salazar under brock obama said ten years the glowing things about judge gorsuch, that seeking confirmation to the tenth circuit court. if you look at the comments made from steve barber, cohost of the 2008 democrats and national convention in denver in 2008 emma wrote a letter to the judiciary committee strongly supporting judge gorsuch confirmation to the united cream court. these are conservatives, these are liberal democrats who believe that judge gorsuch would make an excellent supreme court justice urging all of us to support confirmation. [inaudible] what's the signal that we should back off of this ? >> what you're seeing on full display of the legislative process. this way it works. i mentioned before the speaker and i have the majority of members who have never with a republican president. in other words, the chances of getting a signature on many of the things that we support were never there. here we are in a real governing situation. it produces lots of stories for you guys but these are the various episodes that you go through and trying to make a law and get a signature. it's

the comments brock obama has made and the deals hillary clinton has made. who is involved? larry is calling in from tennessee. good morning. what's on your mind? , ther: the way i see it president being abused by people's words and the way they address him, i think in order to get respect you have to give respect to as far as health care something,u pay into you are entitled to get something from it. i think there has never been a time when our allies been more concerned. now more worried than they have ever been. along, he has spent more ego thatying about his he has anything going on in the world. other countries are doing willy-nilly and he is not concerned about the people in who are giving him his information and so forth. i hope they find out who he is for, if he is for the united states or is he just in it for himself. host: how would you grade his time in office so far? exactly what doing his supporters want him to do. i don't fault him for doing that. i don't have any animosity against him doing that. , if he gets the economy going along, i won't have a problem wit

. -- brock obama. -- barack obama. now, that was in obama's years in the latter 1970's in hawaii. and i first started reading about frank marshall davis in 2007, 2008. i heard conservatives on talk radio and elsewhere are he was a communist. take it to the bank, he influenced obama. while hearing all of this stuff, i have spread all over my desk all these committee reports, senate judiciary committee, run by democrats, house committee on internal security, run by democrats. house committee on american activity, almost all of these committees are you run by democrats. chris dodd's father, thomas dodd. francis walter, representative i court, jack kennedy was an anticommunist on some of these committees. i'm hearing this and thinking what does davis really believe, and how close was he to obama? august 2, 2008, "ap" piece. davis was a constant figure in obama's early life. he was an important influence who obama looked to like a father, a mentor for advice on living other things. obama in "dreams by my father," i was intrigued by his hard earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes, all

mittd the russians prefer romney over brock obama in 2012? >> i do not know that we ever went through a formal analytic conclusion. >> did the russians prefer john mccain in 2008 over brock obama? >> i never saw a u.s. intelligence committee on that issue. >> you think it is correct to say russians prefer republicans over democrats? i did not hear you to say that, i apologize. >> i hope you did not hear us to say that. i'm just asking a general question. wouldn't it be a little preposterous to say that historically going back to ronald reagan, and all that we know about maybe who the russians would prefer, that somehow the russians prefer republicans over democrats? tothere is -- i'm not going discuss it in this forum -- in the classified version that we did -- there is some analysis that discusses it because i remember a day come up in our assessment on the russian peace. say on that, again without going into classified sections, that indicating historically russians have supported republicans, i know that language is there. of a cloud onat

brock is off today. comey testified before the house intelligence committee as it investigates the hacking scandal and president trump's claims that president obama wiretapped him. nbc brought you a special report and we've been monitoring it ever since. some of the questioning came from the bay area's own congresswoman jackie speier. we're in washington with what the fbi director said repeatedly which is that he can't comment on open investigations. the question is what do we know now that we didn't a few hours ago. >> reporter: james comey a admiral mike rogers in the hot seat as the house intelligence committee investigates russia's interference in the election and whether hackers got any help from the trump team. comey publicly confirming they're following the evidence. >> that includes investigating the nature of links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government. >> reporter: trump administration denies collusion. this morning the president called it fake news and unleashed a twitter storm. one saying that democrats made up and pushed the russian story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign. commit

brock -- one of the strategies is to tie the trump administration up in the cords. clearly, not only the judge who issued the ban in hawaii is a former classmate of obama, they also want to go to the ninth circuit. they are overturned what, about 80% of the time? it makes it harder -- they have this ability to tie it up. i think it goes to the supreme court, i can't imagine they would go along with this reasoning. what you think? >> i think you're right. judge shopping, donald trump doesn't like it but neither did obama when the d.a. ca case came up. to stop those work permits from going forward. it goes to the question of the judiciary, sean. we focus on the executive and legislative branch but right now, there are 90 key vacancies on the federal bench that jeff sessions, the trump administration has to fill those vacancies. there is going to be extreme havoc being wreaked upon the trump agenda. roadblocks, monkey wrenches, airless lawsuits filed, some will be thrown out and some won't. this will be a constant problem they have to deal with. they have to fill these vacancies and get great judges in there who do not make the law but follow the law. >> sean: great anal

brock. we're talking this morning about the president of the united states being in town. but not the current president. this would be our former president, barack obama this is video from earlier this morning outside of the fair monte hotel as they are watching out very closely. you see the security presence there. the president is expected to speak with technology leaders later today. as soon as we have more information on that, we will provide that to you . >>> a little challenging if you're outside san francisco now, mike. you're tracking the crash. >> not in san jose, but i'm sure there say lot of buzz and activity by the fair monte. silicon valley, most of the rest of the bay moves as you would expect. san francisco, trying to get into san francisco, look, 101 jammed approaching 380. crash has been blocking the slow lane for over an hour there around 3rd. it is distracting for both sides. we should have a tow truck clearing this hopefully in the next 20 minutes. but tough drive, 280 jammed. but it might be a better smoother route for you there. nice drive around the east bay. bogged down from coliseum to downtown oakland. not a surprise. back to