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Bernie Sanders: “Rupert Murdoch, a multi billionaire. He owns Fox News, the…”

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

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Published May 1, 2026 | Video Starts at 55:11

Jeff Bezos, one of the wealthiest guys on earth, owns the Washington Post and Twitch. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest guys on earth, owns Meta, which includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, messenger, and Threads. Rupert Murdoch, a multi billionaire. He owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post. Another multi billionaire, Larry Ellison, owns CBS TikTok. But it's not just income and wealth Inequality. (55:11–55:29)

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“Over the past six years, billionaires in [America] have more than doubled their wealth.”
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“There has been a 79 trillion dollar redistribution of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.”
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“We have a president whose value system is such that he thinks that it's all right to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1% and…”
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“In the richest country on Earth, 800,000 Americans [are homeless].”
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“France spends 50% of what we spend per capita on [health care].”
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“We spend 15,000, they spend 7,000 plus [per capita on health care].”
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“85 million Americans are either uninsured or underinsured.”
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“1 out of 4 Americans go to the doctor, they get their prescription, they can't afford to fill it.”
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“In the richest country on Earth, millions of our people are desperately struggling just to pay for the basic necessities of life.”
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“When you look at our economy today, you see more concentration of ownership.”
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“You got monopolies, you got price fixing, and we end up paying much higher prices than we should.”
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“Jeff Bezos, one of the wealthiest guys on earth, owns the Washington Post and Twitch.”
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“United Supreme Court decision, billionaires are legally able to spend as much as they [want on political campaigns].”
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“The night, started an unprovoked and illegal and unconstitutional war.”
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“The American people are saying loudly and clearly no to the war in Iran and no to more military funding for the extremist government of…”
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“80% of the Democratic caucus now understands American taxpayer dollars do not go to fund a government which has committed genocide.”
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“It means ending working class people making a living in manufacturing.”
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“If Bezos gets his way, [the current situation] is over.”
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“The system today is not working.”
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“We are having very concrete success [in building a new political movement].”
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“Union membership is growing.”
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“Unions are leading an effort to tell the billionaire class in California they're going to have to start paying their fair share of taxes.”
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“We pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.”
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“We spend less than half of other countries in terms of primary care, disease prevention.”
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“Other countries can provide decent retirement benefits.”
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“I want every worker in America to have a decent defined benefit pension plan.”
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“Raise Social Security benefits and expand the solvency of Social Security.”
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“Lift the cap on taxable income. Right now a multi zillionaire pays the same amount into Social Security as somebody making $180,000.”
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“Lift that cap, we increase benefits and have Social Security solve it for 75 years.”
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“We have got to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage.”
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“Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty.”
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“We got a massive housing crisis.”
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“We could put into good paying union jobs building 7 million units of low income and affordable housing.”
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“We're going to lose millions of decent paying jobs in transportation.”
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“We need the best educated workforce in the world.”
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“Child care workers making minimum wage.”
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“We should have, as New York City is beginning to implement under Mamdani, free universal child care.”
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“It is radical to throw children off of SNAP programs.”
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“It's radical to cut funding for education and housing and other basic needs.”
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“Brian Poindexter wins the primary election on Tuesday and becomes the next congressman from Ohio 7th district.”
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