wandering around downtown Concord you had places to go I was trying to find

you and I'm not gonna say you were just a guy because you clearly knew what you

were talking about but you've made it a long way from that point what's the

what's the biggest change that you've seen since you were essentially

wandering the streets of Concord to now being Andrew yang presidential candidate

who's on those big debate stages people who knowing who I am that's totally my

recollection as well Adam where you know when I came to New Hampshire with the

first time most people were completely unfamiliar with me my platform and now

the crowds are bigger the Energy's higher the enthusiasm is electric and

it's very touching it's very heartening you know as a human being when you see

people actually so happy to see you I mean it's very heartwarming and their

big rating do you think universal basic income is I mean obviously people like

you that's you know your supporters do but is that helped open the door a

little bit the fact that hey there's the guy who wants to give me $1,000 a month

as a starting point not bad right well it's likely the first thing someone's

heard about me in the campaign and then many people initially I think see it as

too good to be true or a gimmick or somehow not possible and then when you

dig into our history you find that there's a deeply American idea and we

can make it a reality if enough let's come together particularly in New

Hampshire now people in New Hampshire come together then the freedom dividend

will become reality in 2021 so ubi gets you in the door do you feel

like you have to raise your game do something different to break through

that next level to get up there with Elizabeth Warren Joe Biden Bernie

Sanders now in many ways Adam I thinking you've seen the progression it's harder

to go from totally anonymous to a fourth bit there six on the polls which I am

now by most every measurement to go from fourth to 36 and the polls to first so

we're one of the very few campaigns in the field that has been growing

consistently and that just continues to accelerate so if we

keep on this track we are going to contend for the whole thing and one of

the things that's most exciting is that I'm one of only two candidates in the

field that 10% or more of Donald Trump voters say they will support so when I

am the Democratic nominee we win the whole thing and Democrats have one

primary criteria for the nominee and that's beating Donald Trump when they

realize that I'm as sure a bet to beat Donald Trump as anyone else in the field

you'll see my numbers just grow and grow when we first started talking you

weren't a big fan of impeachment when it was back in just the Russia

investigation what do you think now that we've seen more come out in particular

regards to this whistleblower complaint yes I concluded earlier this week that

impeachment was the right way to go because of just the egregious pattern of

behavior and that if you have the president literally leaning on a foreign

leader to try a kneecap a political rival and then suppress the

investigation at some point in Congress had to act and so I believe that it's

right to proceed with impeachment hearings I will say though that every

moment we're talking about Donald Trump is a victory for Donald Trump and that

the challenge that Democrats need to meet is to have our own vision for the

country that people will be excited about the vision cannot be we're not

Donald Trump we have to solve the problems that actually got Donald Trump

into office in 2016 before we wrap up here I've got a question there's a very

strong culture around your campaign you know you've got the Gang Gang crowd

surfing you see a lot of you online social media there's a real splash there

but this thing that happened with this guy from SNL who got hired and then

fired over his racial slurs you were saying you know I think canceled culture

has gone a little too far talk a little bit about that and explain

you know if he didn't cross a line for you then what is the line I guess those

were pretty offensive statements yes and he used racial epithets for me

specifically as an individual which obviously you know when I first heard of

I was like what like who is this person what did he say what just happened

and so I sat down with my wife to watch some of his work is coming trying to

figure out whether he was malignant and racist or whether he was something else

and upon sitting out and watching his work I thought he was a still warming

comedian from central Pennsylvania who told some offensive jokes and to me

that's not the sort of thing you should lose your job over particularly if you

were in that line of work and as the person who was personally insulted I

thought well if I think that he should not lose his job then I should certainly

say something about that because if anyone should be taking offense it's me

but that was after some deliberation and investigation to figure out what I

thought of him individually and I think that's where we should be as a country

instead of instead of being unduly punitive and vindictive we should be a

little bit more forgiving and understanding and try and humanize

behaviors that in the abstract we'd find problematic very rational

response there sometimes people want a president who will react though get

punched in the face they might punch back oh if you punch me in the face I'll

punch back I'm not gonna test that but but as you suggested I do think that

canceled culture has gone a bit too far and one thing someone said that stuck

with me is that if you have a group of people calling for someone to be fired

that group of people then moves on a week later but then the person still

fired so you know you're in some cases are

relatively changing someone's life or career and that lasts for years whereas

that satisfaction that you get by calling for it fades away very quickly

all right Andrew yang thanks for spending time with us thanks I'm good to

see you again we appreciate