Edwards is asked why gas prices high? He acknowledges high demand. Calls for bold transformation, cap on carbon emissions, clean coal technology. More fuel-efficient vehicles.

Kucinich: Asked about health care, talks about house he bought in 1971 for $22,500. Connected to middle-class lifestlyle.

They’re asked for first-day priorities.

Richardson: Get us out of Iraq, second day, energy independence. Third day, climate change. Fourth day I would take off.

Brian Williams: There’s no such thing as one sentence with this crowd. Asks Obama who are our three most important allies.

Obama: Asked three most improtant allies, says EU. Through NATO made significant progress. Japan has been an outstanding ally for many years. China is rising. Not our enemy, nor our friend. They are competitors. Need military contact, forge relationship with them.

Williams asks about Israel and remark about Palestinian suffering.

Obama says Palestinians are suffering because of Palestinian leadership.

Biden is asked greatest threats facing America.

Biden: North Korea, Iran is a long-term threat, and Putin undoing all positive moves in Europe. Need to jetison regime change, and need to move to prevention. Move to conduct change.

Gravel: We have no important enemies. Need to deal with the rest of the world as equals. Who are you afraid of, Brian? Military industrial complex not only controls our governemtn, but they control our culture.

Edwards: What’s happened in Russia moved from being a democracy under Yeltsin to a complete autocracy under Putin. How do we change underlying dynamic in the world? For that to occur, world has to see America as a force for good in the world. Fund education overseas. Sanitation and clean water, microfinancing.

Richardson: Assess what our strategic interests are. Control nukes in their domain. Want them to be more humane in dealing with Chechnya. Be a stable source of energy. Want them to promote more democracy in their own nation. Being stubborn isn’t a foreign policy. Power without diplomacy is blind. I would focus my presidency on the real threats. I dealt with North Korea. I would deal with Darfur.

Williams asks Clinton about Rudy’s comments on Democrats and terrorism.

Hillary: I think that as a senator from New York, it is something that I worked on very hard since 9/11, to convince Administration to do things to make us safer. There is a disconnect between rhetoric and reality. Haven’t secured borders, haven’t secured ports. This administration has tried to hype the fear without delivering on promises of security.

Dodd: Belief that Republicans will protect people is a myth. Most serious threat we face is stateless terrorism.

Williams: Do you believe there is such a thing as a global war on terror?

Kucinich: It’s been a pretext for aggressive war.

Obama: We need effective emergency response. Didn’t have one in hurricane in New Orleans. Make sure we have good intelligence. Do we have intel on who carried out, to take action to take out that network? We cannot alienate world community based on bad intelligence, bluster and bombast.

Edwards: Need to know who did it, and then find out how got through fairly porous homeland security. Were they in containers that had not been checked? How did weapons get here?

Hillary’s staff is already running rapid response.

Hillary: President must move as swifty as is prudent to retaliate. That doesn’t mean we go looking for another fight.