And trump and cruz getting none. And in wyoming, senator marco rube owe and donald trump getting one, and cruz will win those. And so here is the delegate count among the candidates. Donald trump is in first, and then ted cruz and marco rubio and john kasich. And today, a day for donald trump as protesters were disrupting his rally in kansas city, and at one point, he called for them to be arrested and charged. And you know, this place is packed. We have thousands of people outside trying to get in, and these people are taking their place. It is not fair. One man was tackled by secret service after one man charged trump. Remember to keep it here on Fox News Channel for the headlines. Im lea gabriel. And now, the first candidate on stage, vermont senator, Bernie Sanders. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. They are feeling the bern here. Okay. All right. S senator, thank you for being here. My pleasure. I want to et get first your reaction that the former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided not to run as an independent an hour ago . Well, that is his decision. What does concern me, bret, on the broader scale is mr. Bloomberg is a billionaire and i think it is a bad idea for american democracy that the only people who feel in many ways that they can run for president are people who have so much money. One of the things that we believe in, in this campaign is to overturn the disastrous Citizens United preem Court Decision so all people can run for office, and not just the people who have a whole lot of money, and with the political ramifications of it are that, it is i dont know. And last night you had the debate in flint, and you said something that caused a little by of a stir on social media and among the political analysts who cover this race. You said this, quote, when you are white, you dont know what it is like to be poor. Different communities interpreted that different ways, and what did you mean by that . What i meant, look, there is no candidate in this race who has talked more about poverty than i have, and one of the thing th things that is disturbing me, and media does not often cover that. We have 47 Million People in the Country Living in poverty, and that a higher rate than any other country in the industrialized world, and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty than any other industrialized nation on earth. And i talk about poverty all of the time. And what i meant is that in africanamerican communities, you have People Living in desperation, and often abused by white police officers, and that is a bad thing, and that has to change, and that is why i am fighting to reform a broken criminal justice system, but i know about white poverty, because it exists in my state, and all over this country, and in the richest country in the history of the world, we have more income, and wealth inequality than any other major country, and we have too many People Living in poverty, and we have to change our National Priorities and deal with that issue. Senator [ applause ] you also seemed in the debate taken aback by secretary clintons vote on the auto bailout loan. And there were back checks, and they sided with you on the votes. Is this part of the problem running for president from the u. S. Senate to explain cloin cl votes, and that type of thing . Yes, as you know, bret, there are large pieces of legislation which are good and bad cases. And in this case, there was one vote to support the automotive industry, and i believe, and of cour course, i knew at the time that if that industry went down, millions of job, and not only in michigan and ohio but all offthis country would be impa impacted, and of course, i voted in the one senate vote that i had the opportunity to vote to support the automobile industry. What i did not vote for was the pailout of bail out out of w street, and that is what secretary clinton did vote for. And so i lost what they called a voice vote is to ask the wealthiest people in the country to pay a surtax. They are the people by and large who benefited from the illegal behavior of wall street. And i thought that rather than have the middleclass and working families of this country bailout wall street, i wanted the 1 to bail out wall street. Senator, there are widespread believes that medicare and medicaid and Social Security are the drivers of the national increasing debt now approaching 20 trillion and you know, and without reforms of the programs, we are head in order the debt crisis, and you have the congressional daet office a d office extending out that we will not have money for mill ta and other programs and the like, and you have a big tax increase program, but you plan to spend 18 trillion on the programs. So how do you present a debt crisis . Okay. Number one of the 18 trillion, much of it is being spent to have the United States drawing the rest of the industrialized world in guaranteeing health care to all people. And what that means is that in fact the average middleclass family, you see sh, with that trillion does not include the fact that the middleclass family in the middle of the economy would save about 5,000 a year on their health care costs, and this is part of the medicare for all program. I happy to believe and i know that not everybody agrees with many, but i believe that health care is a right of all people. I believe that there is something wrong when we are spending excuse me, where where did that right come from in your mind . Being a human being. Being a human being. What i believe, bret, and you may disagree with many, but i believe that if she is poor, and you are rich, she is entitled to the same Quality Health care that you have, because she is a human being. But in any case, when we talk about our Health Care System, and this is important to note, that it is not just that we have 29 Million People without Health Insurance, and we have many more underinsure and we are ripped off big time by the pharmaceutical industry who are charging the higher prices in the world, but that we end up spending, and you can explain this to people maybe, why do we spend three times more than the british do per person for health care, and why 50 more than the french, and why do we pay the highest prices in the world for drugs. Senator, health care, but my question is about the federal debt, and currently at 19. 1 trillion and the cbo says that the debt will rise to 10 trillion by the fy2016, and the the end of 2026, 29. 3 trillion at the end of 2026. Well, bret, of the 19 that you were talking about, 15 was health care, and if you exclude that, lets talk about the others. In the year 2016, when we talk about public education, it means to me that a College Degree to today in many respects is what a High School Degree is 50 years ago, so when we talk about public education, we have to make Public Colleges and universities tuition, free, and we have to substantially lower the student debt, because young people should not be forced to pay off the debts for 50 years. How do you pay for that, and that is going to be the question. Well, when the illegal behavior on wall street caused this country to collapse into the worst economic downturn since the great depression, the United States congress against my vote, and Hillary Clinton and i d disagree, because she roted for it, and i voted against it, but Congress Passed a bailout. Well, i think that right now, we should impose a tax on wall street speculation, and if wall streets turn to help the middleclass of this country pay for the Public College, so i think that we pay for that. And let me just finish up here, and get to the questioners. One of the most interesting trends to emerge from the exit and the entrance polls this year so far is which of you is honest and trustworthy, and in state after state for those who value honest and trustworthy l there s is a massive gulf between you and senator clinton. Nevada, 82 12, and new hampshire, 8 92 6, and iowa 83 10, so do you share what the supporters say that h Hillary Clinton is not honest and trustworthy . Well, i will let the voters decide, but for me, super tuesday, my own state of vermont voted and essentially the people who know you the best are your own neighbors. I have represented vermont in congress now for 25 years, and i am very proud that i received 86 of the vote in my home stat state. Lets go to the first can questioner. Senator, this is clark who is a occupational developer for henry ford systems. My question has to do with the firstgeneration american watching what happens in the middle east horrified, because that is where my fa this ther is from, and the fact that isis is going to perpetuate genocide and i would like to know how you and of your edadministration would address that . Well, i thank you for the question. And we can all agree that isis is a barbaric organization that needs to be destroyed and the question is how do we do it most effective effectively. And one of the differences between secretary clinton and myself is that i voted against the war in iraq, and she voted for the war in iraq. In many ways, a lot of the turmoil in the ip stability that we are seeing right now resulted from the disastrous decision. The lesson that i have learned from the war in iraq is that the United States cannot and should not do it alone. We have to work in coalition. King abdulelah of jordan made a very profound statement a couple of months ago when he said that what is going on there right now is a war for the soul of islam. And the people who have got the most effectively to deal with that issue is the muslim nations themselves, and they are on the ground who have to destroy isis. And i agree with that. I will do everything that i can to keep american troops out of the perpetual warfare in the middle east, but along with a coalition of the major countries on earth, the United States, uk, france, and russia, and i believe that we should support the muslim troops on the ground with air attacks with military equipment, and with all of the help that we can provide. But it should not be our troops on the ground for many, many reasons. And senator, if i could follow up. You think that what is happening to the christians in the middle east should be classified as genocide . Look, what is happening to christians in the middle east in that area is horrific. What is happening to muslims is horrific. It is the disgusting, and i dont [ applause ] i dont know that we have to put a word on it, but when you have a group, i mean, what can we say about these people . They are killing children, because they are going to school. And girls who are going to school, and they are putting girls in sexual slavery, and this is barbarism. George sanders. Ri will speak for the american public, you are more honest than hillary and a trump supporter. And my question for you is that you talk about the rich and by taxing the rich to help the economyings wouldnt that hurt those rich Business Owners who create jobs . George, good question. And i disagree with you in this sense, we have opout we have to put in contex what has happened in the last 30 year, and you may know, and you can tell me if you disagree with me, but there is a massive transfer of wealth from the working class and the middleclass to the top wealthy class, and now we are seeing a doubling of the 0. 0 1 which owns the most wealth as the bottom 90 . So almost all of the major corporations in the country, you know what they have been doing in the last 30 years, have they been creating jobs in america . No, in china and mexico, and one of the strong differences of opinions that secretary clinton and i have, and i have helped to lead the opposition against every one of the terrible trade programs. Nafta and other trade relations with china, because American Workers should not be forced to compete with the desperate people around the world who are making pennies per hour, and if elected president , george, i am going to be changing the trade policies, and corporations will be investing in america and not china, but i do not believe in the trickle down ecomonic. I do not believe that you give the tax breaks to the rich and the large corporations, suddenly, it comes down to help the working families, but what i do believe is that we have to put more money into the hands of the working families, and how do you do that . You live the minimum wage to a living wage. You know, i was in flint, michigan, obviously, last night, and several other locations, but our infrastructure, and it is not just, jorng, flint where the kids are drinking poisoned water, but it is our roads an bridges and airports, and why is it that the healthiest world in the history of the world, our infrastructure is collapsing. So we have to do away with the tax loopholes. It is not appropriate to have major corporations making billions of dollars a year, and stashing the profits in the Cayman Islands and bermuda and you know what they pay . Not a nickel in federal taxes. They should pay tax, and we use that money to rebuild the inf infrastructure, and we create 15 million jobs over the text ten years. So i think that you and i have a difference. All right. S senator, and next questioner dr. Shwati who is a physician. I want to help you to articulate your Health Care Plan to what you see as a transition to the vision of you . I just said to bret that the health kcare is a right of all people, and secretary clinton is suggesting that if we go from the Affordable Care act where we are today, i will dismantle the entire Health Care System, and children will lose the c. H. I. P. Program, and elderly will lose, and that is nonsense. Every other country has a National Health program of one kind or another, and right now in america, we have 29 Million People who have no Health Insurance at all. And what i believe in is that we have a program called medicare which needs improvement, but it is a popular and Important Program for seep your snior citd i believe that the program should be expanded to all american americans. And when we do that when we do that, we make our Health Care System much more cost effective, because we get, and we end a whole lot of the administration, and if you are a physician, my ges is that you have is spent half of the life arguing with the Insurance Companies, is that right . And people are out there filling out the forms, and the reason ta we are so much more expensive than other countries is the way that we have huge bureaucracy in the health kcare system, and we pay way too much for Prescription Drug, and to answer the question, i believe that we move in a medicare to a medicare for all Health Care System, and more cost effective, and covers everybody. And doctor, let me ask you, are you worryied about the transition, and is that the genesis of the question . What is your sghern. Well, a number of the candidates say we will repeal obama care, and change this or that, and we have a current system, and right. I dont see how you make the leap from where we are to where somebody else wants to be. And so i mean, that is what secretary clinton is trying to frighten people about. As somebody who has spent my entire life to fight for universal health care, i assure you that we arent going to be leaving people out, and we need to cover more people. And one thing, we talked about 90 of americans having insuran insurance, and that is the good thing, and we have made progress on it, and now, i was on the committee that helped to write the Affordable Care act, but as you know, we have millions of people in the country who may have Health Insurance, but they are underinsured with high e deductibles and high copayments and so people are walking into the office who are much sicker than they should have been, because they did dont in because of the high deductible, and no insurance at all, and that is crazy stuff. I want every american to walk into the Doctors Office when they should. And i do not want to continue to see 1 of 5 americans not being able to after aed for the Prescription Drugs that their doctors prescribe, and i dont want to see the elderly people cut their pills in half, and i dont want to see it at the same time the three Major Drug Companies in the country making 40 billion in profits. So many people cannot afford the medicines, and that is what we are talking about. Thank you, doctor. Another health caretype questi question. Senator, can you name a single circumstance at any point in the pregnancy at which you would be okay with abortion legal. Look, this is not about me being okay. Thank you for the question, bret. I want to be clear about this, and not everybody is going to agree with me, but i happy to believe that it is wrong for the government to be telling a woman what to do with her own body. I believe and i know that there are honest people, and some supporters and some disagree with me and they have a different poichbt view, and that is all right, i respect, that and i will change my view, but there is something that i dont like in this day is that there are a lot of people who tell me that the government is awful, and terrible, and get the government off of my back, and my republican friends want to cut the medicare and the medicaid and the education, but somehow on this issue, they want to tell ev