Democratic Debate: Is Joe Biden OK?

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Democratic candidates met in Houston on Thursday night for a third round of televised debates. This time the format was limited to a single night with 10 participants, which meant that for the first time, all the top-tier candidates were onstage together. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren defended their respective healthcare plans, but the center of attention was frontrunner Joe Biden, who spent the night fending off attacks from his rivals. As the evening wore on, Biden's answers became increasingly difficult to decipher. Intercept DC Bureau Chief Ryan Grim joins Mehdi Hasan to breakdown the latest debate, as do Justice Democrats Executive Director Alexandra Rojas and Pod Save the World host Tommy Vietor.

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0:00.0	You know, Dessa, I met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an AR-15.
0:05.4	And that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour.
0:08.8	Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.
0:12.3	We're not going to allow it to be used against fellow Americans anymore.
0:23.9	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hussain, and we are back
0:27.5	from our rather long and relaxing summer break with a very special episode of this podcast
0:32.6	focused laser-like on last night's democratic debate.
0:36.3	Who were the winners, who were the losers, who embarrassed themselves?
0:40.0	I know that the senator says she's for Bernie.
0:43.4	Well, I'm for Barack.
0:45.2	Let's be clear, I've actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company.
0:49.8	Well, do you think Trump is responsible for what happened?
0:53.1	I said, well, look, I mean, obviously he didn't pull the trigger,
0:56.2	but he's certainly been tweeting at the ammunition.
1:03.1	When we took our summer break back in June,
1:05.6	there were a whopping 25 Democrats vying for their party's presidential nomination.
1:10.7	Since then, six candidates thankfully dropped out, I wish more had as well.
1:15.5	Though one new candidate joined the fray, the billionaire Tom Steyer,
1:18.6	who you heard on this show earlier this year discussing Trump and impeachment with me.
1:23.2	But he was on stage last night for the third democratic debate,
1:26.5	nor was Marianne Williamson.
1:28.5	Thank God.
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