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US Politician - Bernie Sanders

Did Bernie Sanders plant the seeds of a political revolution in the United States? HARDtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur speaks to the longest serving independent in US congressional history.

Stephen Sackur is at the 2017 Hay Literary Festival to speak to the US Senator Bernie Sanders - the longest serving independent in US congressional history. He was credited with injecting passion and belief into the race for 2016鈥檚 Democratic presidential nomination - a race that was eventually won by Hillary Clinton. But did he plant the seeds of a political revolution in the United States?

(Photo: Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) react during a news conference on release of the president"s FY2018 budget proposal, 2017. Yuri Gripas /Reuters)

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