wanted to get involved in politics and that led me to the obama campaign. >> your meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter he brought you on board, early in his campaign for the presidency? >> yeah. >> 2007? >> yeah. it was the spring of 2007. i had been doing basically free work for the obama campaign and got called into a debate prep session where they sit around and go through the issues that he has to deal with in the upcoming presidential debate. there fs, feet up, head of all his advisers. i felt like i couldn't speak in paragraphs. i framed my advice to him in questions. they were debating whether or not he should vote for a bill that would fund the iraq war and he liked that approach in terms of trying to identify what the common sense case is. you're not for this policy. you have a different many policy. why would you vote for this? ultimately i got hired as both speech writer and foreign policy adviser. >> not to give away the end of the book or whatever but you write in the beginning, in one of the last trips with barack obama in 2016 and he asks you, what if we were w

president barack obama has paid tribute to nelson mandela centineo of the former south african leaders because in his most high profile speech since leaving office mr obama used the annual nelson mandela lecture to urge people around the world to emulate the anti-apartheid figurehead despite an even progress in south africa itself. most blacks in south africa live in townships like this one official letter is hoping that barack obama's visit here will show the world that south africa is still a developing country that feeling of yes we can it was like more t.v. dealing everybody to give or you can do use the same applies to neighbors and when they were. around ten thousand people listened to obama's speech in a stadium in johannesburg. the tickets were free a famous managed to get one yellow came to embody the universal aspirations of this disaster people all around the world their hopes for a better life. and perhaps shared by many here a fair says obama is a man after his own heart especially when he speaks about dashed hopes. it is a plain fact that racial discrimination still exist

that's what barack obama has done. standing on this side of the road and a speech like this, he thinks his opinions still matter and he wants the keys back. people are like no, you're not going to get the keys back. >> marie: we are talking about it. it must matter to someone. ocasio-cortez gave a list of things. when you have to make a list of something to bolster your point, it means most of your points are pretty weak. >> jesse: i guess he's a little upset that his legacy has been throttled by donald trump, when you look at domestic policy. the obamacare mandate and the taxes and -- >> dana: there were three main things. the foreign policy walk the tax policy. president obama tried so hard to ram a lot of things through in the last several months. there's a maneuver you can use in congress to turn those back. that's really unleashed the economy and it doesn't give enough attention. the other thing is the judiciary. i think they have 30 circuit court judges confirmed. now on the second supreme court justice. that's r

before our shows mike barack obama comes on and people applied. then joe biden. then bob mueller and people go bananas. >> bob mueller is just so handsome every way. stop terrorist. for justice and he is tall. [laughter] [applause] i love him and i was in a meeting with him once said mr. president i will kick it off and i said you are forever my boyfriend. but you are doing your book tour so how do you keep yourself down? but generally? >> this is a question that we get from people that i'm tired. what do i do? this is exhausting. you don't have to be visible all day long. not is a save it as i do. donald trump is president and will be. so i think it is okay. >> it wasn't a rule once he won we had to be miserable 247. and this will go on for a while now. and pick up the phone and do some phone banking. >> you like phone banking? >> i wouldn't say i'm great. but my wife runs a tough ship. so if we are therefore a phone bank i know i'm there for more than that. >> when i was 21i did a phone bank for bernie sanders because i was an original. and he said here is your

the math you command more hawkish than left it that the barack obama did you change him? >> it was the convergent and the reality i had to confront and somebody that guy intervention that emerged in the '90s but then to reckon with the fact those first several years we were in office and he sent out that terrorist network so to be unable to that event. and that they point to the intervention i supported but then it keeps getting less attention which is that is believe side iraq and. for all that military might go to conference the reality after living the old in iraq i would say in the obama would what happened to build the runway? that frankly the track record was limited. with parts barack obama and part circumstance that i hope i changed him but i felt that i redirected my ideal so feeling somewhat frustrated at the tractability is when i turned to cuba and vietnam. not that i changed my but fine affirmatively to do with the world that's not the east. so we have to carve out time and make you buy a priority i know you want to change this policy so let me go do this. so

barack obama was a disaster by any metric. labor force participation, wage growth.nd i am surprised you didn't bring up. the employment cost index, donald trump his first year, bested barack obama's 8 years. >> there is a long way to go between here and the end. judge jeanine: i have an idea, rinse, here is the bottom line, i can't yell because i have a sore throat. my mother called me during the break and said jeanine, you have to have some water. if the unemployment is the lowest it's been ever for african-americans, for minorities, we have more jobs than people to fill them. you can talk gdp until the cows come home. that's what matters. a job and the ability to take care of your family. i want to talk about this tape. chris, do you want to answer? go ahead. >> there is a lot of good and there is a lot of caution. the deficit and the debt are growing dramatically. >> that's the trade deficit. the budget definite, those are different things. >> i give up. don't tell me on a saturday night i have to shave for this and i have to let him get away with this. for 8 yea

bush and barack obama, and it goes a little -- goes like this. if the tragedy of the george w. bush administration was in overreaction to a set of events in he middle east, the tragedy of the obama administration could be its provisional right now -- could be unreaction- -- underreaction to a set of events, particular he the cataclysm of syria. your administration spent the last couple of years of obama's second term trying not to get on what he called openly the slippery slope. you really do believe that american intervention at any level would have made things worse for the syrian people than they are today? >> well, one thing i try to look up in the book is this question has been so boiled down in washington to the basic one episode of the redline, and what i look back on is -- and reference in the book -- in 2011-2012, before the cries became a fractious civil war with foreign powers involved and proxies proxies and sectarian dimensions, did we mace window where some type of more aggressive diplomatic issue in cif do have forestall some of the human toll we have seen. so, co

that led me to the obama camp. >> you are meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter. he brought you on board. this is early in his campaign for the presidency. 2007. >> it it was the spring of 2007. free work for the obama campaign. i got called into a prep session. and there he is at the head of the table. i was so nervous back then, that i frankly, felt like i couldn't speak in paragraphs. you know, debating whether or not he should vote for a bill that would fund the iraq war. he liked that approach in terms of trying to identify what the common sense case is. you're not for this policy. why would you vote for this? ultimately, got hired as the speaker. >> not to give away the ending of the book or whatever, but you write in the beginning, one of the last trips with barack obama in 2016, and you are riding along and he says something to you. he asks you, what if we were wrong? which startled you. did this book help clarify that answer for you? >> yeah, i wrote the book to answer that question. and having been there the very first day of the obama administration, exp

jesse: barack obama was married by that guy, reverend wright. d he sat in those pews for 20 years. the media spiked this picture of obama with farakan. total hypocrisy which leaves us to this. >> so many [inaudible] [applause] >> it's enough. jesse: here is barack obama enjoying a tropical trip on billionaire, rich branson's world class squat. here is the $8 million mansion the obamas purchased after leaving the white house. notice how it has a wall around it for security. i thought walls were racist. i guess not. i guess president obama should take advice from another president. >> i don't think it's good for the country to have a former president undermine another president it's bad for the country. jesse: joining me is anthony scaramucci. >> it's politics in america. there is a level of hypocrisy that takes place. you and i know the cliche' a politician's lips are lying when his lips are moving. he has the best smile in american politics since jack kennedy. he's able to use that to good effect. but president bush is correct we should get out o

barack obama didn't have a big family. he was brought into the fold of the biden family which was very sweet m. >> host: let's talk about two vice presidents, first dick cheney. as you indicated earlier as vice president, cheney rather enjoyed his image as one of the most polarizing figures in recent american history. his relationship, you write, with george w. bush was all business. they were never especially close to begin with. regard to lyndon johnson, you wrote the following: when kennedy won the nomination, johnson sent him a telegram. remember those?hn [laughter] lbj now means let's back jack. johnson was not so subtly are signaling his interest as kennedy'san personal secretary would later write, it was almost as if romeo and julieted had gotten married. >> guest: i mean, the scene in the hotel during the convention where robert kennedy is trying to stop johnson from agreeing to be jfk's running mate is just incredibly brutal. because it went on, basically, for hours where rfk is shuttling up and down the stairs tr

president barack obama has been paying tribute to nelson mandela on the centenary of his birth. his most high-profile speech since leaving office, mr. obama use the annual nelson mandela lecture to urge people around the world -- despite uneven progress in south africa itself. reporter: most blacks in south africa live in townships like this one. he is hoping barack obama's visit here will show the world that south africa is still a developing country. >> the theme of yes we can. it was motivating everybody. together, you can do. you see? same applies to nelson mandela. reporter: around 10,000 people listened to obama's speech in a stadium in johannesburg. the tickets were free. he managed to get one. >> mandela came to embody the universal aspirations of dispossessssed people all around the world. their hopes for a better life. reporter: and the hopes shared by many here. he says obama is a man after his own heart, especially when he speaks about dashed hopes. >> it is a plain fact that racial discrimination still exists in both the united states and south africa. that the accu

laura: barack obama ofeks out younger audiences. today was no exception. is that his message, that it is wn to you, the next generation, to figure this out? linda:bsolutely. i thoughhe was inspiring to young people, that their job is to move forward and to figure out new solutions for old problems. i think they heard him loudly and clearly. laura: this is the most high-profile speech that barack obama has made since he left office. do you feel we will be hearing more from him? linda: i can only hope we will hear more from him.pe thish has set a tone that is needed, and i think hisil supportersbe looking toim hear more from laura: thank you so much for joining us. linda: thank you. laura: washington, d.c. can will play host tonight to major league baseball's 89th annual all-star game. it is a chance for the best hoayers to take a break from the regular season andtheir skills to a nationwide audience, and also an opportunity for this highly politized city to enjoy the simple joy of an american summer. itbus hard to separate the sport from the politics. : rep

is it better under trump or better under barack obama? >> i'm not going to defend the democrats, but they're not the only target here. trump's foreign policy doctrine is a direct to the neocons. they're undercutting president. the irony there, he's the best friend to israel. russia is not -- they have one military base outside of russia. we have mutual interests with russia. the president is trying to get the best deals. what are we going to do to denuclearize north korea? he's working with israel or endorsing the israel russia plan in syria. so there's a lot of mutual interests. when we hold 90% of the nuclear power combined with russia, we have to have a dialogue and we need to understand how to make sure that we can make the world a democracy and russia is a lot like us in many different ways. so i don't think it's just the democrats that we should target here. trump, when he ran, he had a foreign policy doctrine that was libertarian like rand paul that was also attacked. so i think trump should stick to his guns, open up the dialogue

>> vladimir putin didn't respect barack obama. he's a somewhat judo player. esident obama is not even over there and he's criticizing him because hillary clinton got ko'd in the election. excuse me, you have your five minutes that's going to be important, but this president isn't worried about saving face, he's about bringing results for the us.i'm optimistic and i'm rooting for this country, not against him . >> it's not about, allof us root for the united states of america and there are times i wonder if the president of the united states is doing so or not.if you're talking about looking weak , the world sees president trump as a puppet of vladimir putin. [overlapping conversation] that's what it looks like. >> rob: mustafa, would you say the president has not been topper on actions then president obama was? >> he has delivered to russia what russia wants. he's trying to break up nato, he said he might hold out of nato. he is doing everything to undermine the interest of the united states and the interests of being a global leader. instead, he's pursued his

standing here. >> sunday morni in 2008, joe when theng wooisltbal andidate barack obama droppedhis neighborhood to campaign. >> secret service obviously patted me down, walk up to him, i told him listen thinking about buying a company. >> your new tax plan will tax me more? >> joe figured the perfect timeo a obama about his proposed plan to increase nkin was when back bag w cents speaking then, if you work hard, we'll ntially asked thathat's why i question. ies was not persuade in the anyway shape oror f >> cameras captured the encoun and overnight, joe the plumber, became the face of every dayit americans similar concerns abouth taxes and jobs. >> the conversation i had with joe t plumber -- >> joe the plumber. >> joe the plumbryk>> srccain' camhnpaign, and useds a political property against obama. >> of course they wanted to the only rea ie ,meen came outso i for johns mccain is sple fact that i didn't want barack obama in office. >> after mccain's l joe wrote a book. >> i think about -- >> stint as war correspondent, ran for congress but lost.ti today joe s works with his han

is senator kamala harris the new barack obama? back in a moment. >> laura: california senator kamala harris is being a shining hope. the 2020 race, yes, we are already talking about it. isn't that fun? she has liberal hearts swooning even more after a report that her office -- check this out, refused to accept a courtesy phone call from the white house counsel's office about of course the supreme court pick. they want of course to discuss the kavanaugh appointment. her office is now denying that exact precise characterization, but regardless senator harris is on the relentless campaign to beef up her left-wing bona fide. it doesn't hurt that she is apparently a longtime favorite of former president obama. could she reach obama-like status questionnaire cured to discuss is sean duffy and austin dove, an attorney who runs in many of the same legal circles as senator harris. kamala harris, i see her as a likely 2020 front runner. i don't think it's going to be elizabeth warren. i don't think it's going to be bernie sanders. joe biden

you like to say barack obama. barack obama.arack obama. >> i'm laughing because you guys are so tough on russia. russia ran wild under barack hussein obama.hu you did nothing until little hillary got embarrassed with e-mails that came out about chelsey and her wedding. please, you guys aren't tough. you think global warming is more of a threat than terrorism. you're afraid to pour water on terrorists' heads. you've nothing on russia. now you complain because it's an excuse for losing the election. you know what really cost her the election? she fainted. she was a terrible candidate. she didn't go toio wisconsin and she called halff the country deplorable. i think that had a little bit to do with it. >> hannity: i got to roll. jessica, the last time we were together got her first win. >> i just lost. >> hannity: jesse now came back and won 100-0. that's never happened. >> let's tell everyone where jessa was last week.et -- jessica was last week. moscow. >> i went to the semifinals in st.e petersburg. >> hannity: first time a per

on a phenomena reporting from washington thank you well donald trump's a purpose to serve barack obama is in south africa right now where he's been there paying tribute to former anti apartheid leader nelson mandela obama was asked to give the keynote address marking the one hundredth anniversary of mandela's birth it was his highest profile speech since leaving the white house thousands attended the official celebrations and obama got huge applause when he called mandela quote one of history's true giants urged people around the world to stand up for the values of tolerance and respect that were so dear to south africa's former president and obama said there was still plenty of work to do to fulfill mandela's vision. it is a plain fact that racial discrimination still exists in both the united states and south africa. and it is also a fact that the accumulated disadvantages of years of institutionalized oppression have created yawning disparities in income and in wealth in education and health in personal safety and access to credit former us of president barack obama speaking there i

president was not a phenomena reporting from washington thank you well donald trump's predecessor of barack obama is in south africa right now where he's been giving his highest profile speech since leaving the white house obama was asked to give the keynote address marking the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of apartheid leader nelson mandela thousands are attending the official celebrations and obama got a huge applause he called mandela quote one of history's giants he urged people around the world to stand up for the values of tolerance and respect that were so dear to mandela. while obama did not mention donald trump by name but he talked at length about the current times in which we live calling them quote disturbing even the strange and uncertain terms that we are in. there are strange and they're uncertain. with each day's news cycles bringing more heads been. and the strobing headlines. i thought maybe it would be useful to step back for a moment. and try to get some perspective. so i hope you'll indulge me on. this fight the slight chill. as i spend. much of this lecture. reflect

in south africa delivering a lecture in memory of thought country's first black president now barack obama's nelson mandela lecture was full of hope for the future he couldn't help but mention the despair of the present strongman leaders with little regard for truth all the facts i wonder who he had in mind i'm phil galen and belive this is the day. people just make stuff up. they just make stuff up. but i don't watch the frame among political leaders were there cardinal law and. i believe in nothing not dollars but. i believe in a vision shared by god the king. abraham lincoln. i believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom and racial democracy built on the promise that all people are created equal but evil reminds us that no one is born hating another person because of the color of the skin or his background or is religious people must learn to hate. anything to learn to hate. they can be taught to love. for love comes more naturally to the human heart. but before we bring you have that the current u.s. president donald trump has paid a spectacular turnaround on remarks he made

in the end, the present losing with the barack obama.ecause he left the democrat party in a pretty poor state. in terms of candidates, you mean? ps and did he actually knew enough about getting barack obama elected twice to get them in a position to take on donald trump? question about his legacy there was interesting to see what he's doing when he is out of office. this is beyond one hundred days. still to come... sounding the alarm over the humble banana — a disease sweeping asia threatens global stocks. so can a wild variety come to the rescue? we'll be talking to a banana expert. here, the national health service is celebrating its 70th birthday today. it was created on july the 5th 1948 and since then the nhs has grown to become the world's largest publicly funded health services. dominic hughes reports. 70 years old, and the nhs is still going strong. at the christie hospital in manchester, a patient who has relied on the nhs for all of her 70 years. i always think of the people who were around before the nhs, how they used to thin

barack obama was wrong. mitt romney was right.et's point out, isn't it interesting that part of what barack obama was saying is the cold war's been over for 20 years. you listen to the left, they make it sound like the cold war is back with a vengeance. they're like this is the cold war, why isn't president trump doing more. they were letting barack obama say it wasn't a big deal. i was at a summit like this in 2012. barack obama said, he was caught on a hot mic saying tell vladimir putin that after i get elected i'll have more flexibility. now putin is the worst guy in the world but barack obama was willing to cut deals with him. >> that's why we like you. you remember things like that. stick with us. >> i'll be back all four hours, from start to finish. >> we couldn't get rid of you if we wanted to. we're glad to have you. president trump already has a 2020 campaign theme. >> our new slogan when we start running is going to be "keep america great! ." >> now the president just unveiled more 2010 township news and democrats are no

the sam webber barack obama may have laid out for the league side. —— the same way that.h donald trump or with me and my reasonable point of view? theresa may could use this in her own favour. he has not left the country yet. he could still do damage to her orto her yet. he could still do damage to her or to her cause. we have to wait and see. what seems to change is that we are almost on a piece of elastic where we are at the top of the queue with a trade deal with america, or at the bottom... depending on the present‘s mood or the day. at the bottom... depending on the present's mood or the day. a stock of api. some people were not particularly keen on the president coming —— let us talk about the i. there is the scene in trafalgar square. 100,000 protesters take to the streets in london, manchester, glasgow, belfast. lots of people outside this building. it may coming work colourful, lizzie, and a bit of additional work required. and what you could see standing next to the protesters, it was good—natured until you started to read the banners. i didn't. i was in until y

in the same sense that trump is authentic, so is barack obama. there has been a greater acceptance of just being ourselves. when we look like we are not in,aring what we believe you want to know who you are being asked to vote for. it's interesting to trace this over eight years. in the beginning, it was such a crisis. and then turning to the oppressive agenda outside of health care and reform. what hindered our gender was an inability to find a way to work with republicans. understandably they had a different view. it was the complete embrace of the opposite of what obama was for. progressives confides in space to work together even if policies are different. gay marriage, climate change -- you saw a much more advanced sense of progressivism because we couldn't find any common ground so we just it up for the things we believed. host: famously in the first year of the administration, mitch mcconnell made it his now to one term president. how did that hurt? guest: it is interesting when you comment and you don't know what the congressional benefit

and it is when barack obama was a senator that he noticed you?i had the luck to work for the 9/11 commission in the united states and also this thing called the iraq study group which basically assessed the twin events that defined the first decade of the 21st century. so i had that expertise and i was a speech writer. obama needed to put together a team and i basically wanted to work for him and i started working for free, not even knowing if it'd lead anywhere. i'd write memos and speeches and that ultimately got me in the door to meet barack obama. there was the moment that he noticed you. was there something that you recall? you write about a particular meeting. there was this commonsense thread that i was talking about. i walked into a meeting where they were debating whether he should vote in the senate for a bill to fund the iraq war. i was so nervous that i didn't want to speak. i was afraid he was going to call on me because i knew i couldn't speak in paragraphs. when it came to my turn to talk, because he calls on everyone in the room,

. >> who is barack obama? the answer is right there on my facebook page. >> if you like hilarious, shocking embarrassing videos -- >> i like turtles. >> -- chances are you spend a lot time on youtube. >> leave britney alone! >> what we're creating is a stage for everyone to be seen. >> we're in a very wonderful time right now where the innovations really are driving the technology right into the center of our lives. >> this should be simpler, more powerful, faster. >> of course the big story tonight is i have an ipad. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> in focus tonight, the communication innovations that await us as we head into the 21st century. >> we're in for the communications ride of our lives. the coming year sees cell phones, small enough to hide in your pocket. the promise of video phones is coming true. tiny hand-size computers that know your favorite subjects. and internet everywhere. >> there have been technology revolutions in human history before, but i think this one has been incredibly compressed in how fast it happened

. >>> barack obama's legacy is being dismand the by donald trump, why isn't the former president doingore i'll speak to someone with invite in that regard. how much can we learn about a nominee before they become a supreme court justice? >> if they toe the line, not much. for those that spent days and nights trapped in thailand, what do they need to do to stay mentally strong? i'll speak to a psychology all too familiar with extreme scenarios. first, monday at 9:00 p.m. east will be must viewing when the president announces his pick to succeed anthony kennedy on the supreme court. it would be his second pick in two years, and represents an opportunity for him to fundamentally change the course of history. when when he filled the seat one held with neil gorsuch, the court was not markedly changed. notwithstanding the seat should have gone to president obama's pick. this time is different. despite being appointed by ronald reagan. anthony kennedy was not always a reliably conservative vote. he was so often the swing vote, the fifth and deciding jurist on a court comprised of nine. the fu

he essentially said yes, barack obama is a citizen, i cleared it up i finished it. victory. >> watch afterwards, sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's c-span twos book tv. >> next, look at president trump meeting with the british prime minister today. these are some of the pictures from his arrival at the palace outside of oxford england. >> earlier today president trump held a news conference at the conclusion of the nato summit in brussels. this runs about 35 minutes. >> thank you very much everybody. i appreciate it. we have had an amazing today in brussels. we have accomplished a lot with respect to nato. for years, presidents have been coming to these meetings and talked about the tremendous expense for the united states. on the tremendous progress has been made. everyone has agreed to up their commitment. they're going to upper that levels they have never brought up before. prior to last year when i attended my first meeting it was going down, the amount of money being spent by countries was going down substantially. now it is going up substantially. c

well, barack obama said so. former vice president taking to facebook to air his grievances on president trump's meeting with vladimir putin. we'll take that up with ed rollins. stay with us. we'll be right ♪ [ coughs ] ♪ ♪ [ screams ] ♪ [ laughs ] ♪ whoa, whoa, whoa. your one item would be the name your price tool? it helps people save on car insurance. why wouldn't it save me? why? what would you bring? a boat. huh. lou: the republican national committee raising a record $200 million during the midterm election cycle, nearly doubling the democrat party. the rnc outraising the dems in cash on hand by a factor of five. the dems have a whole $9 million to the republican party's $47 million. i see intensity building, don't you? and the trump bump. this time in the republican race for governor of florida. congressman ron desantis leading against his opponent putin. desantis is at 42 42%, a 12-pot lead after president trump's endorsement. the primary just six weeks from today. joining me now, the dean himself, ed rol