obama who said it.he many reasons why it was the right time was they were very much average americans with student debt, with a two working parent household. they could genuinely express the fears and the struggles of what everyday americans were experiencing. and they would be able to take that perspective into the white house in a very unique way. >> the reality is obama is not going to be the nominee for the simple that he's never run a competitive race outside the district of illinois. it is not going to happen. >> whether obama has the stomach for the rough-and-tumble it takes to win. >> iowa was all about they wanted me to work dubuque. >> everybody was out making phone calls, knocking on doors, campaigning to try to help barak and michelle have success. >> we need your support, too. you both undecided? >> we're undecided. >> oh, goodness. >> if hillary clinton won early, she was going to be almost impossible to stop. you had to have a circuit breaker moment. the circuit breaker would be to win io

as far as obama goes, i am a bald x vietnam vet. let me say this about president obama. appreciate the last caller and what he had to say about our gis sent to these foreign wars. that is one of the reasons i love president trump. he is trying to get us out of those wars. as far as obama goes, i raised -- i am in a redneck area. over $55,000 i have raised for president obama's first term and i am as white as i can be. i took a lot of abuse. somebody firebombed my computer and everything else. my neighbors were taking signs off of telephone poles. host: this was in 2012, 2008? caller: 2008. i wanted you to know the reason i did not do the second term, i did not raise a dime and they were begging me to get back involved, is because he did not do a thing he promised. he did not accomplish a thing. the change he promised he never delivered on. president trump on the other hand made promises and delivered on the promises. he is the best president of my lifetime. i have never seen a guy work so hard or accomplish so much. host: did you wind up raising money for donald trump? c

if i may interrupt, the obama team, i think it was maybe before you joined the team, but obama had alwayswanese wanted. so it is interesting to me that you now think it was right for trump to...to sell significant arms to taiwan. well, your understanding of the history is different than mine. the obama administration very much wanted to sell f—16s to taiwan. it was taiwan that got sticker shock. the f—16s were simply too big and too expensive at the time. so what we agreed on was a compromise measure by which we would take the existing f—16s and upgrade them so their capabilities would actually be better than the ones they were going to purchase, which at that time was the most significant arms sales deal that the us and taiwan everdid. and we did that in the second year of the obama administration. so arms sales are important and significant. i think taiwan deserves dignity and respect. i think that the us and taiwan under the biden team can and should think about new and creative ways to interact with one another. and so i'm hoping to see a much more vibrant and robust us—taiwan relatio

president obama is our president. president obama stands for certain things. don't care, he could be a martian. he could be from michigan, i don't know -- just kidding. doesn't matter to me what his race is. it doesn't matter. he's liberal is what matters to me. and his articulated -- his articulated plans scare me. now, i understand we can't say we want the president to fail, mr. limbaugh. that's like saying -- this is the voice of the new castrati, by the way, guys who have lost their guts. i want the country to survive as we have known it, as you and i were raised in it, is what i mean. now, i have been called -- and i can take it. look, pioneers take the arrows, i don't mind what anybody says about me, any time ever. i don't have time for it. i don't give other people the power to offend me. and you shouldn't either, by the wasted time being offended. [applause] i mean, there's some people you can't say you want the president to fail. ladies and gentlemen of the united states, the democrat party has actively not just sought the failure of republican presid

michelle obama. >> hi, everyone.ing up soil because we're about to plant a garden. >> get some shovels. come on. let's go, let's go. >> i came to help do dinner but also help her develop a big health initiative. when you have one in three kids on track to have diabetes in their lifetime, it doesn't matter what we do with health care if we don't solve that side of the problem. and the garden was step one. when we were doing our first planting, there's kids running around and you could hear all the cameras clicking constantly. she looked at me like, this better work. >> there they are. it's all pretty cute. of course we're all in favor of healthy eating, but is this really the best way got first lady to use her considerable influence? >> let's move! let's move! >> now to first lady michelle obama. she's out promoting her let's move campaign and taking the motto to heart. >> every time we saw her jumping rope, playing football, hula hooping, all those fun things were very strategic ways that we were weaving in these val

as far as obama goes, i am a bald x vietnam vet. let me say this about president obama. appreciate the last caller and what he had to say about our gis sent to these foreign wars. that is one of the reasons i love president trump. he is trying to get us out of those wars. as far as obama goes, i raised -- i am in a redneck area. over $55,000 i have raised for president obama's first term and i am as white as i can be. i took a lot of abuse. somebody firebombed my computer and everything else. my neighbors were taking signs off of telephone poles. host: this was in 2012, 2008? caller: 2008. i wanted you to know the reason i did not do the second term, i did not raise a dime and they were begging me to get back involved, is because he did not do a thing he promised. he did not accomplish a thing. the change he promised he never delivered on. president trump on the other hand made promises and delivered on the promises. he is the best president of my lifetime. i have never seen a guy work so hard or accomplish so much. host: did you wind up raising money for donald trump? c

so, president obama did that. he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on high-tech fencing and he tripled the number of intelligence analysts who worked on the border and he deployed drones to surveil the border. he jacked up deportations to hundreds of thousands per year. all to the horror of many people in his own party. but that's what republicans said he needed to do if they wanted to be able to work with -- if he wanted to be able to work with them on an immigration bill. and so after he did all that, he turned to these republicans to show that he upheld his part of the bargain and then they killed the immigration bill, anyway. even republicans who had voted for that exact same immigration proposal just years earlier, it was their own idea, voted against it. once president obama brought it up as president, even after he followed through on his part of the deal which is what they said he needed to do in order to get their buy-in. they got him to do all that stuff then they walked away, anyway. and now here we

obama inherited that high level of deportation. basically kept it sort of high for several years even though they played some statistical games to keep it high at that same level. it sort of plateaued. the point was to show they were tough on immigration in order to politically be able to make the case for the amnesty bill the president favored. the gang of eight bill is what it came to be called. the eight senators who sponsored. when the bill failed, deportations from inside the country, which is not just people at the border, collapsed dramatically. and so, the deporter in chief label was deployed against president obama by his own supporters to try to force him away from seeming tough on immigration. he never really earned it. i think the obama administration did not mind that much when that national council came up with the term because they saw it as a way of seeming tough to people who were skeptical of obama. once the possibility of that bill in the senate disappeared, they went back -- they reverted to form and stopped dep

for us at the at the museum, the high water mark of the obama's multiple visits was twofold. one, they toured the gayhead lighthouse. one of our centerpiece exhibits that were kind enough to sign the guest book which we promptly put on display. but also president obama's coming to the island was a huge moment for us at the museum and it gave us an opportunity to call attention to the century plus history of martha's vineyard in federal and particularly the town of oak bluffs as a popular vacation resort for african-americans. a place where they felt they could come, relax, feel welcome, and escape from the tensions and the pressures of the wider world. the fact that the family came to the island gave us an opportunity to tell that story in a new and fresh way. and close the circle of a story that began in 1900 and continues to this day. >> thank you, i would like to invite joan and claire to answer some of the questions with have the viewers. first we have a question about lincoln cottage? wasn't lincoln shot at during one of his rides between the white house and his cottage

obama or mrs. reagan and anticipation of the inauguration and how involved were they in that planning chris? so i didn't have as much dealings with mrs. obama, but you know, what was notable is having young children in the white house again, and and i know that you know, just a couple of small things. we you know, there was a kind of jungle gym swing set that was put on the the south lawn for for the girls. i know that mrs. obama really appreciated the courtesies from mrs. bush as well as the bush girls and helping that transitioned, you know, but it it's just the whole different dynamic it requires, you know, scoping out schools making sure that the security for the girls is robust, but also not obtrusive it is trying to ensure that when you're scheduling for the president you're mindful of the fact that you know, this was a president who wanted president obama wanted to have breakfast with his kids in the morning and dinner with them in the evening. he would continue working well after that but a

wars will the biting ministration repeat the mistakes committed under obama. discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest mark allman in oxford he is the director of the crisis research institute and in budapest we have jordan's i mean well he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube and gentlemen crossed up rules and back that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to markers in an ox for continuity in change as we always look at when a new and minute. gratian comes in and we see a lot of continuity and change. only on the rhetorical side of things we hear we hear that the all of the biden mr asian is essentially going to back away from saudi arabia's genocidal war against yemen but he says it will continue to support the sovereignty of saudi arabia and we we are on the 1st day of the binding ministration we have troop movements from iraq into syria so that tells us what's going on here just a couple days ago nato has made it very clear that it's going to up its. troop level training level in ir

the other thing that bothers me whether it's president obama or now president biden when an americansident goes overseas don't trash talk your own country. you could do that at home and criticize your political opponents at home but will we look at the world i think we should not trash talker political opponents and we should not track tosh our country and to present a good faith to the world because otherwise the world will believe that democracy is dysfunctional and american democracy is at fault and he gets is no place. elizabeth: the biden administration is rolling back president trump's policies and removing sanctions on iran rejoining obama 2015 nuclear deal, what is president biden asking in return the u.s. allies in the media opposed the 2015 nuclear deal are we seeing conditions is president biden talking about flaws in the nuclear deal and i run cheating? >> this is a whole extraordinary thing it was a loudly deal on the first place and never stopped iran's nuclear program and they would put on pause for ten years and never stop the nuclear missile development program and i

raise their hand. >> president obama, are you listening? >> laura: president biden, are you listening? and that's the angle. >> joining me now, mollybist hemingway, ari fleisher, both fox news contributors and host of fox nation. molly, a year, a lot has changed. we're weaker, as far as the economy. china is more on the rise than it was before. and a lot of people are demoralized, but do you sense that things are changing, that people's eyes are slowly being opened? >> what's interesting is when you look at the 2020 campaign,

obama from 2011 to 2015. jeremy is the first man ever to serve in this role at the white house, and while that was big news at the time. he managed to keep a low profile in order to do his job, which as all white house staffers are told, it's to serve the president of the united states and not yourself. he earned a reputation as being extraordinarily efficient when managing hundreds of events with a young staff and, dare i say it, a lot of laughter. he earned his stripes as a campaign fundraiser for presidential candidate barack obama and then was rewarded with the job as the white house liaison to the national endowment for the humanities. from there, jeremy served as the senior adviser to the u.s. ambassador in france. and again, after being in the right place at the right time, he landed his role as the white house social secretary. it is a real pleasure to have them with us today and i hope you will be ready to ask them some questions later. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming former white h

obama. >> so i went over there and said, can we talk about the kids thing. and he was like oh, let me see maybe there's a military plane, and he wants basically 60 people. and we looked into it, and what was the show? the lion king, was at the kennedy center, so we had them come to perform. but even that when i talk to the president, it's like oh ok you're going to tell mrs. obama. so it was awful but, it was really a shock that someone would commit to performing, and i don't want to say the name, because it's for real. >> those are the rules. >> and i know that i'm glad to know that we're not paying for entertainment the taxpayers not paying for entertainment at the white house. >> i'm sure you have a good one. >> i would have to say the most difficult guests guests are members of congress, because there's a sense of entitlement there. whether it was an individual senator, or the whole congressional party, i remember waiting to greet a senator that was coming to see president bush and i saw

>> briefly, i think that was exactly obama's philosophy. i think obama came to power generally believing that he wanted a much more broad relationship with iran, to rewrite the map of u.s. alliances, in the middle east. i don't think he initially was interested in the nuclear, issue but because that was the hot issue of the day, he saw it as a way into a broader conversation about iran, with iran. immediately, he saw, and we all saw in the first obama term how quickly that fell by focusing only on the nuclear issue. that allowed those who are opposed to the idea of u.s. iran relations, particularly in those days in israel, to basically make a lot of noise around the nuclear issue. and i guess encourage ways for the u.s. to get more bogged down on some of the nuclear specifics, of nuclear negotiations. we saw how that went, and obama got his nuclear deal, but in a way the opponents of u.s. iran relations ran out the problem. we've got this at the end of the second term, and there wasn't much energy or time left for serious iran u.s. -- i agr

should they zoom in on the month of january 2017 and find the crimes and why the obama administrationnd the fbi under james comey kept both trump, russia and the general flynn cases open when government documents more and more reveal both those cases were falling apart? and top officials later would admit to that. and to shocking footage from inside a public school board meeting. school board officials caught on tape making fun of parents, even cursing them out. parents who just desperately need their kids back in the classroom. they want schools reopened. the parents are now fighting back. and senators now demanding hearings in what happened to the power out an in texas due to the massive ice storm. it wasn't weatherized. there are a lot of problems there. does congress, though, really need to do another do-nothing hearing when they can look to other examples and just read what happened with texas? should they look west to california? california has chronic rolling power outages. that's what california officials told us. as california is going green. is that ap issue? -- an issue? al

thisis is nothing more than pandering so barack obama can stay relevant to the socialists. >> sean: obamat didn't do anything in eight years as president, herschel. we do not have law and order in blue states run by liberal democrats for decades, we do not have good schools in both of these states either. that's on the politicians. they have failed our children, they failed every family by not keeping a safe environment. >> he is a failed america because we elected him to go to office to fight for america, not to fight for some rays. they always say to heal the country, we've got to heal the african-american, the ancestors of. my problem is who even those any ancestors of? how can you find that out? who is black today, what percentage of black is -- what percentage is black? i think that's a big problem today. >> socialist talking points. we'll never have reparations in this country. >> sean: herschel, governor or senator, what do you think? >> we got to get this whole voting thing correct. >> sean: will continue, guys. thank you. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office

that would be the biden-obama era. a matter of fact, the obama-biden administration built the kids in cages facility with the fences where the migrant kids were in fact separated from their parents. trump ultimately ended up shutting down their policy in that facility for renovations and ended the child separation policy. facts are a dangerous thing here. this holding center that you see on your screen is coming back online. but the biden administration wants you to know that the shipping container trailers with bars on tiny windows, and they are definitely not cages. today, press secretary, jen psaki, she circled back to this issue as we predict it she would. take a look. >> we are seen in photos now of containers. is there a better description? is it containers instead of kids in cages? >> let me give a broader description of what is happening here. we have a number of unaccompanied minors, children who are coming into the country with other family. what we are not doing with the last administration did was separate

you know, obama tried, and then he got burned by the bad publicity. trump tried, the same kind of facilities, to segregate them from the adults and save them from predator, you know, immigrants who have come with them, coyotes and so forth. didn't work for president trump, either. and now president biden is confronted with the reality of his responsibility of what the hell he is supposed to do with these kids. my suggestion is -- >> sean: hey, geraldo. >> give me 15 seconds. >> sean: you got it. >> 15 seconds. put these kids in foster homes, foster families in the country. let ma and pa foster families, don't put them in a julie -- juvenile detention kind of center that only rotten things can happen. they are a reality. what are you going to do? there are 6,000 of them at last count alone. i say put them in foster family homes. don't put them in these prisons, sean. >> sean: you know, dan bongino, the stay in mexico policy, that is gone. now with the incentive and the amnesty hanging out there, we are going to see illegal immigration on a mass scale r

former biden officials for obama officials often accused him of spending all his time simply trying to wipe out the legacy obama lost as it was the trump foreign policy and maybe today we're seeing the most sense by this trying to undo everything that tom did so that for instance all the it's as you say true to say that in the. in the saudi question he is pursuing a rather ambivalent course because yes he's saying we would like the war now meant to stop us we're going to stop providing certain types of support for the war effort but on the other hand we support the saudi state but he also explicitly allowed his spokesman to say i'll only be dealing with the king of saudi arabia he's my count on. not the crown prince and similarly he waited a month before he spoke to benjamin netanyahu in israel now both the crown prince of saudi arabia and the promise from israel were very close interlocutors with donald trump so what we might be seeing is also a discredited in the electoral terms because elections coming from israel of netanyahu the americans by the new american especially who can say

steve: very well put, it was going around the will of what obama administration did.started just before the ban on new funding came in. in that announcement from obama administration they asked people to voluntarily stop, they do not. miranda, one question that i have been asked all week, is why isn't this the lead story everywhere? is it such a giant issue, you have done fantastic work on reporting. why isn't the media, getting behind the need to get this the bottom of this huge issue? >> hi, steve, thank you, and you know, what a fantastic report you have just given as well as last week, i think partly because it is complicated there are a lot of unknowns, many i think what is happened is that virologists in the world have been loathe to add their voices to lab leak high are afraid their funding will dry up it is wrong of them to do that, we need to know if this did come as it seems, a lot of scientists are saying it looks likely, it did come from the leak in the wuhan institute of virology, which was doing a very dangerous -- -- style genetic engineering on the cor

during the obama era she pushed through several big diplomatic initiatives on his highly valued within the democratic party for her peace making efforts though her diplomacy 1st approach seems to falter somewhat when it comes to dealing with russia for years we have seen russia take one aggressive and destabilizing action after another are you truly incapable of shame is there literally nothing that can shame you russia really needs to stop the cheap point scoring and the grandstanding and the stunts. and focus on what matters . well let's bring in george somewhere lee senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today what do we can we can read in from biden's appointment or potential appointment for some of the power as usaid head do you think there's a possibility he's perhaps picking people with concrete positions on russia. well i don't think russia is necessarily number one of those of its reasons as to why he picked her up i mean miss samantha power is most famous for being an apostle of the doctrine of hum

wars will the biting ministration repeat the mistakes committed under obama. discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest mark allman in oxford he is the director of the crisis research institute and in budapest we have george 7 well he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube and gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to markers in an ox for continuity in change that's what we always look at when a new administration comes in and we see a lot of continuity and change. only on the rhetorical side of things we hear we hear that the all the biden mr asian is essentially going to back away from saudi arabia's genocidal war against yemen but he says it will. when you do support the sovereignty of saudi arabia we we on the 1st day of the biden ministration we have troop movements from iraq into syria so that tells us what's going on here just a couple days ago nato has made it very clear that it's going to it's. troop level training level in iraq of course we

these are a lot of obama administration alums who looked at the first year of the obama administrationelt that they could have gotten a bigger stimulus, but they backed down at the last minute, concern they don't want to relive that lesson. but, gerry, the biggest difference now from 2009 to currently in 2021 is that joe biden has a 50-democratic seat majority, the narrowest of majorities. obama had nearly 60 seats in the senate. so, you know, joe biden talks a lot about building back better. you know, it's in his political interest to get more political capital the as he governs, as he tries to, you know, advance his agenda on other issues. instead he's burning a whole lot of bridges that didn't have to be burned, and he risks incleesing the degree -- increasing the degree of partisanship. and if you overheat the economy too much, everything's on his shoulders. he owns the economy now, and it could cause hum some political backlash if he's not careful in the future. gerry: we've got to take a short break, but we'll talk more about that, more about the stimulus plan and also impeachmen

these are a lot of obama administration alums who looked at the first year of the obama administrationelt that they could have gotten a bigger stimulus, but they backed down at the last minute, concern they don't want to relive that lesson. but, gerry, the biggest difference now from 2009 to currently in 2021 is that joe biden has a 50-democratic seat majority, the narrowest of majorities. obama had nearly 60 seats in the senate. so, you know, joe biden talks a lot about building back better. you know, it's in his political interest to get more political capital the as he governs, as he tries to, you know, advance his agenda on other issues. instead he's burning a whole lot of bridges that didn't have to be burned, and he risks incleesing the degree -- increasing the degree of partisanship. and if you overheat the economy too much, everything's on his shoulders. he owns the economy now, and it could cause hum some political backlash if he's not careful in the future. gerry: we've got to take a short break, but we'll talk more about that, more about the stimulus plan and also impeachmen

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you mean by light the obama administration made it uncool for trade and everything like that? what i remember from that period was his crackdown on for-profit schools who take advantage of lower income people who are trying to move up in this society. >> host: quite a list. we will let our guest respond to that. >> guest: hopefully keeping a check credit to make sure i hit everything but in terms of vocational training, look, , we are proponents of that, and under the obama administration the wasn't as much of a push for vocational training. it was about for your education. while i i was fortunate enougo be able to attend, i was the first one in my family to finish high school, college, grad school and that was all through the grace of god and hard work through my mother. i love higher education but it o believe there is huge opportunity for folks to go into different vocations and two different skilled occupations

these are a lot of obama administration alums who looked at the first year of the obama administrationelt that they could have gotten a bigger stimulus, but they backed down at the last minute, concern they don't want to relive that lesson. but, gerry, the biggest difference now from 2009 to currently in 2021 is that joe biden has a 50-democratic seat majority, the narrowest of majorities. obama had nearly 60 seats in the senate. so, you know, joe biden talks a lot about building back better. you know, it's in his political interest to get more political capital the as he governs, as he tries to, you know, advance his agenda on other issues. instead he's burning a whole lot of bridges that didn't have to be burned, and he risks incleesing the degree -- increasing the degree of partisanship. and if you overheat the economy too much, everything's on his shoulders. he owns the economy now, and it could cause hum some political backlash if he's not careful in the future. gerry: we've got to take a short break, but we'll talk more about that, more about the stimulus plan and also impeachmen

even many of the obama-trump voters agree with this figure. strong support for the idea that government is too big, strong support for the idea that taxes are too high. 45% of trump voters believe that government should guarantee a minimum standard of living if people work to the best of their ability. that is the sort of government intervention that you never hear about from the heart right. only 34% of the romney-trump voters and a minority of very conservative voters agree with that. when you move up the ideological scale to the party switchers, that becomes a much more popular position. 53% of moderate to liberal voters agree that government should guarantee a minimum standard of living for people who work hard. and a majority of the party switchers do. this shows that the more specifics you put on a small government or antigovernment platform, the more you drive away potential allies then you do attract them. we will see that clearly in the next slide. supply-side economics and paul ryan's entitlement cuts were all the rage 10 years ago i

obama said it's about discovering cooking and eating good food.e puppets travel around the world looking for ingredients andindiithrenown chefs, home co celebrities. it starts streaming next month. >>> the university of new england is the new home for a rare yellow lobster. the lobster nicknamed banana was caught off the coast of maine. the odds of catching one are one in 30 million. the lobsterplan who caught it donated it to the school last week. the yellow comes from a pigment in the shell. banana weighs about a pound to a pound and a half. >>> and a zoom court conference call in texas was less than purr-fect when an attorney accidently had a cat filter turned on. >> can you hear me, judge? >> i can hear you. i think it's a filter. and -- >> it is. i don't know how to remove it. i've got my assistant here. she's trying to. but i'm -- i'm prepared to move forward -- >> so cute. the judge shared the video on line yesterday. of course, it quickly went viral. thloeyd ate s su h t red.the dge helped him remove i. >> we've seen some silly things. man

i want to acknowledge that you and i work together and we looked at things like where could barack obama send different segments to the world then and we identified 3 areas if he changed the way gravity works with cuba with israel palestine and with iran it would set a different signal to the world that america was back and that it was going to contribute to global stability now he worked on all of those some to varying degree what do you think the defining challenge is for a biden administration coming in to genuinely send in different signals to the world are where is the what are those you know give me some wilkerson strategic clarity on what buttons matter more than others. well he's already dealt with the principal one that everyone wants to talk about and that could go a ride any moment and that of course is the country in the world that's rivaling us not in some ways surpassing us china. his statement that i have it here extreme competition but we need not have conflict that's exactly the way to look at it that's kind of the way we looked at it in the 1st bush administration will