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Fwd: CLIP | MSNBC, Jeff Weaver interview on Sanders health care plan and his Wall St. ad

From:tcarrk@hillaryclinton.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2016-01-15 18:50 Subject: Fwd: CLIP | MSNBC, Jeff Weaver interview on Sanders health care plan and his Wall St. ad

McCaskill made the argument that no one who worked with Sanders has endorsed him. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- *MSNBC's Live with Kate Snow, Jeff Weaver interview on Sanders health care plan and his Wall St. ad, 01.15.2016* Link: http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=1e216520-4911-4e6d-86c1-e6d65765ebfa Transcript *STEVE KORNACKI: *and joining me now from burlington, vermont, Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager for bernie sanders. Jeff, thanks for taking a few minutes. you heard hillary clinton there saying, look, by far the most expensive item on bernie sanders's agenda would be a single payer health care republican and not put a specific plan forward with a price tag and how he'll pay for it. what do you say to that? *JEFF WEAVER: *well, as she said, secretary said, do it by the iowa caucuses and i don't think they've come and gone yet. it's a strawman to say -- *STEVE KORNACKI: *there's been reports, though, you might be reconsidering that self imposed deadline. can you say affirmatively this is released? the price tag and -- *JEFF WEAVER: *absolutely. *STEVE KORNACKI: *how it's paid for before iowa. *JEFF WEAVER: *100%. absolutely. 100%, steve. look. this is the real argument here. the question is, are w a country going to guarantee health care to all people? this has been a goal of democrats and democratic party since franklin delanor roosevelt, lynndon baynes johnson and she's abandoned the support of universal health care. you will remember the 2008 press conference where secretary clinton rather viciously attacked then-senator obama saying democrats should not attack each other on universal health care and undermines democratic values and gives aid to the special interests and allies in the republican party trying to stop universal health care an that's what secretary clinton said in 2008. *STEVE KORNACKI: *as well, a television ad you launched i think yesterday in iowa and new hampshire. *JEFF WEAVER: *sure, yep. *STEVE KORNACKI: *i think you can say it's a contrast ad talking about wall street, two democratic visions, does not name hillary clinton by name. but look. it prompted some accuse yoscuriosity say saying bernie sanders said i have never run a negative political ad in my life and people saying, look, this is tame but this is getting close to that line. are you guys reconsidering that pledge? *JEFF WEAVER:* no, absolutely not. this is not a negative ad. let's be clear. there's a wall street wing of the democratic party and that wall street wing -- excuse me, has done great harm to the party. what bernie sanders is trying to do is expand the base of the democratic party to bring in a working people and young people, energize the party, to make it once again the party that stands with middle class and working class people. now, there are two visions. and most democrats actually share i think senator sanders' vision. that's the truth. *STEVE KORNACKI: *the ad, though, there's a wall street wing of the democratic party, you're saying there's two visions, saying hillary clinton's part of the wall street wing. *JEFF WEAVER: *no. i didn't place her there. apparently her campaign feels indicted by that. *STEVE KORNACKI: *finally, i did want to play this. clair mccaskill pointing out the fact that bernie sanders has been in the u.s. senate now basically close to a decade. worked with all these democratic senators for years saying, look, none of them come out to endorse him. here's what she said. *CLAIRE MCCASKILL (CLIP): *we have worked with these two people for years. we know these two people andhow they work and whether or not they have the strength and the skills necessary to lead a very divided country. we -- and bernie sanders does not have one endorsement of one senator. now, that should speak volumes to people making up their mind. *STEVE KORNACKI: *it is striking thinking of it, barack obama running against hillary clinton in 2008. he certainly had some support from elected officials from the colleagues in the senate, from top lead earls in the party. not all but some and bernie sanders really has very little support, basically none from the colleagues in the senate. *JEFF WEAVER: *look. we knew starting the campaign bernie sanders not the candidate of the establishment. the question is, what are the grassroots of the democratic party think, the people who really make up the democratic party think? i think what you are seeing in the polls, in fact, those people coming to bernie sanders. i will also point out to you, steve, that just yesterday senator -- former u.s. senator paul kirk, former head of the dnc, came out and endorsed bernie sanders because he said it's imperative to address the issue of the corrupt political system and supporting bernie sanders. and as to the issue of electability, what the polls showing us, steve, not conjecture and showing us that in head to head matchups of republicans, bernie sanders does better against those republicans than does secretary clinton. for a few reasons and one very important reason is that he is extremely strong with independents. if democrats are going to keep the white house, if they're going to take back the senate, win in state legislatures across the country, they have -- t democratic party has to have the support of independents. bernie sanders brings the support to democrats. up and down the ballot. not just to himself and how he's going to win in november. how democrats are going to win. he is the strongest candidate against the republicans. *STEVE KORNACKI: *all right. Jeff Weaver from the bernie sanders campaign, thank you for your time this afternoon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "HRCRR" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrcrr+unsubscribe@hillaryclinton.com. To post to this group, send email to hrcrr@hillaryclinton.com.