president obama did not have that. congress was not going to do anything other than challenge the program. so he does employ executive power, but it's not in unconstitutional ways nor is it out of ignorance. he knows what he's doing and he's working within the constraints that he faces to try to make this program work. >> in the chapter by meg jacobs on global warming, the fight against global warming on the paris climate agreement and the keystone pipeline, and one of the sub paragraphs and the subchapters is seizing the mantel, obama's use of executive action and she writes in truth obama was preparing to unsheath his most powerful weapon and a dramatic use of executive action in his 20 then state of the union address the president revealed his intention to have the epa move forward on regulating climate change including carbon. it was overturned by executive decision and epa action in the trump administration. >> that's absolutely right. her chapter starts with the cap and trade legislation and like with health care

the first assessment of the obama presidency. what originally got it going on the book and help to bring together the various writers involved in this? a book like done this about george w. bush and his presidency when it came to an end. and i wanted to continue doing this. moveally the idea was to beyond the presidential rankings that we already have when a presidency ends and instead, bring some of the brightest , who were not obama specialists but specializing on other issues, foreign policy and having them write the chapter that puts this presidency into perspective. so they all wrote their first draft and presented it at a meeting we had in princeton the week after november elections. and that was the idea, to generate a first discussion how this fits into the long history of our presidents. to open the conversation. host: your book is broken down into a dozen or so chapters. you wrote a couple of those chapters. tell us how you came upon how to divide up the topic area? it is difficult to do. inevitably, some issues get lef

obama people holdovers deep within the deep state investigating the obama administration. it's actually undermining trump. it never seems to end. ed: i was on the panel that picked the u.s. attorneys for reagan. we said thank you very much for your service and we'll put our own people in there. i don't have any understanding of that. why you would take someone in utah, far away from the justice department in washington, d.c., he'll fly in, where will he get the staff and the resources. stuart: do you think voters generally on the left and right are fed up with endless investigation very few people can follow? can you follow all these names and all these meetings? ed: they can't follow it. at the end of the day they want justice. stuart: trump unleashed now on an up-swing. his approval rating is gradually improving. ed: i don't think he'll ever be high above 50%. i think people will look back on him and say this is a president who is accomplishing a great deal which he is and he'll grow on you as opposed to the shock and awe. stuart: will we ever get used to it? he's so dif

you've got obama holdovers, bush holdovers. president trump ran on the principle, amongst others, of smart government instead of stupid government that spends $6 trillion on wars that refuses to win, that spends $20 trillion and no one can find out what we did with it other than ship it to china. i mean, this is, this is time for smart government but i've got to tell you, the issues -- the iq test here is severe. >> for judicial nominees there's a great process to vet them to get real conservatives. to get people in national security jobs there should be a vetting process of trusted people. and i would have people like john ballton, frank gaffney, the head of the hudson institute. let's get real conservative leaders, vet people for state department posts, defense department posts, ambassadorships and let's do this quickly. lou: quickly is now a relative term. we're 13 months into the presidency. >> yes, i know. lou: -- of donald trump and now quick means urgently, i think. >> immediately. it has to be done immediately. lou: fre

obama tried to outdo them both with a timid appeasement. the same people promising to wipe america off the map, who burn american and israeli flags. in other words, they hate our guts. that didn't stop obama from orchestrating one of the worse deals every in the history of mankind. here's obama surrendering, in case you're interested. >> today after two years of negotiations, the united states has achieved something that decades of animosity has not, a comprehensive long-term deal with iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. this deal demonstrates that american diplomacy will bring about real change. it's also in line with the tradition of american leadership. >> bill clinton and barack obama, president trump is refusing to given an inch. watch this. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. if he does anything with respect to guam or any place else that's an american territory or an america

corruption -- obama and clinton corruption. trey gowdy and chairman goodlatte have joined the call for a special counsel to investigate surveillance abused by the obama administration era and justice department. lawmakers say it's time to have an investigator with subpoena and prosecutorial powers, something the justice department inspector general. it was only a few days a ago gowdy said he was reluctant to call for a special counsel. we have a lot to cover. i want to begin if i may with your lawsuit seeking bruce and nelly ohr's records to figure out the relationship with the discredited phoney trump dossier and fusion gps's relationship to all of this. >> the american public deserves the communications, the records, the messages, the texts between ohr, the number four guy at the justice department, the same guy who served as the conduit. he was the go-to guy to funnel that information to the justice department and was a personal contact of steel. of course, his wife nellie ohr was work apartment fusion gps as an employee. oh

what did obama know? when did he know it? trump unloads on the democratic media at a raucous rally in pennsylvania. tonight in "hannity" exclusive, mike pence will react to the massive fisa abuse scandal. tonight, we have a package bomb killing a teenager and wounding two women in austin, texas. we will update you throughout the hour on the very scary story as part of tonight's breaking news opening monologue. ♪ >> sean: all right. major developments. this is a big night tonight in the russia investigation. now the big breaking news, the house intel committee has now ended what has been a 14-month investigation in this phase of the russian probe. is starting to release details of what it has uncovered. in this particular case on collusion. we still have fisa abuse, uranium one, unmasking scandal and the clinton bought and paid for dossier. this is not included tonight. the take-away from the house intel committee zero evidence -- let me repeat. none. no evidence showing collusion between the trump campaign and russia. i hop

i know it was obama. it was obama. it was hillary's ego was moving. >> that's right. >> i think maybe it was lockheed testing new model with the fastest aircraft. >> dropping some serious military knowledge. i like that. next up for 20 years south park has secured skewered politics on comedy central. >> welcome to pentagon sir. this way please. this is the drone program. you can kill anyone repoetly. here's the keys. in here is satellite surveillance where you can monitor anyone conversation live. extreme interrogation rooms. it's necessary. let's do it. >> just made a confession that likely rattly hollywood. you ready. they're republicans. does that surprise anybody? >> no. >> why not? >> i've watched the show for years. i love it. i saved them up and i watch them on airplanes and i laugh so hard. i'm from colorado. which is where the show is based. this is not a surprise to me. >> what about you? >> they've always been pro free speech, pro liberty and free market and antileft. i assume they were independent libertari

obama's best friend. mary less and sets up a private equity fund and his friend is regulator in chief and invests in highly regulated industriless. >> lou: who would do that? >> unless your best friend is the regulator in chief. and one brief example. university of phoenix for profit school. we think that the school is bad and we'll suspend the pentagon from using gi bill money for soldiers to go to school there. the price went from 100 a hair to $3. p dpesz who buys it. obama's best friend. they come in and buy it for pennies on the dollar and lo and behold. the obama administration said we'll let gi money flow back to the university of phoenix. it was ram pant. nsmash and grab. and to see that pattern emerge here and while i think many people were averting their eyes in the national left wing media, imagine that. and the idea that biden and kerry sons and step son could come together to make money off of the dad's what we call his business, think about it for a second. vice-president biden, secretary st

what did obama know? when did he know it? trump unloads on the liberal media at a raucous rally in pennsylvania. tonight in "hannity" exclusive, mike pence, will react to the massive fisa abuse scandal. tonight, we have a package bomb killing a teenager and wounding two women in austin, texas. we will update you throughout the hour on the very scary story as part of tonight's breaking news opening monologue.ry ♪ >> sean: all right. major developments. this is a big night tonight in the russia investigation. now the big breaking news, the house intel committee has now ended what has been a 14-month investigation in this phase of the russian probe. it's starting to release details of what it has uncovered. in this particular case on collusion.nc we still have fisa abuse, uranium one, unmasking scandal and the clinton bought and paid for dossier. this is not included tonight. the take-aways from the house intel committee zero evidence -- let me repeat. none. no evidence showing collusion between the trump campaign and russia.

president barack obama on the international stage for the first time three years earlier obama had signaled a desire to reset relations with russia. it was a tense meeting it was not warm in any way putin's what should president obama at length about all the misdeeds of the united states over the years going back to the clinton administration in nato enlargement president obama always engage mr putin a spirit of logic and the logic that we saw in the relationship was not necessarily the same logic that mr putin saw when some border is trying to assure you listen i come with my parents come with my you know military equipment to your big heart but because that is not against you would you believe and then there was also i think a geo political argument that the west should take advantage of this time to move east and to make sure that poland and hungary in a stony are for ever outside russia's sphere of influence free states should be able to say we're in nato we're not in nato we're in the e.u. we're not in the e.u. who is russia to tell them how they should behave. the deployment of the mi

president barack obama on the international stage for the first time three years earlier obama had signaled a desire to reset relations with russia. it was a tense meeting it was not in any way putin lectured president obama at length about all the misdeeds of the united states over the years going back to the clinton administration in nato enlargement president obama always engaged mr putin a spirit of logic and the logic that we saw in the relationship was not necessarily the same logic that mr putin saw when some boarder is trying to assure you listen i come with my tanks say come with my you know military equipment to your big heart but because that does look against you would you believe and then there was also i think a geo political argument that the west should take advantage of this time to move east and to make sure that poland and hungary and a stone are for ever outside russia's sphere of influence free states should be able to say we're in nato we're not in nato we're in the e.u. we're not in the e.u. who is russia to tell them how they should behave. the deployment of the miss

then appointed to a post by president barack obama. no one is perfectly non-partisan but horowitz is seen as an honest broker. it will be hard for democrats to dismiss this. >> sean: thank you. joining us the white house senior advise for senior communications. this would will be investigated. we are waiting on the first horowitz report and that's been delayed. it's got to be frustrating. at the white house that the wheels of justice grind this slowly. >> what the president wants is to make sure that they can look into the fisa and figure out if there were any political abuses. there has always been concern about that. that's what the president is pushing for. >> sean: i think there were abuses. she paid for it hillary clinton, they never told the fisa court. that's deception. the fbi has an obligation to vervie it. verify it and fusion gps never did and they leak phoney information. where does the president stand on the issue of the miltary? that's his number 1 responsibility. he had an increase in the defense budget. i can't think of

did you brief president obama? mark: let's keep walking through this timeline, we have a guardian article, january 11, 2017, so after the election, but before the inauguration, senarohn mccain passed documents to e fbi director james comey las mon alleging secret contacts between the trump campaign and moscow and that russian intelligence had personally compromising material on the president-elect himself. and material seen by the guardian british newspaper a series of reports of trump's relationship with moscow. drawn up by former western counterintelligence official working as a private consultant, we know it's christopher steele. they go on. official in the u.s. administration described the source who wrote the report is consistently reliable, meticulous, well-informed with a reputation for having extensive russian contacts. goes on, the emergence of the documents is potentially explosive, ten days before trump's inauguration on the eve of his first planned press conference since july last year, one more, the gu

lisa, a million obamas? what do you think? >> it's almost like he wrote a fundraising order for the gop. obama clones. i wish his foundation would look outside himself. i understand he's a democrat and he wants active democrats. but if he could look outside himself and him not be the pinnacle of what an activist is. tom: this is a real question. who is more eeg fiscal barack obama or donald trump. >> trump. >> i group new york city. from the early 80s on, donald trump was known as having the biggest ego in new york city. but i think president obama was saying and i'll give him credit for, we should be training the next generation of people to go out and try to solve the problems that afflict the united states and the world. and we should be doing it for conservatives and liberals. if he were able to give them that training and knowledge it would help the party. millenials don't want to be involved in government. if they can train people on both sides of the aisle to go out and work together, he absolutely should. >> this was p

obama, mr. reset -- who is tougher on russia? donald trump of barack obama and hillary? >> we really think that donald trump was tough on russia? tough?k this is >> sean: cathy, let me help educate your liberal mind. this is important. you understandun that by moving america towards energy independence, herg has literally cut the legs underneath vladimir putin? literally, that is the only economic engine he has. that's it. >> he had him on the phone and congratulated him and didn'thi mention anything --ac >> sean: just like barack obama did. >> had that happened, what happened to this by and his daughter, that is horrific. that did not happen on obama's watch. >> sean: was it wrong for donald trump to pay for a dossier -- that's right, that was hillary. >> i thought we were getting tough on russia. >> sean: hillary paid for the russian dossier full of lies, dr. gorka. >> look at the track record of obama and his secretary of state, hillary clinton. they rolled over one vladimir putin invaded another country. they sent this plastic reset button.r they had the moment about

pay obama and his wife to create a show so they never have to stop lecturing you. we are excited hope you are too. have a great weekend. good night from washington. sean hannity is next ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: and welcome to this special breaking news edition of hannity. we have a ton of brand new information tonight and for the hour we will be focusing on stories that your media always ignores. now, the "wall street journal" reporting just a short time ago that the president's legal team is in fact negotiating with a special counsel robert mueller over an interview with donald trump. now, does that mean finally this corrupt, crooked, witch-hunt could be coming to an end? i have my beliefs and i will tell you in a second. also, sara carter is here with new reports on the massive story we broke last night. victoria toensing, the lawyer for the uranium one fbi informant is now confirming her client was interviewed last december by the fbi because there is an active and ongoing investigation into the clinton foundation. now, this informant is saying that he has proof of

did you brief president obama? mark: let's keep walking through this timeline, we have a guardian article, january 11, 2017, so after the election, but before the inauguration, senator john mccain passed documents to the fbi director james comey last month alleging secret contacts between the trump campaign and moscow and that russian intelligence had personally compromising material on the president-elect himself. and material seen by the guardian british newspaper a series of reports of trump's relationship with moscow. drawn up by former western counterintelligence official working as a private consultant, we know it's christopher steele. they go on. official in the u.s. administration described the source who wrote the report is consistently reliable, meticulous, well-informed with a reputation for having extensive russian contacts. goes on, the emergence of the documents is potentially explosive, ten days before trump's inauguration on the eve of his first planned press conference since july last year, one mor

obama wants to have a netflix deal and that may happen. but biden is not going to get that and neither will hillary. the only way they have relevancy is through the potential of running again. by the has nothing to do with what's best for the country, or making the country better. it's their theater. i think this is a show that needs to close when it comes to joe biden. gregg: harold stafson kept running and running and losing and losing. >> we reach into delaware and we blame them for bind. he may be their best candidate on paper. somebody like elizabeth warren, just picture donald trump with elizabeth warren and the obvious things out there. bernie is better than the others. who do they have after that who is a plausible candidate. biden understands how out of touch they are with white working class americans. at least he's acknowledging that. the rest of the democrats don't even do that. gregg: the president is heading out to california, and the department of justice is going after california big time for their sanctuary city and state

justice department, the obama fbi. when you say alleged, i can point to a half dozen instances that are on their face, criminal conduct on the part of the fbi and the department of justice. why is there this refusal to dig deeply into why the fbi refused to investigate on its face, having a private server in her home, on its face pay to play corruption on the part of the clinton foundation. >> well, you know, you're raising a question that republicans have not been able to answer, even though they control the house, they control the senate, now they control the white house. but they are looking forward to -- i know you're not a huge fan of inspector generals. lou: i am not. >> but they're looking forward to this inspector general's report that they're hoping to get and maybe at the end of this month, maybe at the end of next month. and i think the reason they're looking forward to it is they hope it might be a kick starter to get a bigger investigation. an investigation with actual teeth going. but the fact is, there's

as recently as 2009, barack obama agreed. watch. >> lets us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions. let's reduce unintended pregnancies. let's make adoptions more available. let's provide care and support for women who do carry their children to term. >> tucker: that was the position of the democratic party from roe v. wade until about yesterday. even though abortion should remain legal, it was undesirable, it was something to be avoided if possible. that's all most voters feel. democrats no longer say that. the party's base is for abortion. they want women to -- planned parenthood in colorado demanded a new disney princess who has had an abortion to be a role model for girls. this is outside the mainstream. are they the topics, are they the issues that democrats are going to run on during the midterm elections question are joining us tonight is someone who has spent a long time in the democratic party, jennifer pulmonary. she spent years of the heart of it. she's got a brand-new book out and she's doin

about meddling in the election, president obama did nothing. they didn't intercede. they couldn't prevent it, whether it be at the dnc or other cyberattacks on federal government systems and networks, joe. and now we're talking about another special counsel to find out more about fisa abuses. do you think its' appropriate? do you think it will be effective? >> i think it has to be done. the abuses at the obama justice department and fbi in front of the fisa court go to the bone of the function of the justice department. the justice department cannot investigate ets in this. there has to be a special counsel. and the only way to get to the truth is through a federal grand jury where people are put under oath and they cannot lie. for example, the inspector general has no authority currently over john brennan or james clapper or even james comey because those people have all left the department. he can't interview any of the people from the department of state. there has to be a grand jury with a prosecutor who has authority to subpoena all of tho

obama could not say that and would not say that. instead, prominent democrats are now calling for the abolition of federal immigration enforcement. "the nation" magazine described i.c.e. as "an unaccountable strike force executing a campaign of ethnic cleansing." the state of california is threatening law enforcement officers there with arrests if they cooperate with i.c.e., even to apprehend criminals. impoverished democratic cities like baltimore have set aside tax dollars to help illegal immigrants fight deportation. how long before the nationalax party calls for giving illegal immigrants the right to vote? that's actually happening in some towns in maryland already. yesterday on this show, we interviewed an immigration activist who said that foreign nationals ought to be able to vote anywhere in the country. that used to be a fringe position. it's not anymore. on the second amendment, meanwhile, the democratic party has moved to advocating for gun-control -- that's been going on for a long time -- to pushing for government gun c

a segment about barack obama -- >> how about stormy daniels? let's talk about -- you want to talk about all of barack obama's scandals. let's -- >> sean: let's go with monica lewinsky. >> i recommend her new book. >> i can't wait to read vanity fair. >> she wrote a good piece. >> sean: i hate to say it? winner? sean spicer and joe concha next. e with those we love, but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz. for people with moderate to severe psoriasis, up to 90% had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. with taltz, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection, symptoms, or received a vaccine or plan to. inflammatory bowel disease can happen with taltz, including worsening of symptoms. serious allergic reactions can occur. ready for a chance at 100% clear skin? ask your

putin has no respect for president obama. big problem, big problem. obama's policies had different russia to ally itself more closely with china and this was a horrible thing for the united states he said. i don't think you'd need the sanctions. i think we'd get along very well. much later trump's campaign advisers would watch the video of this encounter and wonder about it. steve bannon raised it with rnc chairman reince priebus. how was it that trump was there and happened to call on her? trump's response was odd, bannon thought, that trump had a fully developed answer. trump's own campaign was weirded out by that interaction. that's in "russian roulette", which comes out at midnight. there's a lot more. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some rare side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort and swelling. ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you and visit coolscul

in that sense thanks to obama. >> [laughing]. >> i will say this. i think this is good news for everyo everyone. there is concern about wages not going up. people made fun of that under obama and talked about labor force participation. it's the about same. what we have seen here is things are going well. we continue to grow. optimism on the part of consumers continues to grow. the stock market had ups and downs. with regard to gary cohn leaving, the stock market was in flux. you see the numbers bump today is good news. >> it's also kimberly's birthday. i am sure that has something to do with it. happy birthday. >> thank you very much. >> what do you think of these numbers? >> i am encouraged. wouldn't anyone be, democrat or republican? don't we want people to have jobs and less regulation, tax reform? i think the numbers are fantastic. this is something that all american businessing should be happy about. it creates opportunity. growth in the market for others to get in and increase the work force so we have more families doing well and providing it

obama? >> i would them i would do it after the election day. >> sean: barack obama or donald trump? >> we think donald trump is tough on russia? >> sean: let me help educate your liberal mind. this is important. understand that by moving america to energy independence he cut the legs underneath vladimir putin? >> oh, okay. [overlapping talking]. e he had him on the phone and congratulated him. >> sean: just like barack obama did in 2012. >> what happened in britain to the spy, and his daughter. it's horrific. that didn't happen on obama's watch. >> sean: was it wrong for donald trump to pay for a dossier -- sorry, that was hillary clinton. >> i thought we were talking about getting tough on russia. >> sean: hillary clinton paid for the russian dossier full of russian government lies. >> okay, look at the track record of russia and hillary clinton. they rolled over and hit a plastic reset button. they closed down the missiles deal with central europe that was promised to our nato allies. >> [overlapping talking]. we don't know what president trump has done. >> you are in fantasy land

we know that the obama administration ejected some russian officials, we know that president obama confronted vladimir putin himself very directly. and after january, we know the administration put out an intelligence community assessment. there were things that were done after that evidence was presented. what we also know is that it has been more and a year now and we know that russia is doing the exact same thing again and nothing is being done to prevent them from meddling in the 2018 midterm election. >> you get the sense that the internal response of the intelligence community, certainly law enforcement is, when it comes to this criticism. we have seen the intel chiefs on the hill, they seem exasperated they're not being given really the push to go ahead and tackle this problem that it hasn't resolved, still very much ongoing. >> i think that's exactly what you're hearing. shawn's point about what happened during the obama administration pre-election, i think it is entirely correct. we're facing a real live current problem now, leading up in the coming months to the 2018 election. what

we did reach out to obama for comment about farrakhan's comments. not surprisingly we didn't hear back from his spokesman. here is the most important question about this. if farrakhan isn't that bad of a guy, like several democrats are claiming, then why is it necessary to hide a photo of him with obama? maybe democrats didn't want you to be reminded of farrakhan and history of hate. this is a small sampling. take a look. >> jews don't like farrakhan so they call me hitler. well that's a good name. hitler was a very great man. >> there were many israelis and zionist jews in key roles in the 9/11 attack. >> because you see white people deserved to die. >> that's right. [cheers] >> and they know so they think it's us coming to do it. >> there is no human being on earth that has murdered more living things than the caucasian. he is a murderer and a liar. >> then soon we are going to sit at a table and talk about -- we want some of this earth because we are tear this god damn country up. >> sean: here with reaction fox news contributor herman cain. herm

justice department, obama fbi. whp you say alleged, i can point to a half dozen instances that are on their face criminal conduct on the part of the fbi and the department much justice, why is there this refusal to dig deeply into, why the fbi refused to investigate on its face? having a private server in her home, on its face? pay to play? corruption on the part of the clinton foundation? >> well, you are raising a question that republicans have not been able to answer even thoep they control the house and they control the senate and now control the white house. they are looking forward to, i know you are not a huge fan of inspector generals, they are looking forward to this inspector general's report that they are hoping to get and maybe in the end of this month or next month and i think the reason they are looking forward to is hope it might be a kick start tore get a bigger investigation. an investigation with actual teeth going. and the fact is, there is a republican attorney general and republican leader of t