distract us to make it all about him, what he said, what he is doing. yeah, that s important. but let s not let us distract from i think the urgencies of coal miners, of people out in farm country, of people in inner cities who are just looking for leaders that will speak with plain moral clarity about the challenges and the issues that are going on, the larger systemic problems. it s why i criticize folks all the time to making this all about donald trump. and i know the number one polling issue in our party is who can beat donald trump. and i m like, god, can t we have bigger aspirations than that? beating donald trump should be the floor, but it s not the ceiling. it should be gets us out of the valley but it doesn t get us to the mountaintop which is dealing with these trends, as you and i have talked about before, that have now been going on for a generation that we have to address with more of a sense of urgency, moral clarity and the kind of leaders that can inspire us to come t
trump is brilliant at trying to distract us to make it all about him, what he said, what he is doing. yeah, that s important. but let s not let us distract from i think the urgencies of coal miners, of people out in farm country, of people in inner cities who are just looking for leaders that will speak with plain moral clarity about the challenges and the issues that are going on, the larger systemic problems. it s why i criticize folks all the time to making this all about donald trump. and i know the number one polling issue in our party is who can beat donald trump. and i m like, god, can t we have bigger aspirations than that? beating donald trump should be the floor, but it s not the ceiling. it should be gets us out of the valley but it doesn t get us to the mountaintop which is dealing with these trends, as you and i have talked about before, that have now been going on for a generation that we have to address with more of a sense of urgency, moral clarity and the kind of leade
everyone having access to health care. i believe it would be medicare for all. i know on day one as president, people want to see their prescription drug costs go down. people want to esee a pathway to having lower health care costs and that s why putting the public option out and lowing the cost of health care. these are the urgencies i would deal with as a chief executive from my experience as a chief executive. unfortunately that s the time i have. i hope to have you back sooner and we can talk more issues. and thank you for participating in the debates. thank you very much. and joining me is fformer housing secretary castro. welcome back to meet the press. good to be with you. you had an event sold out after your debate performance. how important did you feel the first debates were going to be for your candidacy in particular? very important.
together. he did not show that spirit we need, especially going into a fight against donald trump where we re going to be able to need to energize, organize and frankly bring together all our diverse parties. if he s nominated, could you support him? absolutely. whoever is our nominee, i trust our people. i trust our party. i will fall behind that person and i will you will not find another candidate that s more committed to seeing whoever is nominated. but i believe that i will be the nominee. and i believe that because i believe i can unify our party. i can speak to the higher at operations and urgencies of a time when we re too divided, we need to heal, we need to come together and we need to be a nation that addresses the persistent injustices. i have a lot of respect for vice president biden, a lot of gratitude for him and his years of service. for me, though, i was taught as a young man that being nice and being kind often means you say
first, last, and in between. reporter: senator cory booker calling bipartisan strategy to handle north korea. to have a president not leading with a strategy or that is engaging in activities to undermine even his own generals, in terms of the larger urgencies of the moment, it s unfortunate. reporter: meantime, mayor pete buttigieg defending joe biden after trump slammed him on the world stage. kim jong-un is a murderous dictator. vice president biden serves this country honorably. reporter: amy klobuchar playing defense after talking about what mccain was doing during the inauguration. john mccain was citing dictators during the speech because he knew more than anyone else what we were facing as a nation. he understood it. he knew because he knew this man, more than any of us did. reporter: mccain s daughter tweeting, on behalf of the entire mccain family, please be