“Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in, no less than I did.”

In his speech at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center, former President Obama  outlined values he says transcend political parties — including a belief in the peaceful transfer of power, checks and balances, and “accountability that comes with an independent judiciary and a robust free press.”

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Listen to the audio version of The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell from the May 28th broadcast.

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“When people say they don’t know what Obama did for us — the evidence is inside that museum.”

MS NOW spoke with visitors at the Obama Presidential Center’s Juneteenth opening about their first impressions to the center.

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“It’s not intended to be stories simply about President Obama, Michelle Obama. It’s about lifting up all those stories of the people who made what he was able to accomplish happen in the first place. And if you don’t tell those stories, then you don’t really tell the full story.”

Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett joined Jen Psaki in Chicago ahead of Thursday’s grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center.

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The Velshi Banned Book Club has a new home at the 11th Hour! Ali Velshi discusses the club’s future and the hugely important book being covered next: Isabel Wilkerson’s “The Warmth of Other Suns,” an epic history of the Great Migration.

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