president barack obama! [cheers and applause] ♪ [wild cheers] [crowd chanting "obama"] [cheering] pres. obama: hello, hoosiers! [cheering] pres. obama: it is good to be back in gary, indiana. [cheering] pres. obama: i love you back. now, first of all, as you may hear, i've been doing a little campaigning. i'm a little out of shape. voice wise. so, on going to be a little bit hoarse. i hope you don't mind. that just means i'm out there working. [cheering] the second thing i want to say is at least when i got out of the car my bears were up a lot. [cheering] i wasn't watching the game, but i was checking the score. third thing, it is just good to be back in my home area. [cheers and applause] you know, the thing about the midwest, it makes you feel good. people are nice. give it up for a man that we are going to send back to the united states senate on tuesday. joe donnelly. [cheers and applause] because although i always like -- [cheering and screaming] pres. obama: because although i always like a good excus

. >>> welcome michelle obama. michelle obama has returned to the spotlight. >> when she lifts her voice, people listen. >> from her humble hooroots in chicago. >> michelle is south side to the core. >> all things are possible. >> her journey to the white house embodied the american dream. >> if you can dream with me then you know there's no other choice other than barack obama. >> there was no going back. a new day had dawned. >> she was like no other first lady. >> she hchallenged us always to move the dial. >> full of spirit and grace but forced to walk a tight rope. >> as a black woman, there were certain emotions she wasn't allowed to have. for the former mom and chief there's no holding back. >> my responsibility to use any voice to help people. >> he's one of the most revered public figures maybe not just in america but in the world today. >>> she's destined to be remembered as one of the nation's most beloved first ladies. >> i always knew she was a rock star. >> she's not one to be in somebody's shadow jus

ok.know, [chants of obama] mr. obama: we are ok. we're ok. this is what i look forward to, having a few hecklers to get me back into the mood. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: i enjoy that. you always got to have a few to know you are on the campaign trail. these are all the reasons i've come down to miami. but the real reason i came down to miami is because this tuesday might be the most important election of our lifetimes. politicians will always say that, but this time it's actually true. the stakes really are that high. the consequences of us staying home really are more dangerous. because america is at a crossroads. the health care of millions -- hold on a second. hold on a second. sir. sir. crowd chanting "bring it home"] mr. obama: hold on a second. listen. here's the deal. here's the deal. here's the deal. if you support the other candidates, then you should go support the other candidates. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: don't be here. i never -- one of the things i never understood was why if you are supporting the other guy you co

obama's eight years in office. one thing that you overlooked was the criminal use of the irs to shut down -- >> laura: that was on the list. lois lerner. give me a break. >> he said no one was indicted. it's like saying i should go on mount rushmore because i didn't rob banks. that's not really something to really boast about, to say no one was indicted. >> laura: has the nobel committee ever been the same since president obama won the nobel prize? >> no. >> laura: that was amazing. >> douglas macarthur, he deserved the nobel prize and they never got it. >> laura: thanks so much. president trump sending clear messages to mueller's team. in a wide-ranging interview, he addressed paul manafort, roger stone, jerome corsi. he is saying that we are in a mccarthy era. with regard to manafort, saying "i wouldn't take it off the table. why when i take it off the table?" here to discuss, joe digenova, richard goodstein, dan bongino. digenova, the president talking parted with manafort. a little premature? >> yes, of course.

obama: hello, miami. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: i'm fired up.ired up. >> [cheers and applause] mr. obama: miami. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: it is good to see all of you. so, first and foremost, give it up for your next representative. >> [cheers and applause] mr. obama: a leader that we are going to send back to the united states senate, my friend bill nelson. >> [cheers and applause] mr. obama: and give it up for an outstanding mayor. one of the most inspiring and gifted candidates running this year. the next governor of the great state of florida, andrew gillum. >> [cheers and applause] mr. obama: let me make a confession. i love you back. >> [cheers and applause] mr. obama: but you knew that, that was not a confession. now, there are a lot of good reasons to come back. >> [cheers and applause] mr. obama: it is starting to get a little cooler back in d.c. leaves falling, the wind is getting a little brisker. you know, around this time of year you start thinking, i wouldn't mind being in miami. you've got the ocean, you've got really good

for president obama. when virginia leads, virginia winds, when virginia wins, america wins, here is the guy who believed in us when a lot of folks had not, who made us so proud as president, and makes us so proud today, my dear, dear friend, president barack obama. obama: hello, everybody. [crowd chanting] obama: first of all, i am so excited to be campaigning is helping out jennifer, who of remarkableave candidates we are seeing all across the country. that we are seeing a record number of women who are running, lord knows we need more women in charge. veterans of iraq and afghanistan running, we are seeing people who did not start off saying to themselves, i want to be a politician but rather saying i want to serve and i believe deeply in something and then stepping into the arena. i should also add that as a former state senator, i cannot to bee a better training an outstanding public servant than to be a state senator. i hope everyone will be out there working hard for jennifer. [applause] second poin

. >>> first lady michelle obama. >> official obama has returned to the spotlight. >> when she lifts her voice people listen. >> from her humble roots in chicago. >> michelle is south side. to the core. >> girl from the south side can blk first lady. all things are possible. >> her journey em bodied the american dream. >> you know there's no other choice. other than barack obama. >> there was no going back. a new day had dawned. she was like no other first lady. >> let's move. >> she challenged uz to move. >> full of spirit of grace. forced to walk a tight rope. >> there were emotions she wasn't allowed to have. >> in her new book the former mom in chief doesn't hold back. >> the reviews call it surprisingly candid. >> one of the most revered public figures not just in america. but in the world. >>> she's destined to be remembered as one of the nations most beloved first ladies. >> i knew she was a rock star. she's not one to be in the shadow. she wasn't in the president's shadow. >> i wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. and i watch my daughters two beautiful intel

obama: right. but i will tell you this, if you don't change of the incentive structures and the underlying dynamics, then we will continue to see these problems. good people will burn out and get discouraged. and voters will continue to be frustrated. what it does is leave a vacuum for those who garner attention through the most divisive, controversial, outlandish statements to win. people ask me often, what surprised me most about the presidency? it is the degree to which the united dates underwrites the international order. it is not always in the obvious ways. but if there is a problem around the world, people do not call callw, they do not beijing. they call washington. even our adversaries expect us to solve problems and expect us to keep things running. when you start getting dysfunction in washington, which is difficult for decisions to get made, and policy making to run in an orderly process. what is one of our greatest assets, which is an extraordinary civil service, right, career staff, s

obama: don't be here.ever -- one of the things i never understood was why if you are supporting the other guy you come to my rally. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: go to their rally. don't talk about it. don't come hollering here. where was i? so, america is at a crossroads. is health care of millions on the ballot. making sure working families get a fair shake is on the ballot. but maybe most of all, the character of our country is on the ballot. [cheers and applause] the closing weeks of this election, we have seen repeated attempts to divide us with rhetoric designed to make us angry and to make us fearful. explore --ned to exploit our history of religious, ethnic, and racial divisions that pit us against one another. make us believe that order will somehow be restored if it weren't for those folks that don't look like we look. or don't love like we love. or pray like we do. >> [crowd chanting "bring it home"] mr. obama: you know what? it is an old playbook. it is one that the powerful and the privileg

. >>> first lady michelle obama. >> official obama has returned to the spotlight. >> when she lifts her voice people listen. >> from her humble roots in chicago. >> michelle is south side. to the core. >> girl from the south side can blk first lady. all things are possible. >> her journey em bodied the american dream. >> you know there's no other choice. other than barack obama. >> there was no going back. a new day had dawned. she was like no other first lady. >> let's move. >> she challenged uz to move. >> full of spirit of grace. forced to walk a tight rope. >> there were emotions she wasn't allowed to have. >> in her new book the former mom in chief doesn't hold back. >> the reviews call it surprisingly candid. >> one of the most revered public figures not just in america. but in the world. >>> she's destined to be remembered as one of the nations most beloved first ladies. >> i knew she was a rock star. she's not one to be in the shadow. she wasn't in the president's shadow. >> i wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. and i watch my daughters two beautiful intel

obama and frankly everyone in the obama administration. >> laura: i want to play for you something from's or lena zerlina maxwell and she was on msnbc on the subject. >> i agree with her. the fact we elected someone who had no qualifications to be a president who was running against a woman with a laundry list of qualifications to be president and instead america or the electorate chose to gave the electoral college to the person with no experience who happened to be a man like all the other presidents. when michelle obama is highlighting that that in it of itself is misogynistic and sexist and perhaps as a country we should take a moment to reflect on that. >> laura: again from a woman who voted for trump are either dumb or they are just following their husbands or we are not going to offer any ideas, candace owens down my, how to raise the standard of living for the standard american, we are goingl people misogynist, racist, xenophobic, nativist, all the ists and isms, they are all worn out, forget debating ideas. >> you're right. it is frustration, fatigue, not offering anything of sub

absolutely. ♪ >> president obama: all right.. >> anthony: we're about to eat bún cha. and it is about as typical and uniquely a hanoi dish as there is. these beautiful little pork patties, grilled pork belly. bun cha is served in a broth of vinegar, sugar, and the ubiquitous nuoc cham, or vietnamese fermented fish sauce. chilies to taste. i mean, if you have an important state function after, you might not want to go too heavy on the garlic. >> president obama: you know what, i'm going with this thing. you know? we're gonna do what's appropriate. >> anthony: a little vinegar. >> president obama: all right. >> anthony: and then you just hack off noodles, you just drop them in your bowl. >> president obama: yeah, that's not too elegant, but i managed it. >> anthony: and dip and stir and get ready for the awesomeness. >> president obama: i'm ready. now, is it appropriate to just pop one of these whole suckers in your mouth or do you think that you should be a little more -- ? >> anthony: well, slurping is totally acceptable in this

obama: not much. jim,, let me complement not only for the extraordinary work being done here at the institute, as well as the ambassador and all those who support what you are doing. i had a chance to meet some of the young people who are interning here, the excitement that they have about the serving their country in various ways got me excited and expired -- and inspired. jim fort me complement the extraordinary service he rendered the country. i had the pleasure of visiting briefly this afternoon. you, jon, inhis to the book that you wrote, and i continue to believe it. when it comes to foreign policy, the work that president george h sideh did with jim at his as deft,portant and and as effective a set of foreign policy initiatives as we saw in recent years. credit fore enormous navigating the end of the cold .ar one of the challenges when you are president or working for a don't getis you credit when nothing happens. and nothing happening is good a lot of times. what i would say -- and what i'm sa

say, obama, matched perhaps. a man who was liberal and at the to the rolecessible ,f government in the economy but only to a great degree. i thought all the things about him were appealing and his honesty in reality there was a part of the book really have roosevelt asking him to consider being his vice president when he is going to overthrow henry wallace, he wanted somebody new, typical fdr. wilkie says no. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on q&a on c-span. >> days to go until the midterm elections, former president obama was on the campaign trail in indiana today. >> whose ears, please welcome ! hoosiers please welcome your senator, joe donnelly! [applause] [cheers and applause] >> ready! hello gary indiana! [cheers and applause] >> are you ready to win on tuesday? [cheers and applause] mayor, theelcome our mayor of gary, indiana, karen our congressman andre carson, our state ticket, our county officials, our state officials, our local officials, i have a question for all of you. are you going to vote in this electi

obama versus trump. while neither is on the ballot this november, the former and current presidents are criss crossing the country ahead of what might be the most important midterms in modern political history. in moments president obama will rally voters in florida on behalf of andrew gillum and bill nelson. gillum who is polling just slightly ahead of his republican opponent could become the first democrat to win the florida governor's mansion in two decades. this hour, president trump will leave the white house for west virginia where he's going to appear later today for gop senate candidate patrick morrisey. two presidents. two very different messages. >> what we have not seen before in our public life is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying. just making stuff up. calling black white. >> the democrat agenda is the agenda of the extreme far left. they've gone crazy, folks. they've gone totally loco. they dismissed and demonize anyone who questions their radical ideas. >> t

former president obama is in indiana. his home turf of chicago, that's where he is right now where he's trying to help flip the illinois governor's office from red to blue. our white house correspondent boris sanchez is in chattanooga for us, where the president is scheduled to speak in the coming hour. cnn's ryan lizza -- ryan young, i should say, is in chicago for us right now. boris, the president is in tennessee helping to make a homestretch difference for a congresswoman who is in a close senate race right now. what's the latest? >> reporter: wolf, that's right. he's here to campaign for representative marsha blackburn. she's trying to capitalize on the president's popularity in the volunteer state. he's enjoyed a 50% approval rating for several months now. she is close to the president when it comes to a number of issues that are near and dear to his heart, including immigration. so we will likely hear lines about the caravan here in chattanooga tonight. she's trying to paint her opponent, former governor, as someon

whenever conservatives bring up bop obama's -- barack obama's middle name, you can't call them dog whistlesike screams. it is clear what he is doing. >> it is a study to see them on the campaign trial. and as randi kaye noted a former president, the last president, out on the campaign trail criticizing directly the current president. >> that is rare. >> the current president has also broke protocol. >> exactly. the president's club form is gone and it doesn't exist anymore. >> it is like the president fight club. >> exactly. it is also just -- not just the difference between them. but the president, president trump, is closing on a message that isn't what everyone in his party would like him to be closing on right now. whereas president obama is out there galvanizing around the message that democrats almost in a unified fashion would like to head into tuesday being their message, president trump is closing so strong on his hardline immigration policies -- i spoke to a republican strategist yesterday who is running a lot of these house races, overseeing the strategy for it, i said is this ho

obama was panal what controls around -- obama was annal what an -- albatross against the neck of theemocrats. beto, gillum, what happened? crushed? i'll give you two examples of the underlying di dynamic. you have people like ron desantis who cleaved to the make america great again agenda. what happens? he wins. then you have people in the district i live in in virginia, barbara comstock, incumbents republican congresswoman in her last flyer through my post box doesn't mention anywhere donald trump, doesn't mention the last two years. what happened to the incumbent rino, she gets crushed. jesse: that's a great point. look at the policies these people on the left came out with. not only did they run as far away as they could str from the mainstream democratic party. if you look at abrams and beto o'rourke. they ran on gun con fist station, not kneeling for the nationality anthem is patriotic. >> democrats have an identity crisis. when they are getting their money from hollywood and silicon valley and wall street, they are going to have to preach the issues that those crazy leftists es

president obama is talking about that right now.e said this really is about civility and character. let's listen to him real quick in gary, indiana. >> it is because of the efforts of folks like you that we abolished slavery. we ended the great depression. and workers won the right to unionize. and women won the right to vote. that's why we had a civil rights movement. and a worker's rights movement. and lgbt movement. because people fought for it. and by the way, every time we gained a victory, we moved the country in a more generous, more progressive direction. usually there is somebody that's pushing back. wanting to preserve the status quo. we get periods of progressive advancement, but conservative retrenchment. in the closing weeks of this election, we have seen repeated attempts to divide us with rhetoric, to try to turn us on one another. it's an old playbook where the powerful and the privileged say whatever it takes to protect their power and their privilege. even if it hurts the country, even when it puts people at risk.

[raucous applause] ♪ ♪ [crowd chanting, "obama"] president obama: hello, hoosiers!eers and applause] it is good to be back in gary, indiana! i love you back. now first of all, as you may hear, i've been doing a little campaigning and i'm a little out of shape. voice wise, so i am going to be a little bit hoarse, i hope you don't mind. it just means i am out there working. [applause] the second thing i want to say is that at least when i got out of the car, my bears or up a lot. [applause] i wasn't watching the game, but i was checked in the score. third income it is good to be back in my home area. [applause] you know, there are things about the midwest that make you feel good. people just act nice. give it up for a man that we are going to send back to the united states senate on tuesday, joe donnelly. [applause] because although i always like a good excuse to come back home, the main reason i am here is to make sure that we send joe donnelly back to the u.s. senate. [applause] and in two days, you get to vote in what i believe will be the most important election o

president obama gets republicans going. the main thing is if you look at what is happening with the resistance, the rhetoric on the left has been so angry against president trump and his supporters it is like what they want to see on tuesday, revenge of the elite in 2016 but trump supporters hear the hatred directed at them, the language, the extreme language at them, that will mobilize them, don't want the elites back in power, we like the way this is going and don't like the way the snooty people constantly accuse us for wanting a better life. shannon: funny to hear steve talking about snooty people in a british accent. we got to leave it there, thank you. migrants in the caravan from honduras file the lawsuit against donald trump claiming violation of constitutional rights. before he made any official policy changes. >> the most ridiculous system in the world. it is obsolete but that is not the problem. the problem is it is a stupid system and it doesn't work. shannon: we are looking at the legality. night court is back.

having obama on the campaign trail is fine.zed are they going to be, i don't know. but the coalition that donald trump put together had independents and democrats who were fed up with washington, d.c. how do you get those people out? that's a challenge for republicans. i am not sure that those particular voters have the same voters have the motivation to come out and vote on straight line ticket. >> is president obama preaching to the choir? >> this is a time for mobilization. he is trying to get every democrat out that typically in midterm elections as john and david can tell you -- everybody here -- there is a drop-off, and the drop-off is most significant among minority voters, young people, with some voters with whom the president has a particularly strong relationship. and, so, i think that democrats want him in miami and atlanta. and i think he is going to chicago, and gary, indiana, for joe donnelly, to mobilize the vote in those areas, in elections that are going to be very close. >> but he was out there for hillary cli

obama was a patsy for russia.e m irikes w turned off. >> do you feel betrayed by omarosa, sir? >> she's a low life. she's a low i.q. individual. maxine waters. she's somewhere in the mid 60s, i believe. >> so he also tweeted about tallahassee major running for florida governor calling him a thief. what do you think that says about the way he speaks about people of color? >> i feel like i echoed this a lot. andrew gilliem has a great education from the florida university. stacy abrams has been a minority leader and worked across party lines and done everything necessary. that's absurd. but i'm sitting back because, you know, don, one of these issues and we talk about race and we have been loud in this issue of race. for us to make progress, there has to be people on the panel that don't look like you, me or simone to call this out for what it is. >> two things, first of all, the president is an equal opportunity insulter. you're cherry picking african americans he said nasty things about. there is plenty of white p

president obama will be in chicago.ou a sense of the dynamic between these two leaders. >> i heard president obama speak today. i had to listen. i was in the plane. i had nothing else to do. >> why is it that the folks that won the last election are so mad all the time? >> he had a very small crowd. they don't talk about that. >> right now republicans are all, look, the economy is so good. where do you think that started? >> it's going better than ever before. president obama, we were heading south. >> don't be bamboozled. don't be hoodwinked. he'll be like, look, look, look over there. then they're giving tax cuts to billionaires. >> if the other administration would have continued, our country would have crashed. >> they're just fear mongering to distract from the record. they're telling you the existential threat to america is a bunch of poor refugees a thousand miles away. >> we don't want to go back to the obama days. >> when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can't work. >> gabe, everything comes back to

>> so, i think that folks that thought it was going to change with barack obama, president obama ignored conversation about race in this country. one of the things donald trump has done is forced us to have that conversation. i do not remember in my short 28 years on this world, i have seen people sit on cable news and discuss white terrorism, domestic terrorism, white supremacy, white supremacist ideology. that is a conversation we have to have. it is unfortunate donald trump, who started his political career with the racist birther theory, i.e. trafficking in white supremacist ideology, but it is unfortunate that other folks are not being held accountable for supporting and holding up what the president is currently doing. it's not just donald trump we have to call out. republicans who sit on capitol hill, operatives that carry the president's message -- not you, scott -- [ laughter ] >> not me. >> not you. >> and charlie retired. don't push your luck. >> not i. but that is real. when the president is stoking the fears of folks that have this, i think we called it racial anxiety, that'

that is how barack obama won. and the democrats in the red districts won, and the difference -- there were some turnout differences the main reason barack obama won florida, and hillary lost it, he won independence she lost it. the best way to do that is with a progressive message. you can be progressive and win over voters as long as you do it in a way that is an inclusive progressivism. populace in orientation but acknowledges some although voters in rural areas, people who voted for obama, but we are open to their point of view. if you can do that in a non-cond sending way, you can win. we have the model because before this electoral disaster we did one two electoral landslides with barack obama, who was able to put together the coalition. the next candidate as well. >> first of all, i want to say i'm first looking for some republican with enough balls to run against donald trump in the a primary. [applause] i doubt we'll find that person but i think jeff flake will flake -- again. [laughter] secondly, i agree

one of the responses i got was from president obama. he wrote me the nicest letter about the story which is really moving but apropos here i wanted to let you know what he chose to highlight in his note to me. it made the presidency possible and the essential spirit of democracy. the essential spirit of american democracy. listening to individual voices. that's what it was about. it was the heart of american democracy. he was thinking me or anyone the else for pointing out. and i was glad to do that i want to read a couple paragraphs from the book to get a sense of the flavor for it. this is about lacy who is one of the folks that worked on the team portfolio. one thing everyone learned quickly is that they needed one another. they needed to talk this stuff out. the content of the letters, the emotions jumping and bouncing off the page. it was impossible to describe what it was like to sit on the intensity of the material and that is why so many staffers who live with one another, roommates, eating dinner together, watching netflix toge

obama's successor.good morning. >> hey hey. >> all right. >> one of the weirdest weeks of the year. thanksgiving week. >> should we start with turkey jokes? the eighth and final year of turkey jokes. >> the eighth and final one. there's a cornucopia of corny jokes. including maybe that one. >> no, no. >> all right. you're crying fowl on that one. i get it. >> you know he always talks every year about generosity. making sure everyone can eat on thanksgiving. except for the turkeys. because they're already stuffed. >> i like it. >> and then, we also want to give a shout out to all of the brave turkeys who met their fate with courage. they're not chicken. >> followed up with they're delicious. >> they're not chicken, they're delicious. this is the last tame i will pardon a turkey. which means the next time i cross paths with a turkey it better run. >> i look how there is an underlying premise that the president just wants to kill turkeys. >> i have an idea for a joke but not an actual joke yet. like someth

that is where they are go, everyone knows we have obama judges. obama appointed left-wing hacks to act as judges. >> people would say president bush and donald trump picked people who line up with their judicial philosophies but you wouldn't pick someone was going to go against the way you view the constitution, statutory interpretation and that kind of thing. >> it is a simplistic view of how judges operate. i mitigate before judges all the time, bush judges, clinton judges and obama judges are now trump judges and by and large, with a small fraction of the cases the judges are not what you think of in terms of they are just doing their politicians bidding. they apply the law as they sought, doesn't of the way the original president who appointed the may have seen it but that is how they do their job, that is how they see the law being applied. and to characterize them as obama judges are trump judges is not the reality of litigation. shannon: judges think not to serve any particular interest, we've seen them rule against the president who appoin

obama comes in, pulls out every single troop and george w.bush didn't say one word as things got worse in iraq as he predicted. itit t was certainly true that president cheney said something. president bush didn't say a word . ronald reagan retires, doesn't say a word. george w. bush goes to robert, texas, doesn't say a word. jimmy carter, bill clinton, barack brock obama never stop talking. that's a different perspective between republican and democratic presidents. >> austin he may have a point i seems to be the democrats. >> i don't think that's quite accurate.as >> what wasn't accurate? >> donald trump is in the sense that barack obama did not mention president trump by name. president trump, you know who h was talking about. >> , trump takes that from president is all campaign was built on personal insult of his opponents.ot >> okay that's not the issue with all due respect. we are talking about a preside who comes out during midterms and during his last days to continually attack the presiden of the united states. >> campaigning is some

unlike president obama, we live by a different motto. it's called promises made, promises kept. >> then there is florida, one of the most watched states. president obama there last night to push democrats for senator and governor. it's a state the president will visit later today. gop governor rick scott trails bill nelson by two points. >>> here to discuss what is expected to be an exhilarating 72 hours is julie manchester, reporter for "the hill" and kevin surly with "bloomberg." great to have you here. >> thank you. >> vice president mike pence seems to have a different idea. here's what he told your paper. >> i think we're going expand our majority in the united states senate, and i think we're going to hold our republican majority in the house of representatives. that being said, there is certainly common ground, areas that we can work that the president has laid out. >> so, julia, what is he basing his comment on, and is there really any common ground with the democrats? because it doesn't feel like it now. >> he's trying to take c

obama mentioned that. they all remember who backed them early on, especially when it was brave to back politically speaking obama over hillary clinton, certainly as obama noted that tim kaine was probably advised you probably don't want to be one of the first to endorse obama. they go back a while and kaine is a heavy favorite to win his reelection campaign, as is jennifer what extent, who is looking to unseat barbara comstock. most independent handicappers have her winning that race. host: i was talking to sean sullivan of the washington post, but i want to go back to some numbers that the cook political report has been looking at. there are 75 competitive races, 70 are republican seats, five are democratic seat. field, it is a massive especially when you have gerrymandered districts and the battlefields have gotten bigger and that is certainly helping the democrats. there are roughly, the magic number is 23 in the house. really, if you look at some of these open seats, there are about 10-11 seats that ar

rob: obama's first midterm was a slot, he lost 60 seats in the house, maybe more.sonable chance the republicans lose the house but there still could be success. what you think, 30 seats would be considered a success and still lose the house? >> especially when you consider only 4 times has the party holding the white house gained seats in the senate during the president's first midterm, we are going to gain seats, donald trump is made history should we gain seats in the senate. you are right to say should we lose the house narrowly a few seats is a victory. the average loss is 32 seats when you go to 1832. if we lose marginally and game in the senate that is history and that is donald trump. jillian: thank you very much for being here. 18 minutes after the hour, just under an hour polls will open across the country in a battle that could change the course of our nation. rob: we breakdown the top races to watch in this fight to the finish. jillian: good morning. ♪ liberty mutual accident forgiveness means they won't hike your rates over one mistake. see, liberty mut

but obama's approval rating is 14 points higher. and both of them know immigration is a top issue regardless of party. >> they're telling you it's that bunch of poor refugees a thousand miles away. they're even taking our brave troops away from their families for a political stunt. >> yet democrats want to abolish i.c.e. they want to turn america for a sanctuary for criminals and drug dealers. >> where they're going tells a lot about a races they think are important and winnable. concentration to visits down in florida for the governor and senate race there. obviously georgia as well, with president obama spent today. nothing tells you a race is up for grabs like that many visits from the president and former president. shannon. >> shannon: thank you very much. well, president trump rallying support for republican senate hopeful mike braun in indiana. they're trying to flip it in a state president trump won handily in 2016. hello, mike. >> and hello, shannon. the president is now overnighting in indiana. his tour is in full swing. i

obama. barack obama. >> what do you hear there? >> well, i hear a lot of things.re's a little dog whistle politics in there, too, but i think that is just an effort to rouse up the president's base, all the anti-immigration, all of this stuff resonates with those folks. it's for that crowd. it doesn't resonate with the majority of the people in the state of indiana. i think we have moved beyond that. and i hate the dog whistle politics that the president keeps using. the fact is that he has that base that he will play to, to try to rev them up. joe donnelly has his base, too. he's very strong. i was up there a few weeks ago. his base is out there and they know joe is for them and will be there for them and will continue to be there for them. >> let me ask you two alabama based issues, if i can. we haven't cover ed so much violent issues because there's so much else to cover. >> a messaging measure that republican-controlled legislature tried to pass to gin things up. if you read the language in that measure it doesn't do anything because it basically says we've go

speaking at the obama foundation former president obama took thinly veiled swipe at president trump,aying america's progress is hindered by, quote, hate, anger, racism, and mommy issues. huh. you can't make this up. take a look. >> the reason we don't do it is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues. >> judge jeanine: in 2014 interview with former president bush, hannity asked him why he con sis tintedly refused to criticize his successors. look at his response. >> sean: why did you make the decision koishgs sit here all day and try to get you to comment on president obama, and i'm not going to get anywhere. >> correct. >> sean: i know you very well. >> you do. >> sean: why did you make that decision? i'm sure you have a lot to say. you're not -- we've talked politics before we came in here, you are very engaged no matter is going on. >> i'm very aware. i don't think it's good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president. it's bad for the presidency for that matter. >> judge jeanine: joining me with reaction sa

he pivoted quickly to attack barack obama. think that he views michelle obama as, i don't know, off limits or something? >> oh, yes. michelle obama is off limits from the way i understand it. and from what i've been told for many, many months, maybe even over a year, that michelle obama is the one that's off limits. but at the same time, i want to go back a little bit to when barack obama was president, towards the end, towards the very end, the day after the election or a couple days after the election when president-elect donald trump came to the white house and barack obama hosted him. they talked. it was very surprising. i remember being in the oval office, i was a pool that day, when donald trump was in the oval office with barack obama, and it was very cordial. donald trump was very thankful -- i mean, they stayed -- they overstayed the visit and everything was fine, even michelle obama and melania trump were together for longer periods of time. there was a congeniality. there was a friendship, we thought, that was build

barack obama. it was great, under barack obama.hope and inspiration, that was the political style of both barack obama and ronald reagan. the most sold hope and inspiration. they are going to be rare. not much evidence as long as donald trump is president. final word, what will say this, but can save the country, unfortunately, with this happen repeatedly, we need a crisis. our country is designed for the ungovernable, the title of my book, but we do work very well when there is a crisis. work, 9/11, when there's a crisis, americans come together. the divisions are for a moment, cast aside. when there's a huge urgency in public opinion, to solve a problem, the country can function. the government can function admirably. 9/11 worked for one year. democrats still believe it but for one year, majority of democrats favored and supported president bush. a charismatic leader. that was supposed to be obama. our constitutional system of weak government provides an answer. to saving america from this bitter division. it was designed in the

this whole "but obama did it, obama did it," i don't care what obama did.rump is doing right now. >> juan: homeland secretary kirstjen nielsen shooting down claims that all the migrants are asylum-seekers. >> ultimately we only see about 9%, 10% of central americans who make an asylum claim actually be granted asylum by an immigration judge. if you are coming to get a job, that's not a claim for asylum. if you're coming to be with your family, it's not a claim for asylum. >> juan: jessica my why don't you respond to what you just saw on "the view." she was making the argument that this is what about-ism and now we have a crisis. >> jesse: you came to the right person about what about-is impaired i want to say about operating children, someone was just brought over here with a young person they found out that it wasn't a relationship at all. he was raping her and trafficking her. obama administration responsible for placing people in human smuggling rings may brought them to ohio and were working them seven days a week, 16 hours a day and if trump had done t

looked like president obama came out ready for a fight. his voice sounded hoarse, sounding like the campaign trail is taking its toll. but he wanted to make sure people understood how important it was to vote. there was a concert that had the crowd lathered up. j.b. chris ker, who has the comfortable over here the incumbent ronner barely spoke on stage. when president obama got up there, he definitely talked about the idea that these votes will matter. there's a great awakening that's happening in america. he said he never thought in a million years people would be running on health care and the fact that it's been changing, that the focus was making sure people with preexisting conditions had a chance to get the health care they needed. he talked about that. people started booing when he started talking about republicans, former president said, don't boo, vote. he made his conversation very different. there was a lot of hype in the crowd and people were interacting with the former president, seemed to energize him and get him going longer

and barack obama is saying no, no, no, this is shared country.s is country where we all can have a piece of it, where we all can share in its benefits, we all have to take responsibility for its history together. they are such different presidents it's hard to imagine they were both presidents of the same country. and i think it is a challenge because donald trump isn't just making that argument to white extremists. he's hoping to migrate that argument to main stream white america. much as richard spencer has said, you know, i can migrate this extremist argument to the middle, to get the little discomfort that the ordinary sort of middle of the road white person might feel that sense of discomfort, that there's something wrong with those people. donald trump wants to exploit that. he's made it very clear this is sort of soft civil war he's attempting to launch just for political advantage. and it's kind of gross, but now we also get some confirmation that it isn't just tactics. it's him. it's what he really thinks. >> and the campaigning he's don

. ♪ president obama: hello, chicago. good to be home. it is good to be home. now, first of all, you notice my thread is a little itchy. that is because backstage i was theng to sing "glory," and -- >> mr. president -- i realize now i am not a professional's air. i was justruthfully, working hard out there because we have some work to do. back,ody -- i love you chicago. it is good to be home. the bears won handily. i've got some amazing friends that i have not seen in a wild are gathered here -- in a while you are gathered here. senators duckworth and durbin. we have folks like your next raul.ey general, kwame your next representatives from laurens, sean and underwood. your next lieutenant governor , juliana stratton. and you have got our next governor, j.b. pritzger. i was thinking on the way over here that it was 10 years ago that we had a small event in grant park. and you had just elected me the 44th president of the united states. and i remember it was an extraordinary night. you remember was like balmy. it was 65. a

well, obama had eight years, obama had eight years, obama had eight years. what the hell are they listening to? he had two years. 2010 came in, they took over the senate and the congress, they made the promise just like that woman said that he would block -- they would block everything he put up. they blocked the rail system where i live. they blocked medicare where i live. they block everything in the world. somebody has done the research and i am sure you know about it. the first four years of obama's administration, there were more filibusters announced than the total from george w. bush to george washington. including the years of the 1960's when we were in the worst turmoil this country has ever seen. how can you have more filibusters in four years against one president and then stand up and say well, they don't want to work with us, they are hypocritical, they are doing this and that, and obama had eight years. doesn't this man know the facts? he can have his own opinion, but you can't have your own fax. the facts are the republicans were doing nothing

barack obama became prominent in 2004.he said there is no little america and no conservative america there is only the united states of america. he was wrong. the line is becoming stronger and stronger. two republicans, two democrats. they promise to be healers. they promised to unite the country. they all failed. trump was different. he never promised to be a healer nothing he would ever be able to do. he found a way to turn the bitter division of the country into a political asset. the bitter division of american politics created an opportunity for him. he ran as a divider. he got elect it as a divider. he governs as a divider. in the end and politics, you have to have a base. let me define your base. the people that are with you when you are wrong. a base during the scandal. did not abandon him. a very powerful base that remained during the monica lewinsky scandal. this year will be a battle of the bases. the trump base versus the democratic liberal base which is furious with president trump. each of those and rages the

there is only so much that i think obama can do without starting to rally republicans. >> obama also is that he's never had coat tails and never helped lift up younger people in the party. if you look at stacey abrams in florida, those are younger leaders in the democratic party if they can win state-wide in big battle ground states if they talk about them in different ways. there is no question that president obama would love to be helpful in that regard. i think as gloria says, he can help or hurt. he will drive a lot of republicans away. >> how much of these races are really about president trump? >> in the state? everything. if ever there were a mid-term election that was a reverent um on a president, this is it. donald trump wants it to be about donald trump. but he made a choice and his choice is he is going for the senate and not going for the house. you can't do the same thing to win the senate, which is to give the red meat to a republican. you need to be more moderate to win in the suburban districts in the house. his play right now is for the senate because he thinks he do