Sanders: Super PACS Funded By Billionaires Are Very Dangerous to American Democracy

‘I’ll tell you what people also worry about economically and politically is the movement in this country to oligarchy’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Talking about contributions. We brought this up earlier this week. We were absolutely stunned by your numbers last — the last quarter that you got almost $30 million in and, over the last quarter, the average contribution, $27. I worked with you. I mean, we’ve both been in politics for a very long time."
SANDERS: "Yep."
SCARBOROUGH: " I’ve never seen anything like I’ve seen —"
BRZEZINSKI: "There hasn’t been anything like it."
SCARBOROUGH: " — With your numbers. What is happening? How connecting with people this way?"
SANDERS: "First of all, if I were on your show eight months ago and I told you that we would have two and a half million individual contributions from a million people averaging somewhere around 27 bucks, never in a million years would I have believed that was possible. What it shows, first of all, is that you can run a national campaign without being dependent on wealthy people in a super PAC. We don’t have a super PAC. Number two, it does show that there is a level of enthusiasm and energy and people willing to come on board with the concept of a political revolution that says, you know what, we have to come together and take on big-money interests in this country and create an economy that works for all. I am astounded. You’re not the only one."
SCARBOROUGH: "Who are the people out there, though, who are the people giving you $27? What are you hearing when you’re out at these massive rallies that you hold? What are they telling you?"
SANDERS: " What they are telling me is they are very frightened and nervous about the future of our country. And I think the money comes in in opposition to their understanding that super PACS, being funded by billionaires, are very dangerous to the future of American democracy. I’ll tell you what people also worry about economically and politically is the movement in this country to oligarchy. If you have the Koch and their friends spending $9 million to elect candidates does it sound like democracy? No. People are saying, here is 30 bucks, ten bucks. Do what you can to protect my family, my kids, my parents."
SCARBOROUGH: " Those people have not maxed out."
BRZEZINSKI: "A lot of people can give $27 a lot of times. I think for me that’s what, Willie is so powerful."
SANDERS: "This is a movement."
SCARBOROUGH: "About his fund raising apparatus. Hillary Clinton obviously maxed out with a lot of bankers, a lot of lawyers. Bernie’s average last quarter, $27? Those people can just keep giving."

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