and when you and barack obama discovered that colin powell was going to endorse senator barack obama , when did you find that out? when did president obama find that out? and what did it mean to him when he found that out? >> i'll tell you, lawrence, first of all, good evening. it's an honor to be here this evening. it's a tough day. but i appreciate the tribute that you and so many others have done to a person i consider to have been a great american. and it was not actually until i heard the words come out of his mouth that i was positive about which way he would lean. we thought he was leaning in the direction of barack obama. colin powell keeps his counsel pretty close. and i remember, you know, literally holding my breath the entour time he was speaking and what a relief it was that it was no the just i'm voting for him, but the reasons why he thought that barack obama was the leader who would be best for our country at that moment in time. it was very he will consequent. he spoke from the heart. and also from the mind and from the experience that he had in public service over so

and when you and barack obama discovered that colin powell was going to invoke indoors senator obamayou find that out? when did president obama find that out? what did it mean to him when he found that a? >> i will tell you lawrence, first of all good evening it's an honor to be here this evening. it's a tough day but i appreciate the tribute that you and so many others have done to a person that i consider great american. it was not until i heard the first come out of his mouth, that i was positive about the way that he would lead. we thought he was leaning in the direction of barack obama, but colin powell keeps his counsel pretty close. and i remember, literally holding my breath the entire time that he was speaking, and what a relief it was. it was not as if i was just voting for, him but the reason why is he thought that barack obama was a leader who would be best for our country in that moment in time. it was very eloquent, he spoke from the heart, and also from the mind, and the experience that he had in public service over so many decades. it was seismic. we were so excited.

we have president barack obama.irginia, and there he is campaigning for terry mcauliffe. >> it is good to see y'all on this beautiful day. i am so grateful to the young democrats at vcu for hosting us today. it's good to see some young idealism at work. young activists getting out and doing the work. i could not be prouder of you. it's thanks to extraordinary young people like you that i was able to get elected to the u.s. senate. you helped deliver virginia twice for me. i'll always love you for it. you delivered for terry mcauliffe, and now i'm asking you to do it one more time. by electing terry, the next governor of the commonwealth of virginia. in fact, i love you too. i do. over the years, actually, you guys have come through for a lot of great leaders, many of whom are here today. your outstanding governor, ralph northam. your next lieutenant governor, hala. your current and future attorney general, mark herring. my dear friend, first person outside of illinois to endorse me for president of the united states

in thed joe biden is care -- have you noticed that joe biden is carrying out the same policies barack obamalook at this graph of individuals who worked in the obama administration who are now working for joe biden. and by the way, how is it that kamala harris who is joe biden's choice for vice president was even given that opportunity given the fact that she called him out on his racist beliefs. and why would someone as clueless as cackler kamala who had to drop out of a presidential primary because she couldn't get 1%. how is it she is now the vice president of the united states. think back to barack obama's affection for kamala harris. you have to be careful to say she is brilliant and dedicated and she is tough and exactly what you want. and anybody administering the law and making sure everyone is getting a fair shake. according to barack obama she happens to be by far the best looking attorney general in the country. and you remember during the debate phase of the presidential campaign, it was reported that joe biden's handlers agreed to a predebate inspection for electronic earpieces.

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former president barack obama framing this in a way, saying, are we going to go backwards? ing virginia. meaning the country. or are we going to go forwards? forwards with someone like terry mcauliffe, as obama put it, backwards with someone like glenn youngkin who he said, and i quote, cultivated support from those that seek to tear down our democracy. backwards with someone who works in corporate america, like glenn youngkin. forwards with someone, like he said, terry mcauliffe, someone who wants to help folks, not only in the state of virginia but around the country. coming out pretty strong there, to say the least, from the former president. we're going to continue to watch this throughout the day. also want to mention, by the way, glenn youngkin is having a meet and greet in richmond, virginia, as well. quite a speech, quite a moment for the former president and of course terry mcauliffe in the final days as they make their way toward vote day. i want to bring in gary grumbach. the energy was palpable through the screen, i got to say, right? if former president barack o

would say overreach, in the hopes that he is going to be a transformational president, unlike barack obamaas to turn to his former boss to help bail him out. i think that's kind of an embarrassing turn of events. todd: you mentioned calling in obama to help with the governor terry mcauliffe, former virginia governor terry mcauliffe campaign for governor once again. mcauliffe and youngkin separated by 4 points with a margin of error of 4.2%, that means this is basically a toss-up. how will obama win back the voter who has run away from mcauliffe in light of the focus there on crt. is obama the guy to get those voters back in the mcauliffe camp? >> he might be. look, the republicans have the leading suburban moms and so forth. a lot of these are the people who are demonstrating in virginia. so they calculate, one, that barack obama may be the best to get them back. also, that they're going to turn out the vote. they're also of bringing in stacy abrams. i mean, they're bringing in everyone but joe biden because this is going to be determined which turnout. will the democrats be excited enough

the race between mcauliffe and glenn youngkin in a dead heat at 46% each. >>> former president barack obamaon the campaign trail, stumping for mcauliffe, but as lindsey hinted, it may be less dependent on barack but on the bill. the president's agenda could be the boost he needs. >>> let's hecht to josh campbell. we're going to begin with you. is he still feeling good about how things are going? >> reporter: yarks i lindsey. democrats from the white house to capitol hill projecting confidence they're on the verge of closing what would be a historic deal, but you heard nancy pelosi who had breakfast with president biden yesterday, they're 90% of the way toward resolving those issues. kamala harris is confident they'll get a deal. nothing's over until it's over. right now it's definitely not over, with democrats still having to focus a lot of their time on what can be pulled out of this bill to get it down to a size that is amenable to folks like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. >>> paid family leave, 12 weeks will likely be pared down to four weeks. also tax hikes on the wealthier versions. f

barack obama used on on their board. it's not just soros. it's the ecosystem he's building.his money is involved and we can tackle the arguments, his cats do lose. there is a recall effort to get rid of the soros d.a. in san francisco. i'm from san francisco. let me tell you what soros has done. they have gotten rid of felony charges for any shoplifter to steals less than $950. 22 walgreens drug stores closed? san francisco. senior citizens can't get their prescriptions filled. they can't get basic groceries. this leads to high crime rates and isolates our seniors in places where they are basically alone. jesse: he's destroying cities, and we called limb out for it. his money is a player in these districts. it's time for republicans to step up and take advantage much it. john fund. nice book. everybody will be check it out. a sudden surge? school violence across the country. judge joe brown knows why. he's next. your insurance marketplace healthmarkets dog barks you're right bunker, the medicare enrollment deadline is almost here. if you're on medicare and you want to explor

when barack obama ran in 2012 only 129 million americans voted.out surged under donald trump because of the interest on both sides in that election, so don't give me this republicans are suppressing. it's the typical thing the democrats say at the end just to rev up their base on the basis of fear. >> sean: that's like al gore that's how long this playbook goes back. s republicans got the wrong agenda for african-americans, they don't even want to count you int the census. but if you want to go to the dnc convention you need a picture i.d., if you want to go to the white house and visit joe you need a picture i.d. if you want to go to the capital you need picture i.d. and now with that these vaccine passport mandates everywhere. joe biden never lifted a fingery to make voting more accessible in delaware so we know it's one big talking point lie here. my question is, you know, is this -- if this is real and we find outut either a week from tomorrow or early on a week from wednesday that in fact youngkin pulls this off, what does that mean? >> i tel

he endorsed democratic candidate barack obama for president.two weeks before the election in 2008, and some people say that the election might as well have just ended then. if republicans needed permission to cross the aisle and vote for this democrat, barack obama, nobody could provide a more powerful permission slip than colin powell did two weeks before that election. his political impact was profound, and it was complex. of course, in the first sentence of every obituary of general powell today, along with all of the firsts, and there were many of them, there is also the apex tragedy of his time in public life. his 76-minute-long speech in 1973 to the united nations in which he made a long, detailed, fairly impassioned and profoundly false case to the world that the united states needed to invade iraq and urgently. >> every statement i make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. these are not assertions. we're giving you facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. >> i remember listening to that live when it happened, listenin

and just said barack obama, like i love barack obama, but he did not focus on this, and one of the reasonsw is because for eight years obama did not attack the supreme court with the alacrity that was needed to stop these people. >> yeah, and i think the left as a whole, democrats do not make the court an issue the same way the right does. that's a fair point. i want to move away from the supreme court and talk about other cases that could land in court, and that's reparations. so this week attorney demario solomon simmons who represents the tulsa survivors, went to court and used the public nuisance precedent to argue that white supremacy still creates a public nuisance for survivors and descendants of the tulsa massacre. talk about that case and what that means for the long-term case of reparations. >> let me tell you what conservatives are going to do. it should stick in your craw. the conservatives in texas, the abortion law, have decided that private citizens have standing to sue abortion providers over giving medical services to women they don't even know. in tulsa, conservatives are

he endorsed barack obama in 2008. >> correct. the thing to remember about colin powell he was very much a centrist, whether in the republican party or when he left the republican party in the end because of donald trump. when he endorsed barack obama, i'm not sure it was a difficult decision for him, because he saw it as a moment and i talked to him afterwards, there wasn't a question in his mind that he would endorse barack obama. i think that the other thing to keep in mind is that i always wondered when barack obama won, how colin powell felt about it, because so many people thought that he might be the first african-american president, john. i want to on a personal note add one thing. the last interview i did with him, which was about former president bush 41, we usually saw colin powell as we calm, even. in that interview, he actually broke down and cried when he talked about bush 41, and about what that group was like, the top officials working together but they had a special relationship because he had worked with former p

did not want that burden be placed on his family. >> how significant then was his endorsement of barack obama08? >> without any question, i think one of america's most revered individuals in the military and political service in the form of general colin powell stepping out and saying, i endorse senator barack obama to be president of the united states, it was monumental. i think it gave a lot of cover for republicans, independents who may have been skeptical of the senator from illinois and he became the first lack president, something i would have to imagine powell and his family a been eternally grateful to have witnessed that trail blazing event for president obama. >> colin powell openly said it was a blot on his record that he presented the false intelligenc that made the case for an invasion of iraq in 2003. does it stay -- what does it say about him that he can admit that? >> it says there is something wrong with our politicians today. he was the firstborn -- the first one to come out and say it was faulty, it was wrong, i acted on erroneous information and should not have done what i

powell decided against, instead throwing his weight behind barack obama's bid for that place in history great soldier, a great statement, a great american, has endorsed our campaign for change. >> i am proud that i have had the chance to serve my nation. >> this venerated soldier in later life used his ammunition sparingly, only intervening when he felt something needed saying. earlier this year after the attempted insurrection at the u.s. capitol, he called for donald trump to stand down. >> i wish she would just 2-wood nixon didn't step down. somebody ought to tell him it over, you are out. >> colin powell preached tolerance and moderation. he was a leader, warrior and statesman. according to many of the tributes today, it genuine american hero. >> for more we are joined by ron christie who met a new general powell while serving the white house as a special advisor to george w. bush. how are you remembering colin powell tonight? >> i am remembering him as a gentleman, a statesman, a warrior and a trailblazer. i look at my own professional career from being involved in republican polit

barack obama have invited her to the federal bench in 2014 where she's been disgraced ever since, asgrace. the last few months, has repeatedly overruled january 6 defenses. matthew of texas, and not the only one who is running political show trials. there is another barack obama officer who has overruled prosecutors to punish january 6 offenders harshly than what the doj asked for. this is unequal justice by any measure. it contradicts the central principle of our legal system in our country, all citizens -- it's not about what you believe, it's about what you do. has nothing to do with who you listen to on the radio or watching television, has to do with violating law. you should know that some of the protesters who storm senate buildings one up in jail. of course not. they were not to toss in solitary. not even the self described environmentalist who rated of federal building in washington. this is footage yesterday from the department of the interior. watch. [shouting] >> back up. back up! >> don't do this... >> tucker: that, ladies and gentlemen, is the single worst attack on ou

do you think barack obama accurately sums up why republicans continue to support the disproven conspiracy >> yeah, alex, what president obama was describing there is the handcuffs around the wrists of all leading republicans. but let's not give them a pass here. they put their wrists out there and asked for those handcuffs when they joined with donald trump. and president obama is right. there is a large group of currently serving members of the republican party, including those in leadership, who do not believe the conspiracy, do not believe the election was stolen, and do not believe donald trump, but what they know is the fragile coalition that is today's republican party, the only coalition capable of possibly getting the 50% to 51% requires fully accommodating that conspiracy wing that trump wing of the party. otherwise, the gop fractures and the democrats have a majority for decades to come. >> you know, dan balls of the washington post has this new article out today and it characterizes the governor's race of virginia as a test to the fear of trump factor as a political motivator.

i think when you -- the beauty of barack obama coming in and you saw some of that in the clip, barack quite frankly, you know, just terry versus republican there. this is about a bigger picture, what is going on and so what you saw, by the way, barack obama is the most popular national political figure in the country regardless of cause of party. barack obama makes this about something larger and by the way, joy, it's kind of how biden and v.p. harris closed out the california recall election. they talked about bigger issues women's rights and voting rights and all these bigger issues and democrats are trying to make this about bigger things and republicans and and used to try to get back, back and energizing young voters this is about something bigger and issues that quite frankly they went into the streets and marched about going into the 2020 election. >> well, how about trump? look, the reality is that no republican has shown they can resist doing trump's bidding giving any republican power seems so dangerous this will be a huge prize for republicans. he would be one of the republ

and later, what we are hearing from barack obama about two very important governor races just about a week out from election day now. why the former president isn't holding back criticizing virginia republicans. all of it as the 11th hour is just getting underway for this new week, looking at the west wing, on a monday night. a monday night. - grammarly business turned my marketing team into rock stars. (diana strums guitar) maya swears by grammarly business because it keeps her work on brand and error-free. fast and easy. - [announcer] learn more at grammarly.com/business. in business, setbacks change everything. so get comcast business internet and add securityedge. it helps keep your network safe by scanning for threats every 10 minutes. and unlike some cybersecurity options, this helps protect every connected device. yours, your employees' and even your customers'. so you can stay ahead. get started with a great offer and ask how you can add comcast business securityedge. plus for a limited time, ask how to get a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. call today. >> an ad that gets m

president barack obama's on the campaign trail for terry mcauliffe area. where are they going and who are they meeting with? caller: they will be at the virginia commonwealth university, and we will also hear from top democrats and elected officials. they are expecting a crowd of several thousand. host: will he be campaigning with joe biden? caller: yes they campaign over the summer. they are expected to campaign at an event in northern virginia. host: in terms of former presidents, how much of a role is former president donald trump playing in his race? how much as bring young can referenced donald trump on the campaign trail. guest: young can knows that trump is not popular in virginia. he lost by nine points. he has embraced trump's endorsement, but they have not campaigned together in person. they have reported that it is unlikely that trump be headed to virginia in person between now and election day. the top surrogates will come afterwards for victory rally. host: 10 days to go in the election. his early voting? guest: there is early voting. it has b

nobody could believe when barack obama was elected the first time and reelected and a president would be elected no matter what your politics at a minimum manipulated the tropes of white supremacy in order to gain an attempt to maintain his support. i mentioned this to joe once. i first realized the backlash against having a black family in the white house when i was filming a previous series at the jim crow museum at ferris state university. obama had been in the white house a couple years and already and that museum, they had a space dedicated to racist images of barack obama and i am not talking just with big lips or standard tropes of black inferiority, but really nasty, the scene images, live with one of the things i study is the image, it is good or bad and numerically the bad images outnumber the good. the caricatures to see briefly in the video clip which proliferated in the 1890s. where lithography becomes cheap in 1890. it was invented in the nineteenth century and very expensive. who better for photography than black people, black skin, white eyes, it was made for. the imag

everybody we've got to mask kids in schools and all the rest of it. >> tucker: former president barack obama previous segment dismissed this as phony outrage. i wonder, just from your reporting on politics this year, is obama still a person who can get democrats out of the polls? >> i think so. i think you can help. these big names. people like obama probably can't swing elections but they can help you raise money because people will turn out in numbers and pay a lot of money to go have dinner with the president in order to be able to say they did a maybe get their picture taken with him. so they are good fund-raisers and they can help turn out crowds. whether they can swing this election, i don't know. has made up all kinds of wild numbers about covid presence in the state of virginia, he's been slapped down with four pinocchios from "the washington post" left-leaning fact-checkers. this is a man in trouble and that is why we are seeing all these characters rolling into the campaign for him. if he loses, it will be seen as a political earthquake, and if the democrats weren't already worried

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that was created at the behest of barack obama and his cronies.peculating about this because the documents prove it. it's literally written get him to lie. even if he was never punished for that he still has a seat waiting for him on cnn and when he lies to investigators, he says no, now he gets his pension back and he's celebrated on national television. why is that? because andy mccade is on the right side. he's maybe of the national security state which the left now venerates because they are on their side. the f.b.i. can label political dissidents domestic terrorists which jumps killing them and everyone applauses when they die. babbitt did not hurt a single person on january 6 yet watch how they justify shooting her because the f.b.i. says she was somehow a threat to national security. >> -- to kill. she was a military member. she wept through that door, god knows what kind of harm she should have done. >> these supporters are terrorists. two plus two equals four stuff. all of those who attacked the capitol are terrorists because the f.b.i. d

it turned out barack obama was still in charge even though he was no longer president.ma had his cronies charge michael flynn with a crime, talking to russia, as the national security advisor which is not a crime by any stretch and they wrecked his life for doing that. took years for us to figure out what happened there, but now it's obvious, we sat down with a long interview with mike flynn, coming up monday. he told us what is really obvious to everyone watching it, unelected group within washington effectively runs the country without reference to voters, here is his assessment. >> we have two separate governments, we have the one that gets elected and goes into office and you have the government inside of washington, d.c., that operates under no rules, no authorities other than their own or who was ever in charge. >> tucker: sounds like that government was still controlled by barack obama. >> i would say that to a degree is what we are operating with today. >> tucker: by the way, mike flynn is not some internet celebrity or conservative activist, he was a three-star

. >> and the former president, barack obama, said in a statement that he appreciated the way in which powell endorsed him by squashing the conspiracy surrounding his fact. why was his endorsement, you think, so meaningful? >> i think it was important because general colin powell was a part of kind of the old guard in government and certainly in republican circles. he was a moderate republican, but he was well respected beyond the republican party. he was respected as an american throughout the country. so that was a very important endorsement for president obama at that time. >> i had the honor of sitting down and speaking with colin powell. this was in 2009, about the former president barack obama's election and what it meant to race in this country. listen to this. >> many people in the world thought americans aren't ready for this. they won't do it. you're emotional about it now. >> maybe it's because i remember the days when a young black kid growing up in the bronx could only look to a joe lewis or ralph bunch or to a jackie robinson for inspiration. maybe it was because ev

barack obama going on to colin . he tried to bring his own life, career and public statements in line with the idea. michelle and i will always look to general powell what americans can and should be if we wish to remain the last best hope of earth. if we wish to remain the last best hope of earth. do we wish that now? is that what the collective wish is? it was just a few months ago colin powell told fareed zakaria he no longer considered himself a republican. the answer to where is that republican today? the ones who actually had the backbone and courage to stand up and say something like he said and live their lives like he lived. where are they? they are develop. the men who once said that he believed he could help the party of lyincoln move back to the spirit of lincoln. to the very end he was a man of character and integrity. don't see that a lot in the gop a anymore. i think it's a good time to go to break. rest in peace colin powell. but if you have diabetes, there can be some not-so-pretty stuff going on ins

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he saw that we were ready to elect as our president someone like a barack obama, barack obama himself and made his endorsement accordingly. he saw the larger american interest rather than simply what was good for the republican party. his party at the time. >> the fact that he was unafraid to say what he thought was right, even if it ruffled feathers within his own party speaking out against trump. how special is someone like a colin powell, especially in this day and age? >> i think people in his model are increasingly rare in our society today. we need more leaders like general powell who canries above partisanship and enjoy the start the stature and a solid reputation among democrats and republicans whose word is valued by people of both parties. he's going to be greatly missed. he it's us a lot about the limits of warfare, for example, as a war fighter. he taught us the pottery barn rule always have a plan when you go in. these are things that i've repeated myself numerous teams. much easier to get into an armed conflict than to get out. colin powell get us that so he'll be greatl

for that reason, i will be voting for senator barack obama. >> reporter: president obama releasing ariting, general powell helped a generation of young people set their sights higher. he never denied the role race played in his own life and in society more broadly. but he also refused to accept that race would limit his dreams, and through his steady and principled leadership, helped pave the way for so many who would follow. former president george bush calling powell a great public servant. tonight, flags are flying half staff, paying tribute to powell's life and legacy. decorated war hero, distinguished diplomat, a good and decent man, husband, father, grandfather. colin powell didn't just break barriers, he built bridges. and not only did this child of immigrants live the american dream, he embodied it. >> i would like to talk about what he would think his lasting legacy is. he talked about that in his memoir and wanting to be a good soldier. whenever you asked colin powell after he became secretary of state, whether he would prefer to be called general or preferred to be called

it's not like barack obama is out there all the time campaigning anymore. he's stepped back from some of that. and we don't know if joe biden is going back to virginia. the white house -- >> we don't know if it would help. >> terry mcauliffe's comments about how the president is not very popular. so we also don't know if it would help. but the white house is not sweating this bill as much as paul. paul might be sweating it offer here. they still think this is going to get done. and as for the progressives, they are backing off what some of the things you said, jake. they are recognizing that they're not going to get ten years for all the things they would like in there. they'll have to scale some of those back. they do think that climate, climate is one thing where they don't see how you can settle for less than ten years on what they want to do. >> obama to bring -- my son works for the firm that polling for terry. i want president obama. he loves doing this. he did a terrific job for biden. troll trump. bait trump to come into virginia. why isn't trump co

we think about barack obama would mount a step back and say he took office at a time of a massive recession with the united states engaged in two words and because of this challenges even if he did not achieve as much as other presidents might have he deserves to be rated a little higher. because the context in which he served was more difficult. we note voters are capable of doing this. we saw at the time of his reelection of boaters had considered obama and bush to be equally responsible for the country's economic condition, then obama would've been nine points less popular but people seem to be willing to give it president leeway for things they did not necessarily have a lot to do with. difficulty is not necessarily bad thing. because of crises the crises can also be opportunities for greatness. the top three is always the same it's some combination of lincoln, then washington than roosevelt or roosevelt and washington. two of those present served and perhaps the biggest crises america has seen, civil war and then world war ii in the great depression. that gave them an opportunity to do

hand we might give the president sympathies for taking office in a difficult circumstances so barack obama at the end of his presidency want want to step back and say took office and a massive recession time and there were two wars and because all of these challenges, even if he did achieve her did not achieve quite as much as others might have, he deserves to be rated higher because the context in which he served was more difficult. we know the voters are capable of doing this we saw this at the time of election if the voters have considered obama and bush to be equally responsible for the country's economic commission, the obama women nine points was popular so they give presidents leeway for things they don't necessarily have a lot to do with the difficulty is not necessarily that they because crises would be opportunities for greatness i don't think it's a coincidence that the two greatest presidents, we will see these in these rankings that the top three is always some combination of lincoln and washington and in roosevelt. so two of those president serves in the biggest crises that a

anthony mason tells us about a duet, barack obama and the man known as "the boss." >> it's time for us to go. >> it looks like a buddy movike. >> >> the question then is how do we look at each other and say we are in this together whether we like it or not. let's figure it out. >> the idea of creating more -- perfect. >> perfect and noble america. >> yes. >> which is willing to wrestle with its sins and its tremendous passes is essential to the future of the country. >> later on sunday morning, barack obama and bruce springsteen on friendship, the influence of their fathers and the state of the union. >> pauley: we swat them, spray them and then we scratch. david pogue introduces us to a man with a new approach for taking on mosquitoes. >> climate change was contributing to the spread of deadly mosquitos around the world and there was not much we could do to stop them. >> mosquitoes killed more otherwise healthy people than anything else on the planet. >> a google engineer has a novel construction which began a robotically controlled mosquito breeding factory. >> if you realize how sci

though he was seceding a president he had worked for, he decided to cross party lines and endorse barack obama. i'll never forget that appearance he made on "meet the press" where he was endorsing obama and then he was asked about all the rumors of obama being a muslim. he said, well, it doesn't matter. what if he was a muslim? that doesn't matter at all. and it was a courageous thing to say. and i think his criticism of donald trump, where he said, look, i've worked for four presidents before, and i've seen something with donald trump that i've never seen before, which is a president who lies and lies directly and over and over. what we've seen with colin powell is someone who was a true patriot, a true public servant, and who decided what the interests of the country were over his party. and i think that's a great legacy. that's a great legacy for everyone. and that's a great legacy for black americans, as well. and i just want to chime in on something that andrea mentioned, because i've been there a few times. the colin powell school of public service up in the bronx, it's a spectacular pla

i have a lot to do with why barack obama actually felt like he could run and win because calling powellhad primed america for the possibility of a black president with his leadership. it was an easy of a cell, and so obama comes right behind colin powell and jesse jackson and benefit from their president that they said so. we've lost a great american. a great paper. a great, um, government leader. we rarely have anything good to say about government leaders, with the exception of this stain that he acknowledges on his record, um colin powell has been an outstanding leader. yes and pal, you mentioned this drawing from his military experience to become a trusted advisor on both national security and diplomacy. really to both parties from ronald reagan to barack obama. and really professor, he earned universal respect. he did, and i think that you know that is sort of in his body right as a person, you know, immigrant heritage african american heritage. you know, with this range of experience, you know, he just embodied, um, that diversity and i think he welcomed it. he was even tempered m