Hello, NurdCasters. This is Scott Bland, your host, and this is a special debate show.

Tuesday night was another Democratic presidential debate.

Round 2, Part 1 tonight with 10 candidates on the stage in Detroit, broadcast on CNN.

And we are going to take a key moment of the debate.

We're going to play it for you, and then we're going to break it down with Politico health care reporter Dan Diamond,

author of the Politico Pulse newsletter and the host of the Pulse Check podcast.

Dan, thank you so much for stepping to the sidelines of Politico's crowded debate night newsroom to talk through this.

I am thrilled to be here with you, Scott.

All right, let's get right to it. Here's the moment we picked out. The moderators and the candidates jumped right into the biggest policy issue facing

Democrats ahead of 2020, the one their voters say, the most important to them, health care.

And the early exchanges between Bernie Sanders and John Delaney with a little bit of Elizabeth Warren

we'll bring her in a little later really set the tone for the whole debate.

So right after the opening statement, CNN's Jake Tapper turned to Senator Bernie Sanders.

And Senator Sanders, let's start with you.

You support Medicare for all.

And ask him to explain his support for Medicare for all

in terms of criticism from Congressman John Delaney,

a rival for the Democratic nomination,

who said it would take private health insurance

away from tens of millions of Americans.

He has called the idea political suicide that will just get President Trump reelected.

What do you say to Congressman Delaney?

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