["Disco Inferno" by The Trammps]

[singing] Burn, baby, burn

Burn, baby, burn

Burn, baby, burn

To my surprise

one hundred stories high

[clapping]

- Oh, you came out here dancing, Bernie.

That's fantastic.

[cheers and applause]

That's wonderful.

Thanks for being here.

- And thank you for the very positive energy

you provide to the American people.

- Thank you so much for saying that, um--

[cheers and applause]

A lot of people like you a lot.

A lot of people are talking about you

and like you a whole lot, and I'll tell you

I think what you said about Hillary and the emails--

you said, "This may not be political,"

and I think that's the exact thing

that people are sick of is people being political.

I think people just need to hear

you say what you feel.

- I-I think that's absolutely right.

[cheers and applause]

- And--and I-I think, Ellen, you--you know,

you hit the nail on the head,

and I will tell you, I have been

in many, many campaigns in my political life

and I'm very proud to say I have never run

a negative political ad in my entire life.

And I've been attacked a whole lot.

- Yeah, and I love that about you.

because I don't think-- and it was mentioned

during the debate-- that the Republican debates

would not have gone this way.

There's a lot of attacking, a lot of bullying.

and I love the fact that it was very positive.

I don't understand how we can have

that extreme wealth and have--

and--and how the middle class is disappearing.

I-I grew up very lower-middle class--very.

Um, and I had no money, I didn't have connections

to get into the-- I worked really hard

for 25 years, and I've earned my money

by working really, really hard coming from middle class.

I think that people should be able

to earn money and to keep their money

and still help everybody else that are less fortunate.

But I don't know why the middle class

is disappearing, and I don't know why--

I understand you're saying there's loopholes,

but there should be enough money that--

that helps everybody down--

- And let me give you my opinion.

Others will disagree.

What we're up against is-- you would think

that if one was making billions of dollars,

that might be enough to take care of your family,

and your kids, right, and your grandchildren.

But you have, in corporate America today,

you have incredible greed.

I don't know what they--when they think enough is enough.

They want more and more and more.

So you have multi-billionaires right now

contributing money to can--to candidates

and what these candidates are doing on--

at the behest of the billionaires

is say, "Let's cut social security."

You talk about healthcare for all?

They want to throw millions of people

off of healthcare and repeal the Affordable Care Act.

They want to cut nutrition programs

at a time when millions of families

are struggling to put food on the table.

They want to cut nutrition programs

for pregnant women and little babies.

Now, I can't explain to you the mentality of somebody

who wants to do that.

Especially people who have so much money--why?

But that's the kind of greed mentality...

- Yeah. - That we're fighting.

- I don't understand it either, and all of these people,

I assume have children and grandchildren.

And you talk about not only the nutrition,

but, again, climate change and we are--

we need to think about the future for our kids.

And I don't understand that mentality either.

Uh, we're gonna take a break

uh, because we're running long, but I could talk to you

for a long time.

You--you are a-- you are such a unique guy

and I think that's why people are responding to you.

- Thank you very much. - Um, that was an awkward--

like, Trump-like hand-- what is this?

[laughter]

That was so awkward.

Um, what happened to us there?

Here's let's do-- - All right, all right.

- Give me a high-five or something.

Um, so--

[cheers and applause]

Um, but I do think-- I think that's why people

are responding to you because, uh, you're--

you're not like the politicians

that people are used to, uh, hearing,

and you are saying things that are--is resonating

to, uh, to a lot of people.