"Look, she'd make a great vice president," Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told Bloomberg . "We're willing to consider her for vice president."

"We're willing to give her more credit than [President] Obama did," he quipped. "We'll even interview her."

Weaver's comments came as part of an interview in which Sanders aides vowed to retaliate full-force against Clinton if she lashed out at her liberal rival.

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“How hard we fight back and how far we push it is very much dependent on them,” chief strategist Tad Devine said in the article published Wednesday.