no, barack obama loud. and the best speech in american history is no barack obama like my personal favorite speech. i think it's a speech, a favorite of a lot of speechwriters is the robert f kennedy speech that he gave in south africa. is that your favorite? okay. so that's so there you go. so, you know, if you've never second inaugural, but it's not that contemporary to this, but if you haven't never have a chance to read it, take a few minutes, listen to it. there is audio of it. so he's in south africa. he's speaking to a conference of youth. and and he's speaking about the power of youth. it's the famous ripples of hope speech and one of the beautiful sections of it is see that i love about it so much is that he sort of goes throughout history. jesus. martin luther king, martin, you know, the original martin luther. and he reminds us all that these people, all these great historic actions for change that they took occurred when they were in their twenties, in their early thirties. so it's a tremendous

i think this is a little bit -- i am jealous of barack obama.lle and barack obama did with netflix for like $45 million? the first thing he does is come out of the gate and he wants to play in the hollywood lane. you are never going to be barack obama. i remember it -- then being upstaged at the end. remember when they were in that white house event, he was trying to get barack obama's attention. i think at some of that. i don't know. as long as he doesn't have to do anything, they will be fun. "weekend at bernie's part 2". >> it could be. that's a really interesting analogy. rebecca, i think you'll like caa's statement, you in particular. "president biden is one of america's most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs. his lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity, possibility." i think there are two warts. china is crippling tight one come a l -- lost afghanistan. they are reacting. >> every time present biden had to speak in a very public events that had to do with national security, i j

barack obama used mr. crapo's policy baseline to keep the george w. bush tax cuts in place. alled it a permanent baseline, it was a policy baseline, they should do the same thing now, obama was a smart fellow, we have exhausted that, you are american hero, a great service record, a west point grad. couple things on this mr. wesley hunt. recruitment in month of january, is at a 15 year high. what do you make of this. >> shocking. it is amazing what you see with a president that believes in america. imagine this, only about changing how we feel and the motive about what it means to make america great again this is good, a reason why there are 20 million people that have entered illegally, and people want to be here, because we're in an amazing country, i have young people that are willing to fight for trump and fight for america first, what has been missing. someone that searched in combat, that served 20 years ago in baghdad, i loved seeing young people reinvigorated to want to serve, it happened in the last two months, amazing. >> probably not peaked yet, my hunch your fellow

now, in recent times, it's known that both bill clinton, barack obama loved the vineyard and spent summer vacations. it was really the presidential retreat, much more so than than camp david would be able to claim. and clinton visited. vineyard for the first time in august of 93. he actually did working vacation and went over crime legislation and and health care reform. you that was going to be his big impetus to get universal health care passed that was a lot of planning happened right here on the vineyard he returned in october of 1995 for the three day wedding celebration and for ted danson, dead. ted danson and, mary steenburgen and he gave his weekly radio address from the old whaling church in newtown in august of 97. it is claimed our president clinton claimed that he broke 80 farms, neck golf with all due respect to the president, he does have a reputation of taking more than a few mulligans. when he was golfing. we don't know how legitimate that score of breaking 80 was, but nonetheless, he claimed that was the best he had ever. he was here in august of 98 and had to interrupt h

the issue of democracy is perfect, barack obama again was talking about the issue of democracy and you trail and people were able to look and see what they were doing to keep not just donald trump, rfk junior off ballots while claiming to be the protectors of democracy so he was able to expose them by giving them enough rope for them to hang themselves and show the american people exactly who they are. you see that with these confirmation hearings and questions democrats are asking and what they are doing confirmed. adam schiff, the senator from california is a great example asking pam bondi, questions about pardons for liz cheney is a fact what everyday americans are worried about. fentanyl poisoning, crime, trafficking and they are worried about weaponization of his institutions against political opponents and you hear a lot in the media the wasn't a big deal for the election, it was a huge because white people turned out in favor of the president. they are very concerned about the institutions corrected from one political side versus the other because if you do it on one hand, it ca

one of those american presidents, of course, was our 44th barack obama. his israel, his relationship with the chancellor developed into one of great mutual respect. he awarded her the u.s. medal of freedom in 2011. and by the time he left the white house, he was describing her as probably his closest international partner. she, in turn, writes in her memoir about how much she valued his analytical abilities and his counsel. what a special privilege and honor to have them both on stage here. now. one, one, one reminder again before they come out, the chancellor will be speaking in german and the translation will come through these earpieces that i hope all of you have received. just turn up the volume on the side. if you find yours isn't working. try to signal one of the ushers or go to the back and get another one. and at the end of the event, please leave your device on your chair. so, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming chancellor merkel and president obama. hey. hello, everybody. it is good to see all of you. i am not oprah winfrey. this

it was signed by barack obama in 2015. from the agreement. on his first day in office in 2021.nd in yet another twist in this tale, the billionaire and former republican mayor of new york mike bloomberg has said his philanthropic agencies will give the united nations but president trump is seeking to reverse more than just on the campaign trail, he made clear his plans to get oil and gas flowing in greater quantities and killjoe biden�*s part of the former president's inflation reduction act. in the last few days of his presidency, joe biden�*s so, other than leaving the paris climate agreement, on day one, he declared a national emergency to speed up permits he's making drilling for oil and gas in the arctic and along the coast of the united states possible again. new electric vehicles. in the cost of living. to increase production and, in his words, bring so, could it work? council, a life member of america's council of foreign relations and sits on the board of directors free up oil and gas permits and leases... so, he's back to "drill, baby, drill," and he's talking once ag

barack obama, george bush, mark milley, you know, pick a whole host of.former presidents, former military officers, if indeed they're inclined to do this, which they have not shown to be. >> up to the election. i no. >> no, no, i know, but. >> this is. >> how else do you get people's attention? >> i mean, you. >> need the most famous, the most powerful, the most moving figures in recent history. if you are looking for some leadership among the opposition to stand up and say something together, not just an. >> off. >> and you. >> don't think. >> the american people. >> are going to say we're done with elites? >> wasn't that? >> i don't know about that. not those people, not necessarily. there's some that they would say that about, but i don't i think if they spoke with. >> one voice, i think they're looking for courage. they're looking for courage, not partizanship. i mean, look at someone like like colonel vindman when he stepped forward, like widely celebrated, even somebody going back to the iraq war, like cindy sheehan, they're looking for courageous p

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>> i don't think that we need somebody like a barack obama.gure. but at the very least, barack obama's political rise was in opposition to something that was a big mistake, that was a disaster for the country was broadly unpopular. somebody needs to find whatever that. one thing is that we can all. >> agree on. >> okay. >> but but then answer this. right. so after trump won, there was exhaustion, right? even even on inauguration day last time around, right after the inauguration, people took to the streets. that didn't happen. now people were tired. they were defeated. they were exhausted. but here we are, two weeks in and you're starting to see people say, hell no, this isn't going to happen. so things are starting to change a little bit. a little. >> bit really. and i'll take issue with here with respect to barack obama. >> yeah, you're the new guy. take issue. >> with him. yeah. yeah. you haven't been here nearly the three times that i have. i get broken in. no. bill clinton, barack obama, george bush, mark milley, you know, pick a whole ho

. >> this question percent think about barack obama returning i was here and democrats with the cool kids. as a party wanted to hang out with and talking with cool. bless him right our neighbors who could even the obama group is a thing and when the heck happened and how did the republicans how to trump become the coquette. >> harris had a chance numbers of month-long series any longer she was up polls in the campaign is a media tour the talked about you know she was always kind of backup gently decision she may not have younger voters were looking for something, anything daylight between turn biden i think was just questionable for the actions able to break away on any of the key issues even if it wasn't a significant right even if his rhetorical, she was unwilling to do it a lot of the voters saw that dispirited by drop off in the activity align from you know the height of the summer to wear the campaign ended up and you know they gave a chance and that really give her a look. >> the people voted providing four years ago not because they thought that he was a progressive and is poli

did barack obama engage in a trade war? rack obama had, you know, put put in place economic tariffs that will impact the american people? i think he kind of grew us out of an economic crisis. donald trump is creating one. so i don't know where the wall street journal i mean, now now they want to sit back and call the thing what everybody knew it was. anyway, there was a document, wall street journal, i don't know if you're familiar with it. it came out, it was about 900 pages. and in those 900 pages, i they had a little thing in there that talked about exactly what's happening right now. >> but michael but michael, he distanced himself from project 2025. >> yeah. >> he had nothing. >> to do with it, anything about it. even though about 100 people, 100 people who worked on directly authoring project 2025 now work in the federal government, even though one of the main authors of project 2025 is on track to again be his omb director. this is this, this this is very specific. >> okay. >> very clear. >> we've talked about the tar

barack obama was thought of as the facebook election, that he used that so effectively. now it seems to have flipped. anybody to want weigh in on the biggest issue of our time? >> he likes to call himself a great communicator. i work for the great communicator, ronald reagan, and i watched him when trump wants to talk about how big he won this election, biggest victory in 50 years. he needs to remember reagan, who won 49 states and 515 electoral votes. i used to brief him once a month when i was congressional committee, national campaign director. and i grew up with a speech impediment. and i walked in every month. i did it for two years. i had 30 minutes. and i was scared to death. with my speech impediment, i was only 30-something, and he would take five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes and talk to me, tell jokes, and he had a sense of telling when i had calmed down, and then he said, ok, what do you have to tell me? and he never once said, this is a waste of my time, cut it to 15 minutes or 10 minutes. but i saw the sign. man who truly had compassion, who truly underst

hubiera capturado a este hombre, se hubiera evitado esta tragedia. 287g fue creado por el presidente barack obamaesamiento bajo 287g termina siendo mucho mÁs seguro. >> la persona ha sido detenida. reportero: sÓlo ice determina cuÁndo poner una orden de detenciÓn. fÉlix: un juez federal bloquea al doge de elon musk acceder al material sensible del departamento del tesoro. este bloqueo se produce en respuesta de una demanda presentado por 19 fiscales contra la meditaciÓn trump. el equipo del departamento de eficiencia no podrÁ acceder a los registros del departamento de tesoro que contiene datos personales confidenciales. [habla en inglÉs] reportera: su tarea es recortar gastos innecesarios de el gobierno. [habla en inglÉs] [habla en inglÉs] reportera: fiscales de 19 estados se adjudicaron a una demanda. el nuevo departamento de eficiencia no tiene acceso a estos registros. elon musk deben restringir todo lo registro que han obtenido. [habla en inglÉs] >> sÓlo un nÚmero ilimitado de persona y que ha pasado por entrenamiento tiene acceso a esta informaciÓn. reportera: dentro de la informaciÓn sensi

woken us that took over our , and before him, barack obama, preparing for apr presidential run?are youes.? >> was going on big time. >> sean: iman? might entertain running for president, youut b cannot afford to pay card by your own admission and if you run it, your party would never nominate you because you are far too reasonable, although i have a couple of bones to pick with you. >> first of all number 1, my lifestyle is quite lovel y and iquit would not want to part was that [laughter]by but i was just trying to make the point, that i think the p democratic partyar is in the ste they find themselves in, i think somebody like me could actually win.me i think i could beat any of those candidates on the screene. i could run against somebody like you i would win that race to. >> sean: if you run am running the.n, y >> listen you have no chance ino to beat me, you're too rigid,e n you have no patience for people who disagree with you.that would lose your mind. >> sean: okay whatever. >> -- >> sean: lower taxes, limited government, energy dominance, "law & order", better schools,

it was signed by barack obama in 2015.t legally binds almost 200 countries to limit global warming. from the agreement. the agreement on his first day in office in 2021. united states out. and in yet another twist in this tale, the billionaire and former republican mayor of new york mike bloomberg has said his philanthropic agencies will give the united nations climate body, which oversees the agreement, the funds on the campaign trail, he made clear his plans to get oil and gas flowing in greater quantities and killjoe biden�*s multi—billion—dollar support of the green transition, to further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate greatest scam in history, probably. a $10 trillion scam. in the last few days of his presidency, joe biden�*s administration legally protected almost $100 billion so, other than leaving the paris climate agreement, up permits for oil and gas exploration and roll back environmental protections. he's making drilling for oil and gas in the arctic and along and he reversed president biden�*s target

barack obama sent $6 billion of cash, $100 bills loaded on pallets over to iran. maria: great point. >> so we are finally putting a foot down and saying no, iran, this is not acceptable. we talk about an axis of evil with iran, russia and china. what about an axis of security. i think it's a wonderful vision that may ultimately save lives and provide security for millions. maria: i'm glad you brought up the 6 billion. john kirby was saying we'll allow the money to go back to iran but they're not going to use it for terrorist activities and then the re head of iran cos out and says we're going to use the money where we want to use the money. trump's cabinet picks have cleared key hurdles. tulsi gabbard and rfk junior both voted out of their respective committees yesterday, that's a big positive. they're headed to the senate floor for the full confirmation votes. both can afford to lose three republican votes. president trump has 11 cabinet members confirmed. the senate voted for pam bondi last night to be the nicks u.s. attorney general and doug collins to be the n

let me put up on the screen -- and this was first instituted as it relates to the faa under barack obama. their diversity push includes a focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. now stephen a, you fly a lot. do you want people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities in that control tower? >> not at all. and by the way, on how many times i have to tell you, quote me accurately. may shoot with the eradication of dei was not that on it's premise. it was the explanation that the trump administration and others were giving about it. i don't want to hear dei automatically being about people who happen to be minorities that are unqualified. that is what i was saying. is that it's one thing to get rid of it altogether. it is another thing entirely to articulate and verbalize the position that excuse me, you know what everybody was associated with dei are unqualified individuals. we don't want unqualified individuals can particularly in public safety. i'm saying that some people were coming across. >> sean: we agree! >> of course we agree. but when you

cheering for many liberal—minded people around the world, the arrival in office of barack obama camee at least 1960, whenjohn f kennedy won the presidency. but obama's time was marked by a disappointing lack of grip. america's problems were never fully addressed and in invasion of iraq continued. donald j trump. donald trump managed to harness the resentments and anger than they once had been. had never seen before. to avoid a jail sentence. administration. with the doubtful agreement donald trump had made with the taliban over afghanistan, and the taliban americans decided that donald trump would be more he might be the oldest us president ever inaugurated, but his energetic, upbeat performances won praise around the world. the golden age of america begins right now. cheering there's clear admiration among people in countries from saudi arabia, nigeria and south africa, to china. and at 78, donald trump seems to provide exactly that. boost which the deregulated american news media, released from the obligation to be balanced and fair, unquestionably gave him? at the moment. suggests

el 287 g fue creado por barack obama, y segÚn el consejo de y mÍrasenos, 103 y cinco agencias policÍacasndena local. >> un juez federal bloqueÓ hoy el acceso del departamento de eficiencia gubernamental a los registros del departamento del tesoro, este bloqueo se produce en respuesta a una demanda presentada por 19 fiscales generales demÓcratas contra las nuestras son de donald trump. >> equipo del departamento de eficiencia no podrÁ acceder al sistema de departamento del tesoro por lo menos temporalmente tras la decisiÓn de un juez federal. un grupo de jÓvenes ingenieros, talentosos de menos de 30 sin experiencia gubernamental previa hacen parte del equipo de musk, su tarea es recortar gastos innecesarios en el gobierno. >> [habla en inglÉs] >> fiscales de 19 estados argumentaron en una demanda que nuevo departamento de eficiencia no tiene autoridad legal para acceder a informaciÓn sensible en ese sistema. hemos ganado una orden judicial que impide a el hombre mÁs rico del mundo acceder a los datos privados de los estadounidenses. deben destruir todos los registros que han obtenido aseg

mitch mcconnell on his relationship with president barack obama. in word frosty never really thought he was celebrated obama's election like he mentioned that his private oral histories that he thought it was a wonderful thing for the country. but it was also a political battle. and he was going try to wage that political battle and the one term president comment gets so much attention and what's interesting is that in addition to what he just said, what he actually said in the rest of the quote was, i don't want to fail. i want him to change. and of course, only the one term president part gets quoted. so i ask him about that. and it was interesting because he didn't deny what he meant by the first part of it. first of all, he said it's sort of obvious i'm a republican, he's a democrat, and i wanted him to serve one term. but he also that strategically he had he crafted that answer this way. the first part of the quote was for the republican base, the hardcore conservatives. the second part of the quote, i don't want him to fail. i want him to chan

in fact, the highest level of support any democrat ever received was barack obama among latinos. hillary clinton was the second highest. kamala harris's entire career has been predicated on her rise in california with dramatic over performance with latino voters. they know her, voted for her, have supported her for 20 years. they did not suddenly just become misogynists and racists. there is clearly something much more profound going on and i would suggest -- my warning to democrats in june was you need to get off of this lazy idea that has no empirical basis that latinos are driven and motivated by the immigration issue, but you cannot do it. they literally cannot do it. and in fact you are going to watch your own party continue to double, triple and quadruple down into this same wrongness in the next 30, 40, 50 days. it does not mean we are anti-immigrant. the polling would suggest we are sensitive to these issues. the 2018 midterms were an anomaly for democrats, when trump was cracking down on the undocumented. we saw the highest turnout among latinos in the history of electio

angela merkel who served chairman chancellor with barack obama. he's the author of the book lawless. then at 10:00 p.m. eastern on after words, moses son of civil rights moses. he's interviewed by the university of maryland baltimore county president, watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find full schedule on program guide or watch online any time at booktv.org. >> the senate judiciary committee considered whether to permanently classified fentanyl and related substances as schedule one drugs, move that could impact law enforcement, public health and the deadly ongoing opioid crisis. schedule 1 drugs are defined as substances that have high chance of being abused and causing addiction. the committee heard testimony from medical stakeholders, policy advocates and law enforcement officials, the hearing is just under 3

bush, and you couldn't have reverse engineered donald trump off of barack obama. what happens in the end of an election is everyone sifts through the data and they come up with their perfect, you know, their plan based on will. this worked and with this group. and we got to tack here and there. and what politics is about is at a certain point is like innovation and communication. you've got to come up with new stories and new. >> ways to tell. ken martin, guy, he said something i've heard democrats say a lot. we didn't get our message out. maybe i'm paraphrasing, but that's and i've said this before to democrats. no you did. that's the problem. >> yeah, you. >> did get your message out. and people don't like the message. and i mean, the message they sent here, they began it with a land acknowledgment. no, i did just i just had a stand up special. if you haven't seen it, you're losing out. >> it's fantastic and i did a whole bit about land acknowledgment. >> you know, either either give it back or shut the fuck up, you know? and that's they that to me, that. >> sig

you don't think bernie sanders is barack obama? >> no. >> no, don't get me there.ary clinton. and you followed hillary for a long time. andrea. >> could joe biden have defeated donald trump? >> oh, i don't know. >> i don't know. i'm not going to speculate on that. >> if you don't have a majority, if she has a majority and more of the popular vote, would you then concede? >> look. >> if we do not. >> have a. >> majority, i think it's going to be very hard. >> for us to win. >> are you. >> sorry now? you said yes to john mccain on august 29th? >> not in the least. >> absolutely not. >> are you hurt that some of his people have criticized you? >> what? i have discovered that there on a national level, this kind of took me aback because, andrea, we see it on a state level. when you. >> run a campaign, you get a lot of strange people who kind of leech themselves into a campaign, some odd hanger honors. >> you know, back. >> in my days, they used bayer aspirin for contraceptives. the gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly. >> excuse me. i'm just tryin

i mean, you know, barack obama couldn't have become the president of this country without the civil rights movement. mm hmm. yeah, you're absolutely right. and and i need to move quickly to mathematics the love of my life and say. hey, my mother was a math and english teacher and so she would appreciate bob moses also and bob moses, who dedicated life to connecting mathematics to life and to civil rights. and the notion that if can teach children to think critically and to understand the importance, math, literacy as you are doing right now. so let's talk about let's ask big question the really that $64,000 question is some people have a certain who remember that term from from tv. oh no what is algebra project. well it it's funny. and so when i found of the sermons from my dad it was published, i mean my great grandfather was published in the -- world in 1923 and you know, the headline times there was about, you know, -- gaining 20, 20 that century citizenship. and so the idea was, how do we become citizens in the 20th century? and so for my dad, you know, my coined this idea that math li

as you mentioned the highest level of support any democrat ever received was barack obama. hillary clinton was the second highest. kamala harris's entire career is predicated on her rise in california with dramatic over performance of latino voters. they know her and voted for her and supported her for 20 years, didn't just suddenly become misogynist and racist. clearly something more profound going on, you need to get off of this lazy idea that has no empirical basis that latinos are driven and motivated by the immigration issue but you can't do it. they literally cannot do it, to quadruple down, the same wrongness in the next 30, 40, 50 days, doesn't mean we are anti-immigrant at all. the polling would suggest we are sensitive to these issues, the 2018 midterms, one anomaly for democrats when donald trump was cracking down on the undocumented and sending ice into workplaces and spitting up family we saw the highest turnout among latinos in the history of midterm elections in this country and those decisively anti-trump but if you want to build a long-term party to get bac

worried it could be inflationary you first what you make of those austan goolsbee used to work for barack obamat out to her viewers. >> i'm not a big tear fan i'm a trump's supporter but it's not accurate to say trump's policies are inflationary, i think trump will bring inflation down. i think you will see a fairly big number on inflation because i'm looking at the commodity prices they continue to rise and i think we can see inflation of the 4% range which is a lot higher than the fed target which is why don't understand this talk about lowering interest rates he's going to increase the energy supply he's going to try to call this unnecessary spending all of these are extremely positive for economic growth and for reducing the rate of inflation. i don't see this as being a long-term problem i think will get back to the 2% target rate that the fed has set under trump. final word? >> let me give you personal perspective. when we have a senator set and to stand up and talk about his beer and his avocado might be a little bit inflationary in exchange for protecting the tariff as a father i've had

barack obama's swearing in in january of 2009 when we were facing a great recession. as a michigander, when our auto industry was staring true liquidation and bankruptcy in the face, when millions of americans were facing job loss in addition to housing insecurity, our financial markets were being rocked, and our insurance sector was on shaky footing. a group of us came together into the treasury department. it almost didn't matter what party you were, and in fact, the previous administration under george bush kept some of his people there. we stayed together. we worked together to address this economic crisis. i was on the auto rescue team with a man named steve ratner. we had an initiative called the troubled asset relief program. and it was sizable dollars of federal money, of taxpayer money to save our economy from true devastation. but no one was poking around in the bureau of fiscal service. no one was seeking to get access to taxpayer data or financial information that has to do with the wires and the complication of those goods. we were standing up for people

. >> barack obama singing at the emmanuel church. ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> in speech, by bull horn, in songw, by executive memorandum. that's how donald trump used the oval office where reagan had eulogized the "challenger" astronauts. though the president had earlier declared an hour of anguish for our nation, for him, the hour only lasted a few minutes. he spent much of the remainder of this unique moment distributing blame. >> i put safety first. obama, biden, the democrats put policy first. and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen. >> reporter: the starkest claim, the one behind the oval office signing ceremony that diversity programs had caused the crash that killed 67. >> you have a presidential memorandum titled meade assessment of aviation safety. in light of the damage done to aviation safety by the biden administration's dei and woke policies. >> when asked what proof he had that diversity was the culprit, the president said he had no proof but didn't need any. >> how you can come to the conclusion that diversity had something to do with this crash? >> because i ha

. >> ever going into court and saying, i represent president barack obama. i represent president bush. my job as a federal prosecutor, as a justice department lawyer, was to represent the people, to uphold the oath that i took, which was to the constitution, not the president that i served and my generation of united states attorneys. when we gathered in washington for an annual meeting one year, had the opportunity to briefly hear from president obama. we were all in the east room, sort of standing there very formally, and he walked in with the white house counsel. and the thing that stuck with so many of us over the years was when he said to us, you don't serve me. you serve the people of the united states. you know, that was barack obama, a constitutional law scholar and professor before he became the president. he clearly understood the role of lawyers at the justice department and of the department itself. and it's clear that this new attorney general does not. >> melanie, we also know that president trump met with speaker johnson and some house republi

when barack obama. >> was at 65%, had a specific strategy to take him down to 45%.arty wave. that is the way republicans work. and that is the way we as democrats have to work. and just think about this. george soros, who is a naturalized u.s. >> citizen like. >> myself, like. >> elon musk, who is a multi-billionaire. >> like elon musk, unlike myself. >> has a history of. supporting democratic presidents. >> imagine if. >> biden or. obama actually gave soros the kind of power that elon. >> musk now enjoys. that is something. can you. >> imagine what republicans would say or do about that? that's really the way. democrats should. >> be acting, and i don't think we. >> are right. and that brings you back to biden sort of mentioning oligarchs on his way out. and the democrats don't have completely clean hands when it comes to business interests, fairly or not. we've seen signs that working class people, at least when it comes to joe biden as the democratic leader, had had really lost trust. maybe if you change the leader, that would change. certainly. aoc warren, who i

barack obama also elected that year. he ultimately rose up after a long primary fight. so the party will be rebuilt if it is from young rising stars and talent. he certainly is necessary to build the nuts and bolts of this, but there is a big fight inside the party about the direction of how liberal it should be, what language it should use. i'm not sure he'll have much influence on that. >> and you wrote about this for notice this week, jasmyne, the headline of your story, the next dnc chair will walk into a firestorm. there's a lot of internal problems he has to deal with as well. >> yeah, it's not only that this new dnc leader is going to have to basically assume a major role in a party that is kind of headless right now. it doesn't have a major leader kind of marching to the beat there, but also internally, they're really kind of there is a there is a real feeling of a deteriorating morale. they are multiple complaints from the union, one about just the massive amount of firing, laying off that they had after the election. normally these kind of committees lay off p

barack obama deported 3.5 million people. right. so a lot of this is performance, but it's performance aimed at rewarding your allies, undermining the rule of law. the january 6th pardons. so that's the part that's unusual. there is an enormous amount of performative. moves to say, we're in charge and we're going to break this whole federal government apart. >> yeah, that's such a good point. and so much of the performance, i mean, let's just take what we're seeing right now with the mexican tariffs, which we didn't get into. and i'm sorry about that. please come back. just the threat allowed for a conversation that at least delayed that for a month. who knows what's going to happen by the day's end with canada. >> right. and the and you could have had a conversation with the mexicans easily without the without the threat, the idea that the mexicans have not been willing to talk about fentanyl is is absurd. and with the canadians, i mean, canada represents less than half a percent of all the fentanyl that comes into the united state

you know, that was barack. >> obama. >> a constitutional. law scholar and professor before he became the president. he clearly understood the role of lawyers at the justice department and of the department itself. and it's clear that this new attorney general does not. >> melanie, we also know that president trump met with speaker johnson and some house republicans today, as they're trying to work out a way to get trump's agenda passed. is there any progress? because the truth is, if donald trump had confidence that he could get his agenda through congress, he wouldn't need to do this executive order bonanza. >> you're right. i don't think there's a lot of confidence right now in speaker mike johnson in particular. in fact, the senate said that they're going to move ahead with their own plans for a budget reconciliation, which is the first step in order to unlock this process they're trying to use to pass a lot of trump's agenda because they don't think the house can get it done. now, i will say this meeting, they were there for hours. they