Democratic presidential debate, live from Des Moines, Iowa. Time now for closing statements. You each have one minute. Sen. Klobuchar, let's begin with you.",Moderator,male,7,1,603
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Donald Trump thinks this is all about him. I think it's about you. It's not about his resorts or his tweets or even his ego. It is about your health care. It is about your schools. It is about your lives and your future.,Candidate,female,7,1,604
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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've led the ticket. I have passed more bills as the lead Democrat than anyone who's in Congress that's running for president. I believe that we need a president that's going to look out for you.",Candidate,female,7,1,605
Amy Klobuchar,NA,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. What is hard is bringing people together and finding common ground instead of scorched earth. What is hard is the work of governing.,Candidate,female,7,1,606
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,607
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Mr. Steyer?,Moderator,male,7,1,608
Tom Steyer,NA,"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'm concerned, the American people are my teammates.",Candidate,male,7,1,609
Tom Steyer,NA,"And if there'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'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,610
Tom Steyer,NA,"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'm — if I'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,611
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,7,1,612
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"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 dust bin of history, too. But 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.",Candidate,male,7,1,613
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If you are watching this at home and you are exhausted by the spectacle of division and dysfunction, I'm asking you to join me to help turn the page on our politics. You're seeing the president boast about the Dow Jones, wondering whether any of that will ever get to your kitchen table. Join me.",Candidate,male,7,1,614
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If you're a voter of color feeling taken for granted by politics as usual, join me. If you'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.",Candidate,male,7,1,615
Pete Buttigieg,NA,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'm asking you to caucus for me on February 3rd. And I hope that you'll go to peteforamerica.com and join me in this effort.,Candidate,male,7,1,616
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Sen. Warren?,Moderator,male,7,1,617
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So much is broken in this country. I sat here in the break and just made notes about many of the things we didn'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 transwomen, particularly transwomen 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.",Candidate,female,7,1,618
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And yet I come here tonight with a heart filled with hope. And it'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.",Candidate,female,7,1,619
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"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.",Candidate,female,7,1,620
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,7,1,621
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Sen. Sanders?,Moderator,male,7,1,622
Bernie Sanders,NA,"It's been a good debate, but we haven'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 on $9, $10 bucks an hour?",Candidate,male,7,1,623
Bernie Sanders,NA,"How does it happen that when the top 1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 92 percent, half a million people are sleeping out on the streets tonight? How does it happen that in this great country we are the only major nation not to guarantee health care to all? How does it happen that we have a childcare system which is dysfunctional, a criminal justice system which is broken and racist, an immigration system that needs reform?",Candidate,male,7,1,624
Bernie Sanders,NA,"This is the moment when we have got to think big, not small. This is the moment when we have got to have the courage to take on the 1 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 1 percent. Thank you.",Candidate,male,7,1,625
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,626
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,male,7,1,627
Joe Biden,NA,"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's not who we are as a nation.",Candidate,male,7,1,628
Joe Biden,NA,"Everyone in this country is entitled to be treated with respect and dignity. Every single, solitary person has to have in a position that, in fact, we treat them with decency. It's about fundamental basic decency.",Candidate,male,7,1,629
Joe Biden,NA,"We in the United States of America can put up with — we can overcome four years of Donald Trump, but eight years of Donald Trump will be an absolute disaster and fundamentally change this nation.",Candidate,male,7,1,630
Joe Biden,NA,"We have to restore America's soul, as I'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. We, in fact, have to regain the respect of the world in order to be able to change things.",Candidate,male,7,1,631
Joe Biden,NA,"Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a position right now where we have to remember who we are: This is the United States of America. There is not a single thing beyond our capacity to do if we do it together. Let's go do it.",Candidate,male,7,1,632
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,7,1,633
Wolf Blitzer,NA,"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.",Moderator,male,7,1,634
Wolf Blitzer,NA,Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo pick up our coverage right now.,Moderator,male,7,1,635
David Muir,NA,"... 45 seconds for a rebuttal or response as directed by one of the moderators. Candidates will each see green and yellow lights indicating how much time they have remaining, and when time is up, the light will turn red. So here now, the New Hampshire Democratic debate.",Moderator,male,8,1,1
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Candidates, welcome. Vice President Biden, the first question is for you. In the last few days, you've been saying that Democrats will be taking too big a risk if they nominate Senator Sanders or Mayor Buttigieg, but they came out on top in Iowa. What risks did the Iowa Democrats miss?",Moderator,male,8,1,2
Joe Biden,NA,"Oh, they didn't miss anything. It's a long race. I took a hit in Iowa and I'll probably take a hit here. Traditionally Bernie won by 20 points last time. And usually it's the neighboring senators that do well. But no matter what, I'm still in this for the same reason, we have to restore the soul of this country, bring back the middle class and make sure we bring people together. And so it's a simple proposition. It doesn't matter whether it's this one or the next. I've always viewed the first four encounters, two primaries, and two caucuses as the starting point. And so that's how I view it.",Candidate,male,8,1,3
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Why are Senator Sanders and Mayor Buttigieg too big a risk for Democrats?,Moderator,male,8,1,4
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, you know that with regard to Senator Sanders, the President wants very much to sic a label on every candidate. We're going to not only have to win this time, we have to bring along the United States Senate. And Bernie's labeled himself, not me, a democratic socialist. I think that's the label that the President's going to lay on everyone running with Bernie if he's a nominee. And a Mayor Buttigieg is a great guy and a real patriot. He's a mayor of a small city, who has done some good things but has not demonstrated he has the ability to, and we'll soon find out, to get a broad scope of support across the spectrum, including African Americans and Latinos.",Candidate,male,8,1,5
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Sanders, let me give you the chance to respond first. President Trump certainly thinks this label socialism will work. At the State of the Union, he said, ""Socialism destroys nations. He's never going to let socialism destroy American healthcare."" And before the Super Bowl, he joked was Sean Hannity about your honeymoon in Moscow. Those hits are going to keep coming if you're the nominee. Why shouldn't Democrats be worried?",Moderator,male,8,1,6
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Because Donald Trump lies all the time. It doesn't matter what Donald Trump says, it's a sad state of affairs, it really is. He will say terrible things about Joe, he has [inaudible] ugly, disgusting things about Elizabeth, about Amy, about anybody else who was up here. But I think George, that at the end of the day, the way we defeat Donald Trump and everybody up here by the way, is united. No matter who wins this damn thing, we're all going to stand together to defeat Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,8,1,7
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I believe that the way we beat Trump is by having the largest voter turnout in the history of this country. And that is appealing to working class people, who have given up on the political process because they don't believe that anybody is hearing their pain, perceiving that pain, feeling their pain. And we got to bring young people into the political process. I am very proud that in Iowa we won the popular vote by 6,000 votes. What was most significant, most significant, is we increased voter turnout for young people under 29 by over 30%. If we do that nationally, we're going to defeat Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,8,1,8
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"But Senator, let me follow up there and then we'll move on. But back in Iowa, the turn out this year was about the same as it was in 2016. Far below what it was in 2008 when President Obama won.",Moderator,male,8,1,9
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That's true. And that's the disappointment and I think all of us probably could have done a better job in bringing out our supporters. But if there is a good spot, a good aspect about that campaign, is that young people came out in higher numbers than they did during Obama's historic 2008 campaign. And if that happens nationally, we're going to win and defeat Trump.",Candidate,male,8,1,10
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Before I move on to Mayor Buttigieg, let me just ask, is anyone else on the stage concerned about having a democratic socialist at the top of the Democratic ticket?",Moderator,male,8,1,11
Bernie Sanders,NA,I'm not.,Candidate,male,8,1,12
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Klobuchar.,Moderator,male,8,1,13
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Bernie and I work together all the time. But I think we are not going to be able to out divide the divider in chief. And I think we need someone to head up this ticket that actually brings people with her, instead of shutting them out. And when I look at a state like New Hampshire that had a very, very close election last time in 2016, I see a state that, yes, has a high voter turnout, fired-up Democrats just like my state, which by the way, Bernie, when I led the ticket, had the highest voter turnout of any state in the country. But I add to that being able to bring in independents like you have in this state as well as moderate Republicans. Because there are so many of them out there that are looking for a candidate. And truthfully, Donald Trump's worst nightmare is a candidate that will bring people in from the middle. The people that are tired of the noise and the nonsense. And they are tired of the tweets and the mean stuff and they are looking for someone else. And I would submit that that is me.",Candidate,female,8,1,14
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mr. Steyer, is socialism [inaudible]",Moderator,male,8,1,15
Tom Steyer,NA,"I don't think there's any question, George, that after this week there's a real threat that Donald Trump can get reelected. And I don't think there's any question, but that the only way that we're going to beat him actually is the way that Bernie Sanders said, which is to get turnout across the spectrum of democratic voters. And that means we're going to have to appeal across the spectrum, moderates, progressives and every group. So unless you can appeal to the diverse parts of the Democratic Party, including specifically the black community, including specifically Latinos. If you can't do that, then we can't beat Donald Trump in November and we can't choose a candidate who can't do that. And I am doing that right now with 24% of blacks down in South Carolina, with high numbers in Nevada. That's what it's going to take is turnout, but turnout across the spectrum of democratic voters. Someone who can pull, as Amy said, everything together in every single way we're divided.",Candidate,male,8,1,16
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Andrew Yang and Senator Warren then Mayor Buttigieg.,Moderator,male,8,1,17
Andrew Yang,NA,"First, let me say America, it's great to be back on the debate stage. Thank you. I'm so excited, I want to give every American $1,000 a month. George, the entire capitalism, socialism dichotomy is completely out of date and the fact is when people were talking about these economic models, they did not foresee technology getting stronger, more powerful, capable of doing the work of thousands of humans in the blink of an eye. We have record high corporate profits in this country right now, but people in New Hampshire know, what else are at record highs? Mental illness, stress, debt, substance abuse, overdoses, suicides. What we have to do is actually get the markets working to improve our family's way of life. Instead of following GDP and corporate profits off a cliff, we should be measuring our own health and wellness, life expectancy, mental health and freedom from substance abuse, clean air, and clean water, how our kids are doing. The way forward is a new human centered version of capitalism that actually uses the markets to improve our family's lives.",Candidate,male,8,1,18
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Warren, you reportedly said back in 2018, ""I'm a capitalist to my bones."" Senator Sanders says, ""I'm not."" Is that your biggest difference with Senator Sanders?",Moderator,male,8,1,19
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Oh, Bernie and I have been friends for a long time and we have a lot of things in common and we can have a lot of things that we differ on. But there's fundamental question about how we bring our party together. We have to think about it in new ways. People across this country, whether they're Democrats, independents, or Republicans, understand that we've got a government right now that works great for those at the top. Works great for giant drug companies, just not for people trying to get a prescription filled. Works great for oil companies that want to drill everywhere, just not for the rest of us who see climate change bearing down upon us. When you see a government that works great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and make big campaign donations and it's not working so great for everyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple, and we need to call it out for what it is. Corruption, and that's what we can run on. We bring our party together.",Candidate,female,8,1,20
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It's an issue we can all agree on and fight for to end the corruption. We're the Democrats, we should be the party on the side of hardworking people and we can bring in independents and Republicans on that. They hate the corruption as well. My anti-corruption plan, good for Republicans and Democrats. That's not only how we bring our party together. That's how we're going to win in November.",Candidate,female,8,1,21
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, early in the campaign you said that the word socialism has lost its power, it's mostly lost its meaning. Do you believe that or worry it could be a potent weapon in a general election?",Moderator,male,8,1,22
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'm not interested in the labels. I'm not interested in what Republicans are going to say. I'm interested in the style of politics that we need to put forward to actually, finally turn the page. In order to win, yes, but also in order to govern. This is a moment where the next president is going to face challenges the likes of which we hadn't even thought of a few years or decades ago. And politically, we're facing a fundamentally new problem with President Donald Trump. So the biggest risk we could take at a time like this would be to go up against that fundamentally new challenge by trying to fall back on the familiar. Or trying to unite this country at a moment when we need that kind of unification, when our nominee is dividing people with a politics that says, if you don't go all the way to the edge, it doesn't count. A politics that says, it's my way or the highway.",Candidate,male,8,1,23
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Are you talking about Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,8,1,24
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yes. Because we've got to bring as many people as we can into this process. Look, all of us have been saying that we can build the majority that it's going to take in order to win. But the process of actually proving it is now underway. And now it comes to New Hampshire, a state that thinks for itself, is not going to be told what to do by anyone and that has a very independent streak that is going to respond to those who are reaching out in a politics of addition and inclusion and belonging. Not one that beats people over the head and says they shouldn't even be on their side if we don't agree 100% of the time.",Candidate,male,8,1,25
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Sanders, your response.",Moderator,male,8,1,26
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Needless to say, I've never said that, but let me tell you what I do say. The way you bring people together is by presenting an agenda that works for the working people of this country, not for the billionaire class. The way you bring people together, Republicans, independents, Democrats, progressives, conservatives, you raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. The way you bring people together is to make it clear that we're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations, they're going to start paying their fair share of taxes. That's what the American people want. And I'll tell you something else, the way you bring people together is by ending the international disgrace of this country being the only major nation on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right. And you bring people together by telling the pharmaceutical industry they're not going to charge us 10 times more for the same prescription drugs as the people in Canada that borders on New Hampshire. That's how you bring people together and you defeat Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,8,1,27
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you just heard Senator Sanders make healthcare the center of his piece. Do you think his healthcare plan can bring people together?",Moderator,male,8,1,28
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I think there's a better way. It's true, the American people are ready. There's a historic majority right now, even broader than what was available to President Obama a decade ago. There is now a majority ready to act to make sure there is no such thing as an uninsured American and no such thing as an unaffordable prescription. Just so long as we don't command people to accept a public plan if they don't want to. That's the idea of Medicare for All Who Want It. My point is, what I am offering is campaigning for all of these things that America wants. Yes, higher wages, doubling the rate of unionization in this country, making corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share, delivering healthcare and college affordability. But also offering a way to do these game changing transformations that will actually galvanize and energize, not polarize the American people. That is not only what we need in order to win, it's what we need in order to govern and actually get these things done.",Candidate,male,8,1,29
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Vice President Biden, how do you unify the country?",Moderator,male,8,1,30
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, Bernie says that you have to bring people together and we have to have Medicare for All. But Bernie says, and he says he wrote the damn thing, but he's unwilling to sell us with the damn thing's going to cost. The fact that we're in New Hampshire, very levelheaded group of people, look at the numbers. How much is it going to cost? Who's going to pay for it? It will cost more than the entire, the entire federal budget we spend now, more than entire budget. The idea middle class taxes aren't going to go up is just crazy. When they did it in Vermont, what happened? They doubled the state income tax and then had a 14% tax on withholding. And they finally did away with it. So how much is it going to cost? When you ask Bernie that, and I'll ask him again tonight sometime, and if you ask Bernie that, he says, ""Go figure, I don't know, we'll find out.""",Candidate,male,8,1,31
Joe Biden,NA,"I think that was on CBS. He said, "" We'll find out."" Or something to that effect. Imagine you're going to unite the country walking into the Congress, ""I got this bill. It's going to require Medicare for everybody. I can't tell you how much it's going to cost. We'll find out later and it's likely to be double whatever ... everything we spent in the federal government."" Who do you think is going to get that passed? I busted my neck getting Obamacare passed, getting every Democratic vote. I know how hard it is.",Candidate,male,8,1,32
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,male,8,1,33
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, for a start, what the studies show, if we do what Joe wants, we'll be spending some $50 trillion on healthcare over the next 10 years. That's the status quo, Joe. That's what Health and Human Services says. [crosstalk] And what we have got to do Joe, and what we have got to do is understand, simple question, Joe, we are spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as do the people of any other country. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the healthcare industry last year made $100 billion in profit. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we are wasting $500 billion a year trying to administer thousands and thousands of different plans. What Medicare for All will do is save the average American substantial sums of money. Substantial, be much less expensive than your plan. And we will expand Medicare to include dental care, eyeglasses, hearing aides and home health care as well.",Candidate,male,8,1,34
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Vice President Biden, 30 second response, then Senator Klobuchar after that.",Moderator,male,8,1,35
Joe Biden,NA,30 second-,Candidate,male,8,1,36
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Yeah, 30 second-",Moderator,male,8,1,37
Joe Biden,NA,"30 second response. My proposal gives you a choice. You're going to be covered. You have Medicare if you want it, you turn [inaudible] we're going to restore all the cuts that they made in Obamacare. We're going to reduce drug prices, reduce prescription prices, reduce copays, et cetera. And it cost a lot of money, it costs $750 billion over 10 years. I tell you how I'm going to pay for it. I'm going to raise the capital gains rates, you pay capital gains and what your tax rate is. That'll pay for it, that's $800 billion. But here's the deal, the fact is that it's going to cost ... Bernie's plan costs double, double what the taxpayers are paying for every single program we spend on in the United States of America.",Candidate,male,8,1,38
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Klobuchar.,Moderator,male,8,1,39
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I keep listening to this same debate, and it is not real. It is not real, Bernie, because two thirds of the Democrats in the Senate are not on your bill and because it would kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance in four years. And let me say what else, Elizabeth wants to do it in two years. And Pete, while you have a different plan now you sent out a tweet just a few years ago that said, henceforth, forewith, indubitably, affirmatively, you are for Medicare for All for the ages. And so I would like to point out that what leadership is about is taking a position, looking at things and sticking with them. I have long believed that the way that we expand healthcare to more people and bring down premiums is by building on the Affordable Care Act, with a nonprofit public option. That is the best way to do it.",Candidate,female,8,1,40
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And practically look at this, the Affordable Care Act is now nearly 10 points more popular than the President of United States. So why would we talk about blowing it up? What we need to do is build on it. Mental health care, addiction, longterm care, those are the things that would make it better for everyone.",Candidate,female,8,1,41
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Warren and Mayor Buttigieg, you were both invoked. I want you each to respond and then go back to Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,8,1,42
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So I think we need to think about healthcare a little differently and that is, 36 million Americans last year couldn't afford to have a prescription filled and that includes people with health insurance. I want everyone in here to think about what that means. They were worried enough or sick enough that they went to a doctor, a doctor looked at it and says that's serious enough to write a prescription. They walked out and then said, it's either that or groceries. It's that or pay them rent on time. We have got to change our healthcare system. The way [no audio or video 00:18:34] Help to the most people as quickly as we can. How about we start with what a president can do, I love saying this, all by herself. On day one, I will defend the Affordable Care Act and I will use march in orders to reduce the cost of commonly used prescription drugs like insulin and HIV, AIDS, drugs and EpiPens.",Candidate,female,8,1,43
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We can start making healthcare better for Americans from the beginning, but we have to agree to do that. We are the Democrats, we are on the side of expanding healthcare. When we come up against Donald Trump, the team that has been trying to take away healthcare from millions of people, what's going to matter most is we are the people on the side of those who need healthcare across this country. That's who Democrats are.",Candidate,female,8,1,44
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, I want you to respond to that, but also take on the argument at the beginning from the Vice President, you don't have the right experience to be president.",Moderator,male,8,1,45
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Sure. Well, first of all, just to be clear, the truth is that I have been consistent throughout in my position on delivering healthcare for every American. And as to experience, I just bring a different perspective. Look, I freely admit that if you're looking for the person with the most years of Washington establishment experience under their belt, you've got your candidate, and of course it's not me. The perspective I'm bringing is that of somebody whose life has been shaped by the decisions that are made in those big white buildings in Washington, D.C. Somebody who has guided a community written off as dying just a decade ago through historic transformation. Somebody who knows what it means to be sent to war on orders that come out of the Situation Room. We need a perspective right now that will finally allow us to leave the politics of the past in the past. Turn the page and bring change to Washington before it's too late.",Candidate,male,8,1,46
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Vice President Biden, there's his answer.",Moderator,male,8,1,47
Joe Biden,NA,"The politics of the past I think were not all that bad. I wrote the Violence Against Women Act. I managed the $900 billion Recovery Act, which in fact put millions and millions of dollars into his city before he came and helped save his city. I was able to do it, I was able to pass the chemical weapons ban, arms control. And I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same sex marriage. So I don't know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad. What happened? What is it that he wants to do away with? We were just beginning.",Candidate,male,8,1,48
Joe Biden,NA,"... Happened, what is it that he wants to do away with? We were just beginning. It was just the beginning of what will be the future of moving this country beyond where it is now in significant ways, and there's ways to do that, and one of the ways to do that is to make sure you have someone who knows how to get things done, and can lead the free world at the same time.",Candidate,male,8,1,49
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg respond, and then Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,8,1,50
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Those achievements were phenomenally important, because they met the moment, but now we have to meet this moment. And this moment is different. The next president is going to face challenges from global health security, like what we're seeing coming out of China, to cybersecurity, and election security challenges that were barely thought of a few years ago. And here at home, we're seeing things like gig work, transform what it means to be a worker in America, in ways that were barely conceived of not that long ago. We cannot solve the problems before us by looking back. We have to be ready to turn the page, and change our politics before it's too late. And I'm seeing everywhere I go, not just fellow Democrats, but a striking number of independents, and, what I like to call future former Republicans ready to join in that historic American majority to turn the page.",Candidate,male,8,1,51
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Klobuchar.,Moderator,male,8,1,52
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I am listening to this about meeting the moment, and my first thought is, I'm a fresh face up here for a presidential debate, and I figure, Pete, that 59, my age, is the new 38 up here. The second thing I think about is this, and that is-",Candidate,female,8,1,53
Bernie Sanders,NA,70 is the new 50.,Candidate,male,8,1,54
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Okay, there you go. Meeting the moment, meeting the moment, we had a moment the last few weeks, mayor, and that moment was these impeachment hearings. And there was a lot of courage that you saw from only a few people. There was courage from Doug Jones, our friend of Alabama, who took that tough vote. There was courage from Mitt Romney, who took it very, very difficult vote. There was courage, as I read today, about Lieutenant Colonel Vindman being escorted out of the White House, what he did took courage. But what you said, Pete, as you were campaigning through Iowa, as three of us were jurors in that impeachment hearing, you said it was exhausting to watch, and that you wanted to turn the channel and watch cartoons.",Candidate,female,8,1,55
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"It is easy to go after Washington, because that's a popular thing to do. It is much harder, as I see Senator Shaheen in the front row, such a leader, it is much harder to lead, and much harder to take those difficult positions. Because I think this going after every single thing that people do, because it's popular to say, and makes you look like a cool newcomer. I just, I don't think that's what people want right now. We have a newcomer in the White House, and look where it got us. I think having some experience is a good thing.",Candidate,female,8,1,56
Bernie Sanders,NA,"George, George, can I...",Candidate,male,8,1,57
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Sanders, then Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,male,8,1,58
Andrew Yang,NA,"George, can I say...",Candidate,male,8,1,59
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Look, at the end of the day, we got to ask ourselves a very simple question, whether it's healthcare in fact, or anything else. Why are we the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee healthcare to all people? Pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Have 87 million people uninsured or under-insured? 30,000 die because they don't get to a doctor on time, and 500,000 people going bankrupt, for what reason? Because they have cancer or heart disease, or Alzheimer's. We got to ask that question, why is it why? Why have we been talking about healthcare in this country for a hundred years, and here is the answer. If you want real change in healthcare, at the end of the day, you're going to have to take on the insurance companies, and tell them the function of healthcare is healthcare for all, not huge profits for the insurance companies. You're going to have to take on the drug companies, and their corruption, and their price fixing, and tell them, ""Sorry, we're not going to pay 10 times more for prescription drugs, than do the people of other country."" But at the end of the day, there's no way around it. You may want to nibble around the edges, but ultimately, you need to rally the American people to tell the drug companies, to tell Wall Street, to tell the insurance companies, to tell the fossil fuel industry this country belongs to all of us, not a handful of special interests.",Candidate,male,8,1,60
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, wrap this up, and then-",Moderator,male,8,1,61
Tom Steyer,NA,"I have heard this conversation on this debate stage from these people now every single debate, and they're all right, everybody on this stage is better on economic justice and healthcare than anybody in the Republican party, and a million times better than Donald Trump. That is not the question in front of us today. The question in front of us today is, how are we going to beat Donald Trump? You were in the Clinton campaign in 1992, and the mantra was, ""It's the economy, stupid."" Well, if you look at what Mr. Trump is saying, he's saying those words, ""It's the economy, stupid."" I trust every one of these people a million times more, but we're going to have to take Mr. Trump down on the economy, because if you listen to him, he's crowing about it every single day, and he's going to beat us unless we can take him down on the economy, stupid. And that's the issue here. It is not about who has the best healthcare plan. All the healthcare plans are better, a million times better.",Candidate,male,8,1,62
Tom Steyer,NA,"The question is, who can go toe to toe with Mr. Trump? Who can take down Mr. Trump, because he's the real threat to the country? And let me say, you have to have experience to take him down. This is not a question of he's a nice guy who's going to listen. We need people with experience. That's why I'm worried about Mayor Pete. You need to be able to go toe to toe with this guy, and take him down on the debate stage, or we're going to lose. And that's actually the issue in front of democratic voters. I have heard this debate so many darn times, and I love all these people, and they're all right. If we win, we can get the right thing, Bernie. I am with you. If we win, we can get the right thing, Pete, and Amy, but we got to win, or we are in deep trouble, and we keep not talking about the facts.",Candidate,male,8,1,63
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mayor Pete.,Moderator,male,8,1,64
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Here's how we're going to win. We're going to force this president to stand on that debate stage, next to somebody who actually lives in a middle class neighborhood, in the industrial Midwest, in the exact kind of community that he pretends to speak for, but turns his back on. We're going to put up somebody who's not afraid to call out things like his disgraceful behavior at the national prayer breakfast, and remind Americans that God does not belong to a political party. We're going to win by having somebody up there who can call him to account for his refusal to serve when it was his turn, and remind him what serving this country is really about. If we want to beat this president, we've got to be ready to move on from the playbook that we have relied on in the past, and unify this country around a new and better vision. That's how we're going to win. And when I talk about exhaustion, this is important, because I got to tell you, the American people, from outside of Washington, we feel a sense of exhaustion watching the division, and the dysfunction there.",Candidate,male,8,1,65
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And that is not to take anything away from the very good work that you and our other democratic members of Congress, and the Senate are doing. It's not. But, the reason I raise that sense of exhaustion is I see it. I see that temptation to walk away from it all among so many people that I've spoken to in communities from Claremont to Manchester, and in the other states that we're in. And the important thing for the American people to remember, is this is 2020, it's an election year. And if the Senate was the jury before, you are the jury now. The American people are the jury that will have the final verdict on this president, and on the senators in the GOP who protected him.",Candidate,male,8,1,66
Andrew Yang,NA,"Pete, fundamentally, you are missing the lesson of Donald Trump's victory. Donald Trump is not the cause of all of our problems, and we're making a mistake when we act like he is.",Candidate,male,8,1,67
Pete Buttigieg,NA,That's right.,Candidate,male,8,1,68
Andrew Yang,NA,"He is a symptom of a disease that has been building up in our communities for years, and decades. And it is our job to get to the harder work of actually curing the disease. Most Americans feel like the political parties have been playing you lose, I lose, you lose, I lose for years. And you know who's been losing this entire time? We have. Our communities have. Our communities way of life is disintegrating beneath our feet. That's why Iowa, traditional swing state, went to Trump by almost 10 points. That's why Ohio, a traditional swing state is now so red, that I'm told we're not even going to campaign there.",Candidate,male,8,1,69
Andrew Yang,NA,"So, these communities are seeing their way of life get blasted into smithereens. We've automated away four million manufacturing jobs, and counting. We're closing 30% of New Hampshire stores and malls, and Amazon, the force behind that, is literally paying zero in taxes. These are the changes that Americans are seeing and feeling around us every day, and if we get done the hard work of curing those problems, we will not just defeat Donald Trump in the fall, but we'll actually be able to move our communities forward.",Candidate,male,8,1,70
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"I know we're going to hear a lot more on this, but we're going to move on.",Moderator,male,8,1,71
Speaker 1,NA,"Thank you George. Good evening candidates. We come to you, of course, just 48 hours after the acquittal of President Trump. A process that has certainly crystallized the divide in our country. Senator Warren, want to start with you. You have said that on day one of your presidency, one of your first orders of business will be to order your justice department to launch new investigations into the Trump Administration. After a grueling impeachment, and what is likely to be a polarizing election, is investigating President Trump the best way to try to unify the country?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,72
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I think no one is above the law, and that includes the President of the United States. We watched on Wednesday as Republicans, all but one locked arms to protect him from impeachment, but we need to reestablish the rule of law in this country. I believe in an independent commission, in our justice department that investigates crimes committed by our own government. It is an important part of accountability. It is an important part for every administration, that we hold ourselves accountable to the American people. Look, people around this country are losing faith in our government. They're losing faith that government works for them. They see a government that just works great if you're rich. It works great if you're a lobbyist. It works great if you're a corporate executive, but they see themselves and their children with less and less and less, and we could do something about it.",Candidate,female,8,1,73
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It's not enough simply to talk about the future. We have to be willing to stand up to those who now control our government, and make that government instead work for us. We can do child care in this country for every baby. We can invest in our public schools. We can cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans, but only if we are willing to take control of our government away from the giant corporations and billionaires, return it to the people. This is about our government. This is about our democracy. This is about our future.",Candidate,female,8,1,74
Speaker 1,NA,"Mr. Yang, you said that the notion of a leader quote, throwing the president before them in jail is not the way things are done here in the United States. It would make it quote, very hard for any party to govern sustainably moving forward. Does that mean that any alleged misconduct by the president or his administration should not be investigated?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,75
Andrew Yang,NA,"There are of course limits, and you have to see what the facts are on the ground after you assume office, but the fact is, if you look around the world, the countries that have thrown past presidents into jail, have generally been developing countries, and unfortunately that's a pattern that once you establish, is very, very hard to break. What's a more American tradition? We move the country forward. We don't focus on the mistakes of the leaders that are leaving office. Most Americans do not care about what a particular individual did, so much as they care about their family's wellbeing, their community, their town. That's where Americans focus wants. They want the American president. They want the present. Of course, the American president, sorry about that. They want the president to be focused on that, and that's where our attention should be. We should not fall into a pattern that has been disastrous in other countries.",Candidate,male,8,1,76
Speaker 1,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,unknown,8,1,77
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Along with Elizabeth and Amy, we sat for two weeks listening to the impeachment process, and here's what I think the horror and the danger of what happened was not only the acquittal of Trump, who in fact committed impeachable offenses, and obstructed Congress. It is the precedent that it set. The precedent that it set. And what that precedent is about now is in the future, you're going to have presidents who say, ""Hey, governor, you want highway money? You better support me, or you're not going to get it."" Because I am the president, I can do anything I want.",Candidate,male,8,1,78
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Hey, Congress, you want to investigate me? Don't be ridiculous. Who cares about the Congress? Who cares about the separation of powers? Who cares about the constitution of the president? I'm the President of the United States. I have all of the power, and I'm able to intimidate members of my own party. The saddest aspect of this whole thing, is you have Republicans in the Senate who knew better. They knew that Donald Trump is a crook. They knew that Donald Trump is a cheat, but they didn't have the guts, with the exception of Romney to vote against him. That is a sad day.",Candidate,male,8,1,79
Speaker 1,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,unknown,8,1,80
Tom Steyer,NA,"So, I did start the Need to Impeach movement in October of 2017. And my father was one of the people who prosecuted the Nazi war criminals after World War II. And that's part of the reason I started it. Because when you see something really wrong in the United States, you're supposed to stand up against it, and fight against it. And that's what I was doing. But he's been, the Republicans have rolled over, they've had a sham trial, they've refused to have witnesses. They've covered up the truth for the American people. And it doesn't matter anymore that he's a crook, and he's always been a crook, and he always will be a crook. Right now, what we have to do is we have to beat him in November, and we have to beat him because he's incompetent, and bad for the American people. And that's the case we have to make now.",Candidate,male,8,1,81
Tom Steyer,NA,"Is he a crook? I knew that two years ago. Is he going to be more of a crook, now that he believes he can get away with anything? Of course he is. But the job of the people on this stage is to beat him in November, and that's going to be based on what we can deliver for the American people. The fact that he's incompetent as a president, his economy isn't delivering for working people. The jobs don't pay enough for people to live on. We've got to take him down on the economy, and get them out of the White House as soon as possible.",Candidate,male,8,1,82
Speaker 1,NA,"Thank you Mr. Steyer. Impeachment is of course over. But Republicans in Congress have already started investigating vice president Biden's son, Hunter. Mayor Buttigieg, do you think that there's a danger for the democratic party to nominate a candidate who is still under the threat of investigation?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,83
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"No, and we're not going to let them change the subject. This is not about Hunter Biden, or vice president Biden, or any Biden. This is about an abuse of power by the president. The vice president and I and all of us are competing. But we've got to draw a line here. And to be the kind of president, to be the kind of human being who would seek to turn someone against his own son, who would seek to weaponize a son against his own father, is an unbelievably dishonorable thing, that is just one more example of why we as a party have to be completely united in doing whatever it takes at the end of the day to make sure that this president does not get a second term.",Candidate,male,8,1,84
Speaker 1,NA,Vice president Biden.,Moderator,unknown,8,1,85
Joe Biden,NA,"I thank my colleague for saying that. It is a diversion, but here's the deal. Whomever the nominee is, the president's going to make up lies about. He thinks he has free reign right now. One of the things that I think is really important is we have to be authentic with the American people about what we're going to do and how we're going to do it. And by the way, Colonel Vindmen got thrown out of the White House, walked out. I think at the same time, he should have been pinning a medal on Vindmen, and not on rush Limbaugh. And I think we should all stand and give Colonel Vindmen a show of how much we supported him. Stand up and clap for Vindmen. Get up there. Who we are. That's who we are. We are not what Trump is.",Candidate,male,8,1,86
Speaker 1,NA,"Thank you Vice President Biden. The Democratic party's last presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton has criticized Senator Bernie Sanders track record in the senate.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,87
Bernie Sanders,NA,I wasn't able to hear that question.,Candidate,male,8,1,88
Speaker 1,NA,"Okay sure. The democratic party's last presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton has criticized Senator Bernie Sanders record in the senate, saying, ""Nobody likes him. Nobody wants to work with him. He got nothing done."" Senator Klobuchar, you served with Senator Sanders in the Senate. Is he going to be able to get the support? Not if you like him, but is he going to be able to get the support that he needs from Republicans?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,89
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I like Bernie just fine. We actually have worked together on a number of things, including pharmaceuticals. We actually had a vote late at night one time, Klobuchar/ Sanders amendment to bring in less-",Candidate,female,8,1,90
Bernie Sanders,NA,I thought it was Sanders/Klobuchar?,Candidate,male,8,1,91
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Nope, nope, nope, it was not, it was not. To bring in less expensive drugs from other countries, since in this great state of New Hampshire, like in Minnesota and Vermont, we can see Canada from our porch. And we ended up getting I think 14 Republican votes. And they might not have noticed what was happening late at night, but we got those. And I think that it is just an example of what we need to do here, because I've been listening to this discussion. I agree with my colleagues, we must unite, but the way that we unite is by having an optimistic economic agenda for America. That is what we must do, and that means taking on a president, if you want to talk about being tough enough to take him on.",Candidate,female,8,1,92
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Taking on a president that literally went down to Mar-a-Lago after he signed that Republican tax bill, and looked at all his friends and said, ""You just got a lot richer."" That is exhibit A for those carpenters in Pennsylvania, and those dairy farmers in Wisconsin, and those dock workers that I met with in Michigan. That is an exhibit A, and we have to be able to make the case to the working people of this country, some of whom voted for Donald Trump, that we have something better to offer. That we are going to take those incredibly regressive parts of that tax bill, and put that money into their childcare, into their healththere.",Candidate,female,8,1,93
Speaker 1,NA,"Senator, just a quick yes or no. Do you think that Senator Sanders will be able to get Republican support in order to pass his bills?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,94
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That, I don't know. I know we did on that bill, but the point is, I think we're better off with someone that has the receipts. Someone that has actually won big time with Republicans and independents, and I'm the only one up on this stage, you can check it out, that has consistently won in red congressional districts. Not once, not twice, but three times. And when I did this, I didn't just do it for me. I led a ticket. I've flipped the state house every single time, because I have a way of working with people, that I think should be valued here as we look at these candidates, and it's one of the reasons that I got the New York Times endorsement, along with Elizabeth, and that I got the endorsements of the three major papers here in New Hampshire, which is the Union Leader, the Seacoast papers, and the Keene Sentinel. I think that matters. Read those editorials, and you will get a sense of what I'm about.",Candidate,female,8,1,95
Speaker 1,NA,Thank you Senator. Senator Sanders.,Moderator,unknown,8,1,96
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I must confess, I don't get too many newspaper editorial support. Must confess that.",Candidate,male,8,1,97
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, you the Conway endorsement.",Candidate,female,8,1,98
Bernie Sanders,NA,I did. We're very proud of that.,Candidate,male,8,1,99
Amy Klobuchar,NA,There we go.,Candidate,female,8,1,100
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But, let me just say this. I think the question started off with Secretary Clinton's critique. I think, quite honestly, as we face one of the great political crises facing America, our job is to look forward and not back to 2016. And I hope that Secretary Clinton and all of us can come together, and move in that direction. Now, second of all, in terms of Republicans, let me say...",Candidate,male,8,1,101
Bernie Sanders,NA,"-in that direction. Now, second of all, in terms of Republicans, let me say that in my own great state of Vermont, if my memory is correct, Amy, I got 25% of the Republican vote. And in fact, there were periods when I was in the House of Representatives, a number of years where I passed more amendments on the floor of the House in a bipartisan way than any other member of the House and that is when you bring people together on an issue. There are many conservative Republicans, for example, who are concerned about civil liberties, at least they used to be concerned about civil liberties. There are Republicans, as you know, who are concerned about the high cost of prescription drugs. There are ways that we can work with Republicans on issues where we have a common basis.",Candidate,male,8,1,102
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,8,1,103
Bernie Sanders,NA,Let's do that.,Candidate,male,8,1,104
Lindsey Davis,NA,David.,Moderator,female,8,1,105
David Muir,NA,"Lindsey, thank you. Good evening, all. I want to turn to America's role in the world and readiness to be commander-in-chief on day one. Just this week, you saw it, during the State of the Union, President Trump offered an indication of what he'll tout on the campaign trail. He celebrated the US air strike that killed top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani saying, ""Soleimani was the Iranian regime's most ruthless butcher, a monster who murdered or wounded thousands of American service members in Iraq.""",Moderator,male,8,1,106
David Muir,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you're the only veteran standing on this stage and while there is still debate about whether or not there was an imminent threat, there is no debate about whether or not Soleimani was a bad actor who was responsible for the deaths of many Americans. Given what you know about Soleimani, if your national security team came to you with an opportunity to strike, would Soleimani have been dead or would he still be alive under your presidency?",Moderator,male,8,1,107
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"In the situation that we saw with President Trump's decision, there is no evidence that that made our country safer. Look, I feel very strongly about the campaign of murder and mayhem that General Soleimani and his units have perpetrated. It's also the case that if we learned nothing else from the war in Iraq, it's that taking out a bad guy is not a good idea if you do not know what you were doing. This president has moved us this much closer to the brink of war, but it didn't start with the Soleimani strike. It started with withdrawing us from the Iran nuclear deal that his own administration certified was working. And it's time for us to recognize that every time a step is taken that moves us to the brink of war, that has incredibly serious consequences for those who serve.",Candidate,male,8,1,108
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"By chance, just because I was traveling for the campaign, not long ago, I ran into somebody that I hadn't seen since we were both serving, hadn't seen since she was injured in an insider attack. And I saw her coming down the concourse in the airport wearing a Wounded Warrior Project tee shirt that said, ""Some assembly required."" And when I asked her how she was doing, she up her knee and tapped on the part of her leg that they couldn't save, tapped on the prosthetic and said the Navy had fixed her up just fine and then let me know that she was looking forward to an upcoming deployment.",Candidate,male,8,1,109
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The people in our uniform will do whatever the United States requires of them. What they deserve in return is a president who will actually read the intelligence, pay attention to the international security situation, consult with our allies, keep US politics out of it, and never commit our troops to a situation where they would have to go into harm's way if there is an alternative.",Candidate,male,8,1,110
David Muir,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, let me just press further on this though, because president Trump has signal in a general election campaign, he will celebrate his willingness to order that strike. I'm asking if your national security team came to you and presented you with the opportunity, would you take the strike?",Moderator,male,8,1,111
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It depends on the circumstances. It depends if there was an alternative and it depends what the different effects would be. That's my point. This is not an episode of 24. This is a situation that requires that you actually evaluate the entire intelligence picture. This president has insulted the intelligence community, but they put their lives on the line to gather the information that will help a decision maker evaluate whether or not something like that is justified. And I don't think he even reads it.",Candidate,male,8,1,112
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And here we have a situation where the world, that one of the most volatile places in the world has just become more dangerous at the hands of a president who has no regard for the military, not only punishing a war hero today with what he did to Colonel Vindman, but pardoning war criminals in a way that undermines the entire sense of good order and discipline and military honor. We deserve a better commander-in-chief.",Candidate,male,8,1,113
David Muir,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, thank you. I do want to take this to Vice President Biden next because we know that the Obama Administration was aware of the threat that Soleimani posed, so was the Bush Administration before it. I'm asking tonight as commander-in-chief though, would you have ordered the strike?",Moderator,male,8,1,114
Joe Biden,NA,"No. And the reason I wouldn't have ordered the strike, there is no evidence yet of imminent threat that was going to come from him. Look what happened, his America First policies made America alone. You cannot think of a time, David, and as long as you've been alive when NATO has said to the United States of America and to Iran, made a moral equivalence and said, both of you stand down. We are alone now, alone in that region of the world, without friends, without support, without allies.",Candidate,male,8,1,115
Joe Biden,NA,"And secondly, you saw what happened when that air raid, when those missiles were fired from Iran into Iraq at Al-Assad Airbase, 64 of our heroes were wounded. I don't know what I would've done if my son were still there. I would have been so damn angry. I don't know what I would've done. But here's what happened, they had received traumatic brain injury. What did the president say? He said, ""headaches,"" ""not bad,"" ""Headaches, that's all they are."" This guy doesn't deserve to be commander- in-chief for one more day.",Candidate,male,8,1,116
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice President, thank you, Senator Sanders, you have called this, ""assassinating a government official."" You would not have ordered the strike.",Moderator,male,8,1,117
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Right. Look, here is the danger, David, there are very bad leaders all over the world. Kim Jong-un in North Korea is probably responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of his people threatening all of Asia with nuclear weapons. You got Mohammad Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia who is a terrible murderer, who murdered Khashoggi in cold blood and dismembered his body. You have Putin in Russia who has been involved in political assassinations of his enemies. You got Xi in China who has put a million Muslims into concentration camps.",Candidate,male,8,1,118
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You cannot go around saying you're a bad guy, we're going to assassinate you, and then you're going to have, if that happens, you're opening the door to international anarchy that every government in the world will then be subjected to attacks and assassination. What we have got to do, which Trump does not understand, is strengthen the State Department and our diplomatic capabilities, not just the military. What we have got to do is bring countries around the world together with our power and our wealth and say, you know what, let us sit down and work out our differences through debate and discussion at the UN, not through more and more war and the expenditures of trillions of dollars and the loss of God knows how many lives.",Candidate,male,8,1,119
David Muir,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you. This does take me to Afghanistan and to America's longest war. Senator Warren, you recently said quote, ""We have one general after another in Afghanistan who comes in and says, 'We've just turned the corner,' and then what happens? It's all the same. Someone new comes in and says, 'We've just turned the corner.' You said, ""So many say it. We're going in circles.""",Moderator,male,8,1,120
David Muir,NA,"We were on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent months and the generals told us that the US needs some US presence on the ground, US special forces some presence to go after ISIS and the terrorists. If your commander-in-chief, would you listen to the generals or do they fall into the category of the generals you've mentioned before?",Moderator,male,8,1,121
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No. Look, I sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee, so I get the briefings from the generals on a regular basis. I've been to Afghanistan, to Iraq. I've been to Jordan. I've been throughout the region. I've been there with John McCain. I've been there with Lindsey Graham to ask the hard questions about what's happening, to ask our generals, to ask their generals to ask people who are on the ground. And the bottom line is, nobody sees a solution to this war. Nobody can describe what winning looks like. All they can describe is endless war.",Candidate,female,8,1,122
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And I realized there are people on this debate stage who are willing to say, yeah, we'll leave our troops there for five more years, for 10 more years. Lindsey Graham has said he's willing to leave troops for 100 more years. And yet, what has all these years of war brought us? Right now, the Afghan Government controls less than 60% of the land. People don't have faith in it. It's a corrupt government. The opium trade is higher than ever.",Candidate,female,8,1,123
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, we sent our troops in and they did their best. They were there for us, but we need to be there for them. And that means, not send our troops to do work that cannot be solved militarily. It is time to bring our combat troops home. It is time to stop this endless war in Afghanistan.",Candidate,female,8,1,124
David Muir,NA,"Senator Warren, I want to press you on this. You just said, ""combat troops.""",Moderator,male,8,1,125
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,8,1,126
David Muir,NA,"So if the generals came to you and said, we need US Special Forces, some footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan, would you listen? Would you leave them?",Moderator,male,8,1,127
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So I want to hear the plan, not just a, we need it now, we need it for the next day, we need it for the six months. And I want to know where our allies are. We all have an interest in dealing with terrorism and controlling terrorism, but that means it can't just be the United States waging endless war. That does not make us safer. It does not make the region safer. It does not make the world safer. We should work with our allies in managing terrorism, but we need to end this war in Afghanistan. We cannot wait five more years, or 10 more years, or until we turn the corner 10 more times. We need to bring our combat troops home.",Candidate,female,8,1,128
David Muir,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you. I want to take this to the Vice President because you have said of Senator Warren's comments before that the United States should get out of the Middle East. You have said, ""I quite frankly was surprised that I have never heard anyone say with any serious background in foreign policy that we should pull all troops out of the Middle East."" Is Senator Warren wrong on this?",Moderator,male,8,1,129
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm not sure what she, if she wants to pull all troops out of the Middle East, but if she does want to put all troops out of the Middle East, we saw what happens when that happened.",Candidate,male,8,1,130
Joe Biden,NA,"I helped put together a 61 nation group to take out ISIS by putting fewer than 5,000 forces along the Turkish border to see to it that they, and they lost 10,000, the Kurds, lost 10,000 lives. They defeated ISIS. They ended the caliphate and then the president on a whim dealing with a man I know very well, they've now, the guy running Turkey who is more of an autocrat now than a Democrat, and what happened? We pulled out and you saw what happened. You saw the end of the effort to be able to continue to contain, contain ISIS, number one.",Candidate,male,8,1,131
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, close your eye, everybody. Remember what you saw on television. You saw a woman standing up there holding up her baby, Kurd, saying, ""Please don't leave us."" And our military women and men standing at, going out in their [inaudible] Humvees with their heads down ashamed of what they did. It didn't take a lot of men or men and women to do what needed to be done.",Candidate,male,8,1,132
Joe Biden,NA,"And with regard Afghanistan, now I can say it because it was made public, I was totally against the whole notion of no nation building in Afghanistan. The only thing we should be doing is dealing with terrorism in that region. I've been in every part of Afghanistan, not in combat like my friend has, but in helicopter and/or on a vehicle in every part of it as senator and vice president. Here's what I saw, there is no possibility of uniting that country, no possibility at all of making it a whole country. But it is possible to see to it that they're not able to launch more attacks from the region on the United States of America. That's a small footprint that we needed and I argued for that in the beginning.",Candidate,male,8,1,133
David Muir,NA,"You mentioned Mayor Buttigieg. And I do want to take this to you next, mayor. Given your finish in Iowa, you've come under increasing scrutiny, attacks from opponents on experience. We've heard that theme even right here tonight. You have said on the Iraq War, for example. ""I just don't believe there is any justification for that vote."" You said, ""It's the difference between tenure and judgment."" That it's the judgment that matters, not the time in Washington. Vice President Biden, as you know, voted yes. As commander-in-chief, do you believe your judgment would be better than the vice president's?",Moderator,male,8,1,134
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I believe that I have the judgment to help us get through these situations where obviously the vice president made the wrong decision when it came to such an important moment in our foreign policy. And looking forward, we got to recognize just how much is going to be on the plate of the next president that is different in kind from what we have faced before. It's not just about dealing with the aftermath of the war in Iraq, it's about preventing a war with Iran. And not only do we have to undertake the military and counter terrorism activities that we've been doing throughout, the next president is going to have to restore the credibility of this country among our allies and among the international community.",Candidate,male,8,1,135
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"At a moment when we are facing fundamentally different challenges from asymmetric warfare to cybersecurity threats, in President Trump's imagination of a national security strategy is a big wall and a moat full of alligators. It's a 17th century approach to keeping a place safe. What we have to do is be ready for the future and that means insisting not only on shoring up our relationships, but defining a strategy to keep the American people safe from fundamentally new challenges.",Candidate,male,8,1,136
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice President, I'll let you respond to his argument on judgment.",Moderator,male,8,1,137
Joe Biden,NA,"I made a mistake and I said it 14 years ago. I trusted George Bush to keep his word. He said he was not going to go into Iraq. He said he was only using this to unite the United Nations to insist we get inspectors in to see what Saddam was doing. When we got elected, the president turned to me with the entire security apparatus and said, ""Joe, I want you to organize getting 156,000 troops out of Iraq."" I did that. I did that.",Candidate,male,8,1,138
Joe Biden,NA,"The other thing I want to point out too is that NATO is in fact going to crumble if we don't beat Trump. NATO is in real trouble. We need NATO for more reasons than just physical security. We need NATO to make sure that we do not allow Russia to continue to have its influence in Eastern Europe in ways that it had before. It wasn't just to stop the Soviet Union from coming into the United States, coming into Europe. It was to make sure that we did not have a kleptocracy taking over that part of the world, to unite Europe in our behalf. I know how to deal with them. I know every one of these world leaders by their first names. They call me. I talked to them and I believe I can get it done.",Candidate,male,8,1,139
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice President, thank you. Mr. Steyer, I do want to bring you in on this because I noticed in the last 24 hours you have an attack ad running here in New Hampshire with images of Mayor Buttigieg and you say over those images ""an untested newcomer."" But I wanted to ask you tonight on this readiness to be commander-in-chief, you share the stage with a veteran from Afghanistan, a vice president who was in the Situation Room. What makes you most qualified of all candidates on this stage to be commander-in-chief?",Moderator,male,8,1,140
Tom Steyer,NA,"Well, let me say this, I agree with Pete Buttigieg that it's about judgment not tenure. What we're hearing here is a very long dissertation about exactly how America should be the world's policemen. And what we've actually seen in the Middle East is that Barack Obama used diplomacy to get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions in return for our releasing economic sanctions along with our partners around the world. So when we're talking about our role in the world and commander-in-chief, we have abandoned a diplomacy. We don't have a strategy and we don't have allies.",Candidate,male,8,1,141
Tom Steyer,NA,"And actually this view of the world, that our response should be military is driven by our gigantic military complex and ignores the biggest problem that we face internationally in the world, which is climate change. And it cannot be solved with guns and tanks and planes. It can only be solved with diplomacy and allies and interaction with other countries. So in fact, what we are listening to right here is a discussion of 20 years of failed military action and how we should continue it and how we should continue spending $700 billion dollars a year on defense when we spend $70 billion dollars a year at the federal level on education.",Candidate,male,8,1,142
David Muir,NA,Mr. Steyer [crosstalk 00:17:13].,Moderator,male,8,1,143
Tom Steyer,NA,Let's talk about judgment here. [crosstalk 00:59:16].,Candidate,male,8,1,144
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice President, I'll give you 30 seconds to respond.",Moderator,male,8,1,145
Joe Biden,NA,"That's not what I said, I was part of the reason putting that deal together with Iran. I was there. I was involved in that. I was also part of the deal putting together the Paris Climate Accord. I brought in the Chinese. I was part of that. I've been part of every major initiative we've had relative to diplomacy. I have not argued for the placement of major numbers of US combat troops. I have said, along with the President of the United States, Barack Obama as his partner, I have said, we have to strengthen NATO to make it clear that we keep our commitments when we make them. Like we don't keep our commitments to the Kurds. We must keep our commitments when we make them. Otherwise, we have no power whatsoever.",Candidate,male,8,1,146
Joe Biden,NA,"And it's not about making sure we're policeman of the world. The only way not to become the policeman of the world is to have allies who will join us in dealing with failed States and terrorism. And it has to be done jointly by a whole lot of people and it doesn't require large number of US troops, and I've never said that.",Candidate,male,8,1,147
Tom Steyer,NA,"Okay, can I respond to that, David?",Candidate,male,8,1,148
David Muir,NA,"Senator Sanders, Senator Sanders, please.",Moderator,male,8,1,149
Tom Steyer,NA,Can I respond to [crosstalk 01:00:22].,Candidate,male,8,1,150
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let me say this if I might, like Joe and others, I also heard the arguments in terms of the war in Iraq from Bush, from Cheney, from John Bolton, from the whole administration. I listened very carefully and I concluded that they were lying through their teeth. And I not only voted against that war, but I help lead the opposition. And it saddens me so much. If you hear what I said, it's on YouTube, my fears about all the destabilization that would take place by the US invading Iraq. It's sad to me that, that is what happened.",Candidate,male,8,1,151
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But let me just pick up on a point that Tom made, which is absolutely right. Trump wants to build a wall around America. The problem is if we are going to deal with issues like climate change, not only do we in America have to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, we have to lead the entire world. This is not an American issue. It's a global issue. We got to bring China and Russia and Brazil and Pakistan and India and every major country on earth into the fight against climate change.",Candidate,male,8,1,152
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And here is my dream, maybe it's a radical dream, but maybe just may be given the crisis of climate change, the world can understand that instead of spending $1.8 trillion dollars a year collectively on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change.",Candidate,male,8,1,153
David Muir,NA,"[crosstalk 00:20:02]. Senator Sanders, thank you. George, back to you.",Moderator,male,8,1,154
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"We have much more today coming up, but we have got to take a break. We'll be right back.",Moderator,male,8,1,155
Devin Dwyer,NA,( silence).,Moderator,unknown,8,1,156
Devin Dwyer,NA,"And welcome back to Manchester, New Hampshire and the ABC News Democratic Debate. Thanks for joining us here on ABC News Live. I'm Devin Dwyer with our political correspondent, Rachel Scott. Rachel, we have some of the best seats in the house here tonight.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,157
Rachel Scott,NA,"I would say so. Right, Devin? They're not too bad.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,158
Devin Dwyer,NA,"What a debate it has been so far. If you're just joining us or joined in the middle, we saw Bernie Sanders defend his attacks on Pete Buttigieg. We saw the former Vice President Joe Biden talk about his weak showing in Iowa. And both of them, Rachel, went on the attack on Pete Buttigieg.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,159
Rachel Scott,NA,"I think one thing is clear here tonight, Devin, this is just not a fight to beat President Trump. This is a fight and a battle over the future of the Democratic Party and we are seeing some very clear lanes being carved out here tonight. You see the moderates versus the progresses and you also see the newcomers to Washington, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, versus those that have lots of political experience on that stage.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,160
Rachel Scott,NA,"And one of the things that comes with having the momentum in this race is having a target on your back. And we saw that tonight for Mayor Pete Buttigieg, getting attack after attack. He tried to fend them off as best as he could saying he is the one that can bring a fresh face to Washington, that Washington needs it right now, but the candidates on that stage questioning his experience and whether or not a small town mayor can beat President Trump and lead the nation.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,161
Devin Dwyer,NA,"And getting right back against Bernie Sanders in his quote, ""My way or the highway,"" approach to politics in the words of Pete Buttigieg. Also calling Joe Biden part of the politics of the past. It was also an interesting moment in this first part of the debate where impeachment made a roaring comeback. It has finished and wrapped up in Washington, but it was a lot of the discussion here on stage, including a standing ovation for those White House officials who were escorted off the job today in an act of retribution.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,162
Rachel Scott,NA,"Yeah, you saw that standing ovation for Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, but also a moment of unity on the stage there and this is something that all of the candidates agree on, right? Mayor Pete Buttigieg who has just ramped up his attacks against the former Vice President in this last stretch came to his defense tonight on that stage saying that, ""We will not allow the Republicans to change the subject."" He said that we need to draw a line against these attacks against Hunter Biden.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,163
Devin Dwyer,NA,"And four days to go before those big votes here in New Hampshire. Coming into this debate, we saw the storyline solidify today in some new polling that just came out. If you haven't seen those numbers, take a look here. We see Bernie Sanders on top of the pack with Pete Buttigieg surging in the last two weeks here in New Hampshire, coming on Sanders heels. This is just one poll from Marist and NBC News. Joe Biden slipping a bit there. Rachel, you have been out on the campaign trail talking to voters in this state and they are still making up their minds.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,164
Rachel Scott,NA,"They are still making up their minds. They just have a few days left to decide and they're eager to hear what the candidates have to say tonight. Well listen, this is a state that Senator Sanders won back in 2016, he's going to be looking for a repeat Devin.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,165
Devin Dwyer,NA,All right. And those candidates now coming back on stage for the second half here year of the ABC News Democratic Debate in New Hampshire. Stay with us here on ABC News Live for much more coverage ahead. And now we'll hand it back to George and the team.,Moderator,unknown,8,1,166
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Welcome back of Saint Anselm College here in New Hampshire and we are here every four years, thanks to our amazing Manchester partner WMUR. And now anchor Monica Hernandez and political director Adam Section are joining us with questions on the minds of New Hampshire voters.",Moderator,male,8,1,167
Monica Hernandez,NA,"Thank you George. It's an honor to be here in our community. We know Granite Staters are engaged and we know there are issues that strike especially close to home here. New Hampshire has one of the highest rates of deadly overdoses in the country. In some cases, police and paramedics tell us that they are saving the same lives again and again, sometimes more than once in a single day. It's a healthcare issue, but it's also so much more. Mayor Buttigieg, you have described yourself as a moderate, but one of your policies at least goes further than some on the stage with you are willing to go. You have called for the decriminalization of all drugs. Does that include heroin, meth, and cocaine, some of the drugs that have contributed to this crisis?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,168
Pete Buttigieg,NA,No. What I've called for is that incarceration should no longer be the response to drug possession.,Candidate,male,8,1,169
Monica Hernandez,NA,"With all due respect Mayor Buttigieg, on your website it says that you called for decriminalization of all drugs.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,170
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Again, what I'm calling for is that we end the use of incarceration as a response. This does not mean that it will be lawful to produce or distribute those kinds of harmful drugs, but also as we know from the opioid crisis, some of this has been driven by companies that were acting irresponsibly with substances that were lawful. It's why in South Bend we sued those companies to hold them accountable. We've got to make sure that there is accountability for those who suppressed evidence about the addictiveness of those substances. Even while we're also coming to recognize that these kinds of addiction are a medical issue, not a moral failure on the part of somebody battling that addiction.",Candidate,male,8,1,171
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That's why medication assisted treatment is so important. And those people who are being revived, and our own EMTs in my city had been so frustrated by the experience of reviving somebody, but then they have nowhere to go. Sometimes you get brought back with a dose of Narcan, but then your life depends on whether in the days that follow you make it until somebody can actually see you, because we have such a shortage of mental health and addiction providers in this country. We must act to change that and save lives when we do.",Candidate,male,8,1,172
Monica Hernandez,NA,"I want to bring this question now to Mr. Yang. You've said you would decriminalize opioids, but you've also said that you would require all overdose patients to go to mandatory treatment centers for three days. Right now in New Hampshire there aren't enough beds in treatment centers and across the country. How would you make sure treatment is available for all overdose patients and what would you do to fill the gap in the meantime?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,173
Andrew Yang,NA,"That's what we have to change, Monica. I've heard heartbreaking stories from families here in New Hampshire that have been destroyed, torn apart by the opiod epidemic and you have to look at the companies that profited to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in profits of essentially blood money. As President, we will take back those profits and put them to work right here in New Hampshire so that if you are seeking treatment, you have resources to be able to pursue it.",Candidate,male,8,1,174
Andrew Yang,NA,"This is not a money problem fundamentally this is a human problem, but money cannot be the obstacle. This is something that happened on the government's watch. The government allowed this opiod epidemic to spread throughout our communities and we have to do everything in our power to actually make sure that if you are seeking treatment, you know you're not going to be sent to jail. We have safe injection and safe consumption sites for you.",Candidate,male,8,1,175
Andrew Yang,NA,"If you have a family member who's struggling, you can refer them and know that they're not going to have criminal penalties as a result. There are so much about this that's endemic to what's happened throughout the country in terms of companies running amok, this hyper corporate capitalism where if money's on one side in this country and people are on the other side, the money is winning. You can see it with the opiate epidemic. You can see it with the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel companies. This is what must change and that's where I'll lead as president.",Candidate,male,8,1,176
Monica Hernandez,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, I want to take the question to you now. As a prosecutor, you embrace tough on crime policies, even with drug offenders. You've also spoken many times about your father's own addiction issues, his own alcoholism and his DUI arrests. If addiction is a disease, should people be arrested for it and as a prosecutor, do you regret sending people with substance abuse issues to jail?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,177
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I led one of the most successful drug courts in the country in Hennepin County, and I always would say and believed, and I think my record shows this, that we weren't a business. We didn't want to see repeat customers. And if you don't want to see repeat customers, the only answer is treatment. And maybe you're referring to some of the people who were dealing big time in drugs. Yes, I felt that we should prosecute those people, but when it comes to, when you asked Mr. Yang a question, and I think it, we owe it to the people of New Hampshire, had one of the biggest addiction rates in the countries and death rates when it comes to opioids, to explain how we will pay for the treatment and the bed. I've been very clear about this.",Candidate,female,8,1,178
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"There's going to be a major settlement coming through, a federal settlement against all these opioid manufacturers. The evidence is overwhelming, including an email where one guy, a business guy, says to the other, ""They're eating them like Doritos. Just keep pumping them out."" We will get a conservative estimate, $40 billion in from that settlement, we can put a 2 cents per milligram tax on opiods that brings in another 40 billion. Then you can close a hedge fund loophole that brings in $18 billion. And just like every other policy I've proposed, and I think New Hampshire voters should care about this, I have showed how I'm going to pay for it. Because I think we have someone in the White House that has told over 15,000 lies. He makes all kinds of promises. The people of New Hampshire and the people of our country deserve better. I will get this done and it is personal for me.",Candidate,female,8,1,179
Adam Sexton,NA,"Good evening candidates. New Hampshire is a battleground, not just for presidential contenders but also for top issues and that includes gun policy. Senator Sanders, for many voters in this Democratic primary, your allure is about consistency when it comes to progressive issues you've been on the right side of them for a long time. One exception is gun rights. In the '90s when you were in Congress, you voted against background checks. You also voted against a waiting period for purchase of a firearm. Can you explain why you opposed these things that you now support?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,180
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I can Adam, and let me also say that in 1988 I probably lost a race for Congress, and we only have one Congress person in the whole state, because in 1988 I said that we should ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country. That was 30 years ago. Furthermore, I am very proud that today I have a D- voting record from the NRA. And under my administration it will be the American people doing gun policy, not dictated by the NRA.",Candidate,male,8,1,181
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But to answer your question, I come, like New Hampshire, from a very, very rural state. In Vermont until the last two years ago, we had virtually no gun control legislation at all and I represented that perspective. The world has changed. In Vermont and in New Hampshire and all over this country, people are sickened by the mass shootings that we have seen and the gun violence that we have seen. The world has changed and my views have changed, and my view is right now we need universal background checks, we end the gun show loophole, we end the so called straw man provision. We make certain that we end the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country, and we go further. We go further, but at the bottom line is I will not be intimidated by the NRA. We're going to run the gun policy that the American people want.",Candidate,male,8,1,182
Adam Sexton,NA,"Vice President Biden, you've taken a lot of heat in this primary, on these debate stages and from voters here in New Hampshire for your past positions. You've essentially asked them to look at the totality of your record and give you the benefit of the doubt. Does Senator Sanders deserve that same benefit of the doubt on guns?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,183
Joe Biden,NA,"Here's the deal. The biggest mistake that Bernie made, that Senator Sanders made, he voted to give the gun manufacturers, the only major industry in America, a loophole that does not allow them to be sued for the carnage they are creating. First thing I'll do as President is work to get rid of that. It's going to be hard. Think of all the thousands and thousands of people who died. And I might add Bernie, while you were representing your constituency, an awful lot of people [inaudible] your gun state and they've come around. In fact, all those folks in California, New York, Pennsylvania, they're getting killed by the thousands during the same period.",Candidate,male,8,1,184
Joe Biden,NA,"I come from a state that's a major gun owning stare. I introduced the first assault weapons ban. I in fact got it passed. I'm the only guy that beat the NRA twice. While I was pushing the Brady Background Bill to check background checks, Bernie voted five times against that when he was in the House. So look, the other thing is that we have to be held accountable for the things we did, I'm the guy that set up drug courts. I set them up. I wrote it into law and it never got funded. And also on opioids, I'm the guy who's already begun to make a down payment. In the Cures Act I put in $1 billion to fight opioid addiction. And lastly, my time is going to be up, surely. Here's the deal. Those Chief Executive Officer of drug companies, they should not only be fined, they should go to jail.",Candidate,male,8,1,185
Adam Sexton,NA,"Senator Warren, we'd like to go over to you now. [inaudible] I want to ask you this question here though. Laws can do so much, if you could change one thing about America's gun culture, what would it be?",Moderator,unknown,8,1,186
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, we have a gun violence problem in America. It is about the mass shootings that we hear about in our schools and that frighten us, about it in theaters and in churches. It's also though about shootings that occur on sidewalks and in playgrounds, often in communities of color that are hit hardest, but there are no headlines over those. It's also about suicide and the increasing lethality of suicide because of the availability of guns. It is also about the increased chances that it's usually a woman will die of domestic violence if she is with a violent man and a gun is in the home.",Candidate,female,8,1,187
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We need to think of this problem not as one and done or three things and done. We need to think of it just like we did on auto safety. We just keep coming back. We treat it like the public health emergency that it is. But the question we should be asking ourselves is when America, across this country, including gun owners, agree in certain basic things, universal background checks, get assault weapons off the streets. Why can we not even get a vote in the United States Senate?",Candidate,female,8,1,188
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And the answer is 90%, think about this, more than 90% of Americans agree on this. We can't get a vote in the United States Senate because it is the gun industry that continues to call the shots. Until we attack the corruption in Washington, the influence of money on campaigns and lobbying, we're not going to be able to meet our promises. And one more, until we agree that we are willing to roll back to filibuster, the gun industry is going to continue to have a veto and we will never make the changes we make. We have to be willing to build a future that works, not for a gun industry, but that works for the rest of America and protects our children.",Candidate,female,8,1,189
Joe Biden,NA,We ought to be able to sue the gun industry.,Candidate,male,8,1,190
David Muir,NA,"Thank you, candidates. We're going to go back to David up there [inaudible 00:16:26]. Adam and Monica, thank you and thanks to WMUR tonight. I want to turn to the Supreme Court, the balance on the court and the issues before the court right now. President Trump in just the last 24 hours saying we've appointed 191 federal judges, two Supreme Court Justices, keeping his campaign promise to shift the Court to the right with Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.",Moderator,male,8,1,191
David Muir,NA,"The Affordable Care Act is at the court. Climate change is working its way to the court, and a major abortion case is on the docket this year. Vice President Biden, on the issue of abortion, in 2012 you said, ""President Obama's two Supreme Court picks of them, there was no litmus test. We picked people who had an open mind, did not come with an agenda."" And you've said before, ""We both believed that we should not apply narrow litmus tests to appointees to the Supreme Court."" Let me just ask, would you do it differently as President, Mr. Vice President? Would there be a litmus test on abortion?",Moderator,male,8,1,192
Joe Biden,NA,"If you say the rest of what I said. I said that we're going to not appoint anyone who did not have a view that unenumerated rights existed in the Constitution. That's not a specific test. It's a generic test. And only way, the only reason women have the right to choose is because it's determined that there's unenumerated rights coming from the Ninth Amendment in the Constitution. That's what I said. And I was part of the reason why Elena Kagan, who worked for me, we got onto the Supreme Court. I was part of the reason why Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on the Court. I was part of the reason why Sotomayer is on the Court and she will swear me in. I presided, and I'm the reason why this right wasn't taken away a long time ago because I almost single handedly made sure that Robert Bork did not get on the Court because he did not think there should be enumerated rights [inaudible 00:18:04].",Candidate,male,8,1,193
David Muir,NA,So let me just-,Moderator,male,8,1,194
Joe Biden,NA,Let's get that straight.,Candidate,male,8,1,195
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice President, I am aware of what you said, which is why I'm asking would you do it differently now? Would there be a litmus test on abortion?",Moderator,male,8,1,196
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes. Look, here's the deal. Litmus test on abortion relates to the fundamental value of the Constitution. A woman does have a right to choose. I would in fact, if they rule it to be unconstitutional, I will send to the United States Congress and it will pass, I believe, a bill that... Excuse me, legislates Roe V. Wade adjusted by Casey. It's a woman's right to do that. Period. And if you call that a litmus test it's a litmus test, but what I was talking about in the past, so no one gets confused here, is if there is no... If you read the Constitution very, very narrowly and say there are no unenumerated rights. If the doesn't say it in the Constitution that doesn't exist, you cannot have any of the things I care about, any of the things I care about as a progressive member of the United States Congress at the time, and as Vice President and as a member of society.",Candidate,male,8,1,197
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Vice president, thank you. Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,8,1,198
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I've lived in an America in which abortion was illegal and rich women still got abortions and that's what we have to remember about this. States are heading toward trying to ban abortion outright and the Supreme Court seems headed in exactly that direction as well. If we are going to protect the people of the United States of America and we are going to protect our rights to have dominion over our own bodies, then it's going to mean we can't simply rely on the courts. Three out of every four people in America believe right now that the rule of Roe versus Wade should be the law. That means we should be pushing for a Congressional solution as well. It is time to have a national law to protect the right of a woman's choice.",Candidate,female,8,1,199
David Muir,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you. Senator Klobuchar, I do want to come to you. Should there be a litmus test? It's an active hall here tonight. I did want to come to you on this question.",Moderator,male,8,1,200
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,female,8,1,201
David Muir,NA,Should there be a litmus test on abortion?,Moderator,male,8,1,202
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I would only appoint judges that would respect precedent and one of those key precedents is Roe v. Wade. In addition, you have got to put it into law. Donald Trump, and I think it's really important to take it to him here, when he was running for election, and this is a case I will make on the debate stage against him, he actually said that he wanted to put women in jail. He then dialed it back and said, ""No, I want to put doctors in jail."" Is it a big surprise then we're seeing states like Alabama start enacting laws that would criminalize doctors who perform abortions. It's not. And that is why it's going to be really important when you look at the overwhelming public support for funding Planned Parenthood, for making sure women have access to contraception, to making sure that they have a right to choose, that we make this case strongly and loudly.",Candidate,female,8,1,203
David Muir,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, thank you. Mayor Buttigieg, you have signaled that you'd be open to the idea of expanding the Court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested leaving the Court as it is, saying quote, ""Nine seems to be a good number."" And in fact she said if the number of justices is increased quote, ""It would make the Court appear partisan. It would be one side saying, 'When we're in power, we're going to enlarge the number of judges to have more people who will vote the way we want them to.'"" Is Justice Ginsburg wrong?",Moderator,male,8,1,204
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, if all we did was change the number of justices than I agree with her that that could be the consequence. What I've called for is not only reforming the number of justices on the bench, but structural reform so that some of the justices are not appointed through a partisan process. We cannot allow the Supreme Court to continue to become one more political battlefield as we are seeing today. And the time has come for us to think bigger, not just reforming the makeup of the court as America, by the way, has done several times in our history. But also remember that the founders gave us the power to amend the Constitution for a reason and we shouldn't be afraid to use it.",Candidate,male,8,1,205
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It's not something you do lightly or quickly, but when it comes to something like Citizens United, which holds that corporations have the same political soul as people and that spending money to influence an election is the same thing as writing an op-ed to your local paper, we need a Constitutional amendment to clear that up and protect our democracy.",Candidate,male,8,1,206
David Muir,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, thank you. Vice President Biden, I do want to come to you on this. President Trump has said that the only reason Democrats want to expand the Court is they want to try and catch up. You have called any expansion of the court a bad idea, adding, ""We will live to rue that day."" Do you agree with President Trump on-",Moderator,male,8,1,207
Joe Biden,NA,"I agree with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That's who I agree with. And I agree the way you deal with Citizens United is pass a constitutional amendment I introduced 25 years ago saying that only public money can be spent in elections. Period. Not private money, not billionaires, not money from special interests. Period. That's the way to amend the Constitution to deal with that. In addition to that, if in fact... Look, the Democrats stood up against the man I've revered, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he wanted to expand the Court. But they were wise enough to understand that whoever then has the majority will have the ability to abuse it and it will lose its legitimacy and there are three equal branches of government. It says the President shell nominate, the Senate shall dispose, the Senate shall make that decision, not the president. He can nominate.",Candidate,male,8,1,208
Joe Biden,NA,"That's why it's so important we must win back the United States Senate this time out. And that's why as you all look at it up here in New Hampshire and around the world, excuse me, around the country, you have to ask yourself, who is most likely to help get a Senator elected in North Carolina, Georgia? Who can win Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota? Who can do that? Because you got to be able to win those... Well, you can. I agree. But here's the point. You've got to be able to, you've got to be able to not just win, you've got to bring along a United States Senate or this becomes moot.",Candidate,male,8,1,209
David Muir,NA,Senator Sanders [crosstalk 00:24:17].,Moderator,male,8,1,210
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Look, you asked the simple question, is there a litmus test for those of us up here? For me there is. I will never nominate any person to the Supreme Court or the federal courts in general who was not 100% pro Roe v. Wade. Number two, we have got a codify Roe v. Wade into legislation. Number three, we have to significantly expand funding for Planned Parenthood.",Candidate,male,8,1,211
David Muir,NA,"Mr. Steyer, I want to bring you in on this because you have claimed that when it comes to the Supreme Court, you have said Republicans have been cheating.",Moderator,male,8,1,212
Tom Steyer,NA,"Sure they've been cheating. Look, what we saw Mitch McConnell do, not just in the Supreme Court with Merrick Garland, but across the board with federal judges, was refuse to allow President Obama's picks to be considered. That's why Mr. Trump has appointed so many federal judges, because in fact the Republicans refused to allow President Obama to get his due, and honestly, we're sitting here talking about do you have a litmus test? We all have the litmus test. Everybody on this row feels exactly the same way about a woman's right to choose. Everybody on this row feels exactly the same way on gun control. Every single one in this row feels the same way.",Candidate,male,8,1,213
Tom Steyer,NA,"There's something else going on. These Republicans are in control. They're stacking the Court for a generation with young right-wing radicals, and we've watched it happen and the question is what are we going to do about it? That's where we are in the United States, and the question is... Actually Joe Biden's right. We have to go win a huge victory this year, and we're in trouble. And so the question is going to be, look at these people, who can pull together the Democratic Party?",Candidate,male,8,1,214
Tom Steyer,NA,"And let me say this, we have not said one word tonight about race. Not one word. Are you kidding me? We have the most diverse party. We have a very diverse country. We have a very diverse party. The heart and soul of this party is diversity, black people, Latinos, AAPI people, Native Americans and white people. But for goodness sakes, pull it together. We're talking about something different. The question we have is how are we getting that diverse group of people to the polls? What are we saying? Everybody on this stage feels the same way about a woman's right to choose and economic justice. The question is how do we beat Trump? How do we take down these Republicans? And the answer is we've got to show we can take them down on growth, job creation, the economy. We send them packing and then we get all of this including beating the corporations.",Candidate,male,8,1,215
David Muir,NA,"Mr Steyer, thank you. The night is still young. Many questions to come, and Linsey Davis is next.",Moderator,male,8,1,216
Lindsey Davis,NA,I want to turn now to criminal justice. Mayor Buttigieg...,Moderator,female,8,1,217
David Muir,NA,Linsey Davis is next.,Moderator,male,8,1,218
Lindsey Davis,NA,"I want to turn now to criminal justice. Mayor Buttigieg, under your leadership as mayor, a black resident in South Bend, Indiana was four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white resident. Now, that racial disparity is higher than the rest of the state, in fact, it's higher than the rest of the nation, and that disparity increased in South Bend after you took office.",Moderator,female,8,1,219
Lindsey Davis,NA,"When talking about the problem on national terms, you've called it ""evidence of systemic racism."" You were mayor for eight years, so weren't you, in effect, the head of the system, and how do explain that increase in black arrests under your leadership?",Moderator,female,8,1,220
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, the reality is, on my watch, drug arrests in South Bend were lower than the national average, and specifically to marijuana, lower than in Indiana. But there is no question that systemic racism has penetrated to every level of our system, and my city was not immune. I took a lot of heat for discussing systemic racism with my own police department, but we've got to confront the fact that there is no escaping how this is part of all of our policies.",Candidate,male,8,1,221
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Earlier, we were talking about opioids, and thankfully, America has come to a better understanding about the fact that opioid addiction is best understood as a medical problem. But there were a lot of people, including a lot of African American activists in my community who have made the very good point, it's great that everybody's so enlightened about drug policy now when it comes to opioids, but where were you when it came to marijuana, where were you when it came to the crack epidemic in the 1990s? That is one of the reasons why I am calling for us as a country to take up those reforms that end incarceration as a response to possession and make sure that we legalize marijuana and when we do it, do it retroactively with expungements to correct the harm done in so many cases of incarceration, disproportionately of black and brown Americans where the incarceration did far more harm than the offense it was intended to deal with.",Candidate,male,8,1,222
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Right, let me go back to the original question though. How do you explain the increase in black arrests in South Bend under your leadership for marijuana possession?",Moderator,female,8,1,223
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And again, the overall rate was lower than the national rate.",Candidate,male,8,1,224
Lindsey Davis,NA,"No, there was an increase. The year before you were in office, it was lower. Once you became in office in 2012, that number went up. In 2018, the last number year that we have record for, that number was still up.",Moderator,female,8,1,225
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And one of the strategies that our community adopted was to target, when there were cases where there was gun violence and gang violence, which was slaughtering so many in our community, burying teenagers, disproportionately black teenagers, we adopted a strategy that said that drug enforcement would be targeted in cases where there was a connection to the most violent group or gang connected to a murder.",Candidate,male,8,1,226
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"These things are all connected, but that's the point. So are all of the things that need to change in order for us to prevent violence and remove the effects of systemic racism, not just from criminal justice, but from our economy, from health, from housing, and from our democracy itself.",Candidate,male,8,1,227
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Senator Warren, is that a substantial answer from Mayor Buttigieg?",Moderator,female,8,1,228
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No. You have to own up to the fact, and it's important to own up to the facts about how race has totally permeated our criminal justice system. For the exact same crimes, study after study now shows that African Americans are more likely than whites to be detained, to be arrested, to be taken to trial, to be wrongfully convicted, and receive harsher sentences. We need to rework our criminal justice system, from the very front end on what we make illegal all the way through the system, and how we help people come back into the community.",Candidate,female,8,1,229
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But we cannot just say that criminal justice is the only time we want to talk about race specifically. We need to start having race-conscious laws. Housing, for example, I have a great housing plan to build more housing in America, but understand it was the policy of the United States of America to discriminate against African Americans and any other people of color for buying homes until 1965. You can't just repeal that and say ""Okay, now everything is even."" It's not. We need race-conscious laws in education and employment, in entrepreneurship, to make this country a country of opportunity for everyone, no matter the color of their skin.",Candidate,female,8,1,230
Andrew Yang,NA,"Elizabeth, with respect, you can't regulate away racism with a whole patchwork of laws that are race-specific. What we have to do is heed the writings of Martin Luther King, whose birthday we just celebrated. He said that capitalism forgets that life is social, and what he was championing was a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans of $1000 a month or more that would end up reshaping our economy in communities of color, make it so that black net work is not 10% of white net worth in this country, which is the most important number of them all. We can't regulate that away through any other means except by putting money directly into the hands of African Americans and Latinos and people of color to allow businesses to actually flourish and grow in those communities. The only way that will happen is if black and Latino consumers have buying power, and that is where we have to move as a country.",Candidate,male,8,1,231
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Senator Sanders, then Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,8,1,232
Tom Steyer,NA,"Let me say this, I disagree. Andrew, no, let me say this. I disagree with you Andrew. I am the person on this stage who will say openly, I'm for reparations. Something wrong happened. I am for reparations to African Americans in this country, and anyone who things that racism is a thing of the past and not an ongoing problem is not dealing with reality. In fact, three days ago, one of the leaders of Joe Biden's South Carolina campaign made racist remarks about someone associated with our campaign, and the Legislative Black Caucus went out en masse to stand up for that man and for our campaign. Joe, I'm asking you to come with me and the Legislative Black Caucus and disavow Dick Harpootlian and what he had to say. It was wrong, and I'm asking you to join us. Be on the right side.",Candidate,male,8,1,233
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm asking you to join me and join in the support I have from the overwhelming number of the members of that Black Caucus. I have more support in South Carolina in the Black Caucus and the black community than anybody else. Double what you have, or anybody else here.",Candidate,male,8,1,234
Bernie Sanders,NA,I don't think that's quite right.,Candidate,male,8,1,235
Tom Steyer,NA,"But wait a second, wait a second. Bernie.",Candidate,male,8,1,236
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, that is quite right.",Candidate,male,8,1,237
Tom Steyer,NA,"Let's not argue about polls. Bernie, this isn't about polls.",Candidate,male,8,1,238
Lindsey Davis,NA,Senator Sanders ...,Moderator,female,8,1,239
Joe Biden,NA,This is not about polls. I'm not talking about polls.,Candidate,male,8,1,240
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let me just say, first of all, we have nine members of the Black Caucus in South Carolina supporting us, but more importantly, much of what Elizabeth said is absolutely correct. We have a racist society from top to bottom impacting healthcare, housing, criminal justice, education, you name it. And clearly this is an issue that must be dealt with. But in terms of criminal justice, what we have got to do is understand the system is broken, is racist. We invested our young people in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration. We end the war on drugs, which has disproportionately impacted African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. We end private prisons and detention centers in America.",Candidate,male,8,1,241
Tom Steyer,NA,"Bernie, I appreciate what you're saying.",Candidate,male,8,1,242
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And, excuse me, we also, most people don't know this. Tonight in America, 200,000 people are in jail without having been convicted of anything.",Candidate,male,8,1,243
Tom Steyer,NA,That's right.,Candidate,male,8,1,244
Bernie Sanders,NA,"200,000 people, because they can't afford the $500 for bail they need to get out of jail. That is outrageous, we're going to end cash bail in America.",Candidate,male,8,1,245
Tom Steyer,NA,"Okay, let me say this. I've worked, Bernie, I've worked to end cash bail in California and it's gone. I've worked to end private prisons in California and they're gone. I'm somebody who's, our family, my wife and I started a bank specifically to support businesses owned by women, black people, and Latinos, because they couldn't get financing anywhere else. But I, Joe, I want a answer. Really. I think you should come over and disavow the statements that this man made that were openly racist, that were wrong, and the Legislative Black Caucus is against. I'm asking you to join us and do the right thing.",Candidate,male,8,1,246
Joe Biden,NA,"I've already spoken to Dick Harpootlian and he in fact is, I believe, sorry for what he said. But here's the deal, folks. We've got to stop taking the black community for granted. That's the starting place. Every one of the things we talked about here, for example, in South Carolina, Jim Clyburn, he has a program, 10-15-30. We should be investing our money in those communities that haven't gotten help for a long time and give most of that help to those communities. Make it a priority. We should make sure that we have no one going to jail for a drug offense, they go directly, mandatory prison. I mean, excuse me, mandatory treatment, not prison. And we fund it. And we fund it, and three days doesn't get it. It takes at least 60 to 90 days to make any progress. We have to pay for that.",Candidate,male,8,1,247
Joe Biden,NA,"Just like instead of building new prisons, we build new rehabilitation centers. We have to make sure that we have a window at the Treasury Department that allows entrepreneurs who are black and brown and minorities to be able to get loans to be able to start businesses. You know, if you own a house, I know you do know, if you own a house in an all black neighborhood, same exact house in all white neighborhood, exact same shape, the house valued in the black neighborhood would be valued as worth less, making it difficult for you to accumulate wealth, as my friend at the end of the line here says. So here's the deal: we have to do much, much more. That's what got me involved in politics in the first place, redlining, to stop it.",Candidate,male,8,1,248
Joe Biden,NA,"I got involved through the Civil Rights Movement, I became a public defender. That's why I got involved. There's so many things we have to do across the board, and in education, at-risk schools. We should triple the funding we have for at-risk schools to provide for three, four, and five years old to go to school, not daycare. Increase the salaries of teachers, encourage more blacks to get into teaching, especially black men, because studies show when there's a black man in a school, it increases prospects significantly, and so on. There's a lot we can do, I've laid it all out as how to do, go to joebiden.com, you'll see the whole deal, including criminal justice reform.",Candidate,male,8,1,249
Lindsey Davis,NA,"Thank you Mr. Vice President. As you mentioned South Carolina, three weeks from tomorrow they'll go to the polls to vote, black voters make up about 60% of the electorate there. Senator Sanders, several weeks ago, Nina Turner, one of your national co-chairs, published an op-ed piece that said Vice President Biden has ""repeatedly betrayed black voters to side with Republican lawmakers and undermine our progress."" Senator Sanders, do you agree with her, one of your most visible surrogates, that Vice President Biden has repeatedly betrayed black voters?",Moderator,female,8,1,250
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, I think what Senator Turner was talking about are some of the early actions of Vice President Biden, but no. Joe Biden is a friend of mine, and I'm not here to attack him. But what I would say is that what we need in terms of the African American community is to understand that we have got to start investing big time in education, in healthcare. There is no excuse why white families in America have 10 times more wealth than black families. No excuse that disproportionately, African Americans are in jail compared to whites. No excuse for black women dying in childbirth three times the rate that white women are doing as well.",Candidate,male,8,1,251
Lindsey Davis,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,8,1,252
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,8,1,253
Lindsey Davis,NA,You had raised your hand before.,Moderator,female,8,1,254
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yes I did, because I think in addition to the economic argument we're making here with the sad, sad stories of a woman walking into a maternity room in New Orleans and saying her hand are swollen and walking out without her baby, and 30% of African American kids being living in poverty, we know that there are economic solutions here, to invest in those communities, housing, childcare. But there's something else insidious going on that we haven't addressed, and that is the systematic racism when it comes to voting. That is, moves across the country to limit people's right to vote, and that is why I have been leading on these bills to automatically register every kid to vote in this country when they turn 18. There is no reason that we can't do that across this country. To stop the gerrymandering by setting up independent commissions in every single state, and yes, to stop the voting purges.",Candidate,female,8,1,255
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Because what is going on right now in the words of one North Carolina court is that they are discriminating with surgical precision against African American voters, and we are not going to be able to get any of these things done if we don't give people the right to vote.",Candidate,female,8,1,256
Lindsey Davis,NA,Vice President Biden and then Senator Warren.,Moderator,female,8,1,257
Joe Biden,NA,I beg your pardon?,Candidate,male,8,1,258
Lindsey Davis,NA,I just wanted to give you a chance to respond.,Moderator,female,8,1,259
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, I agree completely. There should be registration, automatic registration, turning 18, you get a driver's license, whatever you do, you automatically are registered, number one. Number two, with regard to what we're going to see in South Carolina, we're all going to be there pretty soon. We'll see whether or not it works. In response to the letter that the person, I'm not saying Bernie wrote the letter, but the senator who wrote the letter was very brisk and significant with other African Americans in South Carolina taking issue with her.",Candidate,male,8,1,260
Joe Biden,NA,"But look, Amy is right, the senator's correct. That is that we, in fact, there is systematic racism, and that's why our Justice Department works so hard to go after those. You know, realize there are 35 states in the United States of America that have come up with a total of 78 laws to restrict voting just in the last five years to try to keep African Americans from voting, and brown as well, black and brown people from voting. And that will be an enormous priority in my administration as it was in ours. It's just wrong, simply wrong.",Candidate,male,8,1,261
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I'm glad to stand on this stage with my fellow Democrats who talk about how important the black community is, at least at election time. Year after year after year, election after election after election, Democrats go to people in the black community and say ""Boy, we really care about these issues. Racism is terrible, we all want to do something,"" and then somehow the problem just seems to keep getting worse. Well I think it's time we have real, concrete plans that are going to make a difference in people's lives. I proposed a two cent wealth tax. And let me tell you just one of the things we can do with a two cent wealth tax. We can cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans, and because African Americans have to borrow more money to go to college, borrow more money while they're in college and have a harder time paying it back when they get out, that one law is going to help close the black-white wealth gap for people with student loans by about 20 points.",Candidate,female,8,1,262
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We aren't making a difference in America. We're saying to the rich folks ""You keep your money, and the rest of us will talk about racism but not really do anything."" I think the time for that is over, I'm ready to get in this fight and really make a change.",Candidate,female,8,1,263
Joe Biden,NA,"Okay, thank you.",Candidate,male,8,1,264
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Actually, let's keep this debate going. Go ahead, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,8,1,265
Tom Steyer,NA,"Out of narrative comes policy. And we're talking about a lot of policies that affect Americans, broadly and disproportionately affect black Americans or brown Americans. But what I believe is we should set up a commission on race and deal with race explicitly. Because everyone's saying we can't have rules that are different for different people, but in fact we're here because we had rules that are different for different people. I would set up a formal commission on race on day one to retell the story of the last 400 years in America of systematic racism against African Americans, not just legal discrimination, injustice, and cruelty, but also the contribution that the African American community has made to America in building it and in leading the entire country from a moral standpoint for generations and centuries. Because I believe out of narrative comes policy. We need to repair damage that's been done officially, and pretending we're all the same is not accurate. We got here a certain way. Let's talk about Jim Crow, let's talk about Martin Luther King, let's talk about Barbara Lee, the congresswoman from Oakland who's one of our great leaders, and then let's figure out how to repair the damage so we can move forward together.",Candidate,male,8,1,266
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mr. Yang, take on that argument, also what he said about reparations.",Moderator,male,8,1,267
Andrew Yang,NA,"The median African American household net work is projected to be zero by 2053. Things are not getting better for people of color. If anything, they're getting wore, because we're in the process of eliminating the most common jobs in our economy. It's something of an economic unnatural disaster, and who suffers most in a natural disaster? People of color, people with lower levels of capital and access to opportunity and education.",Candidate,male,8,1,268
Andrew Yang,NA,"And while I know we love to champion education here as Democrats, only 33% of Americans are going attend college, lower percentage of African Americans. There is no way we can prevent this tsunami from wiping out African American net worth unless we put straight cash into their hands sometime between now and 2053, and it's not just them, it is truck drivers, it is retail clerks, it is call center workers, it is accountants, it is bookkeepers. We are in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in the history of our country, and it's going to hit black people the hardest. We have to stop nibbling at the edges and actually start solving the real problem.",Candidate,male,8,1,269
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"We've been getting a lot of questions from Apple News in tonight, including many about a candidate who's not on the stage tonight, but is in this race, and that is former Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York. And this question came in from Nashville, Tennessee, says ""Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has entered the race and just got the endorsement of a former Trump Navy Secretary. Why do you think you are better positioned than Bloomberg to beat Trump?"" Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,8,1,270
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I don't think anyone ought to be able to buy their way into a nomination or to be president of the United States. I don't think any billionaire ought to be able to do it, and I don't think people who suck up to billionaires in order to fund their campaigns out to do it. I heard everyone here talking about as Democrats, we all want to overturn Citizens United because we want to end this unlimited spending, yeah. Except everyone on this stage except Amy and me is either a billionaire or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending. So if you really want to live where you say, then put your money where your mouth is and say no to the PACs.",Candidate,female,8,1,271
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I think the way we build a democracy going forward is not billionaires reaching in their own pockets or people sucking up to billionaires. The way we build it going forward is we have a grassroots movement funded from the grassroots up. That's the way I'm running this campaign. If you think it's the right way to run a campaign, to go elizabethwarren.com and pitch in $5, because understand this: our democracy hangs in the balance. If we have to fund through billionaires, then we're just going to be an America that's going to work better and better for billionaires and not for anyone else.",Candidate,female,8,1,272
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, then Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,8,1,273
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So I can't stand the big money in politics, and one of my major focuses is going to be on passing that constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. I didn't come from money, and I just simply think people don't look at the guy in the White House and say ""Can we get someone richer?"" I don't think they think that. They want to have someone that they can understand. And you know my background. My grandpa was an iron ore miner, he worked 1500 feet underground in the mines his whole life. He couldn't even graduate from high school because he had to raise his nine brothers and sisters. My grandpa saved money in a coffee can to send my dad to a two year community college. That was my family's trust, and you can't send, like Donald Trump got from his family, you can't fit $413 million in a coffee can.",Candidate,female,8,1,274
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"My mom grew up and wanted to be a teacher in Wisconsin. She moved to Minnesota, she taught second grade until she was 70 years old. And no, I am not a billionaire, but I stand before you today as granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to the US Senate from the state of Minnesota, someone who has passed over 100 bills as a lead Democrat in that gridlock in Washington, DC, and that is because we live in a country of shared dreams. And that means no matter where you come from, no matter where you come from, you should be able to make it. So please help me in my efforts at amyklobuchar.com.",Candidate,female,8,1,275
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Everybody's getting the fundraising pitches out here.,Moderator,male,8,1,276
Amy Klobuchar,NA,This is a campaign of real people.,Candidate,female,8,1,277
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Right now, Senator Sanders, I am coming to you, but Mayor Bloomberg is-",Moderator,male,8,1,278
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let's talk about money, and let's talk about-",Candidate,male,8,1,279
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"... Let me just put the question to you, because Mayor Bloomberg has taken on your argument-",Moderator,male,8,1,280
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... I've got to answer before the question, it's more ...",Candidate,male,8,1,281
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"... he says we need evolution, not revolution.",Moderator,male,8,1,282
Bernie Sanders,NA,I couldn't hear that.,Candidate,male,8,1,283
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg has said we need evolution, not revolution, taking you on directly.",Moderator,male,8,1,284
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, it's a funny thing. There are millions of people who can desire to run for office, but I guess if you're work $60 billion and you can spend several hundred million dollars on commercials, you have a slight advantage. That is nonsense. What we have got to do is have a nation in which we not only overturn Citizens United, we move to public funding of election.",Candidate,male,8,1,285
Bernie Sanders,NA,"In terms of money in politics, our campaign, and I am enormously proud of this, unlike some of the folks up here, I don't have 40 billionaires, Pete, contributing to my campaign, coming from the pharmaceutical industry, coming from Wall Street, and all the big money interests. What we do have is we have now over six million contributions from one and a half million people averaging $18.50 a contribution. That is unprecedented in the history of American politics. If we want to change America, you're not going to do it be electing candidates who are going out to rich people's homes begging for money. The way we're going to do it is build a mass movement of working people who are prepared to stand up, not take money from these billionaires, not take money from Wall Street, but stand up to the drug companies and Wall Street. And if you want to be part of that political revolution, berniesanders.com.",Candidate,male,8,1,286
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, close this round out.",Moderator,male,8,1,287
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We are going into the fight of our lives. Donald Trump, according to news reports, and his allies raised $25 million today. We need to go into that fight with everything that we've got. Now I've been very clear on both my record, where I have sued pharmaceutical companies, and what I'm campaigning for, that includes raising wages and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy. And as the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire, I know a thing or two about building a movement because mayor of South Bend, Indiana is not exactly an establishment fundraising powerhouse.",Candidate,male,8,1,288
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We are here without the involvement of any corporate PACs because hundreds of thousands of people went to, yes, peteforamerica.com, contributed to this campaign, and let me say something else. If we want to bring about any of the changes that everyone is talking about so elegantly up here, we need to put together the majority that can decisively defeat Donald Trump. And in order to do that, we need a politics that is defined not by who we reject, but how we bring everybody into the fold. And if you are low-income, or if you're able to contribute a lot. If you've always voted Democrat, or if you're an Independent or even a Republican who's just sick of looking your kids in the eye and trying to explain this White House, we need you to join us right now. I will not pursue politics by telling people they can't be at our side if they're not with us 100% of the time. This is a time for addition, not rejection, for belonging, not exclusion.",Candidate,male,8,1,289
David Muir,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, thank you. I want to turn to climate change and jobs here in America. President Trump just signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, many call it an updated NAFTA. But it odes include incentives to make cars here in North America and it does open Canadian markets for American dairy farmers. Senator Sanders, as we sit here in New Hampshire tonight, both New Hampshire senators Maggie Hassan and Senator Jeanne Shaheen supported this, calling it a real win for workers and for farmers. You voted no, because you said you believe it takes us back years on climate. Were the senators from New Hampshire wrong?",Moderator,male,8,1,290
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Yes. I mean, it's a disagreement, but if you look at every environmental group in this country, including the Sunrise organization, we're so proud to have their support, because we have introduced the most comprehensive climate change proposal I think ever authored by a presidential candidate. But they are saying, what the environmental groups are saying, we're simply exporting fossil fuel emissions to Mexico. There is not one word in that trade agreement ...",Candidate,male,8,1,291
Bernie Sanders,NA,"There is not one word in that trade agreement that deals with climate change and I don't know how in 2020 you can do that. Second of all, there is, in terms of outsourcing of jobs, a major crisis in this country. Nobody believes that under this Trump trade agreement that they will not be continued and significant outsourcing of jobs into low wage Mexico, where workers are paid in some cases less than $2 an hour. So I think the right vote was the vote against that agreement. I don't apologize for that.",Candidate,male,8,1,292
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Sanders, thank you. I do want to go to Senator Klobuchar. You've heard what Senator Sanders just said there. He said not one word on climate in the trade deal. So why did you vote yes?",Moderator,male,8,1,293
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, first of all, I want to defend the honor of the incredible two senators from New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, who work so hard for this state every day and I voted with them. Why did I vote with them? Because there were some major improvements in this trade agreement when it comes to labor inspections, when it comes to getting rid of a sweetheart pharma deal that was in place and when it comes to climate change, I think we have to have a North American trading block. We have to have Mexico and Canada and America working together and the best way to take on climate change as president, yes, I'll work to make this a part of every future trade agreement, but the best way to take on climate change is by getting back into the international climate change agreement, which I will do on day one.",Candidate,female,8,1,294
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"It is bringing back the clean power rules. It is bringing back the gas mileage standards and it is introducing sweeping legislation to put a price on carbon and you cannot divorce trade from that, and in future trade agreements, that should be part of our negotiations. But I'm telling you right now, having no trade agreement with Canada and Mexico puts us at such a disadvantage when it comes to dealing with China and pushing China to do better when it comes to climate change.",Candidate,female,8,1,295
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, thank you. Senator Warren, you voted yes as well.",Moderator,male,8,1,296
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes I did, and I'll tell you why, because there are a lot of farmers around this country that are really hurting because of Donald Trump's trade policies. There are a lot of workers who are hurting because they can't get enforcement of any workers' rights. So this NAFTA provision, after a lot of negotiation with Democrats, Senator Sherrod Brown helped make it a whole lot better. This makes things somewhat better for workers and for farmers and when I see a law that makes things somewhat better for hardworking people in this country, I'm saying, I'll sign up for that and then I'll get up tomorrow morning and I'll start working hard for a better trade deal on climate, a better trade deal that has a basic coherence to it. Everyone wants to get to the American market. We should be raising standards on climate around the world to get access to our market.",Candidate,female,8,1,297
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,male,8,1,298
Tom Steyer,NA,"Yeah, I got to agree with Bernie Sanders, I do. Senator Warren is right. Everybody wants to get into our market, and that's how we convince them that they've got to be right on climate too. That we have to stop making foreign policy decisions in the old way. Yeah, of course, we want to make things better for American workers, and it's absolutely critical that when we think about trade policy, we're thinking about it from the point of view of the American people, not of the American corporations. That's a huge positive change. And I agree with the senators on that, but there's something else going on here when we think about our foreign policy. We talked about whether it was right to kill General Soleimani, and there was no discussion in that about where that leaves the United States in the community of nations around the world.",Candidate,male,8,1,299
Tom Steyer,NA,"So if we actually want to be the leaders of the world, the leaders of the free world who can actually negotiate a climate treaty around the world that sticks, that makes a difference, we're going to have to put climate first, and when we think about doing the wrong thing, the way Mr. Trump did with General Soleimani, we have to ask, does that help us build a coalition of countries around the world to do the right thing? It absolutely does not.",Candidate,male,8,1,300
Tom Steyer,NA,"Being all by ourselves, being the Empire in the Star Wars movie does not put us in a position to get done what we need to get done as the leader of the free world. So in fact, the USMCA is something, that's the first step, but the second step is exactly what Bernie Sanders is saying. Use access to our market as a negotiating thing to make sure not only that we represent American workers, but that we represent the American people in the long run and we make sure that we get a safe climate deal.",Candidate,male,8,1,301
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"One of the things about being in the arena is you have to make decisions all the time and these things aren't always exactly how you would do them. But in this case, if you want to criticize Trump for not ever having any friends, and I would agree, he always sides with tyrants over innocents. He always sides with dictators over allies, but I think you've got to have some friends and those two countries, our neighbors, may not be perfect, but they are our friends, and we have a president that literally blames everyone in the world, and we have not talked about this enough.",Candidate,female,8,1,302
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"He blames Barack Obama for everything that goes wrong. He blames his federal reserve chair that he appointed himself. He blames the King of Denmark, who does that? He blames the prime minister of Canada for, he claims, cutting him out of the Canadian version of Home Alone 2, who does that? That's what Donald Trump does. So my point here is that when we have opportunities to work with our allies, and New Hampshire is such a great example of this, New Hampshire, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, with senators like Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassen, who believe we need to work with NATO and the rest of the world who sees it as a smaller state, but a state that is a piece of the world. We cannot be alone, and that trade agreement was not perfect, but the point of it is, if we start isolating ourselves from the rest of the world, we are going to hurt ourselves economically and we are going to hurt our nation's security.",Candidate,female,8,1,303
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"All right. Senator Klobuchar, thanks very much. We have hit the two hour mark, we need to take a quick break and come back for the final question.",Moderator,male,8,1,304
Devin Dwyer,NA,"Welcome back to Manchester, New Hampshire and the ABC News Democratic Debate. Thanks for joining us here on ABC News Live tonight. I'm Devin Dwyer, joined with our political correspondent, Rachel Scott. Rachel, we heard so much this last block about gun policy, abortion, climate change, and then the issue of race, pushed on by Tom Steyer and really a lot of the candidates confronting Joe Biden, a sign of where this campaign is headed.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,305
Rachel Scott,NA,"Exactly, Devin. Steyer tonight calling out the lack of discussion when it comes to race on that stage, the conversation turning 90 minutes into this debate and Biden touting what the national polls reflect. His loyalty among African American voters. I have sat down with the vice president, he has told me it's one of the things that he is most proud of, his loyalty among black supporters, and if you want to just see how important black voters are to the democratic base, all you have to look at are the numbers from 2016, the exit polls from that primary, 6 out of 10 voters in Mississippi were black, 61% of voters in the South Carolina primary were black, and that's where the candidates are going to be heading very soon ahead of that.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,306
Devin Dwyer,NA,"And to Nevada as well with a lot of voters of color there and Joe Biden holding a lion's share of those voters. We'll see if these candidates can chip away. You know, we were talking so many of the policies we heard about tonight, like so many of the previous debates, are familiar positions from these candidates, which is why the style of their performance tonight is going to get a lot of attention from voters.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,307
Rachel Scott,NA,"It will, but you know, when I talk to voters as I travel the country, they tell me their number one concern is electability. They want someone that could be President Trump, they want someone that could carry this over the finish line and that's why you hear so much of the session pitting back to who can do that on that stage today.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,308
Devin Dwyer,NA,"I was up in Derry, New Hampshire just yesterday hearing not only a lot of attention on those qualities of style, but also a lot of anxiety over this issue of electability particularly now with Donald Trump's polling numbers on the rise, his performance at the State of the Union and his acquittal in that Senate trial. It's going to be a four day sprint, I know you're going to be out there all weekend as I will as well and we were just talking about what this moment in this campaign will mean. We could see a dramatically smaller field after Tuesday night here in New Hampshire.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,309
Rachel Scott,NA,"Tom Perez came out here and he said, listen, we are beginning a 90 day sprint. Most of the delegates are going to be grabbed up by the end of this 90 days and the candidates really have to hone in on their pitch here. The voting has started, already. We're moving into the New Hampshire primary and a lot of these candidates have a lot on the line here. They only have a few days left to gain momentum before that next vote is cast, and again, this race is getting tighter and tighter.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,310
Devin Dwyer,NA,"And we know Donald Trump will be here in New Hampshire and Manchester as well, on Monday. So things are going to get a little even more exciting four days ahead of the New Hampshire primaries. We had back now for the final question in this ABC News Democratic Debate. Take a look at the speaking times of the candidates. We'll leave you with that. Joe Biden, top of the list, all the candidates back at their podiums. Stay with us right here on ABC News Live.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,311
Announcer,NA,"The democratic debate. Here now, George Stephanopoulos.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,312
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Welcome back to our debate, time now for a final question. Each of you will answer it in turn. We'll start with Mr.Yang, and the question is this. According to the Children's Defense Fund, it's been more than 20 years since child poverty was directly addressed in a presidential debate. The year was 1999 the question was our friend and former [inaudible] who may be watching right now, the late Cokie Roberts.",Moderator,male,8,1,313
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Cokie loved the New Hampshire primary, and she asked the candidates in this Republican debate, how will we overcome the scandal of one quarter of American preschoolers living in poverty in the richest nation on earth? Today, nearly one in five American preschoolers are still living below the poverty line, even though we've had 10 straight years of economic growth. What does that say to you about where America is today and what we need to do about it?",Moderator,male,8,1,314
Andrew Yang,NA,"George, we're in the midst of the most extreme winner take all economy in the history of our country, and unfortunately, that extremity is just going to reach unprecedented heights as technology is getting stronger, smarter, more capable all the time, and most of us are not. Most adults feel happy if we stayed about the same on any given day. So if we want to alleviate child poverty, we need to put money directly into the hands of families, particularly single parents, 40% of American children today are born to single moms, 90% of single parents are single moms and right now we have fallen into this trap where we have allowed the market to tell us what we are all worth.",Candidate,male,8,1,315
Andrew Yang,NA,"What is the market value my wife, Evelyn had, or stay at home parents around the country? Zero. Caregivers taking care of ailing loved ones, like Kyle Christensen in Iowa? Zero. Volunteers and activists in our communities trying to do something positive? Zero. Coaches and mentors helping our kids? Zero. Most artists, sorry artists, but it's true. Zero. Increasingly local journalists, which is wiping out our ability to have a functioning democracy because you can't vote on something if you actually don't have any news coverage. The mission in this campaign has to be for us to disentangle economic value and human value, say they are not the same things and make this case to our fellow Americans. That we each have intrinsic value as citizens, as human beings and as owners and shareholders of the richest country in the history of the world.",Candidate,male,8,1,316
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The problem is, America's been counting the wrong things. Now we have a president who says the economy is fantastic because the Dow Jones is looking good. I'm sure if you've got a building with your name on it close to Wall Street, then that really is the same thing as the economy to you. But the problem is, we've had an economy grow and not be able to lift up those most in need, or even so many in the middle.",Candidate,male,8,1,317
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"When I'm president, we're going to measure the performance of our economy, not by the Dow Jones but by the income growth of the 90%, because a good economy is one where children are being lifted out of poverty. Just as we focused in South B on cutting the poverty rate, in particular, the black poverty rate and making sure families with children were participating in the growth that we did have. This is one more example of something where the American people want to see change. The American people, not just die hard Democrats, but so many Independents and some Republicans, think we need to prioritize economic equity and yet it still doesn't happen. That is why we need to recognize that the time has arrived for a different kind of politics. To turn the page, leave the politics of the past in the past and deliver a better future before it is too late.",Candidate,male,8,1,318
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Warren.,Moderator,male,8,1,319
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So I started my grownup life as a special education teacher. I learned early on about the worth of every single human being, and I believe that the best investment we can make as a nation, the best investment we can make as human beings, is to invest in our children. We've had enough of making rhetoric around this. Everyone says they love the kids, but here's the deal. It's time to come up with real plans to make that happen. I've talked before about a two cent wealth tax, but the whole idea behind it is we can do early childhood education and good quality child care, universal pre-K for every three year old and four year old in America, and we can stop exploiting the people, largely black and brown women who do this work and raise the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher in America.",Candidate,female,8,1,320
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We want to have a real future in this country, then invest in our children. Don't leave public education just to our localities in our states. Be a good federal partner. Put real money into our schools, put real money into housing, put real money into into healthcare. Put real money into the future of our children. That's how we build the America of our best values.",Candidate,female,8,1,321
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mr. Vice President.,Moderator,male,8,1,322
Joe Biden,NA,"I come from a family where our dad walked in one day and said, we've got to move. Don't have a job. We've got to move to a different city. I watched my dad and I met many people here in this state and others, who go through the same thing where the father's made that longest walk or the mother's made that longest walk. I was listed for the entire time I was in the United States Congress as the poorest man in the United States Congress. My net worth was net zero a couple of times. The fact of the matter is that I've never focused on money for me and I was a single dad for five years. It's not as hard as being a single mom and I had help from my sisters in the audience and others, but the fact is that I think we have to focus on what is at stake here.",Candidate,male,8,1,323
Joe Biden,NA,"These aren't someone else's children. They're all our children. They're the kite strings that lift our national ambitions, they really are. They lift our national ambitions aloft. We have an overwhelming interest, overwhelming interest in seeing to it they do well. You know, 24 out of every 100 students in school today, from grade school to high school, are Latino. What are we going to do? Walk away from that?",Candidate,male,8,1,324
Joe Biden,NA,"Many of them come from homes that are poor, very poor. That's why I invest so much time and energy in preschool. That's why if I only have $1 to spend, I spend it equipping the child before they get into school in the early day, than after and we talk about all those kids out there that are going to be graduating. A great number of them, as Mr. Yang said, aren't going on to college, although I think we should help with college. They're not going on to college. What they're going to do, they're going to be equipped to compete in the 21st century by training them for the new trades, the new opportunities, the new capabilities that are out there. We must focus on our children. Like I said, they're all our children, they're not somebody else's kids. Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone, as my father would say, is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect and we're not doing it.",Candidate,male,8,1,325
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,male,8,1,326
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, the answer to your question of why we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth, disproportionately high for the African American community, by the way, is the same reason that we give massive trillion dollar tax breaks to the rich and large corporations. Same reason that we give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks to the fossil fuel industry, while half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. The same reason that we have three people in America owning more wealth than the bottom half of America.",Candidate,male,8,1,327
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The same reason that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right. Same reason as to why we are paying in some cases 10 times more than other countries for prescription drugs, and that reason is that our priorities are determined by the 1% and by wealthy campaign contributors. Our priorities are determined by those who want to see the rich get richer and are turning their backs on the working families of this country. What is unique about our campaign, is we say, unashamedly, we are raising our campaign contributions, not from billionaires but from working class people. That our campaign is about the working families of this country for the working class of this country and that is the administration that we will run. It is time to take on the big money interests. It is time to change our national priorities. Thank you.",Candidate,male,8,1,328
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Senator Klobuchar.,Moderator,male,8,1,329
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"In Cokie's memory, let me answer this question. We may have lost an election in 2016, Democrats, but we did not lose hope. And there is a way, it's actually based on a National Academy of Science report and I've used that to put together a plan to reduce child poverty in half in 10 years and eradicate it in a generation. We can do it with investment in childcare. We can do it with investment in preschool and school and we can do it with tax credits and we can get it done. But to get it done, we have to be able to reach those voters that we lost in this state and across the country.",Candidate,female,8,1,330
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"There's an old story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and when he died, his body was put on a train and went up across America and there was a guy standing by those tracks along with so many Americans, and he had his hat on his chest and he was sobbing and a reporter said, Sir, did you know the president? And the guy says, no, I didn't know the president, but he knew me. He knew me. I will tell you this, there is a complete lack of empathy in this guy in the White House right now. I will bring that to you.",Candidate,female,8,1,331
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"If you have trouble stretching your paycheck to pay for that rent. I know you and I will fight for you. If you have trouble deciding if you're going to pay for your childcare or your longterm care, I know you and I will fight for you. If you have trouble figuring out if you're going to fill your refrigerator or fill your prescription drug, I know you and I will fight for you. I do not have the biggest name up on this stage. I don't have the biggest bank account. I'm not a political newcomer with no record, but I have a record of fighting for people. I'm asking you to join us@amyklobuchar.com. I'm asking you to believe that someone who totally believes in America can win this because if you are tired of the extremes in our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me, Please, New Hampshire, I would love your vote and I would love the vote of America. Thank you.",Candidate,female,8,1,332
George Stephanopoulos,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,male,8,1,333
Tom Steyer,NA,"The Republicans have a cruel plan and their plan is pretty simple. It's to cut taxes on the richest Americans and the biggest corporations and then they pay for it by cutting education for kids, by cutting healthcare across the board, by allowing corporations to pollute as much as they want, and then they try and break unions and the organized labor movement. It's very simple. That's what Mr. Trump's plan is and it's true in every single red state, but we are not going to win by just criticizing Mr. Trump. I know that there is a better America out there and that America lives in our hearts and minds. And that America understands that when a kid succeeds in Columbia, South Carolina, that is a triumph for every American. And the same is true of a kid in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Trump has no idea what prosperity looks like across this country. It's not just that he does bad things. He doesn't understand that investing in education and healthcare and good union jobs is actually an investment in our common humanity and in growth in the future, mobility and justice. That is the America that lives in our hearts and minds that will beat Mr. Trump, because he will never be able to imagine it. So in fact, what we need to do is have a new conception, a new dream of America, dream it and make it happen. Imagine the mountain and then we climb it together. We are in perilous times. I am asking for your vote. Let's rise together.",Candidate,male,8,1,334
George Stephanopoulos,NA,"Candidates. Thank you. Thanks for a great debate tonight. Thanks to our audience here at Saint Anselm College. Thanks for our partners, WMUR and Apple News and now I'd like to send it to my colleague Martha Raddatz.",Moderator,male,8,1,335
Martha Raddatz,NA,"Thanks very much George and good evening from high above the debate stage here in Manchester. After the sometimes fiery exchanges between the top seven democratic candidates, it was a profoundly important debate. The last big chance for the candidates to make their case before the first in the nation primary this Tuesday. We have a lot to discuss and we will be heading over to the spin room with my colleague Tom Llamas and our panel of ABC political contributors shortly, but first, here with me as we watch the candidates leave the stage.",Moderator,unknown,8,1,336
Martha Raddatz,NA,"Elizabeth Warren leaving rather quickly there. Pete Buttigieg staying on stage, Joe Biden as well and Bernie Sanders, a big hug there between Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten, Bernie Sanders, his wife Jane, Cheston and Pete Buttigieg again. Bernie Sanders a long day that started this morning, Buttigieg going towards the audience there, shaking some hands. Joining me here on the stage up here, John Carl, our chief White House correspondent, Mary Bruce, our senior congressional correspondent, Joe Biden coming back over there to the audience as well, to meet his wife there, Dr. Jill Biden, a big hug, a very big night for Joe Biden. He had a lot to get through tonight. Also joining me is our senior White House correspondent, Cecilia Vega, and our Nightline co-anchor...",Moderator,unknown,8,1,337
Lester Holt,NA,"Good evening, everyone. I'm Lester Holt. Welcome to Las Vegas.",Moderator,male,9,1,1
Lester Holt,NA,"Everything is on the line tonight, with just three days before the critical Nevada caucuses. Here with me on the stage tonight, NBC News political director and moderator of ""Meet the Press,"" Chuck Todd. And NBC News chief White House correspondent and MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson. Also joining us is Telemundo senior correspondent Vanessa Hauc. And editor of the Nevada Independent Jon Ralston, who has covered Nevada politics for more than three decades.",Moderator,male,9,1,2
Lester Holt,NA,"The rules are this tonight. Candidates will get a minute and 15 seconds to answer each question and 45 seconds for follow-ups. Now that the stage is narrowed to six candidates, we encourage each of you to directly engage with each other on the issues.",Moderator,male,9,1,3
Lester Holt,NA,"So let's get to our first question. Since the last time you all shared the stage, Senator Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has surged into the lead nationally in the Democratic race. And there's a new person on the stage tonight, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former Republican who spent millions of his own dollars to run in this race.",Moderator,male,9,1,4
Lester Holt,NA,"What hasn't changed: a majority of Democratic voters still say their top priority is beating President Trump. Senator Sanders, the first question to you. Mayor Bloomberg is pitching himself as a centrist who says he's best positioned to win in November. Why is your revolution a better bet?",Moderator,male,9,1,5
Bernie Sanders,NA,"In order to beat Donald Trump, we're going to need the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States. Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop and frisk which went after African-American and Latino people in an outrageous way. That is not a way you're going to grow voter turnout.",Candidate,male,9,1,6
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What our movement is about is bringing working-class people together, black and white and Latino, Native American, Asian American, around an agenda that works for all of us and not just the billionaire class. And that agenda says that maybe, just maybe, we should join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee health care to all people as a human right, raise that minimum wage to a living wage of $15 bucks an hour, and have the guts to take on the fossil fuel industry, because their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet and the need to combat climate change.",Candidate,male,9,1,7
Bernie Sanders,NA,Those are some of the reasons we have the strongest campaign to defeat Donald Trump.,Candidate,male,9,1,8
Elizabeth Warren,NA,So I'd like...,Candidate,female,9,1,9
Lester Holt,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, can Senator Sanders beat President Trump? And how do you want to respond to what else he said?",Moderator,male,9,1,10
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I don't think there's any chance of the senator beating President Trump. You don't start out by saying I've got 160 million people I'm going to take away the insurance plan that they love. That's just not a way that you go and start building the coalition that the Sanders camp thinks that they can do. I don't think there's any chance whatsoever. And if he goes and is the candidate, we will have Donald Trump for another four years. And we can't stand that.",Candidate,male,9,1,11
Lester Holt,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,9,1,12
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So I'd like to talk about who we're running against, a billionaire who calls women ""fat broads"" and ""horse-faced lesbians."" And, no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.",Candidate,female,9,1,13
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting racist polls like redlining and stop and frisk.",Candidate,female,9,1,14
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I'll support whoever the Democratic nominee is. But understand this: Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.",Candidate,female,9,1,15
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,16
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This country has worked for the rich for a long time and left everyone else in the dirt. It is time to have a president who will be on the side of working families and be willing to get out there and fight for them. That is why I am in this race, and that is how I will beat Donald Trump.",Candidate,female,9,1,17
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,18
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We've got to wake up...,Candidate,male,9,1,19
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Klobuchar -- Senator Klobuchar, what do you think the path is from this stage to the White House? What works?",Moderator,male,9,1,20
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I think the path is a high voter turnout. I'm the one on this stage that had the highest voter turnout of any state in the country when I led the ticket, as well as bringing in rural and suburban voters. And I've done that, as well. And I'm the only one with the receipts to have done that in Republican congressional districts over and over again.",Candidate,female,9,1,21
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But I want to say this: I actually welcomed Mayor Bloomberg to the stage. I thought that he shouldn't be hiding behind his TV ads, and so I was all ready for this big day. And then I looked at the memo from his campaign staff this morning, and it said that he actually thought that three of us should get out of the way. That is what his campaign said because we should ""pave the way"" for him to become the nominee.",Candidate,female,9,1,22
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"You know, I have been told as a woman, as someone that maybe no one thought was still going to be standing up on this stage, but I am because of pure grit and because of the people out there, I've been told many times to wait my turn and to step aside. And I'm not going to do that now, and I'm not going to do that because a campaign memo from Mayor Bloomberg said this morning that the only way that we get a nominee is if we step aside for him.",Candidate,female,9,1,23
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I think we need something different than Donald Trump. I don't think you look at Donald Trump and say we need someone richer in the White House.,Candidate,female,9,1,24
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,25
Lester Holt,NA,"Thank you. Mayor Bloomberg, there's a lot for you to respond to there, so here's your opportunity.",Moderator,male,9,1,26
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I think we have two questions to face tonight. One is, who can beat Donald Trump? And, number two, who can do the job if they get into the White House? And I would argue that I am the candidate that can do exactly both of those things.",Candidate,male,9,1,27
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I'm a New Yorker. I know how to take on an arrogant conman like Donald Trump, that comes from New York. I'm a mayor or was a mayor. I know how to run a complicated city, the biggest, most diverse city in this country.",Candidate,male,9,1,28
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I'm a manager. I knew what to do after 9/11 and brought the city back stronger than ever. And I'm a philanthropist who didn't inherit his money but made his money. And I'm spending that money to get rid of Donald Trump, the worst president we have ever had. And if I can get that done, it will be a great contribution to America and to my kids.",Candidate,male,9,1,29
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,30
Lester Holt,NA,"Vice President Biden, I'll let you weigh in here.",Moderator,male,9,1,31
Joe Biden,NA,"In terms of who can beat Donald Trump, NBC did a poll yesterday. It says Joe Biden is best equipped to beat Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,9,1,32
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,33
Joe Biden,NA,"That's what your poll said. And it said that I can beat him in those toss-up states, too, those states we have to win. I'm ahead by eight points across the board. So in terms of being able to beat Donald Trump, I'm better positioned, according to your poll, than anybody else to beat Donald Trump, number one.",Candidate,male,9,1,34
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,35
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, the mayor makes an interesting point. The mayor says that he has a great record, that he's done these wonderful things. Well, the fact -- the fact of the matter is, he has not managed his city very, very well when he was there. He didn't get a whole lot done. He had stop and frisk, throwing close to 5 million young black men up against a wall. And when we came along in our administration, President Obama, and said we're going to send in a moderator to -- a mediator, stop it, he said that's unnecessary.",Candidate,male,9,1,36
Joe Biden,NA,"So I -- we're going to get a chance to talk about the mayor's record. But in terms of who is best prepared to beat Donald Trump, look at your poll and what it says.",Candidate,male,9,1,37
Lester Holt,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you'd like to weigh in.",Moderator,male,9,1,38
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yes, we've got to wake up as a party. We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage.",Candidate,male,9,1,39
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.,Candidate,male,9,1,40
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Let's put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood, in an industrial Midwestern city. Let's put forward somebody who's actually a Democrat. Look...",Candidate,male,9,1,41
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,42
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We shouldn't have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and another candidate who wants to buy this party out. We can do better.,Candidate,male,9,1,43
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator -- Senator Sanders, are you polarizing?",Moderator,male,9,1,44
Bernie Sanders,NA,"If speaking to the needs and the pain of a long-neglected working class is polarizing, I think you got the wrong word. What we are trying finally to do is to give a voice to people who after 45 years of work are not making a nickel more than they did 45 years ago. We are giving a voice to people who are saying we are sick and tired of billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg seeing huge expansions of their wealth while a half-a-million people sleep out on the street tonight.",Candidate,male,9,1,45
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And that's what we are saying, Pete, is maybe it's a time for the working class of this country to have a little bit of power in Washington, rather than your billionaire campaign contributors.",Candidate,male,9,1,46
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,47
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"All right, look, first of all -- look, my campaign is fueled by hundreds of thousands of contributors.",Candidate,male,9,1,48
Bernie Sanders,NA,Including 46 billionaires.,Candidate,male,9,1,49
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Among the hundreds of thousands of contributors. And, look, we've got to unite this country to deal with these issues. You're not the only one who cares about the working class. Most Americans believe we need to empower workers.",Candidate,male,9,1,50
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,51
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"As a matter of fact, you're the one who is at war with the Culinary Union right here in Las Vegas. We can solve these issues...",Candidate,male,9,1,52
Bernie Sanders,NA,We more union support than you have ever dreamed of. We have the support of unions all across this country.,Candidate,male,9,1,53
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yeah, but the vision I'm putting forward has the support of the American people. We can actually deliver health care without taking it away from anyone. We can actually empower workers and lift wages without further polarizing this country. And we can build a movement without having legions of our supporters online and in person attacking Democratic figures and union leaders alike.",Candidate,male,9,1,54
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I think it is important here...,Candidate,female,9,1,55
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator Warren, I have a question for you. On Sunday, on ""Meet the Press,"" Vice President Biden accused Senator Sanders' supporters of bullying union leaders here with, quote, ""vicious, malicious, misogynistic things."" You said Democrats cannot build an inclusive party on a foundation of hate. Are Senator Sanders and his supporters making it harder for Democrats to unify in November?",Moderator,female,9,1,56
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I have said many times before, we are all responsible for our supporters. And we need to step up. That's what leadership is all about.",Candidate,female,9,1,57
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But the way we are going to lead this country and beat Donald Trump is going to be with a candidate who has rock-solid values and who actually gets something done. When Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African-Americans and Latinos for the housing crash of 2008, I was right here in Las Vegas, literally just a few blocks down the street, holding hearings on the banks that were taking away homes from millions of families.",Candidate,female,9,1,58
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"That's when I met Mr. Estrada, one of your neighbors. He came in to testify, and he said he thought he'd done everything right with Wells Fargo, but what had happened? They took away his house in a matter of weeks. This man stood there and cried while he talked about what it was like to tell his two little daughters that they might not be in their elementary school, that they might be living out of their van.",Candidate,female,9,1,59
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I spent the next years making sure that would never happen again. Wall Street fought us every inch of the way on a consumer agency. They lost, and I won. We need a candidate with unshakable values and a candidate who can actually get something done for working people.",Candidate,female,9,1,60
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,61
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,62
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"That's why I'm in this race, and that's how I'll beat Donald Trump.",Candidate,female,9,1,63
Hallie Jackson,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,9,1,64
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We have over 10.6 million people on Twitter, and 99.9 percent of them are decent human beings, are working people, are people who believe in justice, compassion, and love. And if there are a few people who make ugly remarks, who attack trade union leaders, I disown those people. They are not part of our movement.",Candidate,male,9,1,65
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But let me also say what I hope my friends up here will agree with is that if you look at the wild west of the internet, talk to some of the African-American women on my campaign. Talk to Senator Nina Turner. Talk to others and find the vicious, racist, sexist attacks that are coming their way, as well.",Candidate,male,9,1,66
Bernie Sanders,NA,So I would hope that all of us understand that we should do everything we possibly can to end the viciousness and ugliness on the internet. Our campaign is about issues. It's about fighting for the working families and the middle class. It is not about vicious attacks on other people.,Candidate,male,9,1,67
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,9,1,68
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Senator, when you say that you disown these attacks and you didn't personally direct them, I believe you.",Candidate,male,9,1,69
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, thank you.",Candidate,male,9,1,70
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But at a -- but at a certain point, you got to ask yourself, why did this pattern arise? Why is it especially the case among your supporters that this happens?",Candidate,male,9,1,71
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I don't think it is especially the case, by the way.",Candidate,male,9,1,72
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That's just not true. Look, people know the way your supporters treat them.",Candidate,male,9,1,73
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, Pete, if you want to talk to some of the women on my campaign, what you will see is the most ugly, sexist, racist attacks that are -- I wouldn't even describe them here, they're so disgusting.",Candidate,male,9,1,74
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And let me say something else about this, not being too paranoid. All of us remember 2016, and what we remember is efforts by Russians and others to try to interfere in our election and divide us up. I'm not saying that's happening, but it would not shock me.",Candidate,male,9,1,75
Bernie Sanders,NA,I saw some of those tweets regarding the Culinary Workers Union. I have a 30-year 100 percent pro-union voting record. Do you think I would support or anybody who supports me would be attacking union leaders? It's not thinkable.,Candidate,male,9,1,76
Pete Buttigieg,NA,But leadership is about what you draw out of people. It's what -- it's about how you inspire people to act.,Candidate,male,9,1,77
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,78
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And right now, we're in this toxic political environment. Leadership isn't just about policy. I think at least in broad terms, we're largely pulling in the same direction on policy, but leadership is also about how you motivate people to treat other people.",Candidate,male,9,1,79
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I think you have to accept some responsibility and ask yourself what it is about your campaign in particular that seems to be motivating this behavior more than others, because in order to turn the page on the Trump era, we're going to need a president, not just a candidate who can win, but a president who can move us forward.",Candidate,male,9,1,80
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I have an idea -- I have an idea of how we can stop sexism on the internet. We could nominate a woman for candidate for president of the United States.,Candidate,female,9,1,81
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,82
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I think that might go a long way if we showed our stuff as a party.,Candidate,female,9,1,83
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And the other thing I'm going to talk about is really what is at the core of this issue between Senator Sanders and the Culinary Union, and that is this. These are hard-working people, housekeepers like Elizabeth and I met with last night, who have health care plans that have been negotiated over time, sweat and blood. And that is the truth for so many Americans right now.",Candidate,female,9,1,84
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,9,1,85
Amy Klobuchar,NA,There are 149 million Americans that would lose their current health insurance under Senator Sanders' bill. That's what it says on page 8.,Candidate,female,9,1,86
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,9,1,87
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And I don't think we should forget that.,Candidate,female,9,1,88
Hallie Jackson,NA,"On that note, I want to turn it over to my colleague, Chuck Todd.",Moderator,female,9,1,89
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Sanders, I'm going to stay on this topic, on this issue with the Culinary Union. Obviously, their leaders are warning their members about -- that your health care plan will take away their health care plan, take away private insurance completely. There are some Democrats who like you a lot but worry that this plan, Medicare for all, is going to take away private insurance and that it goes too far. Are they right?",Moderator,male,9,1,90
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No. Let me be very clear, two points. For a hundred years, from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama, this country has been talking about the need to guarantee health care for all people. And yet today, despite spending twice as much per capita, Chuck, twice as much as any other major country on Earth, we got 87 million who are uninsured or underinsured, we got over 60,000 people who die every year because they don't get to a doctor on time.",Candidate,male,9,1,91
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We're getting ripped off outrageously by the greed and corruption of a pharmaceutical industry, which in some cases charges us 10 times more for the same drugs because of their price-fixing, 500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they can't afford medical bills.",Candidate,male,9,1,92
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So let me be very clear to my good friends in the Culinary Workers Union, a great union. I will never sign a bill that will reduce the health care benefits they have. We will only expand it for them, for every union in the America, and for the working class of this country.",Candidate,male,9,1,93
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,94
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Warren, you were all in on Medicare for all, and then you have since came up with a transition plan. Is it because of the impact on unions?",Moderator,male,9,1,95
Elizabeth Warren,NA,So I want to be clear. I've been to the Culinary Union's health care facilities. They're terrific. You don't want to shut them down. You want to expand them. You want to see them all across Nevada and all across this country.,Candidate,female,9,1,96
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But we need to get everybody's health care plan out here. Mayor Buttigieg really has a slogan that was thought up by his consultants to paper over a thin version of a plan that would leave millions of people unable to afford their health care. It's not a plan. It's a PowerPoint.,Candidate,female,9,1,97
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And Amy's plan is even less. It's like a Post-It note, ""Insert Plan Here.""",Candidate,female,9,1,98
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Bernie has started very much -- has a good start, but instead of expanding and bringing in more people to help, instead, his campaign relentlessly attacks everyone who asks a question or tries to fill in details about how to actually make this work. And then his own advisors say, yeah, probably won't happen anyway.",Candidate,female,9,1,99
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, health care is a crisis in this country. We need -- my approach to this is we need as much help for as many people as quickly as possible and bring in as many supporters as we can. And if we don't get it all the first time, take the win and come back into the fight to ask for more.",Candidate,female,9,1,100
Chuck Todd,NA,"Guys, I'm going to get everybody in.",Moderator,male,9,1,101
Elizabeth Warren,NA,People need our help on this.,Candidate,female,9,1,102
Chuck Todd,NA,"I got you. Mayor Buttigieg, I think she name-checked you first. I'll let you go first.",Moderator,male,9,1,103
Chuck Todd,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,104
Bernie Sanders,NA,She name-checked me second.,Candidate,male,9,1,105
Chuck Todd,NA,"Yes, well, OK. I think Amy second.",Moderator,male,9,1,106
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'm more of a Microsoft Word guy. And if you look at my plan, I don't know if there are any PowerPoints on it, but you can definitely find the document on peteforamerica.com. And you'll see that it is a plan that solves the problem, makes sure there is no such thing as an uninsured American, and does it without kicking anybody off the plan that they have.",Candidate,male,9,1,107
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This idea that the union members don't know what's good for them is the exact kind of condescension and arrogance that makes people skeptical of the policies we've been putting forward. Here we have a plan that the majority of Americans support. Do you realize how historic that is? That the American people are ready in a way far beyond what was true even 10 years ago and what was available to President Obama at the time. There's a powerful American majority ready to undertake the biggest, most progressive reform we've had in health care in 50 years, just so long as we don't force it on anybody. What is wrong with that?",Candidate,male,9,1,108
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Could I respond to that?,Candidate,female,9,1,109
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,110
Chuck Todd,NA,"Let me go Senator Klobuchar, and then I'll have you respond.",Moderator,male,9,1,111
Amy Klobuchar,NA,OK.,Candidate,female,9,1,112
Chuck Todd,NA,"All right, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,9,1,113
Bernie Sanders,NA,I was (inaudible) through there.,Candidate,male,9,1,114
Chuck Todd,NA,"Well, I think the Post-It note came first, Senator. I don't know.",Moderator,male,9,1,115
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,116
Chuck Todd,NA,I do think the Post-It note came first.,Moderator,male,9,1,117
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I must say, I take personal offense since Post-It notes were invented in my state, so...",Candidate,female,9,1,118
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,119
Chuck Todd,NA,(inaudible) 3M.,Moderator,male,9,1,120
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"OK. So my plan is a public option. And according to all the studies out there, it would reduce premiums for 12 million people immediately. It would expand coverage for about that same number. It is a significant thing. It is what Barack Obama wanted to do from the very beginning.",Candidate,female,9,1,121
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And the way I look at it, since we're in Vegas, when it comes to your plan, Elizabeth and Bernie's, on Medicare for all, you don't put your money on a number that's not even on the wheel. And why is Medicare for all not on the wheel? Why is it not on the wheel? Because two-thirds of the Democratic senators are not even on that bill, because a bunch of the new House members that got elected see the problems with blowing up the Affordable Care Act. They see it right in front of them.",Candidate,female,9,1,122
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And the truth is that when you see some troubled waters, you don't blow up a bridge, you build one. And so we need to improve the Affordable Care Act, not blow it up.",Candidate,female,9,1,123
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,124
Chuck Todd,NA,You name-checked three of them. Let me get Senator Sanders in there.,Moderator,male,9,1,125
Bernie Sanders,NA,I'm also attacked here.,Candidate,male,9,1,126
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,127
Chuck Todd,NA,"Go ahead, Senator Sanders.",Moderator,male,9,1,128
Bernie Sanders,NA,We'll get you in. We got a lot of people in here.,Candidate,male,9,1,129
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,130
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Some -- it's my turn, yeah?",Candidate,male,9,1,131
Chuck Todd,NA,"Yes, sir.",Moderator,male,9,1,132
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Somehow or another, Canada can provide universal health care to all their people at half the cost. U.K. can do it. France can do it. Germany can do it. All of Europe can do it. Gee-whiz, somehow or another, we are the only major country on Earth that can't do it. Why is that?",Candidate,male,9,1,133
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And I'll tell you why. It's because, last year, the health care industry made $100 billion in profits. Pharmaceutical industry, top six companies, $69 billion in profit. And those CEOs are contributing to Pete's campaign and other campaigns up here.",Candidate,male,9,1,134
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Let's clear this up right now.,Candidate,male,9,1,135
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So maybe it is finally time that we said as a nation, enough is enough, the function of a rational health care system is not to make the pharmaceutical industry and the drug companies rich. It is to provide health care to all people as a human right, not a privilege.",Candidate,male,9,1,136
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mr. Vice President, you got it.",Moderator,male,9,1,137
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,138
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No premiums, no copayments, no deductibles.",Candidate,male,9,1,139
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mr. Vice President, go ahead, and then Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,9,1,140
Chuck Todd,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,141
Chuck Todd,NA,Mr. Vice President and Senator Warren.,Moderator,male,9,1,142
Joe Biden,NA,"Hey, I'm the only one on this stage that actually got anything done on health care, OK?",Candidate,male,9,1,143
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,144
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm the guy the president turned to and said, go get the votes for Obamacare. And I notice what everybody's talking about is the plan that I first introduced. That is to go and add to Obamacare, provide a public option, a Medicare-like option. It cost -- and increase the subsidies. It cost a lot of money. It cost $750 billion over 10 years. But I paid for it by making sure that Mike and other people pay at the same tax rate their secretary pays at.",Candidate,male,9,1,145
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,146
Joe Biden,NA,"That's how we get it paid, number one. Number two, you know, from the moment -- from the moment we passed that signature legislation, Mike called it a disgrace, number one. Number two, Trump decided to get rid of it. And, number three, my friends here came up with another plan.",Candidate,male,9,1,147
Joe Biden,NA,"But they don't tell you, when you ask Bernie how much it costs, the last time he said that -- I think it was on your show -- he said we'll find out, we'll find out or something to that effect. It cost over $35 trillion bucks. Let's get real.",Candidate,male,9,1,148
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,149
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Warren, you get the final word on this one and then we go to another question.",Moderator,male,9,1,150
Bernie Sanders,NA,And your plan costs $50 trillion.,Candidate,male,9,1,151
Chuck Todd,NA,"Go ahead, Senator Warren.",Moderator,male,9,1,152
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"What am I, chicken liver?",Candidate,male,9,1,153
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So I actually took a look at the plans that are posted. Mayor Buttigieg, there are four expenses that families pay, right, premiums, deductibles, co-pays, and uncovered medical expenses. Mayor Buttigieg says he will put a cap only on the premiums.",Candidate,female,9,1,154
Pete Buttigieg,NA,It's not true.,Candidate,male,9,1,155
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And that means families are going to pick up the rest of the costs. Amy, I looked online at your plan. It's two paragraphs. Families are suffering, and they need...",Candidate,female,9,1,156
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"OK, that's it.",Candidate,female,9,1,157
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You can't simply stand here and trash an idea to give health care coverage to everyone without having a realistic plan of your own. And if you're not going to own up to the fact either that you don't have a plan or that your plan is going to leave people without health care coverage, full coverage, then you need to say so.",Candidate,female,9,1,158
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,159
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I just want to say on this one, I was in Reno when I met a man who said he had diabetes. He gets his insulin through the V.A. But his sister and his daughter also have diabetes, no way to pay for their insulin. Three human beings right here in Nevada who are struggling.",Candidate,female,9,1,160
Joe Biden,NA,My plan takes care of that.,Candidate,male,9,1,161
Elizabeth Warren,NA,They share one insulin prescription. That should not happen in America.,Candidate,female,9,1,162
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, is Vice President Biden right, you weren't a fan of Obamacare?",Moderator,male,9,1,163
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I am a fan of Obamacare. At the beginning...,Candidate,male,9,1,164
Joe Biden,NA,"Since when, Mr. Mayor?",Candidate,male,9,1,165
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Mr. Vice President, I just checked the record, because you'd said one time that I was not. In '09, I testified and gave a speech before the mayors' conference in Washington advocating it and trying to get all the mayors to sign on. And I think at that time I wrote an article praising Obamacare. It was either in the New York Post or the Daily News. So the facts are I was there.",Candidate,male,9,1,166
Joe Biden,NA,"Didn't you call it a disgrace, though, Mr. Mayor?",Candidate,male,9,1,167
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Let me finish, thank you. I was in favor of it. I thought it didn't do -- go as far as we should. What Trump has done to this is a disgrace. The first thing we've got to do is get the White House and bring back those things that were left and then find a way to expand it, another public option, to having some rules about capping charges. All of those things. We shouldn't just walk away and start something that is totally new, untried.",Candidate,male,9,1,168
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,169
Chuck Todd,NA,"OK, Vice President Biden, go ahead.",Moderator,male,9,1,170
Joe Biden,NA,"The mayor said, when we passed it, the signature piece of this administration, it's a disgrace. They're the exact words, it was a disgrace. Look it up, check it out. ""It was a disgrace."" And I covered, by the way, my plan, you do not have surprise billing, you bring down drug prices, people are not -- and give people all the things we were just talking about. I guess we've not got the time to do it, but I'll get a chance to talk about...",Candidate,male,9,1,171
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,172
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, sir. Lester?",Moderator,male,9,1,173
Lester Holt,NA,All right.,Moderator,male,9,1,174
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,175
Lester Holt,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, at the beginning of this debate, you took some incoming fire on this next topic, so let's get into it. In 2015, this is how you described your policing policy as mayor. Quote, ""We put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods."" And you explained that as, quote, ""Because that's where all the crime is.""",Moderator,male,9,1,176
Lester Holt,NA,"You went on to say, ""And the way you should get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them against the wall and frisk them."" You've apologized for that policy. But what does that kind of language say about how you view people of color or people in minority neighborhoods?",Moderator,male,9,1,177
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Well, if I go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that I'm really worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop and frisk.",Candidate,male,9,1,178
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"When I got into office, there were 650 murders a year in New York City. And I thought that my first responsibility was to give people the right to live. That's the basic right of everything. And we started -- we adopted a policy, which had been in place, the policy that all big police departments use, of stop and frisk.",Candidate,male,9,1,179
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"What happened, however, was it got out of control. And when we discovered -- I discovered that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks, we cut 95 percent of it out. And I've sat down with a bunch of African-American clergy and businesspeople to talk about this, to try to learn. I've talked to a number of kids who'd been stopped.",Candidate,male,9,1,180
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And I'm trying -- was trying to understand how we change our policy so we can keep the city safe, because the crime rate did go from 650, 50 percent down to 300. And we have to keep a lid on crime. But we cannot go out and stop people indiscriminately.",Candidate,male,9,1,181
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Mayor...",Moderator,male,9,1,182
Mike Bloomberg,NA,And that was what was happening.,Candidate,male,9,1,183
Lester Holt,NA,"Let me go to Vice President Biden on this. You want to respond to that, react to it?",Moderator,male,9,1,184
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, let's get something straight. The reason that stop and frisk changed is because Barack Obama sent moderators to see what was going on. When we sent them there to say this practice has to stop, the mayor thought it was a terrible idea we send them there, a terrible idea.",Candidate,male,9,1,185
Joe Biden,NA,Let's get the facts straight. Let's get the order straight. And it's not whether he apologized or not. It's the policy. The policy was abhorrent. And it was a fact of violation of every right people have.,Candidate,male,9,1,186
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,187
Joe Biden,NA,"And we are the one, my -- our administration sent -- sent in people to moderate. And at the very time, the mayor argued against that. This idea that he figured out it was a bad idea, he figured out it was a bad idea after we sent in monitors and said it must stop. Even then, he continued the policy.",Candidate,male,9,1,188
Lester Holt,NA,"All right. Mayor, would you like to make a quick response to that?",Moderator,male,9,1,189
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Yes, I would. I've sat, I've apologized, I've asked for forgiveness, but the bottom line is that we stopped too many people, but the policy -- we stopped too many people. And we've got to make sure that we do something about criminal justice in this country.",Candidate,male,9,1,190
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"There is no great answer to a lot of these problems. And if we took off everybody that was wrong off this panel, everybody that was wrong on criminal justice at some time in their careers, there'd be nobody else up here.",Candidate,male,9,1,191
Lester Holt,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,9,1,192
Elizabeth Warren,NA,So I...,Candidate,female,9,1,193
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let's be clear -- I'm sorry, who did you call on?",Candidate,male,9,1,194
Lester Holt,NA,Senator Warren.,Moderator,male,9,1,195
Bernie Sanders,NA,Sorry.,Candidate,male,9,1,196
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I think this -- he called me. I do think that this really is about leadership and accountability. When the mayor says that he apologized, listen very closely to the apology. The language he used is about stop and frisk. It's about how it turned out.",Candidate,female,9,1,197
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No, this isn't about how it turned out. This is about what it was designed to do to begin with.",Candidate,female,9,1,198
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,199
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It targeted communities of color. It targeted black and brown men from the beginning. And if you want to issue a real apology, then the apology has to start with the intent of the plan as it was put together and the willful ignorance, day by day by day, of admitting what was happening even as people protested in your own street, shutting out the sounds of people telling you how your own policy was breaking their lives. You need a different apology here, Mr. Mayor.",Candidate,female,9,1,200
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, thank you. Chuck?",Moderator,male,9,1,201
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,202
Chuck Todd,NA,"Let me get Senator Klobuchar. We're staying on this topic. We're going to stay on this topic, but I want to get something in here with Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,9,1,203
Chuck Todd,NA,"When you were the top prosecutor in Minneapolis, Senator, there were at least two dozen instances where police were involved in the deaths of civilians. None of those officers were prosecuted. You did prosecute a black teenager who was sentenced to life in prison, despite what are now serious doubts about the evidence.",Moderator,male,9,1,204
Chuck Todd,NA,"Now, the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP has recently called for you to suspend your campaign over that case because some new evidence has come out since. Big picture, why should black and Latino voters trust your judgment now if it appears you may have gotten it wrong then?",Moderator,male,9,1,205
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"First, I'll start with that case. It is very clear that any evidence, if there is new evidence, even old evidence, it should be reviewed by that office and by the county attorney. That must happen. I have called for that review.",Candidate,female,9,1,206
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"This was a case involving an 11-year-old African-American girl named Tyesha Edwards who was shot doing her homework at her kitchen table. Three people were convicted. One of the cases is the one that is being investigated, was investigated by a journalist. And I think it's very important that that evidence come forward.",Candidate,female,9,1,207
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"In terms of the police shootings that you noted, those went to a grand jury, every single one of them. And I have made very clear for months now that, like so many prosecutors, I think those cases in my time, they were all going to the grand jury. It was thought that was the best way to handle them in many, many jurisdictions.",Candidate,female,9,1,208
Chuck Todd,NA,Do you think you should have spoke up? You didn't speak up at the time. Should you?,Moderator,male,9,1,209
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Did -- I actually did speak up on something very similar. And that was when our police chief in Minneapolis tried to take the investigations of police shootings into his own hands. And I strongly said I disagreed with that. Now I do believe also that a prosecutor should make those decisions herself.,Candidate,female,9,1,210
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And the last thing I will say, because you asked the question about voting, I have the support of African-Americans in my community in every election. I had strong support and strong support of leadership. And that's because I earned it.",Candidate,female,9,1,211
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And this is going to be on me to earn it. You earn it with the -- what you stand for when it comes to equal opportunity. You earn it with the work that I have done, the leadership I've shown on voting rights, and, yes, you earn it with the work that must be done on criminal justice reform.",Candidate,female,9,1,212
Chuck Todd,NA,"OK, thank you, Senator. Hallie Jackson?",Moderator,male,9,1,213
Hallie Jackson,NA,"I want to talk about transparency here, because many Democrats, including most of you on stage, have criticized President Trump for his lack of transparency. But, Senator Sanders, when you were here in Las Vegas in October, you were hospitalized with a heart attack. Afterwards, you pledged to make, quote, ""all your medical records public."" You've released three letters from your doctors, but you now say you won't release anything more. What happened to your promise of full transparency?",Moderator,female,9,1,214
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, I'll tell you. Well, I think we did. Let me tell you what happened. First of all, you're right. And thank you, Las Vegas, for the excellent medical care I got in the hospital for two days.",Candidate,male,9,1,215
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,216
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And I think the one area maybe that Mayor Bloomberg and I share, you have two stents, as well.",Candidate,male,9,1,217
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Twenty-five years ago.,Candidate,male,9,1,218
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, we both have two stents. It's a procedure that is done about a million times a year. So we released the full report of that heart attack.",Candidate,male,9,1,219
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Second of all, we released the full -- my whole 29 years in the Capitol, the attending physician, all of my history, medical history.",Candidate,male,9,1,220
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And furthermore, we released reports from two leading Vermont cardiologists who described my situation and, by the way, who said Bernie Sanders is more than able to deal with the stress and the vigor of being president of the United States. Hey, follow me around the campaign trail, three, four, five events today. See how you're doing compared to me.",Candidate,male,9,1,221
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,222
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, you've been critical about transparency on this stage and people needing to do better. Is that response from Senator Sanders enough for you?",Moderator,female,9,1,223
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"No, it's not, because, first of all, let me say, we're all delighted that you are in fighting shape.",Candidate,male,9,1,224
Bernie Sanders,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,9,1,225
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And at the same time, transparency matters, especially living through the Trump era. Now, under President Obama, the standard was that the president would release full medical records, do a physical, and release the readout. I think that's the standard that we should hold ourselves to, as well.",Candidate,male,9,1,226
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, President Trump lowered that standard. He said just a letter from a doctor is enough. And a lot of folks on this stage are now saying that's enough. But I am certainly prepared to get a physical, put out the results. I think everybody here should be willing to do the same.",Candidate,male,9,1,227
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But I'm actually less concerned about the lack of transparency on Sanders' personal health than I am about the lack of transparency on how to pay for his health care plan, since he's said that it's impossible to even know how much it's going to cost, and even after raising taxes on everybody making $29,000, there is still a multi-trillion-dollar hole.",Candidate,male,9,1,228
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"As a matter of fact, if you add up all his policies altogether, they come to $50 trillion. He's only explained $25 trillion worth of revenue, which means that the hole in there is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States. The time has come to level with the American people on matters personal and on matters of policy.",Candidate,male,9,1,229
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Thank you. Senator Sanders, quickly.",Moderator,female,9,1,230
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let's level. Let's level, Pete. Under your plan, which is a maintenance continuation of the status quo...",Candidate,male,9,1,231
Pete Buttigieg,NA,That's untrue.,Candidate,male,9,1,232
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Can I finish? The average American today is paying $12,000 a year. That's what that family is paying, 20 percent of a $60,000 income, $12,000 a year, highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.",Candidate,male,9,1,233
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Just the other day, a major study came out from Yale epidemiologist in Lancet, one of the leading medical publications in the world. What they said, my friends, is Medicare for all will save $450 billion a year, because we are eliminating the absurdity of thousands of separate plans that require hundreds of billions of dollars of administration and, by the way, ending the $100 billion a year in profiteering from the drug companies and the insurance companies.",Candidate,male,9,1,234
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,235
Pete Buttigieg,NA,This is really important.,Candidate,male,9,1,236
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, I want to go to you on this.",Moderator,female,9,1,237
Hallie Jackson,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,9,1,238
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Your plan, by the way, will increase costs.",Candidate,male,9,1,239
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"He said my plan is the status quo, and that's false. Look, if my plan is the status quo, why was it attacked by the insurance industry the moment it came out? And on issue after issue after issue, this is what Senator Sanders is saying. If you're not with him, if you're not all the way on his side, then you must be for the status quo. Well, you know what? That is a picture that leaves most of the American people out.",Candidate,male,9,1,240
Hallie Jackson,NA,"I want to go to Mayor Bloomberg on this, the transparency issue.",Moderator,female,9,1,241
Hallie Jackson,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,9,1,242
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Very briefly on transparency, Mayor Bloomberg, your campaign has said that you would eventually release your tax records.",Moderator,female,9,1,243
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,9,1,244
Hallie Jackson,NA,"When it comes to transparency, but people are already voting now. Why should Democratic voters have to wait?",Moderator,female,9,1,245
Mike Bloomberg,NA,It just takes us a long time. Unfortunately or fortunately...,Candidate,male,9,1,246
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I comment on that...,Candidate,female,9,1,247
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,248
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Fortunately, I make a lot of money, and we do business all around the world. And we are preparing it. The number of pages will probably be in the thousands of pages. I can't go to TurboTax. But I put out my tax return every year for 12 years in City Hall. We will put out this one. It tells everybody everything they need to know about every investment that I make and where the money goes.",Candidate,male,9,1,249
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And the biggest item is all the money I give away. And we list that, every single donation I make. And you can get that from our foundation any time you want.",Candidate,male,9,1,250
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,251
Hallie Jackson,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,9,1,252
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"OK, yeah, I'm just looking at my husband in the front row that has to, like, do our taxes all the time. We probably could go to TurboTax.",Candidate,female,9,1,253
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And the point of this is, I believe in transparency. I had a physical, by the way. It came out well. We might all be surprised if my blood pressure is lower than Mayor Pete's. That might really shock everyone out there. And I think you should release your records from your physical.",Candidate,female,9,1,254
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Secondly, when it comes to tax returns, everyone up here has released their tax returns, Mayor. I think -- and it is a major issue, because the president of the United States has been hiding behind his tax returns, even when courts order him to come forward with those tax returns.",Candidate,female,9,1,255
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,256
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And I think -- I don't care how much money anyone has. I think it's great you've got a lot of money. But I think you've got to come forward with your tax returns.,Candidate,female,9,1,257
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator, I want to get to you in a second. Mayor Bloomberg, quick response to Senator Klobuchar?",Moderator,female,9,1,258
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"We'll releasing them. They'll be out in a few weeks. And that's just as fast as I can do it. Remember, I only entered into this race 10 weeks ago. All of my associates here have been at this for a couple of years.",Candidate,male,9,1,259
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"That's right, we have. Engaging with voters and humbling ourselves to the backyards and diners.",Candidate,male,9,1,260
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,261
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Let me ask about something else, Mr. Mayor, because, Mayor Bloomberg -- let me ask about something else.",Moderator,female,9,1,262
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... 10 weeks ago, pay overtime, and get it done.",Candidate,female,9,1,263
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I wish it were that simple.,Candidate,male,9,1,264
Hallie Jackson,NA,"I'll let you get in here, but, Mayor Bloomberg...",Moderator,female,9,1,265
Mike Bloomberg,NA,It would save me a lot of money.,Candidate,male,9,1,266
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Let me ask you about something else. Several former employees have claimed that your company was a hostile workplace for women. When you were confronted about it, you admitted making sexually suggestive remarks, saying, quote, ""That's the way I grew up."" In a lawsuit in the 1990s, according to the Washington Post, one former female employee alleged that you said, quote, ""I would do you in a second."" Should Democrats expect better from their nominee?",Moderator,female,9,1,267
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Let me say a couple of things, if I could have my full minute and a quarter, thank you. I have no tolerance for the kind of behavior that the ""Me, Too"" movement has exposed. And anybody that does anything wrong in our company, we investigate it, and if it's appropriate, they're gone that day.",Candidate,male,9,1,268
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But let me tell you what I do at my company and my foundation and in city government when I was there. In my foundation, the person that runs it's a woman, 70 percent of the people there are women. In my company, lots and lots of women have big responsibilities. They get paid exactly the same as men. And in my -- in City Hall, the person, the top person, my deputy mayor was a woman, and 40 percent of our commissioners were women.",Candidate,male,9,1,269
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I am very proud of the fact that about two weeks ago we were awarded, we were voted the most -- the best place to work, second best place in America. If that doesn't say something about our employees and how happy they are, I don't know what does.",Candidate,male,9,1,270
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator Warren, you've been critical of Mayor Bloomberg on this issue.",Moderator,female,9,1,271
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes, I have. And I hope you heard what his defense was. ""I've been nice to some women."" That just doesn't cut it.",Candidate,female,9,1,272
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"The mayor has to stand on his record. And what we need to know is exactly what's lurking out there. He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign nondisclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.",Candidate,female,9,1,273
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements, so we can hear their side of the story?",Candidate,female,9,1,274
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,275
Mike Bloomberg,NA,We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.,Candidate,male,9,1,276
Elizabeth Warren,NA,How many is that?,Candidate,female,9,1,277
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Let me finish.,Candidate,male,9,1,278
Elizabeth Warren,NA,How many is that?,Candidate,female,9,1,279
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"None of them accuse me of doing anything, other than maybe they didn't like a joke I told. And let me just -- and let me -- there's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that's up to them. They signed those agreements, and we'll live with it.",Candidate,male,9,1,280
Joe Biden,NA,Come on.,Candidate,male,9,1,281
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, wait, when you say it is up to -- I just want to be clear. Some is how many? And -- and when you -- and when you say they signed them and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that's now OK with you? You're releasing them on television tonight? Is that right?",Candidate,female,9,1,282
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,283
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Senator...,Candidate,male,9,1,284
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Is that right, tonight?",Candidate,female,9,1,285
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Senator, the company and somebody else, in this case -- a man or a woman or it could be more than that, they decided when they made an agreement they wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interests.",Candidate,male,9,1,286
Joe Biden,NA,Come on.,Candidate,male,9,1,287
Mike Bloomberg,NA,They signed the agreements and that's what we're going to live with.,Candidate,male,9,1,288
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,289
Pete Buttigieg,NA,You could release them now.,Candidate,male,9,1,290
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I'm sorry. No, the question is...",Candidate,female,9,1,291
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I heard your question.,Candidate,male,9,1,292
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... are the women bound by being muzzled by you and you could release them from that immediately? Because, understand, this is not just a question of the mayor's character. This is also a question about electability.",Candidate,female,9,1,293
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many nondisclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.",Candidate,female,9,1,294
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,295
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That's not what we do as Democrats.,Candidate,female,9,1,296
Hallie Jackson,NA,Mr. Vice President?,Moderator,female,9,1,297
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, let's get something straight here. It's easy. All the mayor has to do is say, ""You are released from the nondisclosure agreement,"" period.",Candidate,male,9,1,298
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,299
Joe Biden,NA,We talk about transparency here. This guy got himself in trouble saying that there was a non -- that he couldn't disclose what he did. He went to his company...,Candidate,male,9,1,300
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Just to be super-clear, that was about the list of clients, so nobody gets the wrong idea.",Candidate,male,9,1,301
Joe Biden,NA,"No, no, no. Yeah, I'm sorry.",Candidate,male,9,1,302
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,303
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I know what you mean. No, you're right.",Candidate,male,9,1,304
Joe Biden,NA,"But he said -- he went to the company and said I want to be released, I want to be able to do it. Look, this is about transparency from the very beginning, whether it's your health record, whether it's your taxes, whether it's whether you have cases against you, whether or not people have signed nondisclosure agreements.",Candidate,male,9,1,305
Joe Biden,NA,"You think the women, in fact, were ready to say I don't want anybody to know about what you did to me? That's not how it works. The way it works is they say, look, this is what you did to me and the mayor comes along and his attorneys said, I will give you this amount of money if you promise you will never say anything. That's how it works.",Candidate,male,9,1,306
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,307
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, final word to you?",Moderator,female,9,1,308
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I've said we're not going to get -- to end these agreements because they were made consensually and they have every right to expect that they will stay private.,Candidate,male,9,1,309
Mike Bloomberg,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,310
Joe Biden,NA,"If they want to release it, they should be able to release themselves. Say yes.",Candidate,male,9,1,311
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Can I add a word to this? You know, we talk about electability, and everybody up here wants to beat Trump, and we talk about stop and frisk, and we talked about the workplace that Mayor Bloomberg has established and the problems there.",Candidate,male,9,1,312
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But maybe we should also ask how Mayor Bloomberg in 2004 supported George W. Bush for president, put money into Republican candidates for the United States Senate when some of us -- Joe and I and others -- were fighting for Democrats to control the United States Senate.",Candidate,male,9,1,313
Joe Biden,NA,And didn't support Barack.,Candidate,male,9,1,314
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Maybe we can talk -- maybe we can talk about a billionaire saying that we should not raise the minimum wage or that we should cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. If that's a way to beat Donald Trump, wow, I would be very surprised.",Candidate,male,9,1,315
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vanessa, to you.",Moderator,female,9,1,316
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, you're running on your Washington experience. But last week in a Telemundo interview, you could not name the president of Mexico or discuss any of his policies. Last night, you defended yourself saying, quote, ""This isn't 'Jeopardy!'""",Moderator,female,9,1,317
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"But my question to you is, shouldn't our next president know more about one of our largest trading partners?",Moderator,female,9,1,318
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Of course.,Candidate,female,9,1,319
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,320
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Of course. And I don't think that that momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what I know about Mexico and how much I care about it. And I first want to say greetings to President Lopez Obrador.,Candidate,female,9,1,321
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Secondly, I -- what I meant by the game of ""Jeopardy!"" is that I think we could all come up with things. You know, how many members are there in the Israeli Knesset? One hundred twenty. Who is the president of Honduras?",Candidate,female,9,1,322
Vanessa Hauc,NA,Senator Klobuchar...,Moderator,female,9,1,323
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Hernandez.,Candidate,female,9,1,324
Vanessa Hauc,NA,Senator Klobuchar.,Moderator,female,9,1,325
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But when it comes to Mexico, I am the one person on this stage that came out first to say I was for the U.S.-Mexican-Canadian Trade Agreement. That is going to be one of the number-one duties of a president is to implement that.",Candidate,female,9,1,326
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, my colleague specifically asked you if you could name the president of Mexico and your response was no.",Moderator,female,9,1,327
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yes, that's right. And I said that I made an error. I think having a president that maybe is humble and is able to admit that here and there maybe wouldn't be a bad thing.",Candidate,female,9,1,328
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,329
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, your response?",Moderator,female,9,1,330
Amy Klobuchar,NA,But if you could let me -- if you could...,Candidate,female,9,1,331
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yeah, I wouldn't liken this to trivia. I actually didn't know how many members were in the Knesset, so you got me there.",Candidate,male,9,1,332
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, there you go.",Candidate,female,9,1,333
Pete Buttigieg,NA,But you're staking your candidacy on your Washington experience. You're on the committee that oversees border security. You're on the committee that does trade. You're literally in part of the committee that's overseeing these things and were not able to speak to literally the first thing about the politics of the country to our south.,Candidate,male,9,1,334
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Are you -- are you trying to say that I'm dumb? Or are you mocking me here, Pete?",Candidate,female,9,1,335
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I'm saying you shouldn't trivialize that knowledge.,Candidate,male,9,1,336
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I said I made an error. People sometimes forget names. I am the one that -- number one, has the experience based on passing over 100 bills...",Candidate,female,9,1,337
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,338
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"If I could respond, this was a pretty big allegation.",Candidate,female,9,1,339
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Quickly, please.",Moderator,female,9,1,340
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"He's basically saying that I don't have the experience to be president of the United States. I have passed over 100 bills as the lead Democrat since being in the U.S. Senate. I am the one, not you, that has won statewide in congressional district after congressional district.",Candidate,female,9,1,341
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,342
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I will say, when you tried in Indiana, Pete, to run, what happened to you? You lost by over 20 points to someone who later lost to my friend, Joe Donnelly. So don't tell me about experience. What unites us here is we want to win. And I think we should put a proven winner in charge of the ticket.",Candidate,female,9,1,343
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Quick response, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,9,1,344
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This is a race for president. This is a race for president. If winning a race for Senate in Minnesota translated directly to becoming president, I would have grown up under the presidency of Walter Mondale. This is different.",Candidate,male,9,1,345
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And the reason that I think we need to talk about Washington experience is that we should ask what that experience has led to. Experience and certainly tenure is not always the same thing as judgment. If we're going to talk about votes in the Senate in Washington, let's talk about it.",Candidate,male,9,1,346
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,347
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Let's talk about a major policy...,Candidate,female,9,1,348
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,349
Lester Holt,NA,"Hello, hello, hello, hello. Thank you. Senator Warren and Mayor Bloomberg, this question is for you.",Moderator,male,9,1,350
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,351
Lester Holt,NA,I want to talk about -- maybe this is appropriate here.,Moderator,male,9,1,352
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Can I just defend Senator Klobuchar for a minute? This is not right. I understand that she forgot a name.,Candidate,female,9,1,353
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,354
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It happens. It happens to everybody on this stage. Look, you want to ask about whether or not you understand trade policy with Mexico? Have at it. And if you get it wrong, man, you ought to be held accountable for that. You want to ask about the economy and you get it wrong? You ought to be held accountable. You want to ask about a thousand different issues and you get it wrong? You ought to be held accountable.",Candidate,female,9,1,355
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But let's just be clear. Missing a name all by itself does not indicate that you do not understand what's going on. And I just think this is unfair.,Candidate,female,9,1,356
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,357
Joe Biden,NA,Let me say something.,Candidate,male,9,1,358
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,359
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"You're right. But Senator Klobuchar could not discuss Mexican policy, either.",Moderator,female,9,1,360
Vanessa Hauc,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,9,1,361
Joe Biden,NA,I'm the only one who knows this man and met with him.,Candidate,male,9,1,362
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I do have to respond.,Candidate,female,9,1,363
Joe Biden,NA,"Come on, man.",Candidate,male,9,1,364
Bernie Sanders,NA,I called him up.,Candidate,male,9,1,365
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,366
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"You have just invoked my name again, and I ask you to look at the interview I did directly after the forum, which we went into great detail on Latin American policy.",Candidate,female,9,1,367
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I want to say one thing about Mayor Pete where we just disagree. He was asked on a debate stage about the Mexican cartels, which are bad, bad criminal organizations. He said that he would be open to classifying them as terrorist organizations. I actually don't agree with that. That is a very valid debate to have. I don't think that would be good for our security coordination with Mexico, and I think you got that wrong.",Candidate,female,9,1,368
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, at least that's a substantive...",Candidate,male,9,1,369
Joe Biden,NA,I've spent more time in Mexico than anybody. Could I get a chance to say something?,Candidate,male,9,1,370
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, hold on.",Candidate,male,9,1,371
Lester Holt,NA,Mr. Vice President?,Moderator,male,9,1,372
Bernie Sanders,NA,Si.,Candidate,male,9,1,373
Joe Biden,NA,"Si, thank you.",Candidate,male,9,1,374
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Si, si.",Candidate,male,9,1,375
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, I'm the only one who's spent extensive -- hundreds of hours in Latin America. I've met with this president. I've met with the last president, the one before that. I've been deeply involved in making sure that we have a policy that makes more sense than this god-awful president we have now.",Candidate,male,9,1,376
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm the guy that put together $750 million to provide help for those Latin American countries that are the reason why people are leaving, because there's nothing for them to stay for. I've spent hours and hours and hours. And so you want to talk about experience in Washington, it's good to know with whom you're talking. It's good to know what they think. It's good to know what you think. And it's good to be able to have a relationship. That's what it's about.",Candidate,male,9,1,377
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,378
Lester Holt,NA,"All right. Well, we -- clearly everybody is warmed up. We're going to take a short break and kick off the next hour with a topic many voters have said is top of mind, the climate crisis. We're back in a moment.",Moderator,male,9,1,379
Lester Holt,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,380
Lester Holt,NA,"Welcome back. We received hundreds of questions from Democratic voters, and many of them were about the climate crisis. It's an issue that uniquely impacted Nevadans.",Moderator,male,9,1,381
Lester Holt,NA,Jon Ralston from the Nevada Independent kicks us off now.,Moderator,male,9,1,382
Jon Ralston,NA,"So y'all ready to play some Nevada trivia now? I'm only half-joking here. Let's talk about this issue, because it's up there in polls. Voters are really concerned about it, as you all know.",Moderator,male,9,1,383
Jon Ralston,NA,"What you might not know is that Las Vegas and Reno are the vibrant economic engines for the state of Nevada and are also two of the fastest warming cities in the country. In certain months of the year, the heat is already an emergency situation for residents and for tourists walking up and down the Strip.",Moderator,male,9,1,384
Jon Ralston,NA,"So I'm going to start with you, Mr. Vice President. What specific policies would you implement that would keep Las Vegas and Reno livable, but also not hurt those economies?",Moderator,male,9,1,385
Joe Biden,NA,"It is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. And it's -- when the fourth stage is completed, it will be able to take care of 60,000 homes for every single bit of their needs.",Candidate,male,9,1,386
Joe Biden,NA,"And what I would do is, number one, work on providing the $47 billion we have for tech and for -- to making sure we find answers is to find a way to transmit that wind and solar energy across the network in the United States. Invest in battery technology.",Candidate,male,9,1,387
Joe Biden,NA,"I would immediately reinstate all of the elimination of -- of what Trump has eliminated in terms of the EPA. I would secondly make sure that we had 500,000 new charging stations in every new highway we built in the United States of America or repaired. I would make sure that we once again made sure that we got the mileage standards back up which would have saved over 12 billion barrels of oil, had he not walked away from it. And I would invest in rail, in rail. Rail can take hundreds of thousands, millions of cars off the road if we have high-speed rail.",Candidate,male,9,1,388
Jon Ralston,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice president. I want to get some of the rest of you in on this because y'all have plans. Mayor Bloomberg, let me read -- let me read what you've said about this issue. You said you want to intensify U.S. and international actions to stop the expansion of coal. How exactly are you going to do that?",Moderator,male,9,1,389
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Well, already we've closed 304 out of the 530 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and we've closed 80 out of the 200 or 300 that are in Europe, Bloomberg Philanthropies, working with the Sierra Club, that's one of the things you do.",Candidate,male,9,1,390
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But let's just start at the beginning. If you're president, the first thing you do the first day is you rejoin the Paris Agreement. This is just ridiculous for us to drop out.",Candidate,male,9,1,391
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,392
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Two, America's responsibility is to be the leader in the world. And if we don't, we're the ones that are going to get hurt just as much as anybody else. And that's why I don't want to have us cut off all relationships with China, because you will never solve this problem without China and India, Western Europe, and America. That's where most of the greenhouse...",Candidate,male,9,1,393
Jon Ralston,NA,I just...,Moderator,male,9,1,394
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Let me just finish one other thing. I believe -- and you can tell my whether this is right -- but the solar array that the vice president is talking about is being closed because it's not economic, that you can put solar panels in into modern technology even more modern than that.",Candidate,male,9,1,395
Jon Ralston,NA,"All right. Mayor, I just -- I want to let Senator Warren jump in here, just because you've said something that's really specific to Nevada. And the tension here in this state is between people who want renewable energy and people who want conservation on public lands.",Moderator,male,9,1,396
Jon Ralston,NA,"Eighty-five percent of Nevada is managed by the federal government. You have said that you were going to have an executive order that would stop drilling on public lands, stop mining, which is a huge industry here. You've got to have lithium, you've got to have copper for renewable energy. How do you do that?",Moderator,male,9,1,397
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, look, I think we should stop all new drilling and mining on public lands and all offshore drilling. If we need to make exceptions because there are specific minerals that we've got to have access to, then we locate those and we do it not in a way that just is about the profits of giant industries, but in a way that is sustainable for the environment. We cannot continue to let our public lands be used for profits by those who don't care about our environment and are not making it better.",Candidate,female,9,1,398
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I'm going to say something that is really controversial in Washington, but I think I'm safe to say this here in Nevada. I believe in science.",Candidate,female,9,1,399
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,400
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And I believe that the way that we're going to deal with this problem is that we are going to increase by tenfold our investment in science.,Candidate,female,9,1,401
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"There's an upcoming $27 trillion market worldwide for green. And much of what is needed has not yet been invented. My proposal is, let's invent it here in the United States and then say, we invent it in the U.S., you've got to build it in the U.S.",Candidate,female,9,1,402
Chuck Todd,NA,We're going to...,Moderator,male,9,1,403
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That's a million new manufacturing jobs.,Candidate,female,9,1,404
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,405
Chuck Todd,NA,"We're going to stick to this topic. But, Senator Sanders, I'm going to move to fracking. You want a total ban on natural gas extraction, fracking, in the next five years. The industry, obviously, supports a lot of jobs around the country, including thousands in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.",Moderator,male,9,1,406
Chuck Todd,NA,"One union official there told the New York Times, quote, ""If we end up with a Democratic candidate that supports a fracking ban, I'm going to tell my members that either you don't vote or you vote for the other guy."" What do you tell these workers, it's supporting a big industry right now, sir?",Moderator,male,9,1,407
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What I tell these workers is that the scientists are telling us that if we don't act incredibly boldly within the next six, seven years, there will be irreparable damage done not just in Nevada, not just to Vermont or Massachusetts, but to the entire world.",Candidate,male,9,1,408
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Joe said it right: This is an existential threat. You know what that means, Chuck? That means we're fighting for the future of this planet.",Candidate,male,9,1,409
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,410
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And the Green New Deal that I support, by the way, will create up to 20 million good-paying jobs as we move our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. This is a moral issue, my friends. We have to take the responsibility of making sure that the planet we leave our children and grandchildren is a planet that is healthy and habitable. That is more important than the profits of the fossil fuel industry.",Candidate,male,9,1,411
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,412
Chuck Todd,NA,"I want to keep this going. Senator Klobuchar, you're not on the same page on a total ban of fracking. You call it a transitional fuel. But scientists are sounding this alarm now. Do you take these warnings that maybe fracking is a step backwards, not a step forward, not a transition?",Moderator,male,9,1,413
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I have made it very clear that we have to review all of the permits that are out there right now for natural gas and then make decisions on each one of them and then not grant new ones until we make sure that it's safe. But it is a transitional fuel.,Candidate,female,9,1,414
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I want to add something that really hasn't been brought up by my colleagues. This is a crisis, and a lot of our plans are very similar to get to carbon neutral by 2045, 2050, something like that. But we're not going to be able to pass this unless we bring people with us.",Candidate,female,9,1,415
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I'm looking at these incredible senators from Nevada -- Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen -- and I'm thinking that they know how important this is. And you can do this in a smart way. One, get back into that international climate change agreement. Two, clean power rules, bring those back. And the president can do this herself without Congress, as well as the gas mileage standard.",Candidate,female,9,1,416
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But when it comes to putting a price on carbon -- this is very important, Chuck -- we have to make sure that that money goes back directly as dividends to the people that are going to need help for paying their bills. Otherwise, we're not going to pass it.",Candidate,female,9,1,417
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Warren...,Moderator,male,9,1,418
Amy Klobuchar,NA,So there has to be a heart to the policy to get this done.,Candidate,female,9,1,419
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Warren, address the worker issue, if you don't mind, as well. Can you address the worker issue?",Moderator,male,9,1,420
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes. We can have a Green New Deal and create jobs. We need people in infrastructure who will help build. We have manufacturing...,Candidate,female,9,1,421
Chuck Todd,NA,"They could lose that job tomorrow, though. That's what they're concerned about.",Moderator,male,9,1,422
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes, those jobs are for tomorrow. Those are the ones we need to be working on to harden our infrastructure right now. But listen to Senator Klobuchar's point. She says we have to think smaller in order to get it passed. I don't think that's the right approach here.",Candidate,female,9,1,423
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Why can't we get anything passed in Washington on climate? Everyone understands the urgency, but we've got two problems. The first is corruption, an industry that makes its money felt all through Washington.",Candidate,female,9,1,424
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"The first thing I want to do in Washington is pass my anti-corruption bill so that we can start making the changes we need to make on climate. And the second is the filibuster. If you're not willing to roll back the filibuster, then you're giving the fossil fuel industry a veto overall of the work that we need to do.",Candidate,female,9,1,425
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,426
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you. Vanessa -- Senator, thank you, Vanessa has got the next question.",Moderator,male,9,1,427
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Can I respond? She mentioned me.,Candidate,female,9,1,428
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,429
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Vice President Biden, you have said that you want to hold oil and gas executives accountable for their role in harming our planet. You have even suggested that you might put them in jail. Which companies are you talking about? And how far are you willing to go?",Moderator,female,9,1,430
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm willing to go as far as we have to. First of all, I would eliminate all the subsidies we have for oil and gas, eliminate it, period. That would save millions and millions -- billions of dollars.",Candidate,male,9,1,431
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,432
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, I think that any executive who is engaged -- and by the way, minority communities are the communities that are being most badly hurt by the way in which we deal with climate change. They are the ones that become the victims. That's where the asthma is, that's where the groundwater supply has been polluted. That's where, in fact, people, in fact, do not have the opportunity to be able to get away from everything from asbestos in the walls of our schools.",Candidate,male,9,1,433
Joe Biden,NA,"I have a trillion-dollar program for infrastructure. That will provide for thousands and thousands of new jobs, not $15 an hour, but $50 an hour, plus benefits, unions, unions being able to do that.",Candidate,male,9,1,434
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,435
Joe Biden,NA,"And what it does is, it will change the nature -- look, here's the last point I want -- and my time is going to run out. Here's the last point I want to make to you. On day one, when I'm elected president, I'm going to invite all of the members of the Paris Accord to Washington, D.C. They make up 85 percent of the problem. They know me. I'm used to dealing with international relations. I will get them to up the ante in a big way.",Candidate,male,9,1,436
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Vice President Biden, you didn't answer my questions.",Moderator,female,9,1,437
Joe Biden,NA,I thought I did. I'm sorry.,Candidate,male,9,1,438
Vanessa Hauc,NA,What would you do with these companies that are responsible for the destruction of our planet?,Moderator,female,9,1,439
Joe Biden,NA,"What would I do with them? I would make sure they, number one, stop. Number two, if you demonstrate that they, in fact, have done things already that are bad and they've been lying, they should be able to be sued, they should be able to be held personally accountable, and they should -- and not only the company, not the stockholders, but the CEOs of those companies. They should be engaged.",Candidate,male,9,1,440
Joe Biden,NA,"And it's a little bit like -- look, this is the industries we should be able to sue. We should go after -- just like we did the drug companies, just like we did with the tobacco companies. The only company we can't go after are gun manufacturers, because of my buddy here. But that's a different story...",Candidate,male,9,1,441
Lester Holt,NA,"We're going to stay on the topic. My question is to Mayor Bloomberg. Mayor Bloomberg, your business is heavily invested in China. I think you mentioned that a few questions back. The number one producer in the world of carbon emissions. How far would you go to force China to reduce those emissions and tackle the climate crisis?",Moderator,male,9,1,442
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Well, you're not going to go to war with them. You have to negotiate with them and try to -- and we've seen how well that works with tariffs that are hurting us. What you have to do is convince the Chinese that it is in their interest, as well. Their people are going to die just as our people are going to die. And we'll work together.",Candidate,male,9,1,443
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"In all fairness, the China has slowed down. It's India that is an even bigger problem. But it is an enormous problem. Nobody's doing anything about it. We could right here in America make a big difference. We're closing the coal-fired power plants. If we could enforce some of the rules on fracking so that they don't release methane into the air and into the water, you'll make a big difference.",Candidate,male,9,1,444
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But we're not going to get rid of fracking for a while. And we, incidentally not just natural gas. You frack oil, as well. It is a technique, and when it's done poorly, like they're doing in too many places where the methane gets out into the air, it is very damaging. But it's a transition fuel, I think the senator said it right.",Candidate,male,9,1,445
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"We want to go to all renewables. But that's still many years from now. And we -- before I think the senator mentioned 2050 for some data. No scientist thinks the numbers for 2050 are 2050 anymore. They're 2040, 2035. The world is coming apart faster than any scientific study had predicted. We've just got to do something now.",Candidate,male,9,1,446
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,447
Lester Holt,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, your thoughts.",Moderator,male,9,1,448
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Let's be real about the deadline. It's not 2050, it's not 2040, it's not 2030. It's 2020. Because if we don't elect a president who actually believes in climate science now, we will never meet any of the other scientific or policy deadlines that we need to.",Candidate,male,9,1,449
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,450
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"So first of all, let's make sure we're actually positioned to win, which, once again, if we put forward two of the most polarizing figures on this stage as the only option, it's going to be a real struggle.",Candidate,male,9,1,451
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, I've got a plan to get us carbon neutral by 2050. And I think everybody up here has a plan that more or less does the same. So the real question is, how are we going to actually get it done?",Candidate,male,9,1,452
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We need leadership to make this a national project that breaks down the partisan and political tug of war that prevents anything from getting done. How do you do it? Well, first of all, making sure that those jobs are available quickly.",Candidate,male,9,1,453
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Secondly, ensuring that we are pulling in those very sectors who have been made to feel like they're part of the problem, from farming to industry, and fund as well as urge them to do the right thing.",Candidate,male,9,1,454
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And then global climate diplomacy. I'm a little skeptical of the idea that convincing is going to do the trick when it comes to working with China. America has repeatedly overestimated our ability to shape Chinese ambitions. But what we can do is ensure that we use the hard tools...,Candidate,male,9,1,455
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,male,9,1,456
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,457
Lester Holt,NA,Senator Warner?,Moderator,male,9,1,458
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... to enforce what has to happen...,Candidate,male,9,1,459
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes, I want to make sure that the question of environmental justice gets more than a glancing blow in this debate...",Candidate,female,9,1,460
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,461
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... because for generations now in this country, toxic waste dumps, polluting factories have been located in or near communities of color, over and over and over. And the consequences are felt in the health of young African-American babies, it's felt in the health of seniors, people with compromised immune systems.",Candidate,female,9,1,462
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It's also felt economically. Who wants to move into an area where the air smells bad or you can't drink the water?,Candidate,female,9,1,463
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I have a commitment of a trillion dollars to repair the damage that this nation has permitted to inflict on communities of color for generations now. We have to own up to our responsibility. We cannot simply talk about climate change in big, global terms. We need to talk about it in terms of rescuing the communities that have been damaged.",Candidate,female,9,1,464
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you. Hallie?",Moderator,male,9,1,465
Lester Holt,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,466
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Vice President Biden, I want to ask you about something else that is important to people here. I want to ask you about Latinos, owning one out of every four new small businesses in the United States. Many of them have benefited from President Trump's tax cuts, and they may be hesitant about new taxes or regulations. Will taxes on their small businesses go up under your administration?",Moderator,female,9,1,467
Joe Biden,NA,"No. Taxes on small businesses won't go up. As a matter of fact, we're going to make sure there's more money available for small businesses in the Latino community and the black community to be able to get the capital to start businesses.",Candidate,male,9,1,468
Joe Biden,NA,"And at the Treasury Department, there's going to be a window available where we significantly increase the amount of money available so people can borrow the money to get started. They have demonstrated they're incredibly successful. We should not be raising taxes on them. We should start rewarding work, not just wealth.",Candidate,male,9,1,469
Joe Biden,NA,"That's why we have to change the tax code the way it is. That's why the wealthy have to start to pay their fair share. And that's why we have to focus on giving people the ability to garner wealth, generate wealth.",Candidate,male,9,1,470
Joe Biden,NA,"And that's why this whole idea of red-lining, lending to people in areas wasn't the cause of Wall Street failing. The greed of Wall Street was the reason why it occurred, not red-lining.",Candidate,male,9,1,471
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,472
Joe Biden,NA,"And lastly I want to say, look, the idea of China, China is -- and their Belt and Road proposal, they're taking the dirtiest coal in the world mostly out of Mongolia and spreading it all around the world. It's clear. Make it clear when you call them to Washington in the first 100 days, if you continue, you will suffer severe consequences because the rest of the world will impose tariffs on everything you're selling because you are undercutting the entire economy.",Candidate,male,9,1,473
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,9,1,474
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, will taxes on those businesses go up under you?",Moderator,female,9,1,475
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Not if they are small businesses. I mean, what we've got to do is level the playing field, where a company like Amazon or Chevron is paying literally zero on billions of dollars in profits and it puts small businesses, like the ones that are revitalizing my own city, often Latino-owned on our west side, at a disadvantage.",Candidate,male,9,1,476
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We need to recognize that investing in Latino entrepreneurship is not just an investment in the Latino community, it is an investment in the future of America. And it is time for a president who understands the value of immigration in lifting up all of our communities and our country. We're getting the exact opposite message from the current president.",Candidate,male,9,1,477
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And it is time to recognize not just the diversity of the Latino community, but the importance of issues like economic empowerment, like health care, as well as immigration.",Candidate,male,9,1,478
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,479
Bernie Sanders,NA,We have a tax system...,Candidate,male,9,1,480
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,481
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We have an entrepreneurship gap in America. And that is a gap between white entrepreneurs and black and Latino entrepreneurs. And the principal reason for this is they don't have the money for equity to get the businesses started.,Candidate,female,9,1,482
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It's about a $7 billion gap. We want to have real entrepreneurship and a level playing field. I have a plan to put the $7 billion in to have the fund managed by the people...,Candidate,female,9,1,483
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,9,1,484
Hallie Jackson,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,9,1,485
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... who are routinely cut out.,Candidate,female,9,1,486
Bernie Sanders,NA,When we talk...,Candidate,male,9,1,487
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It can't just be about taxes.,Candidate,female,9,1,488
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,489
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We need to make an investment to level the playing field and end the black and white wealth...,Candidate,female,9,1,490
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,491
Chuck Todd,NA,"Look, I want to get into something. Mayor Bloomberg, the vice president talked about red-lining.",Moderator,male,9,1,492
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"As the only one here that started a business, maybe you...",Candidate,male,9,1,493
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, you seemed to imply that red-lining and stopping that is -- that stopping red-lining has somehow contributed to the financial crisis.",Moderator,male,9,1,494
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"No, that's exactly wrong.",Candidate,male,9,1,495
Chuck Todd,NA,"And that was the implication that came out in your quote, so I want to give you a chance to clarify this.",Moderator,male,9,1,496
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I've been well on the record against red-lining since I worked on Wall Street. I was against during the financial crisis. I've been against it since.,Candidate,male,9,1,497
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"The financial crisis came about because the people that took the mortgages, packaged them, and other people bought them, those were -- that's where all the disaster was. Red-lining is still a practice some places, and we've got to cut it out. But it's just not true.",Candidate,male,9,1,498
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"What I was going to say, maybe we want to talk about businesses. I'm the only one here that I think that's ever started a business. Is that fair? OK.",Candidate,male,9,1,499
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"What we need is -- I can tell you in New York City, we had programs, they're mentoring programs for young businesspeople so they can learn how to start a business. We had programs that could get them seed capital. We had programs to get branch banking in their neighborhoods, because if you don't have a branch bank there, you can't get a checking account. You can't get a checking account, you can't get a loan. You can't get a loan, you can't get a mortgage. Then you don't have any wealth. There's ways to fix this. And it doesn't take trillions of dollars. It takes us to focus on the problems of small businesses.",Candidate,male,9,1,500
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,501
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Sanders, 45 seconds, and then we're going to move on. Senator Sanders, 45 seconds.",Moderator,male,9,1,502
Chuck Todd,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,503
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You know, when we talk about a corrupt political system, bought by billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg, it manifests itself in a tax code in which not only is Amazon and many other major corporations, some owned by the wealthiest people in this country not paying a nickel in taxes, we have the insane situation that billionaires today, if you can believe it, have an effective tax rate lower than the middle class. So maybe, just maybe...",Candidate,male,9,1,504
Mike Bloomberg,NA,But you're re-writing the tax code. Why are you complaining? Who wrote the code?,Candidate,male,9,1,505
Bernie Sanders,NA,You did. You and your campaign...,Candidate,male,9,1,506
Mike Bloomberg,NA,You and the other 99 senators.,Candidate,male,9,1,507
Bernie Sanders,NA,You and your -- not me.,Candidate,male,9,1,508
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Oh, come on.",Candidate,male,9,1,509
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You and your campaign contributions electing people who represent the wealthy and the powerful, those are the folks...",Candidate,male,9,1,510
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Yes. Those are the Democrats, thank you.",Candidate,male,9,1,511
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, and Republicans, too. And George W. Bush, as well.",Candidate,male,9,1,512
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, let me -- let me address...",Moderator,male,9,1,513
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I was just...,Candidate,female,9,1,514
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,515
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I was thinking there was going to be a boxing rematch on Saturday in Vegas and those guys should go down there.,Candidate,female,9,1,516
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,517
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, I actually want to get you to something about -- Senator Sanders tweeted last year, ""Billionaires should not exist.""",Moderator,male,9,1,518
Amy Klobuchar,NA,OK.,Candidate,female,9,1,519
Chuck Todd,NA,What say you?,Moderator,male,9,1,520
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I believe in capitalism, but I think our -- the goal of someone in government and a president of the United States should be a check on that. I'm not going to limit what people make, but I think right now our tax code is so tilted against regular people and that is what's wrong.",Candidate,female,9,1,521
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I was thinking of your question about small businesses. The small businesses I talked to, they have trouble getting employees because their employees don't have childcare. We should have universal childcare.",Candidate,female,9,1,522
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,523
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And we have not been talking enough about Donald Trump and -- let's just talk about Donald Trump, because he signed that tax bill that helped the wealthy, and he went down to Mar-a-Lago and he said to all his friends, ""You just got a lot richer."" That is Exhibit A.",Candidate,female,9,1,524
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I can tell you, the hard-working people in Nevada were not in that room. So the key to me is to not limit what people can make, but make sure that we have a government that is fair for everyone.",Candidate,female,9,1,525
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,526
Chuck Todd,NA,"So, Senator Sanders, what did you mean that you don't think they should exist?",Moderator,male,9,1,527
Bernie Sanders,NA,I'll tell you what I mean.,Candidate,male,9,1,528
Chuck Todd,NA,What did that mean?,Moderator,male,9,1,529
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We have a grotesque and immoral distribution of wealth and income. Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans. That's wrong. That's immoral. That should not be the case when we got a half a million people sleeping out on the street, where we have kids who cannot afford to go to college, when we have 45 million people dealing with student debt.",Candidate,male,9,1,530
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We have enormous problems facing this country, and we cannot continue seeing a situation where, in the last three years, billionaires in this country saw an $850 billion increase in their wealth -- congratulations, Mr. Bloomberg -- but the average American last year saw less than a 1 percent increase in his or her income. That's wrong.",Candidate,male,9,1,531
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,532
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, should you exist?",Moderator,male,9,1,533
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I can't speak for all billionaires. All I know is I've been very lucky, made a lot of money, and I'm giving it all away to make this country better. And a good chunk of it goes to the Democratic Party, as well.",Candidate,male,9,1,534
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,535
Chuck Todd,NA,Is it too much? Have you earned too much -- has it been an obscene amount of -- should you have earned that much money?,Moderator,male,9,1,536
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Yes. I worked very hard for it. And I'm giving it away.,Candidate,male,9,1,537
Chuck Todd,NA,"All right, thank you. Hallie?",Moderator,male,9,1,538
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, Senator Sanders has a proposal that will require all large companies to turn over up to 20 percent of their ownership to employees over time. Is that a good idea?",Moderator,female,9,1,539
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I think that employee ownership of companies is a great idea. I'm not sure it makes sense to command those companies to do it. If we really want to deliver less inequality in this country, then we've got to start with the tax code and we've got to start with investments in how people are able to live the American dream, which is in serious, serious decline.",Candidate,male,9,1,540
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"As a matter of fact, last time I checked, the list of countries to live out the American dream, in other words, to be born at the bottom and come out at the top, we're not even in the top ten. Number one place to live out the American dream right now is Denmark.",Candidate,male,9,1,541
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And as the, I think, lone person on this stage who's not a millionaire, let alone a billionaire, I believe that part of what needs to change is for the voices of the communities that haven't felt heard on Wall Street or in Washington to actually be brought to Capitol Hill.",Candidate,male,9,1,542
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It's why I am building a politics designed around inclusion, designed around belonging, because the one thing that will definitely perpetuate the income inequality we're living with right now is for Donald Trump to be re-elected, because we polarized this country with the wrong nominee.",Candidate,male,9,1,543
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Senator Sanders, it's your policy.",Moderator,female,9,1,544
Hallie Jackson,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,9,1,545
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Can I -- to me, right?",Candidate,male,9,1,546
Hallie Jackson,NA,It is your policy.,Moderator,female,9,1,547
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Thank you, it is my policy, and I'm very proud of that policy. All right? What we need to do to deal with this grotesque level of income and wealth inequality is make sure that those people who are working -- you know what, Mr. Bloomberg, it wasn't you who made all that money. Maybe your workers played some role in that, as well.",Candidate,male,9,1,548
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,549
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And it is important that those workers are able to share the benefits, also. When we have so many people who go to work every day and they feel not good about their jobs, they feel like cogs in a machine. I want workers to be able to sit on corporate boards, as well, so they can have some say over what happens to their lives.",Candidate,male,9,1,550
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, you own a large company. Would you support what Senator Sanders is proposing?",Moderator,female,9,1,551
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Absolutely not. I can't think of a ways that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get re-elected than listening to this conversation.,Candidate,male,9,1,552
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,553
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"It's ridiculous. We're not going to throw out capitalism. We tried. Other countries tried that. It was called communism, and it just didn't work.",Candidate,male,9,1,554
Mike Bloomberg,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,555
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So let me make a proposal that will work, that has not only support from a majority of Democrats, but also from a majority of the independents and a majority of Republicans. And that is a two-cent wealth tax on all fortunes above $50 million. You hit a billion, you've got to pay a few pennies more.",Candidate,female,9,1,556
Elizabeth Warren,NA,This is a tax on the top one-tenth of one percent in America. And it permits us to start to restructure our economy. It means we can afford universal childcare for everybody baby in this country age zero to five. It means we can have universal pre-K for every child in America. It means we can raise the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher and stop exploiting the black and brown women who do this work.,Candidate,female,9,1,557
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,558
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It means we can put $800 billion into our public schools, quadruple funding for Title I schools. And as a former special education teacher, we could fully fund IDEA so children with disabilities would get the full education they need.",Candidate,female,9,1,559
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,560
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We can do college. We could put $50 billion into our historically black colleges and universities. And we could cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans.,Candidate,female,9,1,561
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,male,9,1,562
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"That's something a majority of Americans support, a two-cent wealth tax. It is a question of values. Do we want to invest in Mr. Bloomberg? Or do we want to invest in an entire generation of young students?",Candidate,female,9,1,563
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Sanders, my next question is for you. Senator Sanders, our latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released yesterday, two-thirds of all voters said they were uncomfortable with a socialist candidate for president. What do you say to those voters, sir?",Moderator,male,9,1,564
Bernie Sanders,NA,What was the result of that poll? Who was winning?,Candidate,male,9,1,565
Lester Holt,NA,The question -- the question is to you.,Moderator,male,9,1,566
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The question was that I was winning, and I think by a fairly comfortable margin. Might mention that.",Candidate,male,9,1,567
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But here is the point. Let's talk about democratic socialism. Not communism, Mr. Bloomberg. That's a cheap shot. Let's talk about -- let's talk about what goes on in countries like Denmark, where Pete correctly pointed out they have a much higher quality of life in many respects than we do. What are we talking about?",Candidate,male,9,1,568
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We are living in many ways in a socialist society right now. The problem is, as Dr. Martin Luther King reminded us, we have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.",Candidate,male,9,1,569
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,570
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Wait a second.,Candidate,male,9,1,571
Bernie Sanders,NA,"When Donald -- let me finish. When Donald Trump gets $800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury condominiums, that's socialism for the rich.",Candidate,male,9,1,572
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Wait a second.,Candidate,male,9,1,573
Bernie Sanders,NA,"When Walmart -- we have to subsidize Walmart's workers who are on Medicaid and food stamps because the wealthiest family in America pays starvation wages, that's socialism for the rich.",Candidate,male,9,1,574
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,575
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I believe in democratic socialism for working people, not billionaires, health care for all, educational opportunities for all.",Candidate,male,9,1,576
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Senator, Senator, thank you.",Moderator,male,9,1,577
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Creating a government that works for all, not just for Mr. Bloomberg.",Candidate,male,9,1,578
Lester Holt,NA,The question was about socialism.,Moderator,male,9,1,579
Mike Bloomberg,NA,What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss here?,Candidate,male,9,1,580
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, you'll miss that I work in Washington, house one.",Candidate,male,9,1,581
Mike Bloomberg,NA,That's the first problem.,Candidate,male,9,1,582
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Live in Burlington, house two.",Candidate,male,9,1,583
Mike Bloomberg,NA,That's good.,Candidate,male,9,1,584
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp. Forgive me for that. Where is your home? Which tax haven do you have your home?",Candidate,male,9,1,585
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"New York City, thank you very much, and I pay all my taxes. And I'm happy to do it because I get something for it. And let me say, I thought the senator next to me was half right.",Candidate,male,9,1,586
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Elizabeth.,Candidate,female,9,1,587
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I agree we should raise taxes on the -- I disagree with the senator on the wealth tax but I do agree with her that the rich aren't paying their fair share. We should raise taxes on the rich. I did that as mayor in New York City. I raised taxes. And if you take a look at my plans, the first thing I would do is try to convince Congress, because they've got to do it, we can't just order it, to roll back the tax cuts that the Trump administration put in with the -- through Congress.",Candidate,male,9,1,588
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Vice President Biden, weigh in on this question of Americans' feeling about socialist candidates.",Moderator,male,9,1,589
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, look, let me weigh in on -- you know, for 36 years and as vice president, I was listed as the poorest man in Congress. I made money when I wrote a book about my son and it surprised me how much it sold. First time I've ever made any money.",Candidate,male,9,1,590
Joe Biden,NA,"And here's the deal. The fact is that we ought to start rewarding work, not just wealth. The idea that we have a tax rate for corporate America at 21 percent is ridiculous. It should be at 28 percent. That would raise almost $800 billion a year.",Candidate,male,9,1,591
Joe Biden,NA,"The idea that we have companies not paying anything at all, they should have a minimum tax of 15 percent. That would raise another $740 billion a year.",Candidate,male,9,1,592
Joe Biden,NA,"The idea that you're able to have a capital gains tax that you pay at the rate of 20 percent if you are -- if you're Mike Bloomberg or whomever that has a whole lot of money, and someone else who's paying at -- your staffer is paying at 25 percent is wrong. That would raise another $800 billion.",Candidate,male,9,1,593
Joe Biden,NA,"We should be rewarding work, not just wealth. And the American people, the middle class is getting killed, and the poor have no way up.",Candidate,male,9,1,594
Lester Holt,NA,"All right, Vice President Biden, thank you. Chuck?",Moderator,male,9,1,595
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, I want to get you in on this, because, you know, in 2000, you wrote an award-winning essay. You praised Senator Sanders. You specifically praised him for embracing socialism. You have now since said that you are concerned about his policies.",Moderator,male,9,1,596
Chuck Todd,NA,"But I am curious about this. Are you out of touch with your own generation, millennials by a big chunk embrace his version of democratic socialism, you do not. Are you out of touch with your generation?",Moderator,male,9,1,597
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"No. Look, it's true that I was into Bernie before it was cool.",Candidate,male,9,1,598
Bernie Sanders,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,9,1,599
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"He was a congressman at the time. And the qualities I admired then are qualities I still respect a great deal. I never said that I agree with every part of his policy views, then or now. But I appreciate that at least he's straightforward and honest about them. He's honest about the fact that taxes will go up on anybody making more than $29,000 to fund his health care plan, although, again, a little bit vague about how the rest of that gets...",Candidate,male,9,1,600
Bernie Sanders,NA,You're not being honest. Premiums would be eliminated.,Candidate,male,9,1,601
Pete Buttigieg,NA,But you're still raising those taxes. And when you do it...,Candidate,male,9,1,602
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But we're saving people money because they don't pay any premiums, out-of-pocket expenses, co-payments, or deductibles. They're going to be much better off.",Candidate,male,9,1,603
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,604
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But where is -- where is the other $25 trillion supposed to come from? At a certain point, you've got to do the math.",Candidate,male,9,1,605
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, we got it all up there on the internet. It's a payroll tax -- a payroll tax...",Candidate,male,9,1,606
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,607
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, no, but even after the payroll tax, you still have a hole.",Candidate,male,9,1,608
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,609
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Because we have a wealth tax. Elizabeth has a good one. Ours is a little bit tougher on Mr. Bloomberg than hers. We're going to raise it in a progressive way, which deals with income and wealth inequality, and makes certain, finally, that health care in this country is a human right, not a privilege.",Candidate,male,9,1,610
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Could I...,Candidate,female,9,1,611
Chuck Todd,NA,"Forty-five seconds. Senator Warren, I'm just going to close it out here. You went out of your way -- you went out of your way to call yourself a capitalist, to separate yourself...",Moderator,male,9,1,612
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes, because I am.",Candidate,female,9,1,613
Chuck Todd,NA,... from him. Why?,Moderator,male,9,1,614
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Yes, because I am. Look, Democrats want to beat Donald Trump, but they are worried. They are worried about gambling on a narrow vision that doesn't address the fears of millions of Americans across this country who see real problems and want real change. They are worried about gambling on a revolution that won't bring along a majority of this country.",Candidate,female,9,1,615
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Amy and Joe's hearts are in the right place, but we can't be so eager to be liked by Mitch McConnell that we forget how to fight the Republicans.",Candidate,female,9,1,616
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,617
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Mayor Buttigieg has been taking money from big donors and changing his positions.,Candidate,female,9,1,618
Pete Buttigieg,NA,That's just not true.,Candidate,male,9,1,619
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So it makes it unclear what it is he stands for, other than his own...",Candidate,female,9,1,620
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,621
Chuck Todd,NA,"Senator, thank you. Senator Klobuchar, go ahead. You've got -- Senator Klobuchar -- Senator Klobuchar, go ahead, you've got the floor for 45. Go.",Moderator,male,9,1,622
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Thank you. Number one, I have repeatedly said that we have to win big. And the way we win big is winning states like Nevada, but also winning the Senate races in Arizona and in Colorado and beyond.",Candidate,female,9,1,623
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,624
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And the reason we want to do that is to send Mitch McConnell packing. And I think, when you look at my history, I am the one that has done that. I am the one that can lead this ticket. And just because I am willing to talk about common ground, that's where America is. It is not with Mitch McConnell, who has 400 bills on his desk that should pass if we get rid of him.",Candidate,female,9,1,625
Amy Klobuchar,NA,It is because I am willing to work...,Candidate,female,9,1,626
Lester Holt,NA,OK.,Moderator,male,9,1,627
Elizabeth Warren,NA,May I respond?,Candidate,female,9,1,628
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... with people and find common ground, and that's what we want in a president, Elizabeth.",Candidate,female,9,1,629
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,630
Amy Klobuchar,NA,We don't want someone that looks at just plans. The difference between...,Candidate,female,9,1,631
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, thank you. We need to take another break here. We'll return to the Paris Las Vegas in just a moment.",Moderator,male,9,1,632
Lester Holt,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,633
Lester Holt,NA,"Welcome back to Las Vegas and the Democratic presidential debate. To kick off our next round of questioning, here's Hallie.",Moderator,male,9,1,634
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, to you. In 2018, Mayor Bloomberg was the biggest outside spender helping Democrats running for Congress. He's also donated billions toward causes like climate change, gun safety, education. If his money wasn't a problem then, why is it a problem now?",Moderator,female,9,1,635
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Oh, I think he should absolutely be doing everything in his power to defeat Donald Trump. I just don't think that has to result in him becoming the president of the United States.",Candidate,male,9,1,636
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, our party has values. We were built around values like making sure we protect working people. But Mayor Bloomberg opposed raising the minimum wage. Our party has a tradition that includes excellent presidents like Barack Obama, who Mayor Bloomberg opposed.",Candidate,male,9,1,637
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"At the end of the day, it's not just about how much money you've got. It's what you stand for. And we are living in a moment when Americans are so deeply frustrated with the way that both Wall Street and Washington seem to have overlooked our lives.",Candidate,male,9,1,638
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The view from the porch of my one house in Indiana...,Candidate,male,9,1,639
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,640
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... is that they can't even see us sometimes. And if we're going into the election of our lives against a president who rose to power by cynically exploiting the frustration of ordinary Americans feeling like leaders weren't speaking to them, then I think that turning to someone like Mayor Bloomberg, who thinks he can buy this election, is no better a way to succeed than turning to somebody like Senator Sanders who wants to burn the house down.",Candidate,male,9,1,641
Hallie Jackson,NA,Mr. Vice President?,Moderator,female,9,1,642
Joe Biden,NA,"You know, if you excuse a point of personal privilege, they used to say, it was said that I was in the pocket of Mitch McConnell. I'm the only person on this stage that's beaten Mitch McConnell on four major, major cases. Let me finish.",Candidate,male,9,1,643
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,644
Joe Biden,NA,"Let me finish. And Mitch McConnell -- I've been the object of his affection and the president's affection, the way he's gone after me, this new Republican party, after me, after my son, after my family. I don't need to be told I'm a friend of Mitch McConnell's. Mitch McConnell has been the biggest pain in my neck in a long, long time. And so that's number one.",Candidate,male,9,1,645
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, we have to have somebody who understands what it's like for ordinary people. Ordinary people come up. They have to understand, like my dad made that longest walk up a short flight of stairs and said, ""I don't have a job, honey, we have to move. You've got to move with Grandpa."" How long it took to buy a house, how long it took to get back in the game again.",Candidate,male,9,1,646
Joe Biden,NA,"They have to understand the needs of ordinary people. And they are getting killed, no matter what people say about this economy, how good it is. And the good part of the economy, this -- it's only 60 seconds. It's not up yet.",Candidate,male,9,1,647
Joe Biden,NA,"And the fact is that we are in a situation where you have, Mayor, the -- excuse me, the president making clear that he doesn't want any part of me being his opponent. He's spending $125,000 this week to keep me from being the opponent. I wonder why.",Candidate,male,9,1,648
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,649
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Vanessa, to you.",Moderator,female,9,1,650
Elizabeth Warren,NA,So can I respond to the vice president?,Candidate,female,9,1,651
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Thank you, Hallie.",Moderator,female,9,1,652
Elizabeth Warren,NA,He's identifying me specifically in this.,Candidate,female,9,1,653
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Forty-five seconds to you, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,654
Joe Biden,NA,I was identified. I was responding to an accusation.,Candidate,male,9,1,655
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, no, the point is different. Here's what happened. According to the New York Times,"" the last time that Mitch McConnell was on the ballot, the vice president stood in the Oval Office and said, ""I hope that Mitch gets reelected so I can keep working with him."" Well, Mitch did get -- Mitch did get re-elected.",Candidate,female,9,1,656
Joe Biden,NA,That's totally out of context.,Candidate,male,9,1,657
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"He did not have an epiphany. Instead, he blocked nearly everything that Barack Obama tried to pass.",Candidate,female,9,1,658
Joe Biden,NA,Did you ever win anything?,Candidate,male,9,1,659
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And he stole a Supreme Court seat from Democrats.,Candidate,female,9,1,660
Joe Biden,NA,Come on.,Candidate,male,9,1,661
Elizabeth Warren,NA,The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.,Candidate,female,9,1,662
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,663
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Our next question goes to Senator Klobuchar. About 700,000 young people known as Dreamers, or Sonadores, who were brought to this country as children, are currently protected from deportation because of a program that is now under the review by the Supreme Court. If the court sides with the Trump administration, which is eager to end this protection, what exactly is your plan to protect the Dreamers permanently?",Moderator,female,9,1,664
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"To win, to beat Donald Trump. The best way to protect the Dreamers is to have a new president. There are the votes there to protect the Dreamers. And I have been working on this since I got to the United States Senate. In my first campaign, I actually had a bunch of ads run against me because I was standing up for immigrants.",Candidate,female,9,1,665
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And when I think of Dreamers -- and I try to explain it to my state -- I found a 99-year-old Hispanic war veteran who was a Dreamer when he was brought over to this country. And back then, he just went to Canada for a night and came back and he was a permanent citizen, because they needed him to serve in World War II. Now, not so easy.",Candidate,female,9,1,666
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"The Dreamers are our future. The Dreamers are so important in Nevada. And the best way we can get this done is to beat Donald Trump, but it is to pass comprehensive immigration reform, which creates a path to citizenship to so many hard-working people, will bring down the deficit by $158 billion, and will bring peace for these Dreamers.",Candidate,female,9,1,667
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Thank you so much, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,668
Amy Klobuchar,NA,They know no other country but our own.,Candidate,female,9,1,669
Vanessa Hauc,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,9,1,670
Vanessa Hauc,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,9,1,671
Pete Buttigieg,NA,If you're going to run based on...,Candidate,male,9,1,672
Vanessa Hauc,NA,Mayor Pete?,Moderator,female,9,1,673
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If you're going to run based on your record of voting in Washington, then you have to own those votes, especially when it comes to immigration. You voted to confirm the head of Customs and Border Protection under Trump, who is one of the architects of the family separation policy. You voted to make English the national language. Do you know the message that sends in as multilingual a state as Nevada to immigrants?",Candidate,male,9,1,674
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You have been unusual among Democrats, I think the Democrat among all of the senators running for president most likely to vote for Donald Trump's judges, who we know are especially hostile to Dreamers and to the rights of immigrants.",Candidate,male,9,1,675
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, in South Bend, it was not always easy to stand up in a conservative place like Indiana on immigration. But we delivered. We created a municipal ID program so that Dreamers and others who were undocumented were able to navigate everyday life. We stood up for those rights and stood with members of our community with the message that they were as American as we are. (speaking Spanish)",Candidate,male,9,1,676
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Thank you. Gracias, gracias, Mayor Pete.",Moderator,female,9,1,677
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I wish...,Candidate,female,9,1,678
Vanessa Hauc,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,female,9,1,679
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I wish everyone was as perfect as you, Pete. But let me tell you what it's like to be in the arena. Number one, do the math. If my friend, Andrew Yang, was up here, that's what he'd say.",Candidate,female,9,1,680
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"In fact, I have opposed, not supported, two-thirds of the Trump judges, so get your numbers right. And I am in the top 10 to 15 of opposing them.",Candidate,female,9,1,681
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Number two, when it comes to immigration reform, the things that you are referring to, that official that you are referring to was supported by about half the Democrats, including someone in this room. And I will say this: He was highly recommended by the Obama officials. Do you know why? Because Trump had so few career people.",Candidate,female,9,1,682
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I did not one bit agree with these draconian policies to separate kids from their parents. And in my first 100 days, I would immediately change that. And I would add one more thing. I have been in the arena.",Candidate,female,9,1,683
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,684
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Ted Kennedy -- he had made a pretty big allegation against me again, and I think I should have a right to respond. He had...",Candidate,female,9,1,685
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,686
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'm stating the facts, because these are votes that you took, and those votes set you alone among the Democrats running for president.",Candidate,male,9,1,687
Amy Klobuchar,NA,That is just...,Candidate,female,9,1,688
Pete Buttigieg,NA,No other -- is it true or is it false that no other Democrat from the Senate running for president voted that way?,Candidate,male,9,1,689
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"First of all, it is -- what you've said about the judges are false. You are comparing me to two colleagues up here on this stage, and you are forgetting one thing.",Candidate,female,9,1,690
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, I would say anybody who ran for president this cycle, Senator Harris, Senator Booker saw through this.",Candidate,male,9,1,691
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"You know what, Pete? If you could let me finish, since I've been in the arena. Ted Kennedy asked me to work on the first immigration bill. We were able with President Bush to at least get that bill to a vote. I'm sorry that Senator Sanders actually opposed that bill, and I worked on it. And if we had gotten that bill done, there would have been a path to citizenship for so many people.",Candidate,female,9,1,692
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Then I worked on the 2013 bill. I'm actually so proud of the work I have done on immigration reform. And you know what? You have not been in the arena doing that work. You've memorized a bunch of talking points and a bunch of things, but I can tell you one thing.",Candidate,female,9,1,693
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,694
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"What the people of this country want, they want a leader that has the heart for the immigrants of this country, and that is me.",Candidate,female,9,1,695
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"You know, maybe leading a diverse city that was facing ruin doesn't sound like the arena to you. I'm used to senators telling mayors that senators are more important than mayors, but this is the arena, too. You don't have to be in Washington to matter. You don't have to be on Capitol Hill for your work to be significant.",Candidate,male,9,1,696
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Can we talk more...,Candidate,female,9,1,697
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,698
Chuck Todd,NA,"Guys, guys, we are at the end here. We are at the end here. I've got to let that one go.",Moderator,male,9,1,699
Chuck Todd,NA,"We are less than two weeks away from a national primary. And I want to ask all of you this simple question. There's a very good chance none of you are going to have enough delegates to the Democratic National Convention to clench this nomination, OK?",Moderator,male,9,1,700
Chuck Todd,NA,"If that happens, I want all of your opinions on this. Should the person with the most delegates at the end of this primary season be the nominee, even if they are short of a majority? Senator Sanders, I'm going to let you go last here, because I know your view on this.",Moderator,male,9,1,701
Chuck Todd,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,702
Chuck Todd,NA,"So instead, I will start with you, Mayor Bloomberg.",Moderator,male,9,1,703
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Whatever the rules of the Democratic Party are, they should be followed. And if they have a process, which I believe they do...",Candidate,male,9,1,704
Chuck Todd,NA,"OK, I'm trying to do this yes or no to make it fast.",Moderator,male,9,1,705
Mike Bloomberg,NA,... everybody else -- everybody can...,Candidate,male,9,1,706
Chuck Todd,NA,So you want the convention to work its will?,Moderator,male,9,1,707
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,9,1,708
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,9,1,709
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But a convention working its will means that people have the delegates that are pledged to them and they keep those delegates until you come to the convention.,Candidate,female,9,1,710
Chuck Todd,NA,Should the leading person?,Moderator,male,9,1,711
Elizabeth Warren,NA,All of the people.,Candidate,female,9,1,712
Chuck Todd,NA,OK. All righty. Vice President Biden?,Moderator,male,9,1,713
Joe Biden,NA,Play by the rules.,Candidate,male,9,1,714
Chuck Todd,NA,"Yes or no, leading person with the delegates, should they be the nominee or not?",Moderator,male,9,1,715
Joe Biden,NA,"No, let the process work its way out.",Candidate,male,9,1,716
Chuck Todd,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,9,1,717
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Not necessarily. Not until there's a majority.,Candidate,male,9,1,718
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Klobuchar?,Moderator,male,9,1,719
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Let the process work.,Candidate,female,9,1,720
Chuck Todd,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,9,1,721
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, the process includes 500 super-delegates on the second ballot. So I think that the will of the people should prevail, yes. The person who has the most votes should become the nominee.",Candidate,male,9,1,722
Chuck Todd,NA,"Thank you, guys. Five noes and a yes.",Moderator,male,9,1,723
Lester Holt,NA,We are not done yet. We're back with more from Las Vegas after a short break.,Moderator,male,9,1,724
Lester Holt,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,725
Lester Holt,NA,"Welcome back, everyone. It is time for closing statements. Each candidate will have one minute. And we begin with Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,male,9,1,726
Amy Klobuchar,NA,This has been quite a debate.,Candidate,female,9,1,727
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,728
Amy Klobuchar,NA,And what I want everyone out there watching to remember is that what unites us is so much bigger than what divides us and that we need a candidate that can bring people with her.,Candidate,female,9,1,729
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,730
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yes, a fired up Democratic base, but also independents and moderate Republicans. And I have done that every single time. I have won every race down to fourth grade. A lot of boasting up here, so thought I'd add that.",Candidate,female,9,1,731
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,732
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Secondly, you need someone who can govern. And I have passed over 100 bills as the lead Democrat.",Candidate,female,9,1,733
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And, third, you need someone that has the heart to be the president. They were talking a lot about heart conditions up here. We have a president right now that doesn't have a heart.",Candidate,female,9,1,734
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,9,1,735
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I love the people of this country. And I ask for the vote of the people of Nevada, because this state gets it. They get that maybe you don't agree with every single thing that's said on this debate stage, but we understand that the heart of America is bigger than any heart that guy has in the White House.",Candidate,female,9,1,736
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, Senator Klobuchar, thank you.",Moderator,male,9,1,737
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I ask you to join me at amyklobuchar.com. Thank you.,Candidate,female,9,1,738
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, thank you.",Moderator,male,9,1,739
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, to you.",Moderator,female,9,1,740
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Well, you can join me at mikebloomberg.com, too, if you want, but I'm not asking for any money.",Candidate,male,9,1,741
Mike Bloomberg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,742
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Look, this is a management job, and Donald Trump's not a manager. This is a job where you have to build teams. He doesn't have a team so he goes and makes decisions without knowing what's going on or the implications of what he does. We cannot run the railroad this way.",Candidate,male,9,1,743
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"This country has to pull together and understand that the people that we elect -- and it's not just the president of the United States -- they should have experience, they should have credentials, they should understand what they're doing and the implications thereof.",Candidate,male,9,1,744
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And then we should as a society try to hold them accountable so the next time they go before the voters, if they haven't done the job, we shouldn't just say, oh, nice person, gives a good speech. We should say, didn't do the job and you're out of here.",Candidate,male,9,1,745
Hallie Jackson,NA,"Mr. Mayor, thank you.",Moderator,female,9,1,746
Hallie Jackson,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,9,1,747
Chuck Todd,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, one minute.",Moderator,male,9,1,748
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Nevada, I'm asking for your vote because America is running out of time and this is our only chance to defeat Donald Trump. If you look at the choice between a revolution or the status quo and you don't see where you fit in that picture, then join us. And, yes, go to peteforamerica.com and help out, because we need to draw everybody that we can who believes that we need to empower workers, who believes in climate science, who believes in doing something about gun violence and recognizes that the only way we can do this is to create a sense of belonging in this country that moves us out of the toxic and polarized moment that we are living in today.",Candidate,male,9,1,749
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I already see an American majority ready to do these things. Now we have a responsibility to galvanize, not polarize, that majority. We cannot afford to lean on the same Washington playbook. We cannot afford to alienate half the country. We must step forward into the future in order to win and in order to govern a country that will be facing issues the likes of which we barely thought of just a few years ago. I'm asking you to join me so that we can deliver that future together.",Candidate,male,9,1,750
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,751
Vanessa Hauc,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,female,9,1,752
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I grew up fighting. I grew up out in Oklahoma, and I learned it probably from my mother. I watched when my daddy had a heart attack and didn't have any money coming in, when our car was lost and when we were on the edge of losing our home. I watched my mother fight to save our family. And I grew up fighting to save our family, my family.",Candidate,female,9,1,753
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I eventually made it through school and spent my life as a teacher, and looking into why it is that so many families across this country are struggling and why it gets worse year after year after year.",Candidate,female,9,1,754
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I for years have fought for unions to say the way we're going to restructure this economy is we're going to get -- make it easier to join a union and get more power into unions. To fight for students who have been cut out of opportunity over and over because of the rising cost of an education.,Candidate,female,9,1,755
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, for me, I am -- of all the people on this stage, I have been a politician the shortest time, but I've been the one out fighting for families the longest time. I promise you this: Give me a chance, I'll go to the White House and I'll fight for your family.",Candidate,female,9,1,756
Vanessa Hauc,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,9,1,757
Jon Ralston,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,male,9,1,758
Joe Biden,NA,I'm running because so many people...,Candidate,male,9,1,759
Protester,NA,(OFF-MIKE),Protester,unknown,9,1,760
Protester,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Protester,unknown,9,1,761
Lester Holt,NA,"Give us a moment. We'll clear the room and let -- and let -- Senator -- Senator Biden, you have one minute.",Moderator,male,9,1,762
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, I'm running because so many people are being left behind. People I grew up with in Scranton, when my dad lost his job, lost his house, had to move. We moved to Claymont, we found ourselves in a position where we had little ability to get anything done. And my dad worked like hell.",Candidate,male,9,1,763
Joe Biden,NA,I've learned a lot. I've been knocked down a whole hell of a lot. I know what it's like to be knocked down. But I know we have to get back up. We have to provide some safety and security for the American people.,Candidate,male,9,1,764
Joe Biden,NA,"Right here in Nevada, the site of the most significant mass murder in American history, guns. Our kids are getting sent to school having to hide under desks, learning how to run down corridors to avoid being shot. It's immoral. I'm the only one that's beaten the NRA nationally, and I beat them twice.",Candidate,male,9,1,765
Joe Biden,NA,"With regard to health care, it also is something that is a right. Obamacare has to be expanded. It can be, in fact, cover everybody.",Candidate,male,9,1,766
Joe Biden,NA,"And lastly, I think it's important that on day one, day one, we deal with sending an immigration bill to the desk. The only person in here that has a worse record on immigration is Bernie, because Bernie voted against the 2007 bill.",Candidate,male,9,1,767
Lester Holt,NA,All right.,Moderator,male,9,1,768
Jon Ralston,NA,"Thank you, thank you.",Moderator,male,9,1,769
Joe Biden,NA,"Had, in fact, that immigration bill passed, there would be -- 6 million members would be now American citizens.",Candidate,male,9,1,770
Lester Holt,NA,"All right. Senator Sanders, you have one minute for your closing remarks.",Moderator,male,9,1,771
Lester Holt,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,male,9,1,772
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Unfortunately, LULAC, among other groups, Latino groups, saw that bill having provisions akin to slavery, Joe.",Candidate,male,9,1,773
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But the bottom line is, all of us are united in defeating the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. That we agree on. But where we don't agree, I think, is why we are today the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people, why three people own more wealth than the bottom half of America, when 500,000 people sleep out on the street, why hundreds of thousands of bright young kids can't afford to go to college, and 45 million remain in student debt.",Candidate,male,9,1,774
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Bottom line here: Real change never takes place from the top on down, never takes place from an oligarchy controlled by billionaires. We need to mobilize millions of people to stand up for justice. That's our campaign. Join us as berniesanders.com. Thank you.",Candidate,male,9,1,775
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,9,1,776
Lester Holt,NA,"Senator, thank you. Folks, thank you. That concludes tonight's debate. Our thanks to my fellow moderators, to the candidates, and of course, to all of you, the audience here and at home. The Nevada caucuses are this Saturday with the South Carolina primary just one week later. Then the big prize, Super Tuesday, on March 3rd. We'll be following it all for you.",Moderator,male,9,1,777
Lester Holt,NA,"For now, for all of us at NBC News, I'm Lester Holt. Good day.",Moderator,male,9,1,778
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Tonight, the battle for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, where everything is on the line.",Moderator,female,10,1,1
Gayle King,NA,Seven candidates face off in the final debate before the South Carolina and Super Tuesday primaries.,Moderator,female,10,1,2
Gayle King,NA,I'm Gayle King.,Moderator,female,10,1,3
Norah O'Donnell,NA,And I'm Norah O'Donnell.,Moderator,female,10,1,4
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Let's get started.,Moderator,female,10,1,5
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,6
Norah O'Donnell,(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,7
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The time has come to turn the page and open up a new chapter in the American story.,Candidate,male,10,1,8
Announcer,NA,Tonight:,Moderator,unknown,10,1,9
Bernie Sanders,NA,Let us go forward. Let's win this thing. Let's transform America!,Candidate,male,10,1,10
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,11
Announcer,NA,America decides.,Moderator,unknown,10,1,12
Amy Klobuchar,NA,America deserves a president who is as resilient as her people.,Candidate,female,10,1,13
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,14
Elizabeth Warren,NA,2020 is our time to change who makes the rules.,Candidate,female,10,1,15
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,16
Announcer,NA,One stage.,Moderator,unknown,10,1,17
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"This election is just too important, and we cannot afford to get it wrong.",Candidate,male,10,1,18
Joe Biden,NA,There's no limit to what we could get done in the next four years.,Candidate,male,10,1,19
Tom Steyer,NA,Show up in November of 2020 and win.,Candidate,male,10,1,20
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,21
Announcer,NA,Seven Democratic candidates.,Moderator,unknown,10,1,22
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Together, we have built a movement.",Candidate,female,10,1,23
Tom Steyer,NA,We have a fantastically diverse and wonderful party.,Candidate,male,10,1,24
Joe Biden,NA,We choose hope over fear.,Candidate,male,10,1,25
Bernie Sanders,NA,We are going to unite together.,Candidate,male,10,1,26
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And, together, we are going to get it done.",Candidate,male,10,1,27
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We will deliver a democracy worthy of the name.,Candidate,male,10,1,28
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We are here, and we are strong.",Candidate,female,10,1,29
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,30
Amy Klobuchar,(END VIDEOTAPE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,31
Announcer,NA,"Live from the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, this is the CBS News Democratic debate.",Moderator,unknown,10,1,32
Announcer,NA,Here are the seven candidates for the presidential nomination.,Moderator,unknown,10,1,33
Announcer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,unknown,10,1,34
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Good evening, and welcome.",Moderator,female,10,1,35
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"The Democratic presidential primary here in South Carolina, the first primary in the South, is just four days away.",Moderator,female,10,1,36
Gayle King,NA,"And Super Tuesday is just a week away. And this is the biggest primary day of the year, as voters in 14 states cast ballots, and many of them tell us they have not actually made up their mind.",Moderator,female,10,1,37
Gayle King,NA,"So, this debate, when you think about it tonight, may be the last, best chance for the candidates to make their case to South Carolina and Super Tuesday voters.",Moderator,female,10,1,38
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"And CBS News is proud too bring you this debate, along with our co-sponsors.",Moderator,female,10,1,39
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"They are the Democratic National Committee and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, a nonpartisan organization committed to educating voters and training political leaders.",Moderator,female,10,1,40
Gayle King,NA,And we are partnering tonight also with Twitter.,Moderator,female,10,1,41
Gayle King,NA,"So, you at home can participate in this debate. How do you do that? Send us your questions for the candidates using the Twitter hashtag #DemDebate.",Moderator,female,10,1,42
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Now, here are the rules for the next two hours.",Moderator,female,10,1,43
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"When you are asked a question, you will have one minute and 15 seconds to answer, and 45 seconds for follow-ups.",Moderator,female,10,1,44
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"So, let's begin.",Moderator,female,10,1,45
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Sanders, we haven't had a national unemployment rate this low for this long in 50 years. Here in South Carolina, the unemployment rate is even lower.",Moderator,female,10,1,46
Norah O'Donnell,NA,How will you convince voters that a Democratic socialist can do better than President Trump with the economy?,Moderator,female,10,1,47
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, you're right. The economy is doing really great for people like Mr. Bloomberg and other billionaires.",Candidate,male,10,1,48
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,49
Bernie Sanders,NA,"In the last three years, last three years, billionaires in this country saw an $850 billion increase in their wealth.",Candidate,male,10,1,50
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But you know what? For the ordinary American, things are not so good. Last year, real wage increases for the average worker were less than 1 percent. Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck; 87 million Americans have no health insurance or are underinsured; 45 million people are struggling with student debt; 500,000 people tonight are sleeping out on the street, including 30,000 veterans.",Candidate,male,10,1,51
Bernie Sanders,NA,That is not an economy that's working for the American people. That's an economy working for the 1 percent.,Candidate,male,10,1,52
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We're going to create an economy for all, not just wealthy campaign contributors.",Candidate,male,10,1,53
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Senator...,Candidate,male,10,1,54
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Mayor Bloomberg...,Moderator,female,10,1,55
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Senator...,Candidate,male,10,1,56
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,57
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Senator...,Candidate,male,10,1,58
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, I'll let you respond to that.",Moderator,female,10,1,59
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Do you think Senator Sanders' economy would be better for America than President Trump's?,Moderator,female,10,1,60
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I -- I think that Donald Trump thinks it would be better if he's president. I do not think so.,Candidate,male,10,1,61
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Vladimir Putin thinks that Donald Trump should be president of the United States.,Candidate,male,10,1,62
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And that's why Russia is helping you get elected, so you will lose to him.",Candidate,male,10,1,63
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Oh, Mr. Bloomberg.",Candidate,male,10,1,64
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let me tell Mr. Putin, OK, I'm not a good friend of President Xi of China. I think President Xi is an authoritarian leader.",Candidate,male,10,1,65
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And let me tell Mr. Putin, who interfered in the 2016 election, try to bring Americans against Americans, hey, Mr. Putin, if I'm president of the United States, trust me, you're not going to interfere in any more American elections.",Candidate,male,10,1,66
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,67
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,female,10,1,68
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, we know what the president -- what Russia wants. It's chaos.",Candidate,male,10,1,69
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, look, the way I see this is that Bernie is winning right now because the Democratic Party is a progressive party, and progressive ideas are popular ideas, even if there are a lot of people on this stage who don't want to say so.",Candidate,female,10,1,70
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,71
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, but Bernie and I agree on a lot of things, but I think I would make a better president than Bernie.",Candidate,female,10,1,72
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And the reason for that is that getting a progressive agenda enacted is going to be really hard, and it's going to take someone who digs into the details to make it happen.",Candidate,female,10,1,73
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Bernie and I both wanted to help rein in Wall Street. In 2008, we both got our chance. But I dug in. I fought the big banks. I built the coalitions, and I won.",Candidate,female,10,1,74
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Bernie and I both want to see universal health care, but Bernie's plan doesn't explain how to get there, doesn't show how we're going to get enough allies into it, and doesn't show enough about how we're going to pay for it.",Candidate,female,10,1,75
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank...,Moderator,female,10,1,76
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I dug in. I did the work. And then Bernie's team trashed me for it.,Candidate,female,10,1,77
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We need a president who is going to dig in, do the hard work, and actually get it done. Progressives have got one shot. And we need to spend it with a leader who will get something done.",Candidate,female,10,1,78
Gayle King,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, we want to bring you in this conversation.",Moderator,female,10,1,79
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,80
Gayle King,NA,Why would the Russians want to be working on behalf of Bernie Sanders?,Moderator,female,10,1,81
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I will tell you what the Russians want. They don't have a political party. They want chaos.,Candidate,male,10,1,82
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And chaos is what is coming our way. I mean, look, if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders vs. Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,10,1,83
Pete Buttigieg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,84
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Think about what that will be like for this country.,Candidate,male,10,1,85
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,86
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And, meanwhile, folks at home, from South Carolina to South Bend, are trying to figure out what any of this means for us, because it's right that there is a progressive majority, an American majority that wants to see real change, wants to see wages go up, and go up faster than the cost of health and saving for retirement.",Candidate,male,10,1,87
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But, also, there's a majority of the American people who I think right now just want to be able to turn on the TV, see their president, and actually feel their blood pressure go down a little bit, instead of up through the roof.",Candidate,male,10,1,88
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,89
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We have an opportunity to set a different tone.,Candidate,male,10,1,90
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,female,10,1,91
Gayle King,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,female,10,1,92
Tom Steyer,NA,Bernie Sanders' analysis is right.,Candidate,male,10,1,93
Tom Steyer,NA,"The difference is, I don't like his solutions. I don't believe that a government takeover of large parts of the economy makes any sense for working people or for families.",Candidate,male,10,1,94
Tom Steyer,NA,"I think that what we need to do is to present an alternative that includes a vibrant, competitive private sector.",Candidate,male,10,1,95
Tom Steyer,NA,"But we all know, unchecked capitalism has failed. The answer is not for the government to take over the private sector, though. The answer is for us to break the corporate stranglehold on our government and have the government work for the people again.",Candidate,male,10,1,96
Gayle King,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,female,10,1,97
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,98
Tom Steyer,NA,"We need to -- well, let me just finish, because we need to have an alternative to Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,10,1,99
Tom Steyer,NA,"I'm talking about doubling the minimum wage, cutting taxes by 10 percent for everybody who makes less than $250,000 and creating over 4.5 million good-paying union jobs.",Candidate,male,10,1,100
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,101
Tom Steyer,NA,"Donald Trump thinks -- he's incompetent as a steward of the American economy. We have to show that we can create a growing, prosperous economy that works for American working people.",Candidate,male,10,1,102
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,10,1,103
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Gayle?,Moderator,female,10,1,104
Gayle King,NA,"Mr. Steyer, thank you. Your time is up.",Moderator,female,10,1,105
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,106
Gayle King,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,female,10,1,107
Joe Biden,NA,"You know, when we talk about progressive, let's talk about being progressive.",Candidate,male,10,1,108
Joe Biden,NA,"Walking distance of here is Mother Emanuel Church, nine people shot dead by a white supremacist.",Candidate,male,10,1,109
Joe Biden,NA,Bernie voted five times against the Brady Bill and wanted a waiting period...,Candidate,male,10,1,110
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,111
Joe Biden,NA,"No, let me finish.",Candidate,male,10,1,112
Joe Biden,NA,2010-2015 Josh,Candidate,male,10,1,113
Joe Biden,NA,"A waiting period of 12 hours. I'm not saying he's responsible for the nine deaths, but that man would not have been able to get that weapon with the waiting period had been what I suggest until you are cleared.",Candidate,male,10,1,114
Joe Biden,NA,"In addition to that, being progressive, he thought Barack Obama -- he wanted a primary-- he said we should primary Barack Obama, someone should, and, in fact, the president was weak and our administration was in fact not up to it. Look, folks, this is -- let's talk about progressive. Progressive is getting things done, and that's what we got done. We got a lot done",Candidate,male,10,1,115
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,116
Gayle King,NA,"Senator Sanders -- Senator Sanders, your response.",Moderator,female,10,1,117
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You know, Pete mentioned -- I'm hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight.",Candidate,male,10,1,118
Bernie Sanders,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,119
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I wonder why. And maybe, you know, Pete mentions what the American people want. I will tell you, Pete, what the American people want, and, Joe, what the American people want. They don't want candidates to be running to billionaires for huge amounts of funding.",Candidate,male,10,1,120
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"All right, let's clear this up once and for all.",Candidate,male,10,1,121
Bernie Sanders,NA,Pete has gotten funding from over 50 billionaires.,Candidate,male,10,1,122
Pete Buttigieg,NA,You've got people believing something that is false. This needs to be cleared up.,Candidate,male,10,1,123
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Joe, I think, has gotten a little bit more. What the American people want, by the way, and a lot of the issues we'll be discussing tonight are issues I raised four years ago: raising the minimum wage to a living wage, 15 bucks an hour. Making public colleges and universities tuition-free. And finally, doing what every other major country on Earth does, guaranteeing health care to all people as a human right through a Medicare for All, single-payer system.",Candidate,male,10,1,124
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,125
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I can't allow -- I can't allow this to stand because it's just not true. Senator Sanders...,Candidate,male,10,1,126
Gayle King,NA,We're going to allow everyone an opportunity opportunity to respond.,Moderator,female,10,1,127
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... has got people believing something that is untrue about my campaign. The idea that most of my campaign is funded by billionaires...,Candidate,male,10,1,128
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I didn't say that, Pete.",Candidate,male,10,1,129
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Fifty people, all right. In Charleston alone, just in Charleston, over 2,000 people have contributed to my campaign. That means the dollars that have come to my campaign, just from Charleston, is more than the dollars that have come from the 50 people that you mentioned. Grassroots contributions are the life blood of my campaign.",Candidate,male,10,1,130
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"In fact, I shouldn't miss the opportunity, if you're watching right now and you support my campaign, go to peteforamerica.com, and chip in. And if you are watching right now, and you're a billionaire, I will raise your taxes. But if you'd like to defeat Donald Trump, please go to peteforamerica.com and donate legal maximum of $2,800, if you're a billionaire.",Candidate,male,10,1,131
Gayle King,NA,"All right, all right, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,10,1,132
Gayle King,NA,"Vice President Biden, I want to make -- I want to bring us to another topic. We're in South Carolina. It's the first primary with a significant black voting population. Your numbers appear to be slipping with black voters. And I'm wondering if you could respond about why that is happening to you at this particular time.",Moderator,female,10,1,133
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, first of all, the latest poll I saw, my numbers -- I'm still 15 points ahead, the latest poll.",Candidate,male,10,1,134
Gayle King,NA,"Yes, yes, you're correct. You're correct.",Moderator,female,10,1,135
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,136
Joe Biden,NA,"But look, look...",Candidate,male,10,1,137
Gayle King,NA,But Senator Sanders is in striking distance of you. You are within the margin of error in this state.,Moderator,female,10,1,138
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, it depends which -- look, I've earned the vote, I've worked like the devil to earn the vote of the African-American community, not just here but across the country. I've been coming here for years and years, creating jobs here, making sure that the port, for example, that employs one in 11 people, we put $500 million, in our administration, just into this county. We've created jobs for people.",Candidate,male,10,1,139
Joe Biden,NA,"The people know me. My entire career has been wrapped up in dealing with civil rights and civil liberties. I don't expect anything. I plan to earn the vote. I'm here to ask. I'm here to earn it. But, folks, I intend to win in South Carolina, and I will win the African-American vote here in South Carolina.",Candidate,male,10,1,140
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,141
Gayle King,NA,"Mr. Biden, will you continue if you do not win South Carolina? You have said that South Carolina will determine the outcome of this presidential race. If you don't win South Carolina, will you continue in this race?",Moderator,female,10,1,142
Joe Biden,NA,I will win South Carolina.,Candidate,male,10,1,143
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,144
Gayle King,NA,"All right, sir.",Moderator,female,10,1,145
Gayle King,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, I'd like to bring you into this conversation. I want to ask you about a question that impacts the black and brown community. You've apologized for stop and frisk repeatedly. What exactly are you apologizing for?",Moderator,female,10,1,146
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"We let it get out of control and when I realized that, I cut it back by 95 percent. And I've apologized and asked for forgiveness. I've met with black leaders to try to get an understanding of how I can better position myself and what I should have done and what I should do next time.",Candidate,male,10,1,147
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But let me tell you, I have been working very hard. We've improved the school system for black and brown students in New York City. We've increased the jobs that are available to them. We've increased the housing that's available to them. We have programs like the...",Candidate,male,10,1,148
Gayle King,NA,"But what more can you do about this issue, Mr. Mayor, to put people's fears and skepticism to rest? It continues to follow you.",Moderator,female,10,1,149
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"No -- well, that's because it's in their interest to promote that. But if you talk to the people in New York City, I have over 100 black elected officials that have endorsed me. A lot of them are in the audience tonight. And I've earned the respect of people in New York City.",Candidate,male,10,1,150
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I was the mayor of the largest, most populous city in the United States for 12 years, and people will tell you it's a lot better city today. It is safer for everybody. The school system is better. The budget is under control. We've done the things that people need in New York City for all ethnicities.",Candidate,male,10,1,151
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,152
Gayle King,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, mayor to mayor, mayor to mayor, you've certainly had your issues with the black community as well. Do you think the New York City's implementation of stop and frisk was racist?",Moderator,female,10,1,153
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yes, in effect, it was. Because it was about profiling people based on their race. And the mayor even said that they disproportionately stopped white people too often and minorities too little. And I'm not here to score points. I come at this with a great deal of humility, because we have had a lot of issues, especially when it comes to racial justice and policing in my own community.",Candidate,male,10,1,154
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And I come to this with some humility because I'm conscious of the fact that there are seven white people on this stage talking about racial justice. None of us -- none of us have the experience, the lived experience of, for example, walking down the street, or in a mall, and feeling feeling eyes on us, regarding us as dangerous, without knowing the first thing about us just because the color of our skin.",Candidate,male,10,1,155
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"None of us had the experience that black women have had that drives that maternal mortality gap that we are all rightly horrified by, of going into a doctor, and being less likely to have your description of being in pain believed because of your race. Since we don't have the experience, the next best thing we can do...",Candidate,male,10,1,156
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,female,10,1,157
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... is actually listen to those who do.,Candidate,male,10,1,158
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I know -- wait a second. I know that if I were black, my success would have been a lot harder to achieve. And I know a lot of black people that if they were white it would have been a lot easier for them. That's just a fact, and we've got to do something about it than rather just demagogue about it.",Candidate,male,10,1,159
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, was the way that the mayor implemented stop and frisk racist?",Moderator,female,10,1,160
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Yes, and I think that what we need to do instead of just reviewing everything from the past is talk about where we're going to go forward. Martin Luther King once said that we are all tied in a single garment of destiny, and that what affects one of us directly affects all of us indirectly. So when there is racism in the criminal justice system, then we need to fix it.",Candidate,female,10,1,161
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And to me that means sentencing reform, like the First Step Act, and extending that to the states with the Second Step Act. It means equal opportunity. Because if we don't pass Representative Clyburn's bill out of South Carolina here to invest in impoverished communities, we're never going to get to that single garment of destiny.",Candidate,female,10,1,162
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And we also need to do something about child care, about making sure we increase the minimum wage. And then, finally, voting. While we are all sitting here debating, Wisconsin has kicked hundreds of thousands of people off of their voting rolls. Georgia kicked 100,000 off. As president, I will get voting rights to be a reality for everyone.",Candidate,female,10,1,163
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,164
Gayle King,NA,"Senator Warren, I'm coming to you. I want to direct this question to you because you -- because Mayor Bloomberg has said he got in this race late because he doesn't believe that any of you on stage can beat Donald Trump. You said Mayor Bloomberg is not the safest candidate, he is the riskiest candidate. What did you mean by that?",Moderator,female,10,1,165
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"I mean that Mayor Bloomberg -- let's think of it this way. We're here in Charleston, and you know who is going to be in Charleston later this week is Donald Trump. He's going to be here to raise money for his buddy Senator Lindsey Graham, who funded Lindsey Graham's campaign for re-election last time? It was Mayor Bloomberg.",Candidate,female,10,1,166
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And that's not the only right-wing senator that Mayor Bloomberg has funded. In 2016, he dumped $12 million into the Pennsylvania Senate race to help re-elect an anti-choice, right-wing Republican senator. And I just want to say, the woman challenger was terrific. She lost by a single point.",Candidate,female,10,1,167
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"In 2012, he scooped in to try to defend another Republican senator against a woman challenger. That was me. It didn't work, but he tried hard.",Candidate,female,10,1,168
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,169
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I don't care how much money Mayor Bloomberg has. The core of the Democratic Party will never trust him. He has not earned their trust. I will. And the fact that he cannot earn the trust of core of the Democratic Party means he is the riskiest candidate standing on this stage.,Candidate,female,10,1,170
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,171
Gayle King,NA,"All right, Senator Warren, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,172
Gayle King,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, would you like to respond? Mayor Bloomberg?",Moderator,female,10,1,173
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I have been training for this job since I stepped on the pile that was still smoldering on 9/11. I know what to do. I've shown I know how to run a country. I've run the city which is almost the same size -- bigger than most countries in the world.,Candidate,male,10,1,174
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I am not the -- I'm the one choice that makes some sense. I have the experience. I have the resources. And I have the record. And all those sideshows that the senator wants to bring up have nothing to do with that. When people hired me to run New York City three times, in an overwhelmingly Democratic, progressive city, they elected me again and again.",Candidate,male,10,1,175
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Mr. Vice President?,Moderator,female,10,1,176
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I was mentioned in this.,Candidate,female,10,1,177
Joe Biden,NA,No...,Candidate,male,10,1,178
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,179
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'd like to respond.,Candidate,female,10,1,180
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Go ahead, Senator.",Moderator,female,10,1,181
Elizabeth Warren,NA,He called me out by name.,Candidate,female,10,1,182
Joe Biden,NA,There was a -- I thought...,Candidate,male,10,1,183
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... and referred to what I talk about as a ""sideshow."" You know, this is personal for me. When I was 21 years old, I got my first job as a special education teacher. I loved that job. And by the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant.",Candidate,female,10,1,184
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"The principal wished me luck and gave my job to someone else. Pregnancy discrimination, you bet. But I was 21 years old. I didn't have a union to protect me. And I didn't have any federal law on my side. So I packed up my stuff, and I went home. At least I didn't have a boss who said to me, ""Kill it,"" the way that Mayor Bloomberg is alleged to have said...",Candidate,female,10,1,185
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I never said that. Oh, come on.",Candidate,male,10,1,186
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... to one of his pregnant employees. People want a chance to hear...,Candidate,female,10,1,187
Elizabeth Warren,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,188
Elizabeth Warren,NA,People want a chance to hear from the women who have worked for...,Candidate,female,10,1,189
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,190
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I never said that. And for the record, if she was a teacher in New York City, she would never have had that problem. We treated our teachers the right way, and the unions will tell you exactly that.",Candidate,male,10,1,191
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,192
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Well, Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Warren has raised...",Moderator,female,10,1,193
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Then let us -- let us have -- the women have an opportunity to speak. The Bloomberg corporations and Mayor Bloomberg himself have been accused of discrimination. They are bound by nondisclosures so that they cannot speak. If he says there is nothing to hide here, then sign a blanket release and let those women speak out...",Candidate,female,10,1,194
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,195
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,196
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... so that they can tell their stories the way I can tell my story without having the fear they're going to be sued by a billionaire.,Candidate,female,10,1,197
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,198
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you. Thank you. We have a number of issues to discuss tonight, but I want to give the mayor an opportunity to respond, because she has raised concerns about women in your workplace. At the last debate, you said some of your female employees might not have liked some of your jokes. Did these women take your jokes wrong? Or were you wrong to make the jokes?",Moderator,female,10,1,199
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Probably wrong to make the jokes. I don't remember what they were. So I assume -- if it bothered them, I was wrong, and I apologize. I'm sorry for that.",Candidate,male,10,1,200
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But what happened here is we went back 40 years and we could only find three cases where women said they were uncomfortable. Nobody accused me of doing anything other than just making a comment or two. And what the senator did suggest was that we release these women from the nondisclosure agreement. I did that two days later, and my company has said we will not use nondisclosure agreements ever again. The senator has got it. And I don't know what else she wants us to do.",Candidate,male,10,1,201
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Oh, I'll be clear.",Candidate,female,10,1,202
Mike Bloomberg,NA,We're following exactly what she asked to do.,Candidate,male,10,1,203
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'll tell you exactly what I want you to do.,Candidate,female,10,1,204
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And the trouble is with this senator, enough is never enough for what this -- I'm going to start focusing on some of these other things. We just cannot continue to re-litigate this every time. We did what she asked. And, thank you, we've probably made the world better because of it. And by my company renouncing using these, we probably changed, hopefully, the corporate landscape all across America.",Candidate,male,10,1,205
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If you get nominated, we'll be re-litigating this all year.",Candidate,male,10,1,206
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,207
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Sorry, Mayor, you did not do what I asked.",Candidate,female,10,1,208
Gayle King,NA,"Senator Warren, that is a very serious charge that you leveled at the mayor.",Moderator,female,10,1,209
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,10,1,210
Gayle King,NA,He told a woman to get an abortion. What evidence do you have of that?,Moderator,female,10,1,211
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Her own words.,Candidate,female,10,1,212
Gayle King,NA,"And, Mayor Bloomberg, could you respond to this?",Moderator,female,10,1,213
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I never said it, period, end of story. Categorically never said it. When it was accused -- when I was accused of doing it, we couldn't figure out what she was talking about. But right now, I'm sorry if she heard what she thought she heard, or whatever happened. I didn't take any pleasure in that. And we've just got to go on. But I never said it. Come on.",Candidate,male,10,1,214
Elizabeth Warren,NA,What I asked the mayor to do is to do a release of all people who have discrimination claims...,Candidate,female,10,1,215
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"We are doing that, Senator.",Candidate,male,10,1,216
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,217
Norah O'Donnell,NA,We want to get to the -- we want to get to the issue -- we want to get to the issue of electability and the ideological difference within the Democratic Party.,Moderator,female,10,1,218
Elizabeth Warren,NA,OK.,Candidate,female,10,1,219
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Sanders, the cost of your agenda. Yesterday, you released information about how you will pay for your major proposals, but not all of your details are clear. You've proposed more than $50 trillion in new spending.",Moderator,female,10,1,220
Bernie Sanders,NA,Over a 10-year period.,Candidate,male,10,1,221
Norah O'Donnell,NA,You've said Medicare for all will cost $30 trillion.,Moderator,female,10,1,222
Bernie Sanders,NA,Over a 10-year period.,Candidate,male,10,1,223
Norah O'Donnell,NA,But you can only explain how you'll pay for just about half of that. Can you do the math for the rest of us?,Moderator,female,10,1,224
Bernie Sanders,NA,How many hours do you have?,Candidate,male,10,1,225
Gayle King,NA,Two.,Moderator,female,10,1,226
Gayle King,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,227
Joe Biden,NA,That's the problem.,Candidate,male,10,1,228
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, it's not the problem. All right, let's talk about Medicare for all. I'm sure you're familiar with the new study that just came out of Yale University, published in Lancet magazine, one of the prestigious medical journals in the world. You know what it said? Medicare for all will lower health care costs in this country by $450 billion a year and save 68,000 lives of people who otherwise would have died.",Candidate,male,10,1,229
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What we need to do is to do what every other major country on Earth does: guarantee health care to all people, not have thousands of separate insurance plans, which are costing us some $500 billion a year to administer.",Candidate,male,10,1,230
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Our plan -- we have laid out options all over the place. One of the options is a 7.5 percent payroll tax on employers, which will save them substantial sums of money. Another...",Candidate,male,10,1,231
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Bernie, let me -- let me respond to this.",Candidate,female,10,1,232
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,233
Bernie Sanders,NA,You asked me a question.,Candidate,male,10,1,234
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, does the math add up?",Moderator,female,10,1,235
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"No, the math does not add up. In fact, just on ""60 Minutes"" this weekend, he said he wasn't going to rattle through the nickels and the dimes. Well, let me tell you how many nickels and dimes we're talking about: nearly $60 trillion. Do you know how much that is, for all of his programs?",Candidate,female,10,1,236
Bernie Sanders,NA,Not true.,Candidate,male,10,1,237
Amy Klobuchar,NA,That is three times the American economy -- not the federal government -- the entire American economy. The Medicare for all plan alone on page eight clearly says that it will kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance in four years. That is true.,Candidate,female,10,1,238
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"As one prominent Democrat once said, we should pay attention to where the voters of this country are, Bernie. That prominent Democrat was Barack Obama a few months ago. And I think that's what we should do. They are not with you on spending nearly $60 trillion.",Candidate,female,10,1,239
Bernie Sanders,NA,First of all...,Candidate,male,10,1,240
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"What I think we should do is make things more affordable, nonprofit public option, make sure we're paying for long-term care better, take on the pharmaceuticals, like you and I have done together...",Candidate,female,10,1,241
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,10,1,242
Amy Klobuchar,NA,... and do something for the people of America.,Candidate,female,10,1,243
Gayle King,NA,"Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,10,1,244
Gayle King,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,245
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Instead of a bunch of broken promises that sound good on bumper stickers.,Candidate,female,10,1,246
Gayle King,NA,Mr. Steyer -- Mr. Steyer...,Moderator,female,10,1,247
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I think we're talking about math.,Candidate,male,10,1,248
Gayle King,NA,"We'll get to you, Mr. Sanders.",Moderator,female,10,1,249
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Let's talk about it.,Candidate,male,10,1,250
Tom Steyer,NA,Can I say something?,Candidate,male,10,1,251
Bernie Sanders,NA,First of all...,Candidate,male,10,1,252
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,253
Tom Steyer,NA,"No, let me go.",Candidate,male,10,1,254
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, I think -- Tom, I think she was talking about my plan, not yours.",Candidate,male,10,1,255
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I think we were talking about math, and it doesn't take two hours to do the math.",Candidate,male,10,1,256
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, no, well, let's talk about math.",Candidate,male,10,1,257
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Because let's talk about what it adds up to.,Candidate,male,10,1,258
Bernie Sanders,NA,Let's talk about math.,Candidate,male,10,1,259
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Let's talk about math, indeed. OK, so here's the math...",Candidate,male,10,1,260
Bernie Sanders,NA,If we do nothing is what...,Candidate,male,10,1,261
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"No, here's the math.",Candidate,male,10,1,262
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Excuse me, can I respond to the attack?",Candidate,male,10,1,263
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,264
Pete Buttigieg,NA,To do nothing is what will happen...,Candidate,male,10,1,265
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,266
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Sanders, you are allowed a quick response and then we would like to allow the other candidates...",Moderator,female,10,1,267
Norah O'Donnell,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,268
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Listen to the moderator, guys.",Candidate,male,10,1,269
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Senator Sanders. Senator Sanders.,Moderator,female,10,1,270
Bernie Sanders,NA,The moderator -- is it my turn?,Candidate,male,10,1,271
Joe Biden,NA,"This helps a lot, doesn't?",Candidate,male,10,1,272
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Sanders, you have been name checked. You are allowed to respond.",Moderator,female,10,1,273
Bernie Sanders,NA,"OK. What the Health and Human Services have said in analyzing health care costs, what Yale -- recent Yale study has said is that your program would cost some $50 trillion over a 10-year period. We would continue to pay in some cases 10 times more for the same exact prescription drugs. What every study out there -- conservative or progressive -- says, Medicare for all will save money. Ours will cost about $45 billion, not $60 trillion.",Candidate,male,10,1,274
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,275
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Bernie, I was talking about -- I was talking about...",Candidate,female,10,1,276
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,277
Gayle King,NA,"We would like -- Senator Sanders, we would like to bring Mr. Steyer in on this conversation.",Moderator,female,10,1,278
Gayle King,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,279
Tom Steyer,NA,"Mr. Steyer, please.",Candidate,male,10,1,280
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I was talking about all your programs.,Candidate,female,10,1,281
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,282
Tom Steyer,NA,"Excuse me, Amy. This conversation shows a huge risk for the Democratic Party. We are looking at a party that has decided that we're either going to support someone who is a democratic socialist or somebody who has a long history of being a Republican.",Candidate,male,10,1,283
Tom Steyer,NA,"And let me say that I got into this race because I wanted to fight for economic justice, for racial justice, and to make sure we had climate justice for the American people. And I am scared.",Candidate,male,10,1,284
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,285
Tom Steyer,NA,"If we cannot pull this party together, if we go to one of those extremes, we take a terrible risk of re-electing Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,10,1,286
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,10,1,287
Tom Steyer,NA,And that is something -- I still have some time. And let me say this.,Candidate,male,10,1,288
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,10,1,289
Tom Steyer,NA,That is a risk that will hurt the American people in a way that none of us on this stage should be willing to risk.,Candidate,male,10,1,290
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you. Let's keep this topic going. Mayor Pete?,Moderator,female,10,1,291
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"So let's do this math. Senator Sanders at one point said it was going to be $40 trillion, then it was $30 trillion, then it was $17 trillion. That's an incredible shrinking price tag. At some point, has said it is unknowable to even see what the price tag would be. Now there are new numbers.",Candidate,male,10,1,292
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I'll tell you exactly what it adds up to.,Candidate,male,10,1,293
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It adds to four more years of Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, and the inability to get the Senate into Democratic hands.",Candidate,male,10,1,294
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The time has come for us to stop acting like the presidency is the only office that matters. Not only is this a way to get Donald Trump reelected.,Candidate,male,10,1,295
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,296
Pete Buttigieg,NA,We got a House to worry about. We got a Senate to worry about. And this is -- this is really important.,Candidate,male,10,1,297
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Look...,Candidate,male,10,1,298
Joe Biden,NA,Hello?,Candidate,male,10,1,299
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... if you want to keep the House in Democratic hands, you might want to check with the people who actually turned the House blue, 40 Democrats, who are not running on your platform.",Candidate,male,10,1,300
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,301
Pete Buttigieg,NA,They are running away from your platform as fast as they possibly can.,Candidate,male,10,1,302
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,303
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I want to send those Democrats back to the United States House.,Candidate,male,10,1,304
Gayle King,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,female,10,1,305
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,306
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Let's listen to them...,Candidate,male,10,1,307
Gayle King,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,female,10,1,308
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... when they say that they don't want to be out there defending Senator Sanders...,Candidate,male,10,1,309
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,310
Gayle King,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg. Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.",Moderator,female,10,1,311
Gayle King,NA,"Vice President Biden, please.",Moderator,female,10,1,312
Joe Biden,NA,Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.,Candidate,male,10,1,313
Joe Biden,NA,I guess the only way you do this is jump in and speak twice as long as you should.,Candidate,male,10,1,314
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,315
Joe Biden,NA,Here's the deal. Here's the deal.,Candidate,male,10,1,316
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, a guy who's a friend of mine down here named Fritz Hollings -- he passed away -- he said, you want to know what a woman will do, look what they have done. Look what they have done.",Candidate,male,10,1,317
Joe Biden,NA,"You talk about -- concerned about race. Well, my good friend on the end of this platform, he, in fact, bought a system that was a private prison system, after, after he knew that, in fact, what happened was, they hog-tied young men in prison here in this state.",Candidate,male,10,1,318
Joe Biden,NA,"They, in fact, made sure that, in Georgia, they did not have health care for the people who were being held. They, in fact, went on, and he said, after he knew that, he bought it. And then he said he was proud of his accomplishment.",Candidate,male,10,1,319
Joe Biden,NA,"You talk about what we're talking about with Bernie. Bernie, in fact, hasn't passed much of anything. The fact of the matter is...",Candidate,male,10,1,320
Tom Steyer,NA,OK. But I get to answer.,Candidate,male,10,1,321
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,322
Joe Biden,NA,"No, no, no.",Candidate,male,10,1,323
Tom Steyer,NA,I get to answer that.,Candidate,male,10,1,324
Joe Biden,NA,The -- look -- look...,Candidate,male,10,1,325
Tom Steyer,NA,"No, that...",Candidate,male,10,1,326
Joe Biden,NA,... fact is...,Candidate,male,10,1,327
Tom Steyer,NA,You're out of time.,Candidate,male,10,1,328
Tom Steyer,NA,I get to answer...,Candidate,male,10,1,329
Joe Biden,NA,Here's the deal.,Candidate,male,10,1,330
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm not out of time. You spoke over time, and I'm going to talk.",Candidate,male,10,1,331
Joe Biden,NA,Here's the deal.,Candidate,male,10,1,332
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,333
Joe Biden,NA,Here's the deal.,Candidate,male,10,1,334
Joe Biden,NA,"The fact of the matter is, look at what's happening here. Look at what's happening here. We have to win the Senate back.",Candidate,male,10,1,335
Joe Biden,NA,"And, by the way, I went into all of those races that got 41 new Democrats. The majority of them are supporting me for president and endorsing me.",Candidate,male,10,1,336
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,337
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"And, Mr. Vice President, I have to allow -- yes, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,10,1,338
Norah O'Donnell,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,339
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Mr. Mayor, you're allowed to respond.",Moderator,female,10,1,340
Tom Steyer,NA,I bought stock in a prison company thinking they would do a better job. And I investigated. And I sold it.,Candidate,male,10,1,341
Mike Bloomberg,NA,OK.,Candidate,male,10,1,342
Joe Biden,NA,But you knew -- you knew when you bought it they'd done that.,Candidate,male,10,1,343
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,344
Tom Steyer,NA,I get to answer this question.,Candidate,male,10,1,345
Tom Steyer,NA,"And, in fact, since then, I have worked to end the use of private prisons in my home state, and we have ended it. I have started a bank to support black ownership of businesses, women ownership of businesses, and Latino owners of businesses, because this financial service industry is prejudiced.",Candidate,male,10,1,346
Tom Steyer,NA,I have worked tirelessly on this. And you know I'm right. You wrote the crime bill that you called...,Candidate,male,10,1,347
Tom Steyer,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,348
Joe Biden,NA,"Where we come from, that's called Tommy come lately.",Candidate,male,10,1,349
Mike Bloomberg,NA,There are other people here.,Candidate,male,10,1,350
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,351
Tom Steyer,NA,... crime bill that put hundreds of thousands of young black and Latino men in prison.,Candidate,male,10,1,352
Joe Biden,NA,Not true.,Candidate,male,10,1,353
Mike Bloomberg,NA,OK. Let me say something.,Candidate,male,10,1,354
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,355
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,10,1,356
Tom Steyer,NA,There's something going on here. I have worked for racial justice...,Candidate,male,10,1,357
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,358
Gayle King,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,10,1,359
Tom Steyer,NA,... completely. And that is an absolute unfair statement.,Candidate,male,10,1,360
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,10,1,361
Amy Klobuchar,NA,All I know...,Candidate,female,10,1,362
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,363
Joe Biden,NA,Tommy come lately.,Candidate,male,10,1,364
Gayle King,NA,Mayor Bloomberg. Mayor Bloomberg.,Moderator,female,10,1,365
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... if we spend the next four months tearing our party apart, we're going to watch Donald Trump spend the next four years tearing our country apart.",Candidate,female,10,1,366
Joe Biden,NA,Look...,Candidate,male,10,1,367
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So, my argument here is that we need to get back to what's happening right now.",Candidate,female,10,1,368
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We have a clear choice of who's going to lead this party. And I am the only one in the New Hampshire debate, when asked, if we had a problem with a socialist leading the ticket, that raised my hand.",Candidate,female,10,1,369
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I like Bernie. We came in together to the Senate. But I do not think that this is the best person to lead the ticket.,Candidate,female,10,1,370
Amy Klobuchar,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,371
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And if you want to talk about getting things done and make a comparison, according to Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, last Congress, I was the most effective Democrat in the U.S. Senate on 15 metrics.",Candidate,female,10,1,372
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Bernie and Elizabeth were in the bottom half. It matters -- it matters if you can actually get things done.,Candidate,female,10,1,373
Mike Bloomberg,NA,OK. Gayle...,Candidate,male,10,1,374
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"It is not just who talks the best, who actually gets things done.",Candidate,female,10,1,375
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And especially with the African-American community, there have been a lot of broken promises.. And I think having someone that keeps their promises and follows through and is going to get things done for these people matters. And that's why I ask for your support.",Candidate,female,10,1,376
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,377
Gayle King,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, please.",Moderator,female,10,1,378
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Let's just go on the record.,Candidate,male,10,1,379
Mike Bloomberg,NA,They talk about 40 Democrats; 21 of those were people that I spent $100 million to help elect. All of the new Democrats that came in and put Nancy Pelosi in charge and gave the Congress the ability to control this president...,Candidate,male,10,1,380
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,381
Mike Bloomberg,NA,... I -- I got them.,Candidate,male,10,1,382
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Number two, when you talk about money, let's put this in perspective. The federal budget is $4.5 trillion a year. We get $3.5 trillion in revenue. We lose $1 trillion a year.",Candidate,male,10,1,383
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"That's why the federal budget -- deficit is -- right now, the debt is $20 trillion, going up to 21.",Candidate,male,10,1,384
Mike Bloomberg,NA,We just cannot afford some of this stuff people talk about. But if you...,Candidate,male,10,1,385
Mike Bloomberg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,386
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Let me finish.,Candidate,male,10,1,387
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"If you keep on going, we will elect Bernie. Bernie will lose to Donald Trump. And Donald Trump and the House and the Senate and some of the statehouses will all go red.",Candidate,male,10,1,388
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And then, between gerrymandering and appointing judges, for the next 20 or 30 years, we're going to live with this catastrophe.",Candidate,male,10,1,389
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,390
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,391
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"I will allow Senator Sanders a quick response, and then Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,10,1,392
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Thank you very much, Norah.",Candidate,male,10,1,393
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Sanders, a quick response, and then Senator Warren.",Moderator,female,10,1,394
Bernie Sanders,NA,Thank you very much.,Candidate,male,10,1,395
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg has a solid and strong and enthusiastic base of support. The problem is, they're all billionaires.",Candidate,male,10,1,396
Bernie Sanders,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,397
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Now, if you look -- oh.",Candidate,male,10,1,398
Bernie Sanders,NA,"On the other hand, of the last 50 polls that have been done nationally, Mr. Bloomberg, I beat Trump 47 of those 50 times.",Candidate,male,10,1,399
Bernie Sanders,NA,"If you look at battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, polling just done this Sunday...",Candidate,male,10,1,400
Mike Bloomberg,NA,The polls aren't the election.,Candidate,male,10,1,401
Bernie Sanders,NA,... I beat Trump.,Candidate,male,10,1,402
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And if you want to beat Trump, what you're going to need is an unprecedented...",Candidate,male,10,1,403
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,404
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... grassroots movement of black and white and Latino, Native American and Asian, people who are standing up and fighting for justice.",Candidate,male,10,1,405
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,406
Bernie Sanders,NA,That's what our movement is about.,Candidate,male,10,1,407
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Can anybody -- can anybody in this room imagine moderate Republicans going over and voting for him?,Candidate,male,10,1,408
Bernie Sanders,NA,Absolutely.,Candidate,male,10,1,409
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And you have to do that, or you can't win.",Candidate,male,10,1,410
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"You know, that is...",Candidate,female,10,1,411
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,412
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Senator Warren.,Moderator,female,10,1,413
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That is the problem.,Candidate,female,10,1,414
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And that is that a progressive agenda is popular, Mayor Bloomberg.",Candidate,female,10,1,415
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And, for everyone on this stage, we talk about how to build a future. That's what matters.",Candidate,female,10,1,416
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I talk to people in selfie lines every day who tell me about the importance of getting real help on health care. It's why I also have a way to pay for health care that doesn't raise taxes on middle-class families.,Candidate,female,10,1,417
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"But it's so much more than that. As Democrats, we need to speak to the future we can build together. We need to speak of the prosperity we can build together.",Candidate,female,10,1,418
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"How about a wealth tax in America? Because with a 2 cent tax on just the top one-tenth of 1 percent, we have a chance to invest in universal child care for every one of our babies, to really level the playing field.",Candidate,female,10,1,419
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,420
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Put $50 billion into historically black colleges and universities.,Candidate,female,10,1,421
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,10,1,422
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,423
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And start closing the racial wealth gap by canceling student loan debt for 43 million Americans.,Candidate,female,10,1,424
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,425
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We need to talk about our aspirations, our hopes.",Candidate,female,10,1,426
Elizabeth Warren,NA,This is a moment...,Candidate,female,10,1,427
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Senator...,Moderator,female,10,1,428
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... to choose hope over fear.,Candidate,female,10,1,429
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,430
Elizabeth Warren,NA,This is our moment.,Candidate,female,10,1,431
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,432
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,433
Norah O'Donnell,NA,We have to take a quick break.,Moderator,female,10,1,434
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"When we come back, the Democratic presidential debate continues right after this, only on CBS.",Moderator,female,10,1,435
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,436
Norah O'Donnell,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,437
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,438
Gayle King,NA,"I'm Gayle King with Norah O'Donnell. Joining us now on the question here in Charleston, South Carolina are CBS News colleagues, the A team, Bill Whitaker of ""60 MINUTES,"" chief Washington correspondent, that's Major Garrett, and Margaret Brennan, moderator of ""FACE THE NATION.""",Moderator,female,10,1,439
Gayle King,NA,"We're going to begin with you, Vice President Biden, for this part. Just across the street, as you mentioned at the top of the debate, is the theater (sic) where nine people were shot and killed inside the Mother Emanuel Church. We all remember that day back in 2015.",Moderator,female,10,1,440
Gayle King,NA,"And every day in our country, over 100 people die from gun violence. You all have plans, I know, on this stage, to address the gun crisis. But Congress has not been able to pass a major gun legislation in a quarter of a century. And just think about this, in those 25 years we've had Columbine, Newtown, Parkland, Las Vegas. We could go on and on.",Moderator,female,10,1,441
Gayle King,NA,"Vice President Biden, I want to start with you, why should anyone have faith that you're the one who can get this done now?",Moderator,female,10,1,442
Joe Biden,NA,Because I'm the only one that ever got it done nationally. I beat the NRA twice. I got assault weapons banned. I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. I got them eliminated. Except we had a thing called an election with hanging chads in Florida and it was not reauthorized.,Candidate,male,10,1,443
Joe Biden,NA,"In addition to, that I passed the Brady Bill with waiting periods. I led that fight. But my friend to my right and others have in fact also gave into the gone manufacturers, absolute immunity. Imagine if I stood here and said we'd give immunity to drug companies. We would give immunity to tobacco companies. That has caused carnage on our streets, 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. More than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on.",Candidate,male,10,1,444
Joe Biden,NA,"Carnage on our streets. And I want to tell you, if I'm elected, NRA, I'm coming for you, and gun manufacturers, I'm going to take you on and I'm going to beat you. I'm the only one who has done it.",Candidate,male,10,1,445
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,446
Pete Buttigieg,NA,That's why we have got to change what Washington can deliver.,Candidate,male,10,1,447
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,448
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So this is about being able to dig in and talk about what really it's going to take to get something done. I've been in the Senate. What I've seen is gun safety legislation introduced, get a majority, and then doesn't pass because of the filibuster. Understand this, the filibuster is giving a veto to the gun industry.",Candidate,female,10,1,449
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"It gives a veto to the oil industry. It's going to give a veto on immigration. Until we're willing to dig in and say that if Mitch McConnell is going to do to the next Democratic president what he did to President Obama, and that is try to block every single thing he does, that we are willing to roll back the filibuster, go with the majority vote, and do what needs to be done for the American people.",Candidate,female,10,1,450
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,451
Gayle King,NA,We're going to stay on this top and allow Senator...,Moderator,female,10,1,452
Joe Biden,NA,... and I can beat Mitch McConnell.,Candidate,male,10,1,453
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Understand this, many people on this stage do not support rolling back the filibuster. Until we're ready to do that, we can't have real change.",Candidate,female,10,1,454
Norah O'Donnell,NA,I want to allow Senator Sanders to respond because you've gone after the insurance industry. You've taken on pharmaceutical companies. And you've taken on big tech. Why did you vote repeatedly to give gun manufacturers a pass?,Moderator,female,10,1,455
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, you know, Joe has voted for terrible trade agreements.",Candidate,male,10,1,456
Bernie Sanders,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,457
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, no, no, no, no. Joe voted for the war in Iraq. My point was, not to be -- I have cast thousands of votes, including bad votes. That was a bad vote. I have today a D-minus voting record from the NRA. Thirty years ago, I likely lost a race for the one seat for Congress in Vermont because 30 years ago, I opposed -- I supported a ban on assault weapons. Thirty years ago.",Candidate,male,10,1,458
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Right now, my view is we need to expand background checks, end the gun show loophole, and do what the American people want, not what the NRA wants.",Candidate,male,10,1,459
Joe Biden,NA,"OK, but wait a second...",Candidate,male,10,1,460
Joe Biden,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,461
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... the opposition to the filibuster is not a discretion from a long time ago.,Candidate,male,10,1,462
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I think she recognized me, thank you. I have a 6 million-person organization around this country. Moms Demand Action and Everytown.",Candidate,male,10,1,463
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,464
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"We have put background checks -- we have got background checks in 20 states. So you can do it. It's Congress that can't seem to do it. And I don't know why we think they're going to do it. The vice president voted for a death bill, and supported the NRA. And certainly Senator Sanders has supported the NRA.",Candidate,male,10,1,465
Mike Bloomberg,NA,But we can do this. We have just got to stop talking about it.,Candidate,male,10,1,466
Amy Klobuchar,NA,But the way we do it -- the way we do it is having someone leading the ticket from a part of the country that we actually needs the votes. So I have long supported the assault weapon ban. I am the author of the bill to close the boyfriend loophole that says that domestic abusers can't go out and get an AK-47.,Candidate,female,10,1,467
Joe Biden,NA,I wrote that law.,Candidate,male,10,1,468
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"That bill, along with -- you didn't write that bill. I wrote that bill.",Candidate,female,10,1,469
Joe Biden,NA,"I wrote the bill, the Violence Against Women Act...",Candidate,male,10,1,470
Amy Klobuchar,NA,OK. You did you that.,Candidate,female,10,1,471
Joe Biden,NA,... that took out of the hands of people who abused their...,Candidate,male,10,1,472
Amy Klobuchar,NA,OK. We'll have a fact check look at this.,Candidate,female,10,1,473
Joe Biden,NA,Let's look at the fact check...,Candidate,male,10,1,474
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Oh my goodness.,Candidate,female,10,1,475
Joe Biden,NA,"The only thing that the boyfriend loophole is was not covered. I couldn't get that covered. You, in fact, when you were -- as a senator tried to get it covered and Mitch McConnell is holding it up on his desk right now, and we're going to lose the Violence Against Women Act across the board.",Candidate,male,10,1,476
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"OK. So, if I could finish. I have the bill. Anyone can check it out, to close the boyfriend loophole. Also to close the Charleston loophole is another bill that is out there. Universal background checks.",Candidate,female,10,1,477
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But let me say how we win this. We have got to win in the middle of the country. And while everyone talks about winning rural areas, suburban areas, I'm the only one up here with a receipts that has actually repeatedly, while being for the assault weapon ban, won in Republican congressional districts over and over again, including Michele Bachmann's district.",Candidate,female,10,1,478
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So having someone that can lead the ticket, that can bring people with her, is the way you get gun safety legislation. I look at these proposals and say, do they hit my uncle Dick in the deer stand? They do not. So coming from a proud hunting state and still being able to pass this legislation is going to be the key.",Candidate,female,10,1,479
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,480
Norah O'Donnell,NA,We want to allow many people to get in on this topic. Mayor Buttigieg.,Moderator,female,10,1,481
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"I'm definitely on board with the part about sending up somebody from the middle of the country. But I want to come back to this question about the filibuster because this is not some long-ago bad vote that Bernie Sanders took, this is a current bad position that Bernie Sanders holds.",Candidate,male,10,1,482
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,483
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And we're in South Carolina. How are we going to deliver a revolution if you won't even support a rule change? We are in this state...,Candidate,male,10,1,484
Pete Buttigieg,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,485
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We are in the state where Strom Thurmond used the filibuster to block civil rights legislation repeatedly. No less a Senate traditional figure than Harry Reid has called for it to go. It has got to go, because otherwise Washington will not deliver. I was in high school when the Columbine shooting happened. And I remember everybody in Washington saying, never again, we'll never let this happen again.",Candidate,male,10,1,486
Pete Buttigieg,NA,And then a second school shooting generation has now been produced. Shame on us if we allow there to be a third. And also...,Candidate,male,10,1,487
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,488
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... in terms of making the case, I think it wouldn't be a bad idea for somebody to illustrate, from the perspective of the a veteran, why the kinds of weaponry, anything remotely like what I trained on in order to go serve in a war zone has no business being sold anywhere near an American school or church or neighbor.",Candidate,male,10,1,489
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,490
Gayle King,NA,"All right, Senator Sanders, please.",Moderator,female,10,1,491
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Thirty years ago, I supported a ban on assault weapons. Mike Bloomberg has started a very good organization, Moms Demand Actions. Congratulations.",Candidate,male,10,1,492
Mike Bloomberg,NA,Thank you.,Candidate,male,10,1,493
Bernie Sanders,NA,"They have credited me with gun sense, as you know.",Candidate,male,10,1,494
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Yes, we did.",Candidate,male,10,1,495
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Furthermore, furthermore, it is my view, the time is now, and Joe made this point, look, at the end of the day we need to rally the American people. Here is the good news. Because of all these disgusting and horrific mass shootings, the American people now understand that we must be aggressive on gun safety, not be dictated to by the NRA.",Candidate,male,10,1,496
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And I am proud that I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA. If elected president, it will get worse than that.",Candidate,male,10,1,497
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,498
Gayle King,NA,"All right, Mr. Steyer, please? Mr. Steyer?",Moderator,female,10,1,499
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, it isn't a question of the American people deciding that we have too much gun violence. Everyone in America knows we have too much gun violence. The problem we have is that corporations have bought Washington, D.C.",Candidate,male,10,1,500
Tom Steyer,NA,"The gun manufacturers own the Senate of the United States. So even though more than 90 percent of Americans want mandatory background checks on every gun purchase, we can't get it through the Senate.",Candidate,male,10,1,501
Tom Steyer,NA,"So the question you have to ask yourself is, how do we change the Senate of the United States in a material way? And there are two things. That's why I am for term limits of 12 years for every congressperson and senator, to change who's in charge, to get rid of Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz.",Candidate,male,10,1,502
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,503
Tom Steyer,NA,But I am also -- Senator Sanders is right. We need to win a huge victory across the board.,Candidate,male,10,1,504
Gayle King,NA,"All right, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,female,10,1,505
Tom Steyer,NA,Democrats need to go to the grassroots. I built one of the biggest grassroots organizations in the United States.,Candidate,male,10,1,506
Gayle King,NA,"Your time's up, sir.",Moderator,female,10,1,507
Tom Steyer,NA,"The way to win at the grassroots is, tell the truth and organize.",Candidate,male,10,1,508
Gayle King,NA,"Your time's up, sir. Bill Whitaker?",Moderator,female,10,1,509
Tom Steyer,NA,That's what it's going to take in 2020.,Candidate,male,10,1,510
Gayle King,NA,"Your time's up, sir. Bill Whitaker?",Moderator,female,10,1,511
Bill Whitaker,NA,"Let's talk about education. South Carolina's schools score in the bottom half of the national assessment. Black students here consistently score worse than white students. Mayor Bloomberg, a key element of your response to failing schools in New York City was a dramatic increase in public charter schools. As president, would you pursue that same strategy and seek to expand charter schools nationwide?",Moderator,male,10,1,512
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I'm not sure they're appropriate every place. I can only tell you, in New York, they provided parents with an alternative to send students to them. We had -- the charter schools are mixed in with the non-charter public schools, because our charter schools are public schools, as well. They've helped each other.",Candidate,male,10,1,513
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I saw a statistic the other day, when I came into office, zero New York City schools were in the top 25 of the state. When I left, 23 out of 25 were from New York City. We've cut the gap between the rich and the poor. We've made an enormous difference in all of the options that parents have.",Candidate,male,10,1,514
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I raised teacher salaries by 43 percent. I put an extra $5 billion into our school system. I value education. It is the only way to solve the poverty problem is to get people a good education. And rather than just talk about it in New York, we actually did it.",Candidate,male,10,1,515
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,516
Bill Whitaker,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,10,1,517
Elizabeth Warren,NA,So this is one thing where a president can make a big difference all by herself. And I'm going to start with my secretary of education. My secretary of education will be someone who has taught in public school.,Candidate,female,10,1,518
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,519
Elizabeth Warren,NA,My secretary of education will be someone who believes in public education. And my secretary of education will believe that public dollars should stay in public schools.,Candidate,female,10,1,520
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,521
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"One more thing. My secretary of education will believe that it is time to get rid of high-stakes testing. We need to support our children. But, look, we want to build a future in this country? We build a future by investing in our children. I've got a plan to put $800 billion new federal dollars into our public schools.",Candidate,female,10,1,522
Bill Whitaker,NA,"Thank you. Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,10,1,523
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Education is not free. We must invest in the future of our children.,Candidate,female,10,1,524
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,525
Bill Whitaker,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,10,1,526
Bernie Sanders,NA,"This campaign, our campaign, our campaign is about changing American priorities. Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, we're going to have high-quality, universal childcare for every family in this country.",Candidate,male,10,1,527
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Because the psychologists tell us 0 to 4 are the most important years of human development. We are going to triple funding for low-income Title I schools, because kids' education should not depend upon the ZIP Code in which they live. We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free through a tax on Wall Street speculation. And we're going to move to make certain that no teacher in America earns less than $60,000 a year.",Candidate,male,10,1,528
Bill Whitaker,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,10,1,529
Bernie Sanders,NA,We want great teachers.,Candidate,male,10,1,530
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Can I...,Candidate,female,10,1,531
Bill Whitaker,NA,Mayor Buttigieg?,Moderator,male,10,1,532
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, the best thing that we can do to support public education is to support public educators. I'm a little biased, because I'm married to one. And I get an education about education every day I come home.",Candidate,male,10,1,533
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I have seen how teachers are expected to dip into their own pockets to furnish their classrooms. Teachers are being expected to handle the mental health challenges that their students are facing because we don't have an adequate mental health system to support kids.,Candidate,male,10,1,534
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And now some politicians, because they aren't willing to face the need for commonsense gun law, are expecting teachers to somehow transform themselves into highly trained armed guards when there's a threat to a classroom.",Candidate,male,10,1,535
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We have to show not only with compensation, but with support for the profession overall our regard for those who are educating our kids. And, yes, that means a secretary of education who will support teachers. It also means investing.",Candidate,male,10,1,536
Bill Whitaker,NA,Thank you...,Moderator,male,10,1,537
Bill Whitaker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,10,1,538
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I'm proposing an education access...,Candidate,male,10,1,539
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,540
Elizabeth Warren,NA,One way we -- one way we can support our teachers is to cancel student loan debt.,Candidate,female,10,1,541
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,542
Bill Whitaker,NA,We're going to pass this on to Major.,Moderator,male,10,1,543
Major Garrett,NA,"Candidates, good evening. Candidates, good evening.",Moderator,male,10,1,544
Elizabeth Warren,NA,People across this country are being crushed by student loan debt. This is an issue we need to talk about.,Candidate,female,10,1,545
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,546
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And that's what my plan would do, through the education...",Candidate,male,10,1,547
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,548
Major Garrett,NA,"As we all know, as we all know, the political conversation in our country is interactive, and because of our partner, Twitter, this debate is no different. So I want to put a question from Twitter to you, Senator Klobuchar. This is from Casey Pennington. How will your policies address and ensure affordable housing and education equity for minimum wage workers?",Moderator,male,10,1,549
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Thank you. This is one of the first times we've talked about housing. And I put forward an extensive policy.,Candidate,female,10,1,550
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I think -- when I've looked at this both in my job in local government and in the Senate, one sure way we can make sure that kids get a good start is if they have a roof over their head and a stable place to live.",Candidate,female,10,1,551
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So the way you do that is, first of all, taking care of the Section 8 backlog of applicants. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people waiting. And I have found a way to pay for this and a way to make sure that people get off that list and get into housing.",Candidate,female,10,1,552
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Secondly, you create incentives for affordable housing to be built and, third, to help people pay for it.",Candidate,female,10,1,553
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I want to make clear, given South Carolina and the rural population, as well as urban, that this isn't just an urban problem. It's a big urban problem, but it's also a rural problem, where we have housing deserts and people want to have their businesses located there, but they're not able to get housing.",Candidate,female,10,1,554
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So for me, it's building a coalition. And I actually like to get these things done and to -- the way you do it is by building a coalition between urban and rural so you can pass affordable housing and finally get it done.",Candidate,female,10,1,555
Elizabeth Warren,NA,This is a point...,Candidate,female,10,1,556
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,557
Major Garrett,NA,"Senator Warren, hold on one second, because I want to -- I want to...",Moderator,male,10,1,558
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"This is a point where we need to talk about race, though.",Candidate,female,10,1,559
Major Garrett,NA,I understand.,Moderator,male,10,1,560
Major Garrett,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,10,1,561
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It is not enough to talk about housing neutrally...,Candidate,female,10,1,562
Joe Biden,NA,Can we just speak up when we want to? Is that the idea?,Candidate,male,10,1,563
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... and just be race-blind. It is important to recognize the role that the federal government played for decades and decades in discriminating against African-Americans having an opportunity to buy homes.,Candidate,female,10,1,564
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,565
Elizabeth Warren,NA,That's red-lining.,Candidate,female,10,1,566
Major Garrett,NA,Mayor...,Moderator,male,10,1,567
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"And while Mayor Bloomberg was blaming the housing crash of 2008 on African-Americans and on Latinos, in fact, I was out there fighting for a consumer agency to make sure people never get cheated again on their mortgages. We have a -- I have a housing plan, and what it has in it specifically...",Candidate,female,10,1,568
Major Garrett,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you.",Moderator,male,10,1,569
Elizabeth Warren,NA,... is a piece...,Candidate,female,10,1,570
Major Garrett,NA,"Senator Warren, thank you.",Moderator,male,10,1,571
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"... to deal with the effects of red-lining. We can no longer pretend that everything is race-neutral. We have got to address race consciously, what's happening in this country.",Candidate,female,10,1,572
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,573
Major Garrett,NA,"OK. Mayor Bloomberg, please, we were going to ask you about this. I want to give you a chance to respond, because in addition to what Senator Warren just said on Twitter, she called you a liar and a borderline racist because of what you said about red-lining.",Moderator,male,10,1,574
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Yes, she's -- I'm sorry, but, unfortunately, she's misinformed on red-lighting. You can go back and look at the record. I fought against it before '08, the crisis, during '08, and after that. Red-lining is not the problem with the mortgage market, but it was a problem for the communities where it was done, and we stopped that.",Candidate,male,10,1,575
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Let me also say, because just -- since I have the floor for a second, that I really am surprised that all of these -- my fellow contestants up here, I guess, would be the right word for it...",Candidate,male,10,1,576
Mike Bloomberg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,577
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"... given nobody pays attention to the clock -- I'm surprised they show up, because I would have thought after I did such a good job in beating them last week, that they'd be a little bit afraid to do that.",Candidate,male,10,1,578
Mike Bloomberg,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,579
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But let me just say, when you're talking about affordable housing, we created 175,000 units of affordable housing in New York City. And I listened to them. They're in Congress and they say they can't get it done, can't get it done. But if you change something like the president, they would. No, you have to learn how to work with both sides of the aisle and then you can get stuff done.",Candidate,male,10,1,580
Mike Bloomberg,NA,I did it in New York City. I got the Republican State Senate to vote for gay marriage virtually before anybody else in this country. You can work across the aisle. You just have to know how to deal with people.,Candidate,male,10,1,581
Major Garrett,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, thank you very much. Back to you, Bill.",Moderator,male,10,1,582
Bill Whitaker,NA,"Vice President Biden, black men earn 73 cents for every dollar earned by white men, are about twice as likely to be unemployed, five times more likely to be incarcerated, conditions that ripple across black families and have endured during both Democratic and Republican administrations. How do you convince black voters that you can change years of inequities?",Moderator,male,10,1,583
Joe Biden,NA,"Two ways. Number one, my entire life I've been involved with the black community. I was a public defender.",Candidate,male,10,1,584
Joe Biden,NA,"I worked in the projects, I came along, and the first thing I did as the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, extended the Voting Rights Act eventually for 25 years. And I have been deeply involved. And my first effort I had as a councilman was doing away with red-lining in the county.",Candidate,male,10,1,585
Joe Biden,NA,"The way we do this, we've got to help them create wealth, and that's why we double the amount of money that is available for young entrepreneurs and black entrepreneurs, are as successful as any other group of people in the country. We go from 1.5 billion to $3 billion, taking $30 billion off the sidelines. That's how you create wealth.",Candidate,male,10,1,586
Joe Biden,NA,"Secondly, I provide for the opportunity for first-time home buyers to be able to have a $15,000 tax credit so they can get the mortgage at the front end and be able to keep it. Thirdly, I go after those people who are involved gentrification, because what's happening is we're moving people out of their neighborhoods in ways that in fact make no sense. They're being bought out. You cannot find a place to live.",Candidate,male,10,1,587
Joe Biden,NA,"And thirdly, I make sure that with regard to housing, we allow people -- look, right now if you live in a black neighborhood and you have the same exact house as the guy across the street in a white neighborhood has, your house is valued significantly less than the white, the same exact house. We've got to deal with the institutional racism.",Candidate,male,10,1,588
Bill Whitaker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,male,10,1,589
Joe Biden,NA,"I note how you cut me off all the time but I'm not going to be quiet anymore, OK?",Candidate,male,10,1,590
Bill Whitaker,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,male,10,1,591
Tom Steyer,NA,"Every single policy area in the United States has a gigantic subtext of race. We're talking about education. We're talking about criminal justice. We're talking about housing. We're talking about loans. I started a bank to basically correct the injustice in the financial services industry. Basically, to make loans to black-owned, Latino-owned, and women-owned businesses. We've supported over 8,000 affordable housing units.",Candidate,male,10,1,592
Tom Steyer,NA,"But more than that, I believe I'm the only person on this stage who believes in reparations for slavery.",Candidate,male,10,1,593
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,594
Tom Steyer,NA,"Something happened. We should have a formal commission on race to retell the story of the last 400-plus years in America of African-Americans, of systematic legal injustice, discrimination, and cruelty, but also of 400-plus years of contribution in terms of building the United States of America and leading the United States of America from a moral standpoint.",Candidate,male,10,1,595
Bill Whitaker,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,10,1,596
Bill Whitaker,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,male,10,1,597
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, next question, new topic, new topic. Senator Klobuchar...",Moderator,female,10,1,598
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... for this whole campaign, I don't know where you got the impression...",Candidate,male,10,1,599
Margaret Brennan,NA,"If you could honor the rules of the debate, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,600
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, I'd like to change topics and ask you, rural areas have populations who are older, sicker, and poorer than non-rural communities. And they have to travel farther to get medical help when they need it. Expanding coverage is going to be useless if there are no providers to go to. So how would you ensure that there is available health care in rural areas?",Moderator,female,10,1,601
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"People aren't always aware, I know you are in South Carolina, about how much poverty there is, particularly child poverty in rural areas. So the answer is one size doesn't fit all. And one of the ways you do this, right now we have something called critical access hospitals so they're designated for rural areas. And actually, I am leading -- the lead Democrat on a bill to extend that, to have other types of hospitals, like emergency rooms in rural areas be covered.",Candidate,female,10,1,602
Amy Klobuchar,NA,The other issue is we don't have enough personnel. And so that's where we get to this education plan.. And I don't want agree with some of my colleagues here about putting hard-earned taxpayer money into rich kids going to college. What I think we need to do instead is look at what our needs are in our economy.,Candidate,female,10,1,603
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"We're going to have a million openings for home health care workers, particularly in rural areas, that we don't know how to fill. We're going to have over 100,000 openings for nursing assistants. We're not going to have a shortage of sports marketing degrees. We're going to have a shortage of plumbers and nurses.",Candidate,female,10,1,604
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So putting incentives in place with how we do loan payback, making one- and two-year degrees free, and then of course creating loan payback programs if people will go, especially medical students, into rural areas.",Candidate,female,10,1,605
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Final thing is comprehensive immigration reform. I have passed...,Candidate,female,10,1,606
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Senator, time.",Moderator,female,10,1,607
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I have passed the bill that allows doctors from other countries that study in our medical schools to stay and serve in rural areas. We need to expand that.,Candidate,female,10,1,608
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, the floor is yours, would you like -- same question.",Moderator,female,10,1,609
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yes, so, when I was born, there was no difference in your life expectancy, if you were born in a rural area or a city. Now the gap is the biggest it has been in a generation, and that is particularly affecting black rural families in places like South Carolina. We're seeing hospital closures right and left. And we're seeing them, in particular, in states where Medicaid was not expanded, something that is hurting black and poor white families and is largely the result of racial voters suppression.",Candidate,male,10,1,610
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"See, all of these things are connected, housing, wages, the ability to get anything meaningful done on criminal justice reform. All of these things are going to be harder to deal with as long as black voices are systematically excluded from political participation, which is happening on everything from the purging of voter rolls to the closing of voting locations. And that harms everyone.",Candidate,male,10,1,611
Margaret Brennan,NA,"You're out of time, sir.",Moderator,female,10,1,612
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"It's why in my Frederick Douglass plan for comprehensively dealing with these issues, part of the core of it is a 21st Century Voting Rights Act.",Candidate,male,10,1,613
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,614
Margaret Brennan,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,female,10,1,615
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Yes, I'm very proud working with Congressman Jim Clyburn, South Carolina, that we increased funding for the Community Health Center Program by $11 billion as part of the Affordable Care Act, which now provides for 9 million Americans access to primary health care, dental care, mental health counseling, and low-cost prescription drugs, in that bill.",Candidate,male,10,1,616
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We also put $2 billion into a program which would provide debt forgiveness for doctors, nurses, dentists, we have a major dental affordable crisis in this country, to make sure that they are practicing in underserved areas.",Candidate,male,10,1,617
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The advantage of a Medicare for All health care program, because it's not driven by profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies, we will have health care for all people in all parts of this country.",Candidate,male,10,1,618
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,619
Pete Buttigieg,NA,But in order for any of that to happen it has to pass. And we're talking about a plan that...,Candidate,male,10,1,620
Margaret Brennan,NA,Thank you. Next topic. Gayle?,Moderator,female,10,1,621
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... even goes beyond even what they do...,Candidate,male,10,1,622
Gayle King,NA,"I'm sorry, we're going to go to Mayor Bloomberg. We're going to change topics.",Moderator,female,10,1,623
Gayle King,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, as mayor of New York, you declared war on obesity, you banned trans-fats from restaurants and you tried to do the same thing with large surgary drinks. So if you become president, will you push those policies on the national level as well?",Moderator,female,10,1,624
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Well, I think what's right for New York City isn't necessarily right for all the other cities, otherwise you would have a naked cowboy in every city. So let's get serious here.",Candidate,male,10,1,625
Mike Bloomberg,NA,But I do think it's the government's job to have good science and to explain to people what science says or how to take care of themselves and extend their lives. The -- we are a country where there are too many people that are obese. We should do something about that. But just a look what happened with smoking.,Candidate,male,10,1,626
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"We did ban smoking in New York City in public places, restaurants, offices, and that sort of thing. And it has spread across America, across Europe, across Latin America, even into places in the Middle East and into the Far East. It has saved an enormous number of lives.",Candidate,male,10,1,627
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"So it just goes to show, if you have good public health, then you can do things. And one of the great problems today, you read about the virus, what's really happening here is the president fired the pandemic specialist in this country two years ago. So there's nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing.",Candidate,male,10,1,628
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,629
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And he has defunded -- he had defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don't have the organization we need. This is a very serious thing. As you see, the stock market is falling apart because people are really worried and they should be.",Candidate,male,10,1,630
Gayle King,NA,We're going to talk about that.,Moderator,female,10,1,631
Mike Bloomberg,NA,We don't have anybody to respond. I'm sorry.,Candidate,male,10,1,632
Gayle King,NA,"We're going to talk about that in our next segment. Before I leave you, are New Yorkers living longer because of your policies?",Moderator,female,10,1,633
Mike Bloomberg,NA,There's no question about that.,Candidate,male,10,1,634
Gayle King,NA,All right.,Moderator,female,10,1,635
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Before I left, life expectancy in New York City had grown by three years during our 12 years in office such that, when I left, it was three years greater than the national average.",Candidate,male,10,1,636
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,637
Gayle King,NA,"All right. Vice President Biden, please. Vice President Biden.",Moderator,female,10,1,638
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, one of the things we have to do, we have a thing in the Defense Department called DARPA, a special operation thing to find out all the things we have to deal to make us safer. They came up with the internet, I mean, they came up with the internet, they came up with the whole idea of stealth technology.",Candidate,male,10,1,639
Joe Biden,NA,"I'm going to do the same thing at the National Institute of Health. We're going to focus at least $50 billion over the first five years on -- focusing on obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and cancer. And we're going to make that investment because no one else is willing to make that investment.",Candidate,male,10,1,640
Joe Biden,NA,"We can, in fact, find cures if we make the investment, and we can get that done. The American people support it. Even Republicans will support it. We have to focus on extending life, saving life, and making people -- put them in a position to be able to live longer and more securely.",Candidate,male,10,1,641
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,642
Gayle King,NA,"All right, Senator (sic) Biden, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,643
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, Senator Sanders wants to legalize marijuana on day one of his presidency...",Moderator,female,10,1,644
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,645
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"... and is promising to expunge the record of anyone who has been arrested for possession. As a former prosecutor, is that a a realistic promise?",Moderator,female,10,1,646
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, it is realistic to want to legalize marijuana, I want to do that, too. And I also think you need to look back and -- at people's records and you maybe can't do it on day one, as he said. I think you want to have a process that you go through, because there's too many people that have things on their records that have stopped them from getting jobs.",Candidate,female,10,1,647
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I think a lot of what we also need to do is to make sure that when we do this that we have money for treatment. And it's not necessarily because of marijuana. It is because of things like opioids and the like. And that's why one of the first plans I put out was for treatment, because if you want to make the criminal justice system work, you don't want to have repeat customers, and you want to help people to get off of drugs.",Candidate,female,10,1,648
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And the way you do that is with drug courts. The way you do that, by the way, is with my proposal for a clemency board in the White House so that you don't have a president that pell-mell gives pardons to his buddies and to white-collar offenders, but that, instead, you have a set process that you use that's fair and is outside of the Justice Department, and while getting their advice.",Candidate,female,10,1,649
Gayle King,NA,"All right, thank you, Senator Klobuchar.",Moderator,female,10,1,650
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Norah, can I respond?",Candidate,male,10,1,651
Gayle King,NA,Mayor Bloomberg...,Moderator,female,10,1,652
Joe Biden,NA,"Can I respond to that, as well?",Candidate,male,10,1,653
Bernie Sanders,NA,Can I respond? I was mentioned...,Candidate,male,10,1,654
Gayle King,NA,"I'd like to get your thoughts on this, because you have called marijuana another addictive drug that we've never done research on.",Moderator,female,10,1,655
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Look, the first thing you do is we should not make this a criminal thing if you have a small amount. For dealers, yes, but for the average person, no, and you should expunge the records of those that got caught up in this before.",Candidate,male,10,1,656
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,657
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Number two, we're not going to take it away from states that have already done it.",Candidate,male,10,1,658
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But, number three, you should listen to the scientists and the doctors. They say go very slowly. They haven't done enough research. And the evidence so far is worrisome, before we get all our kids, particularly kids in their late teens, boys even more than girls, where this may be damaging their brains.",Candidate,male,10,1,659
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Until we know the science, it's just nonsensical to push ahead. But the cat's out of the bag. So some states have it, you're not going to take it away. Get rid of the -- decriminalize the possession.",Candidate,male,10,1,660
Gayle King,NA,"All right, thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,10,1,661
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Sanders, you were name checked.",Moderator,female,10,1,662
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Thank you. All right, look, you're right. We have a criminal justice system today that is not only broken, it is racist, got more people in jail than any other country on Earth, including China. And one of the reasons for that is a horrific war on drugs.",Candidate,male,10,1,663
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So I do believe that, on day one, we will change the Federal Controlled Substance Act, which, if you can believe it, now equates heroin with marijuana. That's insane. We're going to take marijuana out of that and effectively legalize marijuana in every state in the country.",Candidate,male,10,1,664
Bernie Sanders,NA,What we are also going to do is move to expunge the records of those people who were arrested for possession of marijuana.,Candidate,male,10,1,665
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,666
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And I'll tell you what else we're going to do. We're going to provide help to the African-American, Latino, Native American community to start businesses to sell legal marijuana, rather than let a few corporations control the legalized marijuana market.",Candidate,male,10,1,667
Gayle King,NA,"All right, Senator Sanders, thank you...",Moderator,female,10,1,668
Joe Biden,NA,I wrote the drug court bill.,Candidate,male,10,1,669
Gayle King,NA,We passed the halfway mark.,Moderator,female,10,1,670
Joe Biden,NA,Can I respond to this? I wrote the -- I wrote the bill that set up drug courts.,Candidate,male,10,1,671
Gayle King,NA,"All right. Thank you, Vice President Biden. We will get back to you.",Moderator,female,10,1,672
Gayle King,NA,The CBS News Democratic presidential debate will continue right after the break.,Moderator,female,10,1,673
Gayle King,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,674
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Welcome back, the CBS News Democratic debate. Each of you is campaigning for the role as commander-in-chief, where you will command 1.3 million U.S. troops and be responsible for protecting America's national security. There are also 53,000 here in South Carolina.",Moderator,female,10,1,675
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"You said, Senator Warren, you said you wanted to bring home all troops from the Middle East and then you walked that back to say you want to bring home combat troops.",Moderator,female,10,1,676
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I do.,Candidate,female,10,1,677
Norah O'Donnell,NA,How does that protect America's national security?,Moderator,female,10,1,678
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, a president's job, first job, is to keep America safe, and an important part of that is to have a strong military. All three of my brothers served in the military, and I understand how much the military sacrifices, how much their families sacrifice, and how much they are willing to put on the line.",Candidate,female,10,1,679
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"That means that we have a sacred responsibility to them, and that is not to use our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily. We are not winning in Afghanistan. We are not winning in the Middle East.",Candidate,female,10,1,680
Elizabeth Warren,NA,What we need to do is we need to use all of the tools in our toolbox. We need a strong military. We also need a strong State Department. Those are our eyes and ears on the ground. They are our frontlines in diplomacy.,Candidate,female,10,1,681
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We need a strong economy and to work worldwide on that economy, and we need strong alliances. We need to know the difference between our friends and between dictators who would do us harm. And we need to be nicer to our friends than to dictators. We need not to cut and run on our allies.",Candidate,female,10,1,682
Elizabeth Warren,NA,And we need to be nicer to our friends than to dictators.,Candidate,female,10,1,683
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We need not to cut and run on our allies. We need an approach that keeps us safe by using all of the tools in a measured way.,Candidate,female,10,1,684
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, voters have not heard much about your foreign policy views. Would you pull all combat troops out of the Middle East?",Moderator,female,10,1,685
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"No. You want to cut it back as much as you can, but I think, if we learned something from 9/11, people plan things overseas and execute them here. We have to be able to stop terrorism. And there's no guarantees that you're going to be able to do it, but we have to have some troops in places where terrorists congregate, and to not do so is just irresponsible.",Candidate,male,10,1,686
Mike Bloomberg,NA,We shouldn't be fighting wars that we can't win. We should go to war only as a last resort. Nobody argues with that.,Candidate,male,10,1,687
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But this is a dangerous world. And if we haven't learnt that after 9/11, I don't know what's going to teach us what to. This -- we have to do something, and I think the budget that we -- the things that I've seen recently convinced me that the military today is better prepared than they have been in an awful long time, and that the monies they are spending on the war of weapons we need for the next war and not for the last, a common mistake that they're not making now.",Candidate,male,10,1,688
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,689
Mike Bloomberg,NA,They're doing a good job.,Candidate,male,10,1,690
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg.",Moderator,female,10,1,691
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Gayle?,Moderator,female,10,1,692
Gayle King,NA,"Mayor Buttigieg, I'd like to go to you as the only veteran on stage. Can you weigh in on this?",Moderator,female,10,1,693
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, the first time I ever set foot in South Carolina, it was stepping off the bus that brought me to combat training near Fort Jackson. And that was to get ready to go to Afghanistan, where I saw that one of the things that kept me safe, just as sure as my body armor, was the fact that the flag on my shoulder represented a country that was known to keep its word. Our allies and our adversaries knew it.",Candidate,male,10,1,694
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The president has torn that to shreds. And so the first thing we've got to do is restore the credibility of the United States.,Candidate,male,10,1,695
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,696
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"The second thing we've got to do is make sure that we not only have the intelligence capabilities -- and I guess I disagree with the mayor; I don't think we need to have ground troops anywhere terrorists can gather, because terrorists can gather anywhere in the world. But we do need intelligence capabilities and specialists on the ground.",Candidate,male,10,1,697
Pete Buttigieg,NA,But what good is that if you have a president who won't listen to them?,Candidate,male,10,1,698
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Right now, some of the biggest threats that we face are not only things like counter-terrorism but issues like global health security and the Coronavirus, that rely on the ability to listen to scientists...",Candidate,male,10,1,699
Gayle King,NA,"Time, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,10,1,700
Pete Buttigieg,NA,... listen to your own intelligence and coordinate with an international community that this president has alienated because his idea of a security strategy is a big wall.,Candidate,male,10,1,701
Gayle King,NA,I know it goes fast...,Moderator,female,10,1,702
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,703
Gayle King,NA,... but a minute-fifteen is really a long time.,Moderator,female,10,1,704
Gayle King,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,705
Gayle King,NA,So we'd ask respectfully if you would all please try to keep to the time.,Moderator,female,10,1,706
Joe Biden,NA,Good idea.,Candidate,male,10,1,707
Gayle King,NA,"Senator Klobuchar -- good idea, right, Mr. Vice President?",Moderator,female,10,1,708
Gayle King,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, today -- as we were coming over here today...",Moderator,female,10,1,709
Gayle King,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,710
Gayle King,NA,"I promise, Mr. Vice President, we are going to get to you today. I promise.",Moderator,female,10,1,711
Joe Biden,NA,"You keep promising me that, but you haven't done it yet.",Candidate,male,10,1,712
Gayle King,NA,I've never broken a promise.,Moderator,female,10,1,713
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, let's get to it.",Candidate,male,10,1,714
Gayle King,NA,Senator Klobuchar...,Moderator,female,10,1,715
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Why don't you let me answer, OK?",Candidate,female,10,1,716
Gayle King,NA,"There was breaking news from the CDC about the Coronavirus. And so far there have been 2,700 deaths globally, and so far in this country there have been no deaths. But the CDC says this. ""It's not a matter of if the virus will spread here but when.""",Moderator,female,10,1,717
Gayle King,NA,"The question to you is this, would you close the borders to Americans who have been exposed to the Coronavirus in order to prevent an outbreak here in this country?",Moderator,female,10,1,718
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Well, what we have to do is make sure that we have treatment for those Americans and that they are in a quarantine situation. We don't want to expose people, but we want to give them help.",Candidate,female,10,1,719
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I would agree, when Mayor Bloomberg said that this president has not invested like he should have in his budget -- he tried to cut back on the CDC; he tried to cut back on the international organization that would coordinate with the rest of the world; he hasn't yet really addressed the nation on this topic, I would do all of that.",Candidate,female,10,1,720
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But I want to take this out of politics right now and talk to the American people because this is so serious. I'm not going to give my website right now. I'm going to give the CDC's website, which is cdc.gov, so that people keep checking in and they follow the rules and they realize what they have to do if they feel sick and they call their health care provider. Because many doctors are saying it's just a matter of time before we're going to start seeing this here.",Candidate,female,10,1,721
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And I think the answers, as president, what would I do, I would better coordinate throughout my presidency to be ready for the next pandemic and to prepare for this one.",Candidate,female,10,1,722
Gayle King,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,10,1,723
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I would have better relations with our allies and I would support, because I know the vaccine is out there in the head of some kid right now in school, in Columbia, South Carolina, or Houston, Texas, and it's investing in education, so we are ready to lead, again, in the world.",Candidate,female,10,1,724
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,725
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,726
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Mr. Vice President, we reached a turning point today with the CDC, warning schools that they must prepare that they might have to close, members of the Trump administration saying we don't have enough medical masks if necessary.",Moderator,female,10,1,727
Norah O'Donnell,NA,What would you do?,Moderator,female,10,1,728
Joe Biden,NA,"What we did with Ebola -- I was part of making sure that pandemic did not get to the United States, saved millions of lives. And what we did, we set up, I helped set up that office in the presidency, in the president's office, on -- on diseases that are pandemic diseases.",Candidate,male,10,1,729
Joe Biden,NA,We increased the budget of the CDC. We increased the NIH budget. We should -- and our president today -- and he's wiped all that out. We did it. We stopped it.,Candidate,male,10,1,730
Joe Biden,NA,And the second thing I'd point out to you is that what I would do immediately is restore the funding. He cut the funding for CDC. He tried to cut the funding for NIH. He cut the funding for the entire effort.,Candidate,male,10,1,731
Joe Biden,NA,"And here's the deal. I would be on the phone with China and making it clear, we are going to need to be in your country; you have to be open; you have to be clear; we have to know what's going on; we have to be there with you, and insist on it and insist, insist, insist.",Candidate,male,10,1,732
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,733
Joe Biden,NA,I could get that done. No one up here has ever dealt internationally with any of these world leaders. I'm the only one that has.,Candidate,male,10,1,734
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,10,1,735
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,736
Bernie Sanders,NA,"In the White House today -- in the White House today, we have a self-described ""great genius"" -- self-described -- and this ""great genius"" has told us that this Coronavirus is going to end in two months. April is the magical day that this great scientist we have in the White House has determined -- I wish I was kidding; that is what he said.",Candidate,male,10,1,737
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What do we have to do? Whether or not the issue is climate change, which is clearly a global crisis requiring international cooperation, or infectious diseases like Coronavirus, requiring international cooperation, we have to work and expand the World Health Organization. Obviously, we have to make sure the CDC, the NIH, our infectious departments, are fully funded.",Candidate,male,10,1,738
Bernie Sanders,NA,This is a global problem.,Candidate,male,10,1,739
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,740
Bernie Sanders,NA,We've got to work with countries all the over the world to solve it.,Candidate,male,10,1,741
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator, we're going to stay on the topic of foreign affairs. Margaret Brennan?",Moderator,female,10,1,742
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Thank you, Norah.",Moderator,female,10,1,743
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, you've said that President Xi Jinping of China is not a dictator and that he is responsive to his constituents, and that the U.S. must cooperate with Beijing.",Moderator,female,10,1,744
Margaret Brennan,NA,How far does that go? Would you allow Chinese firms to build critical U.S. infrastructure?,Moderator,female,10,1,745
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"No, I would not. And I think the Chinese government has not been open. Their press -- the freedom of press does not exist there. They -- their human rights record is abominable, and we should make a fuss, which we have been doing, I suppose.",Candidate,male,10,1,746
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"But we -- make no mistake about it, we have to deal with China, if we're ever going to solve the climate crisis. We have to deal with them because our economies are inextricably linked. We would be -- not be able to sell or buy the products that we need.",Candidate,male,10,1,747
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And, in terms of whether he's a dictator, he does serve at the behest of the Politboro, of their group of people, but there's no question he has an enormous amount of power. And he -- but he does play to his constituency. You can negotiate with him. That's exactly what we have to do, make it seem that it's in his interest and in his people's interest to do what we want to do, follow the rules, particularly no stealing of intellectual property; follow the rules in terms of the trade agreements that we have are reciprocal and go equally in both directions.",Candidate,male,10,1,748
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Mayor.",Moderator,female,10,1,749
Margaret Brennan,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,female,10,1,750
Margaret Brennan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,751
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Vice President Biden, same question to you. Would you allow Chinese firms to build critical U.S. infrastructure?",Moderator,female,10,1,752
Joe Biden,NA,"No, I would not. And I spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader had by the time we left office. This is a guy who is -- doesn't have a democratic, with a small D, bone in his body.",Candidate,male,10,1,753
Joe Biden,NA,"This is a guy who is a thug, who in fact has a million Uighurs in ""reconstruction camps,"" meaning concentration camps. This is a guy who you see what's happening right now in -- in Hong Kong, and this is a guy who I was able to convince should join the international agreement at the Paris agreement because, guess what, they need to be involved.",Candidate,male,10,1,754
Joe Biden,NA,"You can cooperate and you can also dictate exactly what they are, when in fact they said ""We're going to set up a no-fly zone, that you can't fly through our zone.",Candidate,male,10,1,755
Joe Biden,NA,"He said, ""What do you expect me to do,"" when I was over there.",Candidate,male,10,1,756
Joe Biden,NA,"I said, ""We're going to fly right through it. We flew B-1 bombers through it. We've got to make it clear. They must play by the rules...",Candidate,male,10,1,757
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,10,1,758
Joe Biden,NA,"... period, period, period.",Candidate,male,10,1,759
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Senator Warren, same question. Would you allow Chinese firms to build infrastructure?",Moderator,female,10,1,760
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We -- we have to be able to trust our president, because there are a lot of decisions a president makes that you just can't follow every part of that. And that's one of the reasons that we need to see any candidate's taxes.",Candidate,female,10,1,761
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"We know that Mayor Bloomberg has been doing business with China for a long time, and he is the only one on this stage who has not released his taxes.",Candidate,female,10,1,762
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"He plans to release them after Super Tuesday. It is not enough to be able to say, just trust me on this. We have a president who said he was going to release his taxes after the election and has refused to do this.",Candidate,female,10,1,763
Margaret Brennan,NA,Was that a yes or no?,Moderator,female,10,1,764
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No, I would not.",Candidate,female,10,1,765
Margaret Brennan,NA,"OK. Mayor Bloomberg, would you like to respond?",Moderator,female,10,1,766
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"I got into this race only 10 or 12 weeks ago, we have been working on our tax returns, I've said they will be out. We probably have another couple of weeks left to go. We're doing it as fast we can. We've complied with every single requirement for disclosure. And when I was mayor of New York, we had our tax returns out twelve years in a row and we will do that in the White House.",Candidate,male,10,1,767
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"No, actually...",Candidate,female,10,1,768
Elizabeth Warren,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,769
Pete Buttigieg,NA,My tax return is online light now.,Candidate,male,10,1,770
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,771
Margaret Brennan,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,female,10,1,772
Tom Steyer,NA,I released my tax returns.,Candidate,male,10,1,773
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,10,1,774
Tom Steyer,NA,That was easy to do. But I want to say something about foreign policy...,Candidate,male,10,1,775
Joe Biden,NA,How many years?,Candidate,male,10,1,776
Tom Steyer,NA,Ten years.,Candidate,male,10,1,777
Tom Steyer,NA,"I want to say something about foreign policy, which is this, we keep acting as if we're in the 20th Century or the 19th Century. If you look at the biggest threats to the United States, we're talking right now about coronavirus that cannot be solved within the borders of the United States. We're talking about climate change which is a global problem where we need U.S. leadership for countries around the world.",Candidate,male,10,1,778
Tom Steyer,NA,"In fact, Mr. Trump's policy of us going it alone, of ""America first,"" of having no values, no allies, and no strategy is disastrous for us. The biggest threat to America right now in terms of our safety of our citizens is climate. And it's time for us to deal with it that way. Every single foreign policy issue is about American leadership and coalition.",Candidate,male,10,1,779
Margaret Brennan,NA,New topic. Senator Sanders.,Moderator,female,10,1,780
Bernie Sanders,NA,Can I say one word on...,Candidate,male,10,1,781
Margaret Brennan,NA,"You praised -- it's in the same theme, sir. You've praised the Chinese Communist Party for lifting more people out of extreme poverty than any other country. You also have a track record of expressing sympathy for socialist governments in Cuba and in Nicaragua. Can Americans trust that a democratic socialist president will not give authoritarians a free pass?",Moderator,female,10,1,782
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world and I was really amazed at what Mayor Bloomberg just said a moment ago. He said that the Chinese government is responsive to the politburo, but who the hell is the politburo responsive to? Who elects the politburo? You have got a real dictatorship there. Of course you have a dictatorship in Cuba.",Candidate,male,10,1,783
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba, that Cuba made progress on education. Yes, I think...",Candidate,male,10,1,784
Bernie Sanders,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,785
Bernie Sanders,NA,Really? Really? Literacy programs are bad?,Candidate,male,10,1,786
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Yes, because there's no comparing those two commentaries (ph).",Candidate,male,10,1,787
Bernie Sanders,NA,What Barack Obama said is they made great progress on education and health care. That was Barack Obama. Occasionally...,Candidate,male,10,1,788
Joe Biden,NA,I talked to Barack Obama...,Candidate,male,10,1,789
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Excuse me, occasionally it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that America has overthrown governments all over the world in Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran. And when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans do something good, you acknowledge that. But you don't have to trade love letters with them.",Candidate,male,10,1,790
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,791
Margaret Brennan,NA,Mr. Vice President.,Moderator,female,10,1,792
Joe Biden,NA,"Barack Obama was abroad, he was in a town meeting, he did not in any way suggest that there was anything positive about the Cuban government. He acknowledged that they did increase life expectancy. But he went on and condemned the dictatorship. He went on and condemned the people who, in fact, had run that committee.",Candidate,male,10,1,793
Joe Biden,NA,"He also made sure to make it clear -- and by the way, I called to make sure that I was prepared to -- I never say (INAUDIBLE) my private conversations with him, but the fact of the matter is he, in fact, does not, did not, has never embraced an authoritarian regime and does not now.",Candidate,male,10,1,794
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,795
Joe Biden,NA,"This man said that, in fact, he thought it was -- he did not condemn what they did.",Candidate,male,10,1,796
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That is untrue, categorically untrue.",Candidate,male,10,1,797
Joe Biden,NA,What did you tell them?,Candidate,male,10,1,798
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I have condemned authoritarianism, whether it is the people in Saudi Arabia that the United States government...",Candidate,male,10,1,799
Joe Biden,NA,How about Cuba or Nicaragua?,Candidate,male,10,1,800
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... has loved for years. Cuba, Nicaragua, authoritarianism of any stripe is bad.",Candidate,male,10,1,801
Joe Biden,NA,Period.,Candidate,male,10,1,802
Bernie Sanders,NA,But that is different than saying that governments occasionally do things that are good. That's what Barack Obama said.,Candidate,male,10,1,803
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,804
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Margaret, Margaret, could I...",Candidate,female,10,1,805
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The only way we're going to restore...,Candidate,male,10,1,806
Margaret Brennan,NA,Mayor Buttigieg.,Moderator,female,10,1,807
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"... American credibility, the only way you can do this is to actually win the presidency. And I am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to Donald Trump, with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s, and Bernie Sanders with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s.",Candidate,male,10,1,808
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,809
Pete Buttigieg,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,810
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"This is not about what coups were happening in the 1970s or '80s, this is about the future. This is about 2020. We are not going to survive or succeed, and we're certainly not going to win by reliving the Cold War. And we're not going to win these critical, critical House and Senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the Castro regime. We've got to be a lot smarter about this and look to the future.",Candidate,male,10,1,811
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,812
Pete Buttigieg,(AUDIENCE BOOS),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,813
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Senator Sanders, your response.",Moderator,female,10,1,814
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let us be clear, do we think health care for all, Pete, is some kind of radical communist idea?",Candidate,male,10,1,815
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,816
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, you brought this up, let's talk about that.",Candidate,male,10,1,817
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,818
Bernie Sanders,NA,Do we think raising the minimum wage to a living wage...,Candidate,male,10,1,819
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,820
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I'm happy to respond to the question because this is really important...,Candidate,male,10,1,821
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,822
Bernie Sanders,NA,... do we think building the millions of units of affordable housing that we need...,Candidate,male,10,1,823
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,824
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"If you're going to ask that rhetorical question, let's...",Candidate,male,10,1,825
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,826
Bernie Sanders,NA,... do we think raising taxes on billionaires is a radical idea?,Candidate,male,10,1,827
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,828
Pete Buttigieg,NA,Let's talk about this. Let's talk about what's radical about that plan.,Candidate,male,10,1,829
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,830
Bernie Sanders,NA,Do you think criminal justice reform is a radical idea?,Candidate,male,10,1,831
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,832
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The things you just named are things...,Candidate,male,10,1,833
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,834
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Do you think immigration reform? The truth is, Pete...",Candidate,male,10,1,835
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,836
Margaret Brennan,NA,One at a time.,Moderator,female,10,1,837
Margaret Brennan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,838
Bernie Sanders,NA,... the American people support my agenda.,Candidate,male,10,1,839
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,840
Pete Buttigieg,NA,The way you're talking about doing it is radical by...,Candidate,male,10,1,841
Pete Buttigieg,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,842
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That is why I am beating Trump in virtually every poll that is done, and why I will defeat him.",Candidate,male,10,1,843
Bernie Sanders,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,844
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"We've got to open this up. Universal health care, for example...",Candidate,male,10,1,845
Margaret Brennan,NA,Senator Klobuchar.,Moderator,female,10,1,846
Margaret Brennan,(CROSSTALK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,847
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Donald Trump's worst nightmare is having someone that the people in the middle who are tired of the insults and the extremes in our politics have someone to vote for. And I was going to comment on Cuba policy because I actually lead the bill to lift the embargo. I went with Barack Obama when he went to Cuba. And I've seen firsthand how the Cuban are way in front of our -- their leaders.,Candidate,female,10,1,848
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"They like America. They want to be entrepreneurs. And the way that we embrace them, and not the socialist regime, is by opening up Cuba and starting to do business with them.",Candidate,female,10,1,849
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"But to get at what we were just talking about, I just think we have a huge choice. Super Tuesday states, one-third of America will vote. Do you want to have someone...",Candidate,female,10,1,850
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,10,1,851
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"... in charge of this ticket -- could I finish, Margaret?",Candidate,female,10,1,852
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Well, you're out of time. Senator.",Moderator,female,10,1,853
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"You want to have someone in charge of this ticket who wants to put forward $60 trillion in spending, three times the American economy.",Candidate,female,10,1,854
Margaret Brennan,NA,Bill Whitaker?,Moderator,female,10,1,855
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I don't think we do. I think that we can get all those bold progressive things done without having someone that is so alienating that we're going to turn off the voters that we need to bring with us.,Candidate,female,10,1,856
Amy Klobuchar,(CROSSTALK),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,857
Margaret Brennan,NA,You have to allow the senator to respond. Senator Sanders.,Moderator,female,10,1,858
Pete Buttigieg,NA,I want to respond to the question that Senator Sanders...,Candidate,male,10,1,859
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Can I respond? Amy used the word alienating. Hey, Amy, my favorability nationally I believe are the highest up here, as a matter of fact.",Candidate,male,10,1,860
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,861
Bernie Sanders,NA,"All right. But the point is -- the point is the way we are going to beat Trump, which is what everybody up here wants, is we need a campaign of energy and excitement. We need to have the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States. We need to bring working people back in to the Democratic Party. We need to get young people voting in a way they have never done before. That is what our campaign is about.",Candidate,male,10,1,862
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,863
Margaret Brennan,NA,Bill Whitaker has the floor.,Moderator,female,10,1,864
Bill Whitaker,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,male,10,1,865
Joe Biden,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,10,1,866
Bill Whitaker,NA,"The bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report concluded Russia interfered in our last presidential election, and the Obama administration failed to respond forcefully. U.S. intelligence says Russia is at it again. If it is proven that Russia has interfered in the 2020 elections, would you, as president, launch a retaliatory cyber attack?",Moderator,male,10,1,867
Joe Biden,NA,"I would make them pay for it, and I would make them pay for it economically. They are engaged now, as I speak, in interfering in our elections. They were engaged, and when we -- when, in fact, we were -- the last election in 2016 against Hillary, they were. There's no question.",Candidate,male,10,1,868
Joe Biden,NA,"This man stood before the whole world, turned to the Russian leader and said, why in God's name would this man ever interfere in our elections? Give me a break. Seventeen intelligence agencies said he did. When we got the information, we went to the committee in the Senate that's responsible for knowing these issues and dealing with them.",Candidate,male,10,1,869
Joe Biden,NA,"We went to Mitch McConnell and said join us and point out what is happening here. He said, no, we want no part of it. And if we had moved -- we didn't have all the information at that time until after the election was over. And, so, the idea the bipartisan committee said we could have done more, theoretically that's true, but the fact of the matter is we didn't have the information until the end. And so, look, we, in fact, should be imposing sanctions on Russia now for their interference.",Candidate,male,10,1,870
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,871
Bill Whitaker,NA,Mr. Steyer.,Moderator,male,10,1,872
Tom Steyer,NA,"Look, 21st Century warfare is cyber warfare. What we're having is an attack by a hostile foreign power on our democracy right now. The question you have to ask is, where is the commander-in-chief? And let me say this...",Candidate,male,10,1,873
Joe Biden,NA,We don't have one.,Candidate,male,10,1,874
Tom Steyer,NA,"... this isn't news, what Vice President Biden said is true, he did stand next to Vladimir Putin. There was a hostile, foreign attack on our election last time and the president sided with the hostile foreign power. That's why I started Need to Impeach.",Candidate,male,10,1,875
Tom Steyer,NA,"That's what we have to do. We have to oppose a president who sides with a hostile foreign power that commits cyber warfare against the United States of America. That's where we are. Where are all these patriotic Republicans who wave the flag, but when we're actually under attack, they side with our enemies? It's outrageous.",Candidate,male,10,1,876
Tom Steyer,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,877
Tom Steyer,NA,"That's why he should have been impeached. They covered it up. And I was years before these people. There's something wrong here. We're under attack, and they're not doing a darn thing about it.",Candidate,male,10,1,878
Major Garrett,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer.",Moderator,male,10,1,879
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Look, the way to deter a cyber attack...",Candidate,male,10,1,880
Major Garrett,NA,"Senator Sanders -- no, Senator Sanders, I have a question for you, sir. You're the frontrunner in this race. You're on the ballot in South Carolina. Mayor Bloomberg, you'll understand that preamble in just a second.",Moderator,male,10,1,881
Major Garrett,NA,"If elected, Senator Sanders, you would be America's first Jewish president. You recently called a very prominent, well-known American Israel lobby a platform for, quote, ""bigotry."" What would you say to American Jews who might be concerned you're not, from their perspective, supportive enough of Israel? And specifically, sir, would you move the U.S. embassy back to Tel Aviv?",Moderator,male,10,1,882
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let me just -- the answer is, it's something that we would take into consideration.",Candidate,male,10,1,883
Major Garrett,NA,Which would...,Moderator,male,10,1,884
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But here -- excuse me. But here is the point. I am very proud of being Jewish. I actually lived in Israel for some months. But what I happen to believe is that, right now, sadly, tragically, in Israel, through Bibi Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country.",Candidate,male,10,1,885
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,886
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And I happen to believe -- I happen to believe that what our foreign policy in the Mideast should be about is absolutely protecting the independence and security of Israel, but you cannot ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people.",Candidate,male,10,1,887
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,888
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We have got to have a policy that reaches out to the Palestinians and the Americans. And in answer to your question, that will come within the context of bringing nations together in the Mideast.",Candidate,male,10,1,889
Major Garrett,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, would you like to weigh in on that, please?",Moderator,male,10,1,890
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Well, the battle has been going on for a long time in the Middle East, whether it's the Arabs versus the Persians, the Shias versus the Sunnis, the Jews in Israel and the Palestinians, it's only gone on for 40 or 50 years.",Candidate,male,10,1,891
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Number one, you can't move the embassy back. We should not have done it without getting something from the Israeli government. But it was done, and you're going to have to leave it there.",Candidate,male,10,1,892
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Number two, only solution here is a two-state solution. The Palestinians have to be accommodated. The real problem here is you have two groups of people, both who think God gave them the same piece of land. And the answer is to obviously split it up, leave the Israeli borders where they are, try to push them to pull back some of those extra over the -- on the other side of the wall, where they've built these new communities, which they should not have done that, pull it back.",Candidate,male,10,1,893
Major Garrett,NA,"Mayor Bloomberg, thank you very much.",Moderator,male,10,1,894
Major Garrett,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,male,10,1,895
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, the way we have to think about this is I think we have to start with the values and what has to be protected here. Israelis have a right to security and the Palestinians have a right to be treated with dignity and to have self-determination. That is a two-state solution.",Candidate,female,10,1,896
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But it's not up to us to determine what the terms of a two-state solution are. We want to be a good ally to everyone in the region. The best way to do that is to encourage the parties to get to the negotiating table themselves.,Candidate,female,10,1,897
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Donald Trump's big mistake is he keeps putting a thumb on the scale on just one side, and that moves the parties further away from working out their own solution here. We need to be an ally by supporting them to come to negotiate to find a lasting peace.",Candidate,female,10,1,898
Major Garrett,NA,"But, Senator Warren, just on the question of the embassy, what was your position on that?",Moderator,male,10,1,899
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It is not ours to do.,Candidate,female,10,1,900
Major Garrett,NA,Would you move it back?,Moderator,male,10,1,901
Elizabeth Warren,NA,It is not ours to do. We should let the parties determine the capital.,Candidate,female,10,1,902
Major Garrett,NA,"Would you move it back or not, yes or no?",Moderator,male,10,1,903
Amy Klobuchar,NA,It's our embassy.,Candidate,female,10,1,904
Elizabeth Warren,NA,We should let the parties determine the capitals themselves.,Candidate,female,10,1,905
Major Garrett,NA,Norah?,Moderator,male,10,1,906
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"I want to turn now to the issue of North Korea, because President Trump has engaged in direct diplomacy, meeting directly with Kim Jong-un. Senator Klobuchar, if you were commander-in-chief, would you meet with the North Korean leader?",Moderator,female,10,1,907
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"I would, but not in the way this president has done it. He literally thinks he can go over and bring a hot dish to the dictator next door and he thinks everything's going to be fine. He has not done it with our allies. He has literally just hastily called summits and run off. That is no way to do it.",Candidate,female,10,1,908
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"And, as you can see, North Korea is emboldened. They're still launching missiles. They've promised a Christmas surprise that thankfully never happened. And he has not been able to advance the ball at all.",Candidate,female,10,1,909
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"So what would I do? I would work with our allies. And as has been pointed out, this is what this president fails at all the time. We should be negotiating ourselves back into the Iran nuclear agreement. We should be working with Russia not only to stand up for the protection of our elections and call Vladimir Putin out for what he is, the ruthless dictator that takes down planes, that poisons dissidents, but that, also, at the same time, we have to acknowledge that we should be renegotiating the New START treaty and the other arms negotiations that must happen.",Candidate,female,10,1,910
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"This president just likes to do tweets at 4:00 a.m. in his bathrobe, gets out there and doesn't achieve the results we need. I would meet with him, but I would do it with our allies. I would have clear deliverables and I would achieve those deliverables.",Candidate,female,10,1,911
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, thank you.",Moderator,female,10,1,912
Norah O'Donnell,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,913
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Mr. Vice President, how would you deal with North Korea?",Moderator,female,10,1,914
Joe Biden,NA,"You don't negotiate with a dictator, give him legitimacy without any notion whether he is going to do anything at all. You don't do that. Look what happened. He gave this dictator -- he's a thug -- legitimacy. We've weakened the sanctions around the world against holding us -- committing people not to trade, if anything from oil to parts -- that can deal with providing missile technology. And what's happened? It's been weakened.",Candidate,male,10,1,915
Joe Biden,NA,"I would be in Beijing, I would be calling to -- I would be speaking with Xi Jinping. I would be reassigning the relationship between the Japan and South Korea, and I would make it clear, I would make it clear to China, we are going to continue to move closer to make sure that we can, in fact, prevent China -- prevent North Korea from launching missiles to take them down.",Candidate,male,10,1,916
Norah O'Donnell,NA,OK.,Moderator,female,10,1,917
Joe Biden,NA,And if we don't -- why am I stopping? No one else stops.,Candidate,male,10,1,918
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,919
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"OK. OK, sir.",Moderator,female,10,1,920
Joe Biden,NA,It's my Catholic school training.,Candidate,male,10,1,921
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,922
Norah O'Donnell,NA,OK.,Moderator,female,10,1,923
Gayle King,NA,"Vice President Biden, you're a gentleman. Good home training. Thank you, sir.",Moderator,female,10,1,924
Joe Biden,NA,"Yeah, gentlemen don't get very well treated up here.",Candidate,male,10,1,925
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Margaret Brennan?,Moderator,female,10,1,926
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Thank you very much, Norah. This is a question for Mayor Buttigieg. As you know, viewers and voters are participating in this through Twitter. The city of Idlib in Syria is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The Syrian regime and Russia are targeting schools, bakeries, and hospitals. What would you do as president to push back regime and Russian forces and stop the killing of innocent civilians?",Moderator,female,10,1,927
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, first of all, I stand with the people of Idlib, who are being targeted, as you said, in a brutal fashion by a dictatorship that has already been so brutal for so many years.",Candidate,male,10,1,928
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And this is one of the reasons we have got to change the balance of power in the region, because the president has basically vanished from the stage when it comes to even playing a role in the future there. Turkey, Russia, Iran all have so much more of a say than we do. We don't have to be invading countries to be making a difference, working with our international partners, in order to deliver peace and support those who are standing up for self-determination.",Candidate,male,10,1,929
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Now, I want to come back to something -- and I promise it relates to international affairs -- because Senator Sanders asked me a question earlier. He asked the question of whether health care for everybody is a radical idea, and it's not, which is why I'm for it, very much in a different way, though.",Candidate,male,10,1,930
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"What is a radical idea is completely eliminating all private insurance. And part of how you know it is, is that no industrialized country has gone that far. He and I both like to talk about Denmark, for example. But even in Denmark, they have not abolished the possibility of private insurance.",Candidate,male,10,1,931
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"So this is an idea that goes further than what is acceptable in Denmark the country, let alone imagining how that's going to fly in Denmark, South Carolina.",Candidate,male,10,1,932
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Thank you, Mayor.",Moderator,female,10,1,933
Bernie Sanders,NA,Can I respond?,Candidate,male,10,1,934
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Senator Warren, would you like to respond? What would do -- what would Senator Warren do to stop the mass murder?",Moderator,female,10,1,935
Elizabeth Warren,NA,I'm sorry?,Candidate,female,10,1,936
Margaret Brennan,NA,"What would -- same question. What would you do to stop the mass murder in Idlib, Syria?",Moderator,female,10,1,937
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I think that what we've got to do is we have to provide humanitarian relief. We need to work with our allies on this. But this is not a moment for military intervention. We have got to use our military only when we see a military problem that can be solved militarily. We cannot send our military in unless we have a plan to get them out.",Candidate,female,10,1,938
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"So, for me, this is about working with our allies. It is about standing with the people who are under enormous pressure right now. This is recognizing what Donald Trump has put us in, in a terrible box around the world.",Candidate,female,10,1,939
Elizabeth Warren,NA,But the solution is not to use our military. The solution is to use the other tools here.,Candidate,female,10,1,940
Margaret Brennan,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Gayle?",Moderator,female,10,1,941
Gayle King,NA,"We've talked a lot about your policies during this debate. Now we'd like to get a little more personal. I know, Senator Sanders, how much you enjoy that.",Moderator,female,10,1,942
Gayle King,NA,"We're going to ask you, when we come back from the break, about the words you live by. We're going to give you a couple of minutes to gather your thoughts, and we'll be right back.",Moderator,female,10,1,943
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,944
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Welcome back to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the final segment of the final debate before the first in the South primary this Saturday and Super Tuesday one week from today.",Moderator,female,10,1,945
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Gayle?,Moderator,female,10,1,946
Gayle King,NA,"All right, one final question, candidates, and it is a two-parter.",Moderator,female,10,1,947
Gayle King,NA,"First, I'd like you each to tell us your -- the biggest misconception about you. That's number one.",Moderator,female,10,1,948
Gayle King,NA,"Number two, the South Carolina motto is this. ""While I breathe, I hope.""",Moderator,female,10,1,949
Gayle King,NA,"So outside of politics, in no more than 45 seconds or so, what is your personal motto, your personal belief, your favorite quote that represents you?",Moderator,female,10,1,950
Gayle King,NA,"Mr. Steyer, the biggest misconception, and then your motto?",Moderator,female,10,1,951
Tom Steyer,NA,The biggest misconception about me is that somehow I'm defined by business success and money.,Candidate,male,10,1,952
Gayle King,NA,"OK, and your motto?",Moderator,female,10,1,953
Tom Steyer,NA,"My motto: Every day, I write a cross on my hand to remind myself to tell the truth and do what's right, no matter what.",Candidate,male,10,1,954
Gayle King,NA,All right.,Moderator,female,10,1,955
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,956
Gayle King,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Senator Klobuchar?",Moderator,female,10,1,957
Amy Klobuchar,NA,I'd say the biggest...,Candidate,female,10,1,958
Unknown,NA,(inaudible),Unknown,unknown,10,1,959
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"The biggest misconception is that I'm boring, because I'm not.",Candidate,female,10,1,960
Amy Klobuchar,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,961
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Then, I would say that my motto is the words of one of my political mentors, Paul Wellstone, who sadly is no longer with us. And he said that ""politics is about improving people's lives."" And that's been my life, from when my grandpa was an iron ore miner in the unions. Politics made those mines safer. And when my dad needed treatment, it was there for him, and, in his words, he was ""pursued by grace."" And when my mom got divorced and she didn't have a job and she went back to teaching and that gift of public service got her through. And then when our daughter was born and she couldn't swallow...",Candidate,female,10,1,962
Gayle King,NA,"Senator Klobuchar, what was your motto? I'm sorry. Senator Klobuchar, what was your motto?",Moderator,female,10,1,963
Amy Klobuchar,NA,"Oh, I thought we had a minute to answer the question.",Candidate,female,10,1,964
Gayle King,NA,"No, what was your motto? I'm sorry.",Moderator,female,10,1,965
Amy Klobuchar,NA,My motto was that politics is about improving people's lives.,Candidate,female,10,1,966
Gayle King,NA,Got it. Got it.,Moderator,female,10,1,967
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Yes.,Candidate,female,10,1,968
Gayle King,NA,"Vice President Biden, biggest misconception?",Moderator,female,10,1,969
Amy Klobuchar,NA,It was a pretty good one?,Candidate,female,10,1,970
Gayle King,NA,It was a very good one -- very good one.,Moderator,female,10,1,971
Gayle King,(LAUGHTER),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,972
Amy Klobuchar,NA,Thank you. Thank you.,Candidate,female,10,1,973
Joe Biden,NA,"When you get knocked down, get up. And everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity, no matter what, no matter who they are.",Candidate,male,10,1,974
Joe Biden,NA,"My -- also, that everyone should be represented. Everyone -- and no one's better than me and I'm no better than anyone else. The fact is, what we should be doing -- we talked about the Supreme Court. I'm looking forward to making sure there's a black woman on the Supreme Court, to make sure we in fact get every representation.",Candidate,male,10,1,975
Joe Biden,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,976
Joe Biden,NA,Not a joke -- not a joke. I pushed very hard for that.,Candidate,male,10,1,977
Gayle King,NA,Vice President...,Moderator,female,10,1,978
Joe Biden,NA,"And my mother's motto was -- she said, ""You know, you're defined by your courage; you're redeemed by your loyalty."" I am loyal. I do what I say.",Candidate,male,10,1,979
Gayle King,NA,"What's the biggest misconception about you, sir?",Moderator,female,10,1,980
Joe Biden,NA,I have more hair than I think I do.,Candidate,male,10,1,981
Joe Biden,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,982
Gayle King,NA,There's a way to fix that.,Moderator,female,10,1,983
Gayle King,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,10,1,984
Bernie Sanders,NA,Misconception?,Candidate,male,10,1,985
Gayle King,NA,Yes.,Moderator,female,10,1,986
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Misconception -- and you're hearing it here tonight, is that the ideas I'm talking about are radical. They're not. In one form or another, they exist in countries all over the world. Health care is a human right. We have the necessity, the moral imperative, to address the existential threat of climate change. Other countries are doing that. We don't need more people in jail, disproportionately African-American, than any other country on earth -- not a radical idea.",Candidate,male,10,1,987
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The motto, the saying that -- that moves me the most is from Nelson Mandela. And Mandela said, ""Everything is impossible until it happens.""",Candidate,male,10,1,988
Bernie Sanders,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,989
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And that means, if we have the guts to stand up to powerful special interests who are doing phenomenally well; if we can bring working people together, black and white and Latino, we can create a nation...",Candidate,male,10,1,990
Gayle King,NA,"All right, Senator...",Moderator,female,10,1,991
Bernie Sanders,NA,... where all people have a good standard of living.,Candidate,male,10,1,992
Gayle King,NA,"Senator, thanks you, sir.",Moderator,female,10,1,993
Gayle King,NA,Senator Warren?,Moderator,female,10,1,994
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,995
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Well, I suppose one misconception is that I don't eat very much. In fact, I eat all the time.",Candidate,female,10,1,996
Elizabeth Warren,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,997
Elizabeth Warren,NA,Because I get teased about this.,Candidate,female,10,1,998
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"Look, I never was supposed to be on a stage like this. And the misconception is that I thought I should be president of the United States? No. I got into this because I am a fighter.",Candidate,female,10,1,999
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"My motto ties in directly to this. It's Mathew 25, and that is, ""Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these, the least of thy brethren, ye have done it unto me.""",Candidate,female,10,1,1000
Elizabeth Warren,NA,"For me this is about how we treat other people and how we lift them up. That is why I am in this fight. That is why I am running to be president, and it is why I will be an effective president.",Candidate,female,10,1,1001
Elizabeth Warren,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,female,10,1,1002
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,10,1,1003
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Now Buttigieg.,Moderator,female,10,1,1004
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"Well, I think the biggest conception -- misconception is that I'm not passionate. I get that I'm kind of level, some say unflappable. I don't think you want a president who is flappable. But it's precisely because I'm so passionate about the things that are going on in this country. That I consider it important to approach all of that with discipline.",Candidate,male,10,1,1005
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"And my disciplines are guided by the mottoes I try to live by, many of which come from scripture. And just to be clear, I would never impose my interpretation of my religion to anybody. Just as sure as I'm wearing this ring I'll never let that happen to anybody.",Candidate,male,10,1,1006
Pete Buttigieg,NA,"But I seek to live by the teachings that say if you would be a leader, you must first be a servant. And, of course, the teaching, not unique to the Christian tradition, but a big part of it, that holds that we are to treat others as we would be treated. And when I think about everything at stake, from racial and economic justice to our stewardship of the climate, to the need to heal the sick and the need to heal this country, I seek for those teachings to order my steps as I go through this campaign and as I go through life.",Candidate,male,10,1,1007
Pete Buttigieg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,1008
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,10,1,1009
Norah O'Donnell,NA,Mayor Bloomberg.,Moderator,female,10,1,1010
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"Misconception, that I'm six feet tall.",Candidate,male,10,1,1011
Mike Bloomberg,(LAUGHTER),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,1012
Mike Bloomberg,NA,"And quote, I've trained for this job for a long time and when I get it I'm going to do something rather than just talk about it.",Candidate,male,10,1,1013
Mike Bloomberg,(APPLAUSE),NA,Candidate,male,10,1,1014
Gayle King,NA,"All right. Thank you, candidates, thank you very much.",Moderator,female,10,1,1015
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Well, thank you. That concludes our debate.",Moderator,female,10,1,1016
Gayle King,NA,"No, no, we have time for one more break, Norah, one more break. Time flies when you're having fun. You're watching the Democratic debate right here on CBS.",Moderator,female,10,1,1017
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,1018
Gayle King,(COMMERCIAL BREAK),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,1019
Gayle King,(APPLAUSE),NA,Moderator,female,10,1,1020
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"Thank you. That concludes our debate. We want to thank the candidates, the moderators, and to you watching at home tonight.",Moderator,female,10,1,1021
Gayle King,NA,"And a reminder that the primary here in South Carolina is this Saturday. Then next Tuesday, of course, Super Tuesday. CBS News will have special coverage.",Moderator,female,10,1,1022
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"And our coverage of tonight's debate will continue in a moment from the spin room here on CBS and on our streaming news service CBSN. There will be more about the debate as well on your late local news on this CBS station and first thing tomorrow on ""CBS THIS MORNING.""",Moderator,female,10,1,1023
Gayle King,NA,I'm getting on a plane right now going to New York. I'll be there.,Moderator,female,10,1,1024
Norah O'Donnell,NA,"From all of us here at CBS News, I'm Norah O'Donnell. Good night.",Moderator,female,10,1,1025
Gayle King,NA,Good night.,Moderator,female,10,1,1026
Jake Tapper,NA,"... from Washington D.C., and welcome to this unique event, the CNN Univision Democratic Presidential Debate with the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, candidates. Welcome. It's good to have you. I'm Jake Tapper, along with CNN's Dana Bash, and Univision's Ilia Calderón.",Moderator,male,11,1,1
Dana Bash,NA,"We come together tonight at an extraordinary time in our country when people are worried about far more than just presidential politics. We're in a national emergency because of the devastating global pandemic of coronavirus. It has killed nearly 6,000 [inaudible] and more than 3,300 known cases here in the United States. As a result, tonight's debate will focus heavily on the crisis.",Moderator,female,11,1,2
Ilia Calderón,NA,"The setting of this debate is also different. To reduce unnecessary risk of transmission of the virus, CNN, Univision, the Democratic National Committee, and the campaigns moved this debate from Phoenix, Arizona to here at CNN studios in Washington without any audience.",Moderator,female,11,1,3
Jake Tapper,NA,"All of this comes of course as four more states, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, and Illinois prepare to vote on Tuesday, with Vice President Biden currently leading Senator Sanders in the race for delegates. Here's what we're going to do tonight. Each of you will have 90 seconds to answer questions, and 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals. As much as we can, we hope this will be a conversation between the two of you, so let's begin with the most important issue right now, the coronavirus, and what you would do as president in the face of it. Vice President Biden, let me start with you. We're in a reality right now that might've seemed unimaginable a week ago. Schools have been canceled for more than 25 million students. Grocery store shelves have been cleared out. March Madness, NBA games, Disney parks, Broadway, small businesses, all shut down, and just today the CDC issued a new recommendation that for the next eight weeks, events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the US be canceled or postponed. What do you say to the American people who are confronting this new reality?",Moderator,male,11,1,4
Joe Biden,NA,"First of all, my heart goes out to those who have already lost someone, or those who are suffering from the virus, and this is bigger than any one of us. This calls for a national rallying to everybody move together, and I laid out in detail what I would do were I president today. You can go to joebiden.com. I laid it out in significant detail, but there are three pieces of this. First of all, have to take care of those who in fact are exposed, or are likely to be exposed to the virus, and that means we have to do testing. We have to get the testing kits up and ready.",Candidate,male,11,1,5
Joe Biden,NA,"I would have the World Health Organization, I'd take advantage of the test kits they have available to us, even though the president says a million or more are coming, let's just get all the tests we can done as quickly as we can. Secondly, I would make sure that every state in the union had at least 10 places where they had drive-through testing arrangements. I would also at this point deal with the need to begin to plan for the need for additional hospital beds. We have that capacity in the Department of Defense as well as with the FEMA, and they can set up hundred-bed, 500-bed hospitals and tents quickly.",Candidate,male,11,1,6
Joe Biden,NA,"We have to lay all that out, but we have to deal with the economic fallout quickly, and that means making sure that people who in fact lose their job, don't get a paycheck, can't pay their mortgage, are able to pay it, and pay them now, and do it now. Small businesses be able to borrow interest-free loans. I see my time is up here. You're going to hold us tightly, I assume, but that's what I would do. Go to joebiden.com. It lays out precisely what I would do were I president today.",Candidate,male,11,1,7
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Sanders, this morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged that it's possible that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans, could die of coronavirus in a worst-case scenario. If you were president right now, what's the most important thing you would do tonight to try to save American lives?",Moderator,male,11,1,8
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, first thing we have got to do, whether or not I'm president, is to shut this president up right now, because he is undermining the doctors and the scientists who are trying to help the American people. It is unacceptable for him to be blabbering with unfactual information which is confusing the general public. Second of all, what we need to do, and I'm glad that he has called a state of national emergency. What we have got to do is move aggressively to make sure that every person in this country finally understands that when they get sick with the coronavirus that all payments will be made, that they don't have to worry about coming up with money for testing. They don't have to worry about coming up with money for treatment.",Candidate,male,11,1,9
Bernie Sanders,NA,"This is an unprecedented moment in American history. Now, I obviously believe in Medicare for all. I will fight for that as president, but right now in this emergency, I want every person in this country to understand that when you get sick, you go to the doctor. When you get sick, if you have the virus, that will be paid for. Do not worry about the cost right now, because we're in the middle of a national emergency.",Candidate,male,11,1,10
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Second of all, we have to make sure that our hospitals have the ventilators that they need, have the IC units that they need. Right now, we have a lack of medical personnel, and I worry very much that if there is a peak, whether we have the capability of dealing with the hundreds of thousands of people who may be in hospitals, so we need unprecedented action right now to deal with the unprecedented crisis. Bottom line from an economic point of view, what we have got to say to the American people, if you lose your job, you will be made whole. You're not going to lose income. If Trump can put, or the fed can put a trillion and a half into the banking system ...",Candidate,male,11,1,11
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,male,11,1,12
Bernie Sanders,NA,... we can protect the wages of every worker in America.,Candidate,male,11,1,13
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden, President Trump says he does not take any responsibility for the problems with coronavirus testing, in part because he says he inherited so many rules, regulations, and red tape. Did bureaucratic red tape hamper this response in any way?",Moderator,male,11,1,14
Joe Biden,NA,"No. Look, the World Health Organization offered, offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them. We did not want to get them from them. We wanted to make sure we had our own. I think he said something like, ""We have the best scientists in America,"" or something to that effect. The idea that we are not prepared for this and not ... The other thing I want to point out, and I agree with Bernie, we're in a situation where we have to now be providing for the hospitals that are going to be needed, needed now.",Candidate,male,11,1,15
Joe Biden,NA,"The present system cannot handle the surge that is likely to come, so we should already be sitting down and planning where we're going to put these temporary hospitals, and we can do that. We did that ... We've been through this before with the coronavirus. We've been through this ... I mean, excuse me, we've been through this before with dealing with the viruses that the N1H1 as well as what happened in Africa. We provided these hospitals dealing with these great pandemics, and were able to do it quickly, and people would have a place to go, but we also have to provide the equipment to protect the first responders, and that's not being done either.",Candidate,male,11,1,16
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Sanders, on that note, and both of you have addressed this, but obviously another major health concern right now for officials is the potential surge in patients all at once, overburdening hospitals, the healthcare system. You've mentioned ICU beds, both of you, and ventilators. We're already in the middle of flu season, so already a lot of those beds and ventilators are already being used. If you were president right now, what would you do to make sure every sick American is able to get treatment so the US does not suffer the same fate as Italy, where doctors have to decide right now who gets lifesaving treatment and who does not?",Moderator,male,11,1,17
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Jake, let's be honest and understand that this coronavirus pandemic exposes the incredible weakness and dysfunctionality of our current healthcare system. Now, we're spending twice as much per person on healthcare as the people of any other country. How in God's name does it happen that we end up with 87 million people who are uninsured or underinsured and there are people who are watching this program tonight, and say, ""I'm not feeling well. Should I go to the doctor? But I can't afford to go to the doctor. What happens if I am sick? It's going to cost thousands of dollars for treatment. Who's going to feed my kids?"" We are the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people.",Candidate,male,11,1,18
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We're spending so much money, and yet we are not even prepared for this pandemic. How come we don't have enough doctors? How come hospitals in rural areas are shutting down? How come people can't afford to get the prescription drugs they need, because we have a bunch of crooks who are running the pharmaceutical industry, ripping us off every single day, and I'll tell you something right now, in the midst of this epidemic, you've got people in the pharmaceutical industry who are saying, ""Oh wow, what an opportunity to make a fortune."" So the word has got to go out. I certainly would do this as president. You don't worry, people of America, do not worry about the cost of prescription drugs. Do not worry about the cost of the healthcare that you're going to get, because we are a nation, a civilized democratic society. Everybody, rich and poor, middle-class, will get the care they need. The drug companies will not rip us off.",Candidate,male,11,1,19
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden, some medical experts are saying the only true way to control this virus is through a national quarantine, requiring every American other than essential personnel to stay home. Would you take that unprecedented step of a national lockdown?",Moderator,female,11,1,20
Joe Biden,NA,"What I would do is what we did in our administration. I would call a meeting in The Situation Room of all the experts in America dealing with this crisis. I would sit them down, and I would do exactly what we did then. What is it that we need? Listen to the experts. What do we need? With all due respect to Medicare for all, you have a single-payer system in Italy. It doesn't work there. It has nothing to do with Medicare for all. That would not solve the problem at all. We can take care of that right now by making sure that no one has to pay for treatment, period, because of the crisis. No one has to pay for whatever drugs are needed, period, because of the crisis. No one has to pay for hospitalization because of the crisis, period. That is a national emergency, and that's how it's handled.",Candidate,male,11,1,21
Joe Biden,NA,"It is not working in Italy right now, and they have a single-payer system. Now, with regard to what else I would do, the fact is that we're in a position where I would bring together the leading experts in the world, instead of doing this, in the United States, instead of doing this piecemeal, sit down and do what we did before with the Ebola crisis. What is needed? And have one voice, one voice, like we did every day we met on that crisis in The Situation Room, so we lay out overall, for all the nation, what the best proposal is and how to move forward. In the absence of that, governors are making some sound decisions. They're doing the best they can by going out and getting the healthcare experts in their communities and their states to move, but it should be directed from the White House, from The Situation Room, laying out in detail like we did in the Ebola crisis ...",Candidate,male,11,1,22
Dana Bash,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,female,11,1,23
Joe Biden,NA,... and we beat it.,Candidate,male,11,1,24
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you. Senator Sanders, your response?",Moderator,female,11,1,25
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, first of all, the dysfunctionality of the current healthcare system is obviously apparent. As I said earlier, there are people who hesitate go to the doctor. You're going to have the maze of regulations. Well, if this is my income, but that's my income, can I get it? Can I not get it? Clearly we are not prepared, and Trump only exacerbates the crisis. When we spend twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other nation, one might expect that we would have enough doctors all over this country. One might expect that we would have affordable prescription drugs. One might expect that we were preparing effectively for a pandemic, that we were ready with the ventilators, with the ICUs, with the test kits that we need.",Candidate,male,11,1,26
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We are not, and bottom line here is in terms of Medicare for all, despite what the vice president is saying, what the experts tell us, is that one of the reasons that we are unprepared and have been unprepared is we don't have a system. We got thousands of private insurance plans. That is not a system that is prepared to provide healthcare to all people. In a good year without the epidemic, we're losing up to 60,000 people who die every year because they don't get to a doctor on time. It's clearly this crisis is only making a bad situation worse.",Candidate,male,11,1,27
Joe Biden,NA,"That has nothing to do when you're in a national crisis. The national crisis says we're responding. It's all free. You don't have to pay for a thing. That has nothing to do with whether or not you have an insurance policy. This is a crisis. We're at war with the virus. We're at war with the virus. It has nothing to do with copays or anything. We just pass a law saying that you do not have to pay for any of this, period.",Candidate,male,11,1,28
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That's not true. As a matter of fact, that's not true. That law has enormous loopholes. I understand that Nancy Pelosi did her best. Republicans prevented it. What you're-",Candidate,male,11,1,29
Joe Biden,NA,"No, I'm-",Candidate,male,11,1,30
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What you're talking about, Joe, here, is enormous loopholes within that, that in fact it is not necessarily covering treatment for all people in America, and that people are going to be stuck with a bill unless we change that, and we're going to offer legislation to in fact change that.",Candidate,male,11,1,31
Joe Biden,NA,"If I may, I offered legislation. I laid out on my plan that it would cover exactly what is not covered by the house. I laid out in the plan that I laid out for how we would deal with this crisis. Nobody, nobody will pay for anything having to do with the crisis. This is a national emergency. There isn't a question of whether or not this is something that could be covered by insurance, or anything else. We, out of the treasury, are going to pay for this. It's a national emergency.",Candidate,male,11,1,32
Bernie Sanders,NA,But you see ...,Candidate,male,11,1,33
Joe Biden,NA,That's what my plan calls for.,Candidate,male,11,1,34
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But the weakness of this is, let's just do a hypothetical. A family member's diagnosed with the virus.",Candidate,male,11,1,35
Joe Biden,NA,Yep.,Candidate,male,11,1,36
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Terrible tragedy, massive anxiety. The wife has the virus. The husband is a wreck, wants to go to a psychologist, wants to get counseling, doesn't have the money to do that. Maybe their kid breaks a leg. They don't have the money to go to healthcare. So you're saying right now in the middle of a crisis, but you know what? Last year at least 30,000 people died in America because they didn't get healthcare when they should, because we don't have universal coverage. I think that's a crisis. One out of five people in America cannot afford the prescription drugs they need. They suffer. Some die. I consider that a crisis. Bottom line is we need a simple system, which exists in Canada, exists in countries all over the world, and that is if you are an American, you get the healthcare you need, end of discussion. We can save huge sums of money doing that. The trick is, do we have the guts to take on the healthcare industry, some of which is funding the vice president's campaign. Do we have the courage to take on the executives at the prescription drug industry ...",Candidate,male,11,1,37
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,11,1,38
Bernie Sanders,NA,... some of whom are funding his campaign.,Candidate,male,11,1,39
Dana Bash,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,female,11,1,40
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, this is a national crisis. I don't want to get this into a back and forth in terms of our politics here. I've laid out a plan building on Obamacare, providing a public option of Medicare, that would cover everyone the same way. This idea that this is his only answer is a mistaken notion, but regardless of whether my plan was in place or his, this is a crisis. This is like we are being attacked from abroad. This is something that is of great consequence. This is like a war, and in a war you do whatever is needed to be done to take care of your people, and what you do is you, and I have proposed it, and laid it out in detail, everything that you need in terms of dealing with this crisis would be free. It is paid for by the taxpayers generally, generally. It has nothing to do with Bernie's Medicare for all. By the way, the ...",Candidate,male,11,1,41
Dana Bash,NA,"Vice President Biden, thank you.",Moderator,female,11,1,42
Bernie Sanders,NA,Let me just-,Candidate,male,11,1,43
Dana Bash,NA,"If I may, the vice president had just mentioned war. Would you deploy the US military in effort to contain the virus? And if so, how?",Moderator,female,11,1,44
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, I think we use all of the tools that make sense. If using the National Guard, which is, folks I think in New York state are already using the National Guard, that is something that has to be done. This is clearly, as the vice president indicated, a national emergency. What I worry about is not only how we respond aggressively to the virus, but also how we respond aggressively to the economic fallout of a global recession.",Candidate,male,11,1,45
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Right now in Illinois and Ohio, if my memory is correct, the governor there has said they're closing down bars. They're closing down restaurants. What happens to the workers who are there? What happens to the millions of workers who may end up losing their jobs? What I think we have got to do right now is if Trump can provide, or the fed can provide a trillion and a half for liquidity for the banks, what we've got to say to every worker in America, you know what? Don't panic. You're not going to ... You'll be able to pay your mortgage, because you're going to get a check.",Candidate,male,11,1,46
Dana Bash,NA,Senator-,Moderator,female,11,1,47
Bernie Sanders,NA,You're going to be made whole.,Candidate,male,11,1,48
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator, we're going to talk about the economic ... Oh, go ahead, Mr. Vice President.",Moderator,female,11,1,49
Joe Biden,NA,The answer is I would call out the military.,Candidate,male,11,1,50
Dana Bash,NA,Okay.,Moderator,female,11,1,51
Joe Biden,NA,"Now. They have the capacity to provide this surge help that hospitals need and that is needed across the nation. I would make sure that they did exactly what they're prepared to do. They've done it. They did it in the Ebola crisis. They've done it. They have the capacity to build 500-bed hospitals, and tents that are completely safe and secure, and provide the help to get it done to anybody, this overflow. So it is a national emergency. I would call out the military.",Candidate,male,11,1,52
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, the Ebola crisis is one thing. This is obviously a pandemic which is far more severe and impactful to this country. I think one of the things that we want to remember here is that we got a lot of elderly people in this country who are told, stay home. Don't leave your house. Who's going to get food to them? How do we get food to them? You've got schools all over this country now being shut down. Okay. How are we going to make sure that the kids do well in this crisis, not become traumatized? What do we do about the parents now who have to stay home with the kids and can't go to work?",Candidate,male,11,1,53
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I think what bottom line here is that in this crisis, we have got to start paying attention to the most vulnerable, that includes people who are in prison right now, people who are in homeless shelters right now. What about the half a million people who are homeless tonight? Who's going to respond to them? Now, in 2008 when we had the Wall Street bailout, they did very well for the people on top. They bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, but they forgot about the suffering of ordinary Americans. This time around, let us learn that lesson. Let us pay attention to the working families in this country.",Candidate,male,11,1,54
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Senator.",Moderator,female,11,1,55
Bernie Sanders,NA,We have the most vulnerable.,Candidate,male,11,1,56
Joe Biden,NA,"We have learned that lesson, and again, I lay out in detail. What we should be doing now is we should be surging help to those places which are the most vulnerable. We should have every single person that's in a nursing home being able to be tested. We should be moving forces in to do that. We should move in the capability to do that. We should be sitting down, the president should be sitting down in The Situation Room right now and doing what we did before, and asking the question, ""Okay, you're going to close everything. Well, if you close everything, how do you get prescriptions that have to be filled? How do you make sure when you close that school those children are going to be able to get the school food program? How do you make sure that you're going to be able to see to it that you get your mortgage paid?"" I propose that all of that be covered, and it's going to take a multi-multi-billion dollar program to do that. But first things first, the first thing is take care of the immediate needs we have now relating to surging the kind-",Candidate,male,11,1,57
Joe Biden,NA,"Take care of the immediate needs we have now relating to surging the kind of capability we have to prevent this great bump in terms of how it's going to cause such pain, as well as moving in the direction of making sure we have a longterm plan to make sure it's taken care-",Candidate,male,11,1,58
Dana Bash,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. We're going to talk in a moment a lot more about the economic impact, but first, Senator Sanders, I want to ask about China. When this outbreak first started in China, the government there censored the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and downplayed the true gravity of the virus.",Moderator,female,11,1,59
Bernie Sanders,NA,Right.,Candidate,male,11,1,60
Dana Bash,NA,What consequences should China face for its role in this global crisis?,Moderator,female,11,1,61
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, one of the consequences is we have got to learn that you cannot lie to the American people. You cannot be less than frank about the nature of the crisis. And what bothers me very much is you have a president of the United States today, Mr. Trump, who was praising China, for the good work that they are doing, when in fact, as you indicated, they were lying to their own people and allowing that [inaudible] the case. Look, I don't think this is the time for recrimination, to be punishing people. Now is the time, by the way, to be working with China. They are learning a lot about this crisis, and in fact, we have got to work with them. We've got to work with the World Health Organization. We've got to work with Italy. We've got to work with countries around the world. If there was ever a moment when the entire world is in this together, got to support each other, this is that moment.",Candidate,male,11,1,62
Joe Biden,NA,"If I may respond. That's why I insisted, the moment this broke out, that we should insist on having our experts in China, in China to see what was happening, and make it clear to China there'd be consequences if we did not have that access. We have to lead the world. We should be the ones doing what we did during the Ebola crisis, bringing the whole world together and saying, ""This is what we must do."" We have to have a common plan. All nations are affected the same way by this virus depending on exposure. And so this is, we need world leadership. We need international leadership. We need someone who knows how to bring the world together and insist on fundamental change in the way in which we're approaching this.",Candidate,male,11,1,63
Dana Bash,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,11,1,64
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, the bottom line here is that in the midst of this crisis, we have got to act in an unprecedented way. And that means every country on earth is going to be affected. Every country on earth has got to work together. It also means that we tell the pharmaceutical industry, we tell the big money interests, that this is not a time for profiteering. This is a time for all of us working together. The World Health Organization is a very, very strong organization. It is sad that we have a President that has ignored the international community in so many ways, including in terms of international health crisis.",Candidate,male,11,1,65
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders. Obviously, another part of this story is the economy, which is reeling from this pandemic. Many economists are warning of a recession. Just hours ago, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to near 0%, which has not happened since the financial crisis in 2008. Vice President Biden, what would you do?",Moderator,female,11,1,66
Joe Biden,NA,"What I would do is make it clear to the world and make it clear to the United States that we are going to have to have a major, major, major bailout package that we do not reward corporations, we reward individuals who in fact are really put to the test here. The problem is, the policies of this administration economically have... We've eaten a lot of our seed corn here. The ability for us to use levers that were available before have been used up by this godawful tax cut of $1.9 trillion. By the fact that we have used... The fed will be of little consequence now, they've already used what leverage they have, and so we're going to have to just level with the American people.",Candidate,male,11,1,67
Joe Biden,NA,"Here's the deal. We're going to have to not only deal with the immediate crisis, economic crisis, which is the most critical now to let people know their mortgages are going to be paid, their rents are going to be paid, they're going to have childcare, they're going to make sure that all their medical bills are cared for relating to this, et cetera. We have to go beyond that. We're going to have to be in a situation where we're meeting on a daily basis, like we did in the middle of the financial crisis, to decide how we are going to find the wherewithal and the money to be able to see to it. We hold all these folks harmless. But not do what Trump wants to do. For example, he came along and said, ""I got a great idea. Let's..."" Well, you're going to tell me-",Candidate,male,11,1,68
Ilia Calderón,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,female,11,1,69
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The Ebola crisis, in my view, exposes the dysfunctionality of our healthcare system and how poorly prepared we are, despite how much money that we spent. The Ebola crisis is also, I think, exposing the cruelty and the unjustness of our economy today. We have more income and wealth inequality in America today than any time in 100 years. And what that means then, in the midst of this crisis... You know, if you're a multimillionaire, no one's happy about this crisis. You're going to get through it. You're going to get everything you need. You're not worried about healthcare. You're not worried about income coming in.",Candidate,male,11,1,70
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. We got people who are struggling working two or three jobs to put food on the table. What is going to happen to them? So the lesson to be learned is we have got to move aggressively right now to address the economic crisis as a result of Ebola... Keep talking about Ebola. You got Ebola in my head here right now. As a result of the virus here, the Coronavirus. What we have got to do also is understand the fragility of the economy and how unjust and unfair it is that so few have so much and so many have so little.",Candidate,male,11,1,71
Joe Biden,NA,"People are looking for results, not a revolution. They want to deal with the results they need right now, and we can do that by making sure that we make everybody whole who has been so badly hurt in terms of they lose their job, in terms of not having the ability to care for their children, in terms of the healthcare costs that they have related to this crisis. We can make them whole now, now, and put in process a system whereby they all are made whole.",Candidate,male,11,1,72
Joe Biden,NA,"That has nothing to do with a legitimate concern about income equality in America. That's real. That's real. But that does not affect the need for us to act swiftly and very thoroughly and in concert with all the forces that we need to bring to bear to deal with the crisis now, so no one's thrown out of their home, no one loses their mortgage, no one is kicked out of their house, no one loses their paycheck, no one is in a position where they have a significant financial disability as a consequence of this SARS... Of this particular crisis.",Candidate,male,11,1,73
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you, Vice President. Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,11,1,74
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, I think it goes without saying that as a nation we have to respond as forcefully as we can to the current crisis, but it is not good enough not to be understanding how we got here and where we want to go into the future. So how does it happen that today, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, half of our people are scared to death? Good. I agree. In fact, that was my idea originally to make sure that every person in this country is made whole as a result of this crisis. But God willing, this crisis is going to end, and we are going to have to develop an economy in which half of our people are not living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to put food on the table.",Candidate,male,11,1,75
Joe Biden,NA,"I don't disagree with that. You were asking about the crisis, what are we going to do about the crisis now? Which is incredibly consequential to millions and millions of Americans. And it's not going to be policy now. It's not going to be solved by a change in how we deal with healthcare. It's got to be solved with an emergency need right now. Right now, what do we do? First thing we do is we make sure that healthcare is available by us having the tools to be able to deal with it, and that requires us to go out and do much more than this president has done in terms of planning. Secondly, it requires us to be in a position where we're anticipating what will happen in the next month or weeks in terms of the flow into the healthcare system, by bringing the military along, more hospital beds, more training, more equipment, more equipment to save the first responders, as well.",Candidate,male,11,1,76
Joe Biden,NA,"In addition to that, we then have to also look at what are the immediate needs right today? How about that person who's been laid off today? How about that person who doesn't have an income today? They have to know that tomorrow, when the paycheck comes due, you will get that paycheck. And thirdly, we have to think longterm about how we deal with making all those who have been badly damaged right again, and then we move on. Then we move on to change the economy in ways that are more profoundly necessary than people think, but do not respond to the immediate needs we have now. First things first.",Candidate,male,11,1,77
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you, Vice President, Senator Sanders, you voted against bailouts following the 2008 financial crisis.",Moderator,female,11,1,78
Joe Biden,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,11,1,79
Ilia Calderón,NA,Many believe those spending bills were a crucial part of stabilizing the economy back then. Would you support bailouts for industries that are being crushed by the Coronavirus outbreak now?,Moderator,female,11,1,80
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I did. You're quite right, I voted against the bailout because I believed that the illegal behavior being done by the people on Wall Street should not be rewarded by a bailout. And today, by the way, those banks are more prosperous and own more assets, by and large, than they did back then. They're bigger now than they were then. I thought at the time that in the midst of massive income and wealth inequality, the people on top... there was surtax on the very wealthy... should bail out. And it's not just the top bailout. We gave trillions of dollars in zero interest loans to large banks.",Candidate,male,11,1,81
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But to answer your question where we are right now, we need to stabilize the economy, but we can't repeat what we did in 2008. Joe voted for that. I voted against it. Because we have got to do more than save the banks or the oil companies. Our job right now is to tell every working person in this country, no matter what your income is, you are not going to suffer as a result of this crisis of which you had no control.",Candidate,male,11,1,82
Ilia Calderón,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,female,11,1,83
Joe Biden,NA,"Had those banks all gone under, all those people Bernie says he cares about would be in deep trouble. Deep, deep trouble. All those little folks... we'd have gone out of business... they'd find themselves in the position where they would lose everything that they had in that bank, whether it was $10 or $300 or a savings account. This was about saving an economy, and it did save the economy, and the banks paid back and they paid back with interest. I agree with Bernie, some of them should have gone to jail. That was the big disagreement I had in terms of bailing out, but the question was, they paid back. In addition to that, also part of that was bailing out the automobile industry, saving thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs over time. He voted against that as well.",Candidate,male,11,1,84
Bernie Sanders,NA,No. I did not vote against that. That bailout money was used later on by Bush to protect the automobile industry. But here's the point-,Candidate,male,11,1,85
Joe Biden,NA,[crosstalk 00:00:31:48]-,Candidate,male,11,1,86
Bernie Sanders,NA,"...one minute, one minute. Here's the point here, is that in terms of that bailout, there are ways that you can bail out. When you have a handful of people who have incredible wealth, who have prospered off of the illegal behavior of individuals, in this case on Wall Street, you know what you say to them? And I did. I said this to the Secretary of the Treasury, ""You want a bailout? That's fine. You have your friends pay for it, not working people."" The other point is, as Joe should know, it wasn't just the 700 billion TARP program. The fed gave trillions and trillions of dollars in zero interest loans to every financial institution in this country and central banks all over the world. That was essentially a grant, because they then could sell that. They can then bring in interest rates much greater than the zero interest loans that they got.",Candidate,male,11,1,87
Ilia Calderón,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,female,11,1,88
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, the fact of the matter is that if in fact the banks had all gone under, we would be in a great depression. How do you get out of that? Now, Bernie's saying that I guess he's going to do a wealth tax or something, that the top 1% could pay for everything and they should pay for everything that occurred. We were talking about tens and hundreds of billions of dollars. That's what this was about. And the fact was that it saved the economy from going into a depression, after we passed the Recovery Act, which I was the one went on, got the three votes to get it changed, that had $900 billion in it and was the thing that kept us from going into a great depression.",Candidate,male,11,1,89
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Vice President Biden, I'm going to stay with you. Many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants, and now even many legal immigrants in the United States, are afraid to seek medical help. How do you ensure they feel safe enough to get treatment to help stop the spread of Coronavirus?",Moderator,female,11,1,90
Joe Biden,NA,"Anyone who shows up to be tested for Coronavirus or gets Coronavirus treated would be held harmless. Just like I've argued all along. Any woman who crosses the border or is here and being beaten by her husband, but she's an undocumented, she cannot be deported because she reports. There are certain things you cannot deport an undocumented person for and that would be one of them. We want that. It's in the interests of everyone. And those folks who are the xenophobic folks out there, it's even in their interest that that woman come forward or that man come forward, because it deals with keeping the spread from moving more rapidly. They will not, should not, under any circumstances, be held accountable and be deported for that purpose, period.",Candidate,male,11,1,91
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I have been criticized because the proposal for Medicare for All that I introduced includes making sure that undocumented people are also covered. And right now, we have the absurd situation where undocumented people who try to do the right thing, they're sick, they want to go to the doctor, they don't want to spread this disease, are now standing and thinking about whether ICE is going to deport them. So one of the things that we have to do is to make sure that everybody feels comfortable getting the healthcare that they need. That should be a general principle, above and beyond the Coronavirus.",Candidate,male,11,1,92
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Second of all, we've got to end these terrible ICE raids which are terrorizing communities all over this country. And thirdly, to answer your question, the time is long overdue for this country to move to comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship for those 11 million undocumented. And furthermore, on day one as President, I would restore the legal status of the 1.8 million young people [crosstalk 00:35:37]-",Candidate,male,11,1,93
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator. Senator, thank you. We're going to talk about immigration in a minute, but first I want to ask about something that's going on right now. Again, back to this crisis. We know that people over the age of 60 and those with underlying medical conditions, especially heart disease, lung disease and diabetes, are the most vulnerable to Coronavirus and are being asked to change their behavior to protect themselves. So Senator Sanders, I'll start with you. You're 78 years old. You had a heart attack. What are you doing to protect yourself?",Moderator,female,11,1,94
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, a great deal. I mean, last night we had a fireside chat, not a rally. I love doing rallies and we bring many thousands of people out to our rallies. I enjoy it very much. We're not doing that right now. In fact, our entire staff is working from home. So on a personal level, what we're doing is, I'm not shaking hands. Joe and I did not shake hands. I am very careful about the people I am interacting with. I'm using a lot of soap and hand sanitizers to make sure that I do not get the infection. And I have to say, thank God, right now I do not have any symptoms and I feel very grateful for that.",Candidate,male,11,1,95
Dana Bash,NA,"Vice President Biden, you're 77. What are you doing to protect yourself?",Moderator,female,11,1,96
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, fortunately, I don't have any of the underlying conditions you talked about that I have to worry about, number one. Number two, thank God... for the time being, anything can happen, as my mother would say, knock on wood... that I'm in good health. Number three, I'm taking all the precautions anyone would take, whether they're 30 years old or 60 years old or 80 years old. That is, I'm going to make sure that I do not shake hands any longer. I do not engage. We did the same thing. Our staff is all working from home. We are not doing rallies any longer. We're doing virtual rallies. We're doing virtual town hall meetings.",Candidate,male,11,1,97
Joe Biden,NA,"We're in a situation where now, I do not... as I said, when we encounter people, we're not going into crowds. And so I'm taking all the precautions everyone else should be taking. I wash my hands God knows how many times a day with hot water and soap. I carry with me... as a matter of fact, I have it in my bag outside here... hand sanitizer. I don't know how many times a day I use that. I make sure I don't touch my face, and so on. So I'm taking all the precautions we've told everybody else to take.",Candidate,male,11,1,98
Jake Tapper,NA,"Let's turn to the race more broadly now. Throughout this campaign, you've each laid out starkly different visions for how to bring about change. Vice President Biden, Senator Sanders is calling for a political revolution. You said people want results, not a revolution. Make the case for why a revolution is not what the country needs or wants.",Moderator,male,11,1,99
Joe Biden,NA,"We have problems we have to solve now. Now. What's a revolution going to do, disrupt everything in the meantime? Look, the Senator talks about his Medicare For All. He still hasn't told you how he's going to ever get it past. He hasn't told you how in fact there's any possibility of that happening. He hadn't told you how much it's going to cost. He hadn't tell you how it's going to apply. It doesn't kick in for four years, even after it passes. We want a revolution. Let's act now. Pass the Biden healthcare plan, which takes Obamacare, restores all the cuts made to it. Subsidize it further. Provide for lower drug prices. Make sure that there's no hidden bills. Make sure that we invest what I want to invest $50 billion in dealing with underlying diseases that are of great consequence, diabetes, Alzheimer's and cancer.",Candidate,male,11,1,100
Joe Biden,NA,"Make sure that we have a Medicare option that's in a public option providing Medicare for us. We can do that now. I can get that passed. I can get that done if I'm President of the United States of America. That will be a fundamental change and it happens now. I can tell you from experience, being a significant consumer of healthcare with my sons, my family, all the things we've gone through, what people want is hope. And they need it now, not four years from now. Bernie still hasn't told us how he's going to pay for it.",Candidate,male,11,1,101
Bernie Sanders,NA,Not quite true.,Candidate,male,11,1,102
Joe Biden,NA,We're talking about a $30-plus trillion plan.,Candidate,male,11,1,103
Bernie Sanders,NA,Not quite true.,Candidate,male,11,1,104
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator.,Moderator,male,11,1,105
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Look, let's do something that is very rarely done in the Congress. Let's do something that the media does. Let's talk about the reality of American life. Why is it that over the last 45 years, despite the huge increase in productivity and technology, the average worker today's making a nickel more in real dollars? Why is it that over the last 30 years, the richest 1% have seen a $21 trillion increase in their wealth, bottom half of America, $900 billion decline in their wealth?",Candidate,male,11,1,106
Bernie Sanders,NA,"The bottom half of America, $900 billion decline in their wealth. Why is it that we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right? Why are we the only major country not to have paid medical and family leave? Why do we give tax breaks to billionaires, when a half-a-million people are homeless today? And it comes down to something, Jake, we don't talk about. The power structure in America, who has the power? I'll tell you who has the power. It's the people who contribute money. The billionaires who contribute money to political campaigns, who control the legislative agenda. Those people have the power.",Candidate,male,11,1,107
Bernie Sanders,NA,"If you want to make real changes in this country, if you want to create an economy that works for all, not just the few... if you want to guarantee quality healthcare to all, not make $100 billion in profit for the healthcare industry, you know what you need? You need to take on Wall Street. You need to take on the drug companies, and the insurance companies, and the fossil fuel industry. You don't take campaign contributions from them. You take them on and create an economy that works for all.",Candidate,male,11,1,108
Joe Biden,NA,"You want to do that? Do what I proposed over 30 years ago, federally fund all elections... My whole healthcare plan, by changing the way in which we deal with capital gains. People should pay their capital gains based on what their income tax is, and not at 20%. That would raise $800 billion to pay for my entire medical healthcare plan which would cover everyone.",Candidate,male,11,1,109
Joe Biden,NA,"The fact of the matter is, everything I call for I pay for. And I do not believe and I have not supported these exorbitant tax cuts for the wealthy. I strongly opposed the tax cut that this president has put through of $1 trillion, $900 billion. I said at the time, this was all about trying to eliminate the safety net.",Candidate,male,11,1,110
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, the idea that Bernie implies the way he says things, speaking of negative ads... My lord Bernie, you're running ads saying I'm opposed to Social Security. The PolitiFact says it's a flat lie, and that the Washington Post said is a flat lie.",Candidate,male,11,1,111
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Oh, well. Let me ask you a question, Joe.",Candidate,male,11,1,112
Joe Biden,NA,Yeah.,Candidate,male,11,1,113
Bernie Sanders,NA,You're right here with me.,Candidate,male,11,1,114
Joe Biden,NA,Yeah.,Candidate,male,11,1,115
Bernie Sanders,NA,Have you been on the floor of the Senate? You were in the Senate for a few years.,Candidate,male,11,1,116
Joe Biden,NA,Yeah.,Candidate,male,11,1,117
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Time and time again talking about the necessity, with pride, about cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting veterans programs.",Candidate,male,11,1,118
Joe Biden,NA,No.,Candidate,male,11,1,119
Bernie Sanders,NA,You never said that?,Candidate,male,11,1,120
Joe Biden,NA,No.,Candidate,male,11,1,121
Bernie Sanders,NA,"All right. America, go to the website right now. Go to the YouTube right now. Time after time, you were not a fan of Bowles-Simpson.",Candidate,male,11,1,122
Joe Biden,NA,I was not a fan of Bowles-,Candidate,male,11,1,123
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You were not a fan of the balanced budget amendment, which called for cuts in Social Security? Come on Joe, you were.",Candidate,male,11,1,124
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, here's the deal.",Candidate,male,11,1,125
Bernie Sanders,NA,You're an honest guy. Why don't you just tell the truth here? We all make mistakes.,Candidate,male,11,1,126
Joe Biden,NA,"I am telling the truth. You said that I, in fact... Why am I rated 96% by the Social Security organizations? Why am I viewed as a strong-",Candidate,male,11,1,127
Bernie Sanders,NA,Organizations-,Candidate,male,11,1,128
Joe Biden,NA,I have laid out how I will increase Social Security benefits.,Candidate,male,11,1,129
Bernie Sanders,NA,That's good. I laid that out.,Candidate,male,11,1,130
Joe Biden,NA,"I have laid out how I am going to make sure that it is in fact, paid for.",Candidate,male,11,1,131
Bernie Sanders,NA,Jake-,Candidate,male,11,1,132
Joe Biden,NA,"Go to joebiden.com. Look at my exchange with Paul Ryan on his desire to try to privatize and/or cut Social Security, and understand how he manipulated it.",Candidate,male,11,1,133
Bernie Sanders,NA,"All right. Joe, let me repeat it again. I want you just to be straight with the American people. I am saying that you have been on the floor of the Senate time and time again, talking about the need to cut Social Security, Medicare, and veterans programs. Is that true or is that not true?",Candidate,male,11,1,134
Joe Biden,NA,"No, it's not true.",Candidate,male,11,1,135
Bernie Sanders,NA,That is not true?,Candidate,male,11,1,136
Joe Biden,NA,"That is not true. What is true is, in terms of the negotiations that are taking place, how to deal with the deficit... Everything was on the table. I did not support any of those cuts, and Social Security or in veterans benefits.",Candidate,male,11,1,137
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Everything was on the table. All right, you're right. You just said it. Including in your judgment, cuts to Social Security and veterans.",Candidate,male,11,1,138
Joe Biden,NA,"In order to get the kinds of changes we need on other things related., but we did not cut it. I did not vote for it.",Candidate,male,11,1,139
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I know, because people like me helped stop that. But Joe, you just contradict-",Candidate,male,11,1,140
Joe Biden,NA,"Come on, Bernie.",Candidate,male,11,1,141
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Joe, you just contradicted yourself. One minute... Excuse me. One minute you said, ""I was not on the floor."" The next minute you say, ""Well yes, there was a reason why I was worried about the deficit."" Maybe that's good reason, maybe it's not. All that I am saying is you were prepared to cut, and advocated for the cuts of programs.",Candidate,male,11,1,142
Joe Biden,NA,Let's just... I did not. I never voted to cut Social Security.,Candidate,male,11,1,143
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I'm not talking about voting, Joe. That's not what I said.",Candidate,male,11,1,144
Joe Biden,NA,"I never voted... Well, look. I voted to protect it. Just go look at the debate with Paul Ryan for the vice presidency. Look at what I did. And Bernie, will you acknowledge your campaign took out of context, that whole exchange between Paul Ryan? Are you saying PolitiFact is wrong? Are you saying-",Candidate,male,11,1,145
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Yeah. Well, believe me, the Washington Post, PolitiFact is wrong a whole lot of times.",Candidate,male,11,1,146
Joe Biden,NA,"Are they wrong on that, Bernie? Are they wrong on that, Bernie?",Candidate,male,11,1,147
Bernie Sanders,NA,Joe.,Candidate,male,11,1,148
Joe Biden,NA,"Bernie, did you miss-",Candidate,male,11,1,149
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Joe, did you... Wait a minute. I'll answer your question. You answer mine.",Candidate,male,11,1,150
Joe Biden,NA,I answered yours.,Candidate,male,11,1,151
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, you didn't.",Candidate,male,11,1,152
Joe Biden,NA,All right.,Candidate,male,11,1,153
Bernie Sanders,NA,"One more time. Were you on the floor time and time again, for whatever reason, talking about the need to cut Social Security and Medicare and veterans programs?",Candidate,male,11,1,154
Joe Biden,NA,"No, I did not talk about the need to cut any of those programs.",Candidate,male,11,1,155
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Okay. All that I would say to the American people, go to YouTube. It's all over the place. Joe said it many, many times. I'm surprised. You can defend it or change your mind on it, but you can't deny the reality.",Candidate,male,11,1,156
Dana Bash,NA,"So Senator, because you brought up Social Security and you have been talking about it, I want to ask you about something that you wrote in 1996. You were a member of the House, and you wrote an op ed that said, ""It is clear we will have to make incremental adjustments in Social Security, taxes and benefits.""",Moderator,female,11,1,157
Bernie Sanders,NA,Yeah.,Candidate,male,11,1,158
Dana Bash,NA,Why are your past comments any less relevant than the vice president's?,Moderator,female,11,1,159
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Incremental adjustments are what I advocated. Adjustments that I advocated and have advocated for years, is among other things, increasing the cost of living assistance. No, you're not going to find me ever calling for cuts to Social Security. Right now for example, we determine COLAs by looking at inflation for the general population rather than segregating the higher costs that seniors are paying for prescription drugs and for healthcare. That's what I was talking about.",Candidate,male,11,1,160
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I have in fact, when Joe and others were enamored with the so-called Bowles-Simpson effort, which included cuts to Social Security or raising the retirement age. I formed along with people like Barbara Boxer, the defending Social Security caucus to say no... when 20% of our seniors who are trying to get by on $13,000 a year or more, we are not going to cut Social Security.",Candidate,male,11,1,161
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Vice President Biden, yesterday you endorsed an Elizabeth Warren plan that would undo key parts of the bankruptcy law you helped pass in 2005. A few hours ago, you announced support for making public college tuition free for families who make less than $125, 000 a year, something Senator Sanders has supported. What changed?",Moderator,female,11,1,162
Joe Biden,NA,"Two things. Number one, let's talk about the Bankruptcy Bill. The Bankruptcy Bill was passing overwhelmingly and I improved it. I had a choice. It was going to pass, and a Republican president, Republican Congress. I offered two amendments to make sure that people under $50,000 would not be affected, and women and children would go to the front of the line on alimony and support payments. That's what I did. It passed overwhelmingly. I did not like the rest of the bill. But I improved it, number one.",Candidate,male,11,1,163
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, I've talked with Senator Warren about her proposal. This is the first opportunity we've had to make substantial change in what we couldn't get done in a Republican administration. That's why we talked last... two nights ago, and I supported her proposal. It's a good proposal, it's a solid proposal. She should get credit for having introduced it.",Candidate,male,11,1,164
Joe Biden,NA,"With regard to what we're talking about in terms of college education... I've been saying for a long time that we're in a position where 12 years of education is not enough, is not enough for the 21st century. We need 16 years of education. The exact bill that Senator Sanders introduced, I guess a little over a year ago, capping it off at $125,000 in income. You could get free up to that point. After that, you'd have to pay for your college education. It only worked for public schools, and it would work for public universities in your state. I support that idea. It was a good idea and I support it. That's what it is. I'm not saying everything Bernie's said has been wrong, he happens to be right on that one.",Candidate,male,11,1,165
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Senator Sanders, I assume you welcome these changes.",Moderator,female,11,1,166
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Look, this is a little bit about leadership as well. Joe talked about bankruptcy. Joe, if my memory is correct, you helped write that Bankruptcy Bill.",Candidate,male,11,1,167
Joe Biden,NA,I did not.,Candidate,male,11,1,168
Bernie Sanders,NA,All right.,Candidate,male,11,1,169
Joe Biden,NA,I did not.,Candidate,male,11,1,170
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That Bankruptcy Bill... By the way, when we talk about education, we got 45 million people in America struggling with student debt, some of them really struggling with student debt. That Bankruptcy Bill made it impossible, very difficult for people to escape from that student debt. It was a very, very bad bill. You said, Joe, that a majority of the people in the Senate voted for it. You're right.",Candidate,male,11,1,171
Joe Biden,NA,Overwhelming majority.,Candidate,male,11,1,172
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Overwhelmingly. Well, I voted against it in the House, and I was right. I don't have to rethink my position, because that's what leadership is about. Having the guts to take an unpopular vote. But it's not just bankruptcy. The difference between Joe and I on higher education is... four years ago, it was not a popular idea, Joe. Glad you're coming around now. Four years ago, when I said that public colleges and universities should be tuition free, people were saying, ""Bernie, that's a radical idea."" Well, you got states and cities and counties all over the country that are moving in that direction.",Candidate,male,11,1,173
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I'm glad that Joe was on board. But what leadership is about, is going forward when it's not popular, when it's an idea that you get criticized for. So I'm proud of that fact, and I'm proud of my leadership on many issues. Joe, since the campaign, has come around. I talked about raising that minimum wage 15-bucks-an-hour, four years ago, Joe.",Candidate,male,11,1,174
Joe Biden,NA,"So did I, and I went out and campaigned for it.",Candidate,male,11,1,175
Bernie Sanders,NA,$15 an hour?,Candidate,male,11,1,176
Joe Biden,NA,"$15 an hour, in New York city. Go to the Governor.",Candidate,male,11,1,177
Bernie Sanders,NA,I will talk to the Governor. I am not aware of it. I am not aware of it.,Candidate,male,11,1,178
Joe Biden,NA,You should be aware of it.,Candidate,male,11,1,179
Bernie Sanders,NA,"All right. Four years ago, it was a radical idea. Very few people in Congress were talking about it.",Candidate,male,11,1,180
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Go ahead, Vice President.",Moderator,female,11,1,181
Joe Biden,NA,"Well here, look. Let's get something straight about the Bankruptcy Bill. The Bankruptcy Bill already... It did not affect student debt for 90%, because the law had already been passed. You could not declare bankruptcy for those loans that were from private institutions. You couldn't do it, as the Bankruptcy Bill did not affect that. It affected 10% of the people, the first Bankruptcy Bill. 10% of the student loans, number one.",Candidate,male,11,1,182
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two. Now we're in a position where we're able to correct that problem. The fact is, if I hadn't stepped up and changed the law as it relates to people making less than $50,000, those who... for alimony and child support, then guess what? They would have been in the bucket too. It was going to pass anyway. I made it... Let me finish. I made incrementally better. I did not like the bill. I did not support the bill. And I made it clear to the industry, I didn't like the bill.",Candidate,male,11,1,183
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two, this bill now calls for the opportunity to fundamentally change the mistakes we couldn't correct in the bill the first time around. That is why I support Elizabeth Warren's idea, and it's a very good idea.",Candidate,male,11,1,184
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Senator Sanders, go ahead.",Moderator,female,11,1,185
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, this is kind of circular logic. We're going to reform the bill that I voted for. Well, if you hadn't voted for it, and if you rallied other people as I tried to do in the House voting against it, we might not have the problems with it we have today. What leadership is about, Joe, it deals whether your opposition or your support, I should say, for legislation regarding gay communities and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. You remember that bill, right? You remember?",Candidate,male,11,1,186
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, I do.",Candidate,male,11,1,187
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Gay marriage today is considered a little bit differently than it was 25 years ago. I remember that vote. It was a very hard vote. I voted against the Defense of Marriage Act. You voted for it. I voted against the Bankruptcy Bill. You voted for it. I voted against the war in Iraq, which was also a tough vote. You voted for. I voted against disastrous trade agreements like NAFTA and PNT all with China, which costs this country over four million good paying jobs. You voted for it. I voted against the Hyde Amendment, which denies low income women the right to get an abortion. You have consistently voted for it. I don't know what your position is on it today, but you have consistently voted for it. In other words, all that I'm saying here, we can argue about the merits of the bill.",Candidate,male,11,1,188
Ilia Calderón,NA,Vice President Biden-,Moderator,female,11,1,189
Bernie Sanders,NA,It takes courage sometimes to do the right thing.,Candidate,male,11,1,190
Joe Biden,NA,"We can argue about the past and the future. This man voted against the Brady Bill five times. Background checks, background checks. Five times, number one. Number two, this man is the only... one of the few Democrats I know who voted to exempt the gun industry from being able to be sued. Talk about a special, special interest. We should be able to sue drug companies. We should be able to sue tobacco companies. We cannot sue the gun manufacturers, because he voted for that years ago. He says it was a mistake now. I'm prepared to accept he says it's a mistake.",Candidate,male,11,1,191
Joe Biden,NA,"The question is, what do we do from this point on? And by the way, I might add, I'm the first person to go on national television in any administration and say, I supported gay marriage. I supported gay marriage when asked. It started a ripple effect for gay marriage on national television.",Candidate,male,11,1,192
Bernie Sanders,NA,All that I'm saying here-,Candidate,male,11,1,193
Joe Biden,NA,Leadership.,Candidate,male,11,1,194
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We could argue this or that bill. But what I'm suggesting is that in this time of crisis, when we live in a really, really unsettling world... economically, from a healthcare prospective with the coronavirus, the people of America know my record. Okay?",Candidate,male,11,1,195
Bernie Sanders,NA,"For 30 years, I have stood with the working families of this country. I have taken on every special interest there is out there, and that is what I will do in the White House. That's a very different record than Joe's.",Candidate,male,11,1,196
Joe Biden,NA,That is not a different record than mine.,Candidate,male,11,1,197
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That is a totally different record than yours. All right? I mean, it's manifested in this campaign when you're getting all this money from wealthy people and billionaires. I think, if you want somebody who will take to the White House what I have done for my whole life-",Candidate,male,11,1,198
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Senator Sanders.,Moderator,male,11,1,199
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And that is take on special interest, I think I'm that candidate.",Candidate,male,11,1,200
Joe Biden,NA,"The average campaign contribution, $44.",Candidate,male,11,1,201
Jake Tapper,NA,"Let's talk about the future, Vice President Biden. If you become the Democratic Presidential nominee, how will you appeal to supporters of Senator Sanders when you do disagree on so many issues?",Moderator,male,11,1,202
Joe Biden,NA,"He's making it hard for me right now. I was trying to give him credit for some things. He won't even take the credit for things he wants to do. Look, I think that I want to make it clear that Bernie as a nominee, I will not only support him, I will campaign for him. I believe the people who support me will do the same thing. Because the existential threat to the United States of America is Donald Trump. It's critical. I would hope that Bernie would do the same thing if I am the nominee, and encourage all of his followers to in fact, support me as well. Because it's much bigger than either of us. Character of the nation is on the ballot. It goes well beyond whether or not Senator Sanders and I both agree, we need medic... healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. We both agree we have to deal with student debt. We both agree we have to deal with education and access to education. We both agree that we have a new Green Deal to deal with the existential threat that faces humanity. We disagree on the detail of how we do it, but we don't disagree on the principle. We fundamentally disagree with this president on everything. This is a man who wants to cut Social Security, cut Medicare. Not Bernie, the President of the United States. So this is much bigger than whether or not I'm the nominee or Bernie's the nominee. We must defeat Donald Trump. He is the... Four more years of Donald Trump will fundamentally change the nature of who we are as a nation. We've got to restore this country's soul, that's essential. As long as this president is there, we're not going to be able to that.",Candidate,male,11,1,203
Jake Tapper,NA,"Senator Sanders, if-",Moderator,male,11,1,204
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Can I just say a word, then I'll respond to you?",Candidate,male,11,1,205
Jake Tapper,NA,"Well, it's just a quick question.",Moderator,male,11,1,206
Bernie Sanders,NA,Yeah.,Candidate,male,11,1,207
Jake Tapper,NA,"Which is, if he is the nominee, Vice-President Biden... You've already said you would support him.",Moderator,male,11,1,208
Bernie Sanders,NA,Of course.,Candidate,male,11,1,209
Jake Tapper,NA,But will you campaign for him? Will you urge your supporters to-,Moderator,male,11,1,210
Bernie Sanders,NA,"On day one, when I announced my candidacy, what I said is... This country cannot deal with a president who is a pathological liar, was running a corrupt administration or obviously doesn't know the Constitution of the United States, who believes he's above law, was a racist and a sexist and a homophobe. He is the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.",Candidate,male,11,1,211
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What I said on day one, Joe, day one, that obviously I hope to win the nomination. But if I don't win the nomination, I and I think every other Democratic candidate, is prepared to come together to do everything humanly possible to defeat Donald Trump.",Candidate,male,11,1,212
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But let me respond to something that Joe said. We talk about the Green New Deal and all of these things in general terms, but details make a difference. What I have said throughout this campaign, and I don't think I've heard you say this yet, Joe... is that if we're going to save this planet for our kids and future generations, we need to have the courage to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry and make it clear to them that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. We have a very detailed planet, a detailed proposal. Happy to get the endorsement of-",Candidate,male,11,1,213
Speaker 1,NA,"The way they built their world, it won't take much to bring it all crashing down. Welcome to the end of the game.",Moderator,unknown,11,1,214
Speaker 2,NA,So she escaped one world-,Moderator,unknown,11,1,215
Sanjay Gupta,NA,... Gupta and this is CNN.,Moderator,male,11,1,216
Dana Bash,NA,"Welcome back to the CNN-Univision Democratic Presidential debate, live from Washington DC. And as we noted, Arizona will vote on Tuesday. We solicited questions from undecided Democratic voters there. One is from Amy Langenfeld, who is a law professor from Chandler, Arizona, with a question for Senator Sanders.",Moderator,female,11,1,217
Amy Langenfeld,NA,"Women are the canaries in the coal mine of the Conservative agenda. Our access to healthcare is at risk- [crosstalk 00:00:31]... from the Federalist Society's remaking of the courts. Our lives are threatened by abusive partners' access to guns. Women are disproportionately affected by bail requirements, Social Security cuts and cuts to public education. How will your Cabinet ensure the best advice on issues that affect women's physical and financial health? Thank you.",Moderator,female,11,1,218
Bernie Sanders,NA,"My Cabinet, my administration will look like America, last I heard over half of the people in America are women and that will be the representation in my Cabinet and my administration. And in terms of policies, unlike Joe, I have consistently believed and I have a 100% lifetime voting record from groups like NARAL, that it is a women's right to control her own body, not the government. I have believed that we have got to move aggressively to deal with domestic violence in this country. I have aggressively and I think effectively, made the case that we cannot have women in America earning 80 cents on the dollar compared to men. And if you're a minority woman, it's 50 or 60 cents on the dollar.",Candidate,male,11,1,219
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We need to have universal, affordable, high-quality childcare, so women who are single or married can go off to work and know that their kids are going to be well taken care of. So I think if you look at my agenda, which is on berniesanders.com, what you will find, it is a very strong agenda in fighting for the rights of women, who today are under incredible political assault by Trump and Republican governors all across this country.",Candidate,male,11,1,220
Dana Bash,NA,Vice President Biden.,Moderator,female,11,1,221
Joe Biden,NA,Am I able to respond to that?,Candidate,male,11,1,222
Dana Bash,NA,Please.,Moderator,female,11,1,223
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, thank you. Number one, I agree with the question and the underlying premise of Amy's question. Number one, I commit it that if I'm elected President and have an opportunity to appoint someone to the courts, I'll appoint the first black woman to the courts. It's required that they have representation, now it's long overdue. Secondly, if I'm elected President, my Cabinet, my administration will look like the country. And I commit that I'll pick a woman to be Vice President. There are a number of women who are qualified to be President tomorrow, I would pick a woman to be my Vice President.",Candidate,male,11,1,224
Joe Biden,NA,"Number three, I'm the guy that wrote the domestic violence law and I'm the guy that put in the prohibitions that no one who abuses someone else should be able to own a gun, period. They should not be able to own a gun. I would get the boyfriend exception amended, now I've gotten it past that. If you are to get a stay away order from a court, you have a child with someone that you cannot own a gun. No one should be able in a gun who has abused a woman, period.",Candidate,male,11,1,225
Dana Bash,NA,"Mr. Vice President, if I could just follow up. Just to be clear, you just committed here tonight that your running mate, if you get the nomination will be a woman?",Moderator,female,11,1,226
Joe Biden,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,11,1,227
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Sanders, will you make that same statement?",Moderator,female,11,1,228
Bernie Sanders,NA,May I just respond-,Candidate,male,11,1,229
Dana Bash,NA,Please.,Moderator,female,11,1,230
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... and ask Joe a question? Right now, a woman's right to control her own body is under massive assault, unprecedented assault.",Candidate,male,11,1,231
Joe Biden,NA,It is.,Candidate,male,11,1,232
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Joe, you have in the past on more than one occasion, voted for the Hyde Amendment which says that a woman, low-income woman could not use Medicaid funding for an abortion. Is that still your view or have you modified it?",Candidate,male,11,1,233
Joe Biden,NA,"It is not my view. It is not my view and by the way everybody who's been in the Congress voted for the Hyde Amendment at one point or another, because it was locked in other bills. The reason why I affirmatively came out opposed to the Hyde Amendment was, that if we're going to have public funding for all healthcare along the line, there is no way you could allow for there to be a requirement that you have Hyde Amendment, a woman who doesn't have the money could not have coverage under healthcare.",Candidate,male,11,1,234
Bernie Sanders,NA,Well I'm glad.,Candidate,male,11,1,235
Joe Biden,NA,"Number two... And I did that a while ago, okay. Number one. Number two, I would send immediately to the desk of the United States Congress, when I'm elected President, if I'm elected President, a codification of Roe V Wade amended by Casey because I think it is a woman's right to choose. I think it's a woman's opportunity to be able to make that decision. And in fact, I've gotten a 100% rating from NARAL as well.",Candidate,male,11,1,236
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator Sanders, before we move on, I just want to get you to respond-",Moderator,female,11,1,237
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Excuse me, you have a lifetime 100% voting record from NARAL?",Candidate,male,11,1,238
Joe Biden,NA,I know my record of late from NARAL has been 100%. I don't know whether it was 25 years ago.,Candidate,male,11,1,239
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well all right, I mean, I think one of the differences, not to pick a bone here, is I have been consistent. I've always believed in that and you have not. I'm glad you've changed your views.",Candidate,male,11,1,240
Dana Bash,NA,"Senator, just to be clear, the Vice President committed to picking a woman as his running mate. If you get the nomination, will you?",Moderator,female,11,1,241
Bernie Sanders,NA,"In all likelihood, I will. For me, it's not just nominating a woman. It is making sure that we have a progressive women and there are progressive women out there, so my very strong tendency is to move in that direction.",Candidate,male,11,1,242
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Let's turn now to immigration. Vice President Biden, you recently said for the first time that the Obama-Biden administration made a big mistake in deporting millions of immigrants, but you didn't publicly speak out against it at the time. What commitment will you make tonight, that as President, you won't deport millions again?",Moderator,female,11,1,243
Joe Biden,NA,"Number one, I said that it took much too long to get it right and the President did get it right by DACA as well as making sure that it tried to protect parents as well and by the way, moving on an immigration bill as well. The fact is that we already had a vote on immigration bill, by the way, and Bernie voted against it, the immigration bill. Had he voted forward and had passed, we'd already have 6 million undocumented would be citizens as I speak right now. But I will send to the desk immediately a bill that requires access to citizenship for 11 million undocumented folks, number one. Number two, the first hundred days of my administration, no one, no one will be deported at all. From that point on, the only deportations that will take place are commissions of felonies in the United States of America.",Candidate,male,11,1,244
Ilia Calderón,NA,"So to be clear, only felons get deported and everyone else gets-",Moderator,female,11,1,245
Joe Biden,NA,Period.,Candidate,male,11,1,246
Ilia Calderón,NA,... to stay?,Moderator,female,11,1,247
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, and the reason-",Candidate,male,11,1,248
Ilia Calderón,NA,Senator Sanders-,Moderator,female,11,1,249
Joe Biden,NA,"Is, it's about uniting families. It's about making sure that we can both be a nation of immigrants, as well as a nation that is decent.",Candidate,male,11,1,250
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Let me respond and I'll answer your question. Let me respond to Joe's comments about the 2007 immigration bill. That bill was opposed by LULAC, the largest Latino organization in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center called it's guest-worker programs akin to slavery. There wasn't really a vote on the bill. It was killed because there was a vote on the Dorgan amendment, I think it was 49-48. And you know who voted with me on that one Joe? Barack Obama. He understood that that proposal was a bad idea. We don't need slavery in America where workers, guest-workers are forced to say with their employers.",Candidate,male,11,1,251
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But in terms of immigration in general, let me outline some of the things that we do. Day one, we restore the legal status of 1.8 million young people and their parents in the DACA program. Number two, immediately, we end these ICE raids, which are terrorizing communities all over this country. Three, we changed the border policy, under my administration, no federal agent will ever grab little babies from the arms of their mothers. And fourth, I think we can pass what the American people want and that is comprehensive immigration reform, path towards citizenship for the 11 million undocumented.",Candidate,male,11,1,252
Sanjay Gupta,NA,"Senator Sanders, critics suggest, positions like this send a message that when a Democrat is in the White House, the border is open. Do they?",Moderator,male,11,1,253
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No. That's just... I mean that's what Trump says and that is a total lie. What we're talking about is a humane, sensible policy supported by the American people. Nobody is talking about open borders and of course Trump lies about that. But the bottom line is, right now you have in this country, people who have been here for decades, they are working hard, they're raising their kids. They are an important part of our agricultural economy, our construction economy. These are good people and yet they are living in terror and we have got to end that terror and end the ICE raids and move toward a path towards citizenship.",Candidate,male,11,1,254
Joe Biden,NA,"Let me set the record straight on something what was said. You know the idea that it was slavery, Barack Obama supported that immigration bill. Teddy Kennedy supported that immigration bill. I supported it. I doubt whether those people think it's slavery. And by the way, right after his vote against that, he went on the Lou Dobbs show and continued to canard, that they're taking jobs. These immigrants are taking jobs from Americans, which is one of the Republican canards, right after that no vote. And so come on, this is... You think Ted Kennedy is for slavery? You think I was for slavery? You think people voted for it for slavery?",Candidate,male,11,1,255
Bernie Sanders,NA,Just-,Candidate,male,11,1,256
Joe Biden,NA,"And with regard to your question relative to whether or not I would deal with supporting the border. Look, we can deal with securing the border by national technical means. All the bad things are coming through ports of entry right now, we don't need a wall. And by the way, I would immediately as President, surge to the border, I would end this notion for the first time in history that people seeking asylum have to be in squalor on the other side of the river, in a desperate situation. They should be able to come to the United States and have a judgment made is whether or not they qualify. I would also surge to the border immigration judges to make decisions immediately and no one, no one would be put in jail while waiting for their hearing.",Candidate,male,11,1,257
Ilia Calderón,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,11,1,258
Bernie Sanders,NA,That's kind of what I've been saying throughout the entire campaign.,Candidate,male,11,1,259
Joe Biden,NA,So have I.,Candidate,male,11,1,260
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So what we need is, at the border, hundreds of administrative judges. We need to deal with people who are seeking asylum, based on international law. We need not to be dividing children from their parents and dividing families up. We need a humane border policy. And I'll tell you what else we need and I speak as the son of an immigrant. My father came to this country from Poland at the age of 17, without a nickel in his pocket, couldn't speak English, didn't have much of an education. I will end, on day one, the demonization, the ugly demonization from the White House of the immigrant community in this country. We've got a President who is trying to divide us up. My administration brings our people together, black and white and Latino, Native American, Asian American.",Candidate,male,11,1,261
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you Senator Sanders. Vice President Biden, you opposed sanctuary cities as a Presidential candidate in 2007, where do you stand now? Should undocumented immigrants arrested by local police be turned over to immigration officials?",Moderator,female,11,1,262
Joe Biden,NA,No.,Candidate,male,11,1,263
Ilia Calderón,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,female,11,1,264
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Of course not. Look... And one of the things that goes on when you have that process, is that not only the psychological terror, and I've talked to these kids, kids are scared to death in America when they come home from school that their mom or dad may not be there, may be deported. What we need to do is to end, and I will end this on day one, the ICE raids that have been so harmful to so many people. And we need to do, again, what the American people want us to do. I'm the son of an immigrant. This is a country significantly built by immigrant labor, built by slave labor and what we have got to do is appreciate each other and end this demonization and the divisiveness this coming from the Trump administration.",Candidate,male,11,1,265
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Sanders-,Moderator,male,11,1,266
Joe Biden,NA,"Can I add one thing to that, please?",Candidate,male,11,1,267
Jake Tapper,NA,Go ahead.,Moderator,male,11,1,268
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, we are a nation of immigrants, our future rests upon the Latino community being fully integrated. 24 out of every 100 children in school today from kindergarten through high school is a Latino, right now today. The idea that any American thinks it doesn't pay for us to significantly invest in their future is absolutely a bizarre notion, because if we do not invest everything that the very wealthy are concerned about and the xenophobes are concerned about, will in fact get worse, not better. We should be embracing, bringing them in, just like what happened with the Irish immigrants after the famine, just what happened with the Italians, et cetera. We've been through this before, xenophobia is a disease.",Candidate,male,11,1,269
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you Vice President Biden. Let's move now to the climate crisis. I'm coming right to you Senator Sanders. The world Health Organization calls the climate crisis, a ""Health crisis"" and warns that climate change could fuel the spread of infectious diseases. Can you point to specific measures in your climate plan that address that threat?",Moderator,male,11,1,270
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, of course we do. I mean we... Look, this is what the scientists are telling us, the same scientists who make your point there, Jake. What they're telling us is, if we don't get our act together in the next seven or eight years, there would be irreversible damage done to this planet. We're talking about cities in America, from Miami to New Orleans to Charleston, South Carolina being underwater. We are talking about severe droughts which will prevent farmers in the Midwest from growing the food that we need. We're talking about extreme weather disturbances which hit Houston Texas, Venice Italy, just a few months ago.",Candidate,male,11,1,271
Bernie Sanders,NA,"We are talking about the absolute need and I want to hear Joe's position on this. This is not a middle of the ground thing. This is not building a few more solar panels or a few more wind turbines. What this is about is transforming our energy system, as quickly as we humanly can, away from fossil fuel. It is insane that we continue to have fracking in America. It is absurd that we give tens of billions of dollars a year in tax breaks and subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. This has got the end and end now if we love our kids and future generations.",Candidate,male,11,1,272
Jake Tapper,NA,Vice President Biden?,Moderator,male,11,1,273
Joe Biden,NA,"First thing that President Obama and I were summoned to the State Department... Excuse me, the Defense Department for was to meet with all the chiefs, the single greatest threat to our national security, they said, is climate change. Single greatest threat to our national security, because as populations have to move because they can no longer live where they are, because their islands are sinking, because you saw what happened in Darfur, with the change in weather patterns and the deserted there. It causes war, it causes great migrations, great migrations. They said that's the single biggest problem. Number two, there's an awful lot of people today who are in fact getting ill because of the changes in the environment, particularly up where Bernie lives. I'm not... It has nothing to do with him. But having, up in the Northeast, because you have everything from beetle infestation and a whole range of things that are causing diseases as well, in addition to eliminating foliage. But-",Candidate,male,11,1,274
Jake Tapper,NA,"So Vice President Biden, let me ask you then, you talk about this being the number one crisis-",Moderator,male,11,1,275
Joe Biden,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,11,1,276
Jake Tapper,NA,... they told you at the Pentagon. The price tag for your climate plan is about $1.7 trillion. That's about $14 trillion less than Senator Sanders wants to spend on this. Is your plan ambitious enough to tackle this crisis?,Moderator,male,11,1,277
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, it is ambitious enough to tackle the crisis, because what... Go to joebiden.com, I lay out the first 13 things I would do immediately upon being elected. Number one, we're going to once again reinstate all the cuts the President made and everything from the cafe standards, how far automobiles can go, investing in light rail so that we take cars off the road, making sure we're in a position where we are now in a position that we put 500,000 charging stations in areas that... [silence] ... all new highways that we built, making sure that we spent $500 billion a year... [silence] and the federal government paying for transportation, the vehicles we run, all of those being converted to being able to run on low carbon fuel and/or be able to run on no carbon fuel at all by having them move into a direction that is all carbon free. We can do these things. We can lay down the tracks where nothing can be changed by the next President or the following President, the one beyond that.",Candidate,male,11,1,278
Joe Biden,NA,"In addition to that, we also have to... I would immediately rejoin the Paris climate accord, which I helped put together. I would call the 100 nations, over a hundred nations, but the hundred major polluters to the United States and the first hundred days, to up the ante and make it clear that in fact if they didn't, there'd be a price to pay. And lastly, I would be right now organizing the hemisphere and the world, to provide $20 billion for the Amazon, for Brazil no longer to burn the Amazon, so they could have forests... They're no longer forests but they could have farming and say, ""This is what we're going to do."" ... the region is burning out than we admit in one entire year, per year.",Candidate,male,11,1,279
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Senator Sanders?",Moderator,male,11,1,280
Joe Biden,NA,"All well and good, but nowhere near enough. I mean, you mentioned, we started this debate talking about a warlike situation in terms of the coronavirus and we said, ""We have to act accordingly."" You said it. I think you're right. I said it. We have to act dramatically, boldly, if we're going to save lives in this country and around the world. I look at climate change in exactly the same way. It's not a question of reentering the Paris Accord. That's fine. Who cares? It's not a big deal. The deal right now is, do we have the courage? And this gets back to the point I'm trying to make all night long. Do we take on the healthcare industry and tell them their profits are not more important than healthcare for all? Do we take on the fossil fuel industry?",Candidate,male,11,1,281
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, in terms of the fossil fuel industry, these guys have been lying, they've been lying for years, like the tobacco industry lied 50 years ago. ""Oh we don't know if fossil fuels, if oil and carbon emissions are causing climate change."" They knew. ExxonMobil knew, they lied. In fact, I think they should be held criminally accountable. But this Jake, is an issue of enormous consequence. What Joe was saying goes nowhere near enough. It's not a question of money. Give me a minute here. We have time to talk about this. This is a world shaking event.",Candidate,male,11,1,282
Jake Tapper,NA,I understand. I just want to give him a chance to respond and then we can come back to you.,Moderator,male,11,1,283
Joe Biden,NA,"Okay, fine let's stay on.",Candidate,male,11,1,284
Jake Tapper,NA,We're staying on this issue.,Moderator,male,11,1,285
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one. Number two, we're in a situation as well where we cannot... We are able to move rapidly to change the dynamic, in terms of what we can do to set in motion. The fact that he says climate change, Paris Accord doesn't mean much. We could get everything exactly right, we're 15% of the problem. 85% of the problem is over there. We need someone who can deal internationally. We need someone who can bring the together again. We need someone who can move in a direction that in fact, if you violate the commitment you make, you will pay an economic price for it. Like what's happening in China there they're exporting coal, significant coal.",Candidate,male,11,1,286
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,11,1,287
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Okay. Look, obviously the Paris Accord is useful, but it doesn't go anywhere... If you're laughing Joe, then you're missing the point.",Candidate,male,11,1,288
Joe Biden,NA,You're missing the point.,Candidate,male,11,1,289
Bernie Sanders,NA,This is an existential crisis.,Candidate,male,11,1,290
Joe Biden,NA,Bingo.,Candidate,male,11,1,291
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You talk about... I'm talking about stopping fracking, as soon as we possibly can. I'm talking about telling the fossil fuel industry that they are going to stop destroying this planet. No ifs, buts and maybes about it. I'm talking about speaking-",Candidate,male,11,1,292
Joe Biden,NA,So am I.,Candidate,male,11,1,293
Bernie Sanders,NA,"... to China... Well, I'm not sure your proposal does that. I'm talking about speaking to China, to Russia, to countries all over the world and in this moment, making the point that instead of spending 1.8 trillion on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we should pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change. I know your heart is in the right place, but this requires dramatic, bold action. We've got to take on the fossil fuel industry. Your plan does not do that.",Candidate,male,11,1,294
Joe Biden,NA,"My plan takes on the fossil fuel industry and it unites the world. He just got finished saying, what's he going to do? He's going to bring these countries together, making it clear to them. I'm saying we bring them together, make them live up to the commitments. If they don't live up to the commitments, they pay a financial price for it. They pay an economic price for it. Because we can do everything, my state is three feet above sea level. I don't need a lecture on what's going to happen about rising seas. I know what happens. I watched the whole Delmarva Peninsula, just like it is in South Carolina and the rest. Something I know a little bit about, I wrote the first climate change bill that was in the Congress, which PolitiFact said was a game changer. I'm the guy who came along and said with Dick Lugar, that we're going to trade, we'll forgive your debt if you don't cut down your FARs. I've been way ahead of this curve. This idea that all of a sudden Bernie found this out is amazing to me.",Candidate,male,11,1,295
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Sanders?,Moderator,male,11,1,296
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, Bernie didn't find it out. Bernie is listening to the scientists and what... You're talking about making countries around the world fulfill their commitments. Those commitments are not enough. What this moment is about Joe, is that the scientists are telling us they underestimated the severity of the crisis. They were wrong. The problem is more severe. So all that I'm saying right here is that we are fighting for the future of this planet, for the wellbeing of our kids and future generations. You cannot continue, as I understand Joe believes, to continue fracking, correct me if I'm wrong. What we need to do right now is bringing the world together, tell the fossil fuel industry that we are going to move aggressively to win solar, sustainable energies-",Candidate,male,11,1,297
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,11,1,298
Bernie Sanders,NA,... and energy efficiency.,Candidate,male,11,1,299
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you Senator.,Moderator,male,11,1,300
Joe Biden,NA,"No more, no new fracking. And by the way, on the Recovery Act, I was able to make sure we invested $90 billion in making sure we brought down the price of solar and wind, that is lower than the price of coal. That's why not another new coal plant will be built. I did that while you were watching, number one. Number two, we're in a situation where we in fact have the ability to lay down the tracks where no one can change the dynamic. And that's why we should be talking about things like I've been talking about for years, high speed rail, taking millions of automobiles off the road. Making sure that we move in a direction where no more, no more drilling on federal lands, making sure that we invest in changing the entire fleet-",Candidate,male,11,1,301
Jake Tapper,NA,Thank you.,Moderator,male,11,1,302
Joe Biden,NA,... of the United States military to... I know.,Candidate,male,11,1,303
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Senator Sanders-",Moderator,male,11,1,304
Bernie Sanders,NA,Can I respond?,Candidate,male,11,1,305
Jake Tapper,NA,... I want to talk to you about fracking because you want to ban fracking-,Moderator,male,11,1,306
Bernie Sanders,NA,Yes.,Candidate,male,11,1,307
Jake Tapper,NA,... which is a method of extracting natural gas. The shift towards natural gas and away from coal has resulted in reduced US carbon emissions. So how can the US transition to your targeted goal is zero emissions with fracking completely out of the picture?,Moderator,male,11,1,308
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Because we have to invest in an unprecedented way, in an unprecedented way. You started off by saying that we're talking about a 13, $14 trillion investment. That is a lot of money and I've been criticized for that. But I don't know what the alternative is, if we are playing for the future of this planet. So we've got to be dramatic and what being dramatic is, massive investments in wind, in solar and sustainable energies in general and research and development, in making our buildings all over this country... In my state of Vermont and around this country, got a lot of old buildings. We can put millions...",Candidate,male,11,1,309
speaker 8:,NA,"I am not against women, but what I am against the women's liberation movement...",NA,NA,11,1,310
Speaker 1,NA,This is CNN.,Moderator,unknown,11,1,311
Jake Tapper,NA,"Welcome back to the CNN Univision Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday. Voters in Arizona, Ohio, Illinois, and Florida will cast their votes in the democratic primary. Here's Univision's Ilia Calderón.",Moderator,male,11,1,312
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you, Jake. Let's move now to foreign policy. Senator Sanders, there are about 1.5 million Cuban Americans living in Florida right now. Why would they vote for you when they hear you praise a program of Fidel Castro, a dictator who jailed, tortured, and killed thousands of Cubans.",Moderator,female,11,1,313
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I have opposed or authoritarianism, whether it's in Cuba, whether it's in Saudi Arabia, whether it's in China or whether it is in Russia. That is my life record. I believe unlike the president of the United States, in democracy, not authoritarianism in Cuba or any place else.",Candidate,male,11,1,314
Bernie Sanders,NA,"What I believe right now in this world is that we are faced with a global crisis and a movement toward authoritarianism. That's what Putin in Russia is leading, that's what MBS in Saudi Arabia is leading. And as president of the United States, unlike Donald Trump, I will put the flag down and say that in this country and in this world, we have got a move toward democracy and human rights. That is my view and has always been my view.",Candidate,male,11,1,315
Ilia Calderón,NA,"To be clear, Senator Sanders, Cuba has been a dictatorship for decades. Shouldn't we judge dictators by the violation of human rights and not by any of their alleged achievements?",Moderator,female,11,1,316
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, I think you can make the same point about China. China is undoubtedly an authoritarian society. Okay? But would anybody deny, any economists deny that extreme poverty in China today is much less than what it was 40 or 50 years ago? That's a fact. So I think we condemn authoritarianism, whether it's in China, Russia, Cuba, any place else. But to simply say that nothing ever done by any of those administrations had a positive impact on their people, would I think be incorrect.",Candidate,male,11,1,317
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Vice president Biden, you have criticized Senator Sanders for bracing Castro's education system, but in 2016 president Obama said Cuba made ""A great progress in educating young people and that its healthcare system is a huge achievement that they should be congratulated for"" How is that different from what Senator Sanders has said?",Moderator,female,11,1,318
Joe Biden,NA,"He was trying to change Cuban policies so the Cuban people would get out from under the thumb of the Castro and his brother. That is to change the policy so that we can impact on Cuba's policy by getting them opened up. That was about, but the praising of the Sandinistas, the praising of Cuba, the praising just now of China. China is an authoritarian dictatorship. That's what it is. We have to deal with them because they're there.",Candidate,male,11,1,319
Joe Biden,NA,"But the idea that they in fact have increased the wealth of people in that country, it's been marginal that change that's taken place. It is still, they have a million Uyghurs, a million Muslims in prison camps in the West. You see what's happening in Hong Kong today. And by the way, the idea that he praised the Soviet Union when it was the Soviet Union about the things that they had done well, they are an awful dictatorship killing millions and millions of people.",Candidate,male,11,1,320
Joe Biden,NA,"And in addition to that, we have a circumstance where after the election was all over and we knew what was done by the Russians now and interfering with our elections, this man voted against sanctioning Russia for interference in our elections.",Candidate,male,11,1,321
Ilia Calderón,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,female,11,1,322
Joe Biden,NA,I don't get it.,Candidate,male,11,1,323
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, what you don't get in. This is exactly what the problem with politics is about. All right. Question. Did China make progress in ending extreme poverty over the last 50 years? That's a no.",Candidate,male,11,1,324
Joe Biden,NA,That's like saying Jack the ripper.,Candidate,male,11,1,325
Bernie Sanders,NA,"No, it's not Joe.",Candidate,male,11,1,326
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, it is.",Candidate,male,11,1,327
Bernie Sanders,NA,"You see, Joe, this is the problem.",Candidate,male,11,1,328
Joe Biden,NA,"Yes, it is.",Candidate,male,11,1,329
Bernie Sanders,NA,"This is the problem. We can't talk ... I know there's a political line, I understand. China's terrible, awful, nothing ever good [inaudible] but the fact of the matter is China, of course is an authoritarian state. It's what I just said.",Candidate,male,11,1,330
Joe Biden,NA,It's a dictatorship.,Candidate,male,11,1,331
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That's what I just said five minutes ago. And by the way, the question that was asked quoted Barack Obama, president Obama was more generous in his praise of what Cuba did in healthcare and education than I was. I was talking about a program 60 years ago in the first year of the Castro revolution.",Candidate,male,11,1,332
Bernie Sanders,NA,"So the bottom line is, that I think it's a little bit absurd if we're going to look at the world the way it is. Of course, we are opposed to authoritarian. And by the way, before it was considered good policy, good idea. I was condemning the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia when a lot of other people in Washington-",Candidate,male,11,1,333
Joe Biden,NA,With me.,Candidate,male,11,1,334
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I was condemning the dictatorship in the UAE, you were not.",Candidate,male,11,1,335
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Yes, I was.",Candidate,male,11,1,336
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you, Senator Sanders, Vice president Biden.",Moderator,female,11,1,337
Joe Biden,NA,"Look, the idea of occasionally saying something nice about a country is one thing. The idea of praising a country that is violating human rights around the world is in fact makes our allies wonder what's going on. What do you think the South Koreans think when he praises China like that? What do you think the Australians believe in the shadow of China? What do you think is happening in Indonesia in the shadow of China? What do you think is happening in terms of Japan in the shadow of China? Words matter. These are flat out dictators, period, and they should be called for it. Straight up. We may have to work out.",Candidate,male,11,1,338
Joe Biden,NA,"For example, I was able to help negotiate a new start agreement with Russia, not because I like Putin, the guy is a thug.",Candidate,male,11,1,339
Jake Tapper,NA,"Mr. Vice president, sticking with foreign policy, you acknowledge that your support and vote for the Iraq war was a mistake. What lessons did you learn from that mistake, and how might those lessons influence your foreign policy decision making as president?",Moderator,male,11,1,340
Joe Biden,NA,"I learned I can't take the word of a president when in fact they assured me that they would not use force. Remember the context, the context was the United Nations Security Council was going to vote to insist that we allow inspectors into determine whether or not they were in fact producing nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction. They were not.",Candidate,male,11,1,341
Joe Biden,NA,"And what's the first thing that happened when we got elected? The president Obama turned to me and said, get those troops out of the hours responsible for getting 150,000 combat troops out of Iraq. I admitted 14 years ago was in [spect] to have trusted him and I'm prepared to compare my foreign policy credentials up against my friend here on any day of the week and every day of the week.",Candidate,male,11,1,342
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Okay, let's start off with the war in Iraq, Joe, I was there too. I was in the house. I understood ... and by the way, let's be clear about what that vote was and you were there at the signing ceremony with Bush. Everybody in the world knew that when you voted for that resolution, you were giving Bush the authority to go to war and everybody knew that's exactly what he and Cheney wanted to do.",Candidate,male,11,1,343
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Most people who followed that issue closely understood that the Bush administration was lying through its teeth with regard to Saddam having weapons of mass destruction. I understood that, I was on the floor of the house time and time again. But the issue is not just the war in Iraq. That was a long time ago. The issue is the trade agreement. What is it so easy for me to lead the effort against disastrous trade agreements?",Candidate,male,11,1,344
Bernie Sanders,NA,The issue was the bankruptcy bill that you supported. The issue was the Hyde amendment. The issue is the defense of marriage Act. The issue is whether or not in difficult times and God knows these are difficult times. We're going to have the courage to take on powerful special interest and do what's right for the working families of this country.,Candidate,male,11,1,345
Jake Tapper,NA,Vice president Biden.,Moderator,male,11,1,346
Joe Biden,NA,Why did you vote not to sanction the Russians?,Candidate,male,11,1,347
Bernie Sanders,NA,You know why? Because I had every ... you keep talking about Iran that was tied to Iran. Russia was in Iran. I think John Kerry indicated his support for what I did. That was undermining the Iranian agreement. That's why.,Candidate,male,11,1,348
Joe Biden,NA,That's not true. Our [crosstalk],Candidate,male,11,1,349
Bernie Sanders,NA,"That's why, and that's the only reason why I have condemned Russia time and time again.",Candidate,male,11,1,350
Jake Tapper,NA,Vice president Biden.,Moderator,male,11,1,351
Joe Biden,NA,"The fact is that the idea that I in fact supported the things that you suggested is not accurate. Look, I'm the guy that helped put together the Iran deal and got the inspectors in there. My chief of staff was the guy, my foreign policy guy doing that negotiation, I was the guy that helped put together a 60-nation organization to take on the ISIS in Iraq and in Syria. I've dealt with these folks, I know them, and I know what they're like and I know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.",Candidate,male,11,1,352
Joe Biden,NA,"The fact is, this Bernie's notion about how he embraces folks like the Sandinistas and Cuba and the former Soviet Union and talks about the good things they did in China is absolutely contrary to every message we want to send the rest of the world.",Candidate,male,11,1,353
Jake Tapper,NA,Senator Sanders.,Moderator,male,11,1,354
Bernie Sanders,NA,"I have led the effort against all forms of authoritarianism, including America's so-called allies in the UAE and in Saudi Arabia. And in fact, as you may know, worked with conservative Republicans to utilize for the very first time the War Powers Act to get the United States out of the horrific war in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia. That's what I did. So my view is that in a world moving toward authoritarianism, the United States has got to be the leader where people all over the world look to us for guidance.",Candidate,male,11,1,355
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you, Senator. Thank you gentlemen. I want to change topics and ask each of you about some of your vulnerabilities in this election. Starting with you, Vice president Biden, Senator Sanders has one more of the Hispanic vote than you in several key States so far. In fact, he doubled your support in California among Hispanics. He almost tripled it in Nevada. So why is your message not resonating with Hispanic voters?",Moderator,female,11,1,356
Joe Biden,NA,"Well, look, my message has resonated across the board. Every single state we've been in, there's been a significant turnout. In Virginia, turnout was up 70%, they voted for me. He didn't bring them out, I brought them out. And number two, look what's happened in Mississippi. Look what's happened in North Carolina, look what's happened in Washington state. Look what's happening across the board. Why is it that I'm winning all those places? What's the reason? What's the reason? The reason is because they know I am a Democrat with a capital D who in fact believes that our base is the base of the Democratic party, which are hardworking men and women who are in fact are high school educated, African Americans and minorities, including Hispanics, but all minorities. Suburban women, people who in fact have a sense of our place in the world. That's why I am winning, not just winning, but overwhelmingly winning, not even close in these places. And-",Candidate,male,11,1,357
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, you didn't quite win-",Candidate,male,11,1,358
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Senator Sanders, let me just follow up with you about an issue that you're having for the second consecutive presidential election. You're struggling to gain wide support from African-Americans. Why is your message not resonating with African-American voters?",Moderator,female,11,1,359
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Here is what I believe is happening and this is an important point and why I decided to run for president. I think it's imperative that we defeat Trump. I think our campaign of a biracial, bigenerational, multigenerational grassroots movement is the way to do it. Now we have won some states, Joe has won more States than I have, but here's what we are winning. We are winning the ideological struggle. Even in States like Mississippi where Joe won a major victory. It turns out that a pretty good majority of the folks there believe in Medicare for ... and that's true in almost every state in this country.",Candidate,male,11,1,360
Bernie Sanders,NA,"And the other issue that we don't talk enough about is we are winning the generational struggle. Depending on the state, we're winning people 50 years of age or younger, big time people, 30 years of age and younger. I frankly have my doubts.",Candidate,male,11,1,361
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Look, if I lose this thing, Joe wins, Joe, I will be there for you. But I have my doubts about how you win a general election against Trump will be a very, very tough opponent unless you have energy, excitement, the largest voter turnout in history. And to do that you are going to have to bring young people who are not great voters. They don't vote in the kinds of numbers they should into the political process. You're going to have to bring Latinos who are great people, have the agenda that we need, but also don't vote in the numbers that we need. I have my doubts that vice president Biden's campaign can generate that energy and excitement and that voter turnout.",Candidate,male,11,1,362
Joe Biden,NA,"I will do that. And by the way, just get this straight. The energy and excitement is taking place so far has been for me. 70% turnout increased in Virginia, I can go down the list, they're coming out for me and I didn't even have the money to compete with this man in those States. I virtually had no money. The press kept saying Biden has no money and they were right by net, no money. And the idea, why are they doing that? The reason they're doing that is because they understand I know what has to happen, that I know what needs to be done.",Candidate,male,11,1,363
Joe Biden,NA,"And by the way, the idea that everybody supports Medicare for all he has still hadn't indicated how much it's going to cost people. He's yet to know exactly what's going to ... So here's my point. People don't know the detail at all and the fact is I am winning-",Candidate,male,11,1,364
Ilia Calderón,NA,"Thank you, sir.",Moderator,female,11,1,365
Joe Biden,NA,... overwhelmingly among democratic constituencies across the board.,Candidate,male,11,1,366
Ilia Calderón,NA,Thank you Mr. Vice president. We are going to be right back with more from the CNN Univision Democratic presidential debates. Stay right there.,Moderator,female,11,1,367
speaker 6:,NA,"Now, a solid gold jet-ski is not deductible and silly question, won't it sync? All right. I'm going to get back to you. I'm going to get back.",NA,NA,11,1,368
speaker 7:,NA,People ask me what sort of a person should become a celebrity accountant and-,NA,NA,11,1,369
Jake Tapper,NA,"Welcome back to the CNN Univision Democratic Presidential Debate. Finally, gentlemen, thanks so much for everything. As we end here tonight, let's return to where we began, the coronavirus, which does not discriminate based on ideology. It does not care if one is a Democrat or Republican, a Conservative, a Moderate or a Progressive. Senator Sanders, let me start with you. What's your closing message tonight for those who are concerned about, effected by, or dealing with the coronavirus?",Moderator,male,11,1,370
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Well, our hearts go out to everyone. We need to move aggressively, to make sure that every person in this country who has the virus, who thinks they have the virus, understands they get all the healthcare that they need, because they are Americans, that we move aggressively to make sure that the test kits are out there, that the ventilators are out there, that the ICU units are out there, that the medical personnel are out there.",Candidate,male,11,1,371
Bernie Sanders,NA,"But Jake, if I might also say, that in this moment of economic uncertainty, in addition to the coronavirus, it is time to ask how we get to where we are, not only our lack of preparation for the virus, but how we end up with an economy, with so many about people are hurting at a time of massive income and wealth inequality. It is time to ask the question of where the power is in America. Who owns the media? Who owns the economy? Who owns the legislative process? Why do we give tax breaks to billionaires and not raise the minimum wage?",Candidate,male,11,1,372
Bernie Sanders,NA,"Why do we pump up the oil industry while a half a million people are homeless in America? This is the time to move aggressively, dealing with the coronavirus crisis, to deal with the economic fallout, but it's also a time to rethink America, and create a country where we care about each other, rather than a nation of greed and corruption, which is what is taking place among the corporate elite.",Candidate,male,11,1,373
Jake Tapper,NA,"Thank you, senator Sanders. Vice President Biden, what's your closing message tonight for those concerned about affected by or dealing with with this virus?",Moderator,male,11,1,374
Joe Biden,NA,"Number one, as I said at the outset, I just can't imagine what people are going through right now who have lost someone already. I can't imagine what people are going through when they have a mom. Like for example, a good friend of ours is sitting outside the window of a nursing home where her mom is because she can't go in, trying to do sign language to her mom and through the window to be able to talk to her. I guess I can imagine the fear and concern people have. Number one, one of the things that I think we have to understand is that this is an all hands on deck. This is, as someone said, maybe it was you Jake at the outset, this is bigger than any individual. This is bigger than yourself. This is about America. This is about the world. This is about how we bring people together and make the kind of sacrifices we need to make to get this done, and so first and foremost, where we have to do is start to listen to the science again.",Candidate,male,11,1,375
Joe Biden,NA,"As I said, what we did, we met and that what I'd be doing today, I'd be sitting down in the situation room literally every day like we did at the outset of other crises we had when we were in the White House, and pulling together the best people and not just the United States the world and say, ""What is it? What are the prescriptive moves we have to take now to lessen this virus to beat it, to go to the point where we can save more lives, get more people tested, get more people to kind of care they need?""",Candidate,male,11,1,376
Joe Biden,NA,"And then what do we do beyond that to make sure that the economic impact on them is in fact rendered harmless? That we in fact make sure every paycheck is met, every paycheck that's out there that the people are going to miss, that we keep people in their homes, they don't miss their mortgage payments, they don't miss their rent payments, making sure that they're going to be able to take care of education, and by the way, the education systems are closing down right now, and so there's so many things we have to do.",Candidate,male,11,1,377
Joe Biden,NA,"In addition to that, we have to do is we have to have the best science in the world and telling us what can stay open and what need be closed. Like I said earlier, the idea that we are closing schools, which I understand, but not being able to provide lunches for people who in fact need the school lunch program to get by. The idea that we would close any place that I can understand the decision made to close places where a hundred or 50 people or more gather, but how do you keep open the drug store to make sure you can get your prescription? How do you deal with the things that necessarily have to be kept going and what's the way to do that? There should be a national standard for that. It should be coming out of the situation room right now.",Candidate,male,11,1,378
Joe Biden,NA,"And by the way, the single most significant thing we can do should deal with the larger problem down the road of income inequality is get rid of Donald Trump, Donald Trump. He's exacerbated every single one of these problems, both the immediate urgent need, and how we're going to hold people harmless for the damage done as a consequence of this virus. It's important we do both.",Candidate,male,11,1,379
Jake Tapper,NA,"Vice President Biden, Senator Sanders, I would want to thank you both for being here tonight under these challenging and trying circumstances. We wish both of you the best. Our thanks as well to our partners at Univision. For Ilia Calderson and Dana Bash, I'm Jake Tapper. Thank you so much for watching. Please stay healthy. Stay safe. Our coverage of both tonight's debate and the coronavirus pandemic continues now with Anderson Cooper.",Moderator,male,11,1,380
Anderson Cooper,NA,"Jake, thanks very much. There you have the CNN Univision Democratic Debate, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and a third unwelcome player, the coronavirus. The candidates acknowledged it at the closed debate in their final remarks.",Moderator,male,11,1,381