- Please welcome
Senator Bernie Sanders.
["Disco Inferno" by The Trammps]
[singing] Burn, baby, burn
Burn, baby, burn
Burn, baby, burn
To my surprise
one hundred stories high
[clapping]
- Oh, you came out here
dancing, Bernie.
That's fantastic.
[cheers and applause]
That's wonderful.
Thanks for being here.
- And thank you
for the very positive energy
you provide
to the American people.
- Thank you so much
for saying that, um--
[cheers and applause]
A lot of people
like you a lot.
A lot of people
are talking about you
and like you a whole lot,
and I'll tell you
I think what you said
about Hillary and the emails--
you said,
"This may not be political,"
and I think that's
the exact thing
that people are sick of
is people being political.
I think people
just need to hear
you say
what you feel.
- I-I think
that's absolutely right.
[cheers and applause]
- And--and I-I think,
Ellen, you--you know,
you hit the nail
on the head,
and I will tell you,
I have been
in many, many campaigns
in my political life
and I'm very proud to say
I have never run
a negative political ad
in my entire life.
And I've been attacked
a whole lot.
- Yeah, and I love that
about you.
because I don't think--
and it was mentioned
during the debate--
that the Republican debates
would not have gone
this way.
There's a lot of attacking,
a lot of bullying.
and I love the fact that it
was very positive.
I don't understand
how we can have
that extreme wealth
and have--
and--and how the middle class
is disappearing.
I-I grew up
very lower-middle class--very.
Um, and I had no money,
I didn't have connections
to get into the--
I worked really hard
for 25 years,
and I've earned my money
by working really, really hard
coming from middle class.
I think that people
should be able
to earn money
and to keep their money
and still help everybody else
that are less fortunate.
But I don't know why
the middle class
is disappearing,
and I don't know why--
I understand you're saying
there's loopholes,
but there should be
enough money that--
that helps everybody down--
- And let me give you
my opinion.
Others will disagree.
What we're up against is--
you would think
that if one was making
billions of dollars,
that might be enough
to take care of your family,
and your kids, right,
and your grandchildren.
But you have,
in corporate America today,
you have incredible greed.
I don't know what they--when
they think enough is enough.
They want more
and more and more.
So you have multi-billionaires
right now
contributing money
to can--to candidates
and what these candidates
are doing on--
at the behest
of the billionaires
is say,
"Let's cut social security."
You talk about healthcare
for all?
They want to throw
millions of people
off of healthcare and repeal
the Affordable Care Act.
They want to cut
nutrition programs
at a time
when millions of families
are struggling to put
food on the table.
They want to cut
nutrition programs
for pregnant women
and little babies.
Now, I can't explain to you
the mentality of somebody
who wants to do that.
Especially people
who have so much money--why?
But that's
the kind of greed mentality...
- Yeah.
- That we're fighting.
- I don't understand it either,
and all of these people,
I assume have children
and grandchildren.
And you talk about
not only the nutrition,
but, again, climate change
and we are--
we need to think about
the future for our kids.
And I don't understand
that mentality either.
Uh, we're gonna
take a break
uh, because we're running long,
but I could talk to you
for a long time.
You--you are a--
you are such a unique guy
and I think that's why
people are responding to you.
- Thank you very much.
- Um, that was an awkward--
like, Trump-like hand--
what is this?
[laughter]
That was so awkward.
Um, what happened to us there?
Here's let's do--
- All right, all right.
- Give me a high-five
or something.
Um, so--
[cheers and applause]
Um, but I do think--
I think that's why people
are responding to you
because, uh, you're--
you're not like
the politicians
that people are used to,
uh, hearing,
and you are saying things
that are--is resonating
to, uh, to a lot of people.
