Rachel Maddow asks Sen. Claire McCaskill about the strategy she pioneered in Missouri in 2012, fueling Todd Akin's campaign for the GOP nomination, with the assumption that he would lose the general election. "You ran what looked like an attack ad, that was actually designed to get Republicans to support him. A Republican Super PAC is doing that to Bernie Sanders right now in Iowa -- hundreds of thousands of dollars... Is there something underhanded about that?"



McCaskill ducks the questions and responds that the Republican Party "attack machine" has "chainsaws for hands... and Hillary Clinton has faced those chainsaws."



"Look at Bernie Sanders and realize," McCaskill said. "The Republican attack machine has not touched him and you have to ask yourself ‘why?’"





SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL: The Republican attack machine has chainsaws for hands.



And Hillary Clinton has faced those chainsaws for a lot of her adult life; she has been the focus of everyone’s attacks. Meanwhile, all you have to do is look at Bernie Sanders and realize, the Republican attack machine has not touched him and you have to ask yourself ‘why?’



The reason why is they would like Bernie Sanders to be the Democratic nominee because Republican operatives and all of that dark money that is buying those fake negative ads- they want Bernie Sanders at the top of the ticket for the Democrats because they believe they can defeat him.