Julian Castro: Nobody in This Country Will Stay Without Health Care

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SCARBOROUGH: "So we've been talking about this. If Donald Trump says to you when you’re running against him in the general election or turns to you and says, 'You want Medicare-for-all. That means you’re taking away Americans’ right to go to their own doctor.' What do you say to Donald Trump?"
CASTRO: "I say that’s a —"
SCARBOROUGH: "That's a lie."
CASTRO: "Yeah, it's a lie."
SCARBOROUGH: "You can say that's a lie, right?"
CASTRO: "It would be. And that wouldn’t be the first time that he lied, right? So I want to make sure, though, that nobody in this country ever goes without the health care they need, when they need it. And I think we can devise a system that does both of those things. I like the concept of the Green New Deal. I know that we don’t have to choose between protecting our planet on one hand and also creating great jobs and opportunity on the other. When I was mayor of San Antonio, I was on the local public utility board, and we started moving away from coal-fired plants and instead invested in solar energy and other renewables. And it created more than 800 jobs in the clean energy economy. That’s the kind of thing, I think, that we can do in the United States and lead both in combating climate change and also creating good jobs and opportunity for people who need them."