CNN town halls with Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang just chatted with CNN and answered a few questions before tonight's town hall.

We asked him six simple questions so voters can get to know him better.

Here's what he said:

CNN: What's one thing about you that surprises people?

Yang: "I like to play basketball, so I play every chance I get."

CNN: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

Yang: "If you can find a mentor whose life resembles what you want for yourself, then you should consider yourself very lucky and you should try and work with that person."

CNN: What’s your favorite movie and why?

Yang: "'The Shawshank Redemption' because it's on TNT every three hours."

CNN: What was the last book you read?

Yang: "The last book I read was 'Winners Take All' by Anand Giridharadas about how at this point we put everyone who has succeeded in marketplace up on a pedestal and then we listened to everything they say and they are not going to help solve our problems."

CNN: What is your greatest accomplishment?

Yang: "My greatest accomplishment is being married and having two kids that I get to wake up to every time I am home."

CNN: What three issues do we have to deal with right now?

Yang: "The big three issues is one is that our economy is evolving in ways that's pushing more and more Americans to the sidelines. So that's why Donald Trump is our President today — is that we automated away four million manufacturing jobs, so that's issue No.1: the evolving economy. No. 2 is climate change. The last four years have been the four warmest years in recorded history and climate change is about to accelerate and become a growing crisis. And No. 3 is our polarized and dysfunctional political system, which is making it impossible to get anything done to help solve the problems of the 21st century."

Businessman Andrew Yang, a Democratic presidential candidate, just took the stage and will answer questions from voters at CNN's town hall.

He visited the set earlier today:

His platform: Yang is an entrepreneur who launched Venture for America, a fellowship program that aims to connect recent grads with startups.

He filed to run for president on November 6, 2017 and gave an interview to the New York Times in February 2018 about his ideas.

Yang wants to give all Americans a universal basic income of $1,000 per month to address economic inequality.

To highlight universal basic income, Yang said he would give one New Hampshire resident $1,000 a month from his own pocket. Jodie Fassi of Goffstown, New Hampshire, was selected, his campaign said.

In case you missed it, his supporters, also known as the "Yang Gang," are hosting watch parties tonight. Here's what you need to know:

Marianne Williamson said Sunday that she believes love – a key rhetorical pledge in her 2020 campaign – is the best way to win the White House in 2020.

Williamson used terrorism as an example, saying that while people know how “powerful (terror) is when it’s turned into a political force, it’s nothing compared to how powerful love is when it’s turned into a political force.”

She added: “That’s what I’m trying to do with my campaign. That’s the message I’m giving.”

CNN’s Dana Bash pushed Williamson on how love could be used against President Donald Trump on the debate stage.

“What do you do with a child? How do you treat a psychopath?” she asked rhetorically. “I would not go in expecting a reasonable conversation.”

Marianne Williamson, who – if elected president – would be the first Jewish leader of the United States, said while she would both support “the legitimate security concerns of Israel” and “the human rights and dignities and economic opportunities of the Palestinian people,” she would take a significantly hardline approach to the Jewish state.

“With me as president, they will know that they have in the United States a president who listens deeply and totally hears; the leaders of the Palestinian authority will know I listen very deeply.”

Williamson laid out a view of U.S.-Israeli policy that was significantly different than Trump and took aim at much of what the President has done on the issue.

“In me, you would have a president who says those settlements are illegal,” she said. “I would rescind the president’s affirmation of sovereignty of Israel over the Golan Heights.”

Williamson also personalized the issue, mentioning that her “love for Israel is second only to my love for the United States.”

"The alliance of the United States with Israel is extremely important,” Williamson said. “It should be extremely important to all of us. If I’m president of the United States, the world will know, our greatest ally is humanity itself.”

She closed the answer by joking how she has experience in marriage counseling: “The fact I’ve had 35 year doing counseling with couples is something I bring to this table."

Marianne Williamson said Sunday that she supports "Medicare for All," but sees health care as a broader conversation about things that stress Americans, toxins in food and the impact of environmental policies.

The holistic approach shows how Williamson, an author and activist running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, sees health care as more than just access to a doctor.

“When I’m president, we’re going to be talking about how to create greater health from the beginning,” Williamson said.

Williamson said she supports Medicare for All “as a public option.”

“I think a lot of people would gravitate that,” she said. “If people want private insurance or want to augment it, then they should be able to.”

Democrats are openly debating how to handle health care in 2020 and a number of candidates are embracing Medicare for All.

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson said she supports reparations for African-Americans whose ancestors were slaves.

She added: "This country will not heal until we take a serious morale inventory. A nation must undergo the same level deep morale inventory. Admission of character defects. Racism is a character defect. Let's end this. Let's fix this. Let's solve this. Reparations won't end everything but it will be a profound gift. It implies a mea culpa. It implies a recognition of a debt owed and therefore, it carries not only economic power but spiritual force whatever it costs, it's time to do this."

Marianne Williamson, an author and activist running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, said Sunday that President Donald Trump has “fascist leanings.”

The answer came after Williamson was asked whether she supported the impeachment of Trump.

She added: “I think this president clearly has fascist leanings and we need to stop pretending this isn’t true.”

Williamson said she would leave it to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whether Democrats should move articles of impeachment. But she said it was unlikely to be successful given “as long as (Republicans) are in charge of the Senate.”

House Democrats have yet to move on articles of impeachment, but there is a loud group of lawmakers and Democratic activists who support impeaching Trump.

Marianne Williamson, an author and activist running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, argued her candidacy should be taken seriously because “we have been sliding for the last 40 years away from democracy and into aristocracy” and she is willing to “name what everybody else knows and they won’t name.”

Williamson said that her campaign is against the establishment of politics – on both sides – that has controlled American politics. But the author largely brushed off qualification questions and declined to get into her ability to actually run a government.

Asked directly by CNN’s Dana Bash for her qualification in actually running a government, Williamson said, “My qualification is I’ll name what everybody else knows and they won’t name.”

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson's town hall starts now. You can watch it in the video player above.