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Pleasure. come back again soon. >> thanks a lot. good to talk to you. >> all right. >> bye-bye. >> i'm jound now by jeff weaver, campaign manager for democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders. jeff, plett start with the last thing hillary clinton said about electability. and the case as far as i can understand it is hillary clinton is probably the most scrutinized and vetted figure in american public life and that's almost certainly true or she's in the top tier of that. >> absolutely. >> what's that? >> i said absolutely. go ahead. >> and that with bernie sanders there might be -- you ...

And yet i don't think we've seen those. so i think i'm telling the voters what i will do, where i will get the revenues from. you can see, you know, what i'm proposing, how much it will cost. i think that's what voters deserve to have before they make their decision. >> all right. final question. you know, i had someone who's an adviser of yours, a friend, david brock, on this program. it must have been a few months ago. and we talked about electability, which has become something you and senator sanders have been talking about on the trail. and i asked him is bernie sanders electable in a gen...

Six weeks ago ben carson was going to beat everyone in the field in head to 45ed polli-to-. that seems like pretty shaky data. >> look, that's one proof point. right? his strength with independence is consistent and has been consistent throughout this campaign and that's something you can't deny. and democrats are not going to win. the number of people who self-identify as independents is far greater than republicans or democrats. i think you have to acknowledge a democrat can't win a federal election without winning independents. he definitely does better with independents. i will say this ab...

So if there's a suggestion people don't know who senator sanders is i think is really not fair. the truth of the matter about electability is if democrats want to win you have to be able to win democrats and you have to be able to win the lion's share of independence. and the truth of matter is if we look at the polls, i'm not just making this up, if you look at polling he consistently does better with independents than secretary clinton does. if you look at the recent polls coming out of iowa and new hampshire, in head-to-heads against the republicans he does far better than secretary clinton...

It must have been a few months ago. and we talked about electability, which has become something you and senator sanders have been talking about on the trail. and i asked him is bernie sanders electable in a general election? and he paused and said no, i don't think he is. do you agree with him? >> well, i'm not going to speak for anybody but myself. i will leave that to the voters to decide about who is or who isn't. but i can tell you this. i'm battle tested. i know how to go up against the republicans. there's hardly anything you and the voters don't know about me. so there won't be a lot o...