, didn't respect obama.ink that we will see this president now going to meet with putin. the press is appropriately skeptical because we have been through this before, we have seen it before. we understand that putin doesn't see the world the way america sees it. susan: i want to close this by getting back to obama and what you think his legacy will be. obviously trump is setting out to undo both legislatively and by executive order what he can undo of some of obama's accomplishments. what do you think will withstand that initial trumpian and republican onslaught and taking a somewhat longer view, it is not enough to say well, barrack obama was the first african-american president. what do you think, having covered the whole thing, we are going to be reading about barack obama 50 years from now? peter: well, some things you can't undo. he inherited an economy on the edge of a great depression and brought it back from the abyss. the auto industry, which was about to go into the toilet was rescued. osama bin l

it is a unique story that senator hendon was so able to agitate barack obama that barack obama wantedo have a fistfight with him. brian: i do not know how to ask this but, in all of the time that you reviewed barack obama's life, did he ever do anything illegal? besides coke? david: no. i would tell you to stories that i think are indicative of illinois politics. in illinois politics, the phrase is well known, pay to play. if someone wants to receive business or grants from the state, you better be a campaign contributor. one of the things in his entire political record that he is most embarrassed about is $10,000 in contributions that he received from a southside activist figure who had actually been the republican nominee challenging him for the state senate seat in 1998. after that, friends of that activist contributed $10,000 to barack's next campaign. them,ks, as we would call legislatures are able to designate funds for recipients. low and behold, the activists group receives a $75,000 earmark , thanks to senator obama. dirty it is to play not a legal but it is not the barack ob

he talked about his book "rising star: the making of barack obama," which covers president obama's liferior to winning the presidency. you can watch this interview on our website c-span.org. brian: david garrow, author of "rising star: the making of barack obama." what was the hardest part of this book to be? david: without question the most challenging aspect of doing this book with dealing with the women before michelle obama. i am an academic historian. i'm different with how i deal with people than journalists are. when one is talking with people about intimate personal relationships, i'm very hesitant differential. i do not pose intrusive questions. it is crucially important both with alec mcnair and genevieve cook, there were all of these link the letters that barak wrote them, that they hung on to. it gives the history of barack's life a great depth and richness to have all of those letters in his own words detailing those relationships. brian: we talked a previous hour on this. it is almost 1500 pages including the notes and all that. did you have to cut this book down? david: v

the same is true with president obama.and i saw both of them get mad and angry but it would take a lot for that to happen. they both had this sort of even keel about them. that you know, that's probably one similarity. i think on a typical day, could you go the entire day with president obama and basically never exchange words because you are both doing your jobs? >> i did talk to him a lot but i also knew my role on the observer. my job is documenting history but yet i was also establishing a friendship with him so we didn't answer a lot but sure, there would be days where yes, maybe like at 4:00 and there would be a moment where we are alone and he would say how are you doing today? i say i'm doing great, how are you doing and we talk about the game or just play in the basketball game last night, something like that. but there were certainly days when i wasn't having this ongoing conversation that was not my role. >> howlong did it take for him to get used to you? >> itprobably took him four or five months probably. >> h

obama had dinner with canada's justin trudeau last month, and obama met with south korea's new presidentn this past monday. only three days after president trump met with the korean leader at the white house. three days. the former president's shadowing of president trump is appalling and so is the silence of the national left-wing media who have supported obama in his egregiously awful behavior since he left office and, of course, throughout his eight years as president. there's nothing surprising in it at all of course, the former president who spent the eight years undermining core values, traditions and national interests to boot. and who now does his very best to undercut president trump and the will of the american people, and i've noticed, have you, that there's been not one demwith sufficient integrity to protest the offensive and aggressive acts of a former president who is now only extending his presidential record of failure through these disgusting efforts to subvert president trump and his administration, and i admit i've been reluctant to add up the leaders of the gop who h

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obama care is broken. the next two years while we have the obama care exchanges, the only way to cover the premiums is to cover the premiums. >> karl, thank you very much. karl rove, rewill be right back. -- we will be right back. stay with us. >>> welcome back. as we have been reporting the race is on this weekend to rally up as many senate republicans as possible to get behind a new bill for a vote this week to repeal obama care. senator james lankford joining me right now, a member of the appropriations committee, also intelligence and homeland security committees. good to see you. thank you very much for joining us. >> good to see you as well. glad to be with you. >> most people don't understand the senate rules. they are complex in terms of the rules on governing. you wrote an op-ed about this. i want to get right to it before we get the status check on that bill to repeal obama care. you say the genesis of the frustration stems from the rules that provide a minority of senators to ability to put the

obama. [applause] >> and through it all he has maintained the humility and humanity offering a private concert for the victims' families of newtown, connecticut, a memorial service for mit officer sean collier and an appearance at the one-fund benefit concert in boston. and so, james taylor, emplifies not only president kennedy's ad admiration for the arts but his belief in service and common humanity. please join me in welcoming james taylor, kim taylor, and owen young. [applause] >> thank you very much. i hate to interrupt that. that was going really nicely. may i say how great it is too here tonight. my wife kim will be out shortly in a second. let me take off my hat. she will be out shortly but we are starting without her. this is owen young, ladies and gentlemen, from the boston symphony. [applause] what a delight it and a great relief to be in the presence of the obama's again. [applause] >> in my mind, there is a connection between the administration of jfk and that of barack obama an

obama. good morning from indiana. caller: good morning. one of the main problems when you discuss an issue like this is the american news media is one-sided news. we only get one side of issues like this. rose" a dayharlie or two ago, and he had the iranian nuclear negotiator with john kerry. he must have been on other media programs in this country. why couldn't you get him on the program so we could get his point of view? iaea ision, steve, the the one who certifies, and i think they have done so at least six times, that iran is in compliance with this agreement. why can't you get someone from who i think is more objective than your guest? the media unfortunately with issues like this is one-sided issues. you could have gotten zarif. it seems like you should have been able to get an iaea person. we have to get away from one-sided news. clawson have patrick and we would love to have him as well. we have an open invitation to him and john kerry. guest: the issues between the united states an

the president would not be letting obama care collapse.ively -- actively trying to undermine the health care system in this country using millions of americans as political pawns in a cynical game. by continuing to deny the insurance markets their certainty that they need to function, the president is playing a dangerous game with the health care of this country. so our republican colleagues here in the senate have a choice to make. they can follow the president down a 357b8g that will lead to higher premiums, less care and millions of americans losing coverage. they can join president trump in trying to sabotage the system and hurt millions of innocent americans to try to make a political point that has failed already, or they can start today working with democrats. we can work together to lower premiums. we can work together to stabilize the markets. we can work together to improve the quality of health care. this isn't a radical idea. a group of 11 republican and democratic governors called for exactly the kind of bipartisan cooperation

redlinedent obama do a to syria on chemical warfare. it was president trump, not president obama, that launched missile strikes against the assad regime. how does marmont -- more muscular posture affect the conflict? >> i'm committed to resetting the relationship between our two nations. >> the obama initiative to read populations faltered as vladimir putin challenged his neighbors and expanded moscow's influence. >> it would be wonderful with nato and our country could get along with russia right now. we are not getting along with the model. >> president trump's attempts to setting the course with the kremlin better? >> looking at the america first policies, one thing is certain, the world is not waiting. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen welcome ambassador wendy sherman, michael durand, and jacek isaacson. [applause] >> good afternoon. months since his inauguration, and with the promised quote from this day forward it will be only america first, president trump has put forth policies that seek to reposition the u.s. on the world stage. assert

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obama didn't give the result he wanted.sult america is stuck in the region whether it wants to be or not. ♪ >> glor: the bee giled is the remake of the 1971 film. collin farrell as a union soldier recovering from his wounds at a southern girl school run by nicole kid man. it brought sophia coh, pola best film director. she talked to the film critic for time magazine >> the premise to me was so kind of loaded and juicy with fun to look at things about men and women and over the top setting. >> also, at this point twith the release of wonder woman and we're talking a lot more about women film makers seems that this story, which is very woman send trick is kind of -- seems that you made the right movie for the times maybe without even knowing it? >> the timing has been interesting how i think and we were filming during the election and there was so much talk about kind of the dynamics between men and women and power and but i started working the story several years ago before it takes -- they asked me to write the script. i th

generalissimo speeches that president obama -- the un's general assembly speeches that president obama gave year after year. we are no longer in an age when one country can dominate another, and so forth. this is a philosophy that led the administration to reach out to enemies and distance itself from friends. we saw that in the iran deal. president obama's attitude for the middle east is that it was an arena populated by friends and potential friends. he went to a great extent to win over the potential friends like iran, at the expense of israel. to do this, he had to deceive the israelis and the american public in a number of areas. if i had come to you in this forum in 2013, and told you that the consequence of president obama's policies would be the rise of the russian-iranian alliance across the middle east, the development of an iranian territorial corridor, the displacement of 10 million people in syria, the injection into europe of millions of refugees, or over one million refugees. if i told you that iran would emerge from the deal with the right to enrich and reprocess uraniu

obama broke his promise since then. mine i take that up in mine commentary tonight and so new touch screens... and biometrics. in 574 branches. all done by... yesterday. ♪ ♪ banks aren't just undergoing a face lift. they're undergoing a transformation. a data fueled, security driven shift in applications and customer experience. which is why comcast business delivers consistent network performance and speed across all your locations. hello, mr. deets. every branch running like headquarters. that's how you outmaneuver. >> lou: a few thoughts on a former president who said this in the 2012 presidential campaign. >> i would point out that we have one president at a time and one administration at a time. i think traditionally, the notion has been america's political differences end in the water's edge. >> lou: barak obama that one president and just before he left office, he said he would only speak out when only core values were at stake. that took him less than two weeks to ignore the historical provision of one president

obama broke his promise since then. i take that up in mine commentary tonight and >> lou: a few thoughts on a former president who said this in the 2012 presidential campaign. >> i would point out that we have one president at a time and one administration at a time. i think traditionally, the notion has been america's political differences end in the water's edge. >> lou: barak obama that one president and just before he left office, he said he would only speak out when only core values were at stake. that took him less than two weeks to ignore the historical provision of one president at a time. on january 30th, obama denounced president trump's travel ban. since then, he hit the republican efforts to rescue the failed health care program and president trump's decision to exit the paris climate deal. mr. obama embarked on a world tour that is organized to shadow president trump's meeting with foreign leaders. he met with former prime ministers of england and italy and talked to prime minister may just hours before her

obama, which covers president obama's life up to winning the presidency. >> the point emphasize here is over the course of his presidency, there were scores and scores of people in illinois who had known him in years earlier who were deeply disappointed with the trajectory of the obama presidency. and disappointed in two ways. number one, disappointed with forgot manyck obama of the people who were central to his political rise. dated black :00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." collects a look at some of this week's developments concerning senate action on the health care lot replacement. on wednesday, president trump posted republican senators at the white house to discuss their strategy for repealing and replacing the federal health care law. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell also spoke to reporters. it will have his remarks after the president. president trump: please, sit down. oh, it's not hard. we're close. i think we are a lot closer than people understand and we have to pull it through. it is so important. we are in this room today to deliver on our promise to the american peop

to these changes, none would ba rack obama past opposed to these changes, none would barack obama pastorm in 2009, barack obama was on the stump meeting with key providers, hospitals and insurance companies health care providers, everyone trying to get them on board, get them to sign of the legislation because it is hard, you have to have a big tent to get this. they're talking about a straight up repeal vote which is out of the window, there are enough senators opposed that it may never reach the floor of the house, donald trump new position is to wash his hands of this, walk away and hope the whole system colla pses away and hope the whole system collapses and the democrats come back begging for help. the problem is this is on donald trump is sold responsibility and him saying he will let the system collapse and shrug, not many americans will be crazy about the idea of him abandoning that and their insurance problems just abandoning that and their insurance problemsjust get a abandoning that and their insurance problems just get a political goal. one man who can wash his hands and wa

it his a unique story that senator had to was so able to agitate barack obama that barack obama wanted to have a fistfight . in all the time that you've reviewed his life, did he ever do anything illegal? besides coke. >> illegal, no. stories thatyou to i think are indicative of chicago politics. phrase pay to play, if someone wants to receive business or grants from state government you better be a campaign contributor. in histhe things in his political record that he is most embarrassed about is $10,000 and contributions he received from a cell site active or -- activist named jesse -- who was sent republican nominee challenging him in 1998. after that, friends of mr. $10,000 toributed barack's next campaign. earmarks, as we call them here in washington, number initiatives in illinois, legislators are able to designate funds for particular recipients. group receives a 75,000 dollar earmark member initiative thanks to senator obama. that is paid to play. it is not easy got that it is not illegal. without question it is something that barack is embarrassed to be reminded of. >> is tony

these are obama intel officials.scribe how china has interfered with our elections and they consider that a weaker threat, iran is a much bigger threat and north korea's the biggest foreign threat. yet none is bn reported with the ferocity that you mentioned that we are reporting on russia. >> jesse: speaking of threats, people are now claiming they are the ones under threat and take a look at this montage. >> have you raise the concern that all of us in the news media have about the president calling us enemies of the american people because that's a very harsh statement and potentially dangerous. >> at what point does this become dangerous? i'm talking dangerous as in a journalist gets her. i can tell you working overseas in war zones, people are in bold and by the actions of this administration, emboldened by the declaration of war and the media. >> the reporters and journalists are enemies of the state. someone, god forbid someone is going to do something violent against journalist and a large way. >> so first of

obama broke his promise since then. take that up in mine commentary tonight and much more, we'll be right back. ♪ [vo] progress is seizing the moment. your summer moment awaits you now that the summer of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the summer of audi sales event. so we need tablets installed... with the menu app ready to roll. in 12 weeks. yeah. ♪ ♪ the world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. ♪ ♪ data, applications, customer experience. ♪ ♪ which is why comcast business delivers consistent network performance and speed across all your locations. fast connections everywhere. that's how you outmaneuver. ♪(somber piano) ♪you may say i'm a dreamer ♪but i'm not the only one ♪i hope some day you'll join us♪ ♪and the world will live as one♪ >> lou: a few thoughts on a former president who said this in the 2012 presidential campaign. >> i would point out that we have one president at a time and one administration at a time. i think traditiona

david: i would say president obama, wouldn't you say. >> i would say president obama over bernie sandersn needs to go and bernie sanders cannot be our candidate in 2020, i'm saying now. i think that president obama has a ton to offer in terms of fund raising and talking to candidates how to better communicate with everyday americans, he'll go down history as one of our greatest presidential ortors. everybody on the left and right feels that way. david: not everybody on the right, i can testify to that. >> a lot that-- >> ashley, the point is that president trump steered us to the left further than any president in my lifetime. i " would argue any president ever urick about to the left of the political spectrum and this president is doing everything he can to swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. >> but, you know, in president trump's defense here, i think that he does have some things he needs to definitely fix in regards to his base. repealing and replacing obamacare is one big thing he go the elected on and that needs to start happening soon. with the tensions in congress and i

obama broke his promise since then.in mine i take that up in mine commentary tonight and (basketball game and crowd sounds) ♪ if you talkin' they will hear you ♪ every single time... why are we getting killed like this? kyle's not here. got caught drinking beer in the park a couple of nights ago. really? yeah. zero tolerance-he's out for the season. harsh. hey, he knew not to drink. we've made that clear to all our kids, right? uh, no... not really. bill, if we don't tell them what we expect and why they shouldn't drink, how're they gonna know? (announcer) talk. they hear you. for more information, visit underagedrinking.samhsa.gov. >> lou: a few thoughts on a former president who said this in the 2012 presidential campaign. >> i would point out that we have one president at a time and one administration at a time. i think traditionally, the notion has been america's political differences end in the water's edge. >> lou: barak obama that one president and just before he left office, he said he would only speak out when

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barack obama. and that's not a perm attack on the -- a personal attack on the former president. you could substitute in the name of any black politician, and the statement would still hold true. that's what i'm trying to get at in this book. it started out as a column, and it grew into a longer essay and then eventually the short book that was recently published. but my intention was the make a fairly simple point which is that political activity is not the most effective way of advancing a group economically. a racial or ethnic group's political success does not automatically lead to economic success. one does not flow naturally from the other. it's hardly an original observation, but i think it's an important one that is regularly ignored by civil rights leaders and black political leaders when practice identity politics. urging blacks to vote as a bloc, favoring candidates of their own racial or ethnic background and so forth. and i thought the end of the obama presidency was an especially good

and that was during obama reign. >> as if this kid was not an entity. intelligence had to know that this kid invoice a coma. >> it's interesting the father made should pretty damming statements against president obama and the ob administration. and you know he said, look at the results noting that under -- his child was there for over a year under obama, nothing happened. and now, president trump comes in, and that child is finally returned home after being in a coma for over a year. it is frightening to think that this is something like that can happen to a 21-year-old student who is on his way to hong kong for a work study, decides to take a tour -- >> encouraged to take the tour. we'll be back. >> encouraged. it was advertised come visit us. we'll be back. >> armstrong: i'm armstrong williams and this is the "right side forum." ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> you know e fred as you said during the commercial, iran has paid no price for the capturing of american hostages, and part of this show today is about terrorism, it's about what happens to naive children when they go

this repeels about half the obama care taxes. continues to fund the majority of the subsidies, continues to keep majority of the regulations. really i think we're keeping obama care as much as anything, and that's not our promise. >> it does not make sense to do a major rewrite of a vital entitlement program without having any hearings or considerati consideration. that's something that is a major reason that i find myself unable to support the bill. >> why no democrats expected to vote for the bill, majority leader mitch mcconnell knees 50 of the gop senators to pass the legislation. to win over moderates. the bill includes $45 million to fight opioid epidemic, $70 billion to stabilize the cost of the health care. extension of the three obama care tax breaks. to appease conservatives, the bill also allows insurers to share new low cost strip down policies that aren't obama care compliant. large cuts to medicaid will remain in place, which has left some senators undecided on the new bill. over the next several days mcconnell is e

he's going to hit the media and obama. obama has gone overseas and trashed trump.people loved him.m. >> he reaffirmed article five and nato saying we are here for you and an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. he reaffirmed the basis. i don't like all of the stuff with the media. it exposes the seedy underbelly domestically. we need to keep our dirty laundry at home. >> laura: is there something to that? the critics today went on and on, giving aid and comfort to dictators around the world. who put down a free press. is that what he did? >> no, i don't believe that at all. it was really an afterthought. the idea came when i asked the question.ou i followed up and asked the president of poland to defend his own actions by actuallyd repressing the press corps there. he has determined which outlets are allowed to cover the parliament at all. that's press repression. the president of the united states, i don't think that's part of first amendment danger, i think that's part oft his personality. >> laura: this speech was a big speech. this was not a little sp

[applause] obama: 85.olitical courage. large and small, performed .lmost daily innumerable acts of political courage large and small, performed almost daily. and that is true. i have seen it. i have witnessed it. i have been thinking on this notion of political courage this weekend. in particular about some of the men and women who were elected to congress the same year i was elected to the white house. many of them were new to washington. their entire career ahead of them. in that first term, they had to take tough vote after tough vote because we were in crisis. they took votes to save the financial system and the economy even when it was highly unpopular. it took votes to save the auto industry when even in michigan, people did not want to see bailouts. it took votes to crack down on abuses on wall street, despite pressure from lobbyists and sometimes their donors. they found themselves in the midst of a great debate. a debate that had been going on for decades. familye that the kennedy participated in

the revamped version keeps some obama care taxes in place. funding for the poor as well as money to combat the opioid epidemic. but senators lindsey graham and bill cassidy say that they have a better idea. they've introduced an alternative plan, aimed at winning bipartisan support. senator lindsey graham joins us right now to talk more about that. good to see you. thank you very much for joining us. >> good morning. >> how do you think this plan -- go through your plan, tell us what's important and why you think it will gain bipartisan support so you can get this bill to president's desk. >> there you go. all the money that we were going to be spending in washington, we block granted the states is pretty simple. we leave the taxes in place, except for the individual mandate and the employer mandate and the medical device tax, we take all that money and we send it back to the states and tell them you devise a plan for south carolina and california, if you want to go obama care route, you can. if you want to do something different, you can. bu