coming back to obama's policies that led him to trump. i want to talk about how we got to trump them in the future. talk about the slow recovery that you talk about in the book. traditionally economists have found when you have a steeper session you have an enormous boom afterwards. it's like a pendulum if it swings one way it will go quicker to the other side. talk a little bit about that and the slow recovery. >> well you are right. peopleit say well obama inheritd a recession which of course is true and it was ap. global recession. as you pointed out the deeper the recession the more robust the recovering under obama we had a slower economic recovery in the post-war period. and that is the economy that trump inherited. there people out there who want to say we did have good economic growth under trump and he simply inherited this from his predecessor. no matter whotu exceeded obama things turned out the way they did ins the first reactors under trump. in 2015 the economy the second to last year at the obama present the economy grew. th

i woodcarving has a long tradition and obama go. you can also watch many crafts people at work such as use if i build the roots of his family business, go back to 1556, he tells me it is mainly churches the united states that phyllis ordered books but passion play visitors are also happy to buy a souvenir, even if it's not cheap. after all this isn't industrial production, it's skilled man, you will work. continuing on that theme of skilled manual work, i'm had it to the hairdresser actually had dressers shouldn't have anything to do here, but they're open and i have an appointment here. hello. look i lucas. great to have you send us the syllabus that's supposed to me yesterday for your time. to be honest, i would have thought the hair salon would be close because people are letting their hair grow out. so why would a hairdresser even be open these days? long long hand needs to be cared for to night and we do trims and take care of people's beards. guns, the hair on the upper lip. it can be a difficult job. fair because cannot put y

do the little boys in obama? i will say i want to be jesus one day line rather is does no no, i'm totally happy plane, joseph of aero messiah. i played him in 2010 already. it's a wonderful role into the cons to literally yeah, it's like a different to biblical figures with nicodemus and joseph of aramis fear were advocates of jesus among the high council jesus or the camps. how did the passion play actually come about in us? thank is lost. i say to the pin that i think might be pissed. in 1634, there was the plague and the 30 year war helped people vowed that if god spared them from the plague, then every 10 years they performed the passion of christ instead of of yeah. so you keep a promise every 10 years and forever. because now, so far since 1634 the how did that develop? it is quite a big show, isn't it? no, no, in season. it's thomas cookies. the 90 the tour operator thomas cook was here with me tonight. he was actually a priest one. so he came with a group of the 1st foreign guest at that time. thomas cook

until the seventh year of the obama presence. i mean that blacks had it very bad economically under president obama. they supported him overwhelmingly. he was well liked among blacks personality what and among whites and still is he's still pulls very well in terms of popularity but his economic policies his stewardship of the economy did not go over well with blacks or whites. and and so i think blacks remember how bad things were and under trump when they saw their fatter paychecks when they saw how plentiful the job market was. i think they they gave trump credit for that and that's part of the reason i believe he did better in 2020. he was focused on reopening the economy quickly after covid hit and of course a lot of these workers. i'm talking about are service sector workers. they couldn't work from home during the lockdowns and and they wanted to get back to work and trump was in favor of reopening the economy and i think that that redounded to his benefit when it came to to 2020 and that's why although he lost the electio

oh, oh oh, i'm in bavaria today in obama. go actually a small and dreamy place, but this year it's a tourist hotspot. people from all over the world come here to see the famous passion play and it's only performed every 10 years. so not exaggerating when i say that this is something very special. in this episode you learn everything about the oba, my goal passion plate, a world hit from the barrier. we also visit the beautiful linda palace very close by tant a sight of this year's g 7 summit. just a moment, a luxury hotel in the middle of the l over am ago is about an hour drive south of munich. b miguel ups. it's in a dealing place. very calm. but not this summer. what is going on here? so many coaches this one's from hungary, italy. this one from norway, from switzerland, austria jack republic, from germany. the visitors from all over the world. come to miguel for a play that is only performed every 10 years because it has been demick. it's now been 12 years. there are no actual actors on the stage. instead, it's the people

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we we basically talked about the obama years. coming in now to the election path past the election trump won before he not is inaugurated. there was a lot of naysayers who were talking about we're now going into a dramatic recession because of trump you talk a little bit about that in the book. yes, i as i mentioned larry summers, but he was not the the only one that was the conventional wisdom that we were at the end of the business cycle and and that we just couldn't squeeze anything more out of out of this current cycle. i mean, i think the the federal reserves said that growth wouldn't be much above 2% maybe 2.1% they were predicting for 20 17 2018 trump exceeded that the trump economy exceeded that i think they said unemployment wouldn't fall below around four four point one percent again it did it felt well below that a full percentage point below that in fact, and so that that's and i think it's important to point that out because again there is this argument that this was all going to happen anyway, and and in fact well i

what about firstly dimichelle obama. she's seen almost like an angel in a flowing white dress but it has a very modern and down to earth feel. talk about the process there in portraying her. >> michelle obama's portrait at first glance is much more awe streer yusm don't have the profusion of flowers and foliage. you have a blue background. i think the most striking thing is the dress, inintierd gees bend quilts, made by women in gees bend, alabama, who were descended from slavery. both michelle and barack obama had enslaved ancestors, barack through his mother's side, interestingly. there's that subtle reference to black history and black culture. the most striking aspect of michelle's portrait is her face is rended for the a gray monochrome. it's not black, it's not white, it's somewhere between. that's the artist's intention. she said she wanted to decouple our reconceptions about color equating to race. your point about an angel is well put. parker curry, the 2-year-old girl in the 1r50eur8 photograph who looked up at

the obama administration. don't forget who started and again that's what i wanted to point out what those expectations were when trump took office. it's also important to note that the job growth. it occurred when we were near full employment. when there are so few people working it's pretty remarkable. when you have a lot of people out of work and then you get tremendous amounts of job growth that's one thing but to do so at the time at the business cycle is remarkable in and of himself. >> i agree. and it was also more dramatic discussions as you are aware. they thought we would have an immediate crash when trump came into office essentially. at the same time as we saw the complete spike in business optimism so that tells you a little bit about it. ici think that was kind of chromatic. go ahead. >> you're absolutely right. and also the policies that the tax cuts were just going to be for the wealthy. and in fact what we saw again it'ske what the economic literature says for the council of economic advisors.

oh, well, i'm in bavaria today in obama golf. actually a small and dreamy place, but this year it's a tourist hotspot. people from all over the world come here to see the famous passion play, and it's only performed every 10 years. so not exaggerating, when i say that this is something very special. ah, in this episode you'll learn everything about the oba miguel passion plate. a world hit from bavaria. we also visit the beautiful linda palace very close by can to side of this year's g 7 summit shows a moped a luxury hotel in the middle of the out. ah, over my gow is about an hour's drive south of munich in the amiga ups. it's in a dylan place. very calm but not this summer. what is going on here? so many coaches this one's from hungary, italy is ones from norway, from switzerland, austria check republic from germany. visitors from all over the world come to obama, go for a play that is only performed every 10 years. because of a pandemic. it's now been 12 years. there are no actual actors on the stage. instead, it's the people o

obama's lead on this. so on the cutting edge, she was always getting to young people through whatever social media channel they were using. she went on alan all the time because she knew those hit audience of women who watch alan were people she really wanted to reach with their policy ideas. and often to shift the culture around with college access. healthier food for children. she was really good about that. she is not above any of that. i think that helped also inspire the president's team to get more bold about social media two. is between two funds a video some of you may remember it. [laughter] encouraging people to sign up but we also did things, he did facebook live video to encourage young people to sign up for facebook. then it turns out young people are not on facebook to than he is snapped at her kimber what it's called now something like that. remind young people to fill out the fafsa form pretty went to places where they were. at one point we had a day were here's interviewed by bunch of yout

in 2009, after the bombing the obama administration started, mrs. obama had come to the national park service and said, i'd really like to put in a kitchen garden, and can i do this? well, she was told, yes it, she can do this. this is her garden, her grounds. so in 2009, mrs. obama started the white house kitchen garden, because she really wanted to start a conversation, a national conversation, on nutrition and children's health. and so, this garden was started a year before and was the basis of her signature let's move program. so i'm going to tell you a little about when, my experience in the garden and how the previous first lady would look and have events in the garden. the gardening year started every year in the spring, where she would come up and with school kids, and they would plant the spring vegetables. so here's a school group that came out and she really wanted the kids to do the work, park service staff, first lady's of his staff would help set everything up but the kids did the work and. as you can see, it wasn't perfect. there's so

in 2009, after the obama administration started, mrs. obama had come to the national park service and said i would really like to put in a kitchen garden. can i do this? she was told. yes she can do this. this is her garden. her grounds. so in 2009, mrs. obama started the white house kitchen garden. she really wanted to start a conversation. a national conversation on nutrition, and children's health. so this garden was started a year before. it was the basis of her signature let's move program. so i am going to tell you a little bit about my experience in the garden, and how the previous first lady would work, and have events in the garden. the gardening year started every year in the spring, where she would come out and with school kids and they would plant the spring vegetables. so here is a school group that came out, she really wanted the kids to do the work. park service staff. first lady's office staff would set everything up. the kids would did the work. as you can see, it wasn't perfect. there is some mismatches there. but she d

obama's lead on this. i mean the first lady, he was such, so on the cutting edge of using social media to reach audiences. you know, she wanted to meet people where they were. so, she was always, you know, getting to young people through whatever social media channel they were using. she went on ellen all the time. she knew that those were the audiences of women who watch ellen, people that she wanted to reach with her policy ideas, and to also shift to culture around issues like a college access, you know, healthier food for children. so, she was really good about that. she wasn't above any of that. and, i think that helped, kind of, also inspired the presidents team to get more bold about social media, too. so, he did the between two ferns video, which some of you might remember, you know, to encourage people to sign up for a health care. but then, he also did things like, he did a facebook live video to encourage young people to sign up for facebook. and then, it turns out young people aren't on faceboo

they would merely dismantle the coalition established by obama ready to show about obama. outnumbered, the 2 israeli were forced to back down. oh, bama, however, remained uneasy. if he was to get a deal with iran before netanyahu could convince his cabinet to follow him down the road to war, he needed to wrestle back control. at the end of 2012, in the utmost secrecy, he entered into direct negotiations with iran. a succession of meetings, both in and out of the public eye ensued an agreement was on the way. ringback thus, on march 3rd 2015, netanyahu made one final attempt to derail the process. he went to washington to address congress and launched into a tirade against the policies of his most loyal ally. it was unprecedented in the history of relations between the 2 countries. ladies and gentlemen, i've come here to do to tell you we don't have to bet the security of the world on the hope that he won will change for the better. we don't have to gamble with our future and with our children's future. so this deal won't change you long for the better. it will only change the middle e

you are _ this was from barack obama. he failed. you are right. _ this was from barack obama. he failed. you are right. it - this was from barack obama. he failed. you are right. it is - failed. you are right. it is uuite failed. you are right. it is quite rare _ failed. you are right. it is quite rare for— failed. you are right. it is quite rare for president i failed. you are right. it is - quite rare for president biden to make these sorts of addresses to the nation anyway. the last time you made this sort of address was during the pandemic so it gives you a sense of the gravity of the situation. this is following a spate of shootings — actually, there's been more than 200 mass shootings in america this year, which is a staggering amount given we are only injune. having just returned from uvalde in texas, president biden, meeting the families of the 19 schoolchildren gunned down into their classroom, clearly feels something now needs to be done. it is not the first time he has felt like this. when he was vice president, when he was a senator, he has called for gun contr

as a matter of fact, she could do it impersonation of both michelle obama and barack obama and we had, you know, oftentimes discuss it if anyone could ever play michelle it would be her and i had been very inspired by a movie. i saw that natalie portman started called jackie, you know about jackie kennedy right? there had been one little aspect of that movie that really inspired me and it was when she showed a press corps for the very first time the east wing which had been completely, you know off limits obviously and as she you know brought this press corps through the east wing for the first time. she pointed out, you know, eleanor put this here and edith put this there and ladybird had her portrait here or whatever. it was and in that moment. it was like, oh my god, what if these walls could talk? you know, like what did they actually experience in this building and you know with a little bit of research that it hadn't changed much except for in decor. you know, i literally thought wow all these people like slept with presidents here. i mean not to be vulgar, but that was literall

margot, how much do former president obama's team and the former president obama know about the business dealings? we had obama state department officials george kent amos hochstein raising concerns directly to the obama white house. even joe biden heard and we have this whose source strategy, a consulting firm lobbying obama state department, from the with hunter in order to get ukraine's energy interest intended state department. this story has always felt like it has legs. how much do you think president obama and his team knew about what was going on? >> i would think that his team had a general understanding of what was going on. how much? i'm not so sure about but the bigger picture to me is what's taking so long on this? in order to find out what the obama administration knew, what people working for the obama administration new, we need to have a really thorough investigation into what was going on with the pay to play scandal. this has been in delaware of the u.s. attorney's office since before the 220 election. you might recall a couple months ago the new york times talking abo

once again we look to barack obama for guidance. you see, acting a little weird according to the martha's vineyard times, he's installing a $2500 a gallon propane tank on his sprawling waterfront estate. the cost? an estimated $75,000. now, this has us asking questions. why propane? instead of windmills. climate hypocrisy aside, we have a much more pressing question. what's the former president doing with a commercial propane tank? is he going off the grid? is this part of a grand plan to turn the palace into a self-sustaining bunker? if so, why? what does he know that we don't? is he afraid the former vp will accidentally bring on the apocalypse? are we near the end times? joining me now is kyle mann, editor in chief of the babylon. what's going on with barack who who -- obama's estate? >> you needed a prophecy expert tonight so you came to babylon be to protect the future for you. don't let you know when the apocalypse is going to happen i guess. yeah, i will start to be worried when obama has a mad max style war rig on his proper

obama's lead on this. i mean firstly, he was such, so on the cutting edge of using social media to reach audiences. you know, she wanted to meet people where they were. so, she was always, you know, getting to young people through whatever social media channel they were using. she went on ellen all the time. she knew that those were the audiences of women who watch ellen, people that she wanted to reach with her policy ideas, and to also shift to culture around issues like a college access, you know, healthier food for children. so, she was really good about that. she wasn't above any of that. and, i think that helped, kind of, also inspired the presidents to get more bold about social media, too. so, he did the between two ferns video, which some of you might remember, you know, to encourage people to sign up for a health care. but then, he also did things like, he did a facebook live video to encourage young people to sign up for facebook. and then, it turns out young people aren't on facebook. so then,

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susan: you have already spoke about barack obama. is there anything you want to say about the way he addressed foreign policy and security concerns while in office? phil: under the obama administration we began shifting towards a less transparent style of warfare and away from larger troop deployments. and also a time when the executive is aggressively arguing for the expanded scope of powers and targeted killing around the world. and i think that is a significant part of his legacy and a troubling aspect of it. susan: donald trump. when he was running for president, you had an opportunity to question him the way you think citizens should of political candidates. tell me what you thought of his response. phil: what is your plan for the region to ensure a group like isys doesn't come back? trump: part of the problem we have is we go income it defeat somebody and then we don't know what we are doing after that. look at what happened with iraq and how badly it was handled. then when obama took over, likewise, it was a disaster. it was s

they would merely dismantle the coalition established by obama ready to show about obama. outnumbered the 2 israeli were forced to back down. oh bama, however, remained uneasy if he was to get a deal with iran before netanyahu could convince his cabinet to follow him down the road to war. he needed to wrestle back control. at the end of 2012, in the utmost secrecy, he entered into direct negotiations with iran. a succession of meetings, both in and out of the public eye ensued. an agreement was on the way. thus on march 3rd 2015, netanyahu made one final attempt to derail the process. he went to washington to address congress and launched into a tirade against the policies of his most loyal ally. it was unprecedented in the history of relations between the 2 countries. ladies and gentlemen, i've come here to do to tell you we don't have to bet the security of the world on the hope that he won will change for the better. we don't have to gamble with our future and with our children's future. so this deal won't change you long for the better. it will only change the middle east for the

they would merely dismantle the coalition established by obama that he just obama outnumbered the to his release were forced to back down. oh bama, however, remained uneasy if he was to get a deal with iran before netanyahu could convince his cabinet to follow him down the road to war. he needed to wrestle back control. at the end of 2012, in the utmost secrecy, he entered into direct negotiations with iran. a succession of meetings, both in and out of the public eye ensued. an agreement was on the way thus, on march 3rd 2015, netanyahu made one final attempt to derail the process. he went to washington to address congress and launched into a tirade against the policies of his most loyal ally. it was unprecedented in the history of relations between the 2 countries. ladies and gentlemen, i've come here to do to tell you we don't have to bet the security of the world on the hope that he won will change for the better. we don't have to gamble with our future and with our children's future. so this deal won't change you long for the better. it will only change the middle east for the wo

. >> what he appears to be preparing us for is the obama, this is for the congresswoman for the obama era of slow growth we had an average growth of under 2% during obama era. he wants everybody to dial back their expectation of the american dream. >> he had an opportunity with us coming out of covid with somebody for stockouts on the economy somebody forced to stay home from being able to increase their own revenue in their own ability to be successful. he had an opportunity at the beginning of his presidency we see the exact opposite he attacked every single market in the u.s. neighbored foreign powers and nations and foreign businesses over our own we are feeling each and every day, the amount of money that normal americans are pain at the gas pump and working families paid more than $2000 per year on gas than they did last year we are feeling supply chain issues. everything this administration has promised has been the exact opposite there was a high opportunity for them to come in and instead it was disaster after disaster. david: during the trump administration we had high growt

they would merely dismantle the coalition established by obama, but he just obama bene outnumbered the to his release were forced to back down. oh, bama, however, remained uneasy. if he was to get a deal with iran before netanyahu could convince his cabinet to follow him down the road to war, he needed to wrestle back control. at the end of 2012, in the utmost secrecy, he entered into direct negotiations with iran. a succession of meetings, both in and out of the public eye ensued an agreement was on the way. ringback thus, on march 3rd 2015, netanyahu made one final attempt to derail the process. he went to washington to address congress and launched into a tirade against the policies of his most loyal ally. it was unprecedented in the history of relations between the 2 countries. ladies and gentlemen, i've come here to do to tell you we don't have to bet the security of the world on the hope that he won will change for the better. we don't have to gamble with our future and with our children's future. so this deal won't change you on for the better. it will only change the middle eas

first lady michelle obama. it is setting records for people showing up to see them. it is and just the obama's, they are also the first african- american artist to paint them. >> the obama's worn inspiration to millions around the world. there was a sense of hope and possibility in these paintings. >> the exhibit opens to the public on saturday and runs till august 14th. >>> a life back look of the bay bridge. just up, our warming weather. wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. through project up, comcast is committing $1 billion dollars so millions more students can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. >>> parting is such sorrow. we have to say goodbye to that icon at the bottom of your computer screen. af

or barack obama. in the fish bowl of washington and in the public eye of the united states and the world. well on that same vein, the two artists behind the paintings both african american , by the way, kehinde wiley and amy cheryl have addressed the lack of black representation. in western art history using, uh, portraiture to explore complex issues of identity. how how is that accomplish by the two page candy wiley is famous for what he calls street casting, which is going to underserved communities and neighborhoods and getting volunteers to pose for him, but he endows them with the visual vocabularies and symbols of traditional renaissance and baroque painting. so he elevates, you know his neighbors as it were black americans into the realm of fine art and into the halls of museums, and that's really what he's doing in a sense with obama, although he said this is not endowing. other people with . this was about depicting actual power, arguably the most powerful man in the world. and he was very fu

joe biden is the first lady, barack obama the former president at this point. the thing is speaking of barack obama and bill clinton for that matter in their first term they were pulling that well either not like joe biden who is pulling lower then any first-term president and pulling history you're talking truman to trump but at least with obama and clinton they were in their 40s and you thought maybe the best days are ahead they need experience and they went on to win reelection because in clinton's case he pivoted towards the middle with joe biden you only know that it's gonna get worse as he gets older will be 80 in november. most americans now, the one who got more votes than any president in presidential candidate history. they don't want, that is telling, the problem is there is no plan b to backfill joe biden. elizabeth: there is an issue they should be transparent with american people, tell them what's going on he said to bring in a ransoms. now we have democrats coming up with the midterm rescue plan on inflation but doesn't mention at all government

i think that it is a bigger story than a reaction to barack obama. i think the proof of that is when you look at other western countries where this style of politics has also been on the rise in some cases before us and in some cases accelerating substantially after us that right wing populism broadly defined has been on the march across you know central and western and eastern europe and the uk for some time and in some respects. we're like a lagging indicator of the direction of the of western democratic politics a culturally but look i think that there's it's obviously, you know, jonathan alluded to the tea party before i think it's one of the things that the media has been a pretty upfront about and looking back on coverage of the tea party is that you know, yes, there were a lot of candidates who put their names on the ballot in 2010 and afterwards who sincerely believed in limited spending and small government and hated the aca and other obama era policies, but were there voters really motivated by like a profound ideological opposition to expa

it started under the obama years too. biden wiped all of that out, starting a false narrative and blaming everybody else. >> they're just so decoupled from reality. we need energy to live. it is every aspect of our being. it helps get things from point a to point b. it helps make sure we have a food supply. they don't have any sort of realistic transition plan. we need more of all types of energy. we need more fossil fuels. we need more nuclear. and yes, we should continue on a plan with green energy but we need all of those things together. you can't just cut us off. it is actually transitioning, fossil fuels to these bad actors around the world. it is not changing anything. elizabeth: you know, seems like more and more climate czar john kerry is running a shadow presidency, carol, final word. >> that sounds really great. looking forward to the pallets of cash being delivered to iran in the middle of the night. that seems like a great thing to look forward to. elizabeth: we'll have you back on to talk about it, carol rot

the conversation today will be moderated by david a former senior adviser to president barack obama and now director of the institute of politics at chicago and now i will turn over to the speakers. >> thank you. [applause] >> that is in the east, right? >> good to see you guys. as i read this book i read a lot about the book before the disseminating that would be enticing to people. this book is so much bigger than the things that we read that were kind k of exclusive, the narrative of what's going on in the country and what went on in 2020 into this year was deep and wonderfully written but how much pressure are you under when you write a book like this to produce things that nobody else has. i see you rolling your eyes. first off, let me just say thank you to the university t o chicago. and for david hosting us here it is a thrill to be back. the book is paying to produce they want to see a lot of peopll purchase. by the way, it's available out there and on the way i would love to pick up a copy. the pressure we felt from ourselves we are competitors. we wanted to produce the best po

biden was in the obama administration. he ran a recovery act, he was sent to a rack to negotiate the new government there and sent to the hill to negotiate. we don't see that with this vice president. >> the task she has she has not embraced fully or struggled with. >> they said you want a couple cars without carburetors in the back and you can have those. >> he didn't try to drive the car is the problem. think for example about the voting issue, something astonishing to both of us to report, the she never once talked to joe manchin or lisa murkowski, the most pivotal senators on a voting issue about the voting issue. how are you handling that issue if you don't have a conversation with the two most important senators on the issue. it speaks to what you said a minute ago about not exactly an integral part of the administration. wise that not happening? >> let me ask you a couple other things. you talked about a decision that i think looms larger than people realize that the time which is the decision to jump on the movemen

obama. i remember sitting down with mrs. obama, really the first time i sat down with her at length, it was all about mrs. obama wanting her kids to have a normal life, going to school plays. going to school, going to school basketball games. so and so forth. i wanted to make sure she knew that we had the same goals. as kids get older, in their teen years, it's more challenging. because as you can imagine, no teenager wants guys like me coming out on a date. so, that's always a balance. you try to do the best that you can, but ultimately you want to make sure that they are in a safe environment. >> great. a huge part of any successful presidency is -- it requires foreign policy. and foreign travel. can you, and this is for the panel. maybe joe, you can start out with some thoughts on it. but traveling, taking the president overseas, he does not fly a commercial plane and go up to hertz and get a car and go off to those meetings. there's a tremendous amount of planning, it is staggering and you would be shocked to know how ma

, obama's home town. why not joe? and for god's sake, joe, why did you never worn time, not one time, as vp for eight years, mention a single child's name killed in obama's home town when you were vice-president? for god's sakes why? you never lift i had a finger joe, why. save us the lectures because you have been missing in action for all of these years. this divisive speech tonight was nothing more than a political stunt, pretty predictable. louisiana the democratic party and the new gun control bill, that, too, is a political stunt in an election year. it will not pass the senate. that didn't stop one far left member of congress from openly fantasizing about his party's wildest dreams. take a look. >> enough of your thoughts and prayers. enough. enough. you will not stop us from advancing the protecting our kids act today. you will not stop us from passing it in the house next week, and will you not stop us there. if the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. if the supreme court objects, we wil

i think donald trump was jealous because obama had a good deal. trump went in there, he was jealous, and he wanted to do away with obama's policies, like everything, and he did away with it. it was a disastrous decision on donald trump's part. i want to know, do you think this deal was a good deal? honestly? guest: i do think it was a very good deal. if we consider the fact that beginning in about 2010, into 2013 or iran was accelerating 2014, the pace of its uranium enrichment program, it was also working on a reactor that could produce plutonium. if we knew what we know today, they experimented with nuclear weapons designs. it was a disturbing situation. the obama administration worked very hard with our allies to put enormous sanctions pressure on iran to bring them to the table and negotiate this really complex deal that rollback iran's program and put tougher sanctions in place. i think the color has a point. -- caller has a point. in this town, there is so much partisanship, it's hard for democrats to see the wisdom in republican policies an

that was his defense of trump in 2020, impeach obama, four years after president obama had left office, which i am sure trump thought was awesome. he likes his lawyers with extra hot sauce, he actually hired that guy away from his law firm after the impeachment, he liked him so much. he brought him on as a trump white house lawyer. because that's what he likes as a lawyer. it turns out, though, that if you have really -- tastes in terms of what he wants from a lawyer -- you want the guy with a hair dye running down his head, somebody else threatening to do something effing disgusting to a reporter, running an impeach obama campaign from the floor of the house, four years after obama was out of office, while you are being impeached. if that is your taste in lawyers, well, you are also going to have to live with that being the character of the lawyers that you are up against when they all, inevitably, turn against you, just like everyone has who has ever worked with you or for you in any capacity. and so that, right now, is why we got these particularly pungent, slashing criticisms from

international fellows here and 2000 -- 2001 working for them unknown or little-known senator named barack obama. her career really in many ways captures the essence of the program. along government academia and journalism samantha was the 28th to the united nations she taught at harvard was a founding member meant she has also authored several books. at least one of which i believe has won a pulitzer. it is a real pleasure for us to welcome her today. as a personal pleasure, samantha and i go back decades we used to be colleagues. presiding today will be margaret is the managing editor for politics it xes also political analyst for cnn. among other things the past she was a senior white house correspondent for bloomberg news. she is the past president of the white house correspondents association. you are in extraordinarily good hands with the administrator and i want to thank them both for today again i want to welcome you all to the symposium at the council on foreign relations. [applause] >> think it richard. >> thank you. no water, so sad. [laughter] welcome everyone and thank you so much f

go back in time and impeach obama. this time, this time, he's taking a part what he depicts to the january 6th investigators as just the stupidity in his characterization of some of the far-fetched claims of supposed fraud that the president wanted to use as the excuse for overthrowing the u.s. government. that testimony that we just saw there that i just played here moments ago, we saw that testimony from him before today. then this evening the january 6th investigators released a new taped statement from republican vice chair liz cheney. she included at the end of her statement something else from trump lawyer eric hershman to get us ready for what's coming next from the investigation's next hearing. >> in our next hearing on thursday, the select committee will examine president trump's relentless effort on january 6th and in the days beforehand to pressure vice president pence to refuse to count lawful, electoral votes. as a federal judge indicated, this likely violated two federal criminal statutes. president trump

that was a political landmine for barack obama backk then. but you write about the broader implications of that in yourou newsletter this morning. >> guest: i do think we have a gun culture in this country there are some people who do cling to guns. see guns and gun ownership as crucial to their sense of identity, their sense ofof self. if you talk about restricting or eliminating certain guns or having some regulation put on gun ownership they see that as an attack on them quite personally. that's what makes it an issue. that is how they feel they can't really be part of a policy debate that's going to end upt with compromise and some form of regulation. because then it's almost ane article of faith and theology you cannot take away my guns. now, i like to shoot. i've been shooting since i was a kid. rifles in firing ranges i've never owned a gun. i understand the interest in guns and rifle and sportsmen shooting. i am not a hunter but a friend to our. i get all that i am sympathetic to that that doesn't mean you can't have regulations and y