-While you're here, I do want to get
some of your thoughts on a bunch of things
that are happening right now.
Yesterday was Super Tuesday.
Why is that so important, Super Tuesday?
-Well, it's important because there are so many contests,
and it literally goes across the country,
from Massachusetts to California and a lot of stops in between.
So it's the first time that the real diversity
of our country is going to go out and vote.
And then, that vote will have a big impact on the outcome,
as we saw last night with Joe Biden.
-Yeah, that was -- -Right.
-What did you think of that?
-Look, I thought it was very exciting because,
starting in South Carolina, he had so much energy.
And what he had to say was, you know, really enthusiastic
and positive and about what he was gonna do and who he was.
And the people of South Carolina obviously rewarded that.
And then, that kind of set off this momentum.
And it carried him.
He won all but, I guess, three states.
-Yeah. Why do you think people connect with Joe Biden?
-You know, look, I've known him for a really long time.
I think people know he is a deeply decent person.
He is a kind person.
He doesn't take cheap shots at people.
He doesn't insult people as a way of, you know,
trying to put people down and lift himself up.
He is such the opposite of what we currently have
in the White House that I think --
I really think a lot of people --
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah.
-You know, had a chance to think about it
as this contest got going and decided,
"Boy, the most important thing is we retire the incumbent."
That's more important than anything else.
And he has the experience. He know what needs to be done.
He can repair the damage that he would be inheriting.
So I think that's what was going on in people's minds.
[ Laughter ] Yeah.
-Have the candidates reached out to you for any advice?
-Practically all of them. Yeah.
-Yeah. -Not all, but practically all.
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah. And so, I've --
I've been talking with people either in person
or on the phone for, you know, more than a year.
-And what's your advice to them, if you don't --
-I answer any questions they have, Jimmy.
You know, 'cause running for President is such an audacious
and difficult decision to make.
So, some came early on, like, "What's it like?"
You know, "How do you think about it?
How do you put a staff together?"
And then, you know, "What do you think I'll be facing?"
So I answer specific questions from each of them.
But then, I have always said, "Look, you can run
the best campaign, and you can become the nominee,
but you got to be willing to take on
the scourge of voter suppression."
It is so wrong what's being done to try to purge people
from voting lists, not let them register.
Or as we saw in places yesterday,
particularly in Texas, you know, the Republican side
gets five machines -- or, gets 25 machines,
the Democratic side gets five machines.
People were literally standing in line for seven hours.
And I want to applaud everybody who stood in a line yesterday,
because they were doing the right thing...
[ Cheers and applause ] -Absolutely.
-...for our country. And, you know,
the candidates also have to --
have to be willing to admit Russia interfered last time.
They're interfering this time. -Yeah.
-We know that. Even the Trump administration
has to admit that. So the propaganda, the lies,
the disinformation, the theft of information and all of that,
that went on last time is gonna be back.
And so, it's not only the candidates,
although they have to be prepared to take it on,
but voters need to be aware of all that.
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah.
-And what advice do you have to the voters?
-Really pay attention.
Don't get fooled by the propaganda.
Just because something pops up in your Facebook feed,
don't think it's true.
I'm really very sad that Facebook has said,
"We're not going to take down false information."
Candidates, and particularly Trump, is doing this.
You can pay to put lies on Facebook,
and it's really slickly produced,
people think it's true.
Really be skeptical about what's coming in the Facebook feed
or really any kind of social-media information
that you get, because so much of it is manipulated.
You don't know where it's coming from.
-Yeah, I was gonna say, is it from -- do you think --
is there other people besides Russia?
Is it other countries? -Well, we know
from the intelligence that's been shared,
that Iran tried to mess with the primary.
But if you were a foreign adversary of ours,
or if you just wanted to mess around with us,
why wouldn't you try? Because it worked last time.
So, hey, get in there and try to pretend
you're for somebody else, or pretend you're, you know,
a certain kind of citizen, and you have a certain
set of beliefs, and you try to, you know, gin something up.
So, yeah, I think all of that's
going to go on and is going on as we speak.