was lamar alexander threatening to jack slap somebody into next tuesday? >> senator sanders: not in a million years. look, trump has helped foment right-wing extremism and disrespect, i think, for a lot of things. and you're seeing more of that, not only in the congress, you're seeing it in state legislatures, people saying outrageous things, doing outrageous things. you're seeing people sending out christmas cards posing with massive numbers of weapons. i think we are moving in a bad direction, and i hope very much we can turn that around because stephen, what i do want to tell you as someone who's had the opportunity to run for president and has been to every state in the country and this is the truth, there are decent people all over the place, people who love this country and want to see us do well who are sick and tired of this very bitter partisanship and the kind of hatred that we are seeing today. we've got to bring this people to stand up and reclaim our country. [applause] >> stephen: senator sanders, thank you so much for being here. "it's okay