Ep. 86 - Gary Johnson

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, talks with David about his foreign policy vision, the Johnson administration’s approach to illegal drugs, and his infamous Aleppo moment. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:19.8	It's fair to say that very few third-party candidates have gotten as much discussion,
0:26.0	particularly among young people, for President of the United States and Gary Johnson,
0:29.9	the former governor of New Mexico, now running on the libertarian line.
0:34.0	He came by the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago the other day to meet
0:39.2	with students, and we had a chance to sit down afterwards and talk about his career and
0:43.8	his campaign for president.
0:50.0	Gary Johnson, welcome and welcome to the Institute of Politics.
0:52.8	Thank you.
0:53.8	Thank you, coming by to speak to our university community today.
1:01.7	Tell me, I just want to get into the issues of the day, but I want to get a kind of richer
1:06.8	sense of who you are.
1:10.3	You grew up partly in North Dakota.
1:12.2	Yeah, yeah, moved to North Dakota, South Dakota, moved to New Mexico when I was 13.
1:17.0	My mother got transferred there with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and really then New Mexico
1:24.1	great.
1:25.1	My dad went to New Mexico as a boy scout and was always trying to angle his way back.
1:30.6	I see.
1:31.6	What, your mom worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, what did she do?
1:34.3	She was an accountant, and they consolidated all of the six regional offices in the United
1:41.1	States in Albuquerque, so that's how we got there.
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