Rahm Emanuel on Running for President: I Think About Moments Like this and What It Takes to Lead this Country

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EMANUEL: "I mean, look, I mean, if I said no, that would not be true. If I said yes, it would also not true. Yes, I‘m evaluating, I think look, you've got to look at this. You've got to be comfortable with understanding the family room. You've got to be comfortable understanding literally the classroom, comfortable in what I would call the boardroom, comfortable in the Situation Room, and periodically comfortable in emergency room. And my problem is, our party‘s only been good in the locker room and the bathroom. And so you got to be comfortable in all those rooms and understand that. I have been there. I have something I think I can offer, but I haven‘t made that decision. So if I said I wasn‘t, it wouldn‘t be true. If I said I have decided, that also wouldn‘t be true. I mean, I kind of periodically, once in a while, check my e-mail, make sure my family hasn‘t hired a lawyer to sue me. So I think about it, and I‘m thinking about moments like this and what it takes to lead this country. And I think the biggest thing that I care about is that the American dream is unaffordable and it is exactly in time that that American dream became unaffordable is when our politics became unstable. And restoring confidence in that is the most important thing a president can do."