the high court's importance to the legacy of barack obama cannot be overstated. antonin scalia, obama nominated merrick garland to the seat but republicans refused even to consider him. so the court became a casualty of the harsh political divide that has dogged the obama years. an eight-person panel split among ideological lines. the issue that became the biggest victim of that split, immigration. unable to get any legislation through congress, the president issued an executive order to keep millions of people from being deported. but when that order was argued before the supreme court, the eight justices divided along party lines, of course. >> this is part of the consequence of the republican failure so far to get a fair hearing to mr. merrick garland. my nominee to the supreme court. >> as with guns, the executive order had become his only way to get things done. >> and to those members of congress who questioned my authority to make our immigration system work better, or questioned the wisdom of me acting where congress has failed, i have one answer. pass a

>>> up next, barack obama's biggest bet. >> kill the bill! ican revolution -- >> can you hear us now? >> the twists and turns to obamacare when we return. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! no more obama! >> summer, 2009. >> afro len anymoinism coming t on a silver platter. >> i have a right for the government not to control my health care. >> across the country, a grass-roots rebellion gets ugly. the target, barack obama. >> why don't have i'm frofreedo? because we elected somebody to take our freedom? >> enraged by bailout, the right went ballistic by health care. >> why don't they take the health care being forced down our throat. >> the president was undeterred. >> i am not the first president to take up this cause but i am determined to be the last. we used a lot of political capital on health care and the reason is simple, we're the only advanced nation on earth that didn't make sure every person had affordable health care. >> when you consider presidents have been trying since teddy roosevelt to get health care passed, fdr was hoping to d

but barack obama was no peacenik.ifferent approach to war compared with his predecessor. instead of fighting terrorism with large armies, he would rely more than ever on a new technology. it would change the very nature of war. the armed drone. >> never before in american history has an american president had the technology and the legal authority to hunt down any person anywhere on the face of the earth and kill them. >> there was a surreal selection process that became known as the kill list. >> they would have bios and pictures of these people. some came to be called sort of baseball cards of terrorists. and a decision was made to put them on the list or not put them on the list. >> carrying out the campaign of killing was the president's cia director leon panetta. obama gave him plenty of latitude. when panetta wanted to dramatically expand the cia's fleet of drones in pakistan, the president, over the objections of his staff, told panetta the cia gets what it wants. >> it was a u.s. drone that fired -- >> u.s. dr

parents, mothers, fathers in america can say i want my kid to grow up to be like barack obama. >> timothyf what looked like president obama's legacy a couple months ago is now in jeopardy. obamacare, green fuel, climate change initiatives. will any of it survive now, you think? >> well, a couple of things. first of all, it takes a while to know what a president's legacy is. >> you can't believe we're talking about it this early. >> i can't, but it's okay. it's an ongoing conversation, but if we were having a conversation in 1988 about ronald reagan, there were people criticizing ronald reagan in 1988 for being too soft on gorbachev and if gorbachev had been overthrown in '89 rather than 1991, who knows what outcome would have been and ronald reagan's legacy as the one who won the cold war wouldn't have been the legacy of the man who won the cold war. there are a number of things to play out for barack obama that are going to shape his legacy. for example, what happens in mosul, whether after the surprise of 2014 when he comes to grips with isis/isil problem, does he really actually deal w

he said, barack obama. i said, what? he said, barack obama. i said, who? can the name is that? he said, it is one of the most talented people i have ever met in all my years. that said a lot to me. at the time, i smiled. it did not take long before he understood what he said to me. won that election to the senate. he came from nowhere, a man with an unusual name, and once he was here it was obvious he was the real deal. communicate was and is stunning. i can remember one of the first speeches he gave in the senate. on george bush's policy regarding the middle east war. it was eloquent, thoughtful, tolerant. i was so impressed at following was waych -- the seat back there. i walked up to him and i said, -- he was sitting, i was standing looking over him -- and they said, senator that was really terrific. that was really good. and i will never forget his response. he looked at me without hesitation, without any braggadocio, no conceit. and with humility, looked up to me and said, i have a gift. it wasn't a boast. it was a fact. i've never met anyone with the ability to communicat

barack obama also had about 220 press availabilities during his eight years. either press conferences or times where he could yell questions at him. that's pretty much the same whether it was bush or obama. will we have the same kind of total with trump? that's doubtful. in that time, that's doubtful. he will, of course, president obama having his final press conference tomorrow. that will be an interesting moment to see what messages he wants to replay to trump. >> phil? >> that's true. it's going to be interesting to see obama tomorrow as well because end of year press conferences have become a tradition where he stands there for a long time and takes a lot of questions on a broad range of things. this a totally different environment. a totally different political space for him. but i think it's absolutely the case, donald trump hasn't had a press conference in 140 days. literally the last time he had a press conference was before the democrats held their convention. so we haven't had an opportunity for multiple people to throw questions at him. we've had pre

happen just over the last eight years, so itch' got shaded in kind of light gray, the period of barack obama'sresidency, this is all white christians together, the percentage of all white persons, catholic, nondenomnational lumped together. 2004, by 2008 when president obama was running for president, two election cycles, today it's 45%. 47% in 2014 and the next year our latest data shows it at 45%. so just during the last two election cycles, during president barack obama's presidency we've crossed a threshold and moved from being a majority white christian country to a minority white christian company in a short amount of time and people don't know the stats that well, i think that many white christians, conservative white conservative christians feel the shift in their bones. that's the reaction we're seeing. just to put one more symbolic issue across this same period, i'm putting up here support for gay marriage over the same period of time. and right, so if you go back to 2008. what you see is that only about 4 in 10 americans supported gay marriage when barack obama was running for presi

it shows utter contempt for barack obama. it says you're going to be history in three weeks and i'll reserve judgment on what i'm going to do until you're gone. he hasn't said that he's not going to expel american b diplomats. he's putting it off. this was staged. th so early in the day russian foreign minister sergey lavrov go public with a recommendation to expel 35 american diplomats. every western news source in mos kpou reports that they're going to be expelled and then vladimir putin steps in saying, no, no, we won't expel the diplomats and i'm inviting the children of american diplomats to an eastern orthodox christmas party. what a sweetheart. he's trying to maneuver to russian's advantage. no mistake there b. but he's trying to build the two of them together to get what i think he really wants, the most important concession he wants is no retaliation for the cyberattack. the sanctions are meaningless. the expulsion of diplomatic personnel is a temporary problem. what he really worries about is america going on cyber

among trump voters barack obama has a 5% approval rating. and, you know, republicans have always hated president obama, but the hatred for president obama among trump voters is even stronger than it is among republicans more broadly. you ask republican voters that same question, they give president obama a 9% approval rating. and that's still low, but that's almost double the proportion of trump voters who like him. so yeah, we do have a partisan split in this country and democrats and republicans see things differently, blah, blah, blah. but there's something a little special going on with trump voters and this is where it starts to get really hairy because, all right, look at this. this ia snapshot of real life. see that blue line there? it's faint. but you see that blue line there? that's real life. that's the performance of the stock market under barack obama as president. this is the dow jones industrial average when he took office the dow was at just under 8,000 points. today it closed at 19615 points. so the stock market since barack o

president barack obama. richard walker has been following that for us.ust want to pick up on something. he was asked about the announcement that he blames the russian president, putin, for hack attacks that were designed to influence the election and to help donald trump win. obama said, just a few minutes ago, that he warned putin back in september 2 "cut it out." he said there would be serious consequences if he didn't. this is new information, isn't it? richard: barack obama first of all said this in an interview with npr earlier in the day, saying that there would be some unspecified consequences, some kind of retaliation in the sort of cyber area to the russians for this alleged participation in these hack attacks on the democratic national committee but also members of the clinton campaign stuff. this is the furthest barack obama has gone so far on this issue, but you can hear a little bit of what we heard there as well, a lot of this message, as much as it is going to russia and the american people, it is also going to his successor, donald trump.

and barack obama and president obama said that himself.e timing of this will be unfortunate. you and this moves it out of the arena and into the international arena. it won't get solved there. >> i don't know if you saw at the top, cal perry took us through the map. this is obviously people that can see on a map how small and overall the land we are talking about. this is one of the maps and try to make sense of that. the west bank is the heart of the palestinian state and every one of the settlements that israel puts in takes away some of that land. doesn't that impede the process of negotiation? >> i think the process is impeded by a number the different factors. all of which have to be resolved to moderate and facilitate by president bill clinton and came close to negotiating between israel and the palestinians. yasser arafat went back on. and i have been through parts of the map. the negotiations and discussions can only be done. it cannot be done at the security council. this moves the focus to the un that will not solve anything. you

number one, it shows utter contempt for barack obama.t is saying to him, you're going to be history in three weeks and i will reserve judgment on what i'm going to do until you're gone. now, note that he hasn't said he's not going to expel american diplomats. he said he's putting it off. but let's also be clear. this was staged. remember, this is the land of the patemkin village. russian sergei lavrov goes public with a recommendation to expel american diplomats. every news station in moscow reports they will be expel. vladimir putin steps in and says, no, no, we won't expel american diplomats. what is more i'm inviting the children of american diplomats in moscow to an eastern orthodox christmas party. what a sweetheart. look, he is trying to maneuver to russia's advantage. no surprise there. but he's also playing on a mistake -- i think we talked about it last night -- that obama made in pushing together both the cyberattack issue on the one hand and the harassment of american personnel in moscow on the other. he is trying to build the

clean ethical record and parents all across america can say i want my kid to he dro up to be like barack obama. >> much what have looked like president obama's legacy a couple of months ago is now in jeopardy. obama care, green fuel, climate change initiatives. will any of it survive, do you think? >> a couple of things, first of all, it takes to know what a president's legacy is. >> you can't believe we are talking about it this early? >> no, i can't believe it. but it's okay. it is an ongoing conversation, but if we were having the conversation in 1988 about ron reagan. there were people criticizing him in 1988 for being too soft in gore about chov. there are going to be a lot of things that play out that will shape president obama's legacy. what happens in me zulle. the isis, isil problem. it look like president-elect donald trump doesn't agree with the congressional leadership about what americans deserve to have. he is talking about people with preexisting conditions still being able to be insured. dependents 26 years of age and under still being able to be insured under their parents. th

this time i am. >> you voted for barack obama. >> yes. >> you feel disappointed. >> yes. >> with you're hopeful about the future? >> yes. >> a tough contradiction to make sense of. president obama's current approval rating right now is the highest it's been in years. he's now at 56% according to gallup compared to 41% disapproval. net positive of 15 points. compare that to donald trump's favorability rating which according to the most recent poll is eight points underwater and that's actually close to trump's best performance. this high water mark. making him the least popular president-elect in modern history. we learned from the people we talked to in wisconsin, trump supporters and trump skeptics and opponents. hateful rhetoric about refugees, mexican-americans, you name it, a lot of them put their faith in norms and institutions. they approach trump as a journalist suggested a couple months ago in the "atlantic" taking him seriously but not literally. >> he knows as well as anybody in this room you can't go after a group of people because of religious beliefs. it's never -- i knew t

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he has already been rich, he doesn't need to get rich. >> but it is very different than barack obama ing a boarack obama doesn't choose who runs the publishing company. donald trump as president will choose who is a member of the fcc. he will choose members of the justice department that will oversee anti-trust issues, anti-monopoly issues that may come into play if you have media organizations combining or merging. so the fact of the matter is when you have donald trump who has a financial stake in a tv show that's aired on a major network and he appoints people who oversee telecommunications regulation, that is a clear conflict of interest. when you have foreign leaders saying they may want to stay in his hotels or when he travels abroad and he stays in a hotel or his family members do or other foreign leaders stay at his hotels, does he not make money from that? and if he decides -- >> basil, think about this -- >> we know -- we know he loves to tweet. the fact he's the executive producer of "the apprentice." if he decides to say, hey, great development on my show tonight and the r

he has the special on barack obama that premieres december 7 on cnn. fareed: barack obama's america was born with hope. >> people work crying in the streets. fareed: with history and with crisis. ,> fragile financial systems likely to get worse before they get better. >> we were hanging on the edge of panic. fareed: health care hysteria. two wars. mass shootings. >> a gunman opened fire -- fareed: racial violence.

barack obama says i could have won. you know who else could have won?linton could have won. >> of course. >> so i'm not ready to throw out the book. >> that's why it's important to distinguish between this particular presidential election result and the -- because there's something happening more broadly in the democratic party in the last eight years then you have this 80,000 votes across three state which is lord knows it could have been -- >> and i think what you should do is instead of thinking about it as national versus local think about it as presidential versus everything else. we had a strong coalition this close to winning. >> six and seven majorities. >> but you go to the congress a.m. election, we have a problem. >> john lovett, thank you. >> great to be here. >>> upnext, we'll introduce you to the man who broke protocol more than 30 years ago to prevent russian and america from launching nuclear weapons and potentially annihilating the world. esurance does auto insurance a smarter way. like their photo claims tool. it helps settle your clai

this these markets don't look backward that should tell us this has nothing to to with barack obama, if anything, it is inspite of him, it is a retaliation against his policies as president, and it is about looking forward to president-elect trump administration. liz: yes. >> we did get a winner on november 8. liz: we have to go. sorry. federal reserve stepping in big time with help. >> leave it there thank you, we'll see you again in a little bit. president obama playing race card to claipresident-elect trump's win but my next guest said that does not explain how nearly 1/3 of 700 u.s. counts that twice sense president obama to white house, they voted for and supported donald trump. we have kevin jackson speaking out next, don't go away. (vo) it's the holidays at verizon, and the best deals are on the best network. (both) yes! (vo) with no surprise overages, you can use your data worry free and even carry over the data you don't use. and right now get four lines and 20 gigs for only $40 per line. and, just for the holidays, get the motoz play droid absolutely free. no trade-in requi

susan: barack obama inherited an economy in crisis. eight years later the stock market is strong, the economy is stable and health care has become a reality for millions of previously uninsured americans. but critics, including the president-elect say the recovery has been too slow and too many people have been left behind. >> some of you in this audience were making more money 20 years ago than you're making today and in many cases you have to twobs -- two jocks. susan: as commander in chief, obama gave the order to take out osama bin ladenen and drawn down the troops in iraq and a.f.c. but obama's legacy has been tarn i should by setbacks and failures. the quan tan mo bay prison remains open. the rise of isis and the hugh mane man ontario criticize in syria has plagued the white house and the suspected use of militants is out argumented. with us, dan balz of the "washington post." michael fletcher of the undefeated, jackie calmes of the "new york times" and michael duffy of "time" magazine. >> this is "washington week." funding is pr

it's you talking about barack obama trying to calibrate.brate. that seems to be the recurring theme that you hear being talked about, especially when it comes to black discourse in america. in south africa, it's the same. i know. it's a different history, but a shared history at the same time, and it's always the conversation, "how do you calibrate? how extreme should you be? how much condescension should you have?" what was the one thing you noticed being with the president for so long in terms of his calibration? the first thing i-- immediately, i felt that i understood was that he was able to address white americans in a way they just think very few african americans could. >> trevor: why was that? >> because i think barack obama was born into a home, not just to a white woman and white grandparents but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that h should not, ashamed of it. and he she could proud of it. and part of the reason that was possible is the sheer physical distance of bein

to be fair, barack obama did try those things. you can say they are bad policies but you can't say he got to implement all of them. i think right now, many progressives are united, in that we need more full employment economies. you see a lot of us more -- janet yellen, would like to see more demand. quite honestly, i think that is more pervasive even in the business community now who are hoping that donald trump actually succeeds in what has been the democratic agenda of a stronger more significant infrastructure boost into the economy. >> why don't we ask the audience questions. right here. >> hi, i'm nick pincheck from snap-on tools. you said about president clinton and about his focus on the middle class and promoting it. and you know, i would suggest that i just spent last week, you know, election week in iowa at a factory. from their perspective, it's like this. if you look at the campaigns as the balance between priorities among social issues versus economic issues, they clearly sought a democratic campaign as prioritizing

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and barack obama didn't really have that. he was shielded from most of that. >> also this evening jim and tom story talk about their politics. >> there were overwhelming issues in the campaign that are obviously retrospective. one is that the majority of americans just feel as if their economic opportunity hasn't improved for as long as they can remember. and they're worried about it and they don't think their kids are going to do better and they think that's not the american way. we've got to shake that up. that's the number one thing. number two thing, they think that the political insiders don't care about that. that there's a reason why they haven't done better for as long as they can remember and the reason is the game is against them. the rules are set up for the insiders. >> rose: ta-nehisi coates, and jim and tom story when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by r

seven days he made the last thing or seven years ago, i think donald trump will undo anything barack obama forward in front of him. if it's going to come in the way of his agenda. i'm not too worried trump will be stiestled by what obama is doing. these graceless hours of his presidency. tom: i have this theory what obama is trying to do is distract trump from domestic and focus him on foreign. >> i do think what this administration just did to israel is more difficult to unwind because of the dynamics that shift at the u.n. security council and it's unforgivable. tom: that's it for tonight. join us tomorrow. every night this week, 6 p.m. we'll see you next time. tom: tonight, president obama slapping russia with new sanctions over their alleged interference in the election. mr. obama kicking out dozens of suspected spies and imposing banking restriction with just 3 weeks left before he leaves office. >> and president-elect trump promising better relations with israel, under his watch. >> we have to -- it set us back, we'll see what happens after january 20. tom: lieutenantcolonel ralph pe

i don't think barack obama has projected strength to russia. as you recall, he told, through a messenger, vladimir putin that he would have more flexibility after his 2012 election. we all remember that with mitt romney, he said the 1980s foreign policy rap when he said that russia was our number one geopolitical foe and then russia, crimea, ukraine, now in syria making a difficult situation even worse, barack obama really hasn't done anything tough with russia. so he's walking out the door, we have these sanctions, but russia's been able to walk all over us and the rest of the world as a bad actor and i feel -- >> why would the incoming administration now criticize these sanctions which are not as harsh as the sanctions for crimea, and and for ukraine why would you criticize this now that the president is taking actions even republicans want stronger sanctions against russia? >> so -- now i'm not in donald trump's mind as you know. but i'm going to speculate here. i think the frustration of mr. trump is, that this does have an air of politics.

but they had a clear path to just winning the seats where barack obama won. in 2012. have gotten them a house majority. that's no longer the case. >> so did that speak to you, to more of a philosophical issue, the fact that donald trump was able to come in and pick up these areas that barack obama had previously won? >> well, that's interesting thing about the democrats' debate right now because there is no debate about how the party has changed idealogically. no one is criticizing any part of the platform the party passed in 2016. it's more about whether they're talking to voters who donald trump won. there's a belief, based on exit polling that's pretty strong, that voters who basically agreed with democrats on economics feel disconnected from the clinton liberal version of that party and didn't vote for them this time, stayed at home or voted for donald trump. there's a sense a majority in the country -- there was a majority for hillary clinton. there should be a majority in some rural places they lost that can come back in 2018. but they need to build through gras

i'm not so sure barack obama would have beat him. >> angela rye, do you think this is the right thing for president obama to do, 25 days from leaving the white house? set aside trump for a moment, he was implicitly, he was explicitly criticizing hillary clinton here. what's the point of that? >> well, i think the point is he was talking to his friend, as you just noted in interview with david. this is someone who, you know, his guard's down and being completely honest. i think it's fine for him to believe that he would have had a good shot at donald trump. i think his approval rating affirms that fact. i think the fact that there are 20-plus million americans on obamacare and have health insurance speaks volumes. i think the fact -- >> but angela, point of order, if i can, you and i know that president obama, he's very careful with his use of words. you know, he's not a guy who tweets off the cuff often. i mean, this did not -- >> never. >> -- seem like an accidental message. it seemed like a very well thought-out criticism of the democratic nominee. >> i think my point is he was stil

seven days he made the last thing or seven years ago, i think donald trump will undo anything barack obama put forward in front of him. if it's going to come in the way of his agenda. i'm not too worried trump will be stiestled by what obama is doing. these graceless hours of his presidency. tom: i have this theory what obama is trying to do is distract trump from domestic and focus him on foreign. >> i do think what this administration just did to israel is more difficult to unwind because of the dynamics that shift at the u.n. security council and it's unforgivable. tom: that's it for tonight. join us tomorrow. am balances doer john bolton and steve forbes are our guests. hope you can tune in. kennedy: this word president-elect trump is going to privatize the va. but after the high-profile scandals there, what is the best direction information our vets. we are days away from the ball drop on new year's eve. a counterterrorism expert on how to stay safe. do you ever wonder how much of your charity donations go to the people who need it? grab a bell, time to ring it. last night we learned

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barack obama says i could have won. you know who else could have won? hillary clinton. >> which is why actually -- >> i'm not ready to throw out the whole -- >> i totally agree. that's why i think it's important to distinguish between this particular presidential election result and the stats up on the street. because there's something happening more broadly in the democratic party. >> absolutely. >> and then you have the 80,000 votes across three states which the lord knows that -- >> instead of thinking about it national instead of local, think of it as presidential against everything else. we have an extremely good, strong coalition this close to winning. >> six or seven majorities. >> you go to the congressional elections and the state, we have a problem. >> thanks for your time. >>> up next we'll introduce you to the man who broke protocol to prevent russia and america from launching a flurry of nuclear weapons and possibly annihilating humanity. do you know the story? un-stop right there! i'm about to pop a cap of "mmm fresh" in that washer with u

it benefits him to be with barack obama but barack obama also needs donald trump.eds him. >> i don't think one needs more than the other. barack obama's legacy, and a special on that tonight here on cnn. his legacy to considerable extent rests with donald trump. what happens to the affordable care act and the iranian agreement. these are big deals. if he unwinds a lot of that obama's legacy should be quite different. let me just say i think he's doing the right thing and i'm glad he's listening to president obama. jack kennedy you know when he came in. he had a fierce campaign against the eisenhower administration. but eisenhower turned out to be would have been his best mentors early in the presidency. really important aft the cuban missile crisis and everything -- i mean the bay of pigs. but similarly bill clinton told me once that the best advice he ever got on russia came from all places richard nixon. >> interesting. so it is important to go to that. so few people who have held that office. today maria, donald trump was named time magazine person of the year.

el hombre mÁs admirado por noveno aÑo consecutivo es el presidente barack obama. >> excelente, para mi. >> carecÍa de un seguro mÉdico, y casi todos lograron obtener los. pablo: el segundo, es donald trump. >> quieren un cambio. pablo: y el tercero, el papa francisco. >> es una persona de buenos sentimientos. es una persona que creo que va a luchar bastante por la democracia, por la humanidad. pablo: los siguientes fueron el senador demÓcrata bernie sanders, el reverendo billy brand, el primer ministro de israel del benjamÍn netanyahu, el ex presidente clinton. entre las mujeres, la ganadora indiscutible es hillary clinton. no pudo llegar a la casa blanca, pero eso no impidiÓ agradar a los encuestados. >> yo votÉ por ella, nos querÍa ayudar, yo soy estudiante. pablo: la segunda es michelle obama. >> se ha enfocado en la salud de los niÑos, en la educaciÓn, sobre todo de las mujeres. pablo: despuÉs viene la canciller alemana angela merkel, y las comunicadores oprah winfred el ende --ellen, la reina isabel, malala, condoleza rice, sarah palin. ilia: nadie duda que donald trump y freddy -

benjamin netanyahu came over here against president barack obama's will and sat down with congress and addressed congress. obama didn't like that. president obama turned around around tried to get, friday to undermine his re-election and tried to get him out of office. it goes back and forth. this is president obama taking the final shot at the expense of peace in the middle east and our very, very important ally, the only democratic ally in the middle east. i am blown away. benjamin netanyahu later on in the announcement said that the palestinians reward palestinians that murder jews and now we are giving them the currency, the palestinians currency at the negotiating table with israel. it is insane. >> the curtain has finally been pulled back on how the administration feels about the israelis. the secretary of state spent the majority of his time blaming israelis for building settlements and claiming they were a part of a one-state solution. that israel wanted to take all this palestinian land and make it their own and there would never be a two-state solution. therefore, the united

as jeremy brought up in the break, now bill clinton is blaming barack obama. clintons are blaming absolutely everybody. no introspection. now they say it's obama's fault that they lost. part of barack obama's problem, and i go to you on this because we get the same phone calls from the democrats who are running the senate back in 2009 and 2010, we heard the same thing that this guy wasn't a partner. the frustration was from democrats running the senate. it was just this guy was -- he was a solo act. he didn't communicate with him. he didn't bring him in. i think that's probably why barack obama did well in his two elections but the rest of the democrats got wiped out. he just never connected with them on the hill. democrats. i'm not talking republicans. i'm talking democrats. >> a few things. first of all, that press conference on friday was artful. i mean, truly artful. that was barack obama nearly at the height of his game. secondly, to your point, barack obama's entire career has been a solo act. he's a democratic. i happen to think he's had great presidency

cnn fareed zakaria talks with president barack obama and a look back at his presidency. ment that certain stands out is the shooting last year at the charleston church. take a look at that. >> reporter: no single moment in the obama presidency was at once so ugly and unifying at the charleston church shooting. >> being investigated as a hate crime now. >> you are raping our women, you are taking over our country. i have to do what i have to do. >> reporter: nine people murdered. the gunman said he wanted to start a race war. ♪ when president obama came to the emanuel church, his hesitance to speak frankly on race -- >> for too long we've been blind to the way past injustices continue to shape the present. we now realize the way of racial bias is affect us even when we don't realize it. oh, but god works in mysterious ways. god has different ideas! ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪ that saved a wretch like me ♪ >> when he sang "amazing grace," you know -- there was a medicine in that song for 400 years of the funer funeral there is a hallelujah anyhow. >> it really was

a slap in the face to barack obama and hillary clinton. i found that sexist for him to stand up and say, could i have wiped the floor with him. i think that might be unprecedented for a president to speak about a president-elect that way. >> angela? >> i just -- i think that's funny to hear about sexism from a trump supporter from that campaign. i also think it's not a slap in the face to hillary clinton. it is the truth, he would have beat donald trump. look at the president's current approval ratings. >> oh, please. >> i don't think it was to downplay -- oh, no, please is right, please stay one more term, barack obama. >> this election was a referendum on last eight years which have been a disaster -- >> did you miss almost 3 million votes? >> -- a disaster for the american middle class -- >> did you miss 3 million votes? >> -- strategic victory in the electoral college -- >> okay, harlan. go ahead. >> the truth is presidents don't run for third terms so obama's remarks were neither here nor there. this was a change election. obama's rem

in a new primetime special he explores the legacy of barack obama premiers december 7 on cnn. >> barack obama's america was born with hope, people were crying in the street. >> so help you god. with history and with crisis. fragile financial system to get worse before it gets better. >> financial. hanging on the edge of a cliff. >> healthcare. why don't they take the healthcare being forced down our throats? >> two wars, mass shooting. a gunman opened fire with bullets blocked by the killer. >> racial. if i had a son, he would look like treyvon. >> this guy is a racist. but barack obama made big bets that paid off. >> welcome home! troops game home. gays got married. >> americans lived up to the promise of liberty and justice for all. >> enemies were vanquished. justice has been done. millions sought healthcare ( chanting ) ♪ amazing -- >> and sometimes tragedy gives way to hope. >> when he sang "amazing grace," he channeled that as a president, and that was a profoundly important moment. >> but as a new era begins. your moment of liberation is at hand. >> what will remain. the presiden