Sanders' Economic Plan Torn Apart By Former Clinton, Obama Economists

Bernie Sanders' economic plan has sparked a heated debate among Democratic economists over whether it could work.

Four former chairs of the White House Council of Economic Advisers published a letter Wednesday morning chiding the Sanders campaign and Gerald Friedman -- an economist at UMass Amherst who recently put out a 53-page analysis of the Sanders tax and health care plans -- for making unrealistic assumptions that "no credible economic research supports."

Friedman's analysis, which was independent and unaffiliated with the Sanders campaign, showed that the Sanders single-payer health care plan in particular would have an exceedingly positive effect on the economy.