. >> now we have senator michael bennet. sen. bennet: i am michael bennet from colorado. my family is with me today; susan, caroline, helena, and ann. this is where we are spending our vacation. the iowa state fair. thank you for having us. i want to say a few words by way of introduction. i'm happy to open it up for any comments or questions or criticisms anybody has on any topic. before i was in the senate, i had not really been in politics. i was the school superintendent. a large urban school district in america where most of the kids live in poverty. what i learned about the kids there was that they have exactly the same dreams that i had as a kid. their parents have exactly the same dreams for them that my parents had for me. and that susan and i have for our three daughters. they face enormous challenges , like school kids all over this country, when they are living in a time when we have got the worst income inequality we have had in 100 years, and an education system that is reinforcing the income inequality, rather than liberating people from it. there is a reas

senator michael bennet? sen. bennet: thank you. last week, i saw one of those trump signs that says, "america, love it or leave it." and it was on the outside of a church. i love america, and i know we can make it better. before coming to the senate i ran a large urban school district where most of the kids live in poverty. those kids have exactly the same hopes that i had. their parents have exactly the same hopes for them that my parents had for me, and that susan and i have for our three children. but for the last three years, we've been consumed by a president who frankly doesn't give a damn about your kids or mine. mr. president, kids belong in classrooms, not cages. [applause] sen. bennet: and they deserve something better than a bully in the white house. let's end this three ring circus in washington and make -- and let's make this election about reclaiming our future for our kids and our democracy. empty promises won't beat donald trump. i can. ms. bash: governor jay inslee. gov. inslee: good evening. i'm jay inslee. i am r

bennet: good evening. thank you, iowa, for having here tonight. it's been such a privilege to spend so much time in iowa, to come to understand how seriously you take this responsibility. we have a president in the white house who got that job in a very unusual way for america, he got the job by dividing one america from another america. and he is trying to keep that power by dividing america from itself. he thinks out there that there are 38% of the people that are going to stay with him no matter what, and a lot of those people live in rural areas, which is why it is so important for the democratic party to compete in rural iowa and in rural america in this election. [applause] sen. bennet: and everybody in this room knows we have a decision to make about the future of america. and future of rural america. the future of rural colorado and of rural iowa. and if we decide we are going to have a feature in rural iowa, we need rural hospitals in rural iowa. we need broadband in rural iowa. [applause] and we need schools in rural iowa. and when there

>> let's talk about michael bennet. a lot of people thought he had a breakout performance last night. the big question is, will it matter at this point? >> that's exactly right, joe. he had a great performance last night. i thought he had some really outstanding sound bites and moments on that debate stage. the next debate, candidates have to in two ways, achieve 2% in four national polls or early state polls and raise $130,000 donations from unique donors, which means 130,000 people across the country have to give them a donation. it could be $1, $5, it could be $2700. but the qualifications for the third debate have significantly increased. so, can michael bennet achieve that? i don't know. a lot of people in america want to see a few more moderates, you know, go forward on this debate stage. amy klobuchar has already announced she's made the third debate i with like to see michael bennet move forward. he has made great points and i think joe biden appreciated him being on the stage because he supported obamacare and

senator michael bennet. "the new york times" reports that they talked about the possibility of john hickenlooper dropping out of the presidential race and running for senate in colorado. the democrats need to win just three senate seats to gain control of the united states senate. and john hickenlooper right now is polling 13 points ahead of republican incumbent senator cory gardner. so john hickenlooper is one of the presidential candidates who, if he chooses to drop out and run for senate, has the power to possibly knock mitch mcconnell out of the majority leader's office and so that conversation in the ride around the lake yesterday was, like, wicked important and we are lucky to be joined tonight by one-half of that conversation riding around the lake, senator michael bennet will join us at the end of this hour to discuss the presidential campaign and the democrats' campaign to retake the united states senate and how john hickenlooper might play a major role in winning back the united states senate. we w

bennet: he is trying to keep that power by dividing america from itself. he thinks out there there are 38% of the people that are going to stay with him no matter what. a lot of those people live in rural areas. which is why it is so important for the democratic party to compete in rural iowa and in rural america in this election. [applause] bennet: and everybody in this room knows we have a decision to make about the future of america. and the future of rural america. the future of rural colorado and of rural iowa. and if we decide we are good to have a future in rural iowa, we need rural hospitals in rural iowa. [applause] we need broadband in rural iowa. [applause] and we need schools in rural iowa. and when there is one group of kids that have access to preschool, and another group through no fault of their own, that do not, equal is not equal. and when one group of kids has access to teachers and another group of kids cannot even find teachers to live in the community, equal is not equal. and when one group of american children have the chance to go t

senator bennet? >> senator harris is my friend as well. but i have to say if we can't admit tonight what's in the plan, which is banning employer-based insurance, we're not going to be able to admit that when donald trump is accusing democrats of doing that as well. we need to be honest about what's in this plan. it bans employer-based insurance and taxes the middle class to the tune of $30 trillion. do you know how much that is? that is 70% of what the government will collect in taxes over the next ten years. we don't need to do that. >> thank you. governor, i'm going to come to you in a second. >> health care in this country. >> i do want to bring in senator harris, because he just suggested you were not being honest. >> he -- we cannot keep with the republican talking points on this. you got to stop. the reality is that under my medicare for all plan, yes, employers are not going to be able to dictate the kind of health care that their employees get. they will be able to make that decision. privat

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. >> coming up here, colorado senator michael bennet joining us. and going after mitch mcconnell, senate democrats peel away the republican leader for blocking the legislation. >> i don't know how anyone could be against the idea of putting country over narrow interests or putting national security concerns over political advantage. >> and good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. as democrats enter a crucial new phase in that heated primary race, after the rest of the pack tried to prove themselves on the debate stage by trying to take down a reenergized joe biden, more forceful than in the first debate, but still with a few stumbles and missed opportunities along the way. the former vice president campaigning in detroit as we speak. the strategy of the other nine last night seemed at times to take down biden by attacking the obama legacy on health care, immigration, and global warming. >> joe biden told wealthy donors that nothing fundamentally would change if he were president. >> in 2019 in america, for a democrat to be running for

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please welcome senator michael bennet. (applause) welcome to the the show. >> thank you, great to be here. >> trevor: it is wonderful to have you here, because you are one of may favorite people to watch on the debate. for two reasons, you sound like mr. macky to me. and two, your policies are progressive and like you think about kids, you have this idea of america that is really attractive to many people. and that's what i wanted to start the conversation in and around. a lot of people may know you as someone who is on the edge of a debate stage. >> a lot of people do, yeah. >> trevor: right, they do. but, but when it comes to policy and in the senate, and in running and writing laws for this country, many people regard you as a senatorial rock star, why do you think that is? >> maybe because the bar is as low as it it is. i-- -- no. >> trevor: i done think that is true. >> i would like to not think that is the reason. it is because i believe fundamentally all of us have been sent will to make progress. we have toç make

i agree with margaret, i think you'll see bennet and bullock focus on iowa. they want to say iowa is the first big test. but you're literally being defined as a second tier candidate and that's hard to overcome. >> i think the problem with someone like bennet or bullock, they are hoping to be the moderate alternative to joe biden. what we're seeing in polls, the voters who are not supporting joe biden, who are going to other candidaes, they're moving to an elizabeth warren or even a bernie sanders rather than a more moderate option. >> he's got the more moderate democratic voters. everybody stand by because a redo election is going on, at least the campaign, in north carolina. but first look at this, joe biden just moments ago might have found a new running mate if he gets the nomination. watch this. >> as president, how will you fix the damage donald trump has caused? >> by making you vice president. like you, my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher t

how do you respond to senator bennet? >> again, with all due respect, after the last debate i went to a place in florida called homestead. there is a private detention facility being paid for by your taxpayer dollars. >> what you saw is kamala harris completely ignoring the question, never responding the question about open borders for this is where a moderator has to say, senator, governor, vice president, you didn't answer the question and ask it again. >> shannon: it gets a little tricky because there were several questions, even last night we saw some of this. even with the follow-up question to them, sometimes saying we didn't answer what we ask you, seems like there was a lot of that tonight but a really good candidate would be able to turn any question into an opportunity to give the answer they wanted to do. what did you think of who did the best of that? we saw that with senator harris as he pointed out but all of them took a swipe at doing that if there was a question they didn't want to answer. >> politicians a

and i will say, michael bennet first of all isone of my favorite candidates. but the truth is you cannot have whichhe republicans do, say chaotic series of debates d ich then went on to dominate somebody who enup as president, but is probably the worst president in the united statese history. we h have a reasonably orderly process now michael has e other shot as do so the other people who didn't get to the criteria this time. the same criteria applies to next month's debate. but at some point if y't get the grass roots together, and raise the money and be in 20 states and raise your profile, then you can be on the debate stage. there are 600 people, roughly, that run for president all the time. and most of them never get on the debate stage. there has to be some order to this. >> woodruff: you are saying at some point there has to be some order, but ashe campaign of senator bennet isou pointint, we are still five months away from the first voters voting and they are asking why is the dnc in a rush to squeeze, to winnow this field? >> well, they don't necessari

they include senator michael bennet, who you just saw there, cory booker, kamala harris, amy klobuchar and elizabeth warren, all senators. former congressman joe sisneck, stom steyer and entrepreneur andrew yang also here speaking. you might have noticed seth wooten in the photo line-up. we hear he is here today and earlier we have heard he is announcing he will drop out o the race. we have heard he may make the announcement officially here at the committee meeting. we will have crews here through saturday keeping you up to date on what is happening along with the protests and what the candidates are saying and if anybody else is dropping out of the race. live in tv, thom jensen, "nbc bay area news." >> meanwhile, president trump is turning his focus to foreign policy as he heads to the g7 summit in france today. the meeting is traditionally a chance for the leaders of the world's largest democracy to meet together to come together on issues. as the president pushes his foreign policy, disputes are looming large. here is kristen welker. >> reporter: the president is preparing to travel

michael bennet. >> 88% of the people in our prisons dropped out of high school. >> jimmy: and cameron. >> i want my daughter out in front of the school in ten minutes by herself! >> jimmy: sadly for michael bennet, cameron has a better shot at being elected president this time around. today in case you were not aware, i was not aware, this is national girlfriends day, a day on which women are encouraged to get together and celebrate friendships. here's the thing about girlfriends. you're either the oprah or the gayle. if you're confused about which one you are, you're gayle. it also is national raspberry cream pie day. there's too many days and too much of this too. there's a petition right now to make the last saturday october national trick-or-treat day. this is a real thing. they want 150,000 signatures. and they're close. they have 130,000 signatures. the people behind it, they had a petition to move halloween to the last saturday of october. some people didn't like it. they decided to keep halloween where it is and add another holiday, this is the equivalent of the come in your o

bennet listened to hickenlooper carefulfully, then thoughtfully replied, "who are you?" but other democratic candidates -- ( applause ) thank you. other democratic candidates are still going strong, like south bend mayor and photo on the inside flap-- bend mayor and photo on the inside flap of a self-published poetry book, mayor pete buttigieg. mayor pete was at the iowa state fair yesterday, and he showed that he's willing to put his body on the line to be president. here he is diving into some fried oreos. >> you want some? i mean, i'm not going to eat all six. >> stephen: well, then you're not going to be president, pete! "i'm not going to eat all six." oh, someone's too good for cardiac arrest. don't you know gorging yourself in public is how american knows you're the right choice. chester a. arthur got the job by winning a pie-eating contest. they didn't even bother holding an election! they just hosed him off and inaugurated him. but, of course, it wasn't all fried fun and games, because mayor pete's day took a bit of a darker turn when he talked to this veteran io

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senator bennet and senator harbor rays are great colleagues. i think they were listening to the commercial break when insurance companies are bringing up that point. >> why is that a republican talking point? he made a compelling case about why he has concerns about the medicare for all plan. >> look, here's what this plan does. what this plan does is look if you have in right now through your employer, if you switch jobs, that's going to go into chaos. you have to figure out how to keep my doctor, my care. sometimes people stay in their jobs even if they don't want to stay in their job. even if they want a different job because of continuity of care. what kamala harris' plan does is let's take that out of the equation. let's make sure every single american has a choice between a public medicare plan like we have right now but expand that every american can have with no co-pays or no deductibles. the you have a private insurance company maybe you're offering a plan, if you take a plan and have a such a great plan with extensive benefits and you

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andrew yang, michael bennet, kirsten gillibrand, kamala harris, and cory booker. and we'll talk about the keys. is joe biden is a stronger or weaker front runner after the debate? are the democrats stronger to take on president trump than they were before last night? let's bring in bakari, april ryan, and andrew gillum and angela rye. angela, i want to start with you. those big questions, who won, who lost, biden weak or strong, democrats better or worse. a lot going on this morning. >> there is a lot going on. go. there is a lot going on this morning. i think that i was really happy to see strong moments from julian castro. he really showed up. he delivered. like, from the opening to the closing. i also think that bidjoe biden prepared to take on attacks but i don't know how he took them. a telling moment for me was cory book booker and how he handled disruption by protesters. listening to what the protest is about and waiting for them to have their time and then reclaiming his. on the contrary, when joe biden was interrupted, he looked agitated. i don't think he

and michael bennet complaining. it's very possible we will look back and say, well, it was a messy summer, but that was '19. >> and nationally the democrats are counting on that that, you know, all these names that have -- they couldn't get 1 is and 2% very quickly fade from the scene and by the time the country is paying attention as we get long into the fall and approaching the first caucus in early 2020 that there will be a manageable number of something fewer than eight names for people to focus on. and, i mean, and that's a big field. i mean, if we entered iowa with eight potentially viable candidates still in the field, that's about as many as people can keep in their heads. >> i don't know if people realize this. but it's very possible that more candidates will actually qualify for the october debate than this debate. >> that's true. same timeline, same criteria. >> because steyer only needs one poll. >> and tulsi gabbard probably will too. >> is that going to feel awkward? like, we go from winnowing, oh, wai

as democrats gather in iowa this weekend for the state fair, michael bennet is speaking to the crowd right now as you look at live shots there in des moin moines. meanwhile, the president's allies and aides are hitting the airwave to reiterate the president's position he's ready to act. >> the president has been actively talking to republicans and democrats on the matter of background checks and just being able to have meaningful, measurable, reforms. >> we got a bill to president trump's desk last year, which truly duds oes go after the rea problems we saw where people were falling through the cracks. >> seven of the presidential candidates making the sunday show rounds. expressing skepticism about whether republicans are acting in good faith. >> i believe very little that this president says where he tweets, he tweets a lot of things. he says, makes a lot of bold statements that don't just come through. he doesn't follow through. he doesn't do the things that keep our nation safe and strong. >> we passed the background checks that are waiting for mitch mcconnell to put on the floor

me being president. >> you are the third reporter who's quoted michael bennet. yes, the exhaustion candidate. >> but i do think you do hear from these voter where's they don't want to hear about the latest tweet to your point every day. they want somebody that makes sure their family can do better than the generation before. they want sure they can afford health care if they get sick that, they have a planet that's safe and inhabitable and they don't want to deal with all of these eruptions and the chaos and confusion. >> but we are contradicting ourselves because we just said that people tune this out. at the same time and so i get that what bennet said resonated. but why does it resonate with us? because we're the weirdoes again. but we would be doing it anyway. let's face it. >> these focus groups now, i am jealous of the people who are getting the ability to take, you know, taking a couple months off of trump. >> but your secret's notwithstanding. the reality is i think that that's a very washington sent rick view and that the people who want him to stop dis

later this afternoon michael bennet at 4:00 eastern time. he will be followed immediately after that by senator bernie sanders and new york mayor did -- mayor bill de blasio. c-span head over to the campaign 2020 bus and take your calls. some of the sights and sounds of the state fair, everything on a stick including of course a staple of iowa, corn on a stick with plenty of salt and butter and a lot of calories. there are more than 200 food vendors at the iowa state fair venerating on average about $4 million for the state fair. the initial state fair dates back to 1854. you can also get the corn in a cup. everything you want at the iowa state fair. the average price is between four dollars to $10. we will watch this for just a moment. coming up from yesterday, senator kamala harris. use --e coverage can continues from des moines, iowa. >> corn on a stick, pork on a stick, deep-fried oreos, any kind of eyes scream or drink you would imagine. it's all available at the iowa state fair. we hope by now you're getting hungry for some of the food

also senators michael bennet of vermont and current new york city mayor de blasio. we are using our silence from the other crowd festivities to start the next speaker on the soapbox. who has heard me give the speech? tell your friends, tell your colleagues, everyone behave. now, governor john hickenlooper. >> thank you, rachel. thank you for sitting out here in the hot sun. i have been out here for the last few hours. my job is to give you the reasons you will take home and tell your family and friends why that guy with the funny last name is the right guy for our next president. the job of beating donald trump not going to be easy. barack obama, ronald reagan were 42 and 43 respectively. trump has the stronger economy. focused to win back those states he took like pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. i would argue if you go back and years, wethe last 120 have never's -- never defeated an incumbent president with a sitting senator. with any senator. it has always been governors and former governors. that's because governors have to make the final decision. we have to

bennet put out a pretty radical campaign promise tuesday, tweeting, "if you elect me president, i promise you won't have to think about me for two weeks at a time." ( laughter ) waaaaay ahead of you... ( laughter ) i want to say... mitchell bucket? i'm not sure. but i have to say, i do get excited about the idea of not thinking about the president. also: not thinking. ( laughter ) another candidate desperate to appeal to voters is tech entrepreneur and guy killing on c.f.o. stand-up night, andrew yang. ( laughter ) yesterday, yang unveiled a spotify playlist of his "favorite jams," including such hits as "don't you forget about me." wait, sorry, that's actually his campaign slogan. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) now, a few of those candidates might end up on the ballot. but in one state, donald trump might not. because a new california law requires presidential candidates to release their tax returns in order to appear on the primary ballot. ( cheers and applause ) wow. wow. that's pretty incredible. that's right. we're going to see everyone's tax returns. so we'll fi

he has to make his own decisions. >> mayor, a capable guy on his staff was a guy named michael bennet. >> small world. >> reporting that he got -- governor hickenlooper got in bennett's car and had discussions about the race. despite the appeal of governors, governors have not taken off out there. that primary has taken off in colorado. it's already crowded. hickenlooper would come in with quite a bit of stature and establishment money behind him. it's not a sure thing, though. these are hard decisions for candidates to make even though they're puolling at zero. purple state, you were a pretty successful governor, get into the run for president and realize there's no appetite for you. that's a tough blow to the ego. >> or if governor hickenlooper gets in and says i want to be your senator, this will pop up in a primary ad. >> i respect senators. some of my best friends are senators. i don't think i'm cut out for that. >> that clip will be used against you right there. >> yeah, i know. maybe if i create enough of those clips, certain leaders in the senate will stop. just kidding. >> ho

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later this afternoon michael bennet at 4:00 eastern time. he will be followed immediately after that by senator bernie sanders and new york mayor did -- mayor bill de blasio. c-span head over to the campaign 2020 bus and take your calls. some of the sights and sounds of the state fair, everything on a stick including of course a staple of iowa, corn on a stick with plenty of salt and butter and a lot of calories. there are more than 200 food vendors at the iowa state fair venerating on average about $4 million for the state fair. the initial state fair dates back to 1854. you can also get the corn in a cup. everything you want at the iowa state fair. the average price is between four dollars to $10. we will watch this for just a moment. coming up from yesterday, senator kamala harris. our live coverage

you can see all around us, candidates, marked by the signs, michael bennet is nearby, bill deblasio head and shoulders above just about everybody else. we are going to continue looking for sound as tonight goes on once the show is over. and we'll let you know what we get. shannon? >> shannon: okay, sounds good. and much like round one we didn't see the vice president after those rounds defense bates either. he's a repeat nonreturn customer. peter will keep looking for him. stay with us, more from the spin room right after this break. my insurance rates are probably gonna double. but dad, you've got allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. are you in good hands? but family can only tell you sot much... about your history. i found some incredible records about samuel silberman... passenger manifests, census information, even wwi draft registration cards. the records exist... they're there, they're facts. that made it so real for me, it wasn't just a story anymore. bring your family history to life like never b

senator michael bennet played the role of john delaney or governor bullock from last labor had a very impassioned moment in the key moment for him talking about schools and race. >> this is the fourth debate we have had and the second time we have been debating what people did 50 years ago when our schools are as segregated today as they were 50 years ago. we need a conversation about what is "happening now" and when is a group of kids in this country that don't get preschool through no fault of their own and another group does equal is not equal and we have a group of k-12 schools are good because family spend 1 million bucks and you get the detroit public schools that are as segregated as they were, equal is not equal. >> reporter: education a big issue for him, the school system in colorado. if biden's chances fall down it is possible someone like michael bennet might end up in a fight for safety for the centrist or moderate choice. last night we had the most searched member of the stage, marianne williamson. you will see andrew yang in a lot of searches tonight, a lot of donors an

over here is senator michael bennet talking with reporters. some 2020 democrats are turning up the heat against the president and iowa pivoting passes policies and making it personal. >> he does not care about other people or people with disabilities. >> many physical or mental under the sun. what could that guy emea venous law? he's an embarrassment. >> donald trump believes that climate change is a hoax. donald trump is an idiot. reporter: we talk to caucus goers at the iowa state fair and asked them what they thought about the war of words between democrats and the president. >> after what trump said, he is the president, he should be a little bit better choosing his choice of words. >> it turns me off to hear it from either side. i don't understand why everybody has to throw mud at everybody. let's stop beating up on each other and find out what the candidates are about. >> there is jealous of him because he's getting things done. he is shown all the politicians into a half years, he has done decades worth of work already my himself but he

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let's start with cory booker, julian castro and michael bennet. first, the new jersey senator, how did cory booker do? >> he had a decent debate. i thought it was better than his last debate. unfortunately, he started getting some attacks in the debate as well. i have -- his best argument versus the worst argument. his defense of himself as mayor of newark. his best argument was voter suppression. we haven't heard that very much in these debates. while he had some good and some bad, he thought the main difficulty attacking joe biden, i think he thought it would be a good thing for him. one thing you must remember is always, you should attack someone else, but you have to leave the audience with remembering why it is i want to vote for you. >> what's his grade? did you give him one? >> yes, b minus. >> how about julian castro? >> he got a c. i grouped him in with several, including tulsi gabbard. >> michael bennet, not exactly a household name. >> he's an odd one, when i first started watching him in the debate. i thought, is he going to fall aslee

. >> senator bennet had suggested that you support banning employer-based health insurance. is that true? >> first of all, with all due respect to my friend, michael bennet, my plan does not offer anything that is illegal. what it does is it separates the employer from health care meaning that where you work will not be -- the kind of health care you get will not be a function of where you work. >> the contenders now wait to see how democratic voters process this second round of debates. half of the field, maybe a little bit more, at risk of being shut out of round three next month if their standing doesn't improve. vice president biden among the candidates holding day-after event in the detroit area. you saw him moments ago trying to build support in the area before head back out on the campaign trail. that's a local restaurant. with me in studio to share their reporting, molly ball, jeff zeleny and seung min kim. let's start, we just saw the former vice president. she's mingling, she doesn't have to worry about making the next rounding of debates, but what is the biggest t

that will be followed by michael bennet, senator bernie sanders at 4:45 eastern, and the mayor of new york, bill de blasio 5:30 eastern. senator bessette, senator sanders, and mayor de blasio coming up later this afternoon on c-span and the free c-span radio app. our phone lines are open for governor weld and we will get to your calls in a jet -- in just a moment. for democrats, 748-8920. if you are an iowa voter, we would love to hear from you. 48-8922. about five minutes away from not -- five months away from the iowa caucuses. that will be followed by the first of the nation primary on february 11. we will be covering all of it as part of our campaign 2020 coverage. we will take another look from the fairgrounds in des moines, iowa. governor weld joining us in just a moment. the scene from des moines, iowa and the state fair. joining us on board the campaign 2020 bus is a former governor of massachusetts, publican candidate. you for being with us -- republican candidate. thank you for being with us. what do you think of the states fair so far? gov. weld: the people are so nice and

at the bottom of the list, senator michael bennet. here is from twitter as well, the most tweeted moment during the second night of the debate. number one was booker to biden. number two, gabbard criticizes harris and number three, gillibrand says the first thing she will do as president is clorox the over office -- the oval office. [video clip] >> mr. vice president there is a saying in my community. you are dipping into the kool-aid and you don't even know the flavor. you came to the city of newark and saw the reforms we put in place. the aclu says i am braced reform not just in actions but in deeds. you are trying to ship the view from what you created. there are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and you used tough on crime phony rhetoric that got people elected but destroyed communities by -- like mine. this is not about the past, sir, this is about the present. the: the headline inside wall street journal and also available online at wsj.com. side writing the following quote, over the cour

senator michael bennet. >> and now we have senator michael bennet.

>> every damn thing. [ laughter ] >> seth: i'm sorry, senator bennet, why do you keep looking into the audience? >> i see my mom. >> seth: oh. [ light laughter ] mayor buttigieg, why did you throw a sudoku book across the stage before the debate? >> because i couldn't get it done [ light laughter ] >> seth:enator sanders, what would you say to people who say that it's just not possible to combine french fries, gravy, and cheese curds >> my neighbor 50 miles north of me, canada, somehow has figured out a way. [ laughter and applause >> seth: senat warre some people have said you don't know how to have fun. how do you like to relax in your free time? >> watching climate change bear down upon us [ laughter and applause >> seth: senator klobuchar, i heard rumors that you took cbd oil before the debate tonight. why? >> everything else just melts away >> seth: congressman o'rourke, what has bernie sanders done that you respect the most? >> withstood the test of time for the last 243 years [ applause ] >> seth: secretary castro, what would be a good name for a steven seagal movie set in a fer

>> i don't think klobuchar will be the nominee, i don't by bennet will be the nominee. tim ryan can't get to the debate stage. none of the moderates can qualify for the next debate. without biden there's no center lane left. >> it's early, we always say that, but you look at the south carolina poll that just came out, once again, he's got a double-digit lead. there hasn't been a lot of movement in and around joe biden. joe biden has stayed at the top of the polls. >> we also have to remember it's still early in the primary process. in both parties for as long as i can remember, the idea was you run to the left or to the right in the primaries and you run to the center in the general election. elizabeth warren can tack to the center if she becomes the nominee. there's no reason why that's not possible. she can appeal to voters that flake is talking about. the question about what senator flake is saying is, is he a proxy for potential voters, swing voters, the mythical, legendary swing voter who might not vote for president trump and go to the democratic candidate. i'm sk

senator michael bennet of colorado, sp to delegates at last week's d.n.c. summer meeting. >> if we wted to be the party that excluded people, we'd be republicans. these rules have created exactly the wrong outcomes and they will not help us defeat donalgotrump. i'm nog to be on the debate stage next month, but i am gonna be out in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina and nevada, building constituency for change that this country needs. >> woodruff: we are joined by omeone with experience bo the debate stage, as a 2004 presidtial contender and the former governor of vermont, and behind the scenes, as chair of the democratic national committee from 2005 to 2009. howard dean, welcome. >> so as you know, the earlier debate the were 20 candidates spread or two nights, this time there are going to be only ten, even though there are 20 candidates still in the race. that the right approach, do you think, for the democratic party? >> well, you have to have some or-- order to this. aeand i will say, mibennet first of all is one of my favorite candidates. but the

obviously michael bennet is not the only one. he likely won't make this upcoming debate stage? september. but there is also a little bit of descension in the role of a climate change debate. we know that jay inslee was one of the candidates who was popularizing that idea. but climate change activists are on the ground here in san francisco. and they have been pushing this idea as well. we know where the dnc stands on single-issue debate. but that doesn't mean that these activists aren't still pushing. and one of the things i am looking out is a rule that was passed in the rules committee that basically redefines or could redefine what constitutes a forum and what constitutes a debate. because if that rule changes, then it seems like some of these climate forums, i know you are involved with one of them, but it seems like some of these climate forums then could become a little bit different in terms of the role that they play and how the candidates participate in them. so without getting too much in the weeds, that's something that is going to be decided on say. that's one of th