seems that obama from dr. sanders frame of reference was boxed in by his being a democrat so sort of the will of the democratic party is sort of acting a gravitational force on his choices. benjamin rhodes you brought the fact that obama has his eye on the concerns of the voters and then is very frequently said that obama's very pragmatic, sometimes the william james sense that he's trying find this right truth from all of these you know, these three sort of perspectives. have you noticed any. unique sort of obama doctrine? i like to say it is something that obama wanted to do himself. how did he see the world apart from these burdens in context on his decisions with to foreign policy, i guess to introduce a new concept? i was always aware from the beginning of the obama presidency, from the campaign that that he was going to see world differently than anybody had ever been president had stage before and the most obvious reason is because he's black. but he also lived in indonesia as a child right after cia su

i think what he wrote was that obama feared it would be obama's vietnam. and i think you've confirmed that that's true. but the other history that he took, i think and i think he wrote this in the speech he gave at west point was was eisenhower's formulation, which is exactly right, which is that the nation has so many resources as it called political resources, and called economic. you call them energy resources or psychological moral resources, eisenhower said. and i think you had obama quote this in that speech, which is that know he had to choose between how much he spent on the military versus building new schools and and providing, you know, a better life for citizens. and that's effect that what obama took from that and more importantly in some ways what biden took from that. right. because in venice, as he was against the surge decision that was made, biden was really against he was the main voice probably in that room offering skepticism of that thing. and what did he learn from that? this is really interesting. obama had not been in that room bef

certainly kerry did and obama did in 2004 and obama did as president. so can hear in that statistic that he has to overcome a barrier of persuading the public that democrats really want to spend money on programs that programs that are wasteful and programs that will help poor people lift themselves out of poverty, not remain in poverty. and by the way, if you're thinking that there probably was a racial to that, that there were perceptions that were about race and poor people, i think you're right. of course, poor people are more white than any other race. but there's a negative, an unfair steering type that people had. the thing about rhetoric is, one can can decry the unfair stereotype, as i'm sure we do. but obama still had to confront it. so those are the barriers now going to watch about minutes of the speech. and what i want you to do is watch as the audience response builds. and then i want you to think about the strategies that he's. and then we're going to come and i'm going to talk about what happens in the first 10 minutes. and remember, the

obama, one barrier has is that he is unknown. it is astonishing he chose obama. he is a state senator running for the illinois senate. by the way, that is an eerie parallel with abraham lincoln and the house divided speech. also, running for the united states senate. obama won, lincoln did not in that race. kerry is running against george w. bush. 2004, the overwhelming important issues relate to the war in iraq and the war on terrorism. while things were beginning to in iraq, they had not reached the point quagmire that would occur in the period after the 2004 election. kerry had been the united states senator from massachusetts but because he t was from massachusetts. it was easy to stereotype him. he was primary a centrist. but he was also attacked in the campaign. oddly enough because he was s accused of not supporting soldiers and veterans of vietnam. kerry had served in vietnam and served with distinction. i know he won a silver star for his heroism. g he was stereotyped as anti- soldiers because after he served in vietnam, he joined the vietnam veterans ag

a lot of things are changing already by the time obama comes in obama takes it and runs with it. he's trying to repair abroad and it shows how many people in the countries were excited about obama's g presidency and they sw him as a new generation model of multicultural multiracial, international superpower, they saw him as younger in exciting and i think that was helpful. obama of course himself has revolution over time. i know ben wouldth agree with to this, intervention 2011 is a key pivot point, up until that point he is doing some of the things that he sent more troops to iraq and afghanistan with the timeline never would agree to. he amped up the a drone strikes overseas, he is taking and agrees to the intervention in libya on his own instincts, he was probably ambivalent about it let's say. because it doesn't go very well he doesn't want to have another iraq we won't spend troops onwa the ground but he wants to stop the slaughter ended proves the satisfying conclusion not just because of benghazi that we can't take up and rebuild and were not willing to do that as a countr

and obama understood the importance of chief of staff one of my favorite stories concerns the time obama was campaigning a month before the election. he was in reno, nevada he called a secret meeting of the staffers. staffers. they included david axelrod, valerie and almost all of bill clinton's former white house chief's. john podesta, leon was on the phone so is bill daley. anyway the point of this the reason it was secret was because obama did not want to be accused of measuring the drapes in the oval office before he was elected. but he knew how important it was to figure out who his white house chief would be. unlike some other presidents. and so bowles was on the phone call marvelously and unforgettably, the first thing he said was a listen, leave your chicago friends at home. they will only cause you grief. everyone on the call was from chicago practically. david axelrod, bill daley and all the rest he did not take that advice needless to say he appointed robert emanuel who was i think a good choice at the time for the first parts of the obama presidency. but my points here is onc

we continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. i will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. they don't really begin to scratch the surface of their bios, as you might imagine. the honorable jacob lue, who served as a 76th secretary of the treasury, as white house chief of staff as the director of the office of managed mint and budget, actually a position that he had previously held in the second term of the clinton administration and as deputy secretary of state for management and resources i welcome secretary lew. peter baker who is working very hard for us today. i think this is your third check on me is the chief white house correspondent for the new york times responsible for reporting on the biden presidency right. now, he previously wrote about president j. trump and barack obama for new york times and presidents bill clinton and george w bush for. the washington post. welcome, mr. baker. welcome back, mr. baker. chris whipple is author, political commentator and documentary

and obama understood the importance of chief of staff. one of my favorite stories concerns the time that obama was campaigning a month before the election. he was in reno, nevada. he called a secret meeting of staffers. they included david axelrod, valerie jarrett, and all of bill clinton's, , almost all of bill clinton's former white house chief come erskine bowles, john podesta, leon panetta was on the phone, so with bill daley. anyway, the point of this come the recent industry was because obama didn't want to be accused of measuring the drapes in the oval office before hene was elected. nightingale how important it was to figure out who is white house chief would be. unlike some of the president. and he, and so erskine bowles was on his phone call marvelously and kind of unforgettably, the first thing he said was, listen, leave your chicago friends at home. they will only cause you grief. well, ed wood on the call was from chicago practic, david axelrod, valerie jarrett, bill daley and all the rest. he did not take that advice, needle

war. >> pre barack obama has been a villain in this whole thing. he obnoxiously and obscenely compared these brutal murders to israel's disputed and controversial occupation. that will encourage groups like hamas to continue to you brutalize innocent civilians, not only in israel but around the world so i think obama has -- shame on him for what he did and i used to vote for him. i would never, ever support or vote for him or actually talk to him again. my relationship with him is over. maria: on instagram he said i'm ashamed that i met with you, i'm ashamed to know you. dershowitz was referencing these comments that obama made last week, watch this. >> what hamas did was horrific and there's no justification for it and what is also true is that the occupation and what's happening to palestinians is unbearable. you then have to admit nobody's hands are clean. maria: nobody's hands are clean, sarah, a moral ebbing will len sigh from barack obama. >> -- moral equivalency from back frac. barack obama. >> he has very little credibility when it comes to

pete: professor obama. republican jewish coalition came out right away with a at the same time in response to what the former president said, and they said this: at a time when morality, international law and the welfare of our chief ally in the middle east all demand that we stand with israel, full stop, barack obama says it's complicated. it's not. hamas is to blame for the current war. the u.s. should be fully behind israel as it seeks to the end hamas' capability to harm israelis and gazans alike, but instead when israel faces a barbaric attack from hamas, obama blames israel. rachel: you know, that statement by barack obama was classic barack obama where he does this and the other side and the other side. i do the think -- because there's a lot i can agree with him on. it is complex. the history is complex. anti-semitism is real. the conditions of palestinians, they will tell you, is unwearable. but at the same time, he does, the worst part of it is the last part where he does this faux introspection a

apparently , there were obscurities of obama and netanyahu. and the reason is political limits, because these two have different views. i said it before. netanyahu is an extreme zionist from sankh jabatinsky. destroyer of generations. netanyahu was involved in this ethnic cleansing. and basically, it always aims to speed up this issue. the minister has a last view of himself as someone who was called to save the jewish people. netanyahu was supposed to give a speech in the us congress. he had never given such an important speech in iran, but he felt that he had a historic role to play. don't be mistaken , netanyahu wants to be like churchill and the nazis he stopped, according to himself, to stop the new evil power , i.e. iran. the prime minister left tel aviv this morning. he is supposed to issue the most powerful statement possible to kill against the deal, so that if it fails, he will go down in history as the person who told everyone what was going to happen. the title of the right-wing leader of israel arrived in america to emphatically d

you mentioned obama. he weighed in on what's taking place in gaza right now during this interview on the podcast "pod save america." let's play a clip and talk about it on the other side. >> if there's any chance of us being able to act, it will require an admission of complexity and maintaining what on the surface may seem contradictory ideas, that what hamas did was horrific and there's no justification for it, and what is also true is that the occupation and what's happening to palestinians is unbearable. >> obama went on to criticize the discourse on social media about this issue, which as you know is just totally out of control about this issue right now. how do we get back to this place that obama seems to want everybody to get to, where people are having a constructive conversation about this? it is just -- the tempers are just flaring. it's just white hot right now. >> it's white hot right now. look, at some level, you want to have a vigorous political debate in a free country. there's nothing wro

obama. tonight will hear about the role the first lady played in supporting president obama's election campaign, advising him during his time in the white house on how she continues to influence american politics today. i want to thank the women in leadership advisory board for cosponsoring this event and many of them are with us today. [applause] my role this evening is to moderate a panel discussion with who served as chief of staff for the first lady from 2011 until 2017 in conversation with several members of the faculty.t i will begin with brief introductions. tina currently serves as executive vice president and chief strategy impact officer for the obama foundation. she served for eightt years in the obama white house. first is the inaugural director of the white house office of public engagement and then as chief of staff she also served as executive director of the white house council on women and girls for eight years. after the white house she worked in the chicago office later se

obama might be up to? oh, so this is something i just learned from our predecessor is, you know, having both, you know, read, you know, the various biographies of our predecessors and also becoming the other the thing i had the advantage of doing as chief of staff was i became, you know, very good friends with my predecessor, chiefs of staff. so mrs. bush's chief of staff, anita mcbride, became a dear friend, milan verveer, who is, you know, hillary clinton's chief of staff when she was first lady. and they were real true advisors and and guideposts for me in this job that has no job description and and one of the things i learned from them was to think about where do you want to put your initiative. so, for example, you know, secretary clinton put her america's first treasures and got it, you know, embedded into the department of interior and the reading initiatives that mrs. bush did, you know, got it embedded, you know, with, i think, the library of congress. and so i spent a good chunk of 2016 figuring

difference between obama and netanyahu. this act was a direct attack on obama's foreign policy legacy. that situation was a turning point in the history of american diplomacy. because when netanyahu was speaking before the us congress, he received 26 standing ovations from the representatives. this was not because netanyahu is an eloquent orator, but because representatives from aipac played a key role there, and for their pleasure, the representatives of the american congress had to jump up and clap their hands. netanyahu has achieved great success in shaping personal relations with american politicians and american parties are actually obtained and his position is actually opened between the different american parties, the two major american parties. this was a complete humiliation and insult for those who were supposed to be the representatives of the strongest country in the world, america. the most powerful country in the world had become a tributary state of israel. all those representatives were afraid that aipac wou

obama's entire presidency. they passed with netanyahu and maybe it can be said that it was the most volatile period of political relations between these two regimes. after the second world war, when the israelis did not achieve anything for the palestinians, the construction process was completely stopped. there were many wars. urbanization continued. to some extent, it is political because these two have different views. i have already said that netanyahu is an extreme zionist of the zhabatinsky style, the destroyer of netanyahu's generation in this ethnic cleansing. their characteristics and attributes, which are a school and a model school, which truly translate and manifest the values ​​of islam and its principles for us, and we acknowledge their rank and dignity in the eyes of god and the importance of their forgiveness and their sacrifice in our lives, that god has given these sacrifices and these sacrifices the honor, dignity and victory for our nation and our nation, and we also speak of the sanctity of

obama is calling the shots. do you have everybody drop out of the race in my opinion, to give it to by the head, by and pick com a lot. so he'll promise campbell, a supreme court nominees, number nation still promised this one that uh, gavin user could be in the cabinet. i believe me, it will go smoothly for them because it's all going to be worked out by obama. but most importantly, you have to get it by the american people. are the american people going to accept one? then they say they don't know a lot about trump's policies, but they do, they would definitely know more than they would know about a new candidate that would enter the scene at the d and see what the american people accept it. well, i think it's clear by now the democratic leadership could care less about what their own constituents think. so they're not overly concerned about what you know, the american people in the voters think they, they come up with a narrative and they run with it. but i don't think there's any possibility that michelle ob

of course, that's of the obama town. it's the michelle's a town or the 1st primary that rearranged everything to make the 1st primary, south carolina. and that's uh michelle obama's adopted hometown the grandmother lived there. the whole thing. so like i, i think, i think the, the big, they have a strategy, they know what they're doing. and i guess the longer they way, maybe the easier it is to bring her in the, to again, because everything will be in k, i said it won't be able to go through the normal channels. but, you know, look, look at the academy by picture jo, buying and god bless them. i hope i live to be a as his agent and older. but everybody ages differently just looked at him and picture him a year from now would people have to go and pull the lever or write in their balances? i mean, it's going to be a disaster. 67 percent of the people democrats don't want them. nobody wants some fees being told, like i said, actual right i, i, a disciple of obama says joe, get out. so it's only a matter of time what they'r

the obama camp has a really lame excuse. to say this was a obama foundation event so a nonprofit can't talk politics. then why were they celebrating obama's presidential victory in 2008 if it's not about politics? obama didn't mention biden on a podcast and had several opportunities to be pro biden but he didn't. is this about obama protecting his own legacy from biden's bad poll something >> it seems to be so because again, if this was an event to celebrate obama's presidential accomplishments, surely his vice president could also be included in that. biden played a instrumental roll and white house and obama and biden racked separately on multiple occasions they were friends and at the very least, even if you don't want to include bide anne donovan your political accomplishments, wouldn't you want to invite someone you considered a friend to be at an event celebrating your accomplishment s? it seems very forced? it's a very obvious excuse as you said. liz: washington post is reporting what's going on behind the scenes in d

well, you know, you look at the neo liberals, they love the brock obama. true though, the crone and i think it's going to be uh, gavin newsom fits the hair for one fitness. the hairs but no, i think he's, he's a guy who looks good in a suit and does what he's told and they're telegraphing their move. they send this guy to talk to gigi and paying and invite geez, and think to san francisco. and he happens to be the former governor of san francisco. he's really tight being, excuse me, st. former mayor of san francisco. really tight with the, the tech, you know, people which is the san francisco area i, they know they're competing factions, but i think they see him as a kind of a neutral guy. i also think because he doesn't have a history and foreign policy that can't be used against him. i think they see they've had such debacles in foreign policy that they prefer to have someone who wasn't a, who doesn't have a foreign policy history. and so i think newsome's the guy, i don't disagree, i think new some is definitely on the schedule, but malls were just inte

of course, that's of the obama town. it's the michelle's a town or the 1st primary that rearranged everything to make the 1st primary, south carolina. and that's uh michelle obama's adopted hometown the grandmother lived there. the whole thing. so like i, i think, i think the, the, they, they have a strategy, they know what they're doing, and i guess the longer they wait, maybe the easier it is to bring her in the, to again, because everything will be in k, i said it won't be able to go through the normal channels, but, you know, look, look at it can be by picture joe barton and god bless them. i hope i live to be as his agent and older. but everybody ages differently just look at him and picture him a year from now would people have to go and pull the lever or write in their balances? i mean, it's going to be a disaster. 67 percent of the people democrats don't want them. nobody wants some, he's being told, like i said, actual right i, i, a disciple of obama says joe, get out. so it's only a matter of time what they're

remember, obama never left d.c. his wife, michelle, is she a black, woman, it's not sexist and racist if she got elevated over kamala harris. i think the story line, it's moved from who can beat joe biden to everybody can beat joe biden. ron desantis, nikki haley. donald trump, whomever the republicans pick would be joe biden. democrats aren't stupid. they are going to get the republican nominee in and then they will pull a bait and switch at the convention. i think michelle obama will ride to democrat rescue. biden will step down. she's the savior and then we'll see michelle obama running to extend the biden administration for a fourth term in the white house. >> sean: why does everything about her personality tell me no way? i don't see her doing it. wanting anything to do with it. >> i understand that argument, sean but when they tell you in late july or august, all you have to do, they ran joe biden from the basement. she doesn't have to win over voters, show up in new hampshire, and make sure that she's having

of course, that's of the obama town. it's the michelle's a town or the 1st primary that rearranged everything to make the 1st primary, south carolina. and that's uh michelle obama's adopted hometown the grandmother lived there. the whole thing. so like i, i think, i think the, the big, they have a strategy, they know what they're doing. and i guess the longer they way, maybe the easier it is to bring her in the, to again, because everything will be in k, i said it won't be able to go through the normal channels. but you know, look, look at it can be by picture joe barton and god bless them. i hope i live to be as his agent and older. but everybody ages differently just look at him and picture him a year from now would people have to go and pull the lever or write in their balances? i mean, it's going to be a disaster. 67 percent of the people democrats don't want them. nobody wants some fees being told, like i said, axel, right? i, i, a disciple of obama says joe, get out. so it's only a matter of time what they're doing

you know what barack obama didn't say that he should have said? if he was seeking right and wrong, why didn't he say that hamas holds innocent civilians hostage so they can launch missiles from hospitals, malls, transport terrace from inside and balances. why didn't barack obama say that? why didn't he take that on? no, it is just blame israel first. that's why republicans -- >> sean: i've got to run. thank you. the book is called "the genius of israel." that's all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us. live shows wednesday and thursday. in the meantime let not your heart be troubled. greg gutfeld will put a smile on your face next. have a good night. ♪ ♪ >> greg: that is true. the whole world was falling apart. happy monday, everybody. like anyone who ever bought a book by brian kilmeade, we understand buyer's remorse. in these days nobody gets that better than your average democrat. joe biden continues his worldwide confusion tour, more and more voters have taken to steaming the "donald trump" to go their previouses. i

of course, that's of the obama town. it's and michelle's a town, the 1st primary that rearranged everything to make the 1st primary, south carolina. and that's uh michelle obama's adopted hometown the grandmother lived there. the whole thing. so like i, i think, i think the, the big, they have a strategy. they know what they're doing. and i guess the longer they wait, maybe the easier it is to bring her in the, to again, because everything will be in k, i said, a won't be able to go through the normal channels. but, you know, look, look at the academy by picture joe, by and god bless them. i hope i live to be a as his agent and older. but everybody ages differently just looked at him and picture him a year from now would people have to go and pull the lever or write in their pallets? i mean, it's going to be a disaster. 67 percent of the people democrats don't want them. nobody wants some fees being told, like i said, axel rod, a disciple of obama, says joe, get out. so it's only a matter of time what they're doing and w

[laughter] i mention the shepard fairy picture of obama. those are hugely important purveying an image of the president we went to see and what that image can tell you so muchin and what they are tryingo accomplish. so i think it's been incredibly important. >> we have a question over here. >> i think you said someone was the first black man to have dinner in the white house. lincoln it used to have conversations with frederick douglass allots pres not allowed to eat at the white house, do you know? >> was invited to dinner. >> link it with feet with people all of the time. what's really, really big deal we should celebrate teddy roosevelt for doing it . i think it's extra cool he did after reading this. book. >> i think fdr was an exceptional president. i just wanted to ask if there any others who may impact that were following the stock market crash. fdr was over the wpa which was the works of project. itt employed a lot of musician, artists,to and things you don't hear about today. are there any other presidents who have come close to th

you know what barack obama didn't say that he should have said? he say that hamas holds innocent civilians hostage so they can launch missiles from hospitals, malls, transport terrace from inside and balances. why didn't barack obama say that? why didn't he take that on? no, it is just blame israel first. that's why republicans -- >> sean: i've got to run. thank you. the book is called "the genius of israel." that's all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us. live shows wednesday and thursday. in the meantime let not your heart be troubled. greg gutfeld will put a smile on your face next. have a good night.

i never thought i would say this but obama was right in 2020 before biden's nomination obama reported low told another democrat don't under estimate joe's ability to bleep things up. according to politico. obama said, and you know really does not have it? joe biden. >> innior lifetime ask yourself has there ever been a worse duo than joe and kamala? as we speak we are watching it every day. and antisemitism is exploding all across the world and in our own country but let not your heart be troubled your vice president kamala hair premesis on a mission to end islam phobia in the midst of the worse antisemitism since the 1930s. none of this has anything to do request racism or hate it has toefrg do with political poles out in michigan. based on her track record. i doubt this is a series effort. all words all talk, no action. but nothing this administration does is about making your life better. your family's life better they treat the white house like a political game this is real life and real americans 2 thirds living paycheck to paycheck than i are suffering the world is a more danger

all they can do is knit pick israel and get the story wrong, and obama, ow obama has blood on his hands and they can't get the dar damn story straight, sir. >> you are right, always your monologue is spot on, at the end of the day it is simple, stop giving money to terrorists who want to kill us, you are right, barack obama gave iran over 100 billion, joe biden gave iran nearly 100 billion dollars, in a real since they funded the death squads that were murdering civilians in israel, they are funding the rockets that are raining down otherwise rail. and what is the -- down on israel, and what is bible a response. biden administration response at every step since october 7 biden administration has been calling on israel for a cease-fire, for a pause, undermining israel. joe biden wants israel to stop killing terrorists, we should stand unequivocally with israel, prime minister netanyahu is right. the only ponts to these atrocities is to eliminate hamas, and biden administration is doing everything they can to prevent hamas from being eliminated and joe biden's first response after this at

like barack obama is a very in many personal ways, like the worst nightmare. the worst case scenario of the voting rights act for its opponents. right. this mixed race black man who can come and be the centrist like jesus character, and all of a sudden the white people, him and he's winning indiana like again that's what that's what the other of the selma bridge was very concerned about. right. and and so when we think about him that way. right. when we think about barack obama as as an inevitable outcome of the last reconstruction. right. and as the continuation of this right. that he is the spoils of a post-racial democratic system. right. the reaction and response to him is also not new. right. that what we have seen since creation of post-racial democracy has been an active and proactive resistance to that post-racial democracy. when we look at that be okay well, we are ostensibly a multiracial, but let's voting rights in these places like they can vote but they can't really write it is been the crackdown we saw through the eighties and nineties of civil l

clearly president obama won handily over mitt romney. at this same time george bush, bill clinton, barack obama trailed. all of them ended up winning. right now people are comparing biden to the almighty. we haven't gotten to the binary choice you talked about earlier. next year when we're at that binary choice, that's when swing voters start to pay attention, not this far out. >> it's a pretty binary choice between trump and biden. trump is leading far and ahead. we just showed you polls between biden and trump. a plurality are picking trump. >> yeah, but you and i also remember the same polls showed obama trailing. there was a poll out week that had biden up seven nationally. not that i think that poll is any better. i think you can't poll this far out for a variety of reasons and just think it's going to be who is going to win the election. right now there's a lot of people pissed at the incumbent president, as they always are for a variety of reasons. i thought you framed it perfectly earlier, trump's behavior today in court whether

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is obama toast?ection and had a successful second term. >> bret: i'm not sure the obama-biden thing is apples to apples. looking at this going wait a second. this is not working. >> brian: nobody doubted -- you could be the biggest detractor of barack obama. no one could say is he not talented no. one can say he can't give a great speech. trailing by five or six points. okay. right message, things break the right way he could do it. nobody thinks that joe biden is getting better. nobody thinks joe biden has another year. i don't think joe biden thinks he has another gear. he will do it through surrogates. almost everything in preparing for this, is unprecedented. almost everything we are going over between the number of well-known third party, fourth, fifth, and six party candidates looking at and looking at incumbent where you have stalwarts in their party saying i really hope he doesn't run, the "wall street journal" saying it's selfish, david axelrod saying what he is saying. all of a sudden the p

it was generally understood at the time this was early in the obama administration, that judging that the fire department did here was basically the same argument that people were having aboutt obama care. can is there a collective obligation to protect people? i wrote a book about the obama care litigation and i concluded after learning about it that the attack was driven by philosophy libertarianism and everybody is on their own and only legitimate function of the state is to protect people's person and property from violence and that's it. there was more about libertarianism and i discovered writing about the book that nobody had written a good account off libertarianism as a political philosophy, and that's what it is.ba basically in is something that most americans believe and there's other places where people don't believe it and the governments in russia and china and iran don't believe it. minimize the power of the state and make libertarianism smaller. that's a bad i can't tell jim jordan for making people genuinely free.e. people aren't genuinely free if they are vulnerable

a big reunion this weekend with all of the obama staff.dbreaking in chicago. they were all gathered there. instead of being able to say everybody here, we need to support president biden. he is saying these things. he also said the reaction on tiktok is too much and there's too much social media. he said some things we would probably all agree with. it is the point where he says everyone is complicit. no, sir. i think if you go back to the iranian point, who is backing all of this? who has the money? who was trying to help them? all of those things go right back to that administration. president obama basically gave permission to do both sides. not to help president biden. president biden is increasingly on an island with a support for israel. i hope that he can hold strong. x going to be very difficult for him to do so. at all also might be another reason for him to say, i'm not running again. because i am going to focus on making sure that innocent people are protected and the little baby is found safe and brought home in that israel and

own i' obama i'm sorry your hands are bloody here, and president biden following the direction of obama and ended financial and energy sanctions on iran, giving them more money. so mr. biden's hands are very dirty. you know in the terrorist game, like all war, money is the key. speaking of money. why isn't there any widespread media coverage of the great network network post article -- "new york post" article on hamas billionaires living in qatar? living in qatar in a life of luxury. you have to get this story. the head of the hamas bureau, and foreign relations and another leader, the three of them, have a combined total of 11 billion dollar fortune. one of them some kind of a ping-pong champion, that is great, this is the height of hypocrisy. poverty in gaza almost unrivaled bunot these guy, and secretary of state antony blinken wants to pick a new fight with israel over postwar plans, how about publicly praising our best friend for its amazing wartime performance, israel does not top of run gaza, they have to secure it for a while, but they don't want to govern it blinken creating a

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in a narrow victory for barack obama in the 2012 election. problem for biden in this election is he isn't seen as an effective leader or strong as youthful and energetic. he is not -- he certainly doesn't have the political skills barack obama had to pull that off. so i think the biden white house and team biden political operation is thinking we can duplication 2012 and 2004 and win re-election by going after the opponent. as george w. bush did against john kerry and barack obama did against mitt romney. they are overestimating the president's talents. his problem is the american people looked at him and said he isn't up to the job. it is really hard to reverse that once that sinks in. >> steve: in 2020, he essentially ran in the basement. and he ran on covid, and he ran on i'm not donald trump. well now covid is out of the equation but now they are putting all the eggs in he is not donald trump. as it turns out we've seen joe biden for three years. a lot of people are nostalgic for donald trump's policy. >> one important component of the 20

you wrote -- the jons, you guys wrote speeches for obama, and then also wrote jokes for obama.yeah, no, you'd think so. >> jimmy: yeah. [ laughter ] >> i did better with the jokes than the serious speeches, i think, ultimately. >> lovett was our funny guy. >> jimmy: tom, you were working for the national security council. >> yeah. >> jimmy: as the spokesperson. >> yes. >> jimmy: so these guys are writing jokes for obama, you're dealing with ebola, that kind of stuff? >> no, literally, i mean -- so my job was, i was trying to communicate what the president's foreign policy was to the world. that meant, you know, rolling things out proactively, dealing with crises, going with him on foreign trips. when they're thinking about the joke for the white house correspondents' dinner, you know, that happened the weekend of that operation, i'm thinking -- i'm in the white house the next day sort of trying to figure out how to roll out the fact that we've taken out the biggest terrorist in the world. yeah, slightly different roles at time. >> right. when obama hit bin laden, "we got him,"

with valerie chair, ceo of the obama foundation. i am jonathan capehart. this is an extended edition of the saturday show. the israel-hamas war continues to rage on this morning. nearly 10,000 palestinians, including 3900 children, have been killed according to the ministry of health. in gaza. overnight clashes between israeli troops and hamas fighters continued as the israeli military says it has cut off all main roads into gaza city. nbc news has not been able to independently confirm that. this comes after america's top diplomat, secretary of state, anthony blinken, met with arab foreign ministers and jordan overnight. this follows the secretary's latest trip to israel where he called for a humanitarian pause in the conflict in gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's quickly rejected the notion saying it's a real would be going full force until the, roughly, 240 hostages held by hamas are released. meanwhile, the conflict also playing a key role in american politics. how speaker mike johnson ended his first week with hi

biden new message, i was vice president to barack obama. >> 15 years ago barack obama and my family werey hand and she reached out and grabbed barack obama's hand, the smile worth a million bucks. come on, it's going to be okay. >> i remember. she was a blast that night. >> raymond: laura, looks like he is visiting hads grandfather in the rest home. i don't know if this batman and robin will work. it made biden look weaker like he is out of control and others are running the white house for him. >> laura: he is hoping for reflected glory of obama, being in his presence, he will shine brightly once again with reflected glory and it will not work, never did work, won't now tissuing is over. >> raymond: biden spent time pitching bidenomics, whatever that is, and spending billions on amtrak upgrade. you can tell from the way this event started, how it would go. >> president biden: please take a seat if you have one. if i say anything you don't like, don't jump, okay? >> laura: not that line again. >> raymond: keeps repeating the same line. bidenomics is not working, he called it the american

axelrod wants obama to step aside. obama has reappeared is michelle going to be the democrat savior just saying the problem is democrats campfire they must persuade him to step aside the pressure is intense. the new york times, joe biden is in trouble. the wall street journal a five alarm biden reelection fire. maybe a little history is in order. in 1968 president johnson performed badly in the new hampshire democrat primary, 30 days later on national tv he dropped out of the race he knew he could not win. that's where the democrats are today they know the biden harris team cannot win and they have very little time to get them out and they also know if the president is incapacitated anyway we will have president harris. the second hour of "varney" just getting started. >> 's cbs poll found if trump wins the election in 2020 form more voters with better finances and staying out of wars very positive on a trump win. an abc poll finds that most americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction i called a negat

barack obama is saying wow, obama, saying nobody's hands are clean. really?ctually, sir, your hands are not clean. you gave iran $1.7 billion in cash and gold bars and then released another 100 billion in frozen assets? that's the kind of money that iran used to finance terrorism right up to october 7th. no, mr. obama, i'm sorry, your hands are bloody here and president biden of course following the direction of obama and worse, has essentially ended the financial and energy sanctions on iran, giving them even more money. so mr. biden's hands are very dirty. you know in the terrorist game, like all war, money is ultimately the key. speaking of money why isn't there any widespread media coverage of the great "new york post" article today on the hamas billionaire living in qatar? living in qatar in a life of luxury. you got to get this story. the head of the politburo, the head of the hamas politburo, head of foreign relations, another leader, the three of them have a combined total of 11 billion-dollar fortune. one of them is some kind of a ping-pong champion.

obama tried to make americans less obese. it didn't quite work but first ladies can make a difference. laura bush started the reading festival at the mall. it still continues and the first ladies have a great capacity to advance culture. they are trying to convey messages to make us better as a nationwide getting off drugs. >> many first ladies have appeared on sesame street. pat nixon and dr. biden appeared on sesame street and you see those things popping up. dear to toward kids to make us better as a nation. >> is the first ladies and not the presidents because the first ladies are not seen as partisan and this rc to somebody who represents the people. >> thank you so much for this conversation. [ applause ]. hour, this eveninga mcmanus is widely considered toa be the leading expert on the history of modern american

in any event, i was writing a paper 2007, obama was camped out in iowa. hillary clinton was ratcheting up. clearly, she was running for president. and i thought it wasurious because i've done all this work on of television andender roles and representation i was curious about the the portrayal of the president, men of color, perhaps, and also by women i was really looking at what who would get the nomination based on what i saw in popular culture. was it more likely to be barack obama or was it more likely to be hillary clinton? on the democratic side, 2008. and i remember when morgan freeman played the president in this movie about an asteroi hitting the earth in 1998 called deept, a he was the president of the united states. as you see him there and there was another movie that came about a fter it. so ty had both been greenlit at the same time in hollywood in hollywood called armageddon. and billy bob thornton played the president inhat. so you have asteroids hitting the ear as the narrative and in one movie you have a black president and, one movie, y