unfortunately he's going backwards in time to barack obama and barack obama proved over and over againwas great at getting himself elected, the only other democrat he got elected was joe biden when he ran on the same ticket with him. so joe biden has to come out with his own positive, optimi optimistic agenda for what he's going to do, especially for those swing voters who voted for biden and obama and then switched to trump. he's in a very strong position right now, hoose lee's leading pack. i do think bernie sanders' support is stronger -- it's a smaller base but it's a stronger base that's not going to leave him. biden has proven he does have a big number of supporters in the african-american community especially. if he can maintain that, that would be an impressive thing. >> i think because we're focusing on the media and you're right, mark, it's early, there's time to do lots of things. but i think if biden's game plan, if his strategy is to only do legacy media, i think he's going to risk looking entitled and sort of above the process. i want to see him do weird podcasts and mill

and there you see a lot more questions about barack obama and more reconsideration of him. though, in every poll that comes out, obama is wildly popular among democrats and that is something that biden is tapping obama put together a c he a ligs that included people of color and a massive turnout of people of color. how do you see his role here? because you do have some progressives who are kind of shying away, maybe not from the man himself, but from some of the policies saying that for example obamacare didn't go far enough, why didn't he push for the public option, all these other issue based things. is it possible to win over the voters that one would need to win the nomination if that is the way you are talking about this president? >> i think that there are certainly the activist part of the progressive left that were not happy with obama when they were president. they were criticizing him when he was actually the president. if you went to any netroots na heckled, booed, yelled at. so i think it is not a surprise that they are critical of obama's legacy and perhaps so

that's what he inherited from barack obama. if a democrat had been in office, the democrat would have gotten credit for it, but trump gets credit for it because he walked in at the last minute. >> the reality is reporters don't look at trend lines and well, everything you are saying might be true, i just don't think that's how a lot of voters are going to approach the economy, and when it comes to the economy, democrats have been dealt tough hands this election because it's good. we shouldn't lament that. of the ways you could handle it, i think biden's is a better one because you can't say, most people aren't feeling it. some people aren't feeling it. ic that's a bad tactic. >> i want to ask you about breaking news we're just getting in. a republican congress member has broken rank in officially calling for impeachment of president donald trump. let me read some of this. he writes, here are my principle conclusions. attorney general barr has deliberately misrepresented the mueller report. president trump has engaged in impeach

schools and barack obama streets.a. at least not yet. but a community organizer is petitioning for barack obama boulevard in san jose sooner than later. >> but unlike in los angeles, where they recently unveiled a street in honor of the former president, this san jose group is slowed down by city hall. >> chris rayes has the story. >> i was knocking on doors for barack obama in the primary in cleveland, ohio. >> reporter: this was alex shore in 2008. that is when he met two african-american kids whose faces lit up at the mention of then-candidate barack obama. >> that moment just stuck with me. as i thought about those boys over the years, i thought this would be a great tribute to their pa boulevard after a two-year process and shore said his committee hasn't had the same momentum. >> committee members and i will go through whatever the city pr processes to get this down. it is taking time. >> reporter: judging from the application one alone, the los angeles one is more simple. just get 500 signatures or 20% if the p

today. . >>> new at 10:00 astretch of road in los angeles is now named after former president, barack obama. the road in the baldwin hill crenshaw neighborhood is officially obama boulevard. hundreds gathered to celebrate the unveiling. >> 3, 2, 1 [ cheering ] >> reporter: the historic event bringing together people of all age, genders and ethinicity. >> it was beautiful. it is actually like seems like a huge message. >> reporter: rodeo road is the end of the martin luther king junior boulevard named after barack obama. >> it's great that you can name it after someone living. >> reporter: it carry as deep significance. >> obama boulevard wouldn't be obama boulevard without martin luther king and others. >> reporter: two pillars of african american history remembered together creating an african american point of interest together. many here wanting to share the moment with the younger generation. >> we know that he was first black president. >> reporter: with the hope that the two men who created change will continue to inspire. >> back into this area it gives hope, a lot of dreams captioni

suddenly, the black vote shifted to barack obama.re's no guarantee that even though biden is winning the black vote now, he'll continue having that after next year. >> we forget history quickly. >> we do. >> unassailable front-runners. this issue about lack of excitement and name recognition for a candidate like buttigieg, kamala harris, african-american, but she and cory booker to some extent, face a similar problem. >> they do, and again, they're facing the barack obama problem from 2008 in that people, either they may like the candidate or they don't know the candidate, but they don't think that candidate can win. i think a lot of black people in 2008 had that same sentiment. we may like obama but we're not sure if he can win. i think the issue with kamala harris is she talks about electability. she made a great speech about that the other day to the naacp, and she countered the narrative that you can't win if you're not a white male. one of the great arguments against that is the fact that the two people who got the most votes fo

she's probably ahead by double digits. >> she was. >> and we've kind of gone from aoc to aos, barack obamaes that help? to see him embrace obama like that? >> i think it's a real problem for democrats to fight the last war. that's what they're doing by nominating joe biden. if they're going to fight the last war, what they'll do is going to be a hillary clinton-type of campaign and they're going to lose on the economy. >> there's no shortage of soldiers here. meantime at last night's town hall on fox news, pete buttigieg took aim at president trump's twitter insults. this as the president compared him to mad magazine mascot alfred e. newman and suggested that mayor pete doesn't have the chops to go man on man with world leaders. watch this. >> the tweets are -- i don't care. we need to make sure that we're changing the channel from this show that he's created. what matters -- and i get it. it's hard for anybody to look away. any time we look at the show and the lateest insult, what we're not looking at, we're the tries trying to get you raise and you're blocking it. we're trying to get you

and we know barack obama got more votes than president trump.re's a record democrats can base their election on for 2020. there's a model that show you can get more votes than donald trump with a black candidate, a woman candidate. you don't necessarily have to have joe biden or a white male candidate. joe biden could steal beat trump. the democrats who find whoever the best candidate is, put that candidate out there and let that candidate win. >> the candidate that speaks to the people in those states that need be won. pennsylvania, michigan and on and on. the best candidate to speak to those folks. because remember if you look at the "new york times" reporting and the research, the party is moderate, essentially. the loudest voices are the ones daemed by the right or some self-professed socialists. and the loud voices on twitter are the people who really show up to the polls. frrt it's the people not onb twitter, older, moderate democrats. >> and the story of 2018, which was missed by a lot was moderate democrats picked up a majority of the se

barack obama was an extraordinary man, extraordinary person. i watched up close his character, courage, and vision. he was a president our children could and did look up to. he was a great president. i was proud to serve as his vice president but never more proud than the day we passed health care. yeah, health care. a lot of presidents before us tried it. other administrations have not been able to do it. but it was done by barack obama without a single republican vote. i know how to get things done. i know how to go toe to toe with the gop. it doesn't have to be, and it can't be that way on every issue. the recovery act. the recovery act, the cornerstone of the economic recovery, from the depth of the financial crisis, short of a depression, that we ever faced in our history. that is a big reason we now have had ten years of uninterrupted economic growth. we needed to find three republicans in the united states senate to get it passed. it was my job the find them, persuade them. i did. they did. the country did better than it has before. one

barack obama. donald trump hasn't done any of these things. they call him a threat ishi an outrage. >> this is all in your book. even to bring up in presidential elections and you show this history it is fascinating i do believe the presidents branding a fake news will not be tattooed on their foreheads. book is phenomenal we will continue when we come back and discuss the unhinged coverage of the russia probe and a melt down the night donald trump was elected as a special edition of hannity continues. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. listen to the doctor. take it seriously. [music and singing in the background] [music and singing in the background] live from america's news headquarters a busy agenda for president trump during the visit to japan. the first head of state to meet the new emperor who succeeded his father on may 1st. he is also holding talks with the prime minister trade north korea in the military are all discussed cautioning about the trade negotiations with japan will be after until elections

barack obama wins iowa, but loses new hampshire to secretary clinton. so there's always a drama here and the test is what can a candidate on the fly learn from defeat? he's actually a pretty good test run for the pressures of the office. and so the one thing about vice president biden is he's had so much trauma and tragedy in his life he knows -- he knows how to be resilient. that's now tragically second nature to him because the nature of his life. but i think it -- to me the biden efficacy of the candidacy right now, what tells me the most is that most of us and most of us who live -- spend too much time on our phones and too much time thinking about this stuff actually, are only talking to a

they liked her more than they liked barack obama until barack obama won the iowa caucuses, and then blackoters fled hillary clinton and moved to barack obama. so whoever is winning the black vote right now is completely meaningless to what might happen in january and february next year. >> we shall see. fascinating. thank you for coming. please come back. i like having you guys here. thank you. >>> fbi director christopher wray disagreeing with the attorney general after william barr brought into the president's baseless conspiracy theory that his campaign had been spied on. we're going to discuss that next. you know what i would really love for mother's day this year? for you to get engaged to rachel. but if you're not "ready", you know who else likes jewelry? momma. get engaged this mother's day or get mom something special. jared. monitor their blood glucose every day. which means they have to stop. and stick their fingers. repeatedly. today, life-changing technology from abbott makes it possible to track glucose levels. without drawing a drop of blood, again and again. the most person

barack obama. this is recent history.he fbi, the department of justice, went after the new york times. james risen, went after james rosen of this network. went after 20 reporters of the associated press. barack obama. donald trump hadn't done any of these things to. call him the greatest threat to the press is an outrage. >> this is a primer this, is ale in the book. the history is phenomenal. they even bring up presidential elections charges of bigamy and duelling. you show this history. it's fascinating to see how it has evolved but i want to bring it to current day. i do believe that the president's branding of fake news will forever be tattooed on their foreheads because of how low they had sunk. the book is phenomenal. unfreedom of the press. we continue with the great one, mark levine. when we come back, the media's unhinged coverage of the russia probe and their meltdown the night donaldun trump was elected as a special edition of hannity continues. ♪ like berkley trilene xl or xt monofilament line buy one get one

but it was done by barack obama without a single republican vote.plause] i know how to go toe to toe with the gop, but it does not have to be, and it cannot be on every single issue. look at the recovery act. the cornerstone of the economic -- the cornerstone of the recovery from the deepest economic crisis. it is a big reason that we have 10 years of uninterrupted economic growth. [applause] we needed to find three republicans in the united states senate to get it passed. it was my job to find them, persuade them. i did, they did, and the country was better than ever. -- the country did better than it had before. trump likes tot take credit for the economy and economic growth, but these are the facts, not the alternative facts. president trump inherited the economy from the obama administration. [applause] he is in the process are as well. we have to get the work done, we had to bring republicans along because if we had not done it we could have had another great depression or economic ruin. working together matters. it matters. the american people

it was what i did as a vice president with barack obama.applause] and it is what i will do as your president. [applause] let me be real clear. everybody listening, democrats and republicans, if i am elected president, i am going to do whatever it takes to make progress on the matters that matter most. civil liberties, voting rights, civil rights, women's right to choose, national security, personal security, health care, an economy that rewards work, not just wealth, a climate change policy that will save our children and grandchildren. [applause] i know that there are times where only a bareknuckle fight will do. we have to ask republicans to do what is right without any help from them. that is what it took to pass the affordable care act. [applause] tough fight. that was a big deal. which reminds me, we need to say something that we do not often say out of as a party or as a nation. barack obama was an extraordinary man. [applause] i watched up close. he had character, courage, and vision. he is a president that our children could and did

he's profiting off the work that barack obama brought to this country, secondly, they know that this president is not a strong leader. they can tell this country is doing well in spite of the fact we have a very unstable erratic president that is not offering strong leadership and then i would say a third thing, last week i was in las vegas and i visited in las vegas underneath the las vegas strip a storm drainage tunnel where hundreds of homeless people sleep at night because they don't have a place to live. my point being that there are still a lot of americans out there who are not doing well, who are being left behind and you know what? they may even have a job. they may be in one of those americans that are employed, you know. we have a 3.6 unemployment rate and looks good on paper but they are not making enough to pay the rent and put food on the table and provide for their family. so everything is not great out there in our country. i think americans understand that and that the one of the reasons why this president actually is in danger of losing in 2020. >> i know it's one o

the african-american -- barack obama, the first african-american president broke the mold. donald trump, who had no military experience or government experience broke the other. it is an interesting argument. if joe biden should win the democratic nomination and be elected president of the united states, then won't we be back on the same trajectory that we have been on for our history until barack obama's election in 2008? if mayor pete is elected, these obamard factors, barack in the first african-american president, and then here comes donald trump with zero history of electoral history and he wins, the question is which way are we about to go in the 2020 election? either this trend will continue or will not. is 2323 or 24, i think it with bill de blasio in. will we have 23 candidates competing for the democratic nomination had we not just had the experience of both obama and trump? i say no way. the attitude of these elected officials is, what the hell, i might as will take my shot. maybe get a book deal or a cable if when it is all over, even i am not successful. the id

boulevard, officially renamed after america's 44th president former president barack obama. >> he is what so great about it, naming this over someone still living. >> obama boulevard would not be obama boulevard without martin luther king and so many others. >> reporter: two pillars of christiane amanpour history remembered -- of christiane amanpour history remembered together >> their values and views the same and this is in line with that. >> reporter: wanting to share a moment with a younger generation. >> we know he is the first black president. >> reporter: the hope that the two men that created change and left an indelible legacy will continue to inspire. >> it gives hope and a lot of dreams that can come true. >> it is not just to honor barack obama, but to make sure that our children and our children's children know the significance of these people. >>> 52 degrees right now in that have a toe, 55 in oakland. and 53 in san jose and 52 in livermore. temperatures are cooler by several degrees into the afternoon. upper 60s yesterday in santa rosa. today 64 expected for you there.

barack obama even said himself that the primary made him better.dea. >> others including and especially bernie sanders who is next in almost all the polls, pretty far behind but next after joe biden, here's what he said in a fund-raising notice on friday. talking about joe biden's fund-raising events, these are not grassroots funding events. these are high-dollar functions hosted and attended by corporate lobbyists, health care executives and a republican casino ceo and a you know-busting lawyer amoknow-bus ing -- union-busting. >> this is setting up to be joe biden as protecting and continuing the obama legacy and bernie sanders and others who are saying they didn't go far enough in the obama years, that we should have gone even further. i find it a really interesting argument the democrats are going to have. bernie sanders is essentially running to get rid of obama's signature achievement, which was obamacare. i find this debate to be fascinating. it looks like right now democrats prefer more of the obama style politics and policies maybe than so

let's pretend that barack obama did order this investigation into him. what is his complaint? under trump's own conception how it ought to operate it exists to go after your political opponent, to kill investigations into you. so if trump really believes that's the way the justice department operates, and it wasn't until now, then he shouldn't have any complaint about it investigating him during the campaign. >> not only that, i mean, this is, of course, the ultimate thing, it never leaked during the campaign. right? i just keep -- i have to keep telling myself to remember the fact that this explosive set of facts were there just beneath the surface as hillary clinton was being called -- lock her up, and james comey was writing letters and giving public testimony. they're running around trying to find out if the president's campaign is compromised by russia and it never comes out. >> you could argue that was a dereliction of the broader democratic duty in the service of defending the norms in the strictest terms of following the rules in the strictest possible sense. >> that i

my guest tonight is a former senior advisor to president barack obama, a businesswoman, a public serork times" best-selling author. her new memoir is called "finding my voice: my journey to the west wing and the path forward." please welcome valerie jarrett. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> hello, everybody! oh, my goodness! you always have the best studio audience. >> trevor: these are the best human beings. are you kidding me? ( cheers and applause ) i wish there were rewards for audiences, we would win an emmy for best audience. that's what we should get. >> i think so. >> trevor: welcome back. how are you doing? >> great. it's good to be back. looking forward to it. >> trevor: i have genuinely not known as much as i thought i knew about your life. you know, you've always -- >> that's the point. >> trevor: you've always lived with your life in the public eye but writing this book and i guess getting to read it taught me new things about you as a person. for instance, many people may know that you were born in iran and people may know that your dad was a doctor there, but i didn't know

going further building upon what barack obama did.trengthen the aca. people said that from the beginning no doubt we have to build on the policy position as relates to climate change. that doesn't mean we're going left or going off the cliff as the democrats are going to the wacko zone as some are saying. >> do you think if there's a perceived movement to the left, isn't that how every primary goes? everybody goes to the extreme to get the most interest and you pivot back to the center and middle? that's normal. >> sure. but during the primaries for obama when obama and hillary were running, they were not this far left on issues. so as we see -- they weren't. as we see time go by. look at clips. they talk about immigration and border security and things like that. you get to keep your doctor. things have changed fundamentally for this party. do think they will go back to the middle after the primary is over. it's going to be hard to recover from that. >> i think that in every campaign, there's a new norm. so the new norm for the middl

negotiations on the iran deal that whatever deal they entered into with barack obama, because it wasn't a treaty and didn't have thest ngth of force of legislation in the united states congress,on could be uby whoever barack obama's successor was.ct that was e what happened. donald trump pulled out of thel, iran dnd i wonder how would you grade donald trump ons his interactith iran to date? >> so, i'll just say that letter we posted to the ayatollahs generated a lot of contrersy. i don't really see why it was controversial. i mean, it was a simpleen statof constitutional fact. all the senators and i wanted to make sure the ayatollahs understood exactly what our system of government required. >> do you think they maybe did understand that, were just happy to make the deal with the united states? t do ynk you really educated them? >> i think we brought it to their attention, given the controversy it generated. ifou want to have a lastin binding agreement with the united states, you don't make simplexecutive agreements. you require a treaty that gets a vote in the united states senate, and

the deal, even if they have a lot of great affection and saw the relationship up close between barack obamae biden >> pete rous was temporary chief of staff for president obama has signed on as an adviser. as i can tell from your reporting and elsewhere, no one is opposed to joe biden who was inside the obama world. have they? >> correct. they have not. pete rous is a big name among the obama alumni. that's a good sign for joe biden that he's getting someone like that. anita dunn has been identified. most of the people we spoke with had no issues with joe biden personally. if he's the nominee, they'll all work for him. this was a question of who is inspiring this key network and really the only unifying force that exists in this party at the moment is barack obama and many of his advisers. joe biden has yet to seal the deal with him >> let's talk about pete buttigieg. over the weekend he gave an interesting talk. he talked about how he sees identity politics and how it's being used in this election and how it is actually divisive to him. listen to a portion of this. >> i may be part of the

democrats and barack obama saved our economy. the automobile industry, and together, democrats will save our democracy. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [applause] host: thank you, congressman jeffries. there is such an a to expansive agenda. i want to thank you -- there is such an expansive agenda and i want to thank you for your comments. on issues that have been divisive on taxes, a good example is the house passed reentering the paris accord. climate has created divisions and has seen regional could you talkd a little bit about what it was like to pass that bill, and how united the caucus was doing that? and how do you see that the issue as a frontline in the issue of the climate? mr. jeffries: thank you for the question, and that was the important first step in the foundation that i expect we will continue to do to address the that we face here in the country, and of course, throughout the world. in our first legislative act on package we enacted a that included as a feature, the constitution up a selec

the russians, james comey, macedonian hackers. >> brian: barack obama had to convince her to concede.y: de peter baker book, he's written a book about how disgusted president obama was. blames her and her soulless, scripted campaign. >> juan: nancy pelosi saying if we hadn't won overwhelmingly 40-plus seats in the 2010 midterms, a slighter amount, four seats, president trump one of said not true. would've challenged the results of the election. >> jesse: of the democrats are saying donald trump will not accept the results of the 2020 election when they haven't accepted the result of the 2016 election? >> juan: i think he is the white house. >> brian: juan was assigned a segment. he did get to choose it. your heart is not in this segment. it's not. [laughter] >> jesse: i will tell you what's going on with pelosi. what's probably going to happen, you're going to see donald trump win the electoral college and maybe lose the popular vote. so she is setting this up now for democrats to challenge the election results if trump wins that way again. and she is saying that the democrats have to

a lot of people say that biden is the rightful heir to barack obama's legacy.eople say the next barack obama is beto o'rourke out of texas and this is how one daily beast columnist wrote it up. according to an unscientific poll, beto o'rourke reminds women of the worst boyfriend they had, worth a meal or not, but know the marital material. and videotaped and blogged out finding himself at age 46 the man asking to run the country is currently lost. does beto's perhaps rhyme about you not necessarily repeat barack obama's message work in south carolina? >> no, first off, beto o'rourke doesn't have nearly the appeal particularly with women voters that barack obama did. barack obama carried the majority of the women voters in the democratic primary. beto o'rourke, voters that are women-- they think he's crazy. i'm praying for a bet o'o'rourke, he's fit for a straight jacket and i don't think that democrats will nominate beto o'rourke. leland: and i have your e-mail, i might add you to the beto fund raising list with that comment. appreciate the thought. >> thank yo

that the media would be jumping up and down and saying my goodness the president is doing what barack obama didn't do and other presidents have done is he is allowing this openness and transapparently taking place. allow them to go out and do their work. john huber what he is doing in utah. also the attorney general. the attorney general has to have this information and the public should be able to see what it is without releasing sources and methods. griff: when do you predict we will see the inspector general report? you think it's already. in let's have a look. >> it is normal and customary to give it to the department of justice three, four, maybe even six weeks in advance. i'm guessing what it's in. and so i think it could happen at any time. jedediah: you know, you mentioned president obama. i'm wondering if the concern by many democrats is you have joe biden out there in the lead is he going to get pivotal questions and it will go to the top. >> was he involved and engaged in the campaign and organization and office much the presidency or was he oblivious with his head in the sand? p

the brian lamb: he wrote a book a barack obama, and that was tweet that you sent out.an you help us. david maraniss: somewhat. i said it, i'm only said it once, i'm not going to say again.words i will say i have respect for david, what he does. behaved as a y he researcher or writer. whole year my competing against reporters at "wall w york times," street journal," the los angeles times, and even doing books that other writers are doing, and never before had i encountered way ne who went out of his to tell sources not to talk to me because i wouldn't get it would.nd only he he did that time and again. undercutting not just me but david -- who was of obamang a biography at the same time. it was mind boggling. but nly did he do it then then in his own book he goes on criticize myself again. for what reason? it, i s -- i just found mean, i used those words, i don't regret them. he says we never uncountered each other, no, but certainly encountered him through the source i was dealing with who would call me up or just said his guy this about you. i never had that before, a

the first book, it was not just about barack obama.t was about his father, his mother, hawaii, kenya, indonesia. i'm satisfied with all of that. but to take it from that point through the illinois with legislature to his presidency, and looking at both the choices and compromises, and path he had to follow to get all the way to the presidency, would be my next book. brian: you said that the possibility when you started, title of this book, instead of a good american family would have been room at 740. david: judgment at 740. brian: is room 740 still there? david: i've been in that room at building. parts of it were moved to a new building. so that room is not there any longer. brian: have you had any reaction from your siblings about this book yet? david: my brother, who had questions about it, he's been very positive. he's read it several times. and they are both rooting for me. you know, a lot of my -- there are cousins in the book, too, who were very important. bob cummings' daughters, other cousins. i sent to it all of them and tol

brian: david wrote a book on barack obama and is a tweet, can you tell us.avid: i only said it once and won't say those word again and have respect for david, what he does and not the way he behaved as a researcher or writer. i have spent my whole year competing against reporters at "the new york times," "the wall street journal," the "los angeles times" and even doing books other writers are doing and never before had i encountered someone who went out of his way to tell sources not to talk to me because i wouldn't get it right and only he would. he did that time and again, undercutting not just me but also david remnick who was doing a biography of obama at the same time. it was mind boggling, not only does he do this ten but in his n book he criticized remnick and my book once again. for what reason? i used those words and don't regret them. again, i -- he says we never encountered each other. i certainly encountered him through the sources i was dealing with and who would contact me or write me, this garro guy said this about you. and that never happened

barack obama. this is recent history. the fbi, the department of justice, went after the new york times. to -- james risen, went after james rosen of this network. went after 20 reporters of the associated press. barack obama. donald trump hadn't done any of these things to. call him the greatest threat to the press is an outrage. >> this is a primer this, is all in the book. the history is phenomenal. they even bring up presidential elections charges of bigamy and duelling. you show this history. it's fascinating to see how it has evolved but i want to bring it to current day. i do believe that the president's branding of fake news will forever be tattooed on their foreheads because of how low they had sunk. the book is phenomenal. unfreedom of the press. we continue with the great one, mark levine. when we come back, the media's unhinged coverage of the russia probe and their meltdown the night donald trump was elected as a special edition of hannity continues.s.s.s.s. -motor? -it's pronounced "mo-tour." for those who w

this was from barack obama.ying they better watch it. >> that argument i think will have -- will be a tougher sell in this environment given what is happening in the first several years of trump. >> neil: we shall see. austan, good to have you. >> thank you. >> neil: and anybody tried the veggie burgers? they say they taste like the real thing. i never bought that. apparently there's a new wave of them coming out, including those that are featured at burger kings across the country that they say are just that and more. i do not believe it at all. we'll taste, you decide. ♪ he'd be proud of us. protect your family, your business and everyone who counts on you. see how lincoln can help. your business and everyone who counts on you. shaving has been difficult for me. i have very sensitive skin, and i get ingrowing hairs. oh i love it. it's a great razor. it has that 'fence' in the middle. it gives a nice smooth shave. essential for the cactus, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are op

at the same time in his presidency, barack obama was at 44% and he won his re-election. what is the real motivation on the part of the democrats? congressman jordan nailed it today. >> i don't think today is about getting information. i don't think it's about getting the un-redacted mueller report. i don't think last week's hearing was about having staff question the attorney general. it's about destroying bill barr because democrats are nervous he will get to the bottom of the thing. what can be done to a president can be done to any of us! this committee is supposed to look out for that fundamental fact more than anything else. we are not doing that today. >> laura: exactly right. and given congress's most recent approval numbers, i would say the american people have held them in contempt for a long, long time. that's the "angle." joining now with reaction is robert ray, and harvey dillon. who served on trump's 2020 advisor council. robert, we will get what some of the same democrats were saying about eric holder's contempt of congress back in 2012. they are smearing a

it is a very different situation in my opinion. 2000 -- aftern in the 2016 election, barack obama's last year in office, the economy grew one and a half percent. that is pathetic. there is a good reason why donald trump won the election. the economy was not in good shape. trail,as on the campaign when you go outside of the city and go to places like yeary, pennsylvania and rockford, when a, places like lansing, michigan, we would go to those places. i would ask the voters, how is the obama recovery going for you. you know what people would say? what recovery? if you lived in silicon valley or hollywood or wall street or in this town, you did great. places in themany country that were left behind. ofwas the last two years bush. obama's eight years in office were not good for middle-class workers. they did not see any raise in their paycheck. down toelection comes the trump economy versus the obama economy, trump is going to win a 40 state landslide election. people can see the increase. we have taken the growth rate from one and a half to 3%, you're going to get the 4%. goodness, when you

barack obama is a different character.s no doubt joe biden is the clear front runner and in that respect it is his race to lose. on the other hand, there are a lot of debates and a lot of miles. it's not just the throw away line. most of these candidates are not known by these democrats they couldn't tell you anything about amy klobuchar and they're going to learn a lot about her in the next nine months. >> we live in a different age than we did years ago when jimmy carter could go start knocking on doors. oh, i didn't know who this guy was. i really like him. how many million people saw amy klobuchar during the kavanaugh hearings? how many people saw cory booker? how many people know who elizabeth warren is? we live in a different age. kamala harris, if you're voting in a democratic primary, chances are really good you have seen all of these candidates so i think michael bennett is the exception. i think maybe some people don't exactly know who michael bennett is. mayor pete, obviously came out of nowhere and has a lot of

it is what i did as your vice president, work with barack obama. and it is what i will do as your president. so let me be real clear. everybody listen. democrats and republicans, if i'm elected your president, i'm going to do whatever it takes to make progress on the matters that matter most. civil liberties, civil rights, voting rights, women's right to choose, national security, personal security, health care and an economy that rewards work not just wealth. a climate change policy that will save our children and grandchildren and this planet. look, i know there are times -- i know there are times when there is only a bear knuckle fight will do. i know when we have to take on republicans to do what is right without any help from them. that is what it took to pass the affordable care act. that was a tough fight. and it was a big deal. which reminds me. i think we should step back and say something we don't often say enough as a party or a nation. barack obama was an extraordinary man. extraordinary person. i watched up close. he has character, cou

logs and manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison but was then heartened by then president barack obama back in 2017 she's now been subpoenaed to testify against a songe which she refuses to do so she's actually ended up back in custody as a result of that and this whole saga really entered its new legal phase last month when a songe was dragged out against his will from london's ecuadorian embassy the ecuadorian authorities revoked his claim to political asylum he's now serving out a 50 week sentence in a long in prison for skipping bail back in 2012 when he originally entered the embassy he's also wanted in sweden stockholm is about to go through the motions of issuing their own extradition request because they want him to answer questions about an alleged sexual assault dating back to 2010 which is why here originally sought asylum in the embassy fearing he'd be extradited over to the u.s. and i think what's interesting here is that a songes a very mom might characters very divisive there are more there are some people who are more keen to see him as a hacker rather than a hero of so

in the media, probably, too, couldn't conceive of the idea that the country could switch from a barack obamadonald trump. >> one of the most interesting traits in the book that you highlighted, something that has existed since 2016, the simmering tension between obama world and hillary clinton world. and you get to this, to obama and his team, the real blame with the loss lay squarely with clinton. no one forced her to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from goldman saculf coas goldma forced to run a soulless campaign that tested 8-5 slogans before coming up with "stronger together." and only if president obama had gone public in stronger terms with the russian attacks in this election, things might have been different. >> there's some defensiveness on the part of president obama's team, the idea that they were being blamed for her campaign, in effect. on the other hand, as some of them later acknowledged, the script that donald trump ran against was pretty much the same one that the obama people had run against her eight years earlier, sort of or trportrayin as part of the entitled, elit

is there -- i think the variable there was barack obama. a lot of people, democrats and republicans can acknowledge now he was extraordinary. he was extraordinarily talented, he was sort of intouch with where the party was heading. is there an obama in the field? >> no. that's on purpose i think. there's a set of ideas. the problem we face as a country is not reducible to individual personality, it's reducible to ideology, a way of governing so folks want to turn the corner, do something different. are we going to be backward or forward looking, that's the choice the democratic party is facing. >> does your reporting show that biden can't turn with the party? is it optics? does it look like yesterday and not tomorrow or do people detect in biden, a rigidity around policies? because i detect in biden an eagerness to grow with the party. in some ways as vice president he led the president, president obama, in the direction where the party was going. between the two of them, he seemed more in touch with or maybe more vocal about where the democ

which reminds me, i think we should step back and say something we don't often say as nation, barack obama was an extraordinary man. [cheers and applause] >> extraordinary. i watched, he has character, courage and vision. [cheers and applause] >> he was a president our children could and did look up to. [cheers and applause] >> he was a great president. and i was proud to serve as vice president but never more proud than the day we passed health care. [cheers and applause] >> health care. a lot of presidents before tried it, other administrations have not been able to do it but it was done by barack obama without a single republican vote. i know thousand get things done. i know how to go toe to toe with the gop but doesn't have to be and can't be that way on every single issue. look at the recovery act, recovery act, the cornerstone of the nation's economic recovery from the debt of the greatest financial crisis sort of depression that we ever faced in the history and that's a big reason, big reason we now have had 10 years of uninterrupted economic growth. [cheers and applause] >> but we

a lot of folks came to know joe biden as barack obama's vice president.r the guy in texas call it, that's all that joe biden has going for him with african-american voters. >> in may of 2019, joe biden is leading the pack. we'll see what that looks like in january of 2020, when kamala harris, elizabeth warren, someone like pete buttigieg, maybe even mayor de blasio, have time to talk about their messaging and their plans, because once you start to scratch the surface for joe biden, beyond being barack obama's best friend for eight years, there are some things that are of great concern. so as i talked about last week, i think there is a real generational divide as to what voters want, what they're familiar with, and sort of what they're comfortable with right now. but that could very well change in the course of the next few months especially since joe biden has missed the mark on several key issues these past few weeks. >> i notice you worked for de blasio. >> we're in new york. as i said before, his idea of working people as opposed to working class peop

president of the united states barack obama. >> my buddy barack. >> first-name basis. >> first-name basisd he doesn't want the president to endorse him, doesn't want barack obama to endorse him. but how do you think that works there's biden rolling out, i'm the front runner taking on donald trump and now he's in south carolina, a place where bernie sanders' nomination change to hillary clinton fell apart when it met black voters. >> i'm sure that slip wasn't deliberate at all from the fove vice president. biden isn't taking on anyone, including bernie sanders. he's saying i can be the choice of the entire democratic party. and bernie sanders did fall short in certain areas, particularly minority voters. so biden, making appearances like these, name dropping the former president, putting out a video which was basically obama's tribute to him receiving his medal. that does matter even if it's short of an endorsement. and right now bernie sanders' critiques have been civil, above board. i think there is hanging over the party, there is a faction of bernie sanders supporters, rightly or wrong