1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:32,742 --> 00:00:34,952 (indistinct chatter) 4 00:00:39,290 --> 00:00:40,624 CHASTEN BUTTIGIEG: Hey, Tru. 5 00:00:40,708 --> 00:00:42,293 JESSE MOSS: Um, anything, um, 6 00:00:42,418 --> 00:00:45,546 you-you want to make sure that I ask him? Um... 7 00:00:45,629 --> 00:00:47,631 CHASTEN: But... I do think it would be 8 00:00:47,715 --> 00:00:50,968 interesting to ask him, um, 9 00:00:51,093 --> 00:00:55,931 like, "When you were young and confronting your identity, 10 00:00:56,056 --> 00:00:58,350 did you ever think that this was possible?" 11 00:00:58,476 --> 00:00:59,894 Yeah. Yeah, um... 12 00:00:59,977 --> 00:01:02,062 Uh, I love that. 13 00:01:03,314 --> 00:01:06,150 He did everything to climb every ladder 14 00:01:06,233 --> 00:01:08,444 without being his authentic self. 15 00:01:09,653 --> 00:01:12,782 I think people don’t understand how traumatic that is 16 00:01:12,865 --> 00:01:15,367 for people who push themselves so deep in the closet... 17 00:01:15,493 --> 00:01:17,828 -Yeah. -...and deny their identity... 18 00:01:17,912 --> 00:01:20,331 -Mm-hmm. -...in order to achieve. 19 00:01:21,123 --> 00:01:24,960 So I’d ask him, like, you know, "You spent so much of your life, 20 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:27,671 "in a way, hiding who you truly were. 21 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:29,882 -Mm-hmm. -"Did you feel like you were 22 00:01:30,007 --> 00:01:32,927 able to be your true self on the campaign trail?" 23 00:01:33,010 --> 00:01:34,386 -Yeah. -I want to, um... 24 00:01:34,470 --> 00:01:36,222 You think he’s ready to answer that question? 25 00:01:36,305 --> 00:01:37,681 Can he answer that? 26 00:01:37,807 --> 00:01:40,476 -He-he should. He’ll try. -Yeah. 27 00:01:40,601 --> 00:01:41,977 Ready? 28 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:43,604 -PETE BUTTIGIEG: Yeah. -Come sit down. 29 00:01:43,687 --> 00:01:45,481 PETE: (clears throat) This isn’t too regal, is it? 30 00:01:45,606 --> 00:01:48,192 Should we get a blanket or something? 31 00:01:48,317 --> 00:01:50,528 CHASTEN: So, I gave Jesse 32 00:01:50,611 --> 00:01:54,615 some questions that I’d really like for you to answer, 33 00:01:54,698 --> 00:01:56,283 and maybe they’ll make it, maybe they won’t. 34 00:01:56,408 --> 00:01:58,452 (mouths) 35 00:01:58,577 --> 00:02:02,122 -Don’t bullshit us, Peter, okay? -(chuckles) Okay, let’s do it. 36 00:02:02,206 --> 00:02:04,834 ♪ ♪ 37 00:02:06,335 --> 00:02:08,128 TREVOR NOAH: First things first. 38 00:02:08,212 --> 00:02:09,547 A lot of people are asking, 39 00:02:09,672 --> 00:02:11,966 "How do you pronounce this guy’s name?" 40 00:02:12,049 --> 00:02:13,300 (audience laughing) 41 00:02:13,384 --> 00:02:15,970 -It’s pronounced "Pete." -(laughter) 42 00:02:16,095 --> 00:02:17,179 Pete Buttige... 43 00:02:17,263 --> 00:02:18,973 B-Buttiget. Buttigeg. 44 00:02:19,056 --> 00:02:20,224 Butti-jeg. Butti-jeg? 45 00:02:20,307 --> 00:02:21,183 -REPORTER: Butti-gig. -Butti-gig? 46 00:02:21,267 --> 00:02:23,727 Boot... edge, edge. 47 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,730 REPORTER 2: A hometown boy who went to Harvard 48 00:02:26,814 --> 00:02:28,482 and became a Rhodes Scholar, 49 00:02:28,566 --> 00:02:32,111 only to return to the city where he grew up. 50 00:02:32,194 --> 00:02:34,363 REPORTER 3: Buttigieg took over just after Newsweek 51 00:02:34,446 --> 00:02:38,367 declared his hometown one of America’s dying cities. 52 00:02:38,492 --> 00:02:41,996 South Bend’s golden age was in the 1950s, 53 00:02:42,079 --> 00:02:45,416 but in the early ’60s, the Studebaker factory shut down 54 00:02:45,499 --> 00:02:49,086 and took the city’s economy along with it. 55 00:02:51,589 --> 00:02:54,383 He has done things to turn around housing in the area. 56 00:02:54,466 --> 00:02:56,302 He’s done things with pedestrianizing the city. 57 00:02:56,427 --> 00:02:58,345 REPORTER 4: He transformed an old factory 58 00:02:58,470 --> 00:03:00,598 into a business park for tech companies. 59 00:03:00,681 --> 00:03:03,267 He raised the minimum wage for city employees. 60 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:05,644 We would be well served if Washington started to look 61 00:03:05,728 --> 00:03:07,813 more like our best-run cities and towns 62 00:03:07,897 --> 00:03:09,690 rather than the other way around. 63 00:03:09,815 --> 00:03:11,108 (applause) 64 00:03:11,191 --> 00:03:12,776 REPORTER 5: No politician has ever gone 65 00:03:12,860 --> 00:03:15,070 straight from the mayor’s office to the White House. 66 00:03:15,154 --> 00:03:18,699 Pete Buttigieg thinks he can be the first to do it. 67 00:03:20,951 --> 00:03:23,078 REPORTER 6: He’s not only the first openly gay 68 00:03:23,162 --> 00:03:26,290 presidential candidate; he’s also a newlywed. 69 00:03:26,373 --> 00:03:28,334 Most people are either supportive 70 00:03:28,417 --> 00:03:30,753 or even enthusiastic about the idea 71 00:03:30,836 --> 00:03:33,297 of the first out person, uh, going this far. 72 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:35,883 Or they find a way to let me know they don’t care. 73 00:03:35,966 --> 00:03:38,052 A-And that’s historic, too. 74 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:43,432 This is the only chance you’ll ever get 75 00:03:43,515 --> 00:03:46,602 to vote for a Maltese American left-handed Episcopalian 76 00:03:46,685 --> 00:03:48,520 gay war veteran mayor millennial. 77 00:03:48,604 --> 00:03:50,689 (laughter, applause) 78 00:03:53,317 --> 00:03:56,445 REPORTER 7: 2020 may be the most crowded and diverse 79 00:03:56,570 --> 00:03:58,405 Democratic field of all time. 80 00:03:58,530 --> 00:04:01,075 The big question for the long-shot mayor is: 81 00:04:01,158 --> 00:04:04,411 How will he stand out in such an experienced crowd? 82 00:04:04,536 --> 00:04:06,372 My name is Pete Buttigieg. 83 00:04:06,455 --> 00:04:08,332 (cheering) 84 00:04:08,415 --> 00:04:10,125 They call me Mayor Pete. 85 00:04:10,209 --> 00:04:11,502 (cheering) 86 00:04:11,627 --> 00:04:13,921 I am a proud son of South Bend, Indiana, 87 00:04:14,004 --> 00:04:16,465 and I am running for President of the United States. 88 00:04:16,548 --> 00:04:19,635 (cheering) 89 00:04:34,024 --> 00:04:36,193 (birds chirping) 90 00:04:42,241 --> 00:04:44,743 (Pete whistling a tune) 91 00:04:48,831 --> 00:04:51,000 (pen writing) 92 00:04:54,211 --> 00:04:56,213 PETE: ♪ I’m just a bill ♪ 93 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:58,298 ♪ Just a regular bill ♪ 94 00:04:59,174 --> 00:05:02,720 ♪ And I’m sitting here on the mayor’s desk. ♪ 95 00:05:05,055 --> 00:05:07,599 -This is how a bill becomes law. -Mm-hmm. 96 00:05:07,683 --> 00:05:09,268 7.3 million bucks. 97 00:05:09,351 --> 00:05:11,311 Of course it’s a leap going from being a mayor 98 00:05:11,437 --> 00:05:13,230 to being a presidential candidate. 99 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:15,399 (whirring) 100 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:19,737 But it’s not like I would say, you know, 101 00:05:19,862 --> 00:05:21,697 "We’ve taken sewer automation to the next level. 102 00:05:21,780 --> 00:05:24,783 It’s world-class. Clearly, I should seek the presidency." 103 00:05:24,867 --> 00:05:26,452 (laughing): Right? It wasn’t, like, 104 00:05:26,577 --> 00:05:28,746 kind of, "A" led to "B" in that way. 105 00:05:28,829 --> 00:05:30,247 Uh, you know, one thing people definitely 106 00:05:30,330 --> 00:05:31,623 expect from their city 107 00:05:31,707 --> 00:05:33,417 is that we take care of the trash, the leaves, 108 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:34,668 uh, water and wastewater. 109 00:05:34,752 --> 00:05:36,420 That work never ends no matter, uh, 110 00:05:36,503 --> 00:05:38,380 what other things are getting a lot of attention these days. 111 00:05:38,464 --> 00:05:40,466 I started feeling like what was happening in the country 112 00:05:40,549 --> 00:05:42,092 and what was happening in our city 113 00:05:42,176 --> 00:05:44,053 were more and more one and the same. 114 00:05:44,136 --> 00:05:46,513 -Yours is the story that I’m telling. -(cheering) 115 00:05:46,597 --> 00:05:49,892 And since what was happening in the city broadly worked, 116 00:05:50,017 --> 00:05:52,352 I realized I had something to offer that was just different. 117 00:05:52,436 --> 00:05:54,146 First of all, if you watch the way 118 00:05:54,229 --> 00:05:57,691 wages stagnate and union participation has fallen, 119 00:05:57,775 --> 00:05:59,359 those two things started at the same time. 120 00:05:59,485 --> 00:06:02,446 I saw something in common with 121 00:06:02,529 --> 00:06:04,531 the alienation or the fear 122 00:06:04,656 --> 00:06:06,992 of people worried about auto jobs 123 00:06:07,076 --> 00:06:08,952 and alienation 124 00:06:09,036 --> 00:06:10,871 or fear of a kid coming out, 125 00:06:10,996 --> 00:06:13,415 because they all had to do with where you fit, 126 00:06:13,540 --> 00:06:15,292 and that there was way more overlap in those... 127 00:06:15,417 --> 00:06:17,419 those stories than you would think. 128 00:06:17,503 --> 00:06:19,254 The-the more I-I understood it, 129 00:06:19,338 --> 00:06:21,256 the more I found ways to give voice to it, 130 00:06:21,381 --> 00:06:24,551 and it all came down to that theme of belonging. 131 00:06:24,635 --> 00:06:25,928 It wasn’t a great man thing. 132 00:06:26,053 --> 00:06:27,304 It-it wasn’t like I thought, like, 133 00:06:27,387 --> 00:06:29,098 I’m gonna bestride the earth here 134 00:06:29,223 --> 00:06:31,892 and-and, you know, sweep history this way instead of that way, 135 00:06:32,017 --> 00:06:33,811 but it was kind of like... 136 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:35,604 somebody needs to say this, and actually, 137 00:06:35,687 --> 00:06:37,397 we need a president who understands this. 138 00:06:37,481 --> 00:06:39,191 And I think I understand this. 139 00:06:39,316 --> 00:06:40,692 I’m gonna go out here and see 140 00:06:40,776 --> 00:06:43,028 if people share that understanding. 141 00:06:47,241 --> 00:06:49,243 Senator, it’s, uh, Pete Buttigieg calling. 142 00:06:49,326 --> 00:06:51,203 How are you? 143 00:06:51,286 --> 00:06:52,996 MAN (on phone): I’m sorry. Who is this? 144 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:54,414 PETE: Uh, Pete Buttigieg calling 145 00:06:54,540 --> 00:06:56,041 with birthday greetings for the senator. 146 00:06:56,125 --> 00:06:58,001 MAN: Oh. Let me see if he can speak to you. 147 00:06:58,085 --> 00:06:59,253 PETE: Okay. 148 00:06:59,336 --> 00:07:01,130 Well, thank you. (chuckles) 149 00:07:01,213 --> 00:07:02,714 (smooth jazz music plays over phone) 150 00:07:02,798 --> 00:07:04,299 RECORDED VOICE: Your call is very important to us. 151 00:07:04,383 --> 00:07:05,634 Please hold. 152 00:07:05,717 --> 00:07:07,177 WOMAN: Hi. How are you? Good to see you. 153 00:07:07,261 --> 00:07:08,804 -All right. Lead the way. -All right, this way. 154 00:07:08,887 --> 00:07:10,472 Thank you for coming. Thank you for your service. 155 00:07:10,556 --> 00:07:11,932 -Oh, I appreciate that, sir. -I like what I’m hearing. 156 00:07:12,057 --> 00:07:14,017 Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much. 157 00:07:14,101 --> 00:07:16,520 -Good luck to you. -How you doing? Thank you. 158 00:07:16,645 --> 00:07:18,480 Mayor Pete, can I get you to sign my hat, please? 159 00:07:18,564 --> 00:07:20,524 Oh, wow, look at that. You bet. 160 00:07:20,649 --> 00:07:22,151 MAN: Thank you very much. Good luck. 161 00:07:22,276 --> 00:07:23,694 -PETE: Thank you. Appreciate it. -WOMAN: Mayor Pete! 162 00:07:23,777 --> 00:07:25,362 -All right. -This way. 163 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:26,905 All right. Lead the way. 164 00:07:27,030 --> 00:07:28,615 -I’m Denise. -Nice to see you. 165 00:07:28,699 --> 00:07:29,992 I think you’re the real thing. 166 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:31,535 -(laughing) -Well, thank you. I hope so. 167 00:07:31,660 --> 00:07:32,578 -(laughs) I better be. -WOMAN: The real thing. 168 00:07:32,661 --> 00:07:34,121 Thanks a lot for coming. 169 00:07:34,204 --> 00:07:36,290 Oh, you bet. Yeah, my husband and I both already think, 170 00:07:36,373 --> 00:07:37,791 -oh, it’s amazing. -Great. Great. 171 00:07:37,916 --> 00:07:39,418 Tell some friends. We’re still trying to win... 172 00:07:39,543 --> 00:07:40,919 We are. Yeah, we’re telling friends. 173 00:07:41,003 --> 00:07:42,629 -Good. Thank you. -Nice to meet you. 174 00:07:42,754 --> 00:07:44,673 -Same here. Glad I got to meet you. -Best of luck. Save us. 175 00:07:44,798 --> 00:07:46,717 -(laughter) -That’s what I’m here for. 176 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,012 PETE: Uh, first of all, I get the audacity of someone like me 177 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:51,972 trying to do something like this. 178 00:07:52,097 --> 00:07:54,057 But I also believe we are at a moment 179 00:07:54,141 --> 00:07:56,393 that calls for greater change 180 00:07:56,476 --> 00:07:58,312 than we have seen in a long time. 181 00:07:58,437 --> 00:08:00,898 And that’s why I’m bringing my admittedly unorthodox story 182 00:08:00,981 --> 00:08:02,482 into this picture. 183 00:08:02,566 --> 00:08:05,777 Coming from a community where young people grow up 184 00:08:05,861 --> 00:08:07,654 getting the message that the only way 185 00:08:07,738 --> 00:08:09,656 you can succeed is to get out. 186 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:11,325 I found purpose right at home. 187 00:08:11,408 --> 00:08:13,452 And our city’s story-- one that started this decade 188 00:08:13,535 --> 00:08:15,370 on a list of dying communities 189 00:08:15,454 --> 00:08:17,998 and is now growing in jobs and population 190 00:08:18,123 --> 00:08:21,335 at a clip we haven’t seen in my lifetime. 191 00:08:21,418 --> 00:08:23,003 The reason that’s so important 192 00:08:23,128 --> 00:08:25,297 is that we need to tell a different story 193 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:27,883 than the one that’s being sold out of the White House, 194 00:08:27,966 --> 00:08:30,636 which would have you believe that the only way to speak 195 00:08:30,761 --> 00:08:32,888 to communities like yours and like mine 196 00:08:32,971 --> 00:08:34,431 is through resentment, 197 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,266 that the only way we can be better off 198 00:08:36,350 --> 00:08:39,019 is to stop the clock and turn it back. 199 00:08:39,102 --> 00:08:41,897 That’s just not true. 200 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:43,607 I think we can reach people 201 00:08:43,690 --> 00:08:45,984 who may have stopped listening to what we have to say. 202 00:08:46,109 --> 00:08:48,570 Where is it written that a so-called red state 203 00:08:48,695 --> 00:08:50,280 or red county has to be red forever? 204 00:08:50,405 --> 00:08:52,324 We got to get out there and talk to them. 205 00:08:52,449 --> 00:08:54,701 This is the way that we can begin to win 206 00:08:54,785 --> 00:08:56,703 not just an election but an era. 207 00:08:56,828 --> 00:08:59,289 So, can I count on you for some help? 208 00:08:59,373 --> 00:09:02,334 (cheering, applause) 209 00:09:02,417 --> 00:09:04,253 Such a polar opposite of what we’ve been... 210 00:09:04,336 --> 00:09:06,129 -Yes. Yes. -You know, he’s smart and he’s calm. 211 00:09:06,213 --> 00:09:08,257 -In that sense, you couldn’t have a stronger... -Yeah. Yeah. 212 00:09:08,382 --> 00:09:10,300 And he’s self-effacing and just, like, 213 00:09:10,384 --> 00:09:12,010 he’s so opp-- he can’t be-- 214 00:09:12,094 --> 00:09:14,012 -he’s just the exact opposite. -Oh, dear. 215 00:09:14,096 --> 00:09:15,597 To me, it also illustrates kind of 216 00:09:15,681 --> 00:09:17,015 the resilience of our democracy 217 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:18,809 that somebody unknown and implausible 218 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:20,394 is kind of bubbling up in this way. 219 00:09:20,477 --> 00:09:22,354 -Yeah. -You know, I mean, it just says there’s some... 220 00:09:22,437 --> 00:09:24,314 MAN: We were waiting for the right person to come along. 221 00:09:24,398 --> 00:09:26,233 WOMAN: Yeah, it’s very interesting, very interesting. 222 00:09:26,316 --> 00:09:27,901 -PETE: Morning. How you doing? -(whooping) -Morning. 223 00:09:27,985 --> 00:09:29,736 -Oh, my God. Hello, sir. -Good morning. How you doing? 224 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:32,364 PETE: I don’t have a lot of the qualities you would expect, 225 00:09:32,447 --> 00:09:35,284 both in terms of profile and in terms of style. 226 00:09:36,243 --> 00:09:37,953 -How’s your morning going? -Good. 227 00:09:38,036 --> 00:09:40,956 The idea of somebody like a Bill Clinton, who famously 228 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:44,543 had this power to just make total strangers like him, 229 00:09:44,668 --> 00:09:47,087 was-was fascinating, and I wondered if that meant 230 00:09:47,170 --> 00:09:49,631 you had to have that kind of special power, 231 00:09:49,715 --> 00:09:51,717 that kind of gregarious charisma 232 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,970 to-to be in politics at that level. 233 00:09:55,095 --> 00:09:57,097 You have this image, right, of what a president 234 00:09:57,180 --> 00:09:59,933 or a presidential candidate will look like. 235 00:10:00,058 --> 00:10:01,935 Um... 236 00:10:02,019 --> 00:10:05,522 but then challenging that image was part of the idea. 237 00:10:05,605 --> 00:10:07,774 ♪ ♪ 238 00:10:10,569 --> 00:10:14,072 MAN: Yep, so it’s-it’s... sure, it’s "Pete for America." 239 00:10:16,491 --> 00:10:18,076 WOMAN: Pete! 240 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,536 PETE: Look at this. 241 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:21,330 They feel like a real life office. 242 00:10:21,413 --> 00:10:22,748 How you doing? 243 00:10:22,831 --> 00:10:24,082 -Happy first day. -Hi. Thank you. 244 00:10:24,166 --> 00:10:25,375 Settling in all right? 245 00:10:25,459 --> 00:10:26,793 -Yep. -Good. 246 00:10:26,877 --> 00:10:28,754 We have access to the whole voter file now-- 247 00:10:28,837 --> 00:10:30,464 -all 50 states and DC. -PETE: Good. 248 00:10:30,589 --> 00:10:32,090 Bought it all outright. 249 00:10:32,174 --> 00:10:34,885 I’ve known Pete since we started high school. 250 00:10:35,677 --> 00:10:37,763 Pete’s pretty introverted. He’s pretty quiet. 251 00:10:37,846 --> 00:10:42,059 Policy and some of that stuff is his sort of natural habitat. 252 00:10:42,142 --> 00:10:44,019 You know, if he wasn’t involved in politics 253 00:10:44,144 --> 00:10:47,022 or public service, I mean, like, he would be completely content 254 00:10:47,105 --> 00:10:48,815 teaching and reading 255 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:50,233 and doing that kind of thing. 256 00:10:50,359 --> 00:10:51,860 Pivot... Did somebody say "pivot table"? 257 00:10:51,943 --> 00:10:53,278 -WOMAN: (gasps) Pivot table! -I love pivot tables. 258 00:10:53,362 --> 00:10:54,821 -What are you trying to do? -Okay. 259 00:10:54,946 --> 00:10:56,573 MIKE: But he’s in a very public-facing role. 260 00:10:56,698 --> 00:10:58,617 -PETE: Do, like, the total of that column. -WOMAN: Okay. 261 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:00,535 And then the percent lives there. 262 00:11:00,619 --> 00:11:02,329 -Thank you so much. -That felt so great. 263 00:11:02,412 --> 00:11:04,498 -(laughing) -Not good. 264 00:11:04,623 --> 00:11:06,416 MIKE: Pete is a different kind of candidate, 265 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:08,960 and I think that we can be a different kind of campaign. 266 00:11:09,044 --> 00:11:10,879 Just be really, really kind 267 00:11:10,962 --> 00:11:13,048 and just be good listeners, you know, 268 00:11:13,131 --> 00:11:15,801 don’t talk ill of other candidates or campaigns. 269 00:11:15,884 --> 00:11:20,180 I’d love for us to reflect Pete and the values that he has. 270 00:11:20,263 --> 00:11:22,599 There are so many people who are running this year. 271 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:26,603 A really respected two-term vice president is running. 272 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:28,271 The runner-up to the last 273 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:30,857 presidential nominating process for our party is running. 274 00:11:30,941 --> 00:11:35,612 So just that learning curve is just so much steeper for us, 275 00:11:35,737 --> 00:11:38,782 and you do need to run a nimble campaign 276 00:11:38,865 --> 00:11:40,700 and be a little bit different, I think, 277 00:11:40,784 --> 00:11:42,577 to get attention and excitement. 278 00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:44,996 Right away, we’re gonna bring on probably about 50 staff in Iowa, 279 00:11:45,122 --> 00:11:47,165 40 staff in New Hampshire, 20 staff in Nevada, 280 00:11:47,249 --> 00:11:48,458 20 staff in South Carolina. 281 00:11:48,542 --> 00:11:50,335 I really want to make it so that people 282 00:11:50,419 --> 00:11:52,003 just feel like they’re part of this family. 283 00:11:52,087 --> 00:11:55,048 How many people do you have on board so far? 284 00:11:55,132 --> 00:11:57,092 -Three? -Yeah. 285 00:11:57,175 --> 00:11:59,845 (laughter) 286 00:12:01,179 --> 00:12:03,014 LIS SMITH: Dude, how stoked are you? 287 00:12:03,098 --> 00:12:05,434 I told you Pete Buttigieg was gonna take off. 288 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,937 What’s the explanation, is that he’s selling... 289 00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:12,065 that he’s offering something completely different 290 00:12:12,149 --> 00:12:13,984 and is the absolute opposite of Donald Trump, 291 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:15,694 and that’s what people want. 292 00:12:15,777 --> 00:12:18,071 He sounds completely different from everyone else out there. 293 00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:21,116 And he’s not going out there and-and performing for people. 294 00:12:21,199 --> 00:12:23,243 He’s not out there as a circus act. 295 00:12:23,368 --> 00:12:26,621 I-I really, really do think it’s as much about his style 296 00:12:26,705 --> 00:12:29,708 and about as much as who he is as a person 297 00:12:29,791 --> 00:12:32,794 as it is about, like, policy and all of that stuff. 298 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:35,088 We did see a lane, even if it was a narrow one, 299 00:12:35,213 --> 00:12:36,882 and it’s just... everything’s come together 300 00:12:36,965 --> 00:12:39,843 a lot faster than expected. 301 00:12:40,886 --> 00:12:42,929 PETE: So, what do we got to cover in this hour? 302 00:12:43,054 --> 00:12:44,764 LIS: Um, debate prep. 303 00:12:44,848 --> 00:12:47,350 This will be, by far, the largest audience 304 00:12:47,476 --> 00:12:49,644 that you’ve had during this campaign. 305 00:12:49,769 --> 00:12:51,563 PETE: Basically, we’re talking about approximately 15 sentences 306 00:12:51,646 --> 00:12:53,315 that I’ll be reading on air to explain... 307 00:12:53,398 --> 00:12:55,233 Exactly. Exactly. That’s what matters. Yeah. 308 00:12:55,358 --> 00:12:57,402 It’s not even a debate. It’s a media opportunity. 309 00:12:57,527 --> 00:12:58,945 Well, right. Thank you. 310 00:12:59,070 --> 00:13:00,989 All right, now we’re on the same page. 311 00:13:01,114 --> 00:13:03,074 MAN: They have to have some amount of exchange, though, 312 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,952 because if it’s just a question-and-answer thing, 313 00:13:06,036 --> 00:13:07,579 it’s terrible television, 314 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:09,998 and they’re trying to make television. 315 00:13:10,081 --> 00:13:12,626 Yeah, ’cause you could give some, like, baller-ass, 316 00:13:12,751 --> 00:13:15,253 wonky answer on North Korea, but no one will give a shit 317 00:13:15,337 --> 00:13:16,963 because, like, that’s... North Korea’s not 318 00:13:17,088 --> 00:13:19,716 where people’s hearts and minds are right now, you know... 319 00:13:19,841 --> 00:13:21,676 PETE: Lis, she certainly embodies 320 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,553 the sort of killer instinct that-that I think 321 00:13:23,678 --> 00:13:25,430 a lot of people associate with politics. 322 00:13:25,555 --> 00:13:27,599 It’s why people like you-- you speak in paragraphs-- 323 00:13:27,682 --> 00:13:29,100 but, like, got to, you know, 324 00:13:29,184 --> 00:13:30,810 make them, like, two-sentence paragraphs. 325 00:13:30,894 --> 00:13:32,604 PETE: You know, she’s always kind of 326 00:13:32,687 --> 00:13:35,398 walking the space between who I am coming into this 327 00:13:35,524 --> 00:13:37,526 and all the ways that I’m not like the others 328 00:13:37,609 --> 00:13:40,028 and these kind of requirements 329 00:13:40,153 --> 00:13:43,615 or at least expectations that the game has for you. 330 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:47,035 The challenge, of course, is-- how do you master the game 331 00:13:47,118 --> 00:13:49,663 without it changing you? 332 00:13:49,746 --> 00:13:51,623 Another question is-- how much more 333 00:13:51,748 --> 00:13:54,000 should we do to root this in biography? 334 00:13:54,125 --> 00:13:57,546 It’s like, look at this young Midwestern veteran 335 00:13:57,629 --> 00:14:00,006 who’s kind of out there, right? 336 00:14:00,131 --> 00:14:02,259 Um... 337 00:14:02,342 --> 00:14:04,094 and then we just got to make sure 338 00:14:04,177 --> 00:14:05,595 that doesn’t read as very white. 339 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,888 LIS: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 340 00:14:07,013 --> 00:14:08,807 Good. 341 00:14:22,904 --> 00:14:24,447 (indistinct chatter) 342 00:14:24,531 --> 00:14:26,157 AL SHARPTON: Let’s give the man some food. 343 00:14:26,241 --> 00:14:28,285 -(laughter) -MAN: Yeah! 344 00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:29,578 (indistinct chatter) 345 00:14:29,661 --> 00:14:31,413 -SERVER: And bread. -Thank you. 346 00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:33,456 -Enjoy. -Thanks. 347 00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:35,208 -You eat light? -Yeah. 348 00:14:35,333 --> 00:14:37,252 Blessing? 349 00:14:38,670 --> 00:14:41,047 -(indistinct chatter) -(cameras clicking rapidly) 350 00:14:42,757 --> 00:14:45,760 PETE: We talked through a number of issues that, uh, affect 351 00:14:45,844 --> 00:14:47,304 our community in South Bend. 352 00:14:47,387 --> 00:14:50,181 We talked also about, uh, an agenda for Black America 353 00:14:50,307 --> 00:14:53,977 that’s gonna be a very important part of my campaign. 354 00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:56,771 Something that focuses on home ownership, 355 00:14:56,896 --> 00:14:59,858 entrepreneurship, health, education 356 00:14:59,941 --> 00:15:01,860 and criminal justice reform 357 00:15:01,943 --> 00:15:03,778 in the context of making sure 358 00:15:03,862 --> 00:15:06,448 our democracy is accessible to everybody. 359 00:15:06,573 --> 00:15:08,074 -(clamoring) -REPORTERS: Mayor Pete! 360 00:15:08,158 --> 00:15:11,786 As the first openly homosexual president candidate, 361 00:15:11,870 --> 00:15:14,539 do you think that’s a plus or a minus 362 00:15:14,623 --> 00:15:16,750 towards your efforts to the Oval Office? 363 00:15:16,833 --> 00:15:18,793 PETE: I don’t believe it makes me any better 364 00:15:18,877 --> 00:15:20,211 or worse at my job. 365 00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:22,714 Uh, I do believe that, uh, anybody who has had 366 00:15:22,797 --> 00:15:25,925 some experience of being viewed as an other, 367 00:15:26,009 --> 00:15:28,595 uh, might be able to draw on that experience 368 00:15:28,678 --> 00:15:30,972 to help them make sure that they tackle 369 00:15:31,056 --> 00:15:32,807 other patterns of exclusion. 370 00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:35,226 I’m not saying that any one person’s experience 371 00:15:35,310 --> 00:15:36,978 is the same as any other’s. 372 00:15:37,103 --> 00:15:39,689 Uh, I’m saying that I believe I can draw on that 373 00:15:39,773 --> 00:15:41,524 in tackling all of the different ways 374 00:15:41,608 --> 00:15:44,611 that different people struggle for belonging in this country. 375 00:15:44,694 --> 00:15:46,529 SHARPTON: Let me say that 376 00:15:46,613 --> 00:15:49,157 we’ve got to deal with homophobia in all communities, 377 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,661 including the Black community, including the faith community, 378 00:15:52,744 --> 00:15:54,621 that we are saying that people 379 00:15:54,704 --> 00:15:57,207 ought to be judged on their merits, 380 00:15:57,290 --> 00:15:59,542 and that is why coming right to the center of Harlem, 381 00:15:59,626 --> 00:16:02,420 saying that we are going to accept 382 00:16:02,504 --> 00:16:04,297 and deal with anyone on their merits, 383 00:16:04,422 --> 00:16:07,717 and I think that’s the statement today that we’re making. 384 00:16:07,801 --> 00:16:09,594 There are some in our community 385 00:16:09,678 --> 00:16:12,681 that have still these homophobic feelings. 386 00:16:12,764 --> 00:16:16,518 They need to understand you cannot be anti-anybody 387 00:16:16,643 --> 00:16:19,729 without justifying others being anti-us. 388 00:16:19,813 --> 00:16:21,189 L-Last question to Dave. 389 00:16:21,272 --> 00:16:23,108 Last quest... last question to Dave Evans. 390 00:16:23,191 --> 00:16:25,235 Mayor, what do you tell people when they say, 391 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:26,945 "America just is not ready 392 00:16:27,028 --> 00:16:29,656 for someone who is openly gay as their president"? 393 00:16:29,739 --> 00:16:31,616 First of all, I-I’d say that, uh, 394 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:33,827 language of "America is just not ready," 395 00:16:33,910 --> 00:16:35,954 uh, is something we’ve heard before. 396 00:16:36,037 --> 00:16:38,415 I think it gives America very little credit. 397 00:16:38,498 --> 00:16:41,251 I wasn’t sure when I came out back home in South Bend, 398 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:43,253 uh, how South Bend would respond, 399 00:16:43,336 --> 00:16:47,090 but my community lifted me up, uh, as a brother and as a son. 400 00:16:47,173 --> 00:16:49,551 LIS: Great. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. 401 00:16:49,634 --> 00:16:53,012 -(indistinct chatter) -(cameras clicking rapidly) 402 00:16:55,932 --> 00:16:58,560 MAN: Everybody stop, stop, stop, stop. 403 00:16:59,436 --> 00:17:01,771 (dial clicking) 404 00:17:01,896 --> 00:17:04,065 (water running) 405 00:17:09,446 --> 00:17:10,572 (dog barks) 406 00:17:10,697 --> 00:17:12,407 (door closing) 407 00:17:17,996 --> 00:17:20,206 PETE: There wasn’t a moment I fell off my horse 408 00:17:20,331 --> 00:17:22,876 and just knew that this was what I had to do next. 409 00:17:22,959 --> 00:17:25,712 A lot of it was the conversation with Chasten. 410 00:17:26,671 --> 00:17:27,881 (dog whines) 411 00:17:27,964 --> 00:17:29,257 It was like, "Look, I-I think... 412 00:17:29,340 --> 00:17:30,467 I think I might run for president." 413 00:17:30,550 --> 00:17:32,135 (laughs) "What do you think?" 414 00:17:32,218 --> 00:17:34,763 And talking about it and... 415 00:17:34,846 --> 00:17:37,557 just putting it out there on the table as a serious idea. 416 00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:39,142 And then the more you’ve named it, 417 00:17:39,267 --> 00:17:40,477 the more you’ve said it, 418 00:17:40,602 --> 00:17:41,811 the more it starts to become real. 419 00:17:41,895 --> 00:17:43,271 What are you working on? 420 00:17:43,354 --> 00:17:45,690 Foreign policy speech at 11:15. 421 00:17:45,774 --> 00:17:47,525 (inhales deeply) 422 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:50,945 It’s good, but it needs a lot of work. 423 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:52,572 Okay, have fun. 424 00:17:52,697 --> 00:17:54,115 (toy squeaks) 425 00:17:55,784 --> 00:17:56,785 (squeaks) 426 00:17:56,910 --> 00:17:58,620 CHASTEN: There’s no denying 427 00:17:58,745 --> 00:18:01,998 that man has the energy and the drive for the office. 428 00:18:03,249 --> 00:18:04,793 He’s always preparing speeches, 429 00:18:04,876 --> 00:18:06,544 he’s always preparing for interviews, 430 00:18:06,669 --> 00:18:10,465 and he still has a full-time job as mayor. 431 00:18:11,841 --> 00:18:13,760 -(glass clatters) -(groans) Peter. 432 00:18:13,843 --> 00:18:16,513 I made Pete promise that we would be our authentic selves 433 00:18:16,596 --> 00:18:19,557 and we would have fun, and make sure that we weren’t 434 00:18:19,641 --> 00:18:21,935 gonna have to sacrifice, you know, our true selves 435 00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:23,853 in order to make this project work. 436 00:18:23,937 --> 00:18:25,772 Cheers. 437 00:18:26,773 --> 00:18:29,442 Can we eat the ice cream before the chicken gets here? 438 00:18:29,526 --> 00:18:32,278 You can do whatever you want. It’s date night. 439 00:18:32,362 --> 00:18:34,280 PETE: Mm. 440 00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:36,366 Date night. 441 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,619 (humming a tune) 442 00:18:41,621 --> 00:18:44,040 CHASTEN: I don’t think I ever assumed this would be 443 00:18:44,165 --> 00:18:45,708 the kind of life that I would have, 444 00:18:45,792 --> 00:18:47,710 so I didn’t prepare for this moment 445 00:18:47,836 --> 00:18:50,797 by studying policy or politics 446 00:18:50,922 --> 00:18:53,633 and preparing to be in the limelight. 447 00:18:53,758 --> 00:18:55,260 In, like, eighth grade, 448 00:18:55,385 --> 00:18:59,848 I ran for student council and just bombed. 449 00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:02,475 But what I am good at talking about is myself, 450 00:19:02,559 --> 00:19:05,520 and right now I think that’s enough for a lot of people. 451 00:19:05,603 --> 00:19:07,188 -(laughter, chatter) -All right. 452 00:19:07,272 --> 00:19:10,149 -I pledge my heart... -GROUP: I pledge my heart... 453 00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:12,318 -To the rainbow... -To the rainbow... 454 00:19:12,402 --> 00:19:14,195 Of the Not So Typical Gay Camp... 455 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:16,573 Of the Not So Typical Gay Camp... 456 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:18,157 -One camp... -One camp... 457 00:19:18,283 --> 00:19:19,951 -Full of pride... -Full of pride... 458 00:19:20,034 --> 00:19:22,161 -Indivisible... -Indivisible... 459 00:19:22,245 --> 00:19:24,497 With affirmation and equal rights for all. 460 00:19:24,581 --> 00:19:27,250 With affirmation and equal rights for all. 461 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:29,043 Watch your heads. 462 00:19:29,127 --> 00:19:31,170 (whooping, cheering) 463 00:19:31,296 --> 00:19:33,214 CHASTEN: Um, I went to a high school 464 00:19:33,298 --> 00:19:37,302 of 1,500 kids, and nobody was out. 465 00:19:37,385 --> 00:19:41,097 It was extremely unsafe to be out, 466 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,057 uh, when I went to high school. 467 00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:46,728 I didn’t even know anyone else who may have remotely been gay. 468 00:19:46,853 --> 00:19:48,646 Like, I was always craving 469 00:19:48,730 --> 00:19:50,732 someone to be involved in politics 470 00:19:50,815 --> 00:19:52,817 who would speak the way I would 471 00:19:52,942 --> 00:19:54,569 if I was in the room with those people, 472 00:19:54,652 --> 00:19:56,404 but then all of a sudden, here I am. 473 00:19:56,487 --> 00:19:58,114 (indistinct chatter) 474 00:19:58,239 --> 00:20:02,785 We’re gonna pass out potatoes to make your very own drag tater 475 00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:04,746 that you get to take home with you. 476 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:06,456 PARTICIPANT: Oh, my gosh! That’s really good. 477 00:20:06,539 --> 00:20:08,583 -Who’s coming out to play? -(deep voice): It’s Cherry. 478 00:20:08,666 --> 00:20:10,793 (laughter) 479 00:20:11,836 --> 00:20:14,255 Being out on the trail gives me the opportunity 480 00:20:14,339 --> 00:20:15,882 to come do things like this. 481 00:20:16,007 --> 00:20:18,676 I mean, this stuff just, like, puts the wind in my sails. 482 00:20:18,801 --> 00:20:22,722 -It just reminds me of the importance of the job. -Yeah. 483 00:20:22,847 --> 00:20:25,558 PARTICIPANT: How do you deal with not only, like, 484 00:20:25,642 --> 00:20:27,685 the homophobia that he gets 485 00:20:27,810 --> 00:20:29,729 but also, like, the... like, just, like, 486 00:20:29,812 --> 00:20:32,649 the attacks that you have to face as, like... 487 00:20:32,774 --> 00:20:34,859 PETE: Chasten had a different role to play than I did, 488 00:20:34,943 --> 00:20:36,903 and we had to figure that out as we went. 489 00:20:37,028 --> 00:20:42,158 The challenge from the get-go was how to be honest and proud 490 00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:44,369 and yet how to do it without it swallowing 491 00:20:44,494 --> 00:20:46,788 who I was or what our campaign was about. 492 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:50,708 Because, to some people, it was a minor detail. 493 00:20:50,792 --> 00:20:52,835 To some people, it was everything. 494 00:20:52,919 --> 00:20:54,253 -(clamoring) -REPORTER: I know. 495 00:20:54,337 --> 00:20:56,381 -I was showing him. -Yeah, Pete! 496 00:20:56,506 --> 00:20:59,425 Pete, will you answer a tough question? 497 00:20:59,509 --> 00:21:01,511 God loves you. He just doesn’t love your sin. 498 00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:02,971 MAN: You’re a dick. 499 00:21:03,054 --> 00:21:04,639 -Am I? Why do you say that? -You’re a dick. 500 00:21:04,722 --> 00:21:06,307 -Why do you say that? -I see you at all the events. 501 00:21:06,432 --> 00:21:07,976 -You’re a dick. -Hey, what’s up? 502 00:21:08,101 --> 00:21:09,978 Have I... have I... have I shown any dick behavior today? 503 00:21:10,061 --> 00:21:11,521 -You are a dick. Yes. -Besides you coming... 504 00:21:11,646 --> 00:21:13,189 Every time I see you, you show dick behavior. 505 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:14,482 What-what have I...? Jesus loves you, man. 506 00:21:14,607 --> 00:21:15,942 That’s all you do is dick behavior. 507 00:21:16,025 --> 00:21:17,527 So, can we... so, can we have a-a conversation? 508 00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:19,445 You’re not speaking for Jesus. 509 00:21:19,529 --> 00:21:21,406 I love you, man. Jesus loves you. 510 00:21:21,489 --> 00:21:23,074 You’re not speaking for Jesus. 511 00:21:23,199 --> 00:21:24,742 I’m not. Are you? 512 00:21:24,826 --> 00:21:27,120 ’Cause how many times did Jesus call somebody a dick? 513 00:21:27,245 --> 00:21:29,414 -You’re not speaking for Jesus. -What’s going on, brother? 514 00:21:29,539 --> 00:21:31,916 Pete, will you answer a tough question? 515 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,419 CHASTEN: When you agree to run for president, 516 00:21:34,502 --> 00:21:36,421 you are inviting people in 517 00:21:36,504 --> 00:21:38,923 to scrutinize you, to tear you apart. 518 00:21:39,007 --> 00:21:44,554 Many, many, many queer people have grown up 519 00:21:44,679 --> 00:21:48,433 in a society and culture that has told us we don’t belong. 520 00:21:48,558 --> 00:21:50,893 So we’ll... we’ll hold on to one another, 521 00:21:50,977 --> 00:21:53,646 and we’ll push through all the negativity 522 00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:55,898 and the hatred together, 523 00:21:56,024 --> 00:21:59,986 um, ’cause in the end, I mean, we’ve got a campaign to win. 524 00:22:00,069 --> 00:22:01,529 (theme music playing) 525 00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:05,867 JAKE TAPPER: Tonight, Mayor Buttigieg will take questions 526 00:22:05,950 --> 00:22:08,995 from voters in his first nationally televised town hall. 527 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,622 Please welcome Mayor Pete Buttigieg. 528 00:22:11,748 --> 00:22:13,541 PETE: We knew going into the town hall 529 00:22:13,624 --> 00:22:15,251 that I had to have a big night. 530 00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,420 Turns out, if you get an hour on national television 531 00:22:17,503 --> 00:22:18,838 and you can use it well, 532 00:22:18,921 --> 00:22:21,090 then that can work wonders for your chances. 533 00:22:21,174 --> 00:22:23,760 TAPPER: Do you think Vice President Pence would be 534 00:22:23,843 --> 00:22:26,345 a-a better or worse president than President Trump? 535 00:22:26,429 --> 00:22:28,264 Ugh. Um... 536 00:22:28,347 --> 00:22:31,059 (scattered laughter) 537 00:22:31,142 --> 00:22:32,977 (audience laughing) 538 00:22:34,937 --> 00:22:37,482 Do... Does it have to be between those two? 539 00:22:37,565 --> 00:22:39,400 TAPPER: Politics is about choices, man. You know that. 540 00:22:39,525 --> 00:22:41,736 PETE: I mean, his interpretation of Scripture 541 00:22:41,819 --> 00:22:43,446 is pretty different from mine, to begin with. 542 00:22:43,571 --> 00:22:46,032 Okay, I... my understanding of Scripture is that it is about 543 00:22:46,157 --> 00:22:49,327 protecting the stranger and the prisoner 544 00:22:49,410 --> 00:22:53,498 and the poor person and that idea of welcome. 545 00:22:53,581 --> 00:22:55,208 -(applause) -That’s... 546 00:22:55,291 --> 00:22:58,377 That’s what I get in the Gospel wh-when I’m in church. 547 00:22:58,503 --> 00:23:01,464 And his has a lot more to do with-with sexuality 548 00:23:01,547 --> 00:23:04,509 and, uh, I don’t know, a certain view of rectitude. 549 00:23:04,592 --> 00:23:06,636 But even if you buy into that, 550 00:23:06,761 --> 00:23:09,639 how could he allow himself to become the... 551 00:23:09,722 --> 00:23:12,225 the cheerleader of the porn star presidency? 552 00:23:12,308 --> 00:23:15,394 Is it that he... is it that he stopped believing in Scripture 553 00:23:15,478 --> 00:23:17,146 when he started believing in Donald Trump? 554 00:23:17,271 --> 00:23:20,316 -I don’t know. I don’t know. -(audience cheering) 555 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:23,486 CHASTEN: I thought the town hall was a-a great turning point. 556 00:23:23,611 --> 00:23:26,155 He answered every question truthfully, honestly. 557 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,866 He just wants to have a conversation with people. 558 00:23:28,991 --> 00:23:30,827 And that’s where I felt like, thank God. 559 00:23:30,910 --> 00:23:33,371 Like, we had that moment, and it was on a national stage. 560 00:23:33,454 --> 00:23:35,123 A lot of people were paying attention. 561 00:23:35,206 --> 00:23:38,709 Uh, and that’s where it took off-- rather quickly. 562 00:23:40,795 --> 00:23:42,255 (audience cheering) 563 00:23:42,338 --> 00:23:43,631 ♪ ♪ 564 00:23:43,756 --> 00:23:45,550 CHRIS WALLACE: I got to tell you, 565 00:23:45,633 --> 00:23:47,969 more people have shown up for this town hall 566 00:23:48,052 --> 00:23:50,221 than any of our previous ones. 567 00:23:50,304 --> 00:23:54,016 Why are you suddenly rising in the polls? 568 00:23:54,142 --> 00:23:56,519 Well, I think part of it is that people are looking 569 00:23:56,644 --> 00:23:58,437 for something completely different. 570 00:23:58,563 --> 00:24:00,690 You know, as a mayor, you’re on the front lines. 571 00:24:00,815 --> 00:24:02,817 You are responsible for everything. 572 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,153 One minute, it’s parks and rec; the next minute, it’s 573 00:24:05,278 --> 00:24:07,321 an officer-involved shooting with racial sensitivity. 574 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:09,323 You have to handle it all. 575 00:24:09,407 --> 00:24:11,284 If you were to, uh, win, 576 00:24:11,367 --> 00:24:13,327 you would be the youngest president 577 00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:15,329 -in American history. -Yeah. 578 00:24:15,413 --> 00:24:17,206 One thing that people might not know about you 579 00:24:17,331 --> 00:24:18,708 is that you speak eight languages, 580 00:24:18,791 --> 00:24:22,044 -among them Norwegian and Maltese. -Uh-huh. 581 00:24:22,170 --> 00:24:24,046 -He’s got a very calming presence, Pete. -Yeah, I... 582 00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:26,174 You’re like the Mister Rogers of the Democratic field. 583 00:24:26,257 --> 00:24:28,342 I’ll-I’ll take that as a compliment. 584 00:24:28,426 --> 00:24:29,886 (applause) 585 00:24:30,011 --> 00:24:32,180 Now that you’ve been on the campaign trail for a while, 586 00:24:32,305 --> 00:24:34,056 how real are you? 587 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:35,349 (laughter) 588 00:24:35,433 --> 00:24:38,060 REPORTER: He is a veteran. He is honest. 589 00:24:38,144 --> 00:24:40,104 He seems like he’s a lot about empathy here. 590 00:24:40,188 --> 00:24:42,148 PETE: Any government executive job 591 00:24:42,273 --> 00:24:44,567 is not just about passing good policies, 592 00:24:44,650 --> 00:24:46,319 but it’s also about managing, 593 00:24:46,444 --> 00:24:48,029 and most of all, it’s a moral job. 594 00:24:48,112 --> 00:24:49,363 And that’s the part I think 595 00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:51,115 we’re missing today in the presidency. 596 00:24:51,199 --> 00:24:53,743 It’s a moral office, not just a management office. 597 00:24:53,826 --> 00:24:55,786 MIKE: Other people who are 598 00:24:55,870 --> 00:24:57,705 running for president have had just 599 00:24:57,788 --> 00:24:59,540 a constant growth curve... 600 00:24:59,665 --> 00:25:01,834 -Wow! -...after years in politics. 601 00:25:01,918 --> 00:25:05,129 I started in several months ago talking about a wealth tax. 602 00:25:05,213 --> 00:25:07,840 I’m more optimistic about America’s future today 603 00:25:07,924 --> 00:25:10,468 than when I got elected at age 29. 604 00:25:10,551 --> 00:25:13,554 MIKE: This has been, like, point A to point B, 605 00:25:13,638 --> 00:25:14,889 like, light speed. 606 00:25:14,972 --> 00:25:17,433 And so we’ve created moments for him 607 00:25:17,558 --> 00:25:19,143 to take advantage of media opportunities 608 00:25:19,268 --> 00:25:21,312 to get in front of more and more people. 609 00:25:21,395 --> 00:25:23,272 PETE: People are more susceptible 610 00:25:23,356 --> 00:25:25,650 to messages that revolve around hate, 611 00:25:25,775 --> 00:25:30,738 people are more susceptible to xenophobia and to racism 612 00:25:30,821 --> 00:25:33,199 when they feel out of touch 613 00:25:33,282 --> 00:25:35,660 with the political environment that they’re in overall. 614 00:25:35,743 --> 00:25:37,578 And we’d better pay attention to that. 615 00:25:37,662 --> 00:25:39,705 VAN JONES: CNN’s calling you the hottest candidate in this race. 616 00:25:39,789 --> 00:25:41,415 Scarborough basically compared you 617 00:25:41,499 --> 00:25:43,626 to Barack Obama himself. 618 00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:45,211 -How does that feel? -Oh, it feels great. 619 00:25:45,336 --> 00:25:47,129 Uh, you know, I’m trying not to let it go to my head. 620 00:25:47,213 --> 00:25:51,884 Pete Buttigieg has come to surge in fundraising. 621 00:25:51,968 --> 00:25:54,303 Three months ago, most of the people in the country 622 00:25:54,387 --> 00:25:56,347 did not know your name, and now 623 00:25:56,430 --> 00:26:00,768 you are sitting at number three in the polling. 624 00:26:00,851 --> 00:26:02,478 (audience cheering) 625 00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:04,647 ♪ Tell me now or never ♪ 626 00:26:04,772 --> 00:26:07,149 ♪ We’re safe and sound ♪ 627 00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:10,236 ♪ When we stick together... ♪ 628 00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:12,488 (song fades) 629 00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:16,909 -CHASTEN: See you soon. -WOMAN: Safe travels. 630 00:26:16,993 --> 00:26:18,995 -You, too. -See you, Ali. -Bye, Mayor. Bye, Jesse. 631 00:26:19,078 --> 00:26:20,746 -See you soon. -Where should I sit? 632 00:26:20,830 --> 00:26:23,457 -JESSE: How about I bring... Can I bring this bench over? -Yeah. 633 00:26:25,376 --> 00:26:27,545 CHASTEN: What’s meeting your expectations? 634 00:26:27,628 --> 00:26:30,131 And what has surprised you? 635 00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:31,757 PETE (sighs): I think what’s surprised me 636 00:26:31,841 --> 00:26:33,384 is how quickly it’s all popped. 637 00:26:33,467 --> 00:26:36,095 Like, we thought this was gonna be a slow burn, and... 638 00:26:36,178 --> 00:26:38,180 it’s blown up so quickly. 639 00:26:38,264 --> 00:26:40,891 But again, it-it’s blown up and it hasn’t, right? 640 00:26:40,975 --> 00:26:42,685 It’s not like we’re winning. 641 00:26:42,768 --> 00:26:45,229 It’s just that we’re known. 642 00:26:45,313 --> 00:26:49,442 How do you know how to do what you’re doing? 643 00:26:49,567 --> 00:26:51,485 Hmm. 644 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,237 Um... 645 00:26:54,488 --> 00:26:57,658 Well... this whole thing is on-the-job training. 646 00:26:57,742 --> 00:26:59,702 I mean, you learn by doing. 647 00:26:59,827 --> 00:27:01,162 But... 648 00:27:01,245 --> 00:27:03,956 I kind of know what to do ’cause of being mayor. 649 00:27:04,081 --> 00:27:06,375 Like, I know how to handle myself in a TV studio. 650 00:27:06,459 --> 00:27:08,711 The difference is just there’s way more people watching 651 00:27:08,794 --> 00:27:11,047 in the TV studios I go into now. 652 00:27:11,172 --> 00:27:12,673 I know how to work a room. 653 00:27:12,757 --> 00:27:16,969 I know how to explain complicated things. 654 00:27:17,053 --> 00:27:18,888 I know how to repeat myself 655 00:27:18,971 --> 00:27:22,058 without going totally brain-dead. 656 00:27:22,183 --> 00:27:23,851 Um... 657 00:27:23,934 --> 00:27:25,978 and the rest, I think I’m just figuring out. 658 00:27:26,062 --> 00:27:28,022 (chuckles) 659 00:27:30,024 --> 00:27:32,193 (birds chirping) 660 00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:47,833 ♪ ♪ 661 00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:54,673 REPORTER: This week, as most of the 2020 field 662 00:27:54,799 --> 00:27:56,592 is preparing for the first debates in Miami, 663 00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:59,929 one candidate is dealing with a crisis back home. 664 00:28:00,012 --> 00:28:02,807 A developing story we’ve been following. 665 00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:05,768 The South Bend police officer who fatally shot a man 666 00:28:05,851 --> 00:28:08,062 early Sunday morning has been identified. 667 00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:10,356 The St. Joe County Prosecutor’s Office says 668 00:28:10,481 --> 00:28:14,568 Sergeant Ryan O’Neill is the officer who fired the shot 669 00:28:14,693 --> 00:28:17,696 that killed Eric J. Logan of South Bend. 670 00:28:17,822 --> 00:28:21,700 O’Neill has been placed on paid administrative leave. 671 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,579 PETE: We’d been gearing up for debate prep for weeks, 672 00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,665 trying to be in the zone for that, 673 00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:29,917 and chief of staff said that there had been 674 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,878 an officer-involved shooting-- it was a white officer 675 00:28:32,962 --> 00:28:36,632 and that it was a-a Black individual who had been shot. 676 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:39,844 And then, a little later, we learned that he didn’t make it. 677 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,056 MAN: Father in heaven, our city is hurting 678 00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:45,474 and in pain. 679 00:28:45,558 --> 00:28:48,018 We thank you that you’ve given even our leader, 680 00:28:48,102 --> 00:28:53,399 Mayor Pete Buttigieg, godly, uh, instructions and idea 681 00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:57,027 to bring forth a town hall meeting in our community 682 00:28:57,111 --> 00:28:59,864 where we can be listeners-- good listeners-- 683 00:28:59,989 --> 00:29:02,867 unto those who are pained at this time. 684 00:29:02,950 --> 00:29:05,161 We thank you for the questions that you’ve given us 685 00:29:05,244 --> 00:29:07,872 and those questions that shall come from the audience. 686 00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:11,542 Give us wisdom to be able to articulate back 687 00:29:11,667 --> 00:29:14,462 to the questions that shall be raised, O God. 688 00:29:14,545 --> 00:29:16,755 ALL: Amen. 689 00:29:18,174 --> 00:29:21,469 PETE: We are here to have tough conversations, 690 00:29:21,552 --> 00:29:25,055 but I want everyone here at least to be empowered, 691 00:29:25,181 --> 00:29:27,433 and I want to make sure voices are heard. 692 00:29:27,516 --> 00:29:28,934 (clamoring) 693 00:29:29,059 --> 00:29:31,979 My question is: How long before you take action 694 00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:34,190 and you respond to what the community 695 00:29:34,273 --> 00:29:37,193 has been asking for, for years? 696 00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:38,736 PETE: Uh, first of all, 697 00:29:38,819 --> 00:29:40,613 I welcome the spirit of that suggestion. 698 00:29:40,696 --> 00:29:43,616 I’m always trying to get more voices to be heard. 699 00:29:43,699 --> 00:29:47,620 I don’t want to seem defensive, but we’ve taken a lot of steps-- 700 00:29:47,703 --> 00:29:50,039 they clearly haven’t been enough-- 701 00:29:50,164 --> 00:29:53,501 but I cannot accept the suggestion that we did nothing. 702 00:29:53,584 --> 00:29:55,461 If it were not for the conversations we had, 703 00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:57,922 we might not have done what we did on bias training, 704 00:29:58,005 --> 00:29:59,924 civil rights training, community policing, 705 00:30:00,007 --> 00:30:02,134 introducing the cameras, the online transparency. 706 00:30:02,218 --> 00:30:04,136 But I acknowledge that it has not been enough. 707 00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:07,014 WOMAN: I am raising a seven-year-old grandson 708 00:30:07,097 --> 00:30:09,934 that when he sees the police, he is afraid. 709 00:30:10,017 --> 00:30:12,478 That is not what’s supposed to happen 710 00:30:12,561 --> 00:30:16,565 in America, in Indiana, in 2019. 711 00:30:16,649 --> 00:30:18,984 WOMAN 2: Get the racists off the streets. 712 00:30:19,068 --> 00:30:23,280 It’s disrespectful that I wake up every day scared. 713 00:30:23,364 --> 00:30:26,450 It’s disrespectful that I have three boys 714 00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:30,412 that I have to teach today what to do! 715 00:30:31,705 --> 00:30:33,207 Get them off the streets! 716 00:30:33,290 --> 00:30:35,334 MAN: I want to say I love the city so much 717 00:30:35,417 --> 00:30:38,879 and I want to support y’all, but I refuse to lay down my respect 718 00:30:38,963 --> 00:30:40,965 for these people out here that’s hurt. 719 00:30:41,048 --> 00:30:42,800 To-to say something that’s a photo op 720 00:30:42,883 --> 00:30:45,302 and say something that-that sounds meaningful but it ain’t. 721 00:30:45,386 --> 00:30:47,930 The same process that y’all been telling us to trust, 722 00:30:48,055 --> 00:30:49,682 y’all told us in 2016 when we was... 723 00:30:49,765 --> 00:30:51,433 when we was protesting Aaron Knepper the first time. 724 00:30:51,559 --> 00:30:53,811 -And we tired! -The same process 725 00:30:53,894 --> 00:30:55,104 that y’all asking us to trust, 726 00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:56,564 so how can we trust this process? 727 00:30:56,647 --> 00:30:58,315 How can we ask another Black man to go join 728 00:30:58,399 --> 00:31:00,609 the police department to try to be part of the change 729 00:31:00,693 --> 00:31:02,778 when y’all got sexual harassment, uh... 730 00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:04,280 sexual harassment charges 731 00:31:04,363 --> 00:31:05,990 inside the South Bend Police Department? 732 00:31:06,073 --> 00:31:07,741 Y’all know y’all promote the bad officers 733 00:31:07,825 --> 00:31:09,285 and-and demote the good ones. 734 00:31:09,368 --> 00:31:10,786 Y’all got racism inside of your police department. 735 00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,454 How are we supposed to trust you?! 736 00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:14,665 You want our votes-- which I doubt you’re gonna get it-- 737 00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:16,667 do your job just so you can have a moral compass 738 00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:19,003 when you leave this place, dawg, ’cause right now, 739 00:31:19,086 --> 00:31:20,796 -the streets is crazy, man. -MAN: All right. 740 00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:23,090 PETE: This is the beginning of the conversation, not the end, 741 00:31:23,173 --> 00:31:26,468 and I need everyone to participate and stay involved, 742 00:31:26,594 --> 00:31:29,471 so you can decide whether or not you believe in me, 743 00:31:29,555 --> 00:31:31,765 but I believe in this city, I believe in you, 744 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:34,768 and this is part of it, and we’ll keep it up, 745 00:31:34,893 --> 00:31:37,855 and I thank everyone for caring enough to be part of this, 746 00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:40,357 and I thank everyone for believing that there’s 747 00:31:40,441 --> 00:31:44,111 a way forward in our community, because this is our home. 748 00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,363 -So thank you. -(applause) 749 00:31:48,365 --> 00:31:50,576 REPORTER: How do you think this is going to impact 750 00:31:50,659 --> 00:31:52,202 your stand with African Americans 751 00:31:52,328 --> 00:31:55,039 not just here in South Bend but nationally, as well? 752 00:31:55,164 --> 00:31:57,416 PETE: I’m sick of these things being talked about 753 00:31:57,499 --> 00:31:59,752 in political terms. 754 00:31:59,835 --> 00:32:03,339 Um, like it’s a show sometimes. 755 00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:06,216 It’s people’s lives. 756 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:11,555 I am motivated not out of some political imperative 757 00:32:11,639 --> 00:32:15,017 but as somebody whose... whose city is hurting. 758 00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:19,021 Seeing people I’ve known for years 759 00:32:19,146 --> 00:32:23,359 anguished, frustrated, upset, angry-- 760 00:32:23,442 --> 00:32:25,903 angry at the city, angry at me-- 761 00:32:25,986 --> 00:32:27,946 and I’m angry, too. 762 00:32:28,072 --> 00:32:31,116 REPORTER: I’ve never seen a mayor stand in front of people 763 00:32:31,241 --> 00:32:34,745 who are, like, really being very raw. 764 00:32:34,828 --> 00:32:37,956 Why-why are you doing this? 765 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,833 I just think it’s my job. 766 00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:41,460 Um... 767 00:32:41,543 --> 00:32:44,254 I don’t know if it’s smart or not. 768 00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:48,884 I don’t know if it’s strategic or not. 769 00:32:49,009 --> 00:32:50,719 But it’s my city. 770 00:32:50,844 --> 00:32:53,555 Mayor Pete, with emotions so raw in South Bend right now, 771 00:32:53,639 --> 00:32:55,307 do you feel that you can leave 772 00:32:55,391 --> 00:32:57,101 your community this week to participate 773 00:32:57,184 --> 00:32:58,977 in the Democratic debate? 774 00:32:59,061 --> 00:33:01,313 (quiet, indistinct chatter) 775 00:33:02,690 --> 00:33:04,858 ♪ ♪ 776 00:33:09,697 --> 00:33:12,199 PETE: I’ve never felt a bigger divide 777 00:33:12,282 --> 00:33:14,326 between what was called for 778 00:33:14,410 --> 00:33:16,745 as a candidate and what was required as-as a mayor. 779 00:33:16,870 --> 00:33:19,373 As a candidate, your job is to look good. 780 00:33:19,498 --> 00:33:21,875 And, um, 781 00:33:21,959 --> 00:33:24,878 don’t put yourself in an awkward position. 782 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:28,382 Um, definitely don’t put yourself in a position where 783 00:33:28,507 --> 00:33:31,760 you symbolize things that-that, uh, are not going well. 784 00:33:31,885 --> 00:33:33,929 And definitely don’t put yourself in a position 785 00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:35,597 where there’s Black residents 786 00:33:35,723 --> 00:33:37,516 yelling at you. 787 00:33:38,934 --> 00:33:41,812 CHASTEN: Sometimes the hardest problems to solve are 788 00:33:41,895 --> 00:33:44,690 what feels like lose-lose situations for a mayor. 789 00:33:44,815 --> 00:33:48,318 I will never claim that Pete’s done everything right. 790 00:33:48,444 --> 00:33:51,363 And I would never say that there haven’t 791 00:33:51,447 --> 00:33:53,323 been issues in South Bend, right? 792 00:33:53,407 --> 00:33:55,784 And, but, you know, they’re not unique to South Bend. 793 00:33:55,909 --> 00:33:58,912 They’re just prevalent all across the country. 794 00:33:59,913 --> 00:34:01,957 I think it takes a lot of guts, 795 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,543 like, two days after a... an officer-involved shooting 796 00:34:04,626 --> 00:34:09,840 to just, like, stand on a stage and just take all the punches. 797 00:34:19,266 --> 00:34:21,852 MAN (over megaphone): The politicians are wounded. 798 00:34:21,935 --> 00:34:24,813 The politicians and their sins. 799 00:34:24,897 --> 00:34:26,523 They need Jesus Christ, folks. 800 00:34:26,607 --> 00:34:28,484 He’s the answer-- Jesus Christ. 801 00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:30,944 He’s the answer to all your problems... 802 00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:33,238 -(voice fades) -(indistinct chatter) 803 00:34:36,366 --> 00:34:40,871 Ladies and gentlemen, this is the United States of America! 804 00:34:40,954 --> 00:34:44,666 This is a country of capitalism and freedom! 805 00:34:44,750 --> 00:34:47,503 If you want a job, get a job! 806 00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:49,546 If you want health insurance, 807 00:34:49,671 --> 00:34:52,466 get a freaking job and pay for it yourself! 808 00:34:52,549 --> 00:34:54,676 If you don’t want to be shot 809 00:34:54,802 --> 00:34:58,722 or tased by the police, don’t commit a crime! 810 00:35:02,351 --> 00:35:04,561 LIS: So, um, naturally, 811 00:35:04,645 --> 00:35:06,271 with something tough like yesterday, 812 00:35:06,355 --> 00:35:07,773 the coverage was a little mixed. 813 00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:09,525 Like, Meghan McCain, who loves you, 814 00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:11,401 said that you did a piss-poor job 815 00:35:11,527 --> 00:35:12,986 of connecting with people. 816 00:35:13,070 --> 00:35:15,197 Joy Behar said that... at the town hall 817 00:35:15,322 --> 00:35:17,032 that you looked a little too green, 818 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:19,910 like you weren’t ready, like you looked a little, um, 819 00:35:19,993 --> 00:35:22,538 you know, not strong enough, really, to do it. 820 00:35:22,621 --> 00:35:24,665 And Axelrod wrote something just about how 821 00:35:24,748 --> 00:35:27,668 one of your greatest strengths is your calm, cool, 822 00:35:27,751 --> 00:35:29,378 -collected demeanor. -PETE: Mm-hmm. 823 00:35:29,461 --> 00:35:30,963 But that, in this situation, 824 00:35:31,088 --> 00:35:32,673 has proven to be your greatest weakness. 825 00:35:32,756 --> 00:35:36,176 And with this debate, so much of it is gonna be-- 826 00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:37,886 are you connecting with people? 827 00:35:37,970 --> 00:35:40,514 Are you saying things that project your strength, 828 00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:43,642 that project, you know, the right kind of warmth? 829 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,563 Try to keep your hands above the podium, 830 00:35:47,646 --> 00:35:49,064 ’cause down here... 831 00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:50,691 you know, look-look at what this looks like. 832 00:35:50,816 --> 00:35:53,360 You don’t look animated, whereas up here 833 00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:55,612 people get a sense I’m really talking about this. 834 00:35:55,696 --> 00:35:57,990 "You know, Senator Biden, he just said this, 835 00:35:58,073 --> 00:36:00,158 but let me tell you why I disagree with him." 836 00:36:00,242 --> 00:36:01,577 And as long as they’re up here, 837 00:36:01,702 --> 00:36:03,495 you don’t look like a wooden soldier. 838 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:06,331 You’re in a place here where probably none of these people 839 00:36:06,456 --> 00:36:08,584 expected you to be here with them, right? 840 00:36:08,667 --> 00:36:10,669 So enjoy the moment. 841 00:36:12,796 --> 00:36:14,172 (imitating Bernie Sanders): Look. 842 00:36:14,256 --> 00:36:15,299 (laughter) 843 00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:17,050 The millionaires and billionaires 844 00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:18,927 have been getting away with far too much 845 00:36:19,011 --> 00:36:21,013 -for far too long. -MAN: That’s so good. 846 00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:22,639 LIS: Okay, let’s get started. 847 00:36:22,723 --> 00:36:25,434 How would you rate Mayor Pete’s handling 848 00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:27,394 of the shooting in South Bend? 849 00:36:27,477 --> 00:36:29,730 WOMAN: These sorts of issues need leaders 850 00:36:29,813 --> 00:36:32,774 who can tackle them head-on, and frankly, 851 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:36,820 it shouldn’t take a Black man losing his life a week ago 852 00:36:36,904 --> 00:36:38,906 for issues that have been apparent 853 00:36:38,989 --> 00:36:40,157 for the last seven years. 854 00:36:40,282 --> 00:36:42,326 So I would frankly say that he’s failed. 855 00:36:42,409 --> 00:36:44,244 PETE: We are all living 856 00:36:44,328 --> 00:36:46,204 in the shadow of systemic racism 857 00:36:46,330 --> 00:36:47,915 that touches communities like mine 858 00:36:47,998 --> 00:36:49,583 and that is a national crisis. 859 00:36:49,666 --> 00:36:51,460 I got a phone call a few days ago 860 00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:53,420 that no mayor ever wants to get. 861 00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:57,049 And even as the details are investigated, we already know 862 00:36:57,174 --> 00:36:59,509 that part of why this has unleashed such anguish 863 00:36:59,593 --> 00:37:01,595 is that this takes place in the shadow 864 00:37:01,678 --> 00:37:06,058 of a country’s worth of abuses and systemic racial injustice. 865 00:37:06,141 --> 00:37:09,853 We need to... That’s why I’m committed to building 866 00:37:09,937 --> 00:37:11,939 a country in which a white person 867 00:37:12,022 --> 00:37:14,483 and a Black person feel the exact same thing 868 00:37:14,566 --> 00:37:16,401 when they encounter a police officer. 869 00:37:16,485 --> 00:37:17,819 LIS: Okay, we can cut it now. 870 00:37:17,903 --> 00:37:19,571 So we haven’t gotten it right. 871 00:37:19,655 --> 00:37:22,532 S-Something just a little bit stronger. 872 00:37:22,616 --> 00:37:26,370 It sounded a little bit wishy-washy on that one. 873 00:37:27,162 --> 00:37:28,705 PETE: The language I’ve heard 874 00:37:28,789 --> 00:37:31,083 from a few mostly mayors or former mayors 875 00:37:31,166 --> 00:37:34,086 is the-the kind of metaphor of running into the fire. 876 00:37:34,169 --> 00:37:37,172 There might be a way to say that, like, as a country, 877 00:37:37,297 --> 00:37:40,008 like, basically, like, the house is on fire, and we’ve got to run 878 00:37:40,092 --> 00:37:42,219 -into the flames on this. -LIS: Mm-hmm. Yep. 879 00:37:42,302 --> 00:37:45,013 One of the things we’ve become good at as a society 880 00:37:45,097 --> 00:37:47,057 is how we skirt this stuff. 881 00:37:47,140 --> 00:37:50,060 And this is definitely true of politics. 882 00:37:50,143 --> 00:37:52,938 I like this head-on thing because we’re talking about 883 00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:55,023 how what you’ve done over the last few days 884 00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:58,151 is not out of the political campaign manual. 885 00:37:58,235 --> 00:37:59,528 You did the opposite. 886 00:37:59,653 --> 00:38:01,405 And that’s what should be conveyed. 887 00:38:01,530 --> 00:38:03,573 PETE: Well, the problem is, to really work emotionally, 888 00:38:03,657 --> 00:38:05,158 I can’t be delivering lines, right? 889 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:06,952 LIS: Right. If you guys can leave us 890 00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:09,079 so we can work on some feedback and all that. 891 00:38:09,162 --> 00:38:11,039 -Good job, guys. -(clapping) 892 00:38:11,123 --> 00:38:13,750 (speaks indistinctly) 893 00:38:13,834 --> 00:38:15,919 We thought his race answers weren’t great. 894 00:38:16,044 --> 00:38:20,173 He sounded a bit defensive, and I think the emotive piece, 895 00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:21,842 I think, in that answer was missing. 896 00:38:21,967 --> 00:38:23,969 -Totally missing. -It was very clinical. 897 00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:26,054 Yeah. He needs to show more... 898 00:38:26,138 --> 00:38:27,889 And, honestly, that’s the feedback I would give him here, 899 00:38:28,015 --> 00:38:30,183 is just that he’s got to... he’s running for president, 900 00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:32,769 and-and when he goes up there, he’s got to show more life, 901 00:38:32,853 --> 00:38:34,980 more conviction, ’cause he’s coming across 902 00:38:35,105 --> 00:38:36,857 like the fucking Tin Man up there. 903 00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:47,617 PETE: The challenge always, when you’re working with consultants, 904 00:38:47,701 --> 00:38:50,996 is to take good advice and still be yourself. 905 00:38:51,079 --> 00:38:52,998 You know, one of the things they say I’ve got 906 00:38:53,123 --> 00:38:54,875 going for me is authenticity, right? 907 00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:57,335 So the last thing I want to do is do or say 908 00:38:57,419 --> 00:38:59,588 something that’s not me in order to satisfy 909 00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:01,923 some desire for me to be more emotional. 910 00:39:02,007 --> 00:39:03,467 LIS: One minute for your closing statement. 911 00:39:03,550 --> 00:39:05,385 PETE: And the weird thing is 912 00:39:05,469 --> 00:39:08,055 it was always framed as, like, "Let loose, be yourself," 913 00:39:08,138 --> 00:39:10,432 but to do that would not be myself. 914 00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:13,810 Or at least not be real or authentic. 915 00:39:20,442 --> 00:39:21,777 PETE: Morning. How you doing? 916 00:39:21,902 --> 00:39:23,278 -Excellent. Yourself? -Good. 917 00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:26,490 -(bell chimes) -(elevator doors squeak open) 918 00:39:27,491 --> 00:39:30,243 Okay. What’s the spin room plan? 919 00:39:30,368 --> 00:39:31,870 LIS: I... It’s not to do it. 920 00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:33,955 But it’d make sense for me to be there, right? 921 00:39:34,081 --> 00:39:36,291 -No, ’cause... -(elevator bangs) 922 00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:39,419 -Oh. -MAN: We may not have an option. 923 00:39:39,544 --> 00:39:41,213 -(man laughs) -LIS: Oh, God. 924 00:39:41,338 --> 00:39:43,173 -(alarm buzzing) -MIKE: No way. 925 00:39:43,256 --> 00:39:46,051 -(Pete laughing) -Oh, shit. 926 00:39:46,176 --> 00:39:48,303 The sign did say, uh... 927 00:39:48,386 --> 00:39:49,721 -MAN: There we go. -LIS: Okay. 928 00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:51,765 -...five at a time. -(line ringing) 929 00:39:51,848 --> 00:39:53,058 MAN: Oh, did it really? 930 00:39:53,141 --> 00:39:54,267 (indistinct chatter over speaker) 931 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:55,769 MIKE: Yeah, can you hear me? 932 00:39:55,852 --> 00:39:58,021 LIS: We are... we are literally not moving. 933 00:39:58,105 --> 00:40:00,315 Like, it is... it is falling down. 934 00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:02,526 -It’s not falling down. -No, we’re just... 935 00:40:02,609 --> 00:40:04,444 -LIS: No, it’s not. It’s... -Just kind of broken. 936 00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:06,113 -LIS: It’s jerking. -MAN: You okay? 937 00:40:06,196 --> 00:40:07,531 -It’s not working. -LIS: Yeah, I’m good. I’m just... 938 00:40:07,614 --> 00:40:08,824 I’m just getting my center of gravity here 939 00:40:08,907 --> 00:40:11,034 so when it goes down I’m... I’m good. 940 00:40:11,118 --> 00:40:13,078 (chime, indistinct chatter over speaker) 941 00:40:13,203 --> 00:40:14,704 WOMAN: We’re in the elevator. 942 00:40:14,788 --> 00:40:16,665 I can’t tell you what floor we’re on because... 943 00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:19,167 -LIS: 19. -...it’s not registering where we’re at. 944 00:40:19,292 --> 00:40:20,502 (Muzak playing) 945 00:40:20,627 --> 00:40:22,129 -MIKE: Oh, Jesus. -WOMAN: Wow. 946 00:40:22,212 --> 00:40:23,839 This is, like, the... the one time I’ve ever been stuck 947 00:40:23,922 --> 00:40:25,924 in an elevator is this moment-- it’s right before the... 948 00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:28,844 -MIKE: Jesus. Mayor Pete. -MAN: He’s not nervous. 949 00:40:28,927 --> 00:40:30,470 -He was in a fucking war zone. -LIS: I know. Exactly. 950 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:32,389 MAN: The rest of us are shitting in our pants. 951 00:40:32,472 --> 00:40:33,765 LIS: I know, I know. 952 00:40:33,849 --> 00:40:35,517 WOMAN: Lis is having a mental breakdown. 953 00:40:35,642 --> 00:40:37,310 LIS: Judith, I was just going through, like, the headlines of: 954 00:40:37,394 --> 00:40:39,187 "Mayor Pete, others die in tragic elevator accident." 955 00:40:39,312 --> 00:40:40,689 -(laughter) -(bell chimes) 956 00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:42,232 -WOMAN: Let’s just... -MIKE: Can we get out? 957 00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:44,025 Yeah, let’s get out. We’re going. 958 00:40:44,109 --> 00:40:45,485 (indistinct chatter) 959 00:40:45,569 --> 00:40:47,195 -Go ahead. -Captain is the last one out. 960 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,364 Ah, there you go. 961 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,408 RACHEL MADDOW: We are going to begin this hour, 962 00:40:51,491 --> 00:40:53,034 uh, with Mayor Buttigieg. 963 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,870 Your community of South Bend, Indiana, 964 00:40:54,995 --> 00:40:58,373 has recently been in uproar over an officer-involved shooting. 965 00:40:58,456 --> 00:41:02,878 The police force in South Bend is now six percent Black 966 00:41:02,961 --> 00:41:05,463 in a city that is 26% Black. 967 00:41:05,547 --> 00:41:08,466 Why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor? 968 00:41:08,550 --> 00:41:10,010 Because I couldn’t get it done. 969 00:41:10,135 --> 00:41:12,470 My community is in anguish right now 970 00:41:12,554 --> 00:41:14,431 because of an officer-involved shooting, 971 00:41:14,556 --> 00:41:17,726 a Black man, Eric Logan, killed by a white officer. 972 00:41:17,851 --> 00:41:20,645 And I could walk you through all of the things that we have done, 973 00:41:20,729 --> 00:41:26,067 but it didn’t save the life of Eric Logan. 974 00:41:26,151 --> 00:41:28,111 And when I look into his mother’s eyes, 975 00:41:28,236 --> 00:41:30,530 I have to face the fact that nothing that I say 976 00:41:30,614 --> 00:41:31,865 will bring him back. 977 00:41:31,990 --> 00:41:33,950 ANDERSON COOPER: Interesting answer. 978 00:41:34,075 --> 00:41:37,621 -Amazing. Yeah. -Uh, he wasn’t deflecting it. 979 00:41:37,704 --> 00:41:39,581 He said he didn’t get it done. 980 00:41:39,664 --> 00:41:41,875 I was critical of him after this town hall meeting 981 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,710 in South Bend last weekend 982 00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:46,671 because I felt it was good that he met with the community, 983 00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:49,466 but he seemed very stoic in that meeting. 984 00:41:49,549 --> 00:41:53,470 And Pete Buttigieg is not a person who emotes. 985 00:41:53,595 --> 00:41:55,680 He’s not that kind of personality, 986 00:41:55,764 --> 00:41:59,768 but what he did tonight in that answer was what I was missing. 987 00:41:59,851 --> 00:42:03,396 I think that was an important... an important moment for him. 988 00:42:07,567 --> 00:42:10,445 PETE: Obviously, you’re rewarded for making good television, 989 00:42:10,570 --> 00:42:12,614 so I get what they’re saying. 990 00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:15,450 Like, it’s important to connect at an emotional level 991 00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:18,328 and not be in your head too much. 992 00:42:18,453 --> 00:42:20,247 Um... 993 00:42:20,330 --> 00:42:22,415 I think in my... you know, my approach 994 00:42:22,499 --> 00:42:25,293 to a lot of these things is to think them through. 995 00:42:25,377 --> 00:42:28,630 You know, and my way of coming at the world... 996 00:42:30,257 --> 00:42:33,635 ...the stronger an emotion is, the more private it is. 997 00:42:34,636 --> 00:42:36,680 And it is a strange thing, because politics is 998 00:42:36,763 --> 00:42:39,099 an emotional pursuit, of course. 999 00:42:44,229 --> 00:42:48,984 CHASTEN: Um, you present as a very calm person. 1000 00:42:49,109 --> 00:42:51,569 -PETE: I am a very calm person. -(Chasten chuckles) 1001 00:42:51,653 --> 00:42:53,905 -Do you always feel that way? -No, of course not. 1002 00:42:54,030 --> 00:42:56,825 (laughs) Um... 1003 00:42:59,119 --> 00:43:02,163 I can’t speak for other people, but I think... 1004 00:43:02,289 --> 00:43:05,000 one way you become calm is if you have 1005 00:43:05,083 --> 00:43:07,419 a very intense emotional life 1006 00:43:07,502 --> 00:43:10,463 and you learn at an early age how to master that. 1007 00:43:10,547 --> 00:43:12,924 You’ve got to learn to balance all that 1008 00:43:13,008 --> 00:43:18,430 and take it on board and not let it throw you. 1009 00:43:18,555 --> 00:43:20,598 (applause) 1010 00:43:20,724 --> 00:43:23,226 PETE: Thanks to everyone who is part of Victory, 1011 00:43:23,351 --> 00:43:26,313 to advance the cause of equality in our country 1012 00:43:26,396 --> 00:43:30,650 through LGBTQ representation in our national political life. 1013 00:43:30,775 --> 00:43:33,153 My name is Pete Buttigieg. 1014 00:43:33,278 --> 00:43:36,573 For understandable reasons, better known as Mayor Pete. 1015 00:43:36,656 --> 00:43:37,907 (laughter) 1016 00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:40,201 And lately, I think still better known 1017 00:43:40,327 --> 00:43:42,370 as the husband of Chasten Buttigieg. 1018 00:43:42,454 --> 00:43:45,123 (cheering) 1019 00:43:50,128 --> 00:43:53,214 I got a lot of questions about why I came out when I did, 1020 00:43:53,340 --> 00:43:56,217 whether it was designed to serve some purpose. 1021 00:43:56,301 --> 00:43:59,012 In fact, it was designed to serve a very simple 1022 00:43:59,095 --> 00:44:01,014 and private purpose, which was: 1023 00:44:01,097 --> 00:44:02,891 I wanted to started dating. 1024 00:44:02,974 --> 00:44:04,601 (laughter) 1025 00:44:04,726 --> 00:44:06,811 When I turned 33, I was a grown man 1026 00:44:06,936 --> 00:44:10,315 with absolutely no idea what it was like to be in love. 1027 00:44:11,775 --> 00:44:15,028 And I wasn’t sure how to get started, either. 1028 00:44:15,111 --> 00:44:16,988 So I did what people my age do: 1029 00:44:17,072 --> 00:44:18,698 -use the Internet. -(light laughter) 1030 00:44:18,823 --> 00:44:20,200 It’s a really happy story, 1031 00:44:20,325 --> 00:44:22,160 but there’s another part of the story that, frankly, 1032 00:44:22,243 --> 00:44:25,246 even now I have a harder time talking about. 1033 00:44:25,330 --> 00:44:28,750 And it’s the fact that when I was younger, 1034 00:44:28,833 --> 00:44:32,670 I would have done anything to not be gay. 1035 00:44:34,255 --> 00:44:37,342 When I began to halfway realize what it meant 1036 00:44:37,425 --> 00:44:39,969 that I felt the way I did about people I saw 1037 00:44:40,053 --> 00:44:42,430 in the hallway at school or the dining hall in college, 1038 00:44:42,555 --> 00:44:44,182 it launched in me 1039 00:44:44,265 --> 00:44:47,727 something I can only describe as a kind of war. 1040 00:44:47,811 --> 00:44:49,270 And if that war had been settled 1041 00:44:49,396 --> 00:44:51,439 on the terms that I would have wished for 1042 00:44:51,523 --> 00:44:56,861 when I was 15 or 20 or frankly even 25, 1043 00:44:56,945 --> 00:44:59,155 I would not be standing here. 1044 00:45:00,281 --> 00:45:03,034 If you had offered me a pill to make me straight, 1045 00:45:03,118 --> 00:45:04,828 I would’ve swallowed it before you had time 1046 00:45:04,953 --> 00:45:06,538 to give me a sip of water. 1047 00:45:06,663 --> 00:45:09,541 It’s hard to face the truth that there were times in my life 1048 00:45:09,624 --> 00:45:11,418 when if you had shown me exactly 1049 00:45:11,543 --> 00:45:14,546 what it was inside me that made me gay, 1050 00:45:14,671 --> 00:45:17,340 I would have cut it out with a knife. 1051 00:45:17,424 --> 00:45:19,801 Thank God there was no pill. 1052 00:45:19,926 --> 00:45:21,928 Thank God there was no knife. 1053 00:45:22,053 --> 00:45:24,264 (cheering, applause) 1054 00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:32,772 -The speech was good. -You think? 1055 00:45:32,897 --> 00:45:34,482 Do you like using the whole, like, 1056 00:45:34,566 --> 00:45:36,067 "I wish I wasn’t gay" thing? 1057 00:45:36,151 --> 00:45:38,820 I just feel like I have to be honest about it. 1058 00:45:39,904 --> 00:45:41,906 -Um, I know it’s not... -I understand it. 1059 00:45:42,031 --> 00:45:44,451 It’s just, like, a struggle that everyone goes through. 1060 00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:46,911 I mean, most people go through when they’re coming out. 1061 00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:49,372 And I appreciate that aspect of it, but you’re talking about 1062 00:45:49,497 --> 00:45:51,666 really dark stuff there and you’re sort of alluding to... 1063 00:45:51,791 --> 00:45:54,169 Are you alluding to, like, you wanted to commit suicide? 1064 00:45:54,252 --> 00:45:55,795 -Or you contemplated...? -No. 1065 00:45:55,879 --> 00:45:57,672 ’Cause it kind of comes off that way, like, 1066 00:45:57,755 --> 00:45:59,757 -"I would’ve harmed myself," -Yeah. Yeah. 1067 00:45:59,883 --> 00:46:02,385 and you don’t really draw a line of, like, where you were... 1068 00:46:02,469 --> 00:46:03,887 which is powerful, 1069 00:46:04,012 --> 00:46:06,097 but then you have to be really clear about it. 1070 00:46:06,222 --> 00:46:08,141 Yeah. 1071 00:46:09,809 --> 00:46:11,769 But, I mean, lots of aahs and oohs. 1072 00:46:11,895 --> 00:46:13,771 -Yeah. -So people liked it. 1073 00:46:13,855 --> 00:46:15,356 Yeah. (sniffles) 1074 00:46:15,482 --> 00:46:17,192 CHASTEN: Very early on in our relationship, I would say, 1075 00:46:17,275 --> 00:46:19,569 like, "What’s going on in that head of yours?" 1076 00:46:19,652 --> 00:46:24,866 And he’s grown a lot, being able to... to verbalize. 1077 00:46:24,991 --> 00:46:27,035 And I think he’s-- one-- 1078 00:46:27,118 --> 00:46:31,748 learned to allow personal narrative to have more impact. 1079 00:46:31,873 --> 00:46:34,250 Um, in a stump speech or in policy, 1080 00:46:34,334 --> 00:46:37,170 as well as in our relationship. 1081 00:46:37,295 --> 00:46:39,380 Um, opening up, talking about who he met 1082 00:46:39,506 --> 00:46:42,842 and what that means to him and, um... 1083 00:46:42,967 --> 00:46:44,636 and also, like, the weight that comes 1084 00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:48,264 with thousands of people putting their... 1085 00:46:48,348 --> 00:46:50,600 putting their weight on you. 1086 00:46:52,018 --> 00:46:54,187 ♪ ♪ 1087 00:47:03,530 --> 00:47:06,282 PETE: We’re in a position right now to make history, 1088 00:47:06,366 --> 00:47:08,785 and a lot of that history is going to be made 1089 00:47:08,868 --> 00:47:10,495 in communities like right here. 1090 00:47:10,578 --> 00:47:12,330 It’s gonna be made in Iowa, for sure. 1091 00:47:12,413 --> 00:47:14,499 That’s where we’re gonna turn heads around the country 1092 00:47:14,582 --> 00:47:16,167 and demonstrate what’s possible. 1093 00:47:16,251 --> 00:47:18,253 This is a season to lift each other up 1094 00:47:18,336 --> 00:47:19,462 and to make things happen. 1095 00:47:19,587 --> 00:47:21,130 That’s what this is about. 1096 00:47:21,256 --> 00:47:23,049 Running for office is an act of hope. 1097 00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:24,801 This is the phase where we’re getting out there, 1098 00:47:24,926 --> 00:47:26,844 and for us, it’s Iowa or bust. 1099 00:47:26,970 --> 00:47:28,972 EMCEE: Welcome, Mayor Pete! 1100 00:47:29,055 --> 00:47:30,974 (cheering) 1101 00:47:31,099 --> 00:47:33,226 PETE: We’re trying to build an account of politics 1102 00:47:33,309 --> 00:47:37,438 where our progressive beliefs about identity and welcome 1103 00:47:37,564 --> 00:47:40,358 align rather than contradict. 1104 00:47:40,483 --> 00:47:42,235 It’s been kind of a tough road, you know... 1105 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,154 PETE: When I talked about coming out, that wasn’t just 1106 00:47:45,238 --> 00:47:48,825 a story for, you know, gay people to hear. 1107 00:47:48,908 --> 00:47:50,743 That was everybody who’s tried 1108 00:47:50,868 --> 00:47:52,620 to figure out how to be who they are. 1109 00:47:52,745 --> 00:47:54,455 You know, some people call campaigning, 1110 00:47:54,581 --> 00:47:55,999 uh, an MRI of the soul. 1111 00:47:56,124 --> 00:47:57,834 It turned out that this meant 1112 00:47:57,959 --> 00:48:00,003 all kinds of different things to different people. 1113 00:48:00,086 --> 00:48:02,171 Oh, my God! (laughs) 1114 00:48:02,255 --> 00:48:03,798 (indistinct chanting) 1115 00:48:03,923 --> 00:48:06,634 PETE: Partly because... 1116 00:48:06,718 --> 00:48:08,678 my story could kind of authenticate 1117 00:48:08,803 --> 00:48:12,724 why belonging was so important to me. 1118 00:48:12,849 --> 00:48:15,810 But part of it is because everybody’s lived that. 1119 00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:18,980 Nice to meet you. 1120 00:48:19,063 --> 00:48:20,690 Thanks for coming. Who’s behind the sign? 1121 00:48:20,815 --> 00:48:23,359 CHASTEN: It’s about reaching out to people you don’t know 1122 00:48:23,484 --> 00:48:25,528 -and making them feel like they belong. -Hi. 1123 00:48:25,612 --> 00:48:27,530 That is why it was so easy for me 1124 00:48:27,614 --> 00:48:30,783 to leave the classroom and join Pete on the trail. 1125 00:48:30,867 --> 00:48:33,244 We are more than our identity, and that is a... 1126 00:48:33,328 --> 00:48:35,705 a part of us, but it does not define us. 1127 00:48:35,788 --> 00:48:38,124 He’s not running to be the gay president of the United States, 1128 00:48:38,249 --> 00:48:40,209 and he’s not running to be president of gay America. 1129 00:48:40,335 --> 00:48:42,670 He’s running to be president of all of America, um... 1130 00:48:42,754 --> 00:48:45,214 The best thing that I can do, I think, is to 1131 00:48:45,298 --> 00:48:48,092 -make people feel hopeful... -(laughter) 1132 00:48:48,176 --> 00:48:51,220 and give people permission to be happy again 1133 00:48:51,304 --> 00:48:52,930 and hopeful again and inspired. 1134 00:48:53,014 --> 00:48:54,974 -Thanks for coming. -Thanks for everything. 1135 00:48:55,058 --> 00:48:56,476 Thank you very much. Appreciate it. 1136 00:48:56,559 --> 00:48:57,935 You guys give me faith in humanity. 1137 00:48:58,019 --> 00:48:59,687 -Good. Good, that’s the goal. -Seriously. 1138 00:48:59,812 --> 00:49:01,606 I tell you, it’s the spouse that keeps the movement going. 1139 00:49:01,689 --> 00:49:02,982 Oh, that is true, is it not? 1140 00:49:03,066 --> 00:49:04,525 PETE: For all the, like, razzle-dazzle 1141 00:49:04,651 --> 00:49:06,903 and the gamification of it in the media, 1142 00:49:07,028 --> 00:49:09,697 politics makes you connected to somebody 1143 00:49:09,781 --> 00:49:11,407 totally different from you, 1144 00:49:11,532 --> 00:49:13,326 and that’s real and it’s beautiful. 1145 00:49:13,409 --> 00:49:14,786 -Hi. -Hello. How are you? 1146 00:49:14,869 --> 00:49:16,371 -I’m good. -Thanks for coming over to see me. 1147 00:49:16,496 --> 00:49:17,747 -I appreciate it. -Hey, no problem. 1148 00:49:17,872 --> 00:49:19,082 You’re a huge inspiration to me... 1149 00:49:19,165 --> 00:49:20,541 -Thank you. -...to just be myself. 1150 00:49:20,625 --> 00:49:22,585 I have autism, and for a long time, 1151 00:49:22,710 --> 00:49:25,338 I tried to hide it away ’cause I was so ashamed, and... 1152 00:49:25,421 --> 00:49:26,839 this year, I’ve decided, 1153 00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:28,299 "You know what? No, no more hiding. 1154 00:49:28,383 --> 00:49:29,717 -I’m just gonna be myself." -Good. Good. 1155 00:49:29,801 --> 00:49:31,302 And you have been a huge inspiration to me 1156 00:49:31,386 --> 00:49:33,054 -of just being yourself. -It means a lot to hear that. 1157 00:49:33,179 --> 00:49:35,306 And you have nothing to be ashamed of. I’m proud of you. 1158 00:49:35,390 --> 00:49:37,058 -Thank you so much. -And I love your shirt. 1159 00:49:37,183 --> 00:49:38,726 -Can I ask you a question? -Thank you so much. 1160 00:49:38,810 --> 00:49:40,478 -Thanks for coming. -I love your message of hope. 1161 00:49:40,603 --> 00:49:41,938 -Can I ask you a question? -Thank you. Real quick. Quick. 1162 00:49:42,021 --> 00:49:43,690 I’m my brother’s guardian to his kids. 1163 00:49:43,773 --> 00:49:45,316 He died of an overdose. Is there information on your plan for... 1164 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:46,693 PETE: Yes, uh, yes, check it out. 1165 00:49:46,776 --> 00:49:48,361 Uh, if you go to PeteForAmerica.com, 1166 00:49:48,444 --> 00:49:50,363 we got a plan on mental health and addiction that, uh, 1167 00:49:50,446 --> 00:49:52,365 talks about... talks about what people are 1168 00:49:52,448 --> 00:49:53,991 self-medicating for in the first place, 1169 00:49:54,075 --> 00:49:55,618 as well as what we need to do 1170 00:49:55,702 --> 00:49:57,036 -to support people, so... -Thank you. 1171 00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:58,830 And, uh, thanks for sharing your story. 1172 00:49:58,955 --> 00:50:00,790 (crying): Thank you. 1173 00:50:00,915 --> 00:50:02,208 PETE: Help is on the way. 1174 00:50:02,291 --> 00:50:03,918 -Thank you. -Thank you. 1175 00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:06,170 ♪ ♪ 1176 00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:12,802 CROWD: Buttigieg! Buttigieg! 1177 00:50:12,885 --> 00:50:14,637 -Buttigieg! Buttigieg! -MAN: Win with Warren! 1178 00:50:14,762 --> 00:50:16,139 -Buttigieg! Buttigieg! -Win with Warren! 1179 00:50:16,264 --> 00:50:17,473 -Buttigieg! -Win with Warren! 1180 00:50:17,557 --> 00:50:19,642 -(whoops) -MAN 2: When I say, "President," 1181 00:50:19,767 --> 00:50:21,060 you say, "Biden." 1182 00:50:21,144 --> 00:50:22,812 -President! President! -CROWD: Biden! Biden! 1183 00:50:22,895 --> 00:50:24,439 -President! -Biden! 1184 00:50:24,522 --> 00:50:27,775 (overlapping, competing chants) 1185 00:50:30,069 --> 00:50:32,238 (marching band playing upbeat music) 1186 00:50:33,990 --> 00:50:36,075 (cheering) 1187 00:50:36,868 --> 00:50:38,077 -What was that? -Is Chasten here? 1188 00:50:38,202 --> 00:50:39,620 -Uh, he’s in Des Moines. -Okay. 1189 00:50:39,704 --> 00:50:40,913 Wait, uh, we’re in Des Moines. 1190 00:50:41,038 --> 00:50:42,290 -(laughs) -I last saw him in Des Moines. 1191 00:50:42,415 --> 00:50:43,624 REPORTER: What’s the key to getting 1192 00:50:43,708 --> 00:50:44,876 traction here in this key state? 1193 00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:46,043 Well, a lot of it is 1194 00:50:46,127 --> 00:50:47,336 good old-fashioned retail politics. 1195 00:50:47,420 --> 00:50:48,671 We’re doing the policy releases, 1196 00:50:48,796 --> 00:50:50,131 we’re doing the national conversation, 1197 00:50:50,214 --> 00:50:51,591 but the people here want to get to know you. 1198 00:50:51,674 --> 00:50:53,009 They want to know what you’re about. 1199 00:50:53,092 --> 00:50:54,552 It’s a critical part to winning Iowa, 1200 00:50:54,677 --> 00:50:56,679 and Iowa is critical to winning the nomination. 1201 00:50:56,763 --> 00:50:58,139 All right, thanks, everybody. 1202 00:50:58,264 --> 00:50:59,474 REPORTER 2: David Axelrod commented about 1203 00:50:59,599 --> 00:51:01,100 your crowd being mostly white. 1204 00:51:01,184 --> 00:51:02,643 What do you need to do to reach out 1205 00:51:02,727 --> 00:51:04,187 to the African American community? 1206 00:51:04,312 --> 00:51:05,730 Uh, well, he was right to point out how important 1207 00:51:05,813 --> 00:51:07,482 it is for us to build a diverse coalition. 1208 00:51:07,565 --> 00:51:10,067 Uh, obviously, uh, states like South Carolina and Nevada 1209 00:51:10,151 --> 00:51:11,527 are more racially diverse 1210 00:51:11,611 --> 00:51:13,321 than states like Iowa and New Hampshire. 1211 00:51:13,404 --> 00:51:16,032 Uh, and so those create a great opportunity for us to reach out. 1212 00:51:16,115 --> 00:51:17,575 Here we go. 1213 00:51:17,700 --> 00:51:19,827 REPORTER 3: How do you demonstrate to people here 1214 00:51:19,911 --> 00:51:21,662 that you could be the guy? 1215 00:51:21,746 --> 00:51:23,372 Uh, well, we’ve, uh, vaulted ahead 1216 00:51:23,456 --> 00:51:24,916 of about 20 of my competitors. 1217 00:51:25,041 --> 00:51:27,418 Now we just got to get to the top of the heap. 1218 00:51:27,502 --> 00:51:29,670 I was the first chance to really prove 1219 00:51:29,754 --> 00:51:31,589 that you can build a campaign organization... 1220 00:51:31,714 --> 00:51:33,049 Ooh, that is hot. 1221 00:51:33,174 --> 00:51:35,051 -How’m I doing? How’s my technique? -(cheering) 1222 00:51:35,134 --> 00:51:36,719 ...to where everybody has to 1223 00:51:36,844 --> 00:51:38,721 submit themselves to the same experience. 1224 00:51:38,805 --> 00:51:40,681 Think I might’ve fried my eyebrows. 1225 00:51:40,807 --> 00:51:43,100 Whether you’re the former Vice President of the United States 1226 00:51:43,226 --> 00:51:47,688 or just some person who decided you’re gonna run for president. 1227 00:51:47,772 --> 00:51:49,273 Is it Biden... Biden, then me? 1228 00:51:49,357 --> 00:51:50,650 -Biden, then you. -Okay. 1229 00:51:50,733 --> 00:51:52,235 LIS: Oh, look here. There’s Andrew Yang. 1230 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,487 -PETE: Thanks. -LIS: What’s up, man? 1231 00:51:54,570 --> 00:51:56,823 (indistinct chanting in distance) 1232 00:51:57,740 --> 00:51:59,408 MAN: Watch your step, sir. 1233 00:52:00,618 --> 00:52:01,619 Hey. 1234 00:52:01,702 --> 00:52:03,079 PETE: How do you think Cory’s 1235 00:52:03,162 --> 00:52:04,372 fundraising maneuver is going over? 1236 00:52:04,455 --> 00:52:05,498 It’s not going well. 1237 00:52:05,581 --> 00:52:07,208 The thinning out is happening. 1238 00:52:07,291 --> 00:52:09,001 -(laughing) -(Lis speaking indistinctly) 1239 00:52:09,085 --> 00:52:10,503 -What’s going on? -How are you, man? 1240 00:52:10,586 --> 00:52:12,046 How are you? Good. 1241 00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:13,464 She’s like, "Here he comes. Watch out. Be careful." 1242 00:52:13,548 --> 00:52:14,799 -Yeah, that’s her job. -Be careful. 1243 00:52:14,924 --> 00:52:16,300 She’s got, uh, situational awareness. 1244 00:52:16,384 --> 00:52:18,010 Nice job with the gaggle out there. That was good. 1245 00:52:18,135 --> 00:52:19,887 -Oh, man. Those guys are something else. -What a bastard. 1246 00:52:19,971 --> 00:52:21,472 -Just unbelievable. -He’s something else, isn’t he? 1247 00:52:21,556 --> 00:52:23,349 It’s unbelievable. 1248 00:52:23,432 --> 00:52:25,226 If this is any indication, I think we’re, uh, 1249 00:52:25,351 --> 00:52:28,020 pretty strong as a party, so... we’ll get the job done. 1250 00:52:28,104 --> 00:52:30,648 -I’ll see you, pal. -Good seeing you, sir. 1251 00:52:32,441 --> 00:52:34,318 How was Biden? 1252 00:52:34,443 --> 00:52:36,654 -Oh, such a good guy. -Yeah. 1253 00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:39,031 Just a great guy. 1254 00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:41,200 -CROWD: Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! -PETE: Thank you. 1255 00:52:41,284 --> 00:52:42,827 ("Pete" chant continues) 1256 00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:45,872 PETE: Politics for me is about our everyday lives. 1257 00:52:45,955 --> 00:52:47,957 It’s ’cause all the decisions they make 1258 00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,793 in those big white buildings in Washington 1259 00:52:50,877 --> 00:52:53,170 flow into our living rooms and our marriages. 1260 00:52:53,296 --> 00:52:54,922 And I know that because I’ve lived it. 1261 00:52:55,047 --> 00:52:59,343 People in my life have been saved by Obamacare... 1262 00:53:09,270 --> 00:53:11,314 (Pete clears throat) 1263 00:53:33,127 --> 00:53:35,046 CHASTEN: My grandma liked this game. 1264 00:53:48,225 --> 00:53:49,769 Seven. 1265 00:53:53,147 --> 00:53:55,149 ANNE: Pete’s like a poker player. 1266 00:53:55,274 --> 00:53:57,401 He tries to psych you out. 1267 00:53:58,653 --> 00:54:00,613 -SHERRI: Is he your new friend? -Ah! 1268 00:54:00,696 --> 00:54:02,156 A hexagon thing. 1269 00:54:02,281 --> 00:54:04,575 TERRY: Peter-- 380. 1270 00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:06,619 Anne’s at 218. 1271 00:54:06,744 --> 00:54:09,830 -Chasten is 168. -(light laughter) 1272 00:54:09,956 --> 00:54:11,916 It’s not about winning. 1273 00:54:12,959 --> 00:54:14,961 -ANNE: Yes, it is. -TERRY: For you, it isn’t. 1274 00:54:15,044 --> 00:54:17,546 ANNE (laughing): Yes, it is. 1275 00:54:21,884 --> 00:54:24,095 (dogs snarling playfully) 1276 00:54:26,013 --> 00:54:28,140 (barking) 1277 00:54:29,558 --> 00:54:32,561 CHASTEN: How do you deal with the impact on our relationship? 1278 00:54:34,730 --> 00:54:36,899 Wow. Um... 1279 00:54:36,983 --> 00:54:39,986 well, it’s something we deal with together. 1280 00:54:40,111 --> 00:54:41,904 Um... 1281 00:54:43,322 --> 00:54:46,784 I think making sure we’re on the road together has helped a lot, 1282 00:54:46,867 --> 00:54:49,662 even if we aren’t really spending 1283 00:54:49,745 --> 00:54:51,539 quality time together except at 1284 00:54:51,664 --> 00:54:54,000 the very beginning or very end of the day. 1285 00:54:54,083 --> 00:54:56,002 (TV playing indistinctly) 1286 00:54:56,085 --> 00:54:58,087 CHASTEN: Before we... before we jumped 1287 00:54:58,212 --> 00:55:01,507 into the project, we almost had kids. 1288 00:55:01,590 --> 00:55:03,759 Yeah. Can you imagine? 1289 00:55:03,843 --> 00:55:07,888 Imagine if we were like f-five months into having a kid? 1290 00:55:08,848 --> 00:55:10,975 CHASTEN: Yeah. 1291 00:55:12,727 --> 00:55:16,439 CHASTEN: I think about our future kid-- or kids-- a lot. 1292 00:55:16,564 --> 00:55:18,149 ’Cause... 1293 00:55:18,274 --> 00:55:21,360 what we’re doing right now is for them. 1294 00:55:22,153 --> 00:55:23,863 PETE: It’s weird-- I think about parenting 1295 00:55:23,988 --> 00:55:25,448 almost completely by... 1296 00:55:25,531 --> 00:55:26,949 through you. 1297 00:55:27,033 --> 00:55:30,453 Like, I just think about what you will be like as a dad. 1298 00:55:30,536 --> 00:55:32,872 Not that I’m-I’m not excited for the kid, but, like... 1299 00:55:32,955 --> 00:55:36,125 -(dog barking) -...my mental image of it is about you. 1300 00:55:36,959 --> 00:55:39,170 -Buddy. -(barking stops) 1301 00:55:41,005 --> 00:55:43,174 ♪ ♪ 1302 00:55:44,592 --> 00:55:46,385 WOMAN: You know you need one, right? 1303 00:55:46,469 --> 00:55:48,596 -(laughing) -PETE: Oh, one of these? 1304 00:55:48,679 --> 00:55:50,598 Are one of these available? 1305 00:55:50,681 --> 00:55:53,350 (laughter) 1306 00:55:55,227 --> 00:55:57,688 WOMAN: Lis talked to me about it, and she felt like, 1307 00:55:57,813 --> 00:56:00,149 because the mayor wasn’t really talking about it yet, 1308 00:56:00,232 --> 00:56:03,027 it was, like, making news and felt... 1309 00:56:03,110 --> 00:56:06,655 she felt like it was a little intimate for this early. 1310 00:56:08,157 --> 00:56:10,242 I can push back on her if you feel like 1311 00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:12,244 -it’s important to bring up. -It’s a very real thing. 1312 00:56:12,328 --> 00:56:16,874 Like, it’s very hard for gay families to have children, 1313 00:56:16,957 --> 00:56:19,752 so being honest, like, "Yeah, we were trying to be dads 1314 00:56:19,835 --> 00:56:22,046 and it didn’t work out," is, like, something very real 1315 00:56:22,129 --> 00:56:23,589 and felt by a lot of people. 1316 00:56:23,672 --> 00:56:26,258 I mean, it’s like, having children is very difficult, 1317 00:56:26,342 --> 00:56:28,135 and I don’t think we’re, like, 1318 00:56:28,219 --> 00:56:33,057 gonna pretend that we’re not thinking about having children. 1319 00:56:33,140 --> 00:56:36,769 Obviously, like, we’re not planning on having children now. 1320 00:56:36,852 --> 00:56:38,270 Right. All this is to say, like, 1321 00:56:38,354 --> 00:56:40,523 if you want to... if you want to make it a part of 1322 00:56:40,648 --> 00:56:42,566 -the narrative, then we can... -Okay. All right. Let’s move on. 1323 00:56:42,650 --> 00:56:43,734 ...we can have that conversation, 1324 00:56:43,818 --> 00:56:45,069 but do you get what I’m saying? 1325 00:56:45,194 --> 00:56:46,362 Yeah, I want to prepare for other things. 1326 00:56:46,487 --> 00:56:48,322 -Yeah, yeah. -Um... 1327 00:56:48,447 --> 00:56:50,616 (horns honking) 1328 00:56:55,037 --> 00:56:57,665 Remember Sodom and Gomorrah. 1329 00:56:57,748 --> 00:56:59,750 Pete Butti-lidge is an enemy of children 1330 00:56:59,834 --> 00:57:01,502 and an enemy of marriage. 1331 00:57:01,585 --> 00:57:05,089 Schoolteachers all over America are telling their children, 1332 00:57:05,214 --> 00:57:07,550 "Oh, what a great example Mayor Pete is. 1333 00:57:07,633 --> 00:57:09,468 "You could grow up and be like him. 1334 00:57:09,593 --> 00:57:12,263 Go ahead and experiment with your sexuality." 1335 00:57:12,388 --> 00:57:16,851 They can become addicted to sexual perversion and... 1336 00:57:18,894 --> 00:57:20,521 ...then end up trapped 1337 00:57:20,604 --> 00:57:24,024 in a lifestyle that could cost them their soul. 1338 00:57:24,150 --> 00:57:25,943 (whip cracking) 1339 00:57:26,026 --> 00:57:28,863 Every vote for Pete Butti-lidge is like a... 1340 00:57:28,946 --> 00:57:31,031 a lash on the back of Christ. 1341 00:57:32,032 --> 00:57:33,742 Is it hurting? 1342 00:57:33,826 --> 00:57:35,161 Well, just a little lighter. 1343 00:57:35,244 --> 00:57:37,913 -You’re killing me, man. -(laughter) 1344 00:57:39,373 --> 00:57:41,500 (bell tolling) 1345 00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:43,961 PETE: I’m running for president 1346 00:57:44,044 --> 00:57:45,921 because I believe we’re at a moment 1347 00:57:46,005 --> 00:57:49,842 that is really redefining the social, economic, political, 1348 00:57:49,925 --> 00:57:52,011 perhaps moral life of our nation. 1349 00:57:52,094 --> 00:57:54,930 This is a watershed period as big as the one 1350 00:57:55,014 --> 00:57:57,850 that gave rise to the New Deal or the one that gave rise 1351 00:57:57,933 --> 00:57:59,894 to what you might call the Reagan Moment that... 1352 00:57:59,977 --> 00:58:03,063 that I would argue we’ve been living in for my entire life. 1353 00:58:03,147 --> 00:58:04,899 And I think what’s coming next 1354 00:58:04,982 --> 00:58:07,776 could be very enlightened or it could be very ugly. 1355 00:58:07,860 --> 00:58:10,237 I’m also trying to make the case for something of 1356 00:58:10,362 --> 00:58:13,866 a renewed level of attention to a religious left. 1357 00:58:13,949 --> 00:58:17,536 MAN: The next President of the United States has to be able 1358 00:58:17,661 --> 00:58:19,955 to bring the conversation back to a place 1359 00:58:20,039 --> 00:58:23,667 where people can talk to each other when they disagree 1360 00:58:23,751 --> 00:58:25,294 and when they feel strongly 1361 00:58:25,377 --> 00:58:27,713 that what they have to say comes from God. 1362 00:58:27,838 --> 00:58:30,549 When faith has been brought to the national conversation, 1363 00:58:30,633 --> 00:58:32,635 it’s been used as a weapon. 1364 00:58:32,718 --> 00:58:35,596 And it’s also done a disservice to the public conversation. 1365 00:58:35,721 --> 00:58:37,014 PETE: Yeah. 1366 00:58:37,139 --> 00:58:39,683 Politics at its highest unites people 1367 00:58:39,767 --> 00:58:42,061 of different, uh, values 1368 00:58:42,144 --> 00:58:44,480 or different experiences into one body. 1369 00:58:44,563 --> 00:58:46,190 I mean, that’s what a nation can be, 1370 00:58:46,273 --> 00:58:47,858 right, in-in its richest sense. 1371 00:58:47,942 --> 00:58:51,278 Especially because the American nation is not ethnic. 1372 00:58:51,362 --> 00:58:53,697 It’s-it’s civic. Yeah. 1373 00:58:53,781 --> 00:58:56,492 You’ve been asked a few questions about white privilege, 1374 00:58:56,575 --> 00:58:58,327 um, and to what extent race plays 1375 00:58:58,410 --> 00:59:00,204 in the country and, by extension, the race 1376 00:59:00,287 --> 00:59:02,039 -and, by extension, your candidacy. -Yeah. 1377 00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:04,875 Um, I can’t say that I’ve been happy with your answers. 1378 00:59:04,959 --> 00:59:06,585 My real question is this: 1379 00:59:06,710 --> 00:59:09,338 If the country is really in this moment, this watershed moment, 1380 00:59:09,421 --> 00:59:11,465 and we’re in the mood for change, 1381 00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:17,054 why should we give a white man a 45th opportunity at changing, 1382 00:59:17,179 --> 00:59:21,100 uh, what has already been jacked up by 45 white men? 1383 00:59:21,183 --> 00:59:24,979 I guess I’m asking to be judged on more than my race. 1384 00:59:25,104 --> 00:59:30,442 Um, I cannot express regret for my race being what it is 1385 00:59:30,526 --> 00:59:32,403 any more than I can express regret 1386 00:59:32,486 --> 00:59:34,905 for my sexuality being what it is. 1387 00:59:34,989 --> 00:59:37,116 I can express regret for the fact 1388 00:59:37,241 --> 00:59:40,369 that I benefit from a system that treats people of my race 1389 00:59:40,452 --> 00:59:42,162 differently than others. 1390 00:59:42,246 --> 00:59:45,207 And part of what I’m trying to do is 1391 00:59:45,332 --> 00:59:48,377 engage in the kind of dialogue and receptivity 1392 00:59:48,460 --> 00:59:51,672 to figuring out how I can, um, 1393 00:59:51,797 --> 00:59:54,758 better tune my heart to what is needed. 1394 00:59:54,842 --> 00:59:59,972 And anything that I can change and ought to about myself 1395 01:00:00,097 --> 01:00:03,058 through broadening, through listening, through encounter-- 1396 01:00:03,142 --> 01:00:06,020 uh, through prayer, even-- I will seek to do. 1397 01:00:06,145 --> 01:00:09,898 Um, any quality about me that is fixed is what it is. 1398 01:00:10,024 --> 01:00:11,900 Sure. 1399 01:00:11,984 --> 01:00:15,738 If he really believes that-- like, really believes that-- 1400 01:00:15,821 --> 01:00:17,948 then my question still stands, 1401 01:00:18,032 --> 01:00:19,992 and the answer, "I hope you don’t 1402 01:00:20,075 --> 01:00:21,493 take my race into consideration," 1403 01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:23,203 -is a bullshit answer. -WOMAN: Yeah. That’s... 1404 01:00:23,329 --> 01:00:24,788 -Because race exists. -Yeah. 1405 01:00:24,872 --> 01:00:26,332 It exists. It’s here. 1406 01:00:26,415 --> 01:00:27,875 The-the reason why he’s here is because race exists. 1407 01:00:27,958 --> 01:00:29,877 The reason why he went and met with Al Sharpton 1408 01:00:30,002 --> 01:00:31,211 -is because race exists. -Yeah. 1409 01:00:31,295 --> 01:00:32,838 Because he’s running fourth, 1410 01:00:32,921 --> 01:00:36,342 but only four percent of his polling is nonwhite. 1411 01:00:36,467 --> 01:00:39,011 -Yeah. -So let’s not... so don’t feed me 1412 01:00:39,094 --> 01:00:41,597 "I want... I don’t want to be, um, 1413 01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,557 judged upon my race" as if... 1414 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,851 as if we’re in that magical unicorn world. 1415 01:00:45,934 --> 01:00:47,353 -Yeah. Yeah. -We’re not. 1416 01:00:47,436 --> 01:00:48,687 WOMAN: But only privileged people 1417 01:00:48,812 --> 01:00:50,147 can actually make that claim or comment. 1418 01:00:50,230 --> 01:00:51,523 That is actually the point. 1419 01:00:51,648 --> 01:00:53,192 PETE: I think a white candidate, 1420 01:00:53,275 --> 01:00:54,818 especially a new white candidate, 1421 01:00:54,902 --> 01:00:56,779 just has a lot to deliver. 1422 01:00:56,904 --> 01:00:59,114 I need to try to find ways of connecting 1423 01:00:59,239 --> 01:01:00,866 to very different experiences. 1424 01:01:00,991 --> 01:01:02,618 And at the same time, 1425 01:01:02,743 --> 01:01:04,912 you know, that can put a lot of pressure on your authenticity 1426 01:01:04,995 --> 01:01:07,998 if you’re trying to look to-to... 1427 01:01:08,082 --> 01:01:10,334 bridge two very different experiences 1428 01:01:10,417 --> 01:01:12,294 when-when the most important thing you can do 1429 01:01:12,378 --> 01:01:14,630 is just acknowledge why they’re different. 1430 01:01:14,713 --> 01:01:17,925 And I think it took me a long time to understand that part, 1431 01:01:18,008 --> 01:01:19,885 that it wasn’t about: 1432 01:01:19,968 --> 01:01:21,970 How do I take these combinations 1433 01:01:22,054 --> 01:01:24,681 of-of privilege and exclusion that I know 1434 01:01:24,807 --> 01:01:27,684 and use ’em to make me see yours better? 1435 01:01:27,810 --> 01:01:29,228 And it’s more: 1436 01:01:29,311 --> 01:01:32,940 How do I understand where I fit and acknowledge it, 1437 01:01:33,023 --> 01:01:34,525 and then hear you telling me 1438 01:01:34,608 --> 01:01:35,943 where you fit and acknowledge it, 1439 01:01:36,026 --> 01:01:38,278 and then offer a convincing account 1440 01:01:38,362 --> 01:01:40,447 of how I can deliver for you? 1441 01:01:40,572 --> 01:01:42,533 People like you and people like me both. 1442 01:01:44,576 --> 01:01:46,328 -How are you? -Good. How are you? 1443 01:01:46,453 --> 01:01:48,038 Ready? 1444 01:01:48,122 --> 01:01:50,165 CHASTEN: How do you feel about this conversation? Like... 1445 01:01:50,249 --> 01:01:52,709 -PETE: Yeah. -You’re not a minority, but... 1446 01:01:52,793 --> 01:01:55,546 Like we were talking about earlier, 1447 01:01:55,671 --> 01:01:57,464 less than 30 years ago, 1448 01:01:57,589 --> 01:01:59,466 gay people were dying in the thousands, 1449 01:01:59,591 --> 01:02:02,719 and, you know, we’re still strung up in countries 1450 01:02:02,803 --> 01:02:05,055 for being who we are, fired for being who we are. 1451 01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:07,015 -Yeah. -Obviously, being gay is 1452 01:02:07,099 --> 01:02:08,559 a minority in this country. 1453 01:02:08,684 --> 01:02:10,519 How does it feel when people write about it 1454 01:02:10,644 --> 01:02:12,563 in a way that says, like, but it’s not? 1455 01:02:12,688 --> 01:02:13,981 -Yeah. -That you’re just... 1456 01:02:14,064 --> 01:02:15,524 you’re just a white male and you don’t know. 1457 01:02:15,607 --> 01:02:17,067 Yeah, I think people are trying 1458 01:02:17,192 --> 01:02:19,695 to figure out what to do with all of it. 1459 01:02:19,820 --> 01:02:23,365 I think it bothers you more than it does me for some reason. 1460 01:02:24,533 --> 01:02:26,743 Frankly, maybe ’cause just, like, you’ve dealt with 1461 01:02:26,827 --> 01:02:30,414 more bullshit because of being gay than I have. 1462 01:02:34,710 --> 01:02:36,086 LIS: Okay. Let’s get started. 1463 01:02:36,211 --> 01:02:38,964 Mayor Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar last week 1464 01:02:39,047 --> 01:02:43,051 said that a woman of your age and your experience level 1465 01:02:43,135 --> 01:02:45,596 would not be standing on this stage today. 1466 01:02:45,721 --> 01:02:48,724 Do you believe that you benefit from white male privilege? 1467 01:02:48,807 --> 01:02:50,767 PETE: I think the senator is right 1468 01:02:50,851 --> 01:02:53,437 to point to the effects of sexism 1469 01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:55,606 and what that does in our politics. 1470 01:02:55,689 --> 01:02:57,649 Every one of us has battled 1471 01:02:57,733 --> 01:03:01,236 different advantages and disadvantages to get here. 1472 01:03:01,361 --> 01:03:03,447 I’m standing before you as somebody who, 1473 01:03:03,572 --> 01:03:05,324 just two elections ago, 1474 01:03:05,449 --> 01:03:08,952 would not even be able legally to wear this wedding ring. 1475 01:03:09,036 --> 01:03:11,121 Somebody who entered the military at a time 1476 01:03:11,205 --> 01:03:13,582 when it was a matter of law that I could be fired 1477 01:03:13,707 --> 01:03:16,376 from that job just because of who I am. 1478 01:03:16,460 --> 01:03:19,296 And here I am standing in front of you as evidence 1479 01:03:19,379 --> 01:03:22,299 of what can happen when America does the right thing. 1480 01:03:22,424 --> 01:03:24,551 Okay, wait. Hold on, Pete. 1481 01:03:25,552 --> 01:03:28,222 There’s never been an openly gay person on that stage before, 1482 01:03:28,347 --> 01:03:30,432 and you were going through all of these things 1483 01:03:30,516 --> 01:03:33,477 like you were reading a fucking, like, shopping list. 1484 01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:34,978 If we don’t feel it in this room, 1485 01:03:35,062 --> 01:03:38,649 no one over their TV screen is gonna feel it. 1486 01:03:38,774 --> 01:03:41,318 So, like, you need to fucking feel this in you. 1487 01:03:41,401 --> 01:03:43,153 And I think you’ve got to acknowledge, like, 1488 01:03:43,237 --> 01:03:45,614 you will never understand what it’s like to be a-a Black woman 1489 01:03:45,697 --> 01:03:48,825 but, like, you understand a thing or two about obstacles 1490 01:03:48,909 --> 01:03:50,536 that have been thrown in your way. 1491 01:03:50,661 --> 01:03:52,746 You’re not, like, fucking an anthropologist here. 1492 01:03:52,871 --> 01:03:54,915 This is, like, a thing that you feel. 1493 01:03:54,998 --> 01:03:56,875 I think you can just be really-- "Let me tell you about 1494 01:03:56,959 --> 01:03:58,585 -my experience." -LIS: Yeah. 1495 01:03:58,710 --> 01:04:00,546 Hmm. 1496 01:04:10,556 --> 01:04:12,849 CHASTEN: Pete keeps a lot inside. 1497 01:04:13,767 --> 01:04:16,395 But I’ve never met someone who thinks 1498 01:04:16,478 --> 01:04:19,147 so deeply about his place in the world 1499 01:04:19,231 --> 01:04:21,775 and what he can do for other people. 1500 01:04:22,609 --> 01:04:24,486 And he just doesn’t show it 1501 01:04:24,611 --> 01:04:27,656 the same way other people do sometimes. 1502 01:04:27,739 --> 01:04:30,033 And to watch him carry that weight-- 1503 01:04:30,117 --> 01:04:33,078 like, the weight of injustice 1504 01:04:33,161 --> 01:04:35,706 and the weight of... 1505 01:04:35,789 --> 01:04:39,668 hurt and division... 1506 01:04:41,003 --> 01:04:45,048 ...and then people write articles that say, like, 1507 01:04:45,132 --> 01:04:47,509 he doesn’t... he doesn’t show emotion. 1508 01:04:47,593 --> 01:04:49,886 Or, like, does he... does he care? 1509 01:04:50,012 --> 01:04:52,222 PETE (whispering): Whether you live in a small town, 1510 01:04:52,306 --> 01:04:54,224 midsize city or one of our biggest... 1511 01:04:54,308 --> 01:04:57,227 CHASTEN: But the ways I’ve seen him grow, 1512 01:04:57,352 --> 01:05:01,148 just talking about that weight out loud... 1513 01:05:02,399 --> 01:05:04,318 ...means a lot to me. 1514 01:05:08,697 --> 01:05:10,532 PETE: So, there’s this poem by Carl Sandburg 1515 01:05:10,657 --> 01:05:13,660 that’s from the perspective of a father giving advice to his son. 1516 01:05:13,744 --> 01:05:17,956 And it says to "tell him to be alone often and get at himself" 1517 01:05:18,081 --> 01:05:20,709 and "tell himself no lies about himself 1518 01:05:20,792 --> 01:05:22,753 "whatever white lies and protective fronts 1519 01:05:22,836 --> 01:05:25,297 he may use among other people." 1520 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,719 And... of course, for anybody who’s ever come out, 1521 01:05:30,802 --> 01:05:33,096 like, that makes you think. 1522 01:05:33,180 --> 01:05:35,807 But everybody has thought about that. 1523 01:05:35,932 --> 01:05:38,810 What’s the difference between the faces 1524 01:05:38,894 --> 01:05:41,104 the world makes you put forward 1525 01:05:41,188 --> 01:05:44,941 and your shifting understanding of who you actually are? 1526 01:05:47,277 --> 01:05:50,447 "Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong 1527 01:05:50,530 --> 01:05:53,867 and the final decisions are made in silent rooms." 1528 01:05:53,992 --> 01:05:55,786 (cheering and applause) 1529 01:05:55,911 --> 01:05:57,496 GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Mayor Buttigieg, 1530 01:05:57,579 --> 01:05:58,955 what’s the most significant 1531 01:05:59,039 --> 01:06:00,832 professional setback you’ve had to face, 1532 01:06:00,916 --> 01:06:03,001 and what did you learn from it? 1533 01:06:03,085 --> 01:06:05,462 You know, as a military officer 1534 01:06:05,587 --> 01:06:08,006 serving under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, 1535 01:06:08,090 --> 01:06:11,134 and as an elected official in the state of Indiana 1536 01:06:11,218 --> 01:06:14,221 when Mike Pence was governor, 1537 01:06:14,304 --> 01:06:18,183 at a certain point, when it came to professional setbacks, 1538 01:06:18,266 --> 01:06:22,437 I had to wonder whether just acknowledging who I was 1539 01:06:22,521 --> 01:06:24,147 was gonna be the ultimate 1540 01:06:24,272 --> 01:06:26,858 career-ending professional setback. 1541 01:06:26,983 --> 01:06:29,152 (clears throat) I came back from the deployment 1542 01:06:29,236 --> 01:06:31,988 and realized that you only get to live one life, 1543 01:06:32,072 --> 01:06:37,119 and I was not interested in not knowing what it was like 1544 01:06:37,202 --> 01:06:40,205 to be in love any longer, so I just came out. 1545 01:06:40,330 --> 01:06:42,541 I had no idea what kind of professional setback 1546 01:06:42,666 --> 01:06:45,127 it would be, especially ’cause, inconveniently, 1547 01:06:45,252 --> 01:06:50,799 it was an election year in my socially conservative community. 1548 01:06:50,882 --> 01:06:54,261 What happened was that when I trusted voters 1549 01:06:54,386 --> 01:06:57,597 to judge me based on the job that I did for them, 1550 01:06:57,681 --> 01:06:59,516 they decided to trust me 1551 01:06:59,599 --> 01:07:02,686 and reelected me with 80% of the vote. 1552 01:07:02,769 --> 01:07:07,149 And what I learned was that trust can be reciprocated 1553 01:07:07,232 --> 01:07:10,569 and that part of how you can win and deserve to win 1554 01:07:10,694 --> 01:07:13,697 is to know what’s worth more to you than winning. 1555 01:07:13,780 --> 01:07:17,200 And I think that’s what we need in the presidency right now. 1556 01:07:17,284 --> 01:07:20,120 STEPHANOPOULOS: Mayor Buttigieg, thank you. 1557 01:07:20,203 --> 01:07:22,456 Mr. Yang... 1558 01:07:22,539 --> 01:07:24,875 LIS: That was insane. 1559 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,794 How good did you... how good did you feel at that second? 1560 01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:29,463 PETE: Pretty good. Oh, yeah... 1561 01:07:29,588 --> 01:07:31,298 MIKE: When you’re at this level, I think people want 1562 01:07:31,381 --> 01:07:34,134 to see that you can be commander in chief. 1563 01:07:34,217 --> 01:07:35,802 PETE (on TV): You’re being offered a false choice. 1564 01:07:35,927 --> 01:07:37,262 I don’t agree with the vice president 1565 01:07:37,345 --> 01:07:38,680 that Trump is an aberration. 1566 01:07:38,805 --> 01:07:40,515 MIKE: And that you can be decent 1567 01:07:40,599 --> 01:07:42,350 and articulate and eloquent, but that at the same time 1568 01:07:42,434 --> 01:07:46,021 you can also be commanding and you can be forceful 1569 01:07:46,104 --> 01:07:47,606 and that you can make decisions 1570 01:07:47,689 --> 01:07:49,316 and that you can talk about your convictions 1571 01:07:49,399 --> 01:07:52,319 and that you can draw contrasts from other people. 1572 01:07:53,153 --> 01:07:54,738 And the debates showed that. 1573 01:07:54,821 --> 01:07:56,531 PETE: I don’t need lessons from you 1574 01:07:56,615 --> 01:07:59,910 on courage, political or personal. 1575 01:08:00,035 --> 01:08:02,162 Everyone on this stage is determined 1576 01:08:02,245 --> 01:08:03,663 to get something done. 1577 01:08:03,747 --> 01:08:05,791 The problem is the National Rifle Association 1578 01:08:05,874 --> 01:08:07,375 and their enablers in Congress, 1579 01:08:07,459 --> 01:08:09,294 and we should be united in taking the fight to them. 1580 01:08:09,377 --> 01:08:12,881 Respectfully, Congresswoman, I think that is dead wrong. 1581 01:08:13,006 --> 01:08:14,591 The slaughter going on in Syria is not 1582 01:08:14,716 --> 01:08:16,676 a consequence of American presence. 1583 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:18,678 It’s a consequence of a withdrawal 1584 01:08:18,762 --> 01:08:20,806 and a betrayal by this president 1585 01:08:20,931 --> 01:08:23,767 of American allies and American values. 1586 01:08:23,892 --> 01:08:25,977 You’ve memorized a bunch of talking points. 1587 01:08:26,061 --> 01:08:27,896 You have not been in the arena doing that work. 1588 01:08:27,979 --> 01:08:29,731 PETE: Well, maybe leading a diverse city 1589 01:08:29,856 --> 01:08:33,318 that was facing ruin doesn’t sound like the arena to you. 1590 01:08:33,443 --> 01:08:36,112 I-I’m used to senators telling mayors 1591 01:08:36,196 --> 01:08:38,198 that senators are more important than mayors, 1592 01:08:38,281 --> 01:08:40,075 but this is the arena, too. 1593 01:08:40,158 --> 01:08:42,953 You don’t have to be in Washington to matter. 1594 01:08:43,036 --> 01:08:46,581 They wouldn’t be attacking you if they didn’t fear you, 1595 01:08:46,706 --> 01:08:49,918 if they didn’t think that you presented a threat to them. 1596 01:08:50,001 --> 01:08:53,213 WARREN: The mayor just recently had a fundraiser 1597 01:08:53,296 --> 01:08:57,676 that was held in a wine cave full of crystals. 1598 01:08:57,759 --> 01:09:00,428 Billionaires in wine caves. 1599 01:09:00,554 --> 01:09:02,222 According to Forbes magazine, I am the... 1600 01:09:02,347 --> 01:09:04,558 literally the only person on this stage 1601 01:09:04,683 --> 01:09:07,060 who’s not a millionaire or a billionaire. 1602 01:09:07,185 --> 01:09:09,062 If I pledge never to be 1603 01:09:09,187 --> 01:09:12,524 in the company of a progressive Democratic donor, 1604 01:09:12,607 --> 01:09:14,067 I couldn’t be up here. 1605 01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:15,735 We need the support from everybody 1606 01:09:15,819 --> 01:09:18,488 who is committed to helping us defeat Donald Trump. 1607 01:09:19,281 --> 01:09:21,157 MIKE: There’s definitely been a progression 1608 01:09:21,283 --> 01:09:24,119 in terms of his presence 1609 01:09:24,244 --> 01:09:26,246 that’s needed to be successful and win. 1610 01:09:26,329 --> 01:09:29,249 PETE: We shouldn’t have to choose between one candidate 1611 01:09:29,332 --> 01:09:31,459 who wants to burn this party down 1612 01:09:31,543 --> 01:09:34,379 and another candidate who wants to buy this party out. 1613 01:09:34,462 --> 01:09:37,674 Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat. 1614 01:09:39,718 --> 01:09:42,012 See, that was a performance. That was a performance. 1615 01:09:42,137 --> 01:09:43,513 Let’s do this. 1616 01:09:43,597 --> 01:09:45,765 MIKE: There’s more of, like, 1617 01:09:45,849 --> 01:09:48,059 kind of a stature, a presence around him now. 1618 01:09:48,143 --> 01:09:50,312 I think it’s just, when you’re at this level 1619 01:09:50,395 --> 01:09:53,690 and there’s the media attention and the events are really big, 1620 01:09:53,815 --> 01:09:56,067 there’s, like, a star power that kind of comes with that. 1621 01:09:56,192 --> 01:09:57,485 PETE: Thank you. 1622 01:09:57,569 --> 01:09:59,779 (Pete speaking French) 1623 01:10:00,947 --> 01:10:03,617 ("High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco playing) 1624 01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:05,869 (cheering) 1625 01:10:15,587 --> 01:10:17,464 (song fades) 1626 01:10:17,547 --> 01:10:18,757 (cheering) 1627 01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,843 We will fight when we must fight, 1628 01:10:21,968 --> 01:10:26,389 but I will never allow us to get so wrapped up in the fighting 1629 01:10:26,473 --> 01:10:29,476 that we start to think fighting is the point. 1630 01:10:29,559 --> 01:10:33,438 The point is what lies on the other side of the fight. 1631 01:10:33,521 --> 01:10:37,317 I have seen what America can do, and so have you. 1632 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,778 After all, you’re looking at someone 1633 01:10:39,861 --> 01:10:41,738 who, as a young man growing up, 1634 01:10:41,821 --> 01:10:44,032 wondered if something deep inside of him 1635 01:10:44,115 --> 01:10:47,369 meant that he would forever be an outsider, 1636 01:10:47,452 --> 01:10:49,454 would never wear the uniform, 1637 01:10:49,537 --> 01:10:52,832 never be accepted, never know love. 1638 01:10:52,916 --> 01:10:56,836 And now you are looking at that same young man-- 1639 01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:00,131 a veteran, a mayor, happily married-- 1640 01:11:00,215 --> 01:11:03,635 asking for your vote for president of the United States. 1641 01:11:03,718 --> 01:11:05,887 (cheering) 1642 01:11:08,515 --> 01:11:10,684 ♪ ♪ 1643 01:11:25,031 --> 01:11:28,451 (news theme playing) 1644 01:11:28,535 --> 01:11:30,662 LESTER HOLT: Good evening. I’m Lester Holt in New York. 1645 01:11:30,745 --> 01:11:32,914 Doors have just closed at caucus sites in Iowa, 1646 01:11:32,998 --> 01:11:34,541 and after months of campaigning, 1647 01:11:34,666 --> 01:11:36,751 actual voting is finally underway. 1648 01:11:36,835 --> 01:11:38,795 Just 41 delegates at stake tonight. 1649 01:11:38,878 --> 01:11:40,213 It’s a fraction of what’s needed 1650 01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:42,090 to win the Democratic nomination. 1651 01:11:42,173 --> 01:11:44,259 But what’s really on the line for the candidates tonight 1652 01:11:44,342 --> 01:11:46,594 is the enormous boost that comes from winning 1653 01:11:46,678 --> 01:11:49,014 this first-in-the-nation contest. 1654 01:11:49,139 --> 01:11:51,683 Senator Bernie Sanders carried it big in 2016... 1655 01:11:51,766 --> 01:11:53,435 PETE: Iowa winnows it down. 1656 01:11:53,518 --> 01:11:55,687 ’Cause they talk about the three tickets out of Iowa: 1657 01:11:55,770 --> 01:11:57,647 to win outright, to come in close 1658 01:11:57,772 --> 01:11:59,190 or to beat expectations. 1659 01:11:59,315 --> 01:12:01,818 Iowa basically decides who’s still a candidate 1660 01:12:01,943 --> 01:12:03,403 as you go into New Hampshire and Nevada 1661 01:12:03,528 --> 01:12:04,988 and South Carolina and the rest of it. 1662 01:12:05,113 --> 01:12:06,865 HOLT: Some numbers have started to come in, 1663 01:12:06,948 --> 01:12:09,617 but this race is still too early for us to call, 1664 01:12:09,701 --> 01:12:11,953 with Biden, Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg 1665 01:12:12,078 --> 01:12:14,080 all vying for first place. 1666 01:12:14,164 --> 01:12:15,582 Chuck Todd, he is in Iowa... 1667 01:12:15,707 --> 01:12:18,251 PETE: 20% win probability. 1668 01:12:18,376 --> 01:12:19,919 No votes counted. 1669 01:12:20,003 --> 01:12:22,839 Right now what we’re doing is we’re getting official counts 1670 01:12:22,922 --> 01:12:26,259 from each different preferential group, finding out, uh, 1671 01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:28,386 one vote for Gabbard, one vote for Deval Patrick, 1672 01:12:28,511 --> 01:12:30,346 three votes for Cory Booker, et cetera. 1673 01:12:30,430 --> 01:12:32,807 ...process that the party is undertaking right now. 1674 01:12:32,891 --> 01:12:35,018 Because this is far later... 1675 01:12:35,101 --> 01:12:37,812 They did not expect to have no vote reporting 1676 01:12:37,896 --> 01:12:39,481 at 10:30 Eastern... 1677 01:12:39,606 --> 01:12:41,316 WOLF BLITZER: ...what they described as multiple reports 1678 01:12:41,399 --> 01:12:42,817 of technical trouble. 1679 01:12:42,901 --> 01:12:44,861 Are numbers gonna start getting reported in, then, 1680 01:12:44,944 --> 01:12:46,946 as, like, precinct by precinct? 1681 01:12:47,072 --> 01:12:48,281 MAN (on phone): Oh, I’m not going into 1682 01:12:48,364 --> 01:12:49,532 those specifics, uh, right now. 1683 01:12:49,657 --> 01:12:53,078 Oh, my fucking... 1684 01:12:53,203 --> 01:12:54,537 God. 1685 01:12:54,621 --> 01:12:56,581 I think you should get out there. 1686 01:12:56,706 --> 01:12:58,541 They’re gonna talk about Klobuchar now 1687 01:12:58,666 --> 01:13:01,753 for another 45 minutes or hour until the next person goes. 1688 01:13:01,878 --> 01:13:04,005 It’s so political to go in and give that speech. 1689 01:13:04,089 --> 01:13:06,424 And we don’t have any real indication 1690 01:13:06,549 --> 01:13:07,842 where it’s gonna turn out. 1691 01:13:07,967 --> 01:13:09,302 PETE: But what if it’s like, 1692 01:13:09,427 --> 01:13:11,763 "We don’t know much, but we know this"? 1693 01:13:11,846 --> 01:13:13,473 Like, something’s happening. 1694 01:13:13,598 --> 01:13:16,392 Like... or like, look, they’re off crunching the numbers, 1695 01:13:16,476 --> 01:13:18,978 and we don’t know everything, but I’ve seen enough 1696 01:13:19,104 --> 01:13:21,147 to know that you all have made history tonight. 1697 01:13:21,231 --> 01:13:22,774 -Yeah. -I know it’s a little weird 1698 01:13:22,857 --> 01:13:24,442 without having anything real behind it, 1699 01:13:24,526 --> 01:13:26,069 but there’s a way that we’re not... it’s not to, like, 1700 01:13:26,152 --> 01:13:27,570 "bullshit declare victory" thing. 1701 01:13:27,654 --> 01:13:29,906 It’s the, like, "somebody might as well 1702 01:13:30,031 --> 01:13:31,825 say something before midnight" thing. 1703 01:13:31,950 --> 01:13:34,577 -MIKE: Let’s just go. -LIS: Get your suit on. 1704 01:13:34,661 --> 01:13:40,041 Tonight, in this enormously consequential 1705 01:13:40,125 --> 01:13:41,543 2020 election... 1706 01:13:41,626 --> 01:13:43,086 CHASTEN: We’re gonna be the only campaign 1707 01:13:43,169 --> 01:13:44,671 that didn’t have the spouse onstage. 1708 01:13:44,796 --> 01:13:46,631 -PETE: Hmm? -You’re gonna be the only candidate 1709 01:13:46,714 --> 01:13:49,801 that didn’t have your spouse standing next to you. 1710 01:13:49,884 --> 01:13:51,678 I think you’re gonna come at the end, 1711 01:13:51,761 --> 01:13:54,848 ’cause we don’t have the, like, supporters and family on... 1712 01:13:54,931 --> 01:13:56,641 There’s, like, a gap between... 1713 01:13:56,724 --> 01:13:58,393 Well, you were there for the council. 1714 01:13:58,476 --> 01:14:02,856 SANDERS: Let me... let me begin by saying that I imagine... 1715 01:14:02,981 --> 01:14:04,816 Yeah, I mean, at the end, but everyone... 1716 01:14:04,941 --> 01:14:07,026 like, everyone has had their spouse standing next to them. 1717 01:14:07,110 --> 01:14:08,987 SANDERS: ...the results will be announced... 1718 01:14:09,070 --> 01:14:10,989 PETE: Amy’s husband was, like, back among the... 1719 01:14:11,114 --> 01:14:14,033 -Right, but he was onstage the whole time. -Yeah. 1720 01:14:14,117 --> 01:14:15,660 So was Jill. 1721 01:14:15,743 --> 01:14:17,871 SANDERS: ...I have a good feeling we’re gonna be doing 1722 01:14:17,954 --> 01:14:21,207 -very, very well here in Iowa. -(crowd cheering) 1723 01:14:22,208 --> 01:14:24,377 (crowd cheering) 1724 01:14:26,754 --> 01:14:29,007 Should I say I shocked the political world 1725 01:14:29,090 --> 01:14:30,550 or I rocked the... rocked... 1726 01:14:30,675 --> 01:14:32,927 -LIS: Shocked. Shocked. -What about "astonished"? 1727 01:14:33,011 --> 01:14:35,805 -"Astonished" is good. -Aston... Let’s do "astonished." 1728 01:14:35,889 --> 01:14:37,849 -Yeah, do "astonished." -You don’t like "astonished"? 1729 01:14:37,932 --> 01:14:39,225 -I mean, that’s... -"Shocked"? 1730 01:14:39,350 --> 01:14:40,560 "Shocked" is bad, isn’t it? "Shocked"? 1731 01:14:40,643 --> 01:14:42,061 "Shocked"? No. "Shocked" is good. 1732 01:14:42,145 --> 01:14:43,605 (crowd cheering) 1733 01:14:43,688 --> 01:14:45,440 PETE: So we don’t know all the results, 1734 01:14:45,565 --> 01:14:49,485 but, Iowa, you have shocked the nation. 1735 01:14:49,569 --> 01:14:52,989 We are going on to New Hampshire victorious. 1736 01:14:53,072 --> 01:14:54,324 (cheering) 1737 01:14:54,449 --> 01:14:56,659 ♪ My time is not long here ♪ 1738 01:14:56,784 --> 01:14:59,495 ♪ I gotta lay this body down ♪ 1739 01:14:59,621 --> 01:15:02,582 ♪ I got the hounds on my trail ♪ 1740 01:15:02,707 --> 01:15:06,085 ♪ It’s the cross before the crown ♪ 1741 01:15:06,169 --> 01:15:08,171 ♪ We’re gonna die anyway ♪ 1742 01:15:08,296 --> 01:15:11,591 ♪ Let’s make a difference ♪ 1743 01:15:11,674 --> 01:15:13,509 ♪ Mm-hmm... ♪ 1744 01:15:13,593 --> 01:15:15,136 REPORTER: What’s your reaction, sir, 1745 01:15:15,261 --> 01:15:17,430 to Mayor Buttigieg last night declaring victory? 1746 01:15:17,555 --> 01:15:20,516 I don’t know how anybody declares victory before you have 1747 01:15:20,642 --> 01:15:23,269 an official statement as to election results. 1748 01:15:23,394 --> 01:15:25,021 Uh, we thought it was inappropriate. 1749 01:15:25,146 --> 01:15:26,689 -♪ Obstacles are in the way... ♪ -(crowd cheering) 1750 01:15:26,773 --> 01:15:29,275 I believe the Granite State could make me 1751 01:15:29,359 --> 01:15:32,195 the next president of the United States, and if you do, 1752 01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:34,864 I will work every day to make you proud 1753 01:15:34,989 --> 01:15:36,199 and earn that support. 1754 01:15:36,324 --> 01:15:37,325 Thank you for coming. 1755 01:15:37,408 --> 01:15:38,910 Thank you for caring. 1756 01:15:39,035 --> 01:15:41,287 Please spread the word, and I think we’re gonna have 1757 01:15:41,412 --> 01:15:43,790 a lot to celebrate. Thank you! 1758 01:15:44,666 --> 01:15:45,833 Thank you. 1759 01:15:45,959 --> 01:15:47,252 -♪ Uh-huh... ♪ -Thank you. 1760 01:15:47,335 --> 01:15:48,878 ♪ I know that we... ♪ 1761 01:15:48,962 --> 01:15:50,338 -Thank you. -Good luck. 1762 01:15:50,463 --> 01:15:51,839 You’ll get ’em with New Hampshire, hands down. 1763 01:15:51,923 --> 01:15:53,549 Look, we said so. We feel good. We think so. 1764 01:15:53,675 --> 01:15:55,385 Uh, I don’t have a lot of experience winning, uh, 1765 01:15:55,468 --> 01:15:57,345 -presidential elections, but... -(laughter) 1766 01:15:57,428 --> 01:15:58,763 ...um, but this is, I think, 1767 01:15:58,846 --> 01:16:00,556 what winning feels like, so with your help... 1768 01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,600 (cheering) 1769 01:16:03,518 --> 01:16:07,146 The Democratic Party of Iowa, if I may say so, screwed up 1770 01:16:07,230 --> 01:16:09,565 the, uh, counting process badly. 1771 01:16:09,649 --> 01:16:11,484 And I suspect that at the end of the day, 1772 01:16:11,609 --> 01:16:15,947 uh, Mr. Buttigieg and I will have an equal number of, um... 1773 01:16:16,072 --> 01:16:18,157 of delegates to the National Convention. 1774 01:16:18,241 --> 01:16:19,534 WOMAN: Pete, we love you! 1775 01:16:19,659 --> 01:16:21,828 ♪ Spirits below and above ♪ 1776 01:16:21,911 --> 01:16:24,747 ♪ Show us some guidance and love... ♪ 1777 01:16:24,872 --> 01:16:26,874 MAN (on phone): They’ve screened 62% of precincts 1778 01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:28,251 from all 99 counties 1779 01:16:28,334 --> 01:16:30,003 that we get in about ten minutes. 1780 01:16:30,086 --> 01:16:33,006 All right, nothing to do but stand by for news, right? 1781 01:16:33,131 --> 01:16:34,340 Cool. 1782 01:16:34,424 --> 01:16:36,676 God, this makes me so nervous. 1783 01:16:36,759 --> 01:16:38,511 PETE: Um... 1784 01:16:40,221 --> 01:16:42,515 LIS: Hey, what-what were you saying? 1785 01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:44,851 Like, in first? 1786 01:16:44,934 --> 01:16:46,185 How do you know that? 1787 01:16:46,269 --> 01:16:48,771 Are they making any announcements? 1788 01:16:48,855 --> 01:16:49,981 There we go. 1789 01:16:50,064 --> 01:16:52,150 -LIS: What is it? -We’re ahead of him. 1790 01:16:52,275 --> 01:16:54,152 What? 1791 01:16:54,277 --> 01:16:57,155 Whoa, it shows him in first place. Oh, my God. 1792 01:16:57,238 --> 01:16:58,406 Go. Hurry. 1793 01:16:58,531 --> 01:16:59,907 -Where is he? -In the bathroom. 1794 01:16:59,991 --> 01:17:01,784 Tell him, Chasten. Tell him. 1795 01:17:01,909 --> 01:17:03,161 Sorry. 1796 01:17:03,244 --> 01:17:04,662 -Here? -Yeah, he’s in the bathroom. 1797 01:17:04,746 --> 01:17:06,914 You’re in first. 1798 01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,250 -You’re in first. -PETE: Oh-ho. 1799 01:17:09,334 --> 01:17:10,710 -What? -You’re in first. 1800 01:17:10,793 --> 01:17:12,378 -Hey. How about that? -LIS: You’re in first. 1801 01:17:12,462 --> 01:17:13,588 You’re in first place. 1802 01:17:13,671 --> 01:17:15,882 -Oh, my God. -(laughing) 1803 01:17:15,965 --> 01:17:18,926 ("High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco playing) 1804 01:17:21,304 --> 01:17:22,722 REPORTER: Is it a surprise? Uh, sure. 1805 01:17:22,805 --> 01:17:24,390 Bernie Sanders was running before. 1806 01:17:24,474 --> 01:17:26,225 -Elizabeth Warren had a really strong summer. -Right. 1807 01:17:26,309 --> 01:17:28,269 Biden’s the former two-term vice president of the United States. 1808 01:17:28,353 --> 01:17:30,772 So Mayor Buttigieg has pretty good bragging rights... 1809 01:17:30,897 --> 01:17:33,232 All right, you practice 1810 01:17:33,316 --> 01:17:35,485 for your Iowa caucus win. 1811 01:17:35,568 --> 01:17:38,029 We haven’t won yet, but we have. 1812 01:17:38,112 --> 01:17:41,199 -Because, by any reckoning... -Oh, geez. 1813 01:17:41,282 --> 01:17:42,825 All right. Okay. Goodbye. 1814 01:17:42,950 --> 01:17:45,036 ...for us to be leading the Iowa caucuses 1815 01:17:45,119 --> 01:17:47,663 -is an astonishing victory. -(door closes) 1816 01:17:50,166 --> 01:17:52,335 (door opens) 1817 01:17:54,962 --> 01:17:56,464 (door closes) 1818 01:17:56,547 --> 01:17:59,550 Would you ever say, like, 1819 01:17:59,634 --> 01:18:01,219 "And to that kid, you know, 1820 01:18:01,344 --> 01:18:02,970 "and you had them cracking the door open, 1821 01:18:03,096 --> 01:18:06,224 "wondering if it’s really safe to come out in this country, 1822 01:18:06,307 --> 01:18:09,310 I say, ’Look what we can do.’" 1823 01:18:11,020 --> 01:18:12,939 I don’t know when. Maybe. 1824 01:18:13,064 --> 01:18:14,816 Yeah. 1825 01:18:16,150 --> 01:18:21,322 You’re gonna tell every single gay kid in this country today... 1826 01:18:22,782 --> 01:18:24,867 ...that it gets better. 1827 01:18:25,952 --> 01:18:27,578 You just won the Iowa caucus. 1828 01:18:27,662 --> 01:18:30,540 You’re gonna be the next president of the United States. 1829 01:18:34,752 --> 01:18:36,504 Here’s proof. 1830 01:18:36,587 --> 01:18:39,507 EMCEE: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome 1831 01:18:39,632 --> 01:18:42,051 the next president of the United States, 1832 01:18:42,176 --> 01:18:44,178 Mayor Pete Buttigieg. 1833 01:18:44,303 --> 01:18:45,847 (cheering) 1834 01:18:45,930 --> 01:18:49,100 ("High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco playing) 1835 01:18:52,562 --> 01:18:56,232 PETE: A little later than we anticipated, 1836 01:18:56,315 --> 01:18:58,860 but better late than never. 1837 01:18:58,943 --> 01:19:02,697 Official, verified caucus results 1838 01:19:02,822 --> 01:19:04,907 are coming in from the state of Iowa. 1839 01:19:04,991 --> 01:19:08,244 We don’t know all of the numbers, but we know this much: 1840 01:19:08,327 --> 01:19:12,748 A campaign that started a year ago 1841 01:19:12,832 --> 01:19:15,460 with four staff members, 1842 01:19:15,543 --> 01:19:19,464 no name recognition, no money, 1843 01:19:19,547 --> 01:19:23,259 a campaign that some said 1844 01:19:23,342 --> 01:19:28,598 should have no business even making this attempt 1845 01:19:28,681 --> 01:19:32,101 has taken its place at the front of this race 1846 01:19:32,185 --> 01:19:33,895 to replace the current president 1847 01:19:34,020 --> 01:19:36,063 with a better vision for the future. 1848 01:19:36,147 --> 01:19:38,316 (cheering) 1849 01:19:39,650 --> 01:19:44,030 It validates the idea that we can expand a coalition 1850 01:19:44,155 --> 01:19:46,991 not only unified around who it is we’re against 1851 01:19:47,116 --> 01:19:50,203 but around what it is that we’re for. 1852 01:19:50,328 --> 01:19:51,621 (person whoops) 1853 01:19:51,746 --> 01:19:56,167 And it validates for a kid somewhere in a community 1854 01:19:56,292 --> 01:19:59,629 wondering if he belongs 1855 01:19:59,712 --> 01:20:03,883 or she belongs or they belong in their own family... 1856 01:20:05,551 --> 01:20:10,056 ...that if you believe in yourself and your country 1857 01:20:10,139 --> 01:20:12,350 there’s a lot backing up that belief. 1858 01:20:12,475 --> 01:20:14,685 (cheering and applause) 1859 01:20:16,729 --> 01:20:19,982 CROWD: Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! 1860 01:20:24,445 --> 01:20:25,905 Mm. 1861 01:20:25,988 --> 01:20:27,949 -I know. I married well. -(laughter) 1862 01:20:28,032 --> 01:20:29,492 CROWD: I believe that Pete will win! 1863 01:20:29,575 --> 01:20:31,118 I believe that Pete will win! 1864 01:20:31,244 --> 01:20:33,162 I believe that Pete will win! 1865 01:20:33,246 --> 01:20:34,997 I believe that Pete will win! 1866 01:20:35,122 --> 01:20:36,749 I believe that Pete will win! 1867 01:20:36,832 --> 01:20:38,626 I believe that Pete will win! 1868 01:20:38,709 --> 01:20:40,002 (news theme playing) 1869 01:20:40,086 --> 01:20:41,546 BLITZER (on TV): All right, let’s give another 1870 01:20:41,629 --> 01:20:42,838 key race alert right now. 1871 01:20:42,964 --> 01:20:45,091 The numbers are coming in fairly quickly. 1872 01:20:45,174 --> 01:20:46,634 What a difference a week makes. 1873 01:20:46,717 --> 01:20:48,344 Bernie Sanders maintains his lead. 1874 01:20:48,427 --> 01:20:53,474 Pete Buttigieg, uh, with 22.6%, Amy Klobuchar 20.8%, 1875 01:20:53,558 --> 01:20:56,769 and Joe Biden, he’s down in fifth place-- 8.6%. 1876 01:20:56,894 --> 01:20:58,938 -Uh, the remaining candidates... -PETE: Okay. Okay. 1877 01:20:59,021 --> 01:21:01,566 Okay, thanks. Um, I think... 1878 01:21:01,649 --> 01:21:03,317 LIS: CNN said the numbers are gonna 1879 01:21:03,401 --> 01:21:05,236 get better for us if we wait. 1880 01:21:05,319 --> 01:21:08,489 Based on our modeling, we would need to overperform 1881 01:21:08,573 --> 01:21:10,866 what we’ve been doing all night by about six percent 1882 01:21:10,992 --> 01:21:12,994 to catch him. 1883 01:21:14,495 --> 01:21:17,999 BLITZER: 26.4% to 23.9%. 1884 01:21:18,124 --> 01:21:20,418 -It’s him. -He’s got a lead of 4,764 votes. 1885 01:21:20,501 --> 01:21:23,004 Amy Klobuchar in third place with 20%. 1886 01:21:23,129 --> 01:21:26,173 Elizabeth Warren, 9.3%. 1887 01:21:26,257 --> 01:21:28,301 Joe Biden, 8.5%. 1888 01:21:28,384 --> 01:21:31,304 ♪ ♪ 1889 01:21:31,429 --> 01:21:33,598 (thunder crashes) 1890 01:21:38,185 --> 01:21:40,396 Is rain a good sign or a... or a bad sign 1891 01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:42,148 in Nevada on-on, uh, caucus day? 1892 01:21:42,273 --> 01:21:44,650 PETE: I think the clouds are parting, the sun is emerging. 1893 01:21:44,734 --> 01:21:46,861 I got to think that’s a good sign. 1894 01:21:46,944 --> 01:21:49,113 ♪ ♪ 1895 01:21:53,409 --> 01:21:56,162 LIS: Then only the three of us... Hey, Larry. 1896 01:21:56,287 --> 01:21:58,581 So then only the three of us would get delegates 1897 01:21:58,706 --> 01:22:00,124 if this held? 1898 01:22:00,249 --> 01:22:02,251 -Yes. Yeah. -That’s not good. 1899 01:22:02,335 --> 01:22:05,129 This is really a-a worry. 1900 01:22:05,212 --> 01:22:06,589 (on TV): All Bernie ever had to do-- 1901 01:22:06,672 --> 01:22:08,215 and he’s done it beautifully-- 1902 01:22:08,299 --> 01:22:11,218 is get a majority of that, and he’s up to the mid 30s. 1903 01:22:11,344 --> 01:22:13,554 If you get half of 67, you’re into the mid 30s... 1904 01:22:13,679 --> 01:22:15,931 PETE: South Carolina, here we come. 1905 01:22:16,932 --> 01:22:18,726 (thunder rumbling) 1906 01:22:18,851 --> 01:22:20,561 PETE: See this lightning out there? 1907 01:22:20,686 --> 01:22:23,773 There’s a lot of storms off to this side. 1908 01:22:25,024 --> 01:22:27,193 ♪ ♪ 1909 01:22:41,374 --> 01:22:44,210 (crowd cheering) 1910 01:22:48,506 --> 01:22:50,841 (emcee speaking indistinctly in distance) 1911 01:22:51,717 --> 01:22:53,260 What are you looking at? 1912 01:22:53,344 --> 01:22:54,720 The numbers. 1913 01:22:54,845 --> 01:22:56,013 New ones? 1914 01:22:56,097 --> 01:22:57,723 I don’t know. I just hit "search." 1915 01:22:57,848 --> 01:22:59,642 -Why? -Why what? 1916 01:22:59,725 --> 01:23:01,227 You’re getting ready to go onstage. 1917 01:23:01,310 --> 01:23:02,937 That’s not what you should be focusing on. 1918 01:23:03,020 --> 01:23:04,605 What should I be focusing on? 1919 01:23:04,689 --> 01:23:07,191 Doing a really good job onstage. 1920 01:23:07,274 --> 01:23:09,485 (indistinct chatter) 1921 01:23:11,779 --> 01:23:13,656 CHASTEN: Why are you here? 1922 01:23:13,739 --> 01:23:15,324 Because they made me. 1923 01:23:15,408 --> 01:23:17,159 No. Peter, why are you here? 1924 01:23:17,243 --> 01:23:19,078 To become president of the United States. 1925 01:23:19,161 --> 01:23:21,664 But why do you want to be president of the United States? 1926 01:23:21,747 --> 01:23:23,124 ’Cause of the people. 1927 01:23:23,207 --> 01:23:25,334 (muttering) 1928 01:23:27,044 --> 01:23:30,506 Look at all the people that are out there waiting for you. 1929 01:23:30,589 --> 01:23:34,802 Not for the stump speech, and this is new for them. 1930 01:23:34,885 --> 01:23:37,805 Everything you’re gonna say is new to them. 1931 01:23:37,888 --> 01:23:40,558 You’re offering them an invitation into this family. 1932 01:23:40,641 --> 01:23:42,476 That’s what you’re doing. 1933 01:23:46,313 --> 01:23:48,274 (crowd cheering) 1934 01:23:48,357 --> 01:23:51,902 Just so you know, um, there is a cow in the audience. 1935 01:23:51,986 --> 01:23:54,280 Someone dressed up as a cow. 1936 01:23:54,363 --> 01:23:56,532 (laughter) 1937 01:23:56,657 --> 01:23:58,409 Do we know whose side the cow is on? 1938 01:23:58,492 --> 01:24:02,997 They, um, have a sign saying, "Go vegan or we’ll die." 1939 01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:04,248 Okay. (chuckles) 1940 01:24:06,292 --> 01:24:07,835 Look, if we’re gonna get anywhere, 1941 01:24:07,918 --> 01:24:11,297 we really need to moo...ve people on this issue. 1942 01:24:11,380 --> 01:24:13,007 You know what I mean? 1943 01:24:13,132 --> 01:24:14,842 And maybe what would be really helpful is 1944 01:24:14,925 --> 01:24:16,677 we’ll just get all the candidates, you know, 1945 01:24:16,761 --> 01:24:18,929 -for one big cattle call. -Yeah, okay. 1946 01:24:19,054 --> 01:24:20,806 Now, look, I’m not gonna come at this issue 1947 01:24:20,931 --> 01:24:23,225 -like a bull in a china shop. -Yeah. 1948 01:24:24,518 --> 01:24:26,645 -But what I do want to do is... -Thank you. 1949 01:24:26,729 --> 01:24:28,189 ...steer the conversation... 1950 01:24:28,314 --> 01:24:30,816 Shouldn’t he be outside or something? 1951 01:24:30,900 --> 01:24:33,110 I’m sorry. 1952 01:24:33,235 --> 01:24:35,738 There’s a lot at stake. 1953 01:24:35,863 --> 01:24:37,406 (crowd cheering) 1954 01:24:37,490 --> 01:24:39,492 ("High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco playing) 1955 01:24:39,575 --> 01:24:42,661 WOMAN: Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete! 1956 01:24:42,745 --> 01:24:44,914 (cheering) 1957 01:24:48,501 --> 01:24:49,960 -REPORTER: One more? -Sounds good. 1958 01:24:50,044 --> 01:24:51,712 -Hi, Mayor. Good to see you. -Good to be here. 1959 01:24:51,796 --> 01:24:53,672 -Um, you came to South Carolina. -Yeah. 1960 01:24:53,756 --> 01:24:56,300 You obviously want to connect with African American voters. 1961 01:24:56,383 --> 01:24:58,260 -Yeah. -47% of the population here 1962 01:24:58,385 --> 01:25:00,763 in west Charleston is African American. 1963 01:25:00,846 --> 01:25:02,431 Where was that crowd this evening? 1964 01:25:02,556 --> 01:25:04,391 PETE: Well, I think, uh, you know, what this tells us 1965 01:25:04,475 --> 01:25:06,602 is we’ve got a lot of work cut out... 1966 01:25:06,685 --> 01:25:08,854 ♪ ♪ 1967 01:25:12,858 --> 01:25:14,944 AXELROD: No one a year ago would’ve thought 1968 01:25:15,027 --> 01:25:16,737 -he’d be in the conversation. -WOMAN: Right. 1969 01:25:16,821 --> 01:25:18,531 AXELROD: And he’s run an extraordinary campaign, 1970 01:25:18,656 --> 01:25:20,991 but he made a bet, and that bet was that 1971 01:25:21,075 --> 01:25:23,202 he could do so well in Iowa and New Hampshire 1972 01:25:23,285 --> 01:25:25,996 that he’d get escape velocity, essentially, 1973 01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:28,123 and he would get a-a look in Nevada 1974 01:25:28,249 --> 01:25:31,043 and a look in South Carolina and that he could build on that. 1975 01:25:31,126 --> 01:25:32,586 He came awfully close. 1976 01:25:32,670 --> 01:25:34,672 If Iowa had announced its results that night... 1977 01:25:34,797 --> 01:25:36,757 -(coughs) -You good? 1978 01:25:36,841 --> 01:25:38,300 Here are some tissues. 1979 01:25:38,384 --> 01:25:40,052 -(Pete coughs) -BLITZER (on TV): ...so significant that, 1980 01:25:40,135 --> 01:25:41,929 clearly, this is a big, big boost for Joe Biden. 1981 01:25:42,012 --> 01:25:43,514 JEFF ZELENY: But, Wolf, the big questions now 1982 01:25:43,597 --> 01:25:45,307 are facing all of these candidates. 1983 01:25:45,432 --> 01:25:46,684 What are they going to do? 1984 01:25:46,767 --> 01:25:49,144 We do not know the answer to that. 1985 01:25:51,272 --> 01:25:53,399 (beeping) 1986 01:25:57,278 --> 01:25:59,363 MAN (on phone): All right, so... so then I think 1987 01:25:59,446 --> 01:26:01,282 the next big question is on, uh, 1988 01:26:01,365 --> 01:26:03,325 outreach to one of the other campaigns, 1989 01:26:03,409 --> 01:26:04,994 if that is a route you want to go. 1990 01:26:05,077 --> 01:26:07,246 PETE: You know, I continue to feel 1991 01:26:07,371 --> 01:26:09,498 a little bit... 1992 01:26:09,582 --> 01:26:11,500 maybe not divided, but not a... 1993 01:26:11,584 --> 01:26:15,004 not 100% sure on, um, jumping in, 1994 01:26:15,087 --> 01:26:17,423 but inclined to initiate 1995 01:26:17,506 --> 01:26:19,133 that conversation with the Biden campaign, 1996 01:26:19,258 --> 01:26:20,843 and I think we’re-we’re serious enough 1997 01:26:20,968 --> 01:26:24,096 about considering it that we should, um, do it. 1998 01:26:24,221 --> 01:26:27,808 It does feel like the most party-unifying action 1999 01:26:27,892 --> 01:26:31,020 that I can take between now and the convention, right? 2000 01:26:33,063 --> 01:26:34,648 -Yeah. -Yes. 2001 01:26:34,732 --> 01:26:37,192 Okay. Thank you. 2002 01:26:37,276 --> 01:26:38,736 -Thank you. -Night. Thanks, Pete. 2003 01:26:38,819 --> 01:26:41,322 -Thanks. -WOMAN (on phone): Thank you. 2004 01:26:44,825 --> 01:26:47,620 That’s how you end a presidential campaign. 2005 01:26:47,703 --> 01:26:49,747 JESSE: When did you make that decision? 2006 01:26:49,830 --> 01:26:52,041 Um, overnight, just before bed, 2007 01:26:52,124 --> 01:26:56,629 we did a call and just looked at numbers, and, uh... 2008 01:26:56,712 --> 01:27:00,633 it was... pretty clear where we are. 2009 01:27:00,716 --> 01:27:04,553 I mean, you could keep pushing, but... 2010 01:27:04,637 --> 01:27:07,181 doesn’t seem like... 2011 01:27:07,264 --> 01:27:09,725 I mean, it’s just not there. 2012 01:27:09,850 --> 01:27:12,811 So... And we have a chance to do some good now. 2013 01:27:12,895 --> 01:27:15,689 I mean, if it’s true that... 2014 01:27:15,814 --> 01:27:20,736 too many candidates in this race are cluttering it, 2015 01:27:20,819 --> 01:27:22,529 there’s two things you can do about that. 2016 01:27:22,655 --> 01:27:25,157 One of ’em is win, and the other one’s get out. 2017 01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:28,160 ("Perfect Day" by Lou Reed playing) 2018 01:27:36,710 --> 01:27:39,922 ♪ Just a perfect day ♪ 2019 01:27:41,006 --> 01:27:43,717 ♪ Drink sangria in the park... ♪ 2020 01:27:43,842 --> 01:27:45,886 REPORTER: Pete Buttigieg dropping out, all in the wake 2021 01:27:45,970 --> 01:27:49,306 of Joe Biden’s landslide victory in South Carolina on Saturday, 2022 01:27:49,390 --> 01:27:51,183 winning by nearly 30 points. 2023 01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:53,602 The narrowing field could help the former vice president 2024 01:27:53,727 --> 01:27:55,396 as we head into Super Tuesday. 2025 01:27:55,521 --> 01:27:57,523 More than a third of the Democratic... 2026 01:27:57,606 --> 01:28:00,317 ♪ Just a perfect day ♪ 2027 01:28:01,443 --> 01:28:05,114 ♪ Problems all left alone ♪ 2028 01:28:06,323 --> 01:28:09,952 ♪ Weekenders on our own ♪ 2029 01:28:10,035 --> 01:28:13,038 ♪ It’s such fun ♪ 2030 01:28:17,334 --> 01:28:20,379 ♪ Just a perfect day ♪ 2031 01:28:21,213 --> 01:28:24,425 ♪ You made me forget myself ♪ 2032 01:28:26,427 --> 01:28:29,972 ♪ I thought I was someone else ♪ 2033 01:28:30,055 --> 01:28:32,474 ♪ Someone good ♪ 2034 01:28:35,477 --> 01:28:40,107 ♪ Oh, it’s such a perfect day ♪ 2035 01:28:40,232 --> 01:28:45,112 ♪ I’m glad I spent it with you ♪ 2036 01:28:45,946 --> 01:28:48,741 ♪ Oh, such a perfect day ♪ 2037 01:28:48,824 --> 01:28:53,662 ♪ You just keep me hanging on ♪ 2038 01:28:53,787 --> 01:28:58,834 ♪ You just keep me hanging on ♪ 2039 01:28:58,917 --> 01:29:00,836 (cheering) 2040 01:29:00,919 --> 01:29:03,630 ♪ ♪ 2041 01:29:15,184 --> 01:29:20,397 ♪ You’re going to reap just what you sow... ♪ 2042 01:29:22,357 --> 01:29:24,651 CHASTEN: Ugh, can’t believe they carried my speech live. 2043 01:29:24,735 --> 01:29:26,487 PETE: Of course they did. You’re adorable. 2044 01:29:26,570 --> 01:29:29,114 CHASTEN: No, I cried the whole time. 2045 01:29:29,198 --> 01:29:31,075 PETE: It was perfect. 2046 01:29:31,158 --> 01:29:33,327 ♪ ♪ 2047 01:29:38,290 --> 01:29:39,458 (barking) 2048 01:29:39,583 --> 01:29:41,543 Yeah, Truman’s excited. 2049 01:29:41,627 --> 01:29:43,754 (song ends) 2050 01:29:43,879 --> 01:29:45,672 CHASTEN: Ugh. 2051 01:29:47,174 --> 01:29:48,509 Here you go. 2052 01:29:48,592 --> 01:29:50,219 (gasps) Where’d you find ’em? 2053 01:29:50,302 --> 01:29:52,513 SHERRI: Look at you guys in sweats and slippers. 2054 01:29:52,638 --> 01:29:54,848 Feels good. I haven’t been in sweats in a long time. 2055 01:29:54,932 --> 01:29:56,934 SHERRI: That’s got to feel really good. 2056 01:29:57,017 --> 01:29:58,560 (cell phone buzzing) 2057 01:29:58,685 --> 01:30:00,312 Good evening. 2058 01:30:00,395 --> 01:30:01,897 BARACK OBAMA: How you doing, man? 2059 01:30:01,980 --> 01:30:05,150 (chuckling): I’m okay, Mr. President. How are you? 2060 01:30:05,234 --> 01:30:07,194 Well, good. I mean, it’s, uh... 2061 01:30:07,277 --> 01:30:08,570 (coughs) Excuse me. 2062 01:30:08,654 --> 01:30:10,489 Picked up a bit of a nasty cough on the trail. 2063 01:30:10,614 --> 01:30:12,866 It’s, uh, you know, that kind of numb, uh, stage 2064 01:30:12,950 --> 01:30:15,285 where, uh, just trying to get used to the prospect of 2065 01:30:15,410 --> 01:30:17,412 whatever life is about to be, but, uh... 2066 01:30:17,538 --> 01:30:19,998 CHASTEN: Hey, Dr. Biden. How are you? 2067 01:30:20,124 --> 01:30:21,834 Well, thank you for... thank you for the call, 2068 01:30:21,959 --> 01:30:25,003 and thanks for thinking of me, uh, a-and please tell, uh, 2069 01:30:25,129 --> 01:30:27,548 the vice president I say hello as well, uh, 2070 01:30:27,673 --> 01:30:30,425 and-and we’ll be wishing you well. 2071 01:30:30,509 --> 01:30:32,970 Okay. Thanks a lot. Thank you. 2072 01:30:33,095 --> 01:30:35,389 CHASTEN: Oh, doing well, Mr. Vice President. 2073 01:30:35,472 --> 01:30:37,057 How are you? 2074 01:30:37,182 --> 01:30:39,393 (quietly): It’s Joe Biden. 2075 01:30:39,518 --> 01:30:41,478 Pete’s right here. He just hung up his call, but... 2076 01:30:41,562 --> 01:30:43,021 Yeah, th-thanks for saying hello, 2077 01:30:43,105 --> 01:30:44,815 and I’ll-I’ll pass you off. 2078 01:30:44,898 --> 01:30:47,568 All right, take care. 2079 01:30:47,693 --> 01:30:49,069 Good evening. 2080 01:30:49,153 --> 01:30:51,488 (Biden speaking indistinctly over phone) 2081 01:30:56,368 --> 01:30:57,870 Well, thank you. 2082 01:30:57,995 --> 01:30:59,454 BIDEN: You have enormous talent, 2083 01:30:59,538 --> 01:31:02,541 and all you need... you need is exposure. 2084 01:31:02,624 --> 01:31:04,334 PETE: Mm. 2085 01:31:04,418 --> 01:31:06,837 (Biden continues indistinctly) 2086 01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:09,006 JESSE: Do you think you’ll be president someday? 2087 01:31:09,089 --> 01:31:11,341 PETE: I don’t know. 2088 01:31:11,466 --> 01:31:13,552 I know that I might be. 2089 01:31:13,635 --> 01:31:15,804 And that’s something. 2090 01:31:17,055 --> 01:31:20,392 Even now, it’s hard to actually think about. 2091 01:31:22,436 --> 01:31:25,189 I only got so far, but... 2092 01:31:25,272 --> 01:31:27,649 not a lot of people get that far. 2093 01:31:27,733 --> 01:31:30,777 And, um... 2094 01:31:30,861 --> 01:31:34,072 if you actually think about the enormity of it, it could... 2095 01:31:34,156 --> 01:31:35,949 could break you a little bit. 2096 01:31:36,033 --> 01:31:37,659 How so? 2097 01:31:37,743 --> 01:31:39,244 Like, there’s only so much room. 2098 01:31:39,369 --> 01:31:40,829 When you’re on... when you’re a candidate 2099 01:31:40,954 --> 01:31:44,625 and you’re encountering multiple people a day 2100 01:31:44,708 --> 01:31:47,586 who can tell you about losing a loved one 2101 01:31:47,669 --> 01:31:52,090 because of a policy failure-- on opioids or whatever it is-- 2102 01:31:52,174 --> 01:31:54,426 or what they went through with long-term care 2103 01:31:54,551 --> 01:31:59,223 or unemployment or-or racism or whatever they were facing, 2104 01:31:59,306 --> 01:32:03,769 if you actually imbibed all of the consequence of that 2105 01:32:03,852 --> 01:32:06,980 in all of its emotional meaning, 2106 01:32:07,064 --> 01:32:09,274 with all of the suffering that went with it, 2107 01:32:09,358 --> 01:32:10,901 you would break. 2108 01:32:11,026 --> 01:32:15,113 It’s only because you find a way to contain it 2109 01:32:15,197 --> 01:32:17,699 that you can be useful to people. 2110 01:32:17,824 --> 01:32:19,368 I think that’s the real challenge of handling 2111 01:32:19,493 --> 01:32:21,078 your emotions on the campaign trail. 2112 01:32:21,161 --> 01:32:23,497 A-Any... any one of the stories I heard 2113 01:32:23,580 --> 01:32:27,084 could touch off a lifetime of activism around a single issue. 2114 01:32:27,167 --> 01:32:29,336 And yet you’re out there trying to take it all in 2115 01:32:29,419 --> 01:32:31,171 and then trying to play it all back out 2116 01:32:31,255 --> 01:32:34,299 in a way that will help people share your vision 2117 01:32:34,424 --> 01:32:36,218 and help you eventually be in a position 2118 01:32:36,301 --> 01:32:37,761 to deal with the problems 2119 01:32:37,844 --> 01:32:40,597 and do that without it, uh... 2120 01:32:40,681 --> 01:32:42,099 you know, tearing you up 2121 01:32:42,182 --> 01:32:44,518 to where you don’t recognize who you are. 2122 01:32:53,402 --> 01:32:55,612 So, I don’t know what that means for my future 2123 01:32:55,696 --> 01:32:57,906 other than I just keep taking things... 2124 01:32:57,990 --> 01:33:00,284 taking things on and growing. 2125 01:33:02,077 --> 01:33:06,248 But time is on my side, I hope. (chuckles) 2126 01:33:06,331 --> 01:33:09,209 ("Colors" by Black Pumas playing) 2127 01:33:14,506 --> 01:33:16,091 Over the past few weeks, 2128 01:33:16,174 --> 01:33:18,051 Vice President-elect Harris and I have been announcing 2129 01:33:18,135 --> 01:33:19,845 nominees to our cabinet. 2130 01:33:19,928 --> 01:33:21,972 I know how proud presidents are 2131 01:33:22,055 --> 01:33:25,684 when they’re able to achieve a first in their cabinet. 2132 01:33:25,767 --> 01:33:28,061 The first ever openly gay nominee 2133 01:33:28,186 --> 01:33:30,188 to lead a cabinet department, 2134 01:33:30,272 --> 01:33:33,275 and one of the youngest cabinet members ever, 2135 01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:36,820 please welcome the next secretary of transportation, 2136 01:33:36,903 --> 01:33:39,031 -Pete Buttigieg. -(applause) 2137 01:33:39,114 --> 01:33:41,533 ♪ To the brown, brown, brown, brown ♪ 2138 01:33:41,658 --> 01:33:43,618 ♪ Till I’m clean ♪ 2139 01:33:45,912 --> 01:33:49,124 ♪ With all my favorite colors ♪ 2140 01:33:49,207 --> 01:33:51,084 ♪ Yes, sir ♪ 2141 01:33:51,168 --> 01:33:54,254 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2142 01:33:54,338 --> 01:33:56,131 ♪ Right on ♪ 2143 01:33:56,256 --> 01:33:59,384 ♪ My sisters and my brothers ♪ 2144 01:33:59,468 --> 01:34:02,137 ♪ See ’em like no other ♪ 2145 01:34:02,220 --> 01:34:05,474 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2146 01:34:07,601 --> 01:34:09,561 ♪ It’s a good day to be ♪ 2147 01:34:09,644 --> 01:34:11,480 ♪ A good day for me ♪ 2148 01:34:11,605 --> 01:34:15,484 ♪ A good day to see my favorite colors ♪ 2149 01:34:15,609 --> 01:34:17,486 ♪ Colors ♪ 2150 01:34:17,611 --> 01:34:20,238 ♪ My sisters and my brothers ♪ 2151 01:34:20,364 --> 01:34:23,283 ♪ They see ’em like no other ♪ 2152 01:34:23,367 --> 01:34:26,828 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2153 01:34:28,455 --> 01:34:31,541 ♪ Now take me to the other side ♪ 2154 01:34:34,086 --> 01:34:37,798 ♪ Little bitty blue bird flies ♪ 2155 01:34:40,050 --> 01:34:44,054 ♪ And gray clouds or white walls or blue skies ♪ 2156 01:34:44,137 --> 01:34:47,307 ♪ We gon’ fly, feel all right ♪ 2157 01:34:50,644 --> 01:34:55,357 ♪ And we gon’ ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, yeah ♪ 2158 01:34:55,482 --> 01:35:00,654 ♪ It sound like ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, yeah ♪ 2159 01:35:01,613 --> 01:35:04,157 ♪ The least I can say, I anticipate ♪ 2160 01:35:04,282 --> 01:35:08,328 ♪ A homecoming parade as we renegade in the morning ♪ 2161 01:35:08,412 --> 01:35:10,747 ♪ Right on ♪ 2162 01:35:10,831 --> 01:35:14,167 ♪ With all my favorite colors ♪ 2163 01:35:14,251 --> 01:35:16,420 ♪ Yes, sir ♪ 2164 01:35:16,503 --> 01:35:19,256 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2165 01:35:19,339 --> 01:35:21,258 ♪ Yes, ma’am ♪ 2166 01:35:21,383 --> 01:35:24,386 ♪ My sisters and my brothers ♪ 2167 01:35:24,469 --> 01:35:27,139 ♪ See ’em like no other ♪ 2168 01:35:27,222 --> 01:35:30,559 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2169 01:35:30,642 --> 01:35:32,811 ♪ ♪ 2170 01:35:53,331 --> 01:35:56,918 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2171 01:35:57,002 --> 01:35:58,670 ♪ Right ♪ 2172 01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:01,590 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2173 01:36:01,673 --> 01:36:03,633 ♪ Yes, ma’am ♪ 2174 01:36:03,758 --> 01:36:06,678 ♪ My sisters and my brothers ♪ 2175 01:36:06,761 --> 01:36:09,306 ♪ See ’em like no other ♪ 2176 01:36:09,389 --> 01:36:12,726 ♪ All my favorite colors ♪ 2177 01:36:14,769 --> 01:36:16,730 ♪ It’s a good day to be ♪ 2178 01:36:16,813 --> 01:36:18,648 ♪ A good day for me ♪ 2179 01:36:18,773 --> 01:36:22,527 ♪ A good day to see my favorite colors ♪ 2180 01:36:22,652 --> 01:36:24,571 ♪ Colors ♪ 2181 01:36:24,696 --> 01:36:27,491 ♪ My sisters and my brothers ♪ 2182 01:36:27,616 --> 01:36:31,870 ♪ They see ’em like no other ♪ 2183 01:36:31,995 --> 01:36:38,168 ♪ All my favorite colors. ♪ 2184 01:36:45,342 --> 01:36:47,511 (song ends)