BANDWAGON EFFECT COMES FROM HIM WINNING NEVADA HE HAS A CHANCE
TO POTENTIALLY DRAW, EVEN WITH
BLACK VOTE
BLACK VOTE ALMOST WHAT HE DID IN NEVADA.
>> SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS IS
FACING BACKLASH FOLLOWING HIS
REMARKS DURING A "60 MINUTES"
INTERVIEW WHERE HE RENEWED HIS
PAST PRAISE FOR FORMER LEADER OF
CUBE DA, FIDEL CASTRO.
MSNBC ADDRESSED HOW THIS MIGHT
AFFECT THE VERMONT INDEPENDENCE
RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY AND
SANDERS HIMSELF DEFENDED HIS
REMARKS DURING A CNN TOWN HALL
LAST NIGHT.
LAST NIGHT. >> SENATOR SANDERS DOESN’T COME
TO HIS POSITIONS ON POLITICS,
THIS COMES FROM A PLACE OF
CONVICTION AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT
WHAT HE SAID FOR DECADES IS YOU
HAVE SOMEBODY IN FIDEL CASTRO A
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSER AND
AUTHORITARIAN.
AUTHORITARIAN. YOU HEARD HIM SAY IN THE CLIP.
NEVERTHELESS, YOU CAN ALSO AK
ACKNOWLEDGE GOOD THINGS MAY HAVE
BEEN HAPPENING IN CUBAN SOCIETY.
WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING PEOPLE
TRY TO THROW POLITICAL BARBS AT
BERNIE SANDERS AND TRANSLATED TO
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC A PERSON OF
HONESTY AND CONVICTION WHO
DOESN’T PLAY POLITICS.TRULY WHAT
BELIEVES.
BELIEVES. I DON’T SEE PROBLEMS WITH IT.
>> WHEN FIDEL CASTRO FIRST CAME
TO POWER.
TO POWER. WHEN?
WHEN? ’59?
’59? >> ’59-60.
>> ’59-60. >> OKAY’S HE INITIATED A MAJOR
LITERACY PROGRAM.
LITERACY PROGRAM. A LOT OF FOLKS IN CUBA AT THAT
POINT WHO WERE ILLITERATE.
HE FORMED A LITERACY BRIGADE.
YOU MAY READ THAT.
WENT OUT AND HELPED PEOPLE LEARN
TO READ AND WRITE.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I THINK TEACHING PEOPLE TO READ
AND WRITE IS A GOOD THING.
>> OKAY.
>> OKAY. >> I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO
SAY, WILLIE.
SAY, WILLIE. >> WHY?
>> WHY? >> BECAUSE -- BECAUSE -- BECAUSE
HE SAID -- HE HAS THIS WITH
EVERY -- EVERY DICKTATORIAL
REGIME.
REGIME. FINDS SOMETHING HE LIKES.
>> WHO DOES THAT REMIND YOU OF?
>> HE HAD A LITERACY REGIME, BUT
HE ALSO HAD A REGIME WHO
TORTURED CATHOLICS, TORTURED
PEOPLE WHO WORSHIPPED GOD IN A
WAY HE DIDN’T LIKE, TORTURED
STUDENTS THAT HAD NEWSPAPERS.
KEPT PEOPLE LOCKED UP OR YEARS.
KILLED PEOPLE.
KILLED PEOPLE. I MEAN, AND THEN WHEN BERNIE
TALKS ABOUT THE SOVIET UNION,
THEY HAD WONDERFUL CHANDELIERS.
DID YOU SEE THEY HAD WONDERFUL
CHANDELIERS IN THEIR SUBWAYS.
THIS IS NOT AN ARGUMENT.
SAME THING WITH THE SANDINISTANS
GOING DOWN TO NICARAGUA TALKING
ABOUT THE GREAT PROGRESS THEY’RE
MAKING INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT
THE TORTURING, INSTEAD OF
TALKING ABOUT -- HAS THERE BEEN
A COMMUNIST REGIME THAT BERNIE
SANDERS VISITED THAT HE DIDN’T
FIND SOMETHING APPEALING ABOUT?
YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT
CHANDELIERS IN A SUBWAY WHEN
YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT A REGIME
THAT KILLED 30 MILLION, 40
MILLION OF ITS OWN PEOPLE,
EITHER THROUGH FORCED FAMINES OR
THROUGH TORTURE OR THROUGH SHOW
TRIALS.
TRIALS. YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT FIDEL
CASTRO’S LITERACY PROGRAMS, YOU
JUST CAN’T!
JUST CAN’T! NOT IN AMERICAN POLITICS, AND
SHOULDN’T BE ABLE TO WITHOUT
TALKING ABOUT THE LONG LAUNDRY
LIST OF EVILS COMMITTED BY FIDEL
CASTRO AGAINST HIS OWN PEOPLE
OVER DECADES.
OVER DECADES. THAT IS, YES IT IS, WAIT FOR IT.
>> UH-HUH.
>> UH-HUH. >> THAT’S LIKE SAYING MUSSOLINI
HAD THE TRAINS RUNNING.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE TRAINS?
I’M TELLING YOU, I’M SITTING
THERE BY THE TRAINS, AND IT’S 2
UNTIL 9:00.
UNTIL 9:00. WHAT DO I SEE FOR MY 9:00 TRAIN?
THE TRAIN’S COMING UP HERE WHILE
PEOPLE ARE HOOKED UP ON MEAT
HOOKS LINED UP BEHIND THE TRAIN.
YOU CAN’T DO IT.
THE FACT, I UNDERSTAND, WE ALL
SAY CRAZY THINGS.
IT WAS THE ’70s AND ’80s, RIGHT?
AND THE ’90s.
BUT HE’S DEFENDING THIS.
>> DOUBLING DOWN.
>> AND DOUBLING DOWN,S IN 2020.
THAT AIN’T -- THAT AIN’T COOL.
NOT JUST WITH FORMER
REPUBLICANS.
REPUBLICANS. THAT AIN’T COOL WITH SOUTH
CAROLINA VOTERS.
CAROLINA VOTERS. THAT AIN’T COOL WITH DEMOCRATS.
>> AIN’T COOL WITH DEMOCRATS IN
FLORIDA AND THEY’VE MADE IT VERY
CLEAR OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF
DAYS.
DAYS. >> FLORIDA -- I WILL SAY THIS.
WE NEVER KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO
HAPPEN.
HAPPEN. I WILL TELL YOU THIS, AS
SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS A LITTLE
ABOUT FLORIDA POLITICS, BERNIE
SANDERS WILL GET WIPED 0 UT IN
SOUTH FLORIDA, WHICH MEANS, HE
WILL NEVER -- LIKE, I’M TALKING
ABOUT IN THE GENERAL ELECTION,
DON’T KNOW HOW HE’LL DO IN THE
PRIMARY THERE.
PRIMARY THERE. KISS FLORIDA GOOD-BYE.
AND, YEAH.
AND, YEAH. YOU HAVE --
>> DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN FROM
FLORIDA WRITES, AT THE FIRST
SOUTH AMERICAN IMMIGRANT WHO
PROUDLY REPRESENTS THOUSANDS OF
CUBANS I FIND BERNIE SANDERS
STATEMENTS UNACCEPTABLE.
STATEMENTS UNACCEPTABLE. DONNA SHALALA ECHOING THAT.
CONFRONTED WITH IT LAST NIGHT IN
A TOWN HALL ON CNN ADDND DIDN’T
TRY TO COUCH IT AT ALL’S HE
REPEATED IT SAYING THE LITERACY
PROGRAM WAS GOOD.
HIS CAMPAIGN MANAGER SAID AND
HE’S RIGHT, BERNIE SANDERS IS
CONSISTENT ON THIS.
HE LIVED IT IN THE ’70s, IN THE
’80s, IN THE ’90s.
BASICALLY SAYING HE’S NOT GOING
TO LIE ABOUT THE WAY HE FEEL.
HE’S NOT A POLITICIAN AND VOTERS
HAVE TO MAKE UP THEIR MINDS
WHETHER THAT CONSISTENCY IS A
GOOD THING OR THE FACT YOU’RE
PRAISING DICTATORS IS
DISQUALIFYING.
DISQUALIFYING. THAT’S UP TO THE VOTERS.
>> I’M NOT SURE HOW IT WILL COME
OUT IN THE CROSSTABS HERE BUT I
DON’T THINK ORTEGA, CASTRO AND
AND -- HECK, BREZHNEV WILL FARE
VERY WELL.
VERY WELL. >> WE TALKED THE LAST YEAR OR SO
ABOUT BERNIE SANDERS AND HIS
POLL NUMBERS.
POLL NUMBERS. WE KEEP SAYING THERE IS A
PROFOUND AGE DIVIDE.
TALKING ABOUT FOLKS WHO ARE
UNDER 45 YEARS OLD, PARTICULARLY
UNDER 30 YEARS OLD.
SAW IT IN NEVADA.
HE GOT 66% IN NEVADA UNDER 30
YEARS OLD.
YEARS OLD. WHEN YOU GO TO THE OTHER END OF
THE AGE SPECTRUM, FOLKS WHO
REMEMBER DANIEL ORTEGA, THE
SANDINISTAS, BATTLES OF THE
1980s, REMEMBER DEMOCRATS IN THE
1970s, FOLKS LIKE GEORGE Mc
McGOVERN, SOFT ON COMMUNISM.
THE CHARGE OUT THERE IN AMERICAN
POLITICS, A DIFFICULT POSITION
FOR POLITICIANS LIKE McGOVERN IN
THE ’70s.
THE ’70s. FOLKS WHO REMEMBER THAT AND SEE
THAT IN BERNIE SANDERS, WHAT YOU
JUST SHOWED ARE THE FOLKS NO THE
WARMING UP TO HIM CONSISTENTLY
IN THE POLLS.
PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE THE MUCH
FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE OF HIM IN
THE ’70s, ’80s AND ’60s, BERNIE
SANDERS IS DOING VERY WELL WITH.
>> AND GEORGE McGOVERN A WAR
HERO AND A GUY THAT DIDN’T RUN
AROUND TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE
THOUGHT WAS MOST INTRIGUING
ABOUT THE SOVIET SYSTEM AND HOW
THEY WERE ALL VERY CONTENT.
BERNIE SAID THEY WERE CONTENT.
I FORGET WHAT THE EXACT WORD
WAS, BUT A LEVEL OF CONTENTMENT
THERE AMONG SOVIET CITIZENS
SAYING BERNIE SANDERS.
THE ONLY PERSON WHO EVER VISITED
THE SOVIET UNION FROM THE WEST
AND CAME BACK AND SAID THAT.
IT’S ASTOUNDING.
IT’S ASTOUNDING. >> THIS MOMENT IS WHY THE WHITE
HOUSE IS LICKING ITS CHOPS ABOUT
BERNIE SANDERS AS "OHAN OPPONENT
MORE THAN MEDICARE FOR ALL.
GETS TO THE HEART WHAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP WANTS TO TALK ABOUT.
PATRIOTISM.
PATRIOTISM. DO YOU LOVE THIS COUNTRY?
HE CAN GO OUT ON THE STUMP AND
SAY THIS IS CASTRO’S GUY,
STALIN’S GUY, WHATEVER.
GO DOWN THE LIST, DANIEL
ORTEGA’S GUY, HE WANTS TO HAVE
THAT CONVERSATION.
THAT CONVERSATION. >> DESPERATELY.
>> DESPERATELY. >> AND THAT’S WHY DONALD TRUMP
GOES OUT AND SAYS, DON’T LET
THEM STEAL IT FROM YOU BERNIE.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BIG WIN
IN NEVADA.
IN NEVADA. NOW, DONALD TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE
MUCH TO STAND ON IN TERMS OF AWE
AUTHORITARIAN, BUT THIS IS THE
CONVERSATION DONALD TRUMP IS
HAPPY TO HAVE.
>> SANDERS GOOD PIVOTING THAT.
THE QUESTION, WHY AS A CANDIDATE
DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT ON?
I DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT.
WHY DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUES TO
PRAISE FIDEL CASTRO?
A MURDEROUS THUG?
WHY DO YOU -- WHY CAN’T YOU JUST
COME OUT AND SAY, NO.
IT’S TERRIBLE.
IT’S TERRIBLE. >> IT’S STRANGE.