Days before the New Hampshire primary Senator Bernie Sanders hit the Sunday circuit for a last push before the nation’s first vote that doesn’t involve standing in weird little circles like in Iowa.

CNN’s Jake Tapper opened his interview asking if Sanders agreed with his national co-chair Nina Turner (and many of the ardently online Bernie supporters) that DNC Chair Tom Perez’s call for a re-canvas in Iowa only came once Sanders started shooting up in the polls.

“The timing does look fairly intentional,” Tapper quoted Turner, reiterating a belief among some that establishment Democrats are pulling levers to keep Sanders in check.

“Look, all I can say about Iowa is it was an embarrassment, it was a disgrace to the good people of Iowa,” Senator Sanders said, without exactly answering Tapper’s question. He then went on to cite the numbers from the complex Iowa process that put him on top of Pete Buttigieg. He called his final standing in Iowa a victory, even if the common interpretation of the puzzling caucus results gives the former mayor of South Bend the edge.

When Tapper pushed again, asking if he believes that the Democratic structure is creating barricades, Sanders said “I have no idea. We're going to monitor the situation closely, but that's not my impression at this point.”

While that might seem to put an end to conspiracy talk, he quickly reiterated that his campaign is “taking on the entire establishment and corporate America” and that there are many in the Democratic establishment “who are not, to say the least, enthusiastic about Bernie Sanders.”

Later in the interview Tapper brought up a comment from Hillary Clinton in which she criticized the over-ambition of his policies, to which Sanders, in mock-surprise, commented “did she attack me again?”

“I’m not going to revisit 2016,” he added, saying that uniting the Democratic Party was paramount. Instead of responding directly to the last Democratic presidential nominee's assessment, he questioned why Canadians 50 miles away from his home can come out of the hospital “without paying a nickel,” then marched through his familiar talking points.