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Hello, Weeds listeners. I have something special for you today.

I have the opportunity recently to sit down with Hillary Clinton for 40 minutes.

This interview appears on my other podcast, the Ezra Klein Show, which I hope you are all subscribing to,

but also wanted to put it here because it is a very, very weedy interview.

What I'm trying to do in this in this conversation is get a sense of how Hillary Clinton thinks about policy,

who she is when she's in a policy meeting, how she reasons her way, through the kinds of issues she will face as president.

So you're not going to hear questions here about her emails or about Donald Trump or the outrage of the day.

I really wanted to focus on understanding how she thinks about how the economy works or how she thinks about how

health care works or how she thinks about how she's going to actually get anything done in a very, very polarized

age and government. I found her answers fascinating. She's a very precise, focused thinker.

She really knows these debates very well, but at the same time, some politicians will muse and they'll

ruminate and they'll go off in all different directions. She doesn't do that. She is very, she really hears what you

ask her and is right kind of very. It is very interesting for me to hear her reason and hear her respond in this way,

and I think it will be for you too. As I mentioned, I do a bunch of interviews that a lot like this one on

the As For Client Show, which is another fine podcast from box.com and panoply. So if you're not subscribed to that,

this is a great time to go and do that. I think you'll enjoy what I'm putting out there, but that said,

without further ado, here's how it can turn.

First again, thank you for being here. Absolutely. So let's start with poverty. Scholars have estimated or

found that the number of American families living in extreme poverty under $2 a day in cash income

has skyrocketed in the last 20 years. You have about 1.5 million families and 3 million children.

Given how many children are now in that condition, should we be following the model of countries like

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