rival hillary clinton is on a book tour. he she wrote a lot about you in this book. i just want to play one quick excerpt and get you do respond on the other side. i wassing orri arguing with supporters at the denver convention in 2008 about why they had to quit complaining that i didn t win and get out and support barack obama. and i didn t get that respect from him and his supporters. as you know you have probably seen some excerpts of the book. i don t know if you fully read it yet. but this is a consistent theme. she claims you didn t work hard enough to bring your supporters to the polls the way she did in 508. and if anything your supporters may have undermined her candidacy and the general election. do you support that criticism? wow. no i really don t. and right now we re focus tong infrastructure and high cost of
looming over. let s go back to politics now and talk about bernie sanders for a moment. senator sanders responding to criticism from hillary clinton arguing he was insufficiently supportive of her after losing the primaries as she did in this clip. i was arguing with my supporters at the denver convention in 2008 about why they had to quit complaining that i didn t win and get out and support barack obama. and i didn t get that respect from him and his supporters. i worked as hard as i could have endorsing hillary clinton. i went all over this country. i would remind people, people say not everybody who voted for bernie ended up voting for hillary. no kidding. that s what happens in politics. if my memory is correct, in 2008, 24% of the people voted for hillary clinton ended up voting for john mccain. that s the nature of politics. most people are not rigidly
as you know, your former primary rival, hillary clinton, is on a book tour. she wrote a lot about you in this book. i just want to play one quick excerpt and get you to respond on the other side, sir. i was arguing with my supporters at the denver convention in 2008 about why they had to quit complaining that i didn t win and get out and support barack obama. and i didn t get that respect from him and support. as you know, you ve probably seen at least some excerpts of the book. i don t know if you ve fully read it yet. this is a consistent theme. she believes you didn t work hard enough to bring your supporters to the fold the way she did in 08, which is what she was pointing out there. if anything, your supporters may have undermined her candidacy in the general election. do you accept that criticism? wow. no, i really don t. look, chuck, right now we re focusing on health care. we re focusing on the daca issue. we re focusing on infrastructure, high cost of prescription drugs
company is not all that popular. what we have to tell the average worker, the only thing that is changing in this program this is not, quote, unquote, a government takeover. the only thing that s changing is the color of your insurance card from a blue cross/blue shield card, a united health card, to a medicare for all card. you re still going to go to the doctor you want. it s the same structure. i m going to move on but i do promise you some longer time on this topic. i d love to do that. it s a fair point. as you know, your former primary rival, hillary clinton, is on a book tour. she wrote a lot about you in this book. i just want to play one quick excerpt and get you to respond on the other side, sir. i was arguing with my supporters at the denver convention in 2008 about why they had to quit complaining that i didn t win and get out and support barack obama. and i didn t get that respect from him and support. as you know, you ve probably seen at least some excerpts of
questions. senator sanders, obviously, he has a strong voice in the democratic party. he comes under a lot of criticism against you in the book. what political sin did he commit other than choose to go run against you? it s not the political sin he committed. it was the failure to move quickly to unify the party and his supporters. and i know a little bit about this. after it was clear it was clear i was going to be the nominee in march or april. it was beyond any doubt in june. and in 08 we ran a much closer, tougher primary contest between president obama and myself, it was really close, and i immediately endorsed him. and i went to work for him. i spent countless hours, anderson, convincing my supporters who felt equally agrieved that they had to support barack obama. i was still arguing with big rooms of supporters at the denver convention. i didn t get that same respect