facilities that i ve been to seeing children sleeping on pavement, people being put in cages, nursing mothers, small children. this is not necessary. we have seen using the civil system piloted programs that have 100% compliance with the civil courts where people are evaluated. if they have no reason to be here, they are returned. if they are, like the people i met who were survivors of sexual assault, who we wouldn t even let come and present for asylum. we are butchering our values and making ourselves less safe. mr. vice president, your response? i agree with you senator. the asylum process is a real process and this president is ruining it. number two, we should in fact and we have proposed and tried to get past in your administration significantly increasing the number of legal immigrants who are able to come. this country can tolerate a heck of a lot more people.
because we further support the ability to buy into the obamacare plan. secondly, the idea that this is somehow a bad idea, no one has to keep their private insurance but if they would like their insurance, they should be able to keep it. nothing is demanded there be private insurance. it says if the 160 million people who have it say they like their employer insurance, they should have a right to have it. if they don t, they can buy into the biden plan, which is obamacare thank you, mr. vice president. thank you. senator booker, let me bring you in here. you say you support medicare for all. you also say you are not going to pull private health insurance from more than 150 million americans in exchange for a government plan, but that s what medicare for all would do. so how do you square that? first of all, let me say that the person that s enjoying this debate most right now is donald trump. we pit democrats against each
garner where the justice department decided not to pursue challenges, we need to have a standard and that we end qualified immunity for police officers so we can hold them accountable. i want to bring in i want to bring in governor inslee. your response? i suggest that people come out to the state of washington and see what criminal justice reform looks like. i m proud that i was the first governor to offer pardons to thousands of people with drug crimes. we ve eliminated the death penalty. and importantly, we ve done this, when people come out of the legal system and they ve done their responsibility to the citizens, we need to make sure they can get a job. we have been the box so people can get a job when they come out. and i got to argue with my friend, secretary castro, we haven t put forward a plan, we have adopted probably one of the best police accountability measures and trainer police
cost $3 trillion. you will lose your employer based insurance and in fact, you know, this is the single most important issue facing the public and be very blunt and to be very straightforward, you can t beat president trump with double talk on this plan. your response, senator harris. absolutely. vice president biden you re simply inaccurate. the reality is our plan will bring health care to all americans under a medicare for all system. our plan will allow people to start signing up on the first day, babies will be born into our plan and right now, 4 million babies almost are born every day or every year in america under our plan we will ensure everyone has access to health care. your plan by contrast leaves out almost 10 million americans. so i think that you should really think about what you re saying but be reflective and understand that the people of america want access to health care and do not want cost to be
think is instructive for the nation, we know we re being eaten alive by pharmaceutical cost. we have the most innovative way to drive down pharmaceuticals for life-saving medications in the united states. that s a record of washington state i d like to take to washington d.c. mr. yang, i want to bring you in. you support medicare for all system. how do you respond to governor inslee? i want to share a story. when i told my wife i was running for president. my wife said what will we do for health care? democrats are talking about health care in the wrong way. as someone who has run a business, i can tell you flat out our current health care system makes it harder to hire, makes it harder to treat people well and give them benefits and makes it harder to switch jobs as senator harris says and harder to start a business. if we say look, we ll get health care off the backs of businesses and families, then watch american entrepreneur ship recover in blue. that s the argument we should b