jersey, known as a rhetorical magician but somebody who brought it with exactly the right calibration there on an issue you see the emotion with it, you see him making it personal, and you see the audience react. i know the audience in the room is not the same as the audience watching, 20 million people around the country, but super powerful moment from him. on an issue where a lot of people had powerful things to say. one more and then we re going it take a break. congresswoman tulsi gabbard. this was a fascinating moment. she was not directly asked this question. she had jumped in. we asked congressman tim ryan a question about afghanistan. he had said the reason the u.s. wasn t able to get out of afghanistan, he mentioned something along the lines that the u.s. hadn t stayed engaged in the conflict. while we d be there for a long time, we d sort of been ignoring it, and congresswoman gabbard took acute exception, invited herself into the conversation and leveled congressman ryan wit
the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in afghanistan? well, we just have to be engaged. as a soldier, i will tell you that answer is unacceptable. we have to bring our troops home from afghanistan. we are in a place in afghanistan where we have lost so many lives. we ve spent so much money, money that s coming out of every one of our pockets, money that should be going into communities here at home, meeting the needs of the people here at home. we are no better off in afghanistan today than we were when this war began. this is why it s so important to have a president commander in chief who knows the cost of war and who s ready to do the job on day one. i am ready to do that job when i walk into the oval office. tulsi gabbard. each night we had an iraq veteran on the stage, when she brought that in to respond to congressman ryan s answer on afghanistan as you heard brought the house down. we re going to take a quick break, stay with us. portfolios
it landed like a nuclear bomb in the room. it was a great moment for senator sanders. congressman tim ryan got the short end of the confrontation with tulsi gabbard for sure. he has a very powerful message of his own, though, and one that resonated like it d been struck like a tuning fork. this is the central message of his campaign. he went right to it. we have a perception problem with the democratic party. we are not connecting to the working class people in the very states that i represent in ohio, in the industrial midwest. we ve lost all connection. we have got to change the center of gravity of the democratic party from being coastal and elitist and ivy league, which is the perception, to somebody from the forgotten communities that have been left behind for the last 30 years. to get those workers back on our side so we can say we re going to build electric vehicles, we re going to build solar panels. if you want to beat mitch
mcconnell, this better be a working class party. if you want to go into kentucky and take his rear end occupaut. congressman tim ryan of ohio, this needs to be a working class party. all right, two more, which one s got the senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. senator klobuchar is another one of these candidates who knows exactly who she is, has never tried to be anybody else and is all about being practical and getting things done, and in this case going after donald trump. the president literally went on tv on fox and said that people s heads would spin when they see how much he would bring down pharmaceutical prices. instead, 2,500 drugs have gone up in double-digits since he came into office. instead he gave $100 billion in giveaways to the pharma companies. for the rest of us, for the rest of america, that s what we call at home all foam and no beer. we got nothing out of it. and so my proposal is to do