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Bernie Sanders: “You got 800,000 people sleeping out on the streets.”

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

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Bernie speaks with @hasanabi (LIVE AT 5PM ET)

Published | Video Starts at 11:18

Have you heard that people go around saying, look, there's something wrong when we have massive income and wealth inequality, when we're the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people, when You got 800,000 people sleeping out on the streets. when we have an opioid epidemic, when our public schools are failing? You know what? Guess what? System ain't working? Do you hear Democrats say, you tell me. (11:18–11:22)

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Asserts that 800,000 people are homeless in the U.S.

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