tweeting that the inner workings of the mueller probe are a mess. this is the first time he has ever referred to the inner workings of the mueller investigation. so how on earth does hell know about the inner working in by the way, matt whittaker is now acting attorney joan and can probably read owl of mueller's files. so if this is happening, this is obstruction of justice to the n-degree' why eightsome favor january cannot come soon enough for the house democrats to take over and start issuing subpoenas and get to the bottom of this. [applause] >> that is all they time we have. thank you so much for an enlightening discussion. [applause]

>> this week personal michelle's own bone's auto biography was released, called "becoming pile and she is speak doing sold out arenas across the country on her book tour. she kicked off tuesday in chicago at the united center. here's a portion of the program. >> she made us always feel like the white house was really our house, the people's house. she is your hometown girl from the south side of chicago, welcome michelle obama! [cheers and applause]

[cheers and applause] >> okay, everybody. >> wow. >> united center. have a seat. >> we're home. >> we're home. >> yeah, feels good. >> i have to say, every time i fly into the city, because the city was a city of so many blessings to me, i get a little lump, a little flip-flop. until when you're anything in now, coming home, after all this place has been to you, what does that feel like? >> well, first i try to trace every inch when we're flying in, i try point out all the neighborhood. this midway, i see my high school, i think that's mom's house. oh, i still call it the sears tower. [cheers and applause] >> i don't know what the name is

now. i try to trace the outline of my city and find all the neighborhoods. that's what i'm doing. do that every time. i'm like, there's the lake and do i see -- the planetarium and there's my school. i can see everything. so, yeah, i'm tracing my life over that city, and it always feels good. it really does. >> okay, i was coming in tonight, because i haven't been here sin the oprah show ended and i was at the other. >> oprah came in from the cold. she's like -- >> but coming in and all the banners around the stadium for "becoming," people lined up to come in, i mean issue was thinking but your parents, your father in particular, no one could have ever imagined from 77436 -- >> not in a million years, no.

>> host: that it would be happening. >> yeah. of course i missed that because i still come in the back way through the freight elevator. by the garbage. >> you got to see it. you have to -- >> that has been my life for the last decade. >> have to see it on the way out. >> i'll try. ask my -- can we go out the front door? just so i can see my sign? they're like, ma'am, i'm sorry. get in the car. i have to say that from the first page of this book, until the last, you did it. you brought it. you opened yourself up. youthful allowed us to see in, and let us experience the fullness of you in a way that i don't think anybody has ever done before, particularly who has been in the white house. and it's why i chose it as pre's book club selection. >> thank you by the way.

>> well. you didn't need it but, okay. everybody is going to buy the book anyway so i understand. thank you. this is a truth, though. anytime you're looking at life from the outside in, it always looks like life is better over there, out there, up there, and you and your father used to do with the family what my father used to do in a dues and a quarter, drive around --er. >> the aspirational ride. >> particularly on sunday,. >> host: looking at other rich people's houses. >> uh-huh. >> host: white people. >> uh-huh. >> and the truth is, it doesn't get any bigger than the white house. but what you allowed us to see is that it isn't always as it seems and that the white house is really a paradox. i'd like for you paint the picture of life inside. >> the white house? >> yes.

>> wow. describe it as like living in the fanciest hotel and you have your elevator that takes you up to your room and there's a lobby where all the action is going on, and that's the central floor. what you see on tv about the white house, the state floor, that's not the private residence. that's where all the official stuff goes on, the red room and blue room and green room and all the rooms, the east room, that's the ceremonial floor. but then up the next floor the are two more floors that are the residence, and those floors are private. to the families who live there. and once you get in that elevator and you come up to that floor and those elevators open and there's usually an older black gentleman in a tuxedo, who is -- works at the white house for decades, often through many -- >> standing there with a drink

of refreshment? >> no. no. just with a love live smile. -- lovely smile. although you could have them do that. too. i never thought of that until now. >> at any time of the day and night could you say i'd like some refreshment? >> you can but then you realize, i write about this -- that you pay for it. so, they tell you, you can order anything and they listen very carefully because everybody listens to every word that the president says and i used to tell barack, don't say you want something because then we'll have, like, thousands of it. and then we're paying for it. so -- >> i know. it was other shock -- >> if he said he liked some rare fish, he just happened to say this is delicious, and then we get the bill at the end of in month and it's like you flew nat fish in from china? and it's like, that fish wasn't that good. >> listen, everybody -- >> don't say you like that fish.

>> everybody is just getting the book today. so i can see the surprise on people's faces when you hear her say they had to pay for it. >> people think, you know -- thin is also sort of an interesting thing when people would say, the take pairs -- taxpayers pay for that. the truth is, yes you don't pay for rent or staff, but everything -- every dish, every -- they would count the number of peanuts you eat and charge it back. >> no. >> so you get a bill at the he -- it's not a -- we police in the white house, y'all. this is not a complaint. it's just something that people don't understand. >> but you pay for your -- >> pay for tower toy'lllet paper and the guests' foam. so all y'all came and visited. when you were thinking i'm just going to take something, put it in the purse, it's like, we got the bill. but all the official event are paid for.

there's a budget for that but all of our private meals, entertaining, whether we had family over for thanksgiving, those things were paid for. but that's a minor part of the experience. but the house is beautiful. it is staffed. and there are people there constantly. there's chefs and butlers, and the butlers, when we are fir came in wore full formal tux seed doze at all tames -- tuxedos. black men serving people in full tuxedo. >> who have been there for presidents over years. >> president after staff. we love the staff. the whole staff is amazing. and one of the first things we did because we were trying to figure out how do you make this normal for children? because malia some sasha were. >> seven and 10. >> thank you for that. i won't hear the end of that. she's like, mom didn't even know how old we were. they were young. and we were figuring out how to

keep them grounded. the first thing he thought is they cannot -- when we're having pancakes in the morning, it's just crazy to have a man with a tuxedo come in. when you got some little girls as sleepover and you bring in some water, so we cancelled the tuxedos. it's like issue take those off. wear some polo shirts and slacks. unless we did something formal, we just sort of loosened it up but other than that the white house feels like a home. say they a house is a house. and what we -- what you bring to the home is what makes it a home, and how we live in that home was what i remember most. and people ask, die miss the white house? it's like, no, i don't miss the house because we took what was important in that house with us, and it is with us. it's family, it's values, it's the friendships. so, the house is beautiful, and

it is historic and an honor to live there but the people in it make it what it is. >> that was portion of michelle obama talking about her new auto biography, becoming in chicago. more extensive coverage on booktv on her book tour in the weeks to come. now, back to miami and the 35th annual miami book fair. coming up next is msnbc steve core naki. his book is call the red and blue, the 1990s and the birth of political tribalism, and this is live coverage on booktv on c-span2.

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