Bernie Sanders: "Hillary Clinton has received a lot of money from Wall Street"

[Uncle Joe]

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says his campaign advertisement contrasting his approach to Wall Street reform with that of Hillary Clinton is "not a negative ad."

"It portrays a fact of life," Sanders said of the ad during an interview taped for Sunday's "Face the Nation." "There are parts of the Democratic party that have taken a whole lot of money from Wall Street, pushed the deregulation of Wall Street, opposed the reestablishment of Glass-Steagall and breaking up the large banks. It is a simple and truthful statement."

The ad never mentions Clinton by name, but it clearly targets her position on financial reform, highlighting one "Democratic [vision] for regulating Wall Street" that "says it's okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do." When "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson asked Sanders whether the ad attacks Clinton's character - something he pledged not to do - the senator suggested that's not the case.

"No. What I am saying is that there is a division within the Democratic party that has gone on for many, many years," Sanders explained. "And I'll let people determine whose side she is on and whose side I am on. I have led the effort when I was in the House against the deregulation of Wall Street. I have stood up to Wall Street, and I believe that when you have a handful of financial institutions with so much economic and political power, they have got to be broken up."

Dickerson asked Sanders whether he's arguing that Clinton's Wall Street donations would compromise her ability to regulate the industry as president.

"I think that people, in selecting a president of the United States, have got to take a hard look at their entire careers and where they get their funding from," Sanders replied. "There is no great secret: Hillary Clinton has received a lot of money from Wall Street and other very powerful special interests. I receive virtually all of my money from small, individual contributors."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-has-received-a-lot-of-money-wall-street-election-2016/

The full Face The Nation Interview of Bernie will be telecast this Sunday.

[darkangel218]

1. K&R!

Bernie is the only one who ACTUALLY wants to get the money out of politics.

Go Bernie!!! x

[ejbr]

2. That Truman quote

is SO on point! Negative ad my tookis.

[litlbilly]

6. That's one of my favorites ones.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Mine as well, litlbilly.

[demwing]

12. Hurts Hillary = Negative / Helps Hillary = Positive. Truth hurts, so... /nt

[Autumn]

3. A simple and truthful statement

[libdem4life]

4. It's starting to seem that anything not from the HRC talking points, is negative, an attack, etc.

That's quite an amazing standard. Almost seems victim-like.

[Juicy_Bellows]

5. Succinctly Sanders.

Go Bernie!

[SamKnause]

7. FEEL THE BERN !!!

The truth is so refreshing.

[senz]

8. Bernie has always spoken the truth

and now he must defend it over and over again because the devils are coming out of the woodwork to try to shut him down.

May his innate honesty and integrity and the love and hopes of millions of people like us support him through the trials to come.

[99th_Monkey]

9. If Hillary thinks that Wall St. ad is 'negative' ??

She is definitely NOT General Election material, especially against Donald Trump,
who knows enough Clinton dirt to fill 3-4 dump trucks.

[840high]

10. I hope Trump does. Since the

Chelsea fiasco - I've gotten to dislike Hillary even more.

[Fuddnik]

11. Give 'em brimstone Bernie!!!

[gordyfl]

13. Yes Bernie!

Bernie's been in Washington quite a while. He sees first hand the influence of money.

Finally someone who's standing up to the influence of big money.

Yes Bernie!

[azmom]

14. Bernie has exposed them and there is no

Going back to politics as usual.

[Enthusiast]

16. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

[Uncle Joe]

17. Thanks, Enthusiast.

I've always loved your enthusiasm.

Peace to you.

[Enthusiast]

18. Thanks.

Peace to you and all of us.

[uponit7771]

19. So what? Sanders isn't saying that Clinton will sell out to them, that would be an attack on her...

... character.

Something Clinton mentioned Sanders went to early

[Uncle Joe]

20. That's correct Bernie never said that Hillary would sell out the people for millions of dollars in

campaign contributions from Wall Street, I have no doubt some people would believe this would have no effect on a politicians deliberations regulating Wall Street, Big Pharma or the Mega Banks.

Having said that, I don't happen to be one of them.

Could you rephrase this sentence, I'm not sure what you're implying?

"Something Clinton mentioned Sanders went to early"

[uponit7771]

22. Clinton mentioned on Maddow that Sanders has been disparenging her character and went there early

[Uncle Joe]

23. And Bernie only said the people will have to decide for themselves whether this

represents a conflict of interest or not, although he didn't use the words, "conflict of interest" that's basically what the message is.

Bernie wasn't disparaging Hillary's character he was just laying out a fundamental truth regarding the two visions of the Democratic Party, for the American People to use in their deliberations.

[ViseGrip]

21. She should not be president