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Bernie Sanders at People’s Climate March: To Stop Global Warming, Get Dirty Money Out of Politics

Speaking at the People’s Climate March in New York City, Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses a potential 2016 presidential run and how getting money out of politics is critical to addressing the climate crisis.

Speaking at the People’s Climate March in New York City, independent Senator Bernie Sanders discusses a potential 2016 presidential run and how getting money out of politics is critical to addressing the climate crisis. “[President Obama] can and should do more,” Sanders says. “But the major impediment right now is not Obama, it is the Republican Party. We have to call them out on this. We don’t do it enough. These are people who do not even acknowledge the scientific reality because they are beholden to Big Energy money and the Koch brothers.”

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