Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melver, and we begin tonight with the tradition that actually continues

to endure in Washington. The formality of the presidential walkout here was then President

Obama, walking out to the elector. Following the same tradition as President

Reagan, the walkout, the cheers, the announcing, that's sort of what you do when you're president.

It's a big deal whenever you enter the room. Here is that same White House move

with the current President Joe Biden. Please welcome the President of the United States.

There it is. Please welcome and you get the walk out.

But today for one fleeting moment it might have seemed like 2020 went differently

because there was a pretty different seemingly Democratic president.

Please welcome Senator Bernie Sanders. Thank you.

Thank you.

Bernie Sanders starting to that podium like a possible president.

He was there for a major White House event and he is of

course still senator here on Earth One as Nicole Wallace might say but it is

Sanders political support on the left and credibility specifically on health

care which makes him such a key teammate for president and candidate Biden

right now. The two joining forces at this White House health care event today

where the president strongly touted his former rival on the very issue of health care.

Sanders began his career as a socialist progressive, pushing for European-style universal health care.

And he later galvanized Democratic voters in the 2016 and 2020 races.

In those primaries, you may recall, by demanding stronger solutions to what he called

the cruel capitalism and corporatist policies that had at times taken over the DC Democratic Party elites.

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