recognition, he was a beloved member of the obama administration but it seems some of that goodwill is trickling away as other candidates are having a better night tonight. mayor pete, south bend indiana mayor had a strong night on a number of friends. he confronted elizabeth warren, he confronted medicare for all, he talked about beto o rourke and guns. you just made it clear you don t know how this is going to take weapons off the streets. the problem is the policy. i don t need lessons from you on courage, political or personal. that was a slave in the face to every single one of those groups and every survivor of a mass casualty assault with an ar 15. the point is he was in a lot of substantive conversations tonight and there s a competition between amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg to be the biden alternative because there will be a biden ln.
again and again just say it, moderators said listen, senator sanders has admitted his plan will make taxes go up and biden is saying i ve got a totally different plan that won t make your taxes go up but will get more people covered. how did he handle the healthcare issue which was a very big issue? one of the biggest issues in the democratic primary and he did fine. others did better. i think mayor pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar in the beginning of the debate knocked elizabeth warren off her stride on this issue in a way no one else has been able to. welcome to the big leagues, you are now the front runner, she didn t handle the incoming from them as well as i think a lot of people would have expected her to. biden did fine but the other two score points on this issue. final word in dc, new york. one thing elizabeth foreign does is instead of saying taxes she says costs. that s how she gets around talking about whether taxes go up. costs will come down. it is very powerful for jo
buttigieg s proposal to been future sale of assault weapons, doesn t do enough. all the tension you ve seen building back and forth on twitter and various interviews between those two came to a head on the debate in the latter half where both of them went back and forth on their opinions on what needs to be done in regards to guns. at one point buttigieg, seeming to feel he would be s integrity is being questioned by a work telling him he didn t need a lecture on courage. it was a moment tonight. thank you. for now let s continue expert analysis of tonight s top moments with special report anchor bret baer joining us live. a lot of people, a lot of buzz about mayor pete getting a lot of attention. you had amy klobuchar on, she had a good night. if you look at the consensus looking at the pundits joe biden did not have a good night. we talks earlier, there were a number of moments he thought
tonight he was engaged with pete buttigieg about how he was going to do that and pete buttigieg cleaned his clock on this. o rourke came out looking worse after the encounter. shannon: they talked about how this is going to happen, questions from the moderators about going door to door, how will you confiscate these guns, we have plenty we don t go door-to-door to enforce but he went on to say if somebody comes out at a public outing and has a gun with them they will be taken. so he went the extra step saying how this would go down. originally when he called for a gun buyback that is not an unusual policy and he said his would be mandatory. that leads to how are you going to enforce that? there are 5 million, ar 15s and
we need someone to take office this time around who on day one can stand on the world stage, command the respect of world leaders from vladimir putin to our allies and know exactly what has to be done to get this country back on track. i can outlast anyone and that includes donald trump, mike pence or whoever the republicans get stuck with. reporter: in recent days two candidates, beto o rourke and mayor pete buttigieg have gone back and forth on gun control. buttigieg called the gun buyback a shiny object, a distraction and something republicans would not do anything on gun control at all, he said we need to take more moderate action so republicans could get on board. beto o rourke has pushed back on that in recent days suggesting