Hey it's me, Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. This is different, it's really

a big deal. I have been invited to go to the White House to sit down with the

President of the United States of America for 10 to 12 minutes to discuss

issues that matter to me and matter to you. This is a huge honour and I want

to get it right. The interview is framed as a response to the State of the Union

address which you can watch on Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern time at youtube.com/whitehouse

I would love for this to be different. I want to ask questions about

scientific topics, something I care about. What about the personal things about

being the president? Wouldn't that be cool? We have a huge opportunity here. The

format is going to be really cool, they created a small version of my office that's

going to be there at the White House so we can just hang out and talk like we

always do, except the President is there. We shot a short promo for it out in LA and I'll

introduce you to the other two YouTube creators that's gonna be there with me.

Okay so we're in LA and they have created sets for us. This is the Smarter Every Day set

You got Ingrid

and sWooZie

- My good side. -[laughs]

This is where I'm at. [whispering] Gotta be quiet.

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Ingird, you've got a lot of beauty stuff and many other things right?

- And life things, you know?

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There is no other country on Earth where something like this could happen and I'm

extremely excited and honored to be taking part. So, here's how we're going to come up with questions:

Number one: click that link right there. It'll create a Tweet and automatically

populate the "YouTube Asks Obama" hashtag. Do that! I'll be filtering through those.

Number two: leave an intelligent, respectful comment on this video or number three: go to

the Ask Reddit thread I'm going to be making. People are going to be upvoting and downvoting;

we got to get the best questions in front of the Commander-in-Chief. I'm most

excited about your science questions, and about your fun questions for the President.

Anyway, please check those out and watch the thing. It's going to be live on January 15th

at youtube.com/whitehouse. So that's it! I'm Destin, let's get smarter

every day, together, at the White House with the President of the United States. Have a good one.

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