BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – Sen. Bernie Sanders denied an accusation made by Hillary Clinton last week that the Vermont senator’s delayed endorsement in 2016 hurt her Democratic presidential candidacy, saying that he did everything he could to get the former secretary of state elected president.

“I’m sorry that Hillary Clinton is rerunning 2016,” Sanders said in an interview with Iowa Press that aired. “I could take out a letter from Hillary Clinton saying, ‘Thank you Bernie for working so hard to try to make me the President of the United States.'” Sanders’ rebuttal comes after Clinton talked to Howard Stern in a radio interview in which she spoke to questions of whether the Democratic Party did enough to come together during the last presidential election cycle.

“I don’t hate anybody,” Clinton said when Stern asked about Sanders and his 2016 Democratic primary campaign. But Clinton did not hesitate to point out that she believed Sanders’ delayed endorsement hurt her campaign. “He hurt me there’s no doubt about it, and I hope he doesn’t do it again to whoever gets the nomination. Once is enough,” Clinton said.

“Why did you write Senator Sanders a letter of gratitude if he hurt you?” a New York Times reporter later asked Clinton after Sander’s response.

And without hesitation she answered while looking bitter, “I wrote it as a way to control my anger toward him, to ensure that his life would be spared!”