>> obama. correct. >> and 82% of democrats support obamacare. >> yeah. >> i'm wondering why people who want votes from democrats spent all last night trashing barack obama saying support of barack obama's signature plan, the affordable care act, the greatest step forward toward universal health care in the history of the american republic, i'm wondering why they were trashing that and the defense of that is republican talking points. it is insanity, my friends. >> i know. especially since overall support of obamacare, remember this, it's hard to forget -- >> it was a year ago, though. >> it was a year ago, helped drive democrats to record midterm victories. >> those people talking at you all the time. >> this was too easy for biden. >> really, it's kind of -- i'm so confused. i'm so confused. you have barack obama, by the way, for the record, the most popular democrat alive, the first democrat since franklin roosevelt did it in 1932 and 1936 and again in '42 and '44, to win the majority of the

when you say obama, that brings mrs. obama and mr. obama and president obama into it. it just -- i don't understand it. it doesn't make sense to me. >> they literally are walking into a house saying there is a dragon in this house. we have to get the dragon out of the house. and once they walk in they start looking at each other and being like, you know what? i don't like how you dress. >> i don't like the drapes. can we change the drapes? >> i'm not saying a lot of this stuff doesn't matter. it all matters. but you got to pick your spots and figure out when you use the ammunition that you have because if they think that mr. trump isn't sitting somewhere saying i'm so happy this is coming out now and they're using the same stuff they'll use on me on each other, they're kidding themselves. so at what price will your own ambition be put against your party's ambition. >> that interview -- so you know it has gone from -- in the interview with me i am the least racist person that you'll ever meet or something like that to the least racist person in the world. >> who says th

nobody trashed barack obama. what happened is that there were distinctions made between joe biden's record and everybody else on stage. what you are seeing is the fact that for the last eight years joe biden was vice president to barack obama. >> right. >> joe biden uses barack obama as a shield. >> everyone on that stage loved barack obama and now -- >> we still do. >> now they are talking like they have perspective. >> we cannot talk about the last eight years of the administration and critique some of the things we feel could have been changed or made better. we can't critique the previous 40 years of joe biden's record, then what are we talking about? >> you want to talk a difference between that and critiquing. look, you go after joe biden time and time again. you are not a bigot but look at what you did. how does it not do two things, fatigue the issue. the people you need to persuade that it matters are not you two guys. if they hear about it while you fight within your party, what appetite will you have f

he's tied himself closely to obama. biden was asked about the attacks on obama's legacy. listen to his answer. >> i was surprised about how much there was about barack, the president. i'm proud of having served with him. i'm proud of the job he did. i don't think there's anything he has to apologize for. i hope the next debate we can talk about our answers to fix the things that trump has broken, not how barack obama made all of these mistakes. he didn't. >> yesterday cnn asked four candidates about the legacy. here is the response. >> we are having an honest conversation about an administration that was incredible. if he were running for a third term, i wouldn't be running. >> i have nothing but praise for obama. i think he did great work. >> i have always had praise for obama. at the same time, let me be very clear, don. i do believe when it comes to immigration and i said this before i joined the obama administration in 2014, there were ways we could improve on what the obama administration was doing. >> president obama was a great president. for a lot of us we're look

we do know what barack obama did. we know that barack obama saved the auto industry. we know that he led the economic recovery. we know that he began the first steps of criminal justice reform. >> but he was hit over the head last night. about deportation and mass incarceration. what does that say in the general? >> no one hit him over the head over mass incarceration. no one trashed the president of the united states. no one trashed barack obama. what did happen last night was there were distinctions made between joe biden's record and everybody else on stage. what you're seeing right now, what this argument is all over, for the last eight years, joe biden was vice president to barack obama. joe biden uses barack obama as a shield. >> and everyone on that stage loved barack obama and now they're talking like they got perspective. >> no, no, no. we still do. we cannot talk about the last eight years of the administration and critique what we felt fast some of the things could have been made better. we can't citizen teak previous 40 years. what can we talk about? this

they had eight years under obama to do a lot. these cities got worse and worse and worse. >> yes, they did. i grew up in the '60s. in the '60s, we were rioting in the streets, we were getting beat up by the police. we had blights in our neighborhoods. towards the end of president obama's tenure, black people were rioting in the streets, black people were getting beat up by the police. there was history repeating itself. even when you said, don lemon having outdone himself tonight, no, he out dumbed himself tonight. he keeps trying to make raise an issue because they cannot engage the president on policy. mueller was a dud. impeachment is not happening. obstruction is a nonfactor. all they have left is the race card. out of all of their cards, the other cards they can't play pit all they have is the race card and they will try to sneak some climate change in. but i saw in the 2000 campaign, elmer getting al gore told us that we would be submerged under polar ice caps by now. >> laura: what happened to hope and change, dan bongino?

>> president barack obama. >> thank you, barack obama. >> obama. >> barack obama. >> came under attack to get to his record to get at joe biden. is that risky. former under president obama, be wary of attacking on record. build on it, expand on it, but there's little to be gained for the party by attacking a very successful and still popular democratic president. let me bring back executive director of demand justice and former press secretary fof hillary clinton campaign. also michael singleton and democratic strategist joel payne. joel, is eric holder right? >> eric holder represents a lot of folks concerned about what they felt like was an attack on obama legacy. i don't feel that way. i think there are no sacred cows in a primary. every generation of politicians builds on politicians. cory booker executed that message very well saying the obama legacy is there and it's to be respected but can be built on. that's fair game for people to talk about. bill clinton they talked about his legacy. george bush, republicans talked about it, that's the nature of politics. >> cory booker, no s

daniel mentioned president obama. in this ordeal of the way president obama behaved in 2015. after an earlier white supremacist shooting. a mass murder. act of terrorism in south carolina. remember how he went down there to the african methodist church and stang amazing grace. and delivered one of the most beautiful speeches any president delivered. and we can wait from now until kingdom come and you'll see see one tenth of that intelligence. one tenth of that grace. one tenth of that humanity. from president trump. he is who he is. and cannot change. he's utterly inadequate and a damaged individual. doing more damage as president of the united states. >> this is unbelievable. around the time the president landed in el paso, his twitter feed put out a campaign style video of the hospital visit in dayton. i'll point out we have no idea of what happened. because press wasn't allowed in. what does it say they are promoting it like this? by the way, predicted this last night on air. go on. >> i saw that. it's par for the course for him. the only thing he cares about is his image.

and, frankly, because of it, obama was upset and get obama out of what was the g8 into the g7. it's come up. that we put russia backing. we spent a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings,, and they are not bigger i think would be a good thing if russia were there so we could speak directly not have to speak, you know, by telephone and other things. here's the thing. it's a vote of what's now the g7. they would take it out because putin outsmarted on crimea, on the red line, on other things, totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset. they took them out. i think russia should be a part of it because we looking for world peace, and other things, trade and other things, and it would be a lot easier to rush in where they had always been. [inaudible] >> i read the state report as you. on the looking to do indexing. i've studied indexing for a long time. i think it will be perceived by do it as somewhat elitist. i don't want to do that. i want taxes for the middle class, the workers, the people that work so hard, that's what i'm looking. i think indexing is really probably

totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset. obama had separation. president obama in 2014. so president obama. but it was president obama. >> president obama and others. >> president obama did that. >> obama much? joining me to discuss the many false claims trump made today, cnn's resident fact checker. daniel, hello. let's dig into some of these false claims. watch this. let's start. >> you don't talk to the united states like that, at least under me. when president obama, when they treated him so badly in so many places, the philippines is one that comes to mind. that's different. >> so explain this. did the philippine government prevent barack obama from landing there. >> no. this story is entirely fictional. the leader of the philippines is prone to outbursts went on a profane rant about obama. obama canceled a meeting with due duarte -- from that, somehow trump made it from duterte prevented a plane from landing that was in the air. that never happened. >> trump claimed this. watch. >> i am the one that kept the families together. okay? you remember that, right? just r

why isn't obama to blame? all the murders taking place in chicago, why isn't the democrat they are to blame? and if trump is to blame and his rhetoric is to blame, then why all the talk about gun control? i thought it was trump and his rhetoric that is to blame? so we don't need any gun control they let me try this. if you don't support the progressive agenda, that's what this is all about. eviscerating the second amendment, eviscerating civil liberties, and then apparently you support a mass murder. meanwhile, you want to hear hate speech? i've got pages and pages of it in my book from the prosperity want to hear hate speech? tune into cnn and msnbc. listen to their awful poisonous vile hate speech about 63 million americans who supported this president and they promote aoc and tlaib and omar and all the rest. it's an on free press. that's the problem. stu and mark levan's number one "new york times" best seller for a reason. all of that in his book, lay my life liberty, and live in, number one. it fox news c

obama gets a ticket to ride and you have to hide obama away. those would be great. >> laura: [laughing]. last night cnn jim acosta seemed disappointed about the trump rally he recovered. >> there was some ugliness that broke out in the crowd earlier this evening. you asked whether or not the crowd was chanting send her back. they didn't do that but the hot button issue of immigration was there. trump supporters tried to rip a sign out of a protestor's hands and a brief h scuffle developed. >> laura: and the banner they had up during the whole thing. theyp were wishing for something to be outraged with that banner. >> i think donald trump was smart not to identify the squad or name any of them. he did a broader attack on the cities themselves. the scuffle. that's just the carry over. we will have scuffles. that's still not good. >> laura: yes.an we have a lot of scuffles with antifa we could talk about too. panel, thank you very much. breaking news in the covington catholic scandal?? who is are the politicians and journalists on the wrong side o

obama had 91. and in the circuit courts the courts of appeals kind of where a lot of the important stuff is decided, environmental, labor, employment, all that stuff, trump has had 43 judges confirmed. most in history. obama had 19 at this point. and it's astounding to me, ari and i think the democrats are guilty of malpractice on in. we've had all these debates over last two days. no one bothered to mention it. i think presidents when they win should have deference in the judges that they appoint and the senate should defer toe it but a lot of these folks are tremendously unqualified. 11 of 19 judges in this latest batch trump wants to put up wouldn't even tell you that brown versus board of education is rightly decided. who are we putting up for these lifetime appointments? these are pretty darn unqualified people particularly at the trial court level. i can't understand for the life of me why democrats aren't talking about this at every turn. >> you lay it all out there, counselor. food for thou

and you're critiquing obama? >> well, i don't know how that spin resulted. anybody who watched the debate, i was talking about vice president biden's record, not obama's. heck, i had many conversations with president obama during his time as president about reforming the criminal justice system. it was joe biden who bragged that every crime bill since the 1970s major and minor had his name on it. that's his words about his record. this is not about the obama administration at all. i don't know how that spin came out of this election. this is about a guy that literally put his name on, championed the bills that created three strikes you're out and incentivizing states to have longer sentences, having more prisons and jails built from the time i was in law school to the time that i was the mayor of the city of newark. a new prison or jail being built every 10 days. since 1980, our prison population has gone up 500% in this country with an overwhelming disproportion gnat overwhelming disproportionate between african

not how barack obama made all of these mistakes. he didn't. >> so, today's big question is, can 2020 democrats criticize the obama presidency without alienating the democratic base? joining me senior director for progressive at sirius xm zerlina maxwell. former congressman david jolly. former spokesman for hillary clinton and former secretary for paul ryan, brendon buck. welcome to all of you, philippe, let's start with you, eric holder was jumping to obama's defense, he wrote as this debate was unfolding, to my fellow democrats, be wary of attacking the obama record. build on it. expands on it but there is little to be gained for you or the party by attacking a very successful and still popular democratic president. now, there were some policies that the president was behind, the former president obama was behind, that are now unpopular with the base. but how is spending the whole night attacking him instead of donald trump productive for the democrats? >> i don't think it is, except for a gotcha, well, obama did it, now you will.

totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset. obama had separation. president obama in 2014. so president obama. but it was president obama. president obama and others. president obama did that. >> it is so marsha, marsha, marsha. >> yeah. if barack obama is donald trump's north star in his administration, in a reverse way, if barack obama has done something, that is instantly no matter what, a guide post for donald trump to do the opposite. there was not one skin thing there. this was on russia, immigration, china, the economy, you name the issue and he wanted to inject president obama into it. it is how sometimes people around him can guide him away from places that they don't think he should be from a policy standpoint, if they explain that obama did that. so it is this sort of reverse north star for him. >> as democrats watch this, as voters who are democrats watch this. do they think perhaps what they've seen here in the last 24 hours, that it could maybe make joe biden, his argument for his presidency appeal to them? >> i do think and looking at these last 24 hours, i g

he made a living on outsmarting president obama, and because of it, obama was upset and he got obama out of what was the g8. it is the g7. should we put russia back in? we spend a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings, and they are not there. i think it would be a good thing if russia were there so we could speak directly and not have to speak by telephone and other things. here is the thing. it is a vote of what is now the g7. they were taken out because putin outsmarted on crimea, on the red line, on other things, totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset and they took him out. i think russia should be a part of it because we are looking for world peace and other things. trade and other things. it would be easier to have russia in where they have always been. >> they are still there, so why not admit them? in the oval office, you said you had the executive authority -- 1992, the department says -- pres. trump: i read the same report as you. i'm not looking to do indexing. i have studied indexing for a long time. i think it will be perceived as elitist. i want taxes for

the candidates saw some of the backlash, not only from obama allies but democratic voters who find obama to be a popular president. the polls show that obama continues to enjoy very high approval ratings from democrats and independents and the coalition that obama put together to win in 2008 and 2012 including young voters and minority voters, whoever emerges from this big field of democrats is going to need to put that coalition back together and trashing obama's legacy is not one way to do it, and i think those candidates realize that after the debate. >> some people may think obama is sacred to some degree. they may miss the respect and dignity he brought to office, not necessarily the policy as we saw on wednesday night in terms of what they were looking at but let me ask you this as we move forward, how do you attack former vice president biden which was really their intention without attacking president obama. . >> it's a tough question. you have to do it with a lot of respect. senator kamala harris went after biden on the issue of deportation, she spent a lot of time with a long p

joe biden tide himself closely to obama. if anything people sometimes criticize him for that refers to him as barak, not the president. he is making a bet on that. could this hurt him when some of obama's policies which are now seen as positively right-wing by some running for president go unthe microscope. >> the reality is that joe biden is running as barack obama's vice president, if he hadn't been barack obama's for eight years he wouldn't have the support with a lot of the older voters, with some to many african-american voters. that service, those eight years are core to who he is. he has a story to tell about this vice presidency that is very different than what some of the democrats running against him want to talk about. they want to appeal to younger voters and liberals looking at eight years of obama and saw a lot of moderation. they were happy for obamacare but want to go further now. they look at the deportations. i want not trump light but a prolog to what trump is doing now. and they're not happy with what all

barack obama knew exactly who i was. he had ten lawyers do a background check on everything about me about civil rights and civil liberties and chose me and said it was the best session he made. >> surprising twist last night it became clear even the obama legacy isn't safe from attacks. attacks from the democrats on the stage. we'll have much more on that in a moment. let's get to detroit where joe biden about to take part in his first campaign event since the big debate. what your hearing this morning? >> reporter: joe biden did what he needed to do going into this debate and that's to survive. after that first rocky debate that exchange with kamala harris on school bussing biden was taking incoming fire from all sides last night on issues like immigration, health care and criminal justice. but he also showed that he was able to push back. he came back calling out element of other people's records when they criticized him. one area of that where you saw the fight play out was over criminal justice between cory booker a

obama's lonely hearts club band. obama gets a ticket to ride and you have to hide obama away. those would be disappointed abo rally he recovered. >> there was some ugliness that broke out in the crowd earlier this evening. you asked whether or not the crowd was chanting send her back. they didn't do that but the hot button issue of immigration was there. trump supporters tried to rip a sign out of a protestor's hands and a brief scuffle developed. >> laura: and the banner they had up during the whole thing. they were wishing for something to be outraged with that banner. >> i think donald trump was smart not to identify the squad or name any of them. he did a broader attack on the cities themselves. the scuffle. that's just the carry over. we will have scuffles. that's still not good. >> laura: yes. we have a lot of scuffles with antifa we could talk about too. panel, thank you very much. breaking news in the covington catholic scandal? who is are the politicians and journalists on the wrong side of that lawsuit? we will name names when we come back. >> ♪ >> laura: it turns

and her last name rhymes with obama. in fact, it is obama. michelle obama. everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved american and she would go in there and she would beat him, she would beat him in the debates, he wouldn't be able to bully her, he wouldn't be able to nickname her and she is beloved, all -- just go to c-span and follow her book tour across the country. she's playing 15,000-seat arenas in the midwest. they have to turn people away. she takes the stage and she's so powerful and so good. you just look at that and you think, of course, she could win. but everyone's now saying, well, of course she's not going to run. well, has anyone asked her? i think -- if she were asked -- look. we're sorry about this, we have to come back to you, you have to go back to the white house. your country needs up. if asked to serve, i believe she would serve. if you were asked to serve or i were, whatever our skill set is, wouldn't we do that? i think she would do that. i think they would win, she would crush him. it has to be a crush, though, not jus

, the conversation took a surprising turn several times. >> president barack obama. >> president obama. >> those mentions of the 44th president were not always positive. candidates slammed former vice president joe biden's praise of his onetime boss. >> looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't. >> you can't have it both ways, you invoke president obama more than anyone in this campaign. you can't do it when it's convenient and dodge it when it's not. >> the former vp says there is no doctrine, there's just praise. >> i don't think there's anything he has to apologize fo for. it kind of surprised made the degree of the criticism. >> former obama chief of staff rahm emanuel also came to the 44th president's defense today. >> in every area of progressivity from wilson, to teddy roosevelt, to the great society builds on the progress of generations before and generations to come. this is nuts. if >> obama attorney general eric holder summed it up in a tweet. to my fellow democrats, be wary of attacking the obama record, build on that, there is little to

if democrats put up the most popular democrat on a plan is barack obama. i would challenge obama in an arena. >> the energy wouldn't be there. >> i'll be asleep. >> good to see you both. we'd like to hear your thoughts on all of this. share your comments. like him on facebook and follow him on instagram at lou dobbs tonight. coming up next, another deep state official planning to be above the law after he was hit with a lawsuit for his role in spite gate in the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. clinton e-mail scandal. more questionsnsnsnsns all money managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money managemen

the former vp has tied himself to obama. biden was asked about the attac attacks. >> i must tell you i was a little surprised about how much there was about barack, the president. i'm proud of serving with him. i'm proud of the job he did. i don't think there's anything he has to apologize for. i hope the next debate we can talk about our answers to fix the things that trump has broken. not how barack broke these things. he didn't. >> we are having an honest conversation about an administration that was incredible. i would take him back. heck, if he was to run for president for a third term, i wouldn't be running. >> i have nothing but praise for president obama. i think he did great work. >> i've always praised barack obama. last night i did that with regard to the economy. at the same time, let me be very clear, don, i do believe when it comes to immigration, i said this when it comes to san antonio, there were ways that we could improve on what the obama administration was doing. >> president obama was a great president a

/obama trump voters. i think you need both. and that's who i am. i am somebody who wins in the red and purple places. i just won back a bunch of the places trump had won in the last election, my election. i bring people together to get stuff done, big stuff and small stuff. i think we need someone who is going to bring the party back together and the country back together and really heal this divide that president trump has created. >> but as you know, what senator warren or senator sanders will say, small steps, moderate steps, that's not going to excite huge numbers of people. senator sanders constantly talks about not only needing a revolution, but turnout among young voters, among african-american voters. that is what it's going to take. not just to get the white house back, but also congress. >> anderson, the issue with health care is people can't afford it. it's still too expensive. you know, i met a family that the husband was diagnosed with cancer and the price of the medicine that he had to take

i've praised a lot of the record of barack obama. at the same time, there hasn't been a single administration in history that we could say that we can't learn from and improve over in the future. and so what i said yesterday was that, look, we need to learn the lessons of the past when it comes to immigration. some of those lessons that i hope the vice president does learn is, number one, the next president can't wait to do immigration reform. in 2009, 2010, when democrats had the presidency, 60 votes, effectively in the senate and a majority in the house, that was a time to move immigration reform. i would move immigration reform immediately. secondly, you can't deport your way to the negotiating table and succeed with mitch mcconnell in these right-wing republicans. it doesn't matter how many people you deport, how cruel you are, it's never going to be enough for them. so we need to not be afraid of presenting our own bold alternative and positive vision for how we would handle immigration policy. that's what i've done. but the vic

kamala harris loves barack obama. he supported her in her first district attorney's race all the way back in 2003-2004. they have a long history together. they have a really warmth relationship. at the end of the day, this is a competitive democratic primary. voters are looking for something simple -- who is the right person to lead us into the future? who is the right person to defeat donald trump? the in the contents of arguments and discussions, you'll have differences on some of the issues. kamala harris, for example, pointed out that biden's health care plan doesn't cover every single american. i think voters need to know about these issues, if they're going to make a decision on the direction of our party. >>> senator harris had this to say about some of the negative attacks. listen to this. >> hey, guys, you know what? america does not want to witness a food fight. they want to know how we're going to put for aed on their table. >> why did she play what was a big role clearly seen by many people as a food fight

to a remarkable degree, it keeps coming back to what obama do, how can i show up barack obama by doing something he couldn't do? this may be another example of this. there was a lot of other disunity going into the g76. they're there to have consensus. this meeting could be a g6 plus one scenario. trump is not talking about that right now. >>ut and, in fact, when you say what did obama do, i'm going to do something d differently. there's the paris accords. there's tpp. there's so many other steps with the iran nuclear deal is probably the most prominent to do anything in contrast to president obama, no matter what some of his initial advisors were telling him in terms of salvaging pieces of the obama legacy. >> you know, the capital cities of our allies and our adversaries right now, they're watching that. and they're looking at that performance. you know, you're absolutely right this is going to beu the6 plus one. plus or minus one. because they have to move on in a sensible way. you listen to that and you get to the point where he looks at the sky and says i'm the chosen one. you get

outsmarting president obama. obama was upset. totally outsamardo obama. obama was upset. obama had separation. >> president obama in 2014. so president obama. but it was president obama. >> president obama and others. >> president obama did that. joining me to discuss the many false claims today, the resident fact checker. wow, very telling you don't talk to the united states like that, at least under me. when they treat president obama so badly in so many places. the philippines is one that comes to mind. that's different. >> so explain this. did the philippine government prevent barack obama from landing there. >>? no. this story is entirely fictional. the leader of the philippines is prone to outbursts. obama canceled a meeting with duterte. from that, somehow trump made it from duterte prevented a plane from landing that was in the air. that never happened. >> trump claimed this. >> tim one that kept the families together. you remember that, right? now it gets even better. president obama and others brought the families apart. but i'm the one that kept the families to

on outsmarting president obama, and frankly, was upset it, obama and he got obama out of what was into the g-7. it's come up, should we put russia back in. a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings. and they are not there. it would be a good thing if russia were there. o we can speak directly, not have to speak, by telephone and ther things, so here's the thing. it's a vote of what's now the g-7. because taken out putin outsmarted on crimea, on he red line, on other things, totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset. out.took him a part hould be of it because we're looking for should have them in like they have always been. [inaudible] --but [inaudible] in 1992 -- president trump: i read the same you.t as i'm not looking to do indexing. longstudied indexing for a time. i think it will be perceived if elitist.s somewhat i don't want to do that. i want taxes for the middle lass, the workers, the people that work so hard, that's where i'm looking. is really exing probably better for the upper income groups. i'm not looking to do that. i wanted to do it, i believe i could but i w

if democrats put up the most popular democrat on a plan is barack obama. i would challenge obama in an arena. >> the energy wouldn't be there. >> i'll be asleep. >> good to see you both. we'd like to hear your thoughts on all of this. share your comments. like him on facebook and follow him on instagram at lou dobbs tonight. coming up next, another deep state official planning to be above the law after he was hit with a lawsuit for his role in spite gate in the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. more questionsnsnsnsns welcome back. i am david, sitting in front lou dobbs. stefon met with trump aides now asking a judge to dismiss defamation lawsuit against him. he's being sued by russian academic for allegedly smearing her and advisor michael flynn as part of a government conspiracy to bring down the trump administration. he argues that government agents have qualified immunity against lawsuits implying he is or was one. shocking to report revealing a hillary clinton reported nearly all of her 30,000 e-mails to a secret gmail address that he created. paul worke

obama presidency and you're not barack obama you'll have a very hard time. voters -- look it's an entirely different era, different questions confronting us, different issues. think about same-sex marriage where it was at the start of the administration and where he was and where he ended up. the mainstream of the country kind of moved along. that's true on a number of different issues including health care reform. book certificate right in the sense that they have to sort of indicate where they want to go. fortunately for all of them, obama will make it easy for them because he's shown no indication of putting a thumb on the scale for any of these candidates. they have to run without him. >> so obama's policies were mentioned a lot, not in the finest light by the democrats. trump less so than you might expect, right? is that unusual? is that damaging at this stage? primaries are also, you know, you're fighting amongst yourself to be the party's nominee. is it unusual that trump didn't take more fire from candidates on the stage? >> it's interesting you saw

to do is build on obama's legacy. every election is about moving forward and i don't think we saw enough of that from any candidates on the debate stage last night or either two nights but barack obama is at 95% approval rating among democrats. independents love him, women in suburbs love him. he is still a beloved figure so that's a missed opportunity. i think barack obama, when people did bring him up, they were criticizing him to your point. if that was the right strategy to make sure donald trump wasn't in the white house, he would be leading the charge to say attack me, i want one of you to be in the white house. it's not. and hopefully they would have learned the lesson that they can build on, they can give a forward looking vision but they can also talk about the successes that they should move forward from. and i think that was a really missed opportunity the last two nights. >> i have to say and we've got on tv for 14 hours, a long time this morning, and we've talked to a lot of democrats and i get the sense

. >> so russia outsmarted president obama. president obama and others brought the families apart. but i'm the one that kept the families together. >> reporter: but that's just not true. separations were rare under the obama administration. the trump administration has only intensified family separations at the border. also on immigration, the president ramped up his rhetoric on constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship. >> you walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations the baby is now a u.s. citizen. we are looking at birth rierigh citizenship very closely. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: the thought of a recession? >> we have a strong economy. >> reporter: but that's not what trump said tuesday. >> payroll tax is something we think about and a lot of people would like to see that. >> reporter: and the president is using a familiar insult to attack denmark's prime minister after she dismissed his idea of buying greenland. >> i thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd. it was an absurd idea, it was nasty pip thought it was an inappropriate state

let me ask you this, under obama, sandy hook occurred, pulse night club occurred, was obama responsible for any of that? why not? if trump is to blame, why isn't obama to blame? all the murders taking place in chicago, why isn't the democrat there to blame? and if trump is to blame and his rhetoric is to blame, then why all the talk about gun control? i thought it was trump and his rhetoric that is to blame? so we don't need any gun control. let me tell you this. if you don't support the progressive agenda, that's what this is all about. eviscerating the second amendment, evisceratingsd civil liberties, and then apparently you support a mass murder. meanwhile, you want to hear hate speech? i've got pages and pages of it in my book from the press. want to hear hate speech? tune into cnn and msnbc. listen to their awful poisonous vile hate speech about 63 million americans who supported this president and they promote aoc and tlaib and omar and all theho rest. it's an unfree press. that's the problem. >> sean: mark levin's number one "new york times" best seller for a reason. all of that

they had eight years under obama to do a lot. these cities got worse and worse and worse. >> yes, they did. i grew up in the '60s. in the '60s, we were rioting in the streets, we were getting beat up by the police. we had blights in our neighborhoods. towards the end of president obama's tenure, black people were rioting in the streets, black people were getting beat up by the police. there was history repeating itself. even when you said, don lemon having outdone himself tonight no, he out dumbed himself tonight. he keeps trying to make raise an issue because they cannot engage the president on policy. mueller was a dud. impeachment is not happening. obstruction is a nonfactor. all they have left is the race card. out of all of their cards, the other cards they can't play. all they have is the race card and they will try to sneak some rclimate change in. but i saw in the 2000 campaign al gore told us that we would be submerged under polar ice caps by now. >> laura: what happened to hope and change, dan bongino? again, this was f

years and fielding criticism of obama's record while obama stays silent himself. we've got a phenomenal group here on set with me to talk about all of this. nbc news correspondent mike memoli is here with this new reporting. matthew miller was an official in the obama administration where he served as the director of the office of public affairs for the justice department. and fad is the campaign manager for bernie sanders' presidential campaign. thanks to all of youfor being here. and of course, mike, i have to start with you in this new reporting. break down the crux of what we're hearing from former obama administration officials today. you and i have been working the phones, and wickly they're saying this is just not smart strategy. >> the obama alumni, which is a very tight-knit crew, they were in the trenches for ten years. they always knew his record was going to be subject to scrutiny. especially on that debate stage wednesday night with former vice president on the stage. that was one of the reasons frankly why some of his advisers were worried about bide

with obama in the cabinet room. respond to that. >> only one of us was critical of some of the things going on in immigration during that administration and that was me. i learned the lessons of the past and the vice president hasn't. those lessons or how cruel you are to these migrants, mitch mcconnell and these white ring republicans are never going to come to the negotiating table. secondly we can't wait on immigration reform. we need to move forward on that and if we want to guarantee that no future administration can truly separate little children from their parents then we need to repeal that section of the law that i talked about. i learned the lessons and the vice president has not. >> thank you for your time, running out of live show. there are candidates all around us marked by these signs, michael bennett is nearby. you can see bill diblasio head and shoulders above everybody else. we are going to continue looking for sounds and we will let you know what we get. >> much like round one, after those round o

there are some warnings from former obama campaign advisers, former obama administration officials as well about the risk of doing this. i want to read from a tweet from eric holder of course the former attorney general, somebody who is personally close to barack obama as well. he says to my fellow democrats be wary of attacking the obama record. build on it. expand it. there is little to be gained for you and the party by attacking a very successful and still popular democratic president. warning from eric holder, a view widely shared among former obama administration officials as well. >> eric holder saying why don't you go with the new and improved strategy instead of destroying one that is hugely popular. gentlemen, thank you so much. vaughn hillyard, garrett haake, mike memoli. i want to bring in my next guest. you are there in michigan and you follow michigan voters every day. what did they hear last night? >> well, they heard the candidates talking about michigan. they heard the candidates talking about detroit, about what they've done and where they visited, but they didn't he

he noticed the number of attacks on obama. he talked about it last night. >> the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama than they did attacking me practically. >> to his point, the president is trying to say, the party is so far mainstream now in the democratic party. that barack obama's health care plan, which was pretty radical at the time, isn't even close to where they want to be. david axelrod, we were sitting around talking and he said we tried the public option and couldn't get there. we tried. we tried really hard. and we couldn't get near to where these people want to go and now they're on the stage basically throwing tomatoes at the guy. it is incredible. >> but it is because joe biden is the front-runner and they're trying to find some way to land a punch on him. and his senate record is pretty old. so they are going back after that. but i think that they're trying to find something to attack him for. i think -- i don't think it is out of bounds, i think it is not productive. >> but the party has moved to

why can't he stop talking about obama? >>> and massive crowds and a strong performance in a brand-new poll. is elizabeth warren on her way to becoming the democratic front-runner? let's go "outfront." >>> good evening to you. i'm jim sciutto in for erin burnett tonight. and "outfront" tonight, a parade of lies. president trump and the white house forced to clarify, spin, and backtrack on numerous statements made by the president today on the world stage at the g-7 summit meeting. let's start with china. the president claiming today that china called and wants a trade deal. >> china called last night, our top trade people. and said, let's get back to the table, so we'll be getting back to the table. >> in fact, the president later said there were, in fact, numerous calls, high-level calls. the only problem, china's foreign minister's office says it is not aware of any calls and no one else from the chinese government has come forward to say that they participated. so how did the president explain that discrepancy? >> so the

remember, she was onef e original critics of obama's t.p.p. plan whichid too walked back during the debates. i think it's a sign that it's becoming more projectionist, more focused on workers. robert: one of the big feast pieces in news today, the president signed a budgetsth de extends the ceiling to 2021. any other year a blockbuster deal like this would be a huge headline. kind of goes to the background. are we seeing an era of deficit reduction? dan: yes, you could see it in two places, the tax bill because that t blew up deficit and you can see in it allowing this to t through a president who runs the party now being a champion of it. i think politicians in both parties have come to the colusions that deficits ultimately don't matter politically to voters. people talk about the sky will fall if we do this. the hundreds of billions of dollars that are paid constantly in debt service and the impact that that will ultimately have but that's always somewhere out in future and it's always easier to give people more money, whether through tax c

president obama did that to jack up the economy. president obama had zero interest rates. i have real interest rates, and despite that i have a strong economy. president obama did two payroll tax cuts and despite that i have a much stronger economy. if you look at my numbers from november 9 to the present, the stock market is up over 50%. that guy is most biased reporter, i made a lot of money for nbc with "the apprentice." -- youer is such biased should be able to ask a question , the same question in a better way. you are so obviously biased, and that is why the public has no confidence in the media. joe biden does not have it. joe biden does not have it. said -- you said that the massacre happened and told lito when it happened in dayton? the newrump: i think " york times" has lost credibility. they have given up on the russian delusion, and what they are doing is trying the racist deal, because i am the least racist person ever to serve in office. times is trying everything they can. it is a totally dishonest newspaper, it is a paper that really has lost tremendous cre

the leader for the past eight years during the obama presidency was obviously president obama. they want someone to step forward in this presidential field and take control. they have deep respect for president obama. but who is going to lead the party in 2019? >> we'll see. i think they need a leader to push -- if impeachment is to go anywhere, it needs a strong leader like tip o'neill against nixon. i don't think they believe in it yet, though. are the numbers still there? are they growing there to get to 218? >> they are growing. they're growing every minute. >> chris. >> 218 is the magic number. ben, i like your cheerleading there so much. you don't even have to be called on. i know because the mayor of new york taught us that last night. don't wait to be called on. ben rhodes, thank you so much. zerlina maxwell, jon meacham and robert costa. >>> coming up, warning that russia is still interfering in our elections. let's listen to his warning. >> over the course of my career, i have seen a number of challenges to our democracy. the russian government's effort to interfere i

even former president barack obama was not liberal enough for some of the candidates. watch this. >> vice president biden, i didn't hear your response when the issue came up of all those deportations. you are a vice president of the nine states. i didn't hear whether you try to stop them or not, using your power and your influence in the white house. >> your electing me to lead. >> mr. vice president, it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't. >> you have invoked president, more than anybody in his campaign. you can do it when it's convenient and then dodge it when it's not hit >> last night president trump brought up the bizarre debate during his rally rally in cincinnati, ohio. take a look. >> i was watching the so-called debate last night. [boos] and i also watched the night before that was long, long television. and the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama then they did attacking me, practically. [cheers and applause] it's true. and this morning, that's all the fake news was talking about. >> jason: is only the pre

i'm curious to see how many more attacks will be on obama. >> laura: obama is going to make like six phone calls in georgia and you're going to know who's going to win the state of georgia. he had that much power and yet they are playing this interesting game, but it's kind of where they had to go. trump went after the bushes, he took the bushes out, really. i love them as people but their policies didn't work. he had to do that, romney wouldn't do that. he wanted to be the old bush party and try to shoehorn it in, trump said iraq was wrong, china policy bad, immigration bad.i'm. >> it speaks to how unique obama was, he was able to be a radical politician that gave off an appearance ofer being moderate. >> laura: what did obama have they don't have? charm, charisma? he dominated a stage. he lit up the stage. he just lit ite up. i'm saying this is a political observer, i didn't like his policy. i don't think anyone came close to that. >> last night was boring to watch. you can see that in the numbers they aren't getting a lot of people interested in them and there's no way to fight th

again and again is president obama said the u.s. are okay relationship is stronger than it has ever been. you are supposed to be a cheerleader with the relationship with the ambassador but i never dared to think that. i was always sensitive about the overselling of the relationship but he said it. the other rule of ambassador, i told him but i asked the audience, do you agree and said why? then practicing to be a professor and i told him the answer. here's why, at the top of the list was korea's democratization. imperfect, incomplete, that meant that the u.s. and republic of korea had shifting administrations from across the political spectrum in both countries and we managed to work together on a lot of issues. including trade. so that fast forwards me into 2009. the free-trade agreement and the news in the last year or so, it was signed under the george w. bush administration and ratified. finally it was ratified a year after i left as ambassador. so i didn't enjoy the ratifications. it took a long time but it got done. from 2009

totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset. they took him out. i think russia should be a part of it, because we are looking for world peace and other things. trade and other things. and it would be a lot easier to have russia in her they had always been. >> reporter: [indistinct] in 1992, the office of legal counsel -- >> president trump: i read the same report as you. i'm not looking to do indexing. i have studied indexing for a long time. i think it will be perceived as somewhat elitist. i don't want to do that. i want taxes for the middle class, the workers, the people that worked so hard. that's what i'm looking for. i think indexing is really probably better for the upper-income groups. i'm not looking to do that. but if i wanted to do it i believe i could. but i need a letter for the attorney general. >> reporter: taking america into a recession -- is it worth it? >> president trump: the fake news of which many of you are members is trying to convince the public to have a recession. "let's have a recession!" the united states is doing phen