Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when asked about his past support of 'stop-and-frisk,' said it's 'the one thing that I'm really worried about, embarrassed about' when he reflects on his time in office. DemDebate
Only six candidates will participate in the Las Vegas debate, which takes place only three days ahead of the Nevada caucuses.The Democrats storming Nevada in the lead up to Saturday's caucuses are about to first face off in Wednesday's debate, a matchup in a more diverse early state than the first two, with aJoining the former New York City mayor on the stage are former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Sen.
"We cannot continue to let our public lands be used for profits by those who don't care about our environment and are not making it better," she said. Bloomberg says he's committed to stop the expansion of coal and to rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, among working with India and China on environmentally-friendly trade policies."I think we should stop mining on public lands and all offshore drilling...We cannot continue to let our public lands be used for profits by those who don't care about our environment and are not making it better," she says.Former South Bend, Ind.
"I said we're not going to get -- to end these agreements because they were made consensually and they have every right to expect that they will stay private," Bloomberg said. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen, Elizabeth Warren speaks during the ninth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas, Feb. 19, 2020.
"It is a major issue because the President of the United States has been hiding behind his tax returns even when courts order him to come forward with those tax returns. I don't care how much money anyone has. I think it's great you've got a lot of money, but I think you've got to come forward with your tax returns," Klobuchar says.Vermont Sen.
Moving forward, Klobuchar says it's"going to be on me to earn it. You earn it with what you stand for when it comes to equal opportunity. You earn it with the work I have done, the leadership I've shown on voting rights and, yes, you earn it with the work that must be done on criminal justice reform."
"If I go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that I'm really worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop and frisk," he said."When I got into office, there was 650 murders a year in New York City. And I thought that my first responsibility was to give people the right to live. That's the basic right of everything.
"Maybe it is finally time that we said, as a nation, enough is enough, the function of a rational health care system is not to make the pharmaceutical industry and the drug companies rich. It is to provide health care to all people as a human right, not a privilege," Sanders said.Warren pitches Medicare for All and criticizes her opponents' healthcare plans for lack of substance.
9:10 p.m. Buttigieg contrasts himself with Sanders and Bloomberg, positions himself as centrist candidate Pete Buttigieg shakes hands with Sen. Amy Klobuchar as Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren look on at the Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Feb. 7, 2020."Most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.
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