president obama imposing these sanctions, president-elect trump sworn in, president obama leaving office. is there any kind of timing with the outgoing president with the incoming president? >> what there was was notification today to the senior member of the president-elect's team. but no, no consultation in advance. this is, as you pointed out, a set of sanctions, disclosure of malicious cyber activity, and the expulsion of 35 russian intelligence officers and their families and the closure of compounds being used in the united states for intelligence collection purposes. all of these are a set of steps designed to respond to the aggressive behavior by the russian government against our personnel in moscow and the cyber activities that we disclosed and called out earlier this fall in october and attributed to coming from the highest levels of the russian government seeking to interfere in our election process. what you've seen today in the announcements we've made and the set of steps that we are disclosing today is a determination to make clear that there will be consequences for aggr

but, with obama leaving, we get a new president, they can say well, this is just obama. this doesn't affect us. in any serious way. if the russian conclude that, they will be correct. >> tell me i'm crazy, i have a theory, this is with israel, the united nations and russia, donald trump has full plate with domestic policies, he has a lot to fix in our federal government, is this pay attention over throw the foreign affairs into a mess, so he won't have time to focus on fixing the u.s.? >> well, there are a lot of people, politicians in america, and media that don't have his best interest at heart, that is for sure. i think that donald trump can keep a number of balls in the air effectively, because he has a good idea what he wants to do in middle east with israel, and russia, the domestic stuff is a lot, there is obamacare attack plan. and all -- tax plan, it will be difficult, but this is why you have a cabinet. they have a 100 day plan, they have a 200 day plan. >> that is a really good point, as a businessman he is a huge delegator. >> a great trait to have in a leade

obama: pretty good. i want to begin by once again thanking everybody who makes this wonderful evening possible, rubenstein,ve the kennedy center trustees -- i'm getting a big echo back there -- and the kennedy center president. them a big round of applause. [applause] we have some outstanding members of congress here tonight, and we are honored also to have vicki kennedy and three of her grandchildren with us here. [applause] pres. obama: the arts have always been part of life at the white house, because the arts are always central to american life. that's why for the past 80 years, michelle and i have invited the best writers, musicians, actors, dancers to share their gifts with the american people and help tell the story of who we are, and to inspire what is best in all of us. along the way, we have enjoyed some unbelievable performances. this is one of the perks of the job that i will miss. thanks to michelle's efforts, we have brought the arts to more young people, hosting workshops where they learn

. >> i do think barack obama is arrogant. >> but now obama had to go it alone. and he was facing a new crisis. >> more troubles for gm and its workers. >> america's iconic car company, general motors, was in a death spiral. >> general motors right now, i think we're all afraid. >> they were talking about two weeks and bust. it was not two years. it was not, we have a problem here. we think we can keep it alive for two weeks. >> honk your horn. >> chrysler was collapsing as well. >> everybody is here for one common cause. we want to keep our jobs. >> there were layoffs. plant closings. >> it's time to get pissed off! >> yeah. >> we cannot and must not and we will not let our auto industry simply vanish. >> polls showed almost two-thirds of the american people opposed bailing out the car companies. mitt romney, whose father ran a car company, wrote an op-ed, let them go bankrupt. but barack obama decided to go all in. >> our government will be making a significant additional investment of about $30 billion in gm. >> the massive loan effectively made the u.s. gover

last night on channel two news, president obama deputy said president obama and secretary of state kerry have made no secret about their concerns about israel settlement policies, but, again, israeli officials continue to take a hard line approach as he mentioned u.s. secretary of state kerry is scheduled to talk tomorrow. his vision for the next step. suffice to say this will be a speech and remarks that israeli officials will be closely watching. david thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> what is it exactly that the prime minster is accusing the obama administration obama administration of doing here. we know there was deep resolution in order to push this united nation security counsel resolution forward. that is deeply disappointing because his torquically america has protected israel. i just came from the western wall about an hour ago and touchdown the stones the juiews have touched and prayed towards for thousands of years. the idea this security counsel resolution which was allowed to pass and pushed strongly by the obama administration the fact it cal

obama's fading power. today he was even dissed by the british with whom we are said to have a special relationship diplomatically. now apparently not so special. british prime minister theresa may unexpectedly scolded secretary of state john kerry saying it was inappropriate to spend so many time attacking israel earlier this week. that was widely seen as a sign that even the british are done with the obama years and waiting for the trump administration to get going. major developments to chew over though tonight we will get you ready for new year's eve. several live reports and make time for other intriguing stories. maybe it's not surprising that another singer tonight is saying she will not perform the donald trump's inauguration. but you can believe that she went so far as to say it's because she could never, quote: throw roses to hitler? oh. did i mention that this flame-floor is not a hollywood liberal? she a performer for the mormon tabernacle choir. and we will also check in on lindsay lohan's late

obama. >> i thought you just meant for me. >> what about obama? >> i think that the president will not agree to this. it is not a favorable case. really not much upside. not something that in fact that is he going to move the ball forward on any kind of legacy, on any kind of constituency in the problem for manning is, you know, looking she is looking at tremendous amount 35 years. >> another one, bo bergdahl. bowe bergdahl discussion whether he should be granted a pardon. >> interesting and compelling case in terms of the optics for president obama. this is a case where he has actually upside. if bowe bergdahl doll does not go to trial and the president does, in fact then we won't have the benefit of listening to any kind of cross-examination where all the facts and details of his capture of the people who lost their lives during the time looking for him, two of those specific cases before the court to allow that information to come in. all of that would become then relevant, probative, subject to cross-examination, and, therefore, public disclos

what did the obama administration do in the first nine months of the obama administration, the first nine months? this anti-war president killed more people with drone strikes than president bush did in four years. this is the lack of consistency. it's the dangerous mix of when you add ignorance to arrogance. when you add those two together, this is what you get. >> i hear that. i think if you were to ask folks in the -- i'm not saying i agree with drones. droves are problematic. the idea behind drones, we put drone out there so we don't are to put our men and women in harm's way. they can operate them effectively outside of that. either way, i think the main point for me is if you ask any city struggling in america, people in flint for a $38 billion aid package, i'm sure they would take it. >> it's katie. aid packages are passed by congress. >> and signed by the president. >> second, my question is, we have a new president who is coming into office now. the israelis are clearly hoping and i think believe that he will be a better president for israel than president obama has been. my

obama. a lot of the policy, a lot of the things that he wanted to to. so it's really tough to think that obama, while he didn't have the same flaws as hillary clinton, the message did not rile up as many people as he needed. that tells me that obama would have a tough time just on his record. >> the clinton campaign's own analysis says it was the comey letters. there would be no comey letter factor in anyone but hillary clinton as the nominee. barack obama supremely talented performer out there as a campaigner. as josh says, you just needed to do a little bit better, and that little bit better could be measured in how many letters from the fbi enter the campaign. >> i think that's exactly right. and when you really look at the entire arc of the trump campaign, his main message that he gave to voters was this idea of corrupt hillary. and that was the narrative he had there and he colored hillary clinton with, i think we'd see a lot different result. >> all right, i'm calling, i'm officially c

he beat obama's party. so i don't know what else he wants at this point, what good it is doing other than, you know, pure intrigue and maybe some entertainment or in playing to his base which he continues to do regardless of the fact that, you know, he has to be the president for the whole country. >> that's right. i think part of this is saving face with his supporters because obama went and said in an interview that he thought he could have beat donald trump in this election if he had been given that opportunity. and so, for donald trump -- >> was that the turning point, do you think? that comment? >> i think it certainly set donald trump off. as he has said in the past, when someone punches at him he punches back. i think he took it as a direct affront. that doesn't mean they can't work on the transition. they'll still always be at odds politically and personally. i don't think you could find two more different people. >> we've seen that. i had a conversation with republican congressman duffy. he referen

today president obama tweeted again "president obama campaigned hard in very important swing states the. voters wanted to make america great again." an entire generation of democratic party leadership, operatives, staffers are tied to obama's presidency and they are reckoning with just what happened. joining me now, one of those people, the former speech writer for president obama. i wanted to have you on because the interview with ax was interesting for a lot of reasons. how is obama world processing what happened? >> i think we're figuring this out like everybody else. i'm a little bit outside of the other bit in l.a. but i this i what the president said overall was pretty articulate. it was a variety of factors that hal hillary ran a good race but a lot of factors played into what happened and we're reckoning with where we're at here which is we kind of -- we weren't focused enough adds a party, right? this is not an obama coalition, this is about democrats across the country, we rested our laurels on this idea of this demographic shift and that we were going to win the white house,

obama had to say. the president telling david axelrod that a majority of americans still believe in his vision for the country and would have voted for it for a third time. >> i'm confident that if i -- if i had run again and articulated it, i think i could have mobilized a majority of the american people to rally behind it. i know that in conversations that i've had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me, they would say the vision, the direction, that you point toward is the right one. >> again, we will have direct reaction from president-elect donald trump shortly. joining our conversation now, the man who did that interview, david axelrod. david, really a fascinating, very personal interview. you, of course, had a very personal relationship with the president. but that comment standing out saying that he, mr. obama, could have gotten a majority of the american public behind his vision had he run again in 2016. was that a dig at hillary clinton? >> well, i don't think

obama's response. critics worry the diplomatic fallout could have ramifications all over the world. >> this is what i would expect from a dictatorship that just became a democracy and can't make the democratic process work. >> it's clear it cannot be business as usual. this was a serious attack against our democratic system. they are trying to evaluate it to see what impact it will have on russia. we can do more. >> white house officials are warning against straying too far from convention. >> if the next administration wants to lift sanctions against senior russian intelligence units to keep them from interfering with our elections, you can go ahead and do that, but i don't think it makes much sense. reporter: the p.r. battle continues internationally with vladimir putin playing the game very, very well. he said it's regrettable the obama administration would end in such a manner. nonetheless, he extended new year greeting to the obama and trump families. tom: donald trump responding to putin's decisi

trump inherits obama boom. well let's take this to our political power panel they are conservative radio host jee gina loud en and jessica tar love, if the economy is so terrific how could americans just toss out the party creating credit for it. >> time for a change. liz: if the economy is so great. >> i mean, some of those headlines were exaggerating, some are right on. donald trump cannot dispute the fact he is inheriting a low unemployment rate. liz: long-term unemployed who dropped out of workforce it is 11% then. >> i don't know, i know there are a lot of people counted who are either students or to hole on work. -- old to work. liz: no, age 24-54, who are not working long-term working age adults not working, let's -- here is what is also going on. >> my point is that i think that everyone should be excited that economy is doing well, but we have seen 74 straight months of private sector job growth with president obama. liz: okay. >> an up employment rate lower than it was. to push obama out the door and

the clinton campaign, as you point out, at one level it was doing same thing as obama exp obama and another level, different things. other than progressive policies, i did not have a sense as to what would be her priorities, the result was, while winning a popular vote victory, secretary of state, lost a convincing electoral college mandate for donald trump. tom: this hole thing about the campaign, looking back, and analyzing it, on one part you look, you go, he is still popular, "fox news poll" still shows better than fi 50% number, which is high for an out going president. but dems lost 1042 state and federal democratic posts duri his tenure. did he become popular but ruin the democratic party? >> i think what interesting, you ask most people if they feel they are better off today than beginning of obama po presidency, most say no. there are certain areas like silicon valley, and places in california, where people say yes. the rest of the nation is hurting, they say, you might say you had economic growth, and all of this great things that you keep saying but that is not my truth, i want a

his response, michelle obama. i'd like to see her return to being a male and let loose in the outback of zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave th maxi, the gorilla. >> the comments are absutely reprehensible and they serve no place in our public discourse. in his apology paladino said i wanted to say something as sarcastic and hurtful as possible. i was wired up, primed to be human and make a mistake. i could not have made a worse choice in the words i used to express my feelings. back now with the roundtable. so azi, look, we put the comments out there. he has apologized for these things. let's put the comments themselves aside for a minute. but carl paladino, if not this in particular, has a history of making very inflammatory, provocative comments. he was a new york candidate for governor. you covered him. you know something about him. here's what i'm curious about. a lot of people looked at carl paladino and his rise in new york politics a few years ago and you said you saw there the roots of donald t

was that obama's failure? a lack of political skill, perhaps, though it is equally likely that the currents were stronger than one person could shift. in recent years, america has gone through enormous economic, technological, political and cultural changes and some parts of the country, there has been a backlash to that change and to an african-american president. it remains unclear whether the country was ready for obama's vision. the most dramatic bet he made was health care. he spent the first few years of his presidency and all his political capital on passing it, and i would argue even if trump finds a way to repeal and replace it, remains a historic achievement. obama did what seven presidents failed to do. he made health care a fundamental right. it is the signature achievement of a consequential president. but presidential legacies also exist above and beyond laws and policies. we remember john f. kennedy for energy, vitality, elegance and intelligence he brought to the white house. and in that sense,

one is named obama. is one is named hillary clinton since it is people still trying to fight over her election. they could shut this down. >> she right? >> of course she's not right. i a lot a words to describe that but i won't use any of them on tvgts. let me just say this. president obama had so sit through five years in the oval office while donald trump accused him of not being el visib eligible to be president of the united states. i think he now as president elect has an opportunity to take the high road. >> shouldn't he say yes i trust the intelligence communities instead of saying yes i illegitimately won. >> there are people trying to do that. when you listen to president obama and hillary clinton in this speech where she said well, putin doesn't like her. the factor of the matter is those people in that hall last night didn't vote for donald trump because of some russian hack. the state of michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio, florida did not vote for donald trump because of some dumb hack.

no more obama! >> summer, 2009. >> afro len anymoinism coming t on a silver platter. >> i have a right for the government not to control my health care. >> across the country, a grass-roots rebellion gets ugly. the target, barack obama. >> why don't have i'm frofreedo? because we elected somebody to take our freedom? >> enraged by bailout, the right went ballistic by health care. >> why don't they take the health care being forced down our throat. >> the president was undeterred. >> i am not the first president to take up this cause but i am determined to be the last. we used a lot of political capital on health care and the reason is simple, we're the only advanced nation on earth that didn't make sure every person had affordable health care. >> when you consider presidents have been trying since teddy roosevelt to get health care passed, fdr was hoping to do it, jfk. >> no matter how hard the road, what history will record is that obama got it done. >> we are done. >> but that achievement that sev

have they outmaneuvered obama again? >> i don't like to praise a former kgb colonel on the most popular cable channel in america but it was a master stroke. he played the game, as the ambassador said, very smoothly with lavrov and then with tweets coming out of the russian embassy in london with photographs of a duckling as a lame duck obama and we'll invite you to an orthodox christmas celebration. he's said to the world, president obama you are completely irrelevant. and the truth is, he is. this is a new age after november the 8th. the idea that he plays golf for eight years and now he decides to do something about russia, it's incredible. truly incredible. why now after the invasion of the ukraine, this is when he waits to do something because of an alleged hack of the dnc? he's made a laughingstock out of the white house. >> let's talk about what president-elect donald trump should do now in the aftermath of this when he assumes office on the 20th. because still some decisions will have to be made, sanctions and fur

then trump talks to obama and everything's fine. i do think that we were talking about this earlier, phillip. we're seeing something about trump's style here. he doesn't like something, he airs it on twitter. today it looks like he got the president's attention and he got what he wanted, at least today. >> donald trump everything is either the absolute worst or the absolute best. this morning it was the worst, speaks to obama and now it's the best. important for all of us to keep in mind there's very little middle ground between the extremes and it can change quickly. >> you have to have four years of donald trump on twitter doing this and how to interpret this stuff when it happens nlt the state of the transition depends on who you're talking to and most people are not paying attention to the state of the transition. this is not something people care about. this starts to get old fast and he needs to focus on things that people really do care about, because at this point it's pretty much the press that focuses on his every word on

obama: pretty good. i want to begin by once again thanking everybody who makes this wonderful evening possible, including dave rubenstein, the kennedy center trustees -- i'm getting a big echo back there -- and the kennedy center president. give them a big round of applause. [applause] pres. obama: we have some outstanding members of congress here tonight, and we are honored also to have vicki kennedy and three of her grandchildren with us here. [applause] pres. obama: the arts have always been part of life at the white house, because the arts are always central to american life. that's why for the past 80 years, michelle and i have invited the best writers, musicians, actors, dancers to share their gifts with the american people and help tell the story of who we are, and to inspire what is best in all of us. along the way, we have enjoyed some unbelievable performances. this is one of the perks of the job that i will miss. thanks to michelle's efforts, we have brought the arts to more young people, host

obama versus putin. president obama takes vladamir putin to task in his final news conference of the year over russian interference in the u.s. election. mr. obama all but confirms putin was personally responsible. how will the u.s. retaliate? >>> strong consensus. cia director john brennan says the fbi is on the same page when it comes to russian election cyber attacks and vows the two organizations will work together on the review ordered by president obama. but do they agree on russia's motivation? >>> trump's tight rope. president obama walks a fine line in his news conference when it comes to the president-elect, saying he's offered suggestions that donald trump has listened to in his cordial conversations. but he also notes trump's continuing denial of russia's election hacking. will the war of words continue?

start off by talking about what president obama is dismantling. >> well, president obama is dismantling a program that really had been an example of racial and religious profiling in this country. and the fact he is dismantling it is a huge indication for human rights, a vindication for muslims, salvation, and middle eastern groups that are in working for this moment for quite a long time but also import to recognize that this was a program that was controversial from the start under the bush and administration. people have been looking to scrap it within dhs since 2006, and had been abandoned by the obama administration. it was obsolete. it was not a value add to national security at all. it had achieved fear mongering, scaring people in these communities, driving families apart, deportations. it was ineffective and counterproductive. juan: what would dismantling it mean at this point? it hasn't been used for several years. >> what it means is for the trump administration to come in, it will be that much harder for them to start a new muslim registry program. what we have basically, th

especially president obama. he'll mark that as one of his greatest achievement, i think where he failed was in his ability to sell it to a broader part of the country. he and his advisors always believed that as it became implemented, embedded in the fabric of the health care system that people would accept and it embrace it and come to say this was a very good idea. that never happened and that's why we have a situation now as he goes out of office, republicans are champing at the bit to be able to repeal and replace it. i think the presidency is also easier said than done that the republicans will find out complicated and difficult it is going to be. but i think he has no question that this was the right thing to do. he went against his advice to scale back at the moment it looked too tough to get through. that to him is a proud piece of his legacy. susan: let's shift now to national securement and foreign policy. the perspective gave the order that took out osama bin laden and he made good on his campaign pro

of the obama presidency. obviously we are waiting intently to hear what donald trp has to say. that's going to do it for this hour. i'm steve kornackin new york. mtp daily, in for trump starts now. >> we're waiting for donald trump's word on president obama's retaliation on russia. >> i think we need to get on with our lives. i think computers have messed with our lives. >> and the battle in the west as the president works to secure his environmental legacy. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm peter alexander in washington in tonight for chuck todd. we begin this evening with retaliation from the white house. a major announcement by the obama administration against russia setting up an intensely dramatic priorities from the outgoing president to the incoming one. obama has just swept vladimir putin and russia with sanctions, at nine russian individuals and entities. targeting russian intelligence agencies. he's targeting 35 russian diplomats that do intelligence work. they now h

iran already is in barack obama. look at the persian gulf with our sailors. >> would you bait that into them to show there's a new sheriff in town? >> they will present a moment. under mining the regime either through oil and energy and looking at dissidents. >> the mek, that dissident team that was recognized by at lot of different important people saying recognize me. >> russia, this is a big question mark. not everyone knows what the president-elect will be and will go on russia. not allowing them to become the world power that they once was is going to be important. >> how many them starting to pull out of the ukraine in order to get the donald trump -- >> i think he might get some concessions on that because he has talked about trying to find common ground with russia and fighting radical islamists. john mccain said it's a gas station with a flag. >> they could drive the new prices up. >> china, south china sea isn't theirs. they are sending carriers, building f-35 equivalents. japan, stram, taiwan, great opport

and did president obama admit hillary was right by saying this? >> i think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, that we need to make action, and we will. >> i'm eric bolling, welcome to cashin. now we'll start with you, should the obama administration have already taken action? and by the way, we're 34, 35 days out until donald trump takes over, should they take action now? >> they should have taken action, and that's why i think there's this viewpoint that seems to be largely political. by and large, you look at the messengers who are pushing this narrative that the russians tipped the election in favor of donald trump, they really lack credibility. if either nancy pelosi's daughter who's pushing this message from the electors to hillary clinton's campaigns who were really concerned over donald trump's comments about election fraud, she criticized him during the election. and already hillary clinton's claims that the e-mail on her server was never hacked. you also have the narrative th

>> i think president obama, president obama genuinely. they both genuinely want the transition to work because it has to work. there is the thing called the u.s. government. i also think in the case of president obama, he, i think, is on a track to be more involved and more critical than we have seen former presidents be and he wants to lay down the predicate that he has given donald trump every chance. >> i want to talk about jobs and his business ties and major conflicts of interest. he basically said yesterday look at all these sprint jobs that are coming back because of me et cetera, et cetera. those are jobs that were announced this fall and he took credit for them. at the same time on a really serious note, he still hasn't told anyone how he's going to divest himself from all these businesses, ties, not just to u.s. businesses. ties to businesses all over the world especially in some countries that we don't have the best relationships with. here's how he addressed that yesterday. >> it's a very routine thing. it's not a big deal. yo

obama vs. trump. president obama campaigned campn vigorously for hillary clinton in the 2016 election telling supporters, quote, my name may not be on the ballot but our progress is on the ballot, unquote. despite clinton's defeat he thinks he would have beaten donald trump in a head-to-head matchup as he told his former advisor david axelrod in a podcast yesterday. >> i'm confident that if i had run again, and are a articulated it i think i could have mobilized a majority of the american people to rally behind it i know in conversations i have had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me they would say the vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one. >> axelrod was later asked if obama's comments were a thinly veiled wipe at hillary clinton. >> is this kind of a harsh judgment of hillary clinton he would have been able to do what she could not? >> well, he said this until service of a larger point which is he doesn't accept that the election was a verdi

president obama is not sure that president obama would be willing to do this and given the relationship with putin and the russians and that he needed to do it to take the pressure off of president trump to do it. that's why i said earlier, i think president-elect trump should be grateful that president obama -- i wish that president obama would have done this earlier. i would have liked him to do it prior to the election. i know he felt like he was playing politics with it. but, he made that call, i respect that call. i respect the motivation for that decision. but, it was a appropriate that he do it now right before president-elect trump takes office so that again, it can be kind of a bad cop and good cop situation and president obama mayed t played the bad cop and president-elect trump can see what the benefits of the country he can go with the country. >> i want to turn to peter alexander now is joining us from the state department. what are you hearing fromour po there? >> jacob, live in your washington, d.c. burreau right now. all communicating together to the country what these n

he'll blame president obama. he'll take credit for the economy and the bailout and all the things that led to the economy improving. he'll take credit for it. the problem for democrats is they need to fight back. they can't let his messages and what he says go out and not push back against these messages. i'm saying trump supporters, yes, they'll believe whatever trump says, most of them. >> part of the problem there it strikes me or has been the problem so far is the fact that this economy on a macro level looks much better than it was. then you zoom in and there's huge pockets of the cntry that aren't doing well and all sort of disibutional problems which is a position the democrats got caught in a little bit, this year being like telling people it's okay. >> right. just a quick, look at the economy bill clinton gave george w. bush. >> very good. >> democrats are very good at handing off robust economies and we cross our fingers. the last one was kind of driven into the ditch. you get the sense he's been surrou

seeing as it was the obama coalition there is reason to think that obama could have held it together. but in that fashional race who knows what might have happened. the bottom line is that president obama doesn't want hillary clinton's loss to be a reflex on his legacy. that's what he is trying to do with that sly kind of comment. >> josh, look, this back and forth between the president of the united states and the president-elect, who responded -- we'll talk about that in a moment. but first of all, is this really necessary? does this matter at this point? >> well, i mean for different reasons it matters for trump and obama in different i was. for donald trump, every time you say anything about him that he doesn't like he is going to respond. he has no discipline. he has no filter. he just can't resist. for president obama, the legacy is the only thing that matters to him at this point. he wants to have as much of a say as possible in what history says about hip. most of that is out of his control but he is doingt his best to frame it while he has the chance. >> let's talk about the

but look at what obama has done. he's pushed with a strong fist and america is back in play, you're not going to hack us. here's what i'm going to do. now, if donald trump when he takes office, if he takes the sanctions away, then that makes it look like he's starting off making america weaker with our foreign policy. there's another way that donald trump can also play this. and this is by bargaining. maybe he says, i'll remove some of the sanctions if you remove your military presence in something like maybe the ukraine. >> and we know mr. trump is certainlytransactional. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell don't think the sanctions go far enough. he said this a statement in part, the obama administration for eight years attempted to reset relations with russia and sat passively while russia expanded its sphere of influence. sanctions against the russian intelligence services are a good initial step. however, late incoming and almost sounds as if senator mcconnell would like even more done. what response will he

for the obama administration. >> did obama in some way kind of paint trump in a corner here, bob, with this -- with these decisions that he has made? >> i think so. but, i mean, obama is still the president. you can only have one president at a time and he's going to be president until trump is sworn in on the 20th. and a lot of democrats and editorial boards, including the "new york times" have said obama should have acted quicker while praising the actions. democrats definitely think that obama could have been and should have been tougher during the campaign on russia than he was. >> francessca, do you think there were political motivations behind this, that obama was looking to perhaps push trump's hand in the early days of his administration? >> well, again, it's clear that these are not actions that donald trump would have necessarily taken. if he were president. and once he becomes president, he said that he doesn't think that the russians necessarily did do the hacking. and so obama is trying to push him in that direction. and, again, take these actions that officials are saying

i don't know the purpose of obama policy. we'll not sanction russia getting out of ukraine or crimia. we have to find new approaches where russia can work productively with the united states and i hope mr. tillerson can achieve that. >> we all heard the news as it is developing and digesting it. but with your level of experience and where with you have been in the world with awful th-- all of this. what did you think? >> i was disappointed thatç mr obama threw things like this in the elevenths hour of his presidency and based on intelligence that is not briefed to congress. it looks suspicious to me. the world looks to our country to be peace and productive. this is time of behavior from a tin point dictator and america demands better. >> i have a feeling we'll talk to you again on many subject matters. thank you. >> a fox news alert. ç a fragile ceasefire negotiated by russia and turkey. it seems to be holding so far in syria. despite support of minor clashes with government troop and rebels. that is marking a potential

his response, michelle obama. i'd like to see her return to being a male and let loose in the outback of zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with maxi, the gorilla. >> the comments are absolutely reprehensible and they serve no place in our public discourse. in his apology paladino said i wanted to say something as sarcastic and hurtful as possible. i was wired up, primed to be human and make a mistake. i could not have made a worse choice in the words i used to express my feelings. back now with the roundtable. so azi, look, we put the comments out there. he has apologized for these things. let's put the comments themselves aside for a minute. but carl paladino, if not this in particular, has a history of making very inflammatory, provocative comments. he was a new york candidate for governor. you covered him. you know something about him. here's what i'm curious about. a lot of people looked at carl paladino and his rise in new york politics a few years ago and you said you saw there the roots of dona

pipelinefor the larger that obama stopped. republicans reactions tog your this decision by the obama administration to put a halt to that one section of the dakota type line -- dakota pipeline. get your thoughts on it, especially north dakota residents. thoughts.o give us bismarck, north dakota is where bert lives. caller: good morning. i called in to give my viewpoints. i am 70 years old and i live in north dakota. i have lived in april area. -- in the rural area. we have native americans all around. and i was on a tp -- tpe we had rings. [indiscernible] we found arrowheads in the neighborhood. buffalo bones in that type of thing. some of that is beside the point. we have lots of indian artifacts all around the state. host: to the decision itself, what do you think? caller: i think it is a mistake. a lot of people that depend on --s oil, it is not going to there are 200 pipelines under the missouri river. this isn't going to change anything. the native americans are poor. i don't think -- to give attention to what has been ha

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barack obama had a plan. and that was to increase the role of iran, increase the role of moscow, in balancing out the middle east. u.s. had a foreign policy that was predicated on the saudis in the gulf states, and the israels. that's how we did the middle east in the bush era, and prior to that. obama wanted a rebalancing. well, he got it. but i don't think people are very happy with it. and i don't think he's happy with the way it turned out. hillary clinton could hardly come in having served as secretary of state, this guy was all wet t wouldn't work. >> i want to bring it back home to wrap up our conversation and i want to play a sound byte for you. so much of president obama's presidency was based on executive actions, and some, not necessarily laws, but regulations with the stroke of a pen. i want to get your reaction. take a listen. >> whenever i can take steps without legislation, to expand opportunity for more american families, i will. i've got a pen, and i've got a phone. a pen to take executive ac

has presidenttion obama built the president trump will inherit? startedpresident obama escalating the use of armed term, early in his first he had to build a legal and bureaucratic infrastructure for the use of targeted killing, the practice of targeted killing. and that infrastructure now exists for the next president, for president trump to use. the real concern is the lines that the obama administration our lines that can be swept aside by the next administration. these are rules obama administration adopted for itself and it fought very hard to keep the courts from enforcing those rules or even asking whether the rules were the right one, whether they reflected international law or reflected constitutional law. in some ways, the obama administration i think was very successful in carving out this authority, this unchecked authority to use lethal force against suspected enemies. and that powerer will not be available to president trump. amy: you begin your book, the introduction, check off -- check off plus drones with a powerful program about

and it is part of obama's legacy. he is going to go down in history as one of the best domestic presidents and the worst foreign policy president in the history of the united states. when you think about history, opening up to russia, the iran deal, and now this culminates it. one of the worst foreign policy presidents in american history. shame on him for doing this on the way out. >> ambassador, that's a pretty bold criticism of president obama. do you agree with that assessment? >> i wouldn't have gone quite so far, almost i almost did a few minutes ago. the basic thing is to reiterate, don't do anything in the last few weeks of an administration. the last time we did anything big, it was going into somalia in 1991, and look how that turned out. this is going to turn out as bad. >> this is just the beginning. because when the new congress comes in, they're going to be acting on this. they're going to try to defund the u.n., they're going to try to take away aid from the palestinian authority. it will be a big fight

president and obama became the first to visit hiroshima. tammy leitner is following this in honolulu. good to have you with us this morning, your time. what does this mean for u.s. japanese relations going forward? >> reporter: hey, ayman. this will start with the two leaders having a bilateral metimet meeting and then a replaying and then survivors are invited to sit in on that and we had a chance to speak with the ambassadorcaroline kennedy, about what this means to u.s. relations. let's listen to what she had to say. >> it's incredibly historic. president obama went to hiroshima earlier this year and now abe made the decision on the 75th anniversary since pearl harbor acre to come hettack and shows the strength of the u.s./japan alliance that are iconic moments that will take place this year and it shows what a strong partnership president obama and mr. abe have forged over the last eight years. >> reporter: and you know something else she pointed out, not only will the people in japan and here in the united states be watching, this is r