senate -- that is what makes barack obama a serious statewide contender in illinois. ian: near the end of the book on page 1065, there is this quote: "barack is a tragic figure. perform like he is an empty shell, one long time hyde park friend lamented. maybe the flaw is hubris, deep and abiding, hubris -- as if his touch and deep understanding will clear the path. how else could he possibly be so unruffled?" is that somebody we would know? david: it is in the endnotes. there are no anonymous sources. i may not put a name in the text but if people go to the end notes, they see everyone. brian: can you tell us who it is? david: i cannot answer you that accurately off the top of my head. i do not have every quote in the book memorized in my memory. emphasizee point to is that over the course of barack's presidency, there were scores and scores of people in illinois who had known him in years earlier who were deeply disappointed with that trajectory of the obama presidency and disappointed in two ways -- number one, disappointed that barack forgot the people -- most of th

brian: david garrow, author of "rising star: the making of barack obama." at was the hardest part of this book to be? david: without question the most challenging aspect of doing this book with dealing with the women before michelle obama. i am an academic historian. i'm different with how i deal with people than journalists are. when one is talking with people about intimate personal relationships, i'm very hesitant differential. i do not pose intrusive questions. it is crucially important both with alec mcnair and genevieve cook, there were all of these link the letters that barak wrote them, that they hung on to. it gives the history of barack's life a great depth and richness to have all of those letters in his own words detailing those relationships. brian: we talked a previous hour on this. it is almost 1500 pages including the notes and all that. did you have to cut this book down? david: very little. we made the decision to go with harpercollins as opposed to three other publishers because of harpercollins's willingness to go through with a book of t

i believe it is an easily , she has been a great fan of barack obama. was hosted by him this past january and wrote an adoring piece.- peace- book challenges very forcefully much of the self portrayal that barack present of his early life. carlos in the post calls that persuasive. maybe in a more professional world, she would have written cues to herself from reviewing a book. >> i know people who don't recover from a review like that. did it take you up when you read it? >> my wife was very surprised. , was not hugely surprised given that i was on top of what she had written previously about president obama, and especially about the memoir. the bookas the rest of is written in dry, largely uninflected prose the epilogue -- which almost reads like a republican attack ad devolves into a condescending diatribe unworthy of a serious historian. false andve that's a inaccurate characterization of the epilogue. the epilogue is a survey of what happened during the 2007-2008 presidential campaign. bill ayres, number one, reverend jeremiah wright number two. now

to redefine or even demolish his leg se, and you asked -- legacy, and you asked can trump undo barack obama's legacy? what do you think? what does the evidence so far suggest when it comes to whether the obama years will survive the trump years? >> it's a great question because when you see a president leave office, normally you have a pretty good sense of what his or her legacy will be. this is a unique situation where you have a president basically seemingly determine brick by brick demolish the last guy's achievements in a way other presidents haven't done. ronald reagan talked about eliminating the department of education. richard nixon didn't eliminate the great society johnson had done. eisenhower didn't undo the new deal. president trump seems determined to take out president obama's legsy. healthcare is the most prominent example, with the trans-pacific partnership trade deal, the paris accord, clean energy regulations by the e.p.a. and so on and so forth. in fact, you can say president obama's legacy is still unwritten because we don't know how it's going to wind up. >> glasser: was

>> if barack obama had tweeted video of barack obama body slamming a figure with the fox news logo in place of its head, those 450,000 people would not have clicked "like." they would have clicked something that said "impeach." there is such a double standard about this, honestly. as kevin corke pointed out, trump himself mocked and ridiculed obama for walking the wrong way on the stairs. there's no argument. >> the double standard is how the media treated barack obama. barack obama was pretty hostile to press freedom. people didn't overreact. the media didn't hold him accountable for anything he was doing. you have the people frustrated with the media. this isn't really about trump trump or barack obama. >> the frustration of some people about the media justifies the president lowering himself? behaving at this debased level. i don't agree. >> do you let the media run roughshod over the values of so many people. >> james: i want to give the last words of steve hayes. >> no question there was a double standard with barack obama. he was treated, given elevated stature by the media. the

trump is barack obama's legacy.did not care about where i'm from, the quote, unquote ply-over states, he lift down his nose against rural america and now he's taking that hate overseas and ashamed of our country. >> oh, my gosh. i hate when you're talking a difference on policy. this is exactly what's wrong with trump and his followers. please. [laughter] >> you know what, it's wrong and hateful to insult a sitting president when you're abroad. you're supposed to be a -- >> you can disagree respectfully on policy and that's what state statesmen like this is. please continue them. >> he's not in office anymore. >> no, he's not, people respect him. todd: all right. last question. atima, then to you, last question for atima. should president trump be supported by president obama? >> president trump and president obama don't have a great relationship and that goes back to the fact that he questioned his citizenship as the president in the country so i think that they should have a great relationship, that's my opinion b

you asked can trump undo barack obama's legacy? s the evidence so far suggest when it comes to whether the obama years will survive the trump years? peter: that is a great question. when you see a president leave office, normally you have a pretty good sense of what his legacy is going to be. this is a unique situation where you have a president basically seemingly determined brick by brick to demolish the last guy's achievements in a way other guys haven't done. ronald reagan talked about eliminating the department of education that president carter started. he didn't do it. dwight eisenhower didn't undo the new deal. president trump seems determined to take out piece by piece parts of the legacy. health care is the most prominent one. we see clean energy regulations by the e.p.a. and so forth. you can say that president obama's legacy is still unwritten because we don't know how it is going to wind up. susan: was it too early to write the book then? peter: no, it is never too early to write a book. this is a book that captures the

you could find some similarities between brahimovic, -- barack obama, george busch and others. trump has taken a very different look. you couldn't think of two more opposite figures in temperament, personality and outlook on life than president trump and president obama. president obama was reserved, not a people person, not given to bombastic statements, sometimes cautious to a fault. sometimes his own staff would grow frustrated with the lengthy policy reviews before he would come to a decision. he was a very controlled, disciplined figure. president trump is the opposite. he is impulse unrestrained. there are no unfiltered thoughts. he is unmanaged by his staff, something some of his supporters is a good thing. he has decided to govern basically the way he ran his reality show. an ad hoc, very much unprecedented type of presidency. >> but barack obama, to offer the counterpoint, also came into office determined to undo george bush's legacy. he talked about restoring america's standing in the world. he came in determined to extricate the united states from bush's wars in the m

barack obama. and that's not a perm attack on the -- a personal attack on the former president. you could substitute in the name of any black politician, and the statement would still hold true. that's what i'm trying to get at in this book. it started out as a column, and it grew into a longer essay and then eventually the short book that was recently published. but my intention was the make a fairly simple point which is that political activity is not the most effective way of advancing a group economically. a racial or ethnic group's political success does not automatically lead to economic success. one does not flow naturally from the other. it's hardly an original observation, but i think it's an important one that is regularly ignored by civil rights leaders and black political leaders when practice identity politics. urging blacks to vote as a bloc, favoring candidates of their own racial or ethnic background and so forth. and i thought the end of the obama presidency was an especially good

so folks, it's barack obama who is pals with putin.e watched as russia invaded in the ukraine and the crimean peninsula in 2014. and it was his department of justice that let in the russian lawyer veselnitskaya without a visa, and aloud her to sit in the front rove a congressional hearing. it was under barack obama that 20% of our uranium was sold to putin with $145 million kickback to the clinton foundation that was a criminal end price with a money laundering operation and a $500,000 speech fee paid to bill clinton by a kremlin-connected company. i for one am sick and tired of russia, russia, russia. put up or shut up. and a message to those republicans in congress. you have did nothing when the democrats assaulted our democracy with fast and furious, the sales of weapons to the mexican cartels, the clinton town case, the safe our uranium to russia. susan rice lying about benghazi. i want loretta lynch, and hillary clinton and the rest that gang under oath. start working for us the american people. that includes healthcare. otherwise

obama , my family and sisters, to come on stage to present the the profile in courage award to barack obamae] president obama: hello, everybody. thank you so much. thank you very much. thank you. please, everybody have a seat. thank you. thank you very much. well, first of all, thank you so much, jack, for that really kind introduction. and i like the socks. i also want to thank you and rose and tatiana and your dad for sharing caroline with us the past few years as america's ambassador to japan. caroline, you, true to form, did your country proud, and i'm sure your father and mom would have been proudest of all. i sure was proud, and i'm grateful for your friendship. i want to thank ken feinberg for his service as chairman of the john f. kennedy library foundation these past 12 years. he also rendered outstanding service to my administration when we were dealing with the bp oil spill, 9/11. he has rendered public service again and again and again. we're very grateful for him. [applause] pres. obama: it is wonderful to see senators markey and -- and his lovely wife diane. governors and memb

the president once again said that barack obama did nothing from august to november about russian meddling. that is simply fake news. president obama talked to vladimir putin at a g20 summit in september about all of this, to say otherwise is fake news. barack obama went farther, by the way, in that meeting with vladimir putin, than president trump is promising to do himself. he's not even promising to bring up election meddling in his bilateral with vladimir putin. so, for the president to say that barack obama did nothing, he is, at this point, promising to do less than nothing on that front. the other thing that was fake news coming from president trump, was when he said, i keep hearing it's 17 intelligence agencies that say russia meddled in the election. i think it's only three or four. where does that number come from? my suspicion is if we go to theed administration and ask for this question, i'm not sure we're going to get an answer. if we get an answer, it will probably be off-camera. >> stay with us. we're looking at live pictures of ivanka trump and her husband, jared kushner, v

president barack obama inspired me the same way. 2008 because the candidates fired up and candidate is fired up and ready to go and said yes we can. without barack obama i might still be sitting on my couch eating to read those and watching sports. he embodies the definition of courage honored to great under pressure. from his first day in office until his last the president put the national interest above his own while resisting the politics in the system but all too often occurs. he had the courage to pursue comprehensive health-care reform is the first order of business knowing the issue you would cost them into the party. he continued to fight during the administration that my uncle fought for for 50 years in the senate and did what no president had been able to do passing the affordable care act. [applause] we saw this year it's a lot easier to criticize and dismantle. president obama having courage to govern responsibly. the courage to address the problem of climate change aggressively fighting for responsible energy policies

so folks, it's barack obama who is pals with putin.e watched as russia invaded in the ukraine and the crimean peninsula in 2014. and it was his department of justice that let in the russian lawyer veselnitskaya without a visa, and aloud her to sit in the front rove a congressional hearing. it was under barack obama that 20% of our uranium was sold to putin with $145 million kickback to the clinton foundation that was a criminal end price with a money laundering operation and a $500,000 speech fee paid to bill clinton by a kremlin-connected company. i for one am sick and tired of russia, russia, russia. put up or shut up. and a message to those republicans in congress. you have did nothing when the democrats assaulted our democracy with fast and furious, the sales of weapons to the mexican cartels, the clinton town case, the safe our uranium to russia. susan rice lying about benghazi. i want loretta lynch, and hillary clinton and the rest that gang under oath. start working for us the american people. that includes healthcare. otherwise

. >> he's obsessed. >> he talks about barack obama traveling all over the world. >> barack obamaent. people really liked him around the world and in america. >> he doesn't have to travel around the world. he could live rent free in donald trump's brain. he's so in his head in everything that he does. we've seen it in the press conference this morning. >> elizabeth, the president was trying to talk about north korea, and an international crisis that coincidentally barack obama told him during the transition, you can worry about obama care if you want to, but north korea is going to keep you awake at night. how does any american president deal effectively with a crisis like this when only 17% of the country according to this latest pew poll actually trusts his actions? >> well, that's -- that is an issue that he's going to face. right now there's no -- obviously no american president has found a good answer to north korea. i've been in washington a long time and of the last three or four american presidents, have all wrestled with this. they have continued at a pace to develop thei

donald trump suggests he took another big swipe at his predecessor, former president barack obama. >> obama when he was president found out about this in terms of if it were russia, found out about it in august. he did nothing about it. why do nothing about it? >> a few other issues covered at this press conference, poland wanted donald trump to reaffirm his commitment to nato and he did that. may be not using as strong a language as the president would have liked but reaffirmed the us commitment to nato and all the us troops that are here in poland, thousands of them dedicated to the alliance's build up that went into effect after russia, in 2014, they talked about trade, poland started buying or liquefied natural gas, donald trump said maybe we will get the price up a little bit. >> president duda is a great negotiator and he is trying to get the price up. >> the whole nato thing, negotiation tactic -- why would you want to reward countries that are not paying their full share by giving them the guarantees that no matter what we will protect you. they will never pay. >> he heads off

lou: a few thoughts on president trump rolling back madness of barack obama and the left. ame point in mr. obama's presidency he was jet setting around the globe on his infamous apology tour, apologizing to france and europe, claiming the united states had been arrogant in our foreign policy. trump -- well, he's been more productively engaged. while obama was apologize together muslim world stating it was his responsibility as a president -- to fight against negative stereo types of islam. that was president because big number one priority. four years later obama's red line failure assured the now current crisis and worsening crisis in syria that is worsening until vladimir putin and president trump got together today. obama's inaction paved the way for russia to instrayed crimea and ukraine. mr. obama is irrelevant today. obama is irrelevant. let's hope so. his failed legacy is being dismantled by president trump while he leads the free world. he's replacing the policy of appeasement with a doctrine of american exceptionalism and a defense of western values and western civ

brian: david garrow, author of "rising star: the making of barack obama."hat was the hardest part of this book to be?

barack obama never did nothing for this country. you guys never showed a clip of barack obama when he was sitting with the russian guy and says once i give the next four years, i'll have a better chance to work with you. host: rick, that's not true. we did show that. i was the host of the program, and i can tell you specifically we did show that. caller: i appreciate it. i watch the show in the morning when i can. the election is over with. trump is doing everything he can to make this country better. barack obama did nothing but give everybody an easy pass for eight years. he was fully muslims. we are at war with the muslims, ok? some of them are good. some of them bad. but you can't tell they're apart. he never wanted to admit that we're at war. donald trump is doing the best he can. give him a break. let him do his job. if you want to attack his policies, attack his policies. and then get over with it. thank you. host: rich from new jersey, thanks for the call. governor chris christie adding goth shutdown to his legacy, the move

i never felt that way about barack obama. i did not hate him. this is our country. you people are tearing it apart. please stop. we are better than this. barack obama used to say, like in a loud whisper, we are better than this. we are better than this. please stop the hate. host: orville is calling from brooklyn, new york. he is a democrat. good morning, orville. caller: good morning, man. ceo talkingectrum about tv with the president in the white house saying he will acquire 20,000 workers. march, theater in union went on strike because the ceo wanted to take away their pension and health-care. it is for months now, they are on strike. we need the ceo to do what it promise and not threaten workers. from hote is going springs, arkansas, an independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i have several comments. i remember, you use to build good to see a doctor within a month or now you call income and if they will even take you, they booked up we are all for a couple of months, we cannot see you." and i think it is because of the affordable care act and all the im

like wait a minute you mean we were doing this all along we've been doing this forever you mean barack obama also sold them over one hundred billion dollars worth of the same weapons yeah can you believe that no i can't believe that barack obama seems like a nice guy why would he do that although there was no there were tell a lot of people holding the thing in front of their eyes and go oh no no no there's just started just yesterday. right so that's the whole thing right so they can't so now people are waking up like why are we in this war why are we bombing syria what we did libya iraq we're still in afghanistan so this is people are starting to wake up and i'm starting to talk about the petrodollar which you'll never hear anybody ever ever talk about people like i ask people why do you think we're in syria people like us we're trying to help people and you know after i stop laughing i try to mention the petrol dollar and the pipeline and hezbollah and all that stuff that's happening and then you know that we're actually training the the people we're fighting in iraq we're training isis w

obama, my parents and sisters to come on stage to present the 2017 award tond courage barack obama. ch. you. please, everybody, have a seat. thank you. much.you very first of all, thank you so much, jack, for that really kind .ntroduction i like the socks. i also want to thank you and tatyana and your dad for sharing caroline with us the years as america's ambassador to japan. caroline, you true to form did your country proud and i'm sure father and mom would have been proudest of all. i sure was proud. grateful for your friend ship. to thank ken feinberg for his service as chairman of the librarykennedy foundation these past 12 years. outstandingered service to my administration dealing with the b. p. oil spill. ./11 he has rendered public service again and again and again. him.e very grateful for [applause] it is wonderful to see the markey and senator warren, my dear friend and former governor duvall patrick and his lovely wife diane. members ofnd , oneess, cardinal o'malley of the finest secretaries of states ever to represent america around the world, john kerry. [applause] and

barack obama said about hillary clinton that she needed new car smell.or something new for a long time. they got it a little while with barack obama, then they come back and they are going to need him. they shot people like tim ryan out of the water. >> kennedy: she is talking about herself. not ideas. she is adding to read off her resume instead of like, here is a jobs plan, here's the plan for the economy. she could not remember the slogan. trotting out the pizza that they stole from papa john's. she could not remember it. she was like better deals, better ham, better hair. >> kevin: when she said she was a master legislator, and i said if i was black and in congress, i would take umbridge. because she she is again reading the resume, this is what i have done. at that party is in triage. and for them not to recognize, we understand with barack obama, and 1080 lawsuits of seats, and into the papa john's not messaging or relating at all. >> kennedy: will they give out coupons for the better deal? >> abby: nancy pelosi has to be the greatest gift for repu

the president pivoted abruptly and said that barack obama knew about this. he said he simply did not say anything to try and protect the democrats, of course, to hold on to the white house. i think that is the big headline. strong words from president of north korea, as well. he said there would be strong consequences for bad behavior here. no specifics of what that would be, of course. on the eve of the first meeting with the russian president, striking to hear the president not agreeing with his own u.s. intelligence agencies, republicans and democrats alike in the u.s. congress. >> yeah, and jeff, dave here. for those keeping score at home, there was no mention of kim jong-un. no mention of vladimir putin. there was mention of cnn and barack obama. interesting optics there to say the least. let's talk about the setup for that meeting with the russian president. he seemed to be antagonizes him somewhat with this sale of patriot missiles, with the purchase of natural gas to wean them off of oil but not acknowledging that russia was behind meddling in our el

el gobierno de barack obama les perdonaba esas teclas. alborotados y con una deuda impagable sobre sus espaldas. al menos por el momento. una disposiciÓn diseÑada por la administraciÓn de barack obama que estaba supuesta a entrar en vigencia desde el 1 de julio, ha sido congelada por la actual secretaria de educaciÓn. la medida intentaba borrar la deuda que los estudiantes mantienen, ppor concepto de los prÉstamos educativos. >> ellos tendrÍan que pagar el 30% de sus ingresos. reportero: dice que paralizÓ este perdÓn debido a que la asociaciÓn de universidades de california plantea una demanda porque reclaman que los deudores deben pagar por los prestamos que adquirÍan. lo cierto es que 118 estados y el distrito de columbia en respuesta a este bloqueo demandaron a la secretarÍa de educaciÓn. >> los fiscales tratan de hacerla culpable pero ella no tiene la culpa. esto sucediÓen los Últimos 16 aÑos. reportero: para poner en contexto esta realidad, la comunidad mÁs endeudada de los estados unidos no son los que de venta raquetas de crÉdito o

mitch mcconnell in the beginning of barack obama's presidency, said one thing he's going to toward is time making opinions. president obama a one-term president. willing to work with him on anything, he wasn't illing to discuss with him and he made his stance from the beginning. i think this is personal. this is personal with republicans, mitch mcconnell and against barack obama. they don't call it the health are plan, a.c.a., they call it the rock obamacare, that is wrong. i think president trump fhe to make america great, because we're democrats, e're republicans, we're independents in america f. he wants to make america great he n, like he says, then would bring democrats onboard, drain the swamp, that would drain the swamp. bring democrats onboard, republicans onboard, and do a ts onboard healthcare plan, tweak what we already have and you can call it call it, ou want to make it right for the american people. great, like he said. that is my comment, start americans ether as and come up with solutions to make it great for america and stop doing bickering and fussing and arguing, it

president obama's legacy is still unwritten because we don't know how it's going to wind up >> but barack obamaered the counter point came into office also determined to undo george w bush's legacy and he talked a lot about restoring america's standing in the world. obama came into office determined to extricate united states from what he saw as george w bush's wars of choice in the mideast. how is it different between what obama wanted to do in terms of his precedence legacy, his predecessors and what trump is doing now >> i think the difference is that president obama didn't come in determined actually to tear down specific programs that president bush had put in place, he came intending to move in a direction. even then he didn't move as radically as i think he had advertised in the campaign. he kept the drone strikes, he expanded them. kept a lot of the counter terrorism policies surveillance, military commissions, guantanamo remained open even though he talked about wanting to close it. and on foreign policy there was a little bit more of a continuation in some ways different courses but n

barack obama can speak to things. he can switch into black english. calling it negro dialect is not graceful but he was referring to something that makes a barack obama larger speaker than say george w. bush word david letterman. he is a larger repertoire. he speaks it when he wants to. what he could've said was black english. and yes, to be honest i've known both white and black people have thought there something wrong with the former president unfortunately switching between mainstream and black english. people think he's being phony. by people think he's only pretending then that it's condescending to audiences. i've talked with a black correspondent who said he should not talk that way in public at all. that's very interesting. no, he has a larger english and he uses black english with black people. he is by dialects. one more, acts. ask acts. let's face it, the question means black people need to stop that. it's wrong. no. black people use acts because acts as part of the other dialects. why do they say it's not because it's hard if your descend

i have to mention that barack obama, when he was president, found out about this, in terms of if it were russia. he found out about it in august. the election was in november. that is a lot of time and he did

because barack obama was revered here with people in germany and france.estern europe lien leader, french president, german chancellor to say no to anything that barack obama proposed. >> i don't know if this is the right answer, but if you look at the public opinion polls of president trump, you can see decrease of respect with the rest of the world. you have in france, the last indication is 70% less good feeling about -- >> does that matter? because those are feelings that doesn't drive policies? >> this is important. internationalization of the leaders and the country. and of course, president trump with domestic comblpolitical coo this is good for him to show after a good trip to is paris, because it was the fourth of july. and the one center, troops coming into europe, the french allies, the best one, according to president trump. so i think it's a win-win situation for both presidents. >> thank you very much for coming on the show. it was a pleasure seeing you today and talking to us. thank you. >> thank you. >>> we have a quick programming note on

and former president barack obama said cancer didn't know what it's up again.league meghan mccain said my love for my father is boundless. my fears for him are overwhelmed by: from everyone at fox. our thoughts are with the mccain family. now back to hannity. >> the president tweeted something is fake news. we consider that to be a day that ends in why? >> the president refuses to acknowledge his own political reali reali reality. >> i am not trying to make this look sinister. >> it's the president himself who may have made this look sinister. >> liberal joe, we can count on you. keeping your job at msnbc. another example of the establishment to destroy trump media freaking out that the president at a dinner spoke to vladimir putin. joining us rick and the hill media reporter. maybe i am wrong. 22 years on fox. 30 years i have been in radio. i have not been to one washington correspondent's dinner. i don't like those people and they don't like me. i don't want to hobnob with the elitest in the media. did they cover creating jobs? america's safety and security?

no sÓlo dibuja objetos tambiÉn rostros de personas como el expresidente estados unidos, barack obama.a: mira lo enrojecido desaparecer al tocar un botón. >> la gente me dice: "te ves estupenda. ¿qué te has hecho?". >> mn