Ed Schultz Fires Back at Matthews for Mocking His Excitement over Bernie Sanders
SCHULTZ: “Joining me tonight, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and candidate for president. Senator, always a pleasure. First of all, your strategy, you are on a lot of shows, not only this one, but many shows across the spectrum. Is this the strategy? Is this what it's going to take? Is this part of your strategy to do this?”
SANDERS: “Well, look, Ed, given my politics over the years, it's been hard for us to get on network television, by the way. And you have been very kind and I appreciate it. Because I’m on your show a lot. But our main strategy is basically going out to the American people. We’ve been having many, many town meetings. And as you've indicated, just we've had extraordinary turnouts and enthusiastic crowds all over this country.”
SCHULTZ: “So the pictures we're showing right now, you in Denver over the weekend, it doesn't look like you're 60 points behind.”
SANDERS: “No. By the way, we're not 60 points behind. There is no question but that Hillary Clinton is ahead of us. I think the gap is narrowing. I think that poll is very different than other polls that I’ve seen. If you look at New Hampshire, if you look at Iowa, the numbers are closer and we're gaining momentum.”
SCHULTZ: “Well, I’ve been accused of jumping up -- or just should I say described as jumping up and down for Bernie Sanders. One of the reasons is, I don't see any Republicans getting 5,000 people at events. Obviously, what you're saying, folks are buying early on. So much that the ready for Warren group, the group that officially wanted to get Elizabeth Warren to run for president, they've endorsed you. What’s your reaction?”
SANDERS: “Well, we're really very grateful for that. Elizabeth Warren is a good friend of mine. She’s been a great United States senator. We agree on virtually all of the issues. And what we understand is that in America there's something fundamentally wrong when the great middle class of this country is disappearing, when 99 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent and when the top 1/10 of one percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That’s not America.”
SCHULTZ: “But senator what does it mean that this group is supporting you?”
SANDERS: “It means that we're going to get a lot of energy from a lot of people all over this country. And I think they understand that we're going to be raising many of the same issues that Elizabeth Warren has.”
