Andrew Yang in ABC This Week interviews during 2019

On Health Care: Would expand Medicare but not offer a public option

On Principles & Values: Impeachment: Open to pardoning Trump if elected

YANG: My focus is on solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected and moving the country forward. If you look around the world, unfortunately, it's developing countries that have fallen into a pattern of the new president or the new leader prosecuting and sometimes imprisoning the former leader. That's not a precedent that's been set here in the U.S.

On Drugs: Pardon non-violent drug offenders, focusing on marijuana

Q: That include cocaine dealers, opioid dealers?

YANG: I would decriminalize opioids, but in that particular segment I was referring to marijuana related drug offenses specifically

Q: So only marijuana, not all non-violent drug offenders.

YANG: Yes, that's correct.

On Government Reform: Create department to regulate social media

YANG: Yes, department of the attention economy, because the data clearly shows that in addition to the problems in our democracy because people are getting information through social media, we're also seeing a huge surge in a depression, anxiety and emotional issues, particularly among adolescent girls. You see that the surge in anxiety and depression among teenage girls in particular is coincident with smartphone adoption and social media.

On Jobs: Universal payments to all adults would have no stigma

On Tax Reform: Value Added Tax would generate $800 billion

What we have to do is we have to join every other advanced The people at the top end of the income scale consume a lot more, and you can actually make the VAT so it falls more heavily on luxury goods as opposed to consumer staples. So, the way for us to get this money is really to go to where the money is, and where the money is is in the hands of the Amazons and the Googles and Facebooks of the world.