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The democratic party. and so, now the range includes variations on medicare for all. along with obamacare-plus. and thats just normal democratic party debating. its -- >> its good stuff. >> lets talk about, for a moment, the state of michigan. it is many things. it is a beautiful state, it is a state that was part of the thriving economic engine of this country. michigan lifted so many families into the american middle class by a good union wage making the cars that filled our brand new intersta...

Announced the presidents campaign trail and there will likely be a big talking point on the debate stage next week. bernie sanders, today he actually on message on his own message while in iowa, our own mike is on the road with him and spoke with the senator moments ago. what did he have to say? >>. >> reporter: yeah, of course this whole weekend we have been talking about that back and forth between joe biden and bernie sanders on the issue of medicare for all versus obamacare-plus if you want ...

Proposal which is why he wants to come out and defendant and explain it as much as he can. >> garrett haake is in counsel bluffs iowa for us. lets contrast this plan with the former vice presidents, garrett. what are some of the key contras traf contrasts between the two? >> its obamacare plus. its what democrats wanted obamacare to be in 2009 and 2010. but what they couldnt quite get entirely. so the biggest plank of it is it would include a public option, a medicare-like buy-in that folks who ...

Hospital. they would have to close under medicare for all. hospitals cannot survive on rates for medicare alone. its a challenge to bernie sanders and elizabeth warren not to defend coverage for everyone but what does it look like for care for everyone. what does it do for the economy? its popular for the voters but when you start asking people what if it takes away the coverage you have you like or makes it harder to keep your doctor or your healthcare, support starts to erode. youre seeing him...

Promising to make the affordable care act stronger and talking tough against his progressive 2020 rivals. >> i know how hard it is. i watched it. starting over makes no sense to me at all. i knew the republicans would do everything in their power for obamacare. they still are. im surprised so many democrats are running on getting rid of it. >> garrett, lets talk about what we know about this plan. he is trying to draw contrast between him and his opponents ahead of this next debate. >> reporter:...

It takes obamacare and shrinks and we have income based subsidies to make them small. you get health insurance we make it let generous and regulations to take it limits then. it shrinks obamacare and add a massive reduction to the medicaid program and not just the medicaid xanexpansions for income americans. elder and disabled when they are in nursing homes also. its just a shrinkage of obamacare plus a massive out your medicaid cut to pay possess a large tax cut for the rich. i just dooned what...

When you look at these key battlegrounds, florida and ohio. >> lets broaden it. donald trump always seems to be feuding with someone. >> mcmullin today, for example. >> and he has been weird or curious strategically in some of the feuds he has chosen to spend days on, right? >> he is still going after jeb bush months after the primary ended. >> that thing like you finish a fight with someone and a day later, i have the comeback, except its three months later. fight with jeb bush if you want. im ...

Else to sort of close the deal beyond just saying, hey, i dont like that health care plan. >> i will say this on the other side for people looking at these numbers. that are going to think, donny mary landrieu or going to the red states in montana, arkansas, alaska, north carolina. anybody thinks that democrats are going to go you and embrace obamacare the way bill clinton told them to? please. send me the 30-second ad for the democrat that does that first and ill give you a couple of good ticke...