Yeah, but Andrew, you're gonna have to have policy positions at some point.
How does the Forward Party feel about Roe versus Wade should have been overturned?
>> Well, I personally think that women's reproductive rights are fundamental
human rights, but the Forward Party has not left or
right, but forward stance on even the most divisive and contentious issues.
>> Don't you have to take a position on something?
Don't you have to take a position on something?
You can't just say, well, you know, this is a hot button issue.
So I'm not gonna take a position on you.
If you wanna run the country, you're gonna have to make some hard decisions Andrew.
>> Again the forward part is about that common sense consensus majority view,
which is very clear on abortion.
It's clear. >> What about guns?
What about assault weapons changes?
>> Actually clear on just about every issue under the sun.
Should 18 year olds be able to buy a R 15?
Because of the nature of our system.
Should 18 year olds be able to buy a R 15s?
>> Again, the common sense consensus majority is that there should be some
rules around background checks and access to firearms, but we're not getting any of
these things Jim, because the two party system does not need to deliver.
>> It doesn't sound like you're taking any hard positions.
It sounds like your power.
It sounds like you're sort of a fill in the blank party,
if somebody wants a party with no clear policy positions you're it.
>> Or alternatively the Democratic Party would be it.
But anyway, Jim Acosta is not having it with Andrew Yang in the Forward Party and
he's being very dismissive.
I don't know that I've ever seen him be this dismissive maybe with with Trump I
guess other than that, if this was a Schumer, this is Pelosi and
she was evading a question, he would have a little bit less spice on it,
that's all I'm saying.
But that doesn't mean that he's wrong.
Andrew Yang really didn't answer these questions because look,
the issue isn't that it's a third party fundamentally,
it's saying the common sense position and we're good, that's not enough.
You do have to answer questions at some point.
Look, I agree with Andrea, I think there are widely held positions that a lot of
people, including on both sides share about many of these topics, but
to pretend that there aren't fundamentally divisive things that would result in
people turning against your party, like people care so much about this, these
are not just, it's common sense, people are fired up about the environment and
guns and abortion and I don't know, despising the trans community.
What's the common sense, centrist position on the existence of trans people.
These are not super difficult questions,
these are the base level questions that you have to have an answer for and
I understand he's not gonna have the same position as everyone who might be a part
of this party, everyone's gonna have slightly different positions, but
you can't just keep saying common sense at some point.
People wanna know what you stand for.
And I talked with Andrew Yang, I have had him on the show.
I like a good number of the things he says he's sometimes on social media says
some things that I find very frustrating, but this is not gonna do it.
I don't think this is gonna pull up a bunch of people.
You have to show that you stand for something.
>> Well, I think you're misunderstanding the word for word,
John so forward means moving through space and time linearly and
you're sort of caught up and these sort of side quests if you will.
Things that we've already answered and I don't need to answer,
I don't need to answer them to have the answer because they've been answered.
And I'm moving past those answers even though we've never answered them.
So I don't understand what you're not getting.
But what I love about this is the most tech bro response to a two party system.
It's like, here's a problem.
I know it's a problem and I'm instead of actually solving the problem, I don't
know, advocating for a parliamentary system in the United States government,
not a winner take all ranked choice voting.
The kind that made Andrew Yang come in fourth place for
his governorship in New York.
Why don't we or his mayorship?
Excuse me? Why don't we just do something completely
useless that doesn't help anyone like another centrist party,
let's just do that.
Isn't that what everyone needed?
No, nobody needs that, just like nobody needs, I don't know,
a way to collate all the different ride share apps when you can't tell
which one's the fastest, you know what I mean?
Literally they're gonna be introducing their own cryptocurrency tomorrow.
Watch this is a shell game of a party and
he clearly can't even answer a straightforward question.
>> Yeah, I don't know enough about, I don't know,
I can't make any broad statements about the party and it's still relatively new.
Maybe he'll get better at messaging,
maybe they'll figure out their core ideology a little bit better.
But I want us to have a voting system that gives third parties a better chance
of competing in a lot of elections.
And I also want people to have good impressions of third parties.
It's one of the reasons why when you're a high profile person who has started one.
I want you to message about it in a way that doesn't turn a bunch of people off to
the concept of a third party, that would be my preference.
>> But he does that with everything he poison pills.
UBI, universal basic income is great, he's like $1,000 a month and then we take away
all the other things that you get Medicare, Medicaid, any kind of welfare,
it all goes out the window and you're like no no no no no no, stop, stop.
We'll see we're gonna be tracking it.
But yeah, if you watch the full interview with the cost that it gets even more
aggressive, they are like if you don't think that they can be combative,
they can be with certain people, just certain people.