obama: take a vote. but the american people should know that with or without congressional action, isil will learn the same lessons that terrorists before them. if you doubt america's commitment or mind to see that justice is done, just ask osama bin laden. [applause] pres. obama: ask the leader of al qaeda in yemen who was taken out last year. or the perpetrator of the benghazi attacks, who sits in a prison cell. when you come after americans, we go after you. and it may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limits. [applause] pres. obama: our foreign policy has to be focused on the threat from isis and al qaeda. but it can't stop there. for even without isil, even without al qaeda, instability will continue for decades in many parts of the world. in the middle east, in afghanistan, parts of pakistan, and parts of central america and africa and asia. some of these places may become safe havens for new terrorist networks. others will just fall victim to ethnic conflict or famine. fee

at the white house, president barack obama watched the protests on television. >> when obama sees theseinsurrections in north africa and the middle east, he is very excited by them. >> now suddenly, it looks like the forces of history are in the squares, not in the presidential palaces. and now the president wants to be on the right side of history. >> narrator: for three decades, mubarak had been an american ally. >> the arab street is rising up against these dictators, and i think obama faced this moment, this decision. >> obama is very enthusiastic about what's happening in tahrir square, more than many people in his own cabinet. and he wants to put america on the side of that. >> narrator: the president decided to get involved: he would tell mubarak to leave. >> i was with him in the oval office when he does this phone call to mubarak. he was trying to nudge mubarak in a certain direction, and mubarak was in a state of complete denial. mubarak is telling the president, "you don't understand. i understand my people." >> narrator: and in front of the cameras, obama repeated his demand

>> obama's saying: "i don't care how black you think i am, i'mma do me." >> larry: obama said that?> didn't have to. he's so far in it now, it's even happening subconsciously. watch this. >> because criminals and. terrorists have exploited and are exploiting this very obvious loofhole in our gun safety laws. >> larry: uhh, what happened? >> larry, he said "loofhole!" he's been pronouncing words correctly in front of america for seven years but now he's using the unnecessary black "f. >> larry: wow. i had no idea. >> do yo>> do you know what a tf ishole is? a little troof on your birfday. >> larry: ohhh, okay. so that's release the blacken. that's why he's not worried about norf korea? >> careful larry, you're only in the first year of your show. don't release too much. >> larry: okay, thanks! bluejasmine-- >> bluejasmine steeplechase. >> larry: bluejasmine steeplechase, everybody. we'll be right back. (air horn, trap door opening) rootmetrics, in the nation's largest independent study, tested wireless performance across the country. verizon won big with one hundred fifty three state

administration which includes president obama himself.so let first talk about the problem. the trend of anker and-expand executive goes back to the presidency of head to door roosevelt. as presidential power pass grown, and even as the political divide continues to widen, the partisan political divide, one thing unites republican and democrat presidency and to curb the executive and restore to some degree the rule of law. these reforms unfortunately have been largely in effective. ... this is really may be the most unprecedented of things. that the obama administration has accomplished, the president himself and his advisor seemed to see there's nothing to be ashamed of. we don't go around congress but it is a way of governing, something to brag about. we can't wait says the president, we can't, we can't wait so i will just take my pen out sign it. obama believes there is some inherent virtue in the president ignoring the constitution's separation of power and the laws that are on the statue books in favor of presidential decree. as if pr

obama: all right? so we're going to advance research, we're going to work with the private sector to update firearms technology. some gun retailers are already stepping up by refusing to finalize a purchase without a complete background check or by refraining from selling semiautomatic weapons or high capacity magazines. and i hope that more retailers and more manufacturers join them. because they should care as much as anybody about a product that now kills almost as many americans as car accidents. i make this point because none of us can do this alone. i think mark made that point earlier. all of us should be able to work together to find a balance that declares the rest of our rights are also important. second amendment rights are important. there are other rights that we care about as well. and we have to be able to balance them. because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina, and that was denied jews in kansas city, and that was d

everything press obama does is not going to be just what president obama does but do you want president cruz doing it and you want president trump doing it? at some point someone like him will be president do you want them to have those powers and is a it worth what everything president obama is achieving right now to risk the future? ultimately the obama administration's cavalier ads toward the rule of law can only be justified is law's politics by another name anyway. lott has done in value and therefore get what you can now i don't worry about it. if that's what obama and his appointees really believe may be the critical legal scholars have won after all. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you david. if president trump does it, one thing we know will be tremendous. all right we are going to now hear from ellie shapiro. i asked because as you heard italy as of late friday night is a first time, late monday night is a first-time father. [applause] i won't comment further on that. all right,. [laughter] we are going to hear from ilia who is a senior fellow in consciousness studies

amy: michelle obama sat next to an empty seat last night.hat seat symbolizing the thousands of people who are missing in this country, killed because of gun violence. could that seat have also represented the number of people who have been deported, even some of president obama's closest allies in the latino community and latino organizations have called him the to porter in chief. >> i don't think it is my job as a member of commerce to call the president names, but what i will say is last week, i called out the president's policy when it comes to deportation, this sort of extreme enforcement and communities, and the congressional district that i represent is causing so much great fear in communities. children not going to school, people not going to work, being afraid to be seen in visible in their communities. i think it is a responsible -- in fact, just last week i had a pretty heated conversation with ice officials about their enforcement activities and my congressional district and across the country. placethere is another where the ad

i want to look at obama care and the obama care pitch. again, if i were writing about obama care a few years ago i would write about it in terms of it does not work, it does not efficient, it discourages people. now let's look at obama care a little differently. let's look at obama care as a competent scheme or scan. so obama goes to the american people and says hey guys, i have a good one for you. you see these insurance companies, they are rich, they have a lot of money, let's you and i go get them. let's make them do stuff that they otherwise would not do. stupid stuff, let's make let's make them ensure us for ailments that we had before. think of how crazy that is, that's like calling the fire insurance when your house is already on fire. how do we do that? a lot of americans ate what a great idea obama, you go get them. but now the plot thickens. because obama sits down with the ceos of insurance companies and he says guys, i have a deal for you. i want to have greater federal control over the whole healthcare industry, you will not

obama took office. i think there are so many hotspots right now that have to be dealt with, whether it is russian aggression, chinese cyber hacking, isis, the threat of radical islam throughout -- it is a global phenomenon now. it goes beyond containment, rather destroying the threat, and we are doing a good job. it's dealing with isis, which i think the president has disregarded. it was supposed to all the over, but the reality is isis reared its ugly head. you can't turn a blind eye to it, you can't pretend like it doesn't exist. you have to deal with it -- a lot of people have a simplistic notion that you push a button, you carpet bomb, and bomb the shit out of them, and there is a military piece to this that is critical, but there is also a political piece to this. there is a war in syria and assad has to be a part of it. the russians can play a constructive role with mr. assad. the russians will have a homeland security department of their own, and i think dealing with the political situation on th

and obama is late.this is sort of a fraught moment, dick cheney has broken protocol to publicly attack him and say his decision to end the black site program and torture is going result in the to united states being attacked in a catastrophic way, and the day before, cheney says this, and that afternoon he is supposed to go meet relatives of the victimized of the 9/11 attacks and the cole bombings who are upset with him they have the frozen military proceedings at guantanamo, very stressful moment with the possibility of app an take in the forefront of his mind. comes in chewing nicotine gun so obviously a little stress it, and sitting around the table in the situation room are members of the permanent security state, the director of national intelligence next federal bureau of investigation, the central intelligence agency, the national security agency, their directors and lawyers and justice department national security officials, people -- these are micropeople. people who stay on between administrat

mike thompson of california, have come to obama's defense. rep. thompson: the critics of president obama's executive action say that he's overstepping his boundaries, he thinks he's the king, and then the same folks say it's okay to take arms and overrun a government building. it's a real contradiction. scott: this isn't the first time the president has taken heat for overstepping congress. prof. wayne: institutional and political rivalries will generate debate over executive pres. obama: the truth is, even with all the actions i've taken this year, i'm issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. so, it's not clear how it is that republicans didn't seem to mind when president bush took more executive actions than i did. scott: he has a point -- maybe -- president george w. bush issued nearly 300 executive orders during his two terms in office. but obama isn't too far behind -- he's at nearly 230 so far -- and vowing even more. president obama has warned he will not sit idly by on the sidelines during his final year and it's

but obama isn't too far behind -- he's at nearly 230 so far -- and vowi president obama has warned he will not sit idly by on the sidelines during his final year and it's a safe bet he will outline even more new actions in his state of the union speech, tuesday night. sharyl: thank you, scott. an update to "breaking bad," our report on the billion dollar federal agen, nist, that got caught with a meth lab operating in its midst. christopher bartley, the nist police lieutenant who was operating the lab when it blew week. he was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison. congress is investigating whatican calls the culture misconduct at nist police services from alleged timecard -- which nist denies. still ahead on "full measure" -- it is must-see tv for the campaign season. next, a closer look at the substance of debates past and the profits of reality tv sharyl: the real heat ofea the presidential campaigns begins in february 1st kicks off the iowa caucuses. candidates from both parties debate this week at separate events in south carolina. there was a rumor once that the debates were

but, yes, the sun is going down on barack obama's presidency. now, something tells me unless ben carson can pull off a miracle rivaling the time he sawed those two damn babies in half, we're probably not going to be seeing another black guy delivering the state of the union for a while. you guys. >> audience: ooh! >> larry: i know. there was a lot of anticipation for this speech. the room was filled with all the standard dignitaries: the supreme court, the joint chiefs, even some celebrities. oh, look at that. dog the bounty hunter. ( laughter ) okay, i'm sorry. it's my fault! i'm sorry. okay. that was a really cheap, unfair comparison. my apologies to dog the bounty hunter. bam! did it again! i'm so bad. all right. ( laughter ) all right, mr. president, state of the union, episode seven. come on, man, bring it like that black stormtrooper fighting the evil empire. an unemployment rate cut in half. our auto industry just had its best year ever. gas under two bucks a gallon ain't too bad, either. if you doubt my commitment to see justice done, ju

of legislation, obama care. but nina is right if they come up with a plan to actually replace it, that may put the blue print necessary for when a republican president comes in to office of how to get rid of obama care, in the post obama, era. >> the program has not improved. the premiums are rising and state coopes are closing and is this the time to drive a silver stake th >> politically, you can't. only a third of the americans support repealing obama care and millions are relying on obama care and medicaid that is expanded in states where there is republican governors that are vulnerable next year. it is it a difficult thing to do politically to repeal it. you are right, jon. premiums have gone up and health companies and insurance companies have pulled out. it is just not been the perfect plan that president obama and certainly not the affordable care act that president obama promised. >> does it become a problem for vulnerable republicans come canning up, jamie? >> i am not sure it does. obama care is very

president obama addressing congress and the nation. a wide array of topic, the past, the future, the isis and a message for the man or woman who is in the white house after him. we're live in washington. >>> relocating. an nfl team returning to los angeles and possibly one following. the fans reacting overnight. >>> plus, ship accident. high winds and seas causing a huge ferry to smash into a pier. >>> well, good wednesday morning. from the persian gulf. ten u.s. sailors detained by the iranian revolutionary guard. >> the nine men and one woman were on a training mission in two small boats then one of the vessels became disabled and drifted into iranian waters. the revolutionary guard apprehended them. some tense hoursle toed. >> but this morning a top iranian navy official said their investigation had determined that the american ship had encountered mechanical trouble. the sailors are expected to be transferred to a u.s. ship sometime today. >>> more on that as we get it. >>> in the crisis with north korea, the south has just fired s

t's part of the obama era. and the president post-san bernandino, but san bernandino gives someone like president obama the connection with national security. that was a terrorist attack that these people got guns easily in the united states. and i'm not weighing on which side but i'm pointing out that president obama is going to make his a major part of his last year. i envision as ex-president in chicago weighing in on the public schools, holding town hall forums, working to make chicago safer and use the model what he does in chicago for other places in the united states. i wouldn't be surprised if he does more town halls this year on the gun issue and in the end we are going to vote. hillary clinton is with president obama. we'll see who wins the 2016 presidentsal election and it will be very telling which way this gun control issue will move. how when he was president, he couldn't run for re-election in 1952 because he had a 27 approval rating and nobody wanted much to do anything. lyndon johnson in 1968,

obama: all right?e going to advance research, we're going to work with the private sector to update firearms technology. some gun retailers are already stepping up by refusing to finalize a purchase without a complete background check or by refraining from selling semiautomatic weapons or high capacity magazines. and i hope that more retailers and more manufacturers join them. because they should care as much as anybody about a product that now kills almost as many americans as car accidents. i make this point because none of us can do this alone. i think mark made that point earlier. all of us should be able to work together to find a balance that declares the rest of our rights are also important. second amendment rights are important. there are other rights that we care about as well. and we have to be able to balance them. because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina, and that was denied jews in kansas city and that was denied mus

obama mania, they call it. the rock star. >> this has been an interesting ride, 2 1/2 years ago nobody knew my name. >> reporter: then came 2008, a long shot first term senator challenging the clinton machine. the campaign became a mass movement. a wave of hope. >> what's the one thing in your life that you think prepares you best for that moment? >> in difficult or stressful moments, i don't get rattled. >> reporter: and obama himself turned out to be a highly polarizing president. polls show he's never become either hugely popular like ronald reagan or bill clinton, or hugely unpopular like jimmy carter or george w. bush. his favorability hovers under 50%. his presidency a time of turmoil and division and bitter angry politics. the opposite of what he promised and hoped when he burst on to ignited the 2004 democratic convention. >> we are one people, all of us plenling allegiance to the stars and stripes. all of us defending the united states of america. >> reporter: after tonight, no more of these presidenti

because of barack obama's leadership. osama bin laden has been killed and we destroyed organization that threaten our nation. we have more to do. of course we do. historical agreements on climate change and to stop iran from gaining weapons have been achieved. within the last few days, iran shipped out of iran 12 tons of urr uranium. 12 tons because of barack obama. now we have a lot more to do for america on behalf of the american people. we can't ignore the progress that has been made. my friend talks about the new senate. and there is a new senate because you have a constructive minority. democrats are willing to work with them. the issues we have been able to pass with exception have been issues we should have passed years ago. we could not because the republicans filibustered every we tried to do. we have a lot more to do for the american people. it is a wonderful country and i am pleased with the progress we made during the seven years of barack obama. >> this raises the question of what it takes of the union. the s

and you know, wrapping herself in obama and the obama legacy is one thing. but saying, you know, i'm just going to give you the same thing is to ignore what is going on in this country this year. what's going on with this grassroots uprising. why are people discontent? why did we have the occupy movement? why do we have the fight for 15 movement and all these young people who prefer sanders and you just can't pretend that's not going on and make a credible case that you're the winning candidate. >> jonathan, let me ask you this, which is how about this version. when you're talking just about electability which i've heard this version now, which i think there's something to, right? if what you say is true, if this would be a huge risk and that's clear to you, right? and here's this person who frankly in terms of the spectrum of american politics would be something quite different, if hillary clinton can't beat that person in the primary, then she's not a very good political candidate anyway, right? i mean from a pure electability standpoint in some ways it so

obama and mrs. obama in d.c. a few years ago. host: to what extent have last year's presidents tackled issues like guns? a few days ago, president -- shed tea tears rs. i would introduce myself to somebody and someone would say i say my name -- and i lost my daughter at newtown. the national rifle association is very strong. the president is starting to build a coalition. he is starting to build the coalition. i think we will see him continuing in that role. i'm trying to get background checks for gun purchases made much tougher. of the union, the symbolic moment of the evening is going to be the empty chair. if you go to oklahoma city, they have an amazing memorial done there. they have mt chairs in a park that people come to visit. the chair will be representative of the people killed by gun violence. it will be a solemn moment. symbolism of that that tells you how much the president wants to make reducing gun violence part of his last year in office issue. climate change, which is popular in the american press, it is starting

i sitly say i want to encourage obama. when it comes to managing this problem, the obama administration is sitly not managed it. if they wanted couriers to play, then you should have the resources in to do resources. and they haven't done it. if you want to oppose it, you shouldn't be putting hab yus for people who shouldn't win. it seems to me nobody's overseeing that. no one is overseeing the whole process and all the different parts of it. >> assuming that they're moved to the united states and have had a negative prd, how do you think that changes legal arguments that might be made and whether legal arguementeds might be successful. >>> well, the whole reason for guantanamo was outside the united states, they have no rights. there's no way he can hold people without being charged a crime. >> hi, i'm a former fellow here. i wonder -- i heard you talking earlier on the former guantanamo, using it as a strategy for war. talk about guantanamo becoming this symbol and what it means as a strategy, if you're fighting a war on

obama was acting like bush. distinguished commentator today is michael glennan, profession of international law at tufts university and the former legal counsel to the smart foreign relations committee. his 2014 book "national security and double government" was the most disturbing thing i read that year. in it professor glennan asks the key question, why does national security policy remain constant even when one president is replace i by another who as a candidate repeatedly forcefully and eloquently promised fundamental changes in that policy. he identified three possible causes for this striking degree of policy continuity between the two administrations. one, a rational good-faith threat assessment by political actors, the policies we needed, given the threats we faced. another is the enormous political pressures brought to bear on the presidency, whether rational or not. but professor glennan puns his emphasis on a third cause, what he calls an emergent autocracy made up of national security insiderrers we

you're arguing against barack obama and the legacy of the obama administration, by pursuing the payer system and pursuing your goal you are saying you want to abandon the affordable care act, abandon everything that president obama fought for. did bernie sanders make clear enough to democrats out there who like president obama, who wanted to defend his legacy, that he is not a threat to president obama's legacy? >> i think whoever you talk to, what is fascinating with this debate, what you saw with the democrats talking about how great the affordable care act is, that doesn't happen very often. and bernie sanders, a huge critic says now he wants to build on it. hillary clinton has been critical of it before, too. i think sanders' people, his supporters have watched hillary clinton's attacks over sanders over health care and felt really good about the attacks. they felt like as long as they said universal health care is not a good idea and this sort of vision of the pie in the sky, they feel good about it. but the clinton people feel good about the fact they got sanders to put a plan o

all we need to do do is get rid of that guy obama.what the data is, but he doesn't seem to get credit for it. for whatever reason, there's a funk. to responsible to the question about the listeners, they feel there's a funk. they're not feeling as if they're for real. >> don't you think it's because they don't feel it in their paychecks? >> no, i think there's a climate of negativity that's been so pervasive and so spun, they can't accept reality when the news is good. >> they're not mutually exclusive. >> there's factors that play a role, but i think he is the face of change in this country. he is a transformational figure, not just in what he's done, but in who he is. there are people in this country who simply don't feel comfortable with that. >> but the yearning for change, if you look at the metrics and data and seeing what's happening in the campaign to replace him, the yearning is high, if not high other, in the way trump is the new obama. republicans -- vote owes last time wet for the thoughtful professorial change, who said h

at issue, president obama.on said that bernie sanders has been really harsh on president obama, and i want you to watch bernie sanders' face while she's saying this. >> senator sanders called him weak, disappointing. he even in 2011 publicly sought someone to run in a primary against president obama. >> so did he really do all of this? was he really that harsh in his attacks on president obama? in fact, he did use those words. he did not say them directly. he said many americans feel that way about president obama. and he did say it might be a good idea if somebody out there were challenging him to push his political agenda more toward the left. he didn't exactly do it. so she's a little bit off on that. but the simple truth is if you add it all up you have to say that what she said was mostly true. you can find out a whole lot more about all of our reality checks on everything the candidates said. cnn.com/realitycheck. wolf? >> tom foreman, thanks very much. david axelrod, that look on bernie sanders' face, th

obama: i will keep working to shut down the prison at guanta. namo. it is expensive, it is unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies. sen. graham:here will be a bipartisan backlash, a constitutional crisis, if he tries to do this. sharyl: republican senator lindsey graham is a chief critic of efforts to close guantanamo sen. graham: his campaign promise will not be fulfilled. the problem with president obama, he doesn't understand that his campaign promises have to yield to reality. sharyl: are you saying it won't be closed down? sen. graham: no. sharyl: how can it be stopped? senator graham: congress won't let it. sharyl: the debate has gone on since almost the start. the gitmo prison was opened during the george w. bush administration after the september 11 terrorist attacks on the u.s. >> two planes apparently crashed into each tower. sharyl: the first 20 detainees arrived just four months after nearly 800 suspected islamic extremist enemy combatants have spent time there. 9 have died, 678 have been released or trans

as president obama said yesterday, it takes a long time.moving forward, we begin with what we know we can do now -- background check legislation, making sure gun dealers and sellers are fully licensed, making sure we give more help to those individuals in this country who are mentally ill so they're not getting their hands on guns, keeping guns out of the hands of convicted criminals, you know, beginning to see a drop in some of the gun trafficking -- illegal gun trafficking, and as he also said, beginning to spend more time and effort -- the department of homeland security and department of justice, you know, spending more time and effort on research for gun safety technology. these are all beginning measures, but there's so much more that has to be done and it is going to take years to really stem this tide of gun culture in the country. and you want to turn to a clip of you testifying, lucia mcbath, the first-ever senate hearing on stand your ground laws. this was back in october, october 20 9, 2013. >> i was raised in a family steeped i

stagnation has become the new normal for the obama administration. in addition to the lack of economic opportunity, families have had to show renewed burdens thanks to the obamacare administration. chief among these is obamacare, the president's health care law that failed to reduce the cost and ripped away millions of americans preferred plans and forced families on to insurance plans they don't want and can't afford, gives patients access to doctors and hospitals, increased taxes, and wasted billions of taxpayer dollars. then there are the burdensome regulations the obama administration imposed that made it more challenges for businesses large and small to grow and create jobs. the environmental agency p-- environmental protection agencies has implemented one damaging rule after another. from backdoor energy tax that hurts poor and working families the most to a new rule that would subject puddles in american's backyards to a complex array of burdensome and regulatory requirements. again and again, i have heard from south dakota ranch owners about