Obama in Berlin: "We can't hide behind a wall"

In his first speech in Europe since he left office, former President Obama sounded a familiar theme from his presidency -- the need to embrace globalization -- and there seemed to be a veiled slap at his successor in his remarks.

" [If] there is bad governance, if there is war or if there is poverty, in this new world that we live in we can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall," he said in Berlin, at a panel on democracy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. We need "to recognize what happens on the other side of the world or in these other countries that it has an impact on us," Obama said.

He also reflected on his tenure, tellling Berliners that health care reform and getting 20 million people insured who hadn't been before the ACA was one of his proudest achievements.

"Certainly I have regrets that we weren't able to get everyone healthcare, and obviously some of the progress that we made is now imperiled because there is still a significant debate taking place in the United States," he said.

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just a reminder that he had one build at his new D.C. house