--- title: Clinton and Sanders to Hold Brooklyn Debate on April 14 description: The Democrats tussled over the date and location canonical: https://time.com/4281629/clinton-sanders-brooklyn-debate-cnn/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-05T00:23:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:49:59.268Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton and Sanders Agree to Hold Brooklyn Debate og:description: The Democrats clashed over the date and location og:url: https://time.com/4281629/clinton-sanders-brooklyn-debate-cnn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33f2c507b358b85a/69888da93c1639fd4545cb43/clinton-sanders.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: clinton-sanders og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton and Sanders Agree to Hold Brooklyn Debate twitter:description: The Democrats clashed over the date and location twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33f2c507b358b85a/69888da93c1639fd4545cb43/clinton-sanders.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clinton and Sanders Agree to Hold Brooklyn Debate > Sponsored content. 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The two campaigns had [gone back and forth](http://time.com/4280032/democratic-debate-new-york-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-negotiations/) over when and where to hold the debate, their first since March 9\. While Sanders advocated for the Brooklyn location, Clinton pushed for the April 14 date. A [tweet](https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/716994321417904128) from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio—who has [endorsed Clinton](http://time.com/4094173/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-endorses-hillary-clinton/)—called for compromise and promised Sanders help with getting a new permit for a rally he’d planned for that night to take place on a different day. The debate will take place at the Duggal Greenhouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard The meeting place will be meaningful for both candidates: Clinton’s campaign is headquartered in Brooklyn (though she [reportedly](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/hillary-clinton-prefers-to-work-in-manhattan.html) works mainly out of Manhattan offices when in New York) and Sanders is a Brooklyn native. The event will be held broadcast by CNN and local cable news station NY1, with Wolf Blitzer moderating. \[[CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/04/politics/democratic-debate-brooklyn/index.html)\] ## Transcript I beat Hillary Clinton in many polls, the queue poll just came out. America didn't stop being great. We have to make it whole again. I'm the only one that beats Hillary Clinton. I have not started on Hillary yet. Believe me, I will start soon. [ APPLAUSE ] I haven't even started. If you don't get an actual check From the Mexican government for 8 or 10 or $ 12 billion, whatever it will cost. How are you going to make them pay for the wall? I will. He's talking about a very tall wall. And the wall just got ten feet taller. That would run the entire border. Paid for by Mexico. That he would somehow get the Mexican government to pay for. We have at least 11 million people in this country that came in illegally. They will go out. You know it's just Fantasy. [ NOISE ] I would work quickly to present to the Congress my plans for raising the minimum wage. Taxes too high, wages too high. Well, you know both Bill and I have been very blessed, neither of us came from wealthy families, and we've worked really hard our entire lives. I took one million dollars and I turned it into Okay, one million ten billion dollars. I've come up with a tax plan that many, many people like Now- Very. [ NOISE ] They may not care much about their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about their family's lives. [ APPLAUSE ] A diplomacy is not about getting to the perfect solution- We need tough people, we need toughness. It's about how you balance the risk. I would bring back water boarding. And I'd bring back a helluva lot worse, than what we're boarding. We will not send American combats groups back to Syria or Iraq, that is off the table. We talk about Iran and that's one of the worst deals ever made I'm asking people to support me because I think I'm the most qualified, most experienced and ready person to be the President. If I'm elected to be President We will win and we will win and we will win. Thank you. 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