detectives to hawaii to investigate barack obama's birth. and michael cohen explained donald trump's hateful obsession with president barack obama. >> he doesn't care what he says. he doesn't care who gets hurt so long as he wins. and when he saw that his poll numbers and his popularity and the number of times that he's gracing the front cover of a newspaper is increasing, he just added onto it. all of a sudden he was sending people to hawaii to go check. that's a lie. he never sent anybody anywhere, right? he just said it, and everybody sort of bought into it. of course donald trump sent somebody. he's rich, right? who wouldn't send somebody if you want to prove your point? well, donald trump didn't do it because he didn't want to spend the money, and he didn't believe it. you know, his hatred for barack obama is plain and simple. he's black. he went to harvard law. he graduated the top of his class. he's, you know, incredibly

consider barack obama.f he's a smart man, very gifted nyspeaker appeared too many peoe found him inspiring, it's understandable why. when the fog lifted after obama's eight years in office, what was left? a dying middle-class, a nation more radically divided by race and by income. a population so hostile to their political leaders that they elected donald trump president. by any measure, barack obama left a wake of destruction behind. in the end, one of the relatively few who prospered was barack obama himself. obama and his wife became unimaginably wealthy, legitimately rich with huge estates in different parts of the country. where did barack obama get all that money? no one asks. if we are too busy hating each other. obama stokes that hatred because it helps him. here he is at the democratic convention this summer. >> americans of all races joining together to declare in the face of injustice and brutality at the hands of the state that black lives matter. no more, but no less. to the young people who le

>> merritt garland, barack obama's nominee after scalia passed away. and mitch mcconnell said, it is unseemly to consider a supreme court nominee in an election year. that was 10 months before the election. this is days, weeks before an

, it was president trump that created opportunity zones, that wasn't joe and that wasn't barack. in five decades in the swamp, what did job i didn't do? now in order to please his far left handlers, biden is now trashing law enforcement. just this week about what he do? the police are viewed as the enemy and he said he was totally on board with stripping their federal funding, his own words -- take a listen. >> surplus military equipment for law enforcement, they don't need that. the last thing you need is an armored humvee coming into the neighborhood, they don't know anybody, they become the enemy, they are supposed to be protecting these people. >> we agree we can redirect some of the funding. >> yes. absolutely. one of the things we also need to be doing is fundamentally changing the way and i've been pushing it for years, changing the way we deal with our prison system. >> sean: militarized police? look at these images. they got that equipment when you were vice president. up next, we'll do the job the media mob will not do and that is that senator kamala harris and her reco

. >> in one conversation with woodward trump escalated his contempt for former president barack obama saying, quote, i don't think obama is smart. i think he is highly overrated, and i don't think he is a great speaker. trump told woodward he often wanted to refer to obama by his first and middle names barack hussein but he wouldn't do that in his presence so he could be,

it was donald trump, not joe, not barack who passed criminal justice reform and prison reform..nald trump, it wasn't joe, it wasn't barack who signed off on police reform, it was donald trump doing opportunity zones targeting mostly minority neighborhoods to help build the economies in neighborhoods that have been left behind by joe and barack. it was president trump, not joe, not barack who ushered in record low unemployment forn' african-americans, hispanic-americans, asian-americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, african-american youth unemployment, joe and barack didn't do any of that. 13 million more american food stamps, lowest labor participation rate in -- since the 70s. the worst recovery rate since the 40s, that is there 80 years of failure. three years and, president trump has done more for minorities in this country than joe biden, nancy pelosi, and chuck schumer did in 125 years, watch this. >> you s look at employment, you look at opportunity zones and maybe most importantly you look at criminal justice reform. you look at prison reform. i have done t

and barack 0bama had two.—up of the supreme court for a very long time. and that happens in this election, that happens in this election, that will be fixed, so even if joe biden were to win in november, the supreme court which has this huge amount of power will already have been chosen and the die will have been cast. it is so interesting, in other countries including the uk from where i am speaking, i don't think anyone could name anyjudge at all, but in america it seems supreme courtjudges particularly ruth bader ginsburg and some of the others, are household names. is that because of the power that the supreme court has in making decisions, or is that to do with something else? decisions, or is that to do with something else ?|j decisions, or is that to do with something else? i think ruth bader ginsburg became a cultural icon, they were films made about her and documentaries made about her, she became the notary s rbg, a play on —— notorious. i have definitely come across her and in the same room as her,

much, whyng asked so would you have barack obama in the background, what is that about? and i said to him, that election represented progress in america. it showed that most americans have moved beyond this issue of race and bigotry. barack obama did not win the white house because he was black, he won because they felt and whate best ideas, obama and john mccain represented to us is that america remains a shining city on the hill. just because someone disagrees with obama and criticizes him has nothing to do with the fact of his race, it has to do with his policies and the positions that he takes. i explained to them, this is a celebration. think about this. anywhereno other place else where a man like barack obama can rise in a country and become president of the united states, and we don't talk about that progress enough. when i explained this to them, there was this aha moment. they said we are not as racist as they make it seem. everything is not about black and white, just because i have this cardboard cutout of barack obama and john mccain in my background. host:

just because i had this cutout cardboard of barack obama and mccain in your background. you reverend george e george floyd, and other breonna taylor and they would attribute that to systemic racism. what's you take. >> guest: i grew up in marion, south carolina, which had a huge impact on my life and how i view the world. the memory of slavery and reconstruction and the civil rights movement and wake away from a segregatessed society that follow imbed mid memory and the collective con husbandness of -- consciousness of the south. he my days in the rural south are continuous blessing that has fueled the arc of my life now into this public square of political thought, commerce and media and the thing is it's what i said earlier. it's not because they were black. it's because no one should be treat this way. no one should lose their humanity, be in their beds and all of a sit 2:00 in the morning they're awick only to a hail of gunfire by law enforcement and someone dies for no reason at all. just takes five or six months for the community to be out raged or the media is out

barack obama, yes, he served in the senate, state senate, he's outsider. usually if you're the outsider, opposed to win as lots and lots of washington experience. you're seeing from the trump campaign, they're certainly this president as certainly unorthodox and as the outsider, even though he's been president for nearly four years. steve: bob cusack is the editor n chief of "the hill" newspaper, thehill.com. susan ferrechio is the chief correspondent for "washington examiner". to both of you, we thank you for your time and for your insights. steve.anks, susan: thanks a lot. of the video from joe biden, his public life, is available on our website c-span.org. and our campaign coverage, c-span.org/campaign2020. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] --gs kapgs performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] first presidential trump: vice sident president is campaigning through this vaccine. it's reckless. it is is for political reasons. iden, his whole deal is cat

president barack obama sent the name of garland to the senate for a hearing and a vote. the treatment he received from the senate was d disgraceful. senator mcconnell announced he would not even give him the time of date nor meet with him in his office. and he those republican senators who did. merrick garland was being shoved by senator mcconnell because of his rule. the mcconnell rule. no vacancy shall bewe filled until we have a new president. steadfast in his determination to show that this principle will prevail and shunned mary garlan garland. well, it turns out that this rule of law, this mcconnell rule, that guided the senate for years ago was on a sector sent as one might think. a nation guided by a rule of law cannot have one set of rules with a democratic president and another set under republican presidents. that is just what senator mcconnell called for on friday. shortly after the news, a short time after the news of justice ginsburg's passing, he said, senator mcconnell's", president trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the united states sen

barack obama, yes, he served in the senate, state senate, he's outsider. usually if you're the outsider, opposed to win as lots and lots of washington experience. you're seeing from the trump campaign, they're certainly this president as certainly unorthodox and as the outsider, even though he's been president for nearly four years. steve: bob cusack is the editor n chief of "the hill" newspaper, thehill.com. susan ferrechio is the chief correspondent for "washington examiner". to both of you, we thank you for your time and for your insights. steve.anks, susan: thanks a lot. of the video from joe biden, his public life, is available on our website c-span.org. and our campaign >> the first presidential debate between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden is tuesday night at 9:00 eastern from cleveland. watch live on c-span. >> biden is recklessly campaigning against this vaccine. all of this is for political reasons. deal is whole catastrophic shutdown. recorded byn words bob woodward, the president knew back in february that this was a

that is from former president barack obama. i want to bridng in now dana bash, cnn's chief correspondent. and manu raju. hello, to both of you, again. dana, listen. president obama's making it clear that democrats should fight this with all that they have got. the question is, what can they do? >> vote. they can vote. in -- in november. which is the message that he has, here. i mean, he's not just speaking as a scorned president. scorned because it was his nominee, merrick garland, who never even got a hearing because mitch mcconnell, who is now in the driver's seat with this vacancy potentially, said, no, it's -- it's not okay. we're not going to do this during an election year. but, beyond that, don, as you said, i think it's important to underscore he is trying to give democrats a roadmap for messaging on this. and that is just talking about and reminding people how important the supreme court is to everyday lives, in so many ways. again, talking about women -- women are treated with equality. our planet survives. the econom

national ality of barack obama the former u.s. president and it's also worth pointing out that in michael collins new memoir that he says that trump was so incensed when barack obama became the u.s. president that he hired an actor in the impersonator as it were of barack obama to sit in his office and to be recorded being rated by trump and then being fired by donald trump and michael cohen has released a photo of one of those sessions which he said trump found cathartic so it's not a surprise but certainly given that we are at the beginning now of the general election push that trump is going to find himself having to answer questions about these allegations in michael collins book as soon as on tuesday well as we've been saying today is traditionally that fast day of campaigning that this really is an average election year biden still ahead he's really trying to defend money now. that's right if not in normal electioneering that is because in large part of the code that 19 pandemic which not only has altered the way that the pr

it's always Ãbut we must admit as i mentioned with the story with president barack obama, america ise shining city on the hill. america is no longer the great place it once was but america still is because we are still a young country, still an experiment and we have made phenomenal progress and that progress we should always celebrate. >> if you want to talk to our guest armstrong williams, 202-748-8000 for eastern and central time zones. 202-748-8001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. you can text us at 202-748-8003.we will have a chance to talk with our guest for the hour, will take a brief break at 9:30 p.m. but you are talking with armstrong williams, radio tv talkshow host and author of "what black and white america must do now" prescription to move beyond race". rosemarie starts us off from florida. you are on with armstrong williams, good morning. >>. >> mr. williams i would just like to say you have a lot of good points on what you are saying. >> keep going, you are probably listening to yourself. >> i'm so sorry. mr. williams, i was very interested in the last speaker

hussein obama. >> i believe his hatred for barack obama basically starts with the fact that he's black and that he was the first black president in this country. >> after then president obama mocked donald trump at the 2011 white house correspondents' dinner cohen says his boss wanted him to publicly deny that he was upset. >> lester, not only did it bother him. it really irritated him. >> reporter: on russia cohen writes the campaign was far too chaotic and incompetent to actually conspire with the russian government, but mr. trump, himself, he says, was hedging his post election bets trying to nudge a proposed trump tower moscow project along during the campaign and praising putin did the russians have some kind of financial hold on donald trump that you are aware of? >> well, that is something they'll have to figure out based upon his tax returns and the investigation into deutsche bank but the answer to that is no i'm not aware of any of that. >> cohen writes the last time he spoke to president um 2018 conversation with donald trump right now what you from any and all potential cri

barack and i as president and vice president took on the virus that was threatening all of africa and the rest of the world and set up a mechanism worked but i want to take a moment to say it's not a time to panic

president barack obama sent the name of judge merrick garland from the d.c. circuit to the senate for a hearing and a vote. the treatment he received from the senate was disgraceful. senator mcconnell an announced he would not even give him the time of day nor meet with him in his office, and he admonished those republican senators who did. he was being -- merrick garland was being shunned by senator mcconnell because of his rule, the mcconnell rule. no vacancy shall be filled until we have a new president. steadfast in his determination to show that this principle would prevail, he shunned merrick garland. well, it turns out that this rule of law, this mcconnell rule that guided the senate four years ago was not as sack -- sacrosanct as one might think. shortly after the news, a short time after the news of justice ginsburg's passing, he said, senator mcconnell said, quote, he president trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the united states senate. in direct violation of his own statement four years ago, senator mcconnell said that within hour

i would argue that under barack obama's presidency got taken to new levels. literally the reason donald trump has had so many vacancies to fill -- we've talked about how he has gotten more than 200 judges on the federal bench. the reason that was made possible is because he hit -- he inherited. that is not because barack obama did not prioritize judicial nominations, it is because mitch mcconnell made a point of not filling those seats. senate,y took over the --ublicans did not [indiscernible] to exercisesenators their ability to block. he saw judgeships in the rightist states of the country that remained open for donald trump to fill solely because of the fact -- [indiscernible] the other consequences, we have a wider and more male judiciary under donald trump. barack obama made a priority of emphasizing racial and gender diversity in his nominations. we have large swathes of the country that are not at all diverse in terms of who sits on the appellate court. i think the fifth circuit of the appeals court, which represent louisiana and texas, i think the mos

barack and i are closer than two scoops in a cone except i'm melting a lot faster. come on, jack! me with some sprinkles. just some insulation." obama peeled back the curtain o. s the pot: this president and those in power, those who benefit from keeping things the way they are, they are counting on your cynicism. >> stephen: "joke's on you, barack. i can't count, one, person, man, woman, five." obama had a strong warning for voters. >> do not let them take away your power. do not let them take away your democracy. >> stephen: ( as obama ) "do not let them take away your mailboxes. maybe put some olive oil them, or some ky jelly, something slippery, so they're too hard to pick up." then obama reminded us who has the power to fix our country. >> you can give our democracy new meaning. you can take it to a better place. >> stephen: so, new zealand? then we sponged off our tears. and it was time for the main event, the acceptance speech for the vice presidential nomination by california senator kamala harris, seen here really enjoying an off-camera puppet show. harris gave a riveted

who is elected on the bamboo thurgood that's a position republicans also took back in 2016 on the barack obama when he tried to nominate a judge to the court before that year's election where particular hain is in washington d.c. she explained the position the republicans are taking. oh you just heard the president is promising the crowd that he's going to fill that seat he told reporters before leaving the white house that he likely would nominate a woman and he would do it soon possibly by this coming week unclear if he's going to wait for the funeral of ruth bader ginsburg really was like within the hour after they announced that she had passed that the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell came out and said he was going to fill the seat despite the president that he himself said under president obama so here's the problem for the president and senator mcconnell they have $45.00 days to the election most supreme court justices takes months that in normal times they meet with pretty much every u.s. senator it's really a lobbying campaign to try and get this done $45.00 days that's goi

. 4,000 homicides in barack's home city.early 20,000 people shot in the eight-year period. we are action to this, the former n.y.p.d. commission. bernie kerick. leo, you are asitia rights attorney. you see despicable attacks against the attorney general of kentucky. he presented that jury with every possible option including capital murder. in other words the death penalty. the jury was given the evidence. you need nine of 12 jurors. the defense doesn't put on any case before a grand jury. to get an indictment you need nine of 12. if you can't get nine of 12 for a charge, you won't get 12 of 12 for a conviction. are you? >> absolutely not. i'm a lawyer and i have been doing police misconduct, civil rights cases for 30 years. the attorney general got it right.'t i have to say this, sean. that woman who made those racist comments, could you imagine if a republican said that? she questioned daniel cameron's blackness and analogized to slavery and charles barkley is getting the neblowback? the racist party is the democrats. if y

he helped run the super pac that was instrumental in reelecting barack obama in 2012. this new book is his sixth book. he's a commentator, you've probably seen him on cnn, and he also teaches public policy at georgetown. and most importantly, somehow he has made it through decades in the hard-boiled world of politics with a sense of humor, his optimistic and cheerful spirit and, most importantly, his personal integrity fully intact, and that is no small feat. thank you, paul, for reminding us that it is still possible to be the person that you are in the political world. >> you know, thank you. >> now, if you look at the back of the cover of paul's book once you get it, or maybe you already have it, you will see forwards. here's the front. you can see it behind paul. and you'll see blurbs from bill clinton, nancy pelosi, james car absolutely, even willie nelson. but the most flattering blurb comes from someone else, and here is what donald trump says about paul. paul begala, the dopey cnn flunk key has knowingly commuted fraud in his first ad against maine paul, clearl

even more so now but certainly when i worked for barack obama in 2012, it was then too, right? at that point the fully was not fully recovered. so part of our objective and goal was to show mitt romney as somebody who was not qualified -- not not qualified, but not suited, i should say, to be standing up for people who are still struggling. by seeing him as somebody who was disconnected and very wealthy and kind of only of that world. and also to ask people to give us another -- give us more time. that's part of what i think any president does and part of what i think trump and his team are trying to do on the economy. and they have managed or just -- i don't know, by inertia, i have no idea, to keep support for him on the economy at a higher rate than i think most would expect given what we're looking at. but i don't think we should underestimate that as a factor. even though i think joe biden would win if the election were tomorrow. aaron: any thoughts? charlie: yeah. look, obviously when you've got 5% of the world's population and everybody points to the 25% of the cases, bu

jen psaki was the white house communications director and former president barack obama's administration from 2015-2017 and spokesperson at the department of state under the of state under the secretary of state john kerry from 2013-2015. and above all, she's probably the most of two humans under the age of five, which i think is almost extraordinary identifications, i've heard come in a bio. format, each will speak for roughly five minutes, moderated round with me the of annoying questions for about 20, and then q&a with our twitter verse e-mail and what else is listening. so jen, without further ado, let me turn it over to you. >> well, thank you, aaron, and charlie and the men to come it's going to joy for this post. i'm sure i will lot from both of you. you had a lot of questions in their to unpack but maybe think about back in 2007 and 81 81 is what before then senator barack obama and as charlie and amanda and probably you to remember part of the reason why he became the nominee was because of his opposition to the iraq war. very much a foreign policy issue the essential on that pr

when 26 named barack obama refused to hold a senate vote on appointing a new judge 9 months before the election back then it was justified by the fact he was the outgoing democratic president but perhaps more pertinently both houses of congress were held at the time by the republican party professor of media studies at georgetown university chris chambers says' even if donald trump loses november's election he'd still have time to make changes before the new president steps in. the problem is is that what we have seen is the manipulation in the united states senate by majority leader mcconnell who arguably probably has more power to do things arbitrarily than the president indeed it was sort of mcconnell who blocked president obama's choices and basically confirmed maybe 8 judges this many months where if he's confirming 8 judges almost a day for president trump mr biden was right in a way that you there is a truncated or a short time period but theoretically you can get a lot done in that very short period even in january before the old congress call it goes out in an presumably if he

in 2008, barack obama created a multiracial coalition that brought him to the presidency. coalition that mirrored the type of coalition martin luther king envisioned in 1968 for the campaign. barack obama's presidency did not represent a post-racial society as we have come to understand. still, it represented a market -- a marked departure from previous american political life and created a new image of the black man and the black family in the lives of many african-americans and americans. for whatever his legacy in terms of policy and the administration, his personal legacy and his impact on american political life will be seen as a very positive element in the future as historians consider and reconsider the impact of his presidency. we are lucky enough to have a president in barack obama who understood the impact of history and importance of understanding history, so the artifacts we received from the white house include the dress michelle obama, the first lady, war at the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march on washington and the comments signed by the president that he

apply rules with consistency and not based on what's convenient or advantages and the moment and 2016 barack obama was blocked from appointing a new judge by the senators both houses of congress were held at the top at the time by the republican party in contradiction 4 years on and donald trump has announced he's ready to make his nomination public quite quite soon right now the republicans control the senate so will be able to confirm that pick however political analyst max abrams says there will be consequences if the appointment is made before november. in terms of trump's powers not knowledge of romance but it's powers who does have the power to nominate somebody to replace ginsburg there is some question procedurally about whether he can cut quick enough to get the appointments through in such a short period of time and there are questions about politics is it worth it to do so it appears that the democrats are very fired up about it if you want to go ahead there are all sorts of retaliatory steps that the democrats could think i think that it's very likely that of trump goes ahead and

it doesn't seem like barack obama could be very concerned about climate change.y the way, didn't obama go to law school? when did he become a scientist? those seem like reasonable questions. on the other hand, lawyers pretending to be scientists are now everywhere in the democratic party. here for example iss the governr of washington state, jay inslee, a proud graduate of willamette university law school -- she's explained he's already figured out the cause of the fires, watch. >> these are conditions exacerbated by the changing climate that we are suffering. and i do not believe that we should surrender these subdivisions or these houses to climate change exacerbated f fires. we should fight the cause of these fires. >> tucker: so i mismanage my state, now it's on fire -- you are required to give me more o power. you see how that works. as a factual matter, this is a crock. there's not a single scientist on earth who knows whether or by how much these fires may have been exacerbated by warmer temperatures caused by climate change. all we have is conjecture from

president trump was a reaction to barack obama. i thank you saw the same thing of a seesaw back-and-forth in the uk as well. we tend to swing back and forth even just look in your state of pennsylvania we traditionally will elect a governor as a democrat and then keeps for two terms and then go for republicans to keep them for two terms. we do swing back and forth and sometimes we put the brake pedals on policies that had their foot in the last administration and sometimes we are our ideology have shifted in a state because of the economy or culture or combination of those. >> so on election night as a the returns come in from the commonwealth of pennsylvania, what county, what part of the state where you keep a close eye on to determine whether it is a fight and or a trump win in pennsylvania? >> essentially i will do what i did and if people could check out my story today there is, 2016 identified ten counties, including erie where you are from, along with cambria and washingtonam and these are the counties that do not have the l

>> merritt garland, barack obama's nominee after scalia passed away. and mitch mcconnell said, it is unseemly to consider a supreme court nominee in an election year. that was 10 months before the election. this is days, weeks before an election, and there are at least six or seven republicans who are on the record, lindsey graham, for example, pulled me to the side. would never appoint anyone, take up an appointment in an election year. and don't say you're for a principle and a couple of years later say, that was then, this is now, we need to hold their feet to the fire. it's absurd and i hope that the leaders of the democrats and the house and senate will use every tool at their disposal to slow this down, to show the people what these republicans said. we only need four of them to not vote to move forward. >> well, i do want to point out that despite what happened in 2006 with merritt garland, i know you were there for that but constitutionally, the president, of course, has absolutely the power to nominate >> that's not the point. the point is, th

this idea that he hates barack obama because barack obama is what he wants to be. you know, he's smart. he's popular. he's beloved around the world. he's respected. he was a president who in donald trump's mind had it made. movies were being, you know, screened in the white house. celebrities were surrounding him. he thinks that's what he was supposed to get, and he hates the fact that this black man got it, and he thinks that because he's black, he didn't deserve it and that he deserves it, donald trump deserves, not this guy. and there's also, you know, the stories that michael cohen has told about donald trump riding through black neighborhoods or describing what it would be like to ride through black neighborhoods and saying have you ever met any place where blacks are in charge that's not an s-hole? that's his belief. it all rings so true and here's the important thing. if people don't want to believe michael cohen, the problem with saying that you doubt him is that he was trump's bad guy, and who else would know the dirt donald trump was doing than the guy wh

we heard frit from mary trump, this idea that he hates barack obama because barack obama is who he wants to be. he's smart, beloved around the world, respected, a president who had it made, movies were being, you know, screened in the white house, celebrities were surrounding him. he thinks that's what he was supposed to get and he hates that this black man got it and he thinks that because he's black, he didn't deserve it and that donald trump deserves it, not this guy. there's also the stories that michael cohen has told about donald trump riding through black neighborhoods or describing what it would be like toe ride through black neighbors and saying do you remember a place where blacks where are in charge that's not an s-hole? even his being in love with money and that's why he's in love -- it all rings so true. if people don't want to believe michael cohen, the problem with saying that you doubt him is he was trump's bad guy. and who else would know the dirt donald trump was doing than the guy who held the shovel for all those years. he was the guy doing the dirt for trump, paying

he didn't do it, joe biden and barack obama did it, and he needs to tell that story and get that story out so the people understand that it's joe biden who can build back the economy, not donald trump. >> donna, we know the central message for the biden campaign is what they see as the president's failure to respond to the coronavirus in a way that could have saved more lives. how do they make sure that the emphasis stays on his response to the coronavirus and does not get pulled into a number of the other directions that you see the president would rather talk about? >> well, what you've seen is that both joe biden examiand ka harris have been very, very disciplined in terms of their messaging. this coronavirus is not under control no matter what the president says. people understand in their day-to-day lives whether they've been able to go back to work or a family member or friend who has been affected by the virus. and i think as long as that focus stays on the president's incompetence in delivering on a plan to really get the economy going because you've got the coronavirus under c

former national security adviser to president barack obama. i think that when we think about the debt here, it's worth wile thinking about -- i have seen a lot of people talk about their security clearance processes. there is two questions. one, who he owes the debt to. deutsche bank and others. but as a lever for mischief from entities that have some interest in the united states is something that anyone who goes through a security clearance has to deal with, right? >> absolutely, chris. one of the most important things that the fbi and the background checks look into is, are you potentially beholden to anybody or any entity, any country that could use that leverage against the interest of the united states and our national security in order to extort or exploit or otherwise manipulate you. indebtedness is one of those very serious things that causes alarms to go off. and in this case, with over $400 million owed to god knows who in what countries around the world when we know from donald trump's own children that they have said publically in

raised as historians look back at her decision in 2016 not to resign from the court and give president barack 0bama another opportunity to nominate a liberal justice, but opportunity to nominate a liberaljustice, but rather to cling to her seat despite her poor health and so to give, as we now find, donald trump a third crack at adding a conservative to this court. ruth bader ginsburg criticised donald trump openly, i think the supreme court justice donald trump openly, i think the supreme courtjustice had to have a quiet word with her. it must be a bitter irony for her supporters that she has died under president trump's tenure, potentially giving him the chance to nominate notjust a successor, but in some way, surely, to define her legacy on the court. yes, unless there are suddenly a rebellion by republican senators, this will bea republican senators, this will be a 6—3 conservative majority on the supreme court for the first time in some years, and so first time in some years, and so that certainly tarnishes ruth bader ginsburg's political legacy. there are many women and men in the unite

barack obama said this just a few weeks ago, he said, this trump administration has shown it will tearis there a pa rt it takes to win. is there a part of you that for years, despite all your connections over decades to and republican presidential candidates, is there a part of you that believes barack there a part of you that believes ba rack 0bama there a part of you that believes barack obama is right? yes. and you should be so surprised about that or put that question in a way that you and this is classic hardtalk, which is why want to do this, absolutely. to me hold on, hold on, to me the health of democracy is more important than any one candidate. the belief, the faith, the confidence that people have in the electoral process is essential to the health of the democracy. there is nothing more important, not accountability, not impact, the most important aspect of whether people believe that the system is just and fair is if they believe that the election system is above reproach. and they do in america right now and that is fundamental. you are making a hugely important point. th

game, set, match, it was over. paughs) >> barack obama jected to be the next president. >> senator barackinois... >> narrator: he'd turned a political isis into a relationship, and became vice president. >> he had alrey squared aw in his mind that he understood that barack obama was ent, joe was vice president. and joe understood the job of vice president and, and, uh... and wore iwell. >> narrator: in the obama white use, biden brought with him something the presiddn't have: relationships in congress spanning decades. >> these were his recently former colleagues, and he knew that hcould call them and they would take his call, and that he could go and thrash issues outwi with the a degree of comfort that president oba didn't have, becausee hadn't known thems long as vice president biden. >> narrator: biden became obama's trusted partner. >> the real question isn't what thing did you do, if you're vice president. the real question is, how much influence did you have? and i think biden understandsra power and leng per. i think he had a genuine relationship with obama, and ey spent a lot of

. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear... >> we have to heal the divides in our country.ur >> i am oice. >> narrator: and now on ontline... >> that the end of this chapter of american darkness began here. >> narrator: "the choice 2020". >> frontline is made possible by contributions to youpbs u.ation from viewers like thank you. and by torporation for public broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a mo just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. the ford foundation: working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide at fordfoundation.org by the abrams foundation,ded committed to excellence in journalism. the park foundation, dedicato hghtening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalismund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. , >> overnigowing national unrest... >> narrator: with the nation in crisis... >> ...mobs sowing chaos in cities across the nation... >> narrator: ...this is the story of two candidates forged in their

barack obama did nominate and he was constitutionally obligated to do.onald trump, as president, an obligated to fill this seat. he needs to make the nomination and mitch mcconnell will move it and that is what he should do. two wrongs don't make a right. the party out of power of course wants to put the brakes on and if they have the power in the legislative branch they'll do it as mitch mcconnell did. in this instance you have a republican president, republican senate majority and i believe that president trump will nominate a nominee shortly and that nominee will move through the senate. and i don't think, and i've heard your viewers talk about this, i don't think that the democrat will find more than three. and i think there will be hell to pay if mitt romney votes against an acceptable conservative nominee when he gets ready to run for reelection, too. he's a politician, too, and has to face the voters. the voters elected this government to go until january 1, 2021 the. >> the guy that runs the judiciary committee, lindsey graham, that's neither her