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Bernie Sanders: “A few hundred billionaires, a few hundred people spending…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Jon Stewart & Bernie Sanders on Rebuilding Trust & Efficacy in the Government The Weekly Show

Published | Video Starts at 08:35

Because not only you have an economic system which is rigged, you got a political system which is corrupt. And again, we don't talk about it enough. But anybody who paid attention to this last election saw A few hundred billionaires, a few hundred people spending tens and tens of billions of dollars to elect the candidates of their choice. And you're the ordinary guy out there. Maybe you got to vote. So what does that matter when big money is buying elections? So your point is exactly right? (08:35–08:44)

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Asserts that a small group of billionaires spent billions to influence elections.

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