>> No one has enjoyed a drumming up nonsense gossip stories about Elizabeth Warren and
Bernie Sanders more than the mainstream press.
In fact, there were a number of headlines and stories written yesterday in an effort
to bash Bernie Sanders as nothing more than a sexist who has all sorts of issues with
women.
In fact, we have a rated video that I want to share with you.
This is just a quick compilation of some of what you could've expected yesterday on cable
news.
>> Wonder what's going on between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and what that must look
like behind the scenes of the democratic debate that's about to unfold.
>> Yeah, hey Harris, so the two progressive front runners and long time friends now seem
to be at each others throats.
>> In his statement to NBC News, Senator Sanders called the charge ludicrous, I'm not sure
that's a denial.
>> Progressive on progressive, it gets getting ugly out there three weeks.
>> The person we do not have an on the record statement from is Senator Elizabeth Warren.
The next time we expect to see her Jake is on the CNN debate stage tomorrow night where
she will be standing one podium away from Bernie Sanders.
>> Margaret, I've been waiting for a real fight.
I like fights in politics, this is about a fact.
>> Now they're calling each other out by names and their fights are getting pretty personal.
>> My instinct is to believe her because Sanders had a campaign in which he had to apologize
to the women who worked for him for not treating them as pure professionals.
>> I think Harris the question tonight is not does this come up but do we see the two
progressive candidates, front runners reach some sort of truce or does this back-and-forth
escalate even more?
>> She said that's exactly what he said, this is great stuff.
>> Yes.
>> Now it's amazing how much misinformation is out there.
And in the case of Chris Matthews, first of all, he reads a small sliver of Bernie Sanders'
statement to these accusations and he's like, it doesn't sound like a denial to me, didn't
deny it.
>> Ludicrous isn't a denial.
>> So, it's the most absurd thing, if you read his whole statement which he did not
do, right.
He denies it, he says an absolutely not unequivocally no, did not say that, right?
Look, I think that Chris Matthews is probably just typical lazy cable news personality who
didn't even read the full statement and just went off of what one of his segment producers
put up on that screen and that's it.
>> That's possible.
>> That wasn't the entirety of the statement or, let's keep it real, Chris Matthews doesn't
exactly hide the fact that he has disdain for Bernie Sanders, so that could obviously
be part of it as well.
>> It's also true, everyone in that compilation, basically.
>> Right, but that's what the media's been trying to goad them into for so long, why
did her campaign do this, it's so stupid, it's so stupid.
>> Yeah, and probably self defeating.
Look, they like it partially because almost all those people don't like Bernie Sanders.
You had, reporter MJ Lee, who was one of the original reporters talking to Jake Tapper.
And I could just tell Jake Tapper how much is he liking this news cycle?
>> He loves it.
>> That's what he loves.
And so the media is generally predisposed to not like him.
But let's keep it real, they probably don't absolutely love Warren in comparison to something
like Biden and Buttegieg, and stuff like that.
And so they like that, they certainly like the drama.
I've been waiting for a fight, I just wanna see a fight.
Who cares what actual effect it has?
It has nothing to do with what they'd actually do if they were president.
But let's focus on this for a couple weeks.
Let's ignore that whole, hey, we almost got in a war with Iran thing, and all of Australia
is on fire, forget that stuff.
Biden finally having to take stock of his record on Iraq war.
That is boring, let's move on, let's go to a fight.
And then there's also some people, if your whole identity in this extended career thing
is like stunning for one of the candidates, you kinda like this too, because finally they're
fighting.
Now I can just torch the other one.
That's why a lot of people like me and you and I talked to Emma on my show today.
I saw Varshini Prakash, executive director of Sunrise just like, I hate this whole thing
because it helps no one in our group.
But some people like it, they like feeling free to just torch the other side and that's
why there were people attacking Bernie Sanders viciously online yesterday, and vice versa.
People, I want a truce because I think it's defeating to both of them and helps disinterest.
But some people, they like being able to turn their guns on the other side.
>> Yeah, but I wanna be clear because he's not the one who started this, he's not even
the one who engaged in it he didn't engage in it.
The only time he engaged in it was to release his statement.
But other than that- >> Which is ludicrous.
>> Other than that, if you focus on what his campaign was doing yesterday, what were they
doing yesterday?
They were focusing on Biden's war record.
That's what they wanted the conversations- >> Which is what we want.
>> And that's what we want, and we covered that story as well.
But my point is, I don't want anyone to get the idea, at least from me, that there's any
type of false equivalency here.
This was a leak from her campaign and it led to a media fire-storm, that is disastrous
for both of them.
Whichever person or people from her campaign made the decision to do this, wake up, we're
in a completely different era, right?
So the disgusting, dirty tricks that you guys have played in other campaigns, that might've
worked out for you, isn't gonna work now.
And this backfired on Warren considerably.
In fact, there was a hashtag refund Warren, that went viral on Twitter, a bunch of people
wanted act blue to refund their campaign donations to Elizabeth Warren.
Like who's winning here?
It's stupid.
It's just dumb.
This morning I saw a tweet by a political reporter over at The Daily Beast it read,
scoop, in a recording we obtained exclusively a person conducting training calls for Bernie
Sanders' campaign instructed a volunteer to tell voters in New Hampshire incorrectly.
It's not incorrect, that he is the only 2020 candidate who supports Medicare for All, then
the volunteer asked about Warren.
Then you read her article, by the way.
Hanna Trudo's the name of the reporter.
You read her article and she contradicts herself in her own article.
In early November, a person who appeared to be conducting training calls for Sanders'
campaign instructed another individual to tell prospective voters in New Hampshire,
incorrectly-
>> That Sanders was the only candidate running for the Democratic nomination who supports
Medicare for All, according to an audio recording obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast.
The call was inadvertently left on as a voicemail on a New Hampshire phone number, okay.
>> Inadvertently, it was a phone call.
>> It's so stupid, I know.
>> How inadvertent is a voice mail message?
>> Let me give you more.
In the nearly minute-and-a-half-long recording, the trainer explicitly says that Sanders is
the sole candidate fighting for the policy.
Okay, so where?
Were they any lies in the training call?
>> Well, there's a lie in the tweet.
>> There's a lie in the tweet.
>> Because that's not what the phone call says.
The phone call doesn't say that he's the only one that supports something like Medicare
for All.
It says, he's the one that will fight for it, that sort of verbiage that's in literally
every political ad.
All of them say they're the ones who will fight for the hardest and the best.
That's what a political ad is.
>> So let me tell you the difference between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in case
you guys have missed it.
On the issue, on the policy of Medicare for All, and I say policy, because this is not
a personal attack.
It's called analysis, that's what people do.
They analyze the differences between the two candidates when it comes to policy, okay?
Does that offend people that we're talking about the policy differences in a Democratic
Primary?
It's pathetic, all right, so here's the difference.
Bernie Sanders has legislation for Medicare for All, he would want it enacted immediately,
right and there's a transition plan.
He's very specific about that.
It's one bill, it's one proposal.
Elizabeth Warren said she was in favor of that until all of the sudden she starts moving
closer to the center and she decides, no, I'm gonna fight for a public option first.
And then in my third year, this is based on her own transition plan, go ahead and read
it, okay.
In my third year, I will push for Medicare for All.
Her third year is when she's running for reelection.
She's not gonna push for Medicare for All, we all know that.
So, the reporter doesn't get into those details.
She doesn't share any of that.
She just says, based on her opinion that it's incorrect to argue that Elizabeth Warren isn't
gonna fight for Medicare for All.
But how are you gonna argue that she's gonna fight for Medicare for All when in reality
she's proposing a public option?
>> It's all nonsense anyway.
It's an opinion.
That's all it is.
Who's gonna fight hardest?
They all think they're gonna fight hardest.
It's a scoop.
It's a voicemail that was left three months ago, minimum two months ago, that they're
dragging out now as if, my god, we got access to this.
Do you know that they inadvertently left it in a voicemail box?
Yeah, they left on a thousand voicemail boxes, because they were calling people and some
of them weren't there.
They're acting as if they found papers that were left behind at the bottom of filing cabinet
or something.
It was their public stuff.
You could talk to any number of voters that talk to someone and that's the conversation
they had.
This is not some sort of major scoop and it's not new.
>> Right, it's not new, exactly.
But the effort to demonize him for doing what someone is supposed to do in a campaign, and
for telling the truth.
He gets in trouble for telling the truth or his campaign gets in trouble for just differentiating
their proposals from their opponents in a primary.
>> He should really be leaving voicemails attacking himself, that would be classy.
>> I get attacked for that as well.
I mean, there's literally nothing he can do without intense media scrutiny
and it's pathetic.