>> obama scares me.m worried about what will happen to this country if obama take sas out. >> he's american, no he's not. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. he's not? >> no, ma'am. he's a decent family citizen i just happen to have disagreements with. >> i think mccain did the country a real service by refusing to embrace conspiracy theories and people launching attacks. >> i will respect him and i want -- i want everyone to be respectful. >> john mccain is now so mavericky he's mavericking away from his own supporters and getting booed for it. >> there's a way to play this game so that you end up with no good choices. we are watching a campaign that has maneuvered itself into exactly that position. >> as the polls open from the east to the west across this country the same picture continues to emerge, eager voters showing up before the polls even opened and in many cases lines as far as the eye could see. >> all of it felt like is this a real thing? like, is it possible that america could do this? an

obama?ed about wt will happen to this country if obama takes over. >> he's not american. >> i can't trust obama. >> he's an arab. >> normal, he's a decent family man that i just happened to have disagreements with. >> mccain did the country a service by refusing to embrace nasty attacks on obama and rebuking people who tried to launch those attacks. it's unfortunate that there were pockets in the country that were pushing that way. >> i will respect him and i want everyone to be be respectful. >> john mccain is now so mavericky, he's mavericky and getting booed for it. >> he finds himself having creating this monster he can no longer control. there's a way to play this game so you yao end up with no good choices. we are watching a campaign in that position. >> the polls open from the east to the west akos cross this cou, the picture emerged. eager voters showed up before the polls opened and in many cases lines as far as the eye could see. >> all of it felt like is this a real thing. is it p

[crowd chanting] obama! obama! obama! - thank you!es of 2007-2008 giving democratic voters a choice between two historic candidacies. hillary clinton comes into the election the presumed front-runner. she has a lot of advantages. for example, in war chest. and a large part of the democratic establishment endorsing her. barack obama comes in with three advantages. the first is, not tied to the establishment. as a result, he is a candidate of chae. the second is, he is tactically being advised by people who have a better understanding of how the primary system aggregates delegates. and the third advantage is mobilizing the young to take his message door to door, but also simultaneously to use their onlixpertise to identify those voters. - hey everybody, it's david plouffe, barack's campaign manager, and we just wanted to spend a few minutes today with you, updating you on wher s and what our opponents are up to. - i hope that you usto this website as to organize your friends, your neighbors, and your tworks. - ses campaign manager is in

obama is back in town. they know he's off-limits. you can't make jokes about obama, right?o comedian is going to make a joke. the media doesn't have to chase obama around. they don't have to howl and tim. basically it's a break for the comedians and a break for the media. because they can't joke about him. i don't lame obama for coming out of hiding. he's basically yesterday's special on the restaurant blackboard that trump came out in the morning and erased. >> dana: happier to have obama than clinton out there. >> jesse: absolutely. obama is much better than crooked hillary. it sets up the contrast. as opposed to a referendum. if there is no punching bag or villain for trump to run against, it's more difficult. when you have barack obama out there, the media is going to hoist those two guys in the center and make it a cage match. in terms of the endorsements, healing me of those endorsements because his former staff members were working for those candidates. i don't know how strategic it was. i understand why he didn't endorse cortez. if he had done that, it would've crea

maybe obama is different, we've entered a new era.forward to 2011 and how to respond to what we thought was the verge of genocide inside libya. what's interesting about that moment in u.s./russian relations is president medvedev supported our military intervention. i was in the room when he gave us the green light for it. he abstained on the u.n. security council resolution 1973 that allowed military intervention inside libya. that has never happened in the history of the u.n. security council with respect to the soviet union or russia. putin thought he made a big mistake. he said it live on television, his own president had made a mistake. i think that was the moment when putin decided, all right, this young guy, mr. -- president medvedev, he's been hood winked by the americans. he doesn't understand their true intentions. obama actually is no different than george w. bush. he said he wasn't going to do regime change and here he is now. and that i think was the beginning of the end of the reset. >> so now where are we? we're more tha

it was 2010, and obama had just delivered the white house correspondents dinner. and gone great, and he was pleased with himself. and i'm pretty sure cody the writer two is -- he would remember this but david action ill rod's office working on jokes for the radio correspondents dinner had is like a lefter version of the white house correspondents dinner that we had agreed for obama to do because it would be like good press outrage, and the joke like john was there, and john we're like poem were laughing. and it was pretty loud and palm is walking down axelrod's office and he sticks his head in like what's so funny and he was like we're working on dinners -- working on jokes for the radio and television correspondents dinner and i was like oh -- he started to walk we he said who is doing that? we were like you -- i don't know why are that reminding e me but offices across from each other in the west wing and i often go barefoot and my feet are hot so i have to take any shoes off once i walk into pfeiffer office and i'm barefoot i hop across the hallway and who is t

he has known every president from dwight eisenhower to barack obama. actually, he did not cover eisenhower in the white house. he was stationed in the white house under eisenhower and kennedy doing transcriptions and speeches and so came to know them. he covered, in addition to covering the white house, he covered the iranian hostage situation and many international stories. years at nbc as a correspondent in washington and overseas. carterred nixon, ford, and the reagan administration. he was then based in london and was nbc's chief foreign correspondent. he became chief white house correspondent under the presidency of george h w bush. in 1984. abc news from 2001-2011, he was the network senior washington correspondent and retired at that time. thate to give a shout out john cochran is a graduate of the university of alabama and a good friend. role tied, welcome john. [applause] my next guest is christie arsons. she is the senior editor at the atlantic and director of the talent lab. it's a position she has held since may? is that right? for the best

christie spoke to this point, which is former president obama former president obama did think , pretty traditionally in the sense that he would hold press conferences. when something big happened and he wanted to get on the record with it, he would come to the briefing room. that is not really something that president trump does in that same format. he will often surprise us. one recent example of that, several weeks ago, after he had a summit with kim jong-un, he came out to the white house south lawn and took a stroll, to do an interview with fox in front of fox's cameras, and afterwards, did pretty much a full press conference with the rest of us who were waiting behind him. we had very little heads up. in fact, it was through a tweet. he said perhaps i will come out , to the north lawn. [laughter] so we did not know if he was serious. his officials did not know if he was serious. one of his top officials said, you know, i don't think you guys need to be waiting out here. and i said, really? we cannot go back inside until you or he says this is a definite. he said, ok, let me just c

i had done it for eight years and covered the obama white how -- obama white house from two years of campaign all the way through the white house and then to the last day when i waved goodbye at andrews air force base. i felt like i had done it and i had done it well. it is a little bit exhausting, even for a newspaper. it's even worse for network reporters. it's a really great ride. that was also a great story. it's easy to look back now and think that things were so much easier during the obama years , that the white house was so much easier to cover and they had such a different attitude toward the press, and that is true. but it was by no means easy to figure out what was really going on in the obama white house. remember how he got elected by going around the traditional -- all the institutions that people used to have to deal with, and one of them was us, the press corps, so he was masterful with social media. he could command an audience with whomever he wished to talk to, and he very often did that. he was so powerful on the stump that people would just write what he said on

think, do weop and want to go back to the obama era? where those job shovel readies were only for one thing and to keep the state and federal government open? there was no jobs, he brought nothing to us. he brought us divided, racial, and everything else in this country. we need to stop and think what these people are doing to our president of the united states. he got voted in, and he is doing a lot better job than any president has done. i am sick and tired of hearing it. host: all right, carol. the house has been out of washington this month, the senate coming in periodically over the august month. during that time, the president's pick to replace retired justice anthony kennedy, brett kavanaugh, has been making the rounds on capitol hill talking to senators. this week he visited with senator susan collins, and she spoke to reporters after about roe v. wade. called fork schumer a delay in considering brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. take a listen. >> you said you have some concerns after looking through his record and what are

he has known every president from dwight eisenhower to barack obama. not coverjohn did eisenhower in the white house. he was stationed in the white house under eisenhower and kennedy, doing transcriptions and speeches, so he came to know them. -- in addition to covering the white house, he covered the iranian press and many, many international stories. nbc ased for 21 years at a correspondent both in washington and overseas. he covered it can, for, carter, reagan, and the bush administration. in london and was the chief foreign correspondent. he returned to nbc's washington and became chief white house correspondent under the presidency of george h.w. bush. he joined abc news in 1994. was senior white house correspondent in the final years of the clinton administration. 2011, he was the senior washington correspondent and retired at that time. i have to give a shout out to graduate of the university of alabama and good friends of the university of alabama. welcome, john. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> my next guest is christy parson. she is the

a line in the obama did nothing.he democrats had the house and the senate and the white house for two years. what did they do for the american people? nothing. host: ok. elsie in california. republican. what do you think? caller: i think this is the greatest president we've ever had. i'm 73. i never knew a president like this one. this is amazing. you have to listen to him and see what he's been doing all along. you can tell the whole world he's our best president ever. he is my president and he will be forever. host: tyrone in north carolina. democratic caller. caller: good morning. let me say a few things. we got this economy out of recession under obama. donald trump has been degrading people. he doesn't get no a+ for anything. god is the one blessing this economy, not donald trump. thesh you would show american people what donald trump has done besides the great people and mocked the handicapped -- degrade people and mock the handicapped. i'm a preacher in church. i try to do what's right. god blesses us. this is

. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. he's not -- >> no ma'am. no ma'am. >> to buck his own party. >> he didn't let ambition prevent him from doing what he thought was right. >> people always say that. we'll never see his likes again. we better see his likes again. >> at the epic center of a legislative show down, his true grit on display one last time. >> he showed the power he had to stand up to this white house. >> john mccain is an american h hero. his service to america as perfect as can be. >> i don't mind a good fight for reasons known only to good, i've had quite a few tough ones in my life. >> john mccain lived a life of intense hardship, patriotism and perseverance. >> the the end it matters less that you can fight. what you fight for is the real test. >> the former navy fighter pilot, prisoner of war and two time presidential candidate found himself at the center of new fights. challenging his own party's president in his last book, the restless wave. >> never at a loss for words. he's now taking

. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. he's not -- >> no ma'am. >> to buck his own party. >> he didn't let ambition prevent him from doing what he thought was right. >> people say we will never see his likes again. we better see his likes again. >> his true grit on full display one last time. >> he really showed the power he had to stand up to this white house. >> john mccain's an american hero. an imperfect man like all of us but whose service to america was as close to perfect as his service could be. >>> i don't mind a good fight for reasons known only to god i've had quite a few tough ones in my life. >> john mccain lived a life of intense hardship, patriotism and perseverance. in in the end it matters less that you can fight. what you fight for is the real test. >> former navy fighter pilot, prisoner of war and two time presidential candidate found himself at the center of new fights challenging his old party's president in his last book, the restless wave. >> never at a loss for words, he's now taking o

but it was not always easy covering the obama white house. jennifer: how did the relationship change? you covered him in the state house and then in congress, but how did it change over the eight years that you were there, the relationship between the press and barack obama? christi: for me personally, it got a lot harder to get his time, so that was the problem. [laughter] jennifer: there were more than one of you covering him. christi: right, exactly. he had a long time to talk in the state house after judiciary committee meetings, but after a while, it -- it was busy. [laughter] christi: but over time, you just got better at figuring out who was really paying close attention and who the most knowledgeable reporters were on the subjects that he wanted to talk about. and he gave a lot of access to those reporters, whom he trusted and whom he thought would tell -- understand the story as he wanted to tell it, which is not to say they were not independent and adversarial -- they were. and i can't say that any of those people who got that deep

ctively kill obama care. ctively kill obama care. issues did support the republican bill on tax reform which included a repeal of obama care's individual mandate. >> the tax cuts and jobs act is passed.id >> his opposition to trump does passed. >> the opposition to trump does not mean he's a liberal, and i think when democrats criticized him for being a conservative, he said well, that's who i am. >> it's a fascinating career to see it's not about the victories he's notch. it's about the worthiness of the fight. >> coming up -- >> he was held in solitary confinement for two years, so that tested his will to live. >> every day was basically about one thing, survival. ve. >> every day was basically about one thing, survival. a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? (vo) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? (vo) a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not

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 family, to president ramaphosa, who you can see is providing hope to this country, professor, doctor, distinguished guests, to the people of south africa -- [cheers and applause] mr. obama: it is a singular honor for me to be here with all of you as we gather to celebrate the birth and life of one of history's true giants. let me begin by a correction -- [laughter] and a few confessions. the correction is that i am a very good dancer. [laughter] i just want to be clear about that. michelle is a little better. [laughter] mr. obama: the confessions. number one, i was not exactly invited to be here. i was ordered in a very nice way to be here. [laughter] confession number two, i forgot 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 some

obama with a w.creation on his watch and low unemployment rate but also declared weak economic growth under obama's watch people working fewer hours and less economic output for. both contributed to the economy's under performance. if something doesn't change from the recent trend the 21st century will be a ghoomgloomy one. g.d.p. under obama only grew at 1.6%. the "times" reported all of this underscores analysts say why mr. trump's growth rate target of 4% is audacious at best and fanciful at worse. well that is not exactly true and look at how both sides have try to play this in recent years. >> consistently we saw the longest streak of job creation in american history by far, a streak that still continues by the way. thanks, obama. >> if economic growth continues that the pace, the united states economy will double in size more than 10 years faster than it would have under either president bush or president obama. >> now, since early 2017, after president trump cut government regulations and taxe

what the obama list signifies is who obama is going to do something to help in advance of the novemberrms. so what's your take on this list? >> well, it includes the categories of people but the most important category is that obama's going to some lengths to avoid being a divisive figure within the struggling democratic party as it tries to figure out its own future course. and the people -- >> so meaning the mainstream, for lack of a better word, democrats, and the socialists, that fight, he's not going to find himself in the middle of it? >> he has most of the people on the 81 listed have already been the nominees so there's no controversy there. some of the in as you mentioned right now, he has the easy out of saying this is just the first batch. so they tried to minimize it. which i think right now is true because he wants to go where he's helpful. the point is governorships and state legislative bodies. so in that case, dems can have a big hand in remap after the census. >> do we assume he's helpful? one of the things i think about is i followed most of his appearances for hillar

under president obama.he business community deliberately did not hire, did not expand their businesses because they did not want president obama to get credit -- full credit for the growing economy. if you look at one of the things we talk about in our book. look at what happened the day after the election. look at what happened at consumer confidence. it shot up. the good what happened to business confidence. amongwas a view businessmen and women that was like shaking up a champagne bottle and taking a cork off. there is not any one thing that trump has done that has revived our economy. it is the whole panoply of lower taxes, getting government off the back of business. hillary ran around the country, saying she was going to put, running out of business. trump that i would help rebuild the american coal industry. i think there has been a radical shift in the direction of the economy since november 2016. the american people understand this. i was looking at polling i was t some polling the other day that u

become a regan tag nist toward president obama's leadership. >> it's time that president obama wokend reassert american leadership. >> mccain kept a lower profile, but continued to be, as he had his entire career, one of the biggest supporters of american troops abroad. >> the thing he is most proud of is being able to contribute to the national security of the united states. that's the thing he feels most strongly about, as he described to me. >> during the lead up to the 2016 primaries, an unlikely newcomer was about to thrust mccain into the spotlight. john mccain's war record came up between frank and the republican candidate, donald trump. >> he hit me. he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> i was outraged. i couldn't believe it. >> i felt it. i said you didn't serve in the military, john mccain did. you are saying anybody who has been shot down or captured by the enemy or tortured, imprisoned is not a war hero? >> john mccain's response was, you know, it is what it is. he didn't respond. that

barack obama, who ran against him in 2008, said... years, said... donald trump tweeted my deeper 70s and respect go out to the family of senatorjohn mccain. our hearts and present with you. and the democratic party leader in the senate, chuck schumer, said... that is all we have time for. we will be back again soon. thank you for joining will be back again soon. thank you forjoining us. good morning. fewer showers are more sunshine on saturday, but it did not feel warm. is how we ended the day, shown by one of our weather watchers. already the skies of change. everything coming in from the atlantic, you would expect to be a little warmer. it may not be the case. this cloud already spilling in. overnight bridge is not quite as low, but it will feel quite chilly, i think, during sunday ‘s eye because it is going to be dull and is going to be a bit rainy as well. studied at least in scotland and is in england, but we will see the rain elsewhere, pushing its way ease. heavy rain at times, especially for wales in the south—west. including

several of whom worked in the obama administration.ink most understand former leaders of nsa, cia, fbi, etc. they continue to hold a security clearance after they leave office. people say they are using it as their bona fide to enhance their marketability. none clearance jobs in the media or corporate world. at the same time, you have got people like john brennan on cnn all day long trashing the president. should a person who has security clearance be saying that president trump is treasonous? >> absolutely not. john brennan has proven himself to be a chief political hack, a cheap shot artist. so he shouldn't but apart from him himself, he certainly doesn't deserve one but the only reason to give anyone a security clearance or to keep the clearance after they leave government is if you will consult. for instance a former cia director secretary of state. if there's a crisis you may want to bring them in for consultation. rbc will not bring john brennan and for consultation. when i bring others and because they've made it clear they are

former president barack obama. last year, as trump was publicly attacking obama, some of trump's advisors thought he should take the extraordinary step of denying barack obama access to intelligence briefings available to all other predecessors. >> a top pentagon expert on russia under obama and one of the officials who signed the letter condemning trump's move. thank you for reporting on this. what do you hear what they were talking about with respect to barack obama and his security clearance? >> you have to look back to that spring, late winter, early spring of 2017. you had these warring factions within the white house. you had the nationalists who saw basically the obama holdovers and obama himself as the enemy. they were the ones they thought really threatened trump and threatened his agenda. they were looking for ways to strike back. they looked at that point of stripping the security clearances for some of the national security officials that had worked for obama and basically h.r. mcmaster, the national se

the people were chanting, president obama, are you with us or with them?gree with that. it is a fact. no one denies it. you know full well that the white house denies that. they do not deny that. the fact is they did not. the point is, what would the world expect from a republican administration? these are the words of rick santorum. he said, "we have to take their nuclear facility out to prevent a wider war." is that the sort of mindset we should expect? that is one person's view. president obama has said it is unacceptable for iran to have nuclear weapons. so the question is, when do you reach a point when decisions have to be made? will those decisions be made by the israeli government or us and the israelis? the sanctions have hurt them but not are not deterring them on the course they are on. a final thought which wraps up the debate about this international challenge. you have made a stand against the obama administration's plan to cut military spending by half a trillion dollars. you have said that will endanger us interests. is it not also dangerou

you guys remember when barack obama was campaigning on obama care.s going to save the average family $2500 a year, and now we have a situation where for the average family the cost of health care has almost doubled in most states. what we're looking at is trying to provide -- look, we all want to provide more coverage for people. and it seems like what you all are saying is unless this is a gold-plated health plan, it would be better for -- >> i'm just reading the stats. i'm giving facts. jason is here as the democracy person. maybe the facts don't line up the way you don't want them. that doesn't mean i'm espousing or supporting anything. those are the facts. >> the reason -- >> hold on. steven, but also you spout out statistics about what's costing more, but also there are people out there and insurers and big medical companies who are refusing to join this plan because they want to keep their profits and so getting rid of the individual mandate and all those things, that is causing the markets to collapse or obama care -- >> wait a minute. let me

. >> i can't trust obama. have read about him. he's not -- he's an arab. he's not -- >> no ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. that's what this campaign is all about. >> i remember thinking that john mccain has no idea what he just did. he just stood up against the darkest and ugliest forces in american politics. >> i knew that was the end of the campaign. it was really a surrender to the inevitable by the man who is furthest thing from a quitter you can ever imagine. >> the weeks leading up to the election, obama had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead. >> i think it really became a change election on the heels of the wars and the economic collapse. i think the appetite for change was almost insatiable. >> barack obama is projected to be the next president of the united states of america. >> in arizona, as supporters waited outside the biltmore hotel, mccain gathered with his closest advisers. >> i read the concession speech wit

i'll put it like that. >> laura: was doing better under obama?my business is doing great. >> i don't have that type of business. i'm a lawyer. >> laura: i was a harmeet, so am i, but i'm recovering. >> maybe i should get a job like yours. >> laura: harmeet, last word. >> the type of the democrats the democrats are fielding in the selection, or extreme. these younger women, standing for socialism, ocasio-cortez, women who are far left, women who are open borders, women who are abortion extremists. frequent, i don't think that message will resonate with the majority of the voters. the majority of voters are are somewhere in the middle. i hope that i'm correct that these young women are attractive, good-looking candidates, not necessarily going to get a vote in november but that depends on republicans to field people with better ideas. >> laura: i don't care what party you like or if you don't like trump, you like drum, you have to like this economy. i can tell you this, it's not going to get better than it is right now. it might get marginally bett

never voted for obama, never. the majority of whites never did but there were so many others that they would form this coalition where it happened. it's interesting, i find myself like i forget what in your present but we must not be racist can we put donald trump -- we put barack obama in office. i said that's not true because the people who say that didn't vote for obama. went on talking to these most white men did not vote for obama. most white men voted for trump. most white women did not vote for obama. most white women voted for trump. what you had was the other parts of the coalition were energized, the young, the youth were very important. black women have always consistently voted, the highest percentage of any group in the country so that always have voted. they have always shown up. where he lost was the people that were, you know, kind of not motivated to do it. in other words, people making this false equivalent saying hillary is the same smm why should we care? i think it was a lot of people who just

the obama administration restricted maximum term of short-term plans to three months. the degree from 12 months down to three months. they also banned in called renewal guarantees. a renewal guarantee and this is going to become very important later, a review will guarantee is a guarantee from an insurance company that your premiums won't go up because you got sick. they might go up further reasons, but if you have a renewal guarantee, the fact the that cancer will not cause your premiums to go up, even if you get cancer, you will still play -- is still a healthy person premiums. it turns countries have been offering these guarantees for decades and i stopped doing so what about air was passed because obamacare essentially banned them. they charge a little more for this protection and what it means in the economic literature is fairly unanimous in these renewal guarantees works pretty well. veryans even if you get a expensive illness, you can still pay healthy person premiums. administration shortened the maximum term of short-term plans from 12 months of three months

a regular antagonist towards barack obama's leadership. >> it's time president obama woke up to themerican 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. he didn

she talked about the entire eight years of the obama presidenc presidency. she got her talking point from the council of economic advisers who tweeted they miscommunicated with the press secretary. for starters, they measured obama's job numbers from november of -- well, from november of his first term, the president doesn't take office until january, so they took the losses from the financial crisis after obama was elected but not sworn in until all the way to 2017. obama, you will remember, inherited a massive unemployment rate, record economic recession, lots of jobs being lost include in the month he took offices. donald trump inhart it had lowest unemployment rate in ten years and a booming economy.eri lowest unemployment rate in ten years and a booming economy. starting here in 2011 -- so 2008/2009 was the recession so you saw a spike in unemployment for african-americans that started to go down in 2011. this is 2011. take a look at this. going down, down, down, well into president obama's second term, a clear downward trend continues until today. wher

a little like the obama rule in that way. so, there are any number of criticisms that people have made about short-term plans and this rule expanding short-term plans. one of them is that the plans are junk. certainly, if you look at the plans that have been issued in the short term market and the -- in the short term market since the 2006 obama rule, you might call some of them junk. a plan that takes you off after three months with no protection of underwriting, that is junky. the plans also will sometimes offer severe limitations in coverage. we should not look at the short-term market as it exists now if we want to know what these plans will look like under the rule that the federal government issued. at a report that the cbo put out not long ago, after hhs issued its proposed rule. cbo said if the proposed regulation is finalized, a small percentage of the plans offered in the current short-term market would resemble what is on the market now. cbo said they expect insurers would offer new types of short-term products tha

whites never voted for obama. the majority of whites never did but there were so many other on this coalition where it happened. it's interesting, i find myself, i forget what interview we were doing where it said we must not be racist, we put barack obama in office. i said that's not true because the people who say thatdidn't vote for obama . most white men did not vote for obama, most white men voted for trump. most white women did not vote for obama. so what you had was the other parts of the coalition were energized. the young, the youth were very important, black women have always voted to a high percentage of any group in the country so they always have voted, they showed up where he lost was the people that were you know, kind of not motivated to do it. people making this all equivalents saying hillary is the same and why should you care? there were a lot of people who just didn't believe that donald trump was going to win though i think it was a suspension of disbelief. i think it's childish on our part, i

the majority never voted for obama, ever. but there were so many others that form this coalition when it happens. i find myself like we must not be racist we put donald trump, he put barack obama in office. that isn't true because people who say that didn't vote for obama. most white men didn't vote for obama, most white women voted for trump. you have the other parts of the coalition effort energized. they consistently voted for the percentage of the group in the country so they always showed up. he lost a those that were not motivated to do it. people were making a false equivalence. hawaii is the same so why should we care and i think that there were a lot of people who just didn't believe that donald trump was going to win. it was kind of childish and our part in immature. there are all of these elements at play and ultimately barack obama was who we aspire to be and donald trump is who we are. if all the things you describe about donald trump of the things he would say negatively about him are the things that are in othe

during the obama administration no member of the mainstream media feared for their lives or blamed obama for act of violence against conservatives, but said things like this. >> i might put mr. burgess on fox news. >> [cheers and applause]. >> i will put mr. burgess up against sean hannity. don't tear him up. talk to your friends and neighbors. whether they are independents or whether they are republicans. i want you to argue with them and get in their face. >> sean: sean hannity goes high and they go low. tear me up? get in their face? wow! all of the out rage is concocted by the fake news media. hell bent to wake up every day to malign the president. and despite all of this the president is polling better than ever before. a poll out today. the president's approval rating is a solid 50% which is 5 points higher than obama during the same time frame. this is huge news with the mid-terms around the corner. earlier tonight during his rally in pennsylvania, the president and the biassed press, he took them on and so much more. take a look. >> we are doing better in all of these states than

president obama is returning to the political fray in a big way.n cain joins us next to break down the heavyweight matchup between obama and president trump. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level? then you need xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. ♪ >> laura: former president barack obama is back in the political fray with endorsements for 81 democratic candidates ahead of the midterms. interestingly, though, he did not endorse democratic socialist alexandria ocasio-cortez.r he new york governor andrew cuomo,, or even beto o'rourke, ted cruz's challenger in texas. it did not help hillary clinton get elected but will that help democrats in the midterms? they miss him a lot. joining me now for answers, fox news contributor, former g.o.p. presidential candidate himself, herman cain. okay, herman, president

president obama did not have that luxury.is point in his presidency was in his mid-40s in approval. president trump right now is in his low 40s. not a big difference. the one area where president trump clearly exceeds barack obama at this point was an intra-party approval. obama had sunk to about 75% on average at this point in his presidency. president trump is about mid-80s right now. one recent poll showed him at 88%, which is the highest of any president on an intraparty level since the '50s with the one exception of bush post-9/11. >> it is pretty remarkable. but what you get and what republicans would tell you is they try to sell the economy. in suburban areas especially, like the district up tomorrow, the president is personally toxic and they can't breakthrough. they can't get through the personal drag of the president of the united states. let's listen to him a little more. this is saturday in ohio. he says there's not going to be a blue wave, trust me. of course, most republicans don't. >> they're talking about this

i think better than the obama years. and number three, they're worried about the price of their house. and by all metrics there, housing prices across the nation of come up. people used to be underwater or not. that is what people care about at the end when they go to vote in this election and in the forthcoming elections. they will say you know what? i'm better off than i was under the other guy. >> you know under the other guy, the 20 months leading up to the election, 4.3 million jobs created. yes, there have been more than 3.7 million jobs created so far. under the trump administration in the 20 months since he was elected. let me back up. michael, the it doesn't take into account the total job growth under obama was worse than clinton and reagan. your reaction? >> you know, -- elizabeth: sorry, reagan and clinton also inherited recessions. reagan had a terrible banking crisis a recession that he inherited. go ahead. >> everybody has dealt with a different hand of cards. i tend to think the economy was a little bit b

the obama endorsement is important. we've seen his favorabilities and mean thermometer rise as he's left office. especially in house districts, a lot of suburban house district his average mean thermometer rating is 10-30 points better than what donald trump is. this is a good endorsement. >> interesting, very different than the 2010 situation. another big graph here i want to talk to you. steve bannon told "vanity fair," the republican college educated woman is done, they're gone. they were going anyway at some point in time. trump triggers them. this is now the trump movement. he's not wrong if you look at the polling. that is white women with a college degree who have just absolutely like someone with like a thing that makes them allergic in front of them, like an organ rejection about donald trump. >> as if someone were grabbing at them in an unwanted way, they move back that quickly. >> that's what that graph shows. >> the only place steve bannon is wrong, they were going anyway. to back up a little bit, we've alwa

the obama administration, obama epa was really engaged in social engineering which is not the role of the u.s. epa. liz: as a business network, we watched intrusive regulations diminish businesses and that obama era rule it was very aggressive, and some say it so fast-tracked the timetable to eliminate coal-fired plants there could be a risk of widespread blackouts but in the coal world, it is a free market that's diminished the use of coal. natural gas is plentiful and cleaner, less expensive and that is simply a fact. why go backwards here? >> well, we're not going backwards. we are letting the free market pick. what we're not doing is we're not picking the winners and losers. the obama epa picked winners and losers among the different energy sources. they were projected to have 30% of the coal plants close under their proposal. what we're doing is leaving it to the states and working more cooperatively with the states. they know what the energy mix is that each of them need. new york should not dictate what ohio or pennsylvania or west virginia need for their energy production, and

this is what we miss in president obama.f the day is that he respected that office, he was conscious of the legitimacy that he bore as a result of that office and the gravity of the matters that came before him and dealt with them with respect and integrity that even those who disagree with him, bitterly could not impeach him as a human being and a man. and this is what we are missing. and donald trump could not compensate with that. >> we like learning from you. and when your class is in session, we feel no need to skip. thank you, sir. and we will be right back. i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, i

smith: president obama was, at the time, pursuing major immigration reform. decision to give temporary protection to undocumented children raised in the u.s. was blamed for sending the wrong ssage. >> the president's own programs, the deferred action fordh chd arrivals, daca, word's getting back home, "if you come to thenited states and you're a child, you just tell them you want to co in and they're going to let you in." >> we're seeing a humanitarian disaster, one of the administration's own making. >> smith: vice president biden' adviser an gonzalez. you were trying to push through immigration reform, then you get ,000 unaccompanied minor on... coming across the border. what was going on inside the administration? >> well, i think there was a... i woul general concern that the flow of migrants at the southwest border would eliminate any opportunity to actually advance meaningfulim gration reform in the united states. >> u.s.a.! u.s.a.! >> the republicans had actually been asking the white house to do, was to be stronger on immigration enforcement. there's

>> obama's a muslim.s a terrorist himself. >> narrator: he saw theit hostily firsthand. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him, and he's not... he's not... he's a... he is an arab, he is not a...am >> no, ma'no, ma'am. no, ma'am, no, ma'am. he's a... he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with.ra >> nr: mccain wouldn't take advantage of racial prejudice.y >> td a rule in the mccain campaign that if you... if there was any hint that. that the mccain campaign was going to use racial animus against barack obama, you would have been fired and banned fromn republolitics. it was a red line that was never ossed in 2008. >> my wife and i are expecting our first child, april 2, next year-- thank you- and, frankly, we're scared. we're scared of an obama presidency. >> narrato mccain tried to reassure his supporters... >> i have to tell you, i have to tell you, he is a dece person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as president of the united states. (crowd boo