It's always tough to do something for the first time, to pull people in.

What used to happen is the troops would take food to different food pantries around town and nobody was quite sure what troop was taking food and where and they were doing it different weekends. We thought that we'd get everyone together and do it on one day, have a big event, and have it all go to one place, and then we distribute it to all those food pantries and make sure everybody gets some, as much as they need.

Everybody wants their space. She spent almost 40 per cent of her time going in and out of people.

I don't know why they said people could come back and open their businesses,

I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

You can start from the ordinary bizzare to the extraordinary incredible