Im wolf blitzer, along with cnns abby phillip, and the Des Moines Registers chief politics reporter brianne pfannenstiel. Abby the top six democratic president ial candidates are in place. This is their final debate before the first votes of the 2020 president ial campaign. The Iowa Caucuses are 20 days away. Brianne before we begin, a reminder of the ground rules. Youll each receive 75 seconds to answer questions, 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals, and 15 seconds for clarifications. Please refrain from interrupting your fellow candidates, as that will count against your time. Wolf all right, so lets begin right now. Just this month, the United States and iran were on the brink of war, which has reignited the debate over americas role in the world, and which of you is best prepared to be commanderinchief . So, lets have the debate right now. Senator sanders, why are you best prepared the best prepared person on this stage to be commanderinchief . Sen. Sanders yes, i think my recor
The massachusetts senator held a town hall event in arlington, virginia, yesterday. This is 50 minutes. [cheers and applause] hello, virginia hello and thank you, kathy, thank you, strong women help get it done. [cheers and applause] wow. So, here we are, virginia. The primaries are really started. We heard from two states. We got 55 states and territories ready to go. [cheering] you all are super cute. Thank you, and that means the road to the white house runs right through virginia. [cheering] so im here today to ask you two things. The first one is to ask you, get in this fight with me to help build an america that doesnt just work for the and if the powerful but that works for everyone [cheering] and second im their ask for your vote. Heres the deal. I got your back, you can count on me. Im going to count on you. [cheers and applause] now, this has been some president ial primary already. We have been going at this for about a year. Some people got in a little later than others. Mi
That will be live at 3 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Andachusetts senator democratic president ial candidate Elizabeth Warren was in iowa lest iol yesterday speaking with motors less than a month before the states democratic caucuses on february 3. You are watching campaign 2020 covered here on cspan. [applause] sen. Warren thank you, christina, for the introduction. And thank you for all the people who smacked hands on the way in. That was fine. It is good to see all of you. Im good for you to be here. I really appreciate your being here on Martin Luther king day. Important. Y one of the things i was doing another event but it is a chance to talk about how do we build a future . Do we build a future by carrying tearing each other down or do we build a future by pill picking up each others battles and working together . Dr. King said we Work Together and i am all in on this. Thank you. Thank you. Here in grimes. It is so good, i actually brought family. Good, i actually brought famil
[applause] what a great iowa welcome. Two thousand six, Amy Klobuchar is the first woman representing 2006, Amy Klobuchar is the first woman representing minnesota. She desha in 2016 in 2016, and analysis ranked her first among all 100 senators in sponsoring or cosponsoring bills were enacted into law in the 114th congress. [applause] before serving senator klobuchar was elected to county attorney for the largest county in minnesota and to she knows how to drive in the snow. [laughter] join me again in welcoming senator Amy Klobuchar. [applause] sen. Klobuchar thank you for being here. One of the reporters sent a tweet this morning and it said i suppose Amy Klobuchars snowmobile is down. I drove down with my staff and we got here at 2 00 a. M. Just to see all of you. Minnesota started voting yesterday so we had a vote rally, but i wanted to be here and a ceeo. I knew you would be here despite the snow because as we know, you have to have strong Public Schools, you must have a strong is
And i got the memo on what to wear today. I love it. Anybody else in bright pink . We have got a few more. It is good to see you all. Im so glad to have this chance to be with you and so glad that i brought family with me. I have my son, alex. Where are you . There he is. The guy in the blue shirt. [applause] sen. Warren just so you know, alex has been my tech support since second grade. [laughter] sen. Warren its true. He now runs his own small business, but he has picked up a new sideline. The new sideline is called support your mother when she runs for president of the United States. [laughter] sen. Warren thank you, alex. [applause] sen. Warren so i thought what we would do today is that i tell you just a little bit about myself, a little bit about why im in this race. I will try to do that as quick as i can. Then we will take as many questions as possible so that i am covering the things most important to you. Then we will engage in that most important part of democracy, selfies.