Can Dean Phillips Challenge Joe Biden? (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW)

F PHS my beef is this I got more Instagram followers than you how are you going to win he's not a good man and I don't quite understand why Democrats are not gr law enforcement are the books clean on your companies you are not defund the police no I'm not proposing some Revolution I'm proposing an evolution saying that we should not have a secure border is like saying what's the worst thing someone can say about you large numbers of democratic voters want to see someone challenge President Joe Biden are you running for president I am I have to two months ago I was a darling in the Democratic party and now I'm the devil America wants change we're going to be facing an emergency next November there is no political reward in the United States right now for simply speaking the truth hey guys how you doing good to see you man you've had Dimson before oh darn right are you kidding what you are a Jewish man all right everybody we are here at dimsum Palace with Dean Phillips he is running for president you're also you're running for the primary candidate of the DNC you're going up against Joe Biden as there doesn't seem to be that many other people in competition for Joe Biden space except you you're like the main one is that kind of crazy but you're the only one stepping up to Joe Biden you know I thought it was crazy until I realized what the Democratic party does to those who step up and now I understand why people don't want to go through it and that's exactly why we should be doing it all right so to all of you listening out there your time comes stand up and shout loud don't let them tell you what you can and cannot do period all right and and we're going to get into so much stuff because we got to get into your policies obviously people want to hear that also why are you running why am I interviewing you what interest do I have in all this and uh maybe we got some hot seat questions oh I like it so uh I'm glad you're sitting down with us at dimsum Palace you're a Jewish guy no no stranger to Chinese food especially on Christmas Eve and that's a stereotype but uh yeah no but it's true it's true I love it no I'm psyched I'm PCH I'm going to bring you guys to a good Deli next time that's that's how we recip let's do it let's do it I'm I'm down with the pami but um real quick Dean uh first of all let's grab a what of here have you had before let's just grab something and then I'll go into the first question oh man I'm loving it oh man I was going to say kanji with the Chopsticks would have been a uh expert move that would have been pro move I'm not there yet okay I got the shrimp dumping the hwow you're going for the most difficult stuff right there you got you got to go rice roll um let's take a bite let's just let's just take a bite first let's talk about who you are let's talk about who the fils is oh you want to hear my story yeah um because you're kind of coming out of nowhere so let's have the people get to know you real quick you are uh you're from Minnesota from Minnesota you uh your family does a Distillery business well I'll tell you my story how hear it you want to hear it I'll tell you the story let me let me throw out this this one first yeah you do ice cream chelato you do a Distillery you like Hockey baseball how are you a Democrat I don't know but go ahead tell your story and now you ask me right when I take a bite it's like hot ones except with hot dimon yeah you got a I lost my dad in Vietnam grew up very porn Minnesota couldn't afford college so he earned an ROTC scholarship was killed in July of 1969 just 3 days after the US landed on the moon in a helicopter crash it was a mosaic of of America and um my mom was 24 and widowed we didn't have anywhere to stay so we lived with my great grandparents for 3 years and then I got lucky and if there's anything you need to know about me it's that that's what illuminates my whole life I was adopted by a new dad my mom remarried right into an amazing family of business and philanthropy and opportunity and uh a that said Dean money is like manure if you stack it up it stinks and if you spread it out it fertilizes that's my whole philosophy uh sharing uh providing opportunity and why should a kid like me just because of a stroke of good luck have such great opportunity and when so many kids in this country don't have those blessings that's why I'm running for president you ask why I'm running for president it's my life story I got lucky entered our family business we built beler vodka sold that built tent gelato the ice cream brand and then I woke up the morning after the 2016 election and uh my daughters were in tears and I promised them I would do something I ran for Congress to resist Donald Trump and here I am doing the same thing five six years later because he's coming back and I just think that this country is going to be in big big trouble if we seed the White House to that man and this is a country of competition not coronation that's why I'm running so you oh look who's here my daughter yay it's a family affair love it everybody oh and we got some small this is my real boss I see you just have a seat yeah yeah please this is the real boss The Honorable Daniela Phillips uh but no I I think your story is cool and I think the reason why I want to talk to you is is not really because I'm the hardcore Democrat I'm not I'm not and I'm not a republican I'm a confused person just like anybody else I'm sick of a lot of things that I see like anybody El I'm a concerned Millennial I know that sounds very interesting I'm actually a millennial that wants to vote but if it's Joe Biden and Donald Trump I might not vote and no and by the way I'm not going to vote everybody's telling me the same thing because and and that's why I want to know your story because you seem like a common sense guy and by the way I'm not telling you to vote for him I'm not paid by anybody I'm paying for this dim some myself I just wanted to talk to cool sensible people that I think can make a change and and that's what it means uh to do this video I think what you just said is that what I call us as the exhausted majority center right center left Americans who are sick of the nonsense don't understand why these are our best two candidates of a country of 340 million people and if you're like me and probably like you I believe in fiscal responsibility I believe in keeping communities safe I believe in helping people with opportunity I believe that we should have a secure border you know these are not that complicated issues you know I believe in Freedom I be in Liberty I believe in people being able to pursue the lives they want and I believe in love and decency and respect is that that strange yeah you know neither party kind of seems to allow that combination no it seems like every party is on the extreme end and very divisive and we're going to talk about that I want to talk about why you think America is so divided in a little bit but I do want to touch on a little bit of of going off of your background so you're a guy you know you come from a good family you did well for yourself as well and you want to step up and make a change you kind of sound like like like Bruce Wayne you're like a guy with some money but you're like you know what I got to do something and I got to help people out and I got to step up when no one else is stepping up we're sitting here with my daughter like a vigilante you're trying to take disrupt the system with one box one box of Gelato at the top Bingo it's disruption by the way what's the best flavor of toeni gelato I think pistachio that's kind of mine what's yours well but the funny thing is he usually pronounced it pistachio oh stop it stop it an inside joke but I think Caramel Cookie Crunch is up there too oh Caramel Cookie Crunch all what's your favorite uh favorite beverage on your Distillery list Philips peppermint schnaps was the first schnaps in America 1934 made in Minneapolis it's like the essence of a Minnesota winter but I'll tell you my favorite it's called Snowshoe Groo Gro combination of Brandy and peppermint schnaps it is talk about warming the soul in a cold winter day we should have we should have some snow Sho Grog right now uh I want to ask you if anybody's going to dig anything up about you are the books clean on your companies oh my good are they clean they're going to look in there and say oh hey the Phillips Company they they avoided taxes in 2018 like they're going to find that I'm going to tell them to to check you out good please do we've never declared bankruptcy we've always taken care of our employees we had one of the first profit sharing plans in America in the 1940s uh we've never had our family Foundation shut down like Donald Trump right he deeply our coffee shops paid $15 an hour before anybody else did I so so you're saying you're like Donald Trump except just a better more humble version I'm Not Like Donald Trump at all I'll tell you he gave business people a bad name I'm sick of it you're what what is it about this new wave of business background politicians whether it's uh V ramaswami whether or not we agree with what he's talking about he seems like a sharp guy he's making waves you're out there Making Waves uh Donald Trump obviously was President very famous guy do people believe in businessmen in America is there some sense that like hey if you ran a big business maybe you can run America is there some truth to that I think there is and that's why Donald Trump gave business people a bad name he's not a businessman he's a developer and he's a crooked developer who lacks character business people know two things you can't demean half of your customers and think you're going to build your business that's one secondly they know how to make manage right and create a strategy and bring people along and appeal to broader numbers of people CU in business you want as many people as possible coming into your tent right in politics you just want 51% of the people come into your tent so when you think about that tug ofar between business and politics that's the disruption that we're talking about and yes now does someone who only comes from businesses has never spent a day in public service is that the person no that's what we got with Donald Trump I'm an interesting combination built businesses chaired the board of a nonprofit charitable organization was the chair of a health system a regent at the University and now I'm a third term member of Congress and former member of House leadership so my experience is different than most and that's the complimentary notion uh that I think we need I really think we need you call yourself a pragmatic Progressive is that the same as a moderate Centrist why does moderate and Centrist never sounds sexy to people and nobody knows what that means versus Progressive or pragmatic Progressive it's like vanilla ice cream it tastes really good actually it's what most people buy yeah it's more but it's not exciting right and moderation first of all oh I just got Spice hold on yeah yeah yeah you were packing the chili Roll by the way you just had breakfast with The Breakfast Club before you came to get dim some lunch with but they didn't I love The Breakfast Club but they didn't serve me breakfast that's why I love you guys you see you're serving me DI some that's why I'm here we do we doing things The Breakfast Club is not doing I'm telling you our journalistic integrity on this channel is high anyways yeah go continue oh we're just saying pragmatic Progressive why so the word moderation which should be when you consume alcohol but in terms of politics I think it's a bad word centrism you know I am a pragmatic Progressive because I think everybody should have health care coverage I think everybody should have a home I think everybody should be able to have an education without being burdened with debt does that make me a leftist communist socialist No in fact I think that makes me a Centrist and moderate because that should be a basic expectation of a country like ours equal the equality of opportunity is not the same as equality of outcome right and the whole promise of the United States is not that everybody's going to succeed but the promise that we're yet to fulfill is that everybody should have a relatively equal chance and if that's not Centrist if that's not pragmatic if that's not moderate I don't know what is think about it let's talk about one of the reasons why um people are sick of the democratic party You' even released some uh Instagram videos recently kind of going against the DNC we're talking about the DNC we're talking about the organization of powerful Democrats that are supposed to get behind you let's say you beat Joe Biden right what's your beef with them and why does nobody like what they're doing like even Democrats like whether I voted Democrat in the past I have a bunch of friends who voted Democrat in the past they're tired of it they're ready to switch literally there's a bunch of people that are ready to switch sides or not vote I get it why what's up and by the way I hear them and I get it and I understand so Democrats first of all let's talk about Democrats versus the Democratic National Committee the Democratic National Committee the party is what you just said it's a handful of people that essentially believe they are the ones that should control who you get to vote for so my beef is this they are not Democrats they are a handful of people who are trying to protect their power their privilege their Prestige and what they do is this remember January 6th Donald Trump inspires a riot a mob and Insurrection at the capital remember what the objective was to prevent the counting of ballots right what the Democratic National Committee is doing right now as we sit and talk they've taken me off the ballot in Florida they've taken me off the ballot in North Carolina by the way not just me Maryann Williamson and me they're not giving a chance to democratic voters to even vote in an election they said there's no need Joe bid one in New Hampshire they sent a letter to the New Hampshire Democratic party just last week saying your election is meaningless and you're violating our rules telling New Hampshire voters their votes don't count what is the difference between stopping the vote the counting of ballots and stopping the opportunity for voters to actually vote in an election it's the same thing so why why am I mad it's voter suppression it's candidate suppression and Joe Biden will not even consent to doing a single debate in the United States of America against you against me and right now I don't know if there'll be a debate in the general election if it's Biden and Trump so those are the three Hallmarks of democracy voters candidates and debate and they're suppressing all three of them it's wrong I'm going to call attention to it and I ask that everybody no matter who you vote for no matter your politics do not let the parties undermine all of us and I'm telling you they hate me now just because I'm telling the truth so the DNC hates you yeah but not Democrats the DNC the organization hates you you got less than 10K followers on Instagram Joe's got 17 million I got more Instagram followers than you how are you going to win my daughter has more Instagram followers than me how are you going to do it dude like how does this even mathematically and let's use our you know I'm sure we all basic math guys how does it happen here's the deal I'm sitting with you because you have a big community of people and I wanted to introduce myself MSNBC doesn't want to have me on of course so that's why I'm sitting here here's how we do it people don't know me that's a good thing because two-thirds of the country doesn't hate me I'm going to introduce myself every single day for the next number of months to every American I can come and say hello to uh we're going to build our brand we're going to build our community I need everybody watching and listening right now to give it some thought if you want to change this nonsense if you really do I want to be your guide uh it's not all about who's got the most Twitter followers it's who gets the votes and I promise you a new on January 23rd anybody watching right now if you want to help me Shock the World help me win in New Hampshire on January 23rd or way winning all we have to do is show up and surprise and if we show up and surprise Watch What Happens the invitations start people start recognizing they pay attention but I can't do this without you New Hampshire that's the whole point of America I don't think we have the biggest following in New Hampshire I'm not going to lie it's mostly California Texas and New York and Washington but New Hampshire you got any friends or family in New Hampshire at least give Dean a look that's all I want here's the bigger thing I didn't say vote for him I just say give them a look vote in primaries yeah you know don't give the keys to the very people you're angry with they don't want you to vote in the primary election they want you only to vote once they've chosen the candidates you see don't let them do that go out and vote in the primary for someone that's going to disrupt the system by the way whoever it is how do you disrupt the system oh I'm doing it right now like you're you're a a small name how do you dis how do you go in there in Washington this big gigantic monster that's been going and going and going and all these scandals blah blah blah blah blah blah getting through and you're going to sip through and then you're going to just shake it up how first of all you're going to shake it up like this B small okay the smallest names have created the biggest change in history and it's not me I don't even care if you don't if you know my name what I care about is working together I'll be your messenger I'll be your man it's not about me it's not about my name it's about trying to change this nonsense and the fact of the matter is we can do it you know we can do it it's not the party that makes the decision unless you want them to so don't complain don't say I'm not going to vote do the opposite go and vote and affect the down change and that's what I'm trying to inspire people because young people do not like Trump they don't like Biden they're sick of the nonsense they're giving up I say let's try one more time come on let's try one more time let's just say this guy behind the camera Fred yeah he wasn't planning on voting he's not a registered voter what can you say to him what I'm going to say is Fred don't have them force you to believe that you have to only decide between what they want you to decide between go out and vote you know and get some friends together and have a little party and get people to start paying attention because I'll tell you if you don't vote and I'm telling you anybody who doesn't vote right now you are handing the keys to people who do not have your best interest in mind and let's not give up this is America I I believe that I do I'm I'm one of my friends who wants to vote because I still believe even though I don't like the system in the institutions and we're going to talk about the distrust of Institutions is that it's it's one of the only ways to still make a change it's the only way not not one of the only ways it is the only way why why don't I just sit there and just worry about my own life and just build followers and get these uh live this life why I don't care the system's messed up it's all effed up it's alled up with the Boomers and the Republicans are [ __ ] up Democrats are [ __ ] up everybody's [ __ ] up so because there's going to come a day if you hand over the keys we're going to go off the bridge and going to go into the woods and you won't be able to do this and our children anybody's children are not going to have a future and I'm telling you you watch what happens what if I don't want children I'm I'm not then your own life you know some you guys are going to live into the 22nd century perhaps right it's a long time and if we're going to turn over the keys to people like Donald Trump or concede even to the Democratic party that wants to do it their way I'm telling you guys we're giving up and look what happens to democracies when people stop participating or they don't resist when someone's trying to take it over and guys I look at I don't have all the answers what I do is I have a plan I'm going to have a bipartisan cabinet meaning A Team of Rivals I'm going to have Democrats and Republicans and Libertarians in the white house I'm going to have a youth cabinet a high school or college student from every one of the 50 states on a cabinet to share ideas with me I'm going to have common ground dinners meaning we're going to bring everyday Americans from all around the country to dinner in the white house maybe we'll have dinner some may we have latas and home and we're going to talk and we're going to listen to each other and it's not going to be just black tie dinners with foreign heads of state and whatnot it's going to be Americans actually seizing control back from parties that are trying to protect their interests and it's totally achievable imagine how fun this would be if we overcame all this by starting something really right now we still got 8 n months to get our act together and completely throw it back in their faces and a way that's principled Progressive meaningful and Common Sense DP you're trying to DP America DP I like that yeah I don't know if it's okay if you don't know what that no I know I hey I I just had I didn't I didn't change my name to uh so real quick I'm I'm going to get I I just have one hypothetical idea wouldn't it be so much better you know how we can do everything off our phones like I can change the world I can change I have Godlike technology in the palm of my hands I can money I can who's that by the way it's my nephew my mom uh I can do all the don't be so Noy I'm just kidding it's on my phone uh I can go to my bank I can trade crypto I can do all this crazy stuff I cannot vote off my phone we have three we have two three-step authentification I cannot vote on my phone how much would that change America if everybody could actually just scan their faces scan a couple documents and then vote off their phone okay I'm glad we're doing this I this is hypothetical and this is how the future should be so between with blockchain you know with web 3 oh my God you're a crypto guy we can change this now the parties don't want that they'll tell you that oh it's not secure we can't trust it I trust it with my entire life savings that's my whole point they don't want it though because they don't want to give too many people the opportunity to vote you guys got to understand this they don't want everybody to vote they just want the handful chosen people to do so so they can try to win that's why we have this nonsense they don't want you to vote they don't want you to win they don't want you to have they don't so what they don't want democracy that's right they don't want democracy not in the way that we're taught about it they want to protect their power and privilege and look at there are a lot of good Republicans or a lot of great Democrats I'm not saying that this is a huge conspiracy theory I'm just saying that there are a handful of people that want to protect their interests and deny so many Americans there so when it comes to listen I haven't even thought about this we should actually pursue the idea of testing a pilot program where we actually use digital voting and you know what and we don't let's not do it nationally right away let's do it in a municipal election in a small town let's see if we can test a system whereby the blockchain technology allows us to have a secure election the problem with it is without I think that's SF SF it's on you guys San Francisco with all the 10 guys there you go let's by the way if anybody's out there wants to work with me on it let's test it because if we don't do that we will always only have 50% of the country voting can you imagine we would probably have 90% turnout in an election what a is there a more pure form of democracy than letting everybody with a phone vote so what they'll tell you is that oh no no no no paper ballots we can't track it what if somebody gets behind the system and they're lying and it's now it's a the hackers right Russian hackers North Korean hackers Chinese hackers what I think I'm a person who believes the more people who vote the better the more access you give the better and the more easy to do the better the best the worst states in the country the most anti-democratic States one of them is the one we're in right now they make it hard to vote you got to register way in advance of Elections it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for me to get on the ballot here and this is a blue state of New York they don't want you to vote easily New York City got to do better um I'm going to switch gears because I want to dive into a little bit of the top three main issues that I think a lot of Americans are concerned about right now and you don't mind if I eat listen it's a long question and uh I don't think they're exclusive to Asians but I can say that knowing a lot of Asian I'm so sorry you don't have a bowl that's crazy right that's right you're eating kanji with chopsticks you got I don't think any candidate has ever done that before even mildly successfully not even something I would you saw here first it it is very thick though yeah anyways listen there's uh uh the three main things that I think a lot of I'll just speak on Asians not that I can speak for every Asian person but this is the things I think about crime and safety and you've said that there is a crime and Chaos problem in America why does it seem like the Democratic party or a lot of democratic leaders seem to not care about that's the narrative out there where everybody's like yo Democrats soft on crime soft are they soft on crime are they just letting all these you know multi felony criminals with violent p on the street when they shouldn't be like what is going on is that true and is there any truth to them so here's what happens I love my Democratic colleagues because you know when there's an attack on the Asian community and we all know there have been a lot of them when there's an attack on a Jewish person on a black person on a Latino person lgq plus person a queer person every time that happens Democrats you know surround and express love and dismay and they and we do um resolutions to uh attack the anti-Semitism the anti-asian hate all that but then we don't do anything to actually stop it thoughts and prayers and and words on paper that's great the best way to stop it is to have Safety and Security in neighborhoods and I don't quite understand why Democrats are not pro law enforcement Pro safety I don't understand it and I think we're speaking out of two sides of our mouth and I got to tell you the communities that I speak with that are the most concerned about a lack of safety are actually communities that have been disenfranchised and are struggling and have been oppressed and they're surprised that we have a lot of frankly white folks like me liberals thinking that they're representing these communities they're not doing it so I'm just saying that why don't we just be reasonable in common sense let's attract great police officers who are well trained and well prepared and well compensated and hold them accountable and we have to but we also have to let them do their jobs and let them do their jobs but in principle right but also to your point why do we let people who've been committing crimes for their whole lives go through the system time and time again let them out they come right back in it costs tens of thousands of dollars a year to incarcerate them why don't we be a country that when you commit your first crime you have to go through a program to be educated rehabilitated you know um and then provideed opportunity look at our system how could you go to prison pay your time you know pay your dues get out and then you can't even get a job because you're a felon right so what are you going to do go back it's not rocket science we invest up give people a chance if they break up if they break the law they make a mistake they go to prison they serve their time we should be repairing them while they're and giving them opportunity and then we'll reduce crime but we there's not a police department in our country right now not a one that is fully resourced they can't attract and hire great police officers because so many have been so demeaned and there people spit on them if you're if you want to if you're a black person you want to become a police officer many in the community say you know you're a traitor and that's really heartbreaking and we're causing the very problem that we're trying to solve so you coming from Minnesota and a lot of controversial stuff has happened in Minnesota in the past six years you were not defund the police no that was that was the stupidest craziest most painful and hurtful slogan I've ever heard the notion was let's affort resources so that police departments have social workers and mental and emotional healthare providers which makes perfect sense but you know I come from the city in which George Floyd was murdered and there's no better example of how we always mistake quiet for peace think about that as long as it's quiet everything's fine but just below the surface there's anger there's oppression there's racism you know anti-Semitism anti-asian fa I mean you name misogyny it's just below the surface always waiting to erupt and we should be investing in law enforcement because how can you live a life of prosperity if you're worried about your kids getting to school worried about if they're driving out one night if they're going to come home you know I've never had to have that talk with my daughters and I know that people are suffering for so many reasons and we should provide safety first and that's why I think Joe Biden has done a really poor job our border is a mess our cities are chaos San Francisco looks like a disaster let's I I love your answer I I think you answer my question let's talk about the Border you're a Democrat who says we got to secure the Border why does that already sound controversial what's what's up with the Border what's your plan people want to know I think the crime and safety chaos border control there's also uh education Fair admissions all that other stuff that we're going to get to borders what do we do saying saying that we should not have a secure border is like saying nobody should like pizza it's ridiculous it's ridiculous continue yeah I mean I just I don't understand when when the responsibility of the American president is to keep our country secure and safe we spend a trillion dollars on our military and yet we have a poorest border where tens of thousands of people a day are coming across many of them never even documented or approached it's it's nonsensical and I believe in an America that welcomes immigrants I mean we have to actually be a more attractive country for immigrants but our systems our structures our infrastructure our policies are disastrous and we just don't have leadership that is doing anything about it and I do believe my Republican colleagues are recognizing a real deficiency now I don't think their solution is great but I think that's where progressives and conservatives should be coming together and fix this I as president will do it very quickly because two things can be true at once we can be secure and we can be Humane and decent and welcoming why is that incomp you know why is that incompatible you know why and right now just so everybody knows if you want to declare Asylum which is what the migrants are doing you have to save 10 ,000 you pay it to a Mexican cartel that brings you across the river because our law says you have to cross into America to declare Asylum under my presidency we will change the law so you declare asylum in your home country you hold on to your money if we approve you then we bring you to America and then you have a $10,000 an estate to start your life with right now we are making people give it to the Mexican cartels starting here with nothing they can't work and then they're told to show up for a court case in 3 or 4 years it's the stupidest Poli you can possibly imagine and it's fixable to fix those things does it require more people to work in government and to be part of these systems and does it have to pay better or is there some sense in America it's like working for the government is whack I don't want to well look you know who the highest paid Public Employee in every single state in America is the football or basketball coach from the public university you got some great Athletics yeah million paying the public all of us are paying football and basketball coaches millions of dollars a year in every state right right because the UN you're saying the universities public they're public employe they are public employees right now how much are we paying teachers how much are we paying police officers how much are we paying social workers it's it is the craziest most ridiculous strategy you could possibly imagine and all it takes is people that have a little bit more of a thoughtful perspective to start attracting people everybody watching right now I would hope at some point in your life you do something for the public you know give a little back pay a little bit forward it's not easy this job in Founders let me tell you it's not easy running for president not easy but we have got to pay it for I want to talk about education this is another thing that a lot of Asians care about Fair admissions in colleges Asians just want anybody who studies hard gets the grades deserves to not be discriminated against at the high level of Education discriminated for any reason because you got the grades you put in the work that's what you care about you spend your whole life trying to get this 4.2 GPA and then and then somehow it feels like you're getting discriminated against in colleges and this may seem like a trivial issue to some people but to a lot of Asian families it's a very big deal what what's your take on it I believe in a meritocracy but that means by the time you're 18 years old to talking about college applications it's way too late our country has oppressed communities from the very beginning our indigenous community of course our black community by slavery so two things again can be true at once we need to be a country that is a meritocracy that people you know Thrive based on their their own self-determination and their Ambitions but how can we expect people to get to that point if they are oppressed and can't even get to that stage right so I think two things can be true at one against we should be investing in communities that we have oppressed and we have and then what I call the equality of opportunity That's the basis that does not guarantee the equality of outcomes right so that's where we can convert them to a meritocracy but we can't be that country until we make sure that every young person is coming to that stage prepared able uh and nourished if you will and I just don't think we're there yet but I have empathy for people who work their tales off of all colors of all races religions geographies who are then somehow punished for the very reason and challenge we're trying to solve you know what I'm saying why they came to America why anybody comes to America is because if you work hard you can make something together but I also know that look at I'm a I'm a white man of privilege you know I've never walked in anybody's shoes that's watching right not yours not anybody here and I know my life is very different I've been really lucky now I'm a Jewish man and there's some challenges right now about being Jewish but nothing like what so many communities feel because you know I look I look stereotypically just like a white man listen you look like David Dy from Xbox I thank you have you ever been told that yes I have yeah I've been told worse too oh yeah I'm not I get that I my brain doesn't go there it just goes to Media so David aov molder I get David doovy I get Richard Gear young Richard Gear I get U Bill Maher oh you're Bill marah times David Dy that's the X you should go on Bill marah show messed up like him I did I did a whole shtick you should watch it I didn't watch you should put that on the clip anyways yeah um uh something that is a very divisive issue that there's a portion that are like ah this should this is a deal but it's not the most divisive identity politics it seems to be especially fueled by social media which I believe social media to be this great tool that people have created but it's just like carrying like a big hammer around and you're like a carpenter or you're like Contra contractor you need that hammer it's going to be very useful to you it it helps you do your job but you got to be careful on where you swing it where you're walking around you can't just bring it everywhere or it's like carrying even you know a loaded pistol if you're a law enforcement you you're that's a tool that you're going to possibly use that's going to help you do your job but you got to know how to use it in the safety so I I feel like that these issues are are fueled partially by social media but identity politics man like what does it even mean and is it is it the thing that you're running on or are do you feel like you're like hey that is a thing for sure but it's like we we do have to take care of all this other stuff okay look at this table let's say these were different communities you know we got the Jewish Community the Asian first of all they're not monoliths but you know Asian Community black community Latino Community Jewish Community right you know white folks how boring would life be if all we had is just one just just that right okay so the whole notion is identity politics are actually I think the very root of this problem because by definition they're dividing and why are we not putting together a nice Buffet of everything why are we not celebrating the differences how boring is life how boring is like it seems and I'm really frustrated with my own party by making that what seems to be the deciding foundational element of De of the democratic party because the whole point of the democratic party is that we are welcoming and we are respectful and we're a big tent but we don't treat it like that we treat it based on dividing into separate tribes but it seems like when you celebrate someone else's culture and identity whether it be LGBT whether it be the Asian Community Lunar New Year's coming up when you celebrate that so hard it seems like you're taking away from someone else usually people refer to it I don't know as a replacement Theory you know what I mean like there's these things where a lot of and I feel for a lot of white Americans honestly when they constantly get made fun of all the time when they're like yo I I didn't do anything wrong like I'm I'm I've been cool you know and I'm like yes minorities obviously we want to make jokes on everybody because we're not the dominant group but I guess like it seems like every time you celebrate one person's thing it seems like it's playing down someone else's I don't think it has to be like that you know and I just I'm I'm really growing first of all there are a lot of there are a lot of white people in America that are afraid of being replaced there are I think it's true and I think a lot of them are people that just not have not had yet the life experience where they get to share in the Mosaic of America right they maybe they haven't had great experiences with minorities or or they live in an area where everybody is the same it's scary to be with other people right you look I'm Jewish you know 100 years ago we dressed a lot differently you would have known right away just based on how I looked right now we're kind of assimilated and I think people are afraid but I'm just going to get to the very basic point if you're afraid of being replaced it's not about what you look like it's about your values right and we all look different but if you're an American in theory we should all have the same values that's what should connect us right and I'm just someone who just is I believe that life is really boring if all you do all day long is eat vanilla ice cream you never tried Caramel Cookie Crunch or you never tried pistachio or chocolate chip or chocolate because a lot of people want to live like that that's a really good case for interracial dating yes exactly blend your ice cream and blend your fames right but what that's that's the analogy and think when you mix it all together it's still ice cream and it's still going to be kind of tasty even though yeah you don't want you don't want to eat hamburgers every day you want to you know but here's the other cool thing about America and the world you go any Street here you see 10 different ethnic restaurants clearly people love to go different places experience different cultures so I'm I think Democrats right now are actually causing more of the problem than we're solving I'm being honest you're you're hard on the Democrats man well because you're like you're like looking at your own party not that you identify with every body but you're like you guys do better it's on us is that is that some sense of like that self responsibility philosophy you have you're like listen everybody has equal opportunities but like to my own party like we have to do better because we're we're [ __ ] up right now we don't know what we're doing I think we are and I think that we have a beautiful recent history I think we've got wonderful people I think that most are people of good principles and values but I think we're a little lost right now and I think we're actually causing many of the problems that we think we're trying to solve and we're not solving many of the problems that we've committed to so that's the truth and I'm getting a little tired of it and that's why I thought you know I could either shut up and be a sheep and get in line and you know do and say what they want me to or I could say the quiet part out loud and that's what I'm doing and they hate it and frankly the rest of the country is starting to say you know what there might be a there there and I'm not I'm not proposing some Revolution right I'm proposing an evolution you know I'm inviting Republicans Libertarians Independents Democrats to kind of start something new now the only way to start it is from the inside and I'm an Insider but I'm an outsider and that's some kind of special sauce I want to switch it to uh your daughter here sitting here Danel uh what is it like to have your dad run for president what's the pros and the cons um let's start with the pros that I get to be hanging out with the fun Bros right now it's literally like the coolest thing that's for having me I'm a huge fan shout out to smalla um I actually am ordering some today so here we go um some more Pros I'd say are it's cool to see your dad who you're really proud of doing what he's best at I think for a lot of people in this position it's hard because you might see your parent in a different light but it's been really cool because my dad always leads by example like ever since we were young he knows everyone when we walk into a restaurant he knows all the server names he writes down everyone's name humanizes people so I just think it's cool to see him do what he does best and be able to talk to everyone like he talks to me and my sister every day so what's the least favorite thing about it I know by the way just because your dad is a good businessman and running for president there's I know there's cons that but what is it um cons would be if you're a more private person uh putting yourself in the ey is obviously a little uncomfortable um I don't like when people say bad things about my dad cuz I love him so much but you know it's what we're doing we putting ourselves in this situation but another con my sense of humor the dad jokes are constant um but yeah I mean I landed on a pro he's been coming to New York more often I get to hang out and eat them Su with him which is what we do all the time at home so I'm psyched I'm happy that we all get to be here hanging out eating some eating smalla hanging out with the fun bros we're just a family now so I did not tell her to say any of that she's totally plugging us on own and danela by the way Daniela and her sister Pia are the only reasons I I ran for congress the only Reasons I'm sitting right here running for president is because of my daughters they were so upset after the Donald Trump election in 2016 that it it shocked me what was the what were some of the main issues that sparked the outrage in the family and what made you step up was it abortion rights what was it well tell you you know it was well it was waking up the next morning and daniela's younger sister Pia was crying in her bedroom and she had just overcome hodkin in F cancer she's a gay woman I did not know that when she was 16 and and she was really fearful and it was seeing my daughter with fear in her eyes and look I know my privilege I was not accustomed to my kids looking afraid and I know a lot of families wake up every day like that no matter who in the presidency right but that really affected me and I felt that it was my opportunity my time to stand up and do something about it I'd spent my whole life essentially thinking we're in good hands you know I took it for granted that we have good people in Washington and then Donald Trump is elected and he's not a good man but he represents a lot of people who are angry for reasons I understand and that's why I thought you know what instead of complain about it I'm going to try to do something have some more What's the de what's the worst thing someone can say about you let's be a little self-aware I think a lot of politicians or a lot of people who step into the public eye they're not self-aware you seem very confident in yourself you seem like I feel like you wouldn't step up and put yourself in this position unless you knew you were a solid guy so but what's the worst thing someone can say about it I think what most I first of all what worst thing people say about me is they look at me and they say oh there's a wealthy outof touch white guy from Suburban Minnesota another Rich Minnesotan white guy huh yeah and you know and I understand but they don't know my story they don't know my background they don't know the shoes that I've walked in and I wish people would just maybe dig a little bit deeper but I think that is probably the pervasive you know articulation of who I am and it really bums me out to be honest with because I'm more than that you're more than you know you're more than the fun Bros I mean we're all more than what meets the eye um I'm not perfect I learn more every day I've learned more in the last 5 years in Congress than I ever IM possible and I will continue to I'm not telling you I have all the answers and I just wish more people had humility I wish leaders would acknowledge they don't know it all and I wish we would lead with courage you know the root of Courage is literally the French word lur the heart I think it's time we get back to strong leaders courageous leaders being leaders that lead with the heart and that's who I am and if people took the time to maybe get to know me a little bit they might be surprised I think I'm going to end it right there you know I feel like you answer answer my questions Dean you made time in your busy schedule you came here after talking to the Breakfast Club Charlamagne DJ eny you were just there minutes ago I mean this is like and now you're here at the legendary Dimson Palace uh great I I didn't get to ask you a question all right what what are some questions you got to ask me you put me in the H if you had a magic wand and you could change anything in this country right now I got two questions this the first one what would you change I'm not the one running for president man I know um if I had magic Chopsticks and I'm not supposed to be doing this with chopsticks by the way but for this exercise flip it if I had a magic Chopsticks and I could change one thing in America like drastically I would just say like I I wish people I really think people are too divided and in their own Echo syrs I think when it comes back down to human to human interactions and I know you've witnessed this on your own people are a lot more cool than they are on the internet and I don't know if it's the Russian bot I don't know if it's the whatever Bad actors are out there I don't know if it's these fake accounts but they're fueling social media and one thing is I'm on social media my career has been made by social media I love social media but it's a dangerous tool that I do think we need to start looking at and being like yo there need to somehow got filter it better we got to regulate it a little bit in some way because uh yeah I think it's starting to backfire a little bit that's what we're doing we're breaking bread you know your second question did I answer that I thought I thought you answered that I thought you answered that pretty well it's a simple thing it's really not that hard it wasn't like magical so now you asked me about my my favorite dim sum what's your favorite Jewish food oh my gosh well I think there's a lot of does the r see my favorite sandwich in the world is the Ruby sandwich oh the no I think it was started by a Jewish guy but it's not you think his name Ruben I think it was I bet it was I think I think it was like someone Google that it was like in North Dakota or some weird place Nebraska I don't know no I'm serious so Ruben sandwich if if you count that it's on Ry bread that has a lot of you know Jewish elements uh uh corn beef and uh I love latkas the potato pancakes those are great and uh I mean anything at cats Deli oh you're a Cats fan okay all right the Ruben sandwich everybody want to hear this the history of the Reuben all right by the way you're reading that off Wikipedia can you trust Wikipedia for stuff like this no let's just no let's just be real can we're going to trust Wikipedia yeah we're going to trust wikkipedia it's a North American grilled sandwich the place of Origins the United States possible Origins Reuben kovski oh a Lithuanian born grer residing in Omaha Nebraska asked for a sandwich made of corn be and sauerkraut at his weekly poker game at the Blackstone hotel around 1920 to 1930 the participants nicknamed themselves the committee including Charles shimel who worked in the kitchen his son did and they made the first Reuben adding swiss cheese and thousand island dressing to his order and put the whole thing on Ry bread how about that but you got to grill the ride that's one of my one of my gripes about cats is that they don't grill or toast bread and the last thing to let you all know in Omaha Nebraska March 14th is proclaimed as reuben sandwich day we should all go to Omaha Omaha you just I didn't even know the origin of the Ruben and you knew and I'm giving you a hard it's my job it's my job DP um all right everybody that wraps up our interview with Dean Phillips you're running against Biden New Hampshire and if you're uh if you usually but only registered Democrats can vote for you first right registered Democrats because they can only registered Democrats can only vote in the primary or the Dem or and in Most states Independents can as well most States not all but yeah watch new watch new Hamp on January 23rd tell your friends and please go vote in primaries and if you want to learn more go to de24 follow me on social media give me a little love and watch what we can do and literally I'm going to do a little test everybody watching right now if you go do something online watch what happens to this campaign right afterwards you literally can move the needle more than anybody I've ever said all right let's test it uh that was Dean Phillips self-proclaimed pragmatic Progressive common sense Democrat uh a guy who's just stepping up wanting to make a change be a disruptor do something interesting uh I'm going to pay close attention to what's going on with you you you're bold you are not afraid to say things especially your Instagram Clips I say check them out and just see what you think about the guy if you don't like him if you like him leave it in the comments down below I want to know what you think um and thank you so much for watching and thank you for having di some on faceb hey that