a few weeks or months later, you met herfiance, barack obama. what did you see in that couple that attracted you to them, and what do you think they saw in you? well, i had just been promoted from the law department to deputy chief of staff for mayor daley, and i was staffing at my office. and someone sent me a resume and across the top it said, "brilliant young lawyer has no interest in being in a big law firm, and would like to explore public service". and i had abandoned a big law firm as well, six years earlier, and i was impressed with her resume. and so in walks this tall, confident young woman, shook my hand, looked me dead in the eye, saw my resume, never mentioned a word that was on it. she told me her story, and of course, we all now know it's a quintessential american story about growing up on the south side of chicago, working—class family, instilled in both she and her brother the sense of "to those whom much is given, much is expected'." and, although they hadn't gone to college, they supported she and her brother both going on t

he was running on the sales of barack obama. biden has a host of problems that will prevent him from becoming president. i don't think he will be the democrat's nominee. biden is trending in the low 30's. you looks on the polls at. he is now under attack for racially insensitive remarks, thinks he should have been under attack for and never selected as barack obama's vice president. i heard many of your callers while i was waiting to come on, blacks that understand the racial history of the democratic party and how they relate to biden and his support of james .astland and george wallace even looking at those things and saying they are from the past, there are many things biden has said presently that make you understand he does not understand the level of racial sensitivity in america, and he has gotten a pass because he is a democrat. if donald trump were friends and actually professed to be friendly with the gentleman i mentioned, john stennis, eastland, george wallace, he would rightfully be labeled a racist. these are peopl

barack obama! >> mvp, mvp, mvp, mvp. >> well, but i want you to take a look at what was going on in london. there you go, it's not clear if president trump laid eyes on this. british approval ratings for obama and trump back now with joan walsh, keith boykin and tara sutmire. what do you think of the former president getting a reaction like that, joan? he has a connection to the game. he loves basketball. >> right, this is in toronto, not in oakland. for our allies, barack obama is still the president. and they are just waiting for us -- they want to wake up from this nightmare, they're waiting for us to wake up from this nightmare and they don't want to acknowledge the real president. he is the president permanently until we have another normal person. that's just going to be true. >> wow, tara, what do you -- >> i mean, i feel them. i have been a critic of barack obama's for eight years. and i want him to be president again. >> you want him back. >> i'll take him back in a heartbeat because then

—— barack obama. and what to think they saw in you? -- barack obama. they had just been promoted and i was staffing my office. and someone sent me a resume and across the top it said "brilliant young lawyer has no interest in being in a big law firm, would like to explore public service". i had abandoned a big law firm six years earlier and was impressed with her as may. and walks this tall, confident woman, shook my hand, look me dead in the eye, saw my resume, ever mentioned a word that was on it, she told me her story. we now know it is a quintessential american story about growing up on the south side of chicago, working class family, instilled in both she and her brother the sense of to those who much is given much is expected, and although they had not gone to couege although they had not gone to college she and both her brother was supported to go to college. you were mighty impressed by michelle from the get go. offered her a job on the spot, didn't have the authority, but they did it anyway. the witness thing happened, when she offered her the

barack obama! >> mvp, mvp, mvp, mvp. >> well, but i want you to take a look at what was going on in london. there you go, it's not clear if president trump laid eyes on this. british approval ratings for obama and trump back now with joan walsh, keith boykin and tara sutmire. what do you think of the former president getting a reaction like that, joan? he has a connection to the game. >> right, this is in toronto, not in oakland. for our allies, barack obama is still the president. and they are just waiting for us -- they want to wake up from this nightmare, they're waiting for us to wake up from this nightmare and they don't want to acknowledge the real president. he is the president permanently until we have another normal person. that's just going to be true. >> wow, tara, what do you -- >> i mean, i feel them. i have been a critic of barack obama's for eight years. and i want him to be president again. >> you want him back. >> i'll take him back in a heartbeat because then at least we can debat

obama because barack obama gave canada everything they ever wanted. i'm being tough and looking out for america. we should not be surprised by any of this, but it does speak to i think what i was struck by, how political everything is. when i was growing up, i remember michael jordan saying republicans buy my sneakers too, not wanting to take a political stance. now prominent players in basketball and other places with kneeling during the national anthem. politics is infused in everything. donald trump has super charged that conversation even more so. >> people are engaged. we had a look at a class half full. >> people are paying attention. chris, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> stay with me. we are moments away from the arrival of president trump and first lady melania trump to the state banquet over buckingham palace in london. we'll take you there live. we'll be right back. sure you do. that's why it's on us. 2. unlimited data. use as much as you want, when you want. 3. no surprises on your bill. taxes and fees included. still think you have

if this was barack obama or anyone else, republicans would have a album with that. is -- didst question you read the mullah report? let's work -- mueller report? guest: let's work our way through this. if you don't want to be a socialist, don't be a member of the democratic party. some are more open than others, like bernie sanders is unabashedly a socialist and he says it. but i don't know of any democrat serving in the united states congress that don't support socialist ideologies to some degree or another. i'm sorry if you are offended, but if you are offended you need to quit the party you are in because they are the socialist party of america. with respect to my use of the phrase open borders, i don't know of any democrat who is willing to support border security. they are not willing to support a wall, they are not willing to deport illegal aliens whose first act on our soil is to's it on our laws. what is the definition of open borders? socialist democratic party because that is what they support. if you find a democrat willing to help us secure the border an

joe biden is also trying to close up to barack obama. i think it will depend on who barack of, to to endorse. he spent the entire time closing up to barack obama and trying to do his civil rights. >> he should have done that. how dare you accuse me of being racist. barack obama didn't think i was racist. he wouldn't have put me on the ticket. he just had a problem enunciating. and articulating. he was bubbling up on stage. >> not number two. second. the price -- >> renewable sources. the president got elected. my times up. i'm sorry. >> i want to pile on the former vp but it raises a lot of questions of whether he has the performance ability to sit on that stage and go head-to-head with donald trump. everybody raised their hands when asked this question about giving illegal aliens health insurance. >> raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for a documented immigrants. [cheering and applauding] >> is it over? is that it? really done? >> when i saw those hands go up, i dropped my popcorn and spilled my adult beverag

barack obama, but ithink in was a great fan of barack obama, but i think in terms of foreign policy, he was a nightmare because he didn't get enough done. we've given huge impetus to china and russia. russia was allowed to sweep ukraine aside but keep strategically the crimea for military and business purposes. and as i understand it, they put in $30 billion worth of infrastructure and construction building. and at a time when the russian economy was in a difficult spot. the price of oil following the annexation of crimea came down significantly. and there we re came down significantly. and there were also subject to sanctions. sanctions and reprisals, exactly right. and we've seen construction around sevastopol has grown by 70%. manufacture in agriculture 3.4% in just the last three months. exceptional. is very interesting and very political. hugely! you've got to offer your heart to him, he is in the driving seat and i don't like it. -- the driving seat and i don't like it. —— hat. the driving seat and i don't like it. -- hat. and this about tesla. $2 billion of cash. that's qu

under barack obama than donald trump? >> last -- comparing 29 months to 29 months last to first, 219,000 jobs a month under obama, 195,000 jobs a month under trump. >> well, i'm not good in math, but that's over 20,000 more jobs per month under barack obama so why is it that -- every time we turn on the television set you have news hosts and reporters just as -- just assuming that donald trump's economy is so much stronger than barack obama's when it's not -- i mean, the numbers tell you it's not. >> that number tells you it's not. let's look at wages, wages are kind of important, right? people care what they earn and so if you look at wages what you can see is the same -- is essentially the same pattern. that wage growth has been slower under trump and when i say wage growth i mean after adjusting for inflation. because that's what matters, what people take home in their pocketbooks. so you can see here, you can see here if you look closely that has dropped a bit. under trump, it was 0.65% per year. real wage growth. doe

barack obama had a bad first debate and he woke up. they sent biden in after the first debate where he struggled in the vp debate. biden was sent in to rough up paul ryan. can a campaign say you have to be better and stronger next time? does it wake him up? that's the question. if you get that same performance when he is challenged like that. i think that's trouble for him. >> after that debate, i remember watching it in the staff room with condi rice and dan bartlett. i was one of the younger staffers and the faces were white and they knew he bombed in the first five minutes. >> terrible feeling. >> i had the job of taking him to the polls. he had dropped like 13 points. the magazines were still super important in campaign news cycles that came out once a week. that seems quaint. the polls dropped 13 points and we were able to say it was a terrible performance and b, you dropped 13 points. as steve kornacki said, we turned around in the prep and performance, but you were reading reporters's tweets. there are two problems for biden. he

when barack obama met with the guy that succeeded him. it looked tense but -- >> i think he did what president bush and his team did for us. to have a smooth transition of power. part of the underlying pillar of our democracy is that elections have consequences and it's up to whoever is in office to assure that they do everything possible for the national security and the representation of our country to ensure that the successor can hit the ground running. that's what we try to do and just what george bush had done, president bush had done for us. >> neil: when you hear joe biden and a lot of the things he said that he would bring civility back to the white house, but americans can look and say, well, i'd rather the unemployment rate going down, jobs, the market doing what it's doing? >> why should you have to choose? president obama was civil and we cut the unemployment rate in half. what i'm looking for, someone that i won't have to turn off the television when the person is speaking and -- >> neil: do you do that when president trump

politics today but you were describing the situation earlier in this century before barack obama was elected if it was bad then i mean i guess if you know the world's watching the u.s. it has to be really bad now. it is i mean certainly the polarization that we're seeing now did not start with donald trump but trump has made it a lot worse he has made our politics more toxic i mean tonight i expect him to throw a lot of red meat at his conservative supporters talk about how immigrants are bad for america china is stealing our jobs i mean he has debased a lot of the civil discourse around politics and just introduced a lot of negativity so he's made it much more difficult for americans to talk about politics and he's kicking off his relation campaign today how do you see his chances for being reelected we know that the polls are not in his favor at the moment the polls are not looking good for donald trump right now but we do have to keep in mind that america has a 3.6 percent national unemployment rate if or anyone else other than donald trump we would be talking about an easy reelec

even barack obama did. barack obama caucused with a segregationist. he was in the senate alongside robert bird of west virginia. he filibustered the civil rights out. he was a recruiter of the k.k.k. not a momentary member. he was a klan recruiter. but that didn't stop barack obama from eulogizing bird at his funeral. watch. >> he was a senate icon, party leader. an elder statesman. and he was my friend. may god bless him. >> tucker: barack obama at the klan funeral. guess who else is there? who is that behind obama with the goofy smile? look carefully. yes, it's kirsten gillibrand. back then she was happy to follow the democratic crowd. go to klan funeral. but now she is denouncing biden for doing the same thing she did. watch. >> i don't think you should brag about working on a bipartisan basis with segregationists. >> tucker: c'mon now. let's be serious. let's be honest about what is happening. nobody, not even someone as dim as kirsten gillibrand -- that is saying a lot -- actually thinks joe biden is a racist! or that he is nostalgic for segregat

obama coalition if you're not barack obama. hillary clinton had the same theory of the case you start with the obama coalition. that's not true because there's a sucandidate -- they assumed we've taken all the obama voters, we've checked them and add. they're not barack obama. a lot of voters see a nostalgia for the obama era and they're riding with him right now. they're riding with him because they think only a white guy can beat donald trump and he's the white guy that can do it. the second he's not the guy that can take down donald trump, like he loses iowa or new hampshire, those voters go shopping. >> with thanks to joy reid for making our coverage better, i hope you have an insanely cruelly early flight tomorrow morning. >> red eye. >> thank you. >> it's going to be great. >> you should have said so. >> you should have said something. >> we've got your favorite line. i'm going to steal it. now i've sold you out that bernie brushes his hair with a balloon. >> that's a bill marline. >> the things we talk about in breaks. >

the great recession or 2012 when we are rolling along with barack obama's 2% growth. they are choosing to ignore what has happened in the last two years in this economy with employment falling so low for minorities and other people. they won't talk about that. my question paul is once you get to the general election the rule of thumb is you have to be able to pivot towards the middle because the broad electorate is more moderate than that. these people are so far left such as elizabeth warren. i'm having a hard time seeing exactly how they make a shift in the general election. pohl put down some markers on private insurance for example health insurance and free health care for any immigrant who comes to united states. i'm pro immigration but if you say all of latin america come on in, free. you will have to change the incentives anymore. donald trump will crucify him on that stuff. if anything that is a repudiation of obama. barack obama can't -- campaign to the middle and governed to the left but at least he made the nod to nancy pelosi in 2018, this is such a shift.

so, i just felt strongly that is country was gonna react to barack obama's presidency the way it has. >> and then, another one of the forc that was imbued in charlottesville was anti-semitism. >> absolutely. >> it was married with this neo-nazism and this racism towards african-americans. what are your reflections, and what do you think about the rise of anti-semitism, especially as it's come up in the normal course of business in the congress?>> feel about it the same way i feel about the white supremacis on every level. >> why is it resurgent? >> well, because this countris moving back into a position that it was back in the late 1920s. remember, thishole stuff, the ku klux klan and a of that, this is late in the '20s with that resurgence. woodrow wilson's presidency laid a foundation for that. and so while that was going on in this country, the same thing was going on over in europ and you had the things going onn that's going ourope now. these things don't happen in isolation., and ve told people mussolini in italy and hitler in germany, these things -- i can see them coming. and

i think it will depend who barack obama chooses to endorse. if you see joe biden and his speech on friday in chicago, he spent the whole time bowsing up to barack obama. jesse: he should have just told kamala how dare you have accused me of being racist in any way? barack obama didn't think i was racist. if he did he wouldn't have put me on the ticket. and he had a problem enunciating and articulating. >> look, look, number one, number two, secondly, secondly, the price for whatever -- whatever the drug -- renewable sources. the act aloud after the president got elected. my time is up, i'm sorry. jesse: i don't want to pile on the former vp. but it raises a lot of questions on whether he has the performance ability to sit on that stage and go head-to-head with donald trump. look at everybody raise their hands when asked this question about giving illegal aliens health insurance. >> raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. okay. jesse: is it over, her man? is that it? are they done? >> when i s

even barack obama did. barack obama caucused with a segregationist. he was in the senate alongtime robert bird of west virginia. he filibustered the civil rights out. he was a recruiter of the k.k.k. not a momentary member. he was a klan recruiter. i didn't stop barack obama from eulogizing bird at his funeral. watch. >> senate icon, party leader. an elder statesman. he was my friend. may god bless him. >> tucker: barack obama at the klan funeral. guess who else is there? who is that behind obama with the goofy smile? it's kirsten gillibrand. back then she was happy to follow the democratic crowd. go to klan funeral. but now she is dennounceing biden for doing the same thing she did. >> i don't think you should brag on working on a bipartisan basis with segregationists. >> tucker: c'mon now. let's be serious. be honest about what is happening. nobody, not even someone as dim as kirsten gillibrand -- that is saying a lot -- actually thinks joe biden is a racist. or nostalgic for segregation. c'mon! of course he's not. whatever his many faults. this isn

and barack obama said it could have been me. he was not hedging on that which is a whole distance away from saying that talmadge and them were civility. >> civility does not mean humanitarian, civility does not mean justice, it just means people are not yelling at each other. joe biden has to understand that the credibility he grew with barack obama was temporary. he can't put on an obama mask for the next eight months and hope he can put that coalition together with the same amount of passion. he has to build his own name, just like hillary clinton had to build her own name, and when she failed to do that, she also lost. >> what are the politics of this? can this significantly arm him with black voters or voters in engine, or is this something he can get past? >> i think this instance is something he will move past, and you'll start to see when we focus on some of the problems mayor pete is having in south bend right now, also of a racial cast. >> for those who don't know, a white officer killed a black -- >> eric logan. >> --

this is like -- it is like when he called barack obama clean and articulate. the challenges he feels entitled and dismissive. he's not on pitch and on tone for this moment. people feel very on edge about the political atmosphere that donald trump has ushered in where we're seeing levels of racism we haven't seen in our lifetime and in 40 years of democratic politics. and, so, biden really has to be very clear about what side he stands on and right now with him being dismissive, that makes people of color, who are feeling especially vulnerable feel like can you really hear our concerns? and the democratic party is the party of the people of color in this moment. that's going to be his core constituency. if he can't appeal to our real feelings about racism, then he's not going to be the candidate. >> take a listen to some of the other candidates in south carolina which like florida has a diverse voting population in a primary and the general part of the state. take a look. >> we defeat trump by running a campaign of energy and enthusiasm that substantially grows

now, what did barack obama do to stop that? i don't know. i don't know if that's going to be investigated. it should be. whether or not the president did everything in his powers at the time to stop russia from interfering in our elections. we know it happened. we need to work together to make sure it doesn't happen again. that should be our focus. there was no collusion, by the way. he found that. there was no obstruction of >> and i know the committee wants to keep focusing and looking into everything they can to try to find more evidence that was there. if they start bringing and you start bringing language resolutions to hold, for example, the attorney general in contempt, we haven't seen what the charges are. but some of the things that the judiciary committee has asked the attorney general to produce, if the attorney general produced that information, he would be violating law. why would you hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt of congress for not breaking the law? those are some of the things we've seen. again, w

when georgia in 2008 went for barack obama by seven points, barack obama lost by seven points, he lost south carolina by eight. he lost south carolina by nine. we are not far off from our sister staying in georgia. we are going to send lindsey graham home. he's the most powerful and glorified candidate in the country. it is time for somebody go to washington, d.c. and on behalf of the working people here in south carolina. we don't have that. he wants his own personal power and trying to be bff with the president and he does not benefit, the state does not benefit as a result of it. we'll work very hard to do and replicate what state he was able to do in georgia by going into our rural counties and amping up the vote in those counties and engaging with our african-american communities in rural counties where we have not spent a lot of time and energy developing infrastructures. we'll be at the tip of the spear as we see this new renaissance in the south. >> what is the big issue that you believe will cause and dislodge these republican senators? is it lindsey graham being best friend w

and barack obama was the rising star. he had stature. you don't have everybody getting on the stage that has the stature to take a punch at anything other than somebody in the audience and they hope they don't do that. >> but you saw it this week when all of them put themselves on the side of the hyde amendment. all of them this week said we're for repealing the hyde amendment, he moved. >> i don't think he moved because of them but because of black women -- which is why, john, he waited and changed in front of the african summit last night. >> exactly. >> he did not respond to the candidates. >> he went in the black audience. he had a script and he says before i do that, and he put the script down and he started talking about the hyde amendment which is where he should have -- he didn't respond to them. >> didn't care about them. >> joe biden is the front-runner but his biggest concern right now in the midst of all this is what happens when you become mr. inevitable, right? the first time you screw up is when you really

he was running on the sales of barack obama. biden has a host of problems that will prevent him from becoming president. i don't think he will be the democrat's nominee. biden is trending in the low 30's. you looks on the polls at. he is now under attack for racially insensitive remarks, thinks he should have been under attack for and never selected as barack obama's vice president. i heard many of your callers while i was waiting to come on, blacks that understand the racial history of the democratic party and how they relate to biden and his support of james .astland and george wallace even looking at those things and saying they are from the past, there are many things biden has said presently that make you understand he does not understand the level of racial sensitivity in america, and he has gotten a pass because he is a democrat. if donald trump were friends and actually professed to be friendly with the gentleman i mentioned, john stennis, eastland, george wallace, he would rightfully be labeled a racist. these are peopl

and barack obama was the rising star, black, in the senate. you don't have anybody on the stage that has stature to take a punch other than at somebody in the audience and you hope they don't do that. >> you saw it this week when all of them put themselves on the side of the hyde amendment. when all of them this week said we're for repealing the hyde amendment, he moved. >> i don't think he moved because of them. i think he moved because of black women -- >> right. >> -- which is why, john, he waited and changed in front of the african-american summit last night. he did not respond to the candidates. he went in that black audience, he had -- >> he used that moment. it's true. >> he said, before i do that, he put the script down and started talking about the hyde amendment. he didn't respond to them. >> that's right. >> last point. >> joe biden is the front runner but his biggest concern right now in the midst of this, what happens when you become mr. inevitable, the first time you screw up is when you really fall off the cliff. that's what hap

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but that was helpful to him when he was barack obama's wing man. so i wonder, careen, if he can still use the things that were magical to him that helped him be barack obama's wing man. can he find a way to resuscitate those things because this is a generational thing. the younger people, the younger african-americans, the younger women are saying warren, harris, julian, butte geigieg. they want the younger people. can he capture that younger man and still be joe biden? >> the biden that we saw on thursday was not the biden of 2007 when the obama campaign took a look at -- when they were looking for a vp took a look at those debates and thought, oh, biden might be a choice for us to look at. or the biden of 2008 when he took on sarah palin in a debate. or the biden of 2012 when he was paired with paul ryan. and so it is really confusing because we know he can do it, right? we know he has it in him. he's been on the debate stage with a woman. he's been on the debate stage with someone who was younger than him and a different generation from him. it'

he wrote this, the same forces of hatred rooted in birtherism that questioned barack obama's american citizenship and even his racial identity are now being used against kamala harris. it is disgusting. and we have to call it out when we see it. racism has no place in america. and washington state governor and 2020 candidate jay inslee said this. >> well, unfortunately it appears that the rotten apple fall too far from the rotten tree. and what comes to mind is the question to the whole trump family at last, have you no decency, sirs. >> harris was born in oakland, california, to a mother from india and a father from jamaica. in march, the senator addressed the issue of critics who questioned her heritage. watch. >> i'm not going to spend my time trying to educate people about who black people are. i was born black. i will die black. and i'm proud of being black and i'm not going to make any excuses for anybody because they don't understand. >> april ryan, white house correspondent for american urban radio network, author of "the presidency in black and white." so, april, it seems lik

. >> trevor: that's right, barack obama is making his own podcasts. and it must be really strange for obama's facebook friends to watch his career go in reverse because nine years ago it was, hey guys, check out my inauguration. now it's, hey, everyone, please subscribe to my podcast! if you do, you better have a lot of free time because that man does not talk fast. ( laughter ) yeah, his podcast is going to be like, aaahhhhhh... hello. aaaaaaaaahhhhh... and we're out of time. ( laughter ) and now, everyone supes the podcast will be about politics but they said a wide range of topics. what a.p. about pop culture. robert pattinson will be the new batman. i'll give it a chance. see if new video of dabbi on the security camera? creeped me out. that show was creepy. ( laughter ) finally, news out of south africa. >> officials in south africa warning residents to be on alert, after 14 lions escaped from one of africa's largest game reserves, happened at the pride krueger park on thursday. researchers planned to release the lions back into the park after th

let's remember that it was the same issue for barack obama in 2008 in iowa and elsewhere. black voters, when you initially polled them, they weren't really sure about it. they were leaning towards clinton for a long time. and so i think that the question for kamala harris and for cory booker is do they have the time, do they have the money to actually get their message across and connect with black voters. and i think the separate issue of whether joe biden's comments were offensive, i mean they were. they're historically ignorant. i do think that his heart is in the right place, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't owe americans an apology. >> i guess this gets to a bigger question too just politically, john, in terms of biden has been telling democrats he's the most electable candidate. part of it too, i think the message it sounds like he was maybe trying to deliver in this fund-raiser was maybe tied to that a little bit, this idea that he can work with folks he disagrees with. it seems to be part of that message. but is that -- is that where -- is that the takeaway pe

i think you're going to hear barack obama and donald j. trump a lot tonight. but listen, all biden has to do, and i think 2 1/2 hours we'll be sitting here, he'll have done what he needs to do. he's a very good debater. no one should under estimate him. he has a lot of energy. people will say he did what he had to do. he will go in as the front runner. he's going to come out as the front runner. the last thing i'd say, he's smart. he's not only talking to the democratic voter. he's going to try and talk to america. he's going to talk about k-12, he's going to talk about work force development, he's going to talk about infrastructure because he's trying to appeal to the country. and every time a poll comes out like last week shows him beating donald trump in texas and in florida and north carolina, that helps his inevitability argument. so he's in a very good position. if they really go after him, it's an opportunity for him to shine. there's going to be a break out moment for a couple others. joe biden does not need a break out moment. >> you still have to win

when your party was in the majority last time when barack obama first took office and when speaker pelosi was first speaker and there was a supermajority in the senate on the democrat side, there was never an attempt to bring a bill through congress to solve the immigration problem. i would like to see us come together and do that. we need to do it, but today we need to solve the immediate crisis. we will have that broader debate later, hopefully by next week we can get that done. i'll yield back to the gentleman if he has anything else. mr. hoyer: i just want to place in historical context, again, this house passed the dream act and we sent it to the senate and the senate didn't pass it. so this house, when we were in the majority, did do that. couldn't get 60 votes in the senate. we know that problem. so happens we were in the majority, but we couldn't get 0 votes at that point in time. we could go a long time pointing fingers on who, what, when. but the fact is we have real people in real distress. we have some federal employees who have a responsibility who are being greatly challenge

in many respects, you were barack obama before barack obama was barack obama. you were this young, talented, smart, inspirational black figure in national politics to many thought could ascend to the nation's highest office. here you are running for president as a person of color. if you are elected, what will you do about race in our society and how the eu reach people who may have been compelled by some of the rhetoric and fear and divisiveness that donald trump was able to capitalize on when he ran and won? sen. booker: barack obama and i are very different. he was born in one of our 50 states, hawaii. i was born in washington, d.c., which is not a state yet. if we cannot deal with race in america, it will become our undoing. we will never achieve our potential. we still have a lot of issues we cannot just cover over. we have to be better at talking about them. and so, i see my response ability to deal with this and have hard conversations. when i got to the senate, i looked around and i said, this is one of the least diverse places i have been. my job is to

barack obama didn't do well in his first debates, but he won the primary after that. the vice president has a lot of opportunity. >> we got my favorite tweet of the day, greg young. it's not about the candidates, but the concept. i followed it all pretty closely and i'm a warren fan and grateful to sanders for waking people up and 40 years of consistency, but harris now has my support, too. it's good to have choices and debate over policy along with strong candidates. that's the reaction that the party is hoping voters have to these debates. >> we had 23 million people in the first night and 16 million last night. americans are tuning in early. this is incredibly early. they are curious. they recognize there is something off with this country. it's not enough to go after donald trump. you have to come in and think boldly. the reason folks voted for him is the fact that we have 20 people on stage debating ideas and giving people the information they need that, sets them apart and the pathway to the future. that's what americans are looking for. they are looking forward

only 13 of those 33 people want barack obama back if they had a choice between obama and trump. in other words, if trump ran against obama in a head-to-head race, 13 of those 33 positive wan barack obama. the other 20 would stay with donald trump. >> and a lot of people including other candidates who said about joe biden, look, his polling is about name recognition, but in terms of the enthusiasm, we're not seeing it on the ground. we're not seeing the kind of, for example, people turning out that come out spontaneously for a mayor pete or elizabeth warren. what's your takeaway from this focus group? >> well, my takeaway, chris, i think democrats can win back these voters. e were saw in the 2018 midterms when it comes to obama/trump voter, democrats did a good job especially suburban areas winning back these voters. to the point of the focus group, there's a lot of work that needs to be done. look, the issues on our side when it comes to protecting health care, raising wages. the issues democrats are fighting for are on our side but have to make the case to these voters. they're

and so, he met him, and eventually barack got--president barack obama got elected. and then he was able to actually go to his inauguration through nancy pelosi's office. robert: sounds like a wish upon a wish upon a wish. phillip: and that's why we always say that, you know, kids should just really let us know what they really, really want and not worry about whether we can grant a wish or. robert: you know, it sounds so great, but it can't be behind the scenes very easy to be able to meet the demand, fulfill these wishes. what do you want people to understand in terms of the process and maybe how the public can help in fulfilling wishes? kelsey: yeah, i mean, there are so many ways the public can help. we need kids referred. we need help in so many ways, and especially with these miles. like i said, we have so many kids wishing to travel in our territory specifically. so, all the miles that are being donated through wish-a-thon are really going to help local kids have those wishes granted. and that's something we always need help with. and there's so many other way

and then you see barack obama walk out there, and he's now president of the united states, and you're like, "i gotta get my shit together." >> yeah. >> trevor: that's a powerful moment. how do you even begin that journey? like, you see barack obama, yes, but, i mean, it wasn't easy. >> no, for me was removing myself from that environment was the first thing. so i was selling drugs. i moved to louisiana. my mother moved there after i graduated high school. so i started doing the only thing i really knew how to do, which was working with food. and i just took it one day at a time. and i told myself every year, i want to be doing better than i was last year. it's not easy and you itv to take it one day at a time. when i got the helm of this one restaurant, i will be honest, i had no idea what i was doing. >> woofnt parts of the bhook is raising money to chase your dreams. you don't want to sell drugs anymore and you decide to sell candy on the new york city subway. >> trevor: which is harder, selling drugs or selling candy on the subway? ( laughter ) because no one pays attention on the

barack obama! ( cheers and applause ) >> oooh, child! look how far obama has come! nobel peace prize, two-term president and now some drunk cay canadians chanting m.v.p.? >> he can't go anywhere without be announced. ihop, someone at the speaker says, in the corner booth, eating the beans, the 44t 44th president of the united states, barack obama! >> and i hate the jumbotrons they put you on, they throw you up there and you have to kiss whoever you're sitting next to. now i just kissed my dad on the lips. guess i've got to move to alabama. >> that's enough jokes about my home state. i'll slap the shit out of you. let's move on to america's true past time, boxing, where minorities punch each other in the face. kosta, do you watch? >> this is my favorite sport! >> there was a big fight over the weekend where the new champion put the heavy in heavy weight. >> what a stunner saturday night at the world's most famous arena. andy ruiz, jr. in an 11-1 long shot knocked out anthony joshua on the seventh round to take joshua's three heavyweight championship belts. ruiz, jr.

and barack obama in 2014. ,t 4:00 p.m., on real america the 1944 film, from d-day to germany. >> we thought we could use it as a port. but we found that cherbourg was badly destroyed by the germans themselves. they destroyed the docks, which we thought we could use. and it took them, if i recall,

when barack obama had his state bank wentl yes. when barack obama had his state bank went i was in the room whether dignitaries were. it was quite fun but it was quite embarrassing as well for barack obama because he was giving a toast to the queen and the band thought he had finished when he paused so he began to play than —— they began to play the national anthem. we know donald trump is a big fan of the queen, he spoke of his mother 's love for her. for the queen“. his mother 's love for her. for the queen... the first president she met was truman so this is just another president. yes. it is quite normal for her. do you think he will be briefed on protocol by his officials or by courtiers? he will have been briefed. he visited britain last year and at buckingham palace he was filmed walking in front of the queen, a breach of protocol. so... we always expect the unexpected with donald trump so what we can say is that absolutely every move he makes, his body language and what he says will be scrutinised and analysed and pos

but will probably talk a lot about break barack obama, that he was the barack obama vice president, that he and barack obama are friends or pals, but, look, joe biden and bernie sanders both had a problem that the democratic party has to look beyond ventures. the question is when they're looking beyond vintage it's looking at alternatives like kamala harris or pete buttigieg and what that looks like, he had elements of that last night, but what he has next the democratic party one of the siding was received. >> interesting they chose the word vintage as opposed old, right? but welcome i mean, the idea is the democratic party is looking at a key demographic and key ideas and where are they moving forward? if you look at democrats they have been successful. jimmy carter, bill clinton, barack obama, the coming to the party, come in as a flash, they look forward. before looking party is something the democrats are looking for now, what the identity looks like, it is not anti-or counter. >> me older as age but older is a policy, it is this battle over all the ideas versus new ideas. >> if you

her life let alone the eight years she spent with barack obama. no advisor has spent more time in such a division. and what she think of the presidential race. >> the top story, oil prices are going up after two tankers were attempted to be taken out. we have jackie with the details. reporter: good afternoon, good to see. oil prices up more than 2%. giving back some of the gains they seem. when you see tensions in the middle east this is what tends to happen. in the past we've seen major reactions, actually a lot more severe from the analysts and traders that i've spoken to today have said this move is not as drastic as i would expect. certainly something to monitor and tension in the middle east continue we could see the prices go higher. the backdrop is very important. from a supply stamp but, we are coming from a very strong place especially here in the united states. oil production, 12.3 million barrels a day. that is forecasted for another million barrels by the end of the year. saudi arabia only 7.9 million barrels a year. that was published

the economy has grown at twice the rate it did under barack obama. we created over five million new jobs. [applause] the one i'm proud of is that wages are moving again after a decade. e had the highest middle class income in u.s. history. right now today the lowest unemployment in 50 years, the lowest african-american, asian and hispanic unemployment ever measured. have you ever been told that by this national media? no, you're not told that. president trump is an outsider. the most important thing is to keep his promises to him. he has a list of things that he promised he would do. this guy is doing -- he's meeting his promises and doing exactly what he said he would o. president trump is fighting for a level playing field with all of our trading partners, including the people's republic of china. [applause] president trump's good at a lot of things. one thing he's really good at is making things very clear. he's made it very clear that america comes first. but america first does not mean america alone. he is rebuilding all of our llied relationshi

birtherism was hatched after barack obama was president and it infected all these people. it was embarrassing and terrible and wrong. in the campaign in september of 2016 he did recant on that and admit that barack obama was, in fact, an american citizen and that was good. but it was a terrible time. it was a terrible time for the republican party and i think frankly this whole thing cost us a chance to beat barack obama in 2012 because we didn't seem like serious people trafficking in serious ideas. >> scott, two things -- >> my view is he can't say it, but i can, it was wrong and i'm glad the president recanted. >> was it racist? >> yes, it is racist, not founded in any kind of facts or whatever. it was a terrible moment for us and i'm glad it's over. >> isn't that the problem though, when people say, with nepotism, as the senior adviser to the president of the united states and be honest with people about aspects of this administration and his boss who he is an adviser to? >> look, i feel the same way about him that i felt when we used to go around and around about why

barack obama departmeidn't do w his first debates, but he won the primary after that. the vice president has a lot of opportunity. >> we got my favorite tweet of the day, greg young. it's not about the candidates, but the concept. i followed it all pretty closely and i'm a warren fan and grateful to sanders for waking people up and 40 years of consistency, but harris now has my support, too. it's good to have choices and debate over policy along with strong candidates. that's the reaction that the party is hoping voters have to these debates. >> we had 23 million people in the first night and 16 million last night. americans are tuning in early. this is incredibly early. they are curious. they recognize there is something off with this country. it's not enough to go after donald trump. you have to come in and think boldly. the reason folks voted for him is the fact that we have 20 people on stage debating ideas and giving people the information they need that, sets them apart and the pathway to the future. that's what americans are looking for. they are looking forward