President Donald Trump tells a reporter we had a divided country from long ago and he wants to fix it. Listen in.

Transcript of what he said:
THE PRESIDENT: No, no, look. Hey, just so you understand, we had a totally divided country for eight years, and long before that, in all fairness to President Obama. Long before President Obama, we have had a very divided. I didn’t come along and divide this country. This country was seriously divided before I got here.

We’re going to work on it very hard. One of the questions that was asked — I thought it was a very good question — was about the inner cities. I mean, that’s part of it. But we’re going to work on education. We’re going to work on lack — you know, we’re going to stop — we’re going to try and stop the crime. We have great law enforcement officials. We’re going to try and stop crime. We’re not going to try and stop, we’re going to stop crime.

But it’s very important to me. But this isn’t Donald Trump that divided a nation. We went eight years with President Obama, and we went many years before President Obama. We lived in a divided nation. And I am going to try — I will do everything within my power to fix that.