MS NOW Exclusive | Hope Comes Home: Inside the Obama Presidential Center - Part 1

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🗓️ 20 June 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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MS NOW's Michele Norris interviews former President Barack Obama about his time in office and the opening of his new presidential center in Chicago.

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0:00.0	Hello, Chicago.
0:02.0	It's good to be home.
0:05.0	The president like no other
0:09.0	is back where it all began,
0:13.0	opening a new chapter.
0:15.0	On the south side of Chicago,
0:18.0	his legacy and his dream on display. Generosity towards each other.
0:24.3	Everybody counts and everybody matters. Her legacy and dream as well. It was important for me
0:30.8	that kids like me could be right in their neighborhood and see world-class art. Tonight, we hear from
0:37.3	the former president and first lady and give you a tour of the museum
0:42.5	and the sparkling new campus.
0:45.5	Welcome to Hope Comes Home, Inside the Obama Presidential Center.
0:50.4	Good evening. I'm Michelle Norris.
0:52.4	Welcome to Hope Comes Home inside the Obama Presidential Center.
0:57.0	The campus is now open to the public. It opened on June 10th. And almost everything about this center is meant to be different from any other presidential library or monument that's come before it.
1:08.0	The Obama's wanted this place to be an inspiration, a resource,
1:12.5	an incubator for leadership. They don't just want you to look back at what he did during his
1:17.8	eight years in office. They want you to feel some sense of responsibility for what needs to
1:22.8	happen next. Maybe a way to think about the presidential center and what, least we tried to create is some touchstones, some, some markers, some tools for people to just be reminded of, oh, yeah, this is what our democracy is.
1:43.8	This is who we are. We don't have to distrust each other.
1:49.8	We don't have to hate each other. We don't have to scapegoat each other. We could actually
1:55.2	try to find common ground and work together to do some good.
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