>> on tuesday the director of the centers for disease control and prevention dr. robert redfield testifies before a house appropriations subcommittee on the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak and president trump's 2021 budget request for his agency. watch live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3, online at c-span.org or livin' listen live free c-span radio app. >> follow the federal response to the coronavirus on c-span.org/coronavirus. you can find white house briefings, hearings with key public health officials and interviews with public health

specialists. review the latest events any time at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> on mondays on the washington journal wejo like to take a loo at therauss, week ahead in wash. and to do that this week we're joined by daniel strauss, steve dennis, senate reporter with bloomberg. steve dennis flow that $8.3 billion emergency supplemental has passed the ney is on its way out p the door. what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to i don't have?rted o what should we look for this week on that front? >> so democrats are already talking about assorted other things they want to get done. everything from paid sick leave for workers some in some united states do not have paid sick t t leave and assorted other thingst they want in making sureer testg is free, that treatments are affordable, that sort of thing.t it's going to be interesting to see if they get any of this on the floor thisth week.

there's a lot of other things u going on this week, but with tl markets plunging this morning and all the futures there's more and more talk of doing some kind of kind of market shock was 2008, wey p remember what happened then. rkedthere were some emergency thingse''that nancy pelosi and bush put out backs and things like tax cuts there was talk about the a administration on capitol hill but even just a few days ago i spoke to the finance chuck grassley and asked him so are we going to -- are you considering a big payroll tax? cut and he said not yet i think there is going to be a lot of talk this week about that andsh also aboutow congress his own security. you haveuz s members of congress who are not showing up thi't week, ted cruz, saying he's going to self quarantine in texask and this week so he wone here voting. congress is supposed to be here this week and then out next

weekey wil and then come back fr few weeksou. it is a real question if they are going to continue their of normal schedule their normal routine, if you thinkraph about, members of the senate are the havet demographic for people who shouldn't be on airplanes to they are older folks, some of them to haveicts underlying heah conditions, they go to 435meri differentca districts and flyri back and forth each week. and then they come to a t building where millions of americans come every year so right now there have been no major changes to the schedule, the hearings, etc, votes are scheduled to go on as usual. but there are some potential tough decisions that have to be. mate >> on that potentialear lyw stimulus, how much do youere thb expect to hear more about that this week especially considering what happened to markets overnight and where they can move? >> it is really hard for congress to react really quickly it usually takes some

time last week i spoke to the chairman of appropriationsck toe committee richard shelby about the possibility of us stimulusbt package given the shock to thet shocksy or the potentialit to the economy, and he saidin there hadn't beenfr a whole lot of talk about that but if it were up to him, something onear. infrastructure would make sense. congress has been negotiating infrastructureow t o package ond off for years it hasn't had a whole lot of success. problem is how to pay for it. right now we have the lowest pon interest rates we've ever had under 1% for a 30 year bond. kind of thing that youu but when you are negotiating who gets what project and how much to tal spend, that is not something you are going to get done c oronthis week but you cak about that sort of. thing >> stress corona vice the virus on the campaign trail impacts on candidates eventses. this week and what are you hearing about in the states in super tuesday two states as

they are known? >> it's a little hard tow thad l about impacts on the candidates schedule only because right now there is a madan i dash to recalibrate for michigan, the primary there, which is a much wind for bernie sanders. a lot of the strategists i've talked to say that joe bidenor has theonav advantage. but it is unusual for something like coronavirus or a diseasea's or something like that to become a trending topic within anynyth campaign but that is seeingy what we arer right now. it is such a prevailing issue that it is eclipsing other topics, ho like i guess you wou say the economy, or the democratic primary on , how to t trump. wethis is now becoming the numbe one issue on the campaigngn trail. >> do we know at this point, orr is it too soon to know, about the tuesday in terms of turnout abo stories about people not going to thego polls because of avoiding crowded places?

>> i think about a week ago, the feeling was that coronavirus was a little bit more contained than it is now in the longer that it goes on it is going to be a fear and the more it willce a probably affect turnout in these upcoming states >> as we have learned these primary seasons what a difference a week can make. must win in16 thi michigan for e sanders. why? >> ineall 2016 this was a state that bernie won and it really reinvigorated his campaign and put him in the cycle where even. he himself didn't think he was going to win the state. when he was told by his wifehas jane he was sort of surprised. this time around it seems that biden has gained a large amount of momentum within thehe democratic party and there is aa question over whether the folks who voted sanders in 2016 werebs really just voting against hillary clinton or for sanders. >> they give the numbers out for viewers to call in lots to talk about this morning that's what we have an hour-long

this m roundtable to talk about the week ahead in washington d.c.. steve dennis with bloomberg daniel stress at the guardian this morning. for numbers if you want tos, 21n the conversation, democrats as two two seven four eight 8000 republicans 1001 independents tong a two seven four eight 8002 steve dennis folks are calling in it is idaho michigan mississippi missouri north dakota andon washington holding their primaries this week. only one of those states is also holding a congressional primaries tomorrow. i believe that's mississippi. what q are theue story lines we should watch on the congressionalkly halines? bee>> that is a good question. focused so much on thetion to coronavirus and all of the other stuff going on in congress that i haven't been paying too som e much close attn to mississippi. last week during super tuesday there were some pretty good storylines from alabama, jeff sessions went off a couple of weeks, president trump going after jeff sessions in the

middle of the coronavirus he had a little extra time to take a shot at him. >> daniel stress what were yourr biggest surprises last week on the congressional front and rigt anything we should be looking at out this week or next? >> itentnout would strongly enc anyone following the campaign right now to pay tension to black turnout. a states like mississippi is one where black turnout is key and democrats are really hoping that they can maintain thatlaba, momentum through the next fewpif contests. in mississippi like alabama, the black vote is really the centerpiece of the democratic electorate, th there. for someone like bernie sanders versus joely e biden, that is k. on tat the same time, i would strongly encourage folks to pay attention to bernie sanders democratict by i'm going to get the mayor (inaudible) he is a rising star within the

democratic party from mississippi mary jackson and he decided to endorse bernie sanders. the importance here is that thee mayor sort of b rose to prominence within the state with support from the bernie sanders constellation ofcountrih outsiders and now he is repaying that. not every candidate right nowhig to who is on the ballot around the country is doing that. and that is an important thing to watch for in the contestno ahead. un end>> we mentioned just befou to cameme afteriffe 7:00 his endorsed minf former vice president is goingme to makent a difference this wee? >> that is a good question there endorsements for vice president biden so at this point it is a little hard to tell the imprint ofe gr that but it just adds to growing support that vice president biden has right now. >> i think it's also laudable that elizabeth warren did not endorsed bernie sanders. somebody.

when the other team and it is a fight forfrom number one not to number two, when the other onene iswh getting a lot of of hi endorsements from candidates who dropped out and bernie is not and the one person who was most aligned with some of hisxtf policies is not endorsing and there is no indication she ismut wi going to do it in the next couple of days, these contests as daniel was talking about, michigan is a must win, he hasig got jesse jackson senior i guessss endorsed him, and he won a michigan primary when he was running for president it was a big deal back then. sosoa are >> you think there'sa reason c amwhy we're hearing th: endorsements come out these bigg game endorsements come out now biden camp. and >> yes it and i think he sot together this team of rivals and adding a little slivers of the democratic electorate the democratic establishment,them and then with the can coronavirus sort ofs sos

monopolizing a lot of coverage, it is going to be hard tobut change theas dynamic if you are bernie sanders so he has reallya got to get in on the ground g with the strength of hishim. is he has a great network of people on the ground andf ca they are going to have o pull through for. him >> at 45 minutes left and a lot ofbby callers so we will st working our way through bobby greenwood louisiana republican your up first in the segment go ahead. >> yes thank you for taking my call, i would just like to say that it seems like america is being with a lot (inaudible) of stuff right now lots ofthe democ considerations about the coronavirus it seems that very strange to me that soon after the democratic party made a comment about how trump would lose, the coronavirus struckrusn america and maybe the next week we start hearing about the coronavirus arriving in america.

now as far as the democratic party is concerned got is not going to bless america as long as you have a party that is encouraging abortion, murdering children and what is essentially against (inaudible) marriage of same sex couples. >> bobby in louisiana this morning david strauss you did coverage of the coronavirus the color brings up there is this editorial cartoon in today's usa today, it is the poster asking the resident who do you think has the best chance of beating donald trump in the 2020 election biden or birdie? and the president says the coronavirus. >> right now this is a pressing problem for the trump administration. more so than paying attention to the campaign trail, we are seeing markets vacillate and a

growing sense of fear among americans about this virus so i guess you would say that this is the more pressing concern right now then trying to game out or spoil the democratic primary. >> dennis. >> you also have the president's probably his chief calling card has been the economy, unemployment at three and a half percent another good jobs report is kind of a ninja cater was based on early february before people started going to costco and cleaning out all the toilet paper because they were worried they were going to be stuck in their homes for a week. but the markets tanking if they continue to tank with the recession history is not great for presidents who are running for reelection in the middle of a recession. whether it's his fault or not, whether we could have done something differently or not, it becomes an overhang and you also, there were some turmoil at the white house to you have

a new chief of staff, the last chief of staff was at the cpac conference saying that this was a media creation going after trump, the coronavirus, he is no longer the chief of staff. and now we have people who attended cpac who like ted cruz who are not not going to be coming to congress this week because they are self quarantined teen. ted cruz is not a liberal media creation, he is a conservative republican from. texas >> when do you expect to hear from mark meadows, his first comments on this administration? >> talk about a heck of a first test as the new chief of staff for president trump. you show up and the markets are tanking, bond yields are the lowest they have ever been by far overnight. oil prices dropped 31% yesterday you've got a gas price war between saudi arabia and russia that has

implications for the oil patch you have got airlines that nobody wants to buy airline tickets, you've got the tourism industry under stress. and there are no great options. there are a lot of cheap options other than the best you do against this, and then there has been some hiccups getting testing out there, one of the reasons that people just don't know how bad it is or not is that we haven't been able to test everybody. we haven't been able to get these tests out there quickly enough. that is something that is a concern every day when there is another closed door briefing, senators come out and say i wish they had done this even weeks ago is far as the tests. so this is going to continue to be an issue and it is something that mark meadows, at least he gets to come in and say about a mess on my hands i've got to clean it up and it is a huge test for. me >> mary out and mayor in indianapolis democratic morning. >> yes hi good morning, i was

calling because i want to find e out no one is really talking about the implication of thehad administration in the gop with regards to the eighth pa and hown they had started pulling down defunding creating issues with and n regards to committees around the country. no one is really talking about that impact and hospital closing and that kind of thing, so could you tell me a little bit about what has been done to ramp up anything in those communities that have been defunded? >> this eight billion dollar package does include about a billion mmundollars for state a local response efforts there is money in their for community health centers, which were bolstered by the affordable care act.d there still is a dispute over funding for vaccines andobab treatment for people, that is

something that is probably admi going to come further down the line but it is true that thethae administration is trying to overturn most of or at least a large chunk of the affordable careecti act in court, that is still before thehe will include a lot of protections that are in the lawn now that you cap have to replace and there is no the action oncrt capitol hill to replace those things. inti outone of those things thae democrats have been pointing out this past week re, are if yu have anit g affordable care act plan, preventive care is been t generally free, things like vaccinations.withou so that is something that they have been talking about but then there are a lot of people still without a lot of coverage expensive f millions of people are they going to get freeill te vaccines, or are those vaccines going to be too expensive for thousands for treatments going to be used to get those if they go to a hospital and get a test are they going to be charged thousands ofndin dollars for a ? these are all things that they,e spen are putting funding in this

bill about eight billione have dollars sounds like a lot of tr moneyilli, we spent trillions on health care this year 20 to trillion, this is a small amount when you think about it that way? >> i want to talk about aca on the campaign trail and give some more numbersshingt to the collars washington post story today on local health agencies and age funding cuts over the years. erthe color seems to be talking about that. agenciesublic healthth have lost about a quarter of their overall a kind of almost 60,000 according to the national association of health officials using the main source of federal funding the center for disease control and defense budget has been cut p er30% sine back in 2003. and the trump administration has been close to cutting that even deeper. when it comes to community health centers i should also asn note in our next segment we are going to have the chief medical officer of the national association of community health on but do you want to

take aca on the campaign trailse and what it means for the campaign? >> this is been the longestndide changing debate within the democratic primary which is what to do about the aca, a more moderate candidate joe biden, amy klobuchar, a fewfo othersrcin have all othered for basically building andcy progreg reinforcing the aca but thell lo invoke policy prescription right now is medicare for all and a complete even biggerthen s overhaul of the american health care system then in then during president obama's administration. and that has not gone away. right now for vice president joercing biden, sort of the stay bearer for the more moderate approach to reinforcing the acad and that is partially just because he is trying to tieon himself so closely to president obama, the obama administration. on fpo the otherint side thouge

sanders, the most liberal candidate all in this field at y point in time in the 2020 race, has argued for medicare for all. and rrink a gigantic overhaul oe health care system so as this race shakes down to two candidates, i think that is going to be a trending debate in ar topic going forward. debate is?next >> that is going to be in arizona. on sunday. and the format at this point we do not expect leslie gabbard. >> the new debate rules exclude her from being on stage. >> what else do we know about the debate? est: there will be seated and standing does that give anyone advantage? biden probably like sitting, ne othat vice presidential debates he wasas sitting for at thoset one of >> they are both in their that formthey probably like sitting, i like sitting.g. >> allgu these questions thisnd time aroundid that formatsi do''

pre-submitted questions for thik this. >> both candidates have done town halls, multiple times, i c don'tan think that's incredibly different. it filib gives the candidates lf a chance to filibuster so iand . think we will see some more direct contact with contact with candidates and voters. >> bloomberg senate reporter you canal follow him it's tea dennis. daniel stress the guardian senior political reporter at daniel stress for you can follow him on twitter, or you can call like brian david from virginia an independent good morning. >> goods morning, thank you for taking my call. i want to change topics and talk about medical care, that issue. universal health care, medicare for all, will solve every problem that is occurring with the health care systemy

especially with this pandemic contai with the virus, it will solve all those problems right away. :it will be totally able to contain . >> why do you think that brian? > because it addresses all te obstacles in the health care, all the problems that need to be solved, the other healthcall: care privatized things doesn't solve at all. give me an example of some of those obstacles. >> the people that can't afforde certain thingsgs, some care, can't get care. with medicare for all everyone will be able to have those things they will be intact, because the money will be alreadycces they're sitting thee waiting for everybody to accesse you wouldn't have to worry about trying to access it it ise already in place whereas before now, we haveced to go procure i, outsourcing because oft

week privatized concerns. i c>> our unit independent who voted in the virginia primary last? week >> yes sir i certainly did and on that topic their most of the people that, when bernie sanders iso be running in the lt election the ey wmost of those independents were actually wanting him to be nominated and when he didn't get the nomination they were discouraged and instead of a didn't vornout that bernie sanders wanted when they elected obama, they got to disenfranchised and didn't vote at all and only 40% turnout. so if bernie sanders us independence and true liberals who are tiredrkin of the democrs half hearted problems with the working class, we have a flat tire so we wanna make it half full of air, without repairing leak, we'll were tiredne. gu of that non aggressive approach

to working. class >> that is brian in are pk virginia stephen is doing to start this off? >> i think that there are stark divisions right now in the toger democratic party between the ate camp.rs camp in the biden it is going to be a challenge to pull that party together at the convention assuming the convention is still happening, i'm assuming thousands ofenatort people still go to milwaukee, but there are going to be a lot of sayin challenges. i talked to a lot of senators about this question and they are all saying that they are going on tto pull together ande this time.ut to and bernie sanders on the campaign trail saying that he will endorse joe biden and vice versa but in the meantime there is going to be at least a week or so of some very intense campaigning. bernie sanders is making the point about joe biden that his health care plan leaves some people out. he is making the point that joe

biden has voted for trade agreements like nafta. wen which were not popular in states like michigan and those states went for trump. and so he is going to have some points to make on that debatehos stage it is going to be a very interesting sort of, to see also how bernie sanders handles at this time around. he did endorse hillary clinton he did campaign for her, he didh go to a bunch ofem different events. but his folks were not completelyin g behind hillarysas clinton, at least not all of n themex. so i think it is going to be interesting ing.to see how berne sanders handles the next few months, if he ends up not .inning >> t i think, regardless of the outcome of the year election there is going to be a robust and active sanders movement goingatic forward and if there e an ongoing question within the

democratic party right now, about when we come to convention time will there be a rift? will the runner-up help the a ce presumptive nominee and allow for a swing convention or will there be a contested convention? there is always always sort of rumblings that this is the year that this is the year of the congested convention with or a brokered convention which are two different things. i think that maybe it is more possiblele previous years and you see there consolidation around bernie ande around joe biden as a response to those fears within theiting democratic party. >> who is the next big is big. endorsement to get? who are we waiting for? elizabeth warren we mentioned. already >> worn his bigig obviously everyone would like to see or to know who former president obama decides to endorse. there are other a few otheri

liberal hold arts, sharon brown has been very quiet throughout this primary process. i think that for the most part though, we have seen the bulk of the ink ofendorsements by no i can only think of a few how ot senators and members of que congress who haven't weighed in at this point. >> steve dennisest: how often do you see sharon have you asked her this question? i've asked her a number of this i nequestion, i remember asking four years ago who is going to run? he said he i'm not going to run, i never want to be president i'm not running for a hot minute. i've asked him the vp question, i've asked him the endorsement question, he and biden have very different views on trade. to me trade is one of the big splitsrepu within the democratic party and it is something that and biden dode more of a split because the republicans are split and it's scrambled thelo politics. bident

doesn't talk a lot about trade but i expect sanders is going to talk a lot about trade in the next week and it will bea interesting to see if biden hasp an updated version of his old g, message which is hey the tpp trans-pacific partnership, that'seres good nafta, voted fos that we should make it better. i am interested in hearing how that trade issue plays out and how shared browns approach biden in the coming weeks. idaho mississippi missouriek. north dakota -- and next week we have the delegate rich states of florida ahead on the ce list, next week, so we will see how it plays out on the campaign trail. asking for your calls this morningg the week ahead on the campaign trail in washington, steve dennis daniel stress our guests this morning, --80 01-- independents to a two seven four eight 8000 and to our guest which just before about

20 more minutes if youuca want o call without tom did from connecticut, a republican. good morning tom age 74 republican and vietnam vet.avir all the insanity with the coronavirus question mr.which i stevens representing bloomberg d because the bloomberg news network which i understand was not permitted to accurately is h report on political news. and my hope is that elizabeth warren willwill endorse joe bidn and that will be her third in a row w loss. who would want to the endorsement of her? if she comes out in favor of the back to our native american

roots. and hopefully everyone adheres to common sense precautions during theing pandemic or whater is coming. >> tom in connecticut, steve dennis. >> i understand some people have that opinion about bloombergythisan news, certainly to doo everything i can in a non partisan way, mr. bloomberg did president, he is involved in politics he doesn't guest:e emails in the morning telling me how to write my sinc. stories. been covering congress?s you've >> since 2005.. >> >> a long time ago 25 years agoi spent five years ago at the globe and mail. >> steven stress what cycle is it for? you >> this is my third presidential, i was an intern with you guys at roll call.een

fourth, fifth campaign cycle. so it has been almost ten years professionally. >> and with ' you this morningmpaign trail. taking your phone calls on what'sin e ouahead this week ing washington, what's ahead this week on the campaign trail, christine out of west virginia democrat good morning. >> good morning my question is about the coronavirus test. why did the trump administration refuse w.h.o. kits in february? when this came out my question owned stock inine that the cdc is not using a company that trump previously owned stock in. could he benefit from this? have we check this out? that is my question, it worries me because the doctor was on fox news saying that they kind and again with the problems w testing. that is my testquestion, thank. you >> steve dennis on testing.

hits >>well d it is true that ty have had problems with the testing kits, that has been well documented, i haven't seen anythinge wa as far as some nefarious reasons, pretty sure , he w that if there was some nefarious reason doctor fauci knew about it he would not stand for it, the guy has been there for a long time. i do think that his issue of testing is a big big story and something that has to be, it ist going to get a lot of attention. even once these tests are out there by the millions like the food tests, even when that happens, there is still going to be a what happened? how can we prevent this from happening again? why is south korea better ater'e testing than we are? question among some democrats on the hill about whether there was less emphasis on testing because trump didn't want the numbers to look bad.onsp

i don't think that there's folks in the cdc or an hr thinking that so, there are conspiracies-ing theories that are floating aroundld c somethig like thishing a crisis, that be firearm and. i would caution people that until tho something has beenhe checkedor out, treat those conspiracy theories flying around onst: facebook with lotsf t salt.f >> daniel stress, the president remaining ngtoin florida today expecting to be back in washington later this afternoon, when we know about his campaign schedule coming up? d>> right now, it's funny, the trump reelection team has decided to sort of aligned their schedule with the democratic calendar so anytime there is a primary, you are going to see the president or the vice president doing some kind of campaign round in the state where the primary contest

is happening. this is a new strategy that i have seen, it is pretty interesting to me. splitting thf a realtime counter programming. and i am not sure if the result is going to be splitting the vote or just sort of acting for a pulse check for the republican base as democrats come out to vote. ofeither way, i think it will sort of act as a energizer for n voters and remind them to go toe the pollsr and stay active in politics throughout to the primary contest.on >>d, energize or on both sides? . it >> progeny or good morning. >> good morning, i was calling because i didn't vote in the primary here in virginia bute the reason for that is because

i was supporting bloomberg as a candidate and of course you dropped out. so now i'm looking forward tompe voting for the republican party. for the simple fact that i'm still thinking about the times when the democrats got up and walked out and all the social security and everything was inm' limbo and they didn't pay the federal workers, still on my mind. and i don't see how people can take this and forget that on top of that, all the democrats . that are running for president,t none of them are sayinghost: anything that is interesting top me because they arele not talkig about how me.ey can better serve it had >> a couple of questions. against donald trump you would

have voted for bloomberg? >>berg i sure would have. >> and bloomberg was still in race last week on super w tuesday butel you didn't go out and vote for him in the primary? >> he wasn't on our ticket so you know. it was just sanders and and vice president and the lady, miss warren. bloomberg had discontinued his campaigning. payin steve dennis. >> i'm not really sure what he's get talking about as far as not paying federal workers. federal workers ended up getting paid so i'm not really sure where he's going with primi that. of you see this is a big challenge for the democrats and ite mo is that people voted in thesella early primaries for los of different people,on people wo

gave money to elizabeth warren they like klobuchar, they like different people for a reason and joen unti biden was the frot runner at the beginning and he was going down down down until the last few weeks, he had not set the world on fire. this is a challenge for those democrats, to broaden their appeal coming out of this. race >> a topic for both of you urgency andennis a let you start senses your story that got the headline i'm reading comes, from biden has come back asrain urgency and unease in republicans ukraine probe. >> the republican chairman in the senate who has been investigating ukraine issues for a couple of years now since 2017 they are stepping up theirr they are going to vote on wednesday in committee the homeland security committee. mitt romney has originally said that he was not inclined to support, he is worried that

this is going to look politicalt talked to ron johnson the chairman of the committee who ry convinced him that this is closed doors it'sgo not going to be a showing tria. so romney's office said entrée that he will support it. that is going to be interestingo this consultant for a companyinv called blue star which used to workspir for ukraine involving e conspiracies that to this guy has been talking about revolving the bidens. what the republicans want to get to is why did burisma thisft ukrainian energy company hired joe biden's son hunter? and what did they get out of it? did the state department give hunter biden special access was the state depa that the obama administration to differently because of that? so they've been trying to get tr

prince resigned forever reference for the state department from the administration they also arents subpoena-ing this person for documents and testimony. and you know don johnson wants to release a report in the next couple months in the middle ofen campaign season democrats seethf politics. the republicans say hey they've been working on the story for three years they want to get to the bottom of this and they can't get to the bottom of thiss bottom of itfo without subpoena. >>wins t this is an ongoing conb among democratic voters of joe biden once the nomination. there is a fear that republicans will just hammer him on ukraine and hunter biden and thatmethin is going to be a relentless topic of discussion,t and really is something that democrats will be able to perryu correctly. orbl sufficiently in the general election. ngi think republicans of shown a strong interest and bringing that up in n-onthe general election. even donald trump jr. said he'd

like to debate huntern th one-on-one what should be unusual, but it is something that i think we would see in theethi scenario where, or that type of discussion would be something we would see in the scenario where joe biden gets the nomination. anna >> christine lift in the segment go ahead. >> can you hear me okay? >> yes ma'am. >> okay, i have a question for the media.di cai would like to have someone n the media as bernie sanders about medicare programs. i'm 74 years old, and for many years i've been putting someou moneyld l in a special fun for,h security and out of that comes my medicare. what i would like to know from i bernie, if he does medicare for all, will he dip into the fund that i've already put in? the money i put in over the

years i've been pre-kept for. is he going to take money out of arethat? and if he caps me again for medicare, and nobody has asked that question about how he's going to be handling a senior citizen and what we've already done to have? >> he's talked about medicare being better. his medicare for all plan gets rid of costs for prescription drugs becomes free in his plan. he talksks about raising taxes generally on the wealthy andntee corporations. healle has not spelled out exacy how to do it. he was challenged on this point. you said why put out several options. yes he has put out several truet options. it would be very expensiveever,e thing i think is true about democr everyone from the democratic candidates whether he's independente aror democrat, and

that building behind there are not not 5 51 votes for medicarer all. there all anything that looks close tors e medicare for all. you would have to be sweeping change a lot of different senators allotted different houseif members that can happen. so is there something that is n. likely to happen in the next few years? evenhost like medicare for all n if sanders list the presidency probably not. >> is there a majority of the majority in the house? i think that you can probably get a majority of the majority, but you have to get 218 more when you get is pointless. i think that is a real challenge for president bernie sanders is not only putting out a bill that actually gets all the details on how you pay for it unless you're just going to increase the deficit that is already running out of the trillion dollars a year and expanding because more people are turning 65. the one thing she said, that i think should be pointed out, is

it's not like there is a big pile of money that you've paid in all your life there that money was spent long ago in fact seniors right now paid much less than those medicare taxes and they're going to end abused, and that is why the deficits that is why one of the reasons why the deficit keeps going up. the taxes were never enough to pay for the future expenses. when good thing is, the rates solo the bond rates are not worried about deficits right now. >> to asking questions to the candidates, who's easier to get a question to biden or sanders? >> it is not easy for either candidate. i think it is slightly easier for sanders the biden campaign has taken pains to really control and corral biden including his events and how big they are and is appearances

and general sanders has always been a little more willing to engage with questioners and the press press conferences, and the former vice president but you cannot just call and not last question i'm a little i'm still not quite sure,. it's a little unclear on it to be honest. i think that.