I am surprised that at the rate this is blowing up on the Internet there is very little talk of it on DKos.
Highlights —
On breaking up big banks
Daily News: Well, it does depend on how you do it, I believe. And, I’m a little bit confused because just a few minutes ago you said the U.S. President would have authority to order...
Sanders: No, I did not say we would order. I did not say that we would order. The President is not a dictator.
Daily News: Okay. You would then leave it to JPMorgan Chase or the others to figure out how to break it, themselves up. I’m not quite...
Sanders: You would determine is that, if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. And then you have the secretary of treasury and some people who know a lot about this, making that determination. If the determination is that Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan Chase is too big to fail, yes, they will be broken up.
Daily News: Okay. You saw, I guess, what happened with Metropolitan Life. There was an attempt to bring them under the financial regulatory scheme, and the court said no. And what does that presage for your program?
Sanders: It’s something I have not studied, honestly, the legal implications of that.
On imprisoning captured terrorists
When Sanders was asked, aside from Guantanamo Bay, where would he hold and interrogate a "captured ISIS commander," Sanders said:
"Actually I haven't thought about it a whole lot. I suppose, somewhere near the locale where that person was captured. The best location where that individual would be safely secured in a way that we can get information out of him."
On trade
But in his conversation with the Daily News, Sanders displayed a lack of familiarity with economic principles when he insisted the U.S. abide by "fair trade policies" wherein companies could not outsource to countries without comparatively high wages or labor protections. "I don't think it is appropriate for trade policies to say that you can move to a country where wages are abysmal, where there are no environmental regulations, where workers can't form unions," he argued, though he noted he was not anti-trade. Later, he added that the U.S. should trade only with countries where "It is roughly equivalent to the wages and environmental standards in the United States"—a bar that many trading partners would not be able to meet.
The above are just some samples. Here are some articles about the interview and the full transcript.
Vanity Fair — Bernie Sanders Admits He Isn’t Sure How to Break Up Big Banks
www.vanityfair.com/…
Washington Post — This New York Daily News interview was pretty close to a disaster for Bernie Sanders
www.washingtonpost.com/…
CNN — Sanders feeling media heat after new interview
www.cnn.com/…
The Atlantic — How Much Does Bernie Sanders Know About Policy?
www.theatlantic.com/...
Original interview and transcript
www.nydailynews.com/…
Audio — for those who want to actually hear it