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Bernie Sanders: “We are living, Kristen, in the richest country in the…”

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

Meet the Press Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on Russia, Tariffs, and Oligarchy

Published April 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:59

We're not trying to start a third party. What we're trying to do is strengthen American democracy where faith in both the Democratic and Republican parties right now is extremely low. We are living, Kristen, in the richest country in the history of the world. And yet you got one person, Mr. Musk, who owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households. That is insane. That is oligarchy on steroids. (03:59–04:04)

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“Mr. Musk, who owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households.”
Meet the Press Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on Russia, Tariffs, and Oligarchy | Uploaded April 27, 2025 | 04:06-04:13
“We have 60% of our workers living paycheck to paycheck.”
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“We have over 20% of seniors in America living on $15,000 a year or less.”
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“When the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%.”
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“The very rich getting richer, working class people are struggling, 800,000 people sleeping out on the streets.”
Meet the Press Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on Russia, Tariffs, and Oligarchy | Uploaded April 27, 2025 | 07:21-07:29
“For the first time in the 250 year history of the United States of America, we have a president who sides with a dictatorship.”
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“Mr. Musk can spend $270 million to elect Trump and then becomes the most important person in government.”
Meet the Press Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on Russia, Tariffs, and Oligarchy | Uploaded April 27, 2025 | 04:06-07:11
“We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major nation on earth.”
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“Opposing what Musk is doing to dismember the Social Security Administration and the Veterans Administration.”
Meet the Press Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on Russia, Tariffs, and Oligarchy | Uploaded April 27, 2025 | 05:08-05:16
“We had 36,000 people out in Los Angeles, 34,000 people in Colorado. We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California.”
Meet the Press Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on Russia, Tariffs, and Oligarchy | Uploaded April 27, 2025 | 06:25-06:37
“AIPAC and other super PACs have enormous power over Democratic candidates.”
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