ADAM: AS YOU SAW, THES CONVERSATIONS GOT INTENSE, GOT EMOTIONAL, AND THEY GOT PERSONAL.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE MOMENTS THAT OFFER A GLIMPSE INTO WHAT SHAPED THESE CANDIDATES, WHATBRI AND WHAT KEEPS THEM GOING EVERY DAY.
>> I WAS RAISED BY A SINGLE MOM.
MY PARENTS DIVORCED IN GRADE SCHOOL.
LIVED PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.
I ONLY KNEW THERE WAS A GOVERNOR'S OFFIC BECAUSE I DELIVERED NEWSPAPERS TO IT.
SO I'VE MADE IT FOUR BLOCKS .
YEAH, SO WENT TO COLLEGE SIGHT UNSEEN.
THE IDEA OF COLLEGE WELL BEYOND.
AND WORKED MY WAY THROUGH COLLEG I PICKED UP MY CLASSMATES' PLATES.
I BORROWED MY WAY THROUGH LAW SCHOOL.
I THINK THAT GAVE ME PERSPECTIVE OF -- BUT SOMEHOW I STILL HAD THAT SHOT, RIGHT?
GOING FROM DELIVERING NEWSPAPERS TO THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE AS A K TO RAISING MY KIDS WITH MY WIFE, OUR THREE KIDS, IN IT.
>> I WOULDN'T BE HERE WITHOUT MY MOM.
FIRST OF ALL, MY MOM RAISED ME AS A SINGLE MOTHER, MY B AND ME.
SHE WORKED VERY HARD TO SUPPORT US AND SUPPORT HER MOM, MY GRANDMOTHER.
MY MOM WAS THE FIRST IN HER FAMILY TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN GET TO GO ON TO COLLEGE.
SHE WAS ALSO A HELL-RAISER.
SHE WAS INVOLVED IN WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ISSUES AND HISPANIC ISSU SO SHE RAISED MY BROTHER AND ME TO BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN MAKE DIFFERENCE IN THE DEMOCRATIC
PROCES THAT I GREW UP WITH THE MOTHER THAT I GREW UP WITH.
AND I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER T LESSONS THAT SHE TAUGHT ME IF I'M PRESIDENT.
>> YOU EITHER GIVE UP IN THE FACE OF THE KIND OF TERROR THA WE SAW IN EL PASO COME IN THE CITY THAT LOSES 18 PEOPLE IN GIVEN YEAR.
YOU'RE EITHER CONSUMED BY THE SUFFERING AND THE TRAGEDY OF IT, YOU EITHER ACCEPT IT AS AN ACT OF GOD OR OU FATE, OR YOU STAND UP AND DO.
AND I FEEL SO COMPELLED TO DESPE WHERE THIS COUNTRY IS AND WHAT WE SAW IN EL PASO, ESPECIALLY GI JUDGEMENT I FEAR MOST IS MY CHILDREN AND YOUR CHILDRENRIGHT
NOW TO DO THE RIGHT THINIEVES IN MORE IN COMMON THAN WHAT SEPARATES US.
I HAVE THE 3:00 A.M. AGENDA.
3:00 A.M., SOME PEOPLE CALL THE WITCHING HOUR.
WHEN WE WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH HAS BEEN WEIGHING ON US, FOR T VAST MAJORITY OF US WHEN WE WAKE UP THINKING THAT THOUGHT IT HE L WITH WHICH WE ARE REGISTERED TO
VOTE.
>> WHEN MY SON BEAU DIED, HE W MYSE SOUPIECE OF IT WITH BEA BECAUSE YOU GONE THROUGH IT AS A KID WITH ME AND HE KNEW HE WAS DYING, THAT IS WHY I WROTE THE BOOK
ABOUT MY SON.
HE SAID, "PROMISE ME, DAD." HE SAID, "I'M GOING TO BE OK NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS," AND HE KNEW HE ONLY HAD MONTHS.
HE SAID, "PROMISE ME YOU AG TO B >> IT BREAKS MY HEART TO SEE - AND I KNOW PEOPLE WHO I'VE SERVED WITH.
ONE OF MY SOLDIERS DURING SECOND DEPLOYMENT DEPLOYED MANY TIMES, CAME HOMEAT HOME AND TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
SO THIS HITS CLOSE TO HOME A DEAL WITH THE STIGMA AND TO DEDICATE WHATEVER RESOURCES ARE NECESSARY.
>> UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, WE THOUGHT MY GRANDFATHER HAD DIED FROM ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
T FOR 20 YEARS.
HE IS THE GRANDPARENT IIER WHO H FROM POLAND.
NOW WE ARE UNSURE IF IT BECAUSE OF ALZHEIMER'S OR BECAUSE TH DURING WORLD WAR II.
IN ANY EVENT, THE OUTCOME WATHE BECAUSE OF HIS EXPERIENCE AND MY FAMILY'S OWN EXPERIENCE, I HAVEV FUNDING OF ALZHEIMER'S AND INCREASED FUNDING FOR ALZHEIMER'S EVERY YEAR I'VE BEIN
>> PROBABLY THE MOST CHALLENGING TIME IN MY LIFE WAS EARLIER THIS THE WHE PROCESS WAS ONE WHERE, I MEAN, HE GOT EXCELLENT MEDICAL CARE.
IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT, THOUGH.
I MAKE DECISIONS FOR A LIVING, BUT NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARE F DECISIONS THAT OUR FAMILY FACED.
ONE THING I LEARNED ABOUT IT WAS THE CLOSENES I'M SORRY, YOU'RE TAKING ME TO A TOUGH PLACE.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MY MARRIAGE.
MY HUSBAND ABSOLUTELY JUST PROPPED OUR FAMILY UP.
HELPED MY FA DAYS, HELPS MY MOTHER RIGHT NOW, HELPS ME.
>> I'M THE SON OF AN IMMIGRANT.
MY FATHER CAME TO THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT A NICKEL IN HIS POCKET.
NEVER MADE MUCH MONEY.
BUT HE CAME FROM POLAND AGE OF 17 AND BECAME THE PROUDEST AMERICAN THAT YOU EVER SA THIS COUNTRY ENABLED HIM TO RAISE TWO KIDS, AT LEAST WITH A
WORKING-CLDARD OF LIVING.
SO I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF IMMIGRANTS.
>> I'VE ALWAYS BEEN AN UNDERDOG.
BEING THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS, MY PARENTS CAME FROM JAMAICA, MY ACT SUGARCANE CUTTER, MY MOTHER WAS A COOK THAT USED TO GO OUT IN THEELDS T YOU KNOW, I WAS NEVER EXPECTED
TO GO TO FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, TO PLA LEGENDARY COACH BOBBY BOWDOIN, MUCH LESS WIN A NATIONAL WEAR AN MAYOR OF A VERY DIVERSE CITY, ONE OF THE LARGEST CITIES IN TVE
CONTEMPLATED AS PRESIDENT.
SO I'V.
I'VE BEEN THE DARK HORSE ALL M I AM SOMEONE WHOSE WORK HAVI FOUNDED AIDS ORGANIZATIONS HAVING FOUNDED PEACE ORGANIZATIONS, AND HAVING WORKED ON ANTI-POVERTY EF
THROUGHOUT MY ADULT CAREER.
I'M A VERY PRACTICAL WOMAN.
I DON'T JUST TALK.
YOU DON'T SEE YOU KNOW?
I'M NOT JUST PINK PAINT AND CRYSTALSM INTO GETTING THINGS DO >> WE COME FROM A BELOVE COMMUNITY.
THAT'S OUR HISTORY.
WHEN WE STAND UP FOR EACH OTHER, WHEN WE OTHER -- PATRIOTISM IS LOVE YOUR COUNTRY UNLESS YOU LOVE YOUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN AND WOMEN.
WE MAY NOT AAT IF YOUR KIDS DON'T HAVE A GREAT PUBLIC EDUCATION, MY KIDS ARE WORSE OFF.
IF YOU CARE, THEN MY FAMILY IS LESS SECURE.
THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE LOVE IS NOT A SENTIMENT, IT IS DEMANDING, IT IS SACRIFICES, ACTION NOW, I'M SORRY, THIS MAY NOT BE
THE WORD YOU WANT TO HEAR IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,NEED MORE >> I HAVE PROPOSED THIS BECAUS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE MYSELF WITH MY DAD WHO STRUGGLED WITH ALCOHOLISM MY WHOLE LI
HE HAD TWO DUI'S WHEN I WAS MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HE HAD HIS THIRD WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO GET MARRIED IN THE 1 THAT IS WHEN THE RULES CHANGED AND YOU COULD CHOOSE BETWE
JAIL OR TREATMENT AND HE CHOSE TREATMENT, AND I TOLD HIM WHAT IT WAS LIK HAD TO TAKE THE KEYS AWAY FROM HIM AND HE WAS DRIVING DRUNK, OR WHEN HE WASN'T THERE FORO
MY DAD.
I THINK IT HAS MADE ME A BETTE LEGISLATURE BECAUSE OF THAT AND A BETTER PRESIDENT I WILL BE.
>> I GREW UP -- FAMILY WASN'T POLITIC EVEN AS AN ADULT, WITH KIDS AN TEACHING SCHOOL AND DOING MY RESEARCH, POLITICS WAS AND CENTER FOR ME.AN T
UNDERSTAND WAS THROUGH MY RESEARCH.
MY RESEARCH WAS ON M GO BROKE, FY FAMILIES GO BROKE AND WHY AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLAOUT.
>> I NEVER KNEW WHETHER MEMBERS OF MY CABIRO-CHOICE OR PRO-LIFE.
I DO SEE BOTH SIDES OF THAT ISSUE.
MY WIFE AND I HAD THAT ISSUE ME UP ONCE WHERE ONE OF OUR KIDS, IT WAS NOT A PROBLEM PREGNANCY, BUT THERE WAS ATING R WAS SOME SUGGESTION FROM THE DOCTORS AND THE MEDICAL PEOPLE
HANDLING THE CASE THAT MAYBE WEO PREGNANCY, AND WE SAID, ARE YOU KIDDIN THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT WE DIDN'T WANT THEM MAKING THAT DECISION, WE WANTED TO MAKE TH
DECISION, AND THAT'S THE BASIS FOR MY LONGTIME-HELD PRO-CHOICE >> ONE OF THE THINGS YOU M KNOW ABOUT ME IS THAT MY DAD WAS A LAWYER WHO INTERRUPTED HIS LAW PRACTICE TO GO IN THE NAVY
WORLD WAR II AND PROSECUTED THE NAZIS AT N SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT T UNITED STATES TRADITIONALLY STANDS FOR, WE STAND FOR MORAL LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD.
WE ALWAYS HAVE.
THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE POINT O THIS COUNTRY.
I MEAN, WE STARTED OUT BEING FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE.
>> I WAS HERE JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND I WAS DRIVING, AND YOU HAD A SNOWSTORM, AND I WJUST PICTURES AND I WAS JUST SENDING IT TO MY TEAM, I WAS LIKE, IT DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN
CAMPAIGNING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH SOME FRESH SNOW ON THE GROUND.
ADAM: WELL OVER 200 TOWNS HE LAT GREAT SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN ONCE SAID, EACH TOWN IS ITS OWN POLITICAL UNIVERSE.
>> WELL, YOU DO HAVE A V UNIQUE POLITICAL SYSTEM HERE.
SOMEONE HERE DIDN'T TRUST [LAUGHTER] RIGHT?
BECAUSE THEY CREATED A SYSTE THAT HAS A LOT OF CHECKS AND BALANCES CAN LET'S PUT IT THAT ADAM: YOU WENT TO PHILLIETER ACA HAMPSHIRE.
>> YES, I DID.
ADAM: WHAT IS YOUR FONDE MEMORY OF THE GRANITE STATE, HAVING SPENT A FORMATIVE PART OF >> I LEARNED TO SKI AS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND I HAD NEVER SKIED BEFORE. LIKE, A SKI
TRIP AT EXETER, AND I WAS LIKE, I GOING TO LEARN TO SKI.
AMAND SO I GOT ON THAT BUS.
AND IT WAS A PAINFUL DAY.
[LAUGHTER] IT WAS A PAINFUL DAY.
BUT THEN I WAS VERY PROUD OF MYSELF THAT I MANAGED TO C SLOPES BY THE END OF THE DAY.
ADAM: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORING HER FRANKLIN PIERCE LAW SCHOOL?
>> THE FALL.
I MEAN, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
YOU CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN IT TO PEOPLE.
WE HAVE ON OUR TV SET AT HOME, YOU KNOW WHEN IT GOES QUIET, AND THEY START FLASHING PICTURES.
AND ONE OF THE PICTURES HAS GOT TO BE FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE.
I MEAN, THE LEAVES ARE VIVID.
AND I WOULD TELL MY WIFE, THAT'S GOTTA BE NEW HAMPSHIRE.
THE FALL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, O NO