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Addition. so i think that part of this. we have a three-person race with bernie and with elizabeth warren. and with joe biden, increasingly its looking like a two-person, potentially two-person race. and shes run a good campaign. shes made some mistakes along the way. she has generally run a good campaign. shes got a good field organization. i think shes the person to watch right now and take -- how is she going to handle joe biden? she has been quite clever in not getting herself too hooked int...

Employment. >> if you construct a plan and its beautifully detailed and just a beautiful thing to provide universal health care, and somehow that gets framed as youre taking stuff away from people, then youre not going to get to do it, right? thats not going to happen. if thats what youre going to do, youre going to have to explain to people why its such a wonderful thing, why youre giving them, why theyre getting more and better if youre going to make it happen. and, you know, from what ive see...

>> i dont know. >> is there an idealogical difference between you and bernie, for example? is there an idealogical difference? >> i think on some of these issues, there are. im for government doing positive things, too, but you cant take someones private insurance away from them. as i explained, theyre union members who negotiated the contracts who said, were not going to take some of these wages but were going to pay for health care. >> someone follows the law or you go to jail, right? you pay ...

Union. well have a much better plan run by the federal government. >> so if you construct a plan, and its beautifully detailed and as it could be. and just a beautiful thing. to provide universal healthcare. and somehow that gets framed as your taking stuff from people. youre not going to get to do it. thats not going to happen. if thats what youre going to do, you have to explain to people why its such a wonderful thing. why youre giving them, why theyre getting more. and better. if youre going...

Its a disconnect. >> is there an idealogical difference between you and bernie, for example? is there an idealogical difference? >> i think on some of these issues, there are. im for government doing positive things, too, but you cant take someones private insurance away from them. as i explained, theyre union members who negotiated the contracts who said, were not going to take some of these wages but were going to pay for health care. >> everyone pays into medicare. >> someone follows the law ...

Votes. does anybody think that a plan that will give a guaranteed job to everyone will get 60 votes? does anybody think doing away with the private insurance in the country will get 60 votes? thats why they talk about pragmatism. they know in order to get this stuff done the big stuff has to be bipartisan. >> even if you get rid of the filibuster. there will be budget tear points of order. against the bill that will require 60 votes even if theres no filibuster. >> the challenge for the ten peop...

Their plans is thats a republican talking point. thats an intolerant approach. you need to say, why is my plan workable -- why is your plan workable, how are you going to pay for it, and how are you going to get it done? those are the three questions everyone should answer. i dont think they could answer those questions. >> i wrote down the big lines tonight. four or five of you guys came in tonight to go after the progressives. you, ryan, bullock and hickenlooper. your line was, free everything...

Preparation. you cant just spring a plan on the world and expect it to succeed. >> in other words, one of the moderates holding the liberals accountable for a long shopping list of items that we would eventually have some say in. former governor hickenlooper is standing by with chris matthews. chris? >> thank you so much, brian. well, that was pretty well introduced there, because you got him to wave his hands like he was doing, and you said, youre not going to intimidate with that. thats what h...

A lot of my colleagues were at their desks in washington when obamacare was passed. i weblt out and did town halls all over the state of month. -- missouri. and then even though he would get everybody to raise their hands if theyre on medicare and if they like medicare, try to point out that was a single payer government simm, it didnt matter because the government was telling them what they could and couldnt do in one of the most personal things of their lives. and the notion that we could pull...

You cant just spring a plan on the world and expect it to succeed. >> in other wos, one of the moderates holding the liberals accountable for a long shopping list of items that we would eventually have some say in. former governor hickenlooper is standing by with chris matthews. chris? >> thank you so much, brian. well, that was pretty well introduced there, because you got him to wave his hands like he was doing, and you said, youre not going to intimidate with that. thats what he was trying to...