People elected to the position grappled with the Major Public Health crisis birth Police Reform and much more. Over the last few weeks, holding debate and some of the most highprofile races. Tonight at democratic primary debate for new yorks tenth Congressional District, lets look at this. It stretches across manhattan and brooklyn in front of the west side as well as growth in sunset park. Currently occupied by jerry nadler since 19022. Invited several of the candidates challenging this debate, we are joined by former, a demonstration official. Rules you see right now is agreed to by the candidates it will take one minute to respond to my question and we will get them 32nd 32nd rebuttals as well. Theyre taping this tuesday, june 16. Were going to start with short opening statements, the order for tonight was determined by random drawing. Jonathan will go first. Good evening. Thank you. My name is jonathan, born and raised in new yorks tenth district. Civil rights organizer and legal advocate with a decade of experience endorsed by the andrew young. Heres the bad news. Liberal democracy is being torn to shreds. In the midst of crises on top of crisis. Congress has been on recess. Heres the good news. The first generation, we have a choice. Our vision begins with universal basic income data bill of rights, thats election morning. An era of stagnation and inequality. Usher in an era for the common good. Im asking for your vote june 23 developed a new way forward. Thank you. Next is lindsay. , former Government Official in a dollar. Running for congress because we cant take the same complacency weve had in congress the last 30 years. We need a change across this country. Public Health Crisis and economic crisis and protests i will shape our future and our leaders are unprepared and out of touch. Luckily for our community, ive been preparing for just this kind of moment. Job creation, help past minimum wage, but puerto rico and i secured my republican housing. Her husband has been in Office Almost 30 years since i was in second grade and hes not taking on any of these issues. He writes a strongly worded letters and gives empty talks. This is not the time for any of that. This is the time for people with gotten out keep showing a habit and how much i love our community and help you will vote for me. Thank you. Thank you for hosting this debate. This is a great crisis for 100,000 people have died in the pandemic so far, millions of people have lost their jobs and health insurance. George boyd was murdered in the latest episode, systemic racism we continue to suffer from. We have a president , trump totally immoral we have to Work Together defeating trump is not enough, we have to Work Together to ensure social justice make sure black lives matter and restore peoples jobs and healthcare to deal with our Climate Crisis that threatens all of us in fact why ive been leading the fight for all these things for many years. I hope my constituents will enable me to continue eating these fights. Thank you. The criminal Justice Reform, policing reform, its a time of evil, people are marching in the street tonight and every night i have a twopart question. Public actions have you taken on these issues over the last few weeks . If elected or reelected, what would be your top priority when it comes to criminal Justice Reform . There are a lot of ideas after body cameras and transparency to defunding the nypd nypd. I would like to hear your top priority. We have to dismantle systemic racism and provide for real structural reform. Theres no more time for service and more time for cheap talk. We need a federal standard for use of force necessary only as last resort. We have to mandate the escalation, demilitarized our police force, enforce data collection, have a public database and qualified immunity. None of this is enough though. If you look at the george floyd murder, this was downstream of counterfeit 20 bill. We need to heed the wisdom Martin Luther king jr. Who in this last year, thought for a guaranteed minimum income for all americans. The civil rights vanguard of this era is fighting for a guaranteed minimum income for all. Okay. Showed up at protest permits everyday, where i should be a mess im heated to speak out in which case i will. In fact, why it would be given more money to the department of justice that we are actually saying doesnt know how to use the money when it should be directed elsewhere so, i think, our federal government, an additional two low soul governments, is completely out of whack on this and it is unfortunate that the congressman is making this effort and when in fact, the last thing he did was support Blue Lives Matter bill and it is very transparent what he is doing. Before i give mr. Nadler a chance to respond and curious, you said for the mayor to resi resign. That would then lead to the public advocate becoming the mayor. [inaudible conversations] no, there is something about bill de blasio that is incapable of handling the current situation. How do you deal with the first magnitude of problems and that is what we have, someone who, in my view, is incapable of even responding in any way to deescalate crazies and put gas on the flames and he clearly has [inaudible] secondly, back in january in january i called for nypds commissioner to be forced to live in the city. There is no reason while our Police Officers to live somewhere else. Its the opposite of community policing. Ive been on this for quite some time and im very supportive to defunding mainly because they should redirect to Mental Health support and again, i absolutely call for the resignation of the mayor. He failed us on so many levels and is a very basic level in trying or failing to deescalate the situation and making new your curves feel that not only had they not been heard but the Police Department is absolutely able to run amok in every way. Mr. Nadler. Well, ive been involved in the black lives Matter Movement and ever since the days of [inaudible] and eric garner and now as a leader in congress the chief authors of the justice [inaudible] act which we just put in committee today in fact and this was the ban the chokehold to have a National Registry for police and end immunity and this would refund and it would do just about all the things that the black lives people are asking us to do and i will lead the fight in the next few weeks against the republicans who have a pale imitation and dont want to do most of what needs to be done to end this plague of police brutality. To just ahead to this not of this is enough. The average network of a black household is one tenth out of the White House Open black moms of three times likely to die from childbirth. People of color will be a majority by 2043 but the Media Network of a black family is excited to be zero by 2053. This is before the pandemic and covid and we are now nearly half of all black holes, black households think they will not be able to make rent but america captures a cold and the same goes black people get the fold and it turns out in 2020 when america captures covid black people are merely 2. 5 times likely to die than white folks. This is part of a legacy, legacy of structural racism, redlining and a disparate impact in chronic illnesses. Fundamentally this cannot be tackled solely through slogans and through party lines but we need real structural systemic reforms at all parts of healthcare, the economy and in colonel justice. Lets quote the loop, finish the thought. If you have universal basic income where they were on their way with their still be, in your opinion, unable to deal with terminal justice of form and if so, what would that look like if you are in congress . We both certainly need to re inform and imagine the police and i agree with stacy abrams who said the notion of defunding is a false choice. If you look at the new york Police Department it is 92 funded by the city of new york. This is not primarily a matter of congressional funding. So, what happens when you defund Public Services is they end up being privatized. We have to unbundle in separate, demilitarized and unarmed because most of Police Contact with civilians is in the context of traffic citations. The police right now serve as traffic patrollers, tax collectors and as social workers and as a paramilitary force. We have to unarmed, demilitarized and make sure that in the near 20 million instances where police are contacting civilians in the context of Mental Health and the medical circumstance or primarily in traffic accidents we have a separate force that is unarmed and demilitarized. I think with just ubi and im as supportive of temporary ubis as a starting point is that we dont actually deal with issues of race, systemic race and fund mental issues that confront our country when you begin and every policy whether it be housing or education has advantage white people. I started my career in urban planning and [inaudible] is a example of moving people to middle class but all that it moved was a bunch of white people. The di bills are the same and i think perhaps where jonathan was trying to go without having any sense of policy around it was that we cant simply deal with terminal justice and we cant simply deal with criminal Police Reform, demilitarized in our police but we have to rethink how we provide housing and how hud works and how our department of education works and we have to desegregate our schools and that is why im one of the people who is really excited by the position to do Reconciliation Commission of sorts, not because we dont have to have actionable results but because it goes way beyond policing and goes way beyond criminal Justice Reform if we actually want to use this moment to change the destiny of this country and that is absolutely what we have to do. I just want to say that where jonathan was trying to get without saying it was to focus on housing issues, restructure how we provide support to americans and focus on education issues and how we provide support to americans at every moment in life and so when we saw barbara proposed that im supportive of that. I would like just to [inaudible conversations] i wanted to get the other candidates to weigh in on whether or not you think mayor de blasio should step down and generally how do you rate his handling of the protest and the crisis over the last few weeks . We will start with you, mr. Nadler. I think hes handled is poorly. Hes handled it very poorly. I think its up to the electors with respect to the mayor but let me just say that the leadership we need, ive been supplying that leadership and trying to deal with all the problems in housing and the problems of the environment and the problems of the great new deal for years and ive been doing this successfully and ive voted for millions of dollars for the Housing Authority and ive asked the men on the house of the floor to increase funding for housing to people with aids, Senior Citizen housing and it is easy to talk about these things but people, most progressive leaders are supporting me because they know i have been a progressive leader and getting these things dunford that is is why progressive leaders like Elizabeth Warren and alexandria ocasiocortez in the New York Times supporting my candidacy for reelection and im proud of what ive been doing and will continue. Should the mayor resigned . Thank you. I think that is up to the merit he is not handled this well but i would like to just respond to the point and look to the civil rights leaders. Nelson mandela said no one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, people must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love and wantonly thinking junior said the evils of racism and economic expectation and as militarism are intrinsically tied. If we are to unravel and combat want we must unravel and combat them all. So, we need to fundamentally restructure and reform from the bottom on up. The slogans will not fight. Lipservice will not suffice. We need true substantive systemic and structural reform to move us forward. Okay, candidates, standby. It is time for a short break. Well be right back with more from this debate from new yorks tenth Congressional District. Stay with us. Welcome back to this democratic primary debate for the tenth Congressional District which covers parts of manhattan and brooklyn. I wanted to talk to you about the coronavirus pandemic and the response to it. As new york begins to reopen there is a major push to reopen as quickly as possible and i wanted to get your views on whether or not we are doing it too fast, fast enough, what would be your priorities in congress as far as making sure it is done in a way that properly balances Public Health needs and Economic Needs as well but lets start with you, mr. Nadler. While, i think we have to be guided by the Public Health authorities and how fast we open up and what we do. In congress, i would be guided or am guided by the Health Authorities. I think the most important things we have to do in congress is why i have been leaving the fight. We have to enable people to stay at home if that is what the Health Authorities indicate and to do that we have to get them replacing their funds for the money that they are not getting because he cant go to their jobs. I have supported and we provided in the cares act lots of money for people to pay the rent with lots of money for a small homeowner to pay their mortgages with and we have to extend that. We passed the heroes act couple of weeks ago and we need to persuade the republicans to pass it too but this would greatly extend these things that nobody would have to worry about getting evicted and no one would have to worry about paying the rent or paying their mortgages. These are the economic supports we have to give to make sure that we can follow the guidelines and Public Health authorities and not follow the president or the republicans but others who are saying open up the economy because that would threaten everyones health and lets open up the economy as indicated when we can buy the virus invite what were doing with the virus but to enable us to that we have to have the economic support for all the people which i have been leading the fight to get and if we could get to the senate rebellions we will get. Okay. The cares act was an abomination, 1200 for people earning up to 75000 doesnt do. [audio difficulties] if you are actually worrying about paycheck to paycheck you know that and you also know that 100 of on appointment or emergency on employment. [audio difficulties] what mr. Nadler just mentioned actually doesnt help people at all. Had hundreds in our community and people are desperate to get help and they are not getting it. The best way we couldve helped people was to give non tested checks like i proposed in my stimulus plan before the cares act for 2000 a month plus 500 for every dependent. That is just people on a personal level and i couldve helped them and the cares act utterly failed on that front. On Small Business support it also failed utterly and Small Business loans, people like shake shack, people like all these Big Companies have been able to access and get in front of the line to get support and the smaller firms that dont have the fox ability to actually wait and bring our people back and try to reopen the restaurant all in this short period of time are left hanging. That is exactly what im talking about when i talk about my experience overseeing all economic and new york. I dont think we even have seen a bit of how much economic recovery is going to be necessary and its really sad that most of our leaders dont even get okay, let me [inaudible conversations] the cares act has not been enacted but this is when Congress Nadler talks about things hes done that are done. Lets give him a chance to respond back back of the matter is, the cares act gives people more 100 of the replacement for their jobs and gives people more than 100 of what theyre earning in many cases. The heroes act, yes it has not been successful yet because of the republicans in the senate. When you go to washington as a member of congress you are not the only person but you dont go there to get your names on the building or bills but to get things done good ive gotten things done. The present who is terrible and the Republican Senate that is terrible and we are fighting to get these things through senate. We passed them in the house. The heroes act replaced everyones income, make sure no one [inaudible conversations] unfortunately, until the election this year we have to deal with Republican Senate. [inaudible conversations] this is so fun a mental because this is a congressman biggest failure. This is a multitrillion dollar bailout, largest since the 2008 financial crisis was altered in this age of impunity, age of unaccountability far left and far right populist politics. Nearly 120,000 americans are dead, double the died in the vietnam war. One in five are new yorkers. More than 40 million are unflavored new york had shut down ten days peter the former cdc director said 80 of all deaths couldve been avoided. Congressman never has been a resource when he finally came back to session he passed a multibilliondollar villanelle with crumbs for the people he has not funded testing, has not funded Contact Tracing at scale, new york 12000 per virus case. Bressler got 339,000. We have not listened to the scientist in the Public Health experts. In fact, congressman nadler has played a pandemic politics. Pentel it politics this entire time. If you look at the first case in new york, the first covid case came online as Ballot Access for the congressional primary began and what to nadler and the entire new York City Democratic Party do, they tried to cancel the primary. This is unacceptable. This is politicians denying basic science and common intuition about facemasks working and telling new yorkers until midmarch to ride the subway, ride the bus all is well and this is an utter and complete failure. Let me give mr. Nadler a chance to respond. Well, the fact of the matter is i dont know where to start. We passed legislation to do all these everything that they talked about. Republicans have not that is simply false. You are lying. I didnt interrupt you. The republicans have not passed it. The one congressman is one congressman. I am not a dictator and cannot dictate policy but i can lead. I have led and we have done what we should do how we have to get the republicans to pass it in the senate and as i said before the legislation we did pass replaces 100 of the peoples income. The problem is it doesnt for a short time. When we have to extend that through the heroes act which we are doing the republicans will pass it. Thats false. I just want to say that when the congressman said that all peoples needs were taken care of with on employment hes clearly not talking to his community because in many cases the bottleneck to get access to one up limit has been six weeks, eight weeks, has been enough to get people heart attacks and enough to give people Mental Health crises because they havent been getting the help they need and its so apparent to me and i think anyone who is listening to this that he clearly has no idea what his community is going through. Well, we pass this legislation but the Trump Administration is administering it and is not doing it and his no, no, you pass the legislation and you decide it was great. You just said the legislation was great. Let him speak. Did you have anything to add . Legislation is great but we cant be held responsible for the Trump Administrations mall administering it. Standby, candidates. Now it is time for the crossexamination. Each candidate gets a chance to ask one question of one rival. We will start with you. Thank you. Congressman nadler, weve entered a new Great Depression under your watch. More than 40 million are employed, more than 40 of those are criminally lost jobs and crime in new york dear. Two thirds were anti semitic and will you pledge tonight to support an unconditional non tested universal based income for all americans of 2000 a month per adult and a thousand dollars per child during the pandemic and 1000 per adult and 500 per child in perpetuity to preserve liberal democracy as we know it . The legislation that we are supporting has, in fact, given a guarantee annual income as we mentioned earlier tonight. Will you pledge to support [inaudible conversations] not true. This is the second i would like to fact check congressman nadlers statement because i dont think its true. No, no, no, under the rules that you have agreed to we are not checking any sources not going online and getting okay, thats fine. Perfectly clear. Congressman heather, tonight you said that prescribed the leadership and you talked about all of these women you have assembled as tools to support you and then you also said that you cant be held responsible for what the president does and why we havent seen a change. Which is it . Are you responsible and do you have power or do you have no power and you are not responsible . Please answer. I am responsible for doing everything a congressman, which is the office i was elected to do, to do. This is not a dictatorship of one Congress Madrid we can do certain things alone despite the republicans in the senate we have to fight the president to read i have accomplished a lot when we succeeded in getting a lot done that i mentioned but we have not succeeded in getting a lot done because the president is a fool and he is not the president i want because the senate is not the senate i want. Okay. Mr. Nadler, you have a chance to ask a question of one of your opponents. I will ask one of the problems we had in this country is the Climate Crisis and too much Carbon Dioxide in the air, causing asthma in new york and elsewhere and one of the major sources of pollution and of Climate Change is the gas emitted by truck spread ive been leading the fight for years to replace these trucks in the new york area with [inaudible] which is much more environment finally, much less polluting and much more a part of a Green New Deal and you have opposed this change. Why are you opposed to improving the environment by getting rid of trucks . I am not opposed to rail freight. Im opposed to your ridiculous idea of cross, which will never happen but you can hear it right here. Its a completely ridiculous idea. The fact that you keep going on and it is kind of asinine. At the same time since we are talking about rail freight i would like to talk about how all of your Corporate Tax money from real Freight Companies are the biggest source of coal movers in the country. Actually you are taking cold money. Do you want to answer that back . That is the end of our crossexamination. Candidates, we will take a short break here and well be right back with more from this debate in just a minute. Stay with us. Welcome back toward democratic primary debate for the tenth Congressional District of new york. It soured lightly around i will ask each question for a brief response, usually yes or no but we will start with you. Before everybody i think i know the answer, before they started dropping out who did you initially support in the democratic primary for president of the United States . I supported andrew yang. Bernie sanders. Elizabeth warren. Mr. Nadler, will you support nancy pelosi if she wants to continue as speaker of the house . Yes, absolutely. No. It depends on the choices of the time. Should the nypd continue to strive id security in Public Schools . Unarmed in the middle sized. No. No, we have to take functions away from the Police Department and give it to proper authorities like Mental Health agencies and money from the Police Department for that purpose. Should religious and private schools, including [inaudible] be monitored in order to ensure they are following safe standards . Yes. I think the way it has been done is completely from on high and has maligned communities that have already been attacked and i think its completely unfair and unjust. Is that a no . Not the way its been done. Generally speaking, yes. Said the nypd continue to handle Parking Enforcement . No. No. No. Should taxes be raised on households making more than 500,000 a year . Yes, increasing taxes on rich people are one of the most important things we have to do. Absolutely. Also wealth tax. Yes, but this is not enough. We need to shift to a valueadded tax and broadbased to cover the revenue holds we have. Should mail in voting be allowed for all new york voters in every election . Yes, i fought for weeks in federal court and want to restore the primary to restore our constitutional right to vo vote. Yes. Mr. Nadler. Yes. Mr. Nadler, should a conviction on a charge of deliberately violating social distancing rules be punishable by time in jail . It should be punishable but we shouldnt be putting people in jail now during the pandemic because that increases the rate of transmission of the virus. It should not be putting. [audio difficulties] thats ridiculous. We should [inaudible] should they be allowed to censor content on the platform can expedite generally speaking, no but we have an issue where social media has made our culture gone haywire. We need a data bill of rights and an ethical redesign. Mostly yes or no. Yes. Mr. Nadler. Yes, when the president wants to lie in social media or twitter we should be able to call into account spirit mr. Malik on much of the Democratic Party hold an impersonal National Convention this summer . No. No. No. Okay, i want to talk to you about Public Housing. I noticed as i looked through some of your exchanges and interviews and past debates and so forth that you, mr. Nadler, have a problem with the program and one of the ways the new york city Housing Authority is attending to leverage different assets in order to preserve Public Housing as Public Housing and raise the funds that badly needed funds for repairs. The question for all three of you is if money has been forthcoming from the federal government and you dont like the program what would be your path to getting the badly needed funds to get Public Housing into good working order and sustainability and viability into the future. Let me start with you. I dont want to put you in the same box as your colleague but if you do like rad then please tell us about that and how should we pay for Public Housing. Thank you, id like to quote you where you said recently if it has not worked for 30 years it might not get us there. That is the reality on the slogans that passed Affordable Housing. We need the fundamentally transform the way we generate revenue and creative financing mechanisms like a common ownership self assessed tax which is like a wealth tax that works and involves in continuous public options and we found licenses to radio spectrum and is how facebook and google and uber and left the lab spaces and determine the dynamic pricing and we have to have 21st Century Solutions and to have solutions to the 21st century christians. Somehow that the federal government will fill the whole without treated financing mechanisms, simply wont do. I dont even know where to go from that but my main issue with the rad program is if it doesnt get us enough money and it doesnt guarantee the future of housing and it is not just to fix the current Public Housing that we have. Twentythree. [audio difficulties] my dad went to college, my mom, had me and that is how things are supposed to work. Theyre not working the same for the last thing i want to do is destroy. [audio difficulties] if i cant get federal money than i will not do a good job as her representative which is one of my issues with congressman nadler. He cant seem to get it done. Granted hes millions of the Housing Authority and i got 150 million in my last legislative cycle again for the governor and the biggest ways i knew i had to run against you was that is not anything and that does not help anyone and that gives a few people boilers and 600,000 people are living in inhumane conditions and the city and its unacceptable. It is getting worse. I dont accept the premise of the question that there is no way around that because if there is no way around it that they messed up system. We federally create a Public Housing and we have no way to deal with that in a federal solution and why do we have congress and why do we have a federal government . By the way, before the congressman says i dont know anything about government i was interning on capitol hill at 15 but i lobbied for Civil Liberties and 15. I knew thats where he was going but we learn about congress well, we cannot give up on federal funding or housing. That is why we sponsored legislation to give 72 billion. She did. It is why i succeeded in getting not millions but billions of dollars over the years for Public Housing for people with aids. We have to keep fighting for this. On the state level i agree, state ought to have a wealth tax as well as the federal level i support a wealth tax. I have for quite some time. At this very first thing to do to get this funding and passed permanently the federal level is to beat the republicans in november because they wont vote for it. On the state level we should be able to do a lot more than weve done right now. Candidates, let me switch to our next and final topic which is not Public Housing but all the rest of the Affordable Housing that is an issue of such concern throughout your district. What is your best idea that you would give to people who are desperately worried about their rent . I dont just mean the people who are advocating for an cancellation of rent and if you support that, please say so but if youve got a different idea about how to get us through this immediate crisis and on to longterm affordability in the district and in particular, let us know but lets start with y you. As we have said we need universal basic income right now for everyone. 40 of the 40 million plus jobs that have been lost are probably gone for good. The fed set weve entered a new Great Depression and so in addition to a universal basic income and data Property Rights we should explore again creative financing mechanisms, 21st century ideas like quadratic funding and what quadratic funding is is is like matching funding which we are used to in new york city in the context of city council elections, for example, when you match six100 were in a crisis of public good, public parks, clean air, clean water, basic science research, the policy and most digital media, pandemic and Disease Control and these public goods crises face what is called a free rider problem and basically boils down to well, why should i contribute because the benefit is so widely disputed and you incur all the costs. When quadratic funding is a new mechanism where the ends unit of influence will cost you an dollars and have a public subsidy pool that will reflect the strength of your preferences, think about the matching mechanism we had in new york city where we had Choice Voting to make our government more accountable and to make it more open and decentralized. To put people first. Okay. You know, its funny im a philosopher and a geologist on either side of my family and im going to write a book about anyway, this does not solve everything but i would love Senior Housing because in the covid crisis which you mentioned earlier the absolute aberration is in new york is how many people in Nursing Homes have died if it was its own country our Nursing Homes in the state it would lead intact and that is absolutely the fault of leaders and federal leaders and local leaders and really the fault of our society and our culture which doesnt value aging and doesnt provide for People Living longer. This doesnt get all your problems. [audio difficulties] in my district, in our community, one in five people by 2030 will be a senior and that contributes heavily to my poverty rate in my community and no one is either thinking about that from a policy level seen as caregivers predominantly women so that is maybe why no one here is wondering about seniors is dealing with it. I think one of most meaningful things we could do is create a 21st century solution for Senior Housing that includes Committee Access and includes Community Health and includes Mental Health and that is what im most excited about in addition to Mental Health which you did not get to talk about and its real passion of mine is a Climate Change but finding a place for seniors that is our community and we are nothing further. Its heartbreaking and this is a society that has completely forgotten how to care for people in their golden years. That is the thing im most excited about and i will be launching a plan this week and this is a great way for me to mount this bid thank you. Mr. Adler. Well, there are only two things one can do to increase the supply of housing and to make it affordable. On the state and local levels we have to change the zoning so that you can build more housing in all neighborhoods with integrated housing, and number two, on the federal and local level is funding, no escaping the necessity to the funding that we have to fight to get. The zoning can make and get to more Affordable Housing for Less Government money but there is no stuff but shoot for the government money and anything else. Got to. Let me ask a question. If elected would be a freshman member of congress and what would be your first choice for a Committee Assignment and why . Appropriations. I think that is where the action will be and we are in a moment in time where as a gift to the most painful one of the most painful history is now but the opportunity with that is to not assume anything and the committee that says lets not assume anything and lets see where we can recreate and how we can rethink his appropriation. I will be lobbying heavily in whatever way i can to get on that committee when i win. [crowd boos] it would be the ways and means in appropriations. I was one of the Founding Team that built president ial campaign back when there were five other folks in the campaign was bankrupt and we had no polling, no media and support for universal basic income so the vanguard of the civil rights of this era would have been the low double digits and this type of Coalition Building grassroots moving from the bottom up now nearly 76 of americans support a version of universal basic income during this pandemic. This is in a district that is home to stonewall the largest lbd q community in the country where one in three transit people of color live in poverty. I would be proud to be at first open and proud lgbt representation but we need structural change and that begins with the universal asic income for all. Mr. Nadler, i want to ask you a different kind of question pete i know youve heard versions of this before but your version of it is after three decades of nearly three decades and all of this there were those who say its time for a change simply because its time for a change. Let me ask it this way. What do you plan to do if we reelected in the next two years you were not able to do in the previous 28 . What i plan to do is to continue fighting for social justice, black lives matter, for restraints on the power of the state for restraints on the power of big corporations and the chairman of the do sherry that first hearings of antitrust hearings and 40 years in the last couple of months. We have to continue to fight for everyones rights whether there lgbtq rights but that is a long way to go. Whether it is on black lives matter or on social justice or economics we have to deal with the inequality in this country and it is worse today than its been since the 1920s and there are reasons for that. These are things i want to work on and will work on. When among others in your opponent says you are not a real progressive so how do you answer that . Ive been an aggressive my entire life. Every major aggressive leader whether Elizabeth Warren or alexandria ocasiocortez is supporting might reelection because i have been one of the leading progressives and in the part of my opponents they can say anything i want but it is not reality. I was referring to something i had seen you say which is that you dont consider him a real progressive. No, i dont. I have a tshirt that says boss lady but it doesnt make me Queen Elizabeth when i wear it. I dont consider him a progressive because it is twofold. Hes passed only a handful of things into law the four or five in all which is far fewer than any other member, his peers, hes been much less productive. Two of those five or four are ceremonial. One is naming a building after the guy who died in office, he gets to see not too popular election but the county committees and now what he does is uses ways to screw over other people like what he did to me and to jonathan by declaring us dead in the entire voter file, no, im not done. In addition to that he takes a ton of Corporate Tax money and he mentioned antitrust. His biggest donors are google and facebook. How can you ever actually hold tech accountable when you take money directly from companies . He takes monies from. [audio difficulties] but im not talking about that but im talking about taking money directly from the corporations and there is no way that this man can do that and beyond that he is supportive of moving buys a through to reauthorization at a time when protest is critically important to seeking change grade that means this man is okay with drones flying over me when im a black trans live matter that so no,. Okay, lets mr. Nadler. Yes, please respond. The fact is simply wrong. I have not taken any operations and it is illegal to take money from a corporation. Ive not done so. I have led the fight for years against the surveillance and from the time i opposed the patriot act. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] my bill to eliminate the surveillance and that remains the patriot act. My record is very clear. I am asking for your vote because we dont have the time for these types of 20th century arguments but if you dont see yourself are presented in the far left the finger in the wind politics we are status quo then join us. We dont have the time. We are in the midst of an era of stagnation and inequality that is led to blood and soil politics for the last time we saw a Great Depression there was a onetoone correlation between the rise in on appointment and not knowing what our economic consensus has failed us, institutions face a crisis of legitimacy and social fabric is brain so why have up to 40 of our district left the city because the district is in crisis. It doesnt have to be this way. Join me, vote for a new way forward by june 23. You got the last word. Thank you for your spirited and informative debate. The Senate Returns today at 3 00 p. M. Eastern to continue debate on the judicial nomination of mississippis cory wilson to be a u. S. Court of appeals judge for the fifth circuit. A vote to advance than nomination takes place at 5 30 p. M. Eastern. Later in the week debate and votes are expected on the Police Reform legislation introduced by South Carolina publican senator tim scott. Follow the senate live on cspan2. The house returns for legislative work thursday at 9 00 a. M. Eastern as they take up their Police Reform bill with debates and votes happening as proxy voting is still in effect due to the coronavirus. Also on the agenda, washington dc statehood and an attempt to override President Trump veto of a revolution dealing with student loan forgiveness. Follow the house live on cspan