At his "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here" town hall on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed President Trump's actions two months in office.
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00:00This is a great turnout. I've been to Las Vegas a number of times. This is by far the largest turnout. Thank you very much.
00:11I want to thank Alexandria for being here with us. She mentioned when she was a kid she cleaned houses with her mom in order to help pay the family bills.
00:29She has not forgotten where she came from. I want to thank Steve Horsford who worked for the Culinary Workers Union, former chairman of the Black Caucus and doing a great job in the Congress.
00:46Steve, thanks very much for being here. So why are Alexandria and I here in Las Vegas and we're heading to Colorado and we're heading to Arizona?
01:02We're doing that because this country faces enormous crises and how we respond to these crises today will impact not only our lives but the lives of our kids, future generations and in terms of climate change, the very well-being of the planet.
01:29So today we are here to say very loudly and clearly, no we will not accept an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires run the government.
01:50No we will not accept an authoritarian form of society with a president who undermines the Constitution every day and is working aggressively to take away our freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
02:17No we will not accept a society of massive economic inequalities where the very rich are becoming much richer while working families across the country struggle to put food on the table.
02:39And what we're saying today as clearly as we can, that in the richest country in the history of the world, we demand and will achieve an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just the 1%.
03:07It seems to me that before we can effectively determine the best way forward, it's important to do what is very rarely done in Congress or in the corporate media, and that is to have a frank discussion about the economic and political realities facing our country.
03:31So let's do something really radical, you ready? Let's tell the truth.