'He hadn't done his homework': Hillary bashes Bernie for botching interview on Wall Street policy
In a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the Democratic frontrunner attacked Sanders for being unprepared to defend in detail his break-up-the-banks agenda.
Clinton accused Sanders of not doing "his homework" and questioned whether he'd be able to deliver on his campaign promises when he seemed uncertain of how he'd actually accomplish those goals.
"I think he hadn't done his homework and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions," Clinton said.
She continued: "Really what it goes to is for voters to ask themselves: Can he deliver what he is talking about? Can he really help people? Can he help our economy? Can he keep our country strong?"
Sanders, who has been battling Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, told the Daily News that he didn't know whether the Federal Reserve has the authority to break up the big Wall Street banks he decries along the campaign trail.
He also said that he hadn't studied the legal implications of doing so, and couldn't explain how he would have actually gone about prosecuting major Wall Street executives following the 2008 financial crisis.
"I look at it this way: The core of his campaign has been 'break up the banks,' and it didn't seem in reading his answers that he understood exactly how that would work under Dodd-Frank, exactly who would be responsible, what the criteria were," Clinton said Wednesday.
"And that means you can't really help people if you don't know how to do what you are campaigning on what you say you want to do."