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And this is where he believes that his political revolution began. sanders ran for office here as an independent candidate for on more than ten years before finally being elected the mayor of burlington, a race he won by only ten votes. and what he is selling to democratic primary voters is a message of consistency. the positions that he held back then are the same positions that he holds now as candidate for president. and sanders also talked about the effort thats is making on behalf of worker...

This is a family that is worth $175 billion. they are doing well. meanwhile this very same family that owns walmart pays its workers wages that are so low that many of those employees are forced to go on government programs like medicaid, food stamps and public housing. in other words, working families, you here in vermont and throughout this country, are paying extra taxes to subsidize the wealthiest family in this country. how insane is that? >> reporter: this is a trend for sanders where he i...

And if youll allow me, i want to take a few minutes, just to give you a couple of examples of what is going on in this country when i talk about greed and how we are going to change that when we get into the white house. example one. in america today, we have one family, the with. alton fami a, the walton family of walmart, this is a family that is worth $175 billion. theyre doing well. meanwhile, this very same family that owns walmart pays its workers wages that are so low,

And americans. suddenly we got up to 11 million or maybe 20 million people and we had children, we have 50 million immigrants when you account for children. up to 88. 90 million people. one out of every four californians wasnt born in the united states. then it became a demographic issue and a political issue. nevada flipped. i will be frank. california is never going to be red again. >> laura: to get to the point, vdh, its about changing the demographic makeup of the country which they hope wil...

For, these are things that we need. the subject matter experts that have done is drop for decades on end, are telling us, we need a wall, we need infrastructures, we need roads to be as bold to respond, cameras to detect the traffic coming across and we need the brave men and women out there to do the job right. >> laura: you guys are the facts in the "angle" parade $175 billion, just in fiscal year 2017 on countermeasures. and we can find $25 billion over a period of time to pay for a physical ...

Country, these are things we need. and the subject matter experts that have done this job, we aree telling you, we need a wall, road, infrastructure, cameras to detect the traffic coming across and the brave men and women out there to do the job right. >> laura: you saw the facts in the angle, $175 billion just in fiscal year 2017 on counter terror measures. and we cant find $25 billion over a period of time to pay for a physical barrier? a its not everything, b stop a lt of the flow. we saw in ...

175 billion to fight terrorism. and that doesnt count for thet trillions that we spent on the wars in iraq, afghanistan and work in syria and pakistan. a brown university study estimates the total cost of all that since 9/11 through this year could be a staggering $5.6 trillion. so we lay out all this money to enforce other countrys bordersr but we cant afford $20 billion to enforce and fortify our own? a porous border remains one of our greatest threats. since 2001 there have been more than 11....

$175 billion last year, this just isnt right. im sure you paid more in federal taxes. >> i did. i havent put tens of thousands of people out of work, like amazon has. theyve hired a lot but they have put many more out of work. they destroyed many more businesses than they have created. i get it, that is the nature of market capitalism. they feel no obligation to give back it also the federal treasury at all? >> whats worse is that they are able to grandfather in deferred taxes. deferred taxes, t...

>> tucker: let me correct one thing there. actually, no. "the new york times" today lept to amazons defense, in effectha by saying, that is not really true. they instinctively defended a company for paying no federal taxes. this is how upside down our world is. >> thats unusual. i would expect most democrats or liberal newspaper or source to not back a big corporation paying zero federal income tax. >> tucker: you would think that. yet, its a very liberal corporation. >> heres a reason why they ...

Newark -- >> trish: for amazon. >> yes. just for amazon. maryland offering a $5 billion tax incentive. were talking about state economies really having issues. california as well. were looking at -- if you look at the states on the list of potential and cities on the potential places for h.q., these are states that have been torn apart by economy, economic issues the last five to ten years. >> i get it. they all want amazon to come there because that means jobs, more money for the state. but in ...