please welcome president barack obama. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you everybody, have a seat . thank you. vice president biden, vice president ... [laughter] that was a joke. that was all set up. my president joe biden, vice president harris. our dear friend and speaker nancy pelosi. all the members of congress who are in attendance today. themembers of cabinet. it is good to be back in the whitehouse . it's been a while . i confess i heard some changes have been made. by the current president since i was last year. apparently secret service agents have to wear aviator glasses now. maybe the mess has been replaced by a baskin-robbins. look, there's a cat running around. which i guarantee you bo and sonny would have been very unhappy about. but coming back even if i have to wear a tie which i veryrarely do these days , it's me a chance to visit with some of the incredible people who served this white house and who served this country every single day. a lot of times out of the limelight they make this government function and they help peoplein

and, barack, let me remind you, it's a hot mic. [laughter and applause] [indistinct chatter] i have to admit, one thing i haven't gotten down -- barack obama could sign his name using nine different pens. [laughter] but i'm going to use one. [applause] ♪ [applause] [indistinct chatter] ♪ announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more, including cox. >> cox is committed to providing eligible families access to affordable internet. through the connect to complete program. bridging the digital divide one connected and engaged student at a time. cox, bringing us closer. announcer: cox supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. ♪ >> middle and high school students participated in c-span's student document competition -- documentary competition. where we asked the question, how does the federal government impact your life? our seco

my name is joe biden and i am barack obama's vice president. [cheers and applause] i'm jill biden's husband. [laughter] by the way, the reason she is not here today, she is working, she is teaching. i just want you to know that's why she is not here. mr. president, welcome back to the white house, man. feels like the good old days. [applause] being here with you brings back so many good memories. we just had lunch together and we weren't sure who was supposed to sit where. it is fitting that the first time you return to the white house is to celebrate a law that is transforming millions of lives because of you. i say because of you. we had a lot of help. i helped a little bit, but it is because of you. a law that hope leads to change, and you did that. you did it. let's be honest, the affordable care act has been called a lot of things, but obamacare is the most fitting. [laughter] [cheers and applause] pres. biden: i know you all know how much barack obama cared about getting this done, about the countless hours of negotiations and he never ev

biden tried to get barack's attention and puts his hand on

i'm barack obama's vice president. we just had lunch together and we haven't sure who was supposed to sit where. now i'm going to sign an executive order and barack, let me remind you, it's a hot mic. [ laughter ] >> woo! >> feels like the good old days. being here with you -- [ applause ] -- brings back so many good memories. >> got to watch out for the hot mics, anyone who works near a mic knows about that, obama and biden were often an odd couple at first. we think them as synonymous politically and the internet enjoyed that, memes that showed obama and biden becoming a deejay duo, the politicians the play on the word "lit" or obama telling biden stop copying me and the friendship bracelets because they seemed to have a kinship. this went jairal maybe in a simpler time, biden talked about that back in 2018. >> all those memes, they're basically true. [ laughter ] [ applause ] except i want to make it clear, he made the first friendship bracelet, not me. >> biden is looking to strengthen his poll numbers right now, d

and vice president is transactional, barack obama picked joe biden as his vice president because barack obama, the states legislator from illinois, had no foreign policy credentials and so they picked the guy who had a lot of them, joe biden. so that is how they wound up arm and arm at the white house yesterday because joe biden was going to help barack obama with a blank spot in his biography. >> ainsley: the images, i know they brought him there to help with approval ratings and show they are friends, but look at the images, the crowd is loving barack obama and he's, is that joe biden that has his hand on barack obama's should sxer he's not turning around. >> steve: and look at kamala harris. >> ainsley: and barack obama to left of it is screen and joe biden standing there by himself, i don't have anyone to talk to and he signals to that girl, come up here and be my friend. >> steve: when barack obama was leaving east room, peter doocy captured barack obama, one of the other reporters asking barack obama what is your message for the democrats regarding the midterm and he said the demo

my name is joe biden, i'm barack obama's vice president. and i'm jill biden's husband. the only reason jill is not here today, she's working. she's teaching. >> i hear you. >> i want you to know that's why she's not here. good evening, everyone. mr. president, welcome back to the white house, man. feels like the good old days. being here with you brings back so many good memories. we just had lunch together and we weren't sure who is supposed to sit where. look, it's fitting that the first time you return to the white house is to celebrate a law, a law that's transformed millions of lives because of you, and i say because of you, had a lot of help, staff, and i helped a little bit, but because of you. that shows hope leads to change and you did that. you did it. let's be honest. the affordable care act has been called a lot of things but obamacare is the most fitting. obamacare. [ applause ] it's true. i know you all know how much you cared about getting this done. through countless hours, he never ever, ever gave up. i guarantee you that. if i had time i could tell you

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barack obama is here. [applause] i love stanford. i was an undergraduate here. i have been teaching since 1995. my kids are born here, they go to school here, we live on campus, i plan to die here. [laughter] i love stanford university, it is the greatest institution in the world. but, working for barack obama for five years was an honor and thrill of my lifetime. after those years on his team, it took me a little while to figure out what to do next. for a while, my family will tell you and my son i think is here, i don't see him, is luke here? maybe he is not here. maybe i cannot see him. they could tell you -- i was in a bit of a funk. working for this guy was a fantastic experience for the good times and the bad times. i soaked around for a while, cranked up bruce springsteen, and repeated endlessly all my barack obama stories endlessly. they got especially tired of hearing of that one time when i played basketball with the president at the white house, i must have told that 35,000 times. two things shook me out of my stupor. first, getting back engaged in th

barack obama is here. [applause] so i love stanford. i was an undergraduate here. i've been teaching since 1995. my kids are born here, they go to school here, we live on campus. i plan to die here. [laughing] i love stanford university. it's the great institution i think in the world. but, but working for barack obama for five years was an honor and the thrill of my life that. in fact, and for those years on his team it took me a little while to figure out what to do next. for a while as my family will tell you my son luke i think if you, i don't see it. is look here? i don't see them. maybe it's not you. maybe i can't see them but they can tell you, i was in a bit of a funk, i want to tell you honestly because working for this guy was a fantastic experience to the good times and bad times. i sold around a while, cranked up bruce springsteen, the glory days, and repeated endlessly of my barack obama stories endlessly. they got especially tired of hearing ofin that one time wheni played basketball with the president at the white house. i must've told that 35,000 ti

the story barack obama do think it was a compelling one? >> president obama may not be the best person when this first midterm election losing the house losing 63 seats, whole bunch of senate seats to be for 2010 for the democratic party read this perfect storm emerging what you have republicans give a very disillusioned democratic base we are not even they're going to vote in the november elections also have independence, moderates, swing voters, all the polls show their heavily leaning towards republican candidates. if all this come into play you can look at a salami for the republican party. >> the democrats seem to have gotten themselves on the wrong side of so many key issues. we saw it last year end the virginia gubernatorial election they seem to be doubling down on all of these policies. >> i the almost loss of governor murphy of new jersey tapped the brakes. they push the accelerate all the way to the floor. you've got new jersey melt saying they're going of gender education by age six or seven they talk about sexual relations uh a

why was barack obama crossing the threshold of the white house? >> well, he was there to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the passage of the affordable care act, obamacare as has been called. the democratic led health care reform effort. he was going to talk about the accomplishmes of this health care program, the 14.5 million americans who are now covered under its auspices, as well as to talk a little about what is left to be done for the democrats to shore up support for this law, including expanding coverage for poor americans, and also tout an administrative action under the biden administration to expand coverage for 5 million more families to give them health insurance subsidies. so it was a celebration in part and an attempt to rally support for health insurance going forward. laura: but what is really going on there? are democrats worried about president biden's falling ahead of the midterm elections, and they think barack obama can shore up support? >> i thinkhat is definitely another purpose behind this, perhaps the more important purp

of course, barack has endured his fair share of insults and slights. even today there's still folks questioning his citizenship. all of this used to really get to me. back in those days i had a lot of sleepless nights worrying about what people thought of me. wondering if i might be hurting my husband's chances of winning his election. fearing how my girls would feel if they found out what some people were saying about their mom. eventually, i realized that if i wanted to keep my sanity and not let others define me, there was only one thing i could do and that was to have faith in god's plan for me. i have to ignore the noise and be true to myself. i have learned to block everything out and focus on my truth. i had to answer some basic questions for myself. who am i? no really, who am i? what do i care about? the answers to those questions have resulted in the woman who stands before you today. [ applause ] a woman who is first and foremost a mom. look, i love our daughters more than anything in the world, more than life itself. while that may not be f

she is been a friend to me in barack and malia and sasha and bill. chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day. my husband took the oath of office. some campaigning for hillary and i know that there's some folks out there who have commented that. it's been unprecedented for a sitting first lady to be so actively engaged in a presidential campaign. and and that may be true. but what's also true is that this is truly an unprecedented election. and that's why i'm out here. i'm out here first and foremost because we have never had a more qualified and prepared candidate for president than our friend hillary clinton never before in our lifetime. i say this everywhere i go i admire and respect hillary. she has been a lawyer a law professor first lady of arkansas first lady of the united states a us senator secretary of state. she has that was michelle obama a popular sitting first lady campaigning. 2016 for a former first lady turned presidential candidate a lawyer mother of two young daughters and the first african-american first lady you

biden tried to get barack's attention and puts his hand on his shoulder and calls him barack like he's a friend. barack blew him off like he wasn't there. ask yourself if you've seen anything sadder in your life than this. oh, make it stop! it's awful! now, it's true that barack obama has never liked joe biden for the eight years they worked together, obama mocked him relentlessly as an old white guy. he kept biden in the periphery, that's where he got the ukraine account. even as someone as arrogant as barack obama could pretend if he has to pretend. that's the point of the video we just showed you. obama no longer has to pretend. he can tell the world in the clearest possible terms he has no respect for joe biden. nobody at this point has respect for joe biden. he's invited his most -- even his most faithful supporters in the press corps has forgotten about him. >> war abroad, anxiety at home and inflation at its highest level in 40 years. sky-high inflation is erasing bigger paychecks while hourly earnings are up 5.6% over last year. nearly 1 in 5 workers say they've run out of mone

why was barack obama crossing the threshold of the white house? >> well, he was there to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the passage of the affordable care a, obamacare as has been called. the democratic led health care reform effort. he w going to talk about the accomplishmes of this health care program, the 14.5 million americans who are now covered under its auspices, as well as to talk a little about what is left to be done for the democrats to shore up support for this law, including expanding coverage for poor americans, and also tout an administrative action under the biden administration to expand coverage for 5 million more families to give them health insurance subsidies. so it was a celebration in part and an attempt to rally support for health insurance going forward. laura: but what is really going on there? are democrats worried about president biden's falling ahead of the midterm elections, and they think barack obama can shore up support? >> i thinkhat is definitely another purpose behind this, perhaps the more important purpose

the media suggests he didn't get along and barack obama didn't like him? >> i don't think it is a matter of like. i used to see barack obama and there was always a feel like i think early obama first term when biden was making a lot of gaffes and barack obama wasn't, i think the lack of discipline that biden exhibited annoyed obama. after a while, biden started turning his gaffes into a -- something endearing and started wearing sunglasses, aviator glasses and then i think he did well in some of the comedy skits with barack obama as cool joe in the hot rod car. of they started creating a dog and pony show. barack obama does not like error and is hard on himself if he says something verbally explosive. when he talks, can you see him writing the words in his mouth and n. a deliberate fashion. so they're very different political styles. >> you could see the aging process? >> no question. this is not the same joe biden of 2008. it's just natural. he got older. i think the loss of beau took a heavy toll on him. i was surprised that his campaign worked and he wa

did you get any sense of what is is relationship was with barack obama? often the media's suggests that they didn't get along and they and that barack obama didn't like him. i don't think it was a matter of like i used to see barack obama and there was always a feeling like, oh my i think early obama first term when biden was be making a lot of gas and barack obama wasn't i think the lack of discipline that by an exhibited annoyed. obama it wasn't a matter of disliking show us a person who was just like he put his foot in his mouth again stepping on message. um and after a while of quite remarkably biden started turning his gas into a something endearing and then he started wearing sunglasses aviator glasses, and then i think he did well in some of the comedy skits with barack obama as you know, cool joe and his hot rod car. know and they started creating really a dog and pony show. they they started working with some synchronicity and and you know, almost they needed each other but their personalities are very different barack obama does not like error a

>> in just hours, former president barack obama is headed back to the white house, for the first time since he left office more than five years ago. he'll be joining president biden and the affordable care act. john harwood is at the white house. what will happen there today? >> reporter: first, the two presidents are going to share a little private friend time at the white house, they're going to have lunch, something they do weekly when barack obama was president and joe biden was his vice president. but the main event is going to be a celebration of the bfd, you know what i'm talking about, which is the affordable care act that president obama signed in 2010, more deeply entrenched in american life as we've gone along despite all the republican efforts to kill it. very controversial law when it was passed and for a number of years after that, in a crescendo in 2017, president trump and republican congress trialed and failed by the margin of john mccain's thumbs down to repeal the law and since then, joe biden, as he became president in 2021 has only strengthened the law, added enro

so i think barack obama is right. first put into context what you've done and how it is improved things in america but this is a competitive exercise. particularly when you have challenging head winds. you have to turn this election into a choice. or you're going to not like the outcome very much. >> yeah. and there is then mitch mcconnell eyeing the same upcoming midterms. take a look. >> it is a perfect storm of problems for the democrats because it is an entirely democratic government. which leads to you ask the question, how you could screw this up. it is actually possible. you can't nominate somebody who is just sort of unacceptable to a broader group of people and win. we that had experience in 2010 and 2012. >> it is mitch mcconnell, so as you know he has a kind of way of speaking. it is dry and has deniability, but do you think he's talking about the qanon and sarah palin and a generic r would do better than those we counted up 26 states. >> no question. he has seen that nightmare of a movie twice before. wher

[laughter] although, an 18-year-old barack obama would not have gotten in. [laughter] i got more serious later. i want to thank the cyber policy center here at stanford for hosting this event. i want to thank t for that outstanding introduction and for all the work that you are doing. [applause] i want to thank a great friend and remarkable public servant and ambassador to russia during very difficult times and one of my top advisers, michael mcfaul, for being here. michelle and i set up the obama foundation to train the next generation of leaders, and i think you saw in it to you on -- you saw in t anna -- tiana the example of the kind of remarkable leadership that is out there with the talent and vision to lead us forward, as long as old people get out of the way. during some of the darkest days of world war ii, american philosopher reinhold niebuhr wrote the following, "man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. and -- democracy necessary." and we are living through another tumultuous

he, of course, is with former president barack obama. he just made a funny joke about a hot mic because he was once caught on a hot mic saying something about it. let's listen in for a second to what he's saying. >> barack obama can sign his name using nine different pens. i'm going to use one. >> he is now signing this executive order to make it go further, to make the affordable care act work better, he said. >> yeah, president obama's first public appearance at the white house since leaving the white house in 2017. and we heard the remarks there from -- that first pen went to the former president. let's talk now about what this new executive order does, the aca moving forward, and this moment for the current president and former president. bring in cnn senior white house correspondent phil mattingly, champion senior political analyst, nia malika henderson and dr. zeke emanuel, the architect of the affordable care act. phil, let me start with you. i want to get to the executive order in just a moment. but this image of president obama

how much time have you spent around barack obama quite a bit. i mean for a random historian like myself i wrote for obama's inaugural book when he got inaugurated john lewis, tom broke on i did for the official inaugural book the three of us did on the essays for so there's a book the official other people were doing books on a mama, but the official inaugural book, you know, we did. why did you do? oh an honor is the inauguration day of a new president, you know, the first african-american president in history to write an essay along. with john lewis and brokaw when you've done a trump inaugural, um i wouldn't have been asked. you know, so it's because i think trump has different people that he you know, he wasn't interested in a book. and he's different media kind of person but i but after that i would see president obama at the white house because he did as you know, i've talked to you about before we would have historians meetings what i did at those historian meetings was talk again like i did with trump about national parks. um and the iss

even barack obama himself seems to be a loyal fox to. after all, little old me in this network have been on his mind for years and we've got the tape to prove it. take a look. speak i will put mr. burgess up against sean hannity. he will tear him up. >> i mean, look, it sean hannity suddenly going to get on the air and say, you know, i was wrong about this obama guy, he's my man. no, that is not going to happen. >> i think there's a certain segment of hard-core sean hannity fans that probably wouldn't want to have a beer with me. there's no doubt about that. speak with respect to sean hannity i didn't know he had invited me for a beer. his opinion of me does not seem to be very high, but i'm always good for a beer. >> this prism of fox news, conservative media making me scary. >> i have been turned on fox news or listened to conservative talk radio yet today, but i turned them on and off over these past seven and a half years to know i am not exaggerating in terms of their story. >> if i watched for fox news i wouldn't vote for me either

did you get any sense of what is is relationship was with barack obama? often the media's suggests that they didn't get along and they and that barack obama didn't like him. i don't think it was a matter of like i used to see barack obama and there was always a feeling like, oh my i think early obama first term when biden was be making a lot of gas and barack obama wasn't i think the lack of discipline that by an exhibited annoyed. obama it wasn't a matter of disliking show us a person who was just like he put his foot in his mouth again stepping on message. um and after a while of quite remarkably biden started turning his gas into a something endearing and then he started wearing sunglasses aviator glasses, and then i think he did well in some of the comedy skits with barack obama as you know, cool joe and his hot rod car. know and they started creating really a dog and pony show. they they started working with some synchronicity and and you know, almost they needed each other but their personalities are very different barack obama does not like error a

. >> president biden was joined by vice president kamala harris and former president barack obama to celebrate the impact of the affordable care act. the president also spoke about an executive order he signed to expand access to health coverage under the law. this is about 45 minutes. ♪ announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, accompanied by the vice president of the united states and the 44th president of the united states, the honorable barack obama. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] vice pres. harris: good afternoon. indeed, it is a good afternoon. good afternoon. please have a seat, everybody. please have a seat. thank you. feels good, doesn't it? [laughter] [applause] president biden, president obama, members of congress and my fellow americans. on march 23, 2010, the affordable care act was signed into law. [cheers and applause] in the 12 years since, the a.c.a. has delivered high-quality, affordable health care to more than 30 million americans. [applause] yes. and those americans are working parents and young children, college stud

january 6th committee, what they hope to learn about what, if anything, she did to stop the attack >>> barack obama's return. what brought him back to the white house for the first time since leaving office the fleecing of america, covid relief money used for luxury homes, ferraris and private flights. why many will never face justice. >>> and tiger woods, a little more than a year after his near-fatal crash goes for his sixth green jacket at the masters. >>> this is "nbc nightly news with lester holt". >>> good evening all the denials in the world cannot ease or diminish the impact of the disturbing images we're about to show you and what they tell us about the terror inflicted on the town of bucha, ukraine, and who did it. the body, the blood-stained street, a bullet-riddled car displaying a white flag. a child placing items on a freshly dug grave. tonight, journalists including our own richard engel are on the ground answering the call the moment demand, bearing witness to brutality we thought belonged to another century the world's outrage has so far been no match for russia's cruelty. uk

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it's awhat barack obama did, but much less artful y. here's joe biden warning us the biggest threat to america is not the fact you can't afford groceries or a tiny number of people is richer than anyone in human history, no. the real threat to you is white supremacy. >> domestic terrorists from white supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland. >> we know now we must confront and defeat political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism. don't dare call them protesters. they were a riotous mob, insurrectionests, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. >> white supremacy. the media outlets began ranting about race talkingly it can't work forever because it's not true. if you read the news you know that's probably not true. we've seen a lots of mass killings recently, and none of them have been motivated by so-called white supremacy. it's a little bit more complicated than that. all of a sussedden you see people attack in race-based crimes but it's not the storyline that

barack obama and john mccain were running for president. we thought, we are a bed and breakfast, we are not selling beds, so maybe we can sell breakfast. so we started selling collectible breakfast cereals. a barack obama themed cereal. called obama o's, like cheerios. we learned about john mccain, the captain of the navy, we called it captain mccain's. and we ended up selling $30,000 worth of collectible breakfast cereal, and that was originally how we funded the company. now it is late 2008. we are desperate. we have launched three times. no one is using it. i'm thinking to myself, i wonder if mark zuckerberg or steve jobs ever had to hot glue store cereal boxes in their living room. the answer was no. they had done it. n't done it. i'm going out to dinner at a thai restaurant in san francisco, and they said we should join because you guys are dying, and i said it was too late because we already launched. paul graham allowed us to apply , we actually and we got an missed the deadline. and we got an interview, and that is when paul graham

barack obama, no one knows this better. his first mid-term election he lost 63 seats and control of congress. so the shoe is on -- with what is happening right now, we expect it will be a very favorable environment for republicans. >> bill: carley, how would you react to that? >> look, the generic ballot is not in the democrats' favor right now. it is right that we see that -- we look at those numbers and see that as a sign that things are not looking good for democrats they are vulnerable. between that and biden's ratings that are low it is a concern for democrats heading into the election and that's why they are trying to pivot and connect with voters issues top of mind right now like the cost of living and the public safety issues and the war in ukraine and so biden is going the try to translate his actions specific things like the sanctions that he is putting if place if russia, which are popular among voters but just not has been able to translate into support for him yet. >> bill: domestic issues are tough to sell. th

we talk about those people but i have done cover stories of joe biden and barack obama. i have done the reagan diaries and nixon. i did a major vanity fair story on gerald ford. >> what about vanity fair? let me ask you that. great character. how did you get the assignment? >> i was writing for a lot of places. i did some pieces, cover pieces for the atlantic monthly, as it was called then. it's the atlantic today. he noticed that and a guy named david friend, the creative editor, they wanted to bring me to vanity fair, which is unique because i'm an academic historian. there is no other academic historian working on vanity fairs meaning an actual professor. they brought me in and i did all sorts of pieces. i did clarence jones, the martin luther king jr.'s lawyer. probably my most successful story, i did a piece of about the mayor of new orleans that led to him going to jail in many ways and that was on the hunt with him. >> why? he is cronyism and taking money, giving government prong contracts to people who were his friends so he could get a payoff just old-fashioned