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Preserving choice and rejecting this premise that you can either have the status quo, the affordable care act, or you can have medicare for all, single-payer system. there's a better path. >> reporter: bernie sanders also in iowa, he's been on the defensive about his campaign workers' pay. as for policies, today sanders discussed his plans to expand social security. >> the way we do that is we lift the cap. do you all know what that means? right now millionaires pay only a fraction of their income into the social security trust fund. nobody -- somebody makes a million, somebody makes 139,000, ...

While front-runner joe biden's fundraising in las vegas as the lineup for the second democratic debate is set for later this month in detroit. robert a great live in los angeles with more on the 2020 race. hello, robert. reporter: hello, laura. it's a crowded field and o'rourke and other hopefuls hoping to raise their profiles and cash in iowa ahead of that second debate. many of them addressing older voters at an event staged by the aarp, common themes, healthcare and condemning the president and some of his supporters. or acknowledging the challenges of getting his message out in this crowde...

An a affordable way while still preserving choice and rejecting this premise that you can either have the status quo, the affordable care act, or you can have medicare for all, single-payer system. there's a better path. >> reporter: bernie sanders also in iowa, he's been on the defensive about his campaign workers' pay. as for policies, today sanders discussed his plans to expand social security. >> the way we do that is we lift the cap. do you all know what that means? right now millionaires pay only a fraction of their income into the social security trust fund. nobody -- somebody makes a m...

You really pressed her to give specifics. why does she seem to be sort of tripped up when you ask her whether or not people are going to keep their own private insurance or not and when this transition could happen. >> because she is trying to explain it as a transition. and the way she sees that transition happening is, you know, you start to move very slowly. that this could take as you heard her say, more than four years. now, she's been caught a couple of times public ply from the cn town hall to the last debate, the first democratic debate where at least publicly and we weren't sure where...

Or executives of health insurance and pharmaceutical companies. >> you're looking at an industry which has spent in the last 20 years hundreds of millions of dollars on campaign contributions. >> reporter: his campaign also releasing a video accusing joe biden of lying about medicare for all. >> we won't mention his name but it might be a former vice president of the united states. >> reporter: sanders was responding to biden's claim that the transition to medicare may leave some without coverage and biden wants to build on the affordable care act proposing a public option to allow people to b...