please welcome Andrew yeah
I was telling you I have a dear friend
who's part of the gang gang and is
riding very hard for you so he's very
excited you're on today so you I was
first really introduced you in the last
debate but there's a controversy going
on right now because you accused NBC of
cutting your mic off at times when you
wanted to interject NBC is denied that's
happened but it's a big conspiracy all
over the Internet can you clarify what
happened well I was only asked two
questions over two hours and that's uh
you know like they're for everyone to
see and so I just shared my experience
with some supporters after the fact but
we're just thrilled that I have another
debate in July and then also in
September and October to keep getting
our ideas out the American people but
how you make it so you don't speak you
speak more than three minutes well we
were joking that maybe I'd have like a
sign or something but very confident
that that will get more opportunities
than that well use the only one that
happened to oh did somebody else sir
also get screwed out I think one of the
other candidates said that her mic was
also cut it very oh yeah Morgenson yeah
I think that's right haven't talked to
Marian about it though yeah cuz you
spoke he's booked less than three
minutes or about three minutes but you
have some very dedicated followers they
called themselves the yang gang
supporters wear hats that have math
written across the top make America
think harder
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and there's a YouTube channel dedicated
to getting you elected called nerds for
Andrew Young 2020 so and I love that
actually because I do think that you
know I give a lot of credit to the
American people I I think we're smarter
than them people are giving us credit
for and that's what I think you're
trying to tap into so tell us about that
well my campaign is dedicated to trying
to solve the problems I got Donald Trump
elected we're in the midst of the
greatest economic transformation in the
history of our country what experts are
calling the fourth Industrial Revolution
and so make America think harder is
trying to get America focused on the
fact that it's certainly not immigrants
that are causing these problems it's the
fact that technology is pushing our
economy to a point where more and more
Americans are having a harder time
finding paths forward
Amazon's closing 30% of our malls and
stores in the next four years and being
a retail workers still the most common
job in this country the average retail
workers a 39 year old woman making
between nine and 10 dollars an hour we
know she doesn't have much in the way of
savings so as her stores closed them
opportunities disappear we have to start
focusing on solving those problems and
that's what make America think harder is
the opposite of this called a yesteryear
we need to start solving the problems of
today does anybody in the Republican
Party giving any thought to that what
you just said well when you talk to
politicians about this economic
transformation we're in the midst of
unfortunately a lot of the solutions
we'll volve around education and
retraining but I looked into the studies
around retraining manufacturing workers
in the Midwest and the results were very
very bad 0 to 15 percent success rate so
if you're a politician and you say hey
we're gonna educate Americans for the
jobs of the future then it was like ok
that sounds great but then when you dig
into the reality unfortunately that's
not the one it didn't work right because
we tried to do that when we moved mining
yeah so we were going to retrain people
and and it didn't work as we heard from
various people saying well there's
nothing out there for me well when
they're climates aren't deniers also
they don't even look at the possibility
of having great jobs yeah which a lot of
them learn could go into that but anyway
yes you are also proposing something of
a basic universal income of freedom
dividends that's right you call it what
does that mean exactly so this is an
idea that's been with America since our
founding Thomas Paine was for it Martin
Luther King championed in 1967
it's a dividend for every American as a
rate of citizenship so under my plan
every American adult would receive
$1,000
month starting at age 18 every month
until you you expire what yes yeah that
will cost three million three trillion
dollars where's this money coming from
so what is the point of it really did I
say if you give a man a fish you gave
man a fishing line you can fish if he's
give him one fish he'll just eat that
fish something like that so you hand
something a thousand dollars that what
good is a better than founded yeah
though for people that are struggling I
know it's a bit of a game changer but
it's not a long-term solution come on
it actually would help build a more
human centered economy what I call the
trickle up economy because it'll allow
more people to do the kind of work that
they want to do eating people like my
wife who's at home with our two young
boys one of whom is autistic
and right now the market values her work
at zero GD P values her work at zero if
you start putting resources into our
hands it actually expands what we think
of ya as work well now you're talking
about paying women for doing housework
and do work at home being mothers that's
a good idea
that is a good
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this is a game changer for the waitress
at the diner who's getting harassed by
her boss it's a game changer for the
single mom who's stuck in an abusive
relationship like we need to put the
economic resources into people's hands
to be able to improve their Elizabeth
Warren she's got a plan she's charging
two percent over certain millions of
millions what are you gonna do so my
plan is to get the resources from the
big winners of the 21st century economy
so the big winners are who we Amazon's
trillion dollar company paid zero in
taxes less than everyone in this room
Apple Netflix Google these companies are
grated is not paying a whole lot of
taxes right and so what you do is you
have to look around the world and see
that other countries that put a
mechanism in place of the American
people get a tiny slice of every Amazon
sale every Google search every Facebook
ad every uber mile and that's enough to
pay for a dividend of $1,000 a month
particularly because this money just
comes back to us over and over again
because you're assuming that those
companies just gonna go on ad infinitum
making making making millions and
millions with all due respect as the
Millennial at the table I would love a
meal but my generator
okay joy and I are the Millennials at
the table but every Democrat that comes
on the answer is write a check and the
problem is the deficit is going to my
generation and that's already the
problem right now
so is it a man who created bank deficit
asking your the eventual candidate this
question I don't mind I don't mind but I
want answer if you have an answer that
is okay great sorry you can answer no no
no no please I understand the question
and so I've run companies and you have a
revenue problem in this country and
you're an expense problem in this
country you have to go after both of
them but the big winners so if you have
artificial intelligence that Amazon is
investing billions of dollars in yes
could displace three and a half million
truck drivers right now it's most common
job in 29 states the amount of value
that gets generated from that immense
almost unbelievable and right now the
American people would get zero of that
value so if you put a mechanism in place
you can actually generate hundreds of
billions of dollars
how is my hold on hold on hold on take a
break we're gonna take a break but we're
coming right back stick around he's
gonna stick around you
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so get to know more about your policies
let's do a lightning speed round with
you sure universal healthcare yes or no
yes
Robert Muller is set to testify July
17th sure Congress start impeachment
hearings we'd have to wait until until
his testimony but I'm thrilled that he's
gonna be testifying for Congress what
would he say that would change your mind
to a definite yes you know I'd have to
see what the facts were also I've been
trying to put it on Congress to make
that determination really cuz that's
their job okay
closing the wealth gap especially when
it comes to the african-american
community reparations are part of that
well Martin Luther King championed a
dividend for all Americans I think
that's where we should start a thousand
dollars a month for every American and
in reparations the whole separate issue
because that thousand audited end
doesn't address the historical legacy of
slavery
why should rich white people get ten
thousand dollars a month well the great
thing is that will remind them that
they're still an American no one at this
table needs a thousand dollars a month
but in Alaska they have a dividend
on the street and that's what usually
that's what he means how's it remind you
in America yeah doesn't it's not just
about what you do for yourself it's what
you do for other folks and in Alaska
they give a dividend to everyone in
Alaska from the petroleum fund one to
two thousand dollars a year and it D
politicizes it it D stigmatizes it it's
just everyone gets it and so there's no
like oh you get it I don't write
immigration I'm the son of immigrants
myself I think we need to create a path
to citizenship over the long term so you
also have some unusual and I would say
unorthodox stances as well you came out
against circumcision correct well you
know I think parents need to educate
themselves on what the health
information is you know my wife and I
obviously made a certain determination
but it should be in the hands of parents
in the hands of what well they tried to
they try to get yeah they tried to um
you also believe in free marriage
counseling yeah the the data shows that
if you grow up in two-parent household
certain outcomes are more likely and so
from a societal perspective it makes
perfect sense to try and keep couples
together if they want to stay together
so would that just be like a social
worker for every couple in America well
it'd be like a marriage counseling
you know stipend essentially where it's
like if you decide to seek marriage
counseling then they can just go and get
paid by my version of marriage
counseling is drinking Jack Daniels
shooting some guns and hanging out so
like it works no just like going to
arrange so I'm just saying like this
universal a peg for every hole is always
my problem with the left right now there
is not if every American is different
every American does things in different
ways so I would say I I don't know you
also believe in staffing a White House
psychologist yeah
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we D stigmatize mental health issues in
this country generally and so if we have
a psychology in the White House I
thought it was a good idea before the
current administration do you think that
he's capable of even doing such a thing
you know what
thanks to Andrew yang really interesting
yeah don't keep an eye on you we'll be
right back
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