A l’occasion de la sortie sur Netflix du film Special Correspondents qu’il réalise et où il tient le rôle principal avec Eric Bana, AlloCiné est allé à la rencontre de Ricky Gervais, l’un des papes de la comédie “british”.

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Peu avant l’hospitalisation en urgence de son père, Ernst-August de Hanovre Junior avait accordée une interview à la presse allemande dans laquelle il fustige sa gestion du patrimoine familial.

Les caisses sont vides. Hospitalisé d’urgence en Autriche début février, Ernst-August de Hanovre ne peut pas véritablement compter sur le soutien de son fils dans le combat qu’il mène contre une pancréatite. Le corps rongé par l’alcoolisme depuis de nombreuses années, l’ex-compagnon de Caroline de Monaco a dû subir une opération et son état de santé inquiète toujours la famille du duc de Brunswick. Pourtant, son fils Ernst-August de Hanovre Jr continue de se quereller avec son paternel à propos d’argent.

La dispute remonte à 2017, lors du mariage du jeune homme de 35 ans avec la créatrice russe Ekaterina Malyshev. Le père du marié craignait alors pour l’avenir du patrimoine familial et avait boycotté l’union officielle tout en réclamant à son fils de restituer les diverses possessions de la Maison royale de Hanovre. Avant tout, Ernst-August de Hanovre ne supportait l’idée que son fils puisse céder le château de Marienburg au gouvernement allemand pour un euro symbolique.

En fin d’année 2018, le jeune homme avait en effet entériné la transaction de l’un des monuments les plus visités du pays et qui était devenu un immense poids financier : les rénovations de ce lieu symbolique du 19e siècle étaient estimées à près de 28 millions d’euros. Une somme que Ernst-August de Hanovre disait détenir pour continuer à entretenir le domaine. “C’est faux. Avec mes moyens, une rénovation durable ne peut être réalisée. Pour ce qui me concerne, la limite de la faisabilité financière a été atteinte” a répondu Ernst-August de Hanovre Jr à nos confrères du quotidien régional Hannoversche Allgemeine dans une interview accordée avant l’hospitalisation de son père.

“En toute honnêteté : d’où pourrais-bien être détenir une telle fortune ? La propriété qui m’a été cédée en 2004 est de loin moins importante que ce qui est souvent avancé (…) Les revenus qui en découlent ont dès le départ été insuffisants pour entretenir ou réhabilité le château de Marienburg. Je serais heureux et fier de pouvoir entretenir moi-même le château, mais je ne le peux pas, c’est aussi simple que cela” avoue le banquier qui conclut sur les dettes considérables laissées par Ernst-August de Hanovre senior. “L’argent est parti en fumée” indique-t-il pour fustiger la mauvaise gestion du patrimoine familial. Alors que le père et le fils n’en finissent pas de s’écharper, le prince de 65 ans est au plus mal.

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Batman Begins de Christopher Nolan avec Christian Bale, Liam Neeson (TF1, 20h50) : “Christopher Nolan explore avec brio les origines du Chevalier noir. La noirceur et le réalisme de sa trilogie culte sont présents dès cet épisode, tranchant avec les autres films de super-héros de l’époque. A regarder jusqu’à la dernière scène, qui annonce l’opus suivant.” Clément Cusseau

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Les Sous-doués en vacances de Claude Zidi avec Daniel Auteuil, Grace De Capitani (TMC, 20h50) : “Après des révisions peu studieuses, nos joyeux drilles embarquent pour une virée ensoleillée à Saint-Tropez qui égale en drôlerie leurs précédentes mésaventures. Avec en prime une savoureuse touche de kitsch apportée par le concept de love machine, la blondeur eighties de Grace de Capitani et le tube estival “Destinée” de Guy Marchand.” Guillaume Martin

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Democratic presidential candidates challenged the idea that the nation’s economy is in good shape under President Trump, arguing at Thursday’s debate in Los Angeles that most Americans are not benefiting from robust corporate profits and stock market gains.

“The middle class is getting killed,” former Vice President Joe Biden said. “The middle class is getting crushed.”

Biden and several of the six others on stage at Loyola Marymount University called for higher taxes on corporations and the rich to spread the nation’s wealth more fairly.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said government was working only for the wealthy and well-connected. “That is corruption, pure and simple, and we need to call it out for what it is,” she said.

A Pew Research Center poll in March found 63% of adults think the U.S. economic system favors powerful interests, while only 34% believed it was generally fair to most Americans. But opinions were sharply divided: 81% of Democrats thought the system favored the powerful, but only 40% of Republicans felt that way.

Still, since the peak of the financial crisis a decade ago, the economy has steadily receded as an issue that Americans see as important.

At the Los Angeles debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders raised his voice and said the three wealthiest Americans are richer “than the bottom half of Americans.” He also bemoaned the nation’s 500,000 homeless people.

Tom Steyer, who founded a San Francisco hedge fund that made him a billionaire, argued that his experience as an investment mogul made him the best qualified Democrat to oust Trump.

“I can go toe to toe with Mr. Trump and take him down on the economy and expose him as a fraud and a failure,” Steyer said.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., said people where he lives measure the economy’s health not by gains in the stock market, but by their capacity to pay bills at their kitchen table. The economy’s biggest problem, he said, is simple, and it’s the result of bad policies: “People are not being paid enough.”

On the debate stage at Loyola Marymount University, Democrats described climate change as an existential threat — and said tackling it was a cause that could bring the country together.

The seven candidates all said they would be willing to relocate entire cities or individuals within cities who are threatened with climate-related disasters, in California due to fires or to floods in the Midwest.

The question hit home for debate viewers in this state, given the deadly wildfires of recent years, including the Camp fire that decimated the town of Paradise and killed 86 people in 2018.

Agreeing with the relocation idea, New York entrepreneur Andrew Yang said that “part of the plan is literally called move people to higher ground.”

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said her interest in helping people dealing with “unprecedented flooding” was personal. “It’s not flyover country to me. I live there,” she said.

The relocation discussion expanded to one about the need for the entire country to take the lead in addressing the issue and whether the next president would support alternative energy plans to wean the nation off fossil fuels, ones that include nuclear power.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren repeated her opposition to nuclear power but said the nation has to aggressively explore other clean-energy sources.

Yang said that as president, he’d put all options on the table, including nuclear energy use, to reduce the nation’s reliance on oil as a way to clean the air.

California billionaire Tom Steyer said he supports increasing the use of nuclear energy but also investing in wind, solar and battery power. He said addressing climate change would represent “the greatest opportunity to rebuild this country.”

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said the narrowly focused question about relocation missed the mark. “The issue now is whether we save the planet for our children and grandchildren,” Sanders said.

Added Warren: “America understands that we have to make change and we’re running out of time.”

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The sharply contrasting plans the Democratic presidential candidates have proposed for repairing the nation’s healthcare system created a clash on the debate stage Thursday, as they argued the merits of vastly expanding government healthcare.

After Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders laid out his case for transitioning to government-run healthcare under a “Medicare for all” system in which existing private insurance would be eliminated, former Vice President Joe Biden attacked Sanders’ blueprint as unrealistic and unworkable.

“I don’t think it is realistic,” Biden said. He warned that ending private insurance could upend the lives of millions of Americans who have negotiated their healthcare costs with their employers, and he advocated instead for a “public option” that would allow those who want to buy into a Medicare-like system to do so.

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“You shouldn’t have Washington dictating to you that you can not keep the plan you have,” Biden said.

Sanders was eager to retort.

“Under Joe’s plan we retain the status quo,” Sanders said.

“That’s not true,” Biden said.

“It is true,” Sanders said. He argued that the average family with an income of $60,000 is currently paying 20% of it — $12,000 a year — on healthcare costs. He vowed that under his Medicare-for-all plan, their healthcare costs would be almost entirely erased while their taxes would go up only $1,200. He promised to dismantle a “byzantine and complex” healthcare system that is designed to generate billions of dollars in profits for medical corporations at the expense of consumers.

Biden challenged the Vermont senator’s math.

“I am going to interrupt now,” he said. “It costs $30 trillion. Lets get that straight: $30 trillion over 10 years. The idea that you are going to save that person making $60,000 per year on Medicare for all is absolutely preposterous.”

Sanders did not back down, arguing that the end of a profit-driven medical care system would lead to the savings he promises.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren pitched her own plan to move Americans to a Medicare-for-all system, which includes transitional steps under which she vowed millions would be covered but private insurance would not immediately be eliminated.

An opponent of Medicare for all, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, pointed out that the vitriol with which the Democratic candidates are attacking each other on healthcare could ultimately harm efforts to get more Americans covered. She noted that there is limited appetite in Congress, including among Democrats, for the plan Sanders champions.

“This fight you guys are having is not real. Your fight, Bernie, is not with me or Vice President Biden,” Klobuchar said, noting the resistance Sanders would face in his own party on Medicare for all should he be elected president. She argued that a consensus approach to expanding health coverage would help a lot more Americans. “If you want to cross a river over troubled water, you build a bridge, you don’t blow one up,” Klobuchar said.

Seven of the party’s White House hopefuls laid aside notions of peace on Earth and good will toward man — and woman — to joust in the year’s sixth and final presidential debate.

Brightly wrapped presents, holiday cheer and a crackling discussion of healthcare and income inequality.

Democrats certainly know how to celebrate the spirit of the season!

On Thursday night, seven of the party’s White House hopefuls laid aside notions of peace on Earth and goodwill toward man — and woman — to joust in the year’s sixth and final presidential debate, a testy back-and-forth on the campus of Los Angeles’ Loyola Marymount University.

As the year winds down and the first balloting — on Feb. 3 in Iowa — rapidly approaches, here are five takeaways from the evening’s antidote to all that gauzy yuletide sentiment.

Money, money, money

Once again, it was Pete Buttigieg‘s turn in the (wine) barrel.

For the second debate in a row — this time with more vehemence — the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., came under attack after emerging as a top contender in the campaign’s opening contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

The chief antagonist was Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who shed her refusal to speak no evil of fellow Democrats as her campaign lost altitude throughout the fall. She seized on Buttigieg’s recent appearance at an opulent Napa fundraiser to jab at his high-dollar fundraising and suggest he is overly beholden to fat-cat donors.

“Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States,” she declared.

Buttigieg, abandoning his usual Boy Scout mien, responded that he was the only candidate on stage who is neither a billionaire nor millionaire. He spent much of the evening giving Warren the side-eye.

“This is the problem with issuing purity tests you yourself cannot pass,” Buttigieg snapped as his supporters whooped, a reference to Warren’s transfer of Senate funds — raised under generous contribution guidelines — to a presidential campaign she is waging without high-dollar events.

Others jumped in for much discussion of affluence, the fruit of the vine and other signs of conspicuous consumption, which continued until Tom Steyer — a billionaire, as it were — noted the person happiest at all the sniping was a certain well-to-do denizen of the White House.

Biden’s best

Former Vice President Joe Biden has struggled in previous outings, his performance ranging from not bad (graded on a curve) to cringe-inducing.

For the most part, his responses were crisp and on point, especially when he parried a question about his age and a suggestion President Obama, his former partner in the White House, made earlier this week that “old men” should “get out of the way” for a new generation of leaders.

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Moderator Tim Alberta of Politico ventured that Obama probably hadn’t run the remarks past Biden’s campaign.

“I’m guessing he didn’t have me in mind, either,” Biden shot back.

He then deftly handled a query on whether he would pledge to seek a second term as president, dispensing with rumors he might not seek reelection as a way to assuage voter concerns about his age.

“I’m not committed one way or the other,” the 77-year-old Biden said, noting he hasn’t even been elected to one term. “Let’s see what happens.”

Impeachment? Next.

A day after the House passed two articles of impeachment against President Trump, a discussion of the vote — at once epic and anticlimactic — could not be avoided, even if candidates would have preferred to bat about other issues.

There is, after all, not a smidgen’s difference in their contempt for the incumbent, leaving other areas much riper to plumb their disagreements.

When impeachment came up as the very first question, the presidential hopefuls used the opportunity to pivot as best they could to the main themes of their campaigns.

Buttigieg, running as a Beltway outsider, said the presidential campaign presents “our opportunity … no matter what happens in Washington, to change the course of the nation for the better.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke of Trump breaking his promise to lift up working-class Americans, saying his campaign would be a fight to protect programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Warren sounded familiar notes on fighting corruption and remaking an economy stacked in favor of the well-to-do.

The issue was particularly pertinent for Sanders, Warren and the third senator on stage, Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar, all of whom will swear an oath to “do impartial justice” as they weigh whether Trump should be removed from office a mere 10 months from election day.

They left little doubt where they stood. If Trump “is so innocent,” Klobuchar taunted, then “why doesn’t he have all the president’s men testify?” — an allusion to the partisan dispute at the heart of the Senate trial.

California blackout

There was reference to the wildfire that destroyed the town of Paradise, Calif., and mention of the state’s majority-minority status, a harbinger of where the rest of the country is headed.

Klobuchar delivered a shout-out to Gov. Gavin Newsom, seated in the studio audience.

But as far as playing to the hometown crowd, that was pretty much the extent of courting Californians.

The debate was held in Los Angeles in recognition of the state’s March 3 primary. It is, in the political vernacular, the Big Enchilada on Super Tuesday, when 14 states will vote in a coast-to-coast blitz of balloting.

The setting invited the moderators and candidates to address one of California’s perpetual gripes, the notion the state and issues that touch residents from Yreka to Yucaipa are forever ignored as White House contestants minister to the whims of voters in (comparatively small) Iowa and New Hampshire.

They largely passed up the chance.

The debates are broadcast nationwide and carried around the world via the internet. They take place on a sound stage, all razzled-dazzled in red, white and blue, which could just as well be situated in Bowling Green, Ky., or Grand Forks, N.D.

Given the scant discussion Thursday night of California issues, it may as well have been.

Fewer but long

The debate was the most slimmed-down version yet — not even enough candidates to field a softball team.

But the format was a stamina-sapping 2 1/2-hour endurance test.

A traveler could have flown from Oakland to Burbank and almost all the way back in the time candidates spent on stage. When it was over, viewers might have felt as though they’d been crammed the whole time between two persistently chatty, arm rest-hogging seatmates.

The good news is no debates are scheduled for the next three-plus weeks. Then brace yourself, as the candidates are set to meet face to face four times between Jan. 14 and Feb. 25.

In the meantime, ho ho ho.

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The candidates before the start of the debate at Loyola Marymount. 

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Former Vice President Joe Biden and entrepreneur Andrew Yang greet well-wishers during a break at Loyola Marymount. 

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The candidates await the start of the Democratic presidential primary debate.  

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Former Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Sen. Bernie Sanders during the debate.  

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The candidates greet each other before the start of the debate. 

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) waves before the debate begins.  

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) waves ahead of the debate.  

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Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, left, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and businessman Tom Steyer on stage during the sixth Democratic debate at Loyola Marymount University on Thursday in Los Angeles. 

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The candidates on stage at Loyola Marymount. 

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) spar during the debate. 

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) listens as businessman Tom Steyer speaks during the debate. 

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The candidates on stage during the debate. 

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Entrepreneur Andrew Yang makes a point as South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg listens during the debate.  

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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the debate. 

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Former Vice President Joe Biden applauds as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks during the debate. 

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks while flanked by South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden. 

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks while flanked by entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). 

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Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden go at each other during a heated exchange at the debate. 

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Former Vice President Joe Biden listens as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the Democratic debate.  

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Former Vice President Joe Biden makes a point as Sen. Elizabeth Warren listens. 

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) during an animated moment. 

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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks as former Vice President Joe Biden listens during the debate. 

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Former Vice President Joe Biden makes a point as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) listens. 

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) speaks while flanked by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and businessman Tom Steyer. 

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks as Andrew Yang and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) listen during the debate. 

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks as South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden listen. 

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Sen. Bernie Sanders raises his hand as former Vice President Joe Biden makes a point during the debate. 

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United in their disdain for President Trump, top Democratic presidential candidates aired their differences over healthcare, foreign policy and the influence of money in politics in a pugnacious year-end primary debate.

The battle lines reflected the current state of play in the race. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., continued their long-simmering rivalry, and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar resurfaced her critiques of the millennial mayor’s limited resume. The two most consistent front-runners of the race, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, largely trained their sights on each other.

The final confab of 2019, hosted by “PBS NewsHour” and Politico, was the smallest yet; only seven candidates met the stricter polling and donor requirements set by the Democratic National Committee. The candidates squared off Thursday evening in Gersten Pavilion at Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit university perched on a bluff overlooking Marina del Rey and the Pacific Ocean.

A relatively sedate affair in its first hour, the debate took a more combative tone when Warren criticized the influence of wealthy donors, an implicit jab at Buttigieg, who has ascended in the polls in recent weeks.

“I can’t help but feel that might have been directed at me,” said Buttigieg, who went on to frame his fundraising strategy — reliant on both small-dollar grass-roots donors and wealthy givers — as a nod to inclusivity.

“I’m not going to turn away anyone who wants to help us defeat Donald Trump,” he said.

Warren responded with derision over Buttigieg’s recent fundraiser in a lavish wine cave in Napa Valley.

“We made the decision many years ago that rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the president of the United States,” she said. “Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the president of the United States.”

Buttigieg, noting Warren herself partook in private fundraisers in the past, accused her of “issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass.”

One of the sharpest attacks on Buttigieg didn’t come from his usual progressive foes, but from his fellow Midwestern moderate, Klobuchar.

Klobuchar raised questions about Buttigieg’s “electability,” noting that he lost his most recent race, in 2017, to become chair of the Democratic Party.

“If you want to talk about capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80% of the vote as a gay dude in Mike Pence’s Indiana,” Buttigieg said of his 2015 reelection as mayor of South Bend, a Democratic stronghold — a distinction Klobuchar picked up on.

“If you had won in Indiana, that would be one thing,” Klobuchar responded, referencing Buttigieg’s 2010 run for state treasurer. “You tried. You lost by 20 points.”

Meanwhile, Biden and Sanders reprised their squabble over their approach to healthcare policy, as Biden attacked Sanders over “Medicare for all,” calling Sanders’ plan to replace private insurance with government insurance “unrealistic.”

“Put your hand down for a second,” Biden teased Sanders, as the Vermont senator waved to the moderators to get a chance to respond.

“Joe’s plan” would “maintain the status quo,” Sanders said, rattling off details about how much American workers currently pay for private health insurance.

“I’m going to interrupt now,” Biden replied. “It’s going to cost $30 trillion over 10 years.” He called Sanders’ cost estimates “preposterous.” “At least before he was honest about it!”

The former vice president also found himself on the defensive on foreign policy when he was asked about recent disclosures in the Washington Post that multiple American administrations, including the Obama White House, in which Biden served, misled the public about the Afghanistan war.

“I’m the guy who from the beginning argued that it was a big, big mistake to surge forces to Afghanistan, period,” said Biden, distancing himself from President Obama’s decision. “We should not have done it, and I argued against it constantly.”

Sanders quickly lobbed a salvo about Biden’s foreign policy judgment.

“You’re also the guy who helped lead us to the disastrous war in Iraq,” he said, noting Biden’s vote for the Iraq war when he was a senator.

Just one day after President Trump became the third American president to be impeached by the House of Representatives, the historic event merited roughly 10 minutes of the three-hour forum. As the candidates explained how they would convince a deeply divided public that Trump deserved such severe reproach, they largely relied on well-established campaign themes.

Biden, who has touted his foreign policy credentials as a central selling point, lamented the decline of America’s reputation abroad. “We need to restore the integrity of the presidency,” he said.

For Warren, it was a chance for return to her anti-corruption mantra.

“We need a candidate for president who can draw the sharpest distinction between the corruption of the Trump administration and a Democrat who is willing to get out and fight, not for the wealthy and well-connected but to fight for everyone else,” Warren said. “That’s why I’m in this race.”

Andrew Yang, the New York-based entrepreneur, chided the media and Democrats for focusing too much on the president and not enough on the decline in manufacturing jobs in states that propelled Trump to the White House.

“We have to stop being obsessed over impeachment … and actually start digging in and solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place,” he said.

Candidates were united in painting a dire view of the national economy, arguing that rosy statistics on the country’s gross domestic product and low unemployment rate have not translated to average Americans’ bank accounts.

“People are not getting paid enough,” Buttigieg said. “That is not the result of some mysterious cosmic force. It’s the result of bad policy.”

Californian Tom Steyer, the billionaire activist and former hedge fund chief, argued his success in the private sector would blunt Trump’s plan to run on the health of the economy.

“My experience building a business, understanding how to make that happen, means I can go toe-to-toe with Mr. Trump and take him down on the economy and expose him as a fraud and a failure,” Steyer said.

There was less unanimity on the new proposed North American trade agreement, known as USMCA, which was passed Thursday by the House.

Sanders said he liked that the new proposal would give Mexican workers more protection for forming independent labor unions that might help secure higher wages. But, he said, “it is not going to stop outsourcing, it is not going to stop corporations from moving to Mexico,” and that’s why he’s decided to vote against it when it arrives in the Senate.

Klobuchar, by contrast, said that while some of Sanders’ concerns were “correct,” she plans to vote for the measure, because it has “better labor standards, better environmental standards” and represents “a much better deal” than the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The candidates seemed to relish the Southern California setting — building in extra time in their visits to raise money and host campaign rallies — but there was no mention onstage of housing or homelessness, two issues at the front of mind of many Golden State voters.

Another top concern for California voters, climate change, did get substantial attention from the candidates, as Klobuchar acknowledged the devastating wildfires in Paradise and elsewhere in the state that have worsened as the planet warms. Buttigieg spoke of the on-the-ground effects of climate change closer to his home.

“This is not theoretical,” he said, referencing his neighborhood in South Bend that recently faced two thousand-year floods.

Sanders warned that scientists have underestimated the threat of climate change. But in a moment symbolizing the Democrats’ struggle to prioritize the issue, when the questions turned to race, Sanders tried to wrest the subject back to climate change, drawing a rebuke from moderator Amna Nawaz, senior national correspondent on “NewsHour.”

“Senator, this question is about race,” Nawaz said, drawing large cheers from the audience.

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“People of color are going to be the people suffering most if we do not deal with climate change,” Sanders responded.

Yang, the only candidate of color to qualify for the debate, bemoaned the absence of diversity on the debate stage.

“It’s both an honor and disappointment to be the lone candidate of color onstage tonight. I miss Kamala, I miss Cory,” Yang said, in a nod to California Sen. Kamala Harris, who dropped out of the race this month, and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who did not qualify.
“Though I think Cory will be back,” he added.

The topic of identity — be it race, gender or age — yielded some of the clumsier exchanges of the night. When Politico senior correspondent Tim Alberta noted that former President Obama argued for more female leaders of countries and attributed problems to “old men not getting out of the way,” he immediately turned to Sanders, whom he identified as the oldest contender onstage.

“And I’m white as well, yes,” Sanders said.

Biden, meanwhile, brushed off the potential of a slight from his former running mate.

“I’m going to guess he wasn’t talking about me either,” Biden said.

Warren, meanwhile, more successfully landed a zinger when it was noted that if elected, she would be the oldest president ever to be sworn in.

“I’d also be the youngest woman ever inaugurated,” she countered.

WASHINGTON — 

A day after the Democratic-led House impeached President Trump, House and Senate leaders argued Thursday over how his Senate trial will be conducted, with the two articles of impeachment likely to remain in limbo until at least early January as a result of the spat.

The Republican-led Senate is almost certain to acquit Trump of the two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, once it receives them. But the House delay in transmitting them means his trial, and presumed vindication, could be pushed back.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) did not forward the articles of impeachment to the Senate before Congress left for the year on Thursday, saying she wants assurances the Senate will conduct a fair and full trial.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) met Thursday afternoon to discuss ground rules, such as how long the trial should last and whether witnesses will be called. They did not reach an agreement, however.

Earlier in the day, McConnell made political hay about the House delay, saying Democrats are “too afraid … to transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate.”

The trial will probably limit the Senate’s legislative work for weeks. It also could influence the Supreme Court calendar because the Constitution requires the chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr., to preside over the Senate trial.

Withholding the articles appeared intended to pressure Republicans to accept at least some Democratic demands to start the process. Democrats want the Senate to call as witnesses several current and former Trump aides who refused to testify in the House, but McConnell has rebuffed those pleas.

Trump wants the Senate to acquit him of the two impeachment charges. The first involves his efforts to use U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine to boost his reelection chances. The second involves his refusal to release documents or allow witnesses to testify to the House about the alleged scheme.

The latest twist in the impeachment drama represents a clear political irony.

Republicans bitterly complained about lack of “process” during the House inquiry. Now Democrats have picked up the charge as the impeachment moves to the Senate, saying Republicans haven’t committed to a fair, impartial trial.

Democrats also shifted course by deliberately waiting to transmit the articles needed to start the Senate trial despite weeks of arguing that Trump’s alleged misconduct was so severe that they had to act swiftly to impeach him.

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“They’re playing games…. They’re not allowed to do that,” Trump told reporters Thursday.

McConnell said on the Senate floor Thursday that Pelosi’s refusal to forward the articles showed that the three-month House impeachment inquiry was flawed and unfair, and that Democrats are afraid to give Trump his day in court.

It takes a simple Senate majority to set the impeachment trial rules, and Democrats could try to sway moderate Republicans who may be concerned enough about the president’s conduct to help them keep the rules from benefiting Trump too much.

On Wednesday night, Pelosi questioned why Democrats should participate in a Senate trial without knowing the ground rules given McConnell’s claim last week that he is “taking my cues” from the White House in shaping the trial.

Pelosi said she would not name the House “managers,” Democratic lawmakers who will present evidence to the Senate, until it’s clear how the trial will be conducted.

“So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us,” she said. “But right now, the president is impeached.”

Once Pelosi names them, the full House must vote to approve the managers, and the articles of impeachment cannot be transmitted to the Senate until it does so.

The managers resolution could be approved by voice vote during a procedural meeting over the holidays. But that would require Republican consent. Every Republican voted no on the articles of impeachment.

On Thursday, Pelosi said House managers were not chosen for President Clinton’s trial in 1999 until after Senate trial rules were set. Knowing the rules would help her determine how many managers are needed and who should be picked, she told reporters.

“Frankly I don’t care what the Republicans say,” Pelosi said.

McConnell countered that senators set rules for the length of Clinton’s trial before it began, but waited to decide whether to hear from witnesses after hearing opening statements from each side. Clinton’s trial lasted five weeks, videotaped testimony from three witnesses was shown, and the Senate acquitted him on both counts.

“We remain at an impasse because my friend the Democratic Leader continues to demand a new and different set of rules for President Trump,” McConnell said.

Pelosi and Schumer huddled Thursday morning in the speaker’s office. Schumer and McConnell met several hours later.

Schumer had previously asked McConnell to reconsider the Democrat’s proposal this week to call four witnesses for the trial, including acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security advisor John Bolton.

Justin Goodman, a Schumer spokesman, said Democrats believe the witnesses and documents withheld from the House “are essential to a fair Senate trial.”

Schumer had proposed starting the week of Jan. 6 and allowing up to 126 hours of statements, testimony and deliberations — meaning a trial of at least three weeks.

McConnell largely shot down that request this week and has suggested he wants a short trial without witnesses.

“Is the president’s case so weak that none of the president’s men can defend him under oath?” Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday. “If the House case is so weak, why is leader McConnell so afraid of witnesses and documents?”

Senate Republicans questioned what Pelosi is trying to achieve by waiting.

“Either she thinks she has leverage, which she does not have, or she’s undermining her own message about the seriousness of this proceeding,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). “This idea that they would somehow decide to withhold the articles of impeachment pending some accommodation by the Senate is ridiculous. And it’s not going to happen. So I don’t know what kind of games they are playing.”

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), who conducted depositions for Democrats during Clinton’s impeachment trial, chided lawmakers for making their positions known ahead of the trial.

“People aren’t helping the Senate’s reputation by saying, ‘Well we’ve already made up our mind and we’re coordinating with the defendant,’” he said, referring to McConnell’s vow to work with Trump’s lawyers. “Everybody settle down a little bit.”

Given the heated passions of impeachment, he said, it’s high time for lawmakers to go home for the holidays.

“I’ve been saying quietly to a lot of senators in both parties, ‘Go home, take a deep breath, and let’s come back and do it the way we should,’” Leahy said.

Staff writer Jennifer Haberkorn in Washington contributed to this report.

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A major evangelical Christian magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham on Thursday published an editorial calling for President Trump’s removal from office.

The editorial in Christianity Today — coming one day after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives made Trump the third president in American history to be impeached — raised fresh questions about the durability of his support among the conservative evangelicals who have proved to be a critical component of his political base.

The magazine’s editorial, written by editor in chief Mark Galli, envisions a message to those evangelical Christians who have remained stalwart Trump backers “in spite of his blackened moral record.”

“Remember who you are and whom you serve,” Galli’s editorial states. “Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior. Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency.”

Galli’s editorial recalls that the magazine was starkly critical of Democrat President Clinton’s moral fiber during the 1998 impeachment proceedings against him, calling Clinton “morally unable to lead.”

“Unfortunately, the words that we applied to Mr. Clinton 20 years ago apply almost perfectly to our current president,” the editorial stated.

At the core of its indictment of Trump is what Galli described as the “profoundly immoral” act of seeking the assistance of the Ukrainian government in a bid “to harass and discredit” a Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.

The magazine’s editor in chief took no position about whether Trump should be removed from office through a Senate conviction or a defeat at the ballot box next year, calling that a matter of “prudential judgment.”

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Christianity Today was founded more than six decades ago by Graham, a leader of the modern evangelical movement who counseled multiple past presidents on matters of faith.

But those storied roots in the evangelical Christian community underscore the editorial’s potentially limited ability to pry Trump’s most ardent evangelical supporters from his side: One leader among pro-Trump Christians is Graham’s son, the Rev. Franklin Graham.

And the younger Graham is hardly alone among the white evangelicals who have remained loyal to the president amid nearly three years of political tumult. A Pew Research Center survey in August found 77% of white evangelical Protestants approving of Trump’s job performance.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the editorial.

Jenna Ellis, a senior legal advisor to Trump, tweeted that the editorial is “shameful and constitutionally ignorant.” “Pious ‘Never Trumpers’ who feel morally justified about this #impeachmentcircus are as morally reprehensible as Democrats,” Ellis tweeted.