Trump: Sanders ‘Won’t Be Talking So Big’ If I Take Him on in the General

BLITZER: "Bernie Sanders goes one step further than Hillary Clinton. He says, specifically, that you're inciting violence. And he says that -- he refers to this notion that you would pay the legal bills for a man charged with pro -- punching a protester at a rally. Listen to what Bernie Sanders said about you."
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SANDERS: "I hesitate to say this, because I really don't like to disparage public officials, but Donald Trump is a pathological liar."
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BLITZER: "He calls you a pathological reaction. Let's get your reaction."
TRUMP: "Well, look, he was a terrible senator. And now, he's running and he hit a hot streak a little bit but he's failing and it's going to fail ultimately, I guess. I'd love to run against him but I probably even more would like to run against Hillary because I think that they'd both be easy to beat. I think that, you know, once I focus on them -- right now, I'm focused on putting it to -- put -- you know, getting over the finish line. And we started off with 17 people. We now have the four, total of four. And I think it's going fairly soon. But Bernie was a terrible senator. He did very little as a senator. You know, people don't realize this. Ask him what legislation he got passed. Ask him what he did. You know, it's wonderful to say he's a socialist and he's all of these things. But ask him what he got done. And I know he talks tough and he talks big now. But if I meet him in the election, he won't be talking so big. That I can tell you."
BLITZER: "I think he calls you a path -- he calls you a pathological liar because you called him a communist. Do you want to revise that?"
TRUMP: "Well, I also -- I also called him somebody that I think is lying because a lot of the people that stand up and make fools out of themselves and disrupt my meetings, they have Bernie Sanders signs printed right by the same people that print his signs. Their typical signs. So, I mean, somebody gave them the signs. So, let's see what happens. But I don't really think too much of Bernie Sanders. He's going nowhere and he'll be going back to being a bad senator again. But that's what he was. He was a senator that did not do a good job and now he's in a position that maybe can't -- he should be very thankful to me because, frankly, he was doing very badly until I spoke about Hillary and Bill when they hit me very unfairly about five weeks ago. And then, all of a sudden, Bernie started doing better and they gave them a lot of credit for that. But he wasn't the one who took Hillary Clinton down. And I will tell you that he should be saying, thank you very much, Mr. Trump."