. >> i'm voting for barack obama not because he's black, i'm voting for barack obama because he's brilliant. >> this is very personal for me. >> presidential campaign's a tough business. >> i feel change in the air. >> the democratic party has thrown us women aside. >> we're going to go to washington, and we're going to shake things up. >> i can't trust obama, he's an arab. >> the first african american president of the united states. >> failure to act now will turn crisis into a catastrophe. >> this is not health reform, this is control. >> how is that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for ya? ♪ ♪ >> the american people have sent a resounding and unmistakable message of change and new direction for america. >> it's been just five days since democrats took control of both houses of congress, but already the focus is shifting to the next big political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007, the climate is not very good if you are a republican. the war in iraq is very unpopular. and many democrats think they can win the presidency. >> senator biden now joining a g

i want everybody here to vote for barack, everybody. >> barack obama hit the lunch crowd at a restaurantn columbia, where he greeted nearly every customer, nearly all of them white. >> of course, you can take a picture. what's your name? >> sean. >> sean. >> polls show he's been losing support among white voters here, and spent much of the week trying to downplay race. he's blamed the media for hyping it and encouraged voters to look past color. >> if i came to you and i had polka dots, but you were convinced that i was going to put more money in your pockets and help you pay for college and help keep america safe, you'd say, okay, you know, i wish you didn't have polka dots, but i'm still voting for him. >> partly out of curiosity and partly out of legitimate support, i decided that i was going to go to south carolina. we were in this place, denmark, south carolina, on the get out the vote operation. we walk up to this house and this older white woman comes to the door and tells me not to come any closer. and i said, okay. and, you know, i stopped where i was and she said, i already kno

my guest is barack obama.the fact that your father, who also was barack obama, was from kenya. >> that's right. >> my father returned to kenya and essentially became sort of a mythic figure to me. >> the icon. >> an icon. >> your father comes back once when you're 10. >> right. >> and it isn't until years later that you learn the real story of what happened to him back in kenya. >> right. >> and then because he starts to speak up and because of the changing political scheme. >> you know, he ends up being blacklisted from the government and in fact, dies a very bitter and lonely man. and there is a tragic element to that. and part of what i had to come to terms with in writing the book and in discovering that entire side of my life and my family was to really recognize that he had been shaped by many of the forces that i was struggling with as a youth. that he, as an african, although was not genetically mixed, so to speak, culturally was caught in this cross-pollenization, this hybridization, this movement fro

barack obama, his political dna is that of the pragmatists. it is that of the politician who believes, first and foremost. in the possible. he's a realist. he admits that in his writings and in his pronouncements. he's the guy who will take half a loaf or even a third of a loaf, as opposed to no loaf at all. and call that a good day. there are those who have problems with that. but that's his political dna, i think, in terms of how he operates, their strategic minded. very, again, pragmatic as a politics person. and again. at the end of the day, he has a clear eyed understanding of how he got to the office in 2008. and he has a clear eyed understanding of what it will take to get reelected and his understanding is that he could not certainly sort of become the president of black america between 2008 and 2012. he understood that much of his support among some voters, particularly white voters, will soft support. there's an instance in july of 2009 in which a harvard professor by the name of henry louis gates gets locked out of his house. the do

can't afford barack obama.economy going and put the american people back to work with good jobs and rising incomes. >> a lot of african-americans in this country are getting flat out crushed in this economy. >> in 2008, african-americans went to the polls in record numbers, with some people in the black community feeling a sense of disappointment. now, the question is, can the president hold on to the black vote? >> do you think there's a reasonable chance that you could lose this election? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, this is going to be a close race. i take nothing for granted. i'm going to be working my tail off trying to present a clear choice to the american people. the one thing i hope i'm able to communicate in this campaign is that i'm not tired, that i am as eager every morning and as determined as i've ever been to work as hard as i can on behalf of the american people. >> four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. ton

being a speechwriter for barack obama. the best thing about that, you know, like anybody in there, like he'd say, the perks are great. air force one, marine one for call. but what? i loved people will ask, how do you judge the effectiveness of speech? and it wasn't with polling data or groups and they serve purpose. but i love to traveling with them and just kind of being offstage. sometimes i hide in the back of the room and watching people's heads nod was always my my best way to whether a speech was effective or not. if it's connecting with people and i got to meet some really extraordinary people not just, you know, famous people who traipse through the west wing, but but letter writers, you know, president obama said early on, i think even before took office doing the transition that he wanted to read ten letters every single night that came into the white house. and he was very adamant that i want them to a representative sample it's not helpful if it's just ten letters saying you're great and he made sure we read th

read barack obama's words again. >> sure.e can't allow people to pour into the united states undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the lines of people waiting diligently to become immigrants in this country. >> i agree with it. >> jose, you know what president deported more? let me finish, shawn. the president that deported more people at this country than any administration was the obama/biden administration. >> that's exactly right because he executed and let me say this, he did the right thing because he was executing on the current law. i am not saying, if we don't let the actual system, let's change the law. i am all for it. let's change the law. that's got to be done in congress. >> change the law. >> joe, would it be fair to send people home that didn't respect our laws? >> that's why we have a border, i believe. if they're not here seeking an asylum and as we are seeing all these folks in hotels in new york city and it is single men and they are pretty well- well-dressed. enforce the laws in the books,

it was under barack obama for example that we reached the peak .he absolute peak of classified information was 2012 during obama's administration. more people were prosecuted than leaking information during the obama administration than all previous administrations combined. if you look at the history, it appears this out. the same is true of jimmy carter, bill clinton, all three of these presidents promised they would change the secrecy system when they took office, and if you look at the statistics, the data, in every single case after they passed their own executive orders even more information was getting classified every year. you do not have to depend on government estimates as we have so far. you can also look at for example state department cables from the 1970's, we have millions of them now, that have been declassified. we have the metadata because the tax has not been released. you can look at all of those millions of cables and compare the nixon administration, the ford administration, the carter administration, and what i can tell you

barack obama had a certain type of critical mass.uddenly much more frightened, much more active, and i think it is definitely true. there is the current saying that things are more separated, and i think from a back perspective, we would find this hard to reckon under barack obama. certainly, i did not feel any more distant. we always felt distanced. do we feel more distance under barack obama i don't know. >> you could make an argument, there is more proximity. >> i would agree, and i think that's part of the problem. exactly part of the problem. >> that was the source -- >> yes, to the extent that i think we could come up with another term than polarization, but let's just say, i prefer the term fear. for a certain sector of white america being afraid, proximity was a problem. this goes back to what we were talking about. i think the symbolism of it is the problem. that's not the material, you're correct about that, but i do think that the symbolism threatens people because it correctly identifies it's a symbolism that regards all

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and that was probably in barack obama's capacity. oh, thank you. yeah. barack obama. i served with barack for a few years before he went on to be president. how often did you entertain the thought? i did not entertain the thought. i, i it never occurred to me that. not once. no, not really. you know, and there are all kinds of reasons why it was it would not have been a rational thought. senator, your thoughts on what we all on thursday when the last public hearing of the january six committee with the video behind the scenes in the hallways that you wandered the offices that that that you occupied. by the way you probably know this. but i once said in your chair, you were nowhere to be seen. i was in your office and i could not resist. and you said ahead and i so i sat in your chair. i apologize right now when. you when did you see the video? how much of the video have you seen of what was going on that day and seen chuck schumer and nancy pelosi? and there was there was some fear, was some trepidation in, their eyes. what are your thoughts on seeing what happened? w

doubt, nausea, vomiting and suffocation. chemical weapons had been used to good morning albany for barack obama. it was the red line that could not be crossed . the united states had promised to intervene if there was proof that bashar al assad was using chemical weapons. the following day, the u. s. president spoke to the press. ibrahim was convinced that the course of the war would change. what we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of syria, but we don't know how they were used when they were used. who used them. we don't have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened. and abby, akin hon. not if sophie doorbell was from that if a metal mean keith found good loudly but they didn't. and joe, by the l as in o button and suddenly, and then the may who fear edna check initially for saudi fully cited for surfing in abraham was determined to reconstruct the whole incident piece by piece. he went to the house of mary, m a hottie. the only victim killed during the attack here is the hold. this is the broker branch of the tree. this came from the sky

it took an allied victory to end the actions of the nazis. barack obama was elected to get us troops out of the middle east. he could not take the risk of another military intervention. caesar left unable to change u. s. policy. that has been the great disappointment for caesar and, and still for everyone involved. and i think for humanity that we could have someone like caesar come to washington and sit on the world stage and tell the world of these terrible mass atrocities and then have no real response, no response. not a letter, not a meeting, not a speech. and certainly not actions to stop the atrocities. ah, the syrian opposition did not obtain any commitment of intervention, nor a criminal investigation into the crimes committed by damascus. living in europe and ex investigator from the international criminal court, noted the paradox of caesar's case. that has tremendous emotional and human value. it put sir, a human face on the documentation on the charges. it's a dead human face, but it's a human face. and that's ultimately i think where we're going to see the value of the s

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barack obama did not visit. joe biden had visited when he was vice president under barack obama.ut it is the first time any u.s. president while being president has been to kyiv since 2008 when george w. bush visited. anchor: joining us now to discuss biden's visit to kyiv is an analyst. thank you for being with us. there was a lot of secrecy around this trip. tell us about the significance of the visit. alexandra: this visit is significant on so many levels. first of all, this is a way to boost the morale of shellshocked ukrainians and ukrainians who are suffering. this helps the case and helps ukraine morally. also for us this is a direct challenge to president vladimir putin and a sign of western unity, a sign of the fact that the state of the eu and u.s. union is strong and also i would say this is the signal for china to stay away from the region, to stay away fm the american sphe of influence, a signal that says washington is very much in the loop and controls everything going on there, especially when the chinese top diplomat is in moscow and probably mr. xi's visit is bei

he enters re-election far better positioned than bill clinton or barack obama, and i worked for barackma. and cornell, why do you say that? the legislation. the massive pieces of legislation that are really impactful to the country, and that are wildly popular. and you have seen the polling data on the legislation that he's been able to move. it's wildly popular, a lot more popular than anything that bill clinton or bush or barack obama did. and you do have an economy that is coming out of the shadows of the pandemic in a real strong way. i think he's going to take a lot of credit for it, but also look, michael, at what he and the vice president have been doing over the last two weeks and what their schedules have them doing moving forward in the next couple months. right there, they weren't only in philadelphia talking to the dnc. they were in pennsylvania talking about water infrastructure, replacing lead pipes, so a lot of that infrastructure work that we talked about a year or so ago, over the next year going into the election cycle, that stuff is coming online, and real americans

barack obama weighed dna.in cal barack obama boulevard in california. what how much did he spend a on that? sprea >> no, he saved all his money to buy a spread in hawaii. martha's vineyara'd, evene joe biden the worst president in our entire two hundrersd fifty year history. e? has the president, joseph r. biden, express what he's notve even qualified to drive on it. he shouldn't even have m a driver's license. now,ichell as this point, thereo michelle obama highway. oh, there will b shee this poing she only as a hiking trail known as the michelle obama sk . river path trail. she didn't pay for that. d noidt one dollar you did. michelle obama's hiking trail got nearly foumillion r milliono dollars. your money in the latestcourse t appropriations bill . c and of course, there is famously the robert c. byrd bridge in the robert c. byrd expressway. and you can't have a statue was to abe lincoln. . yo we tore those down. but you can honor the grand kleagle of the kkk. because he was the longest serving democrat in the united states senate. and by the way, n

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and then to barack in 2008. respond ing to that. it is because of the importance of the ideas in 1982. in this speech that there are two different books about the reagan and reagan's time. one by a very conservative scholar. one by a very liberal scholar that have the age of reagan, their title. they're simply question that begins in 1980. there's an argument that reagan had begun to get these ideas to the nation before 80 that what reagan's in this inaugural address changed american politics and moved it into a different direction. until obama and then again until trump took a very different perspective. so for writing in 2006. new york times columnist conservative david brooks that reagan's view that less government equals more freedom government is the problem. it became the organizing conservative principle of the. nicholas lehrman, who writes for the new republic talked about how reagan's ideas became unassailable in politics for again for nearly a generation. so we know that this speech is incredibly important because it was a

barack obama, they used to call him deport her in chief. bill clinton passed dry conan laws, he criminalized illegal entry. the typical democrat was pretty well in favor of border security as a way to protect the american worker and the union and some of their base coalition. in this case, the far left and even the middle left was so supercharged by trump's immigration policies that they gained power. they gained real power. in the campaigns, when the democratic primary campaigns, you suddenly saw all 12 or 15 candidates talking about no deportation, no detention at all , amnesty for everybody abolished ice, any kind of prosecution, decriminalizing border crossings. that rhetoric, that discussion and those winds were in campaign literature of mainstream democratic politicians. all of them. this is something that is unbelievable in american politics. that ideology had always been rejected and kept in a closet over here. but, the purveyors of that were given power when biden won election. they seized the immigration portfolio and those ideas

that candidate you just described maybe a modern day barack obama who doesn't have deep pockets but a good politician has a better chance in iowa than he does with hundreds of millions of dollars in television spending in south carolina. back to the voting interests of the people to your point. i want to look at the past and future. first the future. it is not in the interest of the people to have the republican primaries decoupled. it is best to have a voting day where the people know this is when in our state we pick our candidates and it will decouple the democratic and republican primaries. secondly you said it. in 2020 we had massive -- the biggest aberrations of an election in quite some time. rules change in the middle of the night. mail in ballot. it was done not to help the people but to help joe biden. it was to help a political party win. >> harris: the argument was for covid. you can't make that argument now. you and i both said the same thing. if there were a young barack obama or whoever it would be the democrats would love all of that money going into south carolina mig

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. >> david plouffe, former campaign manager for barack obama's 2008 presidential campaign. also served as the senior adviser as president about. jen psaki, former press secretary for president biden, and msnbc host. they both join me now. david, let me go to you first, just on the kind of split effect here of the state of the union and the hunter biden twitter laptop hearing. as two examples, approaches of political speech and persuasion. i felt that the president, he just kind of dunked on them all night last night, and it didn't really seem like today it made me realize or understand it of course, correction might be an order. >> of course not, chris. if you are democrat, it's clear that the republicans and are intent to play their role as basically the weakest, most out of touch opposition. this is what we are going to see for the next two years, and by the way the presidential campaign has not really begun. once that starts, you're going to see this even accelerate, as those candidates all try to appeal to qanon, and the steve bannon audiences of the world. i did think

barack obama are going to get things back on track and then their surprise that mitt romney lost and so they engaged in this this in the at in the wake of that election they engaged in this what came to be known as the autopsy in which they got a bunch of senior officials within the republican party. they sat down, they did research, they looked demographic trends. they looked at what was happening and they put together a set of recommendations included among which was, we need to do a better job reaching out to nonwhite americans. the problem was for the republican that by the time that report out, you know, in the aftermath of 2000 election, you had two things happened in 2014 that reshaped the political narrative. the first was this surge in unaccompanied minors at the southern border young people coming from mexico and america, predominantly actually central america coming into the united states and, causing a crisis for the obama administration, but also a massive backlash on the right. and then you also had the emergence of black lives matter, which really drew attention to the

i mean, barack obama, they used to call him the deporter in chief. bill clinton passed, you know, really what would be considered today, draconian laws. he he criminalized illegal entry. the typical democrat that was pretty well in favor of border security as a way to protect the american worker and the unions and some of their their their base coalition. but in this case, the the far left was and even the middle left was so supercharged by trump's immigration policies that they gained power. they gained real power. and in the in the campaigns, when in the democratic primary campaigns, you suddenly saw all 12 or 15 candidates talking about no deportation, no detention at all. amnesty for everybody. defang ice. abolish ice, even. you know, ending any kind of prosecution, decrying penalizing border crossings that rhetoric that discuss. and those discussion points were in campaign literature of like mainstream democratic politicians, all of them. and this is something that is that is unbelievable in american politics, that ideology had always been rejec

it's very different from a hillary clinton barack obama a moment because at that in that race, neither one of them were already the president. they didn't have a number of policies that they can claim and are widely seen as a success within their own party. very different scenario, but i think the other thing that we're maybe not focusing on is that this changes a number of things, right? it puts south carolina 1st, but then it also puts a number of races potentially ahead of iowa. and some really key races for the democrats and really key states for the democrats. so nevada, georgia, and then by the time you get to iowa, it looks like michigan will be the same at the same moment. and these are states that it's very important for the democrats to see if they can feel the candidate. how does that candidate do in these very critical state? some of them are swing states, so it gives a very early reading, the likely success of any given candidate and get it helps to drive, turn out and states that are really critical when you get to a general election. so i think that, undoubtedly that str

it was president barack obama * in flint, michigan. he decide to show you have and guess what.drank the water then he was too nervous to do it. >> president barack obama * encouraging the people to drink water at the food bank. >> these leaders made decisions and acted. they showed. you. which leads me to today. we have two crises with a common threat. an absence of leadership and responsibility. trains are derailing and leadership is nowhere to be found. we don't know. what i think might be worse than not showing up is speaking out and blaming somebody else like the mayor did, the former mayor pete did tweeting his way through this mess. he says we are constrained by law in some areas of rail regulation, like the braking rule with drawnl by the trump administration because of a law passed by congress in 2015. if objects are flying over the skies with no answers to be had, we don't even know if it's a ufo from another planet. >> the president is the best communicator we have in the white house. brian: that's sad if that is the case. you can't say we are looking at bad leadershi