7:00 which means we have the great music starting to play at 7:00. but you still continue to get some special debate preview coverage from alary mel ber, the beat starts right now. good evening, ari. good evening, chuck. we ll be watching. big night for you and for the country. i am ari melber here live this evening from miami. thrilled to be with you. we with three hours away from the first democratic debate of 2020 where the candidates face off on their vision,ed border crisis and the return of robert miller as house democrats announce he will publicly testify before congress july 17th. this reignites the party s clash over obstruction and whether to open an impeachment probe. tonight voters are likely to see the democrats internal battles over this issue because while nancy pelosi and most of the house caucus do not back impeachment, of the ten candidates debating tonight, seven do back impeachment hearings. many see the push from mueller s
the first net neutrality law in the united states. i m happy to share that information with people. let me ask you something else. when first heard that news alert or however you heard it, bob mueller s back, bob mueller is going to come and testify publicly whichize never done since he became special counsel, for your campaign, did you think i don t care, old news? did you think that s good as an accountability moment or did you think, be honest, gosh these house democrats are stepping on our debate? you want to talk about green jobs and the future. is that backward looking. what was your reaction. congress should do its job. it should have full inquiry from any witness who has information. i do believe the impeachment issue has become inevitable. meaning? time to start an impeachment inquiry in my view. when you say inevitable, you mean pelosi and the drazs will co this president left us no choice. he lies to the american people on things big and small.
r.a.i.s.e. r.a.i.s.e.s. ten candidates will be clash at this first debate tonight. they are some of the party s most famous names like elizabeth warren but lesser known figures. washington governor jay inslee. seven out of ten democrats say they ve never heard of him. but here s the thing about debates. that could change in a few hours tonight when he takes the stage for an event where a lot of democrats are watching. his walk ow through was earlier today. looking casual. he s running as the green candidate. hit the trump administration on that issue today after touring the everglades. mike pence said we now have the cleanest air in the world, that there s nothing to worry about from pollution in fossil fuels. wake up and smell the carbon
over and goes even further? what do you think the democrats need to do on this issue tonight. i want to say someone like erica has been ringing the alarm going back as long as i have been following this issue. a lot of people did not follow her lead and think it would lead us here. part of what you re going to see on the debate stage tonight are candidates who have proposals, only two on the stage. julian castro was the first out the door with it, came out with it in april. the big thing there is it decriminalizing it crossing of the u.s./mexico boarder. bet taupe o rourke has a plan. there are some differences between their plans but both largely comprehensive. tomorrow night we ll hear from kamala harris who has a plan. the big thing i ll hear from advocates is a question of priority. it s one thing to say this is going to be the number one, number two issue in my
the security, the scrum, the media. we saw the dnc chairman doing a live press conference and we have a candidate about to join our program. that s what folks may be seeing behind you for context. when you look at these two nights, do you see something that comes out of it that moves the democratic party? because are you someone saying if i hear you right, you don t think enough of the democratic party certainly not the biden/obama wing as you see it is where you want them to be on this issue and on what is becoming a humanitarian crisis. people are saying whatever our level, you let in x number or x times two number people. what do we do with human rights and due reinforce to these people when you look at that photograph, are we doing as a nation everything we can to honor those people s right to ultimately whether or not they are turned away which every country does tend to turn away some people. here s the thing. it s triggering for me when i hear the first thing out of a candidat