Sen. Bernie Sanders abruptly ended his sit-down interview with ABC News.

The Vermont independent left This Week host Jonathan Karl stunned when he refused to answer whether he thinks his progressive partner in the House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for the Senate.

Sanders said the interview was ‘nonsense’ after Karl pushed him if AOC should replace Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer after he voted for the Republicans budget to avert a government shutdown.

After trying to shut down the line of questioning, the firebrand senator stood up in the middle of the interview and stormed out of the room – a moment that was caught on camera as Karl urged Sanders not to cut it short.

No longer on-camera, Sanders called the discussion ‘inside the beltway stuff’ and suggested there are bigger fish to fry then speculating over the future of the leadership in the Democratic Party.

The senator then conceded and allowed Karl to get in one last, non-AOC-related question that centered around his political future.

Sen. Bernie Sanders left his ABC News interviewer stunned when he abruptly tried to cut his sit-down short when he was asked twice about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Sanders called it ‘beltway stuff’ and said it was ‘nonsense’ to ask if she should challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer for his Senate seat amid calls for him to step down from leadership

Sanders, 83, did rule out the possibility that he would be in that picture of another presidential bid, noting that he is old and tired.

While in the interview Sanders did place the blame on Schumer for allowing the continuing resolution to pass last week, he didn’t go so far as to back the calls for him to be primaried.

‘You said that the passage of this bill, the continuing resolution, was a, ‘absolute failure of Democratic leadership.’ Who are you talking about?’ Karl prompted Sanders.

‘Well, Schumer is the leader of the party, and it should not have happened, period. No question about it,’ he replied.

‘But, you know, when we talk about Democratic leadership, we’re talking about the Democratic Party in general, you know,’ he added. ‘It’s not just Chuck Schumer. It is – you’ve got a Democratic Party in general that is dominated by billionaires, just as the Republican Party is.’

Meanwhile, other Democrats, including AOC, have much harsher words for Schumer.

Some are demanding he step down from leadership and are promoting calls for a more progressive Democrat to challenge the minority leader in his next primary, which isn’t until 2028.

Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were on their ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour at the time of the interview taping

Sanders sat back down to end the interview after ABC News host Jonathan Karl said he had one more, non-AOC-related question

Schumer told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that he will not be stepping down and defended his vote to avoid giving President Donald Trump and ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk even more power by shutting down the government.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez kicked-off a joint ‘fighting oligarchy’ tour, which included a stop in Denver, Colorado over the weekend where 34,000 attended a massive rally against President Donald Trump and billionaire ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk.

‘You’re out there with the AOC today,’ Karl said in a pre-recorded interview that aired Sunday morning.

‘Do you see her as a future of the progressive –’ Karl began to ask before he was cut-off by Sanders who praised all of the young leadership in the House Progressive Caucus.

‘We have one of the untold stories of what’s going on in current American politics, is that in the House of Representatives, you have dozens and dozens of strong, smart, disciplined, hard-working young people in the Progressive Caucus,’ Sanders said.

‘Alexandria is extraordinary,’ he said. ‘I am so impressed by her work in Congress and her – just, she inspires young people all over the country.’

‘Would you like to see her join you in the Senate?’ Karl followed-up.

This was enough to make Sanders want to stop the interview as he quipped: ‘Right now we have, as I said, just a whole lot of people in the Congress. OK, Jonathan, thanks.’

At this point, Sanders got up from his chair and walked off camera.

An aide walked into the background of Karl’s shot as Sanders got up from his chair – before returning to it to sit down and end the interview cordially

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing increased calls to step down – but he’s not folding to the pressure and told NBC News on Sunday that he’s not ‘repeating the mistakes’ of former President Joe Biden by refusing to quit

‘Wait, I got one more. This is an important –’ the ABC News host said, pleading for Sanders to let him finish the interview.

‘No, I asked you – No, you want to do nonsense, do nonsense,’ Sanders replied.

He then berated Karl with: ‘I don’t want to talk about inside the beltway stuff.’

‘I was just asking you about AOC because she was out there with you,’ Karl said.

‘Well, you know, fine, but I don’t want to talk about this – what was the last question?’ Sanders asked.

Sanders came back into frame as Karl said it would be easier to ask him if he was still sitting down in front of the camera.

‘I want to ask you about your future,’ Karl said. ‘You ran for president twice, this is the biggest crowd you’ve ever seen. Are we going to see you run again? What’s your future?’

‘No,’ Sanders said, simply. ‘Right now I’m very proud that the people of the state of Vermont sent me back to the Senate with 63 percent of the vote.’

‘Right now I’m Vermont’s senator. That’s what I do. And I’m very happy to do it,’ he said.

‘I am 83 years of age. So – and I’m tired,’ he chuckled.