CNN "State of the Union" interviews during 2019: on Principles & Values

Justin Amash: People put up with Congress because economy is good

Beto O`Rourke: Impeach Trump to get facts & assure accountability

Bernie Sanders: Democratic socialism opposes concentration of wealth & power

Cory Booker: Trump undermines constitutional intent: no one above the law

BOOKER: It was seeing a president who wants to undermine constitutional intent. He has not been complying with subpoenas. He has not been complying with legitimate congressional inquiries to continue the investigation that Mueller very specifically said it's on Congress now to continue. This president is not above the law. He should not be able to stop the checks and balances on the executive. And I feel like we have a moral obligation now to investigate this president.

Cory Booker: Supports impeachment investigation necessary to get to truth

BOOKER: It was a few weeks of seeing a president who wants to undermine constitutional intent and say that he's above the law. He has not been complying with subpoenas. He has not been complying with legitimate congressional inquiries to continue the investigation that Mueller very specifically said it's on Congress to continue after he clearly indicated that there is potential corruption and obstruction of justice. This president is not above the law. He should not be able to stop the checks and balances on the executive. I feel like we have a moral obligation now to investigate this president. Impeachment proceedings will give us more legal leverage to get the information Congress needs to get to the bottom of what his administration has done while they're in office.

Donald Trump: Mueller Report documents 77 lies by Trump campaign

Topics of lies:
• 31 Trump Tower Moscow
• 25 Trump Tower meeting and other Russian contacts
• 13 Comey firing & fallout
• 8 Other topics

• 53 to the public (including press conferences)
• 12 to Mueller or other authorities
• 10 to Congress
• 2 Undetermined

John Delaney: Independently wealthy but grew up in a blue collar family

"I grew up in a time when we had institutions in our society that really supported people. And I don't think we see that here today," he said. "I mean, I grew up in a blue collar family. My dad was an electrician. Neither of my parents went to college. I needed scholarships from my dad's union to give me the opportunity to get the education that I have received. And I had this amazing kind of American dream-type life where I worked hard and played by the rules."

Pete Buttigieg: Yes, young, but more government experience than Pres. Trump

When asked why he thinks, at 37 years old, he is qualified to be President, Buttigieg replied he had the experience, another answer that hit the Trump administration. "I have more years of government experience under my belt than the President. That's a low bar. I know that. I also have had more years of executive government experience than the vice president," he said.

"I get I'm the young guy in the conversation, but experience is what qualifies me to have a seat at this table," he concluded.

John Kasich: OpEd: moderate Republican who has been critical or Trump

The Republican former governor is known as a moderate and has been critical of President Trump in the past. It has been speculated that he might make a run for the White House. "I don't get into things where I don't thing I can win, and right now, right now, today, inside the Republican Party, I can't beat him in a primary," Kasich told SXSW. "But we'll see. That's today."

Kasich ended his eight-year governorship in January.

Elizabeth Warren: I'm not a Democratic Socialist; we can gain from markets

"Bernie has to speak to what Democratic Socialism is," replied Warren. The interview asked, "And you are not one?"

"I am not. And the centrists have to speak to whatever they are doing. What I can speak is to is how I am doing," Warren said.

She continued: "All I can tell you is what I believe. And that is there is an enormous amount to be gained from markets. That markets create opportunities. Markets have to have rules. They have to have a cop on the beat," she said, adding that "markets without rules are theft."