Ep. 288 — Barack Obama (Live)

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Former President of the United States Barack Obama sits down with David in Hyde Park for a special live taping of the Axe Files. Their conversation touches on the Obamas' life in the Hyde Park community, the sacrifices his family made for his political career, his biggest regret from his time in the presidency, the politics of race in America, increasing political polarization, and much more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:14.5	When I first met Barack Obama, it just finished law school at Harvard, and he returned to
0:21.3	Chicago and settled in Hyde Park in the University of Chicago community.
0:25.8	So ten years after he was elected president of the United States, we welcomed him home
0:30.4	to Hyde Park for this special live edition of the Axviles.
0:37.0	Mr. President, welcome home.
0:50.2	It is good to be back.
0:51.2	How's it going, everybody?
0:54.3	Welcome back to the neighborhood.
0:57.4	What's your fondest memory of your two decades in Hyde Park?
1:03.2	Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been this building.
1:06.7	No, I know.
1:07.7	It's very nice since we live.
1:09.2	Things have spruced up.
1:13.3	Well, look, my fondest memory of Hyde Park is Malian Sasha being born, for example.
1:20.8	I mean, big things happened around here for me.
1:25.8	But one of the things that I always talk about is coming to Chicago for the very first
1:34.4	time, because I had been living in New York, and I had decided I wanted to be a community
1:42.4	organizer.
1:43.4	I didn't know what that meant, but I thought it's somehow involved doing good.
1:48.5	And this group on the South Side of Chicago agreed to hire me, sort of, a sight unseen.
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