he always talks about how great obama was and what they did with obama. and i asked kamala harris whether she sees herself as heir to the obama legacy and she said no, i have my own legacy. eric swalwell obviously not doing well in the polls right now. but he said to me i think obama will be such a great force when he gets out on the trail. so if that is all true, why not talk about him more? and he said i'm focused on the future and the future is not barack obama in the minds of a lot of democrats. >> and is this because hillary clinton essentially ran to the obama third term and lost? >> i think some of that. i think the party is changing somewhat. you have medicare for all is the debate that was not part of the obama days. but of course it grows out of obamacare. and also trying to figure out do you want to be seen as going back to obama or do you want to go in a different direction. one thing that we're seeing also is that among the kind of what people refer to democratic twitter or the -- >> crazy place to be. >> and not really representative of wher

obama was out of town. into the night this is after he's been profusely happy and he thanks everybody. and it was an unseasonably warm night, and i said how does tonight compare to how you felt on election night, and he said to me, words i'll never forget. and he said election night was simply the means to get to tonight. [applause] that's how i feel about politics it's only there in service of you, the american people. and what frustrated me about washington was when people allowed their short-term political interests to get ahead of what's actually best for the country. and i watched that happen over and over and over again. and so the answer to your question, in term of how i kept ground, particularly those eight years, and there were different people who helped me along the way, my friends and family were enormously helpful in grounding me, and reminding me what life is all about, but there is one person i met on the campaign trail in to 08. presidential campaign trail for barack obama, and it was in au

>> so this -- orange means we went from obama to trump. these are the states that flipped right here in the midwest. and pennsylvania is stereotypical of that. so what the heck exactly happened? how did trump win pennsylvania? well, i would focus in on two things. number one, we saw that trump did better among african-americans than mitt romney did. that's not such a surprise given that barack obama, first african-american, first major party nominee in 2012. you see this, a ten-point shift, but we also see this, down here. whites without a college degree. this was a huge shift. mitt romney won them in 2012, but look at this. donald trump in 2016, this is a huge, huge shift. this is a nine-point shift. and this is what drove -- this is working class joe. this is what he's trying to sell in pennsylvania, that he can get some of those back, at least keep that margin down. >> what do the numbers tell us about democrats in pennsylvania? >> so i think that this is -- this -- i went back and i looked at this. u.s. election, it's a great website.

trump or obama? iran, $150 billion for the icbm, the terrorism, the nuclear warheads, who has been tougher on iran? obama or trump? china, they are building these highlands, they are militarizing the islands, the united states does nothing, tell me who has been the toughest president in my lifetime on china? and by the way, was obama tough on china? russia, collusion, somebody better tell vladimir putin that we have the toughest sections on russia than we have had in history, north korea, we have a naval armada off of the korean peninsulaa like we have not seen since the 1960s, that was not there when obama was there, that is trump. they also intercepted a frigate, do you remember that? and the toughest economic sections on north korea too, he must love un. look at egypt, obama was in love with the muslim brotherhood, the egyptian people overthrew it. obama was still in love with the muslim brotherhood, and he withheld arms temporarily from sisi. >> sean: easy, he gave billions to morsi. he said jews

barack obama said he couldn't drag the economy out of the ditch. and yet they were in the white house, obama and biden, for eight years and never saw economic growth so they are trying to take credit for the unprecedented economic success of their successor, donald trump. how can they take credit for something they said was impossible? something they said was the new normal, high unemployment, less jobs, less pay. that is what they told us. barack obama said you would need a magic wand. you didn't need a magic wand. donald trump came in, instituted programs policies, the last two years of the obama administration, the manufacturing jobs today, never coming back, have grown 6 times that rate. heather: let's talk about the unemployment rate. we can compare the first 26 months of both administrations. the trump administration the first 26 months, 4.1% unemployment rate compared to former president obama with 10%. >> it is incredible. they promised to kickstart the economy with a stimulus plan, said they would create 1 million jobs, joe biden was in ch

he -- you know, obama rose up and so did politico, and a lot of the obama folks didn't really know what to make of politico at the time. and i covered the campaign in 2008, and as the first politico reporter to do that, i traveled with the obama campaign from start to finish, from like iowa through election day. and i can tell you that they did not love me, you know. i mean they really didn't. if any of them are watching, they know what i'm talking about. but we managed to work together nonetheless. i didn't really feel like i was their favorite reporter because my job as politico was to not write the story of the day. it was to write about his hair turning gray -- i didn't write always about his hair turning gray or choosing not to wear a tie. but we wrote those things, you know, which people read, and they wanted to understand who, you know, obama was both for his policies and who he is as a person. and i chose to do that, and that often frustrated the obama folks. they did not love me. they did not love a lot of my peers, but there was just a different relationship. i think there was

the economy did improve under obama, in spite of obama. the things he enacted while in office actually hurt our economy. taxndly, i did get a refund. you very much. it has been very helpful to me. americanevery single be behind the president in dealing with china whether you like or dislike trump. this is a critical issue. imagine how our economy would be with your cooperation of the democrats in congress. host: thank you for the call. let me take your lead and follow up on china. it appears we are in a holding pattern until president trump and xi jinping meet next month at the g20 summit. what will happen or what could potentially happen? guest: i do not think anyone knows the answer. so much of it depends. the ball is in beijing's court. i appreciate the gentlemen's comments. under obama, we have the weakest recovery from the recession since the great depression. if donald trump is elected president -- people were saying this in 2016, it will cause a second great depression. now we have the best economy in 50 years. liberals are having a

one of president obama's final trip abroad. there he is standing next to angela merkel and all the other world leaders. there is always awkward family photos. but there was something about president obama's final g-20 meeting. when it happened it was striking and dramatic that it made the news that night. >> overseas with president obama held of what could be his last meeting with vladimir putin during a tense face-to-face on the sideline of the g-20 summit in china. the two clashed over the issues of syria and cyber security. >> it is true that president obama and the russian president talked about syria and cyber security during that tense one-on-one meeting. president obama said in a press conference said he also used that meeting to confront putin over russian attempts to hack u.s. website. the conversation that led to this dramatic photos, obama kind of towering over putin was not just about chiding him over russia attacking random american websites. we found out at the g-20. president obama told vladimir putin that he kne

bush did it when he was in office, obama and now that obama is out of office and trump is in , now obama, it's so absurd how do people buy this? ed: dan we're also seeing figures from the obama days yesterday was james comey coming out against william barr with his tweet and in the last 24 hours it was eric holder the former attorney general here is what he said, ag barr has deliberately misrepresented the mueller report and started examinations of the conduct of intel/fbi personnel without a predicate for political reasons. he's protecting the president, he does not stand up for the good people he leads. he is not fit, to lead the doj. i wonder what you think about eric holder of all people saying that after what happened in the obama days but number two are folks getting nervous about where bill barr is headed with the investigation? >> i was praying we got to this because i can talk a lot like please get to the holder thing, this is important. they are panicking here, guys. when i say they, i mean former obama administration officials. listen make no mistake what i'm telling you is co

president obama is responsible for that. lou: president obama responsible for that, said james clapper. what to make of it. joining us tonight, victoria toensing, former deputy attorney general for the criminal division of the justice department, joe digenova, former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, founding partners of the digenova and toensing law firm. let me ask you first to react to the statement by the former dni, james clapper, which seems to be straight forwardly evidence of the former president's involvement in this witch hunt. victoria. >> well, if president obama were so good, why didn't he stop it. now let me see, what are we talking about this involvement. a few hundred,000 dollars worth of ads and hacking into the computer account of the dnc allegedly because we really don't know because they never turned their computers over to the fbi. this is this big hurrah about the thing that didn't do anything to affect the election? i mean, it's really -- it's pathetic. the message messaging though bye democr

he was a recent obama appointed judge. >> that judge appointed by former president barack obama in december 2014, his ruling states the white house cannot block is subpoena. donald trump says his team will fight the ruling. >> reporter: we have a couple legal experts to break that down. thank you very much. as house democrats ramp up their investigation into the president, his businesses and family the president says former leaders of the fbi, cia and other agencies investigating him are the ones feeling the heat. >> they are all blaming each other, turning on each other. isn't that pretty to watch. they were spying. >> reporter: ranking member, republican congressman devon nunez. let's start with this letter. you have been trying to get to the heads of those agencies to say we want information about one of the characters who figured into the early origins of potentially launching this investigation into the trump campaign. >> the first person we know on earth that knows something about the russians having hillary's emails. he denied that but mueller in his report claimed mifsud was a russi

obama built this and i, being trump broke it we need to fix it. that is that the obama built it. i can't broke it and use the rest of us fix it. i think my colleagues would agree it would be a travesty if thede president's determinationo destroy president obama's achievement and an achievement shared by others the country and by our allies and friends among other places britain, france and germany but president determination to destroy barack obama's achievement that is as a meditation in this case the iran nuclear deal led us to another and this more in the middle east and mr. president i urge president trump as he has done in the case of north korea to engage in the policy and ratchet down contentions with iran rather than engaging in the this provocation. mr. president, you meet with the president more than i do but some of the times i've been with them last two years wheneverr i mention george w. bush in the same breath he talks about how he got us into war the cost of thousands of lives and has cost literally tens of billions of dollars in the iraq war. so that would suggest

here now austan goolsbee former chairman of the economic advisor under president obama. always good to have you with us, austan. thanks for being with us here. >> thanks for having me back, martha. >> martha: let's talk about this. the idea that this is just the seeds of what president obama planted and, you know, president trump essentially could be twiddling his thumbs in the oval office and it would all be happening anyway. what do you make of that argument? >> i don't agree with that even though the democrats saying it, when i was in the white house, i used to say 90% of what happens in the economy has nothing to do with washington. it's not designed by the white house. it's not some policy. and so because i said that when i was there, i will continue to say that after. but i think we got the longest job expansion in american recorded economic history. >> martha: yeah. >> and a large part of that was under obama and now a nice chunk of that is under president trump. and so in my view, it's hats off to both of them. we have a good economy going. and let's not start a

president obama is responsible formu that. >> president obama -- responsible for that, sad james clapper. what to make of it joining us tonight victoria former deputy assistantto attorney for divisin of the justice department. joe digenova founding partners of the digenova and tensing law firm great to have you both here. let me ask you first -- to react to the statement by the former dni, about james clapper which seems to be straightforwardly evidence of the -- the former president's involvement in this witch hunt. victoria. >> if president obama were so good why didn't he stop it? now let me see what are we talking about this involvement? a few hundred thousand dollars worth of ads and hacking into the computer account of the dnc allegedly because we really don't knoww because they never turned their computers over to the fbi. this is this big -- about this little thing that didn't do anything to affect a the elections. i mean, it is really pathetic the messaging, though, by the democrats is always so good that they have it out that 40 some% of the american people they that russians g

imagine if that was obama. imagine obama skipped going to arlington on veterans' day or imagine if it had been obama who skipped going to a war memorial for the u.s. dead on the 100th anniversary of world war i because it was raining and for some reason he can't go out in the rain. imagine if it was obama who gave an inaugural address that described the united states as a horror show, literally captioned with the phrase american carnage. imagine if it was obama who said he was exchanging love letters with kim jong-un or if obama kept taking solo meetings with putin and claiming he believed putin more than the u.s. government. imagine if obama tried to do any of this stuff. this exercise is supposed to be a norms reset to remind us of when things were less insane in american politics. supposed to remind us that there used to be normal incentives for rational behavior and predictable punishments for bd d behavior and that was the obama era. you know what? that admittedly satisfying line of reasoning does have an

imagine if that was obama. imagine obama skipped going to arlington on veteran's day or imagine if had been obama who skipped going to a war memorial for the u.s. dead on the 100th anniversary of world war i because it was raining and for some reason he can't go out in the rain. imagine if it was obama who gave an inaugural address that described the united states as a horror show, literally captioned with the phrase "american carnage." imagine if it was obama who said he was exchanging love letters with kim jong-un or if obama kept taking solo meetings with putin and claiming that he believed putin more than the u.s. government. imagine if obama tried to do any of this stuff. this exercise is supposed to be a norms reset to remind us of when things were less insane in american politics. supposed to remind us that there used to be normal incentives for rational behavior and predictable punishments for bad behavior when it came to national politics, and that time was the obama era. you know what? that admittedly

donald trump inherited an economy from obama/biden. rob: joe biden going head to head with the president over the economy. jillian: he says the president inherited the obama administration's success but do the numbers support that? rob: the ceo of american majority, ned ryan, thanks for coming back. what do you make of joe biden's argument on the economy? >> i keep hearing from democrats but somehow this economy started with the obama/biden administration which would make sense if trump's policies were continuation of obama they are not. they are completed radical departure from the obama philosophy of governing. obama wanted more regulation. trump started cutting regulations. i don't recall massive obama tax cuts, trump and the republicans delivered a massive tax cut. you can look at the fact that trump is putting the regulators across the administration but what has not been reported is all these judges he is appointing to the federal bench are dismantling the administrative state, the regulatory state, these are radical departures f

this is what happened to obama. let me say. >> kennedy: don't compare benghazi to bill barr. >> jesse: who died? >> juan: our country lost big time. >> jesse: democratic hopes. >> juan: i don't know why you say -- don't say congress has every right to exercise oversight. they are making legitimate claims. >> jesse: it's not legitimate. >> juan: it doesn't matter. the constitution says they have the right. >> brian: they want to do their own report. >> juan: normally what you hear from the justice department is let's negotiate, congress. i will give you this much, that much. what bill barr and trump are doing is trying to stiff the whole constitution. >> brian: emily, you are the legal scholar. is that what they are trying to do? >> emily: they are trying to distract us from the real ball which is the fact that everyone is terrified of what the inspector general report will undoubtedly prove which is that our intelligence agencies used unfounded legal reasons to surveil private citizens. you saved oversight, but it's

obama rose up in politico, and a lot of the obama folks did not know what to make of politico at that time. i covered the campaign in 2008, and as the first political reporter to do that, i traveled with the obama campaign from start to finish, from iowa to election day, and i can tell you they did not love me. [laughter] they really didn't. if any of them are watching, they know what i'm talking about. we managed to work together, nonetheless. wasd not really feel like i their favorite reporter because my job at politico was not to write the story of the day but to write about his hair turning gray, are not always about his hair turning gray, or him choosing not to wear a tie. but we wrote those things, which people read, and they wanted to understand who obama was, both for policies and who he was as a person. i chose to do that, and that often frustrated the obama folks. they did not love me, they did not love a lot of my peers, but there was a different relationship. there was an understanding of my role, even if they disliked it. what is different now is the rhetoric is very hars

president obama was shameless. in this case, trump's smacking his political opponent -- do the we expect anything else? -- and he wants to get a deal with kim jong un. it doesn't mean he wants to be buddy-buddy with an authoritarian for that sake, he wants the world to be safe from nuclear weapons. that is his ultimate goal. trish: it's an interesting nuance. and, by the way, just back to obama for one quick second, because i remember that apology tour, so to speak, i remember hearing him talk so poorly about this country overseas. it kind of made me feel bad. i mean, as an american, right? you want to see, you want to see the best in the world and the best in our country, but when he would repeatedly hit us over and over and over again, it was kind of a defeatist at tuesday, i think, sometimes the, pete, that wasn't necessarily healthy. >> yes. trish: and i relate this back to economy, my expertise, because i look at how our economy struggled so much during those years. it just didn't matter, you could have a grea

he obama rose up to politico, and the rest of the obama folks didn't know what to make of politico at the time. and i covered the campaign in 2008, and as the first politico reporter to do that i travel would the obama campaign from start to finish from iowa through election day, and i can tell you they did not love me. they really didn't, and if any of them are watching they know what i'm talking about. but we managed to work together, nonetheless. i didn't really feel like i was their favorite reporter because my job with politico was not to write the story of the day, it was to write about his hair turning gray. and i didn't always write about miss hair turning gray, or not wearing a tie but we wrote those things, which people read, and they wanted to understand who obama was for his policies and both who he is as a person, and i chose to do that. and that often frustrated the obama folks. they did not love me, they did not love a lot of my peers. i think what's different now is the rhetoric is very harsh but the reality is that the folks in the west wing, the president himself, we

that was president obama in 2012. i think many of us now see that president obama's approach to russia could have used more of the 1980s, more ronald reagan and less jimmy carter. we would have been better off if the obama administration hadn't swept vladimir putin's occupation of georgia under the rug or looked away as russia for southwestern ngos and cracks down on civil society. if president obama hadn't let asad triple his redline in syria or embraced vladimir putin's fake deal on chemical weapons. of the obama administration had responded firmly to vladimir putin's occupation of ukraine in 2014 to the assassination of boris him soft and russian interference in syria. may be stronger leadership would have left the criminal less a motive, tampering with our democracy wouldn't have seemed so very tempting. instead the previous administration's in the criminal signal they could get away with almost anything. almost anything. is it surprising that we got the brazen interference detailed and special counsel mueller's r

to see him embrace obama like that? >> i think it's a real problem for democrats to fight the last war. that's what they're doing by nominating joe biden. if they're going to fight the last war, what they'll do is going to be a hillary clinton-type of campaign and they're going to lose on the economy. >> there's no shortage of soldiers here. meantime at last night's town hall on fox news, pete buttigieg took aim at president trump's twitter insults. this as the president compared him to mad magazine mascot alfred e. newman and suggested that mayor pete doesn't have the chops to go man on man with world leaders. watch this. >> the tweets are -- i don't care. we need to make sure that we're changing the channel from this show that he's created. what matters -- and i get it. it's hard for anybody to look away. any time we look at the show and the lateest insult, what we're not looking at, we're the tries trying to get you raise and you're blocking it. we're trying to get you health care and they take it away. >> does mayor

obama should blame himself for disallowing joe his natural moment to secure obama's legacy, joe could have won, and would have moved on if he lost. all circus needs now is hillary shoving herself into crowded clown car to cheer her loss one last tight, please, these, these, run, that is the memo. >> >> clintons are still trying to stay relevant, right now, they are wrapping up a spikin a peekr around -- speakingtur tour aroud u.s. bill and chelsea announced they will have a podcast. called why am i telling you this. the panel is back. danielle, start with you come on, as a democrat you have to watch this going, hillary, just go ahead and. >> i will say, two thing, there are plenty of people who loved her, loved her. 66 million votes most you know, most votes of any loser history. number two. kennedy: it wasn't enough. >> we could have ideas about her, but i don't dow doubt she d have run the country. kennedy: i don't know about th that. anyone can run the country. i know she had her secret service vans outfitted with twisting chairs, she was ready, but barge full will fireworks still

it's not just president obama. but when you look at the votes of a lot of these leading democrats, they voted for a barrier wall, they voted for additional funding, they've said a lot of the same things president obama said in clips you just played. what i don't get, frankly, is that -- i get politics. i've been doing this for a long time. what i think is astonishing though is, to your point, you've got in one area or the southwest border, in april you had 109,000 illegal aliens come over the border. at some point you have children being used as pawns to get over the border for people claiming asylum. there is truly a crisis. not just an immigration cry -- the crisis, but frankly, a humanitarian crisis. and if you do care about these people, you see these stories about coyotes running these families and running, you know, these children, charging thousands of dollars for people to get migrated up to our southern border. it's the, frankly, dangerous. and if we care about these individuals, we should put an end to it

why the case against obama's justice department is growing. i've got exclusive intel for you in just moments. and chaos in venezuela with bullets flying across the border with colombia. uncertainty other what next steps to take. a man who has helped rebuild the economies of some of the worst hell holes on earth says he knows how to restore freedom in venezuela without using our military. he's going to explain in just moments. plus, california is trying to kick president trump off the 2020 state -- we're going to tell you about the plan

president obama said that no deal was better than a good deal. which, he never meant it, but he was right. president trump has multiple times walked away from bad deals and he is happy with no deal versus a bad deal. that is the approach we should take to the iranians. we are in a much better position if we consider the current course then we would be sacrificing pressure. on the breakup, president obama set himself that if the iranians followed the jcpoa, and did not cheat, and the jcpoa what extends the breakout period by a few months. it would get us to a year. we were already at that. by his own math we were buying a few months living under nuclear back -- black male. that is if everything went well. about oneto talk thing, when we get to a one year breakout period. prior to that innovation in 2013, the united states policy program,iran's nuclear the size of that nuclear program is determined by something we call national news. what news does this have for a nuclear program, and the answer is, zero. energy, has no nuclear you give them a smal

liz: must take inside the obama white house. president obama joked about his job policies in 2014 saying quote - we got to move away from what my labor secretary calls quote - train and pray. train workers first and then you hope to get a job. here's what happens. president obama made joe biden his job training czar. and in order to create jobs he said joe, go take charge of the 42 go nowhere government job programs after six years no jobs, obama white house spent either more taxpayer money on a federal study that figured out what happened and it belly flops. outright failures. here is what the hell found. the study found the programs ineffective, did not raise earnings, offer no services for jobseekers or employers. that is what was going on inside the obama white house in terms of trying to create jobs. your take? >> yeah well, you can train but if there is no demand for the jobs what are you training for? i think that was the problem. the obama ministration missed the point of, you need to have the manpower and supply chains

it's yourself and the obamas, and you're heading toward the white house. when you get there, because i don't want to spoil those parts of the book. >> don't spoil it. >> trevor: it's amazing. when you get to the white house, what i likely enjoyed in the book is how you now face challenges within a white house that loves you, and you have to speak to the president and say, hey, this environment is not the best that it could be for women and women's voices. that was a powerful moment for me to read. i was, like, you just assume barack obama had it perfect but he didn't and you worked on correcting that. >> you start out with an environment and built a culture. everybody comes to the table with their own package and i noticed some of the women's voices were shrinking. i mentioned it to him and he said that's not acceptable. he said, i want everyone to speak up because i value your opinions. he invited them to dinner and said if you're not speak up, it's not about you, it's about helping me make the best possible decisions. you have to take the time to listen

trump or obama? iran, $150 billion for the icbm, the terrorism, the nuclear warheads, who has been tougher on iran? obama or trump? china, they are building these highlands, they are militarizing the islands come in the united states has nothing, tell me who has been the toughest president in my lifetime on china? and by the way, was obama tough on china? russia, collusion, somebody better tell vladimir putin that we have the toughest sections on russia than we have had in history, north korea, we have a naval armada off of the korean peninsula like we have not seen since 1960s, that was not there when obama was there, that is trump, they also intercepted a forget, do you remember that? in the toughest declassified sections on north korea too, he must love un. look at egypt, obama was in love with the muslim brotherhood, he was still in love with the muslim brotherhood, and he withheld arms temporarily. >> sean: easy, he gave billions to oversee. choose the descendants, obama gave that guy money, for

so marrying yourself to obama is a positive. i thought biden did a very good job of being joe biden in the speech and showing his own style and his own -- what he's trying to do for the nation and also attaching himself to the obama/biden legacy. so i don't think he's going to -- it is going to be obvious that he's part of the obama administration. it is one of the reasons why he's so popular right now. it is one of the reasons why his polling numbers, they're not high just because of name recognition. there is genuine affection for him. particularly in the african-american community where, look, there is two ways to win a democratic primary. you are either a white candidate who can win african-american voters or your an african-american candidate who can win white votes right now he's the only white candidate out there to show to win the ability of african-american votes at least in the polls. >> he didn't bring up race issues. which i kind of found ironic that he's there in philadelphia and he had quite a rainbow of spectrum o

they're not saying we backed obama, let's jump in and support biden. in fact there's a head line from the washington post that reads, they worked for obama, they're not supporting biden yet. as they scan the field for a possible transformation and worry about a repeat of the 2016 election, many others speak of their continued hunger for a new generation of leadership and a free face cho can transcend. they are eager for someone like obama who can bring new voter to the poll. they're basis clay sayin base bg that that the magic that obama -- i remember i was teaching when he ran. young people were so excited about him. they're not sure that biden has the same appeal. they'lllikethey're like let's sd see. >> older folks vote.

an obama judge. this is a tyranny of activist obama judges. >> shannon: the fact that republicans are going to say, now president trump's setting record numbers and filling the bench with people that are his. ten years from now maybe they issue an injunction against president buttigieg, i don't know. should they have the power to do that? >> i don't know. these are to trump judges, he is picking original list. they are people who are not conservative, republican, democrat, you look at the constitution and you try to comply with it. an obama judge tries to turn it inside out because they are progressives and they don't comply with the constitution. it's time we have an honest talk about the obama judges, these activists. the left likes to talk about get rid of the electoral college! the only favor the popular vote when they went back otherwise they controlled the courts, they controlled the bureaucracy and they want permanent governments telling us what to do. we need to have a national discussion abo

now that obama is out, obama did it? production level employees salaries are rising faster than supervisors. that whole point that biden trying to make the working man is not feeling it, joe biden is is allergic to the facts because the facts in the report. ainsley: high jobs, high wages, consumer confidence, major productivity, blow out numbers. brian: president's personal approve rating at 43% on the average. right now handling of the economy is over 50%. disapproval at 41%. you're never going to get 300 plus million people saying anything is good or bad but on the majority, for the majority, on the mean it has been unbelievable these numbers, president obama on the record caught on tape it is impossible we have to have a magic wand. i think the president has to feel pretty good where he is right now as opposed to the 22 people who want his job. steve: when you look at the brand new number from the "wall street journal/nbc" poll, it shows while his personal approval rating is lower the higher number is for the economy.

he is up from president obama during his 3rd year in office. joining us now sarah carter, and the author of the best seller the russian hoax, here's the thing. we have -- john soloman and sarah carter is working on this. the ukraine admitted they c conspired the 2016 election. people who say what about obstruction with donald trump? they don't care about hillary clinton's subpoenaed emails and acid wash and bleached bit. the i believers who wanted to bludgeon trump. none of them are i believing these rape and serious allegations. this is select moral outrage. this is all a political game that came close to impacting and then taking out a duly elected president. barr is the new villain. this was all by design of robert mueller. ly -- he left crumbs for people in congress. he implied obstruction where none exists. if you read his report, for every negative there is a counter positive. he knew there was no obstruction of justice. he decided i will let barr say it and he will be the villain. they will use my report for impeachment. it's vicious tow

is there -- i think the variable there was barack obama. a lot of people, democrats and republicans can acknowledge now he was extraordinary. he was extraordinarily talented, he was sort of intouch with where the party was heading. is there an obama in the field? >> no. that's on purpose i think. there's a set of ideas. the problem we face as a country is not reducible to individual personality, it's reducible to ideology, a way of governing so folks want to turn the corner, do something different. are we going to be backward or forward looking, that's the choice the democratic party is facing. >> does your reporting show that biden can't turn with the party? is it optics? does it look like yesterday and not tomorrow or do people detect in biden, a rigidity around policies? because i detect in biden an eagerness to grow with the party. in some ways as vice president he led the president, president obama, in the direction where the party was going. between the two of them, he seemed more in touch with or maybe more vocal about where the demo

"the washington post" writes that they're embracing obama without obamaisms. that it reflects the party's shift to the left. one exception, joe biden who has heightened his role as obama's v.p. but even he has selectively distanced himself from some of obama's policies suggesting that he go further on healthcare and climate change. our power panel antoine seawright, former adviser to hillary clinton in south carolina and homily turner, conservative grass roots advocate and republican strategist. antoine, what do you think about that? does it seem like biden is trying to be left of president obama? >> a couple of things to note. barack obama still is the most transformational political figure in my political lifetime. the second thing -- >> melissa: why does that pertain to the conversation? >> i'm about to tell you. the mood of our country, the needs of our party are different. every candidate is different, every campaign is different. in 2008 and 12 will be different from 16. there foreyou see joe biden and others trying to find their move on the political da

and obama judge. look at the decision in dc. and obama judge. look at the emoluments clause standing decision, and obama judge, the tyranny of activist obama judges. >> what about the fact republicans are going to say but now donald trump is sitting record numbers filling the federal bench with his folks. 5 or 10 years from now maybe the issue an injunction against president buttigieg. should they have the power to do that? >> of course not. these are not trump judges. he is picking originalists. my first book and men and back, people, not conservative, liberal, republican or democrat, look at the constitution and try to comply with it. and obama judge looks the constitution and tries to turn it inside out because they are progressives. they don't comply with the constitution. it's time we have an honest talk about obama judges, activists. the left likes to talk about get rid of the electoral college, they only favor the popular vote when they went. otherwise they control the courts, they control the bureaucracy and they want permanent governmen

under obama, it was almost flat, 2%. if this is brought to people's attention by republican officeholders, the administration, they will see, this is so much better than the economy that obama gave us, and it is because of policy. it is because of letting businesses and families keep more of what they earn, rather than the government spending more of what they take from the people. david: we have been talking about this, this is all at the federal level. you served as governor of mississippi. i understand you have another gubernatorial election coming up there. when they go to the polls to vote for governor, will voters be concerned with national issues, or is it much more local for mississippi? haley: well, the economy transcends localism versus nationalism, because it is the same general economy. , the economyates does not grow as fast generally as other states. in other states in grows faster generally than the nation as a whole. the economy really, really matters. but also, the way government has been run. if you loo