Will get your reaction to last nights democratic president ial debate in detroit by taking your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host good morning. Pundits referring to the two nights of the debate as a motown showdown. For joe biden, this reference, a detroit do over. 10 candidates on the stage. Ahead, some of the key moments from last nights cnn debate come around 2. How it is being covered this morning as well as your reaction. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 is the line for republicans. For independents, 2027488002. Join us on social media and we will read your tweets at cspanwj. Join the conversation on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. This is the headline, front page of the Washington Post, democrats pull no punches. My colleague, Greta Brawner. Host 2 look at politicos headline with the data points. Outbursts, 14 obama 21tions and 20 nearly minutes is how much time joe biden got and perhaps, not unexpected, he got the most time as candidates went after biden for his record on womens rights. , the mostto twitter tweeted about u. S. Politician number 1, donald trump. Number 2, joe biden. Three, Kamala Harris and 4, barack obama. Notesudge report banner dems attack not trump, but obama. The former attorney general under the Obama Administration eric holder morning be wary of attacking the obama record, build on it. There is little to be gained by attacking a very successful and still Popular Democratic president. From group will google trends, this is how americans searched. Number 1, kelsey gabbard. Bottom of the list, michael bennet. Here is from twitter as well, the most tweeted moments during night 2. Umber one was booker to biden there is a saying, you are dipping into the koolaid and you dont even know the flavor. Gabbard criticizes harriss record on the first thing she will do as president is clorox the oval office. From that number one moment, here is last night possibly debate. [video clip] there is a saying in my community, you are dipping into the koolaid and you dont even know the flavor. You need to see the reforms we put in place. The aclu has said i embrace reforms not just in action, but in deed. You are trying to shift the view from what you created. There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and sat tough on crime. Phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected, but to destroy communities like mine. This is about the present right now. Host this is the headline inside the wall street journal also Available Online. Debates leave a trio of president ial battles. Washington editor writing over the course of two long nights of debate, three different contests emerged. The first is the battle to not joe biden from his position as the front runner and the second is a struggle between moderate and progressives wings and the third is a quest to find a candidate who might be able to straddle both lanes. None of these debates mr. Biden and other moderates asking whether big price tags wont drive some middleoftheroad voters back into mr. Trumps arms which leaves the question of whether anyone can straddle the moderate or progressive camps. Two candidates, senator harris and Pete Buttigieg emerging as the two most likely to be able to pull off that tricky balancing act. Lets get to your phone calls. First up, john from georgia, independent line. What did you think . Cooks there are too many. There is no message coming out that is resonating with independent voters. Independent voters want to see people back to work. Congress and democrats need to all a shoveling about a shoveling earth policy. Host the headline, biden fighting jabs by liberals over his record. Last night or early this morning, the president tweeting the following. The people on the stage tonight or last were not those who will make America Great again or keep America Great. Our company is breaking records in almost every category. We have prosperity and success like never before. It will soon be time to keep and build on that prosperity or let it go. The president saying we are respected again around the world, keep it that way. We will only grow bigger, better, and stronger together. Next is paul joining us from connecticut, independent line. Host good morning from plymouth, connecticut. Butd not catch the debate, i read the reviews and my candidate is Tulsi Gabbard. Host why is that . Thinkinghe took on the on iran took on harris. Accused harris of locking up lowlevel druggies, hiding evidence, and supporting prison labor. We should look at these candidates that come forward and try to repackage themselves. Tulsa gabbard is an honorably served veteran who wants to keep us out of war. She is truly the only antiwar candidates candidate. As the toprated her search in last night the bait in all 50 states. Nominee, canthe she bring the Democratic Party together . About i dont know bringing the Democratic Party together, that is a long shot. However, she could bring up the issues of an awful lot of people. There are republicans and independents that believe we are in too many wars. The entrenchedst her twitter account reflected that. Helpingher sister is her on that one, talking about a fledgling campaign that needs help. She has stood out. Its amazing when you travel through the midwest, the billboards you see with her picture on them. Host biden goes on the attack against kid harris, a reference he made at the start of the debate and on the issue of health care, this exchange between the Vice President and the california senator. [video clip] i listen to the American Families who said 4 years is not enough to transition into this plan. I listened to American Families who said i want an option that will be under your medicare system that allows a private plan. I designed a plan where, responsive to the needs of American Families, there will be a public plan under my plan for medicare and a private plan under my plan because the bottom line is we must agree that access to Health Care Must be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it. 30 Million People are going without access to health care. Vice President Biden, your response. By response is the senator and anyseveral plans time anyone tells you you will get something good in 10 years, you should ask why it will take 10 years. This is the single most important issue facing the public. Ande very blunt straightforward, you cannot beat President Trump with doubletalk on this plan. Unfortunately, you are inaccurate in what you are describing. 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 are born every year in america. We will ensure everyone has access to health care. Your plan, by contrast, leaves out almost 10 million americans. I think you should think about what you are saying, but understand the people of america want access to health care and do not want cost to be there barrier to getting it. Vice President Biden, your response . The plan, no matter how you cut it, costs 3 trillion when it is employed. Secondly, it will require middleclass taxes to go up, not down. Thirdly, it will eliminate employerbased insurance and thirdly, what happens in the meantime . First of all, the cost of doing nothing is far too expensive. Second, we are now paying 3 trillion a year for health care in america. Over the next 10 years, it will probably be 6 trillion. My plan is about immediately allowing people to sign up into coverage. One of the moments from last nights cnn debate. Rick on twitter, sat to see what is happening to joe biden realtime, hes used by date has by and gone his use date has come and gone. Lisa saying it is clear the media wants to pretend biden and harris were the stars of the debate because they are on the dnc chosen two, but i am betting that is not who democratic voters want. We want to hear from you. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 if you are a democrat, tell us what you thought about the debate last night and the night before. Greta brawner with more on the stage and the backdrop in detroit. Host 2 cnn had the headline about what went into making the stage. A fox theater transformed for two nights of democratic debates. It took a team of more than 100 more than 1000nd hours to assemble the set. There are more than 25 cameras at the location. 500 plus lights, 40,000 pounds of equipment and 110 pallets of gear. Cnn said there was so much equipment, it took 953 foot semi trucks to haul it in. How did the candidates qualify for the debate . Candidate had to either achieve 1 received contributions from 65,000 unique doubters donors. The bar was purposefully set low for the first debates of the cycle, but it will be set quite a bit higher for the third set of debates that will be televised in september. News. Comdebates, vioxx ews. Com reports the dnc is raising the bar. Candidates have to meet a. Olling and donor threshold at least 130,000 unique donors from at least 4000 unique donors in 20 or more states. Tony in texas, did you watch last night . Caller i sure did and i really love cspan. I wish i could get it in hd. These democrats have a heads up on this and starting with a diverse pool early and whittling it down to one candidate might be enough to turn texas blue. I wish republicans would have done that before the last election. Host who do you think that democrat would be and would you support that democrat . Had to rank them, i am going biden, of course. Then i have to say i love castro, but i am a little bit biased. And then booker. I like the way they work together. Commonl have a democratic vision. More so the second night than the first night, but i think this is a good idea for them to do this now and pick their best person. Texas blue, i guess. Host greenbelt, maryland, what did you think . Caller good morning. , joe biden made a salient point. You see donald trump having a lot of approval because of the border. People should be coming, but they should really check. The border should not be free. If anybody is coming from mexico or wherever, they should be screened and checked before coming to our country. Host thanks for calling and thanks for listening on cspan radio. From portning us crane, new york. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I love this show. I think tulsa gabbert is the only candidate that makes any sense. She is antiwar not antiwar, but antistupid war that gets us nothing. I cannot see why the media will not let her speak. The other nine people were trending on twitter and tulsa gabbert was not even though she clearly won the debate. I think twitter is trying to interfere in the election and that should be looked into. Host we will go to rick joining us next on the independent line from ohio. Good morning. Caller i am 62 years old and i grew up in detroit in the 60s and 70s. Back then, we were the greatest. Ivilization man has ever seen the guys who came back from world war ii, they became the labor unions. They cashed corp. Taxed corporations at 90 . Based on their employees and the people who supported their employees, would have enough people to elect the president of the United States and it did not matter if they were republican or democrat. 90 . Were still taxed at long story short is the Democratic Party has been dead for 25 years. It died the day bill clinton signed nafta. Over the past 40 years, you can look decade by decade and see who destroyed the country. That is a 15 second delay cspan has to protect the people that did destroy our country. Host that is not true. The delay is to make sure we dont get profanities on the air. We do not censor anything on this network. Jews from, it is the new york, connecticut, and california. Host the candidates moments Available Online at Washington Post washingtonpost. Com. Emocrats pull no punches joe biden attempting to regain his footing by adopting a more aggressive and combative posture wednesday night faced relentless attacks on his decades long Senate Record on race and criminal justice and his commitment to womens rights. The exchange showcasing deep divides in the party taking on greater urgency as candidates strive to make gains before the field narrows. If the first night was a showcase of the liberal versus moderate split, the second night put on display other divides in the thirst to have a nominee that represents the partys growing diversity. Half of the 10 candidates were minorities, making it historically a diverse lineup. There was this Exchange Last night with senator cory booker, the former mayor of new jersey and joe biden. [video clip] we are in a situation where when someone is convicted of a drug prime, they go to jail or prison. In prison, they should be learning to read and write and not just sit and learn how to be better criminals. When they get out of prison, they should have access to everything they had before including programs for education, making sure they are able to have public housing, including all the opportunities available because we want them to become better citizens. That is the essence of what my plan and detail lays out. That is what i think i know what my plan does and it is not dissimilar to what the senator said we should be working on together. Is a response is this crisis in our country because we have treated issues of race and poverty, Mental Health and addiction with locking people up and not lifting them up. Saidice president has since the 1970s, every crime bill major and minor has had his name on it. Mine. Are your words, not this is one of those instances where the house was set on fire and you claimed responsibility for those laws. You cannot now come out with a plan to put out that fire. We have to have far more bold action on criminal Justice Reform, by having true marijuana justice, which means we legalize it on a federal level and reinvest profits in communities disproportionately targeted. The bills that the future president here the senator is talking about our bills passed years ago and overwhelmingly. Crack2007, i tried to get powder to paint cocaine limited. In 2000 you had a policed to parma that went out and married Rudy Giulianis guy and engaged in stop and frisk. 75 of those stops viewed as illegal and you found yourself in a situation where three times as many africanamericans were caught in that chain. The Justice Department came after you staying you were saying you were engaged in behavior that is inappropriate and Nothing Happened the whole time you were mayor. I am grateful he endorsed my presidency already, it is no secret i inherited a criminal police with massive problems and decades long challenges. The head of the aclu, that i put Forth National standardsetting accountability. Pleaseot interrupt you, show me that respect, sir. We have a system that is broken and if you want to compare records and frankly, i am shocked you do. Overden fighting jabs health care, criminal justice, and more. Kevin, democrats line, frankfort, kentucky. Good morning. Caller hello. I love your show. You have a great show. I would like to say two unrelated things. First, i dont think a whole lot of people are actually paying attention to any of this. I know the trump people dont Pay Attention to any of the democrats or what they have to say. Unless you are a truly, truly proud democrat are not pay any attention to that at all. Nextll be probably early year when anybody pays attention. O what is going on with the tv i want to say one other thing. It is unrelated. 80s, since the determined what our boundaries will be and feel like that is. He 1980s we dont have to go through salamander districts or anything like that because we have someone who figured that out for us. Let me say one other thing and then i will be off of here. Kentucky is in a horrible jobdeprived situation. There are not a whole lot of peoplere in kentucky for who are highly intelligent. Host thanks for the call. The senate race with mitch term. Ell seeking another one of the races we will be following. More on last nights debate with Greta Brawner. Host 2 senator Kiersten Gillibrand attacked joe biden for a 38yearold oped he wrote. Subsidizing deterioration of family, that is what he wrote 38 years ago. The Communications Director for Kirsten Gillibrand tweets the oped saying expanding the childcare tax credit and allowing more women to work would subsidize the deterioration of the family. Those are his words, he should explain to america how does a mom working to lead to the deterioration of the family . Andfact checked this moment Huffington Post reporters found congress was considering expanding the tax credit and biden was the only senator who voted against it, not because he opposed the credit altogether. It is because he did not want the tax credit to go to couples earning more than 30,000, which equals over 88,000 in todays dollars. [video clip] i think we have to have a broader conversation about whether we value women and whether we want to make sure women have every opportunity in the workplace. When the senate was debating middleclass affordability for child care, he wrote an oped he voted against it, the only boat. What he wrote was that he believed women working outside the home would create the deterioration of family. He also said women working outside the home were avoiding responsibility. I just need to understand as a woman who has worked