Were going to dig into that and all the big issues tonight with our whole Political Team right here. And this is the last best chance this year for Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley to shake up a race that Hillary Clinton is dominating right now. Our latest abc News Washington post poll shows her with a commanding 31point lead over sanders. Omalley far behind. But that is only part of the story. And here with our chief White House Correspondent jon karl. And jon, those are the National Numbers. Here in New Hampshire its a real race. You could argue here in New Hampshire its Bernie Sanders thats the frontrunner. There was a poll out just last week by cnn that had him with a tenpoint lead. Hillary clintons got all the big endorsements, or almost all of them in this state from the governor on down. But Bernie Sanders has this fervent support among Young Democratic voters in this state. A 56point lead over Hillary Clinton among voters under age 35. And one point on that National Number that you mentioned, Hillary Clinton with a 31point lead nationally. Eight years ago today a poll 29point lead over barack obama. And we know that didnt we know how it ended up. Not the way she wanted it. Matthew dowd as well, our chief political analyst. You have worked for both parties, chief adviser to george w. Bush as well as chief pollster. And what Bernie Sanders is doing this year is tapping into something weve seen on both sides, tapping into real anger and anxiety in the country. Oh, absolutely. We talk a lot about what happened on the other side with donald trump. But weve i think underestimated whats gone on with Bernie Sanders in the course of this. Hes drawing nearly as big crowds as anybody in this race. There. He is antiestablishment, and what hes doing is what weve seen surface on the gop side of this race. Underestimated. I think Bernie Sanders has more of a shot than probably 10 or 12 of the gop candidates of winning a primary or a caucus. That is a pretty big field over there. 24 hours. Covering the Clinton Campaign. Shes in the press Filing Center whats shapd a staffer for the Bernie Sanders campaign has been fired for looking at the voter files of Hillary Clinton. It appears this issue is getting resolved right now, but it did reveal some real fury beneath the suvs of these campaigns. Fury is right. Two of the three candidates on this stage tonight are there after 40 ours or so of hurling accusations of theft and sabotage at each other. Sources are telling us that sanders will express regret for what happened in this data breach but that he is prepared to fire back at the Democratic Party if he has to for what he is considering to be unfair treatment. This is what happened. The sanders team tapped into clintons private voter database. This was a computer glitch that allowed this to happen earlier this week. This database is controlled by the Democratic National committee. It is the lifeblood of any campaign. It has valuable information about voters, how they vote, and the clinton team is calling this downright theft, egregious behavior. The Sanders Campaign is walking onto this stage tonight with a lawsuit pending against the Democratic National committee accusing it of being in cahoots with the Clinton Campaign after its access to that database was cut off earlier this week. The clintons say that the Sanders Campaign promised to run a different kind of campaign, but this has all the appearance of not just politics as usual, george, but they say dirty politics. Im here with a member of the Democratic National committee, donna brazile, also our consultant as well. And right now the dnc is allowing sanders to keep his voter files while the investigation continues. What i wanted to ask you about is the Clinton Campaign. She had kind of a rocky summer, a rocky launch, found her footing during the fall, and throughout this campaign shes shown shes determined to learn the lessons of eight years ago when she lost to barack obama. You know, george, Hillary Clinton has not just learned the lessons but i think she has been tested in ways that no one expected her to be tested. And shes come out of these tests as a stronger candidate, a understands the mistakes that she made eight years ago but a candidate determined to reach out to voters in ways that they get to know her personally so that she can build trust with them and she can get them to go out and caucus and support her. I think shes a stronger candidate. And the republicans will be surprised that hillary will come ouou of this Democratic Campaign when its over. Because we have a long way before its over. She will come out battle tested. Cokie roberts here as well. And talking about surprises, Bernie Sanders, you grew up in washington, you covered capitol hill for years. Hes been on capitol hill now for 25 years. The anniversary this fall. I dont think you could find a person there who would believe have predicted this . Predicted that hed be such a force on the campaign trail. Right. Not a one. He came in 1990 as a democratic socialist. Hes suing the Democratic Party. He just became a democrat this year. And he is the longestserving independent in congress. And he immediately set teeth on edge because he took on both and then when he went to the senatetevery similar performance including right after the republicans had retaken the house in 2010, giving this 8 1 2hour speech railing against a tax deal that had been worked out with Vice President leadership. So hes always been sort of putting it to the leadership in a way that people would not have no. But thats lit a real fire underneath the young voters especially, jon karl. And that was supposed to be who Martin Omalley was going to hes of a different generation in this race. No doubt. Martin omalley positioning himself as the true liberal in the race, the person that was there first on issues like gay marriage and immigration and gun control. But he has simply not caught fire. And ill tell you, you go to a Bernie Sanders rally, especially one anywhere near a college campus, and the fervent level of support is evocative of some of what we saw of barack obama in 2007. I want to check in with our silver, the founder of 538. Com and the headquarters of 538. Com there in new york. Were here in New Hampshire tonight, nate, but both campaigns, all three campaigns going to have a real eye tonight on that first caucus state of iowa. Yeah, i think in some ways iowa will set Everything Else up. Its the first state to vote. Usually you win iowa you get about a sevenpoin bounce. 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Youve been covering the republican field. You spent a lot of time with frontrunner donald trump. He goes a lot further than anyone else. He talks about Hillary Clinton getting indicted over her death of hundreds of thousands of people. But we just saw right there the entire republican field trying to tie Hillary Clinton to b back obama, make her tenure as secretary of state a top issue. Thats right, george, and it has gotten hotter lately. Donald trump is the candidate who has hit Hillary Clinton the hardest. Hes also the only one who has hosted her at a wedding. His attacks on her mostly center around her time as secretary of state, but hes even mocked her pantsuits recently. Trumps criticicm on her Foreign Policy g gs some of the biggest applause at his rallies, and its that Foreign Policy record where republicans feel she may be the most vulnerable. Besides trump in recent conversations with the cruz and rubio campaigns and others the consensus in the Republican Party right now as one Senior Adviser put it is the world is a much more unstable place because of clinton and president obama. There are three democrats in this race, butut make no mistake, the republicans are preparing, theyre gunning to take on clinton. They feel the Democratic Party has always tried to campaign as Hillary Clinton is a name of the past. If she is the nominee, republicans will also hammer her over her trustworthiness, citing recent polls like our abc News Washington p pt poll that ows she has a truru issue with some voters. George . Today marco rubio, the first republican candidate to try to make hay out of this data breach issue. Yeah, thats right. He actually put out a release just before wee came ononhe air. It showed a picture of Hillary Clinton and said under fbi investigation, then a picture of Bernie Sanders and it cited the data breach as well. Its something the republicans are definitely going to home in on and t t to attack them over that. Or at least get a laugh out of it. Joined by ana navarro our consultant. Youre a supporter of jeb bush. A year ago he came into this race vowing to follow a strtregy that could win a general election, stay in the middle. But it seems like this race has been dominated by the harder line in the party, especially on the issue of immigration. I think you have seen a wide variety of opinions. Debate, you see a spectrum of opinions. I was looking at this debate stage today. I cant believe theres only three podiums there. As a republican this is such a new sight for me. I think that the immigration thing is the immigration issue is getting incredibly complicated in the Republican Party. We saw a lot of crossfire between ted cruz and marco rubio during the debate. Immigration was supposed to be a problem for marco rubio. It turns out its also a problem, a big one, for ted cruz. Because at times he has argued for it, at times he has argued against it. D the truth is he did offer amendments to the 2013 immigration law, the gang of eight law, arguing it would make it stronger and better. Now he says actually i was trying to kill it. Well, then he was either being untruthful then or is being untruthful now. Democrats want to pick up those latino votes,s,et above 70 . But let me go to matthew dowd here. And ana sort of hit on this. Have switched places. In all the past elections in our lifetime the republicans picked the person next in lili. Democrats have more of a freeforall. This time its reversed. It used to always be republicans fall in line and democrats fall in love. And now republicans are looking to fall in love and democrats basically have fallen in line. We have a debate. Andd Bernie Sanders still has some oomph in this race. I think he could still win here in New Hampshire. But theyve basically fall nen line. But the problem the republicans have is that the big force thats arrived on the scene, the meteor thats hit the planet is donald trump and disrupted anything they thought was a Planning Party in the course of this. Donald trump leads this race. Theres much fear on the republican side that if hes the nominee thth hillala clinton wins in a walk. But that fact alone has completely disrupted whats going on on the republican side. And its also backwards in the sense were used to the republican being the old white man party. And what we see is were going to see three people on that stage who are veteran politicians. On the republican side youve got a bunch of outsiders. Youve got hispanics. The diversity you that see on that stage versus what youre seeing on this stage is frankly a new thing for its really the same old policies and rhetoric that in the past has animated republblans and the base o othe Republican PartyDonald Trumps the same old . Donald trump is in a category i dont even think remember, he used to be a democrat. Hillary clinton if she gets the nomination wants to run against donald trump. Shes made no secret of that. Her team started to talk up ted cruz as well. The candidate they are more afraid of, marco rubio. Its amazinin they spenen a year, more than a year preparing to run against jeb bush. And now they are they would love to run against donald trump. She beats him in every headtohead matchup youve seen. And by bigger margins than anybody on this stage. But they most fear a marco rubiojohn kasich ticket. Youve got florida. Youve got ohio. Youve got young appeal. Youve got an hispanic. And they feel that that could be a tougug ticket. But right now marar rubio is a depending on the state. Debate ten minutes away. Well be right back. Song thats life song thats life song thats life song thats lifefe thats life. You diet. You exercise. And if you still need help lowering your blood sugar. This is jardiance. 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Hes in washington tonight watching the debate with a group of activists whove really helped define this campaign, byron. Thats right, george. 2015 has been called the year of the activist. And so weve gathered here in the Nations Capital with a group of young peopop, are active in a variety of issues in social media on the streets of america. They range from terrorism, immigration, gun safety, abortion, black lives matter, rape on campus, lgbt rights issues. A couple things about this group are interesting, george. We have liberals, moderates, conservatives. We have republicans, democrats, independents. None offhem have yet to dedede on a candidate. The one word i would use to describe this group is passionate. Guys, question for you. What is the number one issue in america now . [ multiple answers ] george, as you can hear, there are a number of number one issues for this group. They want to hear what the candidates have to say. They want a candidate with a vision for america. As i said, none of them have committed to any person yet, man or woman, but they want someone who will address these issues in a serious way. It sounds like we should have a Second Screen for their debate during the debate. Exactly. And were going to hear from thth later on. Lets go back to our panel right now for what to watch for as matthew dowd, i want to go to you. We just got a tweet from tad devine whos a chief strategist for Bernie Sanders. Heres what the tweet said. He said when i said a fired staffer made a mistake i meant it the same way Hillary Clinton did with the iraq war. Those are fighting words. I h h said earlili today that i thought both sides wanted to consider this like a kidney stone and get it passed through as quickly as possible. To me it sounds theyve ratcheted it up. Since we all thought it was settled eararer this morning that they were going to give Bernie Sanders access to the database. It doesnt look settled at all. Weve seen it go back and forth between the two campaigns. I would guess its going to come up tonight when everybody thought this was going to be a different issue according t tthe last 24 hours. And part of the reason, donna, is this is really getting at something that has rankled the Sanders Campaign for some time, that the dnc they say is thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton. You know, george, ive been at every meeting of the Democratic Party since Bernie Sanders has announced, and all i know is that democrats are opening up the doors for bernie he has built a very credible grass grassroot organization from scratch. Hes out there with big crowds. Hes raised lots of money. I dont see any what i call barrier to Bernie Sanders winning in states that hes very competitive in. And keep in mind, george, as you well know, parties dont want a lot of primary debates. They think that it weakens them for the general election. So they dont have to be rooting for one candidate to say we want to keep the debates to a minimum. But the sanders people are bitter about it. They wanted more debates. They feel that this whole thing, that the whole party you know, the whole Party Structure has been against them. Even in this state. Even in this state where Bernie Sanders again is arguably the frontrunner, youve got 80 Public Officials that have endorsed Hillary Clinton and are supporting her. Right before the debatat the clinton campapan hitting back pretty hard on this breach by sanders saying this is no accident, this was theft. They are suggesting the law was broken here. Theyve even raised the question privately to reporters, gee, we hope nobody has to go toail over this. Defcon 7 on this. But thats all because of her and her server. This is her having a way to get back onn that issue and raise questions about his trustworthiness, which is what shes which donna, it makes me think about that first debate Bernie Sanders said were sick and tired of hearing about your Hillary Clinton. Will she do the same for Bernie Sanders tonight . I dont know. But ill tell you one thing. Its a serious behavior problem that somebody went in a campaign vault and took data, tried to destroy it, brought other people in to take data, and thats why the dnc came down very heavy. Now, i agree that the dnc should alalw senator nders campaign to continue to access the data. But you know what . Investigation and matthew dowd, on top of this issue, youve got to expect that Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley both know this is their last chance for several weeks to really get a National Audience on some big issues. Chance in many ways until in the course of the campaign. This sets the tone for the next three weeks becausee go intnt theew year. The race sort of freezes. Theyre far behind. Especially Bernie Sanders. I think he has to come in this debate and draw really sharp contrasts that he hasnt done in the previous two debates. Hes backed away from them. He has to win iowa, which hes behind in now. He has to win here to try to reset this total race. And the only way he can do that or Martin Omalley could do that is to take her on frontally. And not just on thee econony, not just on wall reet, not just on the issues that are the bread and butter for bernie security. On what happened under her watch in libya, on wha she wants to do in syria. Theyre going to portray her, particularly sanders, as a hawk, somebody thats out of touch with the base of the Democratic Party. That is a top issue tonight. Three spreadsheets later, you finally bring home the one. Then smash it into a tree. Your Insurance Company is all too happy to raise your rates. Maybe you shouldve done a little more research on them. 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Promising to carpetbomb unti the desert glows. Our goaoa is t t put together a coalition to destroy isis. It doesnt make you sound strong. All of us must stand up and speak out. Youre in over your head. Fight for what you believe in. This is a fight we have to win. The race is tight. Couldnt be closer. Between hillary and bernie right here in New Hampshire. And now in just moments, with so much on the line, they faceeach other and the country live from Saint Anselm College in democratic debate. Here again, david muir and [ applause ] and we do say good evening to you from New Hampshire tonight. Over the next two hours were going to have a chance to take a measure of t e candidates vying to be the democratic nominee for president. It of course is the most important thing we do as a democracy, choosing a president. The individual who will lead us through peace and prosperity, through war and conflict. They have all answered many questions in the past few months. But much has changed in the world since they last debated five weeks ago. And this is the last debate of the year. In les than two months voters so please welcome the candidates for the democratic nomination for president. Secretary Hillary Clinton. [ cheers and applause ] governor Martin Omalley. [ cheers and applause ] and senator Bernie Sanders. [ cheers and applause ] and good evening to you all. The rules for tonight are very basic and have been agreed to by all three campaigns in advance. Candidates can take up to a minute and a half to respond directly to a question. 45 seconds will be allowed. There are green, yellow, and red lights that each candidate will see to signal when time is runninin outnd when theyy supposed to be finished with their answers. We will be tackling many Critical Issues right here tonight, and we begin with Opening Statements in alphabetical order and secretary clinton. Well, thank you. And im delighted to be here at New Hampshire for this debate. You know, the american president has to both keep our family safe and make the economy grow in a way thatt helps everyone, not just those at the top. Thats the job. I have a strategy to combat and defeat isis without getting us involved in another ground war, and i have plans to raise incomes and deal with a lot of the problems that keep families up at night. Im very clear that we have a distinct difference between those of us on this stage republican counterparts. From my perspective, we have to prevent the republicans from rolling back the progress that weve made. They would repeal the Affordable Care act, not improve it. They would ge more tax breaks to the super w wlthy and corpororions, not to the middle class. And they would, despite all their tough talk about terrorism, continue to let people who are on the nofly list buy guns. So we have a lot of work to do in this campaign to make it clear where we stand in the Democratic Party,hat we will do f r our country, and i look forward to this evenings discussion of real issues that face the American People. Thank you. Thank you, secretary clinton. [ applse ] governor omalley. Martha, thank you. Tonight we have a different debate than the debates that we far. Because tonight is different because of this reason. President ial Campaign America has again been attacked by jihadi terrorists. American lives taken from us. So yes, we must talk about our ideas to move o o economy forward. But thehe first job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of the United States. I visited with a number of our neighbors in Northern Virginia at a mosque last friday. And as i looked out there at the eyes of our neighbors, i also looked in the eyes of veterans. I looked into the eyes of boy scouts. I looked into the eyes of moms and dads who would d d anything in their power to protect our countrys values and our freedoms. What our nation needs right now is to realize that while we face a terror danger we also face a different sort of political danger and that is the danger that democracies find themselves susceptible to when unscrupulous leaders try to turn us upon each what our country needs right now is new leadership that willl bring us together around the freedoms that we share as americans. We will rise to the challenge of isil. And we will rise together to the challenges that we face in our economy. But we e ll only doo if we hold true to the values and the freedoms that unite us. Which means we must Never Surrender them to terrorists, must n ner surrender our American Values to racists, must Never Surrender them to the fascist pleas of billionaires with big mouths. We are a better country than this. Our enduring symbol is s t the barbed w we fence. It is the statue of liberty. And americas best days are in front of us if we move forward together. [ applause ] g gernor omalley, thank you. Senator sanders. Good evening. I am running for president of the United States because it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. Because ourconomy is rigged, because working people are working longer hours for lower wages, and almost all of the new wealth and income being created is going to the top 1 . Im running for p psident because im going to create an economy that works for working families, not just billionaires. Im running for president because we have a Campaign Finance system which is corrupt, where billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy candidates who will represent their interest rather than the middle e ass and working families. Im running because we need to address the planetary crisis of Climate Change and take on the fossil fuel industry and transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel to Energy Efficiency and sustainable energy. Im running for president policy, one that takes on isis, one that destroys isis, but one does not one that does not get us involved in perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the middle east but rather works around a major coalition of wealthy and powerful nations supporting muslim troops on the ground. Thats the kind of coalition we need. And thats the kind of coalition i will put together. [ applause ] senator sanders,hank you. And thank you all. We do have a lot of important issues to get here tonight, and we want to address the controversy of the last 24 hours right off the top because we heard s se of the most heated rhetoric of the campaign so far between two of the campaigns on this stage tonight. Senator sanders, you fired a campaign staffer. You have sued the Democratic National committee. All of this after your campaigig acknowledged that some of your staffers irresponsibly accessed the Clinton Campaign called this a very egregious braep of data anan ethics and said our data was stolen. Did they overstate this, or were your staffers essentially playbook . David, let me give you a little bit of backgrounddhere. E dnc has hired breaches in information. Two months ago our staff found information on our computers from the Clinton Campaign. And when our staffers said whoa, whats going on here, they went to the dnc quietly. They went t tthe vendor and s sd hey, something is wrong. And that was quietly dealt with. None of that information was looked at. Our staff at that point did exactly the right thing. A few days ago a similar incident happened. There was a breach because the dnc vendor screwed up6 information came to our campaign. They looked at that information. As soon as we learned that they looked at that information, we fired that person. We are now doing an independent internal invesesgation to see who else was involved. Thirdly, what i have a real problem with, and as you mentioned,his is a problem. I recognize it is a probobm. But w wt the dnc did arbitrarily, without discussing it with us, is shut off our access to our own information, crippling our campaign. That is an egregious act. Im glad that late last night that was resolved. Fourthly, i lk forward to working with secretary clinton for an investigation, an independent investigation about all of the breaches that have occurred from day one in this campaign because i am not convinced that information from our campaign may notave ended up in her campaign. But we need an independent investigation, and i hope secretary clinton will agree with me for the need of that. Last point. When we saw the breach two months ago, we didnt go running to the media and make a big deal about it. And it bothers me very much that rather than working on this issue t resolve it it h become manyy press releases from the Clinton Campaign later. You do mention the dnc vendor but you said of your staff that absolutely. Does secretary clinton deserve an apology tonight . Yes. I apologize. Secretary clinton. Do you accept . [ applause ] not only do i apologize to secretary clinton, and i hope we can Work Together onn day one. I want to apologize to my supporters. This is not the type of campaign that we run. And if i find anybody else involved in this, they y ll also bebe fired. Apologized. I very much appreciate that comment, bernie. It really is important that we go forward on this. I know that you now have your data back and that there has been an agreement for an independent inquiry into what did happen. Obviously, we were distressed when we learned of itecause weve worked very hard. I said in the beginning of this campaign, we wanted to reach as many voters as possible. Anan we have tens of thousands of volunteers doing that and entering data all the time to keep up with what people are telling us. And so now that i think, you ow, weveesolved your data, weve agreed on an independent inquiry, we should move on because i dont think the American People are all that interested in this. I think theyre more interested in what we have to say about all the big issues facing us. [ applause ] our countryryas been attacked. We have pressing issues involving how were going to adapt to this changing era of warfare. Our economy, people are working harder and being left behind. You want to know why things dont get done in washington . Because for the last 24 hours with those issues being so urgent to people as they tune in tonight, wondering how theyre going to even be able to buy presents for their kids, instead back and forth. Maybe thats normal politics in washington. But that is not the politics of higher purpose that people expect from our party. We need to address our security issues. We need to address the Economic Issues around the kitchen table. And if people want to have more highminded politics and want to move our country forward, go on to martinomalley. Coco and help my campaign move our country forward. All three candidates weighing in. Let me agree with secretary clinton. We had this incident before. With your famous emails. Right . And whaha i said and i think what i hope you say is when the middle class of this country is disappearing, when we have inequality, when were the only Major Company on earth not guaranteeing health care to all people, all the issues the governor talked about, the secretary talked about, those are the issues. Media notwithstanding. Ththe are the issues t tt the americic people want discussed. I hope those are the issues well discuss. Senator sanders, lets move on to some of those issues. It is jus six days before christmas, as we all know in this country. Its typicicly a j jful time as it is this year as well. But its also an anxious time. President obama has acknowledged that what we saw in San Bernardino was an act of terrorism. But we remember the president said right before thanksgiving there is no known specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. We now know that this couple had assembled an arsenal. Ey were not on Law Enforcements radar. They wereompletely undetected. So as we approach another holiday, with the president again saying late this week no credible threat, secretary clinton, how confident should couple right now in thee u. S. Going undetected . And what would you do as president to find them . Well, first, the most important job of being president is obviously t keep our country safe and to keep the families of america safe. I have a plan that ive put forward to go after isis. Not to contain them but to defeat themem and it h h three parts. First, to go after them and deprive them of the territory they occupy now inoth syria and iraq. Secondly, to go after and dismantle their Global Network of terrorism. And thirdly, to do more to keep us safe. Under each of those three parts of my plan i havav very specicic recommendations about what to do. Obviously, in the first we do have to have an americanled air campaign. We have to have arab and kurdish troops on the ground. Everything from north africa to south asia a beyond. And then most importantly, here at home. Think thehe are three things that we have to get right. We have to do the best possible job of sharing intelligence and information. That now includes the internet. Because we have seen that isis a very effective recruiter, propagandist, and inciter and celebrator of violence. That means we have to work more closely with our great Tech Companies. They cant see the governmen as anadversary. We cant s s them as obstructionist. Weve got to figure out how we can do more to understand who is saying what and what theyre planning. And we must work more closely with Muslim American communities. Just like martin, i met with a group of Muslim Americans this past week to hear from them about what theyre doing to try to stop radicalization. They will be our earar warningng signal. Thats why we need to work with them, not demonize them as the david, i am the veryirst post9 11 mayor and the very first post9 11 governor. I understand from the ground up that when attacks like San Bernardino happen, when the attacks like the attacks of 9 11 happen, that when people call 911 the first people that show up are the local first responders. Many of the things secretary clinton said are absolutely true. But they underscore a lack of investment thatte have as a nation failed to make over these last 15 years in intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis, intelligence sharin not only in theater, in syria and iraq and other places where we involved ourselves in toppling dictators without having any idea what comes next, but here in the homeland as we protect people from this threat of the l le wolflf and these changing tactics and strategies. I believe thats whats happened heres that the president had us on the right course but its a lack of battle tempo. We have to increase the battle tempo. Getting things done and forcing the sharing of information and doing a much better job of acting on it in order to prevent these sorts of attacks in the future. Were going to break down these issues tonight. T i do want to go to senator sanders because the concern going into christmas is significant, as you know. A new abc news poll shows 77 of americans have little or no confidence in the governments ability to prevent a lone wolf attack. How would you specifically find wouldbe terrorists who are going undetected . Im one of the 77 . I think this is a very difficult issue. And let me agree with much of what the secretary and the governor have said. Let me tell you what i think we have got to do. I think its a twopronged issue. Number one, our goal is to crush and destroy isis. What is the best way to do it . Well, i think there are some differences of opinion here. Perhaps between the secretary and myself. I voted against the war in iraq military action would not produce the results that were kind of unraveling and instability that we saw in the middle east. I do not belilie in unilateral american action. I believe in action in which we put together a Strong Coalition of forces, major powers and the mumuim nations. I think one of the heroes in a real quagmire out there, in a dangerous and difficult world, one of the heroes who we should recognize in the middle east is King Abdullah ii of jordan. This small country has welcomed in many refugees. Recently very important. He said, yes, intertional terrorism is by definition an international issue. But it is primarily an issue of the muslim nations who are fighting for the soul of islam. We the muslims should lead the effort on the ground. Right. Senator, thank you. Secretary inton, in thth wawa of the San Bernardino attack, you all emphasized gun control. But our latest poll shows that people, not stricter gun laws, is the bestefense against terrorism. Are they wrong . Well, i think you have to look at both the terrorism challenge that we face abroad and certainlyt home and the role that guns play in delivering the violence that stalks us. Clearly, we have to have a very specific set of actions to take. Whwh senatoranders talksks about coalition, i agree with him about that. Weve got to build a coalition abroad. We also have to build a coalition at home. Abroad we need a coalition that is going to take on isis. I know how hard that is. I know it isnt something you just hope people will do secretary clinton, can we stick to gun control . Im getting to that. Because i i ink if you onlyy think about the coalition abroad youre missing the main point, which is we need a coalition here at home. Ns in and of themselves in my opinion will not make americans safer. Already to gun violence. Arming more people to do what i think is not the appropriate response to teteorism. I think what is [ applause ] is creating much deeper, closer relations and, yes, coalitions within our own country. The first line of defense against radicalization is slim american community. People who we should be welcoming and working with. I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the republicans, particularly donald trump, is sending a message to muslims here in the United States and literally around the world that there is a clash of civilizations, that there is some kind of western plot or even war against islam, which then i believe fans the flames of radicalization. So guns have to be looked at as have to figure out how were going to deal with the radicalization here in the unitededstates. On this issue wait just a moment, please, governor omalley. Senator sanders, weve seen those long lines of people buying guns in record numbers ter the paris attacks. Would you discourage people from buying a gun . Its a country in which People Choose to buy guns. I think half of the more than half of the people in my own state of vermont, myuess here in New Hampshire, are gun owners. Thats the right of people. But this is what i do believe. I believe that when we have some 300 million guns in thiss country, i believe that when we have seen these horrific mass killings not only in San Bernardino but in colorado and movie t taters incolorado, i i think we have got to bring together the vast majority of the people who do in fact regulations. A poll recently came out, overwhelming majority of the American People say we should strengthen the instant background check. Who denies that it is crazy [ applause ] who denies that it is crazy to allow people to own guns who are criminals or are mentally unstable . Weve got to eliminate the show loophole. In my view, we have got to see that weapons designed by the military to kill people are not in the hands of civilians. I think there is a consensus im not going to say that everybody is in agreement. Its a divided country on guns. But there is a broad consensus on sensible gun safety regulations that i, coming from a state tt has virtually no gun control, will do my best to bring together. Thank you, senator sanders. I think wee going t tgo on we want to touch on something that david governor we have to abide by the rules here. Well call on you shortly. I do want to pick up on something actually passed comprehensive gun safety legislation with a ban on combat assault weapons, david. And look, there are profound ifferences in this race on this issue. Senator sanders voted against the brady bill. Senator sanders voted to give immunity to gun dealers. And senator sanders voted against Even Research dollars to look into this Public Health issue. Secretary clinton changes her positiononn this every election ar, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against president obama and saying we dont need federal standards. Look, what we need on this issue is not more polls. We need moror principle. When isil does training videos that say the easiest way to get a combat assault weapon in the United States of america is at a gun show, then we should all be waking up. We need comprehensive gun safety legislation let me stay with gun control for a minute, then. You talk about assault weapons. Even if you were able to ban the tomorrow, americans already own an estimated 7 to 10 million semiautomatic rifles. Would you make it illegal to own those weapons, force people to turn them in . And if not, how w wld banning the sales really make a difference . Because, martha, it would prevent people like the guy who just got charged yesterday perhaps from being able to buy a combat assault weapon. We are the only nation, only developed nation again, im not talking about buying. Would you have them confiscated . The ones that are already here. No, martha, i would not. Maryland. Butou know what we did in maryland . We overcame the nras objections. We overcame all of the crowds that were coming down there. We did our own rallies. And at least if we enact these laws in a prospective way we can address a major vulnerability in our country. Isil videos, isil training videos are telling loan wolfs the easiest way to buy a combat assault weapon in ameriri is at a g g show, and its because of the flipflopping political of my two colleagues on the stage have represented for the last 40 years whoa, whoa, whoa. Lets calm down a little bit, martin. Yeah, lets tell the truth, martin. I am telling the truth. First of all, lets have some rules here, commentators. We will. But let me j jt establish that for you, senator. Governor, we are going to call in tonight its very clear you have a lot to say but please wait until youre called upon. And senator, he invoked your record he sure did. Ill let you respond. He invoked mine as well. Sure did. For a start, we can do all the great speeches we want. Theyre not going to succeed unless theres a consensus. In 1988, just to set the record straight, governor, i ran for the u. S. House. We have one house member from vermont. Three candidates i ithe race. One candidate said you know what, i dont think its a great idea that we sell automatic weapons in this country that are used by the military to kill gun people said thehe were three candidates s the race. You vote for one of the others, but not Bernie Sanders. I lost that election by 3 percentage points. Quite likely for that reason. So please do not explain to me coming f fm a state where democratic governors and republican governors have supported virtually no gun control excuse me. Do not tell me. Pat leahy that i have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole, and nowow in a posititn to create a consensus in america on gun safety. Senator, thank you. [ applause ] secretary clinton, you brought ago i do. And this is an important issue. And i know well get to a lot of other critical ones as well. I actually agree with governor omalley about the need for common sense gun Safety Measures, and i applaud his i just wish he wouldnt misrepresent mine. I have been for the brady bill. I have been against assault weapons. I have voted not to give gun makers and sellers immunity. And i also know and im glad to see this. Senator sanders has really moved in face of the facts aboutut what were confronting in our country. I know that he has said in the two previous debates that he wants to take on this immunity issue because we need to send a strong message to the gun manufacturers,s,o the sellers, to the gun lobby. And i would hope, senator sanders, that you would join the democrats who are trying to close the charleston loophole, that you would sponsor or cosponsor legislation to remove the absolute immunity. We need to move on this country. Its no longer enough just to say the vast majority of americans want common sense gun Safety Measures including gun owners. We need, and only the three of republican side will even admit theres a problem, and in whatever way the three of u u can we need to move this agenda forward and begin to deal with the gun lobby and the intimidation that they present. [ applause ] secretary clinton, thank you. Were going to move on from guns here a a go back to something you mentioned a short time ago. You brought up donald trump first here this evening. Weve now seen the polling done well after his proposed ban on muslims coming to america. 36 of americans, more than 1 3, agree with him. You have weighed in already on donald trump. Youve weighed in on the proposed ban. But what would you say to the millions of americans watching tonight who agree with him . Are they wrong . Well, i think a lot of people are understandably reacting out of fear and anxiety about what theyre seeing. First what they saw in paris. Now what they have seen in San Bernardino. And mr. Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and make them think t tre are easy swers to very complex questions. So what i would say is, number one, we need to be united against the threats that we face. We need to have everybody in our country focused on watching what happens and reporting it if its suspicious, reporting what you hear, making sure that Muslim Americans dont feel left out or marginalized at the very moment when we need their help. You know, i was a senator from new york after 9 11, and we spent countless hours trying to figure out how to protect the city a a the state from perhaps additional attacks. One of the best things that was done, and george w. Bush did this, and i give him credit, was to reach out to Muslim Americans and say were in this together, you are not our adversary, you are our partner. And we also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that trump is sending around the world donon fall on he is becoming isiss best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists. I want to explain whyhis is not in americas interest to react with this kind of fear and spond to this sort of bigotrtr secretary, thank you. Senator sanders, i did want to ask you about a neighbor in San Bernardino who reportedly witnessed packages being livered to that couples home, that it set off red flags but they didnt report it because they were afraid to profile. What would you say to americans afraid to profile . It ever acceptable . The ansnsr is obviouslyly if you see suspicious activity you report it. Thats kind of a nobrainer. If somebody is loading guns and ammunition into a house, i think its a good idea to call 911. Do it. But im asking about profiling. Because a lot of people are afraid of that. I want to talk about Something Else because secretary clinton i think made some what you have now is a very dangerous m ment in american historor the secretary is right. Our people are fearful. They are anxious on a number of levels. They are anxious about international terrorism. And the possibility of another attack on america. We all understand that. But you know what else theyre anxious about . Theyre anxious about the fact that they are working incredibly long hours, theyre worried about their k ks and theyre seeing the income and wealth going to the top 1 . And theyre looking at washington and saying the rich are getting much richer, im getting poorer, what a a you going to do for my kids . And somebody like a trump comes along and says i know the answers. The answer is that all of the mexicans, theyre criminals and rapists, weve got to hate the mexicans. Those are yourr enemies. We hate all the muslims because all of the muslims are terrorists. Weve got to hate the muslims. Meanwhile, the rich get richer. So what i say to those people whoo to donaldtrumps low minimum wage in america is a good idea. He thinks low wages are a good idea. I believe we stand t tether to addreses the real issues facing this country, not allow them to divide us by race or where we come from. Lets create an america that works for all of us, not the handful on top. [ applause ] senator, thank you. I want to move to another martha not yet, governor omalley. Ill come to you when we call on you. Thank you very much. When you come back to me, ill share that story. Youll be happy. Ill let you talk then. Secretary clinton, i want to talk about a new terrorist tool used in the paris attacks, encryption encryption. Fbi director james comey says terrorists can hold secret communications which Law Enforcement cannot get to even with a court order. Youve talked a lot about bringing tech leaders and government officials together, removing encryption tools from our p pducts altogetherr would only hurt lawabiding citizens data. So would you force him to give Law Enforcement a key to encrypted technology by making it law . I would not want to go to that point. Extraordinaryyapacities that the Tech Community has and the legitimate needs and questions from Law Enforcement that there could be a manhattanlike project, something that would bring the government and the tech communities together to see theyre not adversaries, theyve got to be partners. It doesnt do anybody any good. If terrorists can move toward encrypted communication that no Law Enforcement agency can break into before or after, there must be some way. I dont know enough about the technology, martha, to be able to say what it is. But i have a lot of confidence the back door is the wrong door. And i understand what apple and others are saying about that. But i also understand when a Law Enforcement official charged with the responsibility of preventing attacks, to go back to our early questions, how do we prevent attacks, well, if we cant know what someone is planningnge are going to have to rely on the neighbor or, you know, the member of the mosque or the teacher, somebody to see something. I just think theres got to be a way,nd i wouldld hope that our Tech Companies would work with government to figure that out. Otherwise, Law Enforcement is blind. Blind before, blind during, and unfortunately in many instances blind after. So we always have to balance liberty and security, privacy and safety, but i know that Law Enforcement needs the tools to keep us safe. And thats what i hope, there can be some understanding and cooperation to achieve. And governor omalley, where do you draw the line between i belie that we should never give up our ivacy, never shouldldive up our freedoms in exchange for a promise of security. We need to figure this out together. We need a collaborative approach. We need new leadership. The way that things work in the modern era is actually to gather people around the table and figure these things outs. The federal government should have to get warrants. Thats not some sort of passe antique principle that safeguards our freedodo. But at the same time with new technologies i believe that the people creating these projects i mean these products also have an obligation to come together with Law Enforcement to figure these things out. True to our ameririn principles and values. My friend kashif, who is a doctor in maryland, back to this issue of our danger as a democracy of turning against ourselves. He was putting his 10 and other night. And he is a proud american muslim. To him, dad, whatt happensf dodold trump wins and we have to move out of our homes . These are very, very real issues. This is a clear and present danger in our politics within. We need to speak to what unites us as a people. Freedom of worship, freedom of religion, freedom of expression. And we should never be convinced to give up those freedoms in exchange for a a promise of greater security. Especially from someone as untried and as incompetent as donald trump. Thank you, governor omalley. Maha, were going to turn america. And on the subject of refugees, more than half of all americans now say they oppose taking in refugees from syria and across the middle east. Secretary clinton, you have said that it would undermine who we are as americans shutting our doors. But New Hampshires governor, where we are right here tonight, a democrat and a supporter of yours, is among more than 30 governors who are now concerned. Governor Maggie Hassan says we should halt acceptance of syrian can assure the vetting process, halt syrian refugees, a pause. Is she wrong . Well, i agree that we have to have the toughest screening and vetting but a halt . I dont think a halt is necessary. What we have to do is put all of our resources through the department of homeland security, through the state department, through our intelligence agencies, and we have to have an increased vetting and screening. Now, this takes, david, 18 months to 24 months, two years. Happpp overnight. And everything that can be done should be done. But the process should move forward while we are also taking on isis, putting together the kind of strategy that ive advocated for, and making sure that the vetting and the possible. Because i do believe that we have a history and a tradition. That is part of our values system. And we dont want to sacrifice we dont want to make it seem as though we are turning into a nation of fearritead of a nation ofresolve. So i want us to have a very tough screening process. But i want that process to go forward. And if at the end of 18 months, 24 months there a a people who have been cleared, and i would prioritize widows and orphans and the elderly, people who may have relatives, families, or nowhere else to go. I would prioritize them. And that would i think give the American Public a bit more of a sense of security about who is being processed and who might end up coming as refugees. Governor omalley, obviously you were governor yourself at one time. What would you say to New Hampshires governor tonight . Is she wrong on this . No, what i would say is this is look, i was the first of the three of us to call for america to septembmb 65,000 refugees we were asked to accept. And if this humanitarian crisis more. So the idea of a halt or a pause . David, there are wider vulnerabilities than when it comes to refugees. I met recently with some members of the chaldean Christian Communities and the wait times are a year, 188 months, 24 months. There is a pretty excruciating process that refugees go through. We need to invest more in terms of the other sort of visas and the other sort of waivers. What thehe chaldean families told me is their families in syria, when isis moves into their town, they actually paint aed cross across the door and markheir homes for demolition, and that tells the family youd better get out now. The sort of genocide and brutality that the victims are suffering, these are not the perpetrators. We need to be the nation whose enduring symbol is the statue of liberty, and we need to act like the great country we are according to our values. Senator saers, were going to move on. Were going to move on. Excxce me. May i havee a chahae to respopo to this issue . Were going to move on to the youre the one who told us we break it off. Yeah, but the rule includes people got it. All right. Lets keep going. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I do want to move to the fht against isis. For the people of New Hampshire, the brutality of isis is personal. James foley grew up here. The first hostage, a journalist, brutally executed last year. Youve all said isis is a ruthless e emy and must be stopped. Al qaeda as well. Nator Coalition Forces to help destroy al qaeda in afghanistan. Can you explain you why dont support sending u. S. Comt troops to join a coalition to fight isis . I also voted and helped lead the effort against the war in iraq, which will go down in history as one of the worst of our country. I voted against the first gulf war, which set the stage i believe for the second iraq war. And what i bleevelieve right now, and i believe this is terribly imimrtant, is the United States of america cannot succeed or be thought of as the policeman of the world, that when theres an International Crisis all over the world, in france and in the u. K. Or hey, just call up the American Military and the american taxpayers, theyre going to send the troops, and if they have to be in the middle east for 20 or 30 years no problem. But why al qaeda, why not isis . I have a problem with that, martha. What i believe has got to happen is there must be an International Coalition inclcling russia, a wellcoordinated effort. But i agree, as i mentioned a moment ago, with King Abdullah. This is a war for the soul of islam. The troops on the ground should not be american troops. I believe that countries like saudi arabia and qatar have got to step up to the plate, have got to contribute the money that weweeed and the troops that we need to destroy isis with the administration has tried that ove and over again. If it doesnt work and this threat is so great, whats your plan b . My plan is to make it work, to tell saudi arabia that instead of going to war in yemen, they one of the wealthiest countries on earth e going to haveve to goo war against isis. To tell qatar that instead of spending 200 billion on the world cup maybe they should Pay Attention to isiswhich is at their doorstep. [ applause ] secretary clinton, you too have ruled out a large u. S. Combat force, yet you support t sending in spececl Operations Forces to syria and sending 100 to 200 troops to iraq to do ve already lost one Delta Force Member in a raid. Its looke very much to me like were already in Ground Combat there. So are you fooling americans when you say were not putting american combat troops back into syria or iraq . No. Not at all. I think that what were facing with isis is especially complicated. It was a different situation in afghanistan. We were attacked from afghanistan. Al qaeda was based in afghanistan. We went after those who had attacked us. Whats happening in syria and iraq is that because of the failures in the region, including the failure of the prior government in baghdad, led by maliki, there has been a resurgence of sunni activities as exemplified by isis, and we Kurdish Forces against isis because i believe it would be not only a strategic mistake for the United States to put Ground Combat troops in as opposed to special operators, as opposed to trainers because that is exactly what isis wants. Theyve advertised that. They want american troops back in thehe middle east. They want american soldiers on the Ground Fighting them. Giving them many more targets and giving them a great recruiting opportunity. So i think its wrong policy for us to be even imagining were going toned up putting tens of thousands of americanroops into syria and iraq to fight isis. Coalition. I know how hard that is. I have formed them. I put together a Coalition Including arabs with respect to libya and a coalition to put and you have to really work hard at it. And the final thing i would say, bringing donald trump back into it, if youre going to put together a coalition in the region, to take on the threat of isis, you dont want to alienate the very countries and people you need to be part of the coalition. And so that is part of the reason why this is so difficult. [ applause ] secretary clinton, i want to follow up on that. You do support sending special Operations Forces there. You support what the president has done already. One of the lessonseople draw from vietnam and wars since is that a little force can turn into a little more and a little more. President obama certainly didnt expect to be sending30,000 additional troops into afghanistan the first year of his presidency. Are you prepared to run the risk of a bigger war to achieve your goals to destroy isis, or are you prepared to give up on those i just think youre asking a question with a false choice. I believe if we leadn air coalition, which we are now in the position of doing and intensify it, if we continue to build back up the iraqi army, which has had some recent success in ramadi, as you know, if we get back talking to the tribal sheiks in anbar to try to rebuild those relationships, which were very ccessful, in going after al qaeda in iraq if we get the turks to pay more attention to isis than theyre paying to the kurds, if we do coalition with the specific tasks that i am outlining, i think we can be succeceful in destroying isis. So thats what im focused on. Thats what ive outlined. And thats what i would do as president. Governor omalley. [ applause ] youve emphasized the need for more human intelligence on the ground. What is it our Intelligence Community is not doing now that needs to be done . Well, we have invested nowhere near what we should be d what im talking a aut is not only the covert, cia intelligence, im also talking about diplomatic inteigence. I mean, weve seen time and time again, especially in this very troubled region of nationstate failures, and then we have no idea who the next generation of leaders are that are coming forward. So what i would say is not only do we need to be t tnking in military terms but we do our military a disservice when we dont greatly dial up the investment we are making in diplomacy and human intelligence and when we fail to dial up properly the role of Sustainable Development in all of this. As president i would make the administrator of usaid an actual cabinet member. We have to act in a much more whole of govovnment approacac as general dempsey said. And i do believe, and i disagree somewhat with one of my colleagues, this is a general osidal threat. They have now created a safe allowed to be partly and because of our blunders, to be created to be created in the areas of syria and iraq. We cannot allow safe havens. And ac a leader of moral nations aroundnd this earth we need too coco up with new alliances and new ways to prepare for these new sorts of threats. Because martha, this will not be the last region where nationstates fail. And youve seen a little bit of thisis emerging in the African Union and the things that they have done to better stabilize somalia. We needo Pay Attention here in Central America as well. This is the new type of threats that were facing and we need to lead as a nation in confronting it and putting together new alliances and new coalitions. Thank you. I just w wt to quickly adad martha,ne of the reasons why i have advocated for a nofly zone is in order to create those safe refuges within ria, to try to protect people on the ground both from assads forces, who are continuing to drop barrel bombs, and from isis. Deconflicted with the russians, who are also flying in that space. Im hoping that because of the very recent announcement of the agreement at the Security Council which embodies actlly an agreement that i negotiated back in geneva in june of 2012, were going to get a diplomatic effort in syria to begin to try to me a transition. A nofly zone would prevent the outflow of refugees and give us a chance to have some safe spaces. Secretary clinton, id like to go back to that if i could. Isis doesnt have aircraft. Al qaeda doesnt have aircraft. So would you shoot down a Syrian Military aircraft or a russian airplane . I do not think it would come to that. We are already defliktconflicting air space butut isnt that a decision you should make now, whether no, i dont think so. You are advocating this i am advocating the nofly zone both because i think it would help us on the ground to protect syriris. Im also advocating it because i russia. Now that russia has joined us in the Security Council, has adopt adopted an agreement that we hashed out aong day in geneva three years ago, now i think we can have those conversations. The nofly zone i would hope would be also sharar by russia. Their military attention away from going after the adversaries assad future on the political belongs excuse me. Im going to take this to senator sanders next the crucial comment theres a difference of opinion with secretary clinton on thisis our differences are fairly deep on this issue. We disagreed on the war in iraq. Information from bush and cheney. I voted against the war. But i think and i say this with due respect. Secretary clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit toooo aggressive withoho knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could getrid of Saddam Hussein, but that destabilized the entire region. Yes, we could get rid of gadhafi, a terrible dictator, but that created a vacuum for isis. Yes, weould get rid of a aad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit isis. So i think yeah, regime change is easy, getting rid of dictators is easy, but before you do that youve got to think about what happens the day after. And in my view what we need to do is put together broad coalitions to understand that wee not going to have a political vacuum filled by terrorists, that in fact we e e going to move steadily and maybe slowly toward democratic societies. In terms of assad, a terrible thth primary focus now must be destroying isis and working over the years to get rid of assad. Thats the secondary issue. That is exactly what i just said andnd what i jusus described. Yeah, but secretary clinton secretary clinton because now we have a u. N. Security council that will enable us to do that. With all due respect, senator, you voted for regime change with respect to libyby you joined the senate in voting to get rid of gadhafi, and you asked that there be a Security Council validation of that with a resolution. All of these are very difficult issues. I know that. Ive been dealing with them for a long time. And of course we have to continue to do what is necessary when someone like gadhafi, a despsp with american blood on his hands, is overturned. But ill tell you what would have happened if we had not joined with our European Partners and our arab partners to assist the people in libya. Now the libyans are turning their attention to try to dislodge isis from its foothold and begin to try to move together to have a unified nation. I was not the secretary of state senator sanders, hold on. One moment, please. Im going to ask the secretary here because there does appear to be some daylight here between the policies, at least with respect to when you take out syrian president bashar al assad. Right now or do youwait . Do you tackle isis first . You have said, secretary clinton, that you come to the conclusion that we have to proceed on both onts at nce. We heard from the senator just this week that we must put aside thessue of how quicklylye get with countries including russia and iran to destroy isis first. Is he wrong . I think were missing the int here. We are doing both at the same time. But thahas what hes saying, we should put that aside for now and go after isis. That. Because we will not get the support on the ground inyria to dislodge isis if the fighters there who are not associated goal of getting rid of assad dont believe there is a polilical, diplomatic channel that is ongoing. We now have that we have the u. N. Security council adopting a resolution that lays out a transition path. Its very important we operate on both at the same time. And let me just say a word about Coalition Building because ive heard senator sanders say this. I know how hard it is to build coalitions. I think it would be a grave mistake to ask for any moror iranian troops inside syria. That is like asking the arsonist fire. The iranians getting more of a presence in syria, linking with hezbollah, their proxy in lebanon, would threaten israel and would make it more difficult for us to move on a path to have a transition that at some point would deal with assads fututu. I happen to think [ applause ] senator sanders. She says we have to proceed on both fronts at once. Secretary clinton is right. I dont think anyone has a magical soluluon. But this is what i do believe. Yes, of course assad is a terrible dictator. But i think we have got to get our foreign policies and priorities right. The immediate it is not assad who is attacking the United States. It is isis. And isis is attacking france and attacking russian airlrlers. Theeajor priority right now in terms of our foreign and military policy should be the destruction of isis. And i think and i think we brbrg together that broad Coalition Including russia to help us destroy isis. And work on a timetable. To get rid of assad, hopefully through democratic elections. First priority, destroy isis. Senator sanders, thank you. This . Governor omalley. During the cold war during the cold war we gotnto a bad who was wearing the jersey of the communists and who was wearing the u. S. Jersey. We got into a bad habit of creating big bureauauacies, old methodologies to undermine to the United States. Mossadegh. And look at the results were still dealing with because of that. I would suggest to youhat we need to leave the cold war behind us and we need to put together new alliances and new approaches to deaeang with this and we need to restrain ourselves. I mean, i know secretary clinton was gleeful when gadhafi was torn apart. When the world no doubt is a better place without him. But look, we didnt know what was happening next. And we fell into the same trap with assad, saying as if its our job to say assad must go. We have a role to play in this world. War and that sort of antiquated clinton for what came next. Whats your proposal for what comes after assad . I believe thaha we need to focus on destroying isil. Danger. And i believe that we can springboard off of ts new u. N. Resolution and we should create as secretary clinton indicated, and i agree with that, that process. But we shouldnt be the ones declaring that assad must go. Where did it ever say in the constitution, where is it itten it is the job of the united statete of america or its secretary of state to determine when dictators have to go . We have a role to play in this world. Bu it is not the world the role of traveling the world destroy. David. You know since he has been making all kinds of comments, i think its fair too say assad has killed by syrians. The reason we are in the mess territory it s, isecause of assad. I opposition back in the day when i was still secretary of stste becausee worried we would end up exactly where we are now. And so when we look at these complex problems, i wish it could be either or. Iish we could say yes, go destroy isis and lets let assad continue to destroy syria, which creates more terrorists, more extremists by the minute. No. We now finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis, which is a danger to us as well as the region secretary and we finally have a u. N. Security Council Resolution bringing the world together to go after a political transition in syria. Could i just if the United States does not lead, there is not another leader. There is a vacuum. And we have to lead if were s go ahead. Senator sanders, a last woror on this. Of course the United States must lead. But the United States is not the policeman of the world. The United States must not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. The United States at the same time cannot successfully fight assad and isis. Isis now is the major priority. Lets get rid of assad later. Lets have a democratic syria. But the first task is to bring countries together to destroy isis. Senator sanders, thank you. When we come back here tonight, the other major issues of this election. Jobs, the economy, health care. Which candidates will make the best case for the middle class as ourur coverage of the democratic debate here in New Hampshire continues right after this on abc. 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And the debate will continue in just a moment. Im here with jon karl. Jon, that whole data breach issue dispatched with pretty quickly with an apology from Bernie Sanders. But it was interesting. He simultaneously apologized and called the dncs response to his actions egregious and arbitrary. Actually apologize until he was asked if he would. Thats right. Then h llary clinton said lets move on as well. Here is something you never could have guessed a year ago. That the only republican candidate mentioned tonight would be donald trump and the only republican praised, george w. Bush. Yeah, absolutely not. And you know Hillary Clinton made a pretty extraordinary allegation on trump. She said that they are going isis is going and showing video of trump speaking to get new recruits. Weve asked her what evidence she has of that because we havent heard of that. Looking for that. And comomg up in n e next section, the economy, taxes, health care. Well be right back. 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We want to turn to american jobs, wages, and raises in this country. And do we believe secretary clinton will be coming around the corner any minute. But in the meantime we want to start with this eyeopening number. Senator sanders, this question goes to you first anyway. In 1995 the median American Household income was 52,600 in todays money. Thats 20 more years on the job with just a 2 raise. In a similar time frame raises for ceo up more than 200 . [ applause ] sorry. Were going to continue here. And secretary, youll get a chance on this too. But as i point ut, ceo pay up 200 in that time. For that family up just 2 . Youve all said you would raise the minimum wage. But senator sanders, speak to that household tonight. 20 years, just a 2 raise. How w president would yououet them a aaise right away . First of all, we recognize that weve got a rigged economy. As youve indicated. Middle class in this country for disappearing. Are we better off today than we absolutely. But as youve indicated, for millions of american workers, people in New Hampshire, all over america, theyre working longer hours for low wages, deeply worried about their kiki. So what do we do . First statement we make is we cannot have it all. For a start. Theyre going to start paying their fair share of taxes. Second of all is you raise the minimum wage to a living wage. 15 bucks an hour over the next several years. Next thing you do, pay equity for women workers. Women should not be makinin 79 cents on the dollar compared to men. [ applause ] next thing that we do, real unemployment. Official unemployment 5 . Real unemployment 10 . Youth unemployment off the charts. We rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, our rail system. We create 1 1 million jobs with a trilliondollar investment. Furthermore, in a competitive Global Economy it is imperative that we have the besteducated workforce in the world. That is why im going to have a tax on wall street speculation to make certain that public america are tuitionfree. [ applause ] senator sanders, thank you. Governor omalley, what would you propose that would be different . W would you give the middle class a raise and without waiting another 20 years for another 2 . Look, these are the things we diddn my own state through the recession. We actually we actually passed a living wage. We raised the minimum wage. We actually raised it to the highest goals of any state in the ation, our minority and Women Participation goals. Beuse we understood that the way you reinvigorate and make fair market american capitalism work is to make the choices in the investments thatatnclude more people more fully in the economic success of your state. All through the recession we defended the highest Median Income in america and the second highest Median Income for africanamerican families. How . By actually doingore for education. We increased Education Funding by 37 . We were the only state in america that went four years in a row without a pennys increase wewe invested more in our infrastructure. And we squared our shoulders to the great Business Opportunity of this era. And that is moving our economy to a 100 Clean Electric Energy future. We created 2,000 new jobs in the solar industry. And we fought every single day to adopt more inclusive economic practitis. So david, the conclusion of all of those things is this. They werent hopes, they werent dreams. They werent amorphous goals out there. We actually took actions todo these things. And as president i have put forward 15 strategic goals that will make wages go up again for all american families. Universal National Service is an option for every kid in america to cut youth unemployment. And im the only candidate on this stage to put forward a new agagda for americas cities so we can employ more people in the heart of Great American cities and get them back to work. Governor, thank you. Secretary clinton, as you were walking in i was talking about getting a 2 raise over the last 20 years, that ceo pay in that same time frame has gone up 200 . So for those families watching tonight, how do you get them a raise if youre president . Well, ive been talking to a lot of these families, and this is such an outrage, both because its bad for our economy, were a 70 consumption economy, people neeee to feeee optimistic and confident, they need to believe their hard work is going to be rewarded, and its bad for our democracy. Its absolutely the case that if people feel that t e game i i rigged that h h consequences. I think its great standing up here with the senator and the governor talking about these issues because youre not going to hear anything like this from any of thee republicans who are running for president. They dont want to raise the minimum wage. They dont want to do anything to increase incomes. At the center of my Economic Policy is raising incomes because people havent been able everything, from college ttion to pbescription drugs has gone up. Of course we have to raise the minimum wage. Of course we have to do moror to incentivize Profit Sharing like we see with Market Basket right here in New Hampshire and new england, where all of the bloi employees get a chance to share in the profits. And weve got to do more on equal pay for equal work. That means pass the paycheck fairness act so we have transparency about how much people are makingng thats the way too get womens wages up. And thats good for them and good for their families and good for our communities. And there is a lot we can do in college affordability. I have debtfree tuition plans, Free Community college plans, getting student debt down. I also am very committed to getting the price of drugs down. And theres a lot. You can go to my website, llaryclinton. Com, and read abouttit. Bubu i g gss the final thing i would say is this is the kind of debate we need to take to the republicans in the fall. Secretary, thank you. [ applause ] this is the election issues theyre going to have to respond to. Collegeg education in a moment. But secretary clinton, i did want to ask you, the last time you ran for president Fortune Magazine put you on its cover with the headline business loves hillary, pointing out your support for many ceos in Corporate America. Im curious, eight years later, should Corporate America love Hillary Clinton . Everybody should. [ cheers and applause ] look, i have said, i want to be the president for the the successful. I want to make sure the wealthy pay their fair share, which they have not been doing. I want the buffett rule to be in effect where millionaires have to pay 30 tax rates instead of 10 to nothing in some cases. I want to make sure we rein in the excessive use of political power to feather the nest and support the super wealthy. But i also want to create jobs. The private sector. Im particularly keen on creating jobs in small business. My dad w w a small businessssn, a really small business. I want to do more to help incentivize and create more small businesses. So if people who are in the private sector know what i stand for, its what i fought for as a senator, its what i will do as president , and they want to be part of once again building our economy so it works for everybody, more power to them. Because they are the kind of Business Leaders who understand that if we dont get the American Economy moving and growing were not going to recognize our country and were not going to give our kids the same opportunities that we had. Secretary, thank you. Senator sanders, i want to stay on this and ask you how big a role does Corporate America play in a healthy economy and will Corporate America love a president saers . Nono i think they wont. [ applause ] so hillary and i have a difference. May like hillary. Thth aint going t t likeme. And wall street is going to like me even less. And the reason for that is weve got to deal with the elephant in the room, which is the greeee reckckssness, and illegal behavior on wall street. When you have six Financial Institutions in this country that issue 2 3 of the credit cards and 1 3 of the mortgages. When 3 out of 4 of them are larger today than when we bailed them out because they are too big to fail weve got to reestablish glasssteagall. Wevvgot to break the large Financial Institutions up. So i dont that, i dont think im going to get aholeot of Campaign Contributions from wall street. I dont have a super pac. I dont want Campaign Contributions from Corporate America. And let me be clear. Trying to do the right thing, in my view, and i say this very seriously, the greed of the billionaire class, the greed of wall street is destroying this economy and is destroying the lives of millions of americans. We need an economy that works for the middle class, not just a handful of billionaires. And i will fight and lead to make that happen. Senator, thank you. [ applause ] governor, let me just ask you, because it isisn important question, how important a role do you think Corporate America plays in a healthy economy in the u. S. . Look, i look at our economy as an ecosystem. And the fact of the matter is that the more fully people participate the more our workers earn, the more they will spend. The more our economy will grow. And most heads of businesses, large, medium, and small, understand that. But t tre is a better way forward than either of those on this stage. Were not going to fixhat ails our economy. Wewee not going to make wages go up for everyone by either trying to replace american capitalism with socialism, which by the way the rest of the world is movong away from. Nor will we fix it by submitting to sort of wall streetdirected crony capitalism. And for my part i have demonstrated the ability to have the backbone to take on wall street in ways that secretary clinton never, e er haha in factct in thth last debate very shamefully she tried to hide her cozy relationship with wall street big banks by invoking the attacks of 11. I believe that the way forward for our country is to actually reinvigorate our antitrust department with the directive to promote fair competition. Theres mergers that are happening in every aspect of our country that is bad for competition and its bad for upward mobility of wages. And the worst type of concentration, secretary the big banks. The big six banks that you went to and spoke to and told them oh, you werent responsible for the crash, not by a long shot. And thats why today you still cannot support, as i do, breaking up the big banks and making sure that we pass a modernday glasssteagall like we had in late 1999 before it was repealed and led to the crash where so many millions of families lost their jobs and their homes. And i was on the front lines of that looking into the eyes of my neighbors governor omalley okay. I do want to ask you, secretary clinton. Let me just a a you let me respond we did secretary clinton, let me just ask you let me respond very quickly. Number one and in particular number one, there are currently two Hedge Fund Billionaires running ads against me here in New Hampshire. They started in iowa. Now, youd have t ask yourself why are they running ads against me . Ananthe answer is because t ty that i will not let their agenda be americas agenda. Secondly, i think its important to point out that about 3 of my donations come from people in world. You can go to opensecrets. Org and check that. I have more donations from students and teachers than i do from People Associated with wall street. [ applause ] say this. En governor omalley was heading the democratic governors association, he had no trouble at all going to wall street to raise money to run campaigns for democratic governors. And he also had no trouble appointing an investment banker to be in charge of his Consumer Protection bureau when he was governor. So you know, again, the difference between u and the republicans is night and day. And there is only one personn this stage who voted to take away authority from the s. E. C. Trading commission, that they could no longer regulate what are called swaps and derivatives, which actually contributed to the collapse of lehman brothers, and that was senator sanders. So if were going to be talking like this, we can, and maybe we can score sgme political points. But the fact is every one of us ststds for the kind of economy that will work better for every american. And if that means taking on wall street, i have a plan that is tough and comprehensive and praised by a lot of folksks who say it goes further than what both senator sanders and governor omalley are proposing. Let me just [ apause ] let me just jumum in. My name was invoked. Senator. So with that invocation let me say a few words. Secretary clinton, i dont have a super pac. Street. You have gotten a whole lot of street. Look at whaha happened in the 1990s, go to berniesanders. Com. Ill advertise my website as well. And what youll find ishat i i led helped lead the effort as a member of the House Financial Committee against alan greenspan, against a guy named bill clinton maybe you know him. Maybe you dont. Against the republican leadership, who all thought it would be a great idea to merge investment banks and commercial banks andnd large Insurance Companies. What a brilliant idea that would be. Go to youtube. Find out what i said to greenspan. At the end of the day, if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today and the government makes a good point about trade, antitrade, antimopoly activities. Wall street today has too much political power. It h too muchh economic power. It to get deregulated listen they spent 5 billion in lobbying and Campaign Contributions over a tenyear period. Senator sanders the economy. Theyve got to be broken up. [ applause ] health re. Secretety clinton, thehe partment of healthh and Human Services says more than 17 million americans who are not insured now have Health Coverage because of obamacare. But for americans who already haha health insurancece the cost has gone up 27 in the last five years while deductibles are up 67 , Health Care Costs are rising faster than Many Americans can manage. Whats broken in obamacare that needs to be fixed right now, and what would you do to fix it . Well, i would certainly build on the successes of the fix some of the glitches that you just referenced. Number one, we do have more care. We have ended the terrible situation that people with preexisting conditions were faced with where they couldnt healththare. Women are not charged more than insurance. And we keep young people on our policies until they turn 26. Those are all really positive developments. But outofpocket costs have gone up too much and Prescription Drug costs have gone through the roof. And so what i have proposed, number one, is a 5,000 tax credit to help people who have very large outofpocket costs be ablee to afford those. Number two, i want medicare to be able to negotiate for lower drug prices just like they negotiate with other countries health systems. We end up paying the highest prices in the world. And i want us to be absolutely clear about making sure the Insurance Companies in the well as in the Affordable Care exchanges are properly regulated so that we are not being gamed. And i think thats an important point to make because im going through and analyzing the points you were making, martha. We dont have enough competition and we dont have enough oversisit of what the Insurance Companies are charging everybody right now. But you did say those were glitches. Yes. Just glitches . Well, theyre glitches because 27 in the last five years, it is. Because part of this is the startup challenges that this system is facing. We haveought as democrats for plan. I know. Ive got the scars to show from the effort back in the early 90s. We want to build on it and fix it. And im confident we can do that. And it will have effects in the prprate market. And one of the reasons in some states why the percentage cost governors there would not extend medicaid. And so people are still goingng to get health care, thankfully, in emergency rooms, in hospitals. Those costs are then added to the overall cost, which does increase the insurance prereums for people in the private system. I was on the committee senator sanders, i want you to respond to what she was saying, but youre instead calling for Single Payer Health care. Exactltl people wont have to pay deductibles or premiums but they with you can you tell us specifically h pay . Let me say this. As a member of f e Health Education committee that helped write the Affordable Health care clinton said bending the situation is a step forward. Health care. It is a step forward. But this is what we also have to say. Not only are deductibles rising, 29 million Americans Still have of people cant afford to go to the doctor. Major crisis and primary health care. Here is the bottom line. Why is it that the United States of America Today is the only major country on earth thatt does not guarantee health care to all people as a right . [ applause ] y is i i that we are why is it that we spend almost three times per capita as spend in the u. K. . 5050 more than what they pay in france. Countries that guarantee health to all of their people and in many cases have Better Health care outcomes. Bottom line, this s es into Campaign Finance reform. The Insurance Companies, the Drug Companies are bribing the United States congress. We need to pass a medicare for all single payer system. It will lower the cost of health care for a middleccss family senator sanders, you didnt really tell us specifically how much people will be expected to pay but they will not be paying, martha, any private insurance. So its unfair to say in total but you cant tell us specifically you are adding up the fact youre not paying any private insurance,usinesses are n n paying any private insurance. The average middleclass family will be saving thousands of dollars a year. Okay. Lets go to talk about the high cost of College Education and for that we turn to the executive director of the New Hampshire institute of politics, right here college, neil levesque. This auditorium is filled with many saint anselm com students. They know the outstanding student debt right now in gone up in the last decade 26 and 40 more Public Education. Knowing that, we knoww youant to make Public Education more lower the cost . Senator sanders, you mentioned a few minutes ago that you want free tuition for Public Colleges. And universities. How does that really lower the cost other than just shifting the cost to taxpayers . Neil, i think weve got to work on a twopronged approach. And your point is absolutely well takeke the cost of College Education is escalating a lot faster than the cost of inflation. There are a lot of factors involved in that. And that is that we have some colleges andndniversities that are s snding a huge a aunt of money on fancy dormitories and on giant football stadiums. Maybe we should focus on quality education with wellpaid faculty members. But [ applause ] and i understand in many universities a heck of a lot of Vice President s who earn a big salary. Year 2015. If we are going to be competitive in the Global Economy we need the best edated workforce. It is insane to my mind, hundreds of thousands of young people today, bright qualified people cannot go to college because they cannot afford, their families cannot afford to send them. Millions coming out of school as youndicated deeply in debt. At do we do . My proposal is to put a speculation tax on wall street, raise very substantial sums of money, not only make Public Colleges and universities tuitionfree but also substantially lower Interest Rates on student debt. You have famies out there paying 6 , 8 , 10 n student bt, refinancnc their homes at 3 . What sense is that . So i think we need radical changes in the funding of Higher Education. We should look at college today the way highh schoolas lookedd at 60 years ago. Ability should be able to get a College Education. [ applause ] governor omalley, howow do you propose governor omalley, how do you propose lowering some of these costs associated with Higher Education . This one falls under the category of i have actually done this. As the governor we actctlly made the greater investments so that we could go four years in a row without a pennys increase to college tuition. My plan actuay goes further than senator sanders because a big chunk of the cost is actually room and board andnd books and fees. So as a nation we need to increase what we invest in pell grants. Yes, we need to make it easier for parents to refinance. But states need to do me as well. And i propose a Block Grant Program that will keep the states in the game as well. I believe that all of our kids should go into an incomebased repayment plan. Im joined tonight by my two dadahters, tara and grace. My oldest daughters a teacher. Their mothers here as well. We were proud of them on Graduation Day, werent we, katie, and were going to be we had to b brow so muchch money to send them to college. And were not the only ones. There are families all across america who arent able to contribute to our economy because of this crushing student loan. I also propose that we can pay for this with a tax on highvolume trades, and we need to because my dad went to college after coming back from world war iiiin a g. I. Ill but today were the only nation on the planet thats saddling our kids with a lifetime of bills. Thats a drag on the economy. Its one of the key investments we need to make. I was flattered that secretary clinton two months later borrowed so many of my proposals to incorporate into hers. And in our party unlike the Republican Party we actually believe thathe more our people learn the more they will earn and Higher Education should be a right for every kid. Secretary clinton. [ applause ] secretary clinton, how does your i have what i call the new College Compact because i think everybody h to have some skin in this game, neil. Number one, states have been disinvesting in higher ededation. In fact, i think New Hampshire instate tuition for Public College and university is among the highest if not the highest in the country. So states over a period of decades have put their money elsewhere, into prisons, into highways, into things other than Higher Education. So under my compact the federal government w wl match money that the states begin to put back in to the Higher Education system. Secondly, i dont believe in free tuition for everybody. Middleclass families, working families and poor kids who have the ambition and the talent to go to college and get ahead. So i have proposed debtfree tuition, which i think is affordable, and i would move a lot of the pell grant and other aid into the arena where it so ive put all this together. Again on my website. And im please thated that ive gotten such a good response. I want to quickly say that one of the areas senator sanders touched on in talking about education and certainly talking about health care is his commitment to really changing the systems. Free college, a single payer system for health care. And its been estimated were looking at 18 to 20 trillion dodoars, about a 40 increase in the federal budget. And i have looked at his for example. And it really does transfer every bit of our Health Care System including private health care to the states to have the states run. And i think weve got to be real thoughtful about how were going to afford what we propose, which is why everything that i have proposed i will tell you exactly how im going to pay foit including college. Secretary clinton, thank you. Can i respond back to you, david. This, senator, because were going to ask about taxes next. My name was she was asking about that. But secretary clinton is wrong. As you know. Because i kno you know a lot about health care. You know thahathe United States per capita pays far and away more than any other country. And it is unfair to say simply how much more the program will cost without making sure thaha pepele know we are doing away with the cost of private insurance and that the middle class will be paying substantially less for health care under single payer than under secretary clintons proposal. [ applause ] ] well, the only thing i secretary clinton, hold on one moment. Senator sanders proposals go and send i want to ask secectary clinton, pleasese my analysis is that you are going to have to get more taxes out of middleclass families. Im the only so lets ask about that. Secretary clinton,ets turn to taxes. No middle class tax raises. Which is where were going were going to taxes here. Now this is getting to be fun. This is democracy at work. And secretary clinton, let me ask you about your tax plan because from the crushing cost of College Education the next question most families have is will my taxes go up under the next president . You have said its your goal not to raise taxes on families making under 250,000 a year, a goal, but can you say thats a promise as you stand here tonight . That is a pledge that im making a promise . When i ran in 2008. Yes. And it was the same one that president obama made. Because iiont think we should be imposing new big programs that are going to raise middleclass families taxes. We just heard that most families havent had a wage increase since 2001. Since, you know, the end of the last Clinton Administration when incomes did go up for everybody. And weve got to get back to whwhe people can save money again, where they can invest in their families, and i dont think a middleclass tax should be part of anybodys plan right now. Let me respond please. Number one, most important economic reality of today is that over the last 30 years there has been a transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top 1 10 of 1 who are seeing a doubling of the percentage of wealth that they own. Now, when secretary clinton says im not going raise taxes on the middle class, let me tell you what she is saying. She is disagreeeeg with fdr and Social Security, lbj on medicare, and with the vast majority of progressive democrats in the house and the senate who today are fighting to end the disgrace of the United States being the only major country on earth that doesnt provide paid family and medical leave. What the legislation is is 1. 61 a week. Now, you can say thats a tax on the middle class. It will provide three months paid family and medical leave fothe working families of this country. 61 a week is a pretty good invest. Senator, thank you. Let me bring in governor omalley. I have been for paid family lee secretary inton. David, thank you. I have a way to pay fort that actually makes thehe wealthiest pay for it. Not everybody else. Every democratnd senator is in support of this proposal introduced by your good friend and my good friend, kristen gillibrandgill gillibrand gillibrand. That is the legislation out there that wl provide family and medical leave. We heard the promise from secretary clinton because p pple want to knoww about their tax, will they go up. She has promised here tonight not to raise them on families making 250,000 or less. Can you make that same promise if youre elected no, ive never made a promise like that. But unlike eithehe of these two fine people ive actually year. I was one of only seven states that had a aaa bond rating. At the time i left theverage taxx burden on maryland families was the same as when i started. Progressive income tax and asked the highestearning people to pay another 1414 david, this is the big i agree, by the way, that we should have paid family leave. And i agree with senator sanders on that. And just like Social Security and unlike the republicans i think we should actually expand Social Security and increase average monthly benefits. But look, theres one big entitlement we can no longer afford as a country. And that is the entitlement that e super wealthy among us, those earning more than a Million Dollars, feel that theyre entitled to pay lower income tax rates and a far lower preferred income tax rate when it comes to Capital Gains. If we were to raise the marginal rate to 45 for people earning more than a Million Dollars and we tax Capital Gains essentially the same we do rnings from hard work and sweat and toil, you could generate 800 billion over the so much good for affordable college, debtfree college, cutting youth unemployment in half, investing in our cities again. So the things i have done in office are the things that actually invest in grorong our economom and making wages go up. Thats the issue we need to tackle as americans, and we can do it and we know how. Governor omalley, thank you. A spirited debate on taxes. And there will be much more of the democratic debate in New Hampshire when we come back right here on abc. More in a moment. Announcer abc news live coverage of the New Hampshire in a moment. At ally bank no branches equals great rates. Its a fact. Kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. [ coughing ] [ sneezing ] a cold can make you miserable. Luckily, alka seltzer plus cold and cough liquid gels. Rush liquid fast relief to your tough cold symptoms. Fast, werful liquid gels from alka seltzer plus live from manchester, n hampshire here again is george stephanopoulos. The debate will continue in st a moment. Back here with jon karl and Bernie Sanders. He said he was having some fun. Debate over taxes. Very big difference between Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Martin Omalley over middle class tax hikes. Just a couple weeks ago she told you it was a goal for her ton raise taxes on the middle class. Now she put it as a firm pledge and she was the only person on that stage who said absolutely no tax hikes on the middle class. Bernie sanders made it clear hes got s se tax increases coming. And in a democratic primary that might work. But i think one of the things you see secretary clinton doing is keeping her eye and shes done this throughout this s bate so far, trying to keep her eyeye on the general election, even as she fends off her primary opponents. Even when it came to syria, even putting some blame on president obama saying essentially if he had listened to me we wouldnt be in the mess were in. That was a message fororhe generallelection. Big issue going back to the control. Democratic primary. In the general election, far le popular. Far l ls popular. Y, they mixed it up on that. Whats interesting is Hillary Clinton is not sitting back on this. She is counterpunching against not just Bernie Sanders but even on occasion Martin Omalleys record. Shes act like shes somebody in a fight. I was actually surprised she took the opportunity to go at him on that one. Hes only at 5 . But youre right, shes showing tonight that shes a fighter. Well back with more debate after thth. Coverage of the New Hampshire by blackberry priv. Welcome back tonight to New Hampshire. The democratic debate continues here on abc. And secretary clinton, we want to turn to race now in america. There is a real concern in this country`from black lives matter and from other Community Groups that were justow seeinin with smsmtphones and cell phones what many have been dealing with for years when they come in contact with police. But you also have many in Law Enforcement who now say theres been a socalled ferguson effect, Police Holding back because theyre afraid of backlash. In fact, the fbi director calling it a chill wind blowing through american Law Enforcement. So if eleed president , how would you bridge the dividi betweem the two . Well, david, i think t ts is one of the most important challenges facing not just our next president but our country. We havavsystemic racism and country and in particular iour Justice System that must be addressed and must be ended. I feel very strongly that we have to reform our criminal Justice System and we have to find ways to try to bring Law Enforcement together againin with the communities thaha they are sworn to protect. Trust has been totally lost in a lot of places at the same tim we kw that in many parts of our Country Police officers are bridging those divides and theyre acting heroically. The young officer who was killed responding to the planned parenthood murders. The officer who toldhe victiti of the San Bernardino killings that he would take a bullet before them. So i think that we need to build on the work of the policing commissioner that president obama impaneled. We need to get a bipartisan commitment to Work Together on this. Ofhose men and women and boys and girls who feel like strangers in their own country and do whatever is necessary to not only deal with the immediate problems within the criminal Justice System but more opportunities, more jobs, better education so that we can begin to rebuild thatp very valuable asset known as trust. Sretary, thank governor omalley, how would you bridge the divide . There is no issue in American Public policy that i have worked on more day in and day out than this painful issue of policing, of Law Enforcement, criminal justice and race in america. When i ran in 1999, david, for mayor of baltimore, ourity by that year had become the most dicted, violent, a a abandoned in america. But we came together. I brought people together over some very deep racial divides. And we were able to put our city on the path for theiggest city in america over the next ten years. As governor we continued to Work Together. We reduced Violent Crime to 30year lows. But get this. We also reduced incarceraraon rates to 20year lows. So it is possible actually to find the things that actually work, tt we did, increasing drug treatment, using big data to better protect the lives of young people, cut juvenile crime in half, and its also possible to improve how we police our police. But there wasnt a single day as mayor of baltimore that i wasnt asked whether i i was delelering on the promise i made to police the police. We reported excessive force, discourtesy, use of lethal force. In fact drove down to three of the four loweses years o o Record Police use of lethal force. As a nation we have to embrace this moment and make our departments more open, more transparent, and more accountable. Just as we require every major department, every county to report its major crimes, we should require police discourtesy, brutaly, excessivivforce. Theres so much work that can be done, so much weve learned to do better. We need to do it now as a nation. This is our time and our opportunity to do that. Governor, thank you. And senator sanders, when you hear the fbi director calling it a chill wind blowing through american Law Enforcement, does that concern you as well when you well, this whole issue concerns me. And i agree with much of what the secretary and the governono have said. But lets be clear. Today in america we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. 2. 2 million people. Predominantly africanamerican and hispanic. We are spending 80 billion a year locking up our fellow americans. I think, and this is not easy, but i think we need to make wage a major effort, to come together as a country and end we need major, major reforms of a very broken criminal Justice System. Now, what does that mean . Well, for a start it means that lice o oicers should not be shooting unarmed people, predominantly africanamericans. [ applause ] it means that we have to rethink the socalled war on drugs which has destroyed the lives of millions of people, which is why i have taken marijuaua out of the controlled substance act. Crime. [ applause ] that is whyhywe need to make police and i speak as a former mayor. I was a mayor for eight years, rked very closely with a great policedepartment and what we did is try to move that department toward Community Policing so that the Police Officers become part of the some cities an oppressive force. We need to make police dedertments look like the communities they serve in terms of diversity. We need to end minim sentencing. We need basically to pledge that were going to invest in this country in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration. Senator, c [ applause ] we want to turn now to an issue. This next issue has destroyed so many families across the country and in particular right here in New Hampshire, heroin. Figure out. A recent poll. 48 here in this state alone say heroin. Were going to turn tonight to dan tooey of the New Hampshire unionleader who has this question. New hampshire has been hard hit by the h hoin epidemic, and were on track to have twice as many Overdose Deaths this year as in 2013. What specifically would you do senator sanderer im going to take this to you first because youve seen whats happened with heroin right on the border in your own state. This is a tragedy for New Hampshire. It is a tragedy for my state of it is a tragedy all over this country. The number of heroin deaths are growing very, very significantly. What do we do . Well, for a start this may seem like a radical idea, but i think we have got to tell the medical professional and doctorsho are prescribibg opiates and the pharmaceutical industry that they have got to start getting their act together, we cannot have this huge number ofpiates out there throughout this country where young people are taking them, getting hooked, and then going to heroin. Second of all, and the reason i believe in a health care for all program, we need to understand that addiction is adisease, not a criminal activity. [ applause ] and that means and that means radically changing the way we when somebody is addicted and seeking help, they should not have to wait three, four months in order to get that help. They should be able to walk in the door tomorrow and g g a varietyyf treatments thattork for them. So those are some of the areas that i think weve got to move on. Senator, thank you. Secretary clinton . You know, on my very first visit to New Hampshire in this campaign i was in was asked what are you going to do about the heroin epidemic . And all over New Hampshire i met grandmothers who are raising children because they lost the father or the mother to an overdose. I met young people who are desperatelel trying to get clean and have nowhere to go because there are not enough facilities. So this is a majorepidemic, and it has hit New Hampshire and vermont particularlyyhard. Halls, one in keene, one in laconia, talking about what to do and ive heardrdome great ideas about how Law Enforcement is changing its behavior, how the recoveryommunity is reaching out. I was proud to get the endorsement of mayor walsh of boston who has made his struggle with alcoholism a real clarion call for action in this arena. So ive laid out a fivepoint plan of what we can do together. I would like the federal government to o oer 10 billion over ten years to work with states, and i really applaud governor hassan for taking up this challenge and with a plan. We need to do more on the prescribing end of it. Prescribed and that leads directly n n to heroin diction. And we need to change the way we do law enforce sxmt we need more somebodys ready to get help and every Law Enforcement should carry the antidote to overdose in the lock zone so they can save lives that are on the brink of expiring. Secretary, thank you. I actually know a great deal about this issue. And i have a dear friend, played musicc with him for years, remember when he came home with his baby girl, and now shes no longer with us because of addiction and overdose. The last time in New Hampshire i had to take a break shortly after landing and call home and comfort a friend whose mother had died of an overdose. Drugs have ten far too many of our citizens. Its a huge Public Health challenge. In our ownwnity i mentioned before we had become the most addicted city in america. But together every single year i expanded drug treatment funding within our city and then i expanded it in our state, and we were saving liviv everyingle year doing the things that work, intervening earlier, understanding the continuum of care thats required until we got hit like every other state in the state, in the United States, espially in new with this opioid addiction. The overprescribing. I agree, we need better we need to rein in the overprescribing. But i have putorward in my plan a 12 billion federal investment. We have to invest in the local partnerships. And the best place to intervene, the best indicator of when a person is actually on the verge of killing themselves because of an addiction, is at the hospital. That very first time they show up with a near miss, we should be intervening there. Thats what i said to my own Public Health people. Ebola . How would we act . So many more americans have been killed by the combination of heroin and these highly refuse to act. There are things that can be done. Go to my website. My plan is there. Its one of 15 strategic goals ive set out to make our country a better place by cutting these so of deaths in half in the next five years. Governor omalley, thank you. Martha. Secretary clinton, i want to opponents here have brought up. Libya is falling apart. The country is a haven for isis and jihadists with an estimated 2,000 isis fighters there today. You advocated for that 2011 interventiti and called it smart power at its best. Said the u. S. Should have done more to fill the leadership vacuum left behind. How much responsibility do you bear for the chaos that followed elections . Well, fjrst, lets remember why we became part of a alition to stop gadhafifirom people. The United States was asked to support the europeans and the arab partners that we had. And we did a lot of due diligenc about whether wee should or not. And eventually, yes, i recommended and the president decided that we would support the action to protect civilians the overthrow of gadhafi. I think that what libya then did by having a full free election which elected moderates was an indication of their crying need andesire to get on the right path. Now, the whole region has been rendered unstable, in part because of the aftermath of the arab spring, in part because of the very effective outreach and propagandizing that isis and other terrorist groups do. But what were seeing happening in libya right now is that there has been a fragile agreement to put aside the differences that exist among libyans themselves to try to dislodge isis from cert, the home town of gadhafi, national vernment. Youknow, this is not easy work. We did a l l to help. We did as much as we could what they wished to accept. But were always looking for ways about what more we can do to try to give people a chance to be successful. Secretary clinton, i want to go back. That government lacked institutions and experience. It had been a Family Business r 40 ars. The Security Side we offered only a modest training effort and a very limited arms buyback program. Let me ask you the question again. How much responsibility do you ar for the chaos that followed those elections . Martha, we offered a lot more than they were willing to take. We offered a lot more. We also got rid of their chemical weapons, which w w a big help. D we also went after a lot of the shoulderfired missiles to round them up. You know, we cant if were not going to send american troops, which there was never any idea of doing that, then to try to send trainers, to try to europeans offered, the u. N. Offered, and there wasnt a lot of responsiveness at first. I think a lot of the libyans who had been forced out of their country by gadhafi who came back to try to be part of a new government, believed they knene what to do and it turned out they were no match for some of the militaristic forces inside that country. But im not giving up on libya and i dont think anybody should. Weve been at this a couple of years. But were mistakes made . Well, theres always a retrospective to say what mistakes were made. But i know that we offered a lot of help and i know it was difficult for the libyans to accept lp. At we could have donee if they had said yes would have been a lot more than what we were able to have done. Senator sanders. The secretary is right. This is a terribly compliciced issue. There are no simple solutions. But where we have a disagreement is that i think if you look at the history of regime changes, iran, you go back to Salvador Allende who we overthrew in chile, you go back to overthrowing Saddam Hussein in iraq, you go back to where we are today in syria with a dictator named assad, the truth is it is relatively easy for a powerful nation like america to overthrow a dictator but it is very hard to predict the unintended c csequencesnd the turmoil and the instability that follows after you overthrow that dictator. So i think secretary clinton and disagreement. Im not quite the fan of regime martha i would just repeat that secretary clinton i think its only fair to put on the record senator sanders voted in the senate for a resolution calling for ending the gadhafi regime and asking that the u. N. Be brought in, either a congressional vote or a u. N. Security council vote. We got a u. N. Security council vote. Now, i understand that this is and im not standing here today and saying tt libya is as far along as tunisia. We saw what happened in egypt. I cautioned about a quick overthrow of mubarak, and we now are back with basically an army dictatorship. This is a part othe world where the United States has tried to play two different approaches. One, work with the tough men, the dictators, for our own benefit and promote democracy. Thats a hard road to walk. But i think its the right road for us to try to travel. And martha, in this case, and in this case we probably let our lust for regime toppling get ahead o othe practical consnserations for stability in that region. And i believe that one of the big failings in that region is a lack of human intelligence. We have not made thenvestments we need to make to understand and to have relationships with future leaders that are coming up. Thats what Chris Stevens was but without the tools, without the support that was neededo do that. And nowhat we have is a whole stretch now of the coast of libya, 100 miles, 150 miles, that has now become potentially the next safe haven for isil. They go back and forth between syria and this region. We have to stop contributing to the creation of vacuumshat allow safe havens to develop. Thank you very much. Were going to move on here. Governor omalley, thank you very much for that. And were going to make a very sharp turn as we wrap things up here. Secretary clinton, first ladies, as you welll know, have used their position to work on important causes like literacy and drug abuse. But they also supervise the menus, the flowers, the holiday ornaments and white house decor. I know you think you know where im going here. You have said that bill clinton is a great host and loves giving elected. Bill clinton aside, is it time to change the role of a president s spouse . Well, the role has been defined by each person whos held it. And i am very grateful for all my predecessors and my successors b bause each of them not only did what she could to support her husband and our country but often chose to work particular concern. Obviously, mrs. Obama has been a terrific leader when it comes to young peoples health, particularly nututtion and exercise. And i think h h had a big impact. So whoever is part of the family of a president has an extraordinary privilege of not history but making her or maybe his contribution. And with respect to my own husband, i am probably still going to pick the flowers and the china for state dinners and stuff like that. But i will certainly turn to him as prior president s have for and in particular how were going to get the economy working again for everybody, which he knows a little bit about. [ applause ] i do want toollow up heree for each of you. And a similar line of questioning. Senator sanders, your wife jane shares an office at your Campaign Headquarters in burlington. Weve seen the pictures, t t desks rigig next to each other. Would she have a desk close by in the west wing . Given the fact that shes a lot smarter than me, yes, she would. And let me by the y take this moment to congratulate Hillary Clinton, who i thought not only did an outstanding job as our first lady but redefined what so i thank you very much for that. [ applause ] my wife, jane, has been way back when before i knew her a foster parent. Many, many kids came into her home and received the kind of love that they desperately needed. And she turned around many lives. She is the best parent and grandmother that i know. She has devoted her life, when i was mayor of the city of burlington, actually when i first met her, we started a youth office, which started aftetechool programs for kids, started a childcare center, started a youth newspaper. We got the kids involved in a whole lot of issues. She led that effort. So i think at a time when so many of our kids are desperately looking for constructive activity, where too many of our kids are hanging around on street corners potentially getting intotrouble, i think w w children, for teenagers, for the little children to deal with the dysfunctional childcare system, and i think my wife would d d a great job in helping me accomplish those goals. Senator, thank you. [ applause ] governor omalley. Governor omalley, you have ralked about your wife, katie, here tonight. Shes a a District Court judge. And the question for you is would she have to give that up as first lady or will she share an office in the west wing as well . That would be totally up to her. I mean, katie has never been a pepeon who let her husbands professional choices get in the way of following her dreams. And i think she got that from [ applause ] and i reaealy admit that she is a far more accomplished lawyer than i was ever able to become before i took my detour. Maryland. She puts in a full day there. Weve raised four terrific kids. And yet when she was first lady of the state not only would she there through a lot of sad and gutwrenching cases but then shed put i i additioiol time being an advocate against domestic violence. Maryland made Great Strides on that because of her advocacy and her understanding of how the Court Process works. She was an advocate against bullying and implementntg antibullying things. So Katie Omalley will do whatever Katie Omalley wants to do regardless of her husbands success in getti elected president. Governor omalley, thanknkyou. Well bee back with much more from New Hampshire. The democratic debate continues right after this. Announcer abc news live in a moment. If you think theres no solution to the climate crisis, think again. In arica, clean energy is already producing enough power for 18 million homes, reducing our dependence on foreign oil and supporting over one million jobs. Im tom steyer. With bold leadership and an Endless Supply of wind and sun, we can do even more. The goal is 50 clean energy by 2030. Style lets you stand out from the herd. Whats inside sets you apart. The 2016 cadillac escalade. Announcer live fra manchester, New Hampshire here again is george stephanopoulos. And closing statementnt are coming up heret the d docratic debate in New Hampshire. Joined again by jon karl, our chief White House Correspondent. Republicans are starting to weigh in on this debate right now and theyre really zeroing in on national security. It has dominated this debate so far. Those commmmts from hillary clclton where she said were getting where we need to be on isis. Her exact words were we now finally are where we need to be. She was talking about the fight against isis. That is something that the vast majority of the American Public disagrees with. Wide disapproval with the republicans are pouncing o it. Jeb bush responding with a tweet, no, Hillary Clinton, we are not where we need to be in the fight against isis. One other thing thats interesting about this whole debate, george, and the republican response is the only republican weve heard by name, the only candidate you pointed out was donald trump. I have not seen a single tweet from donald trump. Tweeting tonight. Radio silence from donald trump in a debate where he has been mentioned. Hes going to have a chance to respond tomorrow. But in this debate as well you saw martha press secretary clinton on the issue of libya at the end. She tried to point out . Differences with Bernie Sanders. But this is something as well that is sure to be, we know for a fact, if she gets the nomination nomination, a general election issue. Absolutely. Libya was something that for a while while she was secretary of state she thought was going to be her crowning achievememt. She e s the one who led the fight internally in the Obama White House to intervene in libya. She was the one who made the case internationally as secretary of state. Somethininof adisaster. Republicans have already pounced on this. Far beyond the benghazi issue. The question of what has happened to libya since the u. S. And europe intervened. Time now for closing statements. Well be right back. Announcer abc news live in a moment. Announcer live from Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, here again are david muir and marthaha raddatz. Welcome back tonight. Its been an evening of lively discussion among the candidates, and its time for closing statements. We began in alphabetical order. So well reverse the order at the end and begin with you, senator sanders. Well, thanknkou very much for hosting this debate. And let me applaud my colleagues up here because i think frankly, maybe im wrong, but on our worst day i think we have a lot more to offer the American People than the rightwing extremists today. [ applause ] from poland at the age of 17 without a nickel inis pocket. Whh sparked my ibterest in the need for Immigration Reform because i k kw what its like to be the son of an immigrant. We grew up in a 3 1 2room rentcontrolled apartment in brooklyn, new york. My mothers dream, and she died very young, but my mothers dream for her whole life was to be able to get out o that rentctrolled apartment and own a home of her own. E never lived to see that. But what my parents did accomplish is they were able to send both of their sons to college. We were the first in the family. So i know something about economic anxiety and living in a family that does not have sufficient income. And that is why i am pledged if elelted president of thth United States to bring about a Political Revolution where stand up and finally say enough is enough, this great country and our government belong to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. Thank you very much. [ cheers and a alause ] governor omalley. Martha, thank you. I want to thank all of the people who have tuned in tonight. I want to thank the great people of New Hampshire, where despite all of the cynicism about big money anddig banks taking over our politics, here in New Hampshire the individual matters. My wife, katie, and i have four terrific kids. And like you theres probably nothing we wouldntt do to give them a future thats safer, thats healthier, where they have more opportunity than our parents and grandparents gave to us. Tonighwhat you listened to was a Healthy Exchange of ideas about how wed do that. That which we have always proven, the capacity to do better than any nation in the world, to take actionshat include more of our people more fully in the economic, social, and political life of our when you listen to the Republican Debate the other night, you heard a lot of anger and you had a lot of fear. Well, they can have their anger and they can have their fear. But anger and fear never built amerera. We build our country by adopting wage and labor policies including comprehensive Immigration Reform with a pathway of citizenship for all. We do it by investing in our country, by investing in infrastructure, by investing in the skills and the talents of our people with debtfree college, and we can do it again. And we also create a Better Future for our kids when we square our shoulders to the greathallenges o o our times, whether its terror trying to undermine our values or republican president ial candidates trying to get us to surrender our freedoms and our values in the face of this threat. The other big challenge we have is Climate Change. The greatest Business Opportunity to come to the United States of america in 100 years, we need to embrace this. I have put forward a plan that does this, that moves us to 100 join this gain for the future. New leadership is what our country needs to move us out of these divided and polarized times. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] governor, thank you. Secretary clinton. On january 20th, 2017 the next president of the United States will walk into the white house. If heaven forbid that next president is a republican, i think its pretty clear we know what will happen. A lot of the right that have been won over the years from womens rights to vot rights to gay rights to Worker Rights will be at risk. Social security, which republicans call a ponzi scheme, may face privatization. Our vets may see the va hospital that needs to be improved and made better for them turned over planned parenthood will be defunded. The list goes on because the differences are so stark. You know, everybody says every elections important. And theres truth to that. This is a watershed election. I know how important it is that we have a democrat succeed president obama in the white house. And i will do all that i can in this campaign to reach out and explpln what i stand for and what i will do as president. You know, i became a grandmother 15 months ago. And so i spent a lot of time thinking about my granddaughters future. But as president i will spend even more time thinking about the futures of all the kids and the grandchildren in this country because i want to make sure every single child has a chance to live up to his or her godgiven potential. If you will join me in this campaign, we will make that a mission. Thank you, good night, and may [ cheersrsnd applause ] thank you to the tnds tonightcandidates tonight. Thank you to the audience here in New Hampshire at sasat anselm. And thank y y to the audience at home. We wish all of you at home a happy and safe holiday at home. And we wish all the candidates a happy and safe holiday with your families. George and the political Analysis Team standing by. The force was with us, we hope tonight. Thank you for that. Thanks for that great debate. And matthew dowd, i want to go to you first. The debate began with an apology from Bernie Sandersrsnd ended with agreement across the stage. Did it change anything . No, i dont think it changed the dominance of this race and the structure of thisrace. She comes in, Hillary Clinton came into this night with a big lead, shes going to go out of this night with a big lead. The fascinating thing to me about this debate is every one of the folks on that stage had their best night that theyve had in this year. Hillary clinton you think martin omalaly i think martinn omalley had sanders had his best night. And when thats the case she walks out of here with a 28, 29point lead. I thought Bernie Sanders especially on national security, in the previous debates it seemed he didnt even want to get into it. He was much more focused on theyre. He went after hillary and drew a line with her positions on the iraq war back when she was in the senate, h h p pitions on libya when she was secretary of state and what she wants to do now in syria. Right. He said he was much less a fan of regime change than she is. But she tried to stick to her position saying its a false choice to choose between the two, fighting isis and getting rid of assad. Clearly with an eye toward the general election. She defended her record there but she also wanted to make the point thatthes tough on foreren policy. That may not play all that well in a democratic primary, but she wants to make that case in a general election. And donna brazile, in fact secretary clinton did pull a little bit of a Bernie Sanders on that issue of the data breach, accepted his apology. Shes accepted hisis apology. He apologized to his supporters. But you know what . Not just talk to Bernie Sanders on the issues like be strongg on the ececomy, Martin Omalley, but she took on donald trump. And democrats, thats what were ready for. Were ready to take on the republicans. And she pred tonight that shes ready and the other two as well. I should say thaha donald trumum just tweeted me and said i was stupid to believe she wants to take on donald trump, thats what she says. Do you think she rlly does . Not only is secretary clinton, bnie sanders and Martin Omalley, donald trump needs to understand that we democrats, were not going to cower like the republicans when it comes to his bellicose rhetoric. We have a vision and w wknow how to f fht too. It t striking,okie roberts, that his name was the only candidates name that came up throughout the entire 90plus minutes of this debate. I think it is true that theyd like to run against him. But its also true that they want to make the point that donna just made, that theyre tough and that the republicans are cowering in his shadow. Thats been less true of late, particularly governor bush. But that haseen the case up but you know, george, one of the things that mrs. Clinton did tonight which was not planned, obviously that last thing, may the force be with you was planned, and it was clever. But when she was asked should wall street love you. And she said. I want everyone to love me. Everyone suld love me. That was a very key moment. Sanders. But i want to get to matthew. What do the republicans do with anything on the trump thing whether they were intentional or not i think d dald trump in the republican primary gains from this night. He actually is going to be better off because they attacked him in this. Because what his voters and other republicans are going to think is the only character is donald trump and thats the guy that people are going to get behind. Ell be right back. Announcer abc news live coverage of the New Hampshire by blackberry priv. Fe a cold coming on . New zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45 . Shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. 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