We are back with Pete Buttigieg.
I was just saying I don't know how
you have the energy because you've
been home like once or twice.
And, I mean, you're constantly going.
And you have to be an extrovert to be able to do this.
Because you said you get energy from people.
Yeah.
Well, I actually think of myself as an introvert.
But I draw a kind of propulsion from the people
I meet because when you're running for president
and somebody comes up to you, they shake hands
with you on a rope line after you give a speech,
or whatever it is, they're telling you about the most
important thing in their lives.
And you take in those stories all day.
And it energizes you because it reminds you all the time
what's at stake and why it really matters.
This is not-- sometimes they talk about politics
like it's just another show, like it's a game.
And it's our lives.
And every time you get reminded of that,
it creates this kind of fuel to keep going.
Yeah.
I feel like you're a perfect person
to be in politics because, first of all, you're super smart.
And you're so even-keeled.
Like nothing rattles you.
You just have such--
and I guess that comes from-- actually
you served in Afghanistan.
And I'm sure you have to have a pretty even--
Yeah.
It does give you a certain kind of perspective.
Yeah.
You know, there's incoming in the form of a mean tweet
and then there's, like, incoming.
Right?
Right.
So you just learn, I think, to keep things
in balance a little bit.
I'm a very passionate person.
But discipline is a really important part of how I serve
and how I work.
Yeah.
So you have been--
I want to give you a chance to address this.
Because you're having a hard time
pulling with minorities and the African-American community.
And I want you to speak to that.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's got to begin with humility.
I will never have the experience of, for example,
walking through a mall or down the street
and feeling eyes on me, judging me, and maybe thinking
that I am dangerous just because of the color of my skin,
the way black men experience.
I will never have the experience of going into an emergency room
and not being believed, describing that I'm in pain,
the way so many black women experience.
So I think it starts with acknowledging that.
And if I can't know from experience
what that's like, then how can I make myself
useful to those who have?
I think the next best thing I can do
is to show up, to listen, to learn, and to elevate
those voices.
And so what we're trying to do is make sure
that those voices are elevated in my campaign as a way
to demonstrate what it will be like in my presidency,
too, precisely because I'm never going
to be able to say that that I get it,
at least not from the perspective
of personal experience.
When I think about something like the Douglass Plan
that we put forward--
The Frederick Douglass Plan is an idea
that our campaign has put forward,
a series of proposals to deal with systematic racism
in this country.
But it's not mine.
I didn't sit there and think it up.
The reason I think it's strong is
because we asked black voices to build that plan.
And the way I can make myself useful
is to try to drive that plan through as president
and continue to elevate those voices throughout.
So that's the conversation I'm seeking
to have with voters of color who have every reason
to be skeptical of politicians, especially new figures who
come along, given the number of broken promises
and the ways that that vote has been taken for granted again
and again and again.
And the only way to earn it is to go out
there and work for it.
This was this was Rush Limbaugh's comment not too long
ago.
He said, how is this going to look?
A 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage
next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump.
How do you want to respond to that?
[LAUGHS] Look, I guess he just has a different idea
of what makes a man than I do.
Look, I'm not going to take lectures on family values
from the likes of Rush Limbaugh or anybody who
supports Donald Trump, frankly.
You know, when I was packing my bags for Afghanistan,
Donald Trump was working on season seven of Celebrity
Apprentice and--
[LAUGHTER, CHEERING, AND APPLAUSE]
I'm just done with that kind of--
and since when is strength about the chest
pounding of the loud mouth guy at the end of the bar?
The strongest people I know are not the loudest people.
They're the ones who have the deepest sense of who they are,
and what they value, and what they care about.
And one of those people, by the way,
one of the strongest people I know, is my husband, Brad Pitt.
[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE]
I knew Chasten would like that.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
Sorry.
I forgot my Oscar.
Yeah.
All right.
We're going to put you in the hot seat.
I'm going to ask you a lot of questions.
And you have to answer really, really fast--
OK.
--which is hard for politicians to do.
True.
But I'm going to do that.
We'll be back.
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