>> michael: coming up tonight, president obama reshuffles his diplomatic and national security team, going all in and calling the gop's bluff. we're all out of poker analogies, and we're not going to fold, so "the war room" starts right now. [♪ theme music ♪] >> michael: the poor poor republicans just can't find anything that will stick to the president and lord knows they have tried everything. but even after benghazi-get a and the irs scandal his approval rating has gone up.

a new nbc wall street journal out today shows the president's rating kicked up a percentage point. and today he continued to push back. the gop accused susan rice of wrongly claiming that the benghazi attack was the result of a video not a terror attack. >> obama: she helped to build my diplomacy team. i'm thrilled she will be back at my side leading my national security team in my second term. >> michael: and the republicans don't get to say much about this matter. this spot does not require senate confirmation.

senator rand paul was on fox news saying the choice made him second-guess his support for the president. his support for the president? rand paul has support for the president? let's listen to this. >> i really question the president's judgment in promoting someone who was complicit to misleading the american public. >> michael: other republicans are also joining paul's crusade. kelly ayotte tweeted today . . . because you have to senator. but there are some on the right side of the aisle who have come to rice's defense. georgia senator johnny isakson voiced his support for her on msnbc today. >> a lot of people are raising concern because of benghazi, but i think she was thrown under the bus and given the information

she repeated on the sunday shows. the focus should still be at the state department and the administration. >> michael: and he is exactly right. they can obstruct the president's pick to replace her, samantha power. she is a former director of the white house office of human rights, so she's eminently qualified to represent the nation on the world stage. and even john mccain conceded she was quote well qualified. very charitable senator. but that won't stop his colleagues from attacking her and by extension, the president, the white house, the media and whoever else is responsible for their latest scandals. they didn't seem too phased at the prospect of a fight with the republicans. >> it would be an incomparable

privilege to earn the support of the senate and play a role in this essential effort. >> michael: joining me now to talk about today's news out of washington, the smartest political minds in the business by colleague, bill press, and christine pelosi. welcome back inside "the war room" to both of you. bill i'll start with you. the republicans have been attacking the president for months now over benghazi. how much of a slap n this case it is to republicans that he is nominating susan rice? >> it is beautiful. i was in the rose garden this afternoon afternoon. it was a real celebration, and this is an incredibly powerful app pintment for two reasons. susan rice is one of the most

impressive smartest toughest people i have ever met. and this is the ultimate up yours, f-you to the republican party. it is driving them crazy. it is president obama's brilliant move and there is nothing they can do about it. what are they going to do? they are going to hold up some judicial appointments now, right? >> michael: yeah, like they wouldn't have done that already. christine these are two extremely bright women extremely confident and impressive in their resumes, and one of the things that strikes me about this is if the republicans are going to tangle with these two, they are going to be tangling with women and it comes on the heels of hillary clinton, and others isn't it great that this isn't a story anymore. >> as bill just said she is

strong talented, tough, and do the job that we need to keep our country safe and keep the american people secure in our homes and communities. it's very important that the president picked top notched people. >> michael: you brought your beautiful daughter with you to the studio today, and said samantha power was making her remarks, and her young children or child was in the front row making a disturbance. she was slightly distracted about it, she pulled through. the child was taken out by a relative at the moment and that's real life isn't it bill? wasn't it a bit of charm rather than what we're accustomed to seeing? >> it really was. and one other point on susan rice and then back to samantha power. the republicans i think are

going to live to regret their piling on susan rice because they effectively blocked her from being secretary of state, and now she is going to be even closer to president obama, and what i would argue has become a more powerful position because she is there with the president giving that briefing every day. samantha power. i hadn't seen her until today. she has a powerful story. she came here from ireland as a 9 year old wearing a t-shirt that was the american flag t-shirt. because her goal and dream had been to always be an american. if they think they are going to mess with her, and stop her, they better think twice. >> michael: yeah, and that's why i said what i said before. they are not just tangling with a woman, they are tangling with somebody of such substance and such -- such power -- that's the wrong word to use, power, but in

that sense -- >> she has goit. >> michael: yeah, she totally brings it. bill i wanted to talk about congress. ongoing immigration reform talks are near collapse now, because the gop insist that legalized workers don't get access to government health care. what does this mean to reform moving forward. >> had john yarmuth on my show today, and he told me he thought they would be unable to reach agreement on that one issue, which is unfortunate. republicans want that whole 13-year period, when people are working through the process, they want to deny them any access to health care during that process, which i think is immoral, but if they can't agree on that, they will still come up with a bill, they will pass a bill, there will be immigration reform, i believe, and so does yarmuth.

it will come out of conference committee, and i believe it will contain that health care provision. this is not the end of the world by far. >> michael: but it's -- it incenses me, when you think of these nut jobs that talk about morality, morality morality, and then it comes to giving health care, and they say no, no. that is the picture of hypocrisy, and it's so frustrating when you see what is going on in the house of representatives, and you are familiar with the house of representative representatives. what do you see as the chance of immigration reform if something like what bill and i were talking about isn't part of the bill. >> immigration reform needs to pass, so i feel very confident in the grassroots movement the

dreamers, for everybody that are coming together, and the reality is this will get done. >> michael: and it will get done over the objections of people who want to put in so much of this immoral stuff, who want to hold it up even in the senate over gay and lesbian rights. it highlights all of the problems that exist in that party. they never try to solve the problem that afflicts them. yesterday first lady michelle obama was giving a speech and was rudely interrupted when she was giving that speech. she was calling for the president to sign legislation -- the heckler was calling for him to sign legislation on rights for gay couples. what do you think of how michelle obama handled that? >> i loved it. i'm a tremendous fan of the

first family and the first lady. i think michelle obama is the best advocate and ambassador that barack obama has. number two, the case at issue, earlier in the evening somebody else from the same organization had heckled debbie wasserman schultz. third there is -- ought to be a zone of civility in public life. putting yourself out there makes you fair game. it should not make you prey. fourth, when it comes to the first lady she is accorded public respect for her office. she was in the middle of talking about the passionate lives of children who see other children being gunned down, and losing opportunity, and you don't interrupt and heckel the preacher in the middle of aer is month. >> i agree. let's take a look at that clip. oh, okay. so there's no sound on it -- you

are just taking a look at michelle obama right here. christine, one other thing she spoke to them like a mom. she said to the woman, listen, if you want to speak i will leave the stage. if you want to let me speak which is what i'm here to do that's what i am going to do. but bill don't you agree that the respect that has been accorded to this first lady and the president is different than anything we have ever seen before? >> it's the disrespect they have received by many different -- on many different occasions. i just want to say amen to everything that christine said. i thought the first lady was absolutely right on. and the lesson is don't mess with michelle. and a second thing is don't mess with barack obama on gay rights. he has done more than any other president on gay rights. let's face it the last democrat president, whom we love gave us don't ask, don't tell and the

defend of marriage act. so give me a freakin' break, and they are still going to interrupt the first lady. he'll sign that executive order but that heckling doesn't advance the cause in my humble opinion. >> michael: yeah, i think you are right. and what in the world do they have to complain about. if there is one special interest that would be pleased with the president at this point, you would think it would be that special interest. bill press you are see him on "full court press," christine pelosi. she chairs the california democratic party women's caucus thank you so much for being here on the show. when we come back we go inside the u.s./china power struggle. as the president prepares to meet his chinese counterpart.

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thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? ♪ >> michael: susan rice will have a lot on her plate when she replaces tom donilon as national security advisor. here she is today. >> i work forward to working closely with you, your extraordinary national security team, our country's most experienced leaders from both parties, and your superb national security staff to protect the united states

advance our global leadership, and promote the values americans hold dear. >> michael: protests in turkey, nuclear threats from north korea, and china's growing military might are some of what she will face. at the same time tensions have increased between china and the united states since rice's predecessor got president obama to pivot to asia. it has been swifting his focus from europe and the middle east to asia. some see it as a plot to control china's influence there. the president will meet with chinese president xi jinping this week. they will have their fair share of issues to discuss among which . . . for a look aread,

i'm joined by gordon chang. he is a columnist for forbes.com and author of several books about china and north korea. he comes to us from new york. gordon, thanks as always for joining us here in "the war room." >> thank you. >> michael: how do you think that susan rice gordon will approach her new job? what does she bring to this that others may not have or donilon may not have? >> i think it almost doesn't matter who is national security advisor, they are going to be reacting to a very assertive and sometimes hostile beijing. susan rice is a very tough individual, and she is going to need to be tough because she will be dealing with some pretty rough characters on the other side. so this is not a bad appointment for the president. >> michael: this person whoever it is going to be reacting. will there be anybody proactive that comes out of the white

house, out of the united states in that region? >> i think that there will but by and large what we're seeing is essentially the united states pivoting or rebalancing because it has to. we're doing that because countries in the region have been asking for moore american leadership, and that was what then secretary clinton was doing. china is angering a lot of people in asia and they are looking to president obama on this. and that's why he is moving. there will be some proactive policies but they will be drowned out by the general trend of what is going on. >> michael: and it is an opportunity for the united states as well in that region. one of the biggest items on the agenda when president obama and xi jinping meet this weekend is the cyber security program.

do you see any breakthroughs on this? >> china has the most extensive cyber espionage campaign. it is very well developed and very centralized. it's the security services, state enterprises, the communist party, and also individuals in china. it is going to be very difficult to change that and samantha power -- xi jinping doesn't have the authority to do that and he doesn't control all of the units that are hacking. so the united states need some proactive policyies to get china in place. and the policies are going to be much tougher than the ones we have seen up to now. >> michael: yeah, that's interesting. it's such an elusive foe this cyber hacking. another topic will likely be

north korea. there are reports that beijing has given north korea weapons. can the talk be an opportunity for the two leaders to defuse north korea? >> the one area where xi jinping and president obama can move forward on a solid platform and that is that the chinese are themselves very concerned about what is going on in north korea. the president is not going to do what the want them to do so the president has to increase pressure on north koreaia, but this is one of the areas where they can move forward united. >> michael: and is there something nixonian about this

meeting. this is a new era, but is there something nixonian about this? >> maybe for xi jinping to be able to go to the united states whereas nixon went to china, i don't think it is going to be that significant. because i don't think xi jinping right now is able to speak for china with the political system and certainly the policy making establishment, lacking coherence right now. so it's important for xi jinping to meet president obama, but no matter what he wants to do i don't think he'll be able to deliver that, and so that's why i see this maybe as less significant than others do. >> michael: yeah, and it's hard not to think about the press and how they are affected in china, how they report it, how they spin what happens in that nation. yesterday as you know marked the 24th anniversary of tenman square. what is your take on freedom of

the press in china today? >> it has become worse since xi jinping took control. we have seen backsliding politically with all of his campaigns of the seven things that cannot be mentioned in china today. his two non-negatables, as well as some other things that are occurring. this is going to be a big issue with the chinese people. the chinese people may not want to revolt but they don't buy into much of what the communist party is saying. and that's a problem for xi jinping because nobody believes that a one party stay is appropriate. and that puts the communist party at a real disadvantage. >> michael: and it makes everything about china that area so interesting, so compelling for politics. gordon chang thanks so much for being here in "the war room." up next on the show poverty

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♪ >> michael: a bit of sobering news tonight, a new study from the pugh research center shows that nearly a quarter of american families struggle to put food on their table. but this poverty is no longer isolated to urban and rural areas. suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest growing poor

population in the country. problems stretch across the country from surprising areas like cape corral florida to colorado springs. suburban poverty is a problem that lacks visibility possibly because it challenges our preconceived notion of the white picket fences and man cured lawns. joining us to talk about this is elizabeth kneebone. elizabeth we welcome you into "the war room." >> thank you for having me. >> michael: so suburban poffer city rising without much notice from the rest of the country. when did you become aware of the

problem and what made you decide to write this book? >> the first time we took a look at these trends was with the release of the first american community survey. we used to look across with the census. in 2006 we got a first look at decade trends and we wrote our first paper looking at poverty trends and finding for the first time that more poor lived in suburbs than in cities in areas. and so we tried to understand where and why this is happening and what it means forpolicy, and that's what culminated into the book we released a couple of weeks ago. >> michael: but if the numbers of urban poverty are going up, and suburban poverty is going up

even further there's rural, which we know there is a problem there. what is driving this change? and is this just a national crisis right now like we haven't seen in generations? >> well, in recent years we saw poverty reach record levels after the great recession with more poor people living under the poverty line than we had seen in decades so this is something that has touched all kinds of communities, you are right. and in part poverty does trend with the economy, but in terms of where we were seeing these spacial shifts and the fact that we saw poverty growing even when we were in the recovery this really points to dynamics that have been playing out in regions that go even beyond the economy but in terms of the economic cycle, but structural changes in the economy, dynamics like

affordable housing and where jobs locate in the region. so these are -- really the nexus of a number of different elements. >> michael: and then we move to the curative measures, and we know there are federal and state programs designed to help urban poor, can't we apply those same proms to suburban areas? >> we have at the federal level now over 80 programs spread across ten different agencies that amount to about $82 billion a year in anti-poverty programs. and they have been built up over decades since the war on poverty. and these are still places that are struggling as you said urban poverty continues to grow. but the way these programs have been designed and the level of fragmentation that exists in the current system means it can be

difficult to map it. we can't just talk about shifting resources from one plays in to another, because the need is so widespread and really these are regional issues. so the measures that we look at and the most promising models we have found are leaders coming from a nonprofit sector from local government, from school districts -- it's happening in a range of different ways across different places but people and organizations that are finding ways to attack these challenges at a better scale. they are doing more than one thing in more than one place. they are working across jurisdictions and poverty areas. is there a job or an education opportunity? are there the kinds of opportunities that not just help you in the short-term but help you pass out of poverty in the long term. >> michael: is there a model that is handling the problem

well? >> i think we could point to a number of promising examples that really do point the way towards a smarter, more efficient and effective way to deal with the scale of poverty today. one that comes to mind is neighborhood centers in houston, texas. it's a human service agency, a $275 million organization, so it's working on a really large scale across more than 70 sites in the cities and suburbs of houston. kate blend 35 different federal programs with public and -- you know, with local government investment, with private investment, to create a real continuum of services that help an array of needs. and they also invest in understanding the differences across different types of communities. what are the needs for an inner city neighborhood as opposed to areas where poverty has grown rapidly in recent years. >> michael: and of course the

funding is important. the number of people on food stamps has risen to above 47 million in this country. if republicans are successful at cutting funding, how will that hurt suburban america? >> you have these [ inaudible ] programs that i was referring to before. the recommendations that we put forward are really about making sure we are being intentional in the way we redirect our funding. if we can use that to help more people in more places, you are stretching your dollars further looking at evaluating what works and spending dollars more effectively. when you have safety net programs that make up the bases of our nation and make a big difference in terms of helping people get above the poverty line, things like food stamps the earned income tax credit we have good data and research that show that those programs in

particular are effective in helping people to get above the federal poverty line and to help them make ends meet so this is a really critical resource that help families regardless of where they are living. >> michael: of course. and that's why it is so important that they not cut that. it's disturbing and underreported, and we thank you elizabeth kneebone for talking us to about this story. up next it has been 45 years since the assassination of robert francis kennedy stunned the world. we'll talk to the man who had to break the news to the country.

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>> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. >> michael: today "the war room" somberly remembers several civil rights legends. we pay your last respects to new jersey center frank a lautenberg. he was a vocal supporter of

immigration reform. we also say good-bye to will d. campbell. he was a baptist minister who was a freedom rider and one of the four people who escorted black students into little rock central high school in 1957. our country is certainly a better place because of the lives of those two men. and today is the anniversary of when another civil rights hero was taken from us. >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 am today june 6, 1968. >> stephanie: kennedy was shot 45 years ago in los angeles. 45 years ago tonight while running for president. he made equal rights and poverty focal parts of his campaign. the man who announced kennedy's death was frank mankiewicz.

frank who went on to an illustrious political and journalism career. and he joins us now from washington, d.c. thanks for being in "the war room," frank. >> oh not at all. pleasure to be here. >> michael: frank tell us about the moment right after his assassination. how did you feel? where were you when that happened? >> well, i was with him at the ambassador hotel in los angeles. we were on the platform together and we were off to join the what we call the writing press. it used to be called the press, a nice acronym, and then at the last minute one of the hotel people came to me and said the senator says he is too tired to walk through that crowd again, and he wants to go out the back end -- entrance, which i'm going to lead him through.

and he did, and i followed. the only other security senator he had besides me. he and i jumped off of the back of the platform to join him and this maitre d' i guess he was, and then we call a call from ethyl, mrs. kennedy, who only a few of us knew she was pregnant. and she said help me. so we helped her down and then she said now go with him. and so we turned and that's when we heard the shots. sounded at first to me like fire crackers. i ran on and soon found in the kitchen there he was lying on the ground. people trying to subdue the

shooter, and it looked pretty bad. >> michael: yeah. >> and i called -- go ahead. >> michael: no, no i was going to say and we know from there how terrible it was, what happens. we have seen the pictures. you were about to say you made a phone call right after that? >> i called some doctors i knew in los angeles and asked them to meet us at the georgia street receiving hospital, which was where he was being taken, and then i kept wondering who -- how is the ambulance going to get there, and somebody said an ambulance had been called and pretty soon it showed up. we got him in the ambulance and i rode in a car with senator kennedy's brother-in-law who was sort of the campaign manager. we road right behind the ambulance to the hospital. and it was pretty hectic from there on.

actually i think it was maybe a good thing i had so much to do i had hardly time to grieve. >> michael: it sounds like a naive question now, because we know what the result was, but was there any kind of feeling of hope at the moment or any reason to think that everything was going to be okay? >> well, we wait for the doctors. they started examining him around 2:00 in the morning and they didn't finish until nearly 6:00. and then they came out and said publicly that they had taken most of the bullet out; that there were fragments they couldn't reach, and told us confidentially that there was trouble in the brainstem, and while they were not so concerned about survival they were concerned about recovery. >> michael: when you hear something like that in your job,

confidentially, what do you do with that information? do you keep it assembled between all of you. >> i keep it for a while, because i had to give periodic briefings to the press, but the doctors finally said to me you can tell them that we're concerned about life. and so i told them that and i remember haines johnson of the "washington post," his lead the next morning was senator kennedy was always concerned about life. >> michael: that's a great line. >> yeah. >> michael: we're talking about such a tragic and horrible part of his life. it certainly wasn't defined by that. your closeness to him, what is your favorite memory of your old boss? what is one story that you love to tell? >> oh, my. well, there are a lot of them. i guess partly one of them was

certainly that -- i remember once he said something critical of the canadians, something about vietnam, they weren't doing their part or playing any strong role, and he began to get a lot of criticism in the canadian press. people kept calling, and i went in and said there's more bad news from canada. and he said let's not even think about it. that's all happened and there's nothing we can do. let's look forward. and that was his philosophy. the other good moment that i remember is when the six-day war began, the israelis and egypt and all of the arab countries, and the ambassador from saudi

arabia began to speak at the un. and he spent maybe 15 minutes denouncing to center kennedy. said he was appealing to the jews, and doing what was good for the jews in new york because of his election coming up. and people kept calling me saying what are you going to do about it? so i went in to see senator kennedy, and i said this ambassador from saudi arabia is denouncing you. he said you are doing this all, denouncing the arabs, just to help the jews, and you are in the pocket of the jews from new york. and he thought for a moment, and then he said to me see if you can get him to repeat it on prime time. [ laughter ] >> he had always had a lingering problem with the jewish

community in new york, so he was delighted with the idea. >> michael: that's totally understandable. we're never going to know what he would have been like as the president. but we know what he was like as a senator. what do you think -- had he lived through his campaign -- his senor toal seat his service, what would his lasting contributions have been to the senate that we see today? >> his lasting contribution to the senate probably would have been a double awareness of the dangers of wars like vietnam. he kept saying what kind of a country are we that we rain these bombs on next people. and the other was civil rights. i would say he would have become the central figure in the civil rights revolution. >> michael: yeah. >> and certainly he would have become president.

>> michael: yeah it's hard to imagine also that he wouldn't have become president when you look back as well. frank mankiewicz thank you so much for gracing our show with your stories. before we go do a break, there is one more leader to remember this month, medgar evers a mississippi activest who fought to rid the south of segregation, died 50 year ago. he was shot and kill by a white supremacist. his wife became a civil rights legend herself. she met with president obama and others this week to remember her husband. in april myrlie joined me in "the war room." listen to what she had to say. >> michael: if medgar were alive today, if he came back and saw mississippi what do you think she would say? >> good. there's too much left to say to

simply say that happened 50 years ago. what a tragedy that would be if we simply let them ride the way they are and so many brave people gave of themselves. when the chocolate is hershey's, life is delicious.

♪ >> michael: let's head down to los angeles to see what cenk uygur has planned for "the young turks." cenk how are you? >> awesome. what percentage of the public thinks that congress is doing a good job? it's stunningly low. and then we have a republican who thinks that yoga will lead to hell. i'm not a big fan of yoga, but i'm not sure about that. and he's actually an important character in the republican party these days. and do we have a new and tougher president obama. drums. >> drums. our friend congressman tim young

of ohio thinks that yoga is the key to peace. so we should put them both on the same stage, cenk. so far on this show we have tried to make sense of the madness that is buzzing through the media cycle, but some news items are so out there, we had no choice but to call in someone who speaks crazy as a first language. let's head to our own brett. how are you. >> i'm doing slendedly. we have a bunch of tech stories. the rnc has fired a new cto, and the old cto has been mia, and they want to announce that asap -- >> this sounds b-a-d. >> yeah.

his name is andy barket and he worked at facebook. this is an attempt by reince priebus to bridge the digital divide. maybe part of the new initiative should be to announce in an outlet that is at least partial to your cause. >> michael: so they can't net good. but i hear there is a state senator's wife who is upset over how people use facebook? >> yeah, for those who don't know, a bot, or troll, it's what i have been doing to michael for years, but basically people go on facebook and set up fake pro files and then try to reach out

to people to entrap them or just mess with them. he is an alabama state senator, and his wife is upset about trolls. she said, quote, i have been silent for long enough. no more. multiple times since being in office he has gotten emails from women who may not even be real inviting him to explore. also sending pictures of .themselves. no more. it is a shame that people are so heartless that they would try to split up families. >> michael: so you are not big crush on michael 22? >> yes. and also i have this friend in nigeria who needs $50 million, and you with wire it straight to me, and i promise ten-fold return, michael. >> i do have a friend in nigeria who needs some money, so we have got to figure this out.

it's beyond coincidence. but my favorite text-based story is about the cooing founder of napster, shawn parker and his wedding. >> shawn parker is the guy who plays justin timberlake from the social network in real life. he got married and picked out this great spot in big sir, and he invested $10 million on his wedding to build up big statutes and platforms and bridges on this virgin coastline. but he didn't get the right permitting and built on protected coastline. and there was a stream with endangered steal head trout right next to it. and he was forced into spending $2.5 million -- not necessarily in damages, but as a donation to protect the coastline so he

could have his $10 million lord of the rings style wedding. >> michael: i kind of the it's worth it to let some wealthy guy blow all of his money on a wedding in protected land so we get $2.5 million to throw into the environment. >> i absolutely agree, and we we -- he'll be making an app so they know what part of the coastline they can hang out at. >> michael: brett ehrlich thanks as always. love these stories. someone is always in our "war room." you can check us out online at current.com/thewarroom, also where you can link up to our twitter and facebook page. thanks for joining us here in "the war room." stay tuned for "the young turks." have a great night everyone. ♪

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: welcome to "the young turks"! we got a wild show for you guys. the republicans believe yoga will allow satan to enter your body. this is a legitimate republican candidate in the country. who is he, and another fun thing about him he believes giving to the poor not as good as giving to the rich. that's the kind of charity he believes in. what a perfect republican. we'll tell you who that is later in the program, stay with us, but right now it's go time. we're talking about susan rice. president obama has de