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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 that's is making on behalf of workers. in fact in the coming weeks he will head to arkansas to represent walmart workers as they partic...

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 is serving as a

And if you'll 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. they're 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 wasn't 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, it's about changing the demographic makeup of the country which they hope will change the electoral makeup of the country period. is that cynical? >> no, it's two things. poli...

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 barrier? it's not everything. but it's a statement and it will stop a lot of the flow. we saw the o...