Jeff Weaver’s comments are part of a larger conflict between the Sanders campaign and supporters of Hillary Clinton about what took place at the Nevada state convention. | AP Photo Jeff Weaver: Barbara Boxer lied about feeling threatened

Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said Tuesday he doesn’t think Barbara Boxer is telling the whole truth on what went down in Nevada.

On CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Weaver told host John Berman that he doubted the California senator's version of events during the 2016 Nevada Democratic State Convention on May 14, because of a video that surfaced from the convention. Weaver said it shows Boxer was definitely not in fear of the crowd.


“I don't want to see Sen. Barbara Boxer walking off the stage claiming she's in fear of her life while she's contemptuously blowing kisses at Sanders supporters,” Weaver said to Berman. “No, absolutely not.”

Weaver’s comments are part of a larger conflict between the Sanders campaign and supporters of Hillary Clinton (including Boxer) about what took place at the Nevada state convention, where the distribution of some of the state's Democratic presidential delegates were determined.

Some in the Democratic Party lambasted disgruntled Sanders supporters at the convention whose actions they called chaotic and violent. The Sanders campaign offered a broad-stroke condemnation of violence but didn’t outright denounce the behavior of convention attendees, instead accusing Nevada Democrats of tilting the process toward Hillary Clinton.

Democratic National Convention party chair Deborah Wasserman Schultz criticized Sanders’ response to the event, saying that it didn’t go far enough.

The video Weaver was commenting about showed Boxer blowing kisses to the crowd at the Nevada convention that was shouting at her.

Boxer had previously told CNN that she felt threatened by Sanders supporters at the convention.

“This is serious stuff,” she said on CNN. “This is not what we need going into an election. There’s no place for this in either party. No place for this.”

When Berman asked Weaver if he thought Boxer was lying, Weaver replied, “I think if you watch the online video, it seems incongruous if somebody was in fear for their life while they're blowing kisses at that opponents. Yes, I think that’s incongruous.”