michelle obama and her sleeveless dress. >> it was especially unfair for michelle obama, because jackieasn't criticized for completely changing the look of the first lady. >> with michelle obama baring arms has a whole new meaning inside the beltway. >> the people zeroed in on her arms because they were not the arms of a fragile damsel who was white. nonwhite americans have for years looked at a white first lady and were so able to say that she represented them. but i think it becomes much more challenging for some white americans to look at a black first lady and see themselves in her. instead, they simply saw her as an alien. ♪ >>> four months into the obamas' first term, michelle takes her first official trip abroad accompanying her husband to london. the next day, while her husband huddles with other george floyd-20 leaders, the cameras follow as she meets with her spouses. >> she actually wanted to interact with real people. >> and so michelle makes a solo visit to a girls school a few miles across london, but worlds away from buckingham palace. >> welcome the first lady of the uni

that was barack obama's immediate response.is calculus. >> it is clear to me that the british parliament reflecting the views of the british people does not want to see military action. i get that and the government will act accordingly. >> the british parliament voted to prevent the uk from joining us on any strikes in syria and the german chancellor said i won't say politically i support this until there's a u.n. investigation, what happened is the ghost of the iraq war was in the room, he didn't see any option that he knew would work, he saw a slippery slope that we would have to take this on ourselves and saw a country he was a leader of that was not going to support that after iraq, after afghanistan. >> the president of the united states if you draw a red line it has to be unquestionable you will enforce it. and he didn't. >> the entire region is bordering on chaos and we must change the battlefield equation. >> the obama administration waited too long. >> action by the united states and international community is require

so what does obama do in response? he brings the police officer and gates to the white house for a beer summit. >> i noticed this has been called the beer summit. it's a clever term. but this is not a summit, guys. this is three folks having a drink at the end of the day. >> you know, it's the ongoing task, whether you're in the white house or you're teaching at princeton or you're working at the post office, is to figure out how to dampen white fear. i've got to make wheat america comfortable with me again. so let's have a drink. let's create the conditions under which we can at least make the theater of race in the country less threatening. >> the table was set. the press was in place. there were refreshments. there was even diplomatic language. >> we had a cordial and productive discussion. what you had today was two gentlemen agree to disagree. >> it led to this multiday freakout on cable news and ultimately this kind of very dumb beer summit where obama has to sit there with the cop and gates and look like everyth

is not going to have a defacto 3rd obama term under president elect joe biden. going underground. russian state television listen to demonstrators right now the propaganda machine. to russia. to. recoup the costs. and look you can go. i'm sure. you look. at. these gold color. you need to go where. the elite. are discussing a new school of economics alien economics and this israeli brought about by negative interest rates means contact the web. i think a lack of better a. welcome back former us vice president joe biden except to take the keys of the white house in just over a month's time already biden has made it clear to boris johnson that ireland is not a bricks and negotiable now many are wondering how biden will compare to his pro globalization and barak obama one man who was able to get up close and personal to the last democratic u.s. president is our own choudhry the white house's 1st official video from under obama he joins me now from berlin and thanks so much for coming on i want to begin by why you're even in but live of course london's looking to berlin because the bri

country trick that the obama white house did we told the white house's 1st official videographer and they are both new liberal obama and the new liberal senator bernie sanders although some more coming up in today's going underground 1st with the u.n. warning 200000000 more people could be pushed into extreme poverty by coronavirus the scale of the problem here in the u.k. the world's 5th largest economy is becoming clearer u.k. antipoverty ngo the joseph roundtree foundation says levels of destitution could be set to double in the wake of the pandemic with 2000000 including a 1000000 children struggling to eat stay warm or keep clean but according to the un destitution was already rising before the pandemic when un special rapporteur on extreme poverty and 21000 for the bolstered claimed britain was in the grip of an ideological project causing pain and misery well now its successor alleviate the shooter joins me now from brussels and they may thanks so much for coming on obviously brussels in the news here over. talks but just tell me what brings you to becoming special robert to a

president obama was aware of this.'t anything that was ever said, but i started noticing it. where, whenever he could, he would make a point to make sure the boys were invited when the nba basketball players came to the white house or events like that. this is nicky. he invited him into the oval office to share a power bar with him. nicky came to one of my book signings. he's now a sophomore at duke. and told me how much this picture meant to him. and he realizes, now, the good work that his mom was doing. there is still some lobbying to be done. lots of phone calls in the limo with his legislative director. and i think this was the phone call where he realized that they probably had enough votes. and he took his lucky charms out of his pocket. i saw that he took his lucky charms out. that morning. i was like, okay, this is a good sign. >> let's get this done. >> the bill is passed. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> he felt, on this day, that he got something done that bettered people's lives. did you know that some aluminu

is not going to have a defacto 3rd obama term under president elect joe biden. coming up about 2 and going on the ground. we are discussing a new school of economics alien economics this israeli brought about by negative interest rates means contact with the galactic federation. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back former u.s. vice president joe biden except to take the keys of the white house in just over a month's time already biden has made it clear to boris johnson that ireland is not a bricks at negotiable now many are wondering how biden will compare to his pro globalization predicts as a barak obama one man who was able to get up close and personal to the last democratic u.s. president is our own choudhry the white house's 1st official video from under obama he joins me now from berlin erin thanks so much for coming on i want to begin by why you're even in berlin of course london's looking to berlin because the brics it negotiat

. >> stephen: all right, i'm just enjoying barack obama's new book. i can't wait to find out what he's been up to. >> stephen, i'm right here. >> stephen: no spoilers! >> announcer: it's a "late show" with stephen colbert. tonight, part two of stephen's interview with president barack obama, featuring jon batiste and "stay homin." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: hey, everybody! welcome to "a late show." i'm your shows stephen colbert. and tonight is a very special "a late show." you may remember last week, when i sat down with my close personal friend barack, as he has asked me not to call him, president obama. well, it turns out the president and i had so much to talk about, we actually couldn't fit it all in one show. i mean, we could have, but that would have meant more time with an american icon, and fewer commercials for nasal decongestant-- and obviously no one wants that. so in the great tradition of this post-thanksgiving season, tonight, i'm going to serve

the ground and i was going to use the term obama momentum to. look at what's going to make the long. term plan going to come up thinking she was hoping to go missing obviously you know the i mean people are really happy that my mind you're going to help me. you are discussing a new school of economics alien economics and this israeli brought about by negative interest rates means contact with the galactic federation. welcome back former us vice president joe biden looks set to take the keys of the white house in just over a month's time already by the. i made it clear to boris johnson that ireland is not a bricks and negotiable now many are wondering how biden will compare to his pro globalization predicts as a barak obama one man who was able to get up close and personal to the last democratic u.s. president is our own choudhry the white house's 1st official video from under obama he joins me now from berlin erin thanks so much for coming on i want to begin by why you're even in berlin of course london's looking to berlin because the brics it n

then they start talking about obama. obama wasn't running. talking about biden. biden not on the ticket. what about his kids? host: daniel allott, the president throughout his four years in office, played off against the former and compared himself to the actions taken by the obama administration during the course of his eight years. how often did that come up in conversation with the folks you few.d to? guest: quite a i think the most fascinating group of voters i talked to work the former obama voters who went to trump. 16 now them in six of the nine counties work obama-trump counties. a lot of people swung from one to the other. very different candidates and presidents in terms of policy and personality. what i found -- among those voters, a lot had felt they were duped by obama. he promised to be reaching across the aisle work with republicans, would heal the racial divide. according to them, they felt he did not do that. they were primed to be open to trump's candidacy when he started running. host: next up, richard, maine. caller: good morning. merry christ

the obama must protect its own existences only exists. in the headlines this lunchtime argentina's president warns a smear campaign and trade war against the sputnik that is hampering global distribution as a country stars delivering brushes. i remember our colleagues who died because they worked in the health sector and had to because this should be the end and i'm eternally grateful on behalf of all of the nurses and. the u.s. confirms its 1st case of a more contagious british throwing of coronavirus coming up we look at a challenging year for the country worst hit by the. us. a covert denying russian monk accused of calling on followers including mine is to commit suicide is remanded in custody.

eaters in a 2nd this book in this book you blame yourself and others becoming complacent under the obama presidency at tell me a bit about that and how you see that complacency is creating donald trump well i think that many of us were very supportive then are still supportive of many of the initiatives of president obama during his presidency from health care police reform to other areas and did not do as much as we could to hold the opposition accountable and to hold even some aspects of his own administration that was resistant to change accountable and that we should have always had the vigor to be continue to fight no matter who was in office even if it was someone that i felt was doing the right thing but you still had your national action network the initials of behind you that running join the mama presidency i know time. and time again in the book you talk about it as a model of grassroots action at the very local level to help a civil rights and social justice no i have we definitely were very active during his 'd is 8 years trayvon martin we were out on the front lines of that

administration and as vice president the sanctions that obama and biden impose on iran obama call them crippling sanctions these are the same sanctions that imposed of them brutal sanctions so while obama wanted to brutalize iranian women and children trump all rot wanted to do the same thing. so. there's no real difference in the way in which they project u.s. power and on the other hand while trying to murder general so their money as you correctly pointed out the person who was. most important in the fight against isis and the defeat of isis it was the obama regime that initiated the war in syria they they were key to the rise of al-qaeda nice is through their regional allies such as turkey and tatar so you're rabia the israelis we know from the 2012 defense intelligence agency document that the united states knew his allies were supporting the extremists between syria and iraq and we know from general since interview on al-jazeera the united states to a local decision to support this and we also know from jack solomon in his email to hillary clinton in february 2012 that it made it

many president obama i see in yonkers.esident is speaking about, we have giving language into yonkers, the mayor, mayor span yo, dr. bostick, we lead the mbk movement and the idea is to create real social capital for these young people. let's not write them off in the 10th grade if they are not on the right path. let's instead align them to individuals, to businesses, to friends that are willing to provide the needed social capital for them to be successful. >> i have one more question before we have to take this break. the president has written and talked about struggles with racial identity and you write that through the people you met and worked with in chicago, you say i resolved the lingering questions of my racial identity. for it turned out there was no single way to be black, just trying to be a good man was enough. and we don't have a lot of time so i'm going to go to you on this, jerron. have you gone through this same journey coming to terms with what ist means to be a black me in america. >> i absolutely have.

obama? by any way, and his vice president joe biden, you know, there crisis. we remember had started under bush by basically the bailouts. you know, there selvedge in all the big banks was, was all done by obama's team. actually our bomber promised him a 2 promises that he would walk for what can people and that he would take big money out of politics. well, we remember that in their underwear bomber stream, it was not just big money, or courage in full swing in support or hillary clinton. obama was the 1st president who allowed secret service, as you know, basically special services to get involved. we remember how they got involved in american politics, and suddenly with course we had this new after the intelligence community, you know, something that even the president cannot contradict. you know, the intelligence community has said russia would trump in power and absurdist that may sound where we were supposed to believe it. you know, now the conspiracy theory about, you know, been supported by, by then been supported by the new surveillance and cheney's m

you may recall she was president obama's national security advisor and obama's first ambassador to theed obama's former whus chief of staff dennis mcdonna. arlette, the biden team says this is about expertise as well as his comfort level with people he knows, but he sure is opening himself up to criticism of wanting to preside over a third obama term. >> reporter: and jake, president-elect biden has really in these early cabinet picks focused on people that he trusts and has relationships with. but many of those relationships were forged during the obama administration. if you take a look at his recent cabinet picks over the course of the past few weeks there are so many familiar faces that worked and came up during the obama administration that biden has decided to tap intocluding long time friends like john kerry and close aides like tony blinken. these are all people biden worked with closely in the obama white house. four of those worked in the obama administration looking at tom vilsack who's already served as secretary two times before and susan rice leading the white house domes

obama: i am going to give a couple of reasons real quick. number one, you've got two ossofftes in warnock and who have shown themselves repeatedly to operate at the highest levels of integrity. gotlet's face it, you've who, inmbent senators the midst of the worst public health crisis any of us have seen in our lifetimes, we know were first and foremost worried about their stock portfolio. goodness gracious. that alone should tell you something. an how we become i enured to this kind of stuff . but when you have senators downplaying the pandemic, despite the fact that my administration had given them an actual playbook for how to deal with pandemics, and then as they are downplaying it, as they are ignoring the science and epidemiologists and suggesting that this is something that is some partisan issue as opposed to something americans should rally around, at the same time behind closed doors, they are calling their brokers? that is not public service. and so that alone should motivate, i hope, the people of georgia to say we want somebody i

here is more of my conversation with president obama.olks and with people like michelle's mom, and why progressives should avoid taking cues from the republican party. 2020 was a year for many of racial reckoning. it was the year when people of all ages to be to the streets-- black and white alike-- and said we need to change the way the police deal with people in this country, predominantly black people this this country. it was an interesting time as well. your presidency, as you know, better than everyone, people thought, that is it. we're now in a post-racial utopia. barack obama is in the white house. we have half blark half white, let's have a good one. and people saw there was a lot of work to be done. let's talk a little bit about the movement as you see it. the problem i have with headlines sometimes is people take things out of context, ebt. et cetera. but some activists criticized you for saying they have to be careful of snappy slogans like "defund the police," because it loses people. but i wonder, do you think that the slog

admiral mullins and obama's.ntioned at the air force academy every year to give talks about lgbtq issues and for the first time after the repeal i could actually move with the cadets and now when you have those meetings with groups, lgbtq students they don't even know about don't ask don't tell. but i told them when that happens i say this is what everyone was fighting for. this is the legacy that you don't have to worry about discrimination. you don't need to worry about hiding or fear or anything about that and it's just so great to see the legacy. they don't carry the burden of discrimination. in terms of where the fight is now, in the military president-elect biden is going to reinstate the inclusive policies for transgender troops. there's additional work to be done in terms of working with the va to offer surgery. there's the question of military service, servicemembers also within these additions and there's going to be a conversation over transitional surgery or family members and defendants to get their

during the bush administration and certainly during the obama administration sanctions were intended to be leverage for diplomatic success that was the point that you were going to apply pressure so that you could take it away as part of a negotiated agreement to deal with the nuclear issue obama would not have been sad if the regime and your transformed it's you know a true democracy emerging inside of iran i think would be something that would be appreciated by countries around the world but obama explicitly said that iran does government is iran's government and that you know we respect the sovereignty of the islamic republic of iran so he was not looking to change the regime in iran. washington's new efforts to bring iran to the negotiating table page 2015 after several years of talks iran agreed to strict conditions and transparency controls on its nuclear program in return for an easing of international sanctions the 5 permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany played a key role in the negotiations. this nuclear deal meets the national security interests of the

>> during the obama-biden -- >> president obama and i. >> obama and i. >> laura: that was kind of a constant during the campaign. that's all the time we have tonight. take it from here. shannon? take it away. >> tonight shannon: we may hand out some new nicknames. thank you for that. breaking this error the intelligence apparatus of the united states officially acknowledging, quote, a significant and ongoing cyber attack. the coordinated malware campaign suspected to have originated in russia is believed to have started hacking sensitive us government networks as early as march. we

settles it." ♪ obama settles i obama settles it ♪ >> jimmy: first issue -- >> i like the little lead-inots really went for it yeah all right. first issue. does the person flying in the middle seat get both armrests? >> no. >> jimmy: yeah >> no. you know, they -- they have to choose one >> jimmy: if you're a righty, you -- yeah, you'd have to choose one yeah you can't get both >> you got to choose one you can't have both. >> jimmy: i agree. good, settled. next -- oh, i know where you're going to go with this. new york style or chicago deep dish >> i'm going to go contrary to type on this >> jimmy: what >> i love chicago deep-dish pizza. i love my hometown >> jimmy: yes. >> but, new york style, being able to fold it, walk while you're eating. there's -- there's an efficiency element to it that, i think, puts it over the top. no offense, chicago. i love our pizza i'm just saying. >> jimmy: it's settled >> new york's a little more practical. chicago deep dish is basically you have to sit down, you eat it like lasagna. right? you can't -- can't be walking around >> jimmy: it almost feels the

then they start talking about obama. obama wasn't running. talking about biden.en not on the ticket. what about his kids? host: daniel allott, the president throughout his four years in office, played off against the former and compared himself to the actions taken by the obama administration during the course of his eight years. how often did that come up in conversation with the folks you few.d to? guest: quite a i think the most fascinating group of voters i talked to work the former obama voters who went to trump. 16 now them in six of the nine counties work obama-trump counties. a lot of people swung from one to the other. very different candidates and presidents in terms of policy and personality. what i found -- among those voters, a lot had felt they were duped by obama. he promised to be reaching across the aisle work with republicans, would heal the racial divide. according to them, they felt he did not do that. they were primed to be open to trump's candidacy when he started running. host: next up, richard, maine. caller: good morning. merry christmas.

and what i mean by "convincing barack obama," i think of, like, a young barack obama. i think of a fledgling barack obama. not trying to emulate you per se, but rather knr anyone who is trying to make a change in their world or the world. that's what it feels like. if you are writing to young people to be optimistic in the book, what are some of the frustrations that you understand on their side that may hinder that optimism? if a young person says, "yeah, but the system right now is crumbling more and more," how do you-- how do you maintain that optimism? or do you think there has to be a point where they go, "i'm not optimistic. i'm just fighting to break whatever it is to create something new." >> part of the reason it's 700 pages long is because by reading the book they'll see, man, there are a lot of structural problems or barriers in making this place better. we're learning right now in vivid-- a vivid example of the fact that our democracy is not the way we would imagine it to be. there are all kinds of elements to it where the most votes don't necessarily trans

obama unleashed all sorts of anxiety. his election.eople talk about the tea party as being the result of economic anxiety and social data science shows it's actually driven by d racial anxiety. we know that over theea course f his eight years in office it spiked and we saw the intensity of the spread of the resistance andre hatred mobilized and resulted in the election of donald trump als but also mobild by the likes of which mcconnell. so obama can become an interesting sort, but a point of entry to understand the deaths of what some might call the backlash or the betrayal and mcconnell's voicing of that moment of the destroy the obama presidency or to make him a one term president announced very clearly a political policy agenda that resulted in part. so we can't disentangle the two in my mind i appreciate your passion. let's understand it for what it is. >> as a scholar of religion what is your take on the division of the church between democratic and republican camps what do you see as the role of the church and its future? >> pres

that's right, barack obama, my guest tonight. three acts? three acts of barack obama. you go, "is that-- seems like a long time" no, it's not. you can't believe how quickly it flies. first act, obviously, just friends hanging out. power packed though, and really substantive. next act we're going to move some paper. we're going to sell some books. super fun at the same time. then the third act, we play basketball. that's historic. that is an historic game. wait until you see the results. and, yes, there was some wagering. anyway, how many questions did i get in? >> three. >> stephen: three questions, 20 minutes. he was very gracious. thank you again, mr. president, for sitting down with us. you know who he is married to, that michelle obama. that would be a great guest. that, that would be a great guest. not that he's not a good guest. he's a great guest, but everybody loves her. everybody loves her. i'm also joining you on-- is that too long a pause? i was just inspired by the president. it was an obama-esque pause. i'm also joining you on an historic day for fans of c

i'm a former speech -- writer for president obama. we're excited to have -- john mcconnell work for george w. bush. jeff cecil, who worked for president clinton, is supposed to be here. had a conference that kept him up in d.c.. but we will tell as many of his stories as we can remember. so, my hope is to use about half a time tonsils some questions for these two and they will spend the other half taking questions that you have. if there's one thing i hope you take away from this whole session is that being a presidential speech writer is exactly like what you would think it would be on the west wing. that's it. i'm kidding,. so i will, since this is the presidential ideas festival, i'll start off with a question for these two about the relationship between ideas and speeches. sometimes what's starts off as an idea, and ends up as a speech, sometimes a speech writing process starts before you have the idea. just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech? >> in a weird way, a speech writers, we are

then they start talking about obama. obama wasn't running. talking about biden. biden not on the ticket. what about his kids? host: daniel allott, the president throughout his four years in office, played off against the former and compared himself to the actions taken by the obama administration during the course of his eight years. how often did that come up in conversation with the folks you few.d to? guest: quite a i think the most fascinating group of voters i talked to work the former obama voters who went to trump. 16 now them in six of the nine counties work obama-trump counties. a lot of people swung from one to the other. very different candidates and presidents in terms of policy and personality. what i found -- among those voters, a lot had felt they were duped by obama. he promised to be reaching across the aisle work with republicans, would heal the racial divide. according to them, they felt he did not do that. they were primed to be open to trump's candidacy when he started running. host: next up, richard, maine. caller: good morning. merry christ

we vetted obama and nobody else wed.he bottom of the russia hoax, the rest of the media lied on a spectacular level. it never admitted it. in an investigation with biden -- neither his campaign or his corruption. we will stay with all of it. we will be independent. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues with laura ingraham. >> laura: hannity, did you have a good thanksgiving? >> sean: i did, you? >> laura: i had a great thanksgiving. >> sean: i needed a break, but i'm out of it. >> laura: okay. >> sean: can you believe wiseman -- three years of a witch hunt? no collusion. if there's a new ig, investigate trump. these people are sick are sick. >> laura: this is all they know how to do. we know they want to know how to grow the economy because it's going to flatline. but they do know how to trump up investigations against conservatives who happen to be inconvenient to the eli

obviously, now, we do hear you shouting out obama more when you say like thought it was obama when ialking different commas than you lame dudes. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> where does biden fit into all this? i mentioned the obama co-sign seems to matter to a lot of people but he's neither as big of a personality as the last two presidents or flashing. what do you think of joe biden being the next president? >> i think my personal opinion wouldn't even really matter at this point. i think right now it's all about supporting our upcoming president and see what it turns out to be. that's the way i'm going to do. i'm going to sit back and watch him work. >> okay. i want to get into your business ventures. the other thing i got to ask you, whenever you and drake come together you write about this in your book, it's a hit. every single time it's a hit. he's, of course, a global pop sensation. i think it's fair to say, you can tell me if you disagree, that you guys have somewhat different life experiences. you certainly have different flows. my opinion as a listener. tell us about what it is w

he was not another barack obama. he was barack obama's vice president so that was a big help for him. the turnout could have been a lot lower if it wasn't for the fact he was barack obama's vice president and he played that tremendously well. i think it worked for him. divide and the inner suburbs, outer suburbs and rural areas, that divide has been very important. . biden turned around a lot of swing vote areas in his favor simply because people trusted him as being a more traditional kind of democrat who was not pushing unpopular issues. column how the defund the police was a good example of how liberals can lead a slogan get out of control. it was something mentioned by the french left but embraced by left but -- fringe embraced by the right. that was the biggest burden joe biden and democrats had in the swing vote areas, the obama-trump areas. that is where biden was able to overcome that. if bernie sanders won the nomination, i don't think he would have gotten that kind of result. sanders said too much over trum

so obama is both right and wrong.hy slowing anz -- slogans like that catch on because people get excited to hear something that breaks the script, breaks out of same old politician speak. so obama is right to make activists more effective but wrong to insist they follow middle-of-the road political speak method. >> to that end how do you reflect today on occupy wall street. i don't know anybody in the country who couldn't tell you where they sit in the 99 percent. that concept stuck and think that concept has been meaningful to a lot of people in a lot of different ways to help articulate something that we kind of new wasn't right but didn't have the words to describe in a way that was universal. how do you reflect on occupy wall street today? >> it's painful. we have to remember obama is the one who over saw the crushing defeat of occupy wall street, that allowed the camps to be evicted, he was the president and he didn't stop it from happening and never mentioned the movement until it was evicted from our encampment