 For someone who just had a heart attack last week Bernie Sanders looks absolutely incredible in fact He looks radiant like he looks like he's doing really well So if you were worried about his health just seeing him in action I mean that should assure you that he's gonna be okay And when I first saw him, you know do post heart attack interviews I could see that he looked great However, if you are a CNN graphics editor, then you don't necessarily want to make Bernie Sanders look good So maybe you go out of your way to make him look worse Maybe you photoshop blemishes on his face in red spots Or maybe you up the saturation and literally change the color hue of your video to make him look more red than he is in actuality Because it kind of seems like that's what CNN did and as someone who edits videos on a daily basis I'll tell you that we are constantly trying to adjust the contrast Adjust the hue to make the videos appear more natural and to make them more crisp make the colors pop more, right? Um, so you're not going to put out a video without adjusting these things if you're a professional I mean amateur sure, but for a multi-billion dollar company like CNN to put out You know a video where Bernie Sanders almost looks purple that is incredibly embarrassing Now I have no evidence that CNN did this intentionally But you know if they didn't do this intentionally Then they should still be embarrassed because to have a candidate look like he's purple like an alien I mean if my camera was producing these types of colors I would definitely want to adjust that so it looks more natural especially if you use it all the time I mean every other news broadcast ap for example The colors looked fine because if you are a professional if you're in this field Then why wouldn't you want things to look good? So, you know, it just looks really suspect like I don't have evidence to confirm that this is what CNN in fact did They haven't responded to accusations that they adjusted the color But um, you know to do this in an insidious way to maybe prime your viewers to think that He's more sick than he is there's something really like Gross about that and look I'll be perfectly honest when I am adjusting thumbnails with Donald Trump's image You know, maybe I'll go a little overboard on the saturation to make him look a little bit more orange than he is in reality Um, but that's just me being a dick like if I am talking about someone's health I'm not going to go out of my way to disingenuously make them look more sick because there's something just really gross About that right making fun of someone and making them orange is one thing But we're talking about Bernie Sanders and his health people are going to be looking at him They're going to have him under a microscope, you know, they're going to looking at be looking at his skin tone his color the way he talks And you know CNN probably was cognizant of this fact and maybe they did maybe they didn't either way This is either amateur or them going out of their way to make him look bad intentionally And um, either way, it's not good for CNN now on top of that weird little controversy Um, there's also been some talk of Bernie Sanders potentially winding down the campaign altogether So he said something to the effect of I'll be doing less campaign events And now there are reports of him scaling back the campaign And look here's the thing about that Bernie Sanders Is not scaling back the campaign in so far as you know, he's winding it down He's going to be exiting soon What he meant when he said that and why, you know, CNN omits the context here is frustrating But we know why they're doing it what he meant was look I'm just going to campaign as much as other candidates not more because if you're doing four rallies per day You are doing probably double than other candidates So by just running a campaign that is comparable, you know, that puts you at parity with your opponents that makes sense But they're trying to make it seem as if oh, he's sick. He's exiting Um, so in an interview with CNN, he kind of cleared up all of the confusion And I want to play what he had to say. He also kind of talked about the heart attack And um, you know, I think this is important. So, uh, here is Bernie Sanders talking to CNN I want to clarify something you said that you misspoke yesterday when talking about changing the nature of your campaign Dialing it back not doing four rallies a day anymore. What did you mean? Did you misspeak or are you going to dial it back? Well, what I mean is probably next week. I'm not going to do four rallies a day I think I've done more rallies than any other candidate Who's currently running for president of the united states, but I'm feeling great and we're going to run a vigorous campaign Uh, we're working on our schedule right now, which is going to take us to Iowa Uh, to Nevada Uh, probably back to New Hampshire. We're ready to go full blast You had had a doctor's appointment. Uh, I believe this week in a follow-up appointment now back here in Vermont What do they what do they tell you? Well, the reason I have been blessed with such good health throughout my entire life to be honest with you I've never gone to a cardiologist. I don't think you know before this event Uh, and I didn't have one here in burlington. So we found a very good cardiologist. Uh, they did a, uh, a You know, they they looked at my heart Uh, and what he says the recovery is going very very well and we look forward to a full recovery The the echocardiogram was with echocardiogram That which is an important test and echocardiogram tells the function of the heart How well the heart is beating and can also give some indication of how severe the heart attack was What did they tell you? Well, what they told me is that, uh, that We are on the road to a full recovery. There was some damage But what happens is As within the next month, we'll see what happens Uh, but so far so very good. There's there's a video of you actually swinging a baseball That was this swinging a bat. Uh trying to keep up with my grandchild. That is very exhausting I must tell you I it's almost a silly question to ask how you're feeling because you you you said that you feel great The god's truth is that if you You're sitting there and you said bernie. Did you have a heart attack last week? I said, what are you talking about? I feel great Uh, I'm not an ounce of pain. You know, I've been walking around a whole lot playing ball for kids Uh, so, you know, I feel very good and I'm confident that we're going to be Running a very very vigorous campaign. But what I would say I don't know if you wanted to talk about this is what I do kick myself a little bit about And I hope people understand this and hear this Is that I should have paid more attention To some of the symptoms that were occurring You know when you do four rallies a day and you run all over the country, you get tired everybody would get tired But I was more tired than I usually Have been Had more trouble sleeping than ordinarily Occasionally I'd be up there at the podium and I feel a little bit unsteady Uh And you know one time I was just lifting literally holding the mic up to my arm and my arm hurt My up to my mouth and my arm hurt and and I should have paid more attention to those symptoms So I hope that people learn from my mistake I mean such an important point the symptoms that you're describing may not be classic sort of symptoms about left arm pain Some of this stuff were indicators in retrospect. How long had you had symptoms, senator? I think probably It's hard to say, you know, because as I said when you're running around the country and you work on hard You're tired. Well, what else does know you're going to be tired? I would say several weeks any help and I should have paid more attention So that clarification was incredibly important, but I'll be honest. I don't know that that's going to be enough to sufficiently qualifiers that he's scaling back the campaign because he's deathly sick I mean he had a heart attack that was that was serious, but like He's doing okay. You saw him in the video. He looked good. His color in that video to CNN's credit was natural It looked like the skin tone of a human being and not an alien But um, you know, we'll just have to see it seems like his poll numbers were definitely affected by this negatively Although today, you know, his poll numbers ticked up a little bit So it's just too early to tell all I know is that we have to go As bernie sanders supporters and put in extra hours work over time to make sure That we communicate to people that bernie sanders isn't going anywhere Now the problem is that, you know, sometimes once a narrative gets out there and it spreads It's really difficult to change it. So we just have to do the best that we can Now on top of that, he assured us that he is in very good health And you know, you can see that right? He assures us that he's in good health But you can also see it like if someone was lying about their health I think you'd be able to tell and he also had a really important message about, you know Looking at the warning signs when it comes to your health If you feel as if you're fatigued if you feel as if, you know, you're not in good health And maybe you're just not up to what you usually are when it comes to energy Go to the doctor, you know, don't wait until you end up having a heart attack Don't wait until it is a medical emergency get checked out see a doctor But you know, the thing about this is that's not necessarily realistic because people do know that they have health issues They see the warning signs, but they can't go to a doctor because they don't have health insurance Or maybe they do but they can't afford the copay or, you know, they need a procedure But they can't afford the money for, you know, the deductible to meet that So, you know, it's not so easy to just say pay attention to the warning signs and see a doctor And the thing about Bernie Sanders is he gets this he's not just saying that ignorantly Hey, go see a doctor if you need to he acknowledges the reality in America that many people They can't pay attention to the warning signs or if they do they can't do shit about it because We live in a system that is run by private insurance companies That just want to make money off of you and they make money off of you by denying you care So he put out a video on his youtube channel where he kind of elaborated about How this heart attack got him thinking even more clearly about medicare for all And it kind of Reignited that spark that he had not that it ever went out, but it really made him, you know Put everything into perspective and he thought what if I Didn't have health insurance how this could have turned out would have been completely different And I want to share what he said because I think it's really important and it shows that Even in times of crisis. He never stops thinking about normal americans Let me take this opportunity to thank people from all over the country For their love Their kind wishes, and I just can't tell you how much it has meant To jane and to me and to our whole family And I also want to say that I am feeling great I'm getting my endurance back And I look forward to getting on on the campaign trail as soon as possible But let me relay to you just kind of an experience that I had Lying in a hospital bed in Las Vegas after the heart attack And I thought about a lot of things needless to say but one of the things that just went through my brain Is what would have happened if I did not have The good health insurance that I have I have both blue cross and blue shield through my Job in the senate and then I have medicare as well So what happens if somebody had no health insurance who felt the pain in his or her chest Or felt really sick And said to themselves do I really want to go to the doctor or the hospital? Because I don't have tens of thousand dollars to pay For the medical bills and I'm going to incur how many people are in that position How many people have died because they don't get to the doctor the hospital when they should And it made me feel even more strongly the need for us to continue our efforts to end This dysfunctional and cruel health care system which leaves So many people uninsured under insured Causes bankruptcy Lowers credit scores for people who owe medical debt. It is an insane wasteful bureaucratic System based on the greed of the health care industry. So I got to tell you But even as I sat and lied down in that hospital bed in Las Vegas This issue of the struggle that we are engaged in Just you know permeated my mind And I want all of you to understand that the day is going to come when 20 years from now 30 years now you're going to be talking to your kids And you're going to be talking to your grandchildren And looking back and say you know what I was involved in that struggle That finally brought health care to all Americans as a human right. That's what we're trying to do So be proud of the efforts that we're making understand The enormous opposition that we're facing from the drug companies and the insurance companies But we are going to win this struggle history is on our side Function of health care is quality care for all not billions in profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies Look, I give Bernie Sanders credit. That is someone who is just genuinely a good person He never stops thinking about others. He never stops thinking about people who are less fortunate, right? And he's imperfect. He's not you know, the best politician perhaps ever I don't agree with him 100% on every single thing But you can tell you know, what's evident to me about bernie Is that he has a good heart and he's genuinely trying to affect change In a positive way and to really use his heart attack To try to be an even stronger advocate for the less fortunate and push even harder for medicare for all Coming from a place of you know knowledge of what it's like to suffer You know a health crisis it just it shows me why we need to fight for him and look i'll say this This could hurt him You know long term this heart attack. We have no ideas too early But i'm not going to try to predict how this will affect his campaign This is what I will say to you if you want bernie to be president You fight for it. You don't just say man. I hope that this doesn't affect him You fight for bernie sanders. You fight for it. If you want something you have to go and get it We see elizabeth warren overtaking joe biden in the polls, although he just overtook her again But you know, we see that they're neck and neck and bernie sanders is starting to fall Don't just stand idly by while that happens There is how many months until uh, iowa. So it's almost November we're in mid-october. So what we have three months That's a lot of time where things can change and you know with every action comes a reaction. So if you Fight for bernie sanders that can actually have an effect and we need more and more people to do that So don't just worry about how this will affect him Actively fight to make sure it doesn't hurt him and not just that this doesn't hurt him Like we want him to excel make the electability argument that he can be donald trump You know, um, we have to go out of our way more so than ever now To defend bernie sanders and get him elected because if we want something like, you know Student debt cancellation medical debt cancellation medicare for all He's the one candidate who's going to bring about that type of change So if you want that you've got to fight for it and you know, we're gonna blame ourselves if 30 years down the line, we don't get a president bernie sanders. We're gonna look back to this moment and think man I really really wish i fought harder. I wish i could have done more. So all i'm saying is Don't kick yourself later use this moment And capitalize on it fight so that way even if we lose You know, you you know, you've assured yourself that you did everything you possibly could to get bernie sanders elected