this is the conversation no president wants to have. look, these are men and women who serve honorably, who make that decision to enter into an agreement with the united states to put your life on the line to defend us. right now, there are people packing their bags to get ready to go over wondering why exactly am i here. we know how we got in. the united states was attacked, but is our mission over there complete peace and prosperity in aversion, is o afghanistan, is our mission to see the kind of economic development that we would expect in a western country, is the mission there to have a western style government. that s not going to happen. our mission has to be to keep the american homeland safe and by that standard, by that higher standard, we will be avoiding new con flkflicts. pete buttigieg, the american dilemma of race is with us today as prominent as it has ever been. you re the mayor of a city.
ought to be higher or what we think ought to happen around gun control. if we are crazy socialists then they re saying the american people are a bunch of crazy socialists. it s time to put those labels to bed, talk about what we re actually going to do for the american people and when we do, it turns out, voters are with us. which is exactly why the president needs us to be talking about his latest outrage, rather than about the impact we re going to have on your life when we get elected instead of allowing these folks to continue running the country for the benefit of themselves and their friends. john is with us and has a question. i want to ask you a question about the debates themselves and something i think is going to start to be an issue and i want to get your feelings about it. there s the next set of debates which you are almost certain to qualify for, i believe, or have already qualified for, the ones in september. the lot of people are going to get excluded from that deb
think in section 1200 of their bill, then many hospitals in this country would close. i think we re being offered a false choice, some who want to improve the affordable care act at the margins, others who want a medicare for all program that will force people off of private insurance. i have a better path. medicare for america, everyone who s uninsured is enrolled in medicare tomorrow. at the end of the day, i m not going to support any plan that rips away quality health care from individuals. this is an example of wish list economics. it used to just be republicans that wanted to repeal and replace, now many democrats do as well. let s be clear about this. we are the democrats, we are not about trying to take away health care from anyone. that s what the republicans are trying to do. okay. so let s bring in yamiche, director of communications for
bigotry, against all the things that donald trump has done to push this country to the edge. so willie, i think she was kind of good. like, right there, up there with the other candidates. honestly she had some great moments. she was sort of the punch line from the first debate, but, you know, she s not going to dive deep into policy. that s not her thing, but she does, as joe says, she taps into the gut feeling of the election, there s the combination of the head and gut and she s talking about the gut. i will point out, she was the most searched google candidate yesterday. after the 50 states, steve bulls the most searched in montana, but all 49 of the other states, it was marianne williamson, people were most curious about after watching that. and seriously, the reaction is similar to anything we had, wait a minute, who is this lady, she s pretty good. like searching her and going, you know, where has she been all of our lives.
politically, what does that do in those obama trump districts? it makes the ability for someone like donald trump to dog whistle to them much easier. same thing when you re talking about government run health care. people from mccomb country, they know canada s health care system is no panacea. you may be able to get out of the hospital and not have big health care bills but you have a hard time getting in the hospital. these are people struggling with the economic and technological and demographic change in the last three decades and what they are looking for, joe, and you know this, looking for it in 92 t 2000, in 2004 and 2012, and they were looking for it again in 2016, and that is change. that is big disruptive change to the political system. which is why i see someone like mayor pete buttigieg yesterday, who although he is a progressive, trying to find that middle lane, that connective tissue between the moderates and liberals as a generational clang