it is one of the great puzzles of american politics — how voters could make history by putting barack obamae house, twice, and then elect donald trump as his successor. how much responsibility should team obama take for the course american politics has taken since they left centre—stage? my guest today is valeriejarrett, close friend and advisor to barack and michelle obama, from the early days in chicago all the way through the white house years. how will historians view the obama legacy? valerie jarrett, welcome to hardtalk. well, thank you. i'm delighted to be here, steve. thank you for having me. it's a pleasure. if i may, i want to begin by taking you right back to 1991. you then met — you interviewed a young michelle robinson for a job. you were a senior lawyer, she wanted a job. a few weeks or months later, you met herfiance, barack obama. what did you see in that couple that attracted you to them, and what do you think they saw in you? well, i had just been promoted from the law department to deputy chief of staff for mayor daley, and i was staffing at my office. and someone sent me

—— barack obama. and what to think they saw in you? -- barack obama.promoted and i was staffing my office. and someone sent me a resume and across the top it said "brilliant young lawyer has no interest in being in a big law firm, would like to explore public service". i had abandoned a big law firm six years earlier and was impressed with her as may. and walks this tall, confident woman, shook my hand, look me dead in the eye, saw my resume, ever mentioned a word that was on it, she told me her story. we now know it is a quintessential american story about growing up on the south side of chicago, working class family, instilled in both she and her brother the sense of to those who much is given much is expected, and although they had not gone to couege although they had not gone to college she and both her brother was supported to go to college. you were mighty impressed by michelle from the get go. offered her a job on the spot, didn't have the authority, but they did it anyway. the witness thing happened, when she offered her thejob, she thing happe

he was running on the sales of barack obama. biden has a host of problems that will prevent him from becoming president. i don't think he will be the democrat's nominee. biden is trending in the low 30's. you looks on the polls at. he is now under attack for racially insensitive remarks, thinks he should have been under attack for and never selected as barack obama's vice president. i heard many of your callers while i was waiting to come on, blacks that understand the racial history of the democratic party and how they relate to biden and his support of james .astland and george wallace even looking at those things and saying they are from the past, there are many things biden has said presently that make you understand he does not understand the level of racial sensitivity in america, and he has gotten a pass because he is a democrat. if donald trump were friends and actually professed to be friendly with the gentleman i mentioned, john stennis, eastland, george wallace, he would rightfully be labeled a racist. these are peopl

barack obama!, mvp, mvp, mvp. >> well, but i want you to take a look at what was going on in london. there you go, it's not clear if president trump laid eyes on this. british approval ratings for obama and trump back now with joan walsh, keith boykin and tara sutmire. what do you think of the former president getting a reaction like that, joan? he has a connection to the game. he loves basketball. >> right, this is in toronto, not in oakland. for our allies, barack obama is still the president. and they are just waiting for us -- they want to wake up from this nightmare, they're waiting for us to wake up from this nightmare and they don't want to acknowledge the real president. he is the president permanently until we have another normal person. that's just going to be true. >> wow, tara, what do you -- >> i mean, i feel them. i have been a critic of barack obama's for eight years. and i want him to be president again. >> you want him back. >> i'll take him back in a heartbeat because then at leas

it's something she did for barack and michelle obama.and i think it's what makes most first ladies and probably most presidents a little bit nervous about meeting the queen. there's a long-standing tradition here of these sorts of events. and everything must be detailed. there are hundreds of staff, hundreds of people serving the dinner tonight and taking care of the guests. this is -- we think our state dinners are a big deal at the white house. they are, but this is a much more traditional affair. this is a white tie event. tomorrow's event the trumps are hosting in reciprocation for tonight's dinner is black tie. it's a different level of formal. you'll see women in opera length white gloves. we might see some tiaras and gowns. we'll see what melania trump is going to wear. she often says more with her clothes than what she does verbally. today's outfit with white dress and the hat, some were saying it was a nod to the late princess and how she liked to wear navy and white and similar styled hats. tonight is a special event and someth

was an executive agreement by the president of the united states and barack obama that was only good during the terms of the administration. theaturally expired after obama administration left office and the new president had the option of continuing to ratify and abide by it or not. a treaty where the united states senate had ratified it then it would have and subsequent presidents but it was not that kind of treaty. we did not violate the agreement. it expired by its natural terms because it was limited to the term of barack obama. our allies and they knighted states of america are not always going to agree on the best solution. i can understand that. we are having -- their own opinions as to the best way to try to contain iran's terrorist aggression and also more militaristic aggression with respect to its neighbors. hopefully whatever we coalesce on will ultimately work to the good of the planning. nobody knows for sure what is the path going forward. we are all struggling to try to come to an agreement on what is the best path. it's like you and your family. every now and then yo

joe biden is also trying to close up to barack obama. i think it will depend on who barack of, to to endorse. he spent the entire time closing up to barack obama and trying to do his civil rights. >> he should have done that. how dare you accuse me of being racist. barack obama didn't think i was racist. he wouldn't have put me on the ticket. he just had a problem enunciating. and articulating. he was bubbling up on stage. >> not number two. second. the price -- >> renewable sources. the president got elected. my times up. i'm sorry. >> i want to pile on the former vp but it raises a lot of questions of whether he has the performance ability to sit on that stage and go head-to-head with donald trump. everybody raised their hands when asked this question about giving illegal aliens health insurance. >> raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for a documented immigrants. [cheering and applauding] >> is it over? is that it? really done? >> when i saw those hands go up, i dropped my popcorn and spilled my adult beverag

under barack obama than donald trump?ing 29 months to 29 months last to first, 219,000 jobs a month under obama, 195,000 jobs a month under trump. >> well, i'm not good in math, but that's over 20,000 more jobs per month under barack obama so why is it that -- every time we turn on the television set you have news hosts and reporters just as -- just assuming that donald trump's economy is so much stronger than barack obama's when it's not -- i mean, the numbers tell you it's not. >> that number tells you it's not. let's look at wages, wages are kind of important, right? people care what they earn and so if you look at wages what you can see is the same -- is essentially the same pattern. that wage growth has been slower under trump and when i say wage growth i mean after adjusting for inflation. because that's what matters, what people take home in their pocketbooks. so you can see here, you can see here if you look closely that has dropped a bit. under trump, it was 0.65% per year. real wage growth. doesn't sound like a

barack obama, but ithink in was a great fan of barack obama, but i think in terms of foreign policy,are because he didn't get enough done. we've given huge impetus to china and russia. russia was allowed to sweep ukraine aside but keep strategically the crimea for military and business purposes. and as i understand it, they put in $30 billion worth of infrastructure and construction building. and at a time when the russian economy was in a difficult spot. the price of oil following the annexation of crimea came down significantly. and there we re came down significantly. and there were also subject to sanctions. sanctions and reprisals, exactly right. and we've seen construction around sevastopol has grown by 70%. manufacture in agriculture 3.4% in just the last three months. exceptional. is very interesting and very political. hugely! you've got to offer your heart to him, he is in the driving seat and i don't like it. -- the driving seat and i don't like it. —— hat. the driving seat and i don't like it. -- hat. and this about tesla. $2 billion of cash. that's quite a big loss. the

they're not barack obama. a lot of voters see a nostalgia for the obama era and they're riding with him right now. they're riding with him because they think only a white guy can beat donald trump and he's the white guy that can do it. the second he's not the guy that can take down donald trump, like he loses iowa or new hampshire, those voters go shopping. >> with thanks to joy reid for making our coverage better, i hope you have an insanely cruelly early flight tomorrow morning. >> red eye. >> thank you. >> it's going to be great. >> you should have said so. >> you should have said something. >> we've got your favorite line. i'm going to steal it. now i've sold you out that bernie brushes his hair with a balloon. >> that's a bill marline. >> the things we talk about in breaks. >> well, give him my best. >> we quoted him. tell him. him so ...how are you feeling - on a scale of one to five? wait... one to five? when it comes to feelings, it's more like five million. there's everything from happy to extremely ha

trump making mischief as he likes to do in the democratic primary wondering why former president barack obamais vice president. president trump: how he doesn't get president obama to endorse him, there has to be a reason. they seemed to have gone the along. how president obama is not endorsing him is a big secret. he lies and says i asked the president not to endorse me. give me a break. jesse: the president likes to think maybe there is something going on upstairs with sold joe. maybe there is something going on that we don't know about, kind of a slick way to insinuate that joe is not as fresh as he used to be. >> i agree with the president of the united states, why hasn't obama endorsed biden. what's going on. when we look at the history of biden. maybe obama is probably embarrassed. listen, i think it's time for joe to go, go somewhere and sit down. i think he has his own ideas, no ideas. he's been in government for 50 years. if he can bow out gracefully he'll be okay. jesse: do you think kamala knocked him out? >> kamala put a dent. her past ain't squeaky clean. i don't know who is advis

even barack obama did. barack obama caucused with a segregationist.s in the senate alongtime robert bird of west virginia. he filibustered the civil rights out. he was a recruiter of the k.k.k. not a momentary member. he was a klan recruiter. i didn't stop barack obama from eulogizing bird at his funeral. watch. >> senate icon, party leader. an elder statesman. he was my friend. may god bless him. >> tucker: barack obama at the klan funeral. guess who else is there? who is that behind obama with the goofy smile? it's kirsten gillibrand. back then she was happy to follow the democratic crowd. go to klan funeral. but now she is dennounceing biden for doing the same thing she did. >> i don't think you should brag on working on a bipartisan basis with segregationists. >> tucker: c'mon now. let's be serious. be honest about what is happening. nobody, not even someone as dim as kirsten gillibrand -- that is saying a lot -- actually thinks joe biden is a racist. or nostalgic for segregation. c'mon! of course he's not. whatever his many faults. this isn't abo

when barack obama met with the guy that succeeded him.e but -- >> i think he did what president bush and his team did for us. to have a smooth transition of power. part of the underlying pillar of our democracy is that elections have consequences and it's up to whoever is in office to assure that they do everything possible for the national security and the representation of our country to ensure that the successor can hit the ground running. that's what we try to do and just what george bush had done, president bush had done for us. >> neil: when you hear joe biden and a lot of the things he said that he would bring civility back to the white house, but americans can look and say, well, i'd rather the unemployment rate going down, jobs, the market doing what it's doing? >> why should you have to choose? president obama was civil and we cut the unemployment rate in half. what i'm looking for, someone that i won't have to turn off the television when the person is speaking and -- >> neil: do you do that when president trump -- >> i turn of

politics today but you were describing the situation earlier in this century before barack obama was elected if it was bad then i mean i guess if you know the world's watching the u.s. it has to be really bad now. it is i mean certainly the polarization that we're seeing now did not start with donald trump but trump has made it a lot worse he has made our politics more toxic i mean tonight i expect him to throw a lot of red meat at his conservative supporters talk about how immigrants are bad for america china is stealing our jobs i mean he has debased a lot of the civil discourse around politics and just introduced a lot of negativity so he's made it much more difficult for americans to talk about politics and he's kicking off his relation campaign today how do you see his chances for being reelected we know that the polls are not in his favor at the moment the polls are not looking good for donald trump right now but we do have to keep in mind that america has a 3.6 percent national unemployment rate if or anyone else other than donald trump we would be talking about an easy reelec

barack obama had a bad first debate and he woke up. they sent biden in after the first debate where he struggled in the vp debate. biden was sent in to rough up paul ryan. can a campaign say you have to be better and stronger next time? does it wake him up? that's the question. if you get that same performance when he is challenged like that. i think that's trouble for him. >> after that debate, i remember watching it in the staff room with condi rice and dan bartlett. i was one of the younger staffers and the faces were white and they knew he bombed in the first five minutes. >> terrible feeling. >> i had the job of taking him to the polls. he had dropped like 13 points. the magazines were still super important in campaign news cycles that came out once a week. that seems quaint. the polls dropped 13 points and we were able to say it was a terrible performance and b, you dropped 13 points. as steve kornacki said, we turned around in the prep and performance, but you were reading reporters's tweets. there are two problems for biden. he

this is like -- it is like when he called barack obama clean and articulate. the challenges he feels entitled and dismissive. he's not on pitch and on tone for this moment. people feel very on edge about the political atmosphere that donald trump has ushered in where we're seeing levels of racism we haven't seen in our lifetime and in 40 years of democratic politics. and, so, biden really has to be very clear about what side he stands on and right now with him being dismissive, that makes people of color, who are feeling especially vulnerable feel like can you really hear our concerns? and the democratic party is the party of the people of color in this moment. that's going to be his core constituency. if he can't appeal to our real feelings about racism, then he's not going to be the candidate. >> take a listen to some of the other candidates in south carolina which like florida has a diverse voting population in a primary and the general part of the state. take a look. >> we defeat trump by running a campaign of energy and enthusiasm that substantially grows

and barack obama said it could have been me.s not hedging on that which is a whole distance away from saying that talmadge and them were civility. >> civility does not mean humanitarian, civility does not mean justice, it just means people are not yelling at each other. joe biden has to understand that the credibility he grew with barack obama was temporary. he can't put on an obama mask for the next eight months and hope he can put that coalition together with the same amount of passion. he has to build his own name, just like hillary clinton had to build her own name, and when she failed to do that, she also lost. >> what are the politics of this? can this significantly arm him with black voters or voters in engine, or is this something he can get past? >> i think this instance is something he will move past, and you'll start to see when we focus on some of the problems mayor pete is having in south bend right now, also of a racial cast. >> for those who don't know, a white officer killed a black -- >> eric logan. >> -- eric l

i think you're going to hear barack obama and donald j. trump a lot tonight. all biden has to do, and i think 2 1/2 hours we'll be sitting here, he'll have done what he needs to do. he's a very good debater. no one should under estimate him. he has a lot of energy. people will say he did what he had to do. he will go in as the front runner. he's going to come out as the front runner. the last thing i'd say, he's smart. he's not only talking to the democratic voter. he's going to try and talk to america. he's going to talk about k-12, he's going to talk about work force development, he's going to talk about infrastructure because he's trying to appeal to the country. and every time a poll comes out like last week shows him beating donald trump in texas and in florida and north carolina, that helps his inevitability argument. so he's in a very good position. if they really go after him, it's an opportunity for him to shine. there's going to be a break out moment for a couple others. joe biden does not need a break out moment. >> you still have to win iowa. he ca

let's remember that it was the same issue for barack obama in 2008 in iowa and elsewhere.they weren't really sure about it. they were leaning towards clinton for a long time. and so i think that the question for kamala harris and for cory booker is do they have the time, do they have the money to actually get their message across and connect with black voters. and i think the separate issue of whether joe biden's comments were offensive, i mean they were. they're historically ignorant. i do think that his heart is in the right place, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't owe americans an apology. >> i guess this gets to a bigger question too just politically, john, in terms of biden has been telling democrats he's the most electable candidate. part of it too, i think the message it sounds like he was maybe trying to deliver in this fund-raiser was maybe tied to that a little bit, this idea that he can work with folks he disagrees with. it seems to be part of that message. but is that -- is that where -- is that the takeaway people will get from this? >> well, we don't know

now, what did barack obama do to stop that? i don't know. i don't know if that's going to be investigated. it should be. whether or not the president did everything in his powers at the time to stop russia from interfering in our elections. we know it happened. we need to work together to make sure it doesn't happen again. that should be our focus. there was no collusion, by the way. he found that. there was no obstruction of >> and i know the committee wants to keep focusing and looking into everything they can to try to find more evidence that was there. if they start bringing and you start bringing language resolutions to hold, for example, the attorney general in contempt, we haven't seen what the charges are. but some of the things that the judiciary committee has asked the attorney general to produce, if the attorney general produced that information, he would be violating law. why would you hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt of congress for not breaking the law? those are some of the things we've seen. again, w

when georgia in 2008 went for barack obama by seven points, barack obama lost by seven points, he lostst south carolina by nine. we are not far off from our sister staying in georgia. we are going to send lindsey graham home. he's the most powerful and glorified candidate in the country. it is time for somebody go to washington, d.c. and on behalf of the working people here in south carolina. we don't have that. he wants his own personal power and trying to be bff with the president and he does not benefit, the state does not benefit as a result of it. we'll work very hard to do and replicate what state he was able to do in georgia by going into our rural counties and amping up the vote in those counties and engaging with our african-american communities in rural counties where we have not spent a lot of time and energy developing infrastructures. we'll be at the tip of the spear as we see this new renaissance in the south. >> what is the big issue that you believe will cause and dislodge these republican senators? is it lindsey graham being best friend with donald trump? is that going

they pushed barack obama and john kerry to the brink at the end of that presidency. that did have flaws in it. amy klobuchar it made it it was not a perfect deal. cory booker admits the same thing but the question is who is going to blink first? the iranians just said this week that they are threatening to pull out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the way the north koreans did earlier which means the idea that you would ever make nuclear weapons. this suggests that they do have in mind the purpose of the program is to build nuclear weapons. paul: what they are also saying is they are going to exceed the limits on enriched uranium that they can hold under the 2015 agreement as early as this coming week if that happens it will be a breach of the treaty and then what does the president do and what do the europeans to? they have been trying to stick with the treaty but if iran says we are going to abide by it the europeans come over and put on more pressure. >> it's a game of chess here and we have to remember the north koreans are watching. you can bet they are wa

and barack obama was the rising star, black, in the senate.have anybody on the stage that has stature to take a punch other than at somebody in the audience and you hope they don't do that. >> you saw it this week when all of them put themselves on the side of the hyde amendment. when all of them this week said we're for repealing the hyde amendment, he moved. >> i don't think he moved because of them. i think he moved because of black women -- >> right. >> -- which is why, john, he waited and changed in front of the african-american summit last night. he did not respond to the candidates. he went in that black audience, he had -- >> he used that moment. it's true. >> he said, before i do that, he put the script down and started talking about the hyde amendment. he didn't respond to them. >> that's right. >> last point. >> joe biden is the front runner but his biggest concern right now in the midst of this, what happens when you become mr. inevitable, the first time you screw up is when you really fall off the cliff. that's what happened to hi

joe biden's best friend and he loves to remind us his best friend in the entire world on earth, barack obama. he does feel like he's drafting on the obama friendship and he isn't -- some of the reporting is he isn't focussing on his prep for the debates, but he does feel like i'm obama's friend, what more do you want from me? kamala harris understood the road to the nomination goes through biden. >> yes. >> you have to defeat biden and she seemed to be the only one that understood that. >> it was clear. it was a masterful just kind ov display of how you do a debate and execute it. the last presidential cycle, i got to be part of debate prep and you just -- i'm just amazed at how well it went. when you work on a presidential campaign and you go to debate prep, you hope you're betting off than when you came into the debate, right? so what camilkamala harris did, you said, she knows. she has to win south carolina. biden has to win south carolina. biden is in her way of winning south carolina. so she had to go after biden. it was surprising for us because we, the talk was bernie was going to do

and barack obama was the rising star.had stature. you don't have everybody getting on the stage that has the stature to take a punch at anything other than somebody in the audience and they hope they don't do that. >> but you saw it this week when all of them put themselves on the side of the hyde amendment. all of them this week said we're for repealing the hyde amendment, he moved. >> i don't think he moved because of them but because of black women -- which is why, john, he waited and changed in front of the african summit last night. >> exactly. >> he did not respond to the candidates. >> he went in the black audience. he had a script and he says before i do that, and he put the script down and he started talking about the hyde amendment which is where he should have -- he didn't respond to them. >> didn't care about them. >> joe biden is the front-runner but his biggest concern right now in the midst of all this is what happens when you become mr. inevitable, right? the first time you screw up is when you really fall

and barack obama in 2014. ,t 4:00 p.m., on real america the 1944 film, from d-day to germany. >> we thought we could use it as a port. but we found that cherbourg was badly destroyed by the germans themselves. they destroyed the docks, which we thought we could use. and it took them, if i recall,

so, i just felt strongly that is country was gonna react to barack obama's presidency the way it has. >> and then, another one of the forc that was imbued in charlottesville was anti-semitism. >> absolutely. >> it was married with this neo-nazism and this racism towards african-americans. what are your reflections, and what do you think about the rise of anti-semitism, especially as it's come up in the normal course of business in the congress?>> feel about it the same way i feel about the white supremacis on every level. >> why is it resurgent? >> well, because this countris moving back into a position that it was back in the late 1920s. remember, thishole stuff, the ku klux klan and a of that, this is late in the '20s with that resurgence. woodrow wilson's presidency laid a foundation for that. and so while that was going on in this country, the same thing was going on over in europ and you had the things going onn that's going ourope now. these things don't happen in isolation., and ve told people mussolini in italy and hitler in germany, these things -- i can see them coming. and

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he wrote this, the same forces of hatred rooted in birtherism that questioned barack obama's americanand even his racial identity are now being used against kamala harris. it is disgusting. and we have to call it out when we see it. racism has no place in america. and washington state governor and 2020 candidate jay inslee said this. >> well, unfortunately it appears that the rotten apple fall too far from the rotten tree. and what comes to mind is the question to the whole trump family at last, have you no decency, sirs. >> harris was born in oakland, california, to a mother from india and a father from jamaica. in march, the senator addressed the issue of critics who questioned her heritage. watch. >> i'm not going to spend my time trying to educate people about who black people are. i was born black. i will die black. and i'm proud of being black and i'm not going to make any excuses for anybody because they don't understand. >> april ryan, white house correspondent for american urban radio network, author of "the presidency in black and white." so, april, it seems like we're going

in many respects, you were barack obama before barack obama was barack obama. you were this young, talented, smart, inspirational black figure in national politics to many thought could ascend to the nation's highest office. here you are running for president as a person of color. if you are elected, what will you do about race in our society and how the eu reach people who may have been compelled by some of the rhetoric and fear and divisiveness that donald trump was able to capitalize on when he ran and won? sen. booker: barack obama and i are very different. he was born in one of our 50 states, hawaii. i was born in washington, d.c., which is not a state yet. if we cannot deal with race in america, it will become our undoing. we will never achieve our potential. we still have a lot of issues we cannot just cover over. we have to be better at talking about them. and so, i see my response ability to deal with this and have hard conversations. when i got to the senate, i looked around and i said, this is one of the least diverse places i have been. my job is to

barack obama's adopted hometown about working with president obama. >> i say to chicagoans and everyone, my president gets much too little credit for all he did. he was one of the great presidents of the united states of america. tired of hearing about what he didn't do. here's what he did. everything that landed on his desk, i watched him and i sat with him every single morning and watched him for hundreds of hours. i want to tell you, chicago, you had a great, great man out here and he's still a great man and still has a lot to offer. >> jonathan, there he was in your hometown of chicago today. is that the best biden has in this subject area of stressing that association with barack obama? >> it certainly helps. barack obama is hugely popular in the democratic party and it helps protect his base among african-american voters which is significant. that's what harris is trying to erode and booker was trying to erode by bringing this up. the question that democrats have to ask is what is the damage that could be done in beating trump if some of these disputes move from issues to personal

only 13 of those 33 people want barack obama back if they had a choice between obama and trump.r words, if trump ran against obama in a head-to-head race, 13 of those 33 positive wan barack obama. the other 20 would stay with donald trump. >> and a lot of people including other candidates who said about joe biden, look, his polling is about name recognition, but in terms of the enthusiasm, we're not seeing it on the ground. we're not seeing the kind of, for example, people turning out that come out spontaneously for a mayor pete or elizabeth warren. what's your takeaway from this focus group? >> well, my takeaway, chris, i think democrats can win back these voters. e were saw in the 2018 midterms when it comes to obama/trump voter, democrats did a good job especially suburban areas winning back these voters. to the point of the focus group, there's a lot of work that needs to be done. look, the issues on our side when it comes to protecting health care, raising wages. the issues democrats are fighting for are on our side but have to make the case to these voters. they're fightin

when your party was in the majority last time when barack obama first took office and when speaker pelosi was first speaker and there was a supermajority in the senate on the democrat side, there was never an attempt to bring a bill through congress to solve the immigration problem. i would like to see us come together and do that. we need to do it, but today we need to solve the immediate crisis. we will have that broader debate later, hopefully by next week we can get that done. i'll yield back to the gentleman if he has anything else. mr. hoyer: i just want to place in historical context, again, this house passed the dream act and we sent it to the senate and the senate didn't pass it. so this house, when we were in the majority, did do that. couldn't get 60 votes in the senate. we know that problem. so happens we were in the majority, but we couldn't get 0 votes at that point in time. we could go a long time pointing fingers on who, what, when. but the fact is we have real people in real distress. we have some federal employees who have a responsibility who are being greatly challenge

barack obama! ( cheers and applause ) >> oooh, child! look how far obama has come!ze, two-term president and now some drunk cay canadians chanting m.v.p.? >> he can't go anywhere without be announced. ihop, someone at the speaker says, in the corner booth, eating the beans, the 44t 44th president of the united states, barack obama! >> and i hate the jumbotrons they put you on, they throw you up there and you have to kiss whoever you're sitting next to. now i just kissed my dad on the lips. guess i've got to move to alabama. >> that's enough jokes about my home state. i'll slap the shit out of you. let's move on to america's true past time, boxing, where minorities punch each other in the face. kosta, do you watch? >> this is my favorite sport! >> there was a big fight over the weekend where the new champion put the heavy in heavy weight. >> what a stunner saturday night at the world's most famous arena. andy ruiz, jr. in an 11-1 long shot knocked out anthony joshua on the seventh round to take joshua's three heavyweight championship belts. ruiz, jr. is the first mex

he was running on the sales of barack obama.iden has a host of problems that will prevent him from becoming president. i don't think he will be the democrat's nominee. biden is trending in the low 30's. you looks on the polls at. he is now under attack for racially insensitive remarks, thinks he should have been under attack for and never selected as barack obama's vice president. i heard many of your callers while i was waiting to come on, blacks that understand the racial history of the democratic party and how they relate to biden and his support of james .astland and george wallace even looking at those things and saying they are from the past, there are many things biden has said presently that make you understand he does not understand the level of racial sensitivity in america, and he has gotten a pass because he is a democrat. if donald trump were friends and actually professed to be friendly with the gentleman i mentioned, john stennis, eastland, george wallace, he would rightfully be labeled a racist. these are people

her life let alone the eight years she spent with barack obama.o advisor has spent more time in such a division. and what she think of the presidential race. >> the top story, oil prices are going up after two tankers were attempted to be taken out. we have jackie with the details. reporter: good afternoon, good to see. oil prices up more than 2%. giving back some of the gains they seem. when you see tensions in the middle east this is what tends to happen. in the past we've seen major reactions, actually a lot more severe from the analysts and traders that i've spoken to today have said this move is not as drastic as i would expect. certainly something to monitor and tension in the middle east continue we could see the prices go higher. the backdrop is very important. from a supply stamp but, we are coming from a very strong place especially here in the united states. oil production, 12.3 million barrels a day. that is forecasted for another million barrels by the end of the year. saudi arabia only 7.9 million barrels a year. that was published i

. >> trevor: that's right, barack obama is making his own podcasts. d it must be really strange for obama's facebook friends to watch his career go in reverse because nine years ago it was, hey guys, check out my inauguration. now it's, hey, everyone, please subscribe to my podcast! if you do, you better have a lot of free time because that man does not talk fast. ( laughter ) yeah, his podcast is going to be like, aaahhhhhh... hello. aaaaaaaaahhhhh... and we're out of time. ( laughter ) and now, everyone supes the podcast will be about politics but they said a wide range of topics. what a.p. about pop culture. robert pattinson will be the new batman. i'll give it a chance. see if new video of dabbi on the security camera? creeped me out. that show was creepy. ( laughter ) finally, news out of south africa. >> officials in south africa warning residents to be on alert, after 14 lions escaped from one of africa's largest game reserves, happened at the pride krueger park on thursday. researchers planned to release the lions back into the park after they

when barack obama had his state bank wentl yes.e room whether dignitaries were. it was quite fun but it was quite embarrassing as well for barack obama because he was giving a toast to the queen and the band thought he had finished when he paused so he began to play than —— they began to play the national anthem. we know donald trump is a big fan of the queen, he spoke of his mother 's love for her. for the queen“. his mother 's love for her. for the queen... the first president she met was truman so this is just another president. yes. it is quite normal for her. do you think he will be briefed on protocol by his officials or by courtiers? he will have been briefed. he visited britain last year and at buckingham palace he was filmed walking in front of the queen, a breach of protocol. so... we always expect the unexpected with donald trump so what we can say is that absolutely every move he makes, his body language and what he says will be scrutinised and analysed and possibly criticised. this is a state visit, that was a business

and he said that, "oh, i want to meet barack obama." said, "oh, well, let us know that because, you know, we can't guarantee it, but we can definitely try to make it happen." and through a lot of media connections and whatnot, we were able to do that. so, a few months later, he flew to one of barack obama's campaign event in reno, nevada. and so, he met him, and eventually barack got--president barack obama got elected. and then he was able to actually go to his inauguration through nancy pelosi's office. robert: sounds like a wish upon a wish upon a wish. phillip: and that's why we always say that, you know, kids should just really let us know what they really, really want and not worry about whether we can grant a wish or. robert: you know, it sounds so great, but it can't be behind the scenes very easy to be able to meet the demand, fulfill these wishes. what do you want people to understand in terms of the process and maybe how the public can help in fulfilling wishes? kelsey: yeah, i mean, there are so many ways the public can help

and then you see barack obama walk out there, and he's now president of the united states, and you'reget my shit together." >> yeah. >> trevor: that's a powerful moment. how do you even begin that journey? like, you see barack obama, yes, but, i mean, it wasn't easy. >> no, for me was removing myself from that environment was the first thing. so i was selling drugs. i moved to louisiana. my mother moved there after i graduated high school. so i started doing the only thing i really knew how to do, which was working with food. and i just took it one day at a time. and i told myself every year, i want to be doing better than i was last year. it's not easy and you itv to take it one day at a time. when i got the helm of this one restaurant, i will be honest, i had no idea what i was doing. >> woofnt parts of the bhook is raising money to chase your dreams. you don't want to sell drugs anymore and you decide to sell candy on the new york city subway. >> trevor: which is harder, selling drugs or selling candy on the subway? ( laughter ) because no one pays attention on the train. ( laughte

but will probably talk a lot about break barack obama, that he was the barack obama vice president, that he and barack obama are friends or pals, but, look, joe biden and bernie sanders both had a problem that the democratic party has to look beyond ventures. the question is when they're looking beyond vintage it's looking at alternatives like kamala harris or pete buttigieg and what that looks like, he had elements of that last night, but what he has next the democratic party one of the siding was received. >> interesting they chose the word vintage as opposed old, right? but welcome i mean, the idea is the democratic party is looking at a key demographic and key ideas and where are they moving forward? if you look at democrats they have been successful. jimmy carter, bill clinton, barack obama, the coming to the party, come in as a flash, they look forward. before looking party is something the democrats are looking for now, what the identity looks like, it is not anti-or counter. >> me older as age but older is a policy, it is this battle over all the ideas versus new ideas. >> if you

the economy has grown at twice the rate it did under barack obama. we created over five million new jobs. [applause] the one i'm proud of is that wages are moving again after a decade. we had the highest middle class income in u.s. history. right now today the lowest unemployment in 50 years, the lowest african-american, asian and hispanic unemployment ever measured. have you ever been told that by this national media? no, you're not told that. president trump is an outsider. the most important thing is to keep his promises to him. he has a list of things that he promised he would do. this guy is doing -- he's meeting his promises and doing exactly what he said he would do. [applause] in addition to stimulating the economy, he's rebuilding our military after eight years of president obama's administration gutting our ilitary. and how long did it take for an american president to stand up for americans first? president trump is fighting for a level playing field with all of our trading partners, including the people's republic of china. [applause] pre