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I'd like to talk about who we're up against 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. Democrats are not going to win if I 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'll support whoever the Democratic nominee is, but I understand that Democrats take a big risk if we just replace him with an arrogant one. billionaire on the other this country has worked for the rich for a long time and left everyone else in the dust, 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 what. why am I in this race and this is how I will beat Donald Trump yes we have to wake up as a party we could wake up in two weeks the day after Super Tuesday and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders on Mike Bloomberg They are the two most polarizing figures in this scenario and most Americans don't see where they fit if they have to choose between a socialist who thinks capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks money should be the root. of all powers, let's run someone who actually lives and works in a middle class neighborhood in a Midwestern industrial city, let's run someone who actually looks Democratic, we shouldn't have to choose between a candidate who wants to burn down this party . down and another candidate who wants to buy this party what can we do better but we have to bring to light everyone's healthcare plan here marabou de jedge actually has a slogan that was devised by his 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 note inserted the plan here has begun it has a good start but instead of expanding and bring in more people to help instead, 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 advisers say it probably won't happen anyway.

Look, health care is a crisis in this country that we need. My approach on this is that we need as much help for as many people as quickly as possible and bring in as many followers as we can and if we don't get it all the first time, win and get back into the fight to ask. I promised that several former employees had claimed his company was a hostile workplace for women when they confronted him, he admitted to making sexually suggestive comments saying "that's how I grew up" in a lawsuit in the 1990s, a quarter of the Washington Post, a former employee alleged that you said a quote: I would do it in a second if the Democrats expect better from their nominee, let me say a couple of things and if I can have my full minute in the quarter, thank you.

I do not tolerate this type of behavior that the media movement has exposed and anyone who does anything I am wrong and our company we investigate it and if it is appropriate they will leave that day, but let me tell you what I do in my company and on my phone and in government of the city when I was there in my foundation the person who runs it is a woman seventy percent of the people there are women in my company many women have great responsibilities they have paid exactly the same as men and in my City Hall the person who is the main 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 the United States. If that doesn't say something about our employees and how happy they are, I don't know what the senator justifies, even if they are critical, if they have a little bit on this topic, yes, I do and I hope you heard what his defense was. He's been nice to some women, the mayor has to defend his record and what we need to know is exactly what's hiding out there. He has gotten dozens of women in the know to sign confidentiality agreements for both sexual harassment and gender discrimination. in the workplace so that 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 claim that now it's okay for you to release them on television tonight senator son of the company and someone else in this case the man or a woman or it could be but more than that they decided when they made an agreement that they wanted to keep it quiet, for the interest of everyone, they signed the agreements and that is what we are going to know, the question is linked to being gagged by you and you could release them from that immediately because understand that this is not just a question of the character of the mayor, this is also a question about electability, we are 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 have been harassed and discriminated against is too trivial.

Actually, I didn't. I know how many members there were in the Knesset, so yes, but you're staking your candidacy on your experience in Washington. You're on the committee that oversees border security. You are on the committee that deals with trade. You're literally on the part of the committee that oversees these things and we can't literally talk about the first thing about the country's politics with ourselves. Are you trying to say I'm stupid or are you making fun of me? People run for president if they win the race. for the Senate in Minnesota directly translated into being president.

It would have grown under the presidency of Walter Mondale. This is different and the reason I think we need to talk about the Washington experience is we should ask ourselves what that experience has led us to and certainly tenure is not always the same as judgment, let's talk about votes in the Senate in Washington, let's run based on your voting record in Washington, then you should 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 a state as multilingual as Nevada sends to immigrants, I think it has been unusual among Democrats.

The Democrat among all the senators running for president is 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 wasn't always easy to stand your ground in a conservative place like Indiana. on immigration, but we complied, we created a municipal identification program so that dreamers and other undocumented immigrants could navigate daily life, we defended those rights and supported members of our community with the message that they were as American as us Allison, you taught us, I can see, okay, one step is walking and you also don't have a chance.

I wish everyone was as perfect as you 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 I would say in fact I have opposed and have not supported two-thirds of Trump's judges, so do your numbers right and I'm in the top 10 to 15 to oppose them, number two when the time 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 he was highly recommended by Obama officials, you know why , because Trump had so few. career people, I did not 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: I have been in the arena, which Kennedy had done a big accusation against me again and i think i should have the right to respond place him only among the democrats running for president no other debt is true or false no other democrat is false you are comparing me to two colleagues up here at this stage and you are forgetting, I would say that anyone who ran for president, the senator cycle ended since I'm in the arena, Ted Kennedy asked me to work on the first immigration bill that we could with President Bush to at least bring that project to a final phase. vote, I'm sorry, but sinner Sanders actually opposed that bill and I worked on it and if we had gotten it done there would have been a path to citizenship for so many people, so I worked on the 2013 bill.

Indeed, I am very proud. from the work I've done 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, the people of this country want a leader. who has a heart for the immigrants of this country and that's me, you know, maybe leading a diverse city that was facing ruin doesn't sound like sand to you. I'm used to senators telling mayors that senators are more important than mayors, but this is the arena - you don't have to be in Washington to matter you don't have to be on Capitol Hill guys guys we're at the end here we are In the end here I have to let it go, you know when he talked about a corrupt political system bought by billionaires like Mr.

Bloomberg manifests itself in a tax code where not only are Amazon and many of the major cooperatives owned by the richest people in this country and they don't pay a cent in taxes, we have the insane situation where today's billionaires, If you can believe it, they have a lower effective tax rate than the middle class, so maybe just the tax code, why are you complaining? Write the code that you and your son made, not me, you and your campaign contributions, electing people who represent the rich and powerful, those are the heat rats, thank you. You Wehling Republicans: It's okay, George W.

Bush is a wonderful country too. We have the best-known socialists in the country. It turns out that he is a millionaire with three houses. What would I miss here? Well, they'll miss that I work at the Washington house. Look at the first one. problem living in Burlington house - that's good and like thousands of other Vermonters I have summer camp forgive me for that where is your house what tax what tax haven new

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new york city thank you so much how much you hate for me taxes and I'm happy to do it because I get something in return 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 we should raise 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 can't just order to reverse the tax cuts they bought that the Trump administration pushed through Congress. It's true that I liked Bernie before he was great and the qualities that I admire are qualities that I still greatly respect.

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. He is honest about the fact that taxes will increase. anyone who earns more than twenty-nine thousand dollars to fund their health care plan, although again it's a little vague about how the rest of the premiums should be eliminated, but it's still raising those taxes in a way that saves the family money people because they don't They don't pay premiums, out-of-pocket expenses, co-payments or deductibles, they may be much better off, but where is the other?

Where is the other twenty-five trillion dollars supposed to come from? There is some point where you have to do the member, we have it all. Up there and the Internet is payroll even after payroll taxes because we have a wealth tax. Elizabeth has a good one. Ours is 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 ultimately ensure that health care in this country is a human right, not a privilege. Thanks for watching this NBC video4 New York. subscribe by tapping the button below me and on the left you will see our latest updates, investigations and digital exclusives, see you next time.