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In an interview with Bernie Sanders on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie worried that the Democratic presidential candidate’s criticism of frontrunner Hillary Clinton was similar to Donald Trump’s latest line of attack: “Donald Trump is test driving a new nickname for Hillary Clinton, ‘crooked Hillary.’ Maybe he uses fewer words, but have you been making the same argument against her?”
She continued: “Essentially saying, because she accepts money from big corporate interests, she can't possibly adequately or ethically represent the middle class?” Sanders replied: “Donald Trump is very brilliant by coming up with statements that you guys respond to. That’s an ugly statement. What I have said is that – regarding Secretary Clinton – what I have said is we have a corrupt campaign finance system in which billionaires and the wealthy – ”