to barack and michelle, jill and i are forever grateful. i can't wait for the center to open and for it to share memories together. we love you guys and hope to see you soon. >> please welcome, mayor laurie lightfoot. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, everyone, and thank you all for being here today. today is a day for celebration and gratitude. we are here to celebrate an important milestone. the groundbreaking of the obama presidential center. we are grateful to former president obama and first lady michelle obama for twos in chicago for what i know will be a transformative investment on this historic southside of our beloved city. this groundbreaking marks the next chapter in a journey that began several years ago, took many twists and turns. due to the perseverance and hard work of many, we have arrived at this momentous day. the presidential center and complimentary investments my administration has made in the surrounding neighborhoods will be bringing to life the promise of true equity and inclusion, investment and development, on the south s

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

she has been a friend to me, and barack, and malia, and sasha, and bill and chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office. now, you may have noticed that i have been doing some campaigning for hillary. i know that there are 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. that may be true, but what's also true is that this is truly an unprecedented election. that's why i am out here. i am 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 u.s. senator, secretary of state. she has -- [applause] >> hillary! hillary! hillary! >> that was michelle obama, a popular sitting first lady campaigning in 2016 for a former first lady turned presidential candidate. a lawyer, mother

to barack and michelle, jill and i are forever grateful. i can't wait for the center to open and for it to share memories together. we love you guys and hope to see you soon. >> please welcome, mayor laurie lightfoot. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, everyone, and thank you all for being here today. today is a day for celebration and gratitude. we are here to celebrate an important milestone. the groundbreaking of the obama presidential center. we are grateful to former president obama and first lady michelle obama for choosing chicago for what i know will be a transformative investment on this historic southside of our beloved city. this groundbreaking marks the next chapter in a journey that began several years ago, took many twists and turns. due to the perseverance and hard work of many, we have arrived at this momentous day. the presidential center and complimentary investments my administration has made in the surrounding neighborhoods will be bringing to life the promise of true equity and inclusion, investment and development, on the south

and also, did you pick up that barack hussein obama. a nice little touch, yeah. just to remind the people who he really is. yeah. i know what trump is doing. he is trying to drum up old islamophobia but everybody knows that that is barack's middle name. it doesn't sound nefarious any more it just sounds like you are miss mom, barack hussein obama you get down here and clean up this mess right now. >> coming, mom. but-- but if you don't like that excuse, it's cool baby, it's cool, trump has another one, it is about how he declassified these documents in his mind. >> in a new de fengs emerged overnight from a conservative journalist tied to trump who read a statement from the former president's office. >> he had a standing order that documents removed from the oval office taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. >> trevor: oh, that's an interesting excuse. anything trump took home with him was automatically declassified because he had a standing order. so superconvenient that no one has ever heard about this rule until he go

i think it's a bigger story than a reaction to barack obama. when you look at other western countries where the style of politics has accelerate substantially after us.t the right-wing populism broadly defined and a march across western and eastern europe and the uk and in some respects we were alighting indicator of the direction of the western democratic politics culturally. look jonathan alluded to the tea party.ro looking back our coverage of the tea party yes there were a lot of people who put their names on the ballott in 2010 who sincerey believed in small government and the aca and other obama era policies that were there voters really motivated by a profound ideological opposition to expanded government spending? edsome of them were clearly motivated by a. >> i guess it's okay to remove -- >> that's something that trump did. ?he removed both sides. he removed the. that it's not about race and identity in the. that the trump era republican party doesn't give a dam about that. >> i want to spend the time on this because it's been so pick

that radicalization from the right so aggressively since barack obama won the white house. that is the embodiment something they endured for very long time. it happened before they were ready for. >> this book came out before that. we should set a mecca message we should rent pump over and over you disagree with the little do you think the generate sixth will stick to a way democrats could useot or do we botch the messaging on that as well? >> i don't think we botch thek message on generate six democrats have done a great job for it's not just them the person leading most of this is lissa channing is a bipartisan hearing. the first thing with messages you have for people to hearar y. the fact they got 20 million people to watch the first one, that is unbelievable. that is 6 million more people watch congressional hearing than game six of the nba finals that is wild and impressive. t this is it in the book but i discovered the faculty research on the book a lot of people that's 80 million fewer people that watch the ojeh car chase. i got people's attention,io metrics on soci

. >> and barack obama, your gym partner, who was on the stairmaster and elliptical, you were side by side? >> i would use the stationary bike and we talked about the times we spent in the gym. he's a lot better shape than i am, but we would trash talk each other, because we'd be just the two of us in there and anybody that didn't know us, what's wrong with those two guys? they must hate each other and walk out of the gym with our arms around each other laughing our heads off. that's a picture i took of barack obama after he had been elected president and he's standing right below the painting of george washington. they've got the same expression on their face >> i think we cut off the top of it, if we could widen that frame. because that's a wonderful washington picture. >> i had the only camera in the room, and i thought oh, look at the history of this. our first president white george washington and here's the latest president at that time, barack obama, and i gave him that picture. >> when you think back on the senate history, we have a 50/50 senate, divisions, impeachment and jan

he brought in barack obama's administration and pushes a hard left agendarme the things that he said no, we're not doing that to his democratic colleagues he's now doing and one of them is this. it's a series of broken pledges but he's trying to get away with it with his grandfatherliness and not get the blame from the american people. it's obviously not working it you're looking at the polls on him. james: up next, mike pence calling out attorney general merrick garland but defending fbi agents and the former vice president has advice for the gop, that's next. >> i call on attorney general garland to give the american people a full accounting of the reasons why this action was necessary. james: former vice president mike pence this week calling for more transparency from the biden justice department but also telling fellow republicans to stop criticizing fbi agents for the raid on trump's mar-a-lago home. >> i also want to remind my fellow republicans, we can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision that he made without attacking a rank and file law enforcement personn

and then barack obama did what franklin roosevelt, harry truman, richard nixon could not do. he passed and signed into law the affordable care act, extending health care coverage to millions of people who could not afford it, through an expansion of medicaid and subsidies for private health insurance. and yesterday, joe biden signed into law legislation that would strengthen medicare and reduce health care costs through medicare and the affordable care act, provoking barack obama to say, on twitter, this is a bfd. >> we are giving medicare the power to negotiate those prices now. on [inaudible] this mean seniors are gonna pay less for their prescription drugs. that means, if you are on medicare, you'll never have to a more than $2,000 a year, no matter how many prescriptions you have, whether it is for cancer or any other disease. no more than $2,000 a year. the inflation reduction act locks in place lower health care premiums for millions of families who get their coverage under the affordable care act. >> joining us now is democratic congresswoman lauren underwood of illino

what about barack obama? eric trump's son of the trump -- on monday night. >> going back to hillary, there's a whole lot of other things. how about the benghazi scandals? how about the clinton foundation? how many shady oligarchs of russia were contributing to that? how about the iranian war? you want to talk about scandals that were never investigated, never vetted? >> benghazi was never investigated? are you kidding me? it was an entire benghazi select committee, to which she testified for multiple hours. by the end of the, week gop congressman marc wynne mcmullin was offering this ridiculous and false hillary clinton claim. >> we saw that this media frenzy, about supposedly classified information uses the same media frenzy when there were 33,000 classified email on a server in a bathroom with hillary clinton? >> no media frenzy about emails. was he asleep all of 2016? did he missed the part where her emails cost for the presidential election that year? but trump had the best clinton ally of all in his very

but again, let's go to barack obama negotiation with iran. as i write about only the strong, he didn't want a better deal, people asked why doesn't he get a better deal, he didn't want one, he thought america was to blame for decades of tension, he traced it back to 1950s he claim we overthrow the democratic prime minister of iran, that was a myth. he was not elected or over thrown, he was the one they trying to seize power and hold to it. but barack obama de believed it in his bones, he said it in speech after speech. he thinks that america is to blame for the decades of tensions with iran, that is why we got the deal, we didn't want a better one, joe biden was there by his side, now it say . of personal and partisan honor for joe biden and democrat they go back to deal because donald trump ripped it up. appropriately so, it will put, ran on the path to the bomb, super charge their support for terrorism in the world to include here in the united states at a time when they have operatives trying to assassinate former u.s. government officials

. >> imagine if you and i were to discuss today that barack obama was under criminal investigation. we'd go, like, what? that's just-- it's inconceivable. >> former president barack obama has released his yearly summer reading and music playlist. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it's that time of the year again for president obama's 2022 summer playlist. this track list is perfect for a day at the beach, and certainly wasn't carefully crafted so that the songs, when read top to bottom, would taunt another former president.

president, joe biden who met with mikhail gorbachev back in 2009 when he was the vice president to barack obama. that meeting according to some reports, lasting more than an hour, an hour and half, the president, barack obama dropping in on that meeting between biden and mikhail gorbachev and russian media a couple of years ago putting out a reporting on a letter that joe biden may have sent to mikhail gorbachev to celebrate and congratulate him on his 90th birthday. so, as soviet leader that had very close respectful relationships, if not friendships with american leaders. in grand scheme of things, in the way history has seen in the u.s., when he think about the soviet union and the end of the soviet union, there is a positive view, an image of mikhail gorbachev, someone who brought an end to that soviet union in the most peaceful way, even though his image and his stature may be seen from the russian point of view may be very different. mark: thank you very much, indeed. we will bringing -- we will be bringing more reaction from the passing of the last leader of the soviet union, mikha

one of barack obama's longest serving advisors. he was white house director of communications under president obama from 2009 through 2013. and senior advisor to the president from 2013 until 2015. he lives in the bay area of california. of course danced a book that we are here for this evening is titled battling the big lie, how facebook and the maggot media are destroying america. this is from then rode to wright's quote battling the big lie is enlightening at times ann raging, and always entertaining guide to the recent history of our politics and media. drawing on dan pfeiffer. read this book if you want to understand what is happening in american politics. why it is happening and what you can do about it. wewe are honored to welcome them back to harrisburg without further ado please join and giving them a warm harrisburg welcome. [applause] >> it is good to be b. i know dan well, but we have not talked about the book because i have been waiting to talk about it in front of you all. let's start with the easiest question. why th

and then barack obama did what franklin roosevelt, harry truman, richard nixon could not do. he passed and signed into law the affordable care act, extending health care coverage to millions of people who could not afford it, through an expansion of medicaid and subsidies for private health insurance. and yesterday, joe biden signed into law legislation that would strengthen medicare and reduce health care costs through medicare and the affordable care act, provoking barack obama to say, on twitter, this is a bfd. we >> are giving medicare the power to negotiate those prices now. on [inaudible] this mean seniors are gonna pay less for their prescription drugs. that means, if you are on medicare, you'll never have to pay more than $2, 000, no matter how many prescriptions you have, whether it is for cancer or any other disease. no more than $2,000 a year. the inflation reduction act locks in place lower health care premiums for millions of families who get their coverage of the affordable care act. >> joining us now is democratic congressman congresswoman lauren underwood. she

barack obama had to be jimmy carter reborn and he could only do one term because he was so interested in moving america in a direction in which it had not gone for many years. as he said his mission was to be the progressive reagan to be just as consequential to change but in a similar way. i think he really believed that this was going to be waterloo. this is a battle and win the election isfo ultra-obama in 202 really by news that think many people on the right were done. >> try being on the ticket. [laughter] >> i can imagine. i can imagine and that made them say all right if we are reaching this point where the input the electoral input we elected scott brownn in massachusetts and obaa passed obamacare anyway. we had the tea party congress but they weren't able to do anything. then in 14 we get a republican wave again that captured the senate and after the election of 2014 obama said oh yeah i heard people voted for republicans in congress and i hear all the people voted for democrats in the people who didn't vote at all. it's infuriating. the election should matter so i think tha

but again, let's go to barack obama negotiation with iran. as i write about only the strong, he didn't want a better deal, people asked why doesn't he get a better deal, he didn't want one, he thought america was to blame for decades of tension, he traced it back to 1950s he claim we overthrow the democratic prime minister of iran, that was a myth. he was not elected or over thrown, he was the one they trying to seize power and hold to it. but barack obama deat believed it in his bones, he said it in speech after speech. he thinks that america is to blame for the decades of tensions with iran, that is why we got the deal, we didn't want a better one, joe biden was there by his side, now it say . of personal and partisan honor for joe biden and democrat they go back to deal because donald trump ripped it up. appropriately so, it will put, ran on the path to the bomb, super charge their support for terrorism in the world to include here in the united states at a time when they have operatives trying to assassinate former u.s. government officia

i said i want you to memorize-- my grandfather had an absolute photographic memory-- barack obama. i want you to remember those words so when you see it on tv you know who you voted for. >> trevor: i love that. >> there will never be any question on what you did. he said, "okay, timmy." he calls me timmy. i said i want you to hit the vote button, the big green button. and walking out there, getting into the car, i have seen my grandfather cry twice. once was when my grandmother died, april, 2021, and the second time was having the privilege and responsibility of electing president barack obama. ( applause ) >> trevor: it's a really, really can pacific book because i think it gives so much more complexity to who you are as a man. thank you for joining me on the show. i appreciate you. not everyone comes here and chats with me. i always appreciate you. thank you for coming here. senator scott's book "america: a redemption story" is available right now. stay tuned. hey, everybody, don't forget we only have so much time on television, so if you want to watch the full interview, which i

a cohost of pod save america, one of barack obama's longest-serving advisors. he was director of communications from 2009 to 2013. he lives in the bay area of california. dan's new book that we are here for this evening is titled, battling the big lie, how thoughts, facebook, and the maga media are destroying america. this blurb, it's an enlightening, at times enraging, and always entertaining guide to the recent history of our politics and media, drawing on dan pfeiffer's unparalleled experience. read this book if you want to understand what is happening in american politics, why it is happening, and what you can do about it. we're honored to welcome you back to harrisburg. without further ado, please join me and giving them a warm harrisburg welcome. [applause] >> it is good to be back. i know dan well, but we have not talked about the book because i have been waiting to talk about it in front of you all. let's start with the easiest question. why this book, why now? >> some of you may know, we were here together, sitting in these exact chairs in mid february

he brought in barack obama's administration and then pushing a hard left agenda and the things he said we are not doing to the democratic colleagues he is now doing. one of them is this a series of broken pledges but is trying to get away with it with his grandfather to not get the plane from the making people. it's obviously it's not working if you look at the polls. james: mike pence is calling out merrick garland but defending fbi agents this week in the former vice president has some advice for the gop. that is next. >> attorney general garland to give the american people a full accounting of the reasons why this action wa research shows that people remember ads with young people having a good time. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's a pool party. look what i brought! liberty mutual! they customize your home insurance... so you only pay for what you need! ♪young people having a good time with insurance.♪ ♪young people.♪ ♪good times.♪ ♪insurance!♪ only pay for what you need. ♪liberty liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ [sfx

obama. >> reporter: he hugged former president barack obama on stage after introducing him at an economic stimulus package rally dubbed by the press as "the kiss of death." but 13 years later, crist is embracing that moment. >> president obama used to always tell us, when we vote, we win. >> reporter: courting voters as the best democratic candidate to break desantis' stronghold in the state. you've been in politics for a very long time. you've seen the state change. do you truly believe that right now a democrat can win florida? >> i have no doubt about it. i know it in my heart and soul. we're one-third republican, one-third democrat, one-third interest registration. we need to get the democrats unified, get our share of the independents and moderate republicans, because i know they're out there, they're upset this governor yells at kids and really demeans everybody. >> people have this question, why did you switch parties? >> my party left me, i didn't leave it. it started with the tea party and it's metastasized now. i'm comfortable being a proud florida democrat, it's where i should

barack obama took millions of documents to chicago when he left the white house. he said he would return them to washington, d.c. when he digitized them in five years. he has not done a single one. other presidents have done this. richard nixon took decades to return all of the documents they took from the white house. removing documents from the white house is not unprecedented. removing other things is. clinton stole furniture from the white house that they ultimately had to return. the only thing that is unprecedented here is not taking documents, not declassified things, the only thing is the next president using the law enforcement agencies to attack a political rival. host: the next caller is fillmore on the democratic line. caller: the truth about this country is it is an experiment in democracy. the whole idea is a country based upon freedom of the people and the opportunity to thrive based on a person's experiences. that is the reason -- america was based on democracy. this man is spewing poison bent on destroying not democracy, but america. he is support

barack obama took millions of documents to chicago when he left the white house. he said he would return them to washington, d.c. when he digitized them in five years. he has not done a single one. other presidents have done this. richard nixon took decades to return all of the documents they took from the white house. removing documents from the white house is not unprecedented. removing other things is. clinton stole furniture from the white house that they ultimately had to return. the only thing that is unprecedented here is not taking documents, not declassified things, the only thing is the next president using the law enforcement agencies to attack a political rival. host: the next caller is fillmore on the democratic line. caller: the truth about this country is it is an experiment in democracy. the whole idea is a country based upon freedom of the people and the opportunity to thrive based on a person's experiences. that is the reason -- america was based on democracy. this man is spewing poison bent on destroying not democracy, but america. he is support

the first would have been to ban private jets, but to this day, al gore still flies on private jets, barack obama -- and beachfront property. they are all in on it. it's a scam, because they will personally escape the consequences of their own policies. when the french president says that his people are facing the end of abundance, he's not talking about himself. emmanuel macron and all of them understand that they will always be rich and protected. they know that for certain. what is very interesting is that suddenly, everyone else that has been paying attention can see that they were lying. the entire population of europe now knows that. four years ago, trump warned europe that the energy -- the german delegation laughed at him. >> germany will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately change course. here in the western hemisphere, we committed to maintaining -- from the encroachment of expansionist flow would have. it's been the formal policy of our country's president munro -- monty roe -- -- >> they are laughing. but, they are not laughing anymore. europeans

adore country and to barack and michelle obama we are forever grateful for you and i can't wait for liz to open it and of our journey together. we love you guys hope to see you soon. >> please welcome mayor lori lightfoot. >> hello everyone and thank you all for being here today braided today is today for celebration and gratitude we are here to celebrate in this important milestone groundbreaking of the obama presidential center and we are faithful to the former president obama and first lady michelle obama for choosing chicago to make what i know will be a transformative investment on this historic southside of our beloved city braided it marks the next chapter in a journey began several years ago. but with many twists and turns due to the first parents dedication and hard work of many, we've arrived at this momentous day in the presidential center and complementary investments, in the surrounding neighborhoods will be bringing to life the promise of true equity and inclusion investment and development on the south side. and that's why i'm proud to be here to break ground in incredibl

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he brought in barack obama's administration and then pushing a hard left agenda and the things he said we are not doing to the democratic colleagues he is now doing. one of them is this a series of broken pledges but is trying to get away with it with his grandfather to not get the plane from the making people. it's obviously it's not working if you look at the polls. james: mike pence is calling out merrick garland but defending fbi agents this week in the former vice president has some advice for the gop. that is next. >> attorney general garland to give the american people a full accounting of the reasons why this action was necessary ♪ i'm way ahead of schedule with my trusty team ♪ ♪ there's heather on the hedges ♪ ♪ and kenny on the koi ♪ ♪ and your truck's been demolished by the peterson boy ♪ ♪ yes -- ♪ wait, what was that? timber... [ sighs heavily ] when owning a small business gets real, progressive helps protect what you've built with affordable coverage. a trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ (coughing) ♪ breeze drif

that means eliminating career government employees installed by barack obama. and nothing terrifies a career bureaucrat more than losing their grip on power. look, on the one hand, some politicians in both parties do appear to recognize this threat. florida governor ron desantis for example is calling this raid a sign we are now living in a banana republic. and andrew cuomo, a democrat who is no stranger to open-ended investigations, just called the raid a major threat to the credibility of the fbi appeared on the other hand the republican leader in the senate mitch mcconnell waited 24 hours before he demanded anss from the fbi peer tim scott of south carolina says we need to wait and let the process player. john cornyn sent out a few retweets. kevin mccarthy calling for reforms. really? how do you perform this? this is the fbi director on august 4th. >> do you agree that the allegation of secret collusion between president trump and russia was a hoax? yes or no? >> i don't think that's the terminology i would use. i think there's a lot written on the subject b

he brought in barack obama's administration and then pushing a hard left agenda and the things he said we are not doing to the democratic colleagues he is now doing. one of them is this a series of broken pledges but is trying to get away with it with his grandfather to not get the plane from the making people. it's obviously it's not working if you look at the polls. james: mike pence is calling out merrick garland but defending fbi agents this week in the former vice president has some advice for the gop. that is next. >> attorney general garland to give the american people a full accounting of the reasons why this action wa research shows that people remember ads with young people having a good time. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's a pool party. look what i brought! liberty mutual! they customize your home insurance... so you only pay for what you need! ♪young people having a good time with insurance.♪ ♪young people.♪ ♪good times.♪ ♪insurance!♪ only pay for what you need. ♪liberty liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ ♪

barack obama also did it. and the latest defenses, oh well i just magically declassified these things. again, it's the typical donald trump playbook, where he sending us running after ridiculous ideas. but let's spend a second. like senator cain, i spent a lot of time around the most highly classified information as a member of the intelligence community. whenever i have access to that information, i go to a special office building in the capital, that has heavy bulletproof doors, guarded by armed guards, i can't take any electronic devices. i see this information and i'm allowed to take it with me. what does it mean? that box that is ts ssdi, a bunch of initials that most people don't understand. that's stop secret sensitive compartmentalize information. it's information that by definition would cause extreme damage to the national security of the united states. it's important that people understand what that means. that's information that's gathered by our officers in places like afghanistan, iraq, very dang

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

[laughter] >> do you miss barack obama? >> trump, too. >> you miss trump. >> i miss a few of the presidents. >> which ones do you miss the most. >> george. >> which one you have quote to be a little more specific. >> father and son. >> holy spirit. >> yeah i'm in to that, too. >> holy spirit activate. holy spirit activate. >> do you miss barack obama. >> compared to joe biden, yes. >> now who do you miss. >> trump. >> how much do you miss him? >> i miss him a lot. >> do you think about him every night. >> no not every night. >> every other night. >> yeah, every other night. >> then you fell in love. >> i am waiting for the president to come where there is actually change instantly. >> president obama promised change. >> the only change i have got in my pocket. [laughter] >> who is barack obama's vice president? >> oh my gosh. um, oh my gosh. uh -- >> jeez, it wasn't jesus. it was a female, right? borders. >> the man in the white house who is screwing everything up. >> i need help. >> do you think that joe biden should run i

and pulled out and campaign with gavin newsom, barack obama cut a commercial for gavin newsom . bernie sanders did, harris made comments, nancy pelosi did and they all said the same thing. stop the republican takeover. they never said gavin newsom is doing a great job on crying because he wasn't . gavin newsom was doing a great job with schools, our schools are ranked near olthe bottom. gavin newsom is doing a great job in retaining people in california, went for the first time in our hundred 70 your people history people are taking their tax dollars with them. i can't think of anything this man has done well and nobody tried to defend his record . they said don't let republicans take over because republicans are unpopular in california. we're outnumbered 3 to 1 and that's how they succeeded. but you wouldn't donate me and i talked to mister newsom, have themsit down and said let's do the issue and they never did and he never did . when i got into the race the recall died, went to the bureau and he was scared and called out the dogs, allthis money came in from the unions, from h

you're thinking what does barack obama think about what happened in the world? >> when i left the white house, there were a few months there where i was writing emails to friends as barack obama. doctor kyle. >> i imagine many of the presidents'speeches are re-written and re-written endlessly and cleared by dozens and dozens of people. mechanically, how do you know with the draft is, given moment a? two, the practical question. what happens to all the drafts? are they shredded? are they erased? are the files sent to the archives? or what? >> everything for us was comments in the speech writing office, say five o clock on the same day that the draft went around the staffing process. during the draw during the staffing process, nobody was given a electronic copy of the speech. colin powell said one time, everybody likes to dream papers. everybody would love to get on the computer and play wizard word. we insisted on edits on a hard copy. they'd come to us. we'd have a stack of copies. >> i really wish we had done that. >> there's no other way to do it because you

think is a major thing is they breakdown of the american nuclear family. 40% of all and kids and -- barack obama once said a kid raised by father is five times more likely to the poor. 20 times more likely to end up in jail. 25% of kids born out of wedlock -- the welfare state hae my opinion incentivize women to the government and men to abandon their financial moral responsibilities far and away the biggest problems we are facing in america. there is a red line between that and the fact that 85% of eighth-graders nationwide cannot read or do math. 85% of them are functionally asserted as of the lack of parental supervision and dies in the house. it's a direct line between that and crime. i want to talk about those things and talk about the connection between that of the welfare state. i don't think they feel either party including my republican party expense of the time addressing of. >> host: speaking of which you wrote in 2000 in the 10 things you can't say in america you were talking about these issues back then and you mentioned the welfare state is the tyranny of the status quo. >> g

was the very first document donald trump received as document, a handwritten letter from president barack obama to his successor. that, by tradition, as everyone knows, is tucked into a drawer in the desk in the oval office for the incoming president. it was public information on inauguration day in 2017. that president obama left that letter for donald trump, who said, it was, quote, a beautiful letter. he actually said that about the president obama letter to him. and then, there were the letters that became, possibly, the most famous presidential letters in history. the trump love letters. >> i got a very beautiful letter from kim jong-un, he really wrote beautiful -- three page, i mean right from top to bottom, a really beautiful letter. >> donald trump never said very much about the text of those letters from the north korean dictator. but he was never shy about the feelings expressed in those letters. >> we fell in love. okay? no, really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they are great letters. we fell in love. >> for most of us, and that was just more trumpian the thundery. that

. >> president barack obama tweeting today saying this is a b fd. joining me now is a cnn contributor and author of, joe biden the life the run and what matters now. we know why he said that when the former president, barack obama, signed the affordable joe biden whispered in his ear while the microphone is open, this is a b f d. how are you doing evan? why did you make of today. >> i'm feeling fine. not gonna say it any better than barack obama did. >> listen, the current president biden says the signing is about showing americans democracy still works. which is what he ran on. it is his counter argument to all the chaos and the division of our politics right now. >> yeah, look, i will tell you don, at the core of joe biden's presidential career, right now. it has been this idea, which looks to i think a lot of people almost naive sometimes, almost antique. the idea that you don't have to be cynical about politics. the idea that this system, which is so paralyzed, so frustrating, so much of the time. it can actually be wrestled into gear. and you c