CBS: Clinton ‘Clearly Sensitive’ About Wall St.; Cancels Fundraiser with Financial Firm

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

KING: “Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will debate one-on-one tonight. The candidates got a chance to show off their pitches last night at a televised town hall in New Hampshire. They traded jabs on health care and foreign policy and who deserves to be called progressive. Nancy Cordes is in Manchester, New Hampshire.”
CORDES: “Good morning. It came on a day where Clinton acknowledged that Sanders is like to win here in New Hampshire but they still did battle for the hearts of democratic voters and, though, this was a town hall, the two candidates were back-to-back and not face-to-face and still challenged each other as if the other one was standing right there.”
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SANDERS: “We are taking on the most powerful political organization in the country.”
CLINTON: “It’s very hard to see how any of his proposals could be achievable.
CORDES (voice-over): “For one hour each, Clinton and Sanders tangled over who is more faithful to the base.”
SANDERS: “You can’t be a moderate and a progressive. They have different.”
CLINTON: “Senator Sanders has set himself up to be the gatekeeper on who is a progressive.”
SANDERS: “I don’t know a progressive who has a special Super PAC and takes 15 millions from Wall Street.”
COOPER: “Did you have to be paid 675,000?”
CLINTON: “I don’t know. That’s what they offered.”
CORDES (voice-over): “The two took questions from New Hampshire voters with a lot on their minds.”
UNKNOWN MALE: “Can you assure me as president you would not sxaned our military involvement abroad?”
CLINTON: “No, I can’t, Michael.”
CORDES (voice-over): “Sanders won one skeptical on his Medicare for all health care plan.”
SANDERS: “You pay more for taxes but not have to pay private health insurance premiums.”
UNKNOWN MALE: “If it saves me on health insurance premiums I will gladly pay more taxes.”
CORDES (voice-over): “And both got personal.”
SANDERS: “On big schools you see little kids picking on little kids, you know? I resented that. I always did. Injustice bothered me very, very much.”
CLINTON: “I always wanted to be of service. I met my husband, who was such a natural, knew exactly what he wanted to do. I was happy to support him....I never thought I would do this.”
COOPER: “Do you still believe is there a vast right wing conspiracy?”
CLINTON: “Don’t you?”
COOPER: “I’m asking you.”
CLINTON: “At this point, it’s probably not correct to say it’s a conspiracy, because it’s out in the open.”
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CORDES: “Clinton has been challenged by Sanders on the money that she has taken from Wall Street, but she challenged him last night to find one instance where she has done wall street bidding. Still her campaign is clearly sensitive about this line of attack and overnight, Norah, we learned that they have cancelled a fund-raiser with a Boston financial firm. The second such fund-raiser that they have canceled in the last week.”