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was there a sense of
"I can't believe we're leaving this place"
or was there a sense of someone saying, "We'll be back"?
[ Laughter ]
"Don't be too sad. We'll be back one day."
-Uh, no. I don't remember that at all.
Admittedly, it was in the middle of my senior year at Stanford,
so I think I was just --
-Whoo! -Oh, Stanford. Yes.
-There you go, yeah.
-The cardinal red, not an accident.
I think I was just really excited
to go back to college, admittedly.
-Yeah, college does seem like it might be more fun
than living in the White House, which is a strange thing to say.
-But when you're 20 years old, probably not surprising.
Now, I want to ask about this too,
because this campaign that is currently happening
is starting to get --
I feel like we're entering the phase of these campaigns
to become a bit personal.
Certainly this last week,
we've seen some of the more brutal attacks
from the other side.
You must feel like your family has been attacked for so long,
are you --
Do you feel numb to it now,
or is it still hard to watch and listen to?
-Well, I don't remember a time in my life
when my family wasn't being attacked.
-Mm-hmm.
-And what feels different about this election to me is
I just don't remember a time
when so many Americans were being attacked
by a major party's presidential nominee.
I mean, the attacks against women,
against immigrants, against minorities,
against our LGBT community,
against Americans with disabilities,
against a Gold Star family, I mean.
-Late-night hosts -- a couple of them have taken it pretty hard.
-I mean, really, you're just in the cross-hairs every day.
So thank you for doing that.
-I'm one of the heroes. Thank you.
-Well, probably if someone else were sitting here,
he might say that you're really demonstrating courage.
-Okay, yes. Exactly, exactly.
-So to me, that's what feels so different
and deeply troubling, candidly.
-So you're going through this again.
Another thing, which we've actually talked about before,
another thing that I feel sympathy for you,
which is I was also a child of the '90s
and I when I look back at the way I dressed in 1992,
I'm so psyched I wasn't a public figure.
[ Laughter ]
-And I'm jealous that you're not, yes.
-Because let's be honest.
Like, right now you're fitting in perfectly.
This look is fantastic.
It was really rough in the '90s.
-It was rough in the '90s.
-It was rough in the '90s for all of us.
-Something I was actually thinking about today,
'cause it's now October
and my daughter's really excited about Halloween
and getting to dress up,
is I remember convincing my mother
to let me put on the orange and black rubber bands on my braces.
-Yeah.
-And her actually trying to tell me,
like, I wasn't gonna be back in the orthodontist for weeks.
[ Laughter ]
Although maybe that was a fun thing to do for Halloween,
it was probably gonna be a decision I regretted.
And sure enough, like November 1st I was like,
"Mom, can we go back to the orthodontist?"
And she was like, "No, we cannot."
So not only are my '90s fashion expressions --
misguided foibles --
recorded for eternity,
so too are my braces colors.
-Yeah, there you go.
-Which is also just really sad.
-Look, it shows you really love
and are enthusiastic about the holidays,
which I think says a lot about you.
-Thank you. So hopefully my children will feel the same way.
-And you mentioned your -- So your daughter is 2?
-Yes.
-And is it true that you read the newspaper to her every day?
-I read the headlines to her
and to her little brother, Aidan, who's 3 1/2 months.
-Seth: 3 1/2 months, gotcha.
And is that a something that your parents did for you, yes?
-The first thing I remember learning how to read
is the newspaper.
And we would talk about kind of what I was reading
over breakfast or over dinner,
and so I hope to have that same tradition with my children.
And I realize
they don't quite understand what I'm talking about,
but hopefully it'll just be part of their lives
so that when they do understand, they will have opinions.
And I'm just so excited to learn
what they're gonna be most curious about,
interested in, and angry about the world.
-Are there some headlines with, based on the fact
how much their grandmother is in the news, you think,
"I might leave that one out, I might skip that one"?
-Well, I don't read the things
that I don't think children should be hearing.
-Gotcha. That's cool.
-Of any age.
-Yeah, with the newspaper, you're probably like,
"Page 1, 2, 8, 19, 20, there we go 25."
-Yeah, so there is definitely like selective reading.
-"Oh, there's a new train line. Let's read you this one."