- Please welcome Senator Bernie Sanders.
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To my surprise
one hundred stories high
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- Oh, you came out here dancing, Bernie.
That's fantastic.
[cheers and applause]
That's wonderful.
Thanks for being here.
- And thank you for the very positive energy
you provide to the American people.
- Thank you so much for saying that, um--
[cheers and applause]
A lot of people like you a lot.
A lot of people are talking about you
and like you a whole lot, and I'll tell you
I think what you said about Hillary and the emails--
you said, "This may not be political,"
and I think that's the exact thing
that people are sick of is people being political.
I think people just need to hear
you say what you feel.
- I-I think that's absolutely right.
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- And--and I-I think, Ellen, you--you know,
you hit the nail on the head,
and I will tell you, I have been
in many, many campaigns in my political life
and I'm very proud to say I have never run
a negative political ad in my entire life.
And I've been attacked a whole lot.
- Yeah, and I love that about you.
because I don't think-- and it was mentioned
during the debate-- that the Republican debates
would not have gone this way.
There's a lot of attacking, a lot of bullying.
and I love the fact that it was very positive.
I don't understand how we can have
that extreme wealth and have--
and--and how the middle class is disappearing.
I-I grew up very lower-middle class--very.
Um, and I had no money, I didn't have connections
to get into the-- I worked really hard
for 25 years, and I've earned my money
by working really, really hard coming from middle class.
I think that people should be able
to earn money and to keep their money
and still help everybody else that are less fortunate.
But I don't know why the middle class
is disappearing, and I don't know why--
I understand you're saying there's loopholes,
but there should be enough money that--
that helps everybody down--
- And let me give you my opinion.
Others will disagree.
What we're up against is-- you would think
that if one was making billions of dollars,
that might be enough to take care of your family,
and your kids, right, and your grandchildren.
But you have, in corporate America today,
you have incredible greed.
I don't know what they--when they think enough is enough.
They want more and more and more.
So you have multi-billionaires right now
contributing money to can--to candidates
and what these candidates are doing on--
at the behest of the billionaires
is say, "Let's cut social security."
You talk about healthcare for all?
They want to throw millions of people
off of healthcare and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
They want to cut nutrition programs
at a time when millions of families
are struggling to put food on the table.
They want to cut nutrition programs
for pregnant women and little babies.
Now, I can't explain to you the mentality of somebody
who wants to do that.
Especially people who have so much money--why?
But that's the kind of greed mentality...
- Yeah. - That we're fighting.
- I don't understand it either, and all of these people,
I assume have children and grandchildren.
And you talk about not only the nutrition,
but, again, climate change and we are--
we need to think about the future for our kids.
And I don't understand that mentality either.
Uh, we're gonna take a break
uh, because we're running long, but I could talk to you
for a long time.
You--you are a-- you are such a unique guy
and I think that's why people are responding to you.
- Thank you very much. - Um, that was an awkward--
like, Trump-like hand-- what is this?
[laughter]
That was so awkward.
Um, what happened to us there?
Here's let's do-- - All right, all right.
- Give me a high-five or something.
Um, so--
[cheers and applause]
Um, but I do think-- I think that's why people
are responding to you because, uh, you're--
you're not like the politicians
that people are used to, uh, hearing,
and you are saying things that are--is resonating
to, uh, to a lot of people.