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CSPAN Washington Journal August 19, 1016

Democrats impeachment inquiry and how could impact congressional races in 2020. At 9 00 a. M. , the american syria. Ative editor, james host good morning, everyone. The 12 Democratic Candidates are swearing off in another primary debate. Elizabeth warren will be placed in the center next to joe biden. He will we will kick off the conversation with your thoughts on Elizabeth Warren even if she is not your candidate now, could you support her in the primary or if you are a republican, could you support her in the president ial election against President Trump . Yes or no. If you think you could support Elizabeth Warren for president , 2027488000. If you say no, 2027488001. You can join the conversation on twitter at cspanwj or tell us on facebook. Com cspan. If you text us with your first name, city and state, we will take those responses as well, 2027488003. Lets begin with the latest polls. This is from real clear politics. The average shows Elizabeth Warren just two percentage. Oints behind joe biden matchups. Pothetical joe biden beats President Trump at this point in this point of the race. 51 to 40 . Elizabeth warren with 49 and Bernie Sanders follows from there. Here is Elizabeth Warren recently talking about why she is running for president. [video clip] i got here today because i an an america that is not america of expanding opportunities. I see an america that just keeps working. Better and better and better for a better and better slice at the top. When you see a government that works great for the rich and the powerful and isnt working for anyone else, that is corruption pure and simple and we need to call it out for what it is. An america that works great for giant Drug Companies, but not for people trying to get a prescription filled, that is corruption. An america that works great for tont Oil Companies that want drill everywhere, but doesnt Pay Attention to the Climate Crisis bearing down upon us. That is corruption. I have got good news, i have a plan for that. Host Elizabeth Warren last month talking about why she is the race. Together, these candidates capture the support of more than half the democratic primary voters. In the latest poll, joe biden, 32 . 6izabeth warren at 22 , up. Oint caller the reason i will tell you all about supporting her, number one, i like what she is saying about the Drug Companies, for the rich to pay more taxes and i would like her to talk. Bout Senior Citizens Senior Citizens in this country right now i dont have food to eat. School children at in rural areas, hostiles are leaving. I want to hear her talk about this and about crime. One more thing before you cut me off. I believe she is qualified. I will tell you why. Women run the household. Home, they are just like the doctor, the judge, the jury, the lawyers, and they run the household expense. They can do it and america, wake up, this woman can do this. Men cannot do all of this. It is a woman running the household. Host will you be watching tonight . Caller yes, i will. I hope people out there are listening to me for her to speak about these items i just said. Speak up, america. It is time for a woman to run this country. It like i just said, women do it every day. Host i want to show you and others, you might be interested in this Washington Times piece. Warren connects with feminist voters on universal prek and childcare. Lets go to donald in pittsburgh on the air. Good morning. Caller good morning. I say no for several reasons. As a prior caller, i think she is a little misguided. Never ran aprobably household other than the stigma attached to her of being pocahontas. She is the queen of being disingenuous. I am concerned this country ds toward ash leans toward this country leans toward socialism. I am looking forward to the tonight. It is important for our country to hear out these democrats and sit down about what they are saying. The reality is, i think Elizabeth Warren doesnt have china,vitas to deal with the foreign issues we have right now, she is an empty suit. Host who is your candidate . Caller my candidate is donald trump. I am going to be a loyal trumpster. I know he is taking a lot of heat for his pullout in syria, but i dont think anyone would 50t to sign those letters to parents if special forces were overrun. Time we get out of these unending wars. I think he is doing the right thing. Host why do you think she is not authentic . Caller she is not authentic for a couple reasons. She is preaching to us about giving up our wealth, however, she is a multimillionaire. I am still beating a dead horse ut her fake ethnic to city ethnicity. She was a consumer advocate back in the day, i appreciated that, but she switched over to this socialist mantra she keeps going, the rich are bad and they have to pay more. I want to ask her, what do you think the rich do with their money . Toy reinvest or give it charity, giving it to the government is not in our best interest. Host good morning, john, you could support Elizabeth Warren for president. Caller i will support anyone who will defeat the despicable character in the white house. I will support Elizabeth Warren, but i have a warning for her in any other democratic nominee, i am a 64yearold white male and i want them to know there are millions of people like me who will vote against trump. Once the new president is sworn in, do not think we believe what you said on the campaign trail is possible. We are not voting for you, we are voting against trump, so you will have to prove you are capable of being president. This current president is so bad, i will vote for any democrat rather than him. That does not believe mean i believe in him in them or what they are espousing during the primary. Host what do you think about Elizabeth Warren and the last caller who said she is not authentic or has an authenticity problem . Caller i dont think she has an authenticity problem at all, i think she has a realism problem. I think her programs are not areistic, i think they aspirational. It is fine with me as long as she defeats trump. She should not think i am a supporter of hers. Bideneaning toward joe because i believe the people in florida, the people in wisconsin and the people in pennsylvania who caused us to have this president will be persuaded to vote for him over the current president. Int recent frontpage story the Washington Times had the headline warren feels heat at front of race over authenticity. Here she is recently talking about her plan if she becomes elected president. [video clip] taxt is time for a wealth. N this country your first it works, 50 million, free and clear. You feeling relaxed about that . Good. In to sense ch two cents. Cents for every dollar after that. Cents on the top 1 10 of 1 in this country. We can provide universal childcare for every baby in this country, all of them. Universal prek for every threeyearold and fouryearold in america. Everythe wages of childcare worker in this country. Ake College Tuition free truly level the playing field, put 50 billion into historically black colleges and universities. A two do all of that with cancelealth tax and Student Loan Debt. Host Elizabeth Warren talking about what she has in mind if she wins the presidency. Could you support her. Jesse in virginia says no. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you . Host what do you think . Lifelongy father was a democrat. I am africanamerican myself and like a lot of African Americans my father voted democrat. As long as i have lived, there has never been a single democrat policy that benefited me or my family. A lot of policies have directly harmed me and my family. Look at trump with historic decreases in black unemployment pulling us out of these unending wars, supporting gun rights, his policy are not the policy i back and you look at Elizabeth Warren or any of these advocate for socialism, gun control, that last snippet about taxing millionaires and taking money from them for all of these lofty goals, they have been proven false again and again in multiple countries. There is no reason to advocate anyone who bases their policies off of the socialist agenda, so i cannot support warren any more than i support sanders or any of the democrat front runners. Host on facebook, emily tells us i am a moderate democrat and dont agree with a lot of her policies, but i agree with her more than the current president. We are taking your comments. F you like, you can text us just include your city, state, and first name. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj or post on facebook. Com cspan. In some president ial 2020 campaign news, former new york mayor michael bloomberg, who was in this race, but got out talking to allies about running for president as joe biden struggles against Elizabeth Warren. Good morning, cspan. Trumpk in this day of exhaustion, because he is exhausting. He has completely exhausted this country, people throw up their hands when they see him on tv. My whole family is like that. Breath of fresh air. Everything she says makes you think it could be possible and when you think things can be possible and you have hope, that is what you want for the for the country. You dont want people rolling their eyes and hiding their kids every time he is on the tv. I think any one of those standatic if they can up to him, you know he is going to say terrible things and find something about all of them and tease him about it, so they have to be strong and ignore the bully because if you dont give him air, you cant breathe. Yes as well. U say good morning. Caller yes, i support Elizabeth Warren and i am not like this previous caller who says he is an africanamerican and voted democrat. I know he was an africanamerican. The other thing about him about trump, Elizabeth Warren they say she is not authentic. They putauthentic and him in there and look what he is he has done since he has been in there. I have one other thing to say about the front runners Elizabeth Warren and joe biden, me being an africanamerican, which is important to me to look at joe bidens record and joe biden record, the 1994 crime put 1 in 4 black american men in jail. Those men he put in jail dont have a right to vote. That is very important to look the otherish africanAmerican People, especially those in South Carolina who look at joe bidens record look at the 94 crime when hemendment the anita hill, Clarence Thomas all of those things, he is trying to run on the coattails of president obama. Dont look at obama record, look at joe bidens record and vote for Elizabeth Warren. Thank you. Host as you know, Elizabeth Warren has said she is with a burning when it comes to medicare for all. Take a look at the hill article this morning with the headline support drops for medicare for all, but increases for public option. The Kaiser Family foundation favored poll medicare for all proposal in which americans would get there insurance from a single government plan. 47 of those surveyed said they opposed medicare for all an increase of two Percentage Points from september. By eightn has grown points. Elizabeth warren has not endorsed all of what Bernie Sanders has said on medicare for say she has pivoted away from it. An interview Elizabeth Warren did in 2012, she was interviewed. Y a new england host she is asked about medicare for all. [video clip] a lets look obamacare for second. Would the Affordable Care act be better according to Elizabeth Warren . I think there will be a fight in congress, but what it will be over is if the benefits in the act are ones we are going to be able to hang onto. Scott brown and mitt romney made it clear they want to draw battle lines. In massachusetts, this turns out to have significant impact. We have coverage, but there are a lot of things in the Affordable Care act that are not here as state law. Young people being able to stay on their Health Insurance republicans want to get rid of that. It is an extension. Health care caps. This is for people who have cancer, other very expensive medical conditions or people who have longterm chronic illnesses. Federal law says an Insurance Company cannot decide to toss them off insurance. Seniors are being covered for more and more cost of health care and that tone not whole will be closed. Republicans want to appeal all of those repeal all of those. I want to know what your philosophy is. Singlepayere health care, far lower administrative cost would be the senator warren prescription, would it not . I think you have to stay with what is possible we really need. O consolidate gains the most obvious solution would be universal singlepayer health care. Make sure everyone is covered i wrote that with two, that is exactly right. The point is what we have got to do is we have got to move in the direction of getting families covered and bringing down the cost of health care. Host that was Elizabeth Warren in 2012 when she was running for u. S. Senate. Bernie sanders sat down with abc to tape an interview where he is asked what is the difference between you and Elizabeth Warren. Every american has got to make his or her own choice about the candidates and Elizabeth Warren has been a friend of mine for 25 years and i think she is a very good senators. There are differences between elizabeth and myself. Elizabeth has said she is a capitalist through her bones, i am not. The situation we face today of the greed and corruption existing in washington and the corporate elite level where you have massive amounts of pricefixing in the Drug Companies where we are the only country in the earth not to guarantee health care. In the fossil fuel industry, you have countries with billions of profit every year doing what . By the way, destroying the planet. I think business as usual and doing it the oldfashioned way is not good enough, it is not regulation. We need a political revolution. I believe i am the only candidate who is going to say to the ruling class of this country, enough with your greed and corruption, we need change in this country. Elizabeth is a friend of mine, she will speak for herself. Elizabeth considers herself to be a capitalist through her bones, i dont and the reason i am not is i will not tolerate for one second the kind of greed and corruption and income and wealth inequality and so much suffering going on in this country today. Host Bernie Sanders sitting down with abc this week. Could you support Elizabeth Warren . If she is not your candidate in the democratic primary, could you support her in a general election matchup and if you are a republican and dont support President Trump, could you vote for her . Ray, you say no. Who is your candidate . Donald my candidate is trump and i say that for a very specific reason. He has proven himself a leader great s done especially among africanamericans and a previous caller called Elizabeth Warren a breath of fresh air. I would use a different type of air. Hot air, mostly. She is one of the chief sirens of socialism. Socialism does not work. You can tax the rich, but what happens to the jobs . Unemployment will go. Kyrocket say yes. Ck, you why is that . Caller i am a supporter of Bernie Sanders, first and foremost. Get the primary election, i will support Elizabeth Warren. Like a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters, we have a bad taste in our mouth toward Elizabeth Warren. The fact that she had the chance to support bernie, clearly, she is not in line with hillary sheton and the fact that stayed out of supporting bernie until the election was over and burning clearly was going to be the candidate and she supported clinton, of course. She is in line more with bernie. That interview you just played showed the similarities are there. Bernie does himself a disservice for not indicating he is not against capitalism totally. He is against capitalism that is unbridled. I have a good amount of friends and we argue a lot who are progressives. They supported Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton 30 years ago would have been considered a republican. Which a supporter of wars progressives would not go for. I think bernie could have been president had Elizabeth Warren supported him in the primary prior to wading toward the end. A lot of people, like myself, i believe, clearly think that is the case. The last thing i want to say is i am glad the real africanamerican who got on and spoke referenced that other guy who he claimed was not an africanamerican. I am a white guy and i could not say that. You have people calling in on a line here that is a democratic line and they

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