Sharp exchanges in fourth Democratic primary debate

Clinton said that she is “someone who has a little bit of experience standing up to the health care industry which has spent millions and millions of dollars attacking me”.

“We still have to carefully watch them”, she said of the Iranian regime.

She said: ‘When we’re talking about health care, the details really matter’. Who knows. But we’ll be here all night to record the best of the best, and also the stuff Martin O’Malley says.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, still struggling to get momentum in the race and to jump into the skirmishes between the two frontrunners, argued he was the only one who had been consistent.

Who ever thought a Democratic debate in 2016 could be as exciting, if not more so, than a GOP policy-fest?

“One out of three African-American men may well end up going to prison”.

“Let me talk about polling….”

To suggest President Sanders would be able to force a far more dramatic change through Congress is deluded or dishonest.

In response to a question, Clinton said her husband might serve as an adviser in her White House.

O’Malley pointed out restrictions he passed against combat assault weapons in Maryland, adding: “I have never met a self-respecting deer hunter who needed an AR-15 [semi-automatic rifle] to down a deer”.

Bernie Sanders is mad as hell – and he’s hoping Democratic voters are, too.

In the Democratic presidential candidates’ fourth debate Sunday, Sen.

“Well, it’ll start at the kitchen table, we’ll see how it goes from there”, Clinton said jokingly before taking a more serious turn.

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. She emphasized his success in raising incomes for everybody and said that on the economy, “You bet I’m going to ask for his ideas, I’m going to ask for his advice”.

A University of MA at Amherst economist, Gerald Friedman, analyzed the plan and concluded it would save $6 trillion over the next 10 years compared to the current system, Sanders said. “I can’t walk down the street – Secretary Clinton knows this – without being told how much I have to attack Secretary Clinton”.

He once called the former president’s behavior “deplorable” but said Sunday night that he wants to focus on issues “not Bill Clinton’s personal life”.

Just two hours before tonight’s debate, Sanders released his own health care and tax plan.

She repeatedly defended the Affordable Care Act and said Sanders’ approach would reopen a debate that might come back to haunt Democrats. “I helped write it”. The senator’s reply: calling the former first lady’s critiques “disingenuous”. And she challenged Sanders on his Wall Street attacks by unexpectedly invoking Sanders’ vote for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which exempted “over the counter” derivatives from regulation.

The debate followed a week of rising tension between the two leading candidates.

Later on, when a question was posed to Clinton, he asked, to laughter, ‘Can I get 30 seconds, too?’

Sanders disputed the notion, saying he and the president are friends, but have differences of opinion.

He dismissed Clinton’s suggestion he had flipped on the issue, saying he had not wanted smaller “mom and pop” gun shops to be held liable, but was now willing to back stronger provisions. Sanders – an ex-mayor of Burlington, Vermont – quickly interjected, “I was mayor for 8 years, I did that as well”. I can take that.

“I don’t take money from big banks”.

“(King) was counting on all of us to keep going after he was gone, to be a part of what President Obama calls the ‘Joshua Generation, ‘ carrying forward the holy work the heroes of the civil rights movement began”, Clinton said.