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The Rachel Maddow Show

MS NOW Exclusive | Hope Comes Home: Inside the Obama Presidential Center - Part 2

The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow, MS NOW

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4.435.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MS NOW's Michele Norris interviews former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama about their time in the White House and opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

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0:00.0

Thank you so much.

0:01.0

My fellow is the United States.

0:02.5

We are all created each.

0:04.4

Welcome back to Hope Comes Home, inside the Obama Presidential Center.

0:08.7

I'm Michelle Norris.

0:10.2

This hour, we will take you further into the brand new Obama Presidential Center.

0:14.4

We'll hear more from President Obama, and we will hear from First Lady Michelle Obama.

0:19.8

We sat down for an interview right here on the south side of Chicago where she grew up

0:23.8

and where the Obamas are bringing their legacy home.

0:28.9

Chicago is a city that gets up in the morning and goes hard all day.

0:33.8

Ambition, creativity, community.

0:41.3

The hope that all that hard work pays off. Oprah Winfrey was born in Mississippi, but she became a media titan in Chicago.

0:46.3

Everybody gets a cold!

0:49.3

Same for Muddy Waters, who then helped Buddy Guy.

0:53.3

When Ferris Bueller played hooky, he went to

0:56.0

downtown Chicago. The question isn't what are we going to do. The question is, what aren't we going to do?

1:01.7

Film, architecture, science, music. Oh, so much music. We wish you love for peace. I...

1:11.6

Soul Train got its start here.

1:14.2

This is a city that gifted the world with Nat King Cole, Sam Cook, Lou Rawls, and Ramsey Lewis.

1:21.7

Let's not forget, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Corrigan, Eddie Vedder, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones,

1:28.5

ain't nobody, nobody, nothing bad, just the best.

1:32.7

Chaka and Mavis, Kanye and Chance the rapper.

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