Jim Acosta

Don't worry about this Barack Obama guy.

Hillary Clinton, it's going to work out.

She's going to be the nominee.

And I was out on the campaign trail with Obama.

And I would see him in these gymnasiums and these auditoriums, and I'm like, looking at the way young people respond to him.

And I was like, guys, this is different.

This is something different.

And he defeated the Democratic establishment and just roared into the White House and became a political phenomenon in this country.

People forget about this.

Heather Cox Richardson was explaining that in the late 1800s, during the time of Teddy Roosevelt, there was a whole era of progressivism that came along, a whole new era of independent journalism and a new wave of journalism that came along.

Eras can change when the people lead that change.

And I think that we're on the cusp of that now if it's not crushed by the powers that be.

I went over there that day.

I grew up in the D.C.

area, going to the Kennedy Center and stuff and taking my first dates when I was in my 20s and stuff to the Kennedy.

And I was like, oh, I'm hot shit.

I'm taking this girl to the Kennedy Center.

Oh, yeah.

It helped.

It certainly helped.