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I'm going to be honest, and I

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was annoyed, upset

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with your family recently

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when in Philadelphia.

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It's one thing to vote

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for a different candidate. It's another thing for the 15 people

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in the Kennedy

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family to stand on the stage at a

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rally for Joe Biden when they know that- Six.

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Six. It was only six. For

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a huge portion, big names, people that

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mean something in your life from day

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one, to stand on that stage publicly

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and endorse Joe Biden

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instead of you.

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Even if they were going

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to vote for Joe Biden, to go

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to those lengths to support him,

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you've said, okay, I love my family, we all have

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different politics, we all have different opinions. I

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believe you. Was there not a part of

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you that thought, what the heck?

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Why? Why as my family members go

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to that level to

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say, no, I am against my brother,

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my cousin, etc. and with this

1:09

man? That annoyed me as a human. It

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wasn't a pleasant experience for me,

1:22

but here's how I look

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at it, which is first of

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all, when

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my family was raised in Milliou,

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we argue with each other, we

1:33

different political issues, we were raised,

1:35

we debated every night at the

1:37

dinner table, my father orchestrated debates,

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and we

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were taught to disagree with each

1:44

other, with passion, with good information,

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but at the same time to love each other. I

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understand why people in my family are dismayed

1:52

about me running, there's five

1:54

members of my family that have jobs with

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the administration or rely on them for

1:58

their work. President

2:01

Biden is a long-term friend

2:03

of me and my family.

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He has a statue of my father behind

2:09

him in the Oval Office. So I see

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why. And

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my family is tied in with the DNC. They

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don't like what I'm doing. But

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from the U.S., a more

2:21

personal question about how I

2:23

internalize that. And

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what I believe is that any

2:30

hardship that I encounter, I have to

2:32

look at it as a gift. I

2:36

need to process everything as something

2:40

that's meant to happen and that I'm meant to

2:42

learn from it. And

2:44

that I need to be grateful for it. So

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did it not hurt you? Everything is teaching me

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something and it's there to teach me something. So

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I don't

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spend any of my life in living

2:56

in resentment. If you are

2:59

resentful about somebody, it's like swallowing poison

3:01

and hoping someone else will die. It's

3:03

corrosive. And

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I am very disciplined about never going

3:07

there. Isn't there a difference between resentment and hurt?

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Yeah, but again,

3:17

my way of processing the experience

3:19

of life is to say these

3:23

things ultimately are

3:25

gifts for me. And

3:27

every person in

3:29

my life who

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I've admired historically,

3:38

Charles Darwin to Alexander the

3:41

Great, to Lewis

3:46

and Clark, to

3:49

Richard Speaks, and any

3:52

great Saint Francis of

3:54

Assisi, Saint Augustine, they

3:57

all went through periods in their lives. where

4:00

they were disparaged, my friends, my

4:02

family, rejected by

4:05

their communities. Winston Churchill,

4:07

another great example. And

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if you want to do something worthwhile

4:14

in your life, you

4:16

have to expect that that's what

4:18

you're going to go through. And

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the reason that people, not more

4:25

people are doing what I'm

4:27

doing is because if it were

4:29

easy, they'd do it. It's

4:31

difficult. And that's part of

4:33

the difficulty. But I'm very disciplined about

4:35

not carrying that stuff around. I think

4:38

that's the right one. Either

4:40

as hurt or as anger. That's

4:42

beautiful. If

4:44

there's a microsecond in my head that

4:47

says, oh, that's hurtful, I

4:49

have now developed the ability to immediately

4:52

change it and say, that means it's

4:54

good. You know, if somebody,

4:57

listen, God is talking to

4:59

you through every encounter that you have.

5:02

Everybody that you meet is a

5:04

messenger. Absolutely. And if somebody throws

5:06

you the finger on a highway,

5:09

you have to make

5:11

yourself ask God, what does he

5:13

want me to learn from this experience? What does

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he want me to do with this interaction? Does

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he want me to be kind? Does he want

5:19

me to pray for that person? So

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are you praying for your family? I

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don't mean that literally, but as they

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are doing something that might be hurtful

5:29

for a split second and then OK. Absolutely.

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And have you had conversations with them? Yes,

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I have. I mean, one

5:36

of the things is that

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several of them have said

5:41

that when

5:44

they were saying, you know, they've sent me

5:46

notes saying, we made sure not to criticize

5:48

you. And in her earlier iterations,

5:50

some of them said a couple of things

5:53

about me. But this

5:55

time they said, and I told

5:57

them I had dinner with my

5:59

family. I

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was with my brother, who was there the other

6:03

day, and I said, look, I really don't

6:05

mind you guys doing this with, you know,

6:07

endorsing Biden. But I don't want you to

6:10

be saying, and I don't think it makes

6:12

you look good. Right. To be

6:14

saying, you know, bad things about me, and

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it's hurtful to my children. And, you know,

6:19

I think the whole family. So I think

6:21

they made an effort not to do that.

6:25

And they all of the several of

6:27

them said to me that they

6:29

had used those moments with President Biden

6:32

to ask him to provide me secret

6:34

service protection. And,

6:37

you know, so I'm happy with that. I think

6:39

that that may be, you know,

6:41

reconsidering the fact that the fact that it's even

6:44

a decision.