that is what obama is really good at. and on the global stage, no less, he rescued democrats in the midterms. by the way, could that be interpreted as criticizing america on the global stage? in a foreign country? i think so. whipping up racial divisions is a typical democrat tactic, and when we have already seen deployed by alexandria ocasio-cortez, the new bright light of the democratic party, kamala harris, the list goes on and on. obama there in johannesburg makes it all sound better with all those pregnant pauses. then of course, he couldn't assist launching the tired old refrain against populism with a few lines that could've been written by george w. bush himself. >> the fact that countries which rely on nationalism and xenophobia and doctrines of tribal, racial, religious superiority as their main organizing principle, the thing that holds people together, eventually those countries find themselves consumed by civil war, or external war. >> laura: i hope he is not talking about our country. i think in japan, for i

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. look at the statement he made when he thought mics were turned off. the stupid statement he made. nobody does a big deal about that. getting along with president trump and russia is a positive, not a negative. barack obama democrats attacking the president for reaching out to russia. but we uncovered some long last footage of secretary of state hillary clinton who did the exact same thing. >> our goal is to help strengthen russia. we see russia with the strong culture, the incredible intellectual capital russia has as a leader in the 21st century. russia has been an ally. they have worked with us in afghanistan. they have been very helpful in the distribution network and in other ways. i think it's somewhat dated to be looking backward instead of being realistic about where do we agree. jesse: wow, some new footage from hillary. doesn't sounds like the same person. the democrats have been so soft on russia. not just the last 8 years under obama. but i remember in the cold war they wer

that is what obama is really good at. and on the global stage, no les less, he rescued democrats in the midterms. by the way, could that be interpreted as criticizing america on the global stage? in a foreign country? i think so. whipping up racial divisions is a typical democrat tactic, and when we have already seen deployed by alexandria ocasio-cortez, the new bright light of the democratic party, kamala harris, the list goes on and on. obama there in johannesburg makes it all sound better with all those pregnant pauses. then of course, he couldn't assist launching the tired old refrain against populism with a few lines that could've been written by george w. bush himself. >> the fact that countries which rely on nationalism and xenophobia and doctrines of tribal, racial, religious superiority as their main organizing principle, the thing that holds people together, eventually those countries find themselves consumed by civil war, or external war. >> laura: i hope he is not talking about our country. i think in japan, f

obama got 2.9%. he gets 3.1, i'll say hooray. let's not count our chickens before they are hatched and not give all the credit to him. we have been on an upward trend for years. >> that's just not true. he handed him a mess by any measure. i will give you this. i don't give any president good or bad credit for the economy. i give to it american entrepreneur. i think the president can do things to get the government out of the way. and i think that's what donald trump has done through the tax cuts and cleaning up the regulatory mess barack obama left us. barack obama was a disaster by any metric. labor force participation, wage growth. and i am surprised you didn't bring up. the employment cost index, donald trump his first year, bested barack obama's 8 years. >> there is a long way to go between here and the end. judge jeanine: i have an idea, rinse, here is the bottom line, i can't yell because i have a sore throat. my mother called me during the break and said jeanine, you have to have some water. if the unemployment is the low

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russian. look at the statement he made. he thought the mics were turned off. look at the stupid statement he made. getting along with president putin is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. >> that doesn't sound like a guy afraid of russia. what the media and the left forget to mention in this conversation is that helsinki didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a part of series of major moves president trump made overseas. for example what would forget the president's successful summit with north korea's kim jong-un who pledged to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. that was last month. last week president trump at nato in brussels demanded our allies pay more of their share of military spending. check out this graph by bloomberg showing increases in military budgets from nato members from 2016 to 2017. which some are calling the trump bump. that happened before the nato summit. bloomberg is also out with a record that says

the difference is the press gave obama a pass. many prominent reporters defended obama. when he didn't enforce his own redline, he sent a signal that america is weak, come pick our locks. barack obama had the press on his side, they never went into a feeding frenzy the way they do against trump. >> harris: does this president had to be more careful? >> yes, because the press is in feeding frenzy mode against him always, but he also feeds the feeding frenzy. all he had to do is say we can cooperate on some issues but knock it off, don't mess with our elections. he'd be a hero, why didn't he say that? he easily could have said it. >> harris: does heat eventually have to do anything like that to move forward? >> i would like to see him be tougher on his rhetoric, the defense against russia has to be deterrence, he can't undermine his credibility. policy wise he is sending the right signals. >> harris: thank you very much, great to have you here. a one-time trump critic survives a g.o.p. primary fight after getting an 11th hour endorsement from president trump. what this say

obama opposed. president trump supported that. so here's a story to tell and i think you should try to do that. >> what do you understand that the united states got out of this high-stakes meeting? >> it is not clear to meet that we got very much. i think that our interests are just divergent. maybe they made some headway on some of the nuclear approval of creations. if you look at russia, it has a disastrous economy. the government is corrupt. but for that massive nuclear arsenal, they would be a country that would be wielding far less influence on the world stage. if they made progress there, i think that is the number one reason why you would want to engage with russia and perhaps to do it. but you have to do that from a position of strength and make putin know that there will be consequences if they continue to behave that the way that they did when obama was president. >> what did russia get out of this high-stakes meeting? >> i don't know what they got out of it. i think putin, if you look at the opera duration that they did

this was under obama's watch. we still don't know who hacked into hillary's e-mail server and what methods and the sources were compromised there. >> you know it's not really the bombshell that the media seems to be proclaiming. and the american public if they are watching cnn or msnbc, they are not getting the truth. they are being deliberately misled. i watched them today. >> sean: fake news. >> dayna bash on cnn twice said it's now imminent that americans will be indicted over this. meaning the trump campaign. you have schiff -- >> sean: it doesn't mean people might not but nothing happened here. >> andrea mitchell on msnbc saying there is proof of a solid connection between trump and the russians. adam schiff was musing today about the arrest of donald trump and said i'm only half jesting about it. if you want the truth don't watch the networks because they are lying to american people about really happened today. >> sean: actually, the american people already figured that out. thank god. they really don't. so

is senator kamala harris the new barack obama? back in a moment. >> laura: california senator kamala harris is being a shining hope. the 2020 race, yes, we are already talking about it. isn't that fun? she has liberal hearts swooning even more after a report that her office -- check this out, refused to accept a courtesy phone call from the white house counsel's office about of course the supreme court pick. they want of course to discuss the kavanaugh appointment. her office is now denying that exact precise characterization, but regardless senator harris is on the relentless campaign to beef up her left-wing bona fide. it doesn't hurt that she is apparently a longtime favorite of former president obama. could she reach obama-like status questionnaire cured to discuss is sean duffy and austin dove, an attorney who runs in many of the same legal circles as senator harris. kamala harris, i see her as a likely 2020 front runner. i don't think it's going to be elizabeth warren. i don't think it's going to be bernie sanders. joe biden

>> barack obama allowed the russians to metal. barack obama allowed them to invade crimea. you can laugh. barack obama allowed the syrians to gas children. the red line that barack obama talked about was not accurate. he lied to the american people and he let putin do whatever he wanted. those are the facts. >> martha: hold on, austin. >> he went to a summit in which he is talking about potentially extraditing the u.s., the former u.s. ambassador. to russia. >> it's not true. >> martha: hold on, guys. austin. austin, just take a breath for one second. in terms of actual facts on the ground and what we have seen happen, this president gave legal aid to the ukraine. president obama sent them mr es. you can talk in broad terms about being dissatisfied with the attitude that you saw in helsinki and i think he would find a lot of people that would agree with that, but we have to deal in the actual facts on the ground. president obama said that he would consider easing up on the missile shield. can you imagine how that felt to the eastern european countries when they heard that?

if you got a choice between listening to barack obama, michelle obama, or hillary clinton, it gets to be pretty easy as to who you want in the spotlight. you know, i listen to a former president's speech, i didn't think it was that outrageous, he didn't call out president trump by name. it was pretty mild, especially by president obama's standards when he was in office, when he often called our people by name. so more power to him. i think that if republicans have some people we want to try it out, that's great. frankly, this makes sense. you don't want to but maxine waters, you don't want to put elizabeth warren, you don't want to put hillary out there, and right now that is all they have got talking. >> jason: the democrats have come up with a new slogan. they dumped the one they had. they tried to unveil a new one, i believe it is "for the people." i see a party without a leader, begging, hoping for barack obam barack obama, but then i also don't see a message in terms of policy. what do you see? >> their messages, vote for us, we'll reverse the tax cuts and take the money back fro

. >> greg: too bad obama didn't feel that way. >> marie: this isn't about barack obama. it's about donald trump. donald trump's president today and his intelligence chief said this is like what we saw before 9/11 in terms of the threat. donald trump, by not standing up to russia yesterday or today, is not countering that threat and that should be a problem for all americans. >> greg: i disagree with dan coats. the difference between radical islam and threats like russia is existential. radical islam wants to destroy the world. russia is just another power. >> marie: they are trying to undermine our democracy. >> charlie: manages to kill lots of innocent people on a routine basis. it should be combated. but it's not killing thousands of innocent women and children every year. clearly the president made a mistake yesterday and that performance, but it was just a performance. the mistake he made was he conflated the whole business about the hacking into the dnc servers in this business about collusion. and that, when you are president of the united states, you cannot do tha

they went with obama. obama could fill a stadium. as joe biden going to fill a stadium? i don't think so. i don't think kamala harris will fill a stadium but made them burn bernie or elizabeth warren will pay >> one oh barack obama campaign, he wasn't a leftist candidate. he believed in traditional marriage. he believed in bringing the country together. he talked about, he was a centrist in his message as he could've been. he didn't govern that way once he got there. let me say something that will surprise you. i don't want to see the democrats go this far left because is not good for the country. >> i agree. >> we need to go good, strong parties, both of whom represent the mainstream america with some differences. that's not what we are getting, i called her the girl wonder from new york. >> i couldn't agree more. we are patriots before we are partisans. >> laura: i've got to go unfortunately but you are making great points. whatever is best for the country going forward, that's where we all should be. thank you so much. president trump achieving a major warning to the

obama in 2013. kavanaugh as a federal judge as you know wrote that sometimes a special needs of law enforcement, quote outweighs the intrusion on individual liberty. i know you had concerns about that case and maybe others. i also understand have you an open mind. where do you stand? are you -- what will it take to get to you to yes on kavanaugh? >> at this point i'm undecided i try weigh this in the perspective of this could be a clinton nominee vs. a trump nominee. i am somewhat persuaded to have an open mind. this is president trump who did such a great job with justice gorsuch. i am worried that kavanaugh will cancel out gorsuch's vote on the fourth amendment. he said in his opinion in clayman that basically national security trumps the fourth amendment. and that the bulk collection, you remember the program that snowden revealed that the government was collecting august of our metadata and phone records and storing in utah and millions and millions of pieces of data, bawnkly kavanaugh ruled he

is senator kamala harris the new barack obama? back in a moment. >> laura: california senator kamala harris is being a shining hope. the 2020 arrays, yes, we are already talking about it. isn't that fun? she has liberal heart swooning even more after a report that her office -- check this out, refuse to accept a courtesy phone call from the white house counsel's office about of course the supreme court pick. they want of course to discuss the kavanaugh appointment. her office is now denying that exact precise characterization but regardless senator harris is on the villainous campaign to be up her left-wing bona fide. it doesn't hurt that she is apparently a longtime favorite of former president obama. could she reach obama-like status questionnaire cured to discuss is sean duffy and austin dam, an attorney who runs and many of the same legal circles as senator harris. kamala harris, i see her as a likely 2020 front runner. i don't think it's going to be elizabeth warren. i don't think it's going to be bernie sanders. joe biden is

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. >> jon: not very often you hear a sitting president refer to another president. >> he doesn't follow the norms in politics. if he is trying to say his administration is tougher to russia than obama's. he is right. after they marched into ukraine. after that happened obama took a turn. before that he was very soft and accommodating looking for more flexibility. >> jon: a lot of observers say that putin may have felt the freedom to go into crimea and ukraine because he didn't think he would get pushback from barack obama. >> the question was whether or not he felt the nato alliance was pushing against him and he was making it clear he viewed crimea as part of russian territory. he wants to reestablish the former soviet union. president obama, remember, there was a great deal of upset over the idea of missiles and missile defense system being used by nato and putin was objecting specifically to that at the time. not only that, remember that after obama finally acted

forces under donald trump, not barack obama. crimea was annexed under barack obama. jesse: ben shapiro in the lion's den with bill maher. jesse: you probably stumped him because he was high and smoked before the show. but i want to talk to you about the top three scotus picks. tell me what your assessment is of brett kavanaugh who seems to be the early establishment insider frontrunner. >> i'm dicey on brett kavanaugh. he was one of the forces behind the selection of john roberts. but there are two situations where he has done less than originalists would like. he denied jurisdiction on obamacare because he said it was a tax. it's the first time anybody made the argument obamacare was a tax rather than a fine. and that's the logic that ended up being used by chief justice roberts. that came from a cavanaugh dissent. there is another case in which kavanaugh suggests the government had a compelling interest in providing contraceptive care. that case is a little bit of evidence that he takes seriously the government's stated interest in leftive issues. jesse: the wall s

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russian. heas was a total patsy. look at the statements he made when he thought the mics were turned off, ok? stupid statements he made. nobody makes a big deal about that. getting along with president putin is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had.it >> jason: that doesn't sound like a guy afraid of russia. what the media and the left forget to mention in this conversation is that helsinki didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a part of series of major moves president trump made overseas. for example what would forget the president's successful summit with north korea's kim jong-un who pledged to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. that was last month. last week president trump at nato summit in brussels demanded our allies pay more of their share of military spending. check out this graph by bloomberg showing increases in military budgets from nato members from 2016 to 2017. i which some are calling the trump bump. t

and now, and iranian lawmakers claims the obama administration granted u.s. citizenship to more than 2,000 iranians including government officials after the iran nuclear deal was signed. upon hearing this, the president took to twitter saying "just out that the obama administration granted citizenship, during the terrible iran deal negotiation, to 2,500 iranians - including to government officials. how big and bad is that?" david, this is more evidence of why the president pulled out of the deal. >> david: we must not forget that iran does not want to be our partner. they want to take everything they can from us. every time we learn something new about this iran deal, there is more outrage of this country of the president getting out of this deal. come on, you tell me, you go to that deal and tell me that it is a good deal for america. you will advocate that there are iranians? >> dagen: a number of people in those roles. >> jessica: the sleaziness of this deal. $7 billion and set in the middle of the night. that relates to a state-sponsored terrorism. and by

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. look at the statement he made when he thought the mics were turned off, the stupid statement he made. nobody does a big deal about that. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he has ever had. >> jeanine: but president trump has not only issued warnings, he has a long track record of countering the malicious actions of vladimir putin. the president armed ukraine, increased sanctions on russia. increased funding to nato. slapped severe financial restrictions on some of vladimir putin's closest allies. and authorized a counterattack on the putin-backed soldiers inside of syria killing hundreds. remember, russia's takeover of crimea in the ukraine, putin's power grab in syria, and the election meddling all happened on obama's watch. joining me now with reaction from the fox business network, lou dobbs. good evening, mr. dobbs. how are you? >> good to see you,

when president bush met with putin, president obama. relations between the united states and russia were okay and then kind of not so good. that's why the whole reset button came out. since then, things have really - - since then, things with russia has really gone downhill. russia invading crimea is the first time we've seen something like that in an awfully long time. and totwo twoputin has re-visua a ruthless politician. >> you bring up a good point about how ruthless and tough vladimir putin isand was bit left office for a couple years . decided - - wasn't tough enough and then came back as we watch president trump head down the steps here. talked was on the otherside about what reception president trump gets from vladimir putin . putin has been good about talking about the deep state and it's our staff that don't want us to get along that we can be friends. does putin arrive to protests as well? look at this from the russian angle for us. >>reporter: i think if you take a look at the two times they have met a year ago at the g 20 s

you mentioned president obama's name. they don't like that. you cannot mention president obama's name unless you are all googly eyed. you can't mention president obama's name unless you are genuflecting and here you were talk about president trump's record and also president trump getting the nato ally to the pay $34 billion up front and commitment to pay hundreds of billions more. people don't like when you raise president obama now because it's not in connection with the tax cuts or growth and prosperity. isis on his watch was going all around the globe. now it's a shadow of itself. so many great things are happening in this country. the deregulation. the president is talking to many countries. people can't argue the facts so they argue emotion. i think information beats emotion. judge jeanine: without a doubt. joining me now with more reaction, congressman darrell issa. good evening, congressman. i was going to talk about this with kellyanne, but i'll start with you. you know, the trump -- the president tweeted that the rigged witch hunt he

this is a former cia man under obama. let's watch. >> fbi director continues the investigation, department of justice continues to support the investigation, congress continues saying this investigation is legitimate. curious point in american government, when do we see almost a shadow government come out and say, we cannot side with the government, when there is a cabinet or the senate? that's the big question. >> laura: shadow government needs to form to apparently undo the presidential election? your reaction? >> where's the obama former cia director calling when treason when you need it, because that is what that would be. i think we have really, really run the limits are on absolute trump-derangement-syndrome across the board on how people react to this kind of thing.al i think the president was trying to do two hard things at one time today. it might have been what tripped up some of the communication. i agree completely on the strategy side of it, that you got in "the angle." he's restoring realism, trying to get g

[all speaking] how about obama taking out bin laden? must've been a republican. >> jesse: how about the democratic party being against missile defense. >> juan: it's unbelievable to me that he would invite putin here in the fall. maybe putin will be here to see how he interviews in the midterms. dan coats, the director of national intelligence, saying it's an ongoing effort by the russians to interfere. >> jesse: so clean on collusion, he doesn't care about having -- >> abby: do you think russia and the u.s. should have a relationship? are there more important issues? >> juan: there's nothing bigger than our democracy. you've got to protect the united states. >> jesse: why don't you protect the border? >> juan: i will protect the border. >> jesse: you are into protecting electoral integrity but not the border. >> juan: i would like integrity of the burner but i have to say when you don't say in the meeting that took place, mr. putin, you are not calling back the u.s. ambassador try to prosecute and interrogate him and then come out toda

if you got a choice between listening to barack obama, michelle obama, or hillary clinton, it gets to be pretty easy as to who you want in the spotlight. you know, i listen to the formes president's speech, i didn't think it was that outrageous, he didn't call out president trump by name.mp it was pretty mild, especially by president obama's standards when he was in office, when he often called our people by name. so more power to him. i think that if republicans have some people we want to trot out, that's great. frankly, this makes sense. you don't want to put maxine waters, you don't want to put elizabeth warren, you don't want to put hillary out there, and right now that is all they have got talking. >> jason: the democrats have come up with a new slogan. they dumped the one they had. they tried to unveil a new one, i believe it is "for the people." i see a party without a leader, begging, hoping for barack obama, but then i also don't see a message in terms of policy. what do you see? >> their message is, vote for us, we'll reverse the tax cuts and take the money back from you an

this is a former cia man under obama. let's watch. >> fbi director continues the investigation, department of justice continues to support the investigation, congress continues saying this investigation is legitimate. curious point in american government, when do we see almost a shadow government come out and say, we cannot side with the government, when there is a cabinet or the senate? that's the big question. >> laura: shadow government needs to form two apparently under the presidential election? your reaction? >> where's the obama former cia director calling trees when you needed, because that is what that would be. i think we have really, really round the limits are an absolute derangement syndrome across the board on how people react to this kind of thing. i think the president was trying to do two hard things at one time today. it might have been what tripped up some of the communication. i agree completely on the strategy side of it, that you got in "the angle." he's restoring realism, trying to get great power r

that was not possible during the years of barack obama. you know one to maybe not even 2% gdp growth, that was supposed to be the new normal. president has blown through that in 18 months. mark: why does the media hate him so much? >> because we won, the grand strategy of the left is they have the first black president, then they were going to have the first female president, then probably the first hispanic president, and then probably another identity politics president. looking at 32 years of ideological domination of the united states of america, which includes the supreme court, they're going to be ruling, not governing this constitutional republic. donald trump came in from outside, and not just the liberal progressive media, have you people like george well, max booth, bill kristol, all of the folks so comfortable with inside the beltway, it got upset by a person that came in from the outside. he did not act as they scripted things to do, to be, and now he's producing results, and they're not relevant anymore. so donald trump has co

that is one thing that did happen under the obama administration. what i don't agree with in term of what the president said his that's not in the past, that is still very much ongoing and i think our government, our federal government has to have much more measured response we talk about how we're going to stop that from happening in the future. i saw the bizarre interview wit chris wallace, he asked them some great questions, and there's no reason that he would tell the truth. there are a million reasons russia would screw around and all of this because of the gas, that's all they have. >> i think the bottom line is people are going to be critical of president trump regardless o what he says. but it wasn't his best press conference? perhaps not. he is not one that often comes back and says look, i was wrong and misspoke so i think we need to look at this, step back a little bit and wait to see what other information comes out of that to our meeting that we still don't know much about. >> to that . , where should the american people be willing to s

at the time and barack obama was a passive president. president trump has shown he is willing to lead and willing to buff the foreign policy elites and they had not gotten many things right over the last five-30 years. it is good that he's going to do that but ultimately a strong president, i think, will get better results. we've seen it with the embassy in jerusalem. we have seen it in other parts of the world and i think as long as we go in and meet bottom up and continues to be firm that will be a world of difference from what doubt with obama when obama was telling [inaudible] i will have more flexibility. steve: great. we will remember that. question, he seen us from the inside and one of the other criticisms you hear a lot about with president trump is there is this can't figure out what his strategy is. why is he so nice to blood america and why does he go around being aggressive and insulting to a friends and sucking up and cuddling up and we hear that all the time. what do you think is the strategy how do you respond to that arg

obama didn't do it. obama was a pats j for russia. he was a total patsy. look at the statement he made when he thought the mics were turned off, okay? the stupid statement he made. nobody makes a big deal about that. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. all right, now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he has ever had. the worst he has ever had. >> juan: trump, of course, referring to this hot mic moment in 2012. >> my last election. and after my election i have more flexibility. >> juan: well, here we are now when a moment patsy and by the way jesse thinks trump is bringing back patsy. like i'm bringing sexy back. something like that. so, anyway, here's a moment when lots of americans think boy, that was terrible what the president did in helsinki and he is calling the former president a patsy. is this distraction, is this trump media management? >> jesse: yep, and it totally worked. we are talking about patsy and not the helsinki summit. he is right. the russian

president obama remained silent. years later he pushed the iran deal, which critics have said failed to exist on any time anywhere in inspections. the administration sent bags of money totaling $1.7 billion to seal that deal. joining me now, former state department spokesperson under president obama marie har harf. always good to see you, thank you for being here. >> of course. >> martha: it seems that what we are seeing here is the same kind of back-and-forth that we witnessed with the north korean leader. we are now seeing with rouhani. what is wrong with pushing his buttons, given all that iran continues to carry out in the middle east? >> i think it's good to be tough on iran given what they are doing in the region. i agree with that but my question to president trump, first about the tweet, or else what? what is he threatening? i get it that he wants to talk tough. >> martha: the snapback for the sanctions is coming. >> i don't think he was tweeting about snapback spirit with all due respect to the president, it

obama was like maybe i should talk to them. don't you dare do that. >> greg: didn't he tried to talk to him already. >> dana: i think there was letters. >> greg: i want to play sound on tape from the network, cnn. there is still around. it is about the wake the dog scenario. >> i don't want to go full wag the dog. we know that the president's strategy. the president's strategy, he has imploded over and over. it would be foolish not to absorb it and recognize it. when he is embarrassed, as he was last week, he always refers to traction. >> greg: he wasn't embarrassed. >> jesse: that is the worst. >> greg: he ordered up another summit. >> jesse: he should have done this last week. it's rich talking about wagging the dogs. bill clinton bombed an aspirin factory during the lewin ski testimony. >> juan: you are not denying that's what he's doing? >> jesse: it should've been a week ago. >> dana: in the lead up to the sanctions going back. it's the lead up so people aren't surprised. the president said we are snapping back the sanctio

. >> extremely relevant that president obama did nothing. now we hear the democrats crying about meddling. they had every opportunity to stop this. nunes warned them this is the greatest intelligence failure since 9/11. obama did nothing except a chat with putin, hey, can you stop that? he did nothing. >> a little good chat. president trump didn't say stop that, he said bring it on. >> there is a difference here. the president seems to struggle with the difference between meddling in the election and being an illegitimate president. what christopher wray was talking about and had a great line i don't want anyone to mistake what my spine is made up when he was asked about threatening to resign or the accusation it is a witch hunt. everybody agrees the russians meddled in this election. mike pompeo has said that and that they're coming for 2018. the president is unconcerned with it. democrats dropped the ball here. something that democrats across the board will admit but -- >> bill: what they need to get their head around is where his head is.

obama was very weak in ukraine. frump has authorized the sale of weapons to the ukrainians to defend themselves. trump has expelled 60 russian intelligence people from the united states. he has closed four russian offices in the united states. he went to nato, to do what? to get them to increase their spending so they would be stronger in containing russia. he lectured the chancellor of germany about what? about buying natural gas from russia and propping up putin. so, to suggest that somehow trump is some patsy for putin requires to you deny everything that he has done and that's why correcting that one mistake, i thought, was very important. brian: real quick, leon panetta the former cia director the way trump behaves is clear signal the russians have something on him. do you want to encounter that or agree with that? >> sure, i think john brennan is a total disgrace. >> no, leon panetta. >> panetta, brennan called it treasonous. in panetta's case, i would like to know why when he was advising obama they didn't pr

the averageument rate under obama 7.4%. under president trump african-american unemployment is now at its lowest rate ever. 6.5%. record low hispanic low at 4.6%. women in the work force lower at 4%. 14 states have record low unemployment. consumer confidence at a 17 year high. homeownership rate up. americanses on food stamps is down by millions. there it are more jobs available in america than people on unemployment. an economic miracle turnaround. we are negotiating better trade deals all over the world. no trade wars including this week when president trump and the head of the european union agreed to zero barriers. under obama gave us 13 million more americans on food stamps. the lowest labor participation rate since the '70s. the worst homeownership rate in 51 years and the worst recovery since the '40s and took on more debt than ever other president before him combined. on my radio show president trump said this about america's record setting economy. >> a big factor, sean, was regulation. a big factor was the taxes.

. >> that i loved president obama. they detest president trump. everyone of the sound bites came from a highly placed democratic optative. the guy will sit-down. he's auto tough negotiator. his bright arrival. when push comes to shove guess what, everybody is agreeing to get the 2% and it was prime minister may he insulted her then he said that was fake news. she let that slide and so did the british establishment. you have russians occupying eastern ukraine. you have the syria situation. you have the under minding and meddling in the u.s. election. you have the russianpipeline pie going to germny. that i have a lot to deal with. i'm sure president trump won't surrender himself. >> monday will be a big one. thank you for weighting in. we'll await it with faded breathe. >>> democrademonstrators gathert the golf course. >> you can hear them in the background. this was earlier this morning were protestors are filling into streets and parks. >>> one state trooper was shot several times. michigan state police is a the drive

pick one, obama? i mean obama mocked president trump for saying he could get to 4% and now is he there and all the naysayers now it's not sustainable. the same people who said it wasn't possible. he has done this through tax cuts, deregulation and energy production. compare under barack obama. i think the final year under obama it was 1.5%. he never hit annually 3% g.d.p. and trump is on pace to beat that right now. and i think under obama they lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs over 8 years. trump has already added nearly 4,000 manufacturing jobs. these numbers are terrific. consumer confidence is up. wages rupp a little bit. they could be higher. four million jobs almost created since is inauguration all the way around. if he can stay strong on the economy, focus on law and order and get these judges in and get trade wins before the mid terms he will be able to get his approval rating up to the high 40's which is going to be really important going into november. >> dana: other thing i wanted to ask you

>> there's more in the sense that trump has done more than say obama did. he carried out air strikes on syria. he has stripped isis of its caliphate. things are moving. something is changing. is he prone to hyperbole? absolutely. if he were another president, i might be worried about that statement because that would be normal. with trump, that's normal response when he's trying to be threatening. i think the iranians understand that. i also think there's the bit of unpredictability to what he says and does, certainly to what the he says and does. >> neil: john bolton has spoken with the president. the president said if iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before. apparently he's communicating to his top lieutenants, this is how i feel, this is what i'm going to do. but then what does that mean if -- what is considered agitating behavior, something that would warrant a response like that on the part of iran? >> what the trump administration has done is not spell out what this would be. it's highl

he just laid the blame on president obama. >> the president has mentioned it. in his own way he has mentioned it. he's well aware of it. i suspect tomorrow it will be part of the conversation. chris: senator john mccain has called what the russians did in meddling in our 2016 election, quote, an act of war. was it? >> it was a malign activity. an act of war? it depends on who is describing what an act of war is. i know that john mccain, somebody i admire and revere, somebody who has been an inspiration to me through my career, on issues we have disagreed over the years, he has a very hard-line toward russia. i respect that. and it doesn't surprise me that he would say that. but i think what's important again, chris, is that we look toward this november and make sure we have the kind of dialogue which we will begin tomorrow with the russians. chris: to put them on notice? >> to put them on notice as we have already in our meetings at a diplomatic level. that's why tomorrow's session is going to be important. november is looming. and we have to make sure we can n

i remember obama saying edtold putin to knock it off. do you think that kgb agent was scared when obama said knock it off? >> i'll tell you, putin had to take half a baby aspirin that night to get to sleep, he was so frightened by what had been said to him by obama. the continues is the press is half right. they said russia tried to meddle in the election. what they are wrong about is saying it has a thing to do with donald trump. even these indictments do not in any way tie anything to president trump. judge jeanine: we all know no one will be extradited, arraigned, tried, convicted or sentenced why do we spend millions of dollars on investigations like this when we know no russian will be sent over by russia to be prosecuted by the mueller team. >> i think it's window dressing. it's show. it's trying to prove there was some basis for the mueller investigation. but the more we know, the less the evidence point to collusion. and the more it points to the fact it was a weak administration that did absolutely nothing to stop the russia int

by the part about men, this is what drives me crazy about obama. it is one day after you gave a speech where he said, don't criticize people because they are male or they are whites and they cannot see things from your point of view. do not take those judgments, then he goes out and gives that type of judgment about men, that they are bullies and violent head he goes from one to another and the press never holds them accountable. for eight years the press was soft on barack obama and they are so hard on donald trump. the contrast is right out. >> melissa: trish, what do you think? >> trish: i think he missed his calling, he would've been a great comedian. it sounds like he was giving a comic sketch up there, i mean, look. i am all for everyone that has a commitment and an interest in politics to pursue that, regardless of your gender, color, et cetera. the more diversity that you have is the better that you are as a country because you have more viewpoints. that is all good, but really -- she would've been a wonderful comedian. just before he is a

you should have had guest voices, like, raymond could have done obama. it would have been great. i want to be a guest voice on your book. >> judge jeanine: you when i could do an audiobook together. we could go high, low. [laughs] >> laura: great show tonight. good evening from washington. i am laura ingraham. this is the "the ingraham angle." a big show tonight to kick off this holiday week. house and told her devin nunes as we were toppling his efforts to find out whether the trump campaign really was under surveillance. he has something exclusively to share with us tonight. plus, the left just cannot stop comparing themselves to the bright ones, of course, the conservatives come ben shapiro joins us with reactions, to a vile new slur against them. meanwhile, andy trump forces are salivating over the prospect that michael cohen could flip. of course, flip on the president. but that he really imply that an abc interview today? but first, the democratic meltdown in a war on i.c.e. that is the focus focus of tonight's "angle" ." there are about 700 or so left us marchers over the

the obama era and the party it leftd behind always prized style over experience and result. and now, a new generation of inspires -- inexperience charismatic leftists are moving to the fore of the party giving speeches and leading marches and resisting trump. but original thinking and a governing strategy continues to elude them. with every tack to the left, they merely estrangee themselves from the vast middle and working class of this country, catering only to the progressive elites in manhattan and malibu. should this continue come november, well, voters, even democratic ones, may be pulling the lever to abolish the democrats and that's "the angle." >>> joining us now with reaction is democratic congressman from illinois, raja, former pennsylvania congressman and democrat, jason altmeyer, and democratic strategist ladawn jones. let's first go to the congressman. i feel like the democrats are in a way where the republicans were kind of 2009 before the tea partyy really got going and they're looking for fraction somewhere. now, it's -- traction somewhere. now it's abolish i