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live from Las Vegas Vegas Nevada, unless you're old Vegas, everything is online tonight, it's just three days away from the Nevada critical caucuses here with me on stage tonight, NBC News political director and Meet the Press moderator, Chuck Todd, chief correspondent from NBC News at the White House and MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson, we're also joined by Telemundo chief correspondent Vanessa and Nevada independent

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The rules are that tonight the candidates will have one minute 15 to answer each question and 45 seconds for follow-up Now that the stage has been narrowed down to six candidates, we encourage each of you to engage directly with each other on the issues, so let's go to our first question since the last time everyone shared the stage, Senator Sanders, a self-described

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socialist. has taken the national lead in the Democratic race and there is a new person on stage tonight, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former Republican who spent millions of his own dollars to enter this race, which has not changed, the Most Democratic voters still say their top priority is beating President Trump, Senator Sanders, the first question asked by Mayor Bloomberg is presenting himself as a centrist who says he is best positioned to win in November, Why is your revolution a better bet to defeat Donald Trump?

We need the highest voter turnout in American history. Bloomberg had stop and frisk policies in New York City that persecuted African Americans and Latinos in an outrageous manner. That is not a way to increase voter turnout when our movement seeks to unite the working class. whites and blacks and Latinos Native Americans Asian Americans around an agenda that works for all of us and not just the billionaire class and that agenda says maybe we should join the rest of the industrialized world to guarantee health care to all people like Humans. right to raise that minimum wage to a living wage of $15 an hour and have the courage to stand up to 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. some of the reasons we have the strongest campaign to defeat Donald Trump Mayor Bloomberg Kent Senator Kent Sanders defeated President Trump and how does he want to respond to what he said?

I don't think there's any chance the senator will defeat President Trump. Don't start by saying I have a hundred and sixty million people. I'm going to take away the insurance plan that they love. That is not the way to begin building the coalition that the Sanders camp believes they can. I don't think there's any chance and if he goes and is the candidate we'll have Donald Trump for another four years and we can't stand that so I'd like to talk about who we're up against a billionaire. who calls women fat and horse-faced lesbians and no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump, I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg, we're not going to win if we have a candidate who has a history of hiding his tax returns, harassing women and supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk look, I will support whoever the Democratic candidate is, but I understand that Democrats run a big risk if we simply replace one arrogant billionaire with another, this country has worked for the rich for a long time and it's gone. everyone else on earth, it's time to have a president who stands on the side of working families and is willing to go out and fight for them, that's why I'm in this race and that's how I'm going to beat Senator Donald Trump.

Klobuchar, what do you think is the path from this stage to the White House? It works? I think the way is high voter turnout. I am the one who in this scenario had the highest voter turnout of any state in the country when I led the ballot, in addition to attracting rural and suburban voters, and I have done it too and I am the only one with receipts who has done it in electoral districts Republicans over and over again, but I want to say this: I welcomed Mayor Bloomberg to the stage. I thought I shouldn't hide behind his TV ads, so I was all set for this big day and then I looked at the memo from his campaign staff this morning and it said that he really thought that. three of us should get out of the way that's what his campaign said because we should clear the way for him to become the nominee, you know, I've been told as a woman that maybe no one thought he was still going to be standing. on this date but I am out of sheer determination and the people out there have told me 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 memorandum of Mayor Bloomberg's campaign said this morning that the only way we get a candidate is if we step aside for him.

I think we need something different than Donald Trump. I don't think you'd look at Donald Trump and say we need someone richer in the White House. Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg, there's a lot to answer for, so here's your chance. I think we have two questions to face tonight, one is who can beat Donald Trump and two is who can do the job if they get it. to the White House and I would say that I am the candidate who can do exactly both. I'm a New Yorker. I know how to take on an arrogant con man like Donald Trump who comes from New York.

I am mayor. I was mayor. I know how to manage a complicated city. The largest and most diverse city in this country. I am an administrator. I knew what to do after 9/11 and I took the city back stronger than ever. I'm a philanthropist who didn't. I didn't inherit his money but he earned it. I am spending that money to get rid of Donald Trump, the worst president we have ever had, and if I can do that, it will be a great contribution to America and to my children who can defeat Donald. Trump NBC did a poll yesterday that says Joe Biden is better equipped to beat Donald Trump, who is a barber, and he said I can beat him in those states that we have to win.

I'm ahead by eight points worldwide. so in terms of being able to beat Donald Trump, according to his poll, I'm better positioned than anyone to be number one in the center, number two, the mayor makes an interesting comment, the mayor says that he has a great record and that he has done these wonderful Things are fine, the fact is that you have not managed your city very well when you were there. He didn't do much. He had to stop and frisk people vomiting about five million young black men. men against the wall and when we got to our administration, President Obama and he said we were going to send a moderator to a mediator, enough, he said that's unnecessary, so we were going to have the opportunity to talk about the mayor's decision. record, but in terms of who is best prepared to beat Donald Trump, look at his polling and what he says.

Mayor Bill de Souza, would like to weigh in. Yes, we have to wake up as a party that we could wake up from in two weeks. Today, the day after Super Tuesday, the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage, and most Americans don't see where they fit if they have to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks money should be the root of all power, let's introduce someone who actually lives and works in a middle class neighborhood in a Midwestern industrial city, let's introduce someone who is actually a Democrat Look, we shouldn't have to choose between a candidate who wants to burn this party and another candidate who wants to buy this party.

What can we do better? Senator Sanders, are you polarizing if you talk about the needs in the midst of the pain of a long-neglected working class is becoming polarized. I think you got the wrong word. What we are ultimately trying to do is give a voice to people who after 45 years of work do not earn a cent more than they did 45 years ago. We are giving voice. to people who would say we are sick, retired, multi-millionaires like mr. Bloomberg is seeing huge expansions of his wealth while half a million people sleep on the streets tonight and that's what we're saying.

Pete maybe it's time for the working class of this country to have a little power in Washington instead of their billionaire campaign contributors, okay, look first of all, look my campaign is powered by hundreds of thousands of taxpayers, including the 6,000,000,000 waiting among the hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and look, we have to unite this country to address these problems. the only one who cares about the working class, most Americans believe we need to empower workers; In fact, you're the one at war with the culinary union right here in Las Vegas, what America does. never dreamed of weakens the support of unions in this entire division that I am proposing has the support of the American people we can truly provide health care without taking it away from anyone we can truly empower workers and raise wages without further polarizing this country and we can build a movement without having legions of our followers online and in person.

I have a question for you on Sunday on Meet the Press. Vice President Biden accused Senator Sanders' supporters of intimidating union leaders here with malicious and misogynistic quotes that you said Democrats can't build on. an inclusive party built on hate, our Senator Sanders and his supporters, making it difficult for Democrats to unify in November. I have said it many times before, we are all responsible for our followers and we must step up, that is what leadership is all about, but the way we are going to lead this country and beat Donald Trump is with a candidate who has strong values. and to actually do something when Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crisis of 2008.

He was right here in Las Vegas, literally a few blocks down the street, holding hearings about banks that were taking homes away from million families, that's when I met Mr. Estrada one of his neighbors came to testify and said he thought he had done everything right with Wells Fargo but what happened was they took his house away in a matter of weeks this man stayed there and he cried while talking about what it was. It was like telling his two young daughters that they might not be in elementary school and might be living in his van.

I spent the next few years making sure that never happened again. Wall Street fought us every inch of the way over a consumer issue. agency they lost and I won we need a candidate with unwavering values ​​and a candidate who can actually do something for working people that's why I'm in this race and that will all go away, Senator Sanders, we have over ten point six million people on Twitter and the 99.9 percent of them are decent human beings, they are hard-working people, they are people who believe in justice, compassion and love, and if there are some people who make unpleasant comments that attack union leaders, I repudiate those people , they are not part of our movement.

Let me also say what I hope my friends here agree with is that if you look at the wild west of the Internet, talk to some of the African American women in my campaign, talk to Senator Nina Turner, talk to others and find the vicious . Racist sexist attacks are also coming, so I hope we all understand that we must do everything we can to put an end to the cruelty and ugliness on the Internet. Our campaign is about issues about fighting for working families and the middle class, it is not about vicious attacks on other people, senator, when you say you repudiate these attacks and did not personally direct them.

I believe them both for what it is, but at some point you have to ask yourself why this pattern emerged. Why is it especially so among those who support me? I don't think that's actually the case. It's simply not true. Look, people know people. If you want to talk to some of the women in my campaign, what you will see is the ugliest sexist racist. attacks that would have been described to me, but here they are so disgusting, let me say something more about this not being too much. We all remember 2016 and what we mean is that what we remember are the efforts of the Russians and others to try to interfere in ourelections. and divide us.

I'm not saying that's happening, but I wouldn't be surprised. I saw some of those tweets about the Culinary Workers Union. I'm the highest in 30 years, 100% Pro Union voting record. Do you think I would support it or does anyone support me? with attacking union leaders it's not imaginable, but leadership is about what you get out of people, it's about how you inspire people to act and right now we are in this toxic political environment. Leadership isn't just about I think, at least broadly, we're going largely in the same direction on policy, but leadership is also about how you motivate people to treat other people.

I think you have to accept some responsibility and ask yourself what your campaign in particular seems to be motivating this behavior more than others because to turn the page on the Trump era we are going to need a gift to stop sexism on the Internet, we could nominate a female paracandidate, that could be a big help if we showed our qualities as a party and the other thing I'm going to talk about is really what the core of this problem is between Senator Sanders and the Culinary Union and that is that these are hard-working people with Those of us who met last night are housewives like Elizabeth and I, who have health care plans that have been negotiated with time, sweat and blood, and that is the truth for many Americans right now.

Thank you, there are 149 million Americans who would lose their current health insurance under Senator Sanders Sanders Bill said oh no, that's where it says on page 8 and I don't think we should forget that now I want to turn it over to my colleague Chuck, Senator Sanders . I'm going to stay on this culinary topic. on this issue with the Culinary Union obviously there their leaders are warning their members that their health plan will take away their health plan will take away their private insurance completely there are some Democrats who really like you but are worried that this Medicare plan for everyone, it is going to eliminate private insurance and that is going too far.

You are right. Let me not be very clear about two points. For a hundred years, from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama, this country has not spoken about the need to guarantee health care to the people and without However today, despite spending twice as much per capita, Chuck, twice as much as any other major country in the world, we have 87 million uninsured or underinsured people, we have over 60,000 people who die every year because they don't go to the doctor on time. We are being scandalously defrauded by the greed and corruption of the pharmaceutical industry which in some cases charges us ten times more for the same drugs due to their pricing. 500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they can't pay their medical bills, so let's be very clear with my good friends at the Kitchen Workers Union, a great union.

I will never sign a bill that will reduce the health care benefits they have, we will only expand them for them, for all unions in America, and for the working class of this country. Country Senator Warren, you were all for Medicare for All and then you came up with a transition plan because of the impact on the unions, so I want to be clear that I have been in the health care facilities of the culinary unions. It's great, you don't want to close them, you want to expand them, you want to see them all over Nevada and all over the country, but we need everyone's health care plan to be here.

Jedge's Mirabeau actually has a slogan that was thought to have been created by her consultants to cover a thin version of a plan that would leave millions of people unable to pay for their health care. It's not a plan, it's a PowerPoint and Amy's plan is even less so. It's like a post-it. The plan here has begun. He's off to a good start, but instead of expanding and bringing in more people to help, his campaign relentlessly attacks everyone who asks a question or tries to fill in details about how to make this work and then his own advisors say he probably won.

It won't happen anyway. Look, health care is a crisis in this country. We need my approach to this: 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 victory and return to the fight to ask. I promise guys, I'm going to catch everyone. I have you, mer mer bleue. You did it? I think she named you and checked you out first. I'll let you go first. Okay, come on. I'm more of a Microsoft Word guy and if you look at my plan, I don't know if it has PowerPoints, but you definitely find the document on peat for america.com and you will see that it is a plan that solves the problem makes sure that there is no American without sure and it does it without kicking anyone out of the plan they have the idea that 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 proposing here we have a plan that most Americans support do you realize how historic it is that the American people are prepared in a way that goes far beyond what was true even ten years ago and what was available to President Obama At that moment, there is a powerful American majority willing to undertake the largest, most progressive reform we have had in the health care system in 50 years, as long as we do not force it on anyone.

It's wrong and I think the post-note was the first personal offense since post-it notes were invented in my state. Well, then my plan is a public option and, according to all studies, it would reduce premiums for 12 million people immediately and expand coverage for about that same number. It's a big deal, it's what Barack Obama wanted to do from the beginning and the way I see it since we're in Las Vegas as far as his plan goes, Elizabeth and Bernie are on Medicare, so they're not putting up their money. on a number that's not even on the wheel and why Medicare for All isn't on the wheel because two-thirds of Democratic senators aren't even on that bill because a bunch of new House members who got elected see the problems of blowing up the Affordable Care Act, they see it right in front of them and the truth is when you see troubled waters, you don't blow up a bridge, you build one, so we need to improve control three. of them, let me answer you, okay, go ahead, Senator Sanders, we will help you, miss, we have a lot of people here.

Some it's my turn, yes sir, okay, some way or another counter that can provide universal healthcare to everyone. its people cost half the cost. UK can do it. France can do it with Germany. All of Europe did it. Somehow or another, we are the only major country on Earth that can't do it. Because? And I'll tell you why. It's because last year the health care industry made a hundred billion dollars in profits, the pharmaceutical industry, the top six companies, sixty-nine billion dollars in profits, and you see that our CEOs are contributing to the Pete campaign and other campaigns up here, let's get this straight, maybe it's finally like that.

It is time we said as a nation and there is not enough, the function of a rational health system is not to enrich the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical companies, but to provide health care to all people as a human right and out of prison, vice president three. millions without clients have no deductible let's move on an incentive why am I the only one at this stage who actually did anything in healthcare. I'm the guy that President Lincoln said, "Go get the votes for Obamacare," and I realized it. What everyone is talking about is the plan that I first presented, which is to go and add to Obamacare provide a public option, a Medicare-like option, it cost later, it increased subsidies, it cost a lot of money, it cost seven hundred and fifty thousand million dollars in ten. years, but I paid it to make sure Mike and other people paid the same tax rate.

There the secretary pays, that's how we get page number one, number two, you know, from the moment we pass that signed legislation. Mike called him Disgrace number one, number two Trump decided to get rid of him and number three my friends came up with another plan but they don't tell you when you ask Bernie how much it costs the last time he said that if he goes on your show . he said, we'll find out, we'll find out how or something like that cost over 35 billion dollars, let's get a royal orange, you'll get the end, so I took a look at the published plans, Mayor Budaj, there are four. expenses families pay correct premiums deductibles copays and uncovered medical expenses maribou from jedge says she will cap just the premiums and that means families will cover the rest of the cost Amy.

I looked online at your plan, there are two of them. paragraphs families are hurting and need a plan, you can't just sit here and throw out an idea to provide healthcare coverage to everyone without having a realistic plan of your own and if you're not going to recognize even that you don't have a plan or that your plan it will leave people without health care coverage, comprehensive coverage, so you need to say it. I just want that when I met a man who said he had diabetes, he gets his insulin through the VA. but your sister and your daughter also have diabetes there is no way to pay for your insulin three human beings here in Nevada a struggle they share wonderful in prescription Abidin right you were not a fan of Obamacare I am a fan of Obamacare that is the beginning sir. vice president, I just checked the record because you once said that I was not in oh nine.

I testified and gave a speech to the mayoral conference in Washington defending this and trying to get all the mayors to sign and I think that The time I wrote an article praising Obamacare was in the New York Post or The Daily News, so The facts are that I was there, let me finish, thank you. I was in favor. I thought it didn't work to the extent that we should have. What Trump has done with this is a disgrace. The first thing we have to do is get to the White House and recover those things that were left and then find ways to expand it.

Another public option to have some rules on how to limit charges. all those things we shouldn't just walk away and start something that is totally new and untested, okay, go ahead, said Fred, the mayor, when we passed it, the signature piece of this administration, it's a shame, those are the exact words, it was the look of shame. Check it out, it was a shame, thanks, I cover it, by the way, your plan you don't have surprise billing, you lower drug prices, people aren't and you give people all the things we're talking about. I suppose not. God, there's no time to do it, but I have a chance to speak, thank you, Mr.

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you got some criticism on the next topic, so let's get into it in 2015, here's how you describe your police policy as mayor. quote, we put all the police in the minority neighborhoods and you explain that that's quote because that's where all the crime is, he went on to say, and the way you have to get guns out of kids' hands is by throwing them against the wall. and frisking them. You've apologized to them for that policy, but what does that kind of language say about how you view people of color or people in minority neighborhoods?

Well, if I go back and look at my time, that's the only thing I'm really worried about. What embarrassed me the most was how the stop and frisk turned out. When I took office, there were 650 murders a year in New York City and I thought my first responsibility was to give people the right to live, that's the basic right of everything and we started when we adopted a policy that had been in place. , the policy that all big police departments use stop and frisk, what happened, however, got out of control and when we found out, I found out that we were doing too many, too many, stops and in the pat-downs we eliminated 95% and I sat down with a group of African American clergy and business people to talk about this and try to learn.

I have spoken to several children who were detained and I am trying. What we wanted to do was try to understand how do we change our policies so that we can keep the city safe because the crime rate went from 650, 50 percent to 300 and we have to control crime, but we can't go out and arrest people. Vice President Biden wants to answer this: yes, let's clarify something. The reason they changed stop and frisk 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 did. a terrible idea, we sent them there a terrible idea, let's get the facts straight, let's get the order straight and it's not about whether he apologized or not, it's the policy, the policy was pornographic and in fact it was a violation of all the rights that has the people on our side.

The administration sent people to monitor it and the plan, on the same sign, the mayor argued that this idea that he found out that it was a bad idea if you went out was a bad idea.after we sent monitors and said it should even stop. then continued with politics Mary, would you like to give a quick answer? Yes, I would. I sat down. Excuse me. I apologize. But the bottom line is that we stopped too many people, but politics stopped too many. and we have to make sure that we do something about criminal justice in this country, there is no great answer to many of these problems and if we removed from this panel everyone who was wrong about this, everyone who was wrong about this criminal justice at some point in the races there would be no one else up here sorry I think this is really about leadership and responsibility when the mayor says he apologized listen care

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y to the apology the language he used is about stop and frisk, it's about how it turned out now this isn't about how it turned out it's about what it was designed to do in the first place, it targeted communities of color, it targeted black and brown men from the beginning and if you want, ask for a real apology. so the apology has to start with the intent of the plan as it was made and the willful ignorance day after day of admitting what was happening even when people were protesting on their own street blocking out the sounds of people telling them what their own was like. street. politics was breaking their lives, you need a different approach, look for Senator Clovis Shar, we need to stay on top of this, we're going to stay on this issue, but I want to discuss something here with Senator Klobuchar when you were the top prosecutor in Minneapolis, Senator .

There were at least two dozen cases in which 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 there are now serious doubts about the evidence in Minneapolis. The n-double a-c-p chapter has recently asked you to suspend your campaign in that case because new information has emerged evidence from the big picture. Why should black and Latino voters trust his judgment now if it appears he was wrong that first time? I'll start with that case, it's very clear that any evidence, if there's new evidence, even old evidence, needs to be reviewed by that office and by the county attorney, that needs to happen.

I have requested that review. This was a case involving 11 year old African American girl named Aja Edwards who was shot doing her homework at her kitchen table three people were convicted one of the cases is the one under investigation it was investigated by a journalist and I believe which is very important but that evidence comes forward in terms of the police shootings that you noted, each and every one of them went to a grand jury and I have made it very clear for months that, like so many prosecutors, I believe that those cases in my At that time everyone went to grand jury it was thought that was the best way to handle them in many cases you didn't speak up at that time, should you?

I actually talked about something very similar and that's when our police chief in Minneapolis tried to conduct investigations. of police shootings at their own hands and I said flat out that I didn't agree with that, now I also believe that a prosecutor should make those decisions for himself and the last thing I'll say because you asked the question about the vote. I have the support of African Americans in my community in every election I had strong support and strong support from leadership and that's because I earned it and this is going to be up to me to earn it, you earn it with what you represent when it comes to equal opportunity, you earn it with the work that I have done, the leadership that I have shown on voting rights and yes, you earn it with the work that must be done on justice reform, 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 and then you promised to make all of your medical records public.

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transparency, well, I think they first let me tell you what happened, you're right and thank you Las Vegas for the excellent medical care I received at the hospital for two days and I think the only area maybe Mayor Bloomberg. and I also share it with Spence, five years ago, we both have two stents, it's a procedure that's done about a million times a year, so we published the full report of that heart attack. Second, we published the full report.

My entire 29 years on Capitol Hill, the aide position, my entire medical history, and we also published reports from two prominent Vermont cardiologists who described my situation and, by the way, who said Bernie Sanders is more than capable of dealing with stress on vigor. of being president of the United States, hey, follow me throughout the entire election campaign, three, four or five events a day, see how you do compared to me in terms of transparency in this scenario and the people who do better are that Responsible Senator Sanders is enough for you, no. It's not because, first of all, let me say we were all delighted that you were in a position to fight and at the same time, transparency is important, especially living through the Trump era, now under President Obama, the standard was that the president would release the complete medical records to make a physical and publish the reading.

I think that's the standard we should hold ourselves to as well. Now President Trump lowered that standard. He said that just a letter from a doctor is enough and many people in this scenario now say that is enough, but I am certainly prepared to get a physical exam to publish the results. I think everyone here should be willing to do the same, but I'm actually less concerned about the lack of transparency about Sanders' personal health than I am about the lack of transparency about how to pay. his health care plan since he said it's impossible to even know how much it's going to cost and even after raising taxes on everyone making twenty-nine thousand dollars, there's still a multi-billion dollar hole in fact if you add up all his policies There's 250 trillion coming Dollars.

He has only accounted for $25 trillion in revenue, which means the hole there is bigger than the size of the entire US economy. The time has never come to come clean with the American people on personal issues and on issues of thank you senator sanders quickly that is double the level people under your plan that is a continuation of maintaining the status quo that is yes, I can finish the average American today they pay $12,000 a year that's what that family pays 20% of an income of 60,000 $12,000 the highest price in the world for prescription drugs the other day an important study by the Yale epidemiologist came out in Lancet one of the most important medical publications major companies in the world what my friends said is Medicare Pro will save four hundred and fifty billion dollars a year because we are eliminating the absurdity of thousands of separate plans that require hundreds of billions of dollars of administration and, in the process, ending the hundred billion a year in profits for the drug companies and that is false, if my plan is the status quo, why was it attacked by the insurance industry the moment it came to light and in issue after issue, this That's what Senator Sanders is saying, if you're not with him, if you're not completely on his side, then you should be pro-status. quo we know what it is an image that leaves out the majority of the American people I want and very briefly transparency Mayor Bloomberg his campaign has said he would eventually release his tax records when it comes to transparency, but people are already voting now because?

If Democratic voters had to wait, it would just take us a long time, unfortunately or fortunately, I make a lot of money and we do business all over the world and we are preparing it with the number of pages that will probably be thousands of pages. I don't go to TurboTax, but I posted my tax return every year for 12 years at City Hall. We'll publish this one that says it tells everyone everything they need to know about every investment I make and where the money goes and it's the most important element. all the money I give and we list every donation I make and you can get it from our department of our foundation any time you want okay I'm just looking at my husband in the front row who likes to do all our taxes.

The moment we could probably apply the turbo tax and the point of this is that I believe in transparency. I had a physical because of the way it went well. We might all be surprised if my blood pressure is lower than Mayor Pete's, which might really surprise everyone. there and I think you should release your records from your physical second of all when it comes to tax returns everyone here has released their tax returns mayor I think it's a major issue because the president of the United States has been hiding behind their tax returns. even when the courts order you to file those tax returns and I guess I don't care how much money someone has.

I think it's great that you have a lot of money, but I think you need to file your taxes. so I don't want to get to the second mayor Bloomberg Kook responds to Senator Klobuchar we're going to release them, they'll be out in a few weeks and that's the fastest I can do it. Remember I only entered this race. Ten weeks ago, all that, my associates here have been at this for a couple of years and they won't let me ask him about anything else and do it. I wish it were that simple. Can I let you in here, but mayor, are you right?

Here, a lot of money, let me ask you about something else. Several former employees have claimed that your company was a hostile workplace for women. When confronted, you admitted to making sexually suggestive comments saying "That's how I grew up" in a lawsuit in In the 1990s, a former Washington Post employee alleged that you said, "I would do that in a second." If Democrats expected better from your nomination, let me say a couple of things, and if I can get my full minute in the quarter, I'll thank you. You do not tolerate the type of behavior that the media movement has exposed and anyone who does anything that I am wrong about in our company we investigate and if it is appropriate they will leave that day, but let me tell you what I do. in my company and my foundation and in the city government when I was there in my foundation one person who runs it is a woman 70% of the people there are women in my company many women have great responsibilities they have paid exactly the same as men and on my City Council, but that is the most important person, my deputy mayor was a woman and 40% of our commissioners were women.

I'm very proud of the fact that about two weeks ago we were awarded and voted 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 Senator Ward is doing even criticizing Mayor Bloomberg on this issue. Yes, I have and I hope you heard it. What was his defense? I've been nice to some women, that just doesn't do it. The mayor has to defend his record and what we need to know is exactly what is lurking. He has gotten a number of dozens of women who know how to sign no. -disclosure agreements for both sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace for which mr.

Mayor, is he willing to release all those women from those confidentiality agreements so we can hear his side of the story? we have very few confidentiality agreements how many they let me finish how many there are none of them accuse me of having done anything else maybe they didn't like the joke I told and they let me just put it on and let me play those would be agreements between two parties who wanted to keep it secretly and that's up to them, they sign those agreements and we will live with So wait when you say it was a hoax, I just want to be clear how many and when you say they signed them and that they wanted them, if they want to speak now and tell their side of history about what is.

They allege that now it's okay for you, you'll release them on television tonight, senator, now some members of the company and someone else in this case, the form of woman or it could be, but more than that, they decided when they made an agreement that they wanted keep. It's calm, in everyone's interest, they sign the agreements and that's what we will know, the question is linked to being gagged by you and you could release them from that immediately, but understand that this is not just a question of the mayor's character, this It's also a question about electability, we're not going to be Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many confidentiality agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories from women who say they've been harassed and discriminated against, let's get something straight here, it's easy.

What the mayor has to do is say that he is free from the non-disclosure ban that we talked about to talk about transparency here, this guy got in trouble.I can start to say he would, he's honest, he couldn't reveal what he did, it was. to his sculptures to be something that was about the client list he said he went to the company he said I want to be released I want to be able to do it look this is about transparency from the beginning whether it's your medical history whether it's your taxes whether it's your taxes whether you have cases against you, whether or not people have signed confidentiality agreements, you think that women, in fact, are ready to say: I don't want anyone to know what you did to me, I don't.

The way it works is that they say look this is what you did to me and the mayor comes and his lawyer says I will give you this amount of money if you promise you will never say anything this is how it works I said "we" We are not going to be able to put an end to these agreements because they were made consensually and they have every right to expect them to remain private. They want to publish it. They should be able to do it themselves. Yeah, you know, we talk about eligibility and everyone here wants to do it.

Be Trump and we talk about stop and frisk and we talk about the workplace that Mayor Bloomberg has established and the problems there, but maybe we should also ask how Mayor Bloomberg in 2004 supported George W. Bush as president, invested money in 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 and David talking about jobs, maybe we could talk about a billionaire who said we shouldn't raise the minimum wage or we should cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If that's a way to beat Donald Trump Wow, I'd be very surprised.

Thank you, Senator Vanessa Saburo, curvature, you are running because of her experience in Washington, but last week in a Telemundo interview she was unable to name the president of Mexico or discuss any of her policies. The night you defended yourself by saying, "this is in danger," but my question to you is that our next president knows more about one of our biggest trading partners, of course, and I don't think that momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what I know about Mexico and how much I care about it and first I want to say hello to President López Obrador, second, what I meant with the Jeopardy game is that I think we could all come up with things, do you know how many members there are in the Israeli Knesset? 120 Who is the president in Taurus?

Hernandez comes to Mexico. I am the only person on this stage who came out first to say that I was in favor of the trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada. It is going to be one of the number one duties of a president. My colleague specifically asked him if he could name the president of Mexico and his answer was not yes, that's true and I told him I made a mistake, I think having a president who is maybe humble and is able to admit here and there maybe wouldn't be a bad thing if it's too trivial.

I didn't actually know how many members there were in the Knesset, so yeah, but you're staking your candidacy on your experience in Washington. you're on the committee that oversees border security, you're on the committee that deals with trade, you're literally on a part of the committee that oversees these things and we can't literally talk about the first thing about the country's policy for ourselves are you trying to say I'm stupid? are you making fun of me? Pete, sorry, trivial, I made a mistake, people sometimes forget names, I'm the one with number one, he has the experience based on going over 100 if you could answer that this was a pretty big Legation, he's basically saying that I do not have the experience to be President of the United States.

I have passed more than 100 bills as Democratic leader since I have been in the United States Senate. I am the one who is not you. He's won statewide in congressional district after congressional district and I will say that when you tried in Indiana, Pete: what race did that happen to you? You lost by over 20 points to someone who then lost to my friend Joe Donnelly, so don't tell me about the experience. What unites us here is that we want to win and I think we should put a proven winner in charge of the ticket. This is a race for president.

If winning a Senate race in Minnesota directly translated into becoming president, I would have grown under the presidency. by Walter Mondale this is different and the reason I think we need to talk about the Washington experience is that we need to ask ourselves what that experience has led us to and certainly tenure in office is not always the same as trial, Let's talk about votes. in the Senate in Washington let's talk about this question it's for you I want to talk about maybe this is property defend Senator Klobuchar for a minute this is not right I understand that she forgot the name it happens it happens to everyone in this scenario look do you want to ask if whether or not he understands the trade policy with Mexico and if he is wrong, then he should be held accountable.

That is why he wants to ask about the economy and he is wrong, he should be held accountable. You want to ask about a thousand different topics and you are wrong. You should be held accountable, but let's be clear. Missing a name alone doesn't mean you don't understand what's going on. You couldn't discuss Mexican politics. I do. I have to respond, I invoked my name again and asked you to

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the interview I did immediately after the forum in which we went into great detail about Latin American politics and I want to say one thing about Mayor P, which we simply do not agree on , asked about a stage of debate about Mexican cartels, which are bad criminal organizations, said he would be open to classifying them as terrorist organizations.

I actually don't agree with that, that's a very valid debate, I don't think that's the case. good for our security coordination with Mexico and I think you were wrong, well anyone who has a chance to say something, okay thanks, look I'm the only one I've met who wants to spend hundreds of hours in Latin America . president I met with the last president, the previous one, and I was deeply involved in making sure that we have a policy that makes more sense than this horrible president that we have now. I am the person who can raise 750 million. dollars to provide aid to those Latin American countries that are the reason people leave because there is nothing to stay.

I've spent hours and hours and hours, so if you want to talk about the experience in Washington, it's good to know who with. 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 all about, well we're clearly all excited after we're going to take a short break. and begin the next hour with the issue that many voters have said is most important: the climate crisis. We are back in a moment of Democratic voters and many of them are about the climate crisis.

It's an issue that uniquely affects Nevadans. John Ralston of the Nevada Independent kicks things off, so everyone's ready to play some Nevada trivia. Now I'm only half joking, let's talk about this issue because it's at the top of the polls, voters are really worried about it since everyone knows what they might not. What we know is that Las Vegas and Reno are the vibrant economic engines of 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 tourists who walk there. and for the fringe so I'm going to start with you, sir.

Vice President, what specific policies would you implement to keep Las Vegas and Reno livable but also not harm those economies? It is the existential threat of humanity facing global warming when I protected it. They have a facility where they have one of the largest solar panel arrays. in the world and on the other hand when the fourth stage is completed they will not be able to serve 60,000 homes for every detail of their needs and what I would do is work first to provide the 47 billion dollars that we have to detect and to make sure that we find answers is to provide a way to transmit that wind and solar energy across the United States grid.

Invest in battery technology. I would immediately reaffirm the entire elimination of what Trump has eliminated in terms of the EPA. Second, make sure we have 500,000 new charging stations on every new road we build or repair in the United States of America. I would make sure that we once again made sure we got mileage standards back, which would have saved over 12 billion. barrels of oil if you hadn't walked away from it and I would fly I would invest in railways in railways the railways can take hundreds of billions of cars off the road if we have a high speed train okay thank you sir.

Vice President, when the time comes, I want to talk a little bit about this because you all have a planner. Mayor Bloomberg, let me read, let me read what you've said on this issue, you said you wanted to step up U.S. and international action to stop coal expansion, how exactly are you going to do it so well? We have closed three hundred and four of the five hundred and thirty coal-fired power plants in the United States and we have closed 80 of the two or three hundred that are in Europe Bloomberg philanthropies work with the Sierra Club, that is one of the things they do, But let's start at the beginning, if you are president, the first thing you do on day one is rejoin the Paris agreement.

It's just ridiculous that we abandon it. So America's responsibility is to be the leader of the world and if we don't do that, we're the ones who will be hurt just as much as anyone else and that's why I don't want us to cut off all relations with China, because it will never solve this problem. without China and India, Western Europe and the United States, that's for most of the other thing I think and you can tell me if this is correct, but the solar panel that the vice president was talking about is closing because it's not economical. that solar panels and modern technology even more modern than that can be installed.

Senator Warren only weighed in here because you said something that's really specific to Nevada and the tension here in this state is between the people who want renewable energy and the people. I want conservation on public lands 85% of Nevada is managed by the federal government you have said you are going to have an executive order that would stop drilling on public lands stop mining which is a huge industry here you must have lithium you must have copper for renewable energy, how is that done? 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 need to have access to at that time.

We locate them and we do it not in a way that only targets the profits of giant industries, but in a way that is sustainable for the environment. We cannot continue to allow our public lands to be used for profit by those who do not care about our lands. environment and are not improving it. I'm going to say something that's really controversial in Washington, but I think I can safely say it here in Nevada. I believe in science and I believe that the way we are going to deal with this problem is that we are going to multiply our investment in science tenfold, there is an upcoming twenty-seven trillion dollar global market for organic and much of what is still needed It hasn't been invented, my proposal is let's invent it here in the United States and then let's say we invent it in the US, you have to build it in the US, let's stick to this issue, but Senator Sanders, I'm going to move to fracking, you want a total ban on natural gas extraction, no.

Over the next five years, the fracking industry will obviously support many jobs across the country, including thousands in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, a unit official there said, citing the New York Times, if we end up with a Democratic candidate who supports fracking. prohibition I am going to tell my members that they either do not vote or vote for the other, what do they say to these workers? You are supporting a great industry right now. What they're telling these workers is that scientists are telling us that if we don't act with incredible boldness in the next six seven years, irreparable damage will be done not just in Nevada, not just in Vermont or Massachusetts, but around the world. .

Joe said he was right, this is an existential threat, you know what that means, Chuck, that. It means we are fighting for the future of this planet and the green new deal I support for the way we create up to 20 million good-paying jobs as we move our energy system away from fossil fuels toward energy efficiency and sustainable energy. It's a moral issue, my friends, we have to take responsibility for ensuring that the planet we leave to our children and grandchildren is a healthy, liveable planet that is more important than the profits of the fossil fuel industry.

I want this to continueforward. Senator Klobuchar, you do not agree with an outright ban on fracking. He calls it a transition fuel, but scientists are sounding this alarm now. Do you take into account these warnings that perhaps fracking is a step back, not a step forward, not a transition? We have made it very clear that we have to review all the permits that currently exist for natural gas and then make decisions on each of them and then not grant new ones until we are sure that it is safe, but it is a transition. fuel and I want to add something that my colleagues haven't really mentioned: this is a crisis and many of our plans are very similar to get to carbon neutrality by 2045 2050 something like that, but we're not going to be.

We can approve this unless we bring people with us. I'm looking at these incredible Nevada Senators Katherine Cortés Masto and Jackie Rosen and I think they know how important this is and that this can be done in a smart way. in that international agreement on climate change for clean energy rules, bring them back and the president can do it herself without Congress or the gas mileage standard, but when it comes to putting a broad price on carbon, this is very important , we have to make sure that that money goes back directly as dividends to the people who are going to need help paying their bills, otherwise we're not going to approve it, so there has to be heart in the policy to get this done , so I don't want to address the worker issue, if you also align, can you address the worker issue?

Yes, we can have a green new deal and create jobs, we need people in infrastructure to help bill, will we ever be able to use that Jerry tomorrow, that's your concern for those jobs. for tomorrow, those are the ones we need to work on to strengthen our infrastructure right now, but listen to Senator Klobuchar Artes, she says we have to think small in order to pass it. I don't think that's the right approach here, why can't we get anything passed in Washington on climate. Everyone understands the urgency, but we have two problems. The first is corruption.

An industry that makes its money felt throughout Washington. The first thing I want to do in Washington is to approve my anti-corruption program. bill so that we can start making the changes that we need to make on climate and the second is the filibuster, if you are not willing to reverse the filibuster, then you are giving the fossil fuel industry the right of veto, Thanks for wanting to hold onto the oil. and gas responsible for their role in the damage to our planet you have even suggested that you could imprison them what companies are you talking about and how far is the woman willing to go who goes so far as to react first of all would eliminate all the subsidies that we have for oil and gas eliminated, point that would save millions and millions and billions of dollars number two, I think any executive that is committed and, by the way, the minority communities, the communities that are most harmed by the way In what we deal with, they are the victims of climate change, that is where the groundwater supply is contaminated, that is where people don't have the opportunity to be able to get away from everything, from the asbestos that is still in the walls of our schools.

I have a trillion dollar program for infrastructure that will cover thousands and thousands of new jobs not $15 an hour but $50 an hour plus benefits unions can do that and what it does is it will change the nature look, here's the last point of my amendment, my time will be up, here is the last point I want to tell you on the first day when I am elected president I am going to invite all the members of the Paris Agreement to Washington DC they represent 85% of the problem they know me I am used to it to deal with international relations I will have them update You answered my questions What would you do with these companies that are responsible for the destruction of our planet?

What would I do with them? I would make sure that they are number one and number two if you show that they are in fact, they have already done things that are bad and they have been lying, they should be able to be sued, they should be able to be held personally responsible and they should, not only not only the company, nor the shareholders, but the executive directors of those companies. we should be committed and it's a little bit like, look, this is the industry we should be able to sue, we should go after just like we did with the pharmaceutical companies, just like we did, wait, what, what, the tobacco companies, the only company we cannot chase. a weapon that he manufactures, my friend, but the topic of my question is for Mayor Bloomberg.

Mayor Bloomberg, his business is heavily invested in China. I think you mentioned that raises some questions, but you are the number one producer in the world of carbon emissions, how far would you go to force? China, to reduce those emissions and address the climate crisis, you are not going to go to war with them, you have to negotiate with them and prove it, and we have seen how well it works with the terrorists who are harming us, what you have to do. It is to convince the Chinese that it is also in their interest that their people are going to die just as our people are going to die and that we work together in all fairness, the Chinese have stopped the advance, it is India that is still a problem major, but it is a huge problem. "The problem is that no one is doing anything about it.

Here in the United States we could make a big difference. We would shut down qualified power plants if we enforced some of the rules on fracking so they don't release methane into the air and water." It will make a big difference, but we are not going to get rid of fracking because, well, we do it instantly, not only natural gas, but also oil, it is a technique and when it is done wrong, as they are doing in many places where the Methane goes into the air, it is very harmful, but it is a transition fuel. I think our son said it right, we want to move to all renewable energy, but that's still many years away and earlier I think the senator mentioned 2050 to get some data. no scientist is thinking about the numbers for 2050 or 2050 anymore 2040 2035 the world is falling apart faster than any scientific study had predicted let's be realistic about the deadline it's not 2050 it's not 2040 it's not 2030 it's 2020 because if we don't choose a president who actually believes in climate science now, we will never meet any of the other scientific or political deadlines that we need, so first of all, let's make sure that we are actually positioned to win, which again if we present the two of the most polarized numbers on this scenario as the only option is going to be a real struggle now that I have a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and I think everyone up here has a plan that more or less does the same thing, so The real question is how are we going to achieve it?

We really need leadership to make this a national project that breaks the partisan and political tug-of-war that prevents something from being done. How is it done well? jobs are available quickly, secondly, ensuring that we engage the various sectors who have been made to feel part of the problem, from agriculture to industry and finance, as well as urging them to do the right thing and then climate diplomacy global. I'm a little skeptical about the idea that convincing is enough when it comes to working with China. The United States has repeatedly overestimated our ability to shape Chinese ambitions, but what we can do is make sure our mayors want to ensure that the issue of environmental justice receives more than a superficial blow in this debate for generations.

In this country, toxic waste dumps and polluting factories have been located in or near communities of color time and time again, and the consequences are felt in the health of African American babies. It is felt in the health of older people with compromised immune systems. It is also felt economically by those who want to move to an area where the air smells bad or the water cannot be drunk. I have a billion-dollar commitment to repair the damage this has caused. has allowed it to be inflicted on communities of color for generations now we have to take responsibility we can't just talk about climate change in big global terms we have to talk about it in terms of rescuing communities that have been another thing that is important to the People here I want to ask you about the Latinos who own one in four new small businesses in the United States, many of them have benefited from President Trump's tax cuts and may be hesitant about any new taxes or regulations they will impose on their small businesses. companies. go up under your administration there are no taxes on small businesses in fact, we will make sure that there is more money available for small businesses in the Latino community in a black community to be able to get the capital to start businesses and the Treasury Department is going to There will be an available window in which we negligibly increase the amount of money available so that people can borrow the money to begin with.

They have proven to be incredibly successful. We shouldn't raise taxes on them. We should start rewarding work, not just wealth. That's what we want. We have to change the tax code as it is, that's why the rich start after pets to start paying their fair share and that's why we have to focus on giving people the ability to accumulate wealth, build wealth and That's why this whole idea of ​​limiting loans. for people in areas it was not the cause of Wall Street's failure, Wall Street's greed was the reason it happened, not redlining and lastly, I mean, look, the idea of ​​China, China is the proposal of the Belt and Road that they are adopting.

The dirtiest coal in the world comes mainly from Mongolia and spreads around the world, it is clear that when you call them in Washington in the first hundred days, if you continue you will suffer serious consequences because the rest of the world will impose tariffs. and in everything you sell because you are undermining the entire economy, thank you sir. President Mayer Buddha Judge, will taxes on those companies increase under him? Not if they are small businesses. I mean, what we need to do is level the playing field where a company like Amazon or Chevron is paying literally zero for billions of dollars in profits. and disadvantages small businesses like those revitalizing my own, often Latino-owned city on our west side.

We need to recognize that investing in Latino startups 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 to improve all our communities and our country, we are receiving the exact opposite message from the current president and it is time to recognize not only the diversity of the Latino community but the importance of issues like the limit of repression of economic empowerment in the United States and that is a gap between white entrepreneurs and black and Latino entrepreneurs and the main reason for this is that they do not have the money for the capital to start businesses, it is approximately a seven billion dollar gap we want to have real entrepreneurship and a level playing field.

I have a plan to put the seven billion dollars into the fund to be managed by that. I appreciate that it's not routinely just about taxes. We were going to make an investment. to level the playing field and black something Mayor Bloomberg the vice president talked about redlining here who started a business maybe Youngberg you seem to imply that redlining and stopping that is something that stopping redlining somehow contributed to the financial crisis that is exactly incorrect and that was the implication that came out in two quotes, so I want to give you the opportunity to clarify this well in the record against the red line since I worked on Wall Street.

I was against it during the financial crisis. I've been against it ever since. The financial crisis occurred because the people who took out the mortgages packaged them up and other people bought them. That was where the disaster occurred. Mortgage foreclosure is still a practice in some places and we need to eliminate it, but that's the way it is, it's just not the case. It's true what I was going to say, look, maybe we want to talk about business. I'm the only one here who I think ever started the business. Okay, what we need is I can tell you that in New York City we had programs there.

There are mentoring programs for some young entrepreneurs so they can learn how to start a business. We had programs that could provide them with seed money. We had programs to get bank branches and then neighborhoods because if you don't have a bank branch 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 along you can't get a mortgage so you don't have any wealth with theseways to fix this and not take trillions of dollars it takes us 45 seconds to focus on the problems, you know, when we talk about a corrupt political system bought by billionaires like mr.

Bloomberg manifests itself in a tax code where not only Amazon and many of the major corporations, some of them owned by the richest people in this country, do not pay a cent in taxes, but we have the insane situation where Today's billionaires, if you could believe it, have a lower effective tax rate than the middle class, so maybe it's just the tax code, why are you complaining? What's wrong with the code? You and your pimp, your son, not me? Okay, you and your campaign contributions elect people who represent the rich and powerful, those are the first ones.

Kratz, thanks for Boeing. The Republicans, okay, George W. Bush and Senator Claw, will see the rematch on Saturday in Las Vegas and those guys should go there, Senator Clovis. In fact, I want to tell you something about Senator Sanders who tweeted last year. Billionaires should not exist. Okay, what do you say? I believe in capitalism, but I think the goal of someone in government and a president of the United States should be to control that. I'm not going to limit what people earn, but I think right now our tax code is so biased against everyday people and that's what's wrong.

I was thinking about his question about small businesses. The small businesses I talked to have trouble getting employees because their employees don't have child care. We should have universal child care and we haven't talked about it enough. Donald Trump and what, let's just talk about Donald Trump because he signed that tax bill that helped the rich and he went to Mara Lago and told all these friends that they got a lot richer, that's Exhibit A and I can tell you The working people of Nevada were not in that room, so the key for me is not to limit what people can do, but to make sure that we have a government appointment.

That's very, very good, Senator Sanders, what did you mean you don't believe? should, what does it mean that we have a grotesque and immoral distribution of wealth in income? Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the poorest 125 million Americans. That's wrong, that's immoral, that shouldn't be the case when we have half a million people. Sleeping on the streets where we have children who can't afford to go to college, when we have 45 million people dealing with student debt, this country is facing enormous problems and we cannot continue to see a situation where the last three billionaires of this country skyrocketed. 850 billion dollar increase in your wealth, congratulations mr.

Bloomberg, but last year the average American saw an increase of less than 1%, it's our income that's bad. Mayor Bloomberg, if I existed, I can't speak for all the billionaires, all I know is that I have been very lucky, I have made a lot of money and I am giving everything to improve this country and a good part of it goes to the Democratic Party. Plus, it would have been an obscene amount of life. If you had made that much money, yes, I worked very hard for it and I thank you for that. Sanders has a proposal that would require all large companies to give up to 20% of their ownership to employees over time.

It is a good idea. I think employee ownership of companies is a great idea. I'm not sure that makes sense. order those companies to do it if we really want to reduce inequality in this country, then we have to start with the tax code, we have to start with investments in how people can live the American dream, which is serious. In fact, the Last time I checked the list of countries to live the American dream is a fact, in other words, being born at the bottom and then reaching the top, we are not even in the top ten number one places to live.

The American dream right now is Denmark and as I believe she is the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire let alone a billionaire, I think part of what needs to change is because of the voices of communities that have not felt heard on Wall Street. or in Washington to be taken to the Capitol that's why I'm building a policy designed around inclusion designed around belonging because the one thing that will definitely perpetuate the income inequality that we live with right now is Donald Trump being re-elected because you polarized this country with the wrong candidates your politics thank you it's my politics and I'm very proud of that politics okay what we need to do to dealWith this grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, you might be sure that people Those who work know what Mr.

Bloomberg it wasn't you who made all that money, maybe your workers also played some role in that and it's important that those workers can share in the benefits too when so many people go to work every day and don't feel good in their jobs they feel like gears in a machine. I want workers to also be able to sit on corporate boards so they can have a say in what happens in their lives. Would you support what Senator Sanders is proposing? Absolutely not. I have no idea. a way that would make it easier for Donald Trump to achieve his re-election and listening to this ridiculous conversation we are not going to throw away capitalism, we tried it, other countries tried it, that was called communism and it just didn't work, that will work.

It has the support of not only a majority of Democrats but also a majority of independents and a majority of Republicans and that is a two-cent wealth tax on all fortunes over fifty million dollars, if you reach a billion, you have to pay a few cents more. this is a tax on one-tenth of the richest 1% in America and it allows us to start restructuring our economy it means we can afford universal child care for every baby in this country from zero to five years old it means we can have universal child care in this country pre-K for every child in America means we can raise the wages of every child care worker and preschool teacher and stop exploiting the black and brown women who do this work means we can allocate $800 billion to our public schools, quadruple funding for title one schools and as a former special education teacher we could fully fund IDE so that children with disabilities would receive a full education fifty billion dollars at our historically black colleges and universities and we could cancel the independent debt for 43 million 30 that's something most Americans support a two cent wealth tax it's a values ​​question do we want to invest in mr.

Bloomberg, or do we want to miss 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, what was the result of that survey? Who was winning? Impressions question. We look good. The question was that I was winning and I think my fairly comfortable margin could mention that, but here's the point: let's talk about

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socialism, not communism. Bloomberg, that's a low blow, let's talk about democracy, let's talk about what's happening in countries like Denmark and Pete correctly pointed out that they have a much higher quality of life in many ways than we do.

What are we talking about? We are living in many ways. In a socialist society right now the problem is like dr. Martin Luther King reminded us that we have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor, a way to save Donald, let me finish when Donald Trump gets eight hundred million dollars in tax breaks and subsidies that will be tied to the construction of condos luxury, that's socialism for the rich, wait. For a long time we have had to subsidize Walmart workers who receive Medicaid and food stamps because the richest family in America pays starvation wages.

That socialism for the rich. I believe in democratic socialism for workers, not for billionaires. Medical care for all. Educational opportunity. In the central country we have the The best-known socialist in the country turns out to be a millionaire with three houses. What I miss here, well, you'll miss that I work at the Washington house. Look at the first problem. He lives in the Burlington house. That's a good thing, and like thousands of other Vermonters, I have. a submarine a taxi forgive me for that, but where is your house? what a tax what a tax haven new york york new york city thank you so much and I would hate my taxes and I'm happy to do it because I get something for it and let me tell you I thought the senator next to me was half right.

I agree that we should raise my taxes. I don't agree with the senator about the wealth tax, but I do agree with her that the rich are not paying their fair share. increase taxes on the rich. I did it as mayor of New York City. I raise taxes and if you look at my plans, the first thing I would do is try to convince Congress because they have to do what we just can't. order you to reverse the tax cuts that they bought and that the Trump administration put in with Vice President Biden in Congress as a way out on this issue of Americans' feelings about socialist candidates, well, look, let me weigh in on you know for 36 years. and his vice president, I was classified as the poorest man in Congress.

I made money when I wrote a book about my son and I was surprised how much it sold. The first time he made me money and this is the deal. The fact is that we must start rewarding work. Not only wealth, the idea that we have a 21% tax rate for American corporations is ridiculous; it should be 28% which would raise almost 800 billion dollars a year the idea that if we have companies that pay nothing at all, they should have a minimum tax of 15% which would raise another 740 billion a year the idea that you can having a capital gains tax that you pay at a rate of 20% if you are in the if you are if you are Mike Bloomberg or whoever has a lot of money and someone else is paying in a Guerrero effort is paying that 25% is wrong and that would raise another $800 billion.

We should reward work, not just wealth and the American people, the middle class is being murdered and the poor have no way to rise remember I want to involve you in this because you know in 2000 you wrote an award-winning essay, you praised Senator Sanders, you praised him specifically for embracing socialism and you've since said that you were worried about his policies, but I'm curious about this. are you out of touch with your own generation? Millennials largely embrace their version of democratic socialism. No? are you out of touch with your generation? Don't look, it's true that I liked Bernie before he was cool and the qualities he admired then are qualities I still respect a lot.

I never said I agreed with every part of his political views then or now, but I appreciate that he was at least upfront and honest about it. is honest about the fact that taxes will increase for anyone earning more than twenty-nine thousand dollars to fund their health care plan, though again he's a little vague about how the rest started, since premiums should be eliminated if you're still on them increasing. taxes somehow save people money because they don't pay premiums, out of pocket expenses, copays or deductibles, they could be much better off, but where's the other one?

Where is the other $25 trillion supposed to come from a certain point? I have to do the math right, we have it all up there, whatever a payroll tax is, a payroll goes even after the payroll tax, it's telling us because we have a good text. Elizabeth has a good one. I was a little tougher on mr. Bloomberg than hers, we will approach it in a progressive way that addresses income and wealth inequality and we will finally ensure that health care in this country is a human right, not a privilege that you worked hard for, that you you tried Call yourself a capitalist to separate yourself from him, why yes, because I am.

Democrats want to beat Donald Trump, but they're worried about betting 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're worried about betting on a revolution that won't bring majority of this country. Aimee and José's hearts are in the right place, but we can't be so eager to please Mitch McConnell that we forget about how to fight Republicans Jedge's Mirabeau has been taking money from big donors and changing her positions, so It is not clear what it represents. Go ahead, you have word 4:45 number one.

I have repeatedly said thatwe have to do it. win bake and the way we win big is by winning states like Nevada but also by winning Senate elections in Arizona and Colorado and beyond and the reason we do it is to send Mitch McConnell packing his bags and I think When you look at my history, I'm the one who has done that, I'm the one who can lead this ticket and just because I'm willing to talk about common ground, that's where America is, it's not with Mitch McConnell, who has 400 projects. of legislation on his desk that should be passed if we get rid of him is because I'm willing to work with people and find common ground and that's what we want in a president.

Elizabeth most don't want someone just staring at the shutters thinking we need to take another break here she will return to Paris Las Vegas. In just one moment, SME's Friday presidential debate to kick off our next round of questioning of his judge friend Sally Mayor in 2018, Mayor Bloomberg spent the most externally helping Democrats running for Congress. He has also donated billions to causes like climate change, gun safety education if his money wasn't a problem then why is it a problem now? Oh, I think he should 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.

Our Party has values, we are built around values ​​like making sure we protect workers, but Mayor Bloomberg opposed raising the minimum wage. Our party has a tradition that includes excellent presidents like Barack Obama, who Mayor Bloomberg opposed, at the end of the day, it's not just about how much money you have it's what you represent and we are living in a time where Americans are so deeply frustrated by the way both Wall Street and Washington seem to have overlooked our lives and that the view from my front porch in Indiana is that sometimes they can't even see us and if we go to the election of our lives against a president who came to power by cynically exploiting the frustration of ordinary Americans feeling like leaders weren't talking to them, then I think turning to someone like Mayor Bloomberg, who thinks he can buy this election, is no better way to succeed.

We have to turn to someone like Senator Sanders, who wants to burn down the house, Mr. vice president, you know, if he distorts a point of personal privilege he used to say, we said it was in Mitch McConnell's pocket. I'm the only person on this stage. Mitch McConnell has been defeated in four major cases, let me finish and Mitch McConnell. I have been the object of his affection in the president's affectionate way, he has gone after me, this new Republican party, after me, after my son, after my family, I don't need to be told I'm friends with Mitch McConnell .

Mitch McConnell has been the biggest pain in my neck in a long time and that's number one, number two, we have to have someone who understands what it's like for everyday people, everyday people come in the afternoon and understand that my dad made the longest walk in a short footage, seriously. we don't have a job with him we have to move you have to move with grandpa how long did it take to buy a house how long did it take to get back in the game again they have to understand the needs of ordinary people and they are understanding murdered no matter what people say about this and this economy, how good it is and the good part of the economy, this is only 66 years in, it hasn't gone up yet and the fact is that we are in a situation where, excuse me, the president makes it clear that he doesn't want any part of me to defeat his opponent.

He spent $125 million this week to prevent me from beating the pony. I wonder why. Thank my Lord. link to vice president get highlights please identify me specifically an allegation so no the point is different this is what happened according to the new york times the last time mitch mconconnell was on the ballot the vice president stood on the Oval Office and said: I hope Mitch is re-elected so I can continue working with him. Mitch noticed that the other guys were re-elected. He didn't have an epiphany. Instead, he actually blocked everything that Barack Obama tried to pass.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Thank you, Senator, our next question is for Senator Clovis. Surely, around 700,000 young people known as Dreamers or Sonia Doris, who were brought to this country as children, are currently protected from deportation due to a program that is now under review by the Supreme Court if the court sides. From the Trump administration that is eager to end this protection, what exactly is their plan to protect Dreamers permanently to win and defeat Donald Trump? The best way to protect the dreamers is to have a new president. vote there to protect Dreamers and I've been working on this since I got to the US Senate in my first campaign.

In fact, they published a lot of ads against me because I was defending immigrants and when I think about the dreamers and me I try to explain it to my state. I found a 99 year old Spanish War veteran who was a dreamer when he was brought to this country and back then he just went to Canada for one night and came back and was a permanent citizen because he needed it to serve in World War II now he doesn't It's so easy Dreamers are our future Dreamers are so important in Nevada and the best way to achieve this is to defeat Donald Trump, but it is to pass comprehensive immigration reform that creates a path Giving citizenship to so many working people will reduce the deficit by 158 billion dollars and will bring peace to these dreamers who do not give to any other country than ours.

Thank you if you will run based on his voting record in Washington. so 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 You know the message that sends immigrants to a state as multilingual as Nevada, you have been unusual among Democrats. I think the Democrat among all the senators running for president is the most likely to vote for Donald Trump's judges, who we know are especially hostile to Dreamers and immigrant rights.

Now in South Bend it was not always easy to defend yourself in a conservative place like Indiana on immigration, but we did it, we created a municipal identification program so that Dreamers and other undocumented immigrants could navigate daily life, we defended those rights and I was with the members of our community with the message that they were as American as we are, Allison Odorous. I can't advise us to appear on the show. I wish everyone was as perfect as you, P, but let me tell you what it's like to be. in the arena and number one do the math if my friend Andrew Yang was here that's what he would say in fact I have opposed and not supported two thirds of Trump's judges so do your numbers right and I'm in the top 10. 15 from opposing them, number two when it comes to immigration reform, the things you're referring to, that official you're referring to was supported by about half of the Democrats, including someone in this room, and I will say that it was highly recommended by Obama officials know why, because Trump had so few career people, he didn't agree in the slightest with these draconian policies to separate children from their parents and in my first 100 days I would change that immediately and add one more thing that I have been In the arena, Kennedy had made a pretty big accusation against me again and I think he should have the right to respond.

Put you alone among the Democrats running for president. There is no other debt. Is it True or false? That no other Democrat is fake. They're comparing me to two colleagues here on this stage and they're forgetting anyone who ran for president this cycle, senator, senators are done since I've been in the arena. Ted Kennedy asked me to work on the first immigration bill we could with the president. Bush at least get that bill to a vote. I'm sorry, but sinner Sanders actually opposed that bill and I worked on it and if we had passed it, it would have been a path to citizenship for so many people, so I worked on the 2013 bill, actually I'm very proud of the work that I've done on immigration reform and you know what, you haven't been in the arena doing that work, you've memorized a lot of talking points and a lot of things, but I can tell you one thing: the people of This country wants a leader who has a heart for the immigrants of this country and that is me.

You know, maybe leading a diverse city facing ruin doesn't sound like the scenario to you. I'm used to senators telling mayors that senators are more important than mayors, but here's the scenario: you don't have to be in Washington to matter, you don't have to be in the Capitol, guys, we're at the end, here we are. we're at the end here I have to let it go we're we're not we're less than two weeks away from a national primary and I want to ask all of you this simple question: There's a good chance that none of you will.

We're going to have enough delegates to the Democratic National Convention for Clint to be nominated, okay if that happens. I want all your opinions on this in case the person with the most delegates at the end of this primary season is the nominee, even if you are missing a majority senator Sanders, I let him go last year because I know his views on this, so I'll start with you, Mayor Bloomberg, whatever the rules of the Democratic Party are, they have to be followed and if they have a process that I think everyone else can do Dickens if they want the convention to do their will?

Yes, Senator Warren's convention does its will means that the people have the delegates that are committed to them and they keep those delegates until the main invention is okay, very good, Vice President Biden, yes or. no person leading with the delegates should be the nominee or not not let the process move forward mayor Budaj not necessarily not until Senator Klobuchar is there let the process work Senator Sanders well the process includes 500 superdelegates in the second vote so I believe that the will of the people will prevail. Yes, thanks. God should be covered live now. Yes, we're not done yet.

We're back with more from Las Vegas after a short break. Welcome everybody. It's time for closing statements. each candidate will have one minute and we will start with Senator Klobuchar. This has been a great debate. What I want everyone here to remember is that what unites us is much greater than what divides us and that we need a candidate who can bring people together. with her, yes, an enthusiastic Democratic base, but also independents and moderate Republicans, and I have done that every time I won every race up to the fourth grade, a lot of bragging here, so I thought I would add that secondly, you need someone. who can govern and I have passed over a hundred bills as a Democratic leader and third party, you need someone who has the heart to be president.

They were talking a lot about heart disease up here, we have a president right now who doesn't have a heart the people of this country and I ask for the vote of the people of Nevada because this state understands that you may not agree with everything that is said says on this debate stage, but we understand that America's heart is bigger than any item in the White House will join me on Amy Klobuchar, calm senator, thank you, well, you can also join me on Mike Bloomberg .com if you want but I'm not asking for money look this is a management job and Donald Trump is not a manager this is a job we have to build teams he doesn't have a team so he goes and makes decisions without knowing what is happening and the implications of what it does, we cannot run the railway this way, this country has to do it. come together and understand that the people that we elect and it's not just the president of the United States they have to have experience, they have to have credentials, they have to understand what they're doing and the implications of it and then as a society we have to try to hold them accountable. so the next time you go before the voters, if you haven't done the job, we shouldn't just say, "Oh, good person, give a good speech," we should say you didn't do the job and get out of here, mr. .

Mayor, thank you Mayor, but this is a minute I ask for your vote because America is running out of time and this is our only chance to defeat Donald Trump if we look at the choice between a revolution or the status quo and no If you don't see where you fit in that picture, join us and yes, go to P for america.com and help because we need to attract everyone we can who believes thatWe must empower workers who believe in climate science, if we do so. We are not doing something about gun violence and we recognize that the only way to do that is to create a sense of belonging in this country that will take us out of the toxic and polarized moment we live in today.

I already see an American majority ready to Let's do these things now, we have a responsibility to galvanize, not polarize, that majority. We cannot afford to rely on the same playbook from Washington. We cannot afford to alienate half the country. We must step forward into the future to win and govern a country. that we will face problems like we barely thought a few years ago and I ask you to join me so that we can achieve that future together. I grew up wrestling, I grew up in Oklahoma and I probably learned that. from my mother I saw when my dad had a heart attack and he had no money when we lost our car and when we were on the verge of losing our house I saw my mother fight to save our family and I grew up fight to save our family my family I finally managed to finish school it's about my life as a teacher and investigating why so many families in this country are struggling and why it's getting worse year after year after year for years I've struggled The unions are just saying that the way we're going to restructure this economy is by making it easier to join a union and giving unions more power to fight for students who have been left without opportunities time and time again due to the rising cost of education find me I'm of all the people in this scenario I have been a politician for the shortest time but I have been the one who has been fighting for families for the longest time.

I promise you, give me a chance. I will go to the White House and fight for your family. Thank you, senator, armored weapon running because so many people give us a moment, we will clean the room and let the light, senator, thunder for the implemented look. I'm running because there are so many. people are being left behind, people I grew up with their grandmother, my dad lost his job, he lost his house, he had to move, we moved to claim, we found ourselves in a position where we had little ability to do anything and my dad worked like hell.

I learned a lot. They have knocked me down a lot. I know what it's like to be knocked down, but I know you have to get up. We have to provide some security to the American people here in Nevada. site of the most significant mass murder in American history guns our kids are sent to school having to hide under the desk learning to run for quarters to avoid getting shot is immoral I'm the only one already in the entire country and I beat them twice on healthcare, it's also something that's a right. Obama's attention needs to broaden; in fact, it can encompass everyone and lastly, I think it's important that on the first day we deal with sending an immigration bill to the desk the only person here who has the worst record on immigration is Bernie because Bernie voted against the 2007 bill package fact that the immigration bill was passed thank you six million members would now be US citizens agree Senator Sanders you have one like among other groups Latino groups I saw that bill had similar provisions to slavery, Joe, but the bottom line is that we are all united to defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country that we agree with but what we don't agree on, I think that's why we are here today . the only major country in the world that does not guarantee health care to all people why three people or more wealth than the bottom half of the United States when 500,000 people sleep on the streets why hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford go to college with forty-five million in student debt remaining the bottom line here never really produces top-down change never occurs from an oligarchy controlled by billionaires we need to mobilize millions of people to defend justice that is our campaign join us in the calm of Bernie Sanders Thank you, Senator, thank you, friends, thank you, this concludes tonight's debate, our thanks to my fellow moderators, to the candidates, and of course to all of you, the audience here and on home, the Nevada caucuses are this Saturday and the South Carolina primary just a week later. the Super Tuesday grand prix on March 3 we'll follow it all for now for all of us at NBC News I'm Lester Holt, good morning