they're trying to find the things they use to criticize obama for but embrace it with trum. >> barack obamawith you at his side, this is early, 2007 and eight, repeated controversies and they carried forward into the first and second terms. where president obama said, it's okay to talk to folks. remember hillary clinton came down by saying you don't talk to iran for instance. so, what is wrong with donald trump meeting with the leader of north korea? >> i do not think anything is wrong with that. i prefer diplomacy. it doesn't matter how you do it. just make a few points, you have to prepare. i detail in the book that i cuba for instance, i met 20 times with cuba before they had obama castro in the room. with iran, we have probably hundreds of hours of meetings in the situation room with a nuclear physicist to know exactly what we wanted to get out of the iran deal. what i have seen in the north korea talks is that they rushed to get to the spectacle ahead of the state summit without knowing what they wanted to accomplish were setting up an agenda. my concern is they gave the north koreans

do you see any sort of contact on -- continuum from what barack obama did? but there were similar frustrations that they want other countries to bear the burden for those global security challenges. but that diagnosis led to different cures that obama's response was to significantly ramp up engagements around the world to enlist the allies like the iran dl or paris climate accord so basically he modeled his foreign policy with a number of countries. responsibility for issues as diverse as the campaign, evil left, climate change. trump's reaction to the same diagnosis we will break with the allies to make demands of everybody and to express similar frustrations after 911 but the conclusions they drew with those big controversies of the obama era is talk about the first time you met barack obama. did you ever think he would win? >> i did. but i describe how i was 29 years old but to take it vantage of the fact that relatively a normal person coming in with a huge pedigree. i was literally so nervous the first amendment him i could barely speak that i wanted to

and about joe biden, senior to barack obama, you write the following. obama clearly had the upper hand in their relationship. according to ron claim, his perspective was simple, if not condescending. this is my house, these are my things. i am interested in your views joe. ,i like your input. i want you to be happy, but you are a guest in my house. kate: i love that, you are a guest in my house. that really sums up the vice presidency so well. they are completely at the service of the president, and i think you see that now of course with mike pence and donald trump. but you did even see it with joe biden and barack obama. when i was a white house reporter at bloomberg news, i never got the sense of any tension there. that is what i thought was so fascinating doing this reporting. i interviewed vice president biden about it. it wasn't love at first sight for joe biden and barack obama. it did take time to build trust, but by the end of those eight years, they did something no other modern president and vice president have ever done, and they actually gre

say that it was not a cce pta ble barack obama say that it was not acceptable for bashar al—assad tochemical weapons issue came up in 2013, it was a red line, said obama. in the end, he did not use military intervention. vladimir putin is watching that. he takes one message away from it. that barack obama ultimately is not prepared to put his presidency on the line for issues abroad. to quote robert gates, his defence secretary for sometime, i think putin saw the us was withdrawing from around the world. the problem has been that 0bama's actions have not matched his rhetoric. yes, it is all compared to what? i mean, we were withdrawing them, compared to now? i would say absolutely not. number two, with respect to syria, just to remind you of the history, 0bama respect to syria, just to remind you of the history, obama said we were ready to use force, and then he showed up in st petersburg and he met with vladimir putin, and instead of that, putin said what about we co—operate to get rid of the chemical weapons. now, it co—operate to get rid of the chemicalweapons. now, it turned co—o

barack obama has presided over the worst recovery from a recovery in modern american history. >> that'snot true. that's statistically not true. the stock market average under obama consider. >> i'm not talking about the stock market. judge jeanine: let's listen to nancy pelosi what she has to say. >> hip hip hooray, our employment is down. what does that known me in my life? i need a bigger paycheck. judge jeanine: what's with this woman and crumbs. she doesn't want people to get a tax cut, she doesn't want people to get jobs. what is wrong with them, chris? >> unemployment was 4.5% when this president took office. 4.8:00. . -- or 4.8%. judge jeanine: there are more jobs and people to fill them. >> barack obama has preside over the worst economy during a recession. they measure it on gdf growth, not the stock market. where are the democrats going to go, judge? they can't celebrate the economy because not one of them voted for the tax cuts that led to this vibrant growth with the regulatory reform. judge jeanine: that's going to burn them. >> the economy was growing before crumb took off

i wrote a book critical about barack obama, called buyers remorse. there were some things that i believe barack obama let the progressive side down. mccain felt that his party was not living up to what he believed the republican party should be, and he would say so. afterwards sunday night on nine eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> next on "the presidency," the opening session of a daylong symposium focused on the history of british and irish connections with the white house.

president enjoy a deep connection would be the stuff of fairy tales but it was very real when barack obama was in the white house and the latest proof is in a new book entitled the world as it is by ben rhodes rhodes was an advisor to obama for much of his presidency but it's his memoirs from the final weeks of the obama administration between donald trump's election victory and his inauguration they caught our attention for the first time we were offered a glimpse into what obama was thinking about the u.s. and its allies including german chancellor angela merkel as he prepared to transfer power to a man who intended to undo every major achievement that carried obama's signature right joining me to go through this first glimpse into those heady final days of the obama presidency a familiar face here really is fun no arduous it's good to have you back on the show for people who don't know you were a member of the two thousand and eight two thousand and twelve obama campaign's your political campaign strategist now in berlin right here. let's just talk about what you thought when we read ab

but barack obama is now civilian barack obama.trying to afford donald trump the chance to rise and fall on his own. >> i want to get to michael again in a moment, but i want to get janice to weigh in. do we anticipate we'll see a lot more on the political front from the former president? >> that's the indication we're getting from our reporting. he is very effective at raising money, so messaging is great, but you also need someone effective at raising money and he's very helpful to democrats on that. the concern is, though, trump is best when he has a strong opponent. and with democrats out of power, he really hasn't had much of a strong opponent. that could change in 2018 if democrats take back the house and all of a sudden he can blame democrats for everything that goes wrong. if obama reemerges, that could give him someone to punch back at and that is one of his strengths at this point. but he has never been very effective at tearing down obama like he has some of his opponents. so obama could be very effective to put out ther

it wasn't love at first side for joe biden and barack obama. it did take time for them to build trust but of course, by the end through the years they've done something that no other modern president and vice president has done and the actually grew closer over those eight years together. that is unprecedented. >> host: who had the most commodious relationship? >> guest: if you go back, i would say, eisenhower and nixon was not a great relationship with eisenhower would not endorse nixon and in 1960 he was asked by a reporter what the vice president greatest accomplishment had been and he said all have to get back to you when nixon was running in 60 and he never did. of course, johnson and kennedy had a very thought relationship but more currently dick cheneyh, and george w. bush the relationship unraveled toward the end. >> host: do you think the george w. bush was serious and naming a replacement in 2042 dick cheney? >> guest: i think they fiercely considered it even more seriously than president obama did because there was thought of replaci

chris, it is kind of a whiplash on a daily basis because they would hurl that critique at us but barack obama's standing among our closest allies in europe and asia was higher than any president in recent memory. what they've done is profoundly alienate our allies, not just on an issue but to the point where i think in europe and asia they're beginning to fundamentally question their relationship with the united states. i mean, this is the actual crisis that they used to rail about happening before our eyes, and it's not just on one issue. it really could be a drift apart between the united states and the countries we count on the most in the world. >> i used to think that a lot of this was driven by both ideology and sort of interest group politics, right? so that you've got certain -- you know, the democrats have a coalition, the republicans have a coalition, they have different interest groups. but i sat there and watched a crowd of people in indiana chant "nobel, nobel," about donald trump and north korea. and i thought to myself maybe it's just cult of personality, like whatever the oppote

juan, barack obama cannot save the democrats.but he cannot run for president again. they have to find a new leader. are they wasting their time wishing he would come and try to fix it all for them? >> juan: you guys often point out it is time for hillary clinton to get off the stage. >> dana: we are going to get to that. >> juan: i will say hillary clinton is nowhere near as popular as barack obama. there is this kind of illusory desire on the part of the left that says gosh, if barack obama came back on the scene, if he was taking shots at trump, it would settle them. if he went and got arrested at the border, it would galvanize. >> dana: that's the craziest idea i've ever heard. >> juan: don't think that would work for obama or the democrats. >> jesse: i wouldn't mind. >> juan: there we go. [laughter] so much for civility. >> jesse: it was a joke. >> juan: there was a piece out about obama not being seen. one of the things is obama is encouraged by things like the women's merge, things like the gun-control passions after parkla

that's our mayor, you know, barack obama. he just blew me away and went to the top. [laughter] >> i would -- >> legacy? >> i would say that if you look at the books that come before mine, most of them -- not all of them, but most of them say harrell washington was a tremendous public speaker and a charismatic politician but not much of an administrator and somebody who didn't really have what it took to run a city like chicago. and if i had to say that there was a theme or a thesis to my book, it's challenging that idea. >> right. >> and saying, yes, he was all of those things in terms of being a savvy politician, so forth. but when you consider the city uncil battles he had to fight and when you consider the diminishment of federal resources given to the cities at that time and evething, i think he did a really good job as mayor. >> and i just remember, you know, as he was dying, northwestern hospital reporters waving outside, i mean, there was just an incredible feeling of what is happening. this has just been an unfathomable loss. and when we finally got the word

i mean, could you imagine if they burst into barack obama's lawyer's office? it would not be acceptable. it would not be acceptable. that's really a terrible thing. now, i feel badly for a lot of those people. i feel badly for general flynn. he's lost his house. he's lost his life. and some people say he lied and some people say he didn't lie. really it turned out maybe he didn't lie. but how can you do that? who's lied more than comey? comey lied a tremendous amount. reporter: you say you feel badly is there consideration of a pardon? president trump: i don't want to talk about that. i do want to see people treated fairly. that's what it's all about. i mentioned the other day you saw what i did with the woman, she's in jail for 23 years where other people are out after three months. she was 63 years old. reporter: what about the folks who don't have kim kardashian speaking for them. president trump: i'm looking at this them too. >> will you concerned michael cohen might flip? president trump: i did nothing wrong. this stuff would have come out a long time ago

i wrote a book critical about barack obama called "buyer's remorse" which i got a lot of crap for from my fellow democrats, but there were some things where i believed barack obama let the progressive side down. john mccain was willing to say so. >> watch "after words" sunday night at nine eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> this morning "washington journal" talked with the national republican campaign committee deputy chair about the november elections and possible changes in congress. >> host: we want to welcome congressman tom emmer, bicepty chair -- deputy chair of the republican national committee. thanks for being with us. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: the ig report, have you had a chance to at least read the summary? >> guest: i've read theou highlights, yeah. >> host: your reaction. >> guest: it's not surprising. i think it's pretty damning when you talk about bias and insubordination. but for me, it's a bigger issue. and the bigger issue is the credibility of our government institutions like the fbi. one of the things that makes this democracy work is that the citizens

- i think president clinton may be a little bit right in terms media who are enamored with the barack obama from the first time they saw him at the democratic conventions, giving his keynote address going a little bit easy on him. it's really was not my experience with the obama white house that there ever happy with anything i was ever writing about. i think they probay felt like why are you guys so hard on us because they probably perceived us to be incorrectly more on the same team. i think it is telling that president clinton would see it that way. he is on this i was a victim xyz tour going on. some of it is that he had it so much harder than barack obama so i take it with a grain of salt. the more interesting question whether we're easy on barack obama is whether there is an element of us being too hard on president trump. that gets me back to what is the baseline. i believe that we cannot great this president or should not trade this president for any president on a curve. were doing a series called what her presidential president would have said. we take a trump moment and model wha

who was barack obama or sotomayor? what about his financing from george soros and this whole daca thing is unconstitutional. we've got to quit chasing his tail. let's get down to the bottom of the barack obama administration. >> host: thank you glenn, roger stone? >> guest: you raise a number of key points. the previous caller seems to have missed this also. as far as mister mueller is concerned, he arrested the three wrong people in the anthrax matter, the individual he finally arrested died mysteriously in custody. he failed toinvestigate the sarasota florida based school where five of nine hijackers were trained . he let four men rot in all boston jail to cover up for fbi informants involved in the whitey bulger matter. he did fueled it uranium samples to russia during the active acquisition of uranium s one. this is hardly an unblemished record. therefore, that he would now sit in judgment of this president who is clearly an effort to undo what they could not do about box is really questionable. >> host: based on w

he said he thought the press had gone easy on barack obama because he was the first black president. >> i think that is too glib and parts of the media and the country went reserved about president obama. his birth certificate and all the conspiracies. i can speak for myself that the nation, we were open meeting press secretary obama when people attack the professional laughed. i think in retrospect in the belief that you need an inside outside strategy and you want to push a president to listen to movements and take certain steps, there has to be a different calibration. president obama i think he was savaged by poor elements of the press in this country. the press has been unfair to president trump. again, the problem with the coverage of president trump and said with humility because it's not the case all around as it is to fixate on the palace intrigue, scandals, the man in the character. at a certain level we are playing his game because it becomes all about trump and not about -- [applause] and not about the forces that will continue to afflict our country after trump is gone. c

>> barack obama is a powerful person. i'm not attacking obama, but does this have any effect?ery city around america, especially the ones with the worst schools, you see the symbolic debates going on about how we make kids feel better about themselves, which i'm not against. but does it have an effect on their lives? are the kids from barack h obama elementary going to succeed like they did from the othernk elementary? >> i think it's insulting. as a parent they would insult me if i was a child and it would certainly give me a certain view of that school system was a school that fought to keep them enslaved. >> tucker: i get it but, will it have any effect? and honestly do you think it will? >> if there is a figure that is transcendent, a figure whom they look up to and can look in the mirror and say, that person looks like my dad or looks how i will look in the future, i think it will have a positive effect on the self-esteem of those kids. and i will tell you this -- >> tucker: i hope it does. >> it affects learning outcomes. we know that for a fact. the one we know the oppo

host: and we had people call barack obama a liar. we draw the line when it becomes vulgar. that is the issue. caller: well you didn't. and the thing that gets me, these people hate trump so bad, and it is just not fair. have a good day. host: i will leave it there and have a reaction from the congressman. [laughter] say, studyll history. what is really interesting, at the same time in their presidencies, ronald reagan's approval rating was 43%. donald trump's is 42. interesting. host: caffe in arkansas, independent line. caller: good morning, good morning congressman. i will tell you what. we the american people were very upset, because you know, nobody is above the law and it seems to me that hillary clinton and all of these others get by with whatever they want to, and it is not right. is there anything that you , with thes can do special counsel sitting in on this? because all the american people know that hillary is guilty. well, the issue is about accountability and transparency. i think the legislative branch of our government has to do a better job of government over

and didn't respect ukraine but president obama not trump -- when moist fault i'll tellout but barack obama gave away -- president obama by not going across the red line in the sand that he drew, i went across it. with the at missile hits but president obama, when he didn't go across the readline, what he gave away nobody even knows. >> mr. president -- [shouting] >> but just to -- one more time. president obama gave away crimea that should have never happened. [shouting] >> when do you plan to host mr. put.at the white house? >> we heard president trump comment on the justice department's inspector general's report. the inspectsor general will testify monday on how the justice department and fbi handled the investigations into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server as well as the 2016 elections. live coverage monday afternoon before the senate judiciary committee starts at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> while it's fairly certain the house will take up immigration bills in come county week, what that debate will look like is less certain. joining is with the hill latino covering

current president, there are those on the left wondering where the previous president has gone, barack obamak demanded to know why president obama hasn't stepped back into the fray to help resist president trump, lamenting the fact that he appears to be more focused on his future library, his foundation and his book. marc thiessen is an american enterprise institute scholar and both are fox news contributor's. gentlemen, welcome. always interesting to watch the behavior of a former president, but the argument in this piece is that these are extraordinary and unprecedented times. he needs to ration on the fire truck and make sure that he does everything he can. >> yes. i think president obama has been very measured, strategic and smart about how he has engaged in the political debate since he has left office. he hasn't been 100% silent but he has weighed in on a couple of issues in an effort to defund obamacare, and immigration and a couple of issues like that. if you look at how he has addressed those, it's been very measured. he has spoken or tried to speak more aspirational he. he doesn't

unlike franken roosevelt and barack obama he didn't take the oath of office in the midst of a massive financial crisis. although the world had its share of problems when the trump presidency began they were ongoing, not new or urgent. the domestic economy had been growing slowly but steadily for all but one quarter of the previous six years. the annual rate of inflation is below 2%, the annual rate dipped 5%. the percentage of americans regard themselves as middle or upper class to rch 62%, greater share than below the 2008 financial crisis, the stock market was already booming. and unlike recent republican predecessors donald trump took office with the republican congress. look at it that way, donald trump was dealt a very good hand and honestly, i am somebody who appreciates the significance of the tax cut bill that was enacted last month into law but when you step back and think what have pres.s been able to do in the past when they had a congress controlled by their own party, one major piece of legislation and for republicans especially a tax cut is sort of like a 6-inch pot, rig

barack obama had a soul. barack obama had a center. you could speak to that. to his conscience and get him to change his policies. >> congressman, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and we're joined now by republican senator jeff flake of arizona. senator, thank you for joining us again this morning. i want to pick up on one of the arguments congressman gutierrez just made. you co-sponsored the bill that allows the families to be detained for more than 20 days. you heard his argument. he said it's unhumane to the families and the children. >> i don't know that i have co-sponsored that. that's a house bill. i don't think that the judge in the next week or couple of weeks will allow that longer detention. the flores decision will stand. and so i think another solution has to come. >> aren't you working with senator tillis? on legislation that allows families to be held longer than 20 days? >> i'm sorry. i thought you were talking about the house legislation. i just don't think that is it. with the tillis legislation, most of us envision some other form, like the monit

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a confederate figure taken down and barack obama's name put there over elementary school students.ven in the midst of all of the continued struggle and certainly there's a lot to struggle for, there are little things and in richmond, this is not a little thing. that shows us that you can make change. thank you so much and thank you. >> absolutely. my pleasure. >> thank those students for us. thank you for being with me this morning. >>> up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. over the last 24 hours, you finished preparing him for college. in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well-being. but meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. while meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. meningitis b strikes quickly. be quick to talk to your teen's doctor about a meningitis b vaccine. janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use homequ

it's a very barack obama thing to want other people take that baton. e running for office around the country, lot of women, people of color. at's the obama l everyone focuses just on the policies, which are very important. and lot of those policy, gay marriage, health care law are still intact. but the real legacy, i th is what peopleoing see november. and he will be back out on the campaign trail, in the fall, trying to support democrats taking back the house. >> i've spoken to you about this before, but let's touch on this again. you write about president obama saying sometimes i wonder whether i was 10 or 20 years too early. on his last foreign trip he did feel sort of misunderstood or under-appreciated? did he? >> that particular comment, he like most of us through the book went through a lot of reactions, a lot of emotions. whatould have been done boettner the campaign? how much was it the russians? or the jim comey letter? then what he was reflecting there is something you said is 10 or 20 years from now the demographics of this country is going t

or an asian barack obama or latino barack obama. what was misinterpreted is somehow arrogant. in fact he was secondguessing some of the things he had done and he was wrestling with it like everybody else. in tend, though, i do believe frankly 10 or 20 years from now america is going to look more like baracobama's america and hibrand of politics than ld trump. this effort to turn back the clock is kind of the last gasp of a certain kind of politics just like putin represents that in russia. the fact that those two forces converged in our election, putin and trump, is i think part of the same story, two sides of the same coin. people who don't have a vision for the future, so all they can do is stoke up grievance and look to the past. >> ben rhodes. the book is "the world as it ." it's the world you had to learn that it is. >> yes. >> you started off with a view of the world that is very different are than the one you ended with, ben rhodes. >> thanks a lot. i really appreciate it. >>> when we come back, why the united nations today s

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ly compare it to barack obama. they got a solid core base that politicians could kill to have. >> they also both drink water. i'm in the sure -- play something for you that barack obama didn't make and that this president did. take a look. the trailer. >> a story on a special moment in time. when a man is trented with one chance that may never be repeated. what will he choose? to show vision and leadership or not. will this leader choose to advance his country and be part of a new world? be the hero of his people. will he s the peace? >> the hand of peace. you saw it at the end. >> i saw the hand of peace. it was waving too. waving at the electorate. they are solid. they're with him. the example of what a democratic party is missing that we saw republicans, we took eight years of barack obama and this is what republicans should fear. eight years of barack obama. redraw the line. seats. >> let me get jess. >> barack obama never got democrats to abandon their progressive principles enmass. donald trump has gotten the

i don't remember them putting out a list of demands for barack obama when it comes to iran. know they're hypocrites. we know what they're up to, unfortunately. and a major issue like this dealing with nukes. my question is, if the president comes up with a deal and it's a significant deal, and it involves nukes and involves the united states making some concessions and so forth, will we demand that it be treated as a treaty? i assume it will depend what it is because now it's just theoretical. and should we? and should we allow both political parties to take a position on this so the american people know and shouldn't every aspect be vetted so the american people know, even if it's a hostile press and hostile democratic party. when we return, i'd like you to answer that question. >>> remember, every week night, you can watch levin tv, crtv.com or call 844-levin tv. we'll get you all signed up and ready to go. we'll be right back. mine's way better. this one's below market price and has bluetooth. same here, but this one has leather seats! use the cars.com app to compare pric

so barack obama's worst fears are come to fruition. and because trump doesn't know much history, he simply is anti-obama. anything that obama ever does or says, he criticizes. and hence his alley is d'souza who really became famous in the republican world hard right by just trashing obama as much as possible. >> he should be thanking him for the economy because that's one of the things that's keeping his poll numbers even, the local numbers as high as they are now. how big a part of the trump presidency is president obama, frank? >> huge, huge. i mean i was thinking about that today. president obama is like the first husband, and you're the second husband. and that person has to either not exist or be all things bad so you can relish your marriage to the extent you want to. i think that's trump's attitude. i think it's also interesting we're talking about him needing constantly to poke his finger in the eyes of his predecessors. one of his other pardons was scooter libby. that was sort of poking the eye of president bush. so he got ano

barack obama was president for eight years. the said no russian could ever do this to our election, after being president for eight years. -- i among the states th have watched this unfold. what is sad is 34 million americans lost their houses and jobs while government ships their jobs to china. we don't worry about china even though 95% of merchandise comes from china. host:. about the role of the obama administration, the intelligence they were seeing before the election. you think they should've said something? guest: barack obama -- i visited the white house when he was there. barack obama's biggest fault is that -- it is not a fault. he truly loves this country. i have heard a lot of nasty things said about the barack obama. one trip around this white house made it clear he understands the and dignity depth and will the presidency. experimentnds as an that thing going for 243 years, he will not upset that cart despite the fact he had information in his hands which could have thrown the election away from donald trump. a fr

barack obama and zhejiang pain.arack obama, trump is obsessed with doing barack obama's legacy and everything he's done and i think you would like to see to show to him, i got this meeting, we are going to get something done, here's one more thing i've beat you at. xi jinping is the power broker in this area. if nothing happens without him, especially in north korea and i think xi jinping has a lot to say about what happens in this negotiation more than just flying him to get to this meeting and to make sure he has propped up this regime, his father before him and provide him with food and energy they do have. >> martha: thank you very much. it's going to be fascinating. we are less than two hours away now. an hour and 46 minutes and we are all going to be watching it so closely. great to have all of you here tonight. quite a night. fox news alert, a light look outside the hotel, just watching this as they get ready to go. they are less than a mile apart these two men right now. president trump and kim jong un will

how barack obama failed americans.ntry's first black president never pursued policies to close the racial wealth gap. >> 26 million americans -- >>>> laura: and rates are going up. i think there is a lot you can do with this president and work with him on prison reform and other issues. i think these nfl players could work with the president. >> well, laura, when you lock people up for crack cocaine -- >>>> laura: that's not just him. that's been done for decades. >> then you free them up. opioids are a health crisis. >> [overlapping talking]. >> laura: you were pals with president trump when he was not president. what happened? >> he changed. he is a guy who looked at marches in virginia. he changed. i didn't change. >> laura: he is a different person, you think? glad you came on. sorry we could not find more common ground. i think you could find it with this president. i think he will do great things for black america. we are out of time. a big city mayor caught on camera celebrating a policy that brings death and de

>> i think barack obama was saying he's just a con artist, this president. donald trump makes up facts all the time. he doesn't go on empirical evidence, and it's kind of blowing up of any kind of integrity from the white house now. and because trump doesn't know much history, he's simply anti-obama. anything obama does or says he criticizes. and hence his alley is d' souza who really became famous in the republican world hard right by just trashing obama as much as possible. >> how big a part of the trump presidency is president obama, frank? >> huge, huge. i mean i was thinking about that today. president obama is like the first husband, and you're the second husband. and that person has to either not exist or be all things bad so you can relish your marriage to the extent you want to. i think that's trump's attitude. one of his other predecessors was scooter libby. that was sort of poking the eye of president bush. he's constantly talking about nest up situations that his predecessors bequeathed to him. if we're going to give the credit for the economy we

bush and barack obama, was going to bring that pendulum back toward the center.ow in a surprise, we got something completely different. the big question as you know is, are these swings becoming more dramatic or will we eventually kind of come to some stability? i don't have any particular hope that these swings are going to become less dramatic. there's not much evidence to suggest that. we're in a unique situation in which the world's superpower cannot decide for itself what role it wants to play in the world. >> i think that leaves a huge number of questions for america and the rest of the world to try to figure it out. jeffrey goldberg, editor in chief of the atlantic, thank you for joining us. let's put these questions to david sanger. he was at the singapore summit with north korea and he says, donald trump's unconventional diplomacy, in fact, extracted less from north korea than previous u.s. presidents have. in his new book sanger asks whether we are ignoring the real threat to western democracy, which is not nuclear, but cyber warfare. a decade ago, ther

with president barack obama. scombht gain of jobs monthly for eight years. >> laura: wages were not going up. they were not going up. >> and they are still not. most blacks make less than $15 an hour and a significant number make less than $10. >> [overlapping talking]. right now it is premature to say what will happen with this action toward canada and our naeshs. >> laura: we will have more manufacturing jobs where people who don't go to fancy colleges can get a really high paying job like they used to when he with tariffs put in place by democrat presidents and republican presidents. the tariff thing?-- how you turn that into an anti-black thing? >> it's not just black. if?, in fact they had a job, in chicago you have to go 3 transportation transfers to get the right transportation and students have credit cards debt. >> laura: billions of jobs were sent overseas and bled off to mexico. that was good for black america? i don't think that was good for working class people at all. we lost billions of jobs. this

barack obama went to harvard law school. love this notion that somehow --ma >> tucker: i'm trying to assess what the former president said. i'm not weighing in on this. i'm merely saying here's this liberal icon saying he was a black guy, that he was giveny ial treatment, that's all i'm asking. that's what bill clinton said. >> what he said, the press, it was true for others, they took a certain sense of pride in the united states having elected an african-american, given the history of slavery. and he said he's a good president. and as you saw in the interview, he also thought that donald trump's escapades, if you want to magic user versus accuser, that won't be a fair fight. >> tucker: i'm saying he derides president obama because it's cool because he's a liberal. what do we know about sexual harassment that we didn't owe 20 years ago? we were defending bill clinton up and down, now we are deriding him. what's changed? we know sexual harassment is wrong now and we didn't know that in 1998? >> i will speak at somebody who w

but for the record, we should make it plain, barack obama did detain whole families.rt stopped barack obama from doing. that's correct, so the separation of families is new. the idea that asylum seekers would be criminally prosecuted at the border and separated from their children, that's a policy of the president's own making. that's a crisis that he alone created. but the detention of families is not new. you're correct to say that under the obama administration, thousands of families were held in detention centres, and it was only stopped because the court challenge. the trump administration today is asking courts to allow it to do what it said the obama administration could not. "welcome to our village, wee one." that is how the prime minister of new zealand announced the birth of her baby girl. jacinda ardern is only the second elected leader to give birth while in office. she will take six weeks of maternity leave before heading back to work, leaving deputy prime minister winston peters in charge. hywel griffith has more. beaming parents and their new arrival —

you know, barack obama wouldn't get three hostages out of north korea so i'm going to get them out. two of them were taken hostage when you were president. [laughter] how was obama going to get them out -- [laughter] when he was president if they hadn't been captured yet? and yet you know, they there's no shame. you know, came on the show and i challenged her and just i said -- you know, the president tells so many lies. and she said the president does a lot of things. had is true i can't dispute that an factual grounds but that tweet is still. it's still up. it's a lie. it's a falsehood and i mess up in a tweet -- and i'm like under my bed for like a week. and -- there's just no shame. they don't care. quite something i talk an given a breath of the landscape who do you consider your competitor? >> oh -- everybody. i mean, everybody is -- the the media landscape is -- vast, and there's great journalism being don on one level i have a sunday show so -- chuck and george an chris wallace and margaret brennan are my competitor on sunday. and then i have a show at 4:00 so, you know, i'm

reading about barack obama based on a new book from his former , obama justadline too good for us. you can read that online at nytimes.com. nevada, democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to say that i have been watching the president for a while, and he comes in on an economy that was running at 2.5%. now we are up to 2.8%. debtok a $1.5 trillion addition to try to make the books look good. when you are spending money with an unlimited checkbook, in makes it easy to say everything is going ok. we still don't have an infrastructure program. this is one of the main things. you have got a good idea here, let's do that. we did not do that. now they want to cut medicare and medicaid so they can get more tax cuts to rich people. everybody get out and vote. it is time to bring the country back to sanity, and less start to balance the budget when we did like one that horrible mr. clinton was in office. host: thank you for the call from nevada. george will writing about gerald ford, our normal president, based on a new book from donal

former deputy national security adviser for barack obama. who has a new book that goes on sale tomorrow called "the world as it is, a memoir of the obama white house." congratulations. it's a re well-written book. >> thank you. >> that was a central idea of the critique of the obama administration, particularly like the iran deal, you guys are running around casing the iran deal and you've alienated all of our friends. what do you make of where we are right now between the red carpet being rolled out for north korea while we're giving canada the metaphorical finger? >> well, chris, it is kind of a whiplash on a day basis because they would hurl that critique at us but barack obama's standing among our closest allies in europe and asia was higher than any president in recent memory. what they've done is profoundly alienate our allies, not just on an issue but to the point where i think in europe and asia they're beginning to fundamentally question their relationship with the united states. i mean, this is the actual crisis that they used to ra

who was barack obama? he hit his school records. what about his finances for working for laurent saw all these years in this fake daca thing is unconstitutional. let's get down to the bottom of the corrupt obama administrati administration. >> guest: you raise some key points. as far as mr. mueller is concerned, he arrested three wrong people in the interacts matter. individual he finally arrested died mysteriously in custody. he failed to investigate the sarasota white school where five of nine hijackers were trained. he let for men rot to the boston jail to cover up fbi performan performance. he did have the uranium samples to russia. this is hardly a non- blemish record. therefore that he would now sit in judgment of this president, it's clearly an effort to undo what they cannot do at the ballot box. i think this is really questionable. >> sounds like these will be some talking points when the mueller report comes out to discredit both him and his work. >> we do not know what his report will say. so far he is yet to come up with

you may remember him working both with barack obama but three other presidents as well. now, this is interesting. he's published his first op-ed since leaving government and it's a statement worth reading at some length tonight. the esteem with which i held the presidency was dealt a serious blow when trump took office, brennan writes. many have condemned by public criticism of mr. trump, arguing that as a former cia director, i should bite my tongue. my criticisms, however, are not political. i have never been and will never be a partisan, he writes. i speak out for the simple reason that mr. trump is failing to live up to the standards that we should all expect of a president. as someone who had the rare privilege of directly serving four presidents, i will continue to speak out loudly and critically until, and here are the words he chooses, until integrity, decency, wisdom and maybe even some humility return to the white house. i don't think you can read something like that from someone like him without seeing it for what it is, as these stories grind on. it is a ster