SPECIAL, "CANDIDATE CAFE." >> ACT NATURAL.
>> IT'S THE PERSONAL SIDE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES RUNNING IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY.
>> MY FATHER GREW UP IN A PEANUT FARM IN ASIA WITH NO FLOOR.
WHEN I VISITED HIS CHILDHOOD HOME, I'M LIKE NO WAY.
>> MY TOLERANCE FOR ALCOHOL IS AMAZINGLY LOW.
SO IN MY LINE OF WORK -- YOU KNOW, I SAY ENOUGH DUMB THINGS BEING SOBER.
>> THE CANDIDATES SIT DOWN IN A MANCHESTER DINER WITH UNDECIDED VOTERS.
>> I HAD A CAN OF MOXY WITH MY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING.
>> TO GET AWAY FROM POLICY AND WHO THEY ARE.
>> THE NAME TELLSY, I LOVE THE NAME, IS THERE A STORY BEHIND IT.
>> IT'S A SACRED FLOWER FROM INDIA.
>> WHY THEY DECIDED TO SEEK THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND.
>> THE BATTLE OF IDEAS SHOULD BE SOMETHING WE CELEBRATE.
>> AND THE UNIQUE CHARACTER EACH WOULD BRING TO THE OVAL OFFICE.
>> WHEN I PUT ON HIGH HEELS AND A WIG AND A HAT, I'M 8 1/2 FEET TALL.
>> WELCOME TO OUR CANDIDATE CAFE SPECIAL, I'M ADAM.
NEWS 9 HAS BEEN HOSTING THESE SPECIAL GATHERINGS IN MANCHESTER.
>> HEY, EVERYONE, WHAT A BIG GROUP.
>> UNLIKE SOME OF OUR OTHER COVERAGE THIS IS A CHANCE TO KNOW THE CANDIDATES ON A MUCH MORE PERSONAL LEVEL AND HEAR ABOUT THEIR LIFE STORIES.
TO GET A BETTER IDEA OF THE TYPE OF LEADER THEY ARE AND WOULD BE AS PRESIDENT.
THAT INCLUDES THE YOUNGEST CANDIDATE IN THE FIELD, DEMOCRAT PETE BUTTIGIEG OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.
OUR VOTERS AT THE DINER WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF HIS OFTEN MISS PRONOUNCED LAST NAME AS WELL AS HIS MILITARY SERVICE IN AFGHANISTAN AND HIS DECISION TO COME OUT AS
MAYOR AND LIVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
A LOT OF VOTERS CALL THIS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MAYOR PETE BUT OTHERS ARE CURIOUS ABOUT THE NINE LETTERS AND THREE SYLLABLES THAT FOLLOW.
SO YOUR NAME, BUTTIGIEG, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE DONE ANCESTRY.COM OR ANYTHING, I DID THAT AND YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY FASCINATING THE STUFF YOU FIND OUT.
I'D BE CURIOUS ABOUT YOUR GENEALOGY AND YOUR HISTORY.
>> MY FATHER IMMIGRATED FROM MALTA, ONE OF THE SMALLEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD AND DRAW A LINE FROM CICELY TO MALASIA AND IT GOES THROUGH MALTA.
IT HAS THE SAME POPULATION AS I LIVE IN ST. JOE, INDIANA.
OVER THERE, IT'S LIKE SMITH.
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST COMMON NAMES, SO MUCH SO THAT THERE WAS A -- I WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT BUTTIGIEG IN THE WORLD.
THERE WAS A PRESIDENT BUTTIGIEG IN MALTA WHO WAS NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WITH MY FAMILY BUTTIGIEG, AND THEY WEREN'T EVEN RELATED.
SO THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME TIGIEG MEANS CHICKEN SO PROBABLY MEANS OWNER OF POULTRY OR LORD OF THE POULTRY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT IF YOU GO OVER THERE AND YOU YELLOW -- IF YOU GO IN A CROWDED DINER AND SAY, HEY, BUTTIGIEG, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WOULD TURN AROUND.
>> HAVE YOU VISITED MALTA?
>> I HAVE, NOT IN A LITTLE WHILE BUT WE USED TO GO EVERY COUPLE YEARS.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL -- IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE -- I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY HERE HAS HAD A CHANCE TO GO.
IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
YOU ACTUALLY SEE A LOT ON TV BECAUSE IT CAN BE MADE TO LOOK LIKE ITALY OR GREECE OR THE MIDDLE EAST.
SO A LOT OF "GAME OF THRONES" WAS FILMED IN MALTA.
A LOT OF TIMES THEY SUB IT IN AS JERUSALEM OR THE MIDDLE EAST.
REMEMBER, WHAT WAS IT CALLED, "WORLD WAR Z" THAT ZOMBIE MOVIE, I LITERALLY WANDERED ON THE SET ON "WORLD WAR Z." I GO INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD AND SUDDENLY ALL THE STREET SIGNS
WERE CHANGED TO HEBREW AND THERE WERE ZOMBIES WALKING AROUND AND A ZOMBIE SMOKING A CIGARETTE AND EXTRAS WAITING FOR THEIR TURN.
>> HE'S THE ONLY CHILD OF TWO ACADEMICS, HIS MALTESE FATHER, PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, TAUGHT HIM THE IMPORTANCE OF WATCHING EVERY PENNY AND CLASSIC ROCK.
>> WHEN MY DAD USED TO TAKE ME TO SCHOOL, WE HAD A CHEVY CAVALIER, I'M PRETTY SURE HE LITERALLY WENT -- HE WANTED A NEW CAR BUT WENT TO THE DEALER AND LITERALLY SAID GIVE ME YOUR
CHEAPEST CAR AND SO HE GOT THIS TWO DOOR CAVALIER BUT IT HAD A TAPE DECK, WHICH BY THE STANDARDS OF MY DAD IN THE 1990'S WAS PRETTY EXTRAVAGANT.
AND HE HAD EXACTLY ONE TAPE, WHICH WAS COSMOS FACTORY, CREDENCE CLEAR WATER.
IT'S SUCH A GREAT PIECE OF MUSIC I DIDN'T MIND IT FOR PROBABLY ABOUT THREE YEARS.
IT WAS ALL WE EVER LISTENED TO WHEN WE WERE IN THE CAR.
>> AS MAYOR OF SOUTH BEPPED, INDIANA, BUTTIGIEG CAME OUT AS OPENLY GAN IN 2015.
AT THE CAFE TABLE HE DESCRIBED THE PROCESS THROUGH THE LENS OF HIS FAITH JOURNEY.
>> WHEN IT CAME TO COMING OUT, I KNEW I WANTED TO TELL OUR PRIEST SOONER RATHER THAN LATER BUT I WASN'T SURE HOW TO APPROACH IT.
BUT LIKE ANYTHING ELSE, YOU KNOW, ASKED HIM OVER FOR A CUP OF COFFEE AND TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND SAID THERE'S SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT.
AND FOUND OUR CHURCH, EVEN AS THE BIGGER ANGLECAN CHURCH HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH ACCEPTANCE FOUND HE WAS INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE AND MEANT A LOT WE HAD OUR WEDDING IN THE CHURCH
LAST YEAR AND WAS REALLY -- HE GAVE A WONDERFUL SERMON THAT REMINDED ME OF THE -- YOU KNOW, YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEBODY YOU LOVE AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD ARE I BELIEVE THEY
TALK TO EACH OTHER IN A WAY AND IT WAS A REALLY IMPORTANT MOMENT IN MY LIFE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THOSE TWO THINGS THAT I HAD BEEN LED TO BELIEVE MIGHT ALWAYS BE AT WAR WITH EACH
OTHER AND INSTEAD SEE HOW THEY CAN REINFORCE EACH OTHER.
SO STILL KIND OF EMOTIONAL TO THINK ABOUT IT.
>> BUTTIGIEG SERVED IN THE U.S.
NAVY RESERVE AND DID A TOUR IN AFGHANISTAN AS AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
>> OUR MISSION HAD TO DO WITH BLOCKING THE FINANCE OF DRUG MONEY GOING INTO THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM.
>> WHAT WAS YOUR INTERACTION WITH THE PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN?
>> A LOT OF IT WAS JUST THROUGH A WINDSHIELD BECAUSE WE'D BE ON THESE MOVEMENTS AND OF COURSE YOU'RE A TARGET SITTING THERE IN THE VEHICLE.
BUT THE GREAT THING ABOUT IT WAS BECAUSE MY JOB -- A LOT OF TIMES I CALLED IT MILITARY UBER.
MY JOB IS JUST A DRIVER.
BUT YOU WERE IN THE LIFE OF THIS CITY AND IT'S A CITY, YOU KNOW.
IT'S A NOISY, SMELLY, LIVELY CITY.
SO YOU WOULD SEE PEOPLE -- I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY WE IMAGINE WAR WHEN YOU JUST SEE IT ON TV, IN A PLACE WHERE THERE'S A WAR, ALL ANYBODY'S EVER DOING IS
FIGHTING A WAR.
WELL, THIS IS A CITY WHERE THERE'S A GUY WITH A WATERMELON OVER HIS SHOULDER COMING BACK FROM THE MARKET AND KIDS CROSSING THE STREET GOING TO SCHOOL AND BUSINESS PEOPLE.
IT'S A CITY.
THERE'S ALSO A WAR GOING ON.
YOU WOULD SEE THE ORDINARY RHYTHMS OF LIFE.
>> ONE OF THOSE RHYTHMS THAT DREW THE MAYOR IN WAS THE LOCAL BAZARRE WHERE HE LOVED TO HAGGLE FOR THE BEST POSSIBLE DEAL ON HAND WOVEN CARPETS.
>> NOTHING LIKE BARGAINING, TALK ABOUT POLITICAL TRAINING, BARGAINING FOR A CARPET WITH AN AFGHAN CARPET SALESMAN.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU'D HAGGLE AND B.S. WITH HIM A LITTLE BIT AND THEY'D JUST SHOW YOU CARPET AFTER CARPET AND YOU'D FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE THEY'D UNFOLD THE CARPETS AND THERE WOULD BE
A KID TO UNFOLD IT AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEY'D UNFOLD ANOTHER ONE AND YOU'VE GOT TO GET A NUMBER OUT OF THEM SO YOU'D GO THROUGH A RITUAL HALF AN HOUR AND FINALLY ADMIT YOU
KIND OF LIKE THIS CARPET BUT YOU TRY TO GET A NUMBER OUT OF HIM, BUT REALLY, HOW MUCH?
AND YOU WOULD SEE HIM LOOK AT THE CARPET FOR A LONG TIME.
BUT OF COURSE HE WASN'T THINKING ABOUT THE CARPET, HE WAS THINKING ABOUT YOU.
HE'S FIGURING OUT THE HIGHEST NUMBER HE CAN SAY THAT WON'T CAUSE YOU TO IMMEDIATELY LEAVE.
AND SO HE'LL SAY A NUMBER, 800 AND YOU GO OH, GOSH, I CAN'T, I'M JUST A LIEUTENANT, I DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY.
HONESTLY, I HATE TO EVEN -- THIS IS PROBABLY INSULTING BUT I COULDN'T REALLY TWO MORE THAN $150 FOR THIS CARPET.
AND HE'D SAY IT'S MORE THAN I PAID FOR IT AND DON'T WANT TO EMBARRASS YOU.
AND YOU'D GO THROUGH A WHOLE RITUAL AND IT'S LIKE YOU'RE BOTH IN ON THE JOKE AS YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THIS BARGAINING PROCESS.
>> BUTTIGIEG SAID ONE OF THE BIGGEST LESSONS OF HIS KIND IN AFGHANISTAN IS MAKING HUMAN CONNECTIONS IS KEY.
>> AT EVERY STEP YOU'RE KIND OF INFORMALLY BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS TO TRY TO GET THINGS DONE.
EVEN TO GET A VEHICLE.
A BIG PART OF MY JOB WAS MOVING PEOPLE AROUND KABUL OR SOMETIMES WE'D HAVE TO DO A ROAD TRIP FROM KABUL AND BAGRHAM ON THE OPEN HIGHWAY.
EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A BIG PART OF MY JOB I DIDN'T HAVE MY OWN VEHICLE SO I HAD TO BARGAIN FOR ONE.
>> INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, HE'S INVOLVED IN A NEGOTIATION OF ANOTHER KIND, TRYING TO WIN OVER FIRST IN THE NATION VOTERS.
>> WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE YOU VISITED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?
>> THE AIRPORT?
>> FROM AN INDIANA MAYOR TO A COLORADO SENATOR, MICHAEL BENNETT IS STILL TRYING TO BECOME A HOUSEHOLD NAME BUT THE FORMER SUPERINTENDENT OF ONE OF THE NATION'S LARGEST SCHOOL
DISTRICTS, DENVER, COLORADO, HAS AN INTRIGUING LIFE STORY INCLUDING HOW SOME OF HIS FAMILY CAME TO AMERICA.
MICHAEL BENNETT, SENATOR FROM COLORADO, IS NATURALLY A DENVER BRONCOS FAN BUT HE DOES HAVE SOMETHING OF A COLLEGE CONNECTION TO THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS.
>> OF YOUR ALUMNI BRETHREN, WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE NFL COACH?
>> WELL, I'D HAVE TO SAY BILL BELICHICK.
>> I JUST WANDERED -- WANTED TO HEAR YOU SAY HIS NAME.
>> THAT'S WHO I WOULD HAVE TO SAY.
>> AS A DENVER FAN, I WANTED TO HEAR YOU SAY IT.
>> WE'RE PROUD OF HI WESLYAN HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN AS A FOOTBALL POWERHOUSE BUT SOMEHOW HE MANAGED TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE GAME OF FOOTBALL WHILE HE WAS THERE.
>> BENNETT GOT HIS FIRST TASTE OF POLITICS EARLY IN LIFE AS A SENATE PAGE.
>> WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE THING?
>> WHAT I REMEMBER MOST, I WAS A KID, REALLY YOUNG, IN HIGH SCHOOL, I GUESS THE PAGES ARE IN HIGH SCHOOL, BUT THAT SUMMER SENATOR STEVENS WAS ON THE FLOOR ALL SUMMER LONG BECAUSE
HE HAD SOME ALASKA LANDS BILL OF SOME KIND.
IT FELT TO ME LIKE HE LITERALLY NEVER LEFT THE FLOOR.
AND IN RETROSPECT, IT'S SUCH AN INTERESTING THING, I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IT SINCE YOU JUST RAISED IT, BUT THAT WAS A TIME WHEN THE SENATE STILL WORKED AND STILL FUNCTIONED LIKE THE
SENATE.
>> HE SAID HIS LOVE OF COUNTRY WAS SHAPED BY HIS MOTHER AND GRANDPARENTS WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST.
>> I'M JEWISH MYSELF AND I WONDER WHAT IF ANY TRADITIONS FROM YOUR MOM'S BACKGROUND HAVE COME THROUGH INTO YOUR OWN FAMILY AND HOW HER HISTORY IMPACTS YOUR LIFE.
>> SO SHE, MY MOM'S NAME IS SUZANNE CLEDGEMAN AND SHE AND HER PARENTS, JACOB AND HELENA WERE LIVING IN WARSAW BEFORE THE WAR AND THAT'S WHERE THEY WERE FROM.
AND HE HAD, MY GRANDFATHER HAD A BIG FAMILY, AND WHEN THEY GOT WARNED THE NAZIS WERE COMING, THEY WERE ART DEALERS AND THEY HAD A SMALL ART GALLERY IN WARSAW AND THEY WERE WARNED THE
NAZIS WERE COMING AND THEY WERE -- MY GRANDFATHER WOULDN'T LEAVE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE THE FAMILY BEHIND.
AND IN THE END, THEY WERE ALL KILLED EXCEPT FOR MY MOM, HER PARENTS AND AUNT.
AND MY MOM WAS SENT OUT TO THE COUNTRY AND LIVED WITH A NURSE IN THE SUBURBS OF WARSAW AND MY GRANDMOTHER WAS TAKEN IN BY A GROUP OF NUNS AND ACTUALLY UNTIL I WAS IN MY 20'S, TO
ANSWER YOUR QUESTION DIRECTLY, THE FAMILY HISTORY WAS THAT SHE WAS CATHOLIC BECAUSE THAT HAPPENED TO SO MANY PEOPLE.
AND MY GRANDFATHER HID UNDERNEATH -- IN A CANDY FACTORY IN WARSAW.
ANYWAY, MIRACULOUSLY THEY SURVIVED AND AT THE END OF THE WAR THEY CAME BACK TOGETHER.
THEY REBUILT THEIR SHATTERED LIVES IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND WHAT I WOULD SAY ABOUT THEM IS YOU COULD TELL THIS DEEPLY TERRIBLE THING HAD HAPPENED TO THEM AND THEY'D HAD, YOU KNOW, THE WORST THINGS THAT HUMANS COULD DO TO OTHER HUMANS HAD
HAPPENED TO THEM AND THAT WAS THERE BUT ALSO WHAT WAS THERE WAS THE SHEER JOY OF BEING AMERICANS, AND THEY STARTED THEIR GALLERY AGAIN IN NEW YORK.
THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL.
THEY WERE ABLE TO PAY FOR MY EDUCATION AND MY SIBLINGS' EDUCATION IN ONE GENERATION BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WERE ABLE TO DO WHEN THEY CAME HERE.
AND I GUESS THAT'S THE PART OF THEIR LEGACY THAT IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME ON A DAILY BASIS IS THE IDEA THAT THEY LEFT IT BEHIND, THEY LEFT THEIR RELIGIOUS STUFF BEHIND BECAUSE
OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THEM.
THEY LEFT THEIR EXPERIENCES BEHIND AND ALL THEY WANTED TO DO WAS BE AMERICANS.
MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD TELL A STORY ABOUT WALKING INTO THIS PLACE CALLED SHRAFT'S, A DINER IN NEW YORK, A CAFETERIA IN NEW YORK AND SEEING HARRY TRUMAN SITTING AT THE COUNTER THERE
AFTER HE HAD BEEN PRESIDENT JUST BY HIMSELF EATING.
AND SHE COULDN'T BELIEVE, LIKE YOU'D NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN EUROPE AND HERE IN AMERICA YOU WOULD SEE HARRY TRUMAN SITTING THERE.
>> EARLY EXPERIENCE AS WORKING AS AN ATTORNEY ON MAJOR FINANCIAL DEALS HELPED BENNETT NAVIGATE DIFFICULT TIMES AS SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS IN DENVER.
>> I WENT THROUGH AN INCREDIBLY PAINFUL PROCESS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO CLOSE SCHOOLS THAT HADN'T BEEN CLOSED BY THE DISTRICT AND, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE REALLY TOUGH MEETINGS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SAYING, YOU'RE TELLING ME BECAUSE WHAT
THE DISTRICT FAILED TO DO, MY KID WHO LIVES ACROSS THE STREET FROM THERE CAN'T GO TO THE THIRD GRADE THERE?
THAT'S TOUGH.
AND THE PENSION STUFF WAS INCREDIBLY TOUGH, TOO, ALTHOUGH WE GOT THAT DONE AND MERGED IT INTO THE STATE PENSION.
I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN HOW TO DO ANY OF THAT STUFF IF I HADN'T HAD THE BUSINESS EXPERIENCE I'D HAD AND WOULDN'T HAVE HAD A CLUE.
I WOULD HAVE LEFT THE DISTRICT THE WAY I FOUND THE DISTRICT WHICH IS HOW THE PREVIOUS SUPERINTENDENTS HAD ALL HANDLED IT BECAUSE NOBODY HAD THE SKIMS OR KNOWLEDGE TO BE ABLE TO DO
IT.
AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE WOULD SAY WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY K-12 EXPERIENCE AND YOU'RE GOING TO RUN THIS LIKE A BUSINESS AND I WOULD ALWAYS SAY THIS ISN'T A BUSINESS.
>> A MARRIED FATHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS, BENNETT SAYS A FAVORITE FAMILY PASTIME IS TO POKE FUN AT SENATOR DAD.
>> SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT MOMENT WHEN I HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A CONVERSATION WITH TED CRUZ ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THAT.
BUT TED ACCUSED ME OF YELLING AT HIM AND I SAID I WASN'T YELLING BUT THAT I WAS YELLING AND I HAD MY DAUGHTER CAROLINE, WHO WAS A FRESHMAN IN COLLEGE AT THE TIME, THIS THING CAME ON
THE TV AND SHE AND HER ROOMMATES WERE WATCHING IT AND SHE SAID I STARTED -- I WAS STARTING INTO HIM AND I SAID UH-HO, I'VE HEARD THAT VOICE BEFORE.
AND THEY HAVE, WHEN THEY SEE THESE HEADLINES THAT DESCRIBE MILD MANNERED MICHAEL BENNETT, THOSE ARE THE ONES THEY CIRCLE IT AND SEND IT TO EACH OTHER.
SHE WAS, WHEN I WENT BACK THERE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT WHETHER I SHOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT, SHE WAS THE ONE THAT WAS MOST ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT, THE 15-YEAR-OLD.
IT SHOCKED ME A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE SHE'S THE ONE THAT, LIKE, I COULD EASILY IMAGINE SHE'S CAUCUSING FOR CORY BOOKER SOMEWHERE RIGHT NOW.
>> HIS LONG PRIMARY SEASON OFFICIALLY STARTED ON INAUGURATION DAY 2016 WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP FILED HIS RE-ELECTION PAPERWORK.
BUT HIS FIRST DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER LAUNCHED HIS OWN CAMPAIGN A FEW MONTHS LATER.
AFTER BRAT, HOW JOHN DELANEY'S DECISION TO LEAVE THE CAREER PATH CHOSEN BY HIS PARENTS LED TO A PRESIDENTIAL BID.
PLUS, WHY ANDREW YANG SAID HIS EXPERIENCE AT PHILLIPS EX-TORE COLLEGE WAS NOT POSITIVE.
>> I WAS LIKE DOES IT COUNT AS NEW HAMPSH