Talbot spoke with Sanders in his Senate office about his much-publicized encounters with some Black Lives Matter activists earlier this summer and about how his campaign has adjusted to the critique that it overlooked specific racial inequities in favor of a focus on broader economic inequality.

“I plead guilty — I should have been more sensitive at the beginning of this campaign to talk about this issue,” Sanders admitted. “The issues these young people raised are enormously important,” he said.

And 4 more revelations from a new in-depth New Yorker profile on the surging Democratic presidential contender