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Generational defining piece of legislation that really did spend trillions of dollars to kind of reconfigure the american industrial base? >> yeah, it can definitely happen. the scientists say we have the technology. it can happen. if we start right away, we can -- we can do what's needed in the next ten years, which are the critical years, and the only thing that's in the way is the political will, and that's because the fossil fuel industry has spent so much money lobbying and paying for the campaigns of a lot of the -- of the people in washington. but it can happen. recently over 500 enviro...

Stop being obsessed over impeachment which unfortunately strikes many americans like a ball game where you know what the score is going to be and start actually digging in and solving the problems that got donald trump elected in the first place. we have to take every opportunity to present a new positive vision for the country a new way forward to help beat him in 2020 because make no misdak, he'll be there at the ballot box for us to defeat. >> thank you mr. yang. [ cheers and applause ] >> let's turn now to an issue that is on the minds of all americans, and that is the economy. senator san...

Is on the minds of all americans, and that is the economy. senator sanders, today the house of representatives voted for a new bipartisan trade agreement among the united states, canada, and mexico. it was supported by union-friendly leaders like speaker nancy pelosi and big labor groups like the afl-cio. they say it is going to be a big job creator. senator, my question is, will you support this deal, and if not, why not? >> judy, you're talking to somebody who, unlike some of my colleagues here, voted against nafta, voted against pntr with china, two agreements that cost us over 4 million de...

Earn support from labor groups. i don't know the specifics of the negotiations. this is within the jurisdiction of the ways and means committee as well. i know chairman richie neil is working hard on it. but for sure we know nafta is not a great agreement. it's something that has to be updated. but the question is whether what comes out of this would be better or worse than what we have now. in one regard, i have introduced along with some of my colleagues a big concern about provisions that would lock in what are called exclusivity periods with regard to biologics and prescription drugs. to m...

If you dome, you can move and come into a public one. >> sanders took issue with biden's assessment. >> that's wrong. the united states has got to join every other major country on earth and guarantee health care to all people, union workers and nonunion workers as a right. >> labor groups have raised questions about what would happen to the benefits that e have negotiated in collective bargaining agreements if medicare for all becomes law. sanders said they would still be covered. the latest polling shows elizabeth warren second and gaining on the 2020 democratic front-runner joe biden. whi...