and where has that gotten us? so i do believe that this population should speak french and it should speak creole. it should also learn english. i left haiti when i was 9 years old. i came to these united states of america. i m proud that i learned english. and i m proud when i go back to my country, when i m communicating with these people in the back, wolf [ speaking in foreign language ] that sounds like good creole to me. now, what did you want me to say creole, wyclef, and i ll say it. i know you re on the phone. i promised our viewers i would speak in creole. speak softly, slowly and i ll do the best i can. okay. [ speaking foreign language ] you re my man. we love you in haiti and we want to see you soon. you see the crowd in the back of me? [ speaking in foreign language ] that s a lot of happy people in haiti.
you ve been thinking about this for a long time, running for president of haiti. this is not a decision you just recently made. wolf, to be honest with you, the idea of being part of our country was always in my mind. but after january 12th, the day after coming and being out here with my wife and picking up dead bodies from the ground, i felt that because of the youth of haiti and the population, that this is not even wyclef saying that i want to be the president of haiti. i feel like i m being drafted by the population right now to give them a different face, a different voice. and, wolf, i want to tell you. despite what you re hearing with the tent cities, there s a crowd behind me right now with so much excitement because they feel hope is on its way. how would you describe your political ideology, wyclef? well, basically my political
the people of haiti right now. they re going to get a sense a little bit of what you re all about, why you want to be president of haiti. we ll continue this conversation, wyclef, right after this. they go through every car and truck we make with a big fat red pencil. because they know a family s going to be inside. a teenager. a guy on the way to the job. the engineers of chevrolet. just another reason why we can offer a 5-year 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. and another reason why a chevy s a chevy. i m going to work with kids. i want to run a marathon. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you re never done growing. i want to take him on his first flight. [ female announcer ] discover the best of what s next at aarp.org. host: could switching to geicor the best of what s next realis a bird in the handre on worth 2 in the bush?
has had residency for the five consecutive years necessary, but that s a question of law. we are talking on cnn which has primarily an audience outside of haiti. and so i think what s really important is that the last thing in the world haiti needs, and i m not accusing wyclef jean of being an opportunist. i don t know the man. but i think it s extremely important that we pay attention to both the individuals in the united states who are enamored with him, maybe not for his political strengths, and in particular for corporate interests that are enamored with him, and those that may themselves be opportunists on the back of the haitian people, but right now i worry that this
well, i stepped down from the foundation. i ve been running it for the past five years. i started a grass roots organization. but it was important that the next step that i wanted to take had to go beyond being an ngo. and i felt to take my country to the next level, i needed to create aid that helped the people aid themselves and bring back investment. and this is why i stepped down as the chairman. looks like we just got that satellite transmission frozen again. we ll fix that and get back to wyclef in just a moment. in the meantime let s bring back sanjay gupta who is with us. our chief medical correspondent. sanjay, we re listening to a 40-year-old musician who is obviously deeply committed to his homeland, the people of haiti. he wants to go back there, he wants to be president, even though he doesn t have the political experience. and we ll go through some of the tough questions that have been raised already. but i think to put it bluntly, he doesn t need to do this. he s a r