pomposity, smugness and group think. you can d.v.r. if you can figure it out. if you can, text me. have a great night. we'll see you tomorrow. good night from washington. ♪ >> sean: welcome to the special edition of "hannity." a few weeks ago comedian rosanne barr sat down with us after being fired over a controversial tweet. tonight for the hour we will air the exclusive interview. we must warn some of you, some part of the sit down are controversial. take a look. after starting your career as a andup comedian roseanne barr became a household name and she starred in her own sitcom, a huge hit on abc. she won an emmy, golden globe and multiple awards before she wrapped up after nine iconic seasons. but, well, year after year,

controversy followed. in 1990, booed off the field. she sang -- maybe screeched is a better word -- the national anthem an grabbed her crotch and spit. that was a padres game. we will talk about that. in 2009 she knowed a cookie baking nazi. she once told joy behar that sarah palin was a slave to right wing men. she talks about the political transformation tonight. she floated the idea that practicing catholics -- i was raised catholic -- should lose custody of the kids. 2012 she ran for president and lost to jill stein in green party primary. earlier this year after some time away from the spotlight, she made a huge come back. a few months ago she spear-headed the reboot of the hit show that bears her name. the new "roseanne" debuted with massive ratings as barr played trump supporting, politically incorrect family

matriarch. after a few episodes the show was canceled after she tweeted this about former obama adviser valerie jarrett. you can see it there -- valerie jarrett is african-american woman and was born in iran. roseanne apologized many times but the damage was done. the show was canceled within hours of the tweet. and recently she said this about the tweet, which we will ask her about and the controversy that followed. take a look. >> i'm trying to talk about valerie jarrett and the iran deal. >> you have told me this 300 times. >> that is what my tweet was about. >> i know. you explained it 300 times. >> [bleep] [bleep] >> so much a short time ago i sat down with her for her first, very first national tv interview since the show was canceled. we begin with part one. all right, joining us now, she

needs no introduction. roseanne barr with us. thank you for coming. good to see you. >> thank you for having me, sean. >> sean: all right. you sent this tweet out. >> yeah. actually i was hacked. no, i'm kidding. >> you're kidding. you haven't lost your sense of humor. you started out as a comedian. i want to talk about your background but i want to get to it. muslim brotherhood, "planet of the apes." you are talking about valerie jarrett. >> yeah. >> sean: and obviously you -- what were you thinking when you said that? i know you said people shouldn't defend you. >> i just didn't want to get into the whole game of it. that is a political tweet. and, you know, i have been on twitter for a long time. i'm always -- let's put it this way.

i walked away in 2012 when i ran for president of the socialist party. and i saw for myself that it wasn't where my values were at after all. i began to read more and expand the little tiny bit of sanction news that i used to read. instead, i started reading alternate opinions and i learned more. so i corrected myself. and now i live and i told abc this at the beginning. i will always defend israel. i'm a jew. i also have family that lives there. >> sean: in israel? >> yeah. so that is the tweet about asking for accountability from the previous administration about the iran deal. which valerie jarrett is the author of. that was what was in my head. >> sean: okay. let's go back to you do

understand -- >> now i do. >> sean: did you not understand when you tweeted it out? >> no i i was so shocked -- >> sean: what dough you understand -- what do you understand? >> i don't understand a lot to tell the truth. the first thing was shock when they said it was racial when it's political. that was a hard one to take. then everybody started saying i was a racist. which is like the worst thing that you can call a jewish person, especially one like me who grew up with holocaust survivors. at age 3, because of that fact, i took a vow to my god that i would always fight extremism, on either side, right or left. for a long time i thought i was fighting it on the right by being really left. and then i slowly woke up and saw that both extremes are not where my values are. my values are in the middle.

and i believe that we have the right to ask for accountability for where our tax money goes. when i ran for president in 2012, i ran as the representative for the black caucus of the green party. and they trusted me so much. black people chose me. i was humbled by that. i ran on an antiracist. it means that one in every hour african-american males are in prison for pot. and lesser -- i'm very informed. i'm not, you know, -- i've always been political. my comedy is political. >> do you see now -- in other words, what i'm trying to ascertain, roseanne, the reaction was universal. >> well, it seemed that way.

>> sean: in many ways it was. what do you see about it now? in other words, i know you tweeted out apologies. >> i did. >> sean: this is an opportunity to talk to people. >> i have apologized a lot. it has been two months. i feel that i have apologized and explained and asked for forgiveness and made recompense. that is part of my religion. >> sean: you said that rabbi -- >> yeah. there are four parts of being forgiven. in order to come back into your own good graces. and i was so sad that people thought it was racist. then i went into the whole thing about the whole discussion of racism and that blew my mind. because it's so much a part of what the show i was doing was about.

i'm like why cannot see my work? then i got really messed up thinking in this world it seems as if words matter more than actions. but in the real live world, actions matter more than words. and my actions over 30 years as an artist and a comedienne, i have always been against the abuse of power to all marginalized groups. but now i feel like both the left and the right have marginalized the middle. and it's just too crazy. the thing that broke my heart the most -- i have to say this -- i have african-american children in my family. >> sean: if your immediate family? >> yes. in my loving circlal and asians too, hispanic people. jews get around. let's put it like that. but i felt so bad for those kids. because i love them and i don't want them to think of me

like that. i was so sad. i'm so sad that anyone thinking that of me. but i'm not that person. i was going through a lot of very hard times. how would you like it to be sitting in a room with 25 people who think trump is the worst thing that has ever happened to the united states? how would you like it? could you do your job? >> sean: it happens to me every day. >> really? >> sean: yeah, there are a lot of people that don't like what i have to say. >> sean: in your -- >> in your circle? >> sean: i don't know if you read a lot about sean hannity. >> i do. but people that work on your show are like that? >> sean: there are plenty of people around here that disagree every word i say and hate what i stand for. absolutely. disagree adamantly with me.

i give strong opinions. some people disagree. i have no problem with people disagreeing. >> i don't either but that's what upset me so badly. because i like to hear all sides. that is how i form a story. >> sean: i have a whole list of stuff you said about republicans and catholics. >> i said it about everybody. listen, i hate everyone equally. >> sean: obviously you're kidding. >> but everybody deserves to be joked about. anybody in a position of power deserves to have a joke about them. if they can't laugh at themselves, then that means something. if you can't laugh at yourself first before you laugh at somebody else, that means something. >> sean: isn't that how you started your career? domestic goddess. >> i tell more jokes about myself than i do anybody else. to me comedy is very personal. that's what makes it funny. that's what made people like

the "roseanne" show because they saw themselves or they had an aunt or mom or sister, somebody in their family was a loud, outspoken woman who loved her family. that was what i was so excited about to come back to television. was to show that that family is also multiracial and lives next door to muslims whose ideas they don't agree with. that was what i brought to television. and what kicked everybody's butt in the ratings and they should be lucky to get near that. they can't take it that away from me no matter what happens. >> sean: i guess this is an opportunity. there are a lot of people who are not on social media. maybe haven't read your apologies. >> they're smart. >> sean: well, they are probably -- are you off twitter now forever? >> my kids took it away from me forever. >> sean: you could get another phone. i think a very -- >> i did! >> for those people, though. i'll put up some of the

apologies here that you have tweeted out. but there are still a lot of people that look at that comment and they think that you, they cannot believe that you didn't know better. >> yeah, i know. but i didn't. >> sean: i want you to address that. address those people. >> you know, i made a mistake, obviously. it cost me everything. my life's work. everything. i made a mistake. i paid the price for it. no, i did not know she was like -- a lot of americans, including a lot of people of all types, they didn't know either. >> sean: i read you said that. you had this crazy video this week. what was -- >> oh, i was so mad. while i was filming this thing, you know, my real apology which followed it. but i just, everybody was like well, you are not addressing this correctly. so i just lost it. and everybody started laughing. so i go put it up there.

it was a joke. >> sean: valerie jarrett, say she is watching now. >> she said she wouldn't watch on "the view" yesterday. >> sean: but she will hear about it. >> yeah. >> sean: i want you to address her. because she was -- maybe not just her. but maybe people in the community that are so outraged about it. i want you to address them. from your heart and tell them. >> here is what i have to say. let's talk about it. let's really turn this into a teachable moment. we need to talk about race. and everything that is connected to it. including not knowing that someone who looks like me, her skin tone is like mine, and i'm brown. i didn't know she was african-american. i assume because she was from

iran and lived in iran for such a long time, and writes about how she and barack obama hung out for a long time. and the reason they were so tight and such friends is because they don't lake the idea of american exceptionalism. they like that every country has its own culture and we should respect them and this and that. okay. that is kind of a globalist way of thinking. but i'm like i can talk to people like that. but i don't think that a state that kills gays and stones rape victims -- >> sean: iraq? >> yeah. where people don't have drinking water and they have no rights, the women have no rights. i don't think that is like america. america is not like that. america is a place where i, a loud mouth old gorgeous jewish

woman comedienne, am allowed freedom of speech. >> sean: is this the freedom of speech you wanted to use? >> well, of course, i look back and go c'mon, sean, get real. i cost me everything -- it cost me everything. no, i wish i worded it better but i won't let them tell me what i meant. that is what makes me mad. i know myself and i will speak for myself. i won't have any people who don't share my culture tell me what i meant. you know, they call me a racist on the left for a long time. ever since i said the jewish people have a right to live in their an ancestrian homeland. i don't want to be one of few. i want to be one of many. this is where we have a melting pot and we speak to

each other and we unite and we get common things. such as where did our tax money go? i mean, where did it go? and how can a president just ship pallets of cash to another country without it going to congress? >> sean: you didn't say this in the beginning. you didn't say it was about iran. >> i did, too. i'm on there every day talking about iran for ten years. >> sean: i mean this particular comment -- >> are you going to take one content out of a conversation? >> sean: i'm not arguing with you. >> i'm saying that is what they did. this was a continuing conversation about the rights of people in iran to throw off their overlords. >> sean: i guess what i'm listening to you, i said if you talk to valerie jarrett -- >> i'd say let's discuss this. don't assume you know what i meant. because i think you don't know what i meant. and i would like to make it clearer to you what i did

meant -- mean. i would like to find a way past that to really discuss the issue at hand and to try to find common ground between us. >> sean: would you want to say you are sorry to her directly? >> well, i have already. >> sean: have you talked to her? >> i haven't called her. >> sean: would you like to? >> what is the right thing to say? to call her? >> sean: yeah. >> i'm afraid she would start screaming an throw the phone down. >> sean: if i had her number and i handed the phone to you now, what is the first thing you'd say to her? >> do you? do you want to do it? >> sean: i'm asking because maybe. >> i'll call her if anybody has the number. >> sean: anybody got her number? nobody. if you did call her -- this is the important thing. you are saying you want to talk about the issues and this is a bigger picture, teachable moment. i would think the first thing you want to do, if it was me i'd want to say, i want her to hear my voice say i am so sorry. i know you have tweeted it. i know you said it. but now that you have a very different perspective on the

comments, i would assume you want to start there. >> well, i already have said i'm sorry for two months. >> sean: but i know that but i think you want to say it directly to her. >> on the phone or something you mean? yeah, well, she's not. if she is watching i'm so sorry if you thought i was racist and that you thought my tweet was racist because it wasn't. it was political. i'm sorry for the misunderstanding that caused, my ill-worded tweet. i'm sorry that you feel harmed and hurt. i never meant that. for that i i apologize. i never meant to hurt anybody or say anything negative about an entire race of people. i think 30 years of my work can attest to.

>> let me go beyond that and just talk about -- >> plus, i would tell her, she has to get a new haircut. i mean seriously, she needs a new haircut. >> sean: people say it about me all the time. i imagine you'd say that about me. >> i would. >> sean: a little bit? >> i think the part needs to go over more. toward this side. the part seems like it's in the middle too much. >> sean: let me ask this. this also impacted. i knew you tweeted out, this was the biggest -- i have the numbers. i think after they watch with the d.v.r. viewing 27 million people. >> of course i want to apologize to all of them, too, and say you know you heard my explanation, the first part of the show. i hope you will try to understand me. and accept my apologies for the part in this big

misunderstanding. >> sean: let me ask you. you also did it at 2:30 in the morning. >> yeah. >> sean: you were on ambien. >> were you drinking? >> it was memorial day. i had two. >> sean: just two? >> two. two beers. >> sean: there is a whole other -- >> a lot of other physical things going on in my life, too. now, do you want me to talk about that? >> sean: well, i have actually -- >> i actually have -- >> sean: i read a lot about you. it's actually, i didn't know all of this. you have said in the past, you said once to larry king that you suffer from multiple personality disorder. >> i don't suffer from it anymore. >> sean: you don't? >> i enjoy it. >> sean: you enjoy multiple personality disorder. >> now. >> sean: you said well you just do crazy things and you don't really know you do or don't want to do.

is that is happening in your life? >> i guess it does if you get drunk. >> sean: do you get drunk a lot? >> no. >> sean: do you have substance abuse -- >> no. i'd love to develop it. i like drinking. >> sean: you wish you could drink. you said you can't drink. >> i know. i have no tolerance. >> sean: i take three kind of antidepressants every day. >> yeah. no, two kinds now. one is a blood pressure pill. so that is three. i take an antidepressant and a blood pressure pill. then i take some more antidepressants. >> i read in "seattle times" when you were promoting your book in 1994, your father abused you sexually. >> well, that i'm not -- >> sean: your mother psychologically. you would cover yourself in ketchup, lie on the floor and play day phenomenal little roseanne cried because of allegations your parents would deny -- >> no, that's wrong. i put the ketchup on, laid on

the floor for a joke. for when my mom came in and she would think i was dead. >> sean: how old were you when you were sexually abused? >> well, now i have a whole different view of that. >> sean: you don't think you were sexually abused? >> i think i was emotionally abused. >> sean: you said your mother psychologically and your father sexually. >> everybody in my whole family is messed up. >> do you think you -- serious question. because you said in multiple interviews you had multiple personality disorder. >> yes. >> sean: do you think it plays into this -- you have had crazy moments. be honest. call it what it is. >> you shouldn't call a mental health patient crazy. >> sean: you have had -- >> that is one funny thing that tom arnold said. "never call a crazy person crazy." >> sean: that is an interesting -- >> i have mental health issues. yeah. >> sean: how are you -- >> i had. >> sean: how bad have they gotten for you with that?

>> terrible. >> sean: how bad? tell people. >> as bad as it gets. >> sean: were you ever institutionalized? >> honey, that is like going to the beach for me. >> sean: when we come back, roseanne opens up emotionally, honestly about her struggles with mental illness and more about the controversy. as we continue.

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♪ >> sean: more of my exclusive interview with roseanne barr. do you think there are other people inside you with multiple personalities that speak and you don't recognize them? >> not anymore. i'm fully integrated. i was fully integrated at stanford university about 12 years ago. >> sean: was it a medicine

that transformed your life? >> no, it's therapy. like 20 years of it. >> sean: you have had a lot of controversy. >> i have done the work, though. i just have to pat myself on the back there. i wanted to get better. this all happened to me when i was pregnant with my son. he is 23. he is graduating college. very proud. but when i was pregnant with him, first i got -- first, they implanted six eggs and four of them took. i was like oh, my god! i was at planet hollywood. i told bruce willis, oh my god, i'm having quadruplets. beat that for a headline. then i started to lose them and they put me in this thing where i absorbed them. my body absorbed and there was only one egg left there. it was kind of hanging, didn't know whether to come or go. so they did me on this biofeedback deal where i would say i want you to stay in this

machine. >> sean: did it work? >> yeah, it worked. but the deep spiritual thing of that, it started to heal all the parts of me that were crazy and out of control. because i learned to focus. i learned to meditate and that helped me a lot. with therapy. and medication. >> sean: and medication. and you said you really embraced -- >> i had a great shrink. i have always been very religious since i was a little girl. did i say this, that i grew up in an apartment building full of holocaust survivors? every friday they would come to my grandma's apartment. my grandparents owned an apartment building an they brought 50 or so survivors from the camp. that is where i grew up. and every friday -- >> sean: you have family in auschwitz? >> they all had tattoos. they would say terrible things to me. i was only 3.

and they would tell me the things. i mean, it wasn't -- it was too much for my mind to handle. and then they would make me watch the eichman trial, too. i was only 3. they said she needs to know it was little girls like this -- >> sean: on tv? the eichman trial? >> hmm-mm. that split me emotionally deeply. it was a horror to me. and it still is a horror to me. >> sean: a lot of evil in the world. >> yeah. but there is so much love. that's what i was going to tell you but you are going through all this trash. go ahead. i'm going to tell you -- no, i love you, sean. you have been a good friend to me. >> sean: i want you to tell your story. >> i'm going to tell me my story. when i go outside now, i was so scared to go outside. everyone thinks i'm on a racist. i live on island that is all brown people. oh, hell.

my daughter says every day people come in and they are like we know who your mom is and all these things like that. i go out on the street. and people just rush up to me. and tell me they love me. and they don't think what happened was balanced to the other people that do worse things. and say really mean things. that aren't political. but are just mean. i will tell you. it blew my mind. i have never felt this kind of love from people. it has been overwhelming. i just thank them. i tell them, you know if it wasn't for my parents i wouldn't walking around. it's devastating. to be misunderstand is the worst thing. i want to sing the song. ♪ oh, board, don't let me be

misunderstood ♪ i have a band. >> sean: i saw you sing the national anthem. >> shut up. that is not good. did you see the followup? i bet you didn't, because you're in the news. i did a follow-up. >> sean: beat the host up. >> i did a followup, sean. >> sean: you grabbed your crouch and spit. >> well, that is what the stupid pitcher told me to do. and they are all deserted like rats off a ship. i was trying to make him laugh. he said that would be so funny. i said okay, i'll do it. so i did it. i wasn't funny. i learned a lesson. never take comedy advice from a pitcher. [laughter] >> sean: you really, it's important to you and i remember -- >> i want people to like me. i don't want to hate me. i like them. >> sean: you wanted people, this is what you said to me. you said this is not me. this is what you said. the exact words. >> it's not me. >> sean: but then you said

to me, you said, "i want people to know who i really am." that is what you said. >> i know. >> sean: so here is a -- there will be a lot of people watching because you're here tonight. tell those people who you are. >> well, i'm a creative genius. and this is not a good feeling for an artist to be treated this way. and it's not a good feeling for a citizen, either. here who i am. i'm somebody who cares about civil rights. i reject what you call me. you call me a racist, i don't accept it. i know who i am. and i'm not a racist. and the people two voted for trump are not racist either. and trump isn't a racist. sorry. but, you know, we just have a different opinion. we all want the same thing, though. we want people in the ener cities that are living in -- inner cities that are living in feces. my son goes to school in san francisco. i go up there. i don't just blab and run my mouth. i live my beliefs.

i want people to know that. i live my beliefs. i try. and of course i fail. but i try. i get back up and try again. >> sean: i don't want to interrupt you every second but i want you the speak in your own words. but listen, p.c. is sickening. >> it is. it's not american. i started -- >> sean: you said i live around brown people. like for example, would you not say, why not say african-american people? >> i live around african-american people, too. i live in a real neighborhood. i don't live behind gates with bodyguards. i live in a real neighborhood of working people. i chose to do that. >> sean: you know, i was going to ask about the other controversies. >> go for it. >> sean: but you know what? >> i have made a lot of mistakes. i live my life out loud. you know, i do it. when things are going too far right, i'm going to go a little left. when it's going too far left i

will go a little right. like balance in the middle. like middle america. i like the middle way. i like the middle class. i like the middle opinion that sounds too extreme. i think most people in america think like that. >> sean: it's funny. a lot of people misunderstand what motivates me. and what motivates me and in this 2016 presidential election for me was about what we call the forgotten man. >> absolutely. >> sean: a lot of people don't know, and i have said, some people, people that watch the show regularly know i was a paper boy at 8. diswasher at 12. cook. s but boy, waiter, bartender. i painted houses. i hung wallpaper. laid tile. framed. fell off a roof three stories doing roofing. decade of my life. i never thought i'd be in this position. i'm very thankful for it. every day. but those people we had at the end of eight years of obama 13 million for americans on food stamps and 8 million more in

poverty. he doubled the national debt and accumulated more debt than any other president before him combined. it's not politics. because republicans are weak. they are feckless weak and spineless. >> i don't know -- >> a lot of them. >> a lot of them are because there is only one party. c'mon. they all golf together. they are not on the other side. pocketing public money. they are all taking the money. >> it's a swamp. that is the people's money. >> sean: roseanne talks about donald trump and so much more as we continue. ♪ ♪ ♪

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the beginning i'm never going to stop defending israel and jewish people. that's me. i was raised that way. that is how i learned. it's very important to me. it's central to my life. so they said okay. so anyway, this whole thing and they said what possible excuse do you have for this unforgivable and egregious tweet? i thought i -- what do you mean exactly? >> sean: you didn't know? >> no. you could have knocked me over with a feather when they said she was african-american. my boyfriend saw it. i was like what? i thought she was middle eastern. >> sean: is it wrong to say -- any comparison to -- >> compared to what? they have lied about my tweet from day one. they said she looks like -- i

never used to word "looks like." >> sean: you don't use politically correct terms. >> no. i'm not going to, either. it's sickening. >> sean: what do you want -- now that abc got rid of it and america will hear you tonight. what is the future of roseanne barr? what do you want to have happen? for example, abc is now kick-starting basically the "demarroseanne" show -- >> i walked away from the show even though i had a contract to protect me if i got if trouble with tweets. >> sean: you had it in the contract and they didn't pay you? >> we can't talk about that. but i was allowed in my contract to have 24 hours to correct any mistake. i asked them to let me go on "the view" and the other shows and explain and correct that i didn't say what they were putting out there. they said no, you can't until

the contract is ready. that took weeks. but anyway, i walked away. that you felt bad about your staff. i did see that. >> i didn't want to cause anybody to lose their jobs. i'm for working people. that one really stuck. i'm like i am not, i could fight this. because they didn't get me the notice or the chance to correct. so i'm like no, it will be part of the repentance, i'll just walk away. >> sean: i want to ask about that. you signed off on the reboot without you. what is it called? "the connors." >> i think. >> sean: did you have to sign off on that to allow the people to work? >> yes. >> sean: you did? >> yes. >> sean: you were glad to do it? >> i thought it was part of what was put before me to do. i think god gives -- i always -- what god puts before me i do. i don't anymore try to argue or win. i just do what is in front of me. >> sean: part of this to you is you said you want to make amends toward i think it's

recompense. >> yes. >> sean: that is part of your faith. so recompense to you over -- >> money is the action you take in the physical world to make it better. >> sean: explain that. recompense in this case is what? >> well, i can't say that because it's secret. you are not supposed to tell people what you do. >> sean: just give us a hint. >> well, i gave -- >> sean: i think people should know. >> well, i told smooley. -- schmooley. i gave to several things. to african-american things. i do anyway but i gave more. colleges. >> sean: help people? >> yeah. i've helped a lot of people go to college. they can't get a job and they're in debt so they are not really grateful for me to do that.

i also have, you know, i wanted to go to the poorest place in america and see how i could help there. because the poorest place in america, the poorest place in the richest country on earth, put it that way. i have four -- for years tried to help family there. it's pine ridge and rosebud indian reservation. i just expand my family. and when i love people, i take them in and i include them in my circle. because family is not just about blood. it's about soul, you know? >> sean: i still don't understand. did you adopt african-american children in your family? you said in your family -- >> no, i do. i have a dear friend whose son is my godson and they are

african-american. man, it was hard. you know? he called me right away. >> sean: what did he say? >> he said, "i love you no matter what you do." i was like man, i need to be understood here. because i never -- i mean, i just have to say this. if you think, if people think -- i will say it to them. if you really think at the height of my power and my fame, i would go black people look like -- i mean it's just, i wouldn't -- i mean, i'm not stupid. that is what they keep selling. after they misquoted the tweet for weeks, now they don't even include it and they just go roseanne's racist tweet. they just keep shoving it done everybody's throat. i love all people. let's say that. i love everybody. i include everybody in my circle.

i put my money where my mouth is because i'm not a racist. i decided that this was going to move me to do my own interviews on my own youtube channel. and on there, i'm doing serious subjects. and talking to interesting people, who i don't 100% agree with but we find common ground. i think that is what america needs and what i'm trying to the on my show. >> sean: a lot more with roseanne barr straight ahead as we continue.

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>> sean: as we continue, more with roseanne barr. you like to get back in tv, sitcom, would you -- >> only if there is nudity. >> sean: and you are going to be the nude person on the show? >> yeah, but so far they refuse. >> sean: so far they refuse. i don't know if you get it on a network show, anyway.

on youtube you can do whatever you want. >> i just like to talk to people and discuss, what do y'all think of this what can -- y'all think of this? what can we do? >> sean: you obviously care because you ran for president twice. you care about the issues. but your right, your politics changed dramatically. >> yeah. >> because i read more. >> sean: what changed you? what books, what shifted your political views? >> well, my experience in the green party and in socialist parties, i just felt very marginalized there. and that i didn't belong because they don't like israel. i was like what? this is the worst place on earth. i've been there. have you been there? >> many times. >> it's wonderful place. >> sean: i'm a big supporter of israel on television. >> you are. but it's a wonderful place with problems like every place else. i put a lot of thinking in

solutions. i used to say i do a lot of drinking -- i mean thinking. i have a solution for it. it is, i have always been saying this for like 20 years. i think if grandmothers, arab grandmothers, >> wish -- jewish grandmothers, everyone living over there, grandma if we could get together and write up a grandma's treaty and present it to power it would be the fastest way to solve problems. there is no child on this earth that should go to sleep in fear an danger. >> sean: and hungry. >> we have enough money. we have enough to fix everything. except love. >> sean: there is a lot of evil in the world. you rejected that earlier. >> i wrote a whole book about that, evil. i'll send it to you. >> sean: "deliver us from evil." >> mine was -- you know how people always say "get rid of your hate. get rid of your hate." but you are supposed to hate

evil. >> sean: i have idea and i'll throw it out at you as i listen to you. i think you obviously are very sincere to say i want to have a conversation. i think the country has never been this wide wide divided. >> it's stupid. we have to get our money back from both sides. we're wasting it. >> sean: you should go roseanne and friends show and do your standup. >> i want to do that. >> sean: invite a guest and have a real conversation. i think it would sell out in theaters around the country and it would be good and invite valerie jarrett to go with you. >> i would do that because we could turn this in to a really great teachable moment where there is synthesis, because that is why you have a conversation so you can synthesize your ideas an come one a solution. i'm tired of no solutions, sean. that is why i like trump because i think he is a solution. >> sean: we have a lot of the country -- the country has

gotten dramatically better. i think if we cured cancer and gave every american $30 million they'd still hate him. >> but i think they are coming around. his stuff is going up. his approval. >> sean: you seem to have had a lot of -- i didn't ask about tom arnold. do you still love him? >> what? >> sean: apparently not. >> did he call you? >> no. that is 25 years ago. >> sean: i know. >> that was two husbands ago, sean. >> sean: sorry. how many total? i'm not keeping up. >> i'm on my fourth one. this is my longest one. 16 years. i don't know why he still likes me because he does. >> sean: in all my years on television, there are controversies. samantha bee still has her show. bill maher was fired and i

said i'm not in favor of boycotts. people make mistakes and -- i think the american people are fair. >> i do, too. >> sean: the american people are good. forget the media. forget the people that write stuff. >> i think that is why they turn to my show, 28 million, because they wanted to see something balanced for once. every other show it's like 24/7, hate, nontrump. i call it "hatriotism." that is not going to help nothing. people want to hear the balance. they want to hear the truth. anything that isn't based on facts and data and is pure emotion, that ain't right. >> sean: so you are going to do standup? add to your standup the serious part of it. >> i like that idea. >> sean: do your standup and sit down and have a conversation with somebody maybe you disagree with. >> sean, i got to tell you one thing before you kick me out of here. >> it open not kicking you out of here. stay as long as you want. >> i appreciate you being a good friend for me when i was hiding my mom's basement and

found cigarette butts from when i was 13 and i was smoking. they were good smoking. >> sean: you smoked them again? i remember they were 50 cents a pack. >> they are 27. >> you're much older than me. >> i thank you for the friendship. you helped me through it a lot. so did other people out there. i just thank you so much for walking with me when i was like in a real down place. thank you. >> sean: more after this. does it look like i'm done? shouldn't you be at work? [ mockingly ] "shouldn't you be at work?" todd. hold on. [ engine revs ] arcade game: fist pump! your real bike's all fixed. man, you guys are good! well, we are the number-one motorcycle insurer in the country. -wait. you have a real motorcycle? and real insurance, with 24-hour customer support. arcade game: wipeout! oh! well... i retire as champion. game hog! champion.

>> sean: unfortunately, that is all the time we have left. as always, thank you for being with us. we will be fair and balanced with not the destroy trump media. it set your d.v.r. we hope you never miss an episode and we hope you have a great night.

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