(CNN) Sen. Bernie Sanders took former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to task for her recent scorching comments about him, in which she claimed that "nobody likes him" and that the Vermont independent fosters a toxic culture among his supporters, in a clip from an interview with Norah O'Donnell broadcast Friday on CBS.

When asked to respond to Clinton's questions about his effectiveness as president and charges that his campaign has allowed his supporters to attack his competitors, "particularly the women," Sanders shook his head and said, "I am sorry for what Secretary Clinton had to say. I know she said that nobody likes me, right? I mean, this is not the kind of rhetoric that we need right now, when we are trying to bring the Democratic Party together to defeat the most dangerous president in American history."

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Clinton's comments to The Hollywood Reporter reignited tensions between the 2016 Democratic presidential rivals when they emerged earlier this week.

O'Donnell asked Sanders whether he would denounce attacks made by his supporters, to which he replied, "I have, of course."

Sanders recently apologized to former Vice President Joe Biden after one of his campaign surrogates, Zephyr Teachout, wrote an op-ed in The Guardian charging that Biden's "record represents the transactional, grossly corrupt culture in Washington."

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