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AMNA NAWAZ: Just one 
month until the first 
Democratic presidential 
debate, and the crowded

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field of contenders spent the 
three-day weekend crisscrossing 
the country talking to voters.

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Lisa Desjardins has our report.

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LISA DESJARDINS: A somber 
Memorial Day for the Democrats 
who hope to become commander

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in chief.

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SEN.

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AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN), 
Presidential Candidate: 
Thank you, everyone.

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LISA DESJARDINS: Minnesota 
Senator Amy Klobuchar 
stood in the rain at a 
ceremony in Minneapolis.

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SEN.

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AMY KLOBUCHAR: We tell the world 
who we are as a country by how 
we honor our fallen heroes.

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LISA DESJARDINS: Vermont Senator 
Bernie Sanders began his normal 
stump speech in New Hampshire

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with a tribute.

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SEN.

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BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), 
Presidential Candidate: 
I do want to begin by 
having all of us remember

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the over one million men 
and women who lost their 
lives in America's wars.

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LISA DESJARDINS: This during 
a new military move, President 
Trump's decision to send 1,500

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U.S. troops to the Middle East 
amid growing tensions with Iran.

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PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), Presidential 
Candidate: Escalation is the 
last thing we need in the

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Middle East right now.

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LISA DESJARDINS: South Bend, 
Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 
a war veteran, addressed the

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issue Sunday on 
ABC's "This Week."

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He faulted the president's 
national security adviser.

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PETE BUTTIGIEG: The 
administration, driven, by 
the way, by John Bolton, 
one of the architects

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of the Iraq War, is 
continuing to try to 
prosecute a case to lead to 
higher tensions, escalation

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and perhaps conflict with 
Iran, as though we learned 
nothing from the last 15 years

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of armed conflict.

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LISA DESJARDINS: Former Texas 
Congressman Beto O'Rourke 
voiced his concerns on CBS'

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"Face the Nation."

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BETO O'ROURKE (D), Presidential 
Candidate: President Trump 
is escalating tensions, is

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provoking yet another 
war in the Middle East.

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LISA DESJARDINS: Meanwhile, 
President Trump, overseas 
in Tokyo, blended 
foreign and domestic

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politics together.

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He pointed to a statement last 
week by the North Korean state 
media, working for leader

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Kim Jong-un.

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It called former Vice President 
and presidential hopeful Joe 
Biden a -- quote -- "fool of low

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I.Q."

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DONALD TRUMP, President of 
the United States: Kim Jong-un 
made a statement that Joe Biden

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is a low-I.Q. individual.

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He probably is, 
based on his record.

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I think I agree 
with him on that.

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LISA DESJARDINS: Meantime, 
in Iowa today, Massachusetts 
Senator Elizabeth Warren focused

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on tackling corruption.

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SEN.

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ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), 
Presidential Candidate: 
Now, when you see a 
government that works

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great for those with 
money, a government that 
works for those who can 
hire an army of lobbyists

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and lawyers, but it's 
not working for everyone 
else, that is corruption, 
plain and simple,

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and we need to call 
it out for what it is.

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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

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LISA DESJARDINS: Yesterday, 
New York City Mayor Bill de 
Blasio took to CNN to make his

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case as a candidate, 
saying he knows how to 
take on the president.

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BILL DE BLASIO (D), 
Presidential Candidate: I 
have watched him for decades.

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I understand his game plan.

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I understand his tricks 
and his strategies.

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And I do get under his skin.

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LISA DESJARDINS: The first 
Democratic primary debates are 
now less than one month away.

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For the "PBS NewsHour," 
I'm Lisa Desjardins.