Halperin: Sanders ‘Will Sweep the Dems in Control of the Senate,’ Maybe House, Too

HALPERIN: "If he wins the nomination and wins the general election, there will be a revolution. He will sweep the Democrats in control of the Senate. I think he could well turn the House, because he will have such coat tails if the voters turn out to vote for Bernie Sanders. So I think he’s absolutely right that he would have a mandate to do lots of things. He’s talking about difficult to get there, but if he got there, he —"
WOODWARD: "How difficult though? I mean it’s almost is impossible, isn’t it?"
HALPERIN: "I don’t —"
GOLDBERG: "I think we’re talking about a level of difficulty —"
HALPERIN: "Very — very difficult. But I don’t think he should — I don’t think we should be so cynical as to say that if he — if he found a following, if he got the American people to elect him president of the United States, that he wouldn’t then have a mandate to make the kind of fundamental changes he wants to make. I agree he’s a long shot to do both —
DICKERSON: "But if he got there, that would be the follow-on —"
HALPERIN: "Yes, (INAUDIBLE) coat tails like you’ve never seen before."
CORDES: "And in his defense he’s not saying he is going to start a revolution. He’s saying that he needs a revolution because he knows that the things he wants to do are going to be impossible to do given this Congress otherwise."
DICKERSON: "All right. That’s it for now. We’ll be right back with our panel in a moment. Stay with us."