Sanders: I Don’t Regret Giving Clinton a Pass on E-mail Scandal in the Debate

STEPHANOPOULOS: “It was the moment of the debate on Tuesday. And now Bernie Sanders joins us live from Iowa this morning. Senator Sanders, thank you for joining us this morning. You heard that applause in the room after that moment, but a lot of people watching afterwards said you sealed the deal for Hillary with that statement taking away her biggest vulnerability. Any second thoughts?”
SANDERS: “Well, I don’t think so. I think what the American people want, George, is a discussion in this country of the real issues that are impacting them. And that is they’re asking why it is they’re working longer hours for low wages, why we have a massive level of income and wealth inequality such that almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent. They want a discussion to know why it is that we are the only major country on Earth that doesn’t provide paid family and medical leave, why they can’t send their kids to college, why we have today more people in jail than any other country on Earth, 2.2 million people, and why we’re not investing in our young people, in jobs and education rather than more jails and incarceration. Why we are not dealing with the reality of who controls our rigged economy and a corrupt political system, which as a result of Citizens United is allowing billionaires to buy elections, why we are not dealing with climate change, the great global crisis facing our country. All of those issues are more important than Hillary Clinton’s emails, of which there is already a process underway to determine what happens.”