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One of my favorite stories is the first time he came back to the white house after he lost in 1992 was in june of 1993 to help gerald ford and bill clinton and jimmy carter talk about nafta, which was then facing ratification largely negotiated under reagan and bush. bill clinton gets up and gives this remarkably synthetic and wonderful description of globalization and why free trade matters. and president bush got up and said we have just seen once again why he's living here and i'm not. not many politicians and almost no presidents are that self-deprecating. and one of the things we've lost ...

Ohh! where else would a man look at me and say, take off your clothes. >> those days, so much of comedy was just straight up sexist. my wife is a battle ax. phyllis diller switched it around. now it was about her horrible husband. >> fang, that's my husband. he went to the dentist the other day, the dentist told him, he's got the worst set of tooth he's ever saw in his life. >> for a woman to go on stage and complain about that, it was emancipation, in a way. >> you sure you're a marriage counselor? >> of course, don't i have a sympathetic face? >> well, your face has my sympathy. >> the self-...

We'll get to tonight, this is an in depth way to look at trend. what lessons might each party take from this and might they learn the wrong one? >> i think both parties always learn the wrong lessons. the question is whether the leadership can correct it and get to the point where you're executing going forward. that was self-deprecating from the president. no matter what, there will be an opportunity in 2019 for both parties to work together on big issues that they both agree are a problem. the question is whether people can set politics aside. i'm pretty dubious about it. >> dana: you and i ...

Figure because of how hard she's defended our democracy. what i see is this isn't about me. and i don't mean this to be self-deprecating. i mean it to say, we saw the sea change first when november 6th, 2016 happened. what people are finding is that this is a way to reclaim who we are as americans. knowing that georgia, the cradle of the civil rights movement but also an important, fast-growing state, can be a signal of what else can be done. and while i am incredibly overwhelmed, sometimes, getting to sit there and ask oprah a question is an amazing dream, and getting a hug from barack obama ...

Very different experience that when you are hurling insults against them, it's unclear. do you think that it has helped the national dialogue for the president to go after people? >> no. i think he has his own style. i think that everybody does. i think that's part of public life, you know. i think that when you are in politics you decide what style works for you. in the book i talk about how my dad is self-deprecating and joking about how the president was very charismatic, so he chose my dad to balance it out. >> how does your dad feel about that backwards compliment. >> my dad said that abo...