I was just saying I don't know how

you have the energy because you've

been home like once or twice.

And, I mean, you're constantly going.

And you have to be an extrovert to be able to do this.

Because you said you get energy from people.

Yeah.

Well, I actually think of myself as an introvert.

But I draw a kind of propulsion from the people

I meet because when you're running for president

and somebody comes up to you, they shake hands

with you on a rope line after you give a speech,

or whatever it is, they're telling you about the most

important thing in their lives.

And you take in those stories all day.

And it energizes you because it reminds you all the time

what's at stake and why it really matters.

This is not-- sometimes they talk about politics

like it's just another show, like it's a game.

And it's our lives.

And every time you get reminded of that,

it creates this kind of fuel to keep going.

Yeah.

I feel like you're a perfect person

to be in politics because, first of all, you're super smart.

And you're so even-keeled.

Like nothing rattles you.

You just have such--

and I guess that comes from-- actually

you served in Afghanistan.

And I'm sure you have to have a pretty even--

Yeah.

It does give you a certain kind of perspective.

Yeah.

You know, there's incoming in the form of a mean tweet

and then there's, like, incoming.

Right?

Right.

So you just learn, I think, to keep things

in balance a little bit.

I'm a very passionate person.

But discipline is a really important part of how I serve

and how I work.

Yeah.

So you have been--

I want to give you a chance to address this.

Because you're having a hard time

pulling with minorities and the African-American community.

And I want you to speak to that.

Yeah.

Well, I think it's got to begin with humility.

I will never have the experience of, for example,

walking through a mall or down the street

and feeling eyes on me, judging me, and maybe thinking

that I am dangerous just because of the color of my skin,

the way black men experience.

I will never have the experience of going into an emergency room

and not being believed, describing that I'm in pain,

the way so many black women experience.

So I think it starts with acknowledging that.

And if I can't know from experience

what that's like, then how can I make myself

useful to those who have?

I think the next best thing I can do

is to show up, to listen, to learn, and to elevate

those voices.

And so what we're trying to do is make sure

that those voices are elevated in my campaign as a way

to demonstrate what it will be like in my presidency,

too, precisely because I'm never going

to be able to say that that I get it,

at least not from the perspective

of personal experience.

When I think about something like the Douglass Plan

that we put forward--

The Frederick Douglass Plan is an idea

that our campaign has put forward,

a series of proposals to deal with systematic racism

in this country.

But it's not mine.

I didn't sit there and think it up.

The reason I think it's strong is

because we asked black voices to build that plan.

And the way I can make myself useful

is to try to drive that plan through as president

and continue to elevate those voices throughout.

So that's the conversation I'm seeking

to have with voters of color who have every reason

to be skeptical of politicians, especially new figures who

come along, given the number of broken promises

and the ways that that vote has been taken for granted again

and again and again.

And the only way to earn it is to go out

there and work for it.

This was this was Rush Limbaugh's comment not too long

ago.

He said, how is this going to look?

A 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage

next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump.

How do you want to respond to that?

[LAUGHS] Look, I guess he just has a different idea

of what makes a man than I do.

Look, I'm not going to take lectures on family values

from the likes of Rush Limbaugh or anybody who

supports Donald Trump, frankly.

You know, when I was packing my bags for Afghanistan,

Donald Trump was working on season seven of Celebrity

Apprentice and--

[LAUGHTER, CHEERING, AND APPLAUSE]

I'm just done with that kind of--

and since when is strength about the chest

pounding of the loud mouth guy at the end of the bar?

The strongest people I know are not the loudest people.

They're the ones who have the deepest sense of who they are,

and what they value, and what they care about.

And one of those people, by the way,

one of the strongest people I know, is my husband, Brad Pitt.

[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE]

I knew Chasten would like that.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

Sorry.

I forgot my Oscar.

Yeah.

All right.

We're going to put you in the hot seat.

I'm going to ask you a lot of questions.

And you have to answer really, really fast--

OK.

--which is hard for politicians to do.

True.

But I'm going to do that.

We'll be back.

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