Trump vs. Biden: town hall edition

In two dueling town halls, Donald Trump and Joe Biden managed to clash at a distance...

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00:00I knew it was a big threat. At the same time, I don't want to panic this country. I don't want

00:04to go out and say everybody's going to die. He said he didn't tell anybody because he was afraid

00:10Americans would panic. Americans don't panic. He panicked. He didn't say a word to anybody.

00:22Biden, when I put on the travel ban, you know, I put it on in January, the end of January.

00:26When I put on the travel ban, Joe Biden and and others said, this is ridiculous. You don't do

00:32that. I pointed out that I thought in February I did a piece for USA Today saying this is a

00:37serious problem. Trump denied it. As far as the mask is concerned, I'm good with masks. I'm OK

00:42with masks. I tell people wear masks. But just the other day, they came out with a statement

00:46that 85 percent of the people that wear masks catch it. And when a president doesn't wear a

00:52mask or makes fun of folks like me when I was wearing a mask for a long time, then, you know,

00:57people say, well, it mustn't be that important. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.

01:04We did the right thing. We were expected to lose 2,200,000 people and maybe more than that.

01:11We're at 210,000 people. One person is too much. It should have never happened because of China.

01:16It happened because of China. Remember what the president said to the governors? Well,

01:20they're on their own. It's not my responsibility. The governors can do what they need to do,

01:23not my responsibility. It is the presidential responsibility to lead. And he didn't do that.

01:29He didn't talk about what needed to be done because he kept worrying, in my view,

01:34about the stock market. Companies are pouring into our nation because of the tax rate.

01:39And if Biden comes in and raises taxes on everybody, including middle income taxes,

01:43which he wants to do, you will blow this thing and you'll end up with a depression

01:47the likes of which you've never had. That's what's going to happen.

01:51Moody's did analysis of my detailed analysis of my tax plan and my economic plan. They said,

01:59I will in four years, Moody's, Wall Street, said I will create 18.6 million new jobs,

02:06good paying jobs, number one. Number two, and I'll increase the GDP will grow by a trillion

02:12dollars more than what under Trump and seven million more jobs than under Trump.

02:17We've done more for the African-American community than any president, with the

02:22exception of Abraham Lincoln. Criminal justice reform, prison reform, historically black

02:29colleges and universities. I got them funded. They were on a year to year basis. They could

02:33have been put out of business as soon as our country had a little bad year. They would have

02:36said, I'm sorry, we're not going to fund you. I got him 10 year funding and financing and more

02:41than he even asked for. If young black women and men vote, you can determine the outcome of this

02:45election. Not a joke. You can do that. And the next question is, am I worthy of your vote? Can

02:51I earn your vote? And the answer is there's two things I think that I care and I've demonstrated

02:56I care about my whole career. One is in addition to dealing with a criminal justice system to make

03:02it fair and make it more decent. We have to be able to put black Americans in a position to be

03:06able to gain wealth, generate wealth. One of the things I'm going to do, George, is what is set up

03:13a national study group made up of cops, social workers, as well as made up of the black community

03:22and the Brown community to sit down in the White House and over the next year, come up with

03:28significant reforms that need to take place within communities. You have to bring them together.