ARE YOU READY FOR THE POP QUIZ WITH BILL WELD?

PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE, A REPUBLICAN, A FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR, USED A NORTH SHORE MANSION KNOWN AS "WHITE COURT" AS A SUMMER WHITE HOUSE.

WHAT TOWN WAS THAT IN?

MULTIPLE CHOICE.

A, BEVERLY?

B, SWAMPSCOTT?

C, MARBLEHEAD?

BILL: MARBLEHEAD.

MARIA: NO.

[APPLAUSE]

MARIA: IN 1983, PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN CAME TO BOSTON AND FAMOUSLY LIFTED A MUG OF BEER AT A DORCHESTER PUB.

WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT PUB?

BILL: HEARING ABOUT.

JANET: ARMS CAN BE DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED IF YOU GOT THIS WRONG.

BACK TO PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS, IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER WALL.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS MADE THE SITUATION ON THE BORDER WITH MEXICO A KEY POLICY FIGHT IN 2020, DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY, INSISTING HE WILL BUILD A WALL.

IS THIS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY?

IS THIS THE BEST WAY TO GO ABOUT IT.

BILL: NO, IT IS NOT A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.

WHAT HE WAS FIGHTING ABOUT WASN’T $8 BILLION WALL.

HE LATER CHANGED HIS MIND.

IT IS PART OF HIS STRATEGY TO GET EVERYBODY UPSET AND DIVIDE THE COUNTRY AND PERSUADE US THAT WE SHOULDN’T BE PATRIOTS WHO LOVE OUR OWN COUNTRY AND PEOPLE, WE SHOULD BE NATIONALISTS WHO

HATE EVERYBODY ELSE.

JANET: IS IT WORKING?

BILL: I THINK THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO MAKE US MORE NATIONALISTIC AND AUTOCRATIC.

THAT IS WHY HE SAYS WE DON’T NEED THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND I LOVE VLADIMIR PUTIN AND WE DON’T NEED NATO.

HE IS DOING WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT VLADIMIR PUTIN TO DO AND HE SEES HIMSELF AND EVERYONE KNOWS HE IS A NARCISSIST.

I THINK HE SEES HIMSELF AS THE MAN ON HORSEBACK AND DOESN’T WANT TO HAVE PRIMARIES AND AN ELECTION.

MARIA: BUT THE MAN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, WE WERE JUST SAYING, THE PEOPLE WHO YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR YOU SUPPORT THIS MAN.

BILL: IT IS GOING TO BE MY JOB TO ENLARGE THE ELECTORATE SO WE GET MORE MILLENNIALS AND WE GET GEN X AND FEMALES SUBURBAN VOTERS.

I WOULD GO SO FAR AS TO ENTERTAIN MOBILE VOTING IF YOU CAN INSTALL SECURITY.

THINK WHAT THAT WOULD DO.

OR THE 9% OF MILLENNIALS VOTED AND THAT WOULD TAKE UP TO 75% AND YOU GET A DIFFERENT RESULT.

MARIA: U.N. AS A LIBERTARIAN, WIDE TO BE AMBASSADOR CONSIDERED , RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

YOU HAVE A HISTORY OF DIVING INTO THING WE CAN QUEUE THE TAPE OF YOU DIVING INTO THE ST. CHARLES RIVER.

NOW, THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.

IS THIS JUST AN ATTEMPT TO GET BACK INTO ELECTIVE OFFICE?

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

IF IT IS PRESIDENT, WHY?

WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT?

BILL: I THINK I AM AS QUALIFIED AS ANYONE KNOWS IN THE RACE FOR WHAT I DID HERE.

IN THE LAST 15 YEARS I’VE HAD INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE, WHICH MANY DON’T HAVE.

I THINK I CAN DO THE JOB AND I SEE THE JOB NOT ONLY BEING NOT DONE BUT APPROACHED IN A COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, IRRESPONSIBLE WAY, BOTH ON THE UPSIDE AND THE DOWNSIDE.

THIS IS THE MOST SERIOUS THING I’VE EVER DONE.

THIS IS NOT TAKING A DIVE.

JANET: TAKE A LOOK AT THIS, JIMMY KIMMEL WAS PICKING UP -- PICKING ON GARY JOHNSON P OR HERE IS WHAT HE SAID.

>> IF YOU DON’T REMEMBER GARY JOHNSON, HERE IS WHAT HE SAID.

[INDISCERNIBLE] >> I DON’T KNOW WHY THEY BROKE UP, THEY WERE A GOOD TEAM.

MARIA: ANY WORRIES THE RIDICULE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT CAMPAIGN WILL FOLLOW YOU IN THIS RUN?

BILL: I DON’T THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP AS THE PRESIDENT IS A JOKE, SO NO.

WERE THE REASONS TO RUN IS TO GET A SHOT AT PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAUSE I THINK HE IS A MENACE.

WE HAD TO TERM GOVERNORS AND GOT 3% OF THE VOTE.

I AM NOT SURE THAT PEOPLE DID TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY.

THE COUNTR WAS AND PERHAPS STILL IS IN THE GRIP OF THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM.

THIS TIME I DECIDED I WAS NOT THAN A RUN AGAINST THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND GO AFTER THE BIG GUY.

JANET: YOU ARE WEARING A RED SOX TIED.

BILL: THEY NEED ME THIS YEAR.

MARIA: WHEN YOU GO TO CAMPAIGN, WILL YOU WEAR THIS TYPE?

BILL: ABSOLUTELY.

I GREW UP HATING THE YANKEES BECAUSE I WAS A DODGER FAN.

MARIA: GOVERNOR BILL WELD THANK , YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

OUR SUNDAY POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE IS UP NEXT.

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN JOINING BOSTON MAYOR MARTY WALSH ON THE STOP AND SHOP PICKET LINE.

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