Sanders Clarifies: ‘I Know About White Poverty, It Exists in My State’

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BAIER: "You said something that caused a bit of a stir on social media, and among the political analysts who cover this race. You said, when you are white, you don't know what it's like to be poor. Different communities interpreted that different ways, what did you mean by that?" 
SANDERS: "There is no candidate in this race who has talked more about poverty than I have. One of the things that's disturbing, the media doesn't cover that, we have 47 million people in this country living in poverty. That's a high rate in this country. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty. I talk about poverty all of the time. What I meant by that is in African-American communities you have people living in desperation, often being abused by white police officers, that is a bad thing. That has got to change, that's why I'm fighting to reform a broken criminal justice system. I know about white poverty, it exists in my state, all over this country. In the richest country in the history of the world, we have more income and wealth inequality than any other major country. We have too many people living in poverty, we have to change our national priorities. We have got to deal with that issue."