Bernie Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton for not not showing “leadership” when there are “difficult circumstances… when it is not necessarily popular to make [those] decisions,” referring to DOMA, Keystone, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Sanders explained, “I am glad that in recent months Hillary Clinton has moved to my position on the Keystone Pipeline, on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, [and] she is now making a step forward on marijuana.”

“What people want to know who has leadership, who has leadership,” Sanders explained. “Who was there in 1996 in terms of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act. So what I think the issue is, who is prepared under difficult circumstances, when it is not necessarily popular to make decisions which are the right decisions rather than 20 years later say, ‘Well you know maybe I was wrong or maybe I got to rethink that.'”

When asked by Todd if it’s “wrong” to evolve on issues, Sanders said, “There’s nothing wrong. Everybody evolves on issues, nothing wrong with that. But I think if you look at the important issues facing this county going back to 2002, who made the analysis, who looked at what Bush and Cheney were saying on the war on Iraq. It’s one thing to evolve and say, ‘Well I made a mistake.’ It’s another thing to analyze the information and say you know what I think that war was a terrible mistake.”

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