SOARES: Welcome back to HALA GORANI TONIGHT. Now, he is the man who ended the war in Iraq, kickstarted an economic stimulus back home and brought marriage equality to America. As president, Barack Obama has stared many challenges in the face without blinking. But since then, he's gone head to head with an opponent that left him a total - and, I mean, a total emotional wreck. A lamp. Yes, you heard you me correctly. I know this isn't some family guy, salve (ph) kind of gag. A regular desk lamp almost brought America's former commander-in-chief to tears. To be fair, the lamp does belong to his eldest child, Malia, who he was seeing off to Harvard University. Now, we could tell you about ended up assembling the thing, but we thought maybe perhaps you'd like to hear it from the man himself.</s>BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Malia, who is very thoughtful, she says, hey, dad, you know, I've got this lamp in this box, put the desk lamp together. I said, sure. So, I grab it. And it should have taken like five minutes or three minutes. I've had one of those little wrenches that are in -</s>DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST, MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: It comes with the tool.</s>OBAMA: That little tool. And it only had like four parts or something. And I'm just sitting there and I'm just toiling away at this thing and it's taken half an hour. And meanwhile, Michelle has finished scrubbing and she's organizing closets and all this. And I was just pretty pathetic.</s>SOARES: His big achievement, it seems. He's lucky he didn't get an IKEA desk. That would've taken him much, much longer. And that does it for us. Thank you very much for watching. Do stay right here with CNN. "Quest Means Business" with Richard Quest is coming up right here on CNN. END
Obama Choked Up Assembling Malia's Dorm Lamp