Hampshire institute of politics. Already tonight we heard from senators Amy Klobachar and Elizabeth Warren and right now is senator Bernie Sanders of vermont leading the field among the Harvard Institute of politics. Please welcome senator sanders. How are you doing . Good to see you. You too. Thank you. All right. How about our first question. Why not . Why not, indeed. What else do we have to do . Well talk later. Hes from massachusetts and a junior at the university of massachusetts, lowell. What have you got . Hi, senator. Hi. How are you . Good. You reduced your medicare for all legislation package, many of them are running along side of you for president of the United States. In this legislation you called for an end to private Health Insurance companies. How do you plan to phase out these companies for your new medicare for all insurance. Excellent question on a issue that millions of americans stay up nights about. We have a dysfunctional Health Care System in which 30 million
Live ahead this evening as they are hatwatching tonight as theye prepare for night two. Eight hours. Thats how far out we are on the first president ial debate 2020 election. Tonight, well witness the start of a pivotal moment. All eyes well be batwatching t two nights event. Right here on nbc and msnbc and telemundo. The entire country is watching. What happens during the debate could determine the next leader of the free world. Right now we are focusing on an event kickoff this evening with these ten contenders. Bill deblasio and Julian Castro and cory booker and beto orourke and Amy Klobachar and jay inslee and john delaney. What are you hearing on the ground and how are candidates getting ready for the big migni . Reporter the prep is done. Candidates are in the period where they are ready to take the stage. They actually been putting policy into real life application. Elizabeth warren this morning visiting the homestead facility outside of miami. Amy is going to be going there in
Characterized el paso to pitch his wall during the state of the union. El paso, texas, used to have extremely high race of violent crimes. Now immediately upon its builder, with a powerful barrier in place, el paso is one of the safest cities in our country. As the president tries to reenergyize its base, the country is days away from the second shutdown. Negotiations between democrats and republicans collapsed over the number of beds i. C. E. Can use to house undocumented immigrants. Negotiators will regroup today and try to reach an 11th hour compromise. The only thing they agree on is how unlikely it is to compromise. We cant definitively rule out a Government Shutdown at the end of this week. What you are hearing is 50 50. It is 50 hope and 50 not. We are at an impasse which is not unusual at this point. Talk to stall right now hoping we can get off. The issue we have been raising is the number of beds available, enforcing the administration to prioritize the use of those beds. I p
Unfortunately, they are very different measures that stand almost no chance in the other chamber. The senate is taking up the president s offer and the president is calling nancy pelosi irational for opposing it. This morning we are watching the growing field of democratic president ial hopefuls including the junior senator from california declaring this morning on network television. We begin on capitol hill with lauren fox. You have the democratically controlled house that will pass its own bill. You have the republican controlled senate. Its really just drama because there is no meeting between. The president unveiled that proposal on saturday, 5. 7 billion for his border wall in exchange for a temporary extension of daca and a temporary extension of temporary protected status. That is going nowhere in the house of representatives where Speaker Nancy Pelosi will bring a package of bills this week in the house that would expand border funding by a billion dollars. It is Border Securi
Why are you harkening back to barack obama . It works and distracts from the present. When you have a president who is telling us to take on faith and institution that he bashed every way he could find and saying something had to be done but wont explain to you why. Thats a lousy situation thats a matter of life and death. Id talk about somebody else, too. Because it works . Why does it work . Who does it work on . It works on people who want to believe it. Want to believe what, though . What are they trying to believe . It doesnt have to just be race. If they want reasons to not like president obama. To not like democrats. To not like diversity. To not like progress. Theres a lot of different shades of animus. Youre making a case against. No. Well, you know. Part of the job is lay out both sides. Believe it or not. Its a simple as that. A dumb comment. You dont have to be a bigot to dislike barack obama, but they are feeding animus. They are feeding animus and bigotry. So he doesnt ha