The American people are prepared to support real change. The difficulty that we have is not just the objective crises that we face—the disappearing middle class, income and wealth inequality, crumbling infrastructure, lack of universal health care and paid family and medical leave—the whole list of those things. That's not the major problem. The major problem is that we have an establishment that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, led by a corporate media, which tries to condition the American people not to believe that we can accomplish those goals—or to even consider that those goals can be part of what American society is about.

You might think that there would be a lot of discussion about why the United States is the only major country on Earth not to provide health care to all people. People might say, "Look at the French system: It stinks, it's terrible. The Canadian system is terrible; that's why we don't want to do it." But you don't have that discussion. Why is it that the United States, which spends far more per capita on health care than other nations, why don't we have a national health care system? Have you seen that debate once in your lifetime? On television?...

Have you seen a debate coming on where a guy says, "Look, I think the British system is good, and it costs about one third of the American system"? And some American guy comes on and says, "No, I think it's a terrible system!" and argues it out about why our system is better. Let's have that debate! There's two sides to every story. You don't see that debate.

And my guess is that the majority of the American people do not even know that we are the only major country on Earth without a national health care system. They don't know that we're the only major country without guaranteed paid family and medical leave. No one tells them that you've got 20 people owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people. They don't know that. Somehow CBS doesn't have that special. I don't know why.

You see, that's what the campaign is about. Our major success so far is in laying out a broad progressive agenda, and forcing ourselves—the media doesn't want to hear what I have to say. Do you know how many endorsements we have gotten from major media in this country? [Holds up hand forming a zero] They're much more interested in Trump. For a whole variety of reasons. And if he attacks Hillary Clinton, calls her a bad name, that becomes a major story. If I talk about the disappearing middle class? Not exactly what CNN is interested in hearing, right? OK.

But what we have managed to do in this campaign is, they can't avoid somebody [like me]. Tonight, we were on CNN—I spoke for a while, for seven minutes. They gotta put us on a little bit. And suddenly people are hearing things they never heard before. And that's changing consciousness. So what we have got to do is to redefine who we can be as a nation. In a sense, what we are entitled to. What rights we are entitled to as humans. That's the struggle. And we're making a little bit of progress

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

bernie behind in popular vote by estimates i've seen 13 mil to 10 mil.... what leg does he have to stand on? I agree the whole superdelgate thing is pretty stupid.... but wouldnt he being the nominee be more unfair to hillary since she clearly won the popular vote? why is this point not being thrown back at sanders by hillary camp?

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Love the guy ....best politician in my lifetime, genuinely a good guy and very smart..I knew that bitch Trump would pussy out n not debate him.

Who would be ahead if every American could vote one time from their phone?

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

He is not genuinely a good guy

Like his policies if you must but don't buy into any cult of personality

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

Oh come on. He has no desire to have an honest discussion about his ideas. That is why he glosses over everything potentially negative about his plans. He could easily have started mentioning them in here but he once again chose not to.

Another self serving interview by him to try and create a legacy after years of not doing much of anything.

I'd look like a good guy too if I was selling a platform of all these great things for people without mentioning the costs.

But your ok with Drumpf spending trillions more on the military? Or, we can replace Drumpf with Hillary.

so is your point bernie voters are too dumb or dont care enough about voting for bernie that they cant register to vote in their primary?

But Trump says that globalism has been a raw deal for most Americans, and he's right too.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

My sincere hope is that Hillary is Obama 2.0.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

So you think Obama was a bad President?

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Obama did about as well as he could, more or less. While he's no leftist, I think the "he's a secret conservative" stuff is a little unfair, because he was made to work with an opposition party that largely despised him for being black. Beneath the identity, he's a boring consensus liberal who did some good liberal-consensus stuff. We're not all dead, which is a plus. He probably wasn't a transformative president in the sense that Lincoln or Roosevelt or Johnson or even Reagan was, but he kept the country moving.

That is lazy. He is hated because he is a Democrat. They/we hate Hillary as much if not more.

He missed the opportunity to take dramatic action when the big banks where at his mercy. We have merely kicked the can on too big to fail, the environment, Iraq/Iran, infrastructure and deficits. The economy is "better" but most gains went to the top. History will be the judge on if he was "good" or not.

It will depend on others to find solutions the the problems he inherited, but failed to find more than patch work temporary solutions for. Even his signature legislation is a messy bridge to something else.

He was not his insane opposition, but he could not find a way to nullify their power.

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

So you think Obama was a bad President?

He missed the opportunity to take dramatic action when the big banks where at his mercy. We have merely kicked the can on too big to fail, the environment, Iraq/Iran, infrastructure and deficits. The economy is "better" but most gains went to the top. History will be the judge on if he was "good" or not.

It will depend on others to find solutions the the problems he inherited, but failed to find more than patch work temporary solutions for. Even his signature legislation is a messy bridge to something else.

He was not his insane opposition, but he could not find a way to nullify their power.

Frankly I think Republican men more often than not are frightened by smart and/or powerful women. And the "leadership" plays on it and gives us women like the Trump surrogates.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

But it must always be noted that he had no effective relationship with Congress that started with McConnell's meeting on Inauguration night. Then Al Franken's election was held in abeyance as long as possible to maintain the filibuster power of the Rs that continued when Kennedy died and Lieberman accepted his payoff. I don't think that there was really anything short of granting the Senate republicans control over the federal government that was going to permit anything close to modest financial reform beyond the toothless Dodd-Frank.

I don't think it helped that the heavily promoted media/public opinion was that he didn't have the political capital...or that he fully believed that.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Also, he never went after W and company's crimes but the Republicans went after Obama with every crack-brained "misdeed" they could find.

Yes.