He said Clinton campaign criticism of his record on the subject was "a reflection of a campaign in disarray, a campaign that believed they were entitled to have the nomination and suddenly they're finding, with people being actually involved and not just the establishment, they're in trouble."
Sanders in turn criticized Hillary Clinton for supporting the welfare reform bill that her husband, Bill Clinton, signed when he was president in the 1990s.
"The welfare rights bill, I think many of the leading civil rights advocates in this country will tell you, was extraordinarily detrimental to the African-American community," Sanders said. "I spoke out against it. I voted against it. Secretary Clinton supported it."
As for the former president, he said: "Bill Clinton was the president who led the effort to deregulate Wall Street, was the president who fought for the disastrous NAFTA trade agreement and was the president who pushed this so-called welfare reform, which was absolutely disastrous for low-income people in general and the African-American community in particular."
Sanders' analysis: "I think what the establishment is getting nervous about is that the American people are starting to stand up and say enough is enough."
