off the race? okay, a very important question, so let s clarify this right now, right here, on national tv, on cnn. first off, the issue of being a spoiler, how can you spoil a system that is already broken? it s just not working? so it s not it s not the right word. now, what i ve said publicly and i want to repeat, if the math doesn t tally up when i get through the next three or four months and i take my message out to the american people and i continue to talk this way about how concerned i am about the country and how much i think we can do so much better under a different process, if the numbers don t add up, i will not run for president, because i will not do anything, whatsoever, to re-elect donald trump. no one wants to see him fired more than me. but mr. schultz, the fall is 2020 is what i was asking about. if you do run and the numbers don t add up your way and it
we have a voter here who s with us. joel phillips, a student at the university of houston, a democrat. your question tonight? hello. so my question is, as a lifelong houstonian, i ve seen the damages that hurricanes have caused to my city and i ve watched as harvey continued in a devastating way that damage. so in the face of a warming climate that leads to more powerful storms, how much of a priority would climate change be to your administration and what are some plans you have to tackle that issue. thank you for the question. i think the concern that you have, i share at the highest level. i came here to houston during hurricane harvey. i went to new orleans during katrina. and i ve seen for myself what is happening in this country and around the world. but let s maybe bring up the topic of the day, which is the green new deal. i read with great interest what they were suggesting. and i think these are well-intentioned people, and like me, are gravely concerned
the arrest of two black men. you have a question on this issue? hello, how are you? last year in a situation at starbucks store in pennsylvania, our nation was divided and thoughts of racial soared. many moved on. do you believe the training was effective and did you anticipate the voters taking this incident to if polls? i thank you so much for this question. i think of all the things we can talk about tonight in justice, in america of any kind especially racial injustice which continues is not something we should be proud of. we need to resolve. the situation in philadelphia that occurred i don t know how many know the exact story. i will try to be brief. two african-american gentlemen
healthcare system? thank you for the question. this gives me another opportunity to talk about the extreme left and the extreme right. and so we have a healthcare crisis in the country on many levels, not just the opioid crisis. for ten years, eight years of obama presidency and the last two years have done everything possible to erat kadicate the affordable care act. this is the far right. the far left is suggesting medicare for all. that s a $32 trillion number. just like the issue i brought up before about making all the buildings in america, energy-free in terms of clean energy, does anyone here really understand that medicare for all also means that you will lose the choice of your doctor and your private insurance company? not many people know that.
so when i made that statement on 60 minutes, i incorrectly included china in the statement about allies. i do not believe china is our ally, but i do not believe that china is our enemy. what i do believe is that china is a fierce competitor of the united states. i also think that there are areas in our national interests to cooperate with china. we need china s cooperation to help solve the problem of north korea. we also need china s cooperation specifically with lots of other nations, with regard to doing everything we can to solve the climate change issue. what s involved right now, though, in terms of the trade and the tariff war that president trump has started, which i think is such a strategic mistake, is three things have happened. one is that this trade and tariff war has resulted on a tax on u.s. consumers on lots of goods and services. that s one. second, every farmer, everyone