We're mere weeks away from election day and the 2016 campaign is struggling more than ever to pretend that the two leading candidates are equally matched. While Trump's interviewers may feel better to comfortably side-step his personality, Trevor Noah sat down with former president Bill Clinton to speak about his wife's work (asking only briefly at the beginning about her health) and the growing ugliness of the campaign.
"We're silo-ed in the TV shows we watch, the websites we scan, everything," said Clinton, who also spoke about his work with the Clinton Foundation and its upcoming Global Initiative. The former President insisted that America has come a long way in fighting racism, sexism and homophobia, but that the central clash in political discourse is that "we don't be around anybody that disagrees with us."
In the second half of the two-part interview, Noah asks the diplomatic Clinton quiet frankly: "Do you get afraid sometimes when you see the hateful rhetoric?"
Clinton's expression seems to darken as he responds, "Sure." But he ends, as ever, optimistic about the decisions of the American people.
