Name: He Took On The Establishment And Won - Sen. Sanders On New York City's Mayor, Zohran Mamdani
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We've had a good conversation here about Greenland, about Venezuela.

The Pentagon is putting 1500 troops on standby for a potential deployment to Minnesota after an ICE agent killed unarmed, nonviolent mother of three.

You've said, you've said her death reminds you of January 6th.

First of all, what ICE is doing under Trump.

They have invaded the city of Minneapolis.

Their goal is to intimidate every person in this country that if you stand up, you are in trouble because the military is coming.

And I gotta tell you, this is repellent to the vast majority of the American people.

Authoritarianism, also, it's all of the things that I mentioned, but it is also propagating the big lie.

So for January 6th, we had a radical group of insurrectionists trying to destroy democracy and undermine a free election.

Trump turns them around and says these were peaceful demonstrators.

And now you have a woman, a mother of three, sitting in a automobile, shot in the head by an ICE agent, and

the Trump people label her a domestic terrorist.

So it is the big lie that we hear over and over again, which is part of authoritarianism.

What I believe, you believe, I think the vast majority of the American people believe is, look, in a democracy, we're going to have differences of opinion.

But these differences have got to be based on a foundation of truth and not constant lies.

And that is what the Trump people do and a basic sense of the dignity of human life.

What gets me when I look at some of the response when Kristi Noem had on her podium when she was talking about this says, one of ours, all of yours was what it said on her podium.

That's the federal government saying that the people of America who may be protesting or not are the enemies of the federal government.

Stephen Miller said local state officials have to stand down and surrender to the federal government.

So that is essentially saying, set aside all the rights of the people.

Constitutional, free assembly, Constitution of the United States.

Yeah, free assembly, freedom of Speech, redress of grievances, or for that matter, keep and bear arms, which is the Second Amendment, all of those things.

And if rights can be set aside because the government tells you to do so, then they're not rights.

Then there were privileges that comes that are just given occasionally by a government that does not derive its power from the consent of the governed.

That's the threat of violence from our own federal government.

Do your colleagues on the other side of the aisle perceive that danger domestically as opposed to internationally, as we talked about before?

Well, again, this is where the issue is extraordinarily partisan.

And there are more and more Republicans who understand that as well.

Not only because they see the blatant unconstitutionality of what is going on, but

they are understanding that the American people are sick and tired of that.

Here you are administering the oath of office to Merriamam Donnie and I just.

You, you've been fighting, you've been carrying the banner of Democratic socialists for a long time.

What was that like to swear in the first Democratic socialist mayor of a major city?

In a recent poll, in the recent Gallup poll, 66% of Democrats had a favorable view of Democratic socialism, up significantly over the last year.

When he started his campaign, it's not only he's really obviously smart, incredibly energetic, really good with people, really good politician.

He was taken on the Democratic establishment, Republican establishment, president of the United States, and

all the oligarchs who threatened to spend zillions of dollars and defeat him.

He won not just because he is good, which he is, but

because he had 90,000 volunteers in New York City knocking on doors.

So what excited me, and I think he's going to be a great mayor, and

But what excited me was a strong grassroots movement took on the establishment of one.

We could do it in every state in this country.

Bernie, thank you so much for being here.

I mean, Senator Bernie Sanders, everybody.

We'll be right back with a performance by Lucinda Williams.

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