And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

You always hope that these iconic figures that you see on the screen are as decent and

honorable and forthright as you hope they would be.

And as the case with Tom Hanks, who I sat down with last week for my CNN version of

the Axviles, here is the full conversation and you can see for yourself.

Tom Hanks, great to be with you.

I really, what's interesting to me is, how do you become Tom Hanks?

How does Tom Hanks become Tom Hanks?

I did a little reading about your life.

I mean, people look at you, your warm, your, your, your garyllis, you're kind of an American

icon and they say, well, he must have grown up with Ward and June Cleaver.

I mean, he must be like with Wally and the beaver.

Your childhood wasn't like that.

No, my, no, my parents, the joke is they pioneered the marriage dissolution laws for the state

of California, you know.

My dad, Janet Ames and Jajangabor all had a lot of divorces between them.

But I, I can't, it's funny, why have, I have three siblings.

I'm the third kid of four and we all have different takes on, you know, the environment that

we grew up in.

And mine was, is that other than it being confusing sometimes and otherwise it being having

a, you know, parents who weren't anxious to tell us what was going on in the world,

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