change. we can do that by transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels to an energy efficiency in such sustainable energies as wind solar, geothermal and biomass. [ applause ] brothers and sisters, the united states of america -- >> you've been watching senator bernie sanders officially launching his presidential campaign talking a lot about income inequality. we'll have more on this and what it means for hillary clinton ahead. but we start with breaking news from a city at the center of the defining civil rights issue of our time. the policing of america's community, the cleveland police department today submitting to some of the strongest standards

in the nation in a potentially historic agreement with the justice department. >> today, may 26 2015 marks a new way of policing in the city of cleveland. >> disagreement is not riding around in a convertible with tan. this is hard work stuff. >> and today's agreement really should serve as a model for those seeking to address similar issues in their communities around the country. >> the agreement puts in place an independent monitor to track the department civilian oversight of internal investigations and new rules spelling out precisely when officers can use force and when they can't. the agreement follows a two-year justice department investigation that began after a controversial police shooting left two people dead in 2012. it involved 62 police vehicles

chasing a car that had backfired because police thought it was gunfire. they eventually loaded 137 shots in that car. officer michael brelow was charged with manslaughter after he climbed on to the hood of the car. all together he fired 49 times. this weekend the judge ruled it isn't clear the victims died from his specific gunshots and acquitted the officer for a fourth straight day demonstrators took to the street protesting the ruling. ♪ >> cleveland has also seen other high-profile cases, including the deadly shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice. today's announcement won't bring back those lives or right those

wrongs, but it could help prevent some of the worst abuses in the future. joining me now are cleveland city councilman jeffrey johnson and william yoem answer who served as acting attorney general for civil rights in the justice department. thank you both for being here. >> pleasure. >> thanks for having me reverend al. >> councilman let me go to you first. i'll be in cleveland this friday keynoting a real for the clergy and meeting with members of the community. what is the mood in cleveland right now? >> well right now it's a mixed emotions, reverend al. we're looking forward to having you back in cleveland. you know today's decision of how the agreement was going to timely be signed off by matter jackson, you know, there were some concerns about that. we're very happy with what has come for the with an agreement

and we're still upset about what happened with the officer brelow. we hoped that he would at least have been charged with felonious assault. we're still angry and in the streets about that. tamir rice and taneisha anderson, whether or not the cops will be charged, we're still waiting. mindful of what happened with the agreement but still realize there's still cases pending that we have to continue to fight for. >> one of the questions, councilman, that was raised to me is if the judge felt there was no evidence of where his shots went and that he could have feared for his life would someone jump on the hood of a car if they thought the people in the car were shooting at them? >> exactly. there was no evidence -- i sat through the trial. the expert said what he did to jump on that hood was just unacceptable police behavior and

it goes against, you know common sense to say that i'm fearing for my life but yet ime i'll jump within a couple of feet from you and then start shooting. it didn't make sense. the judge obviously wanted to exonerate this officer and found the way he could do it but it didn't make sense to us. >> william, what's your response to this agreement? let's go back to the agreement between cleveland and the justice department. what's your response to the agreement? >> well, i think it's an extraordinary agreement. it's extremely comprehensive. it's 105 pages long and covers almost every aspect of policing and it's a very ambitious agreement. it sets out to remake both the culture and the way that -- the culture of the cleveland police department and the way it operates and establishes extraordinary procedures that will impose supervision and accountability and retraining and also goes out of its way to take i think very positive steps to try to promote community

involvement in policing and in police decision-making. it establishes a citizens police commission that i think is very positive, and, of course it establishes a monitor and it will be implemented under court supervision, so it's extremely important, but i hasten to add that it is only the first step. this is going to be a long long effort to implement this decree and to make it work as it should, and it's going to require a lot of determination from the justice department to stay after its enforcement. it's going to require determination from the monitor, and it's going to require a court that really wants to see this through to the end. so it's a really positive start, but it's a start. >> councilman johnson, the new use of force rules prohibit officers according to this settlement agreed upon today, it would prohibit officers from striking suspects with guns

using force during verbal arguments, using neck holds and using force without probable cause. how important are these new rules, and why weren't some of these already in place? >> well they are critical because of the investigation by the department of justice shows that that happened over hundreds of times. the retaliatory reaction when someone runs from an officer or they finally catch him and how they retaliate. we felt that up until -- up until the point that they should have known not to do that anyway. >> right. >> but with the department of justice, with the federal court,ed with the monitor, we've got to break the culture. you know the police union is very powerful in cleveland, and we've got to break the culture and make them change and one way is to make examples. one way is to try to try this and enforce this and getting rid of these people of criminal

behavior and convicting them. >> overs michael brelow's case is still being reviewed with the city review panel and the fbi and the department of justice. what might come out of this? >> the department of justice will look at the evidence that went in and decide whether there's more investigation that needs to be done but it bears repeating that the prosecution for civil rights violations is a very high standard not unsurmountable but the government has a burden of showing that officer brelo acted with a specific intent to use more force than was reasonable necessary under the circumstances. it -- it's possible that that could happen. it's not something that can be counted on. >> now, councilman, tamir rice you mentioned, that's the 12-year-old that was shot with the toy gun seconds after police arrived. his mother talked about how police didn't even give her son

first aid until medically trained personnel arrived. listen to this. >> i noticed the police was just standing around and wasn't doing anything, and, again, i arrived at the same time that the ambulance did so again, i just noticed them. they wasn't doing anything. >> now today's agreement councilman states that quote, officers will provide emergency first aid until professional medical care providers are on scene. does this speak to how the new rules are tailored to cleveland's specific situations? >> absolutely. you know for us to be able to first of all, see this young man, this boy being killed by the officer and then for them to stand around it reflected a callousness t.reflected that -- an us versus then an occupying force mentality, and what we're hoping with the doj and with

this consent decree that not only do we set the rules but we enforce the rules and we change the way police believe that their role particularly within the minority community and the city of cleveland. we need them to be more compassionate and impassioned to every citizen in cleveland, not just a few. >> i think you're right to say now that the enforcement and the process going forward is what is important as we still see what will happen in the federal investigation on brelo as well as the tamir rice case. i must commend though the protests have been peaceful and very very passionate but not violent, and i'll be there on friday in that spirit. councilman jeffrey johnson and william yeomans, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you, reverend al. appreciate it. also today in omaha thousands paid respects to a hero police officer, a real hero, killed in the line of

duty. officer kyrieorsey kerrie orozco was laid to rest hours before she was about to begin maternity leave. her 3-month-old daughter was born premature and now she along with her two siblings face a future without their mom. as we face issues of policing in america we must always remember the dangers they face in the line of duty. coming up we're following historic flooding in houston. officials just spoke on the search and recovery for at least 16 missing. also tonight, bernie sanders just officially launched his run for president so what does it mean for hillary clinton? plus first lady michelle obama just gave another personal and powerful graduation speech. is something going on here?

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officials just spoke about the historic flooding in houston, texas. right now the search is on for at least 16 missing. teenager alissa ramirez was on the way back from her high school prom over the weekend when she lost her life. her car was swept away. she was the homecoming queen. the school's superintendent joins me to remember alissa next. try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews.

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our thoughts and prayers are with the families and the communities that have been affected by some of these devastating record-breaking floods. i assured governor abbott that he could count on the help of the federal government. >> president obama today pledging his support to the people of texas where catastrophic floods have brought cities like houston to a complete stand still. 14 people are dead across oklahoma and texas and at least 16 more are reported missing. moments ago houston's mayor and the texas governor gave an

update on the damage. >> we have 1,000 properties that we visually inspected. we believe that there may be as many as 4,000 with significant damage. >> i've seen hurricanes. i've seen tropical storm allison and i've seen this. this and tropical storm allison were the worst two flooding situations i've seen. >> trucks and cars were left stranded completely submerged under water. in houston hundreds of fans took refuge overnight in a basketball arena after the rockets/warriors game, the driving on the way home treacherous and concern we could see even more flooding with severe weather expect throughout the week. joining me now is former congressman chris bell a houston resident who was hit hard by the floods overnight. congressman, first of all, tell me what you saw last night.

>> well it was a very long night, reverend. it started around midnight when we realized cars were on the street and the water was coming up very quickly and we needed to try to move them but then realized it was coming too fast and they couldn't be moved, and then just maybe 30 45 minutes later the water was coming into the house. we had to -- luckily we were able to move upstairs and put some things out of the way of the water hope that it would subside rather quickly but it didn't, and we ended up -- the estimate today was that we got somewhere around 10 inches in a very short period of time. we got probably about three feet of water inside our house, and the cars that i mentioned earlier were completely submerged all night long. >> how badly were your neighbors' homes hit? >> everybody, we live on a killed sack there are about seven.

several have been hit three times over the last couple of years. they built their homes higher and others are basically at ground level but we've lived in the same home for five years and have never had a problem and interestingly we just had a major drainage project in the neighborhood and we thought that that would probably solve the problems, but it didn't. and some of the neighbors had had a more horrific experience than we did. the people right across the street were fearful that if they opened their front door they didn't know what would happen so they ended up having to crawl out a window and get over to a neighbor's home that was a little bit higher up so it was a very frightening evening for everyone. >> former congressman chris bell, stay safe. our prayers are with you and with the people of texas. >> thanks a lot, reverend. we appreciate it. one of the victims in this flooding, a young woman who was driving home from her program, 18-year-old alissa ramirez was killed just two miles from home

when floodwaters swept her car away. she was student council president and had been crowned homecoming queen. joining me now on the phone is linda mcnelly superintendent for divine independent schools. she lived across the road from alissa ramirez. linda, first of all, thank you for being here tonight. >> yes, sir, thank you. >> and our condolences to you and certainly her family and all of her friends. tell us what you can share about alissa the type of person she was. >> she was fabulous sir. she was full of life full of joy, loved god, loved her friends, wonderful smile, great student, great athlete, just -- just the kind of student that any superintendent would want tons of them in his or her school. just a fabulous young person.

>> what kind of plans did alissa have for the future do you know? >> i do. she was actually going to attend university of texas in san antonio, and i believe she was going into either ophthalmology or i believe it was the field of ophthalmology. >> how is the community responding to the loss of this young woman? >> well we're heartbroken. we share the parent's grief. we loved the ramirez family and loved alissa and her older sister cynthia and her younger brother and we're a commune of faith and join each other in support and in love with them. you know there's just so many people reaching out to them in the small ways that we can, but we hope that those are ways that show our expressions of love for them. >> linda mcanelly, certainly, again, thanks for sharing your

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it's official. moments ago independent senator bernie sanders kicked off his presidential campaign in his hometown of burlington vermont. >> i am proud to announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america. today with your support and the support of millions of people throughout our country we begin a political revolution to transform our country economically politically, socially and environmentally. >> he's the only other candidate officially challenging clinton for the democratic nomination. there's no question his campaign is a long shot but one of the biggest possible effects of the sanders race is pulling hillary to the left and already we've

seen hints of that on the campaign trail. >> the deck is still stacked for those at the top. people are not getting a fair shake. the 25 rich et hedge fund managers make more together than all kindergarten teachers in america. the deck is stacked for those at the top, and i am running a campaign that's very clearly stating we want to reshuffle that deck. >> you could call it the bernie effect. and we could be hearing a lot more of it. joining me now from burlington vermont, is msnbc's steve karnacky and also with us the "boston globe's" political editor sheer center and democratic strategist jamal. thanks for all being here. >> thanks reverend. >> steve, were you there for the announcement. what kind of response did he get? >> like you said his hometown

and a good response. they had free ben & jerry's ice cream, another reason to come out here but it was a very impressive turnout and it speaks to what the sanders people tell you is what the biggest trent, is the grass roots energy that he creates and feeds off politically and you talk the pressure he could maybe put on hillary clinton, well you look at first two states on the calendar in the democratic race. you look at iowa and look at new hampshire. start with iowa and the sanders message there, that populist economic message, boy, i mean, if there's a state that's tailor made for him, iowa is right at the top of the list. it's a state, a caucus activist-oriented electorate where barack obama broke through first in 2008. perhaps a red you had a krens for sanders and where do you go after iowa to new hampshire, a next door neighbor state for bernie sanders, very similar state to vermont so he knows the voters in new hampshire in a way. knows how to reach them so i think there's a bit of potential for him, at least early on in the first two states to cause some headaches for hillary

clinton. >> now he's raised a lot of money, and you have a piece out today saying don't count bernie sanders out. what are the constituents there saying? >> well, i mean what you hear -- you hear two things. first of all, you can look at his literal message, income inequality, wealth concentration, climate change, a lot of the things that he's been talking about his entire career. to the extent the base is there on those issues and has a chance of getting all those voters but the other thing you hear if you go to a bar or restaurant here in burlington, and i've heard it outside of burlington too, there is an appeal to this sense of authenticity about this guy, that there is no artifice with bernie sanders. this isn't a packaged politician, not a guy who takes focus groups and who polls everything. a guy who tells you what you think whether you like it or not, and i think that there's a potential there to connect with people who maybe aren't with bernie sanders on every issue on his check list, a potential there to reach voters who are

just frustrated, who are just fed up and can't understand why washington doesn't work these days and don't like the paralysis and gridlock in washington. i think they look at somebody like bernie sanders and he's so different in his demeanor and how he carries himself and how he speaks. so different from every other politician. i think there's a potential. >> jamal, let me push on that a little because there's a lot of talk recently about the clinton speaking fees and personal wealth. the hill had this report recently that bernie sanders' 2014 speaking gigs netted less than $2,000 and, quote, financial disclosure reports show he gave the money to a charity that helps low-income families in vermont. does this help make the case that he's more authentic, jamal? >> you know i don't know that bernie sanders needs to make a case that he's more authentic. i mean he is about as authentic as you get. both from personal style to again, as steve just talked about, a message he's had going

for a long time as being the democratic socialist in the senate. he represents a very specific part of the left of the democratic party, and he -- he's going to represent them pretty fiercely. i think the person who really he hurts in this campaign is not really hillary clinton as much but it could be martin o'malley because martin o'malley doesn't get the chance to have a one-on-one contest with hillary clinton. he's sort of dividing up a little bit more of the left parts of the democratic party so he doesn't get that head-to-head. this is bernie sanders' day, love presidential announcement days. looks like he had a pretty good one. >> sherrer we heard a lot about 2016 candidate and heard a lot of them talking about income inequality and today bernie sanders called it the great moral issue of our time. i want to play this for you. >> this grotesque level of inequality is immoral. it is bad economics. it is unsustainable. this type of rigged economy is

not what america is supposed to be about. this has got to change and as your president together we are going to change it. >> can sanders make this a central issue in 2016? >> he already making is a central issue in 2016 but he's not alone. i think it's important to remember a lot of this talk with income inequality start. it started just southeast of new hampshire in massachusetts with elizabeth warren. she's the one who really started banging this drum about income inequality in recent years, and although she's not running -- she said she has no plans and does not want to run for president -- >> didn't president obama run twice on fairness? i don't know that it started with elizabeth warren? >> i think it started in earnest with elizabeth warren. no doubt he emphasized this in his 2008 campaign and to a greater degree in his 2012 campaign, but really focusing on this issue, it's increased.

the drum beat has only gotten louder in the last couple of years since elizabeth warren started championing it. >> i guess that's a bostonian view. >> let me ask you this jamal. senator sanders has not been very critical of hillary clinton, but in a new interview he was asked if clinton can relate to working people. let me play that. >> theoretically you can be a multi-billionaire and in fact be very concerneded about the issues of working people theoretically that's true. when you hustle money like that you don't sit in restaurants like this. you sit in restaurants where you spend, i don't know hundreds of dollars on difference that's the world that you're accustomed to, and that's the world view that you adopt. i'm not going to condemn hillary and bill clinton because they made a lot of money. that type of wealth can, you know, has the potential to isolate you from the reality of the world. >> jamal, how does hillary clinton get past that perception? >> well, i think that history might prove that that's not exactly correct.

i mean the group you come from does not necessarily mean the group you fight for and hillary clinton comes from more middle class family has made a lot of money since then. think about john f. kennedy and frankling delano roosevelt. had presidents in the past who fought very hard for people struggling to get into the middle class and those already there to stay there so i think that he might not get that one quite right when it comes time for the electorate to engage. >> let's go around the horn. steve, how much impact will bernie sanders have? >> i think bernie sanders is most likely of any of the non-hillary candidates on the democratic side to give hillary fits in this democratic proses. >> shira, how much impact will he have? >> i think he could bring hillary clinton to the left. it's possible he places third or even second in iowa and new hampshire. i'm with jamal. i think the greatest impact he'll have on the race is on martin o'malley because there's a bigger ideological difference

between bernie sanders and hillary clinton than there is between hillary clinton and martin o'malley. >> jamal, the impact of bernie sanders? >> he divides up the opposition and keeps hillary clinton from having to have a head-to-head contest and allows her to come through with 50%, 55% of the vote or 48% of the vote and win all these caw south carolinaes and primaries. >> steve karnacky shira center and jamal simmons, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks. >> make sure you watch steve on "up" right here at 8:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. still ahead, first lady michelle obama gets personal again talking to graduates. it's becoming a trend. is there a political fauche ahead for her. and why this photo for instance side the white house is going viral. please stay with us.

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. have you noticed first lady michelle obama seems to be everywhere lately. she recently released her workout routine as part of her give me five challenge. she opened up about her life on the south side of chicago as the obama foundation announced its library would go there. she spent a day in detroit congratulating high school kids who got into college, and she found time to squeeze david

letterman in before his "late show" finale. we're seeing more and more of michelle obama but we're also hearing a very candid and personal side. her speech to graduates at tuskegee university got a lot of attention. >> the world won't always see you in those caps and gowns. they won't know how hard you worked and how much you sacrificed to make it to this day. my husband and i know how frustrating that experience can be. we both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives, the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores the people at formal events who assumed we were the help and those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country. >> and yesterday at overland college in ohio she spoke about

the critics that dr. martin luther king jr. and franklin delano roosevelt had to face. >> but these folks didn't let the ugliness and the obvious calls deter them. they didn't just give up and retreat to the comfortable company of like-minded folks because they understood that this is how democracy operates. it is loud and messy and it's not particularly warm and fuzzy. believe me i -- i know this from personal experience. >> and then she showed her passion for the issues that matter the most to her. >> you don't get to be precious or cautious or cynical. no, not when the earth is warming and the oceans are rising. you don't get to be cynical, not when too many young people still languish in communities ripped

apart by violence and despair, not when women still make less than men for the same work not when millions of girls across the globe never set foot inside a school. >> so is something going on here? is the first lady simply more free to work on her legacy in the final years in the white house or is it something else? could michelle obama have a political future? joining me now is allison samuels, contributing writer for "vanity fair" and author of "what would michelle do?" and mary securtis and she recently wrote about "michelle obama, the candidate." thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you, reverendal. >> mary the first lady seems to be getting more personal lately. what do you make of it? >> well michelle obama is so

many things. she's the first lady of the united states and lives in the white house, but she's this very relatable, authentic and down-to-earth person and she uses her own life as an example when she talks about america and its history and all its complexity, both the challenges of being a woman, african-american, and also the opportunities that she has embraced and her family has embraced. she's all of these things so when she tells the graduates rise above the noise and shape the revolutions of your time she certainly can inspire them by using her own life as an example. >> allison, you've written extensionvely about the first lady. she said something very interesting in her latest speech. listen to this. follow what's happening in your city hall your statehouse in washington, d.c. better yet run for office yourself. get in there. shake things up.

don't be afraid. >> allison, is there a chance she will follow her own advice? >> no. i don't think she will run for office, but i do think she will be very very active in the communities that mean so much to her, the south side of chicago and all those areas where you have children, as she mentioned, that are living in such violent communities that you know they are afraid to go to school or can't complete their education. i think she will be grounds hands on on the ground trying to make people's lives better. both she and barack something very important to both of them before they got into the white house and i think they will return to that once they leave the white house. >> matter, this time last year the first lady made it clear she had no interest in running for office. listen to this. >> when you and your husband, when you leave washington let's see, malia will be college. >> i know. >> sasha will be in high school. >> mm-hmm. >> there are many people that are wondering what's your next act? will it be political? >> moo. no, it will not be political.

>> no? >> yeah no. it definitely will not be. it will be -- it will be mission-based. it will be service-focused. it will you know -- but -- >> she said definitely not, but i read you in "the root" and you don't seem convinced. what do you think changed her mind or might have changed her mind? >> i'm not giving her career advice and you do have to take michelle obama, first lady at her word. at the same time as i say in this story when i spoke with professor charles ogletree of harvard law who taught both of them. well, he said barack obama is the second best politician in the white house, and as i've covered politics people do relate to her, even folks who may not agree with her politics. they feel that she is someone who is authentic who is not fake. never say never and hillary clinton hat shown a clear path from first lady into politics and she is involved with her

missions of military families and healthy eating and as allison said showing the young folks the hope and the path to success and taking advantage of america's opportunities, so we'll see what -- what happens. she told the young folks at oberlin to get out and run for office. maybe it will be show not tell but i think we have to wait and see. >> in your writings allison, you talk about the first lady is more open and candid and -- and very, very direct and in my experience it has been that and a very likable person and, in fact when mary brings up the clinton, the hillary clinton candidacy, a poll found michelle obama would be hillary clinton's strongest democratic rival if she ran in 2016. if found in a hypothetical matchup clinton would best obama 56 to 22 but 22% led all

others, so she'd be the strongest candidate, allison. is that that authenticity, that openness about her that attracts people? >> i think it's all those things and i think that people find her very sympathetic. they think she cares. they know she cares and they know she's a brilliant woman. that's something she's not been able to use so much. she sort of held back at the beginning of the presidency and now she's coming out talking about more and more who she is and what she has to offer and people will become more enamored and endearing to her because she really is that woman that could run for office if she wanted to. i don't think she has the patience and the tolerance to do it to run for political office. >> why do you think she's coming out now more personal and making more direct messages? what do you think the timing of now means? >> because she has -- >> go ahead, allison. >> i think she has only so many years, about three more years left. she can be who she is. there's not a re-election to

worry about. her huts has sort of weathered many of the storms and she sees saying okay it's safe for me to be me. brilliant to be able to hold back like she has over the past couple of years and now she's able to come out and say this is how i feel and feel about issues. >> matter, you were getting ready to answer the same question. >> obviously polls show that she's ahead and one of the things that is an appeal is she's an outsider. the minute you throw your hat in the ring people judge you more harshly. i think it is time for legacy and i was really struck so focused her message at tuskegee to the students who may be the first in their families to go to college and at oberlin, a university, a college that accepted blacks and minorities and women before many others did, and she talked about their own legacy of service at oberlin so she has -- she is caring and she shows that she does focus the message to the audience

she's spoking to so she can relate to them and they to her. >> well it's certainly fun to talk about, and we're going to keep talking about it. she's a fascinating person a fascinating american. allison samuels, mary c. curtis thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. we'll be right back with a shocking surge in violence in baltimore and the need to fix this now. if you're looking for a car that drives you... ...and takes the wheel right from your very hands... ...this isn't that car. the first and only car with direct adaptive steering. ♪ the 328 horsepower q50 from infiniti.

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35 people have been killed in the month of may. it's the deadliest month since 1999. there have been 108 homicides so far this year. >> it's crazy out here man. like we can't walk in our own neighborhood without getting shot at. like shootings in the morning. shootings at night. people really fear for their own life out here man. >> we cannot say that we love baltimore, we love black people and yet when we kill each other we're quiet. >> the violence can't continue and if we all want change we must be the change we want. we need to come together. after the unrest in the wake of freddie gray's death we saw a renewed commitment to peace and progress. we have to see that same commitment now. yes, we can find passion and we should for change in policing but we must see that change also

in how we relate one to another. we cannot call for change in policing and not challenge the change we need on the ground in our own communities with equal passion and equal vigilance. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. hell no we won't go. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. hillary clinton has a rival for the presidency a democratic rival. senator bernie sanders of vermont who declared his candidacy have a chance, does a declared socialist have a chance in the country when less than one of five of us call ourselves an economic liberal.