-Welcome back, Senator.
-Good to be with you.
-I'm so happy you're here.
Let's get right to it.
There was some big news
over the weekend
that everyone is talking about
We were following the race
Ariana Grande is endorsing you
-[ Laughs ]
-So this is a big deal.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Why is a 78-year-old politicia
connecting with
all these younger voters?
-That is a good question.
I'm still trying
to figure it out.
Ariana is not only a great
entertainer, which she is.
-Yeah.
-We were at a concert
with her in Atlanta.
Just a zillion people there.
Gave a great show.
But she's doing more than that
She is a very
socially conscious,
politically conscious person
and she's doing exactly
what has to be done.
She is reaching out
to young people,
getting them involved
in the political process.
And I think
at her concerts alone,
she has registered
20,000 people to vote.
-That's amazing.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-And that's a big deal.
-That is a big deal, yeah.
I know you're from Brooklyn.
I am from Brooklyn, as well.
But I have a photo of you
and your mom and your brother.
And there's little Bernie
right there.
[ Audience awws ]
[ Laughs ]
What memories do you have
from Brooklyn
that kind of made you
who you are?
Because we're from
New York City. Very local show
-Well, I grew up
in a rent-controlled apartment
in the Flatbush area
of Brooklyn.
Our family did not have
a whole lot of money.
And, you know,
I think my politics
came from the fact that ou
family struggled economically,
you know,
kind of every single day,
so I got a sense of what
that struggle was about.
-Like, give me an example.
You would want to buy somethin
but you couldn't afford it
-The memories, you know --
When you're a little kid,
you feel these things
very strongly.
My parents would argue
about money.
My mother, for example,
who died very young,
her dream was
to own her own home
and move out of the apartment.
And that was a dream
that she never fulfilled.
So, you know, the conflicts that
take place between your parents,
you know, when you
don't have enough money
is something that impacts kids
pretty, pretty harshly.
That's what's going on
all over the country today
-Yeah, you were like that.
So, when holidays would come
would you have a big holiday -
Would you have a big
Thanksgiving? Would you have -
-Yeah, I mean,
it's not like we were poor
but it's just that
we were pretty solidly
lower middle-class,
and money was always an issue.
My other memory
of growing up in Brooklyn
is just being out on the streets
all the time
playing punch ball
and football and basketball.
-What is punch ball?
-Punch ball is, you throw
the ball up and you hit it
It was a Spaldeen, remember?
Remember Spaldeen?
-I know Spaldeen.
-Yeah, we lived
with the Spaldeens.
-You play stoop ball?
-We played stoop ball, too
We played every game
that you can think of.
We spent, you know,
our entire lives
out on the school yard
or out on the streets,
and we'd just choose up games,
and everybody knew
how good everybody else was,
and it was pretty good.
-My dad has a bunch of stories
of growing up in Brooklyn,
and he was -- he used to sin
doo-wop on the corners.
-That, I did not do.
-Just saying,
we have a microphone.
-For reasons that
you would soon find out.
But, no, we didn't.
We played ball.
-My dad,
he was in a doo-wop group,
and he was also in a gang
at the same time.
And so he would sing
with these guys
and then fight them
later that night.
It was so Brooklyn.
-That's growing up Brooklyn.
-That's growing up Brooklyn,
yeah.
Can we talk about
the impeachment?
Because now we've made it
through the House.
The Trump impeachment.
If it goes to the next level
it goes through the Senate
which means
you have to get involved.
-Yep.
-Which means that you're gonna
miss -- you're going to have t
get off the campaign trail
a little bit.
-Yep.
-How are you going to do that?
-Well, look, I have a
Constitutional responsibility.
I swore an oath of office,
and I'll do my job.
I think this is a sad moment
in American history
because we have a president wh
is not only a pathological liar,
not only a racist and so forth
but I think is running
the most corrupt administratio
in the modern history
of this country,
and the House will do its duty
and I suspect they will
impeach him, as you indicate
The trial is going to
come to the Senate.
And I'll do my duty.
I'll listen to the evidence.
But as of now, I mean,
I think you have a president
who has committed a number
of impeachable offenses.
-After what you've seen,
the evidence,
do you have a yes or no?
-I'm going to listen.
My job is in a sense
a juror in the Senate
to listen to the evidence.
But if you ask me today,
I think he has probably
obstructed justice, in terms
of the Mueller investigation
I think he is probably guilty of
violating the emoluments clause,
which prevents a president
from enriching himself
through the use
of his own office.
I think he has used the office
to enrich himself
and his family.
And lastly, of course,
I think the evidence
seems to be pretty clear
that he has used
hundreds of millions of dollar
of military aid to the Ukraine
as leverage to get political
dirt on an opponent,
which is also
an impeachable offense.
