A Crowdsourced Q&A

Senator Bernie Sanders sat down with NowThis at his campaign headquarters in Burlington, Vermont to talk about his presidential campaign. Our team solicited questions from our audiences on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat. An overwhelming number of our followers — young people who are applying to college, starting their studies or graduating soon — wanted to know how Sen. Sanders planned to address the rising cost of education in America. Others wanted to know his thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter, health care and criminal justice reform. Stay tuned as we roll out our multi-part interview this week.

Cost of education: a proposal for free college tuition, funded by Wall Street.

Gun control: Sanders says if we want to stop mass shootings, we have to stop yelling at each other.

Socialism: what it actually means and why you shouldn’t be scared of it, according to the self-described democratic socialist Senator.

Rating Obama’s presidency: Sanders gives some credit to Obama while noting the areas where they disagree, and says Republicans never planned to work with him in a productive manner.

Private prisons and criminal justice reform: Sanders is proposing a bill to get corporations out of the business of ‘building and running’ prisons in September, and thinks it’s ridiculous that America has the largest prison population on Earth.

What Bernie’s America would look like in 2024: a question we’ll ask all 2016 presidential candidates. If elected and re-elected, what does your America look like?