What is Bernie Sanders up to?
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
POLITICO
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🗓️ 26 May 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and It's Thursday, May 26th. I'm Kristen Roberts and we had a big week. Here are the numbers that mattered. Six. That's how many weeks Donald Trump's national political director kept his job. |
| 0:24.4 | 449,000, the max donation to the Trump Victory Committee that's supposed to help Donald |
| 0:30.1 | Trump help the party. |
| 0:31.2 | 250,000, it's an enormous sum immediately raised by the man |
| 0:36.0 | challenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz after Bernie Sanders came to his side and |
| 0:40.3 | 10.8 the percentage point lead Sanders has over Donald Trump in a fake |
| 0:45.2 | general election matchup. Grab your calculators and enjoy one of the best 26 |
| 0:49.7 | nerdcasts we've done yet. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello again everybody, Hadas Gold. Hello. |
| 0:57.0 | Ken Vogel. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey. And Senior Politics Editor Charlie Matessian. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi Kristen. |
| 1:01.0 | Six weeks. That's how long Wiley lasted on Donald Trump's |
| 1:05.4 | campaign Ken what happened? Well a couple things happened here first of all |
| 1:09.5 | Wiley got caught in the crosshairs of the Corey Lewandowski versus Paul Manifort rivalry almost immediately. |
| 1:16.5 | He was brought in by Manifort. |
| 1:20.4 | He was actually Manifort's first big hire as Maniford, he was actually Maniford's first big hire, as Maniford saw to put his imprint on the campaign, |
| 1:26.6 | and he immediately stopped talking to some of the people who Lewandowski had brought on from |
| 1:31.8 | earlier. And so there was frustration with him on that front, |
| 1:34.6 | and Lewandowski had a reason to try to push for his ouster. |
| 1:38.8 | But then additionally, he lost Manafort. |
| 1:41.3 | And in so doing, lost Trump. And some of the things that I had heard. he lost |
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