signature right joining me to go through this first glimpse into those heady final days of the obama presidency a familiar face here it was fun though arduous it's good to have you back on the show for people who don't know you were a member of the two thousand and eight two thousand and twelve obama campaign's your political campaign strategist now in berlin right here. let's just talk about what you thought when we read about this book the book comes out next week. there's a quote that's getting a lot of headline play where you they've got obama saying to his aides maybe we were wrong maybe you were wrong i mean whenever you see a former staffer write the inside version of history ben rhodes was part of it for the entire eight years he was there for pretty much every major foreign policy decision that barack obama took from osama bin laden to the cuban negotiations to the drawdown in afghanistan so and so forth so he has an inside look when it comes to angela merkel you know he reveals that angela merkel said that pretty much the trump victory was actually one of the main reasons w

obama tries to comfort ben rhoeds.here are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth. that is something like a high school junior would put in the yearbook. i mean, that is the president on a hallmark card? how did he know. the other thing,in have to defend ben. everybody was in shock. i only knew three people. terry, and my brother-in-law and nick who runs the steak house who knew trump was going to win. maybe ger altdo, did. >> jesse: i called it the weekend before the election. >> greg: we don't do episodes. >> jesse: before seen in the vault. and the fact that he said i have the economy set up so well. i don't think the american people thought it was going great on main street. >> dana: i think it is normal for a president to feel this way and common after a president who gets two terms, the opposing party usually wins the next time around. but president obama has been relatively quiet. but first time we are getting an insight of what it was like. on the economy, i think they have some room to say it t

>> the list you gave, was the foreign policy of the obama administration obama -- destabig or influences governments and electoral processes in world, judicial watch has a lot of documenttation on that, in particular activity of mr. soros, and sadly today, we still have all of united states our state department, is really soros occupied territoryy, h. he is probably more influential and his thinking and language and conduct is the guiding light in our state deputy today, still. -- state department today, still, consequences of that. is we're reaping what we have sebbed. lou: -- it continues it goes on. showing 3 o flow of money to vas countries and efforts to destabilize or give the obama administration its preferred outcome in those elections, including with israel. >> we were paying soros to do it for us. and in case of hungary under obama then still carry dlu carrh this damage, 700,000 dollar earmarked for quote unquote alternative media whatever that means. lou: i don't want to go too far. but the fact is that rosenstein and wray, and coats met with president. we have a spy. we have

>>> this ben rhodes book every word is sanction bid obama. rhodes is still on staff for obama.t of obama as he gets on the campaign trail and he'll be making some of the arguments himself. probably not directly at trump in the way he has avoided for the last year. >> thank you so much. thank you. when we return, let me finish tonight with trump watch. he's not going to like tonight. you're watching "hardball." delivery should look like this. crisp leaves of lettuce, freshly-made dressing. clean food that looks this good, eaten at your desk. panera. food as it should be. now delivered. my secret visitors. appearing next to me in plain sight. hallucinations and delusions. these are the unknown parts of living with parkinson's disease. what stories they tell. but for my ears only. what plots they unfold. but only in my mind. over 50% of people with parkinson's will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. and these can worsen over time, making things even more challenging. but there are advances that have led to treatment options that can help. if

case, wesident obama's obama was the best writer in the white house. we as writers would say tht even if he weren't but he was. president obama was a writer. and that hasn't happened since i think lincoln, where some eight was a published writer. we were working for a president who had an understanding as a writer and also using language as a means rather than an end, which is more of what a politician is thinking about. i would say there was -- i don't know that it was intentional, but it was important. there is always requirements and one is that it be surprising and original in some way and the other is that it be true to the person delivering the words. to some extent, that is always easiest when it is in contrast to the person who came before you. to some extent, people were and i was so excited about president obama because he spoke in this oratorical style that seemed antithetical to george bush. that is probably one of the reasons of why people were fans of president trump or of bernie sanders were excited about their oratorical style. these we

barack obama and michelle obama signed them over your deal with netflix to produce original content,features and documentaries. and to increase empathy and understanding. and to create this content for netflix, no terms of the agreement have been disclosed, and see what they produce. >> i haven't sent anything in years but i was excited about this. >> i want to meet someone who is going to say something. and they introduce scratch and sniff stamps, they are unveiling these, and haven't revealed what they smell like. once they are released. the hint is they will smell like popsicles either way. no other hints than that. >> i go to the mailbox taking out all the mail and throwing it in the garbage. >> when you send your bills, they will smell very nice. >> demanding answers, donald trump wants to know, if his present campaign was infiltrated in 2016. >> the inspector general will look into it and determine if there was any surveillance and for political purposes. >> our next guest is calling out the hype around the russian narrative, jim hansen says it is more about the obama administr

obama actually is no different than george w. bush. he said he wasn't going do regime change and here he is now. that i think was the beginning of the end of the reset. >> now where are we? now we're more than the beginning of the end. we're at the end of the beginning or the end of the end. it's truly -- >> yes. >> a terrible, terrible area right now. potentially, president putin might have thought he could engage with president trump. instead, we're in this massive investigation as to whether he had any influence on the u.s. election. hillary clinton believes the russians sabotaged her election. where does it go from here? >> you are absolutely right that president putin and his government wanted donald trump to win the election. here's no doubt in my mind that in the margins they did things to try to help him win that election. whether or not it had a direct independent causal influence as we would say in political science on the outcome of the election, that's difficult to figure out given there were so many other variables involve

said president obama was trying to put forth an anti-colonial agenda of president obama's father.014 said there was no evidence of selective prosecution. this is notable because the president created a pattern in the first 15, 16 months of his term. joe arpaio, the sheriff from arizona, scooter libby more recently. president obama, we just went back to check on this, didn't make any presidential pardons until late in his own second year, december of 2010, when he announced pardons related to low-level drug offenders. >> interesting stuff, peter alexander. i want to turn you to another piece of developing news coming out. we talked about the new tariffs the white house is implementing on the eu, mexico, canada, and now we're hearing from some of those allies. for example, this is the head of the eu saying, it's a bad did for world trade. they will proceed with the world trade organization dispute settlement case and put additional duties on a number of u.s. imports. you also have mexico now threatening or saying it will put its own retaliatory products on products coming from the u

bush as you do for obama, right? so how much of a role does that kind of thing play in what you write? >> so, if you look at the definitive collection of great speeches is william safire's "lend me your ears." the introduction to the book is written as if it is a speech, and it is a great primer on how to write a speech. he divides up the great speeches of all time by occasion, and some of them are two bendable us and some are a call to arms. they are different categories to celebrate greatness. in each type of speech like that and you write for a president or for any other client, you have to figure out first of all the audience, the venue, the occasion the type of vocabulary any funeralsay oration will be different than a campaign prep rally. in all things you have to make sure you have captured the person's voice and that it comes across as authentic. one of the things i do all the time, a speechwriter's idea of a -- is takeis takes eac speeches. i put my hand over it and read the speech and figure out if i can gu

is the former obama cia director john brennan spooked? we will talk to former intelligence officers about what his recent antitrust outbursts could reveal about his own skeletons, coming up. mom, dad, can we talk? sure. what's up son? i can't be your it guy anymore. what? you guys have xfinity. you can do this. what's a good wifi password, mom? you still have to visit us. i will. no. make that the password: "you_stillóhave_toóvisit_us." that's a good one. [ chuckles ] download the xfinity my account app and set a password you can easily remember. one more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. >> laura: president trump swore in new cia director gina haspel today while also targeting one of her predecessors in a furious war of words on twitter. it began yesterday when the president demanded that the justice department investigate whether the fbi and doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes during the obama administration. former cia chief john brennan called that a "disastrous

obama did not follow the law. when an adult crosses our border illegally he or she is breaking the law. the attorney general has no choice but to follow the law and what chris and other democrats are saying is that as we take the adult and put them into custody, which means they go to jail, that somehow the kids should go to jail to. that would be insane and inhumane and as a country we simply do not do that. when capital -- kamala harris and other folks who have also had the job of attorney general in their states, it would be the same thing to say that she is separating parents from their children in california when parents commit crimes. it would be the same thing. >> you are conflating. >> no, i'm not. >> yes, you are. >> when you commit a crime you go to a holding facility. it's the way it is. >> the difference here is that the trump administration has decided to treat asylum applicants as criminals and that's what i have a problem with. >> laura: it's not asylum applicants. >> you want people to come here th

detective and trump loved the fact he did the thing that obama wouldn't do. >> even tept he said obama shouldn't do it. > needless to say he follows through on his campaign promises. pulling out of the iran deal was a campaign promise. moving the embassy out of -- to jeers lem because campaign promise. he's been running for office since he took office and that plays well. robert: thank you for joining us and stay tuned for "in principle" where we'll hear from former mayor mitch landrieu, a possible presidential candidate 2020. our conversation continues, as ever, online on the "washington week" extra where we'll review the confirmation hearings for gina haspel, president trump's nomination for the c.i.a. find that later at pbs.org/"wasngton week." robert costa. have a great weekend and happy mo mer's day to your and my mom. >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> additional funding is provided by --

i was saying that obama created the vacuum.ust literally withdrew from the middle east. >> he picked iran side. >> he did the iran deal, he allowed russia to become a regional player. russia, right now is being confronted with the united states reestablishing itself. >> so obama had them on the ropes and let them go and had iraq in the good place, isis emerged in hezbollah and iran came to help us out and now israel is getting threats from syria because iran is all over syria. but there's a hundred 60000 rockets in the hands of hezbollah, a proxy of iran in south lebanon and their becoming precision. >> they got in from iran. they're making them. they taken the hundred $50 billion. >> jeanine: dating kibitz young iranians to get jobs? >> if you guys are need to cut your throat don't buy him a knife. because he believed that if you just treat them nice, they'll be nice. donald trump sees the evil that exists. associate their kids down what you think they'll do to ours? they rebuilt their military and humiliated her sailors, ever

by the time obama is leaving office, this has evolved. isis has burst on the scene, you civil wars coming to fruition out of the arab uprisings. there is an expansion of the way in which direct action is being used by the end of obama's term. declaredle, libya is an area of active hostilities. trumps the world inherits. reportedly as of 2017, it has been replaced by principles and standards and procedures of new framework. quick highlight a few things. one is it removes the continuing imminent threat standards. and courier could not kill a financier. the second devolves authority downward. terrorist threats don't go through the same high level of vetting. what is the impact on our partnerships? there are tactical advantages to removing the imminent threat standard both from a straightforward u.s. perspective but also the united states can now support partner forces to a greater extent. you are asking your partners to go fight these fights and share the load. streamlining the oversight process allows us to be more nimble and responsive to

between barack obama and donald trump.change. they struck a chord in certain sections of america, change. and donald trump did the same thing. the question is, how much of a rebuke was changed with donald trump to barack obama? and that's what they're thinking, what they're wanting. i remember the day that president obama marked the fact that history had changed. we had number 45, donald j. trump. and i remember that day when president obama welcomed mr. trump into the white house. it was supposed to be a 45-minute meeting. it lasted for hours. barack obama, no matter what he felt, no mter that he was on the road talking against m, his moral fiber and his policies, he wanted a smooth transition of government to uphold the democracy. he did his job, even as he had those questions. ben rhodes hits the nail squarely. he was in that inner circle to know. >> there's other news in here. and that is there's so much noise and questions about should president obama have done more about the russia interference? you hear it from pres

how was president obama really feeling?er all, trump rose to political prominence by leading a racist crusade claiming obama wasn't born in the u.s. now we have an answer. in his new memoir, obama's confidant ben rhodes takes us into the room. according to rhodes, obama's emotions came in waves. at times he seemed optimistic. at other times, angry. "new york times" chief white house reporter peter baker got an early copy of the book. he writes, president obama expressed rare self-doubt, wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on american history, asking his staffers, what if we were wrong? joining me now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst, and msnbc national political reporter carol lee who also covered the obama white house. peter, the book, it seems like, at least, really pulls back the curtain and shows us what it was like, the outward appearance of obama in that time was total calm and still, confidence. but it sounds like he was really grapp

this is now obama-gate. >> that's exactly right. and you can bet that nothing like this would have been done without the president's involvement. you know, congressman gates referred to the e-mails -- the text messages saying that the white house was directing this. remember, comey and clapper said, you know, there was spying or something like that but it was all done by the book, which is kind of like what susan rice wrote a few weeks about that infamous oval office meeting with barack obama when they were talking about using that dossier going after trump with it. lou: a little convenient and a lit revisionist. >> you know, it's spying but it was all by the book. everyone go back to sleep. that's comey's way. lou: somebody ought to go to jail for following that particular book. >> comey, clapper, brennon, the rest of them face civil and criminal liability because of this. they're going to have to account and there's going to be a process for getting them to account. lou: good to have you with us. thanks so much. >>> be sure to vot

a regular antagonist towards barack obama's leadership. >> it's time president obama woke up to thesert american leadership. >> mccain kept a lower profile but continued to be as he had his entire career, one of the biggest supporters of the american troops abroad. >> the thing he's most proud of being able to contribute to the national security of the united states. that's the thing that he feels most strongly about as he described it to me. >> during the lead up to the 2016 primary, unlikely newcomer was about to thrust mccain back into the national spotlight. at a presidential forum in iowa, john mccain war record came up between the pollster and the republican candidate, donald trump. >> he's not a war hero. he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> i was out raged. i couldn't believe he said it. >> i felt rage. wait a minute, you didn't serve in the military. john mccain did. and you're saying anybody who has been shot down or captured by the enemy and tortured in prison. is not a war hero. >> john mccain's response was it is what it is. h

leaving president obama's foreign policy in tatters. joining me now is a fox news contributor, herman cain. a former senior advisor to secretary of state hillary clinton. i got your name right i hope. but i'm gonna start with my man herman. mr. kane, they should be shedding tears of joy that american hostages are released. we do not even have to trade any terrorist for them like barack obama did. >> president trump nailed it when he said, weakness gets us into wars. the fact that this president is making so much progress on the diplomatic front with kim jong-un is driving others crazy. weakness is not what this president believes in. he believes in negotiating from a position of strength, and this is what he's doing. he's delivering on his promises. the democrats hated. >> jesse: peace through strength, isn't that with the presidents doing instead of war due to weakness? >> you have a few things going on. if you look at the wars being referenced, particularly iraq and afghanistan were entered into by president bush. president obama did

to obama on this. you think it's inconceivable that the chief executive officer of the country was not told that they had seen this carter page on the list of the foreign policy advisors and they decided to go into overdrive? >> i don't believe -- look at the total number of things going on. i don't believe this administration that was a tightly centralized as the obama administration, you could have had as many different things going on, all of them are illegal without the president having been briefed. furthermore, an example. the president is emailing hillary clinton on her insecure email. they carefully reword the fbi report to avoid telling us that president obama clearly had to know she was using an illegal email because he's writing to it. >> laura: susan rice said president obama did everything by the book. remember she wrote that email to herself, i have to mention it in every show. this is what jim clapper said today on the view about whether spying really occurred. let's watch. >> was the fb

all of those people who ran the obama doj and fbi are law enforcement disgraces.rassed the department, they embarrassed the fbi, they embarrassed themselves, they set the fbi back down years and there is very little that can be done about that. if eric holder thinks that's a good norm what he did, i think he need to see a psychiatrist. lou: and james clapper protesting this is a perfectly reasonable thing to do to plant a spy in a presidential campaign. >> not a spy, just an informant. it depend on what is is. lou: forgive me for not parsing. joe, your wife has corrected me twice and i have to defer both times to her corrections. your thoughts about the president making the decision to demand an investigation. >> absolutely essential. the president has done what any president should do. when the justice department is being run incompetently by rod rosenstein and jeff sessions, the president brought hem over to the white house for the third time in two weeks to tell them to act like adults, run the place, get the information necessary to get this investigation over

obama in herself in that michelle obama was the most activist first lady we have seen in many yea rseen in many years. melania trump doesn't hold her husband's hand and smiling and waving and so on, so perhaps she is using these little head nods to michelle obama as a de facto push towards it. that is if it is her and not her team. she will not get away with it because the media has picked up with it because the media has picked up on it. the guardian. this is the question on twitter today. we will share viewer views today. this is the resolution foundation talking about giving 25—year—olds £10,000 in the uk to give them a leg up, paying off debt, putting a deposit on a home, whatever you choose. the idea is to rearrange inheritance tax and retirement tax to pay for it. this is about redistributing funds. they are means testing a lot of things, for example, the ability to claim money for winter fuel allowance is. all of it is coming together to create a pot to allow younger people to get on the housing ladder and start a business. is it a good idea? we have seen the generational bala

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but president obama was right about a real hazard of early presidencies. the same thing did happen to ronald reagan and to bill clinton in the first midterms of their presidencies. in reagan's first midterm, republicans lost 26 seats in the house. >> ronald reagan was trying to be as upbeat as possible. still, it was a conciliatory president who met with reporters, one who talked about seeking bipartisan solutions with the new congress. >> there have been concessions and compromises in both directions, on all of the major issues and we expect to continue to work with the congress in that way. >> top aides admit, the election results were a shock. by white house count, only 50% of the candidates mr. reagan campaigned for won yesterday. >> that was ronald reagan in the first midterm of his presidency, 1982. eight years later, on november 8th, 1994, the curse of the first midterm visited president bill clinton, in an epic, historical loss for the democrats at the time. >> tonight, the sound you hear is the sound of a moving van backing up to the united states

also the calls on the obama administration, they are calling on obama. when did he know what? nunes saying there might be a second spy. >> yeah, this is really important, firstst of all, for people to remember that the department of justice, which is now out there hinting and tell mike and various partisans like adam schiff, somehow congressman nunes and others are responsiblr blowing this source. they leak these details differently news sources, everything short of those guys name and social security number -- >> sean: bingo. >> just so they could get ahead of this and spend it the way they want to do so the new the noose was tightening and they would be forced to put on these documents. this is the other important part, too. none of us had really had enough information on we know a lot about what the fbi did, although not enough, what we don't know, though, as with the political side of this operationhi is. we know clinton's campaign had thisis dossier. who else had it in the obama administration? and what other agenciesti were involved in efforts to g

obama in 2014.need to stop pointing fingers, the kids matter. >> what our lawmakers need to decide come if you are not going to enforce the law change the law. the recently have people coming in is they have the incentive to do so because we haven't followed the law on the books. i hope we can come to an agreement because that is important, to do something legislatively. >> we can do more if you want us to,, we are not equipped financially to do it but if you want us to we need more money. that requires congress. we watch and wait, thank you both. the pres. paying tribute at arlington national cemetery to s the nation's fallen heroes but as jennifer griffin reports this memorial day arlington is facing a growing dilemma. >> they were generals and privates, captains and corporals of every race, color and creed. >> the pres. was joined by his cabinet secretaries and families of the fallen at arlington national cemetery to mark memorial day by laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. ♪ t >> welcome

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president obama was fond of thinking beyond america. for those conservatives who are patriots so it is the recognition that the true patriots it isn't racism or zeno phobia. i march 200 miles in iran 2005 would be the muslims or iranians to have freedom in their country. so i argue it is a smear for those who are recognized as appropriate because we are patriots because of the scene no phones long -- to show that division in that deep state bureaucracy with the coup d'État within the state department with the fbi and cia and the whole justice system and we see that with info wars working with washington bureau chief to be constantly under attack as the cnn attack. or lying about what we do report or the lawsuits filed and constantly under this attack and to delegitimize anybody that disagrees with them. >> one of the new things i saw overtime was the trend of entirely which was new to me when it first started to happen and that struck me as strange. >> this is one of the points we have a similar experience. and the info wars we are prou

and obama. come nobody mentions that were chargingina uncle sam $57 an hour to do the --k and bringing in a legal paying eight dollars to $10 an hour. i will not even sponsor my own relatives from mexico because i am an american of mexican descent. all of these people that are so pro-obama like he was the second coming are full of crap. dennis., another article about foreign policy in usa today. israel prepares for embassy move. groundskeepers planted red, white, and blue flowers underneath american and israeli flags for monday's inauguration of the controversial new location that has sparked palestinian outrage. likely toguests are attend monday's ceremony, including members of congress, and secretary of state john sullivan will lead the delegation, along with a ivanka trump and jared kushner. steven mnuchin and jason greene how -- jason greenblatt will also be in attendance. mike in new york, a democrat. good morning. caller: hi, greta. yes, diplomacy. if obama or hillary clinton ever cuts thi

i knew that we needed a conservative fighter to go after obama overreach and give obama everything he. fortunately i was able to win in court time after time after time against barack obama. if anybody raises west virginia values, show me someone who has done more to go after the absolute wretched excess of the barack obama era. we went after it and we won the clean power plan, the legal amnesty. we have been fighting for pro-life principles. we are the conservative fighter of anyone standing here tonight. >> martha: we have been watching all of the commercials and the ads going after each other. so congressman jenkins, from new jersey, what are new jersey values and what is wrong with them? >> you look at the ad when he ran for congress in new jersey. great picture of him in his campaign logo with new jersey and the ad said i will stand up and fight anybody who goes against jersey values. you know what, we need somebody representing our values. you cannot change your values just because you change your zip code. >> martha: what are jersey values as opposed to west virginia values? >>

why didn't he meet president obama the n.s.a. the f.b.i. and the cia have a fifty thirty five billion dollar combined budget with for thirty five billion dollars the american people get moderate to high confidence and if you look at the odeon i and d.h. just reports the two intelligence reports that all of this is based on there's nothing certain to zero evidence and there's a war there are warranty disclaimers stating that even high confidence the highest level of assessment even high confidence could be wrong yeah and they actually say in one of the reports don't take anything we say as fact so the intelligence reports are completely just basically opinion three hundred thirty five billion dollars of opinion you have the d.n.c. who never gave its computer service to the f.b.i. they hired crowd strikethrough hillary clinton purchasing through her law firm crowd strike paying crowd strike and also paying christopher steele infusion g.p.s. and glenn simpson for the still does see if anyone colluded with russia it was hillary clint

what's interesting about obama and about george w. bush is that he wasn't, you know, particularly close with either one of them. he had a hard-fought presidential race against barack obama. but i think he's making a larger point here, which is that he wants bipartisanship, he wants the country to start working again, he wants two men who were civil in their politics to represent him and to speak about the kind of civility that he thinks is missing from american politics. so what better than to invite the man who vanquished you in the presidential race and to invite george w. bush with whom he disagreed on a lot of issues, including the torture issue, and i think that have both of them speak together to represent what he wants the country to start thinking about again, which is making government work. >> good point. very important points, indeed. gloria, thank you very much. >>> coming up, did president trump -- did his aides hire private israeli spies to dig up dirt on obama administration officials all in an effort to try to undermin

obama white the house as senior speakers -- as senior speechwriter. bienen,rator is henry the president of the poetry foundation and a board member of the council on global affairs. he is the former president of northwestern university and was james s mcdonnell distinguished university professor at the woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs. please join me in welcoming the panel. [applause] thank you very much. as president of the poetry foundation, we are extremely grad to partner with the chicago council on global affairs, something we have been wanting to do. now we have done it. i think this is a great idea to have distinguished speechwriters as well is a great poet with us. i want to point out a few things and will not say anything about the panelists because they have already been introduced. presidents have written poetry. i have my doubts whether the incumbent does that, but you never know. however, abraham lincoln, i am told, wrote melancholy poetry. george washington wrote love poems at an early age and many presidents hav

in the presidential campaign between governor romney and senator obama, now president obama, the facebookcofounder shared facebook information with the obama campaign that it did not share with the romney campaign because the facebook cofounder wanted mr. obama to win. is that accurate? -- wylie >> i did not mean to say that. it was that he was working for the obama campaign -- a cofounder of facebook. he was working for the obama campaign. i do not have any information i says he took information from facebook, but he explained to the campaign, here is how you use facebook. senator kennedy: did he share that information with mr. romney? dr. jamison: to my knowledge, no. senator kennedy: or the romney campaign? do you know why he shared this information with the obama campaign? dr. jamison: he actually volunteered to work for obama when he was running for u.s. senate, so they had had a long relationship. senator kennedy: so he wanted president obama to become president. dr. jamison: yes. senator kennedy: ok. here is one of the things -- to me, there are two issues. at least two issues rega

obama comes into office and inherits those capabilities and it is under obama that we see, i would say a rapid expansion of the use of direct action especially in the form of drone strike and most notably in pakistan where majority of them occur. i think it is important to put that escalation in context. when obama comes in he makes working by, with, and through partner nation as -- nations a cornerstone of his counterterrorism strategy. there is more emphasis and money behind partnership building capacity and trying to promote governance, rule of law, things like that and the intention is to get partners to share the costs and risks of u.s. counterterrorism but it is also beyond burden-sharing to make counterterrorism more sustainable on the ground. which is to say military gains can be ephemeral. by getting most nations to buy in you get more legitimacy and build cooperation and give them capabilities and capacities to solidify those military gains over the longer term. so this isn't just about burden-sharing although there is a pom point of it. at the same time obama is trying to wo

the big toda -- the big kahuna e top, president obama. he allowed the information to be spread across 16 agencies signaling to his people let it all hang out and leak your heart away on trump. so i for one am sick and tired of these liars, leakers and liberals attack our president and our democracy when they are the ones who tried to frame him. here is a primer for all of you. if you are going to set up a president and try to frame him. do it against someone who is dumber than you are. that's my open. joining me now with reaction to my opening statement and all the the -- all the developing news, congressman lee zeldin. let me ask you. we just heard a few minutes ago, the president regarding the hostage in venezuela released and there it is on the screen. it was just a few weeks ago three hostages were brought back from north korea. why is the president so successful at this? >> a lot of winning. i'm not tired yet. those three korean-americans who returned home. the look on their face coming off the plane. this family -- the whole state o

secondly, it's clear that barack obama still lives in a fantasy land.r one he says the president's decision today undermines our credibility as a nation. but going on an apology tour doesn't. treating our friends like israel as enemies doesn't. and treating our enemies like friends, like iran, doesn't undermine our credibility. and then the cherry on top, lou, is when he said at the end of the day the problem is that iran was not in violation of the jcpoa. well you viewers can google one phrase, heavy water and jcpoa and they'll see that iran was not only in technical breach but also in breach of the spiritual character of this whole deal. lou: and the united states still without direct ability to inspect. >> yes. lou: -- those sites in i iran. as if we should be humble to the point of allowing an international agency to whifng around the iranian desert in search of nuclear weapons or high grade nuclear fuel. the europeans are interesting here. the president has brought the europeans so far in their thinking, eve angela merkel at least moving up the per

why didn't he meet president obama the n.s.a. the f.b.i. and the cia have a fifth thirty five billion dollar combined budget with for thirty five billion dollars the american people get moderate to high confidence and if you look at the d.n.i. and the h.s. reports the two intelligence reports that all of this is based on there's nothing certain to zero evidence and there's a war there are warranty disclaimers stating that even high confidence the highest level of assessment even high confidence could be wrong yeah and they actually say in one of the reports don't take anything we say as fact so the intelligence reports are completely just basically opinion three hundred thirty five billion dollars of opinion you have the d.n.c. who never gave its computer service to the f.b.i. they hired crowd strikethrough hillary clinton purchasing through her law firm crowd strike paying crowd strike and also paying christopher steele infusion g.p.s. and glenn simpson for the still does see if anyone colluded with russia it was hillary clinton

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