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DINER WITH FIRST IN THE NATION VOTERS. WMUR POLITICAL DIRECTOR ADAM SEXTON GIVES US A LOOK ADAM: BERNIE SANDERS IS NOT A CANDIDATE WHO LIKES TO TALK A LOT ABOUT HIMSELF. BUT AT THE AIRPORT DINER, THESE GRANITE STATE VOTERS DID MANAGE TO DRAW OUT A MORE PERSONAL SIDE OF THE VERMONT SENATOR. >> WE HAVE SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN THREE OF THEM LIVING, BY THE WAY, HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, FOUR IN BURLINGTON. AND JUST THE OTHER NIGHT THREE OF THEM SLEPT OVER AT THE HOUS AND I THINK MY WIFE WOULD DO THAT EVERY NIGHT IF SHE COUL SO THEY ARE THE JOYS OF OUR LIVES, THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL KIDS ADAM: SANDERS SHARED RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS TIME AS A YOUNG MAN LIVING ON A KIBBUT AN AGRICULTURAL COLLECTIVE, IN ISRAEL >> THEY ESTABLISHED PLACES WHERE EVERYTHING WAS COMMONLY OWNED. THAT’S WHAT I EXPERIENCED. WHERE WOMEN, WAY BACK WHEN, HAD RIGHTS THAT WERE 60 YEARS AHEAD OF WHERE WE WERE IN THE UNITED STATES. ADAM IT WAS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR SANDERS, AS WAS WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS AN ILL-ADVISED DECISION TO RECORD AN ALBUM OF FOLK SONGS BACK IN THE 1980’S. >> I HAVE A UNIQUE DISTINCTION. IT’S NOT THE SECOND WORST. THIS IS THE WORST TAPE EVER DONE. AND IT’S SELLING, TO MY EMBARRASSMENT. THEY STILL SELL IT. EVERY NOW AND THEN SOMEONE WIL SHOW ME THE TAPE AND I’VE GOT TO SIGN IT. BUT IT IS EMBARRASSINGLY BAD. THE MUSICIANS WERE GOOD BUT I WAS NOT. ADAM WHILE SANDERS ENCOURAGED THESE VOTERS NOT TO TURN AWAY FROM CIVIL DISCOURSE A POLITICAL DEBATE, HE DID REFUSE TO WEIGH IN ON ONE AGE-OLD NEW ENGLAND CONTROVERSY. >> VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP OR -- >> THERE IS NO OR IN THAT SENTENCE. [LAUGHTER]

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders showed a more personal side to voters Monday as part of WMUR's "Candidate Café" series.>> Download the FREE WMUR appThe Vermont senator and winner of the 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary sat down for lunch at a diner with Granite State voters."We have seven grandchildren, three of them living, by the way, here in New Hampshire, four in Burlington," Sanders said. "And just the other night, three of them slept over at the house, and I think my wife would do that every night if she could. So, they are the joys of our life. They are beautiful kids."Sanders shared recollections of his time as a young man living on a kibbutz, an agricultural collective in Israel."They established places where everything was commonly owned. That's what I experienced," he said. "Where women, way back when, had rights that were 60 years ahead of where we were in the United States."Sanders said living on the kibbutz was a learning experience for him, as was what he describes as an ill-advised decision to record an album of folk songs in the 1980s."I have a unique distinction," Sanders said. "It's not the second worst. This is the worst tape ever done. And it's selling, to my embarrassment. They still sell it. Every now and then, someone will show me the tape, and I've got to sign it. But it is embarrassingly bad. The musicians were good, but I was not."Sanders encouraged the voters not to turn away from civil discourse and political debate, but he refused to weigh in on one age-old New England controversy: Vermont vs. New Hampshire syrup."There is no war!" Sanders said. "Let's end that sentence. There is no war."