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Conceded that governing is harder than he thought >> i can't just press a button and suddenly have the bankers do exactly what i want. [ laughter ] or turn on a switch and suddenly congress falls in line. >> reporter: despite all of the attention paid to the first 100 days, the defining moments of most presidencies come far later. >> i can hear you -- >> reporter: for president bush, the terror attacks of september 11th and the iraq war still months away. >> i know we always don't agree, but we're beginning to get a spirit here in washington where we're more agreeable. we're setting a differen...

Time news conference in 2009 when the president and white house correspondents looked younger, mr. obama conceded that governing is harder than he thought. >> i can't just press a button and suddenly have the bankers do exactly what i want or turn on a switch and suddenly congress falls in line. >> reporter: despite all the attention paid to the first 100 days, the defining moments of most presidencies come far later. for president trump, the terror attacks of september 11 in the iraq war still months away. >> i know we don't always agree, but we're beginning to get a spirit here in washington...

Days, the defining moments of most presidencies come far later. >> i can hear you! >> reporter: for president bush the terror attacks of september 11th and the iraq war still months away. >> oh, i know we always don't agree, but we're beginning to get a spirit here in washington where we're more agreeable, where we're setting a different tone. >> reporter: president clinton may have been frustrated by grid lock. >> i learned that things are not going to change as fast as i wanted them to. >> reporter: but still intent on changing washington. >> it may be that we can only do one thing at a time...

>> the country is very divided. the world watches the united states on this day. as jake notes, you have all these traditions and a candidate about to be president who doesn't like candidates, who doesn't like a script. the american experiment is 240 years old. we're saying farewell to our first african-american president, a man who disrupted his own party, leap frogd the clintons eight years ago. a young man who surprised to change everybody. he didn't succeed in changing washington. now you have a man who launched a hostile takeover of the republican party who is not bound by republican ideo...

>> one thing, to jonathan's point, though, we have donald trump here who ran on changing washington, draining the swamp. and what we learned in apolitical jobs like cia and a.g., he seems to have found republican politicians to fill the role. it almost makes you wonder whether donald trump can't be relied on to stick to his promises. tbd. in discussing michael flynn, the nsa pick, he says flynn got fired as head of dia, i asked why flynn got fired, abusive with staff, bad management,'s been and was right wing nutty ever since. is that in your view common from republican circles, that being col...