CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2020
(Margaret Brennan interviewing candidates for 2020 races)


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OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)

Abortion     Bernie Sanders: Support pro-life Dems if they replace pro-life Republicans.

Budget & Economy     Mike Pence: Great Recession tax-&-spend policy led to weak recovery.     Rand Paul: Trillion-dollar deficits are bad, whether by Dems or by GOP.

Corporations     Elizabeth Warren: Use anti-trust to break up anti-competitive businesses.     John Hickenlooper: Market must allow entry to new businesses.     Julian Castro: Top earners & corporations must pay fair share.     Bernie Sanders: Americans in red OR blue states oppose enriching the top 1%.     Bernie Sanders: Middle class needs tax breaks; top 1% does not.

Education     John Hickenlooper: Reinvent bipartisan apprenticeships & workforce training.

Energy & Oil     Bernie Sanders: No more debate on climate change; it's here & costs $100Bs.     Marco Rubio: Climate change is reality, but we're a country, not a planet.     Mike Bloomberg: America should be big part of climate solution.     Mike Bloomberg: If some countries do right thing on climate, we all benefit.

Environment     Lindsey Graham: Manage forest underbrush better, to avoid raging wildfires.     Mike Bloomberg: EPA failing to focus on clean air and clean water.     Bernie Sanders: Leave a planet to our kids that is healthy & habitable.

Foreign Policy     Marco Rubio: Engage with Putin, but recognize he supports zero sum games.     Donald Trump: European Union is a foe in trade, & in lack of NATO payments.     Bernie Sanders: Gaza is humanitarian disaster; Israelis shouldn't over-react.

Free Trade     John Kasich: Tariffs lead to acrimony among friends & going it alone.     John Kasich: Tariffs slow down the economy and hurt 40 million jobs.

Government Reform     Wanda Vazquez Garced: Calls for investigation into unused aid found in warehouse.     Bernie Sanders: Russian cyber-attacks threaten integrity of US elections.     Marco Rubio: Sanctions against Russia for interfering in 2016 election.

Gun Control     Kirsten Gillibrand: Senate would pass gun laws if allowed to vote.     Michael Bennet: Background checks work in Colorado, should work nationally.

Health Care     Kirsten Gillibrand: Provide a public option to get to universal coverage.     John Hickenlooper: Stabilize private markets & deal with high-cost pools.     John Kasich: To Dems: let market work; to GOP: help people who need it.

Homeland Security     Kirsten Gillibrand: White supremacists are domestic terrorists.     Bernie Sanders: Don't privatize the Veterans Administration.     Rand Paul: Fiscal conservatives must oppose unlimited military spending.

Immigration     Jay Inslee: Illegal immigration not a national emergency.     Kirsten Gillibrand: Pathway to citizenship for DREAMers.     Julian Castro: Compassion for refugees, pathway for those here.     Lindsey Graham: Change asylum law to not apply to illegal border crossers.     Ted Cruz: Use all tools available to stop asylum for migrant caravan.     Marco Rubio: Child separation policy at border is simply un-American.     John Kasich: DREAMers are part of the fabric of America.     Marco Rubio: Children are trafficked into US illegally by criminal groups.     Bernie Sanders: The Great Wall was ok in 1600s; not so smart today.

Principles & Values     Beto O`Rourke: Trump espouses racism & division, but problem predates him.     Bernie Sanders: Learn from Gingrich in 1994: propose bold Democratic agenda.     John Kerry: Let's get back to fact-based democracy.     Mike Bloomberg: Trump was not a business manager; I ran large organizations.     Jeff Flake: Republican Party needs to attract millennials & minorities.     Bernie Sanders: Change direction of Democrats to grassroots & bottom-up.

Social Security     John Kasich: Deal with all entitlements or we'll drown in debt.

Technology     Marco Rubio: When Chinese companies steal I.P., put them out of business.

War & Peace     Mike Pompeo: The Taliban has now made the break with terrorism.     Chris Murphy: Executing foreign political figures opens Pandora's box.     Marco Rubio: Imminent, credible threat obliges president to act.     Mike Pence: Grateful Trump is always focused on safety of troops.     Bernie Sanders: Withdraw US support for Saudi-led war in Yemen.     Rand Paul: Cut off arms sales to Saudis; war in Yemen hurts US security.     Marco Rubio: Selling arms to Saudi Arabia gives us leverage over them.     Marco Rubio: Khashoggi: stop Saudi arms sales & reduce Yemen involvement.     Mike Pence: Progress toward denuclearization & peace on Korean Peninsula.     John Kerry: Change calculation in Syria by enforcing ceasefires.     John Kerry: Use of force to respond to Syrian sarin gas attacks.     John Kasich: Talk with North Korea, but reimpose sanctions if no results.     Marco Rubio: North Korea should denuclearize, but I'm not optimistic.     Lindsey Graham: Iran nuke deal allows a bomb after 15 years.     Tim Kaine: Respond to Syrian chemical attack, but only via Congress.     Rand Paul: Lesson of Iraq: unintended consequences from regime change.     Rand Paul: We're actively in war in 7 countries, and none are declared.     Marco Rubio: We cannot live in a world where North Korea can nuke us.

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