because they need to appoint somebody went obama -- when obama is still president. the hypocrisy on the democrats on the left is unbelievable to me. as far as obama's legacy, his plan from the get-go was to bring the united states down into the same reign as the rest of the third world countries because he did not like us being a superpower. i think his legacy is going to be that he tried to destroy this country and he is trying his best to bankrate. -- bankrupt it. host: a number of colors have mentioned the comets of chuck schumer. can you talk about that a little bit? guest: the colored mentions hypocrisy of politicians on supreme court nominations or vacancies. i think both political parties can be charged to hypocrisy it comes to supreme court nominations. why are democrats clinton argued that present obama should nominate someone and the senate should consider? because obama is a democrat. the republicans were in the same situation, i think the arguments would be reversed. they notice the judiciary's ranking democrat pat leahy, when he was had in the late 1980

obama will speak at 10:30 a.m. tuesday morning from the roosevelt room, the white house announced, saying the topic would be guantanamo bay but giving no further details. obama's address comes as the plan to shut down the controversial facility and transfer the remaining detainees to a holding center in the united states will be delivered to congress. the administration will attempt to convince lawmakers to allow the pentagon to move nearly 60 detainees to the u.s. to a facility that will cost up to $475 million to construct, but could save as much as $180 million a costs, the administration says. the plan provides few specifics and risks, and is likely to face tough opposition from members of congress who have repeatedly passed legislation banning any effort to move detainees to the u.s. rep. mac thornberry, r- texas, chairman of house armed services committee, has said that his panel would hold a hearing on a closure plan. but he sent a letter to obama warning that congress has made clear what details must be inc

president obama signed of these provisions into law as well. so let's not pretend that there's even the faintest of pretenses for some pain and phone cam pic here. congress has acted to clearly, repeatedly and on a bipartisan basis. the president has a duty to follow the laws he himself signed. it shouldn't be that hard when you consider his admonition yesterday about upholding the highest standards of the rule of law. as americans he said without ourselves on being addicted to other nations, a model of the rule of law, the president said. that's interesting in light of recent gao ruling that the administration detainees swap of taliban prisoners were bowe bergdahl violated the law. it's a special interesting in light of the president's continuing refusal to rule out breaking the law if he doesn't get his way on guantÁnamo. president obama's own attorney general says he can't unilaterally do that. it's clear. president obama's own defense secretary says he cannot unilaterally do that. president obama's own military officer says he can't unilat

it says something about the importance of those issues to obama, but i'm sure obama himself would say that he would like to have done more to both address racial harmony, i guess, and united states and do something on gun violence. president's a clip of obama speaking at reverend pinckney's funeral in charleston. [video clip] drew on aan act that long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, not controlut as a means of , a way to terrorize and oppress. [applause] an act that he imagined would recrimination, violence, and suspicion, and act that he presumed would deepen divisions that traced back to our nations original sin. oh, but god works in mysterious ways. [applause] god has different ideas. [applause] he didn't know he was being used by god to [applause] god. [applause] hatred, the alleged killer would not see the greatness surrounding reverend pinckney and that bible study of love thatght shown as they open the church doors and invited a stranger to join in their prayer circle. the alleged killer could have never anticipated the way the families of the fallen wou

president obama and i are friends. as you know he came to vermont to campaign for me when he was a senator. i have worked for his first election and his reelection, but i think it is really unfair to suggest that i have not been supportive of the president. i have been a strong ally on him, with him on virtually every issue. do senators have the right to disagree with the president, have you ever disagreed with a president? i suspect you may have. >> senator, what i am concerned about is not disagreement on issues saying that this is what i'd rather do, i don't agree with the president on that, calling the president weak, calling him a dispointment calling several times that he should have a primary opponent when he ran for reelection in 2012, i think that goes further than saying we have our disagreements. as a senator -- yes, i was a senator. i understand we can disagree on the path forward, but those kinds of personal assessments and charges are ones that i find -- troubling. >> one of us ran against barack obama. i

president obama -- president obama, president obama, president obama, the obama administration, like president obama had. so what we have tried to do and what president obama succeeded in doing. >> you can get our point there. and today the chair of the congressional black caucus pac, which backed clinton yesterday, hit sanders for his critiques of president obama. george meeks said, i condemn and strongly disagree with recent criticisms from senator sanders that call into question president obama's leadership ability and insinuating that he has been, quote, weak on progressive issues. he went on. senator sanders' disparaging comments towards the president are misplaced, misguided, and do not give credit where credit is due. that statement came out shortly before the clinton campaign held yet another conference call on her opponent. this time hitting sanders for what the clinton campaign says is a clear and evident commander in chief gap. here's what virginia senator tim kaine also said on that call. >> bernie works on the issues that interest him, but foreign policy and diplomacy an

representative meeks: better than barack obama? no, she would build on what obama has done. i do not think anyone talking about race relations -- he would be better than barack obama with race, better than hillary clinton with women, better than take kennedy with human rights -- ted kennedy with human rights. mark: what is the difference between better than an building on? representative meeks: the fact of the matter was, if senator sanders was out there to help us elect democrats -- for the fact of the matter, he was an independent. when you help elect democrats as hillary clinton has done, that is how you it things done. she has been out electing democrats so we can give the president a partnership that he or she could not have. so we can build upon what president obama has done to get even greater gains. that's not putting something out there that is not real. that is how you really get something done in washington, d.c. when you elect a president without help, without working with the senate, without working with the house, you can't get it done. and barack obama for six

. >> president obama, president obama, president obama, president obama, president obama and i. president obama, president obama. >> well, hillary clinton's clinging to president obama last night was pretty tight in hopes that she can score with his supporters in south carolina. and force a real vision of distance between bernie sanders and obama on ideology, without having to say so. much more on the dirty tricks in the campaign trail. it has happened before in south carolina, and they're bracing for another season of dirt ball politics, especially by cruz. there, i said it. as the campaign shifts to south and west, the "hardball" round table is here to tell you something i don't know. valentine's day what it means to your family and mine. this is "hardball," the place for politics. what? wow... yeah! okay... guys, i'll be writing a new language for machines so planes, trains, even hospitals can work better. oh! sorry, i was trying to put it away... got it on the cake. so you're going to work on a train? not on a train...on "trains"! you're not gonna develop stuff anymore? no i

his relationship with president obama. she's basically painted him as anti-obama. he's never said listen you love the president, you want to defend his games, i love the president i want to extend his gains and grab this president and show how he's a part of that legacy. he's letting himself be defined in ways that don't make sense. the other thing in love that speech. every black voter in the world has heard that speech. he's got to start telling those civil rights stories. >> he got arrested. he organize ad sit in for segregated housing. >> if he want to be ugly by the way you were for goldwater while i was out there. company tell those beautiful stories. he's got to realize when you're in this situation you have to do something different you can't do the same thing. >> real interesting point. so we're looking ahead to the town hall format. there's always surprises for whether their interests, where their interests lie as voters or what their questions are. what do these two candidates need do? >> i think they both have a lot of homework to do. dan talked about s

that raises for obama a dilemma. this case the dilemma was stick to his prior state of constitutional principles. and all these people get slaughtered or save those people that violate those principles and he decides to violate his principles and intervene in libya. although of course libya then becomes a complete mess, the sort of been slower motion. and that comes back to congress when they come back and the question is a simple more abraham lincoln wasn't strictly legal that they could retroactively fix the problem by voting for it. they don't. before then they have three different options to end the war, authorize the war, vote to authorize support to our nato allies like surveillance and refueling and directly attacking gadhafi forces. the congress split three ways and all three fail. and so, it is completely and part of what this demonstrates is the complexity of the war powers resolution. the crucial moment for understanding his evolution. up until that point, the soil had been bush and cheney. he could be pre

obama has changed. after years of challenges such as north korea and syria. >> i'm curious how the presidency has changed you as a president. now eight years in. how you have changed as a president and how you have changed as a man in the time you ve been in te officece >> you k kw, i think my basic c character is unchanged. and michelle and close friends of mine who have known me for years would say, he's the same guy. there is obviously some hard-won wisdom from -- >> uh-huh. >> from overcoming challenges. figuring out really hard problems. i told somebody in, in -- another interview though that, probably the most important function of age as well as -- having been around the track a while. as president. you lose that fear. you lose that sense of, oh, what if something goes wrong. because there are going to be things that go wrong. you lose that, that tightness that comes from being very self-conscious about not making mistakes. at a certain point, you realize, look, you do your best. you make, make y

it's not what barack obama did, but it was close do that. >> he's ahead of obama. >> i'm talking about in all of obama's campaigns i think his best day was $10 million. the biggest thing that sanders has going for him is that his donors have not tapped out. these are people that can still give more. he can sustain this and continue to grow. in talking to people in this town they are still confident in clinton. but the money is on her, whether they're foolish or not who knows. >> absolutely. when you look at those earlier voting states she still has the lead in most of those earlier voting states. those are current polls. so the national numbers not flug so strongly these states that are going to be voting soon. >> national numbers don't mean a lot right now and sanders has his own challenges. he has to broaden his message. he sounds like a broken record sometimes on these economic issues, which are very, very important, but not to the exconclusion of other things and he has to show more influence ensy on other things if he's going to turn this into a real contest. >> a quick break here

president obama will make a nomination. the republican candidates and senate majority leader have all suggest that they will not act before the election. so my question, if the republicans delay or refuse to approve doesn't that give the democrats more ammunition to get a democratic senate? and then when president hillary clinton is elected she can nominate an obama, biden sanders. is there precedent -- when presidents have an opposition party as a majority in the senate to present more moderate candidates? and if they control the senate a more provocative candidate? so should republicans take what obama gives, which is likely to be more moderate than america in 2017? host: thank you for the call. guest: that's a great point. because in a sense, assuming that the republican position holds as we heard last night, they're really sort of playing for double or nothing. obama is as you say likely to pick someone who thinks is a plausible candidate who, i guess on air might have been a consensus figure as we said justice anthony

that whole journey of barack obama started nine years ago today. and as president, president obama went back to springfield today to springfield, illinois, to mark the occasion. >> nine years to the day that i first announced for this office, i still believe in that politics of hope. and for all the challenges of a rapidly changing world, and for all the imperfections of our democracy, the capacity to reach across our differences and choose that kind of politics, not a cynical politics, not a politics of fear, but that kind of politics, sustained over the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime, that's something that remains entirely up to us. thank you, illinois. god bless you. god bless america. it's good to see all of you. i miss you guys. >> i miss you guys. president obama speaking to the illinois legislature today. a place where he used to work. among his former colleagues. and when you look at the symbolism and the occasion that president obama marked today, it's fascinating because nine years ago today, from that illinois statehouse, h

obama. this week president obama announced a $2.9 billion, spent into nato member states, including estonia, lithuania and laftia. >> john, the question is who started cold war 2, and i think we did. soviets, they gave up all of eastern europe, the whole thing came apart. wanted to be friends of the united states. we moved nato into the baltic republics, three of which they were part of the soviet union. putin is reacting to that. he's got a tremendous, or significant military buildup and now we're reacting to that. my view is, i am not against frankly our next president trying to a real reset, and we get away from this faceoff, and any kind of war between the united states and russia, would be the end of estonia and a disaster every great president of the cold war avoided. of nato happened under bill clinton and was approved of by his successors, including republican president george w. bush, so this is not a policy that barack obama -- no, no, when obama took office he dealt well with puti

obama. there was a feisty moment when sanders noted that he was not the candidate on stage, who ran against president obama. bret? >> mike emmanuel, thanks. let's bring in our expanded panel. steve hays, amy stoddardxd and . steve, your thoughts? >> what is fascinating is to hear hillary clinton trying to get to bernie sanders left, yet again. she opened the statement calling for illuminating the influence of wall street and stripping things out of politics. the things that have been the two fold of bernie sanders campaign. i think it's deeply cynical of hillary clinton to be making those arguments given the swirl about her fund raising, both with the clinton foundation and generally. the super pac debate, and the contributions she god from goldman sachs, and she's calling for this to be eliminated? hypocritical. >> there is this hugging of president obama by hillary clinton. but yet, talking about economic troubles that have not been fixed over seven and a half years, it's a tough line to w

obama has changed. after years of challenges such as north korea and syria. >> i'm curious how the presidency has changed you as a president. now eight years in. how you have changed as a president and how you have changed as a man in the time you have been in te office? >> you know, i think my basic character is unchanged. and michelle and close friends of mine who have known me for years would say, he's the same guy. there is obviously some hard-won wisdom from -- >> from overcoming challenges. figuring out really hard problems. i told somebody in, in -- another interview though that, probably the most important thing and maybe this is just a function of age as well as -- having been around the track a while. as president. you lose that fear. you lose that sense of, oh, what if something goes wrong. because there are going to be things that go wrong. you lose that, that tightness that comes from being very self-conscious about not making mistakes. at a certain point, you realize, look, you do your bes

obama's own lawyers say you can't do this. you have to go to congress. these are folks who are representing defense interests. youyou can do this. president obama went trolling around looking for somewhere with authority to say you can do this. he found former dean of yale law school. now, he was known in the academic world for arguing that the president cannot act unilaterally. even better he argued that when president reagan bombed libya that that implicated the war powers act. somehow he came to the conclusion that bombing libya for months at a time 15 years later not constitute hostilities within the meaning of the act and therefore the president can go ahead and do it. >> wasn't more hostilities the military action. >> the argument, american forces are not actually at risk unless they get hit by a stray aircraft. one problem largely meant to prevent cambodia from happening again. so just looking at the history is not make any sense. finally as far as the examples, this to your colleague letter to rewrite their guidelines for them just -- investigati

president obama has 342 days left in office. even if the senate decided to take as long as it ever has taken to confirm or reject his nominee, president obama would still have time to put forward not one but two nominees with the remaining time he's got in office plus some change. if the senate acted on president obama's nominee as quickly as it has done so on average over the course of our american history, president obama has time to make 13 different nominations. if the senate keeps us a pace on par with the historical average. there's nothing about having a year left in office that precludes president obama from replacing justice scalia on the supreme court. we are at a very unusual time in american history where the republican party appears to be saying with one voice, that they believe a new, for the first time in american history, there can be no confirmation of a new supreme court justice in the president's last year in office and the president should not nominate a potential justice. since the year 1900, in a president'

. >> i think president obama has set a great example. >> before it was called obama care it was called hillary care. >> and excludes sanders from the circle. >> senator sanders said that president obama failed the presidential leadership test. >> but the vermont senator has a reminder -- >> secretary clinton, you're not in the white house yet. >>> also, donald trump, mr. nice guy? >> to have children screaming, we want trump, that's very nice. >> a change in tone. >> i won't use foul language. i'm just not going to do it. >> a shift in ad strategy. can the front-runner remain positive? >>> plus -- e. we're right on the front line in the syrian government's offensive against the opposition. >> cnn takes you inside the battle for aleppo, syria. let's talk, live in the "cnn newsroom." >>> and good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. one stage, two candidates, a lot of talk about president obama. hillary clinton and bernie sanders battle for the spotlight during the democratic debate. but -- like i said, at times it seemed there were three people on that stage. >

but it isn't just a case of the obama administration being slow or the obama administration not been committed to closing guantanamo. this is a difficult challenge because a lot of these detainees simply cannot be sent back to their native countries for variety of reasons. some of which is related to international law prohibitions on sending individuals back to a country in which they face the likelihood of torture. it's a process to try to find countries to accept them and resettled them, and a long bureaucratic process, when the obama administration has not managed particularly well, but hopefully, in his last 11 months, the president and secretary of defense carter will be able to light a fire under the people in the pentagon who are responsible for doing this and we can get it done. amy: baher azmy, the prisoners you have represented, i mean, how they end up like guantanamo, for example, those that were given money to bring in people. overwhelming majority of prisoners brought to guantanamo bay were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, fleeing the american-led bombing in

president obama sounds off on the gop field. a frantic call for help and the daring rescue that followed. >> i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for joe. steve: after 3 men flee their sinking tugboat. a comeback in the toy industry. announcer: this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci 8 news at 10:00 with steve karlin, stacey horst, chief meteorologist john mclaughlin, and sports director andy garman. laura: primary push. we're 4 days out until the gop primary in south carolina. a new cnn poll shows donald trump's lead slipping, but barely. he's on top, 38% to ted cruz's 22%. marco rubio in 3rd, jeb bush in 4th. on the democratic side, hillary clinton with a huge 56% to 38% lead on senator bernie sanders. new tonight, gop front-runner donald trump responding to president obama at a rally in south carolina. earlier today, the president campaign. pres. obama: i continue to believe that mr. trump will not be president. and the reason is because i have a lot of faith in the american people and i think they recognize that being president

she has obama as a black friend. [ laughter ] right? she's married to the first black president. [ laughter ] >> obama was the first black -- >> larry: yeah, i get it. it's in dispute, i guess, huh? [ laughter ] and now, now she visits the set of "scandal," right? that's a full-blown black attack. let's be honest. does bernie have a realistic chance of getting the black vote? what's your take? >> i think if he addresses the issues and can convince people that they can trust that he will enact them, he does. >> larry: do you think bernie has a shot? >> yeah, i think bernie has a shot of getting the black vote, and once he gets that one, hillary will get the rest. [ laughter ] >> larry: it seems like he's creating a lot of passion among a lot of voters, and some of the passion you can see is, like, in the black intellectual class, like michelle alexander came out with that kind of a scathe inin takedown of hillary. so a lot of people, and a lot of young people, who are relating to -- >> well, and they're raising issues that we have proble

after 2010, he said my n number one job is to defeat barack obama without knowingng what barack obama is going to propose. he says no, we're not having hearings. to leave the supreme court vacant for 300 days at a divided time. this kind of obstructionism won't last. we democrats didn't do this. we voted 97-0 for justice president reagan's term. >> after voting down two others. >> yes. but we had hearings. many of the main stream republicans, when the president nominates a main stream nominee will not want to follow mch manager konl over the cliff. >> you think the president should do that. send something he thinks could credibly get repubublican support? rather than someone who would send a powerful message abo the direction he wants to send the court in? >> i don't think the american people like the obstruction. that won't fly. a lot of the main stream republicans may say, i may not follow this. cond, i think the president, past his prolog, will nominate someone whos main stream. >> is that a suggestion? >> no suggestion. his nominees in the past have got. republicanvotes. >> okay,

after 2010, he said my number one job is to defeat barack obama without knowing what barack obama is going to propose. he says no, we're not having hearings. to leave the supreme court vacant for 300 days at a divided time. this kind of obstructionism won't last. we voted 97-0 for justice kennedy in the last year of president reagan's term. >> after voting down two others. >> yes. but we had hearings. many of the main stream republicans, when the president nominates a main stream nominee will not want to follow mch manager konl over the cliff. >> you think the president should do that. send something he thinks could credibly get republican support? rather than someone who would send a powerful message about the direction he wants to send the court in? >> i don't think the american people like the obstruction. that won't fly. a lot of the main stream republicans may say, i may not follow this. second, i think the president, past his prolog, will nominate someone who is main stream. >> is that a suggestion? >> no suggestion. his nominees in the past have got. republican votes. >> okay,

when they passed obama care, they put a bailout front in obama care. all the lobbyists put a bailout that would allow taxpayer money to be used to bailout companies. they're not in favor of me, they're suing to get that bailout money put back in. and what is your plan? i had understand the lines round the state, whatever that means. >> you don't know what it means. that's the problem. >> what is your plan on health care? you don't have a plan. >> the biggest problem he's got is he doesn't know. i watched him meltdown a couple weeks ago with chris christie. he doesn't know about the lines. the reason we have no competition is because we have lines around the state. >> but what else is part of your plan. so, your only thing is to get rid of the lines around the states. >> that blings -- excuse me. that brings in competition. when you get rid of the lines, it brings competition. so, instead of one insurance company, you'll have many, they'll compete and it will be a beautiful thing. >> so, that's the only part of the plan? >> you'll have many different pl

president obama and i are friends. as you know, he came to vermont to campaign for me when he was a senator. i worked for his re-election. his first election and his re-election. i think it is really unfair to suggest that i am not supportive of the president. i have been a strong ally with him on virtually every issue. do senators have the right to disagree? have you ever disagreed with a president? i suspect you may have. >> senator, what i'm concerned about is not disagreement on issues saying this is what i would rather do, i don't agree with the president on that. calling the president weak, calling him a disappointment, calling several times he should have a primary opponent when he ran for re-election in 2012, you know, i think that goes further than saying we have our disagreements. yes, i was a senator. i understand we can disagree on the path forward. those kinds of personal assessments and charges are ones that i find -- >> senator, would you like to respond? >> one of us ran against barack obama. i was not

obama. so, this week, commander in chief obama announced a quadrupling of u.s. military spending in europe -- $2.9 billion. this new money will be spent deploying u.s. military forces into nato member states including estonia, latvia, and lithuania. is this a prudent or a provocative move by president obama? pat buchanan? pat: john, the question is who started cold war ii? i think we kid. the soviets wanted to be friends and allies of the united states so we moved nato right into the baltic republics. three of which were part of the soviet union. putin is reacting to that. he's got a significant military build-up and now we're reacting to that. my view is -- i'm not against, frankly, a next president trying a real reset that respects russian national interests, they respect ours and we get away with this face-off. for heaven's sakes, any kind of war over estonia would be the end of estonia and a disaster that every great president of the cold war avoided. eleanor: first of all, the expansion of nato happened under bill clinton and was approved of by his secretar

snapchat didn't exist during the 2012 obama campaign. and it's now number one. and so i think what you'll continue to see is the platforms will continue to change. but what won't change is people getting invoed with leaders they can believe in. and the campaigns who are able to consolidate that and have a message and a vision for this country will do really well on social media. and the ones who aren't and don't won't. karl: these are tools that are combination with other things. it's an avenue, it's not in end of itself, it's a means to a goal. and that goal is to return to 1844, when a young lawyer in sagama county, illinois wrote a letter to his campaign committee and said, "make a perfect list of voters, have the undecided talked to by someone held in confidence, and on election day, make sure that every whig is brought to the polls." abraham lincoln was pretty good practical politician, as well as a president, and the important point was "have the undecideds talked to by someone they hold in confidence," which is what social media allows us to do in a power

the first time that he has criticized president obama. in the past he's called him weak. he's called him a disappointment. and i couldn't disagree more. >> the kind of criticism that we've heard from senator sanders about our president i expect from republicans. i do not expect from someone running for the democratic nomination to succeed president obama. >> that is -- madam secretary that is a low blow. i have work would president with president obama for the last seven years, but you know what? last i heard we lived in a democratic society. last i heard, a united states senator had the right to disagree with a president, including a president who's done such an extraordinary job. so i have voiced criticisms. you're right. maybe you haven't. i have. >> later, sanders hit back on critics saying only clinton's campaign is historic and that he was thwarting history. >> well, you know from a historical point of view, somebody with my background, somebody with my views, somebody who has spent his entire life taking on the big money interests,

he respects president obama. he has worked with president obama. in fact, president obama's flagship piece of legislation the affordable care act bernie sanders helped prepare and draft that legislation. if we want to talk about disrespect of obama, let's talk about the fact that there is one candidate who ran against him and that is hillary clinton. let's talk about the fact that in 2008 some of the same things that hillary said last night against bernie sanders she said against president obama in 2008. >> mayor, do you think people should give bernie sanders another look? >> the answer is no. let's talk about the fact that she ran against him in 2008, erin. he thought so much of her that he made her his secretary of state and she supported him flat out and did everything she could to see that he was elected. let's also talk about the fact that when you listen to bernie sanders rhetoric, you don't hear him talk about the 14 million jobs that president obama's economy has produced. you don't hear him talk about the 18 million newly insured. you don

obama care is terrible. and for him to say that is actually a great compliment if you want to know the truth. >> as those big cheers hint, trump's support is only growing in south carolina. our athena jones has the latest from columbia, south carolina. >> reporter: good morning, christina and miguel. we're closing in on primary day here in south carolina, the first state in the south to hold a primary, and we have some new numbers out from cnn and orc showing the state of the race. take a look here. you can see donald trump holding a big lead over everybody else, 16 points ahead of ted cruz who's in second place at 22%. marco rubio follows at 14%. jeb bush at 10% in fourth place. the rest in single digits. this poll shows trump is the best candidate to hand tl economy, immigration, and isis, and as the candidate having the best chance to win in november and seen as the most likely to change the way things work in washington. and when it comes to the evangelical vote, you know evangelicals make the majority o

president obama expected to address the controversy today. while he weighs nominees, the candidates are telling him essentially don't bother. they say the next president should be the one to fill the supreme court vacancy. there is an impact on the key cases before the court. we get more now from justice correspondent pamela brown. >> reporter: good morning, alison and miguel. the scalia death put president obama and senate republicans on a collision course and also caused a monumental shift in the high court. the supreme court will continue to hear arguments and vote on cases, but scalia's death changes dynamic. without him on the bench, the eight remaining could find themselves in a 4-4 split. if that happens, two scenarios could play out. delay the decisions until a new justice is named and the case reargued or the 4-4 split means the lower court decision is upheld. dozens of cases could be impacted. particularly the immigration case and the texas abortion case that limits access to abortion clinics in the state. the lower courts ruled aga

. >> that wasn't about obama. it was clearly talking about t hillary clinton. and we hear from the clinton campaign she's not saying vote for me pause i'm a woman explicitly. but she does say this is the first time of woman on stage. and she says how can bernie sanders say i'm not in the establishment when i'd be the first woman president. this is something she uses a lot. >> but there is a difference. she's not saying it is not the point of our campaign that anybody should make a decision to vote based on gender alone. but it does bare relevance that she water bring a unique perspective. day to day decisions in the oval office and also a sensitivity and tenantiveness to the minds of women voters. >> one other thing hillary clinton said, she suggested you need a long-term relationship with the african american community. she essentially said the relationship is not something you can create just a few months before an election. the inference or implication is she's talking about bernie sanders. didn't bernie sander

president obama has more than ten months left. nominate the justice and the senate's responsibility to give that nominee an up or down vote? >> the senate has not confirmed a nominee named in a final year in election year in 80 years. this is a lame duck president. the only reason anthony kennedy was name that late was because democrats in the senate rejected two other nom northeast. robert bork, and doug ginsburg. right now, the court is ex exquisitely balanced. as ronald reagan was to the presidency, so justice scalia was to the court. this is a 5-4 court. this next election needs to be a referendum on the court. the people need to decide. for what i called for. we should not allow a lame duck president to capture the supreme court in the waning months of his presidency. >> does that mean you're going to filibuster anyone, anyone that the president nominates? >> absolutely. this should be a decision for the people, george. we have an election. democrats, i cannot wait. to stand on that stage with hillary clinton or with bernie s

>> what is interesting is obama has faced extraordinary levels of obstruction. no other president has been subjected to what he is been subjected to. used in an incredible -- he has done an incredible job. on the other hand, his own self-imposed gag order when it comes to race is not benefited the nation or given us the opportunity to see his mind on the issue of race. amy: and who was behind the publication of yesterday's fake "new york times" declaring the paper was rethinking its coverage of israel and palestine? you will find out here on democracy now! all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. officials in texas have reported the first case of zika virus contracted in the united states, saying it was sexually transmitted. if confirmed, it marks the second known case of zika transmission through sexual contact. zika has continued to spread rapidly across latin america, with chile reporting its first three cases. the mosquito-born illness, while generally not life-threatening , has b

just like when barack obama says gun sales should send him a note. >> obama says trump is not going to be president, but six months ago no one thought trump would be where he is in the polls so it's hard to predict. we might be under estimating trump. trump is the strongest of the republican candidates and he's been leading in the polls for a long time. i have a hard time believing the american people are going to have a president trump. >> the democrats aren't in love with their nominee either so the question is do all the sanders people do they get in line or do they like what donald trump said about their the iraq war not being part of the establishment, perhaps if he can hold some of those, there is a path. >> there is because you said do well with the minorities. >> he does okay with certain minority groups. >> like what. >> latinos in two states. >> there have been only two states. >> in polling. >> hold that thought. the conversation continues and we're going to turn our attention to the democrats as well so matt you can jump over john then. stay with us for that. one south caro

barack obama in the state. that was part of it. the other part of it was, we were told at the end of that 2008 campaign that bill clinton in particular had permanently alienated himself with the black community in south carolina, with the way he campaigned against barack obama. and by extension, that went to hillary clinton as well. and yet, here we are in 2016. and you guys with the sanders' campaign are facing what is still a pretty formidable lead for the clintons among black voters. where did that -- how did they recover? >> it's interesting. i was a hillary clinton supporter. i was one of three black elected officials, house members, who supported hillary against obama. i saw how this whole thing transformed. i think what senator clinton has going for her is her name, not necessarily her policies. not necessarily what she stands for, but the bill clinton name is what's running this state. not hillary -- >> wasn't that tarnished with black voters in 2008? >> well, black folks are some forgiving history. whe

as president obama calls it, the what? fundamental protection that says the power not given to the federal government are reserved for the states and the people. that means there are certain responsibilities the federal government has that it needs to do well. it needs to defend this nation and defend the national security. we need to rebuild our military and honor the commitments made. we need to fundamentally reform the v.a. so that they have a right to choose his or her doctor. and we need to finally secure the borders and and sanctuary cities. there are other areas the federal government has no business sticking its nose. it chief among those is education. when he to repeal every word of common core. the third key to reigniting the promise of america, we need to restore america's leadership in the world. for seven years, america has stepped back. we have abandoned and alienated our allies and showed appeasement to the enemies. instead of a president that boycotts prime minister netanyahu, imagine america standing unapo

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obama previous picks were replacing liberals. bush was replacing conservatives with skeconservatives. it's not an exaggeration that the ideological balance of the court is at stake here, and that's what makes this so unique. i think the first shot by the republicans was let's try and pressure president obama not to even nominate anyone. that lasted about an hour. article 2 says the presidential nominate -- president obama has a quarter of his second term left. he's obviously within his rights to nominate someone. now, the senate will have to accept or reject or not -- or perhaps not vote at all. >> that's the fascinating point. if this came after the conventions in the summertime, you could flatly understand the republican argument, we're too close. we can't get it done. we can't do the hearings or the background check. we don't have time. leave it to the next president. but 11 months. and to your point, can the president travel the country holding up a constitution and say i thought you guys were the constitutional conservatives

president obama: there we go. reporter: one of barack obama pass first acts as president was to sign an executive order to close guantanamo bay. he has been trying to shut the prison since then, those ideas walked by republican lawmakers. with the end of his presidency insight, obama has been giving it another go. president obama: it is clear the prison at guantanamo bay does not advance our national security. it undermines it. this is not just my opinion. this is the opinion of experts, the opinion of many in our military. it is counterproductive to our fight against terrorist because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit. reporter: the guantanamo bay prison was set up to house foreign terror suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. it is still open because the republican-controlled congress has locked an obvious way of closing it by banning the transfer of detainees to u.s. soil. some of the 91 remaining, does not being transferred to their home countries, are deemed too dangerous to releas

she's like hillary rodham obama, if you don't like the way things are, you're disrespecting obama. i think a lot of black folks like him better than her. that's just reality. >> one thing that van touched upon is media framing it as if there is one or two or three or four black americans who speak for all of us. le the fact is we don't all get together for one meeting. >> didn't van call the meeting? >> that really needs to change. >> it's true because as i talk to people, right, i see people -- i see african-americans and people who don't believe this on social media, i see african-american hogs support ben carson. i haven't seen many who support ted cruz. it's not just one single candidate. there is not just one way to be black and one person to put your support behind. >> let me add to that. just to build on that, there is an african-american left and there's an african-american center and there's an african-american right. what you're see rieing right ina lot of the african-american centrists are grouping around the clintons. john lewis was with hillary clinton against obama al

senate to block anyone nominated by mr obama. they have been trying tribute at their latest presidential debate in south carolina. the u.s. is urging turkey to stop military strikes in syria. the prime minister has ordered fighters withdrawal from the area. turning your attention to mexico where the pope francis has been celebrating mass. he is on a five-day trip to mexico, home to the second largest roman catholic community. >> translation: god awoke and awoke the hope of the lowly of those who suffer of the displaced and discarded and all those that feel that they do not have a dignified place in these lands. in the storm god comes closer and closer to the suffering but strong hearts of so many mothers, fathers, grandparents that have seen their children lost or strachd criminally-- snatched criminally >>> he will hold a mass in what is the largest municipality in mexico and one of the violent areas. >> reporter: this poor suburb on the edge of mexico city. it represents the problems and promise of mexico, and, perhaps, that's

,i certainly endorsed barack obama. in 2008, i endorsed hillary clinton over barack obama. again, the rules were just come and listen, no commitment. by coming, you are not signing on to the bernie sanders campaign. brian: you're are one of the few talk shows in the united ace -- united states that unions support. are you the only one that unions support? mr. press: i do not know that. i know a lot support my program because i'm a lifelong union member right i'm close to the union membership. -- union leadership. across the board for the most , part, i support their issues. the keystone pipeline for example. i am a union man. i just reached out to some unions, asking for their support in helping to sponsor the show. i have been very lucky and very grateful for the support we have had. brian: i want to ask you about the time when you are on tv. -- the time when you are on current tv. and you had your morning show on byrent tv and it was run financiers, al gore and others. what was your reaction when al that to al jazeera? mr. press: i felt the road ahead -- i felt the rug ha

whether it's president obama or whoever succeeds him. justice scalia commented to me as much as he had differences with people who occupied the white house when he was in office. but he assumed he would always be around longer than they were. but president obama will probably nominate a judge of the united states coast appeals in his or her 40s so the person could serve for 4 some years, who was just affirmed by the senate last year. there is five of them. they are all liberals, they are all academics. they all were affirmed 98-2 or 98-0. so senators have a hard time explaining why they would vote against someone they voted for. once you get into the merits of the nomination the republicans will lose. the president will pry loose enough of them. justice scalia said his greatest fear in life was that he would be succeeded by somebody who would undo what he has done. if he is succeed bid his opposite number, the undoing will not be overnight. the court will not revisit. it doesn't have jurisdiction over its former cases. once a case is dec

president obama has been pretty direct in his response. he says that he'll name his nominee in due time for the senate to consider -- and that what it supposed to happen next is very clear. "i intend to nominate somebody, to present them to the american people, to present them to the senate, i expect them to hold hearings, i expect there to be a vote." iowa's senator chuck grassley is in the middle of this fight as the chair of the senate judiciary committee.the senate's confirmation process starts with him -- and right grassley said that he wouldn't even consider the president's pick.then -- a few days later -- he said he would wait to see who was selected -- before he and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell wrote a piece in the washington post -- and said said" it is today the american people, rather than a lame- duck president whose priorities and policies they just rejected in the most- cent national election, who should be afforded the opportunity to replace justice scalia."in cedar rapids -- grassley's fellow iowa senator joni ern