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- 0:03Speaker 1: Two of the best known individuals in the United States
- 0:05Speaker 1: over the last forty years have been Bill and Hillary Clinton.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Bill served as President of the United States for eight years.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton served as First Lady for eight years, but
- 0:13Speaker 1: also as a United States Senator and Secretary of State.
- 0:16Speaker 1: I had a rare chance to interview both of them
- 0:18Speaker 1: together at the ninety second Street Why and I think
- 0:20Speaker 1: their insights are quite interesting for current affairs, not only
- 0:23Speaker 1: about what they've done before, but what they're working on now. So,
- 0:29Speaker 1: President Clinton, let's talk about some current affairs for a moment.
- 0:32Speaker 1: What do you think is the likely outcome of Ukraine?
- 0:35Speaker 1: Do you see any resolution of that in the near term?
- 0:38Speaker 1: And obviously, Secretary Clinton, what your views are as well.
- 0:43Speaker 2: I don't expect it to be resolved in the near
- 0:45Speaker 2: term unless Putin had some sort of change of heart,
- 0:53Speaker 2: or unless the United States and others walk away from
- 0:56Speaker 2: Ukraine and they can't get enough arms nomination to continue.
- 1:02Speaker 2: I mean, they've been amazing, you know, they fought and
- 1:05Speaker 2: fought and fought. They haven't asked any Americans to come
- 1:09Speaker 2: and fight with them. But I think we I think
- 1:13Speaker 2: they have a chance to win. I think they will
- 1:15Speaker 2: win if we stay with them.
- 1:17Speaker 1: What do you think is there any way out of
- 1:19Speaker 1: this that a face saving way out of this that
- 1:21Speaker 1: you can think of, or what is your view on
- 1:23Speaker 1: how this might be resolved?
- 1:25Speaker 3: Well, David, first, I think it's imperative that we continue,
- 1:29Speaker 3: and I would even argue increase our support for Ukraine because,
- 1:33Speaker 3: as Bill just said, the Russians are back to indiscriminate
- 1:38Speaker 3: bombing in cities, aiming at apartment buildings, hospitals, other civilian sites.
- 1:48Speaker 3: They have committed war crimes, they are in the midst
- 1:53Speaker 3: of committing genocide, particularly with respect of how they're kidnapping
- 1:58Speaker 3: children and forcing Ukrainians into Russia. So the bottom line
- 2:04Speaker 3: for me is the only potential possible end to the
- 2:09Speaker 3: hostilities is either a victory by Ukraine, including them being
- 2:15Speaker 3: able to take back the property the territory seized in
- 2:19Speaker 3: twenty fourteen, or pushing Russia out of what they have
- 2:24Speaker 3: seized since February of last year, and so that could
- 2:27Speaker 3: give give us a breathing space to perhaps have some
- 2:32Speaker 3: kind of opportunity to protect Ukraine's legitimate borders with the
- 2:38Speaker 3: exception of what they didn't get back from twenty fourteen,
- 2:42Speaker 3: and to move them forward in reconstruction and rebuilding in
- 2:46Speaker 3: the face of such devastation.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Are you surprised that the US China relationship now is
- 2:52Speaker 1: as bad as it's been since Tieneman Square, it seems,
- 2:54Speaker 1: And what do you think could be done about that
- 2:55Speaker 1: to improve it?
- 3:00Speaker 4: I think it's difficult, and.
- 3:04Speaker 2: I think it'll get harder if we walk away from Ukraine,
- 3:09Speaker 2: because I think it will increase the willingness of Russia
- 3:12Speaker 2: of China to attack Taiwan. It's a real dilemma for
- 3:16Speaker 2: me because I worked hard with China and I tried
- 3:19Speaker 2: to build a relationship, and we desperately need a cooperative
- 3:22Speaker 2: relationship with them to deal with things like COVID, climate change,
- 3:29Speaker 2: North Korea. There's a whole lot of things that we
- 3:32Speaker 2: ought to be doing together, but they make it virtually impossible.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Because again, if you decide to stay for life, whether
- 3:43Speaker 2: your name is putin she or Smith, your number one
- 3:50Speaker 2: priority has got to be crushing all the scent, eliminating
- 3:55Speaker 2: any source of alternative power in your country, and then
- 4:00Speaker 2: keeping people lathered up by being angry.
- 4:02Speaker 4: At somebody somewhere else.
- 4:04Speaker 2: And so I believe the best thing to do is
- 4:11Speaker 2: to keep talking to them, even while we have to
- 4:14Speaker 2: disagree with them publicly.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton, are you worried about a possible invasion by
- 4:19Speaker 1: China Taiwan?
- 4:21Speaker 3: When she saw that Putin's invasion number one didn't work
- 4:25Speaker 3: as fast and smoothly as Putin apparently thought it would,
- 4:30Speaker 3: and that the world literally united, with a few exceptions
- 4:34Speaker 3: to impose sanctions that are taking a toll on the
- 4:38Speaker 3: Russian economy, not as fast as I would like, because
- 4:40Speaker 3: I think that could change the power dynamic inside. But
- 4:44Speaker 3: she saw that, and I think before the Russian invasion
- 4:49Speaker 3: there was a good chance he would have moved on
- 4:53Speaker 3: Taiwan within two to three years.
- 4:54Speaker 5: I think that timetable has been pushed back.
- 4:57Speaker 1: So since you've left Washington, there's been an increase in
- 5:01Speaker 1: what i'll call the divisiveness in Washington. I'm sure you've noticed.
- 5:05Speaker 1: And what do you think accounts for this? It's much
- 5:08Speaker 1: worse than it was even when you were there, and
- 5:10Speaker 1: it wasn't great then, but now the Democrats Republicans don't
- 5:13Speaker 1: even want to talk to each other, let alone think
- 5:15Speaker 1: about bipartisan legislation. What do you think causes this and
- 5:18Speaker 1: you see any solution in the near term.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Well, if I say it.
- 5:23Speaker 2: You'll say I'm being a partisan Democrat, but I'm going
- 5:25Speaker 2: to say it anyway. It's because the Republicans have been
- 5:29Speaker 2: rewarded for being divisive, and it's it, and it's it's
- 5:35Speaker 2: great for them because they're great branders, they're really good
- 5:38Speaker 2: at they're better at than we are, and they convince
- 5:42Speaker 2: people that are most left wing members about ten percent
- 5:46Speaker 2: of our caucus represent one hundred percent of us, and
- 5:50Speaker 2: cause people that get scared in the middle who are
- 5:52Speaker 2: swing voters, to forget that their most right wing members
- 5:56Speaker 2: represent over ninety percent of them in the House and
- 6:00Speaker 2: about sixty percent in the Senate. I have a lot
- 6:03Speaker 2: of Republican friends still who just pretend it's not going on,
- 6:08Speaker 2: or who don't like it and don't support it. But
- 6:11Speaker 2: you can't blame people in politics who covert power for
- 6:15Speaker 2: doing what works, and it's been working for them.
- 6:18Speaker 1: So, President Clinton today, if you were to say we
- 6:24Speaker 1: should change the way the presidents are elected, obviously you
- 6:26Speaker 1: were elected twice, you probably are reasonably happy with the method.
- 6:30Speaker 1: But do you think direct election of the president popular
- 6:33Speaker 1: vote would be preferable to the electoral college method?
- 6:36Speaker 4: I do. I think.
- 6:41Speaker 2: First of all, we adopted the electoral college when we
- 6:46Speaker 2: were thirteen states, and we had a couple of.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Really big states and.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Some really really small states that had distinct differences. But
- 7:04Speaker 2: it also helped to load up the electoral votes of
- 7:09Speaker 2: the southern states that had slaves. And now we know
- 7:18Speaker 2: that the effect of the electoral college is to give
- 7:21Speaker 2: about thirty six extra votes to the most culturally conservative
- 7:30Speaker 2: and furthest right American states. And I have no objection
- 7:36Speaker 2: to them voting. I want them all to vote. I
- 7:39Speaker 2: would not unlike some of them. I'd never try to
- 7:41Speaker 2: make it harder for him to vote. I'd make it
- 7:43Speaker 2: easier for him to vote. I want the votes counted,
- 7:46Speaker 2: and I want them all to count. But I just
- 7:47Speaker 2: don't think you can justify that today. Now, if you
- 7:53Speaker 2: did it, the first question you got to ask yourself
- 7:55Speaker 2: is would we have more or a three party or
- 8:01Speaker 2: fourth party national elections? And if so, would we have
- 8:05Speaker 2: to have a runoff? That is, should you at least
- 8:07Speaker 2: require a president to have I don't know, forty percent
- 8:12Speaker 2: of the vote, forty five percent of the vote. Lincoln
- 8:14Speaker 2: got elected with like thirty nine percent. A lot of
- 8:18Speaker 2: countries have this, by the way, they have you know,
- 8:21Speaker 2: you have to get a majority, or you have to
- 8:23Speaker 2: get something over a minimal amount to be president. If
- 8:28Speaker 2: you're not going to go to a parliamentary system which
- 8:31Speaker 2: has a lot of coalition governments, you have to have
- 8:35Speaker 2: I think at least some sort of threshold.
- 8:37Speaker 1: I assume you prefer direct election as well.
- 8:40Speaker 4: Well.
- 8:40Speaker 5: I definitely prefer direct election.
- 8:43Speaker 1: So let me ask you. There's a famous passage in
- 8:46Speaker 1: your life where you are at Yale Law School library
- 8:50Speaker 1: and you're seeing Bill Clinton looking at you, and you're
- 8:54Speaker 1: looking at him, and finally you go over to him
- 8:56Speaker 1: and say, well, stop looking at me, let's have a
- 8:58Speaker 1: conversation or something like that. So, had you not been
- 9:01Speaker 1: in the same yet law school class or there at
- 9:04Speaker 1: the same time, how do you think your life would
- 9:06Speaker 1: be different? You think you would have been president of
- 9:09Speaker 1: United States sooner? Or would you have gone in the
- 9:12Speaker 1: public service, or how do you think your life would
- 9:14Speaker 1: be different if the two of you had not married?
- 9:17Speaker 5: Wow, I think it would have been more boring.
- 9:23Speaker 1: When you told your parents you're moving to Arkansas, what
- 9:25Speaker 1: did they say, Well.
- 9:28Speaker 3: You know my father, You know, when I was growing up,
- 9:34Speaker 3: my father was a very big supporter of Republicans, He
- 9:40Speaker 3: loved Dwight Eisenhower.
- 9:43Speaker 5: You know, he was you know, World War two vet.
- 9:46Speaker 5: He really loved that.
- 9:48Speaker 3: And so when I brought Bill home the first time,
- 9:52Speaker 3: it wasn't so much that he was from Arkansas, was
- 9:54Speaker 3: that he was a Democrat.
- 9:57Speaker 2: So Hillary came from the town Park Ridge, Illinois where
- 10:01Speaker 2: Goldwater beat Johnson eighty to twenty and the other twenty
- 10:06Speaker 2: percent Goldwater to Liberal. But I loved her father and
- 10:12Speaker 2: her mother, who was a liberal Democrat. She was more
- 10:15Speaker 2: liberal and iller than I were. And it was interesting
- 10:18Speaker 2: how they're listened to their marriage unfold in terms of
- 10:22Speaker 2: raising their children and advice and everything was different. But
- 10:25Speaker 2: he was a really good guy and smart, and he
- 10:30Speaker 2: wound up, you know, working as a volunteer in my
- 10:34Speaker 2: campaign for Congress in nineteen seventy four.
- 10:36Speaker 4: I ruined him.
- 10:37Speaker 1: President Clinton, when you were president three times, we had
- 10:41Speaker 1: a budget surplus. A surplus is when you have more
- 10:44Speaker 1: money than you spend. And at one point it was
- 10:48Speaker 1: thought that maybe we would run out of having any
- 10:50Speaker 1: federal treasury bills because we weren't going to have any debt.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Any ideas about how we can get back to that
- 10:56Speaker 1: kind of situation.
- 10:57Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I did have a big argument
- 11:00Speaker 4: with Alan Greenspan. Alan Greenspan was to my left.
- 11:05Speaker 2: He said, we're not going to be able to have
- 11:07Speaker 2: interest we can how do we set interest rates on
- 11:10Speaker 2: federal securities if we have no debt? I said, Alan,
- 11:15Speaker 2: that's a high class problem. Let's deal with that. We
- 11:17Speaker 2: get to it.
- 11:18Speaker 4: But let me say I also supported.
- 11:25Speaker 2: President obama stimulus program, and I supported the build President
- 11:30Speaker 2: Trump passed, and I supported the bill President Obama path.
- 11:33Speaker 2: When you have zero to negative interest rates, you can't
- 11:37Speaker 2: run a balance budget and you can't start cutting spending
- 11:41Speaker 2: without making the economy worse. But when you do have
- 11:45Speaker 2: interest rates, then you have to deal with your debt issue,
- 11:49Speaker 2: or otherwise you spend more and more of your money
- 11:52Speaker 2: pay an interest on the debt, and you don't have
- 11:54Speaker 2: anything left for education and health and all the science research.
- 12:00Speaker 2: So I think, first, here's what I think. First of all,
- 12:02Speaker 2: I think it's nuts to make a big issue of
- 12:05Speaker 2: this debt limit thing. And because that's simply it's a
- 12:11Speaker 2: stupid rule we have in America that that Congress has
- 12:15Speaker 2: to approve twice paying for something they've already voted to
- 12:21Speaker 2: spend on. I mean a lot of these people who
- 12:25Speaker 2: were opposing raising the debt ceiling.
- 12:28Speaker 4: Voted for most of the debt that is embedded there.
- 12:32Speaker 2: So bottom line, we should bring the depth sit down
- 12:38Speaker 2: as much as we can, but we ought to pay
- 12:41Speaker 2: our debts. You can't spend money, borrow it, and then
- 12:46Speaker 2: refuse to pay the people that loan it to you,
- 12:49Speaker 2: not if you want to be a great country.
- 12:50Speaker 1: So you ran for the presidential nomination. Barack Obama became
- 12:55Speaker 1: the nominee, and to your surprise, he offered you the
- 12:59Speaker 1: position of secretaries and you turned that down initially. Why
- 13:02Speaker 1: did you turn it down?
- 13:04Speaker 2: She turns everything down. She turned me down three times
- 13:06Speaker 2: when I asked her to marry it.
- 13:09Speaker 4: Hard. The false answer is no.
- 13:13Speaker 3: Well there is some truth to that, but eventually, you know,
- 13:18Speaker 3: I do say yes to these charming men like Bill
- 13:21Speaker 3: Clinton and Barack Obama.
- 13:22Speaker 1: For Parry Clinton, there's a very famous photo of you
- 13:25Speaker 1: sitting in the situation room looking at the Osama bin
- 13:29Speaker 1: laden effort to capture him. What were you all looking at?
- 13:33Speaker 1: And everybody's mouth is open. What were you afraid it
- 13:36Speaker 1: wasn't going to work? And when did you realize it
- 13:37Speaker 1: actually did work?
- 13:39Speaker 4: Well?
- 13:40Speaker 3: Yeah, we were all afraid something would go wrong. You know,
- 13:43Speaker 3: I was part of the small group that studied all
- 13:48Speaker 3: of the intelligence that had been gathered to make recommendations
- 13:53Speaker 3: to the president about whether to do something and if so,
- 13:57Speaker 3: what And it was a It was the most intense
- 14:01Speaker 3: public deliberation, public service deliberation I've ever been part of.
- 14:06Speaker 5: And it was also you know, it was secret.
- 14:08Speaker 3: I couldn't tell Bill, I couldn't talk to anybody because
- 14:12Speaker 3: how closely held it was. But we were in that
- 14:16Speaker 3: small situation room off the big one, and we were
- 14:19Speaker 3: watching a screen because we had video from a drone above.
- 14:27Speaker 3: We had video of what was happening as the helicopters
- 14:30Speaker 3: came into land and one of the helicopters, its tail
- 14:35Speaker 3: clipped the wire on the wall surrounding a little area
- 14:43Speaker 3: where animals were kept. And so once the helicopter tail
- 14:48Speaker 3: hit we knew it was disabled. And that was the
- 14:50Speaker 3: moment I think that the picture was taken because we
- 14:53Speaker 3: all had flashbacks to what happened when you know, President
- 14:56Speaker 3: Carter tried to rescue the hostages in Iran. It also
- 15:01Speaker 3: meant that we'd have to send in another helicopter that
- 15:04Speaker 3: was in waiting in hiding to get it in there
- 15:07Speaker 3: quickly enough.
- 15:09Speaker 5: We had to do all of this literally.
- 15:11Speaker 3: You know, within twenty thirty minutes, because when people were
- 15:13Speaker 3: starting to wake up, I mean, we had helicopters landing.
- 15:16Speaker 3: You know, there was obviously noise. People were living in
- 15:20Speaker 3: homes around the compound. It was a hot night, people
- 15:23Speaker 3: were sleeping out on their roofs, and we were you
- 15:25Speaker 3: aware that people were waking up and starting.
- 15:28Speaker 5: To wonder what the heck was going on.
- 15:30Speaker 3: So when the helicopters landed and the Navy Seals Seal
- 15:36Speaker 3: Team six got out to go into the compound, we
- 15:39Speaker 3: couldn't see that there was there was no video of that,
- 15:42Speaker 3: so we were all holding our breasts. So then we
- 15:44Speaker 3: had to wait till we got news from inside the compound.
- 15:48Speaker 3: And there was a you know, there was a firefight.
- 15:50Speaker 3: The guards and one of bin Laden's adult sons were
- 15:56Speaker 3: you know, you know, shooting, and then eventually bin Laden
- 16:02Speaker 3: was shot, and then his body had to be taken
- 16:05Speaker 3: out of the compound loaded onto one of the helicopters
- 16:08Speaker 3: because we had to be sure about identification to have
- 16:11Speaker 3: credibility with the world, and we had to blow up
- 16:15Speaker 3: the helicopter because it was an advanced helicopter with a
- 16:18Speaker 3: lot of advanced electronics that we didn't want the Pakistanis
- 16:22Speaker 3: to get because we thought the Pakistanis might very well
- 16:24Speaker 3: give it to either of the Russians, most likely the Chinese.
- 16:27Speaker 5: So all this was going on, and so.
- 16:30Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we were all holding our breath for you,
- 16:33Speaker 3: like twenty minutes. It was just so intense, and thankfully,
- 16:38Speaker 3: you know, President Obama made the right decision and it worked.
- 16:41Speaker 1: When something like that's happening, you can't and you know
- 16:45Speaker 1: about this, you can't say to your husband, Bill, I
- 16:48Speaker 1: have a secret. I just can't tell you. You can't do that.
- 16:51Speaker 2: So he called me as soon as it was over,
- 16:54Speaker 2: and he said, Bill, we got him.
- 16:57Speaker 4: And I said who? Because he knew how hard I.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Tried to get him when I was president and nearly
- 17:07Speaker 2: did once, so he's been lauden. Hillary didn't tell you,
- 17:12Speaker 2: I said, now, mister President, didn't you tell her not
- 17:14Speaker 2: to tell anybody?
- 17:15Speaker 4: He said sure, But I said she didn't tell anybody.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Final question for both of you were just about out
- 17:20Speaker 1: of time. So Secretary Clinton, in your long distinguished career,
- 17:25Speaker 1: what would you say you're most proud of having accomplished you.
- 17:28Speaker 3: Know, I'd been Senator from New York for you know,
- 17:32Speaker 3: about eight months when nine to eleven happened, and it
- 17:36Speaker 3: was the most devastating, horrible experience for our city and
- 17:41Speaker 3: our country.
- 17:44Speaker 5: But it was also.
- 17:47Speaker 3: A absolute mandate to act to help people who'd been
- 17:52Speaker 3: directly affected, to help victims' families, to help rebuild New York,
- 17:58Speaker 3: and it was so bipartisan. David, you started with a
- 18:00Speaker 3: question about that at the very beginning. You know, I
- 18:03Speaker 3: just want to tell a little story here, because you know,
- 18:06Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer and I literally were the only plane in
- 18:09Speaker 3: the sky on September twelfth, because we were flown down
- 18:12Speaker 3: to New York to meet with then Governor Pataki and
- 18:15Speaker 3: Mayor Giuliani to survey what had happened. And it was
- 18:21Speaker 3: just overwhelming to have seen it firsthand like that that
- 18:25Speaker 3: television could not capture it. And we spent the day
- 18:30Speaker 3: in meetings talking.
- 18:31Speaker 5: About what we were going to do.
- 18:33Speaker 3: And that night, around eight nine o'clock, Schumer and I were,
- 18:39Speaker 3: you know, we're Chuck and I were in a meeting
- 18:41Speaker 3: with everybody, all these state, local, federal officials, and we
- 18:45Speaker 3: were each handed a note from our staffs who were
- 18:47Speaker 3: with us, and the note said, the White House has
- 18:50Speaker 3: just sent a budget request to deal with nine eleven
- 18:55Speaker 3: for twenty billion dollars and there's not a penny for
- 18:57Speaker 3: New York in it. So I took the last train
- 19:00Speaker 3: out of Grand Central back to Washington.
- 19:03Speaker 5: Then that afternoon we go to the White House.
- 19:05Speaker 3: And so it's the two senators from Virginia, Senator Allen
- 19:10Speaker 3: and Senator John Warner, and Chuck and I were in
- 19:12Speaker 3: with the President, and you know, I could see on
- 19:16Speaker 3: his face. I mean, this was you know, a devastating,
- 19:19Speaker 3: obviously you know, crisis that had to be dealt with.
- 19:23Speaker 3: And he says, he says to us, so, you know,
- 19:28Speaker 3: I'm with you, what do you need? And I said,
- 19:30Speaker 3: we need twenty billion dollars, mister President, and he said,
- 19:33Speaker 3: you got it, and his staff nearly fell off their chairs.
- 19:36Speaker 3: And so then we were going into the Cabinet room,
- 19:38Speaker 3: which is next to the Oval Office, and we got
- 19:40Speaker 3: up to leaving. John Warner, who was one of my
- 19:43Speaker 3: favorite colleagues of all time. He stopped me and he goes, Hillary,
- 19:48Speaker 3: have him make that commitment in public in this meeting.
- 19:54Speaker 5: I said, okay, John.
- 19:55Speaker 3: So we go in all the members of Congress from
- 19:58Speaker 3: New York, canad Get New Jersey, a couple of them,
- 20:01Speaker 3: but mostly New York and Virginia. And the President's talking
- 20:05Speaker 3: about how, you know, we're going to you know, protect
- 20:07Speaker 3: the country and we're going to do this and all that.
- 20:10Speaker 3: So he finishes talking and then I say, and I
- 20:12Speaker 3: just want to thank you, mister President, for committing twenty
- 20:15Speaker 3: billion dollars to New York. And literally, by the time
- 20:22Speaker 3: Chuck and I got back to the Senate, his staff
- 20:26Speaker 3: was trying to undo that and telling, you know, the
- 20:30Speaker 3: Republican leaders, you know, don't don't put it in the
- 20:32Speaker 3: appropriations bill, don't do it. And so we just kept
- 20:35Speaker 3: calling the White House and Bush that I gave my
- 20:37Speaker 3: word and you know I'm going to follow through.
- 20:40Speaker 5: That was an amazing moment for me.
- 20:43Speaker 1: So wow. So President Clinton, you look back on your
- 20:47Speaker 1: distinguished and long service to our country. What are you
- 20:50Speaker 1: most proud of having achieved?
- 20:53Speaker 4: Well?
- 20:54Speaker 2: Can I just add one thing to earn what he said?
- 20:58Speaker 2: One thing I like.
- 20:59Speaker 4: About George W. Bush.
- 21:02Speaker 2: We have fought, we had disagreed. He started out more
- 21:06Speaker 2: conservative than his father. We do speeches together that are
- 21:11Speaker 2: really funny now because we bad mouthed each other in
- 21:14Speaker 2: a funny way.
- 21:17Speaker 4: But he will listen.
- 21:20Speaker 2: And if he will listen, and if he thinks you're right,
- 21:24Speaker 2: he'll switch. And if he thinks you're wrong, he'll argue.
- 21:28Speaker 2: That's all you can ever ask. And I think that's
- 21:31Speaker 2: what you should remember. And that's when you asked me
- 21:34Speaker 2: in the beginning, and I said that the polarization was
- 21:38Speaker 2: partly because the right had been rewarded. It's also caused
- 21:41Speaker 2: the left too easily gives.
- 21:42Speaker 4: Up on people.
- 21:44Speaker 2: We should We shouldn't talk down about people.
- 21:47Speaker 4: We shouldn't.
- 21:48Speaker 5: You know.
- 21:48Speaker 2: The one thing I loved about Elijah Cummings and John
- 21:52Speaker 2: Lewis was they treated people respectfully and they just kept trying.
- 21:56Speaker 2: They kept knocking on the door. There's some other people
- 21:59Speaker 2: out there that you can knock on the door.
- 22:01Speaker 1: No regrets about not having going into the higher calling
- 22:04Speaker 1: of private equity, right, neither of you don't regret that.
- 22:07Speaker 1: So on, behalf of everybody at the ninety second Street.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Why oh, that's cause you take care of all the
- 22:13Speaker 2: stuff that requires real money to do you.
- 22:17Speaker 4: He gives a lot of that money away. Don't don't
- 22:19Speaker 4: let him play the rosko on.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Behalf of the ninety second Street why. I want to
- 22:22Speaker 1: thank you for coming here again. You've been here before
- 22:25Speaker 1: and you're always welcome back. And thank you for a
- 22:27Speaker 1: great evening.
- 22:27Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you, Gavin.
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