MARGARET BRENNAN: Bernie Sanders. Can you stop him, in terms of the momentum he has? The Bloomberg campaign, as you know, is out saying that for moderates like yourselves, he’s going to basically end up with an insurmountable delegate lead because of his early success.
BIDEN: I told you, I’m not going to play this game with you. I don’t know. It’s not about who I stop. It’s why I’m running, why I’m telling the people that I should be the next president and why I’m the best guy to beat Trump. All those other polls you all cite also show I’m the most person- I’m the- the person most likely to be Trump. I’m the person that, in fact, in- in those polls in addition to that, I’m the only one, in terms of the Russians and all these stuff you’ve all been reporting. The Russians don’t want me to be the nominee. They spent a lot of money on bots on Facebook and they’ve been taken down saying Biden is a bad guy. They don’t want Biden running. They’re not- no one’s helping me to try to get the nomination. They have good reason.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Who informed you of that? Was it Facebook or have U.S. intelligence officials told you about some kind of meddling with the campaign?
BIDEN: I have not spoken to the intelligence community, but I think the intelligence community should inform the rest of us who are running what they told Senator Sanders.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And there’s no date for that to happen?
BIDEN: Not that I’m aware of.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you’re asking for it?
BIDEN: I think they should.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You should. Whe- from what you’re seeing, you talked about Facebook and them alerting you. Is that- am I understanding you correctly?
BIDEN: Well I- I was told that- that tho- there are a lot of bots on Facebook. And they’ve been all taken down. And so there were—
MARGARET BRENNAN: Fake accounts being run by the Russians?
BIDEN: —attacks on me. Fake accounts, yes. And they’re taken down. But I- I don’t know who- I didn’t get a call from Facebook. But I was told by my- my staff that’s what happened.