in his way, donald trump is authentic, as barack obama was. there has been greater acceptance of just being ourselves and standing up for what we believe in. when we look like we're shading ourselves off conservatives or republicans and not just declaring what we believe in, that doesn't resonate, i don't think, with the voter who wants to know who is this person i'm being asked to vote for. >> do you think that hindered the course of what you wanted to get done during the obama administration? >> i don't think so. it was interest iing eight year. at the beginning it was a crisis decision. everything we did, given the financial crisis, we're losing 700,000 jobs. and everything we did the first year was about writing the ship and then turning to health care, reform and trying to wind down the wars. what hinders our agenda, frankly, was the inability to work with republicans who understandably had a different view but broke from some precedent in the complete embrace of the opposite of whatever obama is for. progressives and conservatives can fi

the math you command more hawkish than left it that the barack obama did you change him? >> it was the convergent and the reality i had to confront and somebody that guy intervention that emerged in the '90s but then to reckon with the fact those first several years we were in office and he sent out that terrorist network so to be unable to that event. and that they point to the intervention i supported but then it keeps getting less attention which is that is believe side iraq and. for all that military might go to conference the reality after living the old in iraq i would say in the obama would what happened to build the runway? that frankly the track record was limited. with parts barack obama and part circumstance that i hope i changed him but i felt that i redirected my ideal so feeling somewhat frustrated at the tractability is when i turned to cuba and vietnam. not that i changed my but fine affirmatively to do with the world that's not the east. so we have to carve out time and make you buy a priority i know you want to change this policy so let me go do this. so

barack obama was a disaster by any metric. labor force participation, wage growth.nd i am surprised you didn't bring up. the employment cost index, donald trump his first year, bested barack obama's 8 years. >> there is a long way to go between here and the end. judge jeanine: i have an idea, rinse, here is the bottom line, i can't yell because i have a sore throat. my mother called me during the break and said jeanine, you have to have some water. if the unemployment is the lowest it's been ever for african-americans, for minorities, we have more jobs than people to fill them. you can talk gdp until the cows come home. that's what matters. a job and the ability to take care of your family. i want to talk about this tape. chris, do you want to answer? go ahead. >> there is a lot of good and there is a lot of caution. the deficit and the debt are growing dramatically. >> that's the trade deficit. the budget definite, those are different things. >> i give up. don't tell me on a saturday night i have to shave for this and i have to let him get away with this. for 8 yea

president barack obama leads a tribute to the late south african president nelson mandela on the eve of what would have been his one hundredth birthday it's obama's the highest profile speech since leaving the white house. i'm still going to welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has made a spectacular turnaround on remarks he made that he's a summit with russia's vladimir putin speaking as a cabinet meeting a little earlier he said he accepted russia had meddled in the u.s. election and said that he misspoke yesterday when he said he saw no reason for russia to interfere here's some of what he said. just want to clear up. the strongest respect for our intelligence agencies headed by my people we have great people whether it is. their. president trump has been saying and doing this from washington is ishaan foreign affairs correspondent with the washington post welcome to the president trump but now says russia did interfere in the twenty sixteen he also went on to say they could be other people also what did you make of what he had to say. well it's a very clear and deli

before our shows mike barack obama comes on and people applied. then joe biden. then bob mueller and people go bananas. >> bob mueller is just so handsome every way. stop terrorist. for justice and he is tall. [laughter] [applause] i love him and i was in a meeting with him once said mr. president i will kick it off and i said you are forever my boyfriend. but you are doing your book tour so how do you keep yourself down? but generally? >> this is a question that we get from people that i'm tired. what do i do? this is exhausting. you don't have to be visible all day long. not is a save it as i do. donald trump is president and will be. so i think it is okay. >> it wasn't a rule once he won we had to be miserable 247. and this will go on for a while now. and pick up the phone and do some phone banking. >> you like phone banking? >> i wouldn't say i'm great. but my wife runs a tough ship. so if we are therefore a phone bank i know i'm there for more than that. >> when i was 21i did a phone bank for bernie sanders because i was an original. and he said here is your

barack, you lied. but the media covered up yours.peak of the press. >> the prethe free press is under attack. president trump didn't attack the press as much as trump does. he didn't need to. 90% of the media was on his side. and there has been more fake news about trump in one year than there was in 8 years under obama. let that sink in. when obama went after the media he went pretty hard. he spied on reporters from the a.p. and fox news. constantly attacked. the espionage act, he use i'd it almost more than any other president combined to go after reporters and leakers. even "the washington post" said it was the least transparent administration of all times. president trump told his audience in africa, we are living in strange times. >> they are strange. and they are uncertain. but each day's news cycles bringing more head-spinning and disturbing headlines. jesse: i remember being disturbed at head lines during your administration. remember our president bows to foreign leaders? racial riots all over streets tack america. a rash of

barack obama didn't have a lot of people around him. he was only in washington for four years before he was president. .. .. someone would looked continue liberal humanitarian interventionism view of american foreign policy that kind of emerged in the '90s and early 2001s, i had to reckon with the fact that in the first several years we were in office, i saw our military being highly capable of take out a terrorist network or even osama bin laden in pakistan, but being unable to kind of shape events inside of other countries, and obvious example people point is to libya an intervention i supported where obviously after the fall of gadhafi things went wrong. but one that gets less attention is afghanistan. we spent a lot of time deseining the surge, kind of the high-water mark of counterinsurgency theory which was the believe we could with our military improve the lives of people. inside of countries like iraq and afghanistan, and you couldn't help but reckon with the fact that for all our military might, we could not kind of put togethe

that's what barack obama has done. standing on this side of the road and a speech like this, he thinks his opinions still matter and he wants the keys back. people are like no, you're not going to get the keys back. >> marie: we are talking about it. it must matter to someone. ocasio-cortez gave a list of things. when you have to make a list of something to bolster your point, it means most of your points are pretty weak. >> jesse: i guess he's a little upset that his legacy has been throttled by donald trump, when you look at domestic policy. the obamacare mandate and the taxes and -- >> dana: there were three main things. the foreign policy walk the tax policy. president obama tried so hard to ram a lot of things through in the last several months. there's a maneuver you can use in congress to turn those back. that's really unleashed the economy and it doesn't give enough attention. the other thing is the judiciary. i think they have 30 circuit court judges confirmed. now on the second supreme court justice. that's r

donald trump is authentic, just as barack obama was. in the democratic party, there has been greater acceptance of being ourselves and standing up to what we believe in. when we are shading ourselves off of conservatives or republicans and not just declaring what we believe in, that doesn't resonate with the voter who wants to know, who is this person i'm being asked to vote for. >> do you think the course of the things you wanted to get done? >> i don't think so. i think it's interesting. in the beginning, it was a crisis. it was such a crisis situation. everything we did, given the financial crisis, we're learning 750,000 jobs. we had troops in iraq. everything we did the first year was about riding this ship. then turning to a progressive agenda, with healthcare reform, and trying to wind down the wars. i think what hindered our agenda was an inability to find a way to work with republicans. who understandably had a different view. but i think broke from some precedent in the complete embrace of what obama is for. progressives and co

ironi >> i didn't seek out barack obamo he came my neighborhood. know, think joe the plumber in a good way shows that god's got a sense every >> there were some bumps in th iccdiusd rations of racism, and unsuccessful uilawset h ohio alleging privacy violationses in attempt torgon do have regrets. >> since then i got beautiful wife,ou three brand new kids of it, i mean, i couldn't be happier. >> joe tells us,ned downur some he t perhaps cash in on his ss they would have compromised his beliefs. he wanted to maintain respect from his familynd friends. >> fast nature to go see what he's doing. >> life turned out pretty good for him after the fact. >> back after the break. >> former first lady michelle obama see her having fung at tha nnrun concert in paris, former first lady watched right next to beyonce'som and h great time. bye bye. welcome guys! hi!ar you gonna love the neighborhood! it's totally wired for fios.is that a good thing? good? fiber-optics can moveaza at even crazier speeds.ntam so you can str gm,ame, and watch 4k shows all at once. at

president barack obama delivers a tribute to the late south african president nelson mandela on the eve of what would have been his one hundredth birthday. in japan and the european union synanon free trade deal covering a third of the global economy more than six hundred million people. i'm filled gal welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has made an about face on remarks he made as a summit with russia's vladimir putin speaking at a cabinet meeting he now says that he accepts russia did mettle in the u.s. election and went on to say that he misspoke yesterday when he said he saw no reason for russia to interfere. yes that our intelligence community is conclusion that russia is meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election took place pretty other people also. a lot of people out there there was no collusion at all. we're clear about there was no collusion let's get more from did abuse a washington bureau chief an example of welcome alexander this is not a president known for backing down so what has brought this about. i think it was the harsh criticism the president h

you like to say barack obama. barack obama.arack obama. >> i'm laughing because you guys are so tough on russia. russia ran wild under barack hussein obama.hu you did nothing until little hillary got embarrassed with e-mails that came out about chelsey and her wedding. please, you guys aren't tough. you think global warming is more of a threat than terrorism. you're afraid to pour water on terrorists' heads. you've nothing on russia. now you complain because it's an excuse for losing the election. you know what really cost her the election? she fainted. she was a terrible candidate. she didn't go toio wisconsin and she called halff the country deplorable. i think that had a little bit to do with it. >> hannity: i got to roll. jessica, the last time we were together got her first win. >> i just lost. >> hannity: jesse now came back and won 100-0. that's never happened. >> let's tell everyone where jessa was last week.et -- jessica was last week. moscow. >> i went to the semifinals in st.e petersburg. >> hannity: first time a per

laura: barack obama ofeks out younger audiences. today was no exception. is that his message, that it is wn to you, the next generation, to figure this out? linda:bsolutely. i thoughhe was inspiring to young people, that their job is to move forward and to figure out new solutions for old problems. i think they heard him loudly and clearly. laura: this is the most high-profile speech that barack obama has made since he left office. do you feel we will be hearing more from him? linda: i can only hope we will hear more from him.pe thish has set a tone that is needed, and i think hisil supportersbe looking toim hear more from laura: thank you so much for joining us. linda: thank you. laura: washington, d.c. can will play host tonight to major league baseball's 89th annual all-star game. it is a chance for the best hoayers to take a break from the regular season andtheir skills to a nationwide audience, and also an opportunity for this highly politized city to enjoy the simple joy of an american summer. itbus hard to separate the sport from the politics. : rep

leave i told barack you do nothing for me. [laughter] i remember that pain and thought how can i go to work every day and not know that my kids are good? not to get on a soapbox but why affordable childcare is so important because having access to that security for all the families out there who don't have a choice and have to go to work i know that pain of what it feels like because not just being safe but in a place somebody loves them and values and will read to them and take them to the library and not just pop them in front of the tv. i was about to quit working and i thought i just can't do it i cannot keep up the balance and who stepped in but my mom? not yet retired but would come over at the crack of dawn and allowed me to go to the gym. start getting the kids ready for school and fix breakfast i would come back and grab them and take them to school she would go to work. she would come pick them up and get them home and start dinner by that time i would get home. we had a routine and it is just something about having

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barack obama didn't have a big family. he was brought into the fold of the biden family which was very sweet m. >> host: let's talk about two vice presidents, first dick cheney. as you indicated earlier as vice president, cheney rather enjoyed his image as one of the most polarizing figures in recent american history. his relationship, you write, with george w. bush was all business. they were never especially close to begin with. regard to lyndon johnson, you wrote the following: when kennedy won the nomination, johnson sent him a telegram. remember those?hn [laughter] lbj now means let's back jack. johnson was not so subtly are signaling his interest as kennedy'san personal secretary would later write, it was almost as if romeo and julieted had gotten married. >> guest: i mean, the scene in the hotel during the convention where robert kennedy is trying to stop johnson from agreeing to be jfk's running mate is just incredibly brutal. because it went on, basically, for hours where rfk is shuttling up and down the stairs tr

is it better under trump or better under barack obama? >> i'm not going to defend the democrats, but they're not the only target here. trump's foreign policy doctrine is a direct to the neocons. they're undercutting president. the irony there, he's the best friend to israel. russia is not -- they have one military base outside of russia. we have mutual interests with russia. the president is trying to get the best deals. what are we going to do to denuclearize north korea? he's working with israel or endorsing the israel russia plan in syria. so there's a lot of mutual interests. when we hold 90% of the nuclear power combined with russia, we have to have a dialogue and we need to understand how to make sure that we can make the world a democracy and russia is a lot like us in many different ways. so i don't think it's just the democrats that we should target here. trump, when he ran, he had a foreign policy doctrine that was libertarian like rand paul that was also attacked. so i think trump should stick to his guns, open up the dialogue

barack obama basically backed out. what a donald trump to try so far?e is attacked syria twice with with airstrikes that is backed up his words with action. i'd be surprised if they don't try to get something done on syria. >> the huge "washington post" writeup says vladimir putin help donald trump get elected. on monday to find out what he gets out of it. i didn't find that to be as fair statement at all because so far vladimir putin hasn't gotten much out of donald trump at all being president. reporter: talk about fair and balanced committee says vladimir vladimir putin help donald trump get elected is actually why the president chased out this whole idea of election meddling. but the democrats have not gotten their arms around, let's try to say one more time so it's loud and clear. two different issues. the russia metal in the election except to robert mueller. there are serious allegations that they interfered with the last election. the second or important issue is that it affects one vote? did it impact the election? no evidence that it did. the

is senator kamala harris the new barack obama? back in a moment. >> laura: california senator kamala harris is being a shining hope. the 2020 race, yes, we are already talking about it. isn't that fun? she has liberal hearts swooning even more after a report that her office -- check this out, refused to accept a courtesy phone call from the white house counsel's office about of course the supreme court pick. they want of course to discuss the kavanaugh appointment. her office is now denying that exact precise characterization, but regardless senator harris is on the relentless campaign to beef up her left-wing bona fide. it doesn't hurt that she is apparently a longtime favorite of former president obama. could she reach obama-like status questionnaire cured to discuss is sean duffy and austin dove, an attorney who runs in many of the same legal circles as senator harris. kamala harris, i see her as a likely 2020 front runner. i don't think it's going to be elizabeth warren. i don't think it's going to be bernie sanders. joe biden

does barack quiet ones they are out of office.ack obama, the democratic party feel he could achieve very much by weighing in? is something he could be doing that would be effective? that is a great question and one he has in fact spoken out. it is one of the reasons we have not heard from him. he does know whenever he did speak up, it would be widely read and spoken about as if it was a clump versus obama fight and airwave republicans to consolidate behind donald from. he does not want to make life easy for republicans. —— it would be seen as a trump versus obama fight. if he we re a trump versus obama fight. if he were to weigh in, it would only be to help people he does not want to help so he has issued a few state m e nts help so he has issued a few statements on a few things that he does feel very strongly about, he has played a behind the scenes role in attempting to save his health ca re in attempting to save his health care will i making calls to legislators. —— save his health care law. whether we does weigh in any public

and it is when barack obama was a senator that he noticed you?i had the luck to work for the 9/11 commission in the united states and also this thing called the iraq study group which basically assessed the twin events that defined the first decade of the 21st century. so i had that expertise and i was a speech writer. obama needed to put together a team and i basically wanted to work for him and i started working for free, not even knowing if it'd lead anywhere. i'd write memos and speeches and that ultimately got me in the door to meet barack obama. there was the moment that he noticed you. was there something that you recall? you write about a particular meeting. there was this commonsense thread that i was talking about. i walked into a meeting where they were debating whether he should vote in the senate for a bill to fund the iraq war. i was so nervous that i didn't want to speak. i was afraid he was going to call on me because i knew i couldn't speak in paragraphs. when it came to my turn to talk, because he calls on everyone in the room,

president barack obama leads a tribute to the late south african president nelson mandela on the eve of what would have been mandela's one hundredth birthday as obama's highest profile speech since leaving the white office and rejecting protectionism the european union and japan signed a landmark free trade deal embracing a third of the global economy and more than six hundred million people more on this later. on labor thank you so much for your company everyone we begin though with the fallout from that historic u.s. russia summit which sparked a furious a backlash in a still we verbal rating at today president saddam. trump triggering a wave of condemnation in the united states after appearing to favor the russian president over his own intelligence agencies or after their first ever summit in helsinki yesterday vladimir putin denied that russia had meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. election trump except that assurance contradicting the findings of u.s. intelligence. touching down to a storm of criticism this was not the welcome home president trump would want but off to siding w

i think barack 0bama self—discipline. pretty good about that since leaving office. let's have a look at this story about brexit in the daily telegraph and the other papers in the uk, which all focus on theresa may avoiding another defeat just by a all focus on theresa may avoiding another defeatjust by a whisker, two days in a row, on pretty significant amendments that were mooted by various parts of the party. these were amendments they wa nted party. these were amendments they wanted to say that the uk would have to bea wanted to say that the uk would have to be a part of some sort of customs union arrangement if we were not to come up with a deal by the end of january next year. give us your take on this latest brexit twist, as it were. what is striking, especially to me, is — as an outsider observing this in britain — just how difficult it is for those in brussels and around the world to work out how to navigate the process when it is so difficult for the uk government is a wooded is looking for. i think that asa wood

it is when barack 0bama was a senator that you notice due?n barack 0bama was a senator that you notice due? i had the luck to work for the 9/11 commission in the united states which assessed the twin events which defined the first decade of the 21st century. i wanted to work to him and i started working for free, not even knowing if we'd been anywhere. that often knowing if we'd been anywhere. that ofte n got knowing if we'd been anywhere. that often got me in the door to meet barack 0bama. there was the moment that he noticed you. was there something he recalled ? that he noticed you. was there something he recalled? there was this commonsense thread. i walked into a meeting when they were debating whether he should vote in the senate for a bill to fund the iraq war. i was so nervous, i didn't wa nt to iraq war. i was so nervous, i didn't want to speak. when it came to my turn to talk, i said, you have a plan for iraq? you said, yes. i said your plan does x, why, z. why vote fruit, you should vote against it. would he look weak if he didn't

president barack obama delivers a tribute to the late south african president nelson mandela the eighth of what wouldn't be his one hundredth birthday. until gail welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has made down about face on remarks he made that a summit with russia's vladimir putin speaking at a cabinet meeting he now says except russia did meddle in the u.s. election he went on to say that he misspoke yesterday when he said he saw no reason for russia to interfere i accept our intelligence communities conclusion that russia's meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election took place pretty of the people also. a lot of people out there there was no pollution at all. clear on that there was no collusion let's get more from d.w. so washington bureau chief an example of naaman welcome alexandra this is not a president known for backing down so what has brought this about. i think that was the harsh criticism the president has been facing since to with blood in there putting criticism most notably within his own republican party with republican lonely occurs describing

was in south africa delivering a lecture in memory of thought country's first black president now barack obama's nelson mandela lecture was full of hope for the future he couldn't help but mention the despair of the present strongman leaders with little regard for truth all the facts i wonder who he had in mind i'm phil galen and belive this is the day. people just make stuff up. they just make stuff up. but i don't watch the flames among political leaders were they're caught in the lie and they just double down and live what. i believe in nelson mandela's base. i believe in a vision shared by god to be king. abraham lincoln. i believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom a multiracial democracy built on the premise that all people are created equal but evil reminds us that no one is born hating another person because of the color of the skin or his background or is religious people must learn to hate. anything to learn to hate. they can be taught to love. for love comes more naturally to the human heart. than before we bring you have the current us president donald trump a sp

barack obama was wrong. mitt romney was right.et's point out, isn't it interesting that part of what barack obama was saying is the cold war's been over for 20 years. you listen to the left, they make it sound like the cold war is back with a vengeance. they're like this is the cold war, why isn't president trump doing more. they were letting barack obama say it wasn't a big deal. i was at a summit like this in 2012. barack obama said, he was caught on a hot mic saying tell vladimir putin that after i get elected i'll have more flexibility. now putin is the worst guy in the world but barack obama was willing to cut deals with him. >> that's why we like you. you remember things like that. stick with us. >> i'll be back all four hours, from start to finish. >> we couldn't get rid of you if we wanted to. we're glad to have you. president trump already has a 2020 campaign theme. >> our new slogan when we start running is going to be "keep america great! ." >> now the president just unveiled more 2010 township news and democrats are no

president was in south africa delivering a lecture in memory of that country's first black president barack obama's nelson mandela lecture was full of hope for the future he couldn't help but mention the despair of the present strongman leaders with little regard for truth all the facts i wonder who he had in mind i'm phil galen and belive this is the day. people just make stuff up. they just make stuff up. we see other lost the frame among political leaders were there cardinal law and. i believe in nelson mandela because. i believe in a vision shared by god being king abraham lincoln. i believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom and multiracial democracy built on the promise that people are created equal that people reminds us that no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or is religious people must learn to hate. anything to learn to hate. or love come from or did truly to the human heart. and before we bring you have that the current u.s. president donald trump has paid a spectacular turnaround on remarks he made at the summit w

the sam webber barack obama may have laid out for the league side. —— the same way that.h donald trump or with me and my reasonable point of view? theresa may could use this in her own favour. he has not left the country yet. he could still do damage to her orto her yet. he could still do damage to her or to her cause. we have to wait and see. what seems to change is that we are almost on a piece of elastic where we are at the top of the queue with a trade deal with america, or at the bottom... depending on the present‘s mood or the day. at the bottom... depending on the present's mood or the day. a stock of api. some people were not particularly keen on the president coming —— let us talk about the i. there is the scene in trafalgar square. 100,000 protesters take to the streets in london, manchester, glasgow, belfast. lots of people outside this building. it may coming work colourful, lizzie, and a bit of additional work required. and what you could see standing next to the protesters, it was good—natured until you started to read the banners. i didn't. i was in until y

obama then of course a visit to windsor, where barack obama had been.ow the rivalry between obama and trump, thatis the rivalry between obama and trump, that is important. if he hadn't got this he would have seen himself lower down the pecking order. anything on a domestic bases that barack obama accomplished, donald trump wanted to dismantle it. on the foreign stage, anything obama had done, trump wants to do bigger and better. it is you look at the theresa may government, if her government falls the question comes that if a new coalition is formed, will a new invitation be extended to donald trump, based on what happened in the meeting behind us? if they got on well i think there might be a state visit for him in the offing. for the praise given at the press conference today, he clearly doesn't think she's going to be around for much longer. this wasn't fulsome backing. no, and i've long thought that donald trump viewed theresa may asa that donald trump viewed theresa may as a temporary occupant of number 10. ithink as a temporary occupant of number 1

i see a party without a leader, begging, hoping for barack obam barack obama, but then i also don't seeolicy. what do you see? >> their messages, vote for us, we'll reverse the tax cuts and take the money back from you and put it in the government's hands, we'll open up the borders, and you really want to be safe and a lot of cities, and we want to reverse the economic gains we are making and take those bonuses back. that is the message. the democrats 'his campaign moniker this year really ought to be something like, we are sof i.c.e. because that is their whole message. they got nothing. other than impeach 45, as maxine waters likes to scream at the top of her lungs. that is not a message. >> jason: have you ever seen a party or even a candidate who just wants to dismantle law enforcement, that hates law enforcement? there are tens of thousands of i.c.e. agents out there protecting us every day. how do you win at the national level by just trying to disparage federal employees? i never thought i would see democrats doing it. >> it doesn't seem to be a very strong strategy. i think over

you got to say barack obama, barack obama. >> i'm laughing because you guys are so tough on russia.nder barack hussein obama. you guys did nothing until little hillary clinton got embarrassed about some emails that came out about chelsea and her wedding. you guys are not tough, you think global warming is more of a threat than terrorism -- >> that's not true. >> you guys have done nothing on russia, now you complain because it's an excuse for losing the election. you know what really cost her the election? she fainted, she was a terrible candidate, she didn't go to wisconsin, she called half the country deplorable. >> sean: i want you to know, jessica, the last time we were together got her first win. jesse now has come back and won 100-0. that is never happened. >> lets tell everyone where jessica was last week. >> i went into the semifinals of the world cup in st. petersburg. >> sean: of the first time we've ever had a perfect score goes to jesse watters. >> this is insane. >> sorry, maybe next time. >> sean: maybe next time. good to see you both. still to come, there's probably n

in the same sense that trump is authentic, so is barack obama. there has been a greater acceptance of just being ourselves. when we look like we are not in,aring what we believe you want to know who you are being asked to vote for. it's interesting to trace this over eight years. in the beginning, it was such a crisis. and then turning to the oppressive agenda outside of health care and reform. what hindered our gender was an inability to find a way to work with republicans. understandably they had a different view. it was the complete embrace of the opposite of what obama was for. progressives confides in space to work together even if policies are different. gay marriage, climate change -- you saw a much more advanced sense of progressivism because we couldn't find any common ground so we just it up for the things we believed. host: famously in the first year of the administration, mitch mcconnell made it his now to one term president. how did that hurt? guest: it is interesting when you comment and you don't know what the congressional benefit