>> You probably heard for years, one of the most frustrating attacks against Bernie Sanders
is he's not even a Democrat.
You've heard that over and over and over again.
But you've never heard it delivered in as hypocritical a fashion as you're about to.
We're gonna show you a video, and this is a Democratic congressman, Gregory Meeks.
I want you to bear in mind as you watch this that he has already come out and endorsed
Michael Bloomberg, now watch.
>> This for me is Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.
So I don't understand why Bernie Sanders who does not want to become a member of the Democratic
Party.
>> He vowed he would run and if he wins, rule, reside as a Democrat
>> Run as a Democrat.
We've asked him on a continuous basis.
If, in fact, you wanna be the Democratic nominee, you should be a Democrat.
And if you're not a Democrat, you should not run.
He should run as an independent.
He is not a Democrat.
So to me, I wouldn't allow a Republican to run as a Democrat or for the Democratic nominee.
>> You don't think he should be allowed to run in the Democratic Party?
>> I don't think, he should be a Democrat.
I think that he should say if he wants to be a Democrat, he should register in the Democratic
Party.
And then you can talk about running and could be my representative.
I want a Democrat to be my representative as President of the United States.
>> There's problems with that whole thing, but the most important is I would never let
a Republican run as a Democrat.
What have I done?
>> He's endorsed Michael Bloomberg.
Michael Bloomberg registered as a Democrat.
Do you know when?
It was October 2018.
To put it in perspective, the month before that were the Kavanaugh hearings.
So even that, he made it through all of that before finally registering.
He made it through the kids in cages.
He made it through it all still as a Republican.
It was just a little bit ago.
And unfortunately, the host doesn't ask him about that obvious, shocking, blatant, brutal
hypocrisy.
>> On the other hand, Bernie Sanders didn't give money to all the politicians in the country,
okay?
So take that, John.
>> Yeah, I'll take that.
>> Okay, so now, we need someone who's electable who can beat Donald Trump, someone who could
pull in independence.
But what we don't want is an independent.
Now, but we need independence, so who's pulling best among independence?
Bernie Sanders, don't want him, banish him, banish him.
Okay, they keep saying Mike Bloomberg is so electable because he was a Republican until
yesterday.
Okay, I mean during the Kavanaugh hearings, he was Republican.
Republican, independent, I don't know.
>> He was a Republican governor for a billion years.
>> Mayor.
>> The mayor, sorry.
>> Yes.
>> But for a very long time-
>> That's right.
>> Enthusiastically.
>> Okay, this in another story today that just came out, it is reported that when he
told some woman who worked for him who was pregnant, kill it.
He's gonna get Republicans to vote for him because he's more electable.
Come on, could you imagine if Bernie Sanders had said that?
>> Can you imagine?
>> Can you imagine, right?
>> Yeah.
>> But here's the honorable Representative Meeks telling us-
>> Yeah.
>> Nope, nope, he's to the left of us.
But by the way, he means it.
He doesn't like people who are to the left of the Democratic Party.
He doesn't mind people who are to the right of the Democratic Party.
But just the only thing that matters is where is the donations coming from?
>> Yeah.
>> So I don't even know if he would even say that part as far as people, Bernie's too much
to the left of him.
That is the reason.
But at least in that section, maybe the worst thing to do, he did something else.
So let's be fair.
So the thing is what he was concerned about in that clip was he's not a Democrat.
He's an independent.
He's not Democrat.
We've asked him to be a Democrat.
He's not Democrat.
So he's hung up strictly on a name.
This is another follow-up potentially that he could have been asked as well is, okay,
so what is it about what Bernie is proposing that is not Democratic or doesn't match with
the Democrat party if he's not Democratic?
Affordable college, women's rights, healthcare, affordable drug costs, livable wages, fair
taxing for people, fewer wars, especially in a wars around the world, protecting the
environment, climate change, immigrant rights, gun control, kids' education system from the
beginning from- >> Yeah.
>> Kindergarten, living wages, things like that, so those things you can list 20 things
and ask Meeks.
Ask Gregory Meeks, hey, are those things not things that Democratic Party believes in?
Cuz this is what's you're saying you don't agree with cuz that's agenda versus titles.
So our titles have to say, hey, I'm a Democrat.
It doesn't matter what I'm actually gonna do for people who voted for me.
But as long as I have a D next to my name, it's all good that I just screw people over,
has nothing to do with this agenda policies.
>> This is such a great point because that's a more nuanced point than the ones we made.
Sorry, John, okay, because that's such a wonderful follow-up.
The obvious follow-up is the one John said, wait, you-
>> That's always what I said.
>> Yeah, wait, you're backing a Republican, right?
But how could she not ask that?
But Jayar's question is amazing.
Can you name one policy position of Bernie Sanders that is not sufficiently democratic?
>> Yeah.
>> We'll wait 40 years.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay, you won't be able to come up with one.
I can name a lot about Mike Bloomberg's, okay, when he said we should target black and Latino
males on purpose and we should leave white people alone on purpose.
That was not a very Democratic position and he had that position until what, a month ago?
>> Yeah.
>> And it's not hyperbole, literally- >> Yeah.
>> Until two months ago.
>> Well, one of the best things about Mike Bloomberg, and I hear a lot on the media that
he's really savvy, savvier than Trump.
He waited until three months ago to apologize for stop-and-frisk.
He waited until just the end of 2018 to change his party registration when he knew he was
just gonna do it opportunistically to run on the Democratic side in the same way that
he registered as a Republican right before running to be the Mayor of New York City.
He doesn't plan ahead literally at all for this because he believes that he can just
use his money to buy the ads and bamboozle people into believing he's something he's
not.
But look, I wanna talk about who he is and why switching your party doesn't mean anything.
You said, well, where's the money going?
Well, let's talk about where Bloomberg's money went.
Now it's going to stupid ads.
But where was it going for years and years?
So I'm gonna jump to this tweet.
This is from back in 2018, back before he was a Democrat.
He pledged $80 million to help Dems win the House.
He also held a fundraiser at his house for Republican Representative Peter King and asked
for everyone who showed up to raise $10,000 for the Republican Representative, which seems
like it's gonna hurt your chances of taking the House.
But let's take a holistic look over the past couple of decades.
Because remember, he wants to be the Democratic president, which he's gonna have to deal potentially
with a Republican Senate and a conservative Supreme Court.
So let's talk a little bit about how we got those things.
So since 1987, according to the FEC, he's donated over $900,000 directly to Republican
candidates' campaigns, national GOP party committees, and federal PACs of state Republican
Party committees.
That might seem like a lot of money.
It ain't nothing compared to what comes next.
Bloomberg has given $4.6 million to New York state GOP party committees and roughly $300,000
to Republican state and local candidates.
So he has spread millions upon millions of dollars around to make sure that as many local
and state level Republicans get into office as possible.
But even more importantly, Bloomberg's Independence USA super PAC, which he funds exclusively,
spent nearly $10.1 million supporting Republican federal candidates between 2012 and 2016,
not 82 and 86.
This was a couple of years ago.
The majority of that, $5.9 million, helped Senator Pat Toomey win re-election in 2016,
just a couple years ago against Democrat Katie McGinty, an environmental policy expert and
another Emily's List endorsee.
Remember how much he cares about climate change?
Not so much if it means that he would have to turn against Pat Toomey.
Americans for Responsible Solutions, another one of his in 2014, he gave it a quarter of
a million dollars backing Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Remember- >> Yeah.
>> The votes with the impeachment and Kavanaugh?
You remember all that?
Yeah, he wanted to make sure she was there to do that.
He donated a quarter of a million dollars to the West Main Street Values PAC, by far
the group's largest contribution, which spent a little bit more than that actually to help
Lindsey Graham win re-election.
He also spent six figures against Democratic Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico.
And so all of these people, the toadiest of the toadies of Donald Trump, he helped them
keep their seats.
And in 2012, just a handful of years ago, he endorsed Republican Scott Brown in his
Massachusetts Senate race against Senator Elizabeth Warren, who's now one of his primary
opponents.
So he helped get us in the situation we're in, a situation where if he hadn't done all
that even with Donald Trump as president, we wouldn't have had a Senate that would be
passing laws on his behalf, confirming horrendous Supreme Court justices on his behalf.
And if he somehow against all odds becomes president, he will find it much harder to
pass his agenda, except where it lines up with the Republican party that he was a part
of just a couple of years ago.
Because he worked so hard and spent so much money to give control over this country to
the Republicans up until just a couple of years ago.
>> So look- >> But he has a D next to his name now.
>> Yeah, so look, recently I learned what actually drives politicians even more than
we realized.
So we'll have conversations on air about progressive Democrats versus conservative Democrats.
Well, that actually gives too much credit to politicians that indicates that they care
about policy at all.
They actually don't.
If progressive Democrats had more money that they were gonna give to other Democrats, then
they would all be progressive.
They don't care.
All they care about is where's the money?
And so Bloomberg tried to defeat a lot of these people and did defeat a lot of the other
Democrats but now Bloomberg's giving money to Democrats.
So they're like, yep, conservative, progressive, come on, come on, come on, what are you, children?
>> Who cares?
>> Yeah.
>> Where's the check?
Daddy Mike Bloomberg has the check and Bernie doesn't.
Bernie collects it 25 bucks at a time.
Do you know how hard that is?
I don't wanna do that.
That's a pain.
This guy's given me a big fat check.
So I endorse him and tell you that Bernie's not a real Democrat.
And that's not just by Greg Meeks and it's not personal.
I don't know the guy from okay?
It's all of them.
They all do it.
You see, just turn on your TV any day of the week and you'll see all of them doing it.
>> Yeah.
>> The network of money that goes around from PACs to smaller PACs to super PACs to Congressmen
to Democrats versus Republicans versus Independence, it's so intertwined that if a PAC gave you
$25,000 to run for your re-election and then that same PAC decides to also give to Bloomberg?
What you can't do is go against that PAC cuz that PAC likes Mike Bloomberg.
But if you don't like what that PAC has done as far as endorsing this guy who's gonna run
for higher office than you, you can no longer do that because now your job is in jeopardy
strictly because the money that you're getting from those places is in jeopardy.
So if you work for Starbucks and Starbucks is like, hey, we have this much money to hand
out.
You can be like, well, I guess I'll show up to work at 6 AM like you guys asked me to
cuz- >> Yeah.
>> I like my money cuz I wanna keep my job.
So these people wanna keep their job.
They're not looking to represent you.
They're looking to represent themselves, cuz it's a nice paycheck, and it's a nice prestigious
job.
So they can get off work and say, I'm the esteemed senator.
I'm esteemed representative from wherever because that's what works for their ego.
It's not about representation anymore.
It makes you wonder, what would these people believe in?
What principles would they actually have if they were unleashed from that?
>> Yeah.
>> We'd find out who these people really are and they might actually represent you.
You might like a few Republicans and vice versa.
Republicans might like a few Democrats.
Cuz wow, they're actually saying something they believe in, wolf-pac.com.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> Thank you, brother.
>> Yeah, yeah, it's just, and imagine if Bernie Sanders donated money to keep Lindsey Graham
in office.
>> It would be over.
By the way, to all of the Democrats, all of the 50 Democrats running against Mike Bloomberg,
you idiots, take this seriously.
Every day, five new stories come out that if you made an ad, it would destroy him.
He's put himself in a position to go through a meat grinder in this race, but they're not
taking it seriously.
They're not running ads against him.
Make an ad of him spending millions of dollars to give Donald Trump as many allies as possible.
>> I figured it out.
>> He helped Kavanaugh get into the Supreme Court effectively.
>> No, I just figured it out as you were saying it.
See, that was smart of Mike Bloomberg.
He said, even if I lose, I'm gonna keep helping whoever's the candidate unless, of course,
they attack him.
That is why a lot of the candidates I bet you right now is going why, I do want a sweet,
sweet money.
>> No.
>> So I don't know.
I know it is a mistake.
Of course, it's a mistake.
>> Terrible mistake.
>> Of course, it's a terrible mistake.
That's why he said that, right?
But a lot of the corporate Democrats even if they're running for president, they're
like money, no, no, I'm not attacking him.
I want his money later.
You're not gonna get it later.
There ain't no later.
>> Don't you want a reason to need the money?
>> Cuz you're not gonna need the money.
>> Okay, damn it, we're out of time.
Can we just run Buttigieg's thing?
Just >> Just run it, okay.
>> Okay, just tell the story.
>> Buttigieg, I mean, look, he did Iowa, did in New Hampshire, he did very well.
He needs inroads into Nevada.
I don't think this is it.
>> So much for the chance to join you this evening.
>> And I bring greetings from South Bend.
>> He speaks a million languages, but I don't think Spanish is one of them.
>> Yeah, yeah, see, I wanted to run it because yesterday I said on the show, it occurred
to me for the first time, my God, he doesn't speak Norwegian.
>> Has anyone tested him?
>> No, I'm serious.
When he came out, we didn't know anything about him and he seemed like a really smart,
young guy and he said he spoke Norwegian.
And he said a couple of sentences were like, my God, he's sweet.
And he learned it to read a book.
And then I was like, wait a minute, that guy's one of the most full of crap guys I've ever
known.
My god, he doesn't speak Norwegian.
Okay, so if you're out there and you speak Norwegian, if you've ever seen people to just
launch into Norwegian, see me and keep up with you, okay?
>> I don't even know he plays piano.
>> I've never seen him play piano.
>> I'll state the obvious.
This is what happens when you don't have principles, when you don't have an agenda, when you don't
have policies that you actually believe in.
You think, hey, I can get the vote by acting like it.
I'm gonna, and John, you mentioned this before off-air, you said he wasn't even speaking
Spanish.
It was a line he memorized in Spanish to say, and he forgot it.
It's like, you can speak in English- >> That's why he couldn't adlib afterwards.
>> Yeah, you can speak in English and forget a line, and you'll stumble, even though you've
spoken English since you were two years old.
If you stumble on a line you're trying to remember, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't mean you don't speak the language, it means you were rehearsed.
And your rehearsal didn't work out.
>> Yeah.
>> So I was with Dolores a couple weekends ago, and they're like, okay, let's do something
in Spanish.
And I was like, no.
>> I know some Spanish but not well enough to speak.
So here's all I can do.
Okay, I know that.
It's genuine.
I know it and I can say it.
Everything else, and I gotta look good.
But guy like Buttigieg just like, of course, let me memorize it and I'll tell everyone
I speak Spanish.
>> Exactly.