obama and dr. king's face. obama is a politician, king is a prophet. we will see how obama stacked up on the score card, racism and poverty. we could have a full show on where obama stood on racism, poverty and militarism. you have already graded him on militarism. what do you say to people who have gotten lost in that relationship, that narrative they want to run putting king and obama together and suggesting obama is the fulfillment of dr. king's dream? >> outside the fact they were both incredible aur tors, both black and both won the nobel peace price, there are few similarities between dr. king and president obama. president obama chose to ascend to a throne being in control of nuclear weapons. he had the authority to do what he promised, closing graun ton moe, improving the lives of the poor and the black people in this country. by almost every metric, he failed, except comparing him to donald trump. i think people make a fundmental mistake by not allowing dr. king's political legacy to be as

so what all did obama do? he escaped assad from punishment under the allegation of taking out his chical weapons. he didn't take out his chemical weapons, and he did not punish him. that should raise a lot of questions. that should make people start asking why did he do that? why did he lie to the american people and to the entire world? liz: you wrote aneditorial for the wall street journal titled the rubble of obama's syria policy, and you said you told the obama administration about th why obama did not act in syria. why? >> because he wanted to do anything to make the iran deal possible. he was too worried about his own agenda. president obama wanted to become the president who didn't use force and got the deals done. well, sir, you cannot make deals with dictators. you should punish dictators. you should hold them accountable. he made a deal with iran dictatorship. he made a deal with assad. he made a deal with russians. he made a deal with all dictators. with cuba, with a lot of dictators. this should ra

to have obama do it for her. all these people crying and complaining about this, that and the other. they did not get their way to a worse life we would have had and it went their way. what those people need to do is grow up, learn how to deal with the situation of losing and move on. leave donald trump alone. so what, he had not showed his taxes. you know what, it's really nobody's business what he paid on his taxes. it's not your business what i paid on my taxes no more your business whether you paid on yours whether you're president or not. i could be wrong. i could be right but it doesn't matter. that's just my opinion. what we need to do is worry about what's happening in our country and pull together as one to try to help that. host: thanks for the call. host: thanks for the call. his and hers pays for your tax dollars. he and melania adding $100 million to the travel tab so she can fly separately to mar-a-lago with son barron to spend the easter weekend with the president. she traveled there separately abo

i'm not like obama where he takes air force one to hawaii., i will not be taking very long vacations, if i take them at all, there's no time for vacations. there's people that go away for weeks and weeks, i don't like taking vacations, obama likes going on vacation, i like working. if i get elected president, i'm going to be in the white house a lot, i'm not leaving, we have deals to make, who the hell wants to leave, right? >> just not a vacation guy, he said, so keeping them honest. take a look, by the end of the weekend, president trump is will have spent 24 days at mar-a-lago since taking office. and by some estimates he's on track to spend as much on travel in his first year as president obama did in eight years. and then there's golf. >> obama, it was reported today played 250 rounds of golf. everything's executive order, because he doesn't have enough time, because he's playing so much golf. obama ought to get off the golf course and get down there. i'm going to be working for you, i'm not going to have time to go play golf. this guy p

obama and -- obama foundation that is being set up for a while. was very the press glad to hear from their guy. the speech itself, i am sure did not appease the left as much as they would like. i'm sure they and many of their supporters would like for obama to take more of a piling on and criticism of this president. host: did you expect that type of speech? caller: the piling on type? no, i really didn't, because obama's got to at this point speak to a wider audience than he did when he was president. i think he was one of the most divisive presidents we have ever had. his policies were the only thing that hillary wanted to run on. between he and she, it is more likely the reason they lost. calling him to not be president by name, but by inference in a lot of his speeches. at this point, i think he should take a cue from some of the .ther presidents and be quieter that is going to be a lot of money that he is going to require. host: apologies about that. did mean to cut you off. appreciate the call -- didn't mean to cut you off. appreciate the ca

>> the obama administration, during the obama administration, under the obama administration. >> youy. just that's all i can say on this one. sean spicer is exactly right. that there may well have been a mess up in the obama administration when they renewed his clearance if they didn't ask the right questions or if flynn didn't provide the documentation. even if he verbally told them as he says he did. verbally told them about these trips and about these payments, the records don't reflect, the paperwork doesn't reflect this was properly discussed and litigated and that happened on president obama's watch. that's true. but he got one of the most sensitive jobs in government under this president and they won't answer question s about dd they look into any of this. >> this is a pattern with this white house sort of distancing people from the campaign. they did that with paul manafort. i think at some point they referred to michael flynn as sort of like a volunteer. and so at this point it is. this is obama's fault. this is obama's guy. in many ways i think it works for the base. if you

do you think president obama liked the job? >> i think president obama liked it. he saw it as a great historical framework and challenge and time to make his imprint on history and rally the country for big causes, legacy of obamacare and his other signature developments. the interesting question is whether trump will after six months still like this job, i can see where he hands the keys to mike pence and say, give me a call to mar-a-lago. i think he will be frustrated by it. as a businessman used to working solo. and different working with the senate. >> you can't fire people. >> i had a sense president obama didn't like the job at the done, frustrated not being able to get things done. he was done, ready to go. >> he was certainly ready to go when i spoke to him in december. i think he was a little demoralized like a lot of people by the election returns. he was tired, as mark indicated earlier. it's exhausting, i asked him, what will you do now? return to your origins as a community organizer? he said, first, i'm going to get some sleep. he's basically been do

the obama administration. is there anything fair about that? these nominees deserve at least an up or down vote. yes or no. republican filibusters deny them a fair vote and deny the -- ident gridlock has consequences. it is not only that -- not only that for president obama, bad for the united states senate, it is bad for our , it's time to change, it's time to change before this institution becomes obsolete. at the beginning of this congress, a republican leader pledged that this congress should be more bipartisan than the last congress. mr. president we are told in scripture, let's take for example old testament, the book of numbers. promises, pledges, a val, one must not break his word. to promise to work with the majority to process nominations in a timely manner by unanimous consent, except in extraordinary circumstances. latery three weeks republicans mounted a first in history filibuster of a highly qualified nominee for secretary of defense. despite being a former republican senator, a decorated war he

absolutely. ♪ >> president obama: all right. >> anthony: we're about to eat bún cha. and it is about as typical and uniquely a hanoi dish as there is. these beautiful little pork patties, grilled pork belly. bun cha is served in a broth of vinegar, sugar, and the ubiquitous nuoc cham, or vietnamese fermented fish sauce. chilies to taste. i mean, if you have an important state function after, you might not want to go too heavy on the garlic. >> president obama: you know what, i'm going with this thing. you know? we're gonna do what's appropriate. >> anthony: a little vinegar. >> president obama: all right. >> anthony: and then you just hack off noodles, you just drop them in your bowl. >> president obama: yeah, that's not too elegant, but i managed it. >> anthony: and dip and stir and get ready for the awesomeness. >> president obama: i'm ready. now, is it appropriate to just pop one of these whole suckers in your mouth or do you think that you should be a little more -- ? >> anthony: well, slurping is totally acceptable in this

when you look at president obama, melissa monaco, a close adviser to president obama says "i think barack still the leader of the democratic party." how much of a problem is that for the democratic party? >> well, look, the problem is not that obama is the leader. i think if democrats had their druthers, president obama would be out there every day leading the charge against the trump administration. the problem for democrats is that that's not what former president obama wants to do. he wants to have the same kind of life that former presidents before him have had -- the memoirs, building the library, doing speaking gigs around the world and all the rest of it. i'm sure he will step up at various times, but obama knows better than anybody else just how mean and tough donald trump can be. i don't think he wants to get in those sights this early. it's too soon. >> what does it say, mark preston, that the most popular, active politician right now across the bored is bernie sanders? 57% say that, according to "the hill's" polling. what does that -- someone who does not identify with the part

>> that is a comment refrain, everything is president obama's obama's fault. i guess they got used to it during the eight years and now they're not used to actually governing. whatever happened back then there are two big issues number one, what michael flynn did is apparently in clear violation of the law when you are retired officer, you are not allowed to take money from foreign governments. it's very clear and was made clear to him and he did that. second all congressman cummins and chaffetz are looking for are those vetting documents to find out did michael flynn lie about it when he was vetted. now whether or not president obama should've cleared him back in 2016 they probably didn't know about this stuff, now we do know and the documents that are being asked for -- it's pretty simple. >> the white house makes a point, 2015 he went to moscow, he was seen at that event with putin at that r.t. russian television event. he was paid for that and then in 2016 the obama administration went ahead and renewed his clearances. >> it's quite possible the obama admi

president obama: a lot of patels in india. patels e a lot more than there are obamas. harish: agree. so a hussein joke but -- at some point i sort of felt that both or more than -- i don't want to get stuck in this sort of two-party language but there's a lot of different cult of personalities, cult of politics that young people get drawn to and they can't go beyond the questions you are allowed to ask within. i wanted to be able to protest and be able to run for office and run a small business and do the organizing and be able to figure out which is the most effective way that i want to, one, live my life and be happy and also inspire a whole generation of folks that maybe look like me or come from maws limb background and most people of color feel like they can literally do anything. that's one of the major reasons. also, illinois has an establishment politics that is really old. not old in age but old in thinking. there's a monopoly of power, money, ideas that only come from few families, sometime a few zip codes. and i wanted to say that it's not how we should move

president obama: there are a lot more patels than obamas. harish: agreed. i had a hussein joke but -- at some point both are -- don't want to get stuck in this two-party language, but there's a lot of different culture and politics young people get drawn to and they can't go beyond the questions they are allowed to ask within. so i wanted to be able to protest and be able to run for office and run a small business and do the organizing. being able to figure out which is the most effective way that i want to, one, live my life and be happy, but also sort of inspire a whole generation of folks that maybe look like me or come from a similar background or south asian immigrants. i want most young people of color to feel they can literally do anything. that was one of the major reasons. also we have an establishment in politics that's very old in thinking. this is a monopoly of power, money, ideas that only come from a few families or sometime a few -- i wanted to say that's not how we should move forward. [applause] president obama: i think that's good. a coupl

should obama fire back?o voice your opinions, just grab your phone or grab your laptop and you log on to pulse.msnbc.com/america where you can participate by selecting a response. you can vote as our as you like throughout today's show. we hope to hear from you. but first, happening now, out of north korea where a third u.s. citizen has been detained. and this comes amid rising tensions between north korea and the u.s. kim jong un has been warned not to conduct a sixth nuclear test based on an agreement with the united nations. a leader that he ignores. now in response, the u.s. sent the "uss carl vinson" into the region and today they fired back with a new threat. for more on the developing story, we go to seoul, south korea. kel what have we learned? >> reporter: most is coming from the yonhap news agency here in south korea. they're identifying this man only by the last name, kim, they say he's in his 50s. that he was in north korea for about a month. working -- doing some relief for aid work. and that he

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>> president obama i guess. the -- president obama would get -- i mean, president clinton -- i guess -- the funny hing about both is you can see it'ser one having chosen journalist as a path and that they understand communicating, they understand the power of journalism. they would both get frustrated by journalists that they considered being lazy, taking the easy way out, being cynical in that by dummying down politics to just process. and that would frustrate both of them. president obama had an interesting learned bare, though. so a good example. i had worked at the white house during health care.gov and which back then counted as a huge disaster that the website didn't work. it seems sort of quaint in retrospect. but that was like the the big crisis in the country was that the website didn't work. people weren't getting health care fast enough. so president obama thought it was a wreck. my god, this unbelievable stress. ridiculous now. but we were at a meeting in the oval office one day and i started to walk

obama ought to get off the golf course and get down there.orking for you, i'm not going to have time to play golf. he played more golf last year than tiger woods. he plays more golf than people on the pga tour. i love golf, but i don't have time. if i were in the white house, i don't think i would ever see dorall again. i'm not going to be playing much golf, believe me. if i win this, i'm not playing much golf. >> now, we don't actually know how much golf the president is playing, that's because the white house suspect sisn't sayi they do their best to keep it off camera. but as you can see through the shubery here, he began at west palm beach, his 17th visit to a golf course, outpacing president obama. in fairness, he does do official business at what's been called the southern white house. you'll remember he hosted foreign leaders there, including china's president. and some of his golf outings include foreign leaders, as well. ceos, other dignitaries, so it's not just play and no work. but he might take a lesson from another former preside

barack obama were told us. they could verify it, just like they were sure iran has stopped its efforts toward deliberate nuclear weapons just like they could cut a deal with north korea, this is a lesson for the new trump administration when you sit down across the table with the russians, with the iranians, with the north koreans. they may agree with what you want, they may tell you all kinds of interesting things, they don't have the slightest intention of meeting their obligations. that is where the risk to america really comes in. if >> sean: must question because we have this very public posture by russia and then we saw a russia pulled back a little bit earlier this week when they said of their support for syria was not unconditional. it seems like they are doing a little saber rattling but behind the scenes they do not want to take on this issue of syria and the united states. did they have the capacity to put up their missile defense system and they didn't do it att this air force base? >> i think the o

what's really interesting is to see how president obama, former president obama, navigates the shoals this challenging period. president trump violated the rules of the club by attacking -- >> violated the rules of the club. >> by attacking, personally attacking his predecessor when he went after obama for allegedly -- and of course he didn't -- for allegedly wiretapping trump tower. you just don't do that, okay? i don't think that president obama is going to respond. he's going to be above it all. but a lot of his supporters and many people would like him to respond, but he won't. so, the challenge for him is to keep the message -- keep on message, which is, if you don't like what's going on in the united states, participate, get involved, change things at every level. >> what then do you think that with the different pressures and expectations and his own personal goals of what he wants to do and accomplish in his post presidency, and on the unusual front, has many years ahead to do that, what do you think this speech today -- i don't know if some folks are trying to read into the t

the obama administration went to secure it. the men released back into a run in a prison swap revealed a national security threat and sadly, there is more. what will all mean for the trump administration? the news of president obama's next big payday. is he selling out by taking big money from wall street fatcats? after the show, you can join our live chat by clicking the overtime tab or go to facebook.com/outnumbered fnc you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. due to your first accident. this this this is my body of proof. proof of less joint pain and clearer skin. this is my body of proo

obama obama was in trouble when he said who knew that -- >> shovel ready. >> shovel ready is a fantasy. these are -- infrastructure is not -- it sounds great, let's build a bridge but a lot of it looks like boondoggles and kickback and profiteering. inside a lot of things that could happen on the infrastructure bill. there are ways democrats could pay a price or capitalize. >> they couldn't get 216 votes in a republican controlled house to repeal obamacare which they said they were going to do for six or seven years. >> and what's the explanation. >> the white house didn't understand the deep division in the caucus. >> how is that possible? do they have alleged affairs department. >> they do. but they are surprised that the freedom caucus and the tuesday group are so far apart. >> have they met john boehner? >> that's the thing. if they are in the position of nooetd he had. >>ing democratic votes to pass their agenda they are not going to get any when it comes the repealing obamacare not going to get any when it comes to lowering the tax rate to 15%. it's misunderstanding leverage. som

under obama care and community rating.d inslurers from charging people more because of age, gender, health status, or other factors. joining us now to talk about this is virginia governor terry mcauliffe. tell me about this. i always listen with great fascination when i hear people talking about these alternatives that are going to lower premiums because, again, i've done the math as many ways as a person can do the math, and the only way you lower premiums you have a bigger pool of people who are insured. >> it is going to hurt folks, and this is why it failed last night. it's not going to make it through this time, and the republicans ought to come to the table, sit down with the democrats. there's an agreement that we can -- let's focus on those that help people. this is what people hate about washington d.c. nothing is getting done, and the actions they take are just hurting people. they're hurting me as governor. they're hurting us in our states. how about coming together and working in a way to help people. that's wh

and the obama administration. >> the obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he said the red line in the sand. and when he didn't cross that line after making the threat, i think that set us back a long ways, not only in syria, but in many other parts of the world because it was a blank threat. >> can i just quickly ask you if the chemical attack crosses a red line for you? >> it crossed a lot of lines for me. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal -- people were shocked to hear what gas it was -- that crosses many, many lines beyond the red line, many, many lines. >> how will you distinguish your policy and your actions on syria from the inaction that you criticized of the previous administration? >> i like to think of myself as a very flexible person. i don't have to have one specific way and if the world changes, i go the same way. >> last year you seemed to be reluctant to get involved or to intervene in syria directly. is that one thing that's changed after yesterd

president obama's top homeland security and terror adviser also happened to announce the obama administrationan hacking into the election. welcome. we're so proud to have you here. thank you for coming on. >> good to be here. >> let me start by asking you about this breaking news out of russia with this bomb at st. petersburg's metro. who is a bigger target for isis right now, russia or the u.s.? i presume you think this is likely isis. >> it is still early. we have to be mindful of that it's still early in the investigation and no doubt that officials will be doing, but there's two things to keep in mind and there's two potential ways this could go. one is isis. it's got all the hallmarks of isis. an attack on a soft target, a train station, a public area and a well traveled commuter path in st. petersburg. the use of what appears to be a homemade explosive, reports of shrapnel having been embedded in this explosion. it has the hallmarks of isis. we know there have been dozens of video references from isis threatening to undertake attacks against russia and this emanates ever since putin eng

what do we think president obama will do?hat is the million dollar question, how will president trump's name come up and what will president obama say about him. because that is what everybody wants to know. the obama team is signaling that he is not going to take on president trump directly, that that is not what this is about, this is about former president obama sitting down with young people talking about civic engagement, getting involved in their comnity and so forth. but obviously we're in some until chartered waters here, a very unusual situation. you have a very popular former president who is just 55, planning to get out on the public stage in some way and you have president trump whose administration is so die m diametrically opposed dismantle li ing obamacare and policies on the environment. but the signal is that he will not get involved in the day to day give and take between president trump. he doesn't want to set himself up as a foil for president trump. but again, his supporters,s advocates, those who back pr

, we've been able to do 13 of those basically , repealing those midnight regulations issued by the obama administration while they were headed out the door. the importance of this is $60 billion and compliance costs have been saved as a result of this repealing of this overregulation. it's been one of the main culprits to keeping economic growth low post the great recession. it's been regulatory environment which is a squelched investment and growth. this represents a significant accomplishment during the first two months of this new administration in this new congress. >> republicans in the senate headache we are i focus on jobs of the economy. what we as americans care most about. one of the reasons for that is during the past eight years and the obama in this recent growth has averaged 1.5% which is less than half the historic average going back to the end of world war ii. if you look at weight level, we've increased 2.5 or one quarter of 1% during the eight years of the obama administers. the american people haven't seen a pay raise, literally, in eight years. that's why we pointed o

also blaming the issue on president obama. >> president obama said in 2012 he would establish a red line against the use of chemical weapons and did nothing. >> reporter: the criticism contradicting president trump's tweets after the last chemical attack in 2013. in which he urged then president obama not to retaliate with military action. just last week, two of trump's top administration officials signaling a sharp change in u.s. policy toward syria. >> the longer term status will be decided byyrian people. >> reporter: these remarks draws sharp rebuke from republicans. >> the bottom line is it is a huge mistake. >> another disgraceful chapter in american history. it was predictable. >> reporter: president trump has been having a high level week of interaction with foreign leaders here at the white house. it continues today with the visit from the king of jordan. chris and alisyn. >> squljoe, appreciate it. we have david gregory here with us. bill richardson. former democratic governor of new mexico and ambassador to the u.n. and michael smerconish. host of "smerconish." david gregory,

is obama's the latest to become the party of the super rich. the obvious question, what can the former president possibly say, a, that we haven't heard and b, that is worth $400,000. >> i'm a former dnc adviser not current. >> tucker: well in spirit. >> thank you very much. when we judge president obama in terms of his record in wall street we should look to the policies he has passed and that is the wall street reform which is a key measure that reins in the abuses of wall street to make sure what happened to the economy never happens again. >> tucker: you fell right into my trap. i was going to wait to hit you with the facts until the end of the segment but here we go. under the president obama the dow jones average rose and that doesn't benefit everybody. the top 1% share of income rose from 17% to 22%. in other words, the majority, the overwhelming bulk of wealth created under president obama went to people that were already rushed. saying he crushed wall street is ridiculous. >> but if you're saying they liked the reform legislation have y

he knew obama was president, he knew he was coming in after obama and was actually quite successful.e blames it all on the conditions of the job. >> sean: all right, matthews all these other partisan hacks masquerading as journalists ignoring real facts that president trump did inherent a massive, huge, colossal mess from barack obama both here at home and of course abroad. they refused to report the truth about how he is trying to fix all of this and of course they have the tax day protests so this past weekend, they were spewing all kinds of nonsense. watch democratic congresswoman maxine waters unhinged, leading a chance to impeach president trump. >> his motives and his actions are contemptible and i will fight every day until he is impeached. impeach 45. impeach 45. don't forget who he is. >> sean: not even 100 days and then the insanity in the left showed up in berkeley, california, over the weekend where a near riot broke out during a tax day protests after violent clashes between left-wing agitators and trump supporters. 20 people ended up being arrested there, finally last n

does that sound like barack obama??nd where are we listening to jon ossoff or barack obama?ot the only one who thought that as well. >> sean: the destroy trump media, they are not biased at all, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ultimate left the propaganda media and this extreme bias they have.he we have evidence, a new studya from the media research center, a whopping 89% of coverage during abc, nbc, "cbs evening news" cast has all been negative toward the president, toward president trump. what we're seeing playoff now is the ultimate radical left taking all of this unhinged hatred to a whole new level and they are teaming up to attack the president on all fronts. tonight, i'm telling you it's only going to get worse, it's only going to get more intense. republicans need to do their job and also be ready to fight back. you've got the alt left, they cannot stand this president especially as he checks off his list, continues to fulfill his promises, and enact the agenda that he one on. the opposition will get worse every day, it will get more intense

they said they would not allow those seats to be filled by president obama. in erie precedent with the majority leader repeated with merrick garland. he didn't want to the dc circuit to have obama appointed, democratic appointed nominees, he didn't want that on the supreme court so he blocked merrick garland, he didn't want it on the dc circuit so they wouldn't let any of president obama's nominees come to the floor. merrick garland's nomination was not the first time the majority leader held open a judicial seat because it wasn't the president of his party and that was not during an election year. at the time, i spoke to my good friend from tennessee, senator alexander. i asked him to go to senator mcconnell and say the pressure on our side to change these rules after all these unprecedented number of filibusters, was going to be large. i said to senator alexander let's try to avoid it. senator mcconnell, the republicans, refused all our overtures to break the deadlock they imposed. to be clear democrats changed the rules after 1776 days of obstruction on pr

obama's agenda runs through the d.c. circuit. can get what you want through the congress because the in 2010 people know they said they had enough, they issued a national restraining order after watching two years of this administration on restraint. run through the bureaucracy and d.c. circuit. as i said, among the first two years of the obama administration there is now legislative check on the president. and the administration doesn't much like checks and balances. our democratic colleagues want to facilitate that by filling up a court that will rule on his agenda. a court that doesn't even have enough work to do, especially if it means changing the subject --m obamacare 48 few days for a few days. they think they can change the rules of the senate in a way that benefits only them. they want to do it in such a way that president obama's picks get enacted. republican -- they want to have it both ways. this would've gerrymandered vision of the nuclear option is really just wishful thinking. the majority leaders change the rules

a lot of inaction by the obama administration. i think what we heard from nikki haley i think the question is does the trump administration want to end up in the same box with having the word look at what the united states says it's just words. this is a decision that the president will make by listening what does it mean with steve bannon, eyebrows raised, from chief political strategist in the administration someone who thinks george w. bush made a mistake in iraq. who doesn't think that it is and should be worried about its economy. the white house says he was there to help former national security adviser michael flynn to organize the place, to send more power back to the pentagon, more power to the state department. they say mission accomplished, i would say that's spin. but you guys sitting at the table for the white house, what does this mean? >> well, part of this is say reshuffling of the white house and then settling in. i think think there's truth from the points about steve bannon. steve bannon likes to have his hands

so we're just like the obamas, but we're not." so there's this way that as wonderful as it is-- this acceptance of the obama girls, this acceptance of michelle-- it still has the impact of marginalizing, for example, the fact that a majority of african-american children are being raised by... in households like mine, where you may have intergenerational women, but where you don't have a present father. it is still true that, for example, gay and lesbian families don't have the same kind of social recognition so if you're a michelle obama but you're in a lesbian household, does the acceptance of the kind of heteronormative, you know, traditional picture of the obamas, does that, you know, kind of continue on and lead to a broader acceptance? i don't know. and i'm certainly, you know, a little distressed that at the same time that we have michelle obama, we have precious. >> hinojosa: and you're concerned about it because... i mean, that movie-- i haven't seen the movie, i read the book when it came out a long time ago-- is so incre

saying president obama now. it's confusing. the's lots of presidents. so i think what president obama's really interested in is one of the things he's very interested in is creating a mechanism by which young people can find out the best practices to run for office. i meet people across the country who are interested but they don't know where to begin. they want to get civically involved but how do you do that? teaching civic engagement and civic organization is a way to pull into the obama center not just people in the united states but around the world who are the young leaders and the what really is kind of like is preparing for a marathon. tom, where are you? >> all the way in the back. >> way in the back, okay. that's good. he wants to know, all the work that your team about did to structure a smooth transition, it appears that the current administration has ignored that or chose not to act. how do you really feel? >> thanks, tom. look, our job -- and i mean this most sincerely. our job is to do the very be

right now, president obama returns. what he had to say in his first big public event since leaving the white house. >>> shutdown showdown. government funding ends as president trump hits that 100 day mark. the white house is promising a series of actions, any one of them would be a very heavy lift. >>> and france face-off. two candidates head to a runoff election after surviving round one there. why the future of the european union is on the line. >>> let's start with president barack obama at this hour, making his first formal remarks since he left the presidency. he took the stage for a forum at the university of chicago. the participants, students of high school age and up, and he touched on a number of issues, including special interests. i'm joined by josh earnest, white house press secretary under president obama. good to see you, josh. how are you? >> he doesn't have a mike on. >> we're getting him remiked right now. that's josh earnest, who i worked with for 2 1/2 years in the obama white house. have we got your

he says the obama administration vetted flynn. they're the ones who gave him the top security clearances, so it's their fault. not the trump administration's fault. does that add up to you? >> erin, that doesn't really follow any logical sequence. general flynn was relieved of his duties as head of the defense intelligence agency. he then became a private citizen. he perhaps retained some of those clearances, but one would think, then, when he got involved with the trump campaign and then was hired on into the trump white house as national security advisor, that -- i can tell you in my office we would do a normal vetting before hiring on somebody in that senior a position. >> before you go, the homeland security administration's secretary said ban on laptops could expand to all flights. here's what he said. >> this thing could expand and i'm looking it it three, four, five, six times a day. it is the thing that keeps me awake at night. >> you've been briefed, senator. do you agree? >> clearly we've seen evidence that terrorists ar

["what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted." we mentioned our guest is the former human services deputy secretary. all this being said so far how is the president doing after 100 days? tevi: that's a great question and what's fascinating about this administration is that there are really two completely different narratives, both of which have some basis in fact and reality. so one narrative which i think you'll hear in most the newspapers, flipping through my "new york times" and "washington post" is it's a legislation in delay and they lost a number of high profile people like the national security advisor and the nominee as the labor secretary nominee is now the secretary so there have been a lot of problems and issues and some of the tweets were intemperate and caused issues like the one of president obama attacking his wires. that's narrative one. the second narrative you hear on the republican side and the conservative media is goat neil gorsuch confirmed, the second fastest confirmation of a supreme court justice in histor

ed: president obama deserved it.ent his secretary of state john kerry out there right before what was anticipated to be military action and something happened overseas. the british parliament voted down military action and president obama walked right to the line and said public opinion. then pulled back on military action. saying democracy, let's send it to the congress. howie: maybe the media liked military action? ed: president trump will find the deeper he gets into syria there are no easy solutions. president obama didn't cause the syrian war but he made it worse by drawing the red line and not following through. with president trump, i heard you say earlier in the show, now that he started the military action, will the scepticism come in? yes, and it should. much of the mainstream media has been so anti-trump. the scepticism came before the military action. the scepticism is that he's not a legitimate president. in the meanwhile he does calm, strategic strike care. what about rex tillerson? he's going to moscow

throughout the entire period, however, leading figures to have the obama administration -- of the obama administration including the president and secretary of state and national security advisor susan rice kept insisting that the obama administration, that the deal had gotten 100% of the chemical weapons out, creating an illusion, which by the way the trump administration seemed to share, at least in its first few months, that assad had been defanged of his most dangerous weapons. what we've just seen in northern syria with the sarin attack on this village is that that was untrue and that he maintains the stockpile, and i have to ask mr. blinken, how is it that the obama administration kept going on saying 100% of the weapons without qualification, when they knew from their own intelligence reporting and in fact publicly available sources that that was not the case, that assad was keating on the deal, that he maintained this stockpile and of course the ability to use it. >> rose: the second part is the russians should have known about this and there was complicity. >> of course the rus

[applause] president obama obama: happy easter, everybody. we are thrilled that you could come.speech because we have the best speaker and the smartest and best looking of the older obama's and that would be the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. [applause] michelle obama: hey, everybody. is this not the most perfect day for the easter egg roll? let's say thank you to mother nature. yeah. you guys, we are so excited to have you. welcome to the 2010 easter egg roll. this year's theme is "ready, set -- what? go." as you guys know, this year i movementa nationwide to end the epidemic of childhood obesity and it is called let's move. today we have transformed the south lawn into a playground. our hope today is that doing some of the traditional activities today, you could learn about beginning to live a more healthy life. we have wonderful food stands in the back. we have some of the areas with the nation's best chefs. you could learn to cook. there is a farmers market. you can see the garden and we have great activities. we've got several athletic centers and we have

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here he was on obama and the red line. >> i think the obama administration had a great opportunity tois a long time ago when he said the red line in the sand. and when he didn't cross that line after making the threat, i think that set us back a long ways, not only in syria but in many other parts of the world because it was a blank threat. >> jon, i wonder if the president there is both right and wrong. right that it ultimately proved to be a blank threat, which is a highly disfavored outcome in foreign policy, but wrong when he says that this was an opportunity to, quote, solve this crisis. what about a tactical bombing would ever solve the ongoing humanitarian geopolitical assad/isis crisis in syria? >> i don't think it would have, certainly not that step alone. it comes back to how you follow up on these things with diplomacy. president trump here is employing a tactic he has used before, whether on the travel ban, health care or now on the syria red line. he is ascribing blame to his predecessor for a difficult situation that he faces. i think what he'll find is that that's not a

who did president obama hand over?o smuggled assault rifles to iran, for the uranium centrifuges.s. get this, we refer to these guys as businessmen. maybe so, and using that logic for a serial killer is true. he is in the business of killing. probably the first time in history a liberal used that label as a compliment. if you are an american businessman, you are a selfish jerk. legacies are just selfish.me they are dangerous too.h iran knew what president obama wanted.fi which prevented him from striking a tough deal. he was like a poker player, whose mirrored sunglasses showed everyone his hand. maybe having a 70-year-old billionaire as a president isn't such a bad thing. he has his name on enough things already. bob, i will go to you because you are an expert in this. should president obama be retro impeached? i don't think it has ever been done but can we do it now? >> i don't know, greg. it's not constitutional. one thing i will say about this is since the beginning of this republic, we have always treated spies fo