mrs. obama had worn a chinese-american design for the china state visit to mrs.ring the clinton administration. those tip of the hat to a visiting delegation to talk about the richness of our great country. we are the melting pot made up of people all over the world's cultures and traditions. when any comes with us we celebrate that commonality and how they are part of the fabric of america. >> it can be a big economic for the design. >> there several that i think obama put on the front line. >> she was great about mixing designers like j.crew of things your foot get off the rack. >> was that new with michelle obama? was that something you developed or might see carryover with melania trump style choices? >> over the years it became a focus on fashion. mrs. bush before mrs. clinton. that was her nemesis clinton had several designers that she would wear and prefer to wear. one -- in the mrs. bush enjoyed wearing others. then fashion took another step forward during the obama administration and became more of a focus. she really advance the careers of so many unkno

so how will mr obama's victory be viewed within the european union do correspond to the vessel joins us from brussels welcome so obama's home group has been on a collision course with the you for some time he has allies who's likely to give way on the issue of the distribution of migrants within the block all suddenly filled the european union will give way because it has largely understood now that it is impossible to sort of in force even the verdict of the european court of justice and sort of force hungary to take in a couple of thousand migrants and this is what we're talking about here this whole battle viktor orban has been talking about in his election campaign and then in his speech last night that with which we just saw again is of course imaginary all this is she of propaganda we all know these are been won his election is this sort of propaganda and so the european union has to live with the consequences so it will give way and also it will have to give way in a in a way on abundant egremont this summer to form and reform the. general migrant policy in the european union t

the today, in this decade, president, mr. obama and his wife, and friends visited the estate on vacation and they came up the approach road and they suddenly came to the house and saw everything about it, and then they walked through the house and were standing and looking out and president obama said, now this is why we came. back in the 1880's, george ,anderbilt came and saw this this wonderful view in western north carolina and he saw this view of mount his guy and the french river valley. he started purchasing land and built he land was not nearly as pretty as we see it now. so, a lot of vanderbilt, and a gentleman named frederick law plan was toeir rehabilitate the land and make it that hospitality based location for george vanderbilt's family and friends. was probably -- what we call the first landscape architect. mr. olmstead did not care for that term, landscape architect, but what he was looking for was the big picture. he had come from central park in new york city. he had a vision that spanned huge acreage, and also the

mr obama has sent his political goal here on an anti immigrant message do you think that will be enough today to hand him a convincing victory. and this is this is or should be question of this election and what we see in the turnout is quite high actually it was it was such a high into trees into viktor orban and. the election after four years in the government so it seems likely that the feeders and we took over and could mobilize their own supporters which is about two point one two point two million voters that probably this is going not going to be enough to you have to have an absolute major eighty goal really going to achieve on a relative major city if the turnout is around seventy percent or even higher is there a suggestion that if there is a big turnout daniel is reflective of the fact the people are coming out to vote against all. yes it means that there are people what they. see is the opposition is quite fragmented there is there's a right wing opposition to your big part is your dimension and the levers are left and and liberal parties on the other side of the political s

it was just mr obama to finish here are three sentences that i'd like you to complete the greens are currently the smallest parliamentary group. i hope for the future of my party. you. that someday it will become a party that is indispensable to forming a government. and big movement for the left as left politicians are back into his calling for his. is this something that hasn't been thought through to its conclusion a rallying cry and i think is good in principle is not enough to create sufficient common ground for making policy together. when left wingers from the very different parties greens s.p.d. and the left sit down together they will find that there are also irreconcilable differences. i have achieved a lot politically i'm especially proud of. winning my constituency directly as the only one for the greens for many years. that still makes me happy today or no or because it was completely unexpected for me especially. when the election result came in it was one of the most wonderful moments for me in politics. thanks for talking to us. your imax this week's highlights. danci

surprised because there was a ruthless determination on the part of the governing party on the part of mr obama himself to ride roughshod over democratic principles over the last couple of years so all the conditions were in place for him to win a solid victory it was very solid indeed but i don't think it's a big surprise ok you think people and brussels are of very worried this morning having served in the european parliament for somebody or say. well of course there will be some dismay but even from brussels people saw that the opposition was deeply divided particularly the socialists have taken another drubbing the liberals were divided into three parties the greens federalist if you well so the democratic forces in hungary did not to unite they were divided and that of course sets the course for a strong showing by the governing party ok now orbán has vowed to use his super majority now to continue his crackdown on pro e.u. pro migrant n.g.o.s our brussels respond to a moves in that direction. well i believe that the european parliament on thursday will debate a report on the state of demo

lines imposed by mr mccrone will turn out to be words and not deeds much like those put forward by mr obamain the past. time i want to turn to something else that has developed in syria because you know that russia and syria they are accusing israel of carrying out an airstrike attack on the homes air base no comment so far from israel on that what do you think that we are to make of it. well i think what we need to do to understand what's happening here is to place that this strike within the larger regional security complex so we know that syria has has become a quagmire from from the revolution to the conflict that we're seeing now it's drawn in a range of different activists from from the middle east and beyond the really got involved to try and further their own regional and geo political interests and once we see that then we can see that iran has bought another lebanese party of god supported by iran that both supporting the regime of president bashar al assad now the israelis have long held a great deal of suspicion about iranian intent to rein in involvement across the middle east

elections i mean we like it or not but mr obama was elected by forty nine percent of the people's but it was probably a massive money palatial minds going on but that innovation needs the financing and that financing is not going to come from a divided europe what financing is important and this is why we are pushing for for an agency for disruptive innovation but what is also more important comes back to you part of the political question is that speed is important i think to the key topics for democracies and that's probably what prism i can try to push in his speech in the european parliament is that democracies need to reinvent the capacity of experimenting so even the germans i can fully understand and by that topic about we need to do structural reforms but we also need to experiment new ways and i thank you very much for coming in today because well with the experiment thank you will mccaw says he'll present a united front join euro zone reform with germany by june but he'll have to win over mrs merkel in that time and he has a whole nation to convince that his own domestic ref

trumps so when you're at home try to take this empty space and to reverse the privilege contact mr obama had resigned america to what paris ok so you're saying he's filling in a vacuum with the special relationship is concerned despite all this choreography that the a scene and all of these kind of atmospherics and good atmospherics and boom what they have a serious issues which divides the two leaders how do you see that shaping up that's their one billion dollar question indeed they are very clear the opposite views on you. like global warming or trades or iran and it's up to my trying to and also reproduced you show donald trump there is no american interest to be part of the game and not to step aside and how does success what do you think you blitz take say a lot of the issues in iran which donald trump would like to scrap the deal described. evah how do you see how effectively mccombe in getting him to change his mind and that the staff is not very optimistic on this issue to say we are here to deliver messages we don't broker a deal or new agreements but maybe they have been some

even today, in this decade, the president, mr. obama and his wife, and friends visited the estate on vacation and they came up the approach road and they suddenly came to the house and saw everything about it, and then they walked through the house and were standing and looking out and president obama said, now this is why we came. back in the 1880's, george vanderbilt came and saw this, this wonderful view in western north carolina and he saw this view of mount his guy and the french river valley. he started purchasing land and built this home on the property for him and his guest. the estate at one time was 4000 acres. we are now at 8000 acres. this is an english garden set here in western north carolina. it is just one part of the larger gardens, what was historically, and we still call it the home grounds. the gardens associated with the biltmore house. much of the land that vanderbilt was purchasing and looking at the time, because of its proximity to metropolitan or lived in areas of the time, much of the land had been over forres

and mrs. obama. 43 and mrs. obama are also good friends. it really is a club. >> yeah. >> you are familiar with what happened. and i think you have a lot of empathy because you know that's probably the toughest job in the universe. you know, craig, we are talking about a former president who has been in fragile health lately. but we are also talking about someone who just a few years ago went sky diving. he is a fighter. >> definitely a fighter. and of course mrs. bush had had enough of the jumping and at one time she said it's going to be his last, one way or the other. and they dealt with great -- you know n kenny bunk port, you know, he was out on a run and the pool would go with him and he would say let's go watch the women play tennis. it's like watching the grass grow, because he was famous for the speed boat and you know, these kinetic rounds of golf. but you also have to remember that they functioned almost seamlessly, one knowing what the other was thinking. and we now know the story of the doctor. he had been upstairs to see mrs.

but going on to the obama statement, anderson, we received a statement from president and mrs. obama'll always be grateful to mrs. bush for the generosity she showed to us throughout our time in the white house. we're even more grateful for the way she lived her life. as a testament to the fact that public service is an important and noble calling. as an example of the humility and decency that reflects the very best of the american spirit. so those statements among hundreds and indeed thousands likely pouring into the bush family. of course everyone remembering them for their unique role, her unique role in american history, anderson. >> and at such an important time in american history as well. jeff zeleny, thanks. barbara bush had a unique vantage point on politics. in 2005, she talked to larry king about how it feels to have people picking on your kids even if that kid happens to be president of the united states. >> historically republicans and democrats have had great friendships. >> i think some of them still do. there's certainly a lot of bitterness, though. >> yeah, there is

i am a great respect her of mrs. obama, michelle obama and why she is doing. obesity is a huge problem in our country and she is working on it . she is getting criticized for it , government should not tell you what to eat. somebody has got to tell these people what to eat, these children cannot be obese at a young age. it is just not healthy. it costs the country, it is a horrible thing. make ourselves brighter, smarter, educated and along with that we have got to eat. she is crying that she will gardens so i have -- she is growing vegetable hardens so i have respect for her. host: what about your predecessor in your successor? is a:0 my predecessor wonderful lady who worked hard on it drugs. my successor was a great secretary of state. what did she work on? secretary of state. maybe she worked on my boy, bill. your husband and bill clinton have become good friends. my husband, bill clinton and i have become good friends. he visits us every summer. we do not agree politically but we do not talk politics. i think you would have to someplace, i read before you

i am a great respecter of mrs. obama, michelle obama, what she is doing. obesity is a huge problem in our country, and she is working on it. she is getting criticized for it. governments shouldn't tell you what to eat. somebody has got to tell people what to eat. these children cannot be obese at a young age. it is not healthy. it costs the country. it is a horrible thing. we have got to make ourselves brighter, smarter, educated, and we have got to educate our people on what to eat. she is growing vegetable gardens, so i have respect for that. >> what about your predecessor and your successor? >> my predecessor, nancy reagan, is a wonderful lady, and she worked very hard on drugs. my successor was a great secretary of state. what did she work on? i guess secretary of state. >> your husband and bill clinton have become good friends. >> that's right. my husband, bill clinton, and i have become friends. he visits every summer. we don't agree politically, but we don't talk politics. i think you have to understand. i read someplace, before you are critical of

implement and of course there's a lot of political resistance to that change when we also know that mr obama does have friends the leader of poland the russian president as we heard in that report even the interior minister of germany mr holford seems to be on his side so . how strong is the support for him from outside the country. victor over and has protection as they say in mafia circles probably he has political protection within the european people's party that is the strongest conservative grouping within the european parliament that is also home to the german christian democrats and they have a very insistent party so we heard. dissent are about if you talk to who is the head of the sparking grouping the german and ask them about ticked off and why they continue to defend him and protect him he says really he's not that bad at heart he is a european and that really is as if you talk to the owner of a pit bull and he says oh he doesn't really want to bite you he's playing as drugs should be buying a pit bull to begin with a lot of people would say let me ask you before the resultant p

mr. trump's most effective cabinet secretary. he started rolling back more than two dozen obama-era environmental regulations, including mr. obama's signature vehicle emission standards and clean power plan. he also successfully advocated for the president to pull out of the paris climate accord. another factor working in mr. e uitt's favor: white house thficials say the president doesn't think he can get someone as effective as pruitt confirmed. that said, the president has been known to praise an official one day, and fire them by tweet the next. jeff. >> glor: julianna goldman, thank you very much. the pacific coast is bracing for another round of heavy rain. there is a chance it could trigger mud slides in california. meteorologist eric fish certificate tracking this wild weather, eric? >> it has been a very active, last six weeks, the end of winter bringing all the moisture. now we have another pineapple express event that will bring heavy rainfall and a risk for some flooding along with it. this one focused mostly toward the bay area northward. so northern, central california, picking up the heaviest rain amounts. the

and former president obama and mrs. obama wrote, we'll always be grateful for the generosity mrs. bush showed us for the time we were in the white house but even more grateful for the way she lived her life. and bill clinton wrote bausch are bush was fierce and feisty in her support for family and friends and others. j.j. watt wrote, thank you, b h barbara bush. i'm forever thankful for your friendship. >>> also this morning washington is abuzz following news of a secret meeting between director mike pompeo and kim jong-un. his secret visit comes amid preparations for a summit between president trump and kim expected within the next few months. pompeo travelled to north korea over easter weekend. that's according to the "washington post." they were holding direct talks at extremely high levels and this morning south kia is considering changing the armistice that ended the korean war that ended in a peace agreement. >>> southwest airlines says it's beginning enhanced inspections on its engines similar to the one that blew apart yesterday. a passenger was killed when parts of the en

migration including a twenty five percent tax on agencies and organizations supporting refugees by mr obama also vowed to continue fighting against the e.u. quota on refugees a plan meant to relocate asylum seekers across europe so let's bring in our guests joining us from budapest is getting a raw and i'm a list of hunger a center for fair political analysis in berlin political analyst and a professor and european studies at stanford university in berlin and by skype from london is matthew goodwin professor of politics and international relations at the university of kent thank you all for joining us good day raj nigh in budapest let me start with you viktor orban is widely expected to win a third term in this election how much has his anti immigrant agenda helped him to win votes and why is he so popular i think he has two main forces for him being popular one is the economy economy is has been growing ever since he came into poverty which wasn't true before so that's a plus for him but the other issue is migration. but he she used to create an identity for his base so these base has a ve

france for holding the red line that mr obama did not.fortunately chemical weapons would have been used in syria over and over. in that context, probably the attack did achieve the objective. probably we did not destroy everything but i doubt the butcher syria has the guts to use it again now that he knows there's somebody in the white house that will hold the red line. the war isn't over, president assad is probably going to rage war against, for example, the rebels in eastern,, in douma, so granted there have been some airstrikes but there's still no change in the status quo? there will be no change in the status quo u nfortu nately be no change in the status quo unfortunately when russian air force and russian air power is supporting the butcher of syria and iranian militias on the ground, including the biggest iranian militia, hezbollah, attacking syria and is and killing them in their own homes in their own countries. why not come to the table and negotiate with president assad? we are at the table in geneva for the last four years,

fortunately enough it's not that russia still mr obama's ideal state is a liberal democracy like putin's russia but people don't get shot here because of their opposition views what swung the election the independent candidates way was a campaign highlighting official corruption in this small town voters were won over it seems by a national scandal involving the misuse of european union funds to install substandard street lighting the company involved is owned by victor all bans son in law. there are questions about a giant intersection bill through the e.u. infrastructural farms will cost florida murtha says to more than double what it should have been. if indeed it should have been built at all so this is you found what they're stealing but they're spending on the and of course these new phones are the only source of economic growth in hungary in the last quite a few years you'd think people would be outraged and. head to the current government cannot be accused of things that have not been proven words the fleeting off facts. i mean the opposition is opposition because they always fin

their voters more and it could benefit either side potentially is there a chance do you think of mr obama in fact losing power or is that a stretch too far. i think three options are opened up on wins we did two thirds majority that she does wins with a simple majority but it's going to happen if you just lose it's majority in the parliament however is that is that a realistic prospect are we just looking at the possibility i would say it's a possibility i would say the heart the the most likely situation scenario would be that he does wins with a simple majority or even we did two thirds majority but i would say the most realistic scenario is that fitness means we disapprove majority but let's not forget of course that the second big party in the running here i mean let's be careful what we wish for in a sense the second big party is your pick a far right party with new. nazi roots however it has tried to dress itself up as a more centrist force in the last couple of years it's hardly an appetizing prospect is it either for voters all of the wider e.u. to see a far right party in power o

bush, mr. obama or mr.erica will break any treaty it has to get what it wants but in this case there is no treaty, we're outlaws, doing something that is outlawed internationally. >>> spanish police found nearly 9 tons of cocaine concealed in a banana shipment from colombia. a european record for the drugs found inside a shipment container. six people were arrested in that particular operation >>> all right. you are up to date that's the news update this hour back to "squawk alley. i will send it back downtown to you. >> all right sue, thanks so much. >>> tim cook arriving at the white house for his meeting with the president a few moments ago. eamon javers is there with more. >> good morning. the white house is keeping a little bit mum about what exactly cook's schedule is but just a few moments ago our eagle eyed camera man did capture images of tim cook leaving the southwest gate of the white house which indicates he was in the white house already today and walking across the street to the u.s. trade rep

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bush, or mr. obama. some of the presidents have leadersd north korean to not a bite to agreements.his president make it real ofry about this kind by northus conduct koreans after agreements. i think they have to be really careful. i don't know if they know about that. you thinkassador, north korea is genuine in these negotiations? what?: genuine about denuclearization? haidi: that is right. ichiro: can they change themselves? [laughter] i think their main purpose is to retain their administration. the regime. kim jong-un and his family. i don't think he will really believe in the secured assurance of any country. on to whatry to hold they have as long as possible, but at the same time, they may try to decrease and tried to give up if they think -- it is not an alliance, but if they can defend themselves without it. it is not by assurance because they know other countries be thate would not shared or sustainable. i think we'll try to see if they can hold on to themselves, without nuclear. idea we talked about the of the korean culture of self reliance. looking ahead, let's game this

what was interesting this is mrs. obamang on about that she is not going to run for president. she said that's out. she doesn't know about oprah winfrey. i think the most controversial aspect who said women who did not vote for hillary clinton voted against their own voice. >> we have heard that time and time again. their husbands told them to who vote for. >> they try to disqualify the women who voted for president trump is could not be more sexist or wrong or offensive. the reason there is this false narrative, the media don't want to give him credit for the accomplishments. they want to remove him from office. makeup phoney scandals with russia with no evidence to support it whatsoever. it's disgrateful. >> greg, you were named parent of the year. >> that is true. how would you sort this out? >> focus on the metaphor. i applaud a clever metaphor. this was funny, but it was wrong. number 1 he is not an irresponsible parent. he is the opposite. he is a precocious child whom we love. if you are in panic, then you don't get

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thing first lady melania trump in attendance of this ceremony sitting next to president obama and mrs. obamaought with her two members to have white house resident staff, george haney, former head and buddy carter, the usher, current you -- curber and she kw melania trump, the first lady knew how much they loved the staff and the staff loved them so they were her official guests to the funeral. shep. shepard: often the first lady is the one who kind of runs the house and i wondered compare today some others was she into it or was she busy with literacy projects or how did that go? >> no, listen, the staff always talked fondly about the bush's, of all the families that some of those staff members reflect on, they reflect positively on 41's presidency, there was this sense that they just loved the people who worked for them and she mentioned it a lot. so i think that that -- that white house was in particular one that the staff reflected on and as you are looking at this -- this effort to bring her remains to college station and as they pull up there, the presidential library where she will be

after statement from president and mrs. obama on the bassing of barbara bush. they say barbara bush was the rock of a family dedicated to public service. our thoughts and prayers are with both president bush and the entire bush family. we'll always be grateful for the generosity she shared with us for her time in the white house and even more the way she lived her life and a testament that public service is an important and noble calling. the humility and decency that reflects the american spirit. she'll be remembered for passing those american values on to her children, her grandchildren, great grad children and the countless citizens whom she and george inspired to become points of light in service to others. >> you know, so good, anderson, to hear the sentiments from the trumps and the obamas. it recalls another age where people were more civil. and both couples handled it with grace tonight in saluting barbara bush. i do want to tell you, anderson, george h.w. bush was thinking about running for president in the late '70s, he invited me to spend the weekend

investigation, his words, was, quote, headed up by all the democratic loyalists or people who work for obama. mr. president, will you start telling the truth? robert mueller is a republican. deputy attorney rosenstein is a republican whom you appointed. christopher wray, the head of the f.b.i., is a republican whom you appointed. i don't know how long the president can believe that people will swallow just the bold mistruths that he spews out day after day after day. but what he said is that the people that, quote, the investigation was being headed up by all democratic loyalists or people who work for obama is patently false, and the president should retract it. it's all too obvious, however, these kinds of remarks make it all too obvious that the president, who cares little for truth, may be considering the firing of the special counsel or the deputy attorney general. so i'd like to direct my remarks and -- to my republican colleagues. i say to my republican colleagues, you can no longer rely on anonymous sources as a reason for delay or inaction on legislation to protect mr. mueller and avoid

former president obama and mrs. obamaut out a statement calling barbara bush the rock of a family dedicated to public service. they called her an example of humility and deessentiality that reflects the very best of the american spirit. we should say that barbara bush passed tonight in a way that was not unforeseeable. she suffered from congestive heart failure and pulmonary disease. she had been in failing health over the weekend. the family announced that barbara bush had chosen to stop further medical treatment to prolong her life and instead to just move to palliative care. she's survived of course by form er president george h.w. bush, survived by her kids and grandkids. an american political family and dynasty like no other. joining us now is nbc news presidential historian michael beshlas. it's a sad night. >> it is a sad night. >> barbara bush was a high profile first lady. during the reagan years, when she was the wife of the vice president, she, with those 12 years in the white house, carved out a high profile r

elections i mean we like it or not but mr obama was elected by forty nine percent of the people's but it was probably a mass of money palatial minds going on but that innovation needs the financing and that financing is not going to come from a divided europe what financing is important and this is why we are pushing for for an agency for disruptive innovation but what is also more important comes back to you part of the political question is that speed is important i think the key topics for democracies and that's probably what prism michael try to push in his speech in the european parliament is that democracies need to reinvent the capacity of experimenting so even the germans i can fully understand and by that topic about we need to do structural reforms but we also need to experiment new ways and i thank you very much for coming in today i hope it is well with the experiment thank you for my cost says he'll present a united front on euro zone reform with germany by june he'll have to win over mrs merkel in that time and he has a whole nation should convince that his own domestic

if mr. obama had done that or george w. just can't imagine former presidents doing that. and now it just seems kind of normal. >> it does, and that's a shame. it's part of this president's war on norms, institutions, checks and balances. he goes after his predecessors of both parties. he goes after the free press, attacking this network and others. he's now apparently waging war on amazon because he doesn't like "the washington post's" fearless coverage of him. he attacks his own justice department, puts it in quotations as if it's not really about justice because they're investigating potential crimes that may have occurred during his campaign. he attacks his own fbi. federal judges are so-called judges, unable to rule because they're mexican-american. he is a wannabe autocrat. that's the problem. he's going after anything that could be a check. so he'll destroy any norm or any standard, and i think that's what the history is going to show about this man when it's all said and done. >> i appreciate it. >>> coming up, more

obama didn't initiate that but then during the presidential -- presidential campaign hillary clinton said he would pull out said trump even hillary clinton said she would get out of that but the house said mr. president obama if you could change three or four things we could vote for it and he said no. take it or leave it it wasn't going to pass the house anyway because there were the same concerns in the senate.e. i think we were very close to having a good deal i would rather have cns pullback to renegotiate a few elements that may not be too late for that framework. >> now we hear from the next call from maryland. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. listening b to other callers i am convinced of brainwashing and dumbing down of america is completed by the media outletsts like cnn and msnbc i was a lifelong democrat i left the democratic party because in good conscience i cannot remain all the facts that you brought up about obama debt of 7 trillion which he promised during the campaign he would cut in half for the democrats out there have to tell you but my biggest frustration with government is the impotence of congress it just appears like with this fbi saying that it is so egreg