Things got testy on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Wednesday, leading Bernie Sanders to yell, “Please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton’s problems!”

During a tough line of questioning, Mitchell told Sanders, “Isn’t the bottom line about you versus Hillary Clinton and who would be the stronger candidate, that she is now fighting a war on two fronts, she’s getting beaten up by Donald Trump on a daily basis. Aside from him calling you ‘Crazy Bernie’ in his tweet, he has been embracing you, he is building you up. He likes the fact that you’re taking her down. So she’s fighting Donald Trump, she’s fighting Bernie Sanders. And that’s depressing her overall–”

“One second, one second, one second Andrea, no, I don’t accept, Andrea, I don’t accept that proposition,” Sanders interrupted. “Last I heard Hillary Clinton is running for president of the United States. I am running for president of the United States. Trump is running for president of the United States. And what a candidate does is make his or her best case to the American people. I have gotten attacked and attacked and attacked. My record has been misinterpreted and lied about. The issue of this campaign is to go out to the American people and talk about why the American people are working, are struggling. Hillary Clinton has got to make that case, Trump has got to make that case, Sanders has got to make that case. And that’s what we intend to do.”

“I’m just saying, sir, I’m just saying that Hillary Clinton’s, the opposition to her, the negatives against her have been built up by Donald Trump just hammering away at her and up until now at least, he has not been going after you as much,” Mitchell claimed. Clinton “is fighting two candidates and you’re fighting one.”

“Oh really? Really? Andrea, in every state we have won, in 19 states, we have had to take on the entire Democratic establishment. We’ve had to take on senators and governors and mayors and members of Congress. That’s what we have taken on, so please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton’s problems,” Sanders insisted. “I’m in this race to win. We’re taking on the Democratic establishment.”

“We are standing up for working people and we have a shot. It is a steep hill to climb but we’re going to fight for every last vote we can get, every delegate that we can get and that’s what I intend to do in the next month, five weeks,” Sanders said.

Responding to the moaning accusation, Mitchell said, “I don’t think I was moaning about Hillary Clinton’s problems but just to point out…”

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