Hillary Clinton Is Running For President

Don't you have security you had to bring your purse on? Well, actually, I heard the other day that you're thinking about running for president. Well, there's a lot of people running and I thought I should throw my name around. Well, I figured that I needed to bring you a campaign survival kit. Oh, wow, that's sweet of you, since I'm going to be competing with you. Yeah, I know, well, you know, I think there's a lot in here that I could, you know, maybe help you avoid some of the mistakes I've made. Oh, good, all right. Let's start with this, which is running for president for dummies. It's very helpful. And I'm on the cover. Very helpful. Wow. And I'm on the cover. This is a flight kit. Very important. It's got everything for your neck, your eyes, you name it. And there'll be a lot of days when you're going to have to do your own hair. Oh, wow. Yeah. I got to grow it out a little bit. And you can always tell when I've had to. Here's one of my secret weapons, hot sauce. Oh. I am convinced. Well, you're from New Orleans. I know, but I can't eat spicy things. Really? No. Oh, my gosh. I know, it's weird. Some genetic mutation or something. I know. Well, anyway. Anyway, in case you change your mind, here is some hot sauce. All right. I'm convinced it keeps me healthy. All right. Okay. And here. I'm glad that we joined forces. Yeah. I like it, I like it. I love it. Thank you so much. That's great. You're so welcome. I'll give it to you soon. So, this is exciting, because the last time you were here, I was talking to you about were you going to run, and you weren't really answering anybody's question. Right. But you accidentally slipped when you were here. Yeah, it was a Freudian slip. You were going to show it to me? Yeah, last time you were here, this is what happened. I don't know if this is the place you want to tell us all that you're going to run for president in 2018. I am running for re-election to the Senate in New York. Yeah. And I'm having a great time. Good. So, you have to be prepared is what you're saying. Yes. So, you're preparing for 2008. I am. No, no, I'm preparing for 2006. So, we all knew way ahead of time, but we pretended like we didn't know. All right. So, and like I said before, I don't know a lot about politics, so this is all, but I think I do represent a lot of people who don't understand it, but just really care about being taken care of and being safe. Right. So, I know that there's the Senate, and then there's the Congress, there's the House, there's the Parliament, the Nina, the Penta, the Santa Maria. I know that. So, when I, when I, I know what I'm talking about when I ask, what makes you the best candidate? Tell, tell us why, so you can swing some votes that maybe people are on the fence, they don't know. Why should we all vote for you? Well, I think that we're going to be facing some of the most serious problems we've ever faced as a country. I mean, we have a lot of unfinished business here at home, and we have all of these incredibly difficult challenges around the world, and I think it's time that we start acting like Americans again. You know, we're problem solvers. That's what I was raised to believe when I was a little girl, that we could do anything we set our minds to, and I think we should do things like have affordable health care for every American. I think it's time for us to do that. I think we've got to have a, you know, a much better approach to how we deal with energy and global warming and education. I want to make college affordable for everybody again. It's just not right now. And so, and I think I, you know, for 35 years I've worked for children and families and women, and I think I bring to the presidency some new experiences we've never had there before, and I think it's time. I agree, and I think that you're, you know, looking at this realistically. You're a woman. A lot of people are saying, are we ready for a woman president? I think you do have, we have to take a break, but we have two more segments to talk to you because I have a lot more questions. I have questions. You talk about things that hit home and things that are personal to each of us, and I have questions for you about things that are personal to me, so I'll ask you those when we come back. We'll be right back. All right, this is exciting. We're back with Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That feels good to say. That sounds really good. All right, so here I go. Here I'm going to ask you a question, and first of all, I should preface this. I don't know if you know this, but I am gay. What? She did it. We got Hillary doing a promo. What? All right, so yes, I'm gay, and so that's important to me. And you're happy, too. I am happy and I'm gay, yes, because there are some people that are gay and not happy, as we know, and won't even admit it. It's important for me to be able to commit to someone that I love and have the same benefits, the same rights. If something should happen to me, Porsche is taken care of. Right. People who are gay care about that. You support civil unions. I do. But not gay marriage. Uh-huh. And why? Well, I am very much in favor of civil unions with full equality of benefits, and I want to see that developed as we move forward. I want to make that happen with federal benefits. There are a lot of federal benefits that people in long-term committed relationships don't have access to, and I want to make that happen. So, I consider that this issue is one where we can agree on equality of benefits and work toward that. And then we have a lot of other work to do. I'm very much in favor of ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, because I don't think it's worked. It has driven a lot of people out of our military. And, you know, other countries have gone much further, Israel, Great Britain, and others, and have had great success with letting people serve openly. If you are willing to serve your country and you're a patriot, you ought to be permitted to do that without lying about who you are. And so I'm in favor of that. I want to end discrimination against gays and lesbians, and we haven't gotten that passed yet. Do you think it would be possible for someone to run and openly say, I support gay marriage, and win? Do you think that's even possible? You know, I don't know. I mean, I had the same position for years, and so I don't know what somebody could or couldn't do. But I've always believed that marriage should be left to the states, because that's where it's always been. The states have determined age of marriage, other conditions, and over time we've gotten rid of a lot of the discrimination that used to exist in marriage laws. And that's now happening. People are making decisions. Civil unions, marriage, they're deciding in the states, and I think that's the appropriate place for this to be. I think that's important. I mean, it's close to me. All of it's close to me. I mean, all of it really matters. I live in this world just like everybody else, but those things matter a great deal to me. We need to really open the door for people to define their relationships in a way that we can recognize and acknowledge. Well, it gets rid of the shame, and it gets rid of behavior that we see happening all the time when people are so ashamed they do things that are sad. That's exactly right. Really, really sad. That's exactly right. And it's all about shame. It is. All right. Well, what I would love to do with you, I've been wanting to say this for a while. Let's go have a cup of coffee. Oh, I'd love a cup of coffee. I mean, right now, though. Let's go to a diner and have a cup of coffee. Right this very minute? Yeah. Well, go to commercial, and then let's have a cup of coffee at a diner and talk to people there. Well, there are a lot of diners out there. Well, the closest one we get to. Some of the great diners in the world are here in New York. I agree. So let's go. All right. Let's go. I'm ready. Don't yell at me.