whether they are correct or not, by barack obama's leaning in towards iran. yesterday that all changed, in their mind. >> there are risks to playing with trump we've seen play out over the last few months so we'll see. with us washington anchor for bbc news katy kay. jeremy peters. senior editor and white house correspondent for the post sam stein. in new york, president of council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass. let's give you the backdrop to which we've seen these scenes. the white house wants the president's trip to drive in washington. it has difficulty overshadowing significant new doemts involving the investigation into russia. one report saying the probe is now targeting a current white house staffer while another report said the president personally told the russians that firing james comey relieved great pressure. let's start right there. news pro over the weekend that the day after president trump abruptly fired fbi director james comey, trump spoke about it to high-ranking russian officials inside th

no one is going to impeach barack obama. the possibility of impeachment now exists for donald trump. it's unlikely, but lawyers are paid to worry and it's appropriate for them to two some preliminary research, it doesn't mean he's going to be impeached. he should also have a personal lawyer, hiring a lawyer doesn't mean you're guilty of anything, but this is a real situation, there is a special counsel investigating donald trump's campaign including his behavior, including some pretty darn good evidence that trump ihimself committed obstruction of justice, of course he should have a lawyer. >> we should not even get into a conversation that there is no "there" there. there is some "there" there already. whether or not these are impeachable offenses are different. but there is "there" there with flynn. he was approved as the national security advisor. he was, you know, already kind of compromised by his illegal activities. there's "there" there from what the president said himself about how he has dealt with both flynn and wi

. >> [indiscernible] >> in 2008, barack obama created a multiracial coalition that brought him to the presidency. a coalition that mirrored the type of coalition martin luther king envisioned in 1968 for the poor people's campaign. barack obama's residency did not -- presidency did not represent a post-racial society as we have come to understand. still, it represented a marked departure from previous american political life and created a new image of the black man and black family in the lives of many african-americans and americans. for whatever his legacy in terms of policy and the administration, his personal legacy and his impact on american political life will be seen as a very positive element in the future as historians consider and reconsider the impact of his presidency. we are lucky enough to have a president in barack obama who understood the impact of history and importance of understanding history, so the artifacts we have received from the white house include the dress michelle obama, the first lady, wore at the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march on washington. and the

barack obama being a different product than hillary clinton. charlie: you document so many conversations. if in fact she had won, i'm starting to be writing a book about what a genius, the people she had behind her. i'm not sure. somebody would be writing that book. this is why we wouldn't have written that book. before the election as we are we had this discussion talking to our editor about the fact that we had identified a lot o'. somebody would be writing that book. this is why we wouldn't have problems, even though it looked like she was going to win. there were serious fundamental management problems that we would have looked at as going forward into. what are the struggles in this administration going to be? how will the things she has trouble with on the campaign trail extrapolate to what the administration would look like? will she be able to go out to the people and get them behind her policies? we are watching donald trump struggle with that right now. he's not able to move the legislature because he's not moving the people beyond th

but consider barack obama and hillary clinton are media superstars, and it is unlikely that cnn or msnbc are going to start interviewing second-level democrats when they can interview these two superstars. they are siphoning the oxygen out of the political air for young democrats. paul: let me push back on that, joe, in this sense. the 2018 election is going to be in large part about mobilization and energy. are republicans fired up enough to deter democratics who are going to be fired up. so is obama and clinton coming out now to mobilize democrats against republicans maybe doesn't hurt the party, on dan's point. it could in 2020 if they basically dwarf anybody else and make it difficult for anybody else to emerge. >> i think that could be part of it. i mean, hillary clinton and obama, i think, are different. i mean, hillary spent a billion dollars to lose to a reality tv star. so for all the disorder that we're seeing in washington today, i think she should probably maybe reflect a little bit more on what just happened. >> about obama, however, he continues to be personally popular. i

a barack obama was an expert at rhetoric. personifying integrity and all that, but he is a very weak leader. what we need in france is a very strong leader. i did not think his victory speech was particularly good, which assured me he is not the grand, eloquent person that barack obama was. if he can deliver is the point. we have heard about internal reforms, and he definitely needs to reform europe and get germany on board. i've been saying for the past couple of days, he beat one woman in the french election. that is marine le pen. it will be harder to beat the next woman, which is angela merkel. he definitely needs to do thrown her in europe, get her to support his agenda rather than have him support her agenda, such as it is. that is what he needs to do in europe. peter: what do you make of all of that? emmanuelle: i want to come back to what you were saying, that he defended a lot of left values. he is not seen is that in france. there was a survey this week aimed at 60% -- saying the 60% of french people did not want hi

>> i have no problem with making fun of barack obama. i have no problem with making fun of sitting presidents. they're the president of the united states, and they should be able to handle it. neil: i have no problem with it either. where i join and question is whether -- and he's as clever and fast on his feet as they get, colbert isn't too bad himself. but my point is did he go too far in the language he used? >> the language he used? neil: no, no, no, this is for charlie. go ahead. >> listen, absolutely. i mean, there are were the ways of -- better ways of making the president the butt of your jokes. neil: so the stuff before that was okay with you? because that was pretty rat at the at the, boom, boom, boom, so you drew the line at the one offensive word. >> anytime you reduce yourself to sophomoric phallic jokes, i think you have crossed the line. i think there are far better ways -- neil: ben, what do you think of that? >> have we not heard the president of the united states give a stump speech? that, to me, was just on the exact l

pete: they recognize he's the president of the united states whereas barack obama some national president of the world, the u.s. is the leader of the free world but he protects our country, first puts our interest first and so the partnerships, the arms deal with saudi arabia is a reprotection of the sense if we have allies in the region willing to fight radical islamist we will arm them so they can fight and take care of that issue as opposed to send our men and women. he reflected on the fact that jobs will come from a deal like that, leaders respect that focus on securing your own people and you saw that yesterday. >> one other thing that said, we are not here to lecture, we are not here to tell other people how to live, who to be or how to worship. i thought that was a message, you know, regarding nation building as well about how we have gone to countries like iraq and tried to implement our own society's policies and we have made enemies out of people. pete: that's fed a vacuum that's led to violence. you sawal-say say and the king of saudi arabia. there's not as many freedoms for p

>>guest: there is an important detail narrative that barack obama fired flynn and that is impede -- important piece of context and that to be warned about that this was done in a light-hearted fashion and then to spend time to trash barack obama. i don't think there is any great conspiracy but to say that it fits with the fact pattern and then things got pretty poisonous. >> the democratic line good morning. >> caller: and then the people come on tv in the a lot -- lie in that should not be okay. >> no. our job is 2.0 this is what they tried to do to constantly swear with what they're doing in private that is why it is good to have a broad sources of sources say you can swearu with what they say behind the scenes and in the public >>host: what about the john spicer complaint that everything is the game?. >> i have no patience for that there is a lot of theatrics to the press bashing.- this when you talk to these people is much less adversarial. they pick on us and if we make a mistake we should correct them. and be all make mistakes then they should have those same standards. >> good morning.

barack obama hasn't been heard from. there's a vacuum here. who's going to step forward, who's going to lead this party? what direction is it going to go? we haven't seen something this wide open on the democratic side for a while. who's posturing, who's positioning? who are people talking about? seem to be -- tough to put this together right now but there seem to be three big names koot oind of hover over the others right now. biden is one of them. look, he'd be 78 years old in 2020. a lot of people, though, say, 2016, maybe if he'd been the candidate, he beats donald trump, maybe he gets those extra votes hillary clinton couldn't in the rust belt. so his name is out there. bernie sanders, how could his name not be out there? he came a lot closer, a lot parter thpar farther than people expected in the primary. a big constituency on the democratic side. elizabeth warren, obviously the last couple years she's become a nationally significant figure in the democratic party. interesting, though, all three of these in 2020 would be over the age of

bush after 9/11, or even in some ways, barack obama. charlie: what happened to change his mind? governing? jonathan: i think governing is the big thing. i think this trip, you see the mark of h.r. mcmaster, his national security adviser, who urged him to do away with that phrase, radical islamic terrorism. by the way, i wouldn't be surprised, he could change quickly. jared kushner, obviously a big architect of this trip. i think what he saw was a moment here. the united states and israel , and the arab neighbors, share an enemy. that is iran. where theoment president found common cause with the leaders of saudi arabia and america's traditional gulf allies, who thought that under barack obama, the u.s. had iran, too much towards and saw a change in donald trump. for all the anti-muslim rhetoric, what they were hearing was rhetoric that was anti-iran, rhetoric that suggested the u.s. would steer in a different direction from obama. charlie: it looks to me sitting here in new york city that the president said to all of those allies, muslim countries primarily, he said to them, i ne

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president trump has won his first legislative battle, the first stage in repealing barack obama's signature achievement, the affordable care act. the house of representatives has narrowly passed the republicans‘ replacement for obamacare. iraqi forces have opened a new front in their fight to dislodge the islamic state group from the country's second city, mosul. it's a major shift in tactics as the battle has slowed over recent weeks. less than a year after the olympic games, there's been an upsurge of violence in parts of rio de janeiro. the huge cost of the games means the city doesn't have enough money to properly fund its police, and that's led to drug gangs retaking territory. now it's time for world business report. to stay or to leave? yep, the big boss of one of the world's largest banks, goldman sachs, tells the bbc about his preparations for a world after brexit — that's coming up in an exclusive interview. and are you ready for round two? it's a biggie for europe, with one of them being knocked out. yep, it's the last day of campaigning before france elects their next presid

and the king happy to s the back of barack obama? butome analysts say there might be a personal connection. donald trump is a man of money. he is a man who uses his family in politics. the house of trump, the house of saud, do you think there's a personal collection that may help the countries bilateral politics? >> i don't know if they have developed a personal relationship yet. but it certainly -- the approach to politics that resonates with the saudis, i think the saudis and arabs in general, really value personal relationships. and to the extent that the president can succeed in developing a bond of trust between the king and the american president, i think he will come out of this and see this meeting as a success. the saudis, of course, are comfortable, as you suggested, with a wealthy man that brings his family with them into the white house. who uses his children to promote his interests and agenda. that's how politics works in saudi arabia. this does not seem particularly odd to them. and so, i think i would expect not only

president barack obama inspired me the same way. my life changed in 2008 becausee the candidates fired up and cand ready to go and said yes we can. without barack obama i might still be sitting on my couch eating to read those and watching sports. he embodies the definition of courage honored to great under pressure. from his first day in office until his last the president put the national interest above his own while resisting the politics in the system but all too often occurs. he had the courage to pursue comprehensive health-care reform is the first order of business knowing the issue you would cost them into the party. he continued to fight during the administration that my uncle fought for for 50 years in the senate and did what no president had been able to do passing the affordable care act. [applause] we saw this year it's a lot easier to criticize and dismantle president obama having courage to govern responsibly. the courage to address the problem of climate change aggressively fighting for responsible energy policies in

that's absurd. >> well, let me answer the question, because every promise that barack obama made about obamacare turned out to be a lie. it's not true that in many cases you can keep your own hospital and provider and insurance companies. it's not true the average family saved $2, 500 a year. most families are paying $2,500 more a year. if you're a $50,000 a year family in income and you have to pay thousands of dollars more for your insurance that's a big hardship. >> steve, let me ask you think. is it right the republicans voted for this bout r5without r it and not waiting for the cbo to score this. >> well, would i rather have 72 hours, 96 hours to read every page of the bill? yeah, but let's face it it was nancy pelosi who said we'll read the bill after we pass it when obamacare came to play. >> which they attacked her for. >> democrats are being hypocr e hypocritical when they "you didn't read the bill" well none of them read the bill that transformed one seventh of our economy. but the big debate is a conflict of visions. i was listening to your debate earlier about whether we sh

chancellor merkel at the brandenburg gate, debating politics of faith with former president barack obama. marshals, debating the nature of -- martin schultz, debating the nature of politics. regaining public trustee said, istanbul --regaining public tr ust he said, is simple. i use language voters understand, that is the only way to win people's trust. correspondent: for him, that involves staying the way he is. no image makeovers for him. >> they told me the suit is all wrong, you have to get rid of the beard, you have the charisma of a train conductor, you look like a banker. sorry, i won't do it. correspondent: how will this go down with his audience? isn't this -- is there a thing as too much authenticity? >> he seems like someone who thinks things through, i like that. >> i saw obama yesterday, the debate was less interesting. i was really impressed by schultz. correspondent: staying true to himself, saying no to political packagingg, that was his message here today. after a string of setbacks in recent months, that is a great memessage. with polls giving angela merkel's conservativ

that is the state department that was barack obama, state, barack obama's state department saying that, you want to do that without creating conditions for unnecessary war. we also have to recognize that, that election was a reality. the v show version of an election. the people who are running were picked by the unelected supreme court of iran to run, so it is no -- it may be slightly more democratic in saudi arabia, but not by much. >> let me ask you, let's go over to the nato meeting. this was much different kind of reception. >> yes. >> dickerson: and the president, after not lecturing and make a ago point of not lecturing with the saudis nevertheless had a few lessons and things he would like the leaders to do. >> exactly. there were protests in brussels, the president called a hellhole, people were not giving him a warm reception inro think all of the people planning this trip very well knew they wanted the president's first trip abroad to begin with a warm embrace instead stowed, instead of the outcry that resulted when he went to europe. but at the nato meeting, i think, you kn

chancellor merkel at the brandenburg gate, debating politics of faith with former president barack obama. marshals, debating the nature of -- martin schultz, debating the nature of politics. regaining public trustee said, istanbul --regaining public tr ust he said, is simple. i use language voters understand, that is the only way to win people's trust. correspondent: for him, that involves staying the way he is. no image makeovers for him. >> they told me the suit is all wrong, you have to get rid of the beard, you have the charisma of a train conductor, you look like a banker. sorry, i won't do it. correspondent: how will this go down with his audience? isn't this -- is there a thing as too much authenticity? >> he seems like someone who thinks things through, i like that. >> i saw obama yesterday, the debate was less interesting. i was really impressed by schultz. correspondent: staying true to himself, saying no to political packaging, that was his message here today. after a string of setbacks in recent months, that is a great message. with polls giving angela merkel's conservatives

today," it says a cold shoulder and warm barack obama and donald trump appeared in public at the same time in europe on thursday. reactions could not have been starker, the former president received a rock-star his successorlin, received a bewildered looks from european leaders in brussels, among the issues that could lead fractioned relationship between the trump administration and europe. there.were issues on the front page of the washington times, it is also a -- y about the president's the two presidents traveling. it says trump eclipses obama on agenda. it says with former president barack obama niping at his heel europe, president trump near the end of his first foreign trip thursday, largely agendaing transformative more ambitious than anything mr. his tried overseas during 1st year in office. different takes on the trips by trump this bama and week. vicki calling from rapid city, south dakota, on the independent line. hi, vicki. there? vicki, are you host: all right. we're going to move on to emma, springfield, ohio, on the republican line. hi, emma. question is, y people that

and merkel does not particularly care for flattering trump because she had a partner in barack obama doing a lot of things she wanted to do, both in europe, in the middle east. she feels like she doesn't know what she's dealing with president trump and he's certainly not a partner like obama was. can you say it led to the comments yesterday? it's difficult to say. it's srp th it's certain they are approaching from opposite ends of the table. >> it's interesting to watch the trip play out. it started in the middle east. visits to saudi arabia and isreal. two places where the leaders were very happy to see him because he wasn't barack obama and then he ends up in europe where a lot of people are weary about him because he isn't barack obama. >> and if you look at the incoming from diplomats, i wish i could be on this trip, but the incoming from the germans and brits and others in europes they don't think trump understands and appreciates the nato alliance. they get his point about puburd sharing. you could see a lot of the leaders when he talks about saudi arabia and saudi arabia is go

you can see barack obama was there in july just before he became president. president george w. bush went there when he was not president. president cleanse, same thing, was not president, hillary clinton visit there'd and president h.w. bush visited but nonof them did so when they were president. obviously hillary clinton wasn't president. so that's why the relevant advance of all of this. we'll tell you why the president, the art of the deal, wants to be the one to bring an end to the conflict. all the time. am i going to pass away like my mom did? and so you know this is something that's important. losing my mom to heart disease and then being diagnosed myself. it's like a war we're trying to fight against these diseases. resilience is in my dna. i won't die like my mom. it's a big challenge, but the challenge in itself is what keeps me going. i could really make a difference in these people's lives. that would be my dream. a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home... ...with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can p

obama for eight years, and i attacked barack obama for eight years, being far kinder to our enemies, bending over backwards to iran than our traditional allies. now where are these hypocrites when donald trump is doing that ten times over? >> we have played this game over and over again. can you imagine what would have happened if barack obama had a president with the philippines, the transcript had been released of barack obama saying the same thing to the president of philippines that donald trump said? can you imagine the outcry from republicans? in this case, silence. >> republicans being hypocritical and saying absolutely nothing. we're told we have on the phone president jimmy carter. mr. president, a great honor to have you with us this morning. >> thank you. >> one of the things -- one of the most remarkable things about zbig brzezinski is how fiercely loyal he was to you. we know washington figures that love to talk about how they would have done things differently. i can tell you in all the years i've known him, all the years mika has known him, all he's done is said wonder

bush after 9/11, or even in some ways, barack obama. charlie: what happened to change his mind? governing? jonathan: i think governing is the big thing. i think this trip, you see the mark of h.r. mcmaster, his national security adviser, who urged him to do away with that phrase, radical islamic terrorism. by the way, i wouldn't be surprised, he could change quickly. jared kushner, obviously a big architect of this trip. i think what he saw was a moment here. the united states and israel share, and the arab neighbors, share an enemy. that is iran. a unique moment where the president found common cause with the leaders of saudi arabia and america's traditional gulf allies, who thought that under barack obama, the u.s. had turned too much towards iran, and saw a change in donald trump. for all the anti-muslim rhetoric, what they were hearing was rhetoric that was anti-iran, rhetoric that suggested the u.s. would steer in a different direction from obama. charlie: it looks to me sitting here in new york city that the president said to all of those gulf allies, muslim countries prim

what is barack obama charging. maybe resident trump will find it still. this is just outrageous. the family up for that earned $55,000 a year. do any of those individuals had any sympathy. you know how much they charge for speech. apparently he did not like to give a lot of them. and a lot of people voted because they said he's rich and he doesn't have to steal. we learned a lot about the things that he have done. none of these guys really has a right to make people feel like they are on their side. there is no reason to take this kind of money when they're trying to set a moral example. they're saying obama is out of touch. that he has lost touch with the workingman. >> this may be one of the few things that i really agree with elizabeth warren on. >> i don't think she's right in terms of foreign policy. but on this she's absolutely right. and it's why bernie sanders and his message resonated with so many people. they are tired of the hypocrisy. judith, good to see. you should've brought your buck. come back soon. in this story for the story for you. the national security adviso

president trump has scored a victory after congress took the first step towards scrapping barack obama's flagship health plan. in the wake of the healthcare vote, donald trump returned to his home city of new york for the first time as president. he met the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull on board a former aircraft carrier, to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of coral sea, in which american and australian navies fought japan. here's our new york correspondent, nick bryant. new york likes to pride itself on its welcoming tradition. it was not extended last night to its home—town president. many of these protesters regard donald trump as the city's least favourite child. he does not belong in this city and is a traitor. i want to get back to what feels to me like a normal america. i wish he would never come back at all ever, never, ever. new york has seen large anti—trump protesting. this was small by the standards of the big apple. a handful of supporters also turned out to greet him. welcome home. donald trump has not stepped foot in new york for 107 days, the longe

obama almost the mirror image of the middle east. his whole manner of confronting them. he went to saudi arabia and the famous line, ," i'm not here to lecture you." he seemed to show up in europe and he was there to lecture them and that did not go down too rose: he lectured payments of the united nations, and he made a very good point that president obama and other presidents have made-- those countries should contribute mur. i guess the question should be is it how he said or how he said it? >> if you add up the potattle on what they spend on defense. they don't have the same global responsibilities of the united states, so it need not be exactly the same. they do many other things. many of them give higher percentages of their g.d.p. to foreign aid and development aid of different sorts. but your basic point is right-- even if you want to get them to do more, it's not clear to me this is the way to do it. diplomacy is meant to persuade other people, to get them to do what you want them to do. this hardly seems likely to do that.

that is the state department that was barack obama, state, barack obama's state department saying that, you want to do that without creating conditions for unnecessary war. we also have to recognize that, that election was a reality. the v show version of an election. the people who are running were picked by the unelected supreme court of iran to run, so it is no -- it may be slightly more democratic in saudi arabia, but not by much. >> let me ask you, let's go over to the nato meeting. this was much different kind of reception. >> yes. >> dickerson: and the president, after not lecturing and make a ago point of not lecturing with the saudis nevertheless had a few lessons and things he would like the leaders to do. >> exactly. there were protests in brussels, the president called a hellhole, people were not giving him a warm reception in europe and i think all of the people planning this trip very well knew they wanted the president's first trip abroad to begin with a warm embrace instead stowed, instead of the outcry that resulted when he went to europe. but at the nato meeting, i th

obama's flagship health plan. well let's stay with that story. joining us live from los angeles is author, former politician, and trump supporter, charlotte laws. this is a significant political victory, what are you thinking?” definitely think it is a victory. it shows he is abiding by his campaign promises, that he is getting along with those in his party but people posing as these real need not be fearful. this is only the first step. the fat lady has not signed and it is possible the senate will shoot the bill with a poisonous parrot and it will move into a different creature. even mr trump indicated it will probably change. we will time for evaluation. i am hopeful it can be resolved in the end. it has not been independently costed but many said it cuts medicare by a lot of money. a bunch of men, removing the effects of domestic violence, post—natal depression... i personally am a supporter of universal healthcare. .. laughter. i actually would like to see something put into place something that supports

people saying that barack obama uses booed grammar. no. it is not bad grammar. barack obama can speak two things and switch into black english in the proper situation. calling it negro dialect is not very graceful but referring to something that makes barack obama a larger speaker than george w. bush is too easy, than say david letterman. he is a larger speaker. he has a larger, he has a larger repertoire. speaks negro dialect when he wants to. it wasn't minstrel speech. what he could have just said, black english. i don't think he would have any reason to know the term, african-american vernacular english. black english. to be honest i known white and black people who thought there was something wrong with the former president, unfortunately, switching between mainstream and black english. . . . .... .... >> black people use aks. it is not because it is hard to say the sk sound. it is used because it was the form used most often by the sorts of people from great britain and ireland who black people worked alongside as slaves. just like legion of very white peop

. >>> plus the news today that barack obama warned donald trump not to hire michael flynn as national security adviser but he was hired anyway. and why is jared kushner's family company apologizing after his sister tried to win over investors in china, all in the name of kushner "the th hour" begins now. >>> as we start a new week, good evening once again in our headquarters here in new york. day 109 of the trump administration. this afternoon we were live on air with what turned out to be a dramatic day in the u.s. senate. at the center of it, a 27 year veteran attorney general named sally yates. a 27-year public servant promoted along the way by republicans and democrats alike. sally yates was the acting attorney general, running the justice department in transition, waiting for jeff sessions in effect to be approved as the new attorney general back in january. but there came a day during just the second week of the trump presidency when she called the white house and asked the president's lawyer if they could meet. she said she had something important to tell him. now we know it wa

bush never spoke out against barack obama. why is it okay for barack obama to speak out against donald trump. when we are in a critical juncture, trying to get israel and nato to march lock step and pay bills and fight isis and counter iran. i don't understand why you feel the need to speak up right now? trish: pablo? >> i think if he stays quiet for the rest of his life there's going to be a lot of things that don't get done in his post presidency. i think for the rest of his life he's going to be an influential figure. anything he says regardless of who's the president in the oval office, sometimes he's going to agree with them, sometimes he doesn't. he's a private citizen now. to remark on the wall, i think you guys are both right. he doesn't like trump. but he does love america and he's going to approach any situation with a foreign leader like angela merkel with patriotism a forethought. trish: it is quite odd to see a former president on stage when you got the new president, the new guy, so soon into office. i use a busi

it was not challenging barack obama. despite the fact that i had every brother and sister coming at me saying you need to talk about barack obama. barack obama is not our fight. our fight is a little bit closer to the ground. some things we can nationalize and other things we can. we have to recognize where the fight is part we have to understand things. we have to understand exactly what we have to do on the ground because the ground is where the action is. what we did was we nationalized, in a sense, nancy pelosi. everybody relates to their congressman close to the ground. what you do is you make the argument a little more personal. you make it a little close to where people are. i would go into communities and say to people, if you want to better dogcatcher or trash pickup service cry to nancy pelosi. so, in other words, you bring it into an area because the president was the president. focus all day on donald trump and you will lose because that means you're not listening to what people are saying. chairman, you just

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i know netanyahu and barack obama had a famously frosty relationship the last few years. how is donald trump viewed in israel? >> well, i think there was an expectation in israel certainly on the part of the right that he was going to take a significantly different approach, an overtly pro-israeli approach, and i think what's happened since the president came into office is that he's moved back toward the traditional american position on pretty much all of the issues. and it would be hard at this point to identify whether any major difference between what he's saying and what was said in the past, so the right wing in israel is clearly quite disappointed and the left is somewhat more hopeful. >> does that extend what you say the right in israel is disapointed, does that extend to netanya netanyahu, himself? there was a lot of talk when you think of russia, to draw a parallel, vladimir putin a lot of people say was maybe expecting something different than he's gotten with donald trump store. would that apply to netanyahu as well? >> i would doubt that there's major dis app

the israelis are delighted that barack obama's out the door. and probably the only people in the region more delighted than the israelis are the saudis. and some of the other sunni monarchs in the oil-producing countries because the threat of iran to them is. the external threat is on the nuclear side. but this is a real opportunity looking at what happens hopefully after the defeat of isis and the near future to deal with the next potential conflict. iran and its aspiration in the region. so trump has a real opportunity in this first foreign visit to put some markers down here, and i think he'll see possibly an increase in cooperation between israel and some of these sunni arab states. it's happening beneath the surface now. it may become more visible. david: we need those allies more now than ever. former ambassador to the un. thank you very much. >> thank you, david. cheryl: well, secretary of defense general james mattis and joe are holding a rare press conference today at the pentagon to address progress made in the fight against isis and

barack obama tried to continue that. he would have a group of historians meet quite frequently, a number of times at the white house, to talk history with president obama. george w. bush reads particularly deeply in texas history. he said his favorites were about the kings ranch. george w. bush gave a lincoln reader to barack obama. stephen: the president of harvard also roast about it in the book. -- wrote about it in the book. the speech was called "the politician and the intellectual." he said the nation's first politicians were also be nation's great writers and scholars. books where their tools -- were their tools, not their enemies. this is his view of the importance of learning and reason in american politics. he was a historian himself. he read a good deal of the adams papers. he won a pulitzer prize for history. in reading -- susan: let's talk about the press. john f. kennedy came into the white house at the dawning of the age of television and he had a press corps that is very different from the press corps the

for barack obama. joe biden said i'm not going to do it my son and everything else. the president went around and started talking to elizabeth warren and she said no. this is not my year. and then they wound up settling on hillary clinton. his third choice. brian: in shatter evidence they do say biden thinking about giving one last one. ainsley: when we all thought comey would indict her and who would take her place and it would have been him. maybe they are regretting that. steve: you think? maybe a little. coming up, remember when president obama traferld the world apologizing for america, some say? >> the united states will be willing to acknowledge past eras when this error have been made. sought to dictate our terms e. steve: what can we expect from trump. brian: not that pl med comparing the white house to the kremlin. that's the "time" magazine cover. please don't buy it. ♪ everybody's talking about the you sound funny ♪ it's still rock and roll to me ♪ what's the matter with the car i'm d

obama had said this, a lot of conservatives would be pillaring him. >> people are unhappy with that. donald trump is not good speaking off the cuff or tweeting off the cuff and often says things that he would end up regretting. what's important here is that dan is right, he's putting national security ahead of human rights but for the democrats to be ringing their hands and crying about how our president doesn't care about human rights, barack obama called the dictator of ethiopia the winner of the democratic election, he was friends with hugo chÁvez until the end but in the beginning -- paul: venezuela. >> reached out to him and cuba he made a great concession to the cuban dictatorship. you know, so it went on and on. iran when iran had stolen election in 2009, he praised it. you know, he did nothing to defend human rights over the course of eight years. paul: reagan engaged with dictators, he had to. but one thing i never heard him say was praise for those dictators before they actually made concessions or released political prisoners which is significant. >> yeah, he had a lot of

but there was an endorsement outright for emanuel macron from the former president, barack obama. in what way, if at all, do you believe u.s. leadership has influenced french voters? >> well, i'll tell you, in the case of macron, i think he is more like bill clinton, actually, than barack obama. i just want to say, as a speech writer, he's about the top right now. i think what you are going to see is a very, very inclusive speech. let's contrast that with donald trump's inauguration speech which was very, very negative. i think you're going to see a very positive speech here from macron coming up right now. >> this will be kind of part two. macron did speak earlier. it was broadcast there to the live audience there. he says, "i understand the anger and anxiety and the doubt. my responsibility is to hear that," speaking, too, now as president-elect. he says he will be addressing, quote, all forms of discrimination. we have duties to our country. at the same time he said france is moving toward a page of, quote, hope and a refound trust. and he also said in his earlier remarks, whic

plus the big honor that barack obama will >>> it is great to have you with us. we're starting this half hour with a quick look at the weather. here is lisa who is tracking the conditions where you live. >> good morning to you, looking at the airport. a little haze out there. we will clear that out throughout the afternoon. we're looking at temperatures coming up with mid 50s in the te city. and right now it is sunny. low 60s for you in so from east bay hills, this is the hassy conditions, numbers in the mid and upper 60s throughout the bay. and by the afternoon we will see mid 50s. some communities will be love average and just until tuesday. i will detail your forecast and talk about breezy conditions. >> this is a weekend of frustration and uncertainly in american politics. facing fierily townhall meetings. president trump stead stastly stands by the new bill. david wright has the latest. >> these are human beings. we have bodies and lives. >> congressman tom reed reassured since subsequeubsequun that those with pre-existing conditions need not worry. in fact,

i remember very well the first year that barack obama came to the senate. he was a faithful participant in our hearings. as a matter of fact, he was a junior democratic senator. i was the chair at the time. we recognize back and forth. barack was the last one in the room by the time we finished. it was a two-hour hearing. almost everyone else had left but the two of us. and so i once applauded him relief for his diligence, his constancy in all of this. well, he took me upon it. after i made a complimentary remarks in mid -- it was either april or may of that year he said, dick, i know you go to russia every year. i would like to go with you this year. i was startled with his interest. out of the blue. i said, well, fine. let's do that. and so, as a matter of fact and the two of us went to russia in august at a time of senate recess and onto azerbaijan. then ukraine, as a matter of fact it now, i visited this past year azerbaijan. they are well aware of the visit , but certainly every picture that has brought obama and it has been elevated to a new status. p

is missing from that a narrative that was laid out which is barack obama fired mike flynn and i think that is an important piece of context. i don't think that there is any kind of great mystery behind the fact president obama warns donald trump and to be clear there are different reports about whether that was done in a lighthearted fashion because he spent a lot of time trashing barack obama in public. i don't think there is any great conspiracy behind obama saying this to donald trump. i think it is kind of pretty much with what we saw. he obviously fired him and thought he was somebody he didn't want in his administration and things got pretty poisonous from their. >> host: line for democrats, go ahead good morning. >> caller: i just wanted to know can the president get away with it everyday he comes out and wise and then do people come on tv, sean spicer and his other press people is that okay, that should be okay and what is wrong with people in this country don't they see what is going on? >> host: is it okay? >> guest: though, our job is to point out when they have a falsehood

barack obama endorsed mac kron on thursday >> the french election is very important to the future of france and the values that we care so much about. i am supporting emmanuel mac kron to leave you forward. kron cron >>> earlier this morning, it was reported that a celebration area set up by the mar cone campaign had to be evacuated when a suspicious package was found and we're continuing to follow that as the morning goes on. president trump meanwhile has no plans so far, we're told to endorse either one of the candidates >> any thoughts on president obama weighing in? he says it's important to the future of the french people and that's why he's weighing in. you could argue any election is important. is it too soon or is it appropriate >> on the positive side you would say that a candidate like mar couldn't, obama tends to be popular in europe. however, the last time barack obama tried to do that was to influence it's brexit vote didn't go so well. there will be a way to spin this on what the outcome. we will find out >> isn't that what we do for a living? >>> let's move on, new acc

. >>> plus the news today that barack obama warned donald trump not to hire michael flynn as national security adviser but he was hired anyway. and why is the family of jared kushner apologizing after his sister tried to win over a business deal in china. over in th name of kushner. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> as we start a new week, good evening from our headquarters here in new york. day 109 of the trump administration. this afternoon we were live on air with what turned out to be a dramatic day in the u.s. senate. at the center of it, a 27 year veteran attorney general named sally yates. she was the acting attorney general running the justice department in transition waiting for jeff sessions in effect to be approved as the you in attorney general back in january. but there came a day during just the second week of the trump presidency when she called the white house and asked the president's lawyer if they could meet. she said she had something important to tell him. now we know it was about president trump's national security adviser at the time, retired general michael flynn

. >>> plus the news today that barack obama warned donald trump not to hire michael flynn as national security adviser but he was hired anyway. and why is the family of jared kushner apologizing after his sister tried to win over a business deal in china. over in the name of kushner. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> as we start a new week, good evening from our headquarters here in new york. day 109 of the trump administration. this afternoon we were live on air with what turned out to be a dramatic day in the u.s. senate. at the center of it, a 27 year veteran attorney general named sally yates. she was the acting attorney general running the justice department in transition waiting for jeff sessions in effect to be approved as the you in attorney general back in january. but there came a day during just the second week of the trump presidency when she called the white house and asked the president's lawyer if they could meet. she said she had something important to tell him. now we know it was about president trump's national security adviser at the time, retired general michael flyn

sides, i is on both hink we quite optimistic when barack obama was elected, people talking about post-racial america. obama say rd post-racial, but folks were aspirational s an idea, we should all aspire to peaceful and productive diverse society. moving in that direction, i'm happy to say. i'm optimistic about it, but it a lurching movement. host: mr. page, "the chicago you can find his column and his opinion, thank you for your time this morning. having me.k you for host: this is our program for today. another program comes your way 7:00 tomorrow morning. thank you, sir. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. on sunday, author and bi will be matt taib our guest on "in-depth." >> if you grew up watching hundreds and hundreds of faces and you see the face for you, you instantly fall in love that moment. for me, trump was like that except the opposite. when i first saw him on the campaign trail, i thought, this is a person who is unique, hor

they just gave $400,000 to barack obama to give a speech. they gave to their foundation, they expected them to win, 9% of those executives in media properties and journalists gave to the clinton election. but she didn't win. so they are invested in all of this. if you look at the numbers, if you look at the numbers, the poor got poor, the rich got richer understood the last two presidents, a republican and democrat. >> we solved that. we have a new president, a new way forward. make america great again. doug, thanks a lot. doug wead, presidential historian giving the president only an a plus for the beginning of his presidency. quickly spacex successfully launched a spy satellite for the national reconnaissance office. the falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the kennedy space pad in florida. it's the first successful landing and in so doing put up a spy satellite. its first official government mission. up next, president trump considering break up major wall street banks. gayle trotter and byron york join us to discuss the implications. we are g