all ma lawians -- ma lawians have decided. i have been working with people at grassroots all my adult life, before i became president. and in that period, i gained the respect and trust of ma lawians. >> they know you. >> i always say it's a love affair. you must fall in love with the people and the people must fall in love with you. by the time i game president, i had acheered all this. i had a whole nation behind me. so when i said, let's go through this difficult patch together, we need to clean up the economy, we need to correct the situation, but it's going to be hard. they listened. >> they listened because they knew -- >> they knew -- they have to trust you. >> right. you alluded to the fact that other african nations, and not just african nations, these kinds of problems will often result in corruption. that's one possible result or ethnic tribal religious warfare, ma lawns on -- ma law wans -- ma lawians on ma lawians. >> as i was growing up, the line was very clear. you either was it's the pa troy moanial system of m

it turns out that the ma lawians didn't realize i would make a better leader, give me an opportunityo take over. although 448 hours, they had tried to take over by force. >> so as i understand the story, madam point, president proceeded you passed away. and you would think that cons storm surgely, the vice president would become the president but the cabinet, loyal to the old president, tried to cut you out. >> uh-huh. >> is that right? >> yeah, exactly. so for 48 hours i wasn't very sure that i was going to become president. san -- angolea was in the country. they thought i was out of town but i was very much at home. >> and you actually appealed to the military to help protect you and to make certain that -- is that right? >> yeah, because my husband who is a lawyer told me that the law was on my side but that finally, when this -- when it's not very clear, that it's going to be smooth, then -- to take over and bring sanity. and so that's what -- exactly when i called upon him. and called upon him to observe the constitution and i didn't have to struggle because it was very clear h