Bernie: Go Ahead and Investigate Hillary’s Damn Emails

The Clinton and Sanders camps, meanwhile, sparred Thursday over whether Sanders was engaging in “personal attacks” regarding Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.

It is one of the most memorable pieces of political theater thus far in the 2016 Presidential cycle: Bernie Sanders seemingly coming to the defense of Hillary Clinton regarding her email scandal with Bernie saying in the first Democratic debate, “the American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails!”

“You get 12 seconds to say these things”, Sanders told the Journal of his debate exchange on Clinton’s e-mails.

“I just disagreed with a lot of what they say and how they go about it. Obviously they have every right to run for president, but I just wish they actually address the real problems that Americans face”. “I did not say, ‘End the investigation.’ That’s silly”.

Clinton, in the wake of an October shooting at an OR community college, called for steps on gun control and said she’d act unilaterally if Congress failed to tighten gun show and Internet sales loopholes.

Sanders: I think it’s much, much too early to be talking about vice presidential nominees. Raising questions about Clinton’s character is going negative To be clear, that’s also legitimate: asking whether Clinton’s changes in position should make us question her commitment to her current stances is fair game.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who also is seeking the Democratic nomination, weighed in Tuesday, promising to use executive authority to reduce gun violence to meet his goal of cutting national deaths from gun violence in half within 10 years. After an unexpected rise to formidability in the Democratic primary over the last few months, his campaign is shifting into targeted messages to appeal to specific demographics that he is speaking to, according to the Boston Globe.

Sanders and his campaign team insist he said nothing new about Clinton’s e-mails in the Journal interview than he has said previously.

“People will tell you that – it’s just the simple truth”, he said.

Of the African-Americans contacted, 80 percent were leading toward her.

Sanders said another example is his 2002 vote against authorizing the US invasion of Iraq, which Clinton voted in favor of as a NY senator, but now says was a mistake.

For the first six months of the Democratic primary the media, including the NY Times and Washington Post, relished writing everything they could to hurt the Clinton campaign.

“Well, there is a process that is going on now”, Sanders said.

Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they thought Clinton could win the general election, compared to 20 percent for Sanders and 9 percent for O’Malley.