Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

And one of the great gifts of my upbringing was the ability to walk between different worlds and to talk to people who have fantastically different worldviews so that you can get to the least common denominator of that human experience.

Like when your grandmother is somebody who's never gotten to go to school, raised six kids in a one-bedroom apartment, or your other grandmother is a nurse who trained in Flint, who raised three kids in a bungalow in the Midwest, when they kiss you on the forehead or make your favorite meal, it's done with the same love.

It feels the same.

And I think about one set of my cousins who struggle to afford very basic things in the United States, who pay their taxes, work really hard.

And then I think about another set of my cousins who have lived under a military dictatorship as a function of those exact same tax dollars that my other cousins paid.

And you learn to think about the world both in the question of what do you do to provide for all of us here, the healthcare that folks need and deserve, the opportunities that they need in good schools, functional infrastructure, and also what does it look like to protect people from living on the wrong side of American power?

And that humanity, I just wish we saw it in everyone because at the end of the day, our money...

is being used to execute children in other countries that should be used to invest in children in our own.

It's not even just that it's being misused, it's that we are being robbed of our resources to destroy lives in another place.

You know, at the end of the day, there is nothing that is more centering than looking at your own kids.

I got an eight-year-old and a three-year-old.

And those little girls, like when I walk in the house, they could care less how the campaign, they're the only people who don't ask me about the campaign.

I love it.

They just want to read a book.

They want to go outside and play soccer.

They, you know, want to just cuddle, right?

Everybody, when they look at their kids, they have the same feeling.

I don't know what happens when we lose the empathy of recognizing that

that at the end of the day, if all of us feel the same way about our kids, we ought to feel the same way about all kids.

And that should be the least common denominator of our policy.