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Here's mayor pete buttigieg last night when he was asked to talk about resilience. overwhelming his setbacks that came his way and ones he thought was going to come his way. it's very powerful. let's sit back and watch pete buttigieg. >> i came back from deployment and realized that you only get to live one life, and i was not interested in not knowing what it was like to be in love any longer. so i just came out. i had no idea what kind of professional setback it would be especially because inconveniently it was an election year in my socially conservative community. what happened was that wh...

Suicide. >> same here. >> and you get hit with this feeling of i should have done more. i should have done more. >> what did i do? yeah. >> and the human reality is people make their own choices. they're on their own journey. but reaching out to someone who seems a little off -- and we have good instincts as human beings. your familiarity with someone, they're a little quiet, not showing up the same way, talking a little bit down about themselves. what does it take you to ask questions about how they're doing and how they're feeling and what it could mean and whether or not they're taking care...

You're doing with suicide and just checking in on friends because we all go through tough times now and again, right? and it means the most. you may think you're bothering someone. even if you are bothering them, who cares? bother them. check in on them. love them and tell them -- smack them on the head like you, or you tell me, get your fat butt out of bed and let's go to lunch. i mean you have to do those things, right? you've got to do it. >> it can make all the difference. now, look, we're blessed. we've got a friend in each other and we know it. we check in all the time. there's sometimes...

>> we know situations change. we got to stay with you. you've been doing a brilliant job. thank you very much. we're going to need you. you go from the numbers to the human reality. there's so much who feel so alone right now. some literally are, they're waiting for help. and others are dealing with the just horrible, horrible unknown. i want to introduce you to somebody like that. all right? 20-year-old romea, she's in dire straits. she's in school. everyone she knows there basically has been out of contact for days, since at least saturday. parents, siblings, grandparents, no word. i was t...

Comes to something as critical as childrens lives and safety? >> this is one of the reasons why i think the public is always frustrated with politicians. we were running for office. we said send us into the majority so that we can be a check and balance to the cruelty of this administration. now we are in the majority we are too busy appeasing this administration. and i can see the frustration of the american people who are really disappointed that, again, we have people in power who have forgotten the purpose and the reason they were given that privilege. what i am always surprised every time...