people forget that present obama already signed -- president obama already signed a book deal for $6 million and now he's getting speaking fees for $400,000. if you know you can get this kind of money once you can get out of office, it's just like getting paid for doing things that you know you shouldn't do because you know you're going to get paid later. it sets a bad example, especially for somebody who ran on hope and change like you did. host: before you go, is a book deal different from a speaking fee? is someone buying your book and wanting to read your thoughts in a book different than a speaking fee at a wall street firm in your mind? caller: i don't know. it's also cloudy. nothing seemswhy to get done in their favor for the average american. maybe this is why. host: go ahead. caller: maybe this is one of the reasons why. maybe this is the reason why people don't get prosecuted when they rape the economy, the people in the financial institutions. this is why people don't go to jail. host: because of speaking fees and what that can buy? caller: yeah. people are not stupid when

obama: mmhmm.laughter] sam: how do you look back on yourself and the family and going about your business having no idea what was about to happen to you? how do you remember that time? mrs. obama: i was back in chicago last week for the rollout of the new obama presidential center and got to stay at home for a few hours. in that kitchen where it all began because sam was helping us out at that time because i was doing a lot of traveling and holding down a full-time job, the kids were little. i was campaigning as well as working. my husband wasn't around. i was in a position that many working families find themselves in where i was trying to keep my kids healthy and not doing that successfully. i had known sam since he was a teenager. and finding out that he was a chef and engaged in healthy cooking -- he had worked with families that turned their diets around. i ran into him and said, can you help us? having you come into our lives at a very hectic moment and just helping us kind of clean out our w

michelle obama, in her convention speech, talked about how the obamas go high when everybody else goes. you'll see the obamas going high, go for the morning in america, for hope and change, and where as, you know, like trump is night in america, fear and sort of fear and loathing. >> kathleen kennedy-townsend, robert kennedy's eldest and joe kennedy iii, great to have you there. thank you. i'll start with the governor. kathleen, tonight, this torch passing has become very emblematic, very emblematic. why do you think your family chose to pass on the torch to the obamas? >> well, as you know, caroline was very instrumental in endorsing him and getting senator kennedy to endorse him. i think it made a big difference in that campaign in 2008. and he carried through teddy's cause, which was health care. and i think it made a big difference in getting the health care bill passed, and it was very important in providing health care for all americans and made the biggest difference. i think that when you think about profiles in courage, he really made a difference in doing that. and i think ca

a senior obama administration source.effrey toobin. that's a little bit of what we were wondering allowed before we went to break exactly what the warning was relating to. >> i think it's clear that president obama understood that president trump was going to appoint people with different policy views than the obama administration. he was not going to warn him away from people who simply had different policy views. this is an -- his concern as jake tapper has learned more specifically now related to mike flynn's relationship with russia. which ultimately led to his departure a little more than three weeks into the administration. but the fact that donald trump would ignore that advice is yet another example of how the trump administration and donald trump himself have looked the other way where russia is concerned. >> it also makes me wonder what does that say also about the vetting that was under way? we played a sound bite earlier of john kelly. when i became secretary of homeland security, my last 25 years were thrown

again, that has essentially made obama or obama aides to come out and talk about this conversation. when spicer was leaving, was president obama right about flynn? was he right to warn you about flynn and it turns out he was. trump's inability to accept that he was wrong about flynn. >> it's all a diversion. you want to talk about leaks, you want to talk about sally yates leaking, toupt charyou wa charge the susan rice leak. the question is should flynn have been appointed national security adviser? it seems that there are serious questions there. they fired him 23 days later, whatever it was. and the question is why didn't he get that more extensive vet that he should have gotten? we know the president felt very loyal to this guy. and that is probably the reason he got appointed. but should he have been given all these issues? >> right. gloria is exactly right. the question is why after a meeting like that eight days later does president trump say to michael flynn do you want to be my national security adviser. not do you want ab an adviser. do you want to be my chief national secu

. >> good evening, two former obama officials testified in a senate hearing on the obama spying scandal and russian influence in the election. among the these, james clapper admitted in one instance unmasking of members of congress just one time. any political motive in the single unmasking. >> sally yates says she never asked for unmasking of trump or his associates and she never leaked and that she tried to warn that general michael flynn could quote be essential ly black mailed by the russians. catherine herridge live in washington with the report. >> lou, it was an intense three-hour hearing that wrapped up about aho ago, with testimony about flynn and the potential for blackmail. >> it's critical that we get to information to the white house. >> testifying before the committee, former obama white house, sally yates. the former acting attorney general testified she met twice in person and met with don mcgann because mike flynn did not discuss sanctions with russia, when the transcripts show the opposite. >> not only that the russians knew this, but they likely had proof of this info

some public, some private from obama. and later from an acting attorney general sally yates and it raises grave questions about their judgment. >> and the white house, according to officials speaking to kristen welker, is that they said they believed this was -- donald trump believed that this was said sort of in jest, don't hire mike flynn. but also if president obama was so concerned about it, why did he not revoke his security clearance? and he candidn't revoke his security clearance. so explain that, why did mike flynn still hold his security clearance even after he left the obama administration? >> security clearances are not granted nor are they revoked by the president of the united states. that's kind of ridiculous. they are adjudicated by career professionals. these are routine matters. more than 1.5 million people in our country hold a top secret security clearance. the bigger issues h w he vetted for job of the natiol security adviser. that he may not have disclosed his work on behalf of the government of turke

you miss obama so much. you want obama back. nobody could make a target out of trump.is flawless, according to jesse. >> anyone looks flawless being compared to president obama. they lost so badly under president obama. think about this, you touched on it perfectly. he always sets himself up to beu the leader of this progressive movement.n what achievements internationally have we done well with? i think all of our enemies are emboldened right now. g worst recovery since the great depression. i don't see a lot of things -- the stock market -- >> oh, gee. >> that's a $400,000 speech. >> that's probably the only $400,000 speech you wish was over really soon. you want price per work. >> that speech last night he gave for free.e. >> that is his going rate going forward. >> an interesting thing, talking about profiles today -- both sides need to be honest about it. the left, what they really wanted was a single-payer program. i want to socialize medicine i they have in europe that they idolize. the right, what they really want -- if they are beingwh honest -- is a fully fre

obama: i know. we did a reunion for the last garden dedication and we had some of the kids that planted the original garden and they were on their way to college. man, sam, you're old. sam: it's true. first off, how are you? how is it being free? [laughter] sam: what's going on? mrs. obama: i'm good. i'm good. just hanging out. everything is really great. being former is all right. i'm good with it. everybody's good. the president's good. he's running around out there in the world with his shirt unbuttoned. [laughter] sam: that's the news that's going to come out of this. mrs. obama: the girls are good. we settled into our new home and we have new offices, so we've been doing a lot of housekeeping. the schedule still seems pretty busy. i don't know why that is. i need to talk to my staff about that, but it's good. sam: a little pressure off feels nice. mrs. obama: a lot of pressure off feels great. sam: i will take that. let's reflect a little bit. i find myself trying to make sense of what happened

obama warned him. his own advisers warned him about flynn and that flynn was not somebody he wanted to have close to him. and especially in a position as sensitive as nsa. the russia stuff, conspiracy st. too much baggage, not the right choice. so, yes, he wants to blame obama and others. it took trump about a month of being in office before he decided flynn had to go and that he would listen to those voices from people around him that told him flynn was not suited for the job. he learned and moved on. democrats still want him to pay the price. they still want him to say, yeah, but what about michael flynn? in the end, it doesn't go anywhere. unless there's some new revelation, unless there's something else, trump found out about the problems with flynn or came to admit the problems with flynn, and moved on. >> what about the issue of the leaking? who's gonna take the responsibility for leaking all of this information out into the public? obviously obama holdouts were there and wanting this information

you have president obama who provided warnings. you have people inside the trump campaign and the future administration that warned about this. and yet none of them, none of those cautions were taken on by president trump. and yet this morning he's trying to put blame on president obama who actually fired general flynn. so it doesn't matter where the warning came from, president trump didn't seem to want to hear it. >> greg, as you reported over the weekend, top transition officials were so alarmed that flynn didn't understand the russian ambassador's motives. they asked top obama administration officials for the cia's profile on ambassador kislyak. you do wonder what answers they were looking for, and didn't they already have some suggestion about this given what we're learning? >> i think these were officials part of the initial trump transition team. they were trying to make michael flynn snap out of it. he was talking about meetings with the russian ambassador. these are people sitting around the table with him saying, seriousl

it undercuts the question of obama being petty.n enormous amount of public information that was known that would have caused most presidents to not hire michael flynn. the most concerning behavior certainly occurred after flynn was fired by obama. the question for the president knowing what he knew, why did he hire flynn anyway? >> it's interesting. stand by, susan. i want to read this tweet from the president of the united states this morning about sally yates. going to be at the center of this hearing momentarily. under oath, wondering if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to white house counsel. the implication is she may have leaked this kind of classified information. >> it is a very clear implication and to have that implication coming from the president of the united states just hours before a very important witness goes before congress under oath to talk about it is really mind blowing and, you know, we've kind of all gotten used to his tweets that nobody else would do,

making a comment on president obama's statement.s been a full 100 days but it's nice to be reminded of why we should be grateful as a nation that he is gone. there are a lot of arguments you can make on either side about obamacare but notice how it was complete moral condescension. the other guys are cowards because i, and the people who support me, stand with the poor and afflicted and the others are on the side of the rich and powerful. that's nonsense. with the democrats have done is practically committed political suicide. to support a measure with 17% support in the population that does what we know has to be done which is to curtail entitlement by curtailing medicaid, it's inevitable. obama had eight years. he didn't want to touch it. pretend you can say that this is something necessary, something people are entitled to, but to pretend you're the one who's advocating a courageous position when it goes completely against what the public wants, it's complete nonsense. obama do that all through his presidency, always assuming he

when we hear that president obama warned him that flynn was bad news when he himself worked for the obamanistration and had free range to access these ambassadors in russia, just is not the sort of add up. >> no, it doesn't paired by the way, might i also much of that in america, you are innocent until proven guilty. so allegations are just that when there is something proven, then president trump may make a different statement if it was to the contrary. he's allowed to defend his choice for his cabinet, that is how it works here. the fact is that the obama administration with the reauthorization of the security clearance is either incompetent or they did not have concern. either they screwed up or they did not have concern. the obama administration and their officials have also tried to so discontent with the palace intrigue stories, support of the media, going out after the trump administration, so i'm not surprised that when it comes to sally yates and general hayden, i want to see actual proof, not allegations, even of this "warrant into white house counsel." because so far we see a l

obama warned them about flynn.f you judge obama's expertise on hiring, his vetting isn't so inspiring so maybe when he said flynn was bad news, it was a reversal. walmart greeters went through more scrutiny than obama did. >> if yates was so worried about flynn being potentially blackmailed by the russians, why wasn't she worried about hilary being blackmailed by all of our enemies in her emails? >> wow, how far can you go into the weeds? >> a woman walks into a pool party in florida and police are now investigating what happens ♪ >> maybe you saw this disturbing video. we had to blur some of it because there were underage people in it. it's a little confusing but saturday, an elderly woman and her dogs were putatively assaulted after she asked some partiers near the pool to turn it down. [yelling] >> so i note the bystanders, what moral champions they are. if she had asthma or a heart condition -- imagine if the cops had showed up, with cnn informing us that the honor students w successful end of the school year?

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three former obama administration officials say president obama warned president-elect trump against hiring flynn when they met at the white house two days after the election. >> my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that insures our president-elect is successful. >> we discussed a lot of different situations. some wonderful and some difficulties. >> this afternoon, another major voice will be heard from. former acting attorney general sally yates will testify to the senate about her warnings to the white house about flynn's russia connections. today, president trump tweeted in defense of flynn, quote, general flynn was given the highest security clearance by the obama administration. but the fake news seldom likes talking about that. joining me now, nbc's kristen welker at the white house and two national security analysts, jeremy bash, the former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon to leon panetta, and ned price, a former cia analyst. first to you, kristen. you and your team at the white house breaking the story today. what do we kn

is this latest distinction, mercedes from the obama administration, president obama himself purportedly he had given the new president to be a heads up on general flynn a game changer? how would you describe it? >> i don't see this comment from these obama administration officials to be necessarily a game-changer in any way. i think that president trump at the time did have faith in michael flynn. i do believe that following what we have seen in these events that happened in the months, in january, february, where flynn had to resign, flynn continues to be that reoccurring nightmare that does not to away for the trump administration. we're all anticipating see what happens with the sally yates testimony which i think will be very telling in terms of these warnings that were given to the trump administration. but i just don't see it necessarily, what this actually brings what is a game-changer, after the president and his team said no longer they had trust in michael flynn and released him. neil: when you say things change in the white house, you haven't changed, the original argument wa

, we imo knew there were criminal offenses. >> obama administration whatever you think of president obama, or any of the officials of his administration, they were if you would they were certainly without any question gathered together solidarity, they di did not decent, there was no leaking permitted, prosecutions by the way of those who did, this administration, has been defied by the fbi itself. by other intelligence age agency and refusal to report to the administration, those who are leaking and to pursue consequences. we are watching. i am heartened to hear you say, that this is an an attempt by what you style as a iron triangle to steal this white house, and to seize his history. a coop attempt against the trump administration. >> the issue is american people elected donald trump president could we have permanent elements in our government who think that really they are supposed to run this show. and since they don't like trump, they don't like you know his positions, they think it is okay for them to go outside of the law, and exert themselves, and understand how felonies have bee

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that is what the obama administration actually reported.t was underreported by a factor of more than three. in 2015 they were 2200 unmasking that the obama administration misreported. the trump administration just corrected it. there are much higher in 2015 and 2016. >> sean: john, this is an important question. >> that's a pretty big -- a large gap. someone is not good at math at the dni. >> sean: sara, let's go through this very closely. this is so important and i think americans need to know. if the nsa -- by the way, i have great respect for our intelligence community. their job is beyond risky. their job is to make sure that protecting our country, they have the right to surveilled a russian ambassador or in iranian investor. in the process of doing that, if an american is caught up in a conversation they are surveilling, they have a process called minimization. they are supposed to minimize what they know about the american, as long as they are not involved in sabotage or some type of nefarious activities against america. they minimiz

obama's regulations and under mr. trump so that they can go ahead and stop the destruction of the coal-fired electricity, because we have a very unreliable electric power grid right now. people are going to freeze in the dark. people are going to die on the operating table if we get another polar vortex like we had in this area two years ago. there is not enough margin in electric power grid to keep the lights on if we get a very bad cold snap or very hot weather in the summer. that's what people need to be worrying about. we have an energy poverty problem in this country. we have an energy poverty problem in the world. half of the homes in india don't have a lightbulb for heat as well as light. great britain came up in your discussion a few minutes ago. i have an office in london. their electric bills have doubled. they are hurting for electricity. they have shut down all of their coal-fired electricity. so has europe in the same position. let's not put the united states of america in that position for no environment

obama killed. it was simply an attempt, had no environmental benefit at all, the most environmental acceptable way to mine coal. then the clean power plant. he's now called a time-out. resiliency as a security electric power plant, because the closing of these coal power plants has left a very unreliable power grid. that is the margin in the grids are dangerously low and all the experts are saying that. coal needs to be there. it's the only solid hydrocarbon that can be stored into plants. and so to keep reliability of the power grid in this country, we need about 30% coal-fired electricity and that's where we're at right now. the margins are very thin, so he's ordered studies of the electric power grid. the thing that was closing the coal fired plants right now, the scrubbers were ordered on the plants, but the obama administration passed regulations they couldn't use the scrubbers. limitation guidelines on the water discharges from the scrubbers. that has been killed. he has now in the process, m

who thanks he will get the same treatment that bill clinton or barack obama got.is something every republican president has to deal with and that is that the presses against them. jesse: does he have a point or is he whining a little bit. >> i think he has a point and he's also whining. we've talked about this over the whole campaign that the press wanted to get on him any opportunity because he was coming at them. fake news, very, very fake news. this is all a lie. the president of the united states of america is not necessarily telling you the facts. we have fact checkers to talk about that all the time and you need to be conscious of that. the fact that he's engage with voters, yes, but he needs to be tempered and truthful. jesse: one of the reasons he tweets so much and talks about fake news is that he believes there twisting his words and adding all of these leaks that are besieging his administration. doesn't he have the right to do that. >> jesse, to your point, the president doesn't have the full support of the republican party. that's the difference betwe

and i have seen bush work with obama and i saw obama take that favor from bush to a man that he does not necessarily agree with. and i'm going to take you back to that room. i was in that room that day in the oval office when donald trump and barack obama were sitting side by side, they talked for so long, it took a long time for us to go into the oval office. donald trump then called president obama on numerous occasions to get more information. there was an olive branch for the sake of the american people. the continuance of the democracy. for the good of the country, that's what that was about. when he said that about flynn, he did that for the good of the country, the stakes are very high when it comes to issues of national security, it's not about personality, it's about the american people. >> unless when it suits your needs to go leak classified information. >> there's been a lot of leaks, you said yates, but even the fru trump administration, les say sally yates did leak something, just hypothetically, there are a lot of leaks in this white house they can't control. >> we're

obama this -- everything obama tried to do my donald trump is trying to destroy.ed to do, donald trump is trying to destroy. anything donald trump wants, republicans give it to thim. host: more reaction from members of congress to the latest news. according to "the hill," one democratic senator called it outrageous that president trump referred to james comey as a "nut job. " james comey is scheduled to testify sometime soon before the senate intelligence committee. pauline is calling from ohio honor independent line. dust on our independent line. ohio honorng from line.nden on our independent caller: i love your coverage of the presidential elections. commentary breaking and constantly saying what they think. i could care less what the announcer says. i want to see for myself what is going on and you guys, c-span, you are notfair -- breaking in and saying this or that. it's really gossip. much of the news today is gossip. then, the people who don't , they takek about it it as gospel truth and it's really not. you are not guilty until convicted of something. now,

was barack obama's fault because it was ba rack obama who barack obama's fault because it was barackn the first place. ok, first of all barack obama fired general flynn. secondly, years went by since that happened, so there had to be a new vetting process. third, the reason that president trump and his team seem to be giving his dad general flynn was so loyal to president trump. i have a lot of friends from high school who are loyal to me but that doesn't meani who are loyal to me but that doesn't mean i put them in as national—security adviser. there are a lot of reasons to question president trump waking up this morning than blaming president obama for something that was clearly his decision and after they had been warned by the acting attorney general of the united states that this was a big security breach, but he had lied to the vice president, lied to government officials, he actually left this man in his position for 18 days. you will be interviewing sally yates shortly in the congressional hearings. what is the congressional hearings. what is the one thing you would like to h

it's obama did it. flynn is obama's problem. he should have done it. and if he knew so much about these other investigations, they should have done something. they didn't. it can't be that big of a job. and they gave the guy clearance in the first place. >> excuse me. i wish the president of the united states knew how the government worked. first of all, the former president fired him. the white house doesn't hold security clearances, the agencies do. president trump doesn't issue a security clearance. i got to tell you. let me echo what jim clapper said yesterday. i have been through multiple security clearances. i was re-cleared every five years and vetted during the white house process in 2009. it should be run by people like those involved in the trump campaign who are going into the white house. the white house process i went through is far more intrusive than the security clearance i received. they are asking questioning like whether i paid my taxes on my maid three years ago. the answer was i paid every tax, all the time and then i got rid of th

tax credits will be replacing obama care subsidies.stead, the refundable tax credits will be based on age. some of the credits will range for $2,000 for someone in their 20s to $4,000 for someone in thark 60s but they'll be faced out as your income changes. >> sr. economics analyst for us stephen moore and democratic strategist jonathan. steve, president trump, it boilsz do bahamas down to this. he made a promise to america today. here's what it is. >> i think most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming down. yes, duktdables will be king down. but very importantly, it's a great plan and ultimately that's what it's all about. >> premiums and deductibles coming down, steve, is a big thing to say. ok. that's what people were saying under barracks and it went up 21%. it caused the democrats to lose the house and the senate. >> it's going to be difficult in the next year or two to get escalating premiums down on a sharp curve. it's going to take, in my opinion, a couple of years before you see real improvements. in the mediumened long te

obama warned them about flynn.f you judge obama's expertise on hiring, his vetting isn't so inspiring so maybe when he said flynn was bad news, it was a reversal. walmart greeters went through more scrutiny than obama did. >> if yates was so worried about flynn being potentially blackmailed by the russians, why wasn't she worried about hilary being blackmailed by all of our enemies in her emails? >> wow, how far can you go into the weeds? >> a woman walks into a pool party in florida and police are now investigating what happens next. we will show you when "the five" returns. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. otezla may increase the risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla repo

i mean, if you for one second think that under the obama-- the obama administration or that he doesn'tr allowing them to grow, that makes no sense. there's no logic to think any other way. but, here is the deal. i mean, we still have federal judges who have no intel, no back-briefing of anything, who are standing in the way of policies that-- executives orders put in place right now or trying to be, to be able to protect our country. i think that they need to be ready for the backlash if something happens because they're want to go get in the way of it due to politics and prove a point when there are security reasons behind it. jesse: karen, dakota makes a great point there. unfortunately it may take a horrific incident within the united states for some of these judges to wake up and say, we have to stop thinking about things in fantasy world and philosophical reasons for not enforcing a travel ban and say, listen, our job is to keep the country safe. >> right, if you overlook that job, what is your role anymore? because honestly, they've made it clear what they want from us, right? th

obama announcing he and former first lady michelle obama will donate $2 million to a summer jobs rprogram in chicago. lynn sweet has covered the obamas for many years, washington bureau chief at the "chicago sun-times." the timing here, controversy involving the former president over the last week, he might be accepting big money there from wall street for a speech later this year. now an announcements from the former president that he's going to be giving away a big sum of money out there in chicago. >> well, actually he had another paid speech fairly recently, too, for probably an equally big sum. so, the point is what the money is for, and i think that's important. it's going to a summer jobs program -- programs that could help train people in the community, particularly at-risk youths where i think there will be a focus to get the kind of scouts they need so they could get in line to at least have a shot at getting some of the jobs that will be generated by the construction of the library. one of the purposes that this compound is going to be, and we saw these pictures for the first t

flynn was no longer working for the obama administration. he had been let go in 2014. >> president trump repeatedly defended flynn since firing the general himself. he tweeted mike flynn should ask for immunity and this is a witch hunt. similar to the complaint the president aired two days after he showed flynn the door. >> i think he has been treated very, very unfairly by the media. as i call it the fake media in many cases. and i think it is really a sad thing that he was treat sewed badly. >> i'm pleased to appear before you this afternoon. >> the president has questioned the cred wilt of former acting attorney sally yates who raised internal questions about flynn and warned the white house before she was fired by mr. trump over a different matter. he tweeted, ask sally yates under oath if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to white house council. >> does the president believe that sally yates was the leaker? this -- >> again, i think the tweet speaks for itself. what he is saying is

i have seen bush to obama work with bush -- bush worked with obama i saw obama take that favor from bushto do the same thing with a manna he did not necessarily agree with. but -- i want to take you back to that room. i was in that room that day when in the oval office when donald trump and barack obama were sitting side by side talking. they talked so long. it took us long time to go into the oval office she kept talking. donald trump even called then president obama on numerous occasions to get more information. tlfrs an olive branch for the same esake of the american people. the continuance of the democracy. so when you say, yeah they had their differences but for the good of the country that's what that was about. and then when he said that about flynn he did that again for the good of the country. the stakes are very high when it comes to issues of national security. and it's not about personality. it's about the american people and. >> unless when it suits your fleeds to go and leak classified information. >> there's been a lot of leaks you say yates but let me say this even the tr

who thanks he will get the same treatment that bill clinton or barack obama got.ent has to deal with and that is that the presses against them. jesse: does he have a point or is he whining a little bit. >> i think he has a point and he's also whining. we've talked about this over the whole campaign that the press wanted to get on him any opportunity because he was coming at them. fake news, very, very fake news. this is all a lie. the president of the united states of america is not necessarily telling you the facts. we have fact checkers to talk about that all the time and you need to be conscious of that. the fact that he's engage with voters, yes, but he needs to be tempered and truthful. jesse: one of the reasons he tweets so much and talks about fake news is that he believes there twisting his words and adding all of these leaks that are besieging his doesn't he have the right to do that. >> jesse, to your point, the president doesn't have the full support of the republican party. that's the difference between him and george bush. that's why he is so upset at

they thought obama was joking.g to nbc news, a trump administration official said obama's remark seemed like it was made in jest. [ light laughter ] you know, i knew we'd eventually pay the price for having a president that was as funny as obama, because someone dumb would think he was joking about something serious. "oh, my god, obama. so funny, told me mike flynn couldn't be trusted, i was dying. then he said no, stop laughing. i'm serious, trump. i fired him for a reason. and i said, stop it, i am seriously going to pee my pants." [ laughter ] but while trump was dealing with the flynn situation, republicans in congress were dealing with the fallout of their massively unpopular health care bill. after passing the bill on thursday, republicans spent the weekend in their home districts meeting with constituents. and those meetings did not go well. >> the fight and fury mounting over the house health care bill. >> just days after passing a new health care bill in the house, some congressmen are getting a hostile re

according to three obama administration officials it was delivered when president obama and his successorminute conversation in the oval office. obama's warning was a general caution that the general was not suited to such a high-level position. and it predated the concerns inside the government about flynn's contacts with the russian ambassador. according to one official. >> president obama made it known that he wasn't exactly a fan of general flynn's. so the question that you have to ask yourself, really, if president obama was truly concerned about general flynn, why didn't he suspend general flynn's security clearance, which they had just reapproved months earlier? additionally, why did the obama administration let flynn go to russia for a paid speaking engagement and receive a fee? there were steps they could have taken if it was truly a concern, more than just a person that had that -- >> nbc news reports when he became national security adviser, flynn was required to security clearance under the as you misses of the cia, which vets appointees. one official with the matter tells nbc