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Barack and Michelle Obama appear to be going strong despite ongoing rumors about the state of their marriage ... the former first couple was seen out at dinner Saturday night at Osteria Mozza, a fancy restaurant in Georgetown, in Washington, D.C.

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00:00Michelle Obama came out on her podcast and said,

00:04the only reason I haven't been out with my husband is because I'm choosing myself.

00:08I'm choosing things that I want to do and the things I don't want to do, I'm not going to do.

00:14Not exactly. She didn't say the reason I'm not always with my husband.

00:17She just said that last part. She didn't connect it to not being out.

00:21She was saying it because she heard all the rumors, right?

00:23I think that's the insinuation, yes.

00:25Right. Well, some people bought that. Some people didn't.

00:30People thought there might be trouble in paradise in their marriage

00:32because she didn't show up at Jimmy Carter's funeral,

00:35didn't show up at the inauguration, which we expected.

00:37Right.

00:38But she's saying, look, I had all these obligations and I want to be my own person.

00:43And yet people are like, eh, that seems like it might be an excuse.

00:47Well, maybe what they needed was a picture.

00:51And an Italian dinner.

00:53There you go.

00:54A delicious one.

00:55Because the former first couple were out together at Osteria Moza in Georgetown.

01:02Where they have a house.

01:03Where they have a house.

01:04D.C., they're there together.

01:05By the way, we're told they got...

01:07I mean, they're not holding hands.

01:08Big applause as they walked in.

01:10Nobody has a puppy, though.

01:12So I think we can say that they are...

01:14Boy, talk about turning heads.

01:17You know?

01:18Can you imagine, by the way, there was applause as they walked through the restaurant

01:21and people realized it was them.

01:23So...

01:23That's a big deal.

01:24Does this...

01:25Yes, it should.

01:26Finally squash it?

01:27It should.

01:28I mean, this is clearly a statement, too.

01:30This is a fairly high-profile restaurant in Georgetown.

01:32No, very, very high-profile.

01:34Very high-profile place.

01:35It's packed with people.

01:36They were said to have gotten that applause, like you said.

01:38I will say, you know, the comments she made on the podcast had a lot of me in them.

01:43Right?

01:43Both of their kids have graduated college.

01:45They're out of the house.

01:46And usually a relationship then gets started again.

01:49You talk about us.

01:50We're going to travel.

01:51My husband and I, that's not the way she's talking.

01:53So, although this puts to rest some of the rumors, I still think it sounds like she just

01:57wants an era of Michelle.

01:58And I'm not sure Barack is all that involved in the decision-making.

02:01But, dude, that does not mean they're breaking up.

02:04That just means that you can have a relationship where there's independence.

02:10Not even separate lives, but there's independence.

02:12Yes, independence.

02:12That she had so many obligations that connected to his political career that she...

02:20Which she never liked.

02:21And she wants some independence.

02:23You can still be together.

02:25Everybody wants independence up until the time you can have delicious Italian food together.

02:30And then you come together.

02:31Then you get on the same page.

02:32Yeah.

02:33And it's...

02:33I mean, come on.

02:34I think you're right.

02:34And that dovetails with what he has said.

02:37He said, I have a huge deficit to her because we spent eight years following sort of my career

02:42in the White House.

02:44And now it's her.

02:45And not just eight.

02:46He was in the Senate for two years.

02:48He was then in the House of Representatives in Illinois.

02:52And so he, you know, he...

02:55And when he was in the House in Illinois, he had to travel to Springfield.

02:59She was alone raising the kids.

03:01So she's been through it.

03:03Yeah, but let me ask you a question.

03:04Didn't she...

03:04Why stick it to Jimmy Carter as the first sort of gesture of my independence is I'm not going

03:10to go to Jimmy Carter's funeral?

03:11It bothered everyone because Jimmy Carter was just a blunt human being.

03:14What if she just didn't want to sit next to Donald Trump?

03:18What if she just didn't want to sit next to him?

03:21Yeah.

03:21I mean, what if it was just as simple as that?

03:23She is...

03:24She has a big, big grudge over what Trump did with the birthright citizenship with Barack

03:32Obama.

03:32And she has never forgotten that, will not forgive it, and she doesn't want to sit next to him.

03:37Well, I'll tell you what's odd.

03:38And this doesn't point to their marriage, but...

03:40And I believe her when she says that.

03:41And I agree with you that she just didn't want to sit next to Donald Trump, which is

03:44why it was so odd the day of the funeral that Barack was sitting there, buddy-buddy with

03:51Donald Trump and laughing, because he knows how Michelle feels about him, and yet...

03:56Yeah, but he's also playing the political game, too, because Barack Obama is not happy with

04:01Donald Trump.

04:02Right.

04:02So, of course, whatever you see there, you know...

04:05He was just making nice because we're at a funeral.

04:06That's right.

04:07Right.

04:07Yeah.

04:08This is Jay from Vegas.

04:09How y'all doing?

04:10Listen, Barack Obama has never been a stupid man.

04:13If he let Michelle go, he won't know what to do with himself.

04:16We'll see him have a Fred Sanford moment.

04:18Oh, this is a big thing when these young guys come and get her and take her off his hand.

04:24That is funny.

04:25That is funny.

04:26That is funny.

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