to be a blow to barack obama and his campaign. they really thought they had this. >> reporter: they came expecting a coronation, instead, barack obama had to concede, however, they're not throwing in the towel by any means. >> the energy is all on barack obama and hillary clinton. so get through all these first primaries and john edwards and his two americas are not getting any traction. >> it's time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path. >> it is now certain that for the first time in america a major political party will nominate either a woman or an african northwestern be its candidate for president. >> i feel change in the air! what about you? >> the united states political royalty was endorsing this first term senator and turning its back on the clintons. for the clintons it was personal because they had worked with ted kennedy, they were friends with ted kennedy. it was a real blow for us. hillary said, where do we go from here? frankly, we didn't have the answer. >> hillary clinton never anticipated, expec

[applause] . >> also dan pfeiffer one of barack obama's longest-serving advisors white house director of communications under president obama and senior advisor to the president he is the author of politics in the age of obama. [applause] and finally to be simulcast and then with the cnn crossfire including the obama hate machine. the top 100 reasons to dump trump. [applause] . >> just a few opening comments you can see the titles of our books where the temperature is up a little bit. [laughter] but my book i started and try to make sense of what happened and then at the conclusion he turns to me and says what if we were wrong? i didn't know what he meant i've been wrong in a lot of things. what if we pushed too far? what if i was 15 or 20 years too early? he was raising a much more profound question about the direction of the country. but i wrote this because when i went to work for the obama campaign i was 29 years old. so that vantage point over the course of a decade i can let my experience be that entry point how our perspective on american politics could show what happened the w

barack obama. it obviously wasn't great under barack obama. i hope and inspiration that was the political style of both barack obama and ronald reagan. they both sold hope and inspiration. they are going to be very rare. as long as donald trump is president. a final word what well save us and what can save the country unfortunately this has happened repeatedly we need a crisis. >> we do work very well when there is a crisis. a depression, a war. americans come together in the divisions are for a moment cast aside. when there is a huge urgency in public opinion to solve a problem the country can function. the government can function quite admirably. for one year a majority of democrats favored and supported president bush. a charismatic leader can help do it. that was supposed to be president obama. our constitutional system of weak government actually provides an answer to saving america from this bitter division. it was designed in the 18 18th century to protect america from a tyrant the people who wrote the constitution have fought that reso

obama's nomination in 2008, so there is even a direct line. >> barack obama was an outsider. he was not a democratic party insider. hillary clinton had the inside track to the nomination. but what he was able to do, like reverend jackson, was to expand the electorate, to bring new energy into the party, and to encourage young people to vote. he mobilized people that we had never witnessed in the american political process. but like reverend jackson, he was a game changer, and the rules that we transformed under jesse jackson's leadership enabled not just barack obama to succeed but also hillary clinton because we made proportional representation. we have equal division between men and women, and we ensure that every state that hold caucuses or primary that they're open to new people and that people, like bernie sanders, can come in and find their seats at the table. >> moving forward, i think some of the things that are most instructive about your tenure in 2016 in the democratic national committee's leadership structure, for that brief tenure, is what we've learned about it

president barack obama kind of open explains how part of the media typifies america's political divide and how obama himself might also be a part of the problem. former u.s. president barack obama is now talking about how americans are living in a political bubble by the time i take office what you increasingly is. a media environment in which if you are a fox news you are you have an entirely different reality then if you are a new york times reader well i agree i think obama may have heard that somewhere else there is one echo chamber that loves the donald and the other that hates him well media at go chambers are indeed a big problem in the united states a new study from mit revealed which media outlets get the most three tweets it turns out the more partisan you are as a media outlet the more recent tweets you get if you look deeper barack obama himself might be a big part of the problem that he describes this is what his communications director said about the conservative t.v. network fox news we're going to treat them the way we would treat in the opponent as they're undertaking

why was it okay for barack obama? but somehow donald trump does it. and you are saying it's political. and i don't think it's particularly appropriate, and during that particular time of year. they should make it political, either way. whether obama did it or jumped at it. either way it's not a good thing to do. and one of your democratic colleagues, and there is going to be a ransom that will be required, pay it. it's the right thing to do because we are never going to be able to overcome the 60 votes in the senate. his point being the president wants the money for the wall. why won't you and other democrats negotiate with him and give him at least some of that money, so you can give him a permanent fix on daca. >> i'm all for compromise, particularly if that's a permanent fix for a daca, all the better. one thing about the $5 billion is, on the armed some comic services committee as i am and also on the transportation infrastructure, we require the government agencies to tell us precisely what they want the money for her, not just generally for a ro

president barack obama is now talking about how americans are living in a political bubble by the time i take office what you increasingly is. a media environment in which if you are a fox news you have an entirely different reality then if you are a new york times reader well i agree i think obama may have heard that somewhere else so folks in the anti trump camp got confirmation that the donald is a racist meanwhile those in the pro trump bubble got confirmation that the liberal press is out to slander him that's just one example of how americans seem to live almost in two different realities with media at go chambers are indeed a big problem in the united states a new study from mit revealed which media outlets get the most three tweets it turns out the more partisan you are as a media outlet the more read tweets you get if you look deeper barack obama himself might be a big part of the problem that he describes this is what his communications director said about the conservative t.v. network fox news we're going to treat them the way we would treat in the potent as they're undertak

they fell in love with barack obama. i give a nod to a candidate who can win the heart of voters. >> they can't do this logically. >> no. this is the reason the house democrats were looking for recruits to take over the house in 2008 they went with veterans. small business people. people who had no record in elected office. nothing that you can point to of that's seven-eights of what i wanted. they don't need to be good. they need to be perfect. >> i understand why so many donor, the race is frozen. it's frozen until beto announces what he will do. donors are in love with him for the fact it's a blank slate. >> it's blank slate. he's proven to raise a lot of money and democrats can fall in love. i honestly believe him when he said during his texas campaign he will not run for president but since then, he's walked back dramatically. i think that's because he realized what he is able to do. >> when is the last time democrats fell in line and won the presidency? when they fall in line or when they fall in love, barack obama

i was shocked, the honesty and the conversation and i'll never forget the day that barack obama, the day after he was elected and the president marked history from the rose garden, he was in the oval office and i don't know what was going on. he was pacing back and forth and we were waiting for him to come out and he had steve hadley and others in the audience and all of a sudden he turned to the doors and saw me and he stopped and he raised the roof and we both laughed and changed the atmosphere inthat room. now a story of this president . >> what about president obama? >> what is the story of president obama, traveling to africa with him. doing the interview with him on air force one. and i don't tell the story a lot but it's not about politics and policy, this is a personal thing. when he was leaving office, he and michelle obama were leaving the white house, my two daughters a personal audience to say goodbye. that was special. and it was touching for me, is not about policy. my children saw that dealt in these two historic persons in the white house. and now to president trump.

obama. he told me a week prior to that, he saw the racism that was going on, i was shocked, you know, the honesty and the conversation and i will never forget the day barack obama, the day after he was elected and he was in the oval office very upset and i don't know what was going on, he was pacing back and forth, we were waiting for him to come out, we were in the rose garden and he had steve and others in the office, he was very angry and turned to french doors and he saw me and stopped and we both laughed, changed the atmosphere in the room. now the story of this president -- >> what about president obama. >> president obama, good story, travel to go africa with him, doing interviews with him on air force one and i don't tell the story a lot but it's not about politician or policy, it's a personal thing when he was leaving office he and michelle obama were leaving the white house, they said good-bye and that was special and it was -- it was touching for me. it's not about politician or p

>> i would love to have a nice meeting with former president barack obama. barack obama is still the most popular person in the democratic party at this point in time, and hillary clinton's numbers have gone down since she lost in 2016, and barack obama has favorable ratings, and 80 or 90%, and he's about as popular with democrats as donald trump is with republicans. for me, this is somebody that wants to say, hey, this guy likes me, he likes me. >> we have jonathan martin with t "the new york times," and sherrod brown may cut into bernie sanders' backing. we have you here, and you look at the numbers. new year's resolutions. what is the statistics, the data? >> i probably am not going to make a new year's resolution, but there was a marist poll a year ago and it said 44% said they were somewhat likely to make a resolution, and 56 said not likely at all, and i am in the 44%. this is one of the things i do on my day off, i listen to the news instead of appear on it. in any event, they said you should probably make weekly resolution instead of a yearly one. i

then almost in the next breath, barack obama said, but don't hire dental mike flynn. at that time, he was a three-star retired general from the head of defense intelligence agency has been someone who campaigned with donald trump and the team for a series of months. present elect trump got to know flynn very well. respected his service to the country. we were seriously looking at giving mike flynn a senior position inside the trump administration. but those words, don't let anyone tell you who to hire, with the single exception of mike flynn, set the tone of the entire intelligence community. mike flynn, as a former head of the dia understood the intelligence agency. understood the resources they had, they could bring to bear against individuals and event internationally. what we talk about the book is a relationship that foreigners were afraid of mike flynn because he had a different way of doing things. much like donald trump. is going to come to washington d.c. and fundamentally change the way the intelligence community operates. mike flynn did that with the head o

love barack obama. when i voted in 2016, everybody came to the polling place with their barack obama outfits on. in the 2016 election. this man ain't running. everybody came with their bedazzled barack obama hats, their barack obama martin luther king tee shirts. love barack obama. what they have been chanting at these protests is yes, obama, no displacement which is really interesting, because basically they are trying to head off the criticism of but don't you love barack obama? and it's another way that black figureheads can be deployed very effectively in the same way barbara byrd bennett who i quoted as a black woman and when people said school closings are racist, rahm emmanuel said how dare you say that about barbara byrd bennett. there's a way of deploying black people in positions of power who themselves are implementing racist and white supremacist policy to effectively deflect accusations of racism, and that's really bad. so -- also, the obama presidential library is the kind of thing that mi

they love barack obama. when i voted in 2016, everybody came to the polling place with their barack obama outfits on. in the 2016 elections. everybody came with their bedazzled barack obama there barack obama martin luther king t-shirts . we love barack obama so what they had been chanting at these protests is yes obama, no displacement which i think is interesting because basically they're trying to head off the criticism of like, don't you love barack obama? and it's another way that black gearheads can be deployed very effectively in the same way barbara quoted as a black woman, and when people say things are racist, rahm emanuel said how dare you say that. there's a way of deploying black people in positions of power themselves are implementing racist and white supremacist policy. to effectively deflect accusations of racism. and that's really bad. so also, the obama presidential library is the kind of thing that middle-class people of all races, white liberal people in chicago, they sound great. it's ob

barack obama is not a native american person. barack obama must realize this was not a government email. this is just strain incredulity. >> he thinks people are stupid and they buy into what he is saying oh he never knew anything about her email that was unauthorized and unsecured and private. he was using a pseudonym to email her back and forth. also went on national a television and said she never jeopardized national security p how could he know that unless comey is lying that he didn't tell the president information about that. the most important part is obama went on national television and said not only does she not jeopardize national security, but that she was merely careless. that's what peter strzok and lisa page used to sanitize comey'ss findings in the exoneration statement, they used barack obama's terminology to clear hillary clinton.ny >> dan: a quick follow-up, given your legal background. would it have been possible if hillary clinton was prosecuted for email scandal that barack obama would have had to give some

barack obama is the founder of isis. because of his weak policies, and because he failed -- he failed! because he failed to get 'em out. because he failed to do something about it. >> jeffrey toobin, now you have the president today in iraq defending his troop pullout of syria to the troops, to the u.s. troops in iraq today. that was part of what he had to say. what do you think about all of this? >> well, you know, i think that that campaign talk was just campaign libel and absurd. i think what you actually have to look at is what the president has been saying for a long time about troops in the middle east. this is a very interesting part of bob woodward's book, where he keeps saying to his generals, why are we in afghanistan 17 years later? why do we have all these troops over there? i think a lot of americans are pretty sympathetic to that view. that we send troops in the middle east, and we rarely make things better. i think the aberration was the talk during the campaign was simply -- an idiotic way of attacking ba

he and barack obama are very close. i don't think he is probably very upset about this. it's interesting though in that poll 59% want someone new. i think we see that in poet parties, right? that's how we got donald trump. but joe biden was at 53%. joe biden knows he is very popular in the party. is he popular among independents and barack obama is going to have to meet with lots of people i do do think you will see keep his powder dry not have 25, 30 people weigh in the democratic primary. if joe biden wants to run, joe biden will have a lot of support even among people barack obama even if he didn't doesn't endorse him he was vice president 8 years. he has thicker skin than that. >> he was the vice president the last election as well. weave know the party leadership as well as the president all did the garden meetings. he wasn't going to run. this was all because hillary clinton was the chosen candidate. >> maria: that's not why biden didn't run. lawrenc>> i do think he will be frustrated if the president doesn't get behind him. he understands former president he has t

so candidate trump didn't take the advice from barack obama and ultimately offered general mike flynn the job as national security advisor and then we saw they didn't think that he was lying and there was a question as to whether what he's been accused of by the members of the fbi and the person who interviewed mike flynn with none other than page and he sat with him without an attorney and now they've charged him with perjury and pled guilty without the questions of whether or not i will hold uthatwill hold up so t this stage in the beginning of the administration. >> you talk about that in the first one third of the book you wrote we have little doubt that obama had led his agency spiral out of control during his eight years in office even going so far either explicitly to conduct surveillance of citizens of the united states on domestic soil and not just any citizens but also members of the trump campaign. they were more left-leaning than any administration and felt threatened by the incoming administration so you go on to theorize or to state the push against general flynn might b

look at the have a latest portrait we have of president barack obama. this was painted 10 years after the portrait of george w. bush. can see some similarities. both men are sitting down, looking directly out at you. neither of them are wearing a tie. fact thatde about the this artist, the first american to do an official portrait of a sitting president broke with conventions, certainly very green. but, what is happening here. remember, when we look at george washington there were a lot of symbols in that picture. i think this is the next time an artist really tries to put symbolism in the portrait. in fact there were little but it roses. every valentine's day we give them a significant gift of love. there actually would be an official flower of chicago, where barack obama was a senator. then we have the white flowers. a type of jazzman that goes into hawaii and also another type of jazzman that comes from indonesia. also relating to his childhood. those purple flowers are known as african lilies to connote kenya, where his father came from. here we hav

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and then almost in the next breath, barack obama said, but don't hire general mike flynn. at that time mike flynn was a three-star retired general from the head of the defense intelligence agency, and had been someone who had campaigned with donald trump and the team for a series of months, during the campaign, and president-elect trump got to know mike flip very well, respected his service to the country and we were seriously looking at giving mike flynn a senior position inside the trump administration. but those words, don't let anybody tell you who to hire, with the single exception of don't bring mike flynn into your administration, set the tone of the entire intelligence community, because mike flynn, as the former head of the dia, in other words the intelligence agency, understood the resource that they had and could bring to bear against individuals both domestically and internationally. and what we talk about in the book is the relationship that foreigners were afraid of mike flynn because he had a different way of doing things. much like donald trump. who is goin

there was no tony schwartz in barack obama's life. barack obama among presidents is a writer. genuinely a writer. you can hear that in his speeches. one of my favorite facts about we obama experience is that gave him $40,000 for the contract he and michelle got after he left the white house for their books, $65 million. i said, you know, that may be the biggest arc in the history of publishing. you think he made off of dreams from my father? peter: eventually he made a ton of money. he made millions, but not from us. book -- reissue of the it was a huge bestseller. brian: you wrote about it in 2006. a column you used to do. i just want to read this. you said, he speaks well and writes well. americans admire people who make the most of what they have. obama is certainly doing that. i just wish this virtuous symbol of america's aspirational class did not move quite so smoothly into a system of riches as a reward for service, especially before it had actually been rendered. explain that,. -- comment. peter: that represents one of my don quixote strengths of publishing. it bothers

barack obama must realize this was not a government email. this is just -- >> he thinks people are stupid and they buy into what he is saying oh he never knew anything about her email that was unauthorized and unsecured and private. he was using a pseudonym to email her back and forth. also went on national television and said she never jeopardy died national security how could he know that unless comey is lying that he didn't tell the president information about that. the most important part is obama went on national television and said not only does she not jeopardize national security but that she was nearly careless. that's what peter strzok and lisa page used to sanitize comey's findings in the exoneration statement any used barack obama's terminology to clear hillary clinton. it wouldn't have been possible if hillary clinton was prosecuted for email scandal that barack obama would have had to give some type of deposition on it given his obvious involvement given that he eagle mailed her. he might have had to, sure. he was emailing her a

there was no tony schwartz in barack obama's life. barack obama among presidents is a writer. genuinely a writer. you can hear that in his speeches. one of my favorite facts about the obama experience is that we gave him $40,000 for the contract he and michelle got after he left the white house for their books, $65 million. i said, you know, that may be the biggest arc in the history of publishing. brian: what do you think he made off of dreams from my father? peter: eventually he made a ton of money. he made millions, but not from us. from the reissue of the book -- it was a huge bestseller. brian: you wrote about it in 2006. a column you used to do. i just want to read this. you said, he speaks well and writes well. americans admire people who make the most of what they have. obama is certainly doing that. this was 2006. i just wish this virtuous symbol of america's aspirational class did not move quite so smoothly into a system of riches as a reward for service, especially before it had actually been rendered. explain that comment. peter: that represents one of my don quixo

barack obama dan quayle who was. george h.w. bush is vice president and elsewhere in the dignitaries at the front there we've seen supreme court justice clarence thomas we've seen ruth bader ginsburg as well this is an enormous event today i think dick cheney is there as well behind bill clinton i think i saw. joe biden as well this he is there as well it's and it is one of these extraordinary days where so many people from across the aisle as they say republican and democrats come together the death of a u.s. president the casket is making its way now through the streets of washington d.c. from the capitol building to the national cathedral a very somber day in washington d.c. as they say goodbye to george h. w. bush the forty third president of the united states. had a comment from facebook where yes inside the bush family was disastrous for many parts of the world especially the middle east interestingly we have a new opinion piece up that to zero dot com today rory miller wrote this he's a professor of government

candidate trump, electron did not take the advice from barack obama. ultimately offered general flynn the job as a national student advisor and then we saw that mike flynn made some misstatements to some investigators who have now gone back and said he didn't think mike was line and there's some real question as to whether mike is actually what he has been accused of by the crooked members of the fbi and the person, you know this who interviewed mike flynn, none other than mccabe and schrock and page and that whole cabal at fbi. mike flynn sat down with out an attorney and other charged with perjury. he pled guilty but there's a real question whether not that will hold up and so that advice really set the stage from the beginning. >> i'm going to read a brief exit for you talk about the that in the first maybe one-third of the book. you wrote, we have little doubt obama and let his intelligence agency spiral out of control during his eight years in office, even going so far as to either explicitly or exquisitely allow them to conduct surveillance of ci

it is rare that he quotes barack obama, he quotes that tweet from 2011 where barack obama and a state of the union address, it wasn't some throwaway said we finally need to do something about cracking down on illegal immigration. that is in 2011. to the democrats done in the last seven years? >> they have done nothing. they made it worse. if you have realized what they have done, they have gone 180 degrees opposite. they want open borders, they support legislation to authorize sanctuary cities throughout the country. they have gone completely to the left wing of their party. it is antithetical to what most americans want to. we know we need security or no need to change her immigration laws. we have to enforce those laws. before he got to that you have to secure your border and the best way to do that is a wall barrier. >> ed: jonathan just mentioned two different bills, one of them in 2013 in which over 60 democrats and republicans and the senate voted for this. that was including chuck schumer, all kinds of other folks that had 700 miles of fencing. why the flip-flop? they were for

barack obama was the speaker, but it was also earlier in the day that barack obama went to visit george herbert walker bush at home, probably one of the last major visits that he had before his passing. he was failing in the last couple of days and had been. really family and friends expected almost eight months ago barbara bush's passing. i think we all remember seeing him sorrowful and frail at that service and the love and support of his children. i had the great opportunity recently to sit down and talk about the past and the present and current politics and policy at a private gathering, an academic gathering with jeb bush. and we talked about his eloquent eulogy for his mother. it was very much on his mind because we all knew that his father's health was failing. remember at age 90 when he took that parachute jump and when i listened to barry mccaffrey talking about him as a commander and working in the first gulf war for george bush, the commander in chief, you think of him as being the youngestviator think of his rescue in the pacific is just extraordinary when you think from th

barack obama was the speaker, but it was also earlier in the day that barack obama went to visit george herbert walker bush at home, probably one of the last major visits that he had before his passing. he was failing in the last couple of days and had been. really family and friends expected almost eight months ago to barbara bush's passing. i think we all remember seeing him sorrowful and frail at that service and the love and support of his children. i had the great opportunity recently to sit down and talk about the past and the present and current politics and policy at a private gathering, an academic gathering with jeb bush. and we talked about his eloquent eulogy for his mother. it was very much on his mind because we all knew that his father's health was failing. remember at age 90 when he took that parachute jump and when i listened to barry mccaffrey talking about him as a commander and working in the first gulf war for george bush, the commander in chief, you think of him as being the youngest naval aviator in world war ii, to think of his rescue in the pacific is just extra

again, i am reading from a statement from the office of barack and michelle obama. george h.w. bush's life is testament to the notion that public service is noble, joyous calling, and he did tremendous good along the journey. expanding america's promise to new immigrants and people with disabilities. reducing the scourge of nuclear weapons and building a broad international coalition to expel a dictator from kuwait. and when democratic rev lugs bloomed across eastern europe, it was his steady diplomatic hand that made possible an achievement once thought anything but ending the cold war without firing a shot. it's a legacy of service that may never be matched, even though he'd want all of us to try. after 73 years of marriage george and barbara bush are together again now. two points of light that never dimmed, two points of light that ignited countless others with their example. the example of a man who even after commanding the world's mightiest military once said i got more of a kick out of being one of the founders of the ymca in midland texas back in 1952 than almost anyth

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it might be this way with barack obama. i will say you mentioned authenticity which i thought was interesting. joe biden, definitely authentic to the point where he can be there. he said it himself. in the way he made a gaffe already this week saying i'm the most qualified person to run for president. last time i checked, that is what hillary clinton said. >> bret: thank you so much. when we come back, a final tribute to the 41st president. ♪ ♪ the greatest wish of all... is one that brings us together. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with $0 down, $0 due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. only at your lincoln dealer. and a complimentary first month's payment. your insurance rates skyrocket you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a f

iowa, beto o'rourke still finds himself in roughly the same position barack obama did 12 years ago. obama was third in a crowd of fields. john edwards was far ahead, followed by hillary clinton. do you think beto o'rourke has his toe in the water here for iowa? >> yeah, look, if i was beto o'rourke and i saw that poll, i would say, you know what, i got to do this, jump in this race. good news also for joe biden and bernie sanders. joe biden has 99% name id in iowa, doesn't have a lot of room to grow. that was a good poll. it is not a great poll for elizabeth warren, had 80% name id, not a good place for her. it is still a very good poll for people like beto o'rourke and of course this is largely based on name id at this point, dana. there is a lot of room for candidates to grow and a lot can happen between now and the iowa caucuses. >> seems early to be talking about iowa. why are we talking about this? matt, this starts in february, just five weeks from now, you'll see the candidates going to

this is from barack obama in january of 201. he tweeted this: i strongly believe that we should take ons and for all the issue of illegal immigration. president trump is retweeting that at this hour, saying, i totally agree. glen is next in newport kentucky and glen, go aheador ore on the air. >> caller: hi. i'm sitting here watching c-span and wanted to call in on this. i don't necessarily vote for republican or democrat or independent. vote for the person i think is going right for the united states and for our country. not too long ago when obama was in office, the democrats was all for the wall but they couldn't get the money funded for the wall for some reason when they was actually in control of both the house and senate. and now it's kind of looks like between the democrat and republicans they've done a complete flip-flop and there was a republicans wanting the ball built and the united states of america needs the wall built. this is not foreign countries where they just invade and just come and go. sanctuary cities. unbe

barack obama who promised to be a unifying figure. you have donald trump who promised to make america great again, following obama's sort of more revolutionary, progressive vision. so what is the reaction to trump? is it experience? or is it post partisanship? what is it? i don't really know and that's what democrats are going to be sorting out. do you go with someone that's been around awhile? >> sanity and moderation. >> which candidates might fit that? >> they're not on that list. why isn't amy klobuchar on that list. of all the senators in the kavanaugh hearing, she came out by far the best. a midwestern democrat able to speak fluently in a purple state. some real experience. maggie hassan has gubernatorial experience. you'll see a lot of candidates that people haven't yet heard of but who are going to be terrific. >> the only thing i would add is the three people we've been talking about -- biden, beto and bernie are white men. >> that's exactly where i wanted to go, especially looking at the midterms in the south. the democrats

a us federal court in texas ruling that barack obama's healthca re court in texas ruling that barack obama's healthcare reforms are on constitutional. they give very much for that. —— unconstitutional. donald trump's former personal lawyer has spoken out for the first time since being sentenced for crimes including campaign finance violations. he claims mr trump told him to pay off two women during the 2016 presidential election, even though he knew it was wrong. that directly contradicts what the president has said. michael cohen, is facing three years in prison. our north america editor jon sopel has more. an alleged one night stand in 2006 and then a payment to buy stormy daniels' silence ten years later — just before the 2016 elections. they're still causing donald trump and those around him endless legal nightmares. the president's long time lawyer and mr fixit, michael cohen, was this week sentenced to three years in prison. and he's now given an interview refuting donald trump's claims that he made the payments to her without the president knowing about it. first of all,

i was very involved and was on , going placest with then candidate barack obama. fortunate that during his presidency i got to do a lot of fun stuff. almost, ar grew up little freaky, being a fan of bob dylan and knew all of his lyrics and most of his songs. he was a -- she was very young. when bob dylan came to the white house and i was able to get us in the second row right behind the president listening to bob dylan thing, that is a moment. it is fun for me to be able to do that for my kids. i have been able to do that a few times, have special moments that most people don't get a chance to do. the fact that you can do it with members of your family that it'sy appreciate it, it extraordinary. this has been an extraordinary experience. that is why i hated that anybody wasd leave just say i leaving here mad. how could i be mad? i have been fortunate. like?t is barack obama sen. mccaskill: i used to say -- which means you have to college smooge people. i say have to call them on the phone increase their legislative priorities. they have phone conversations and pre

robin biro is a former regional campaign director for barack obama and they both join us now. welcome aboard, you guys. thanks for joining me. >> thank you. >> tammy: dan, i got to say to you, this is funny to watch, of course, the democrats, the doom and gloom. we've just moved to the christmas holidays. the sky is falling. we are looking for grubs and puddles of water to eat and drink through the shutdown. do you think that this kind ofl complaint is really changing the point of view of the american people about what is really happening in washington and what matters when it comes to national security versus a negotiation to get what we need for that were wall? >> no, i don't think the media is changing one mind out there, tammy. very, very specific reason. listen, chaos is not a brand, okay? it's not a brand -- even richard nixon figured that out, running on a law and order platform, of all people. nixon figured that out.d chaos is not a brand. i say that because the democrats have not offered anything of substance outside of cheap rhetoric about actually supporting border

the name is barack obama. and he's talking about something called dreams from my father, let's watch it. it's about 41 seconds. >> when i was elected, as i write about in the introduction, when i was elected president of the law review here at harvard, that generated quite a bit of publicity. immediately there's this entire industry of agents and folks, who if you get your little 15 minutes of fame, they'll call u and see if we, i suppose conscious make some money on it. and i think the idea that they had initially was sort of a -- sort of a feel-good story, young black man, successful. and then i had to explain to them, this is kind of complicated, you know? what's going on here. >> when did you first meet him? >> well, i didn't meet him until sometime that spring. what happened was, as barack contract he got a with simon & schuster for $125,000 to write a book, strictly on the basis of the fact that he was the first african-american editor of the harvard law review and a very -- an energetic agent signed him

listen, barack obama decimated our military. barack obama -- wait a minute, he did. he cut funding for our military. he put in rules that actually caused -- >> what does that have to do with what we're talking about? >> it does have to do. let me finish. he enacted rules of engagement that actually put our military on the battlefield, in danger. wait a minute, mark. he did that. and they said he was a great commander-in-chief. he goes over and does all this not for milano or the media but because he loves the troops. this is a man who loves the military. >> how about this? as a non-democrat, non-republican thing. democrats won't in favor of the bush wars, as they call them. nor was donald trump in 2016. in a sense, donald trump is at odds with both democrat policy and republican policy on the middle east. >> yeah, he's definitely fighting both sides. when you talked about the press, i think the press is attacking on him is because of some of the misleading comments he made when he talked about the pay raises for the military. they do get raises but not a 10% raise. i

trish: critics say barack obama made that mistake. i pulled out of iraq too fast and we were left with the creation of isis. so he bears that responsibility. in your view how is this different? >> at that point we had authorization to stay in iraq. the problem with syria this is nothing to rebuild. we went in because isis was operating from there. the assad regime is still there. the russians have an air base and a port. >> that's one of the concerns as well. putin is trying to get his hand in everything. he thinks he's in charge it east in but he's not. if we allow him to reign over syria, does that put us in a more vulnerable not. >> they have been there for a long time. the idea somehow us staying is going to change that isn't going to happen. unless we are willing to go into a hot war with russia, we weren't going to dislodge them in any way. what would keeping 2,000 troops in syria do? one thing it could have done is provide a barrier for iran staying there and increasing their influence. but that can be dealt with using sanction

listen, barack obama disseminated our moisture. barack obama -- wait a minute. he cut funding for our military. he put in rules of engagement. >> that's not even. >> wait a minute. >> what does to that have to do with what would are talking about. >> it does have to do? >> how? >> barack obama enacted rules of engagement rochelle, let me fin anyone. evidence enacted rules of engagement that put our military on the battlefield in danger. wait a minute, mark, he did that and they said he was a great commander-in-chief. donald trump goes over and does all of this to not for alyssa milano or the media, he does it because he loves the troops, and they say he is doing it for a photo op. this is a man who loves the military. that's his number one issue. >> mark: okay. how about this as a non-democrat non-republican thing. democrats weren't in favor of the 21st century bush wars as they called them. >> right. >> right. >> mark: nor was donald trump in 2016. in offense, donald trump is at odds with both democrat policy and republican policy on the middle east, row rochel

he'll try to deflect that and come with trump conspiracy theories and blame it on barack obama and hillary clinton but it won't fly. >> the obama economy for the first part of the presidency. he's still riding it. >> so it won't fly and the other problem is, you know, a lot of republicans, a lot of his supporters and republican lawmakers have given him a pass or looked the other way at the stuff robert mueller is talking about because of the economy and they felt like well, being hitched to donald trump is better than now because so many people are excited about the economy. when that seizes to be the case, they will stop forgiving him for other stuff. >> what do you think? do you think the economy is an even bigger threat if there is a downturn to the mueller investigation? >> the economy affects everyone. there is plenty of americans that see it as a confusing side show that doesn't affect their lives but trump has been buoyed by this economy. his approval rating is artificially high because of the good economy. people just will give a president, no matter what they might think of him pe

here we have literally barack obama in a garden of his history, his biography. one of the things the artist mentioned is that it almost seems like the leaves are creeping over his shoes and bringing him back. now he is very well known for these bright colors. he is a bit of a hip-hop artist. he has taken african-american men and women and put them into these wonderful settings. there is a great picture of ll cool j looking like nelson rockefeller. the president didn't want anything like that, so he created a whole new way of hinking. not just about how the depict the presidency but about how to actually break with conventions was still embracing past traditions. it's a wonderful picture and we get a lot of people coming to pay respect to our most recent president. we started on the third floor. we're now on the second floor. let's look at some of america's origins. the people who made this country. i want to introduce you to an interesting picture. it is called the men of progress. it's by kristin of 1862. why is it so interesting? i like to think of a quote pab

the name is barack obama. and he's talking about something called dreams from my father, let's watch it. it's about 41 seconds. [video clip] president obama: when i was elected, as i write about in the introduction, when i was elected president of the law review here at harvard, that generated quite a bit of publicity. immediately there's this entire industry of agents and folks, who if you get your little 15 minutes of fame, they'll call you and see if we, i suppose can make some money on it. and i think the idea that they had initially was sort of a -- sort of a feel-good story, young black man, successful. and then i had to explain to them, this is kind of complicated, you know? what's going on here. brian: when did you first meet him? peter: well, i didn't meet him until sometime that spring. what happened was, as barack said, that he got a contract with simon & schuster for $125,000 to write a book, strictly on the basis of the fact that he was the first african-american editor of the harvard law review a