Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), making his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, got a very warm reception on Thursday's Jimmy Kimmel Live. "They still love you," Kimmel said.
Sanders said he couldn't watch former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on Wednesday, but the bottom-line "message from Mueller is that the Russians intervened in the campaign in 2016, they are still intervening, and we've got to stop that. Whatever your political view is, you want to make sure that the election in the United States is controlled by the people this country, not the Russians or anybody else." Kimmel said "that seems very obvious and it seems like something that would be embraced by both parties, but it can't even get a vote in the Senate. Republicans have stopped it twice today." Sanders agreed and said the Senate is broken and owned by greedy powerful monied interests.
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