obama: all right? so we're going to advance research, we're going to work with the private sector to update firearms technology. some gun retailers are already stepping up by refusing to finalize a purchase without a complete background check or by refraining from selling semiautomatic weapons or high capacity magazines. and i hope that more retailers and more manufacturers join them. because they should care as much as anybody about a product that now kills almost as many americans as car accidents. i make this point because none of us can do this alone. i think mark made that point earlier. all of us should be able to work together to find a balance that declares the rest of our rights are also important. second amendment rights are important. there are other rights that we care about as well. and we have to be able to balance them. because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina, and that was denied jews in kansas city, and that was d

i want to look at obama care and the obama care pitch. again, if i were writing about obama care a few years ago i would write about it in terms of it does not work, it does not efficient, it discourages people. now let's look at obama care a little differently. let's look at obama care as a competent scheme or scan. so obama goes to the american people and says hey guys, i have a good one for you. you see these insurance companies, they are rich, they have a lot of money, let's you and i go get them. let's make them do stuff that they otherwise would not do. stupid stuff, let's make let's make them ensure us for ailments that we had before. think of how crazy that is, that's like calling the fire insurance when your house is already on fire. how do we do that? a lot of americans ate what a great idea obama, you go get them. but now the plot thickens. because obama sits down with the ceos of insurance companies and he says guys, i have a deal for you. i want to have greater federal control over the whole healthcare industry, you will not

t's part of the obama era. and the president post-san bernandino, but san bernandino gives someone like president obama the connection with national security. that was a terrorist attack that these people got guns easily in the united states. and i'm not weighing on which side but i'm pointing out that president obama is going to make his a major part of his last year. i envision as ex-president in chicago weighing in on the public schools, holding town hall forums, working to make chicago safer and use the model what he does in chicago for other places in the united states. i wouldn't be surprised if he does more town halls this year on the gun issue and in the end we are going to vote. hillary clinton is with president obama. we'll see who wins the 2016 presidentsal election and it will be very telling which way this gun control issue will move. how when he was president, he couldn't run for re-election in 1952 because he had a 27 approval rating and nobody wanted much to do anything. lyndon johnson in 1968,

obama: all right?e going to advance research, we're going to work with the private sector to update firearms technology. some gun retailers are already stepping up by refusing to finalize a purchase without a complete background check or by refraining from selling semiautomatic weapons or high capacity magazines. and i hope that more retailers and more manufacturers join them. because they should care as much as anybody about a product that now kills almost as many americans as car accidents. i make this point because none of us can do this alone. i think mark made that point earlier. all of us should be able to work together to find a balance that declares the rest of our rights are also important. second amendment rights are important. there are other rights that we care about as well. and we have to be able to balance them. because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina, and that was denied jews in kansas city and that was denied mus

>> obama's saying: "i don't care how black you think i am, i'mma do me." >> larry: obama said that?> didn't have to. he's so far in it now, it's even happening subconsciously. watch this. >> because criminals and. terrorists have exploited and are exploiting this very obvious loofhole in our gun safety laws. >> larry: uhh, what happened? >> larry, he said "loofhole!" he's been pronouncing words correctly in front of america for seven years but now he's using the unnecessary black "f. >> larry: wow. i had no idea. >> do yo>> do you know what a tf ishole is? a little troof on your birfday. >> larry: ohhh, okay. so that's release the blacken. that's why he's not worried about norf korea? >> careful larry, you're only in the first year of your show. don't release too much. >> larry: okay, thanks! bluejasmine-- >> bluejasmine steeplechase. >> larry: bluejasmine steeplechase, everybody. we'll be right back. hey! searching for a great used car? you got it. just say, show me millions of used cars for sale at the all-new carfax.com. where now you can search with the power of carfax®. just sa

obama: take a vote. but the american people should know that with or without congressional action, isil will learn the same lessons that terrorists before them. if you doubt america's commitment or mind to see that justice is done, just ask osama bin laden. [applause] pres. obama: ask the leader of al qaeda in yemen who was taken out last year. or the perpetrator of the benghazi attacks, who sits in a prison cell. when you come after americans, we go after you. and it may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limits. [applause] pres. obama: our foreign policy has to be focused on the threat from isis and al qaeda. but it can't stop there. for even without isil, even without al qaeda, instability will continue for decades in many parts of the world. in the middle east, in afghanistan, parts of pakistan, and parts of central america and africa and asia. some of these places may become safe havens for new terrorist networks. others will just fall victim to ethnic conflict or famine. fee

because of barack obama's leadership. osama bin laden has been killed and we destroyed organization that threaten our nation. we have more to do. of course we do. historical agreements on climate change and to stop iran from gaining weapons have been achieved. within the last few days, iran shipped out of iran 12 tons of urr uranium. 12 tons because of barack obama. now we have a lot more to do for america on behalf of the american people. we can't ignore the progress that has been made. my friend talks about the new senate. and there is a new senate because you have a constructive minority. democrats are willing to work with them. the issues we have been able to pass with exception have been issues we should have passed years ago. we could not because the republicans filibustered every we tried to do. we have a lot more to do for the american people. it is a wonderful country and i am pleased with the progress we made during the seven years of barack obama. >> this raises the question of what it takes of the union. the s

at the white house, president barack obama watched the protests on television. >> when obama sees theseinsurrections in north africa and the middle east, he is very excited by them. >> now suddenly, it looks like the forces of history are in the squares, not in the presidential palaces. and now the president wants to be on the right side of history. >> narrator: for three decades, mubarak had been an american ally. >> the arab street is rising up against these dictators, and i think obama faced this moment, this decision. >> obama is very enthusiastic about what's happening in tahrir square, more than many people in his own cabinet. and he wants to put america on the side of that. >> narrator: the president decided to get involved: he would tell mubarak to leave. >> i was with him in the oval office when he does this phone call to mubarak. he was trying to nudge mubarak in a certain direction, and mubarak was in a state of complete denial. mubarak is telling the president, "you don't understand. i understand my people." >> narrator: and in front of the cameras, obama repeated his demand

but, yes, the sun is going down on barack obama's presidency. now, something tells me unless ben carson can pull off a miracle rivaling the time he sawed those two damn babies in half, we're probably not going to be seeing another black guy delivering the state of the union for a while. you guys. >> audience: ooh! >> larry: i know. there was a lot of anticipation for this speech. the room was filled with all the standard dignitaries: the supreme court, the joint chiefs, even some celebrities. oh, look at that. dog the bounty hunter. ( laughter ) okay, i'm sorry. it's my fault! i'm sorry. okay. that was a really cheap, unfair comparison. my apologies to dog the bounty hunter. bam! did it again! i'm so bad. all right. ( laughter ) all right, mr. president, state of the union, episode seven. come on, man, bring it like that black stormtrooper fighting the evil empire. an unemployment rate cut in half. our auto industry just had its best year ever. gas under two bucks a gallon ain't too bad, either. if you doubt my commitment to see justice done, ju

amy: michelle obama sat next to an empty seat last night.hat seat symbolizing the thousands of people who are missing in this country, killed because of gun violence. could that seat have also represented the number of people who have been deported, even some of president obama's closest allies in the latino community and latino organizations have called him the to porter in chief. >> i don't think it is my job as a member of commerce to call the president names, but what i will say is last week, i called out the president's policy when it comes to deportation, this sort of extreme enforcement and communities, and the congressional district that i represent is causing so much great fear in communities. children not going to school, people not going to work, being afraid to be seen in visible in their communities. i think it is a responsible -- in fact, just last week i had a pretty heated conversation with ice officials about their enforcement activities and my congressional district and across the country. placethere is another where the ad

obama was acting like bush. distinguished commentator today is michael glennan, profession of international law at tufts university and the former legal counsel to the smart foreign relations committee. his 2014 book "national security and double government" was the most disturbing thing i read that year. in it professor glennan asks the key question, why does national security policy remain constant even when one president is replace i by another who as a candidate repeatedly forcefully and eloquently promised fundamental changes in that policy. he identified three possible causes for this striking degree of policy continuity between the two administrations. one, a rational good-faith threat assessment by political actors, the policies we needed, given the threats we faced. another is the enormous political pressures brought to bear on the presidency, whether rational or not. but professor glennan puns his emphasis on a third cause, what he calls an emergent autocracy made up of national security insiderrers we

but obama isn't too far behind -- he's at nearly 230 so far -- and vowi president obama has warned he will not sit idly by on the sidelines during his final year and it's a safe bet he will outline even more new actions in his state of the union speech, tuesday night. sharyl: thank you, scott. an update to "breaking bad," our report on the billion dollar federal agen, nist, that got in its midst. christopher bartley, the nist police lieutenant who was operating the lab when it blew up last july, was sentenced this week. he was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison. congress is investigating whatican calls the culture of waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct at nist police services from alleged timecard fraud to missing swat team gear -- which nist denies. still ahead on "full measure" -- it is must-see tv for the campaign season. next, a closer look at the substance of debates past and the profits of reality tv sharyl: the real heat ofea the presidential campaigns begins in the cold of iowa. february 1st kicks off the iowa caucuses. candidates from both parties debate this week at se

obama took office. i think there are so many hotspots right now that have to be dealt with, whether it is russian aggression, chinese cyber hacking, isis, the threat of radical islam throughout -- it is a global phenomenon now. it goes beyond containment, rather destroying the threat, and we are doing a good job. it's dealing with isis, which i think the president has disregarded. it was supposed to all the over, but the reality is isis reared its ugly head. you can't turn a blind eye to it, you can't pretend like it doesn't exist. you have to deal with it -- a lot of people have a simplistic notion that you push a button, you carpet bomb, and bomb the shit out of them, and there is a military piece to this that is critical, but there is also a political piece to this. there is a war in syria and assad has to be a part of it. the russians can play a constructive role with mr. assad. the russians will have a homeland security department of their own, and i think dealing with the political situation on th

administration which includes president obama himself.so let first talk about the problem. the trend of anker and-expand executive goes back to the presidency of head to door roosevelt. as presidential power pass grown, and even as the political divide continues to widen, the partisan political divide, one thing unites republican and democrat presidency and to curb the executive and restore to some degree the rule of law. these reforms unfortunately have been largely in effective. ... this is really may be the most unprecedented of things. that the obama administration has accomplished, the president himself and his advisor seemed to see there's nothing to be ashamed of. we don't go around congress but it is a way of governing, something to brag about. we can't wait says the president, we can't, we can't wait so i will just take my pen out sign it. obama believes there is some inherent virtue in the president ignoring the constitution's separation of power and the laws that are on the statue books in favor of presidential decree. as if pr

everything press obama does is not going to be just what president obama does but do you want president cruz doing it and you want president trump doing it? at some point someone like him will be president do you want them to have those powers and is a it worth what everything president obama is achieving right now to risk the future? ultimately the obama administration's cavalier ads toward the rule of law can only be justified is law's politics by another name anyway. lott has done in value and therefore get what you can now i don't worry about it. if that's what obama and his appointees really believe may be the critical legal scholars have won after all. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you david. if president trump does it, one thing we know will be tremendous. all right we are going to now hear from ellie shapiro. i asked because as you heard italy as of late friday night is a first time, late monday night is a first-time father. [applause] i won't comment further on that. all right,. [laughter] we are going to hear from ilia who is a senior fellow in consciousness studies

coalition without barack obama. that is not easy. as we saw in this conversation tonight you are not going the change minds here. >> i'm sensing that mike's coming around to my -- >> so -- >> but does this president send a year campaigning for his legacy. >> mobilizing, getting out voters. >> whoever run -- >> people who don't like him don't like him. >> whoever the republicans nominate have to run against a barack obama, michelle obama and both clintons. you were right when you say this is obama's version of america. he is proud of the country but he does not want us to get pulled into dumb wars. >> here's the difficulty for the republican candidate. you have to coalesce the obama coalition without saying you are the third term of barack obama. that is a tricky thing to thread that needle. >> but the set of issues he outlined is a set of issues that a candidate can run with. >> a healthy disagreement that we had a few minutes ago. nikki haley spent her time on immigration and terrorism. she talked to security issue

michelle obama is the workout queen.she's a fitness fanatic, she's obviously in incredible shape and yet, he was a smoker, we also know and seems to play basketball and golf and doesn't ever seem to work out. i wondered how he could play with some of these other players and how he managed avoid getting injured. >> i think he does get exercise in the morning. now basketball players will tell you there's shape and basketball shape. that was an exchange, scott, that maybe jack had with the president just before you guys played one-on-one and jack gave you up and told the president, the president is basically trying to weedle out of scott's scouting report. and jack say that is scott hasn't been in shape. obama is smart, okay, i can maybe outlast him. he finds in the morning a chance to do aerobic stuff but that isn't the cutting and the jumping and you really need to do that on a regular basis. yeah. he hasn't really been playing competitive basketball lately. you may remember right around the mid-term editorials about what

obama: there you go. yeah. but, after years of record corporate profits, working families won't get more opportunity or bigger paychecks by letting big banks or big oil or hedge funds make their own rules add everybody else's expense. [applause] obama: food stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on wall street did. [applause] obama: immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns. it's sure not the average family watching tonight that avoids paying taxes through offshore accounts. the point is, i believe that in this new economy, workers and startups and small businesses need more of a voice, not less. the rules should work for them. i am not alone in this. this year i plan to lift up the many businesses who've figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders. and i want to spread those practices across america. that is part of a brig

and obama is late.this is sort of a fraught moment, dick cheney has broken protocol to publicly attack him and say his decision to end the black site program and torture is going result in the to united states being attacked in a catastrophic way, and the day before, cheney says this, and that afternoon he is supposed to go meet relatives of the victimized of the 9/11 attacks and the cole bombings who are upset with him they have the frozen military proceedings at guantanamo, very stressful moment with the possibility of app an take in the forefront of his mind. comes in chewing nicotine gun so obviously a little stress it, and sitting around the table in the situation room are members of the permanent security state, the director of national intelligence next federal bureau of investigation, the central intelligence agency, the national security agency, their directors and lawyers and justice department national security officials, people -- these are micropeople. people who stay on between administrat

president obama addressing congress and the nation. a widerray of topics, the past, the future, isis and a message for the man or woman who is in the white house after him. we're live in washington. >>> relocating, an nfl team returning to los angeles and possibly one following. the fans reacting overnight. >>> plus, ship accident. high winds and seas causing a huge ferry to smash into a pier. >>> good wednesday morning. breaking news from the persian gulf. ten s sailors detained by the iranian revolutionary guard have been freed. mission in two small boats yesterday. then one of their vessels became disabled and drifted into iranian waters. the revolutionary guard apprehended them. >> s some ten hours followed. a top iranian navy official said their investigation had determined that the america ship had encountered mechanical trouble and this morning u.s. officials apologized for the incident and the sailors are no longer detained. freed just moments ago. >>> there is also breaking with north korea. at a north korean drone that crosse

obama mania, they call it.has been an interesting ride, 2 1/2 years ago nobody knew my name. >> reporter: then came 2008, a long shot first term senator challenging the clinton machine. the campaign became a mass movement. a wave of hope. >> what's the one thing in your life that you think prepares you best for that moment? >> in difficult or stressful moments, i don't get rattled. >> reporter: and obama himself turned out to be a highly polarizing president. polls show he's never become either hugely popular like ronald reagan or bill clinton, or hugely unpopular like jimmy carter or george w. bush. his favorability hovers under 50%. his presidency a time of turmoil and division and bitter angry politics. the opposite of what he promised and hoped when he burst on to the scene with a speech that ignited the 2004 democratic convention. >> we are one people, all of us plenling allegiance to the stars and stripes. all of us defending the united states of america. >> reporter: after tonight, no more of these presi

mike thompson of california, have come to obama's defense. rep. thompson: the critics of president obama's executive action say that he's overstepping his boundaries, he thinks he's the king, and then the same folks say it's okay to take arms and overrun a government building. it's a real contradiction. scott: this isn't the first time the president has taken heat for overstepping congress. prof. wayne: institutional and political rivalries will generate debate over executive pres. obama: the truth is, even with all the actions i've taken this year, i'm issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. so, it's not clear how it is that republicans didn't seem to mind when president bush took more executive actions than i did. scott: he has a point -- maybe -- president george w. bush issued nearly 300 executive orders during his two terms in office. but obama isn't too far behind -- he's at nearly 230 so far -- and vowing even more. president obama has warned he will not sit idly by on the sidelines during his final year and it's

it was about president obama. she was trying to embrace the president tightly throughout the whole evening. the reason she is supporting her health care plan is to defend his legacy. she had strong words for bernie sanders about his questionable support for president obama. >> and president obama has led our country out of the great recession. senator sanders called him weak, disappointing. he even in 2011 publicly sought someone to run in a primary against president obama. now, i personally believe that president obama's work to push through the dodd-frank bill and then to sign it was one of the most important regulatory schemes we had since the 1930s. >> reporter: secretary clinton is trying to keep some questions and concerns and doubts alive in the minds of voters. particularly in south carolina, particularly african-american voters by saying that bernie sanders did not support the president. that is one of the strongest things you can say. bernie sanders came back and said, of course, i supported this preside

obama is a lame duck and the era of obama is over. let 2016 begin. >> the era of trump in the republican party is ases dant. >> more from all these people on twitter, i'm sure. we'll have much more to come on president obama's final state of the union peaspeech ahead. i hope you stick around for that. ♪ (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. are you taking a zumba class? >>> breaking news this morning. just minutes ago iran demanding an apology from the united states after seizing ten american sailors. is their release imminent? >> president obama delivers his final state of the union address just a few hours ago. what he says his administration has accomplished and the challenges still ahead. good

. >>> president obama did not mention the u.s. sailors or state of the union address but did vow that protecting the american people and going after terrorist networks is priority number one. >> in his final address, he also warned that america cannot move forward until we fix our politics. abc's stephanie ramos has reaction. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: kendis and reena, good morning. the past, future, isis and election 2016 dominated the state of the union address last night with president obama speaking more to viewers at home rather than the lawmakers before him. >> the president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: this was it. president obama's last state of the union address before congress and the nation. kicking off the speech acknowledging the 2016 election and horse race in the early primary states. >> for this final one, i'm going to try to make it a little shorter. i know some of you are antsy to get back to iowa. >> reporter: marco rubio and bernie sanders sitting in the chambers withou

president obama addressing congress and the nation. a wide array of topic, the past, the future, the isis and a message for the man or woman who is in the white house after him. we're live in washington. >>> relocating. an nfl team returning to los angeles and possibly one following. the fans reacting overnight. >>> plus, ship accident. high winds and seas causing a huge ferry to smash into a pier. >>> well, good wednesday morning. from the persian gulf. ten u.s. sailors detained by the iranian revolutionary guard. >> the nine men and one woman were on a training mission in two small boats then one of the vessels became disabled and drifted into iranian waters. the revolutionary guard apprehended them. some tense hoursle toed. >> but this morning a top iranian navy official said their investigation had determined that the american ship had encountered mechanical trouble. the sailors are expected to be transferred to a u.s. ship sometime today. >>> more on that as we get it. >>> in the crisis with north korea, the south has just fired s

obama: i will keep working to shut down the prison at guanta. namo. it is expensive, it is unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies. sen. graham:here will be a bipartisan backlash, a constitutional crisis, if he tries to do this. sharyl: republican senator of efforts to close guantanamo sen. graham: his campaign promise will not be fulfilled. the problem with president obama, he doesn't understand that his campaign promises have to yield to reality. sharyl: are you saying it won't be closed down? sen. graham: no. sharyl: how can it be stopped? senator graham: congress won't let it. sharyl: the debate has gone on since almost the start. the gitmo prison was opened during the george w. bush administration after the september 11 terrorist attacks on the u.s. >> two planes apparently crashed into each tower. sharyl: the first 20 detainees arrived just four months after 9/11. nearly 800 suspected islamic extremist enemy combatants have spent time there. 9 have died, 678 have been released or transferred, most of them under

of legislation, obama care. but nina is right if they come up with a plan to actually replace it, that may put the blue print necessary for when a republican president comes in to office of how to get rid of obama care, in the post obama, era. >> the program has not improved. the premiums are rising and state coopes are closing and is this the time to drive a silver stake th >> politically, you can't. only a third of the americans support repealing obama care and millions are relying on obama care and medicaid that is expanded in states where there is republican governors that are vulnerable next year. it is it a difficult thing to do politically to repeal it. you are right, jon. premiums have gone up and health companies and insurance companies have pulled out. it is just not been the perfect plan that president obama and certainly not the affordable care act that president obama promised. >> does it become a problem for vulnerable republicans come canning up, jamie? >> i am not sure it does. obama care is very

, there is this piece, obama's obama. the president has cycled through more chiefs of staff than any predecessor since mcdonagh is the one who came to stay. they write about closing down a referencey, it's to a staff meeting president obama was leading, a cabinet secretary meeting he was leading. then defense secretary chuck hagel and says i don't think you are moving fast enough. second term commander used to having his orders executed, not -- questioned. i was giving floor speeches calling for the closing of one time before you were even in the senate, mr. president, the former republican senator from nebraska shot back, according to two people familiar with details of the interaction. then he really pushed it, maybe you need a new defense secretary. obama who had already been growing dissatisfied with hagel said dennis, get together with chuck and fix this. an independent. getting thoughts on president obama's last state of the union address. thank you. i thought it was a good speech. it was concise and to the point. i

like obama did, if he gets an influx of a lot of new voters who have never caucused before like obama did, that's the recipe. >> well, and how unlikely that this accept tseptogenarian from would suddenly be obama who was this rock star young guy and came out of nowhere. it's a very different profile and he's targeting the same constituencies. every democratic -- most democratic primary tend to have an establishment figure and a challenger figure, whether it be the howard dean figure, the powell tsongas and so forth, in the end, barack obama was -- those examples that actually pulled it off largely because he had great support within the minority community that is not true for bernie sanders. that's not a big deal in iowa as it will be later on in the trail. and the question for bernie sanders is whether he can transcend his sort of natural starting base. >> they've tried -- this has been mostly polite for a democratic campaign. the differences have mostly been on policy. but you can kind of tell they're under each other's skin in the final days of the because of the stakes. so bernie

you're arguing against barack obama and the legacy of the obama administration, by pursuing the payer system and pursuing your goal you are saying you want to abandon the affordable care act, abandon everything that president obama fought for. did bernie sanders make clear enough to democrats out there who like president obama, who wanted to defend his legacy, that he is not a threat to president obama's legacy? >> i think whoever you talk to, what is fascinating with this debate, what you saw with the democrats talking about how great the affordable care act is, that doesn't happen very often. and bernie sanders, a huge critic says now he wants to build on it. hillary clinton has been critical of it before, too. i think sanders' people, his supporters have watched hillary clinton's attacks over sanders over health care and felt really good about the attacks. they felt like as long as they said universal health care is not a good idea and this sort of vision of the pie in the sky, they feel good about it. but the clinton people feel good about the fact they got sanders to put a plan o

i sitly say i want to encourage obama. when it comes to managing this problem, the obama administration is sitly not managed it. if they wanted couriers to play, then you should have the resources in to do resources. and they haven't done it. if you want to oppose it, you shouldn't be putting hab yus for people who shouldn't win. it seems to me nobody's overseeing that. no one is overseeing the whole process and all the different parts of it. >> assuming that they're moved to the united states and have had a negative prd, how do you think that changes legal arguments that might be made and whether legal arguementeds might be successful. >>> well, the whole reason for guantanamo was outside the united states, they have no rights. there's no way he can hold people without being charged a crime. >> hi, i'm a former fellow here. i wonder -- i heard you talking earlier on the former guantanamo, using it as a strategy for war. talk about guantanamo becoming this symbol and what it means as a strategy, if you're fighting a war on

all we need to do do is get rid of that guy obama.what the data is, but he doesn't seem to get credit for it. for whatever reason, there's a funk. to responsible to the question about the listeners, they feel there's a funk. they're not feeling as if they're for real. >> don't you think it's because they don't feel it in their paychecks? >> no, i think there's a climate of negativity that's been so pervasive and so spun, they can't accept reality when the news is good. >> they're not mutually exclusive. >> there's factors that play a role, but i think he is the face of change in this country. he is a transformational figure, not just in what he's done, but in who he is. there are people in this country who simply don't feel comfortable with that. >> but the yearning for change, if you look at the metrics and data and seeing what's happening in the campaign to replace him, the yearning is high, if not high other, in the way trump is the new obama. republicans -- vote owes last time wet for the thoughtful professorial change, who said h

president obama had campaigned d sent terrorists running. pres. obama: al-qaeda is on the path to defeat and osama bin laden is dead. sharyl: critics say deploying the military to terrorist attacks could have been viewed as more harmful to the campaign than the incorrect explanation the administration gave -- that protesters attacked after being whipped up by an anti-islamic youtube video. >> i know, i understand. sharyl: a special forces soldier for 24 years, wood says his team and u.s. diplomats in libya were briefed that if they ever got into trouble, those special forces in europe were tasked with coming to the rescue. col. wood: they' re kept in a high state of readininess just for that purpose. so they' re willing and able and ready to jump, they' re like the any city in the united states. sharyl: to illustrate how close the u.s. special forces in croatia were, a commercial flight taking off at the start of the benghazi attacks with an hour and a half layover in turkey, still could have arrived in libya before woods and doherty were killed.