I have a lot of respect for, for, for device president. This week I hear him literally say

that I don't think we should legalize marijuana. I, I, I thought you might have been high when you said it.

Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan. Who won and who lost at the fifth Democratic

presidential debate last night? And what were the really memorable on stage clashes?

It's unfortunate that we have someone on the stage who during the Obama administration spent

four years full time on Fox News criticizing president Obama. In a deconstructed special,

I'll give my take and also talk to Waleed Shahid of the Justice Democrats and a Kaila Lacey of

the intercepts DC Bureau about who and what stood out on the night and what the moderators may have missed.

It was debate night on Wednesday night again. The fifth Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta

Georgia. Ten candidates on stage, which in my view is still six too many. And four moderators and

all woman line up in fact from MSNBC and the Washington Post. Once again, front runner and

former vice president Joe Biden had a terrible night, a terrible night in coherent rambling,

unable to finish sentences, mixing up his words, saying stuff that is wildly out of touch and even

offensive. He couldn't decide whether he wanted people to be able to choose or not choose their

healthcare plans. We should build on Obamacare, provide the plan I put forward before anybody in here,

adding a Medicare option in that plan and not make people choose. Allow people to choose,

he seemed to forget that Kamala Harris is a member of the United States Senate.

I have more people supporting me in the black community that have announced for me because they

know me. They know who I am. Three former chairs of the black caucus. The only black African-American

woman that ever been elected to the United States Senate. A whole range of people.

He was very keen to point out that men should never hit women unless no man has a right to raise

a hand to a woman in anger other than in self-defense and that's rarely ever occurs.

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