. >> didn't the recovery, uneach as it was, plant the seeds for the election of donald trump?ctions. >> you do get emotional at times. >> i do. all in all, this is a pretty shameful day for washington. >> my biggest disappointment as president. >> i think any of us african-americans in prominent roles feel this struggle am i being black enough, am i too black. do you know what i'm talking about? >> i know. >> my staff can tell you i can curse like a sailor behind closed doors sometimes. >> sounds like you'd like a do-over. >> well, no. first of all, my wife would leave me. ♪ ♪ >>> i'm the son of a black man from kenya and a white woman from kansas, and so as long as i live i will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible. ♪ ♪ >> when the historybooks are written in the first sentence it will say the first african-american president. >> yeah. >> there are so many expectations, as it turned out to what that meant. did you wrestle with that? how would you articulate the expectations that were thrust upon you? >> i think that it's hard to generalize.