it was part barack obama and part circumstance. where i had some change, i think i read to wrecked it my idealism. feeling somewhat frustrated at the ability of the conflicts in the east. it is when i turn to countries like cuba and vietnam. it was not that i changed his mind, this that we need to pay attention and find affirmative things to do in the world. things not in the middle east. we have so much coming out of us every day that we have to carve out time and you need to make this a priority. i also know it is not going to be on your to do list. let me to this. so, i hope that what i was able to do was brought in what he was focused on. >> you say he did not want to engage in an effort of going to broken places and fix them. that was the george w. bush experiment and it did not work. but looking at the thinking of the iran deal, this notion that if we just opened up and they give us some nuclear -- will give them funding and opening that will change their society for the better. there is a bit of contradiction there. you do n

barack obama or michelle obama or you? >> i was no surprise. >> they were not? >> no. i think they were a little surprised. [laughter] but i think white people thought barack obama's election would transform race largely not african-american people certainly not the obama's they never believe that because of the experience to be african-american in the country. he was far more acutely aware of racism in this country than i was in far more aware of the forces that could be two tropism -- two trumpism and then to hear why i was at casual racism it shocked me but it didn't shock and that all that that would happen. so when i became closer him i would see there is an understanding of the omnipresence of racism in american society that i as white person did not fully appreciate until i worked for the first african american president. >> please ask your question in the form of a question. [laughter] >> but to turn that narrow question that i have wondered about that late in the obama years and during the earlier part of the early clinton campaign they would ask what the diff

obama and thought, i could be barack obama. i could be like him. but al gore looked at bill clinton and always thought, if i could just be a little folksier. and connect with people. they were virtually the same age, oath from the south, both moderate democrats, but al gore had a lot of trouble connecting with people, and bill clinton, of course famously, was so gifted at it. steve: taking your phone calls, natalie joining us from fort wayne indiana, home state of , vice president pence. good morning. caller: hi, good morning. so you talked about like obama's relationship with joe biden and biden's day-to-day authority within the administration. how active he was. i wanted to ask, does mike pence have that same kind of role in the administration? like does he play as much of an active role in terms of creating policy and decision-making? steve: thank you. let me ask you first, make reference to joe biden here this is the photograph of the so-called bromance between joe biden and barack obama, to the caller's point. kate: it is

i wrote a book critical about barack obama, called buyers remorse. there were some things that i believe barack obama let the progressive side down. mccain felt that his party was not living up to what he believed the republican party should be, and he would say so. afterwards sunday night on nine eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> next on "the presidency," the opening session of a daylong symposium focused on the history of british and irish connections with the white house.

we weren't like that under barack obama. judge jeanine: we didn't do that under barack obama in was no employment. everybody was fighting with everybody else in terms of the issues going on back then. but pen more than that, they are not worried about being hypocrites. they are don't even care about being un-american. >> they are so blind by their hatred for donald trump personally. it doesn't matter that he's rising -- 80% of the people, middle class getting tax cuts and him calling it crumbs. they are running on a platform of taking the tax cuts away. they are literally apologizing for ms-13 gang members. it's incredible. judge jeanine: one of the things i noticed today is dennis rodman said to all americans and the rest of the world, i'm honored to call potus my friend. he's one of the best negotiators of all time. i don't have it in front of me. but i think i'm reading it properly. you know he's going to get pushback from that. here is dennis rodman who is a pal of kim jong-un. but he's so proud of our president he's sig

but barack obama is now civilian barack obama. he's trying to afford donald trump the chance to rise and fall on his own. >> i want to get to michael again in a moment, but i want to get janice to weigh in. do we anticipate we'll see a lot more on the political front from the former president? >> that's the indication we're getting from our reporting. he is very effective at raising money, so messaging is great, but you also need someone effective at raising money and he's very helpful to democrats on that. the concern is, though, trump is best when he has a strong opponent. and with democrats out of power, he really hasn't had much of a strong opponent. that could change in 2018 if democrats take back the house and all of a sudden he can blame democrats for everything that goes wrong. if obama reemerges, that could give him someone to punch back at and that is one of his strengths at this point. but he has never been very effective at tearing down obama like he has some of his opponents. so obama could be very effective to put ou

obama's washington through the period of ba rack obama's two washington through the period of barack obama's two terms, but particularly as you are his advisor to the white house was sometime and then sent to moscow to be the us ambassador to russia. this, of course, is now fast to the period roughly from 2008 to 2012, and then in moscow to 2014. by then, you had had vladimir putin become clearly the predominant politician in russia. yes. he was winning elections by huge margins. he was also saying things like, in his view, the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20 century. were not listing to of that? well, i was listening very closely, of course. i have written a lot about vladimir putin, well before i joined written a lot about vladimir putin, well before ijoined the government, most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and ifirst most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and i first met him most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and ifirst met him in most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and i first met him in the spring of 1991. so i had

president enjoy a deep connection would be the stuff of fairy tales but it was very real when barack obama was in the white house and the latest proof is in a new book entitled the world as it is by ben rhodes rhodes was an advisor to obama for much of his presidency but it's his memoirs from the final weeks of the obama administration between donald trump's election victory and his inauguration they caught our attention for the first time we are offered a glimpse into what obama was thinking about the u.s. and its allies including german chancellor angela merkel as he prepared to transfer power to a man who intended to undo every major achievement that carried obama's 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

obama. the week i went to work for him he said in a debate that he would sit down with the leaders of iran and north korea and cuba if it could advance our intere and you know, describe how there was this explosion on the right of how dare he, he's selling out america and he must be a foreigner. he must be un-american. he's probably from kenya if he's willing to sit down with leaders of these countries, that's the worst thing we could ever do. and he said, well, it's common sense, we've gotten nowhere with iran, nowhere with cuba, i'm willing to do that if i can change the dynamic. and he did. now you have a republican president doing the exact same thing and suddenly they're chanting nobel. it goes to show that this is not rooted in any ideology or any set of ideas about how america should act in the world. it really is jusr, the d next to the persho's in the office. >> did you come to internalize that in the white house? did you come to -- i feel like there was a long trajectory but by the

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 cuban negotiations to the drawdown in afghanistan and 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 reasons why she decided to run for another term because she saw the turmoil of those going to happen and then of course rock obama says she is all by herself she is all alone i mean that that's a direct quote from the book so yeah that's pretty interesting pretty revealing yeah we're going to get to that is that i want to ask you a quote about his presidency he is quoted as pondering that he may have been elected ten to twenty years too early and you were with that campaign was a premature well i think barack obama you know and then of course the former president says he might have been premature we should let it stand of that but you know if i remember back to two thousand and seven two thousand and eight that firs

juan, barack obama cannot save the democrats. they might miss him, but he cannot run for president again. they have to find a new leader. are they wasting their time wishing he would come and try to fix it all for them? >> juan: you guys often point out it is time for hillary clinton to get off the stage. >> dana: we are going to get to that. >> juan: i will say hillary clinton is nowhere near as popular as barack obama. there is this kind of illusory desire on the part of the left that says gosh, if barack obama came back on the scene, if he was taking shots at trump, it would settle them. if he went and got arrested at the border, it would galvanize. >> dana: that's the craziest idea i've ever heard. >> juan: don't think that would work for obama or the democrats. >> jesse: i wouldn't mind. >> juan: there we go. [laughter] so much for civility. >> jesse: it was a joke. >> juan: there was a piece out about obama not being seen. one of the things is obama is encouraged by things like the women's merge, things like the gun-control

it wasn't love at first side for joe biden and barack obama. it did take time for them to build trust but of course, by the end through the years they've done something that no other modern president and vice president has done and the actually grew closer over those eight years together. that is unprecedented. >> host: who had the most commodious relationship? >> guest: if you go back, i would say, eisenhower and nixon was not a great relationship with eisenhower would not endorse nixon and in 1960 he was asked by a reporter what the vice president greatest accomplishment had been and he said all have to get back to you when nixon was running in 60 and he never did. of course, johnson and kennedy had a very thought relationship but more currently dick cheneyh, and george w. bush the relationship unraveled toward the end. >> host: do you think the george w. bush was serious and naming a replacement in 2042 dick cheney? >> guest: i think they fiercely considered it even more seriously than president obama did because there was thought of replaci

i wrote a book critical about barack obama called "buyer's remorse" which i got a lot of crap for from my fellow democrats, but there were some things where i believed barack obama let the progressive side down. john mccain was willing to say so. >> watch "after words" sunday night at nine eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> this morning "washington journal" talked with the national republican campaign committee deputy chair about the november elections and possible changes in congress. >> host: we want to welcome congressman tom emmer, bicepty chair -- deputy chair of the republican national committee. thanks for being with us. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: the ig report, have you had a chance to at least read the summary? >> guest: i've read theou highlights, yeah. >> host: your reaction. >> guest: it's not surprising. i think it's pretty damning when you talk about bias and insubordination. but for me, it's a bigger issue. and the bigger issue is the credibility of our government institutions like the fbi. one of the things that makes this democracy work is that the citizens

president enjoy a deep connection would be the stuff of fairy tales but it was very real when barack obama was in the white house and the latest proof is in a new book entitled the world as it is by ben rhodes rhodes was an advisor to obama for much of his presidency but it's his memoirs from the find the limits into what obama was thinking about the u.s. and its allies including german chancellor angela merkel as he prepared to transfer power to a man who intended to undo every major achievement that carried obama's 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 though 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 book 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 may

bill clinton said that the press went easy of barack obama. a whole host of folks on the right to the media has been incredibly unfair to president trump. discuss. >> where you asking, me? >> let's start with katrina. we will go right on the line. >> winter president clinton say this? he's been busy the last week. >> it was right in the middle of all of that. he said that he thought the press had gone easy on barack obama because he was the first black president. >> i think parts the media in this country went berserk with president obama. his birth certificate in the conspiracies, i can speak for myself and the nation that the prs secry at one point people remember to attack the professional left. in retrospect, in the belief that you need an inside outside strategy and he wt to push a president to listen to movements and take certain steps, there has to be a different calibration. president obama, i think he was savaged by core elements of the press in this country. >> so was that fair to president trump? >> the problem with the coverage of

that's our mayor, you know, barack obama. he just blew me away and went to the top. [laughter] >> i would -- >> legacy? >> i would say that if you look at the books that come before mine, most of them -- not all of them, but most of them say harrell washington was a tremendous public speaker and a charismatic politician but not much of an administrator and somebody who didn't really have what it took to run a city like chicago. and if i had to say that there was a theme or a thesis to my book, it's challenging that idea. >> right. >> and saying, yes, he was all of those things in terms of being a savvy politician, so forth. but when you consider the city uncil battles he had to fight and when you consider the diminishment of federal resources given to the cities at that time and evething, i think he did a really good job as mayor. >> and i just remember, you know, as he was dying, northwestern hospital reporters waving outside, i mean, there was just an incredible feeling of what is happening. this has just been an unfathomable loss. and when we finally got the word

i mean, could you imagine if they burst into barack obama's lawyer's office? it would not be acceptable. it would not be acceptable. that's really a terrible thing. now, i feel badly for a lot of those people. i feel badly for general flynn. he's lost his house. he's lost his life. and some people say he lied and some people say he didn't lie. really it turned out maybe he didn't lie. but how can you do that? who's lied more than comey? comey lied a tremendous amount. reporter: you say you feel badly is there consideration of a pardon? president trump: i don't want to talk about that. i do want to see people treated fairly. that's what it's all about. i mentioned the other day you saw what i did with the woman, she's in jail for 23 years where other people are out after three months. she was 63 years old. reporter: what about the folks who don't have kim kardashian speaking for them. president trump: i'm looking at this them too. >> will you concerned michael cohen might flip? president trump: i did nothing wrong. this stuff would have come out a long time ago

>> barack obama is a powerful person. i'm not attacking obama, but does this have any effect? in every city around america, especially the ones with the worst schools, you see the symbolic debates going on about how we make kids feel better about themselves, which i'm not against. but does it have an effect on their lives? are the kids from barack h obama elementary going to succeed like they did from the othernk elementary? >> i think it's insulting. as a parent they would insult me if i was a child and it would certainly give me a certain view of that school system was a school that fought to keep them enslaved. >> tucker: i get it but, will it have any effect? and honestly do you think it will? >> if there is a figure that is transcendent, a figure whom they look up to and can look in the mirror and say, that person looks like my dad or looks how i will look in the future, i think it will have a positive effect on the self-esteem of those kids. and i will tell you this -- >> tucker: i hope it does. >> it affects learning outcomes. we know that for a fact. the one we know th

obama, so i think the more interesting question of whether we were too easy on barack obama is whether there is an element of us being too hard on president trump. and that kind of gets me back to my what is the baseline. i really believe we can't grade this president or any president on a curve. we have continuous series on the editorial page called with a presidential president would have said, where we sort of take a trump moment and kind of model like parents do a proper presidential behavior might look like. but we shouldn't conflate, we shouldn't treat all to romp acts as heinous and respond to all of them at the highest level of high-speed when summer was as i said before, norton or republican president would do with the regulatory policy at the epa under president romney really be that much different than it is under president trump. it doesn't mean it's not worth writing about. it's just a question of whether there is a degree of feeling besieged and frustrated and everything else in the media in terms of responding to trump that is leading some people to respond to all trump

during barack obama's last term in office. i have a campaign going on that you are witnessing that is ill with lies and distortions. so much so that the residents of the united states has come in and set the record straight. he told people in our community he wants me to be the candidate and back me in congress to make his america first agenda succeed and help make america great again. >> i have had the honor many times in my life to serve. i served at night court, served in combat, and served in the fbi and deep undercover. those were trying times, but without a doubt, the most proudest moment was serving all of you as your congressman. it was very difficult, because we were coming off one of the worst economies. we had a democrat in the white senate, andocrat then we got ravaged by hurricane sandy. but we came together as a family and with great tenacity, resiliency, we lead and we got things done. now, i am running again because over the past three years, my opponent has not just in sleeping in his office, he has been sleep

i mean could you imagine if they burst into barack barack obama's lawyers offers. it would not be acceptable. that's really a terrible thing. now, i feel badly for a those people. feel badly for general flynn. lost his house, his life. and some people say he lied and some people say he didn't lie. really turned out maybe he didn't lie and -- how can you do that. >> sense wore -- >> how can do you that who has lied more than comey? comey lied a tremendous amount. [shouting] >> feel badly, there is any consideration at any point of a pardon for -- >> i don't want to talk to but that. they'll -- i wanted to see people treat fairly. >> mr. president -- >> i mentioned the other day, you saw what i did with a the woman who was in jail for 23 years charges where she had another 20 years left. she was 63 years old. >> shout ibut a empties of the who don't have kim kardashian. >> i'm looking at them, too. >> bring you back -- [shouting] >> are you worried that michael cohen might flip. >> i did nothing wrong. this stuff would have come out a long time ago. i did nothing wro

who was barack obama or sotomayor? what about his financing from george soros and this whole daca thing is unconstitutional. we've got to quit chasing his tail. let's get down to the bottom of the barack obama administration. >> host: thank you glenn, roger stone? >> guest: you raise a number of key points. the previous caller seems to have missed this also. as far as mister mueller is concerned, he arrested the three wrong people in the anthrax matter, the individual he finally arrested died mysteriously in custody. he failed toinvestigate the sarasota florida based school where five of nine hijackers were trained . he let four men rot in all boston jail to cover up for fbi informants involved in the whitey bulger matter. he did fueled it uranium samples to russia during the active acquisition of uranium s one. this is hardly an unblemished record. therefore, that he would now sit in judgment of this president who is clearly an effort to undo what they could not do about box is really questionable. >> host: based on w

a confederate figure taken down and barack obama's name put there over elementary school students. so even in the midst of all of the continued struggle and certainly there's a lot to struggle for, there are little things and in richmond, this is not a little thing. that shows us that you can make change. thank you so much and thank you. >> absolutely. my pleasure. >> thank those students for us. thank you for being with me this morning. >>> up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. over the last 24 hours, you finished preparing him for college. in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well-being. but meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. while meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. meningitis b strikes quickly. be quick to talk to your teen's doctor about a meningitis b vaccine. janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use h

barack obama had a soul. barack obama had a center. you could speak to that. to his conscience and get him to change his policies. >> congressman, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and we're joined now by republican senator jeff flake of arizona. senator, thank you for joining us again this morning. i want to pick up on one of the arguments congressman gutierrez just made. you co-sponsored the bill that allows the families to be detained for more than 20 days. you heard his argument. he said it's unhumane to the families and the children. >> i don't know that i have co-sponsored that. that's a house bill. i don't think that the judge in the next week or couple of weeks will allow that longer detention. the flores decision will stand. and so i think another solution has to come. >> aren't you working with senator tillis? on legislation that allows families to be held longer than 20 days? >> i'm sorry. i thought you were talking about the house legislation. i just don't think that is it. with the tillis legislation, most of us envision some other form, like the monit

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unlike franken roosevelt and barack obama he didn't take the oath of office in the midst of a massive financial crisis. although the world had its share of problems when the trump presidency began they were ongoing, not new or urgent. the domestic economy had been growing slowly but steadily for all but one quarter of the previous six years. the annual rate of inflation is below 2%, the annual rate dipped 5%. the percentage of americans regard themselves as middle or upper class to rch 62%, greater share than below the 2008 financial crisis, the stock market was already booming. and unlike recent republican predecessors donald trump took office with the republican congress. look at it that way, donald trump was dealt a very good hand and honestly, i am somebody who appreciates the significance of the tax cut bill that was enacted last month into law but when you step back and think what have pres.s been able to do in the past when they had a congress controlled by their own party, one major piece of legislation and for republicans especially a tax cut is sort of like a 6-inch pot, rig

barack obama enjoyed the courtesy from george w. bush. and barack obama did the same thing as donald trump is doing. he criticized george w. bush, complained constantly about the mess he inherited. george w. bush never returned fire. so having benefited from that kind of grace from his predecessor, it would be hypocritical of him to go out and take extraordinary measures in of the president. and he is almost tempting him, saying, come at me. >> martha: you made a very interesting point because immigration has incited a lot of passion across the country. do we have that jay johnson sound bite from the weekend? you know, because this demonstrates the point that mark just made, the policy has been very similar since that administration. let's watch that. it'll be ready in just a second. >> the images and the reality from 2014, just like 2018, are not pretty. so we expanded family detention. we had then 34,000 beds for family detention. only 95 of 34,000 are equipped to deal with families. so we expanded it, i freely admit it was controversia

i don't remember them putting out a list of demands for barack obama when it comes to iran. so we know they're hypocrites. we know what they're up to, unfortunately. and a major issue like this dealing with nukes. my question is, if the president comes up with a deal and it's a significant deal, and it involves nukes and involves the united states making some concessions and so forth, will we demand that it be treated as a treaty? i assume it will depend what it is because now it's just theoretical. and should we? and should we allow both political parties to take a position on this so the american people know and shouldn't every aspect be vetted so the american people know, even if it's a hostile press and hostile democratic party. when we return, i'd like you to answer that question. >>> remember, every week night, you can watch levin tv, crtv.com or call 844-levin tv. we'll get you all signed up and ready to go. we'll be right back. mine's way better. this one's below market price and has bluetooth. same here, but this one has leather seats! use the cars.com app to compar

so barack obama's worst fears are come to fruition. and because trump doesn't know much history, he simply is anti-obama. anything that obama ever does or says, he criticizes. and hence his alley is d'souza who really became famous in the republican world hard right by just trashing obama as much as possible. >> he should be thanking him for the economy because that's one of the things that's keeping his poll numbers even, the local numbers as high as they are now. how big a part of the trump presidency is president obama, frank? >> huge, huge. i mean i was thinking about that today. president obama is like the first husband, and you're the second husband. and that person has to either not exist or be all things bad so you can relish your marriage to the extent you want to. i think that's trump's attitude. i think it's also interesting we're talking about him needing constantly to poke his finger in the eyes of his predecessors. one of his other pardons was scooter libby. that was sort of poking the eye of president bush. so he got ano

with president barack obama. scombht gain of jobs monthly for eight years. >> laura: wages were not going up. they were not going up. >> and they are still not. most blacks make less than $15 an hour and a significant number make less than $10. >> [overlapping talking]. right now it is premature to say what will happen with this action toward canada and our naeshs. >> laura: we will have more manufacturing jobs where people who don't go to fancy colleges can get a really high paying job like they used to when he with tariffs put in place by democrat presidents and republican presidents. the tariff thing?-- how you turn that into an anti-black thing? >> it's not just black. if?, in fact they had a job, in chicago you have to go 3 transportation transfers to get the right transportation and students have credit cards debt. >> laura: billions of jobs were sent overseas and bled off to mexico. that was good for black america? i don't think that was good for working class people at all. we lost billions of jobs. this

i think what he also used to say to me is there's going to be a latino barack obama, an asian barack obama, that's the direction we're moving in. the trump presencys the expression of the backlash against the future we are heading towards. and i think he was wrestling with that reality. >> well, between him and this president it certainly is a stark contrast of policy, number one. of style, number two, and clasp, number three. i'll let everyone else figure out what i meant by those three. thanks, ben. always a pleasure. once again the book is "the world as it is, a memoir of the white house." >>> president trump taking shots at late-night hosts. well, now, they're fighting back and wait until you see who is joining in. can you actually love wearing powerful sunscreen? yes! neutrogena® ultra sheer. no other sunscreen works better or feels so good. clinically proven helioplex® provides unbeatable uva/uvb protection to help prevent early skin aging and skin cancer all with a clean light feel. for unbeatable protection. it's the one. the best for your skin. ultra sheer®. neutrogena®.

i don't remember them putting out a list of demands for barack obama when it comes to iran. so we know they're hypocrites. we know what they're up to, unfortunately. and a major issue like this dealing with nukes. my question is, if the president comes up with a deal and it's a significant deal, and it involves nukes and involves the united states making some concessions and so forth, will we demand that it be treated as a treaty? i assume it will depend what it is because now it's just theoretical. and should we? and should we allow both political parties to take a position on this so the american people know and shouldn't every aspect be vetted so the american people know, even if it's a hostile press and hostile democratic party. when we return, i'd like you to answer that question. >>> remember, every week night, you can watch levin tv, crtv.com or call 844-levin tv. we'll get you all signed up and ready to go. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tie

obama or an asian barack obama or latino barack obama. what was misinterpreted is somehow arrogant. in fact he was secondguessing some of the things he had done and he was wrestling with it like everybody else. in tend, though, i do believe frankly 10 or 20 years from now america is going to look more like baracobama's america and hibrand of politics than ld trump. this effort to turn back the clock is kind of the last gasp of a certain kind of politics just like putin represents that in russia. the fact that those two forces converged in our election, putin and trump, is i think part of the same story, two sides of the same coin. people who don't have a vision for the future, so all they can do is stoke up grievance and look to the past. >> ben rhodes. the book is "the world as it ." it's the world you had to learn that it is. >> yes. >> you started off with a view of the world that is very different are than the one you ended with, ben rhodes. >> thanks a lot. i really appreciate it. >>> when we come back, why the united nations today s

barack obama went to harvard law school. i love this notion that somehow --ma >> tucker: i'm trying to assess what the former president said. i'm not weighing in on this. i'm merely saying here's this liberal icon saying he was a black guy, that he was giveny ial treatment, that's all i'm asking. that's what bill clinton said. >> what he said, the press, it was true for others, they took a certain sense of pride in the united states having elected an african-american, given the history of slavery. and he said he's a good president. and as you saw in the interview, he also thought that donald trump's escapades, if you want to magic user versus accuser, that won't be a fair fight. >> tucker: i'm saying he derides president obama because it's cool because he's a liberal. what do we know about sexual harassment that we didn't owe 20 years ago? we were defending bill clinton up and down, now we are deriding him. what's changed? we know sexual harassment is wrong now and we didn't know that in 1998? >> i will speak at somebody who

barack obama went to harvard law school. i love this notion that somehow -- >> tucker: i'm trying to assess what the former president said. i'm merely saying here's this liberal icon saying he was a black guy, that's all i'm askin asking. that's what bill clinton said. >> others took a certain sense of pride in the united states electing an african-american given the history of slavery and he said he is a good president. and he said in the interview that donald trump sort of escapades if you want to match accusers versus accusers, that will be a fair fight. >> tucker: i'm saying he derides president obama because it's cool because he's a liberal. what do we know about sexual harassment that we didn't owe 20 years ago? we were defending bill clinton up and down, now we are deriding him. what's changed? we know sexual harassment is wrong now and we didn't know that in 1998? >> i will speak to somebody who was on the airut llnton back in 1998 and my position from day one is i assume monica lewinsky wasn't somebody who was unabl

obama is because barack obama was a classy man and no matter how much money you have you cannot buy that. >> he is profoundly threatened by the example that barack obama set, absolutely. >> thank you both. when we come back, stunning audiotapes from president trump's fixer. michael cohen threatening a reporter. but we have learned that law enforcement has more tapes. what might be on those tapes. on my tempur-pedic, the sleep i get is better than any other mattress i've ever tried. experience the most highly recommended bed in america for yourself. now through june 3rd is your last chance to save up to $700 on select adjustable mattress sets. visit tempurpedic.com to find your exclusive retailer. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine

bush and barack obama, was going to bring that pendulum back toward the center. now in a surprise, we got something completely different. the big question as you know is, are these swings becoming more dramatic or will we eventually kind of come to some stability? i don't have any particular hope that these swings are going to become less dramatic. there's not much evidence to suggest that. we're in a unique situation in which the world's superpower cannot decide for itself what role it wants to play in the world. >> i think that leaves a huge number of questions for america and the rest of the world to try to figure it out. jeffrey goldberg, editor in chief of the atlantic, thank you for joining us. let's put these questions to david sanger. he was at the singapore summit with north korea and he says, donald trump's unconventional diplomacy, in fact, extracted less from north korea than previous u.s. presidents have. in his new book sanger asks whether we are ignoring the real threat to western democracy, which is not nuclear, but cyber warfare. a decade ago, th

barack obama was president for eight years. the said no russian could ever do this to our election, after being president for eight years. -- i among the states th have watched this unfold. what is sad is 34 million americans lost their houses and jobs while government ships their jobs to china. we don't worry about china even though 95% of merchandise comes from china. host:. about the role of the obama administration, the intelligence they were seeing before the election. you think they should've said something? guest: barack obama -- i visited the white house when he was there. barack obama's biggest fault is that -- it is not a fault. he truly loves this country. i have heard a lot of nasty things said about the barack obama. one trip around this white house made it clear he understands the and dignity depth and will the presidency. experimentnds as an that thing going for 243 years, he will not upset that cart despite the fact he had information in his hands which could have thrown the election away from donald trump. a fr

barack obama and zhejiang pain. barack obama, trump is obsessed with doing barack obama's legacy and everything he's done and i think you would like to see to show to him, i got this meeting, we are going to get something done, here's one more thing i've beat you at. xi jinping is the power broker in this area. if nothing happens without him, especially in north korea and i think xi jinping has a lot to say about what happens in this negotiation more than just flying him to get to this meeting and to make sure he has propped up this regime, his father before him and provide him with food and energy they do have. >> martha: thank you very much. it's going to be fascinating. we are less than two hours away now. an hour and 46 minutes and we are all going to be watching it so closely. great to have all of you here tonight. quite a night. fox news alert, a light look outside the hotel, just watching this as they get ready to go. they are less than a mile apart these two men right now. president trump and kim jong un wil

former deputy national security adviser for barack obama. who has a new book that goes on sale tomorrow called "the world as it is, a memoir of the obama white house." congratulations. it's a re well-written book. >> thank you. >> that was a central idea of the critique of the obama administration, particularly like the iran deal, you guys are running around casing the iran deal and you've alienated all of our friends. what do you make of where we are right now between the red carpet being rolled out for north korea while we're giving canada the metaphorical finger? >> well, chris, it is kind of a whiplash on a day basis because they would hurl that critique at us but barack obama's standing among our closest allies in europe and asia was higher than any president in recent memory. what they've done is profoundly alienate our allies, not just on an issue but to the point where i think in europe and asia they're beginning to fundamentally question their relationship with the united states. i mean, this is the actual crisis that they used to r

. >> el expresidente barack obama, se expresó en redes sociales para compartir su opiniÓn con lo que pasa en la nación, barack obama dijo: (información en pantalla) (información en pantalla) palabras fuertes que hacen eco en este lugar y por supuesto estaremos hasta las 11 de la noche para contarles lo que pasará, la información en vivo desde san rafael, david gonzález . >> muchas gracias por la información . >> estaremos pendientes . >> en méxico, las reacciones no se hicieron esperar, luego de saber que el gobierno de donald trump haya puesto fin a la separación de familias migrantes. >> la oficina de inmigración dijo: (información en pantalla) las niñas y niños no pueden ser moneda de cambio, por motivos políticos y económicos . >> el presidente de méxico, enrique peña nieto dice que no hay que bajar la guardia . >> muchos son de guatemala, nicaragua y el salvador . >> andrés conversó con la canciller de guatemala en san francisco, ¿qué pasrá ahora? . >> esperan la reunificación . >> hay madres llorando, se le aguan los ojos . >> lo que sucede es que no sola

you may remember him working both with barack obama but three other presidents as well. now, this is interesting. he's published his first op-ed since leaving government and it's a statement worth reading at some length tonight. the esteem with which i held the presidency was dealt a serious blow when trump took office, brennan writes. many have condemned by public criticism of mr. trump, arguing that as a former cia director, i should bite my tongue. my criticisms, however, are not political. i have never been and will never be a partisan, he writes. i speak out for the simple reason that mr. trump is failing to live up to the standards that we should all expect of a president. as someone who had the rare privilege of directly serving four presidents, i will continue to speak out loudly and critically until, and here are the words he chooses, until integrity, decency, wisdom and maybe even some humility return to the white house. i don't think you can read something like that from someone like him without seeing it for what it is, as these stories grind on. it is a ster

i think what the messages boil down to, barack obama's cages were worse than my cages. the obama administration looked at the idea of separating children from their parents and they rejected it. president trump in this administration looked at this idea and said, yes, let's do it. you heard the president at this rally saying, not only he thinks it was a good idea, he was essentially saying this this audience in south carolina that he think it's good for him politically. as for civility, don i have to tell you, it remind me of a show called "this is us," a show we should be watching right now is "is this us?" when i see the rallies, many of goo intentions, but the frenzy that people gets whipped up to at these events, it's aston issuing, it's like anything i've seen in my career in covering politics and i think it is scary and we saw some of that tonight. >> i think it's important, jim, to point out with other administrations chose not to handle the separation of family it is same way. this law was signed into law in 2008, passing through the congress signed by republica

leon panetta, former defense secretary under barack obama, former white house direct to, chief of staff under bill clinton. i think he has done every job short of president of the united states. thank you, my friend. thank you for coming. nice to be with you, neil. neil: what do you make of the agreement, what we know of it right now,articularly of the fact that we offered to cool it on the joint military exercises we do with the south koreans? >> well, you know, i was asked before this happened, what is the best we could hope for, and because of the lack of time here to really fully prepare for the kind of complex negotiations that would be involved in this kind of agreement, i thought the best you could hope for is having a meeting of the principles, having them get to know each other andstablish a relationship, and then agree to intensive negotiations on the more complex issues that are going to be involved. and that is pretty much what we have. but i think it is important for us to remember that, it is largely words at this point and that we have to look f actions, particularly from

but for the record, we should make it plain, barack obama did detain whole families. donald trump is effectively trying to extend what the court stopped barack obama from doing. that's correct, so the separation of families is new. the idea that asylum seekers would be criminally prosecuted at the border and separated from their children, that's a policy of the president's own making. that's a crisis that he alone created. but the detention of families is not new. you're correct to say that under the obama administration, thousands of families were held in detention centres, and it was only stopped because the court challenge. the trump administration today is asking courts to allow it to do what it said the obama administration could not. "welcome to our village, wee one." that is how the prime minister of new zealand announced the birth of her baby girl. jacinda ardern is only the second elected leader to give birth while in office. she will take six weeks of maternity leave before heading back to work, leaving deputy prime minister winston peters in charge. hywel g

twenty-one his educated these are naÏve takes on bill clinton and barack obama. yet the point is the same. that he wasn't afraid, he saw guy who was dying to take advantage of a crisis to get away with murder. that's exactly what happened. that brings us to the inpatient. to not have to happen. there was no imperial japan we were at war with. they were not the taliban. they were the error of afghan and not even most of them. a very small group of men mostly from saudi arabia and egypt were exiled. they had organized the attack to degree. but most of it was organized inside the united states and germany. you don't need a safe haven to make a phone call. there's an argument inside the bush administration about how to exploit the situation and how badly to complete the two groups together. they were determined to go to war. but could have negotiated. the taliban offered to negotiate and turn bin laden over. it's difficult under their system. it's a japanese type honor system. a degree of how seriously it has taken. there is still willing lean to negotiate to turn th

he was pretty obsessed with barack obama. he said you can take the boy out of the ghetto, right? there's a thematic reason to do it that this is the kind of guy i pardon. what do you make of that argument for the reasoning? >> well, there's a thematic reason and the reason that serves his own personal interests. obviously these pardons are meant to deliver a message to the people in the line of fire right now. and i think this is very consistent with this president who wields his power like a teenage girl. i think just to contrast here because we remember during the obama administration, i mean, i know people who worked when they were dealing with pardons and the process they went through, obama was a really well received, liked president around the globe. so he had celebrities and donors and everyone kind of lobbying him for these pardons. and he did it the proper way. he ran these things through the department of justice, through the pardon office as he was supposed to. >> he didn't do a lot of them. >> well, he didn't do a lot of them. he's famous, ridiculous -- >> right. >> h

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