I do understand, obviously, he's trying to do his best to get his wife to win the nomination to become president,” Bernie Sanders said. | AP Photo Sanders slams Bill Clinton’s ‘silly remarks'

Bernie Sanders dismissed Bill Clinton’s comparisons of him to the tea party as “silly remarks,” adding that the former president has said some unfortunate things on the trail.

“I think some of the things that President Clinton has been saying are unfortunate. I do understand, obviously, he's trying to do his best to get his wife to win the nomination to become president,” Sanders said, according to a pre-released "Bloomberg Politics" transcript. “I understand that my wife is doing her best to try to get me to become president. But we should not be making silly remarks.”'


Host Mark Halperin continued to push. “Is there a comparison...” Halperin started.

“No, there's no comparison,” the Vermont senator said.

At a campaign event for his wife in Florida on Monday, the former president said that the tea party found electoral success by making big promises, but that they didn't ultimately deliver. He then drew a parallel to Sanders' following.

“Then that's going on now in our party. If you don't deal with the fact that we are too politically polarized and we keep rewarding people who tell us things we know they can't do because it pushes our hot button, we can't go forward together,” he said.