Kaitlan Collins Struggles to Keep Straight Face as Bernie Sanders Mocks Trump's '83,000th Lie'

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00:00President Biden's address to the nation caps a remarkable three and a half days, which

00:05have seen the Democratic Party fall in line behind Vice President Harris in warp speed.

00:10Joining me tonight, Vermont Independent Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate

00:15Bernie Sanders, who has been taking a somewhat more measured approach.

00:18And Senator Sanders, it's great to have you here tonight.

00:21You just heard President Biden delivering that address and at the end of it saying that

00:25he has made his pick and endorsing Vice President Harris to succeed him.

00:30You have yet to endorse her.

00:32Are you prepared to do so tonight?

00:35I'm going to work as hard as I can to see that Donald Trump, the most dangerous president

00:39in American history, is defeated and that Kamala Harris is in fact the next president

00:45of the United States.

00:46But before I make a formal announcement, I just want to make certain that the vice president

00:54is going to be campaigning on issues that the working class of this country, a working

01:00class that has long been forgotten, needs to hear.

01:05And I want to just make sure that the vice president will be working with President Biden

01:10and with me and others to demand that the wealthiest people in this country start paying

01:15their fair share of taxes, that when we have 50 percent of our elderly people living on

01:21$30,000 a year or less, that we expand Social Security benefits by lifting the cap on taxable

01:29income.

01:30So the rich start paying their fair share.

01:32I want to hear her be strong in contrasting herself with Trump and making it clear that

01:38we have got to save this planet from climate change, that we're pro-union, make it easier

01:44for workers to join union.

01:46We raise the minimum wage to a living wage, that we deal with the fact that we have the

01:50highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country.

01:53So we've got to start focusing on issues that working class people desperately need to hear

02:00when 60 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and too many elderly people, too

02:05many kids are living in poverty.

02:07Well, and obviously, she's still looking for a governing partner at this time.

02:11We've seen the list of candidates that they are vetting right now.

02:14A lot of them are moderate members of the Democratic Party.

02:18And I wonder if when you look at that list, you'd like to see her maybe cast a wider net

02:22to include someone who is championed some of the same issues that you yourself do.

02:27Well, I would hope.

02:29You know, there's a lot of speculation as to who might be a running mate.

02:34But I certainly would like to see somebody who has a history of standing up to the oligarchs

02:40who have so much power in this country, who is going to fight for campaign finance reform

02:46so the big money doesn't dominate both political parties.

02:49Yeah, I certainly would like to see that person be the vice presidential candidate.

02:54I have to ask you about something that Donald Trump said at a rally tonight when he was

02:57attacking Vice President Harris.

02:59He said she is, quote, more liberal than Bernie Sanders.

03:02Is that how you would put it?

03:06Probably not.

03:07I is just possible for the eighty third thousand time that Trump is lying.

03:14No, I don't think that is the case.

03:17I think that the vice president had a very strong record in the U.S. Senate, a strong

03:22record working with President Biden in the administration.

03:27But no, I don't quite think that her record is is where mine is in terms of being progressive.

03:33Do you think you'll eventually come around to endorsing her?

03:36I mean, are you looking?

03:37I am good.

03:38I am going to do everything I can to make sure that she wins.

03:42But I just want to hope that in the next few days and weeks we can make sure that we

03:47put together a campaign that focuses on the needs of working class and make no mistake

03:52about it.

03:53I'm with her and I'm going to do everything that they can, that I can, that the progressive

03:58movement can to make sure that she is the next president.

04:03Senator Sanders, you're on Capitol Hill right now.

04:05Obviously, earlier, Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed Congress.

04:08You did not attend that speech.

04:09You said yesterday it was the first time that you believed a war criminal, as you put

04:14it, had been invited to address the U.S. Congress.

04:17In that speech, he referenced the protesters who were outside the Capitol.

04:21There were thousands of them as Tehran's useful idiots.

04:25What was your takeaway from what you heard from Prime Minister Netanyahu?

04:27My takeaway is that he came a very long distance from Jerusalem to Washington, D.C., to give

04:35a campaign speech for the folks back in Israel.

04:38This is a guy who some 70% of the people in Israel, in the last poll that was taken,

04:44want to resign.

04:45So, he came here and he got a good reception from the Republicans, but, you know, it's

04:50not just me who thinks he is a war criminal.

04:53This is what the International Criminal Court has determined.

04:58They have determined what I believe to be true, that his policies are resulting in the

05:04starvation, the starvation of tens and tens of thousands of children and Palestinians.

05:12And that is a war crime.

05:15And he, along with Sinwa, the leader of Hamas, has been charged with being war criminals.

05:21And in my view, they both are.

05:23Sinwa started this war with his Hamas terrorist group, but Netanyahu has waged total war,

05:31destroying the housing, destroying the infrastructure, destroying the healthcare system.

05:35They have bombed every one of the 12 universities in Gaza, and now we're looking at tens and

05:42tens of thousands of children facing starvation.

05:44And he lied.

05:46He lied when he said, oh, we are trying to get food in.

05:48We are, you know, trying to act in a decent way.

05:52Every humanitarian organization working in Gaza indicates that Israel is making it difficult,

06:00making it impossible for food to get into starving people.

06:03That is a war crime.

06:06Senator Bernie Sanders, thank you for your time tonight.

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