What makes you prepared for it. Is interesting you say is, make obligated. In the way the presidency is currently being exercised, doesnt have to do with the area where its complicated but with the area should be far more simple. Fdr said the primary role of the president his moral leadership. He said administrative aspect is secondary. As a moral equivocation that we see is it too much in politics including the presidency. What is prepared may, 35 years, working up close and personal with people whose lives are in crisis. Ive seen what it takes to move from crisis to transformation and opportunity. Have also seen up close and personal that Public Policy on people his lives. Several of the passion. For what has gone wrong and a lot of clarity for what is gone wrong. I think sometimes as politicians who dont seem to exercise as much moral fortitude about what is gone or become strategically apt in the u. S. Government. I understand people talking about experience. There are experienced politicians who led us into a rock. Let us into the war in vietnam, god is to oer. So i challenge the idea that only those who had careers for decades and limitations of the mindset that drove us into this. They are qualified to get us out of it. I think what we are missing in our government is the an alignment with the deeper democratic and humanitarian values that truly to make this country great. Attica street in a government that is been so corrupted by the influence of money that we see is far is it too much compromise among our political officials. With the donors and all of the efficacy of corporate power. So the consequence, we need someone as my experience living in the kind of effects that this is heaven people. The fortitude about what it would take to make things right. Based on that, how would you approach the presidency. How would you structure the chain of command in how you would operate inside the white house. The chain of command, not the problem. The problem and once again, his moral fortitude. You have somebody who is in chief of staff, kenny business, the inside in the white house has a certain kind of infrastructure. Thats the problem. Went like this is something so different from every other aspect of live. Its not that different from every other aspect of live. What we need in a president is someone who has clarity and moral conviction about how on the influence of money, has corrupted our government and hijacked our value system. A president who understands that public funding campaigns is absolutely necessary. Present who understands that we are on influence of money is the cancer that underlying the all the other cancers. Ultimately a constitutional exception amendment that would fund federal campaigns. Repeal the 2,172,000,000,000,000 tax cut. Eighty cents of every dollar went to the very bridges corp. Corporation individuals. We should put back in the middle pass. Present who understands that we should stop the 26 billion for the oil. Last year alone. The u. S. Government should be able to negotiate with big farmer. On the behalf of American People. While military should get every dollar that they need for legitimate Concert Charity concerns and they say the name, we should not be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on top of that which has to do only with shortterm profits for military contractors. Where you do not ignore millions of traumatized children. Millions of American Children who go to school everyday in classes during have the adequate school supplies. And a child cannot learn to read by the age of eight, the chances of High School Graduation has drastically decreased. And incarceration has likely to increase. The millions of American Children that psychologists say are experiencing a loophole of ptsd that is no less severe than veterans coming back from afghanistan and iraq. But understand a massive realignment and investment direction of our children. Who understands that every school in america should be a palace of learning and culture and the arts. That they understand much deeper into a conversation about raising in this country. Because just like an individual, we cant have the future we want lessor wheeling to clamp the past. The dominance on her National Security agenda, is an observed and dangerous road for the next 50 to 100 years because you just cant backup into peace. You have to proactively waive peace. Those are things we need in a president. Someone has principles and the alignment of moral fortitude and recognizes how off center and off course our democracy is. It has taken my experience to take me to the place, to lay down like i said and then thats the qualifications that we need it. You put a lot there. Why are you a democrat. Where did you come up with or the areas that shaped your ideology. I was raised in a home where he said to my father, i dont care fbi at roosevelt, im old enough to remember bobby kennedy. Im old enough to remember i was a child when Martin Luther king died. I was a child when kennedy died. I was old enough to understand that here were people who held laws and Public Domain for higher philosophical and human desires that we have, and politics. What happened in my generation was those men, were literally shot and killed in front of our eyes. Something very profound happened at the moment. In a very real way, the message of those assassinations affected an entire generation. That message goes unspoken was very clear. You will go home and there will be no further protests. After the assassinations and there were also the assassinations of the students at kent state. So we were told to go back into the private sector and do whatever we wanted but leave the public sector, whoever wanted to control us about that they were obviously wheeling to kill to do so. Whatever and whomever controlling it. Nobody think it was justly harvey oswald. It was something bigger going on there. I believe that after that, many of the people in higher fists philosophical ideals, deep politicized, and people seeking political change, became so over corporatized. In the language. Ive always lived within myself in a place where you speak to be a better person. And you seek to be a better person and a citizen. Ive always seen politics, the Public Domain in the private self and the private domain. Ive been very active in the nonprofit sector. In the political activist. And a spiritual writer. And a speaker. So i believe at this time our politics has become truth disconnected from who we are as people. I dont think the American People lack soulfulness. I think you know decent people. Im not staying were better than other people but we are good people. What is happened over the last few decades is that the conversations inquiry to what needs to be to be a good person. To be forgiven. Just and merciful and compassionate and integrity. Husband to circumscribed to the limits of the personal self. We should thanks not only is my behavior good but we should thanks is our country his behavior good. We should thanks not only an hour integrity but is our tax policy integrity. Thats what citizenship is. I believe this country was founded on the notion that this is everybodys business. Not just the political class. Thats relatively new. Aberrational idea that theres a political class. A system other idea of a leak and post office he almost. This country belongs to all of us. None of us have a monopoly on truth and all of us should feel invited to a end. Submission of all though, youve got to navigate the political parties, to the congressional system to the committees into the politics in washington. So how do you take those ideals and turn it into practicality. Main role of the president in my opinion, is to articulate a vision for the country. A moral vision for the country. And to communicate that to the American People. This is the problem i have with conventional politics today. The people who become secondary. The people looked at like poker chips. Its just a game that politicians play. The play with these poker chips. How may do you have it have a do you have. I believe the main relationship with the president , is to be with the people in the United States. That is what i want to be president for. To help navigate this country to a very turbulent time in our history. We need a season of repair. I think somebody needs to be very deeply honest with the American People about the loophole of corruption that exists here. And how dangerous our future the danger is that we risk by not changing course. Politically socially and economically. We already have a system. Where are very amoral Economic System is so corrupted government that we have 1 percent of americans who own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. We have a government that does more to advocate for his own profit. Then it does to advocate for the health and safety and wellbeing of the American People and thats why we have the large income quality in a most 100 years thats why we have more than 40 percent of americans who live with chronic economic anxiety. Millions of American Children that i was telling you about, children who despair has been organized. Theyre not it can situate. Theyre not old enough to work so they have no financial leverage. So how can they possibly complete with the corporate money that dominates this town of washington. Thats why what the department of children and jews, want to play rough duration for slavery. Because i understand that this is the turbulence of Race Relations in the United States. It needs us to take a serious next chapter in seeking to deal with this and also need to heal the ones of injustice towards native americans. It would pay and what paid with regards to declarations. My plan is for 200 to 500 billion to be dispersed over a period of 20 years, the money would be dispersed to a reparations council. The council lets say 50 people perhaps it would be made up of black leaders. From an array of academic, additional professor at the university was done a lot of work on this. Coaches, people like that. Political leaders. The idea is the stipulation on the part of the u. S. Government, would be that the money is to be used for purposes of economic and educational renewal. It might be, black colleges, Venture Capital for black businesses, many kinds of ways the decision should be made by this council as long as its within the stipulation of economic and educational renewal. This is an asset, it benefit to the u. S. Economy remember. Cbs 2 did a study recently that if black families produce the mate same amount of wealth, were talking about a black person makes less money than a white person. Statistically in america. If they made the same amount, and our economy would be 1. 5 trillion larger. So when you are talking about this kind of dispersal, look at that compared to the 2 trillion tax cut for 83 percent goes to the top earners and corporations and this idea that theyre going to be the job creators and the monies going to trickle down. After 40 years, clearly you can see where that got us. Some want to talk about this, not only is this more innately correct thing to do. Germany after world war ii paid 89 billion in reparations to jewish organizations. Now this doesnt mean the holocaust didnt happen. But it has gone far is towards establishing reconciliation between germany and the jews of europe. The reason i want reparations as opposed to racebased policies, is that reparations carry an inherently above. Carols moral force. It is an inherent acknowledgment of it wrong that is been done. A debt that has been owed and the willingness of people to pay it. My experience. My experience its not the average american is the racist. I dont think that. I do believe that the average american is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the United States. When i find even in the widest states in the United States, is that we do talk to people, about the First Signing and 1619, slavery not abolished until 1865, 250 years later. Followed by another hundred years, violence against black people in america, the fact that in that hundred years, you have a Civil Rights Act which was met with segregation. Equal access at the polls, then what you see is that the economic gap was obviously there at the end of the civil war, was never closed. The loophole Playing Field was never created. We are still living with the legacies of this in some ways even sliding backwards. Racial disparity, sliding backwards. I dont want us just to keep carrying this over and over again. Its time for us to do some great things now. And of one chapter our history and begin another. Lets talk about you. After the debate, you know the most googled. Twenty and the stage. You know now in the third debate. What you think people learned about mary williamson. After the second of may and i was giving much less time than the contenders also. Like you said, i was most googled person and 49 states. I think is hilarious by the way. The state and didnt give me the most which was montana. I laugh every time i think about that. There is a lot of interest after the second debate. Within three days, the political its certainly started. Anti science, anti medicine, crazy drifter, and i think is certainly damaged and dampens the enthusiasm. Suspicion and enough people his minds unfortunately. Youve been described as spiritual but not religious. I dont know if thats true. I am a jew. Usually what that means is orthodox. Which im not. I think of myself as a religious person actually. As well as spiritual. After hurricane dorian, it could be detoured by the power of the mind. What did you mean. Several days before i had just been, in georgia and south carolina. You think they were praying for to god. To think that was stupid people praying to god. What is this. If you pray that means you know less intelligent or if you pray, you dont believe in medicine. If you pray to believe in science or you know somehow when everyone a mock that, is that really what we want to go. Particularly those of us who are depressed. Who we really want to win in 2020. Think mocking people because we believe in the power of god, is the good way to go. I dont think so at all. To have to influence you the most growing up. My father. He was like a cross between some of the greek. As my dad. He took us to vietnam. I was in saigon when i was 16 years old. Because my father wanted us to see what war was. I come back from school one night, so great and told my parents that my social studies tshirt has said that if we didnt find in vietnam we would be fighting on the shores of hawaii called the dominos theory but thats what were being told. My father stood up, and said we are going to vietnam. Those pastors, that militaryindustrial complex its not going to eat my childrens brains. Thats the kind of parents i had. They took us traveling all over the world. They were world travelers and during the summer we would travel and people would say to my father why are you taking your children traveling so much. They wont even remember it. And he would say, it will get on their skin. He was right. I am a different person than it wouldve been. As a child i saw people the same were everywhere. I see that as a child. Once you see that you cant unseen it. I dont think i was ever vulnerable to some of this because as a child i saw it. He would not be surprised that you know running for president of the United States. I dont know about the surprise part but i do think he was a little sister. He had said to me when my career began, he said what happened to you. I raised you to change the system. He was an immigration lawyer. So in my career began i was writing books about love and talked about love and state. My father sent me once, what happened to you. I wanted you to change the world. And i said i think love is the way to turn change the world. He heard me. So i am doing now, is the same thing have been doing for 35 years. But ive been doing for 35 years is talking about how principles of mercy and kindness and love, and compassion, are the only god to write living. And that we do follow those principles live works. And we dont follow those principles, chaos ensues. There ultimately falls. Just like if i drop this cup, i know it will help the ground. The fact that i know it will hit the ground and you dont look at me and say oh its so touching and how faithful she is in the law. No i just know the law of gravity. There are certain laws of the internal world as well. If you live right to vote, you cease to live in integrity and indecent and good live people, you have a fair shot. If you dont not problems. This is true in our collective experience as well i believe the citizens we are responsible for consulting ourselves with those or both of or not those principles avail. Within our Public Policy. That is what happens in a democracy. People get to weigh in. Honey looks to be written . Fourteen. In 2020 politics, i find this. Love is what we are born with, fear is what we learn. What you mean. I believe that we are all filled with the divine spirit. All men are created equal. Notice the declaration of independence, it doesnt say all men are equal as is all men are created equal. Live and liberty and pursuit into happiness. Thank god we trust. Business idea that there is a divine source to all of this. Both of people see this in secular terms or religious terms doesnt matter. We mean the freedom not only to worship as you wish or both of you wish. But the very idea that something is going on here, beyond his flesh and bones, is central and i believe to the greatness of this country. Only good with brotherhood. This idea, is just not about money. Not just about economics. Its about possibilities for human beings. That is what the founding of this country was about. We would create a society wheree be no external shackles and that idea and a love of each other and of the earth and of our grandchildren, no generation to live only for itself. If we take those moral ideas and apply them only to the personal and not the collective self, what you get is what weve got in we are in trouble. When youre on stage with the mayor, senators, governors, a former Vice President , what is going through my . I have a lot of respect for the people