>>> this ben rhodes book every word is sanction bid obama. rhodes is still on staff for obama. number two, we're going to see a lot of obama as he gets on the campaign trail and he'll be making some of the arguments himself. probably not directly at trump in the way he has avoided for the last year. >> thank you so much. thank you. when we return, let me finish tonight with trump watch. he's not going to like tonight. you're watching "hardball." delivery should look like this. crisp leaves of lettuce, freshly-made dressing. clean food that looks this good, eaten at your desk. panera. food as it should be. now delivered. my secret visitors. appearing next to me in plain sight. hallucinations and delusions. these are the unknown parts of living with parkinson's disease. what stories they tell. but for my ears only. what plots they unfold. but only in my mind. over 50% of people with parkinson's will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. and these can worsen over time, making things even more challenging. but there are advances that have led to

>> the list you gave, was the foreign policy of the obama administration obama -- destabig or influences governments and electoral processes in world, judicial watch has a lot of documenttation on that, in particular activity of mr. soros, and sadly today, we still have all of united states our state department, is really soros occupied territoryy, h. he is probably more influential and his thinking and language and conduct is the guiding light in our state deputy today, still. -- state department today, still, consequences of that. is we're reaping what we have sebbed. lou: -- it continues it goes on. showing 3 o flow of money to vas countries and efforts to destabilize or give the obama administration its preferred outcome in those elections, including with israel. >> we were paying soros to do it for us. and in case of hungary under obama then still carry dlu carrh this damage, 700,000 dollar earmarked for quote unquote alternative media whatever that means. lou: i don't want to go too far. but the fact is that rosenstein and wray, and coats met with president. we have a spy. we have

obama in herself in that michelle obama was the most activist first lady we have seen in many yea rs. first lady we have seen in many years. melania trump doesn't hold her husband's hand and smiling and waving and so on, so perhaps she is using these little head nods to michelle obama as a de facto push towards it. that is if it is her and not her team. she will not get away with it because the media has picked up with it because the media has picked up on it. the guardian. this is the question on twitter today. we will share viewer views today. this is the resolution foundation talking about giving 25—year—olds £10,000 in the uk to give them a leg up, paying off debt, putting a deposit on a home, whatever you choose. the idea is to rearrange inheritance tax and retirement tax to pay for it. this is about redistributing funds. they are means testing a lot of things, for example, the ability to claim money for winter fuel allowance is. all of it is coming together to create a pot to allow younger people to get on the housing ladder and start a business. is it a good idea? we have

obama wouldn't do. >> even tept he said obama shouldn't do it. >> s needless t he follows through on his campaign promises. pulling out of the iran deal was a campaign promise. moving the embassy out of -- to jeers lem because campaign nomise. he's b running for office since he took office and that orays well. robert: thank you joining us and stay tuned for "in principle" where we'll hearrm fm mayor mitch landrieu, apo ible presidential candidate in 2020. our conversation continues, as ever, online on the "washington week" extra where we'll review the confirmation hearis for gina haspel, president trump's nomination for the c.i.a. find that later at pbs.org/"washington week." robert costa. have a great weekend and happy mother's day to your mom and my mom. >> funng f "washington week" is provided by -- >> their leadership isct instine. they understand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our tea >> additional funding is provided by -- >> at cancer treatment centers of america, we publish treatment results for

obama did not follow the law. when an adult crosses our border illegally he or she is breaking the law. the attorney general has no choice but to follow the law and what chris and other democrats are saying is that as we take the adult and put them into custody, which means they go to jail, that somehow the kids should go to jail to. that would be insane and inhumane and as a country we simply do not do that. one come kamala harris and his other folks who have also had the job of attorney general in their states -- it would be the same thing to say that she is separating parents from their children in california when parents commit crimes. it would be the same thing. >> you are conflating. >> no i'm not very >> yes you are. >> when you commit a crime you go to a holding facility. it's the way it is. >> the difference here is that the trump administration has decided to treat asylum applicants as criminals and that's what i have a problem with. >> laura: it's not asylum applicants. >> you want people to come here t

obama white the house as senior speakers -- as senior speechwriter. bienen,rator is henry the president of the poetry foundation and a board member of the council on global affairs. he is the former president of northwestern university and was james s mcdonnell distinguished university professor at the woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs. please join me in welcoming the panel. [applause] thank you very much. as president of the poetry foundation, we are extremely grad to partner with the chicago council on global affairs, something we have been wanting to do. now we have done it. i think this is a great idea to have distinguished speechwriters as well is a great poet with us. i want to point out a few things and will not say anything about the panelists because they have already been introduced. presidents have written poetry. i have my doubts whether the incumbent does that, but you never know. however, abraham lincoln, i am told, wrote melancholy poetry. george washington wrote love poems at an early age and many presidents hav

obama comes into office and inherits those capabilities and it is under obama that we see, i would say a rapid expansion of the use of direct action especially in the form of drone strike and most notably in pakistan where majority of them occur. i think it is important to put that escalation in context. when obama comes in he makes working by, with, and through partner nation as -- nations a cornerstone of his counterterrorism strategy. there is more emphasis and money behind partnership building capacity and trying to promote governance, rule of law, things like that and the intention is to get partners to share the costs and risks of u.s. counterterrorism but it is also beyond burden-sharing to make counterterrorism more sustainable on the ground. which is to say military gains can be ephemeral. by getting most nations to buy in you get more legitimacy and build cooperation and give them capabilities and capacities to solidify those military gains over the longer term. so this isn't just about burden-sharing although there is a pom point of it. at the same time obama is trying to wo

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signature right joining me to go through this first glimpse into those heady final days of the obama presidency a familiar face here it was fun no arduous it's good to have you back on the show for people who don't know you were a member of the two thousand and eight two thousand and twelve obama campaign's your political campaign strategist now in berlin right here. let's just talk about what you thought when we read about this because the book comes out next week . there's a quote that's getting a lot of headline play where you they've got obama saying to his aides maybe we were wrong and maybe were wrong i mean whenever you see a former staffer said it right the inside version of history ben rhodes was part of it for the entire eight years he was there for pretty much every major foreign policy decision that barack obama took from osama bin laden to the. cuba negotiations to the drawdown in afghanistan so on so forth so he gives an inside look when it comes to angela merkel you know he reveals that angela merkel said that pretty much the trump victory was actually one of the main

turning back to the obama administration and this iran deal, obama's iran deal was never put through the senate. the senate would have rejected it. it did not cut off, instead delayed iran getting a nuke. it didn't cut off iran nukes, delayed them getting it. sir, remember when obama official ben rhodes said the media is too stupid to understand obama's iran narrative because they're too young to report on it. you remember ben rhodes saying that? >> i remember it very well. the fact he was right. they are too stupid. look i don't think they missed a beat. they're doing lots of things they could do when they got the new infusion of money. they're developing icbm fleet. they were paying off russians for nuclear development on the facility there. they were buyg s-300 missiles, a whole host of things that make a nuclear country more capable. and so they didn't miss a beat but they got $150 billion. they spread radical islam throughout the whole middle east. that was not a good deal for the u.s. and the west. liz: he admits iran is backing terror. he did not bring that up in 2015 talking

detective and trump loved the fact he did the thing that obama wouldn't do. >> even tept he said obama shouldn't do it. > needless to say he follows through on his campaign promises. pulling out of the iran deal was a campaign promise. moving the embassy out of -- to jeers lem because campaign promise. he's been running for office since he took office and that plays well. robert: thank you for joining us and stay tuned for "in principle" where we'll hear from former mayor mitch landrieu, a possible presidential candidate 2020. our conversation continues, as ever, online on the "washington week" extra where we'll review the confirmation hearings for gina haspel, president trump's nomination for the c.i.a. find that later at pbs.org/"wasngton week." robert costa. have a great weekend and happy mo mer's day to your and my mom. >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> additional funding is provided by --

between barack obama and donald trump. ed word change. they struck a chord in certain sections of america, change. and donald trump did the same thing. the question is, how much of a rebuke was changed with donald trump to barack obama? and that's what they're thinking, what they're wanting. i remember the day that president obama marked the fact that history had changed. we had number 45, donald j. trump. and i remember that day when president obama welcomed mr. trump into the white house. it was supposed to be a 45-minute meeting. it lasted for hours. barack obama, no matter what he felt, no mter that he was on the road talking against m, his moral fiber and his policies, he wanted a smooth transition of government to uphold the democracy. he did his job, even as he had those questions. ben rhodes hits the nail squarely. he was in that inner circle to know. >> there's other news in here. and that is there's so much noise and questions about should president obama have done more about the russia interference? you hear it

case, wesident obama's obama was the best writer in the white house. we as writers would say tht even if he weren't but he was. president obama was a writer. and that hasn't happened since i think lincoln, where some eight was a published writer. we were working for a president who had an understanding as a writer and also using language as a means rather than an end, which is more of what a politician is thinking about. i would say there was -- i don't know that it was intentional, but it was important. there is always requirements and one is that it be surprising and original in some way and the other is that it be true to the person delivering the words. to some extent, that is always easiest when it is in contrast to the person who came before you. to some extent, people were and i was so excited about president obama because he spoke in this oratorical style that seemed antithetical to george bush. that is probably one of the reasons of why people were fans of president trump or of bernie sanders were excited about their oratorical style. these we

barack obama and michelle obama signed them over your deal with netflix to produce original content, and scripted, scripted, features and documentaries. and to increase empathy and understanding. and to create this content for netflix, no terms of the agreement have been disclosed, and see what they produce. >> i haven't sent anything in years but i was excited about this. >> i want to meet someone who is going to say something. and they introduce scratch and sniff stamps, they are unveiling these, and haven't revealed what they smell like. once they are released. the hint is they will smell like popsicles either way. no other hints than that. >> i go to the mailbox taking out all the mail and throwing it in the garbage. >> when you send your bills, they will smell very nice. >> demanding answers, donald trump wants to know, if his present campaign was infiltrated in 2016. >> the inspector general will look into it and determine if there was any surveillance and for political purposes. >> our next guest is calling out the hype around the russian narrative, jim hansen says it is more

i was saying that obama created the vacuum. when he just literally withdrew from the middle east. >> he picked iran side. >> he did the iran deal, he allowed russia to become a regional player. russia, right now is being confronted with the united states reestablishing itself. >> so obama had them on the ropes and let them go and had iraq in the good place, isis emerged in hezbollah and iran came to help us out and now israel is getting threats from syria because iran is all over syria. but there's a hundred 60000 rockets in the hands of hezbollah, a proxy of iran in south lebanon and their becoming precision. >> they got in from iran. they're making them. they taken the hundred $50 billion. >> jeanine: dating kibitz young iranians to get jobs? >> if you guys are need to cut your throat don't buy him a knife. because he believed that if you just treat them nice, they'll be nice. donald trump sees the evil that exists. associate their kids down what you think they'll do to ours? they rebuilt their military and humiliated her sai

this is now obama-gate. >> that's exactly right. and you can bet that nothing like this would have been done without the president's involvement. you know, congressman gates referred to the e-mails -- the text messages saying that the white house was directing this. remember, comey and clapper said, you know, there was spying or something like that but it was all done by the book, which is kind of like what susan rice wrote a few weeks about that infamous oval office meeting with barack obama when they were talking about using that dossier going after trump with it. lou: a little convenient and a lit revisionist. >> you know, it's spying but it was all by the book. everyone go back to sleep. that's comey's way. lou: somebody ought to go to jail for following that particular book. >> comey, clapper, brennon, the rest of them face civil and criminal liability because of this. they're going to have to account and there's going to be a process for getting them to account. lou: good to have you with us. thanks so much. >>> be sure to vot

to obama on this. you think it's inconceivable that the chief executive officer of the country was not told that they had seen this carter page on the list of the foreign policy advisors and they decided to go into overdrive? >> i don't believe -- look at the total number of things going on. i don't believe this administration that was a tightly centralized as the obama administration, you could have had as many different things going on, all of them are illegal without the president having been briefed. furthermore, an example. the president is emailing hillary clinton on her insecure email. they carefully reword the fbi report to avoid telling us that president obama clearly had to know she was using an illegal email because he's writing to i it. >> laura: susan rice said president obama did everything by the book. remember she wrote that email to herself, i have to mention it in every show. this is what jim clapper said today on the view about whether spying really occurred. let's watch. >> was the

why didn't he meet president obama the n.s.a. the f.b.i. and the cia have a fifth thirty five billion dollar combined budget with for thirty five billion dollars the american people get moderate to high confidence and if you look at the d.n.i. and v.h.s. reports the two intelligence reports that all of this is based on there's nothing certain to zero evidence and there's a war there are warranty disclaimers stating that even high confidence the highest level of assessment even high confidence could be wrong yeah and they actually say in one of the reports don't take anything we say as fact so the intelligence reports are completely just basically opinion three hundred thirty five billion dollars of opinion you have the d.n.c. who never gave its computer service to the f.b.i. they hired crowd strikethrough hillary clinton purchasing through her law firm crowd strike paying crowd strike and also paying christopher steele infusion g.p.s. and glenn simpson for the still does if anyone colluded with russia it was hillary clinton well

said president obama was trying to put forth an anti-colonial agenda of president obama's father. the judge in 2014 said there was no evidence of selective prosecution. this is notable because the president created a pattern in the first 15, 16 months of his term. joe arpaio, the sheriff from arizona, scooter libby more recently. president obama, we just went back to check on this, didn't make any presidential pardons until late in his own second year, december of 2010, when he announced pardons related to low-level drug offenders. >> interesting stuff, peter alexander. i want to turn you to another piece of developing news coming out. we talked about the new tariffs the white house is implementing on the eu, mexico, canada, and now we're hearing from some of those allies. for example, this is the head of the eu saying, it's a bad did for world trade. they will proceed with the world trade organization dispute settlement case and put additional duties on a number of u.s. imports. you also have mexico now threatening or saying it will put its own retaliatory products on products co

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why didn't he meet president obama the n.s.a. the f.b.i. and the cia have a fifty thirty five billion dollar combined budget with for thirty five billion dollars the american people get moderate to high confidence and if you look at the d.n.i. and the h.s. reports the two intelligence reports that all of this is based on there's nothing certain to zero evidence and there's a war there are warranty disclaimers stating that even high confidence the highest level of assessment even high confidence could be wrong yeah and they actually say in one of the reports don't take anything we say as fact so the intelligence reports are completely just basically opinion three hundred thirty five billion dollars of opinion you have the d.n.c. who never gave its computer service to the f.b.i. they hired crowd strikethrough hillary clinton purchasing through her law firm crowd strike paying crowd strike and also paying christopher steele infusion g.p.s. and glenn simpson for the steel ducey if anyone colluded with russia it was hillary clinton we

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obama tries to comfort ben rhoeds. there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth. that is something like a high school junior would put in the yearbook. i mean, that is the president on a hallmark card? how did he know. the other thing,in have to defend ben. everybody was in shock. i only knew three people. terry, and my brother-in-law and nick who runs the steak house who knew trump was going to win. maybe ger altdo, did. >> jesse: i called it the weekend before the election. >> greg: we don't do episodes. >> jesse: before seen in the vault. and the fact that he said i have the economy set up so well. i don't think the american people thought it was going great on main street. >> dana: i think it is normal for a president to feel this way and common after a president who gets two terms, the opposing party usually wins the next time around. but president obama has been relatively quiet. but first time we are getting an insight of what it was like. on the economy, i think they have some room to say it

regulations under obama. the number of regulations put into effect under the obama administration endorsed any administrations and snacks and -- since nixon. the dodd-frank regulations were over half of that. we have to highlight our competitive advantages. we have to use the advantages that are given to us and when we reduce the access to capital, certainly it is going to diminish economic activity. for: again, (202) 748-8000 democrats, republicans (202) independents (202) 748-8002. lawrence is on the phone. guest: hello to the district. caller: asking about the iran nuclear deal with john kerry. if it is found that he messed up anything with this iran deal, will he be arrested? well his assets be frozen? will i ever see a mug shot of john kerry holding up a card and john kerry behind bars being brought to trial for treason? guest: i am unaware of criminal activity that secretary kerry participated in. i do not know the answer to that. i think they were too anxious were diplomatic win, they willing to take a

obama actually is no different than george w. bush. he said he wasn't going do regime change and here he is now. that i think was the beginning of the end of the reset. >> now where are we? now we're more than the beginning of the end. we're at the end of the beginning or the end of the end. it's truly -- >> yes. >> a terrible, terrible area right now. potentially, president putin might have thought he could engage with president trump. instead, we're in this massive investigation as to whether he had any influence on the u.s. election. hillary clinton believes the russians sabotaged her election. where does it go from here? >> you are absolutely right that president putin and his government wanted donald trump to win the election. here's no doubt in my mind that in the margins they did things to try to help him win that election. whether or not it had a direct independent causal influence as we would say in political science on the outcome of the election, that's difficult to figure out given there were so many other variables involve

look at the obama administration. obama was there for eight years and have these great democratic majorities in the first two years and then you have the 2010 republicans had 63 he seats in the house and so on. years, obamae faced the republican house and ultimately gave up on doing anything with republicans in congress. he didn't want to compromise. he didn't want to see him much. as little as possible. remember, he was going to do everything unpadded paper and so on and he did. of these things by executive order and i give the trump administration credit for nullifying those things. you can nullify an executive order and it was a huge mistake by obama, and he admits to know mistakes, but it has allowed a republican administration to wipe out so much of what obama did. >> i have got a couple of questions that have been put together in this way, but how much has the character of the republican party been changed by trump? how much is trump in normalized by the republican party? debt and government spending does not ne

secondly, it's clear that barack obama still lives in a fantasy land. number one he says the president's decision today undermines our credibility as a nation. but going on an apology tour doesn't. treating our friends like israel as enemies doesn't. and treating our enemies like friends, like iran, doesn't undermine our credibility. and then the cherry on top, lou, is when he said at the end of the day the problem is that iran was not in violation of the jcpoa. well you viewers can google one phrase, heavy water and jcpoa and they'll see that iran was not only in technical breach but also in breach of the spiritual character of this whole deal. lou: and the united states still without direct ability to inspect. >> yes. lou: -- those sites in i iran. as if we should be humble to the point of allowing an international agency to whifng around the iranian desert in search of nuclear weapons or high grade nuclear fuel. the europeans are interesting here. the president has brought the europeans so far in their thinking, eve angela merkel at least moving up t

the big toda -- the big kahuna e top, president obama. he allowed the information to be spread across 16 agencies signaling to his people let it all hang out and leak your heart away on trump. so i for one am sick and tired of these liars, leakers and liberals attack our president and our democracy when they are the ones who tried to frame him. here is a primer for all of you. if you are going to set up a president and try to frame him. do it against someone who is dumber than you are. that's my open. joining me now with reaction to my opening statement and all the the -- all the developing news, congressman lee zeldin. let me ask you. we just heard a few minutes ago, the president regarding the hostage in venezuela released and there it is on the screen. it was just a few weeks ago three hostages were brought back from north korea. why is the president so successful at this? >> a lot of winning. i'm not tired yet. those three korean-americans who returned home. the look on their face coming off the plane. this family -- the whole state o

a regular antagonist towards barack obama's leadership. >> it's time president obama woke up to the reality in the world and reassert american leadership. >> mccain kept a lower profile but continued to be as he had his entire career, one of the biggest supporters of the american troops abroad. >> the thing he's most proud of being able to contribute to the national security of the united states. that's the thing that he feels most strongly about as he described it to me. >> during the lead up to the 2016 primary, unlikely newcomer was about to thrust mccain back into the national spotlight. at a presidential forum in iowa, john mccain war record came up between the pollster and the republican candidate, donald trump. >> he's not a war hero. he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> i was out raged. i couldn't believe he said it. >> i felt rage. wait a minute, you didn't serve in the military. john mccain did. and you're saying anybody who has been shot down or captured by the enemy and tortured in prison. is not a war hero. >> john mccain's re

we lifted them, president obama lifted them. the economy of iran went from substantial recession into recovery and we never got another concession after that. already north korea has had about a two month respite from serious sanctions and is probably going to get as i understand it another respite between now and june 12th. i think that the president has to put very tough sanctions on so that kim jong un looks around and says my economy could actually implode. that would be dangerous. plus the sky trump is so crazy he might even use military means. i don't want a missile on my breakfast table. >> shannon: that is very motivating for folks that think it's a real possibility. thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us to make a great to have you. despite the memorial day holiday, judging by the tweets and interviews this weekend, the rush of probe is clearly front and center for the president and his legal team. white house correspondent kevin corke is tracking the developments for us. >> shannon, mayor giuliani acknowl

obama did not follow the law. when an adult crosses our border illegally he or she is breaking the law. the attorney general has no choice but to follow the law and what chris and other democrats are saying is that as we take the adult and put them into custody, which means they go to jail, that somehow the kids should go to jail to. that would be insane and inhumane and as a country we simply do not do that. when capital -- kamala harris and other folks who have also had the job of attorney general in their states, it would be the same thing to say that she is separating parents from their children in california when parents commit crimes. it would be the same thing. >> you are conflating. >> no, i'm not. >> yes, you are. >> when you commit a crime you go to a holding facility. it's the way it is. >> the difference here is that the trump administration has decided to treat asylum applicants as criminals and that's what i have a problem with. >> laura: it's not asylum applicants. >> you want people to come here th

come to an agreement with our allies he was looking to act on his animus toward his predecessor barack obama. and also the total chaos and dysfunction in this administration and so the president gave his ultimatum senior officials work to negotiations with the europeans i don't think there was any process to brief the president on that progress and so you know he heard about it from president mccrone and from chancellor merkel but but had not been buying into the decisions made along the way as you pointed out in one of your articles there were a number of things that trump could have done he could have extended the sanctions waiver to allow a little bit more time for the talks and yet he. i did too and it abruptly after all those meetings cordial meetings with president micron and chancellor merkel to the russians that looked kind of through a do you think he was trying to make some point to some some nasa edge to the europeans or is it just mr trump being who he is you know it's hard to know if he was trying to send a message but certainly after all the bonamy of the mccrone meeting after

that is one reason the obama successful. it had optimistic message, you know, hope and change and out and gave to le aspirational reason believe. that is something the clinton ampaign lacked and a lot of people are looking toward a future figure who can kind of do hat, be the modern version of the democratic party and kind of democratic hat the party needs. you know, the old-fashioned democratf what being a means. i think the party has gotten away from that. to t of people are trying bring it back. host: mr. allen. guest: you asked about the unity commission, it may not beaptly named, there is not the commission designed to rewrite or rules,mine the democratic nominating rules etcetera, they fighting, there has been a huge war that has got on sanders the clinton and people. and frustration at clinton people at the chair because she all the clinton people wanted her to do every single time. inis a party that is sort of search of a leader and in search moment.ection at the they will certainly benefit from in the mid-term elect

barack obama's first midterm. democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of few retirements in 2010? it was 11. so half the number we had now. go back to 2006, another one of those midterms, bush's second midterm, republicans got shellacked then. how many did you have? you had eight. so if you want to find a comparable number to the number pure retirements you're seeing right now, the 22 right now, you've got to go back to 1994. that was the 20 democrats that year who fit the same category. that was the year democrats lost 52 seats in the house, lost control. i think it's fair to say that what that number is telling us is that psychologically, that's where republicans' heads are in washington right now. if you look at that 22, there are a lot that come from seats that are potentially competitive. there are a lot who are looking at their first potentially competitive re-election race and say, i'm not in the mood for that after all. maybe i don't want to lose or raise a lot of money. i'm not in the mood for that kind

but president obama was right about a real hazard of early presidencies. the same thing did happen to ronald reagan and to bill clinton in the first midterms of their presidencies. in reagan's first midterm, republicans lost 26 seats in the house. >> ronald reagan was trying to be as upbeat as possible. still, it was a conciliatory president who met with reporters, one who talked about seeking bipartisan solutions with the new congress. >> there have been concessions and compromises in both directions, on all of the major issues and we expect to continue to work with the congress in that way. >> top aides admit, the election results were a shock. by white house count, only 50% of the candidates mr. reagan campaigned for won yesterday. >> that was ronald reagan in the first midterm of his presidency, 1982. eight years later, on november 8th, 1994, the curse of the first midterm visited president bill clinton, in an epic, historical loss for the democrats at the time. >> tonight, the sound you hear is the sound of a moving van backing up to the united states

before obama, everybody was against the regime. caller: but if you're someone on the left side, everyone says iran sold oil to north korea, south korea, china, and then the sanctions were imposed. money and was their when the sanctions were lifted, we gave them their money back, and then the cash that was brought there was just to get them started before all the money was freed up back to them. sayingwhat you are because i have been looking for to having somebody talk about this. i'm still a little confused on what are- so it host: you confused about? others might be confused as well. i'm confused that the president, when he was in iowa saying whyis, he was did obama give them $150 billion? i would never give anybody $150 billion. but i believe it was their money and we just give it back to them. guest: yes, but the reason we seized that money to begin with was because it was fueling terrorism and has the law and building ballistic missiles. it was paying for a weaponize nuclear program. it was their money. when president trump was

also the calls on the obama administration, they are calling on obama. what did he know, when did he know what? nunes saying there might be a second spy. >> yeah, this is really important, firstst of all, for people to remember that the department of justice, which is now out there hinting and tell mike and various partisans like adam schiff, somehow congressman nunes and others are responsiblr blowing this source. they leak these details differently news sources, everything short of those guys name and social security number -- >> sean: bingo. >> just so they could get ahead of this and spend it the way they want to do so the new the noose was tightening and they would be forced to put on these documents. this is the other important part, too. none of us had really had enough information on we know a lot about what the fbi did, although not enough, what we don't know, though, as with the political side of this operationhi is. we know clinton's campaign had thisis dossier. who else had it in the obama administration? and what other agenciesti were involv

loop, how could obama not know that this was happening? >> after all, just take the steel dossier. that was some fellow from misix, which is the equivalent of cia. the end cia was involved, the department of justice. the only place that those organizations come to a point where it can be ordered and coordinated is the president. >> jesse: and we do have records of this spy, or whatever you want to call him in england was getting paid pretty handsomely by the obama administration, right around the same time he was running these dirty tricks. this guy was connected to mi6 and cia. he had done some dirty tricks on elections in the past. he's been outspoken about his support for hillary clinton and even tried to get a job within the trump administration afterwards. so jeff, it's all coming apart. >> it is. to see klapper and brennan out there with the titles of former director, et cetera, these guys are no longer intelligence officials, and it's time for the president to start striking back at them. and by that, i mean, a lot of these senior p

president obama was fond of thinking beyond america. so for those conservatives who are patriots so it is the recognition that the true patriots it isn't racism or zeno phobia. i march 200 miles in iran 2005 would be the muslims or iranians to have freedom in their country. so i argue it is a smear for those who are recognized as appropriate because we are patriots because of the scene no phones long -- to show that division in that deep state bureaucracy with the coup d'État within the state department with the fbi and cia and the whole justice system and we see that with info wars working with washington bureau chief to be constantly under attack as the cnn attack. or lying about what we do report or the lawsuits filed and constantly under this attack and to delegitimize anybody that disagrees with them. >> one of the new things i saw overtime was the trend of entirely which was new to me when it first started to happen and that struck me as strange. >> this is one of the points we have a similar experience. and the info wars we are