and obama ends."what does he feel about the new occupant of the white house and what he's doing with their legacy? ben rhodes, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. how do you explain your connection to president obama? well, it's one of the reasons why i wrote the book, to try to explore that, but i think fundamentally, he was running for president in 2008 as an outsider and he hadn't built up the network of people around him that most people running for president do. hillary clinton had kind of sucked up the democratic machine. i was coming in as a relative outsider, newcomer at 29 years old. we shared a frustration. i got into politics for the some of the same reasons he was running for president. after september 11, the attackes, our government had gotten it wrong in the iraq war and with a number of other decisions so we entered into this process with the same shared sense of trying to make change. the other reason that's important is when you're a speechwriter, you have to get inside someone‘s head be

you saw the rise of the media with obama. and it was qualitatively different from the type of opposition that we have seen in the past. and the underlying premise of your question is fair. there seems to be an imbalance. wanting tosistently republicans.t to and i put an example in the book. there is a movie about working with the president to get something done. and obama brought a bunch of republicans to the screening to think it would be something nice to do but not a single one came. campvited republicans to david to talk and nobody came. you can extend a hand but if somebody doesn't reach back then you can't work together. and i think we've seen a pattern in the last few years. it became difficult for democrats to figure out how to deal with that level of opposition. and how do you balance the need to try to work together, to lead by an example where you are not trying to be -- the strange thing for obama is that he was cast as a radical figure when he temperamentally conservative guy. he gets along with people. he isn't

well, for the duration of the obama administration. joining us this morning to talk about his new book "the world as it is." you write in that book that the whole reason for coming to washington in the first place and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11th. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> you know, i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns. and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site and had a clear view of the second plane hitting and the first tower falling and i knew whatever i was going to do in my life -- i was 24 years old -- was going to be about what happened next, what the response to this was. i went to an army recruiter who didn't know what to do with an english major. i worked my way into foreign policy but felt i wanted to get involved in politics and that led me to the obama campaign. >> your meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter he brought y

left. >> people thought obama liking matthew moore one -- michael moore. [laughter] >> but to be on his if you are in a job like i had with certain escapism, the more mindless looking at 10:30 on a wednesday night when you just spent 15 hours doing the most off. but i was surprised david cameron liked entourage and that's what i had a conversation about. that shows the full pop-culture. but that's a great? your first one. and the reality is i feel we have to climb out of the hole but i believe if you take, what is interesting the first agreement that was global literally 200 countries and there are other issues that could benefit from that type of global agreement. and just to name a couple dealing with pandemic that is the architecture you could try to set up that is truly global that ultimately in the long millions of lives to replicate that coalition and arrangement and information sharing related to global health that's what comes to me off the top of my head that effort to get out late in the administration of refugee settlement would be an important

that is what obama is really good at. and on the global stage, no less, he rescued democrats in the midterms. by the way, could that be interpreted as criticizing america on the global stage? in a foreign country? i think so. whipping up racial divisions is a typical democrat tactic, and when we have already seen deployed by alexandria ocasio-cortez, the new bright light of the democratic party, kamala harris, the list goes on and on. obama there in johannesburg makes it all sound better with all those pregnant pauses. then of course, he couldn't assist launching the tired old refrain against populism with a few lines that could've been written by george w. bush himself. >> the fact that countries which rely on nationalism and xenophobia and doctrines of tribal, racial, religious superiority as their main organizing principle, the thing that holds people together, eventually those countries find themselves consumed by civil war, or external war. >> laura: i hope he is not talking about our country. i think in japan, for i

obama was warning about trade. trump was serious about this trade and xi kind of stepped back and fold the his hands and he took the measure and what he was saying is exactly what happened which is if trump goes down this road we will take your place. we're going to pick off your allies, you know? we're -- they have an initiative that extends all of the way from china to africa to southeast asia, central asia and the middle east and you know, he knew that it would be an opportunity for him. yes there's risk, but trump picking a trade war because they don't have politics, right? so they can assume a lot of pain, but when they start squeezing pieces of the american electorate. they know american politicians will back down. he's sitting in a much stronger position. the only way to have a trade war with china is to get all your allies on your side and trump is giving away the leverage we have. >> by leveraging the trade war against his own allies. >> europe, korea, canada. >> canada. it's been so long, but the chinese

the memoir of the obama white house. from within the obama presidency. but also from novelists like colin mccann who said it shakes us out of the rut of ordinary reception and manages to find hope. joining roads and conversations tonight is another one of the top policy thinkers. you may know him as editor in chief of the atlantic. as a contributor for countless publications. from the washington post. as the author of 2006 prisoner. his experience working and a military prison. and his encounter with one prisoner he came to befriend. please join me in welcoming them. see my good evening. welcome everyone to politics and prose. we are going to try to cover all of american foreign policy from 1999 in the first five minutes and then we will see what happens. just make it easy for you because you don't have any experience with public speaking or the media. i just wanted to start with literally the easiest question i can think of. and then move towards syria. the easiest question as this. what would have been the reaction if barack obama had saluted a north k

that led me to the obama camp. >> you are meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter. he brought you on board. this is early in his campaign for the presidency. 2007. >> it it was the spring of 2007. free work for the obama campaign. i got called into a prep session. and there he is at the head of the table. i was so nervous back then, that i frankly, felt like i couldn't speak in paragraphs. you know, debating whether or not he should vote for a bill that would fund the iraq war. he liked that approach in terms of trying to identify what the common sense case is. you're not for this policy. why would you vote for this? ultimately, got hired as the speaker. >> not to give away the ending of the book or whatever, but you write in the beginning, one of the last trips with barack obama in 2016, and you are riding along and he says something to you. he asks you, what if we were wrong? which startled you. did this book help clarify that answer for you? >> yeah, i wrote the book to answer that question. and having been there the very first day of the obama administration, ex

that happened on obama's watch.e did nothing as russia worked with iran to destabilize the entire middle east. instead obama signed off on the insane, horrific, iranian nuclear deal, sending cargo planes with $150 billion with cash and other currencies to the mullahs in iran. while they were chanting "death to america, death to israel," burning our flag and the israeli flag, funding terrorism around the world and all of this meddling, all of this interference was on obama, clapper, brennan, and comey's watch! not donald trump's! he's cleaning up their mess. according to reports, in order to secure the iranian deal, obama even look the other way as the terrorist group hezbollah funded their terrorist activities through drug trafficking deals in the u.s. despite all of this, no outrage from the media in this country. in fact, they were cheering for obama every step of the way. now the media is desperate. they didn't think trump would win the primary, they didn't think he would win the general election. they thought co

you like to say barack obama. barack obama.arack obama. >> i'm laughing because you guys are so tough on russia. russia ran wild under barack hussein obama.hu you did nothing until little hillary got embarrassed with e-mails that came out about chelsey and her wedding. please, you guys aren't tough. you think global warming is more of a threat than terrorism. you're afraid to pour water on terrorists' heads. you've nothing on russia. now you complain because it's an excuse for losing the election. you know what really cost her the election? she fainted. she was a terrible candidate. she didn't go toio wisconsin and she called halff the country deplorable. i think that had a little bit to do with it. >> hannity: i got to roll. jessica, the last time we were together got her first win. >> i just lost. >> hannity: jesse now came back and won 100-0. that's never happened. >> let's tell everyone where jessa was last week.et -- jessica was last week. moscow. >> i went to the semifinals in st.e petersburg. >> hannity: first time a per

in january 19 of 2017, the obama administration -- these documents had not yet been released -- the obama administration put out a press a couplehat included dozen additional bin laden files. then the press release declared that all of the files had been released, that was it. mr. joscelyn: hundreds of files had not been released. they released 282 files exactly at that point, out of the hundreds of thousands of files. the director of the office of national intelligence saying the only connection between iran and al qaeda is that they are at odds and they hate each other. january 19that twoment, it might be, in my decades plus of covering washington, the the single most misleading document i have ever seen. just one lie after another. the documents suggest around and al qaeda are working together. -- iran and al qaeda are working together. that document says they don't like each other, they won't mess with each other. those documents are out. what is stunning to me is we are seeing much the same thing in the broader public and in the academic immunity as in the intelligence community as b

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. look at the statement he made when he thought the microphones were turned off. the stupid statement he made. nobody makes a big deal about that. getting along with president boudin, getting along with russia is negative. with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i will be the worst enemy he's ever had. >> sean: if that doesn't work out, he will be the worst enemy he's ever had. for the sake of our world, our kids, let's hope it works out. while the media is obsessing with russia, russia, russia, i would like to remind the so-called "journalists" that it is a very big world out there, there are a lot of complex issues in this world, may be, just maybe, russia is not our biggest international foe. let's listen to what the fbi director said yesterday. >> china, from a counterintelligence perspective, represents the broadest most challenging, most significant threat we face in this country. and i say that because, for the them, it is a whole state effort. it is economic espionage, a

turn to the obama files. the head of boko haram had written to bin laden asking for unity under common banner. here is the official authorization for al qaeda in islamic maghreb reports directly to bin laden they will give money, funding weapons to boko haram for training. this is 2009, before this whole debate is occurring whether or not boko haram is really part of the al qaeda network at time. this organization wasn't even designated a terrorist organization right away because of this ridiculous assumption that it didn't really have any ties to al qaeda and global network. meanwhile smoking gun files are found in bin laden's compound should have told everybody that wasn't true. last one, this is the one steve and i have the most fun with, because it ticks off bad guys in washington, ben rhodes and echo chamber. they really hit this one. one of the things we documented over and over again, despite al qaeda and iran are at odds, iranian regime, and al qaeda are at odds in various places they have curious dea

president obama. (cheers and applause) he's not coming back. (laughter) after a year and a half of relative silence the 44th president of the united states is back in the public eye. this week he flew to africa-- where he opened a community center in kenya and visited the village where his dad grew up, yeah. and finally picked up a copy of his real birth certificate. and surprise, he's actually from norway, yeah. i didn't see that coming. and then it was on to south africa for what obama thought was a celebration of the 100th birthday of nelson mandela but actually, it turned into a roast of his dance moves. >> there is one area where president obama cannot march madiba. unfortunately, he cannot dance as well as madiba can dance. (laughter) (applause). >> trevor: oh man. oh, i feel like that's the same face he had on election night, he was like-- you know what is funny, it is funny how in america people credited obama as a great daryns, right, because he was the first u.s. president with rhythm, right? but in africa, all the presidents can danc

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia.ook at the statement he made when he thought mics were turned off. the stupid statement he made. nobody does a big deal about that. getting along with president trump and russia is a positive, not a negative. barack obama democrats attacking the president for reaching out to russia. but we uncovered some long last footage of secretary of state hillary clinton who did the exact same thing. >> our goal is to help strengthen russia. we see russia with the strong culture, the incredible intellectual capital russia has as a leader in the 21st century. russia has been an ally. they have worked with us in afghanistan. they have been very helpful in the distribution network and in other ways. i think it's somewhat dated to be looking backward instead of being realistic about where do we agree. jesse: wow, some new footage from hillary. doesn't sounds like the same person. the democrats have been so soft on russia. not just the last 8 years under obama. but i remember in the cold war they were

obama: thank you. thank you so much. thank you very much. thank you. thank you so much. [laughter] yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! mr. obama: thank you. michelle, members of the mandela ramaphosa,dent who you can see is providing hope to this country, professor, , to distinguished guests -- people of south africa [cheers and applause] mr. obama: it is a singular honor for me to be here with all to celebrategather the birth and life of one of .istory's true giants -- me begin by a correction [laughter] mr. obama: and if you confessions. the correction -- and a few confessions. the correction is that i am a very good dancer. [laughter] obama: i just want to be clear about that. better. is a little [laughter] confessions.e number one, i was not exactly invited to be here. ordered in a very nice way .o be here two, i forgotber my geography and the fact that right now it's winter in south africa. i didn't bring a coat, and this morning, i had to send somebody out to the mall because i am wearing long

this is the cia director for obama at the time. the footage is from 2010. 50-100 alere are only qaeda in afghanistan. one of the files that came out of bin laden's compound includes a status update written a days before he got on tv and said that. the u.s. government did have this file months later in may 2011 and it never changed that erroneous assessment. what's the director said there stands for six years. qaeda's assessment? eightthor writes different provinces that al qaeda is fighting. we have strong military activity in afghanistan, many special operations are being hit hard. he explains one al qaeda italian has 70 fighters. -- battalion has 70 fighters. battalion hadeda more than the estimates the director is giving on tv. he explains they are working with various taliban figures and that is the key point and other interesting things. ,et's go through real quick there were assumptions the obama folks made about the world which were disproven in the bin laden files. one of which is going to type into regiments -- current eve

around ten thousand people listened to obama's speech in a stadium in johannesburg. the tickets were free a famous managed to get one yellow came to embody the universal aspirations of this disaster people all around the world their hopes for a better life. and perhaps shared by many here a fair says obama is a man after his own heart especially when he speaks about dashed hopes. it is a plain fact that racial discrimination still exists in both the united states and south africa that the accumulated disadvantages of years of institutionalized oppression of created yawning disparities of face and that says inequality has to be eliminated once and for all he hopes that obama uses his political clout to help south africa achieve that the it's good move from a journalist i thought it to vets he's an associate editor at business insider south africa and joins us from johannesburg welcome to day to you i talk us through some of mr obama's key points. it was an interesting speech superior rousing speech at times and it was mike's folksy but i think one thing that stood out

where are they now rights we're led to believe the obama administration with these wonderful public servants who fought for truth and justice and they say the pledge of allegiance quietly to themselves before masturbating. so where are they now i mean i mean they tell us trump is a fascist a dictator destroying tomography then shouldn't obama and joe biden be like storming the white house on some sort of mad max vehicle with spikes taken out of it should we see hillary and eric holder like bolted it trumps motored with our buccaneer knife in their teeth is sex to purge iran. or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful peace loving people that nowadays their busy volunteer ring of fire department. working in a homeless shelters it and knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have been there we are doing. but no no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now for the obama administration jed johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprieto

johnson obama is head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days. these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death so much more aggressive than the doily thing. yob used to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient that suzy yeah hey bill could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separating children from their parents immoral and un-american he's involved in however he's involved in these super american activity of selling weapons to kill lots of people so i'm not sayin don't attack the trump administration go to town my. golf course go in there like a midlife crisis trying to get his ball out of the office i by god get a good job i don't. can't thank like go to town i'm drawn in lies you're working for a war profiteer you ask. plus.

it is then the two lines obama picks up on. what is amazing about this letter obama selectively cited from -- this is a may 2013 speech, one of his top four presidential addresses on the jihadist wars. in a history books, this will be one of the three or four speeches that go down as a seminal obama speech. to give you the idea of how badly he politicizes it -- bin laden wrote "we still have a powerful force that can deploy. the preparation for deployment will need time." he then goes on to explain that the two main battlefields they will fight the americans on are iraq and afghanistan. well, what was the whole point of obama and brennan's speeches? we are out. we are going to do the same thing in afghanistan. in the same files the president himself is citing, the terror master himself is saying these are the two principal battlefield we are fighting on. bin laden wrote the reasons they are fighting is to create a new caliphate. john brennan called this idea an absurd feckless delusion that we will not organize our counterterro

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russian. look at the statement he made. he thought the mics were turned off. look at the stupid statement he made. getting along with president putin is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. >> that doesn't sound like a guy afraid of russia. what the media and the left forget to mention in this conversation is that helsinki didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a part of series of major moves president trump made overseas. for example what would forget the president's successful summit with north korea's kim jong-un who pledged to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. that was last month. last week president trump at nato in brussels demanded our allies pay more of their share of military spending. check out this graph by bloomberg showing increases in military budgets from nato members from 2016 to 2017. which some are calling the trump bump. that happened before the nato summit. bloomberg is also out with a record that says

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compared to obama? okay.n last night's program, the great one, mark levin, put all this hysteria in great perspective. it's worth repeating. take a look. >> in 1945, franklin roosevelt sold out half of europe to stalin. he repeatedly praised stalin. in 1961, jfk told a friend of his that he was rolled over, he came across weak, that it was pretty disastrous, his meeting. in 1975, gerald ford in helsinki, 35 other countries, recognized the territorial sovereignty of the soviet union, which included the captive nations of eastern europe. in 1979, jimmy carter placed a big, wet kiss on his cheek in vienna. >> sean: like we have been saying for months, since donald trump came down the escalator, since he said he is running for president, what we've seen from the media is nothing but a huge, massive, blatant political tactic. this is especially true as we gear up for the 2018 midterms. i'm telling you, the democratic party has no plan, no solutions to help the people of this country. h instead, their agenda is pur

before our shows mike barack obama comes on and people applied. then joe biden. then bob mueller and people go bananas. >> bob mueller is just so handsome every way. stop terrorist. for justice and he is tall. [laughter] [applause] i love him and i was in a meeting with him once said mr. president i will kick it off and i said you are forever my boyfriend. but you are doing your book tour so how do you keep yourself down? but generally? >> this is a question that we get from people that i'm tired. what do i do? this is exhausting. you don't have to be visible all day long. not is a save it as i do. donald trump is president and will be. so i think it is okay. >> it wasn't a rule once he won we had to be miserable 247. and this will go on for a while now. and pick up the phone and do some phone banking. >> you like phone banking? >> i wouldn't say i'm great. but my wife runs a tough ship. so if we are therefore a phone bank i know i'm there for more than that. >> when i was 21i did a phone bank for bernie sanders because i was an original. and he said here is your

i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is that honest man an honest man who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama it's not going to be. you know hot in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more sexy in you know intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make it big a deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged to have no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there were it was just cringe president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy an outstanding example is the personal phone call that barack obama made

obama administration do something. did something. he told president putin to cut it out as you say, the hacking, also there were sanctions implemented at the very end of 2016. are you satisfied with the obama administration efforts to thwart the interference campaign by putin? >> i think what we saw was candidate trump was saying this entire election process is rigged. i think what you saw is president obama bending over backwards to try to not interfere with an upcoming election by talking about this issue. when you absolutely felt they had to, they confronted him, talked about it publicly, and issued sanctions. president trump's reaction is just the opposite. he enforced watered down sanctions, passed by congress. only when he was forced to. and he delayed that measure at the same time. and oh, by the way, he's called it a hoax and witch hunt, has to be great news for vladimir putin. >> you talked about looking back. look forward, four months from the mid term election. the president says he is not worried about russ

barack obama didn't have a big family. he was brought into the fold of the biden family which was very sweet m. >> host: let's talk about two vice presidents, first dick cheney. as you indicated earlier as vice president, cheney rather enjoyed his image as one of the most polarizing figures in recent american history. his relationship, you write, with george w. bush was all business. they were never especially close to begin with. regard to lyndon johnson, you wrote the following: when kennedy won the nomination, johnson sent him a telegram. remember those?hn [laughter] lbj now means let's back jack. johnson was not so subtly are signaling his interest as kennedy'san personal secretary would later write, it was almost as if romeo and julieted had gotten married. >> guest: i mean, the scene in the hotel during the convention where robert kennedy is trying to stop johnson from agreeing to be jfk's running mate is just incredibly brutal. because it went on, basically, for hours where rfk is shuttling up and down the stairs tr

the difference is the press gave obama a pass. many prominent reporters defended obama. when he didn't enforce his own redline, he sent a signal that america is weak, come pick our locks. barack obama had the press on his side, they never went into a feeding frenzy the way they do against trump. >> harris: does this president had to be more careful? >> yes, because the press is in feeding frenzy mode against him always, but he also feeds the feeding frenzy. all he had to do is say we can cooperate on some issues but knock it off, don't mess with our elections. he'd be a hero, why didn't he say that? he easily could have said it. >> harris: does heat eventually have to do anything like that to move forward? >> i would like to see him be tougher on his rhetoric, the defense against russia has to be deterrence, he can't undermine his credibility. policy wise he is sending the right signals. >> harris: thank you very much, great to have you here. a one-time trump critic survives a g.o.p. primary fight after getting an 11th hour endorsement from president trump. what this say

i think what president obama said might be as bad or worse. i also think it's pretty significant that president obama did nothing when the russians invaded crimea, when the russians have been aggressive across the world. what happened with this meddling and we have conviction of 12 russian nationals. a new one coming on heels of this. what good does it do the united states? we know they were meddling. >> do you support more sanctions against russia? >> i think we should try to out maneuver them on cyber security. i think that's really important issue. that's why i support giving more resources to our military especially superior insulation i have in my own district. they would bring us down with their cyber terrorism that's happening all across the word. i think it's important issue. >> let's get to calls. hi john. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm actually flabbergasted about this congresswoman. congresswoman, when we believe our fbi, our intelligence whatever they tell us, sometimes it's the fact is there. i'm asking you, did the

liberals celebrated obama. figured as one of the things that helped to win the democratic nomination based on the theory it is all is better to meet with leaders even if they are repressive, that you isolate them or ignore them. reagan 71 president decided he wanted to meet with soviet leaders, the far right took out as against a net sounded very much like what we just heard from joe, accusing him of being a useful idiot to soviet and kremlin propaganda, of legitimizing russian aggression and the mystic repression at home -- it is true that putin is an authoritarian and domestically repressive. that is true of many of the closest allies of the united states as well for even far more repressive, including ones that find most of the think tanks in d.c. such as the united arab emirates or saudi arabia. i think the most important issue is the one we just heard which is 90% of the world's nuclear weapons are in the hands of two countries, the u.s. and russia, and having them speak and get along is much better than h

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obama got 2.9%. he gets 3.1, i'll say hooray.et's not count our chickens before they are hatched and not give all the credit to him. we have been on an upward trend for years. >> that's just not true. he handed him a mess by any measure. i will give you this. i don't give any president good or bad credit for the economy. i give to it american entrepreneur. i think the president can do things to get the government out of the way. and i think that's what donald trump has done through the tax cuts and cleaning up the regulatory mess barack obama left us. barack obama was a disaster by any metric. labor force participation, wage growth. and i am surprised you didn't bring up. the employment cost index, donald trump his first year, bested barack obama's 8 years. >> there is a long way to go between here and the end. judge jeanine: i have an idea, rinse, here is the bottom line, i can't yell because i have a sore throat. my mother called me during the break and said jeanine, you have to have some water. if the unemployment is the lowes

blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now for the obama administration jed johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days . these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death still much more aggressive than the doily thing i. hear ya obvious to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient that susie yeah hey ben could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separating children from their parents immoral and un-american he's involved in however he's involved in these super american activity of selling weapons to kill lots of people so i'm not sayin don't attack the trump administration go to town i lie like an ass at a golf course go in there like a midlife crisis trying to get his b