craig robinson joins me now. i read this book. fascinating book. >> thank you. >> for many reasons. >> thank you. >> as i read it, i was thinking, so this guy goes to princeton, you get an mba from the university of chicago, you're the coach of an amazing basketball team at oregon state, and a life of unparalleled excellence and success. and just when you're claiming all bragging rights in the family, your sister goes and marries the guy that becomes president of the united states. i mean, that's a bugger, isn't it? >> for some people it could be. but what you have to understand, piers, is that my sister smernt entire life being craig robinson's little sister. everywhere she went, it was craig, craig, and she does a great impression of this. it's like craig, craig, craig, craig, craig. you're craig's sister. are you craig's little sister? she's had to put up with that her entire life. now it's only fair i spend some time being michelle obama's older brother. >> are you proud to be michelle obama's older brother? >> absolutely. abs

michelle obama's brother, craig robinson. >>> you could call craig robinson first brother-in-law, but michelle obama's brother is also a college basketball star turned very successful coach and the author of "a game of character: a family journey from chicago's south side to the ivy league." craig robinson joins me now. i read this book. fascinating book. >> thank you. >> for many reasons. >> thank you. >> as i read it, i was thinking, so this guy goes to princeton, you get an mba from the university of chicago, you're the coach of an amazing basketball team at oregon state, and a life of unparalleled excellence and success. and just when you're claiming all bragging rights in the family, your sister goes and marries the guy that becomes president of the united states. i mean, that's a bummer, isn't it? >> for some people it could be. but what you have to understand, piers, is that my sister spent her entire life being craig robinson's little sister. everywhere she went, it was craig, craig, and she does a great impression of this. it's like craig, craig, craig, craig, craig. you're c

but what you have to understand, piers, is that my sister spent her entire life being craig robinson's little sister. everywhere she went it was craig craig. and she does a great impression of this. it's like "craig craig craig. you're craig's sister. are you craig's little sister?" she's had to put up with that her entire life. and now it's only fair that i spend some time being michelle obama's older brother. >> proud to be michelle obama's older brother. >> absolutely. absolutely. she's just such a bright light for the family, for the country, for her own individual family. and i couldn't be more proud of her. >> reading the book, very interesting about you your very modest beginnings you had as a family. tell me about the early days. >> you know, i talk about this in a game of character. it didn't seem modest to us. it felt like we lived in a castle even though we lived in this one-bedroom apartment. and it was filled with love and lessons and tenderness. and they're the kind of lessons that resonate at the kitchen table as they did for us, on the basketball court as it does for my

michelle obama's brother, craig robinson. >> when was the moment when michelle was dating barack, when was the moment that you realized this guy may be something special politically? >> oh. well, i had no idea at the time when i met him. i mean, he was -- he was a lawyer. he had been a community organizer. i knew he had political

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