We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, and ill moderate tonights debate. Joining me in the questioning, errol lewis, political anchor for new york one Time Warner Cable, our partner in this debate. And cnn chief political correspondent, dana bash. Brooklyn has personal meaning for the candidates who both have been new yorkers at one time or another in their lives. So ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome the candidates. Senator, Bernie Sanders of vermont. [ cheers and applause ] former secretary of state hillary clinton. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Candidates for president of the United States. [ cheers and applause ] now, please continue to stand for our anthem sung by the broadway performer and recording artist morgan james. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the rampar
Were detailing was happening there, mick, this was a routine Training Mission here . Reporter as far as we know. Now, they do have the marines do have a Live Fire Range thats outlined in the open waters off oahu. Not clear that they were conducting live fire Training Missions, but that would certainly be one of the possible nighttime Training Missions that they would be undertaking. All right, mick. Again, 12 missing after the collision of two marine helicopters off hawaii. Well continue to bring you any information on that search and rescue happening right now. Also this morning, republican president ial candidates back on the campaign trail after sparring in their first debate of the year. In the last hour, jeb bush picked up an endorsement from his former rival, South Carolina senator lindsey graham. Meanwhile, we have live pictures of Donald Trumps rally. Its set to get under way in iowa any minute now. With just 17 days to go before the iowa caucuses, candidates are shifting their
Cnn. Thank you very much secretary clinton. Thank you very much. When we began this campaign almost a year ago, we started off at 3 in the polls, we were about 70 points behind secretary clinton. In the last couple weeks, two polls were out there that had us ahead. Of the last nine caucuses and primaries, we have won eight of them, many of them by landslide victories. Over the last year, we have received almost 7 Million Individual Campaign Contributions averaging, guess what, 27 apiece. More individual Campaign Contributions than any candidate in American History at this point in a campaign. The reason that our campaign has done so well is because were doing something very radical. Were telling the American People the truth. And the truth is that this country is not going to move forward in a significant way for working people unless we overturn this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision and unless we have Real Campaign reform so that billionaires and super pacs cannot buy
Obamacare. Essentially the same vote that we had in 2015. I would remind everyone that in that proposal, theres a twoyear delay. A twoyear delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis with our democratic friends. So, thats a vote, i think were very likely to have in the very near future. With our democratic friends. Theres a term you dont hear all that often. Senator rand paul who opposed repeal and replace is urging his colleagues to support just repeal for now. All of us promise we would repeal obamacare and the discussion is whether or not to move forward to a vote on that. We voted in 2015 to repeal obamacare. Im in favor of the motion to proceed to repealing obamacare. And i think thats what we should do and thats what the discussion has been about. Now, on the flipside. The democrats are coming out slamming repealing obamacare without a replacement saying millions can be put in jeopardy. Make no mistake about it. Passing repea
Election. Five of those candidates have Campaign Events scheduled for different parts of the day in different parts of the country. Lets go to Suzanne Malveaux in minnesota. I can see the snow collected on your hat, suzanne. Supporters there are enthusiastic. Whats happening . Reporter its been snowing for the last couple hours, and youre right, its about 14 degrees, but it has not dampened the enthusiasm of the people out here along with volunteers who have been listening to the mayor for the last 20 minutes or so. We expect momentarily the senator will be out here with her 90yearold father as well, a former newspaper man, a journalist himself, and theyll be rolling the official announcement out very shortly. We expect her to talk about the fact she doesnt have a political machine, she doesnt come from money, but she has a lot of family, a lot of friends and neighbors and grit. That seems to be, fred, what people really love about her here in minnesota. They call it minnesota nice. I