and progressives like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, who support medicare for all. how are we going to pay for it? i want to hear tonight how that s happening. thus far my distinguished friend, the senator my left has not indicated how she pays for it and the senator has in fact come forward and said how he s going to pay for it but it gets about halfway there. joe said that medicare for all would cost $30 trillion. that s right, joe. status quo over ten years will be $50 trillion. i rode the bill, if i may say so. how do we pay for it? we pay for it, those of the very top, the richest individuals and the biggest corporations are going to pay more. and middle-class families are going to pay less. that was a good clean policy debate, but there was a very personal attack against joe biden and it came from
gratitude to president barack obama. is like there was a cue card, before pushing more liberal ideas. my last point is that sometimes the news is what does not happen and we can debate how forcefully joe biden did. i thought he was his most successful debate so far but the fact that elizabeth warren and bernie sanders did not take him on i think was the dog that didn t bark here. the headline tomorrow and after that ended after that, although some of them lower tier, did have good moments, they are way back. the headline is going to be joe biden enter this debate as the front runner and he is still the front runner because really almost nobody except for that embarrassing exchange with castro laid a glove on him. bret: i agree with you, it s quite something. if the dynamic did not change. change. howie kurtz in washington. thanks. don t go anywhere. andrew yang joins us live in the next hour. we will also have other candidates and surrogates, fox news @ night continues, the cover
who have not been involved so far are really going to start paying attention, so this might be the first time and you know we have bernie sanders here. senator sanders, do you have time for a quick question? okay. senator sanders, the former vice president biden said that he thought he referred to you as a socialist and he said he thought you were too nice to corporate america. [laughs] yeah, well, one of us voted for the wall street bailout. one of us that was biden, by the way. one of us voted for disastrous trade agreements that were sponsored by corporate america. one of us voted for a bankruptcy bill that was pushed by the banks. that was biden. so to suggest that bernie sanders is sympathetic to the corporate elite i think is rather humorous. in point, the fact, the the whe theme of my campaign is to suggest that if we are going to be donald trump, and everybody up there wants to be donald trump, but if we are
barack obama. last debate he took it on the chin. this debate it was good, the phrase the 44th president of the united states. let me play this kept the filmic clip from castro, kristin played one of them, i m going to play the other one where he goes after biden. every time something good about barack obama comes up he says i was there, i was there, i was there, that s me too and then every time somebody questions part of the administration that we were both part of he says well, that was the president. he wants to take credit for obama s work but not have to answer to any questions. i stand with barack obama all eight years. good, bad, and indifferent. bret: what about castro? you are saying off camera that you think this really hurt him. if you follow sort of democratic twitter tonight it was a really, really bad night for julian castro. the earlier exchange that was played where he went after joe biden for forgetting he s getting a lot of criticism for
bret: you think the quality of care goes up? do you think that people who see their doctor and like their doctor keep their doctor? absolutely. it s a good debate, but we should have our facts correct. bret: i m just asking questions. that s not a criticism. some people are suggesting you don t have freedom of choice with regard to the doctor you go to. you do under medicare for all, you have it. go to any doctor you want to go to and by the way, because you know, right now if the doctor you like is not within your insurance network, you have to pay out-of-pocket to go to him or her. if we illuminate that. you go to any doctor you want, any hospital you want and you also we are also going to be covering home health care. we are going to be covering dental care, a big deal for seniors, hearing aids and eyeglasses. bret: but private insurance goes away? yes. bret: all right, so a lot of pundits will look at this race say it might just be biden, warren, and sanders. is tha