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  • Speaking of reality TV,

  • I don't know if you saw "Celebrity Apprentice."

  • I did.

  • It's a great show, yeah.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Has Donald Trump called you for advice

  • or talked to you at all?

  • And first of all, you've given him

  • some pretty good advice so far if you have.

  • Yeah.

  • But has he called and talked to you?

  • I would call you if I was running.

  • No.

  • No, he hasn't. No.

  • No.

  • No.

  • Not that I know of. No.

  • Do you think the Republicans

  • are happy with their choice?

  • We are, but I don't know how --

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I don't know how they're feeling.

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • Actually, you know what?

  • [ Chuckles ]

  • That was too easy.

  • But, the truth is, actually,

  • I am worried about the Republican Party.

  • And I know that sounds...

  • You know.

  • Yeah.

  • You know what it sounds like.

  • Yeah.

  • But democracy works, this country works

  • when you have two parties that are serious

  • and trying to solve problems.

  • And they've got philosophical differences

  • and they have fierce debates

  • and they argue

  • and they contest elections.

  • But at the end of the day, what you want

  • is a healthy two-party system.

  • And you want the Republican nominee

  • to be somebody who could do the job if they win.

  • And you want folks who understand the issues

  • and where you can sit across the table from them

  • and you have a principled argument

  • and ultimately can still move the country forward.

  • So I actually am not enjoying,

  • and I haven't been enjoying over the last seven years,

  • watching some of the things

  • that have happened in the Republican Party

  • 'cause there's some good people in the Republican Party.

  • There are wonderful Republicans out in the country

  • who want what's best for the country

  • and may disagree with me on some things

  • but are good, decent people.

  • But what's happened in that party,

  • culminating in this current nomination, I think,

  • is not actually good for the country as a whole.

  • It's not something Democrats should wish for.

  • And my hope is that

  • maybe once you get through this cycle,

  • there's some corrective action

  • and they get back to being a center-right party

  • and the Democratic Party being a center-left party

  • and we start figuring out how to work together.

  • Was it harder for you going in as President

  • and realizing, well, "People are gonna go,

  • like, not work with me"?

  • "The Republicans are not gonna work with me."

  • It exceeded my expectations

  • because when I came in, we were in the middle of crisis.

  • And usually, your hope is that, all right,

  • we can play political games,

  • but when stuff is serious,

  • when we're losing 800,000 jobs a month,

  • when we've got 180,000 troops in Afghanistan and Iraq

  • that we're going to buckle down here for a second,

  • put the politics aside and just get stuff done.

  • And that did not happen.

  • Like, what's the Supreme Court thing?

  • What's happening with that?

  • Because I know there's a seat that needs to be filled.

  • So there's a good case in point.

  • The Supreme Court makes the law,

  • interprets the law of the land,

  • and it's binding all across the country.

  • And right now,

  • we're supposed to have nine Supreme Court justices

  • because...

  • You know, the passing of Justice Scalia,

  • we only have eight.

  • And so it's hard

  • for the Supreme Court to do its job.

  • Now, I've nominated somebody who, uniformly,

  • everybody, including Republicans,

  • acknowledges is probably one of the most qualified guys

  • who's ever been nominated for the seat, Merrick Garland.

  • Merrick Garland.

  • Merrick Garland.

  • Very common name.

  • [ Chuckles ]

  • He's the chief judge of probably

  • the second-most important court in the land.

  • He's been a judge longer

  • than many of the judges

  • who are now justices on the Supreme Court.

  • Republicans in the past have said

  • he has impeccable credentials,

  • he's smart, he's got a good temperament,

  • he knows how to work

  • with people from all political spectrums.

  • But some of them won't even meet with them,

  • and so far, at least,

  • they haven't given him a hearing.

  • And that's an example

  • of where if the process of democracy

  • starts breaking down to that degree

  • where you can't even show the courtesy

  • of meeting with a guy who you know is qualified

  • and you won't give him a hearing

  • because you want to wait

  • and see if maybe your guy wins the election

  • and nominates somebody,

  • then you start seeing the court system breaking down.

  • You start seeing vacancies.

  • People can't get access to the courts.

  • And you see the country start dividing

  • in ways that's really unhealthy.

  • So that's a good example of my hope

  • that the Republican Party steps back and reflects

  • and says, "You know what?

  • That's not the way we should be doing business

  • because we don't want Democrats to be doing business

  • if we have a Republican president."

  • Like, would you ever think to do that job?

  • Because you're a lawyer.

  • Can you appoint yourself?

  • Appoint myself?

  • [ Laughing ] Yeah.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • No.

  • You know --

  • Aren't you happy I'm not in the White House?

  • I am.

  • Bad ideas.

  • Yeah.

  • [ Laughs ]

  • I just have bad ideas.

  • I mean, I look pretty good in a robe.

  • But it's not something that I think

  • is the best way for me to use my time

  • after I get out of office.

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