 The so-called controversy surrounding Bernie Sanders' comments on Cuba with regard to their literacy program and health care, it's not really a controversy. This is a manufactured thing that the media is using to try to beat Bernie Sanders over the head with. And it's the same thing that we saw with the Culinary Union. There was this gigantic swarm of attacks from Bernie Sanders supporters on the Culinary Union. Meanwhile, actual Bernie Sanders supporters like myself don't know what they're talking about. And on election day, Culinary Workers ended up caucusing for Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly. So once again, the media is trying to go out of their way to make something out of nothing because, I don't know how to convince you, they're desperate, right? But this is what's expected from the media. What's not expected is members of the DNC to join the dog pile that we're seeing on Bernie Sanders. Why? Because the DNC is supposed to be neutral. But here we have the spokesperson for the DNC piling on and residing the same exact talking points we've been seeing mainstream news pundits use all week to attack Bernie Sanders. He win when he praises Fidel Castro. Well, I'll let Bernie Sanders speak for his comments, but we are very clear in the Democratic Party that we speak out against brutal dictatorships like those of Castro. And we support the people of Cuba fleeing Cuba under that dictatorship. And we have been very clear as a party when it comes to that. I encourage all of these candidates, whether it be Bernie Sanders or anyone on that debate stage tonight, to go to Florida, talk to people in Florida, listen to their stories, listen to what they went through. And I think any candidate would benefit from that. And that is what is part of this primary. You need to go and appeal to a broad coalition of people. And I think that that will be relayed on Super Tuesday. Listen, I'm going to let Senator Sanders speak for himself. But what I do know is that he's bad and maybe you shouldn't vote for him. Maybe you should vote for anyone but Bernie Sanders, particularly Bloomberg, since he donated $300,000 to us. What was the question? I mean, this is what we're seeing. This is not acceptable. If you're part of the DNC and she didn't name Bernie Sanders specifically, she tried to make it seem as if she was saying her own thing. But I mean, we know what's happening here. Now, Tom Perez, the chairman of the DNC, who I'll remind you is supposed to remain neutral during primary processes, is going to say the same exact thing, almost literally. Well, listen, Chuck, I will let Senator Sanders and any candidate who speaks up on an issue speak for themselves on those particular issues. What I'll say about this is the Democratic Party has been very clear in its opposition to authoritarian leaders. This is very personal for me, Chuck. My family came to this country from the Dominican Republic. They had to flee a brutal dictator. They got kicked out, quite frankly. And I can't look at and nor can Dominicans look at the Trujillo regime and see anything but an authoritarian leader and an authoritarian era where human rights were not on the table. And Cubans and Venezuelans and people who fled Marcos from the Philippines and elsewhere see it the same way. And I think what's really important from this is to make sure that all the candidates travel, whether it's Florida to talk to Venezuelan Americans or Dominicans or Cubans and listen to those stories because those stories are very similar to my own story. What is abundantly clear are two things. The Democratic Party has been very clear in standing up to authoritarian regimes. And this president hasn't. Why he continues to send love letters to North Korea is beyond me. Why he continues to be Putin's poodle is beyond me. We're less safe because of that. Now, of course, you had to throw in some McCarthyist hysteria. He's used that Putin's poodle line before. And whenever he says that, it makes me die a little bit inside each time because it is genuinely cringe-worthy because he's trying to be like funny or witty and more personable. But it's just it's not endearing. Like you have to stop. And I don't know if you caught this, but when I watched this, the one thing that stood out to me is that how, hmm, it must have been a coincidence. But they seem to be saying the same exact things using the same exact talking points. Literally. I mean, did you both rehearse this in front of a mirror? Did you send out a memo to everyone in the DNC? We see what you're doing here. I know that you think you're being clever by saying, well, like Bernie Sanders speaks for himself, but, you know, as a party, you know, this institution, we speak out unequivocally against authoritarianism. Is that so? Then why was the last president selling weapons to Saudi Arabia? Barack Obama, if I'm remembering correctly, was a Democrat, correct? Now, we'll put that aside and get back to Barack Obama, but just think about the argument that they're making. It's idiotic. They're literally saying, we will not allow for nuance. You don't get to, you know, say anything positive about the Cuban regime. All that we will allow is condemnation and criticism. You don't get to speak on their healthcare system and how it's actually better than ours. You don't get to speak about how they have a 100% literacy rate. No, don't say anything about that because they're a bad regime. And the narrative currently is that Cuba bad and don't ever congratulate them for anything that they do except in actuality. That's not really the narrative. The narrative is Bernie bad and anything Bernie says is bad and whatever we can possibly do to hurt him. That's what we're going to do. Now, circling back to Barack Obama, Obama said the same exact thing that Bernie Sanders said. Identical. He said that they have a good healthcare system and they've been successful at increasing literacy. That's not really controversial. You can condemn every other element about the regime, but to simply point out that these elements of the Cuban regime have been successful. To deny that is to deny reality. As Bernie Sanders said during his CNN Town Hall, the truth is the truth. So the fact that they're trying to manufacture controversy out of this, it just shows how desperate they are. You can almost smell the desperation through the television screens because they just want to look for any and all possible things that they can use against Bernie Sanders because they have nothing. They've been fear mongering about Bernie's electability by claiming that there's this opposition research that would be devastating to Bernie Sanders that would sink its campaign. Except where is it? We haven't seen anything. It's almost like you guys don't have shit and you're bluffing and you are grasping its straws here. Now, the website now, this compiled comments from both Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama and it shows how they said the exact same thing. And I think that look, if you're going to condemn Obama and say that he was also wrong here, then that's fine. But really what we're seeing is a double standard. Take a look. That's a huge achievement. They should be congratulated. They did not condemn what they did. And we condemn that. I said this to President Castro in Cuba. I said, look, you've made great progress in educating young people. Every child in Cuba gets a basic education. That's a huge improvement from where it was. Medical care. The life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States despite it being a very poor country because they have access to health care. They should be congratulated. We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba. But you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know, when Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did a lot of dissidents imprisoned in Cuba. That's right. And we condemn that. You also have a track record of expressing sympathy for socialist governments in Cuba and in Nicaragua. Can Americans trust that a democratic socialist president will not give authoritarians a free pass? I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world. Of course, you have a dictatorship in Cuba. What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba. You've made great progress in educating- He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? That Cuba made progress on education. Yes, I think really, really- Literacy programs are bad. What Barack Obama said is they made great progress on education and health care. They have access to health care. That's a huge achievement. They should be congratulated. Barack Obama was abroad. He was in a town meeting. He did not in any way suggest that there was anything positive about the Cuban government. And I said this to President Castro in Cuba. I said, look, you've made great progress in educating young people. He acknowledged that they did increase life expectancy. They have access to health care. That's a huge achievement. They should be congratulated. But he went on and condemned the dictatorship. He went on and condemned the people who in fact had run that committee. The fact of the matter is he in fact does not, did not, has never embraced an authoritarian regime and does not now. This man said that in fact he thought it was, he did not condemn what they did. That is untrue, categorically untrue. What did you tell him? We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba. There's a lot of dissidents imprisoned in Cuba. That's right. And we condemn that. I have condemned authoritarianism, whether it is the people in Saudi Arabia that the United States government has won. Cuba, Nicaragua. Cuba, Nicaragua. Authoritarianism of any stripe is bad. Period. But that is different than saying that governments occasionally do things that are good. Occasionally it might be good idea to be honest about American foreign policy. And that includes the fact that America has overthrown governments all over the world in Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran. And when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans do something good, you acknowledge that. But you don't have trade love lessons with them. This is 2020. Yeah. Now when Obama said the same exact thing as Bernie Sanders, the collective response from the media and the DNC members of the Democratic Party was as follows. That's right. It's because this isn't about Cuba. This isn't about authoritarianism. This isn't about Fidel Castro. This is about Bernie Sanders surging. Bernie Sanders being the front runner and them using whatever they can possibly use to attack him. And it seems as if they kind of realize that now the writings on the wall, he may be unstoppable, but maybe if they can hurt him in Florida, maybe if they can hurt him in Nevada by trying to pit him against the culinary union, maybe just maybe they can bring him down a few notches, maybe open the door for someone like Mike Bloomberg or Joe Biden to get in there and, you know, win over him or at least get enough delegates to steal it from him at the convention. But here's the thing. We know exactly what you're doing. And I don't know how many people this is going to resonate with. But I think that most average Americans know that you guys are all desperate. You've shown your cards like the just sheer volume of anti Bernie hysteria on MSNBC on Saturday alone. The day of the Nevada caucus was enough to really show even the most casual political observer that you all don't care about anything but stopping Bernie Sanders. I think that you've overplayed your hand here. And look, we're just going to shift from this to a different controversy because in the span of one week, we've went from Bernie hates a pack to Russia wants to help Bernie to Cuba. And this was after the Bernie bro myth and the culinary union. So there's going to be a new set of scandals next week, possibly more by the end of this week. But understand these aren't actually scandals. These are manufactured controversies to try to stop Bernie Sanders at all costs. But guess what? Maybe too late for you guys seems like you're just going to have to accept that Bernie is likely going to be the Democratic Party's nominee. And maybe you should unite behind him and definitely vote Blu no matter who this November.