no, barack obama loud. and the best speech in american history is no barack obama like my personal favorite speech. i think it's a speech, a favorite of a lot of speechwriters is the robert f kennedy speech that he gave in south africa. is that your favorite? okay. so that's so there you go. so, you know, if you've never second inaugural, but it's not that contemporary to this, but if you haven't never have a chance to read it, take a few minutes, listen to it. there is audio of it. so he's in south africa. he's speaking to a conference of youth. and and he's speaking about the power of youth. it's the famous ripples of hope speech and one of the beautiful sections of it is see that i love about it so much is that he sort of goes throughout history. jesus. martin luther king, martin, you know, the original martin luther. and he reminds us all that these people, all these great historic actions for change that they took occurred when they were in their twenties, in their early thirties. so it's a tremendous

because the obamas were introduced the vineyard, if you remember the speech that really gave obama the notoriety and it was his 2004 address at the democratic in boston. and apparently that was very stressful. and his good friend and his finance, valerie jarrett, who was a frequent visitor to the vineyard at that time, to him, barack, you really need to go to the vineyard and that will let you for a few days and. that's when he and his family really embraced the vineyard and said, this is a special place and it was after that tha they began to frequent the old whaling church and they knew people charles ogletree from harvard school and henry louis gates, who were frequent visitors to the vineyard and, really it became part of their family fabric, if you will. and this is just a list of the the various times that obama visited the vineyard during his presidency in fact, the only year he didn't the vineyard was in 2012. the reelection year. he was too busy obviously that time. but this is to acknowledge carol mcmanus, the owner of expresso and the muffins. she out the note save for bill

so did president obama. but it's clear this is just like the soviet union in terms of their ambition for their country. they only respect one thing, and that's strength. and that we learned from ronald reagan peace through strength works pretending enemies don't hate you does not work. you can hide out at they're still going to hate you. michael talk at his party. not all of republicans in his party agree with his mindset. i think there's a growing number who don't agree with it and one of them is going to be sworn in as the vice president, j.d. vance, who is a harsh critic of ukraine. ukraine's an issue that i think really stands out in senator mcconnell's career because it was a time when he put himself at risk. he put the politics of it at risk, in favor of an issue that he really cared about. it would have been easy to reject ukraine aid. instead, he worked to build a package to make sure ukraine had its aid. and it's a great example of something i think he looks at as a signature part of his legacy when

you don't think bernie sanders is barack obama? >> no. >> no, don't get me there.ary clinton. and you followed hillary for a long time. andrea. >> could joe biden have defeated donald trump? >> oh, i don't know. >> i don't know. i'm not going to speculate on that. >> if you don't have a majority, if she has a majority and more of the popular vote, would you then concede? >> look. >> if we do not. >> have a. >> majority, i think it's going to be very hard. >> for us to win. >> are you. >> sorry now? you said yes to john mccain on august 29th? >> not in the least. >> absolutely not. >> are you hurt that some of his people have criticized you? >> what? i have discovered that there on a national level, this kind of took me aback because, andrea, we see it on a state level. when you. >> run a campaign, you get a lot of strange people who kind of leech themselves into a campaign, some odd hanger honors. >> you know, back. >> in my days, they used bayer aspirin for contraceptives. the gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly. >> excuse me. i'm just tryin

finally, stephanie young has served in the white house in both the biden and obama administrations. she's a former deputy assistant to president biden. she was a barbara boxer fellow here at the usc center for the political future. so thank you for being here and let's begin. dale, as i mentioned, the midwest has become one of the key battlegrounds. you worked for john glenn years ago. not just in respect to ohio but to the midwest, how many counties to john glenn used to win by 20% and 30% -- how did counties john glenn used to win by 20 or 30 points go to trump? >> i would like to make a comment more broadly on a theme of this panel. i am not sure it's quite that clear. earlier today, we had a question from one of the students who was here, who asked something similar, because when donald trump wins the kind of overwhelming victory he did in the electoral college, where he sweeps all seven swing states, when the republicans now control both houses of congress, it's easy to think this was an unmitigated disaster for democrats in november and it's maybe even easy to buy into trump's

i worked for president obama, shall obama's voting initiative for five years. work in this space of how to reach people and talk to them. there were so many barriers to doing things differently when they had been doing things differently. i can't remember what they spent about not only did they spend all that money on that ad but they went to every nook and cranny on what we call the dark where but it's the web now, it is out there, every place, every platform and preached their message and places we did not. was not presidential, was not appropriate. some of those places are not presidential or feel appropriate but that is what the american people are consuming. if we are not going to take on issues head on, we are not going to answer things head on and we are going to continue to push past it. people are beyond that. donald trump is a reality tv show host president. we are reality tv show culture right now. we want whatever feels authentic and i think because we face a playbook of let's not address the sin focus on those voters, it won't matter, it does matte

that's the same company which represents the obamas.e bidens plan to do. nowhere just yet, but a word of warning to hollywood: biden doesn't do very well with directions. [silence] -- for the rain forest. him roaming around their. seemed a little listless. he is not the best at memorizing lines, either. >> all right. what am i doing now? [laughter] am i -- [laughter] >> and we all know he can be a bit of a diva. >> a great asset more inflation. what a stupid son of a [bleep]. >> yeah, that london. but the former president can be a bit dramatic. -- >> yeah, that's one of. but, the former president can be a bit dramatic. maybe that's why he's got an agent. that was him giving the -- speech, emily perry quinn covered on his show his ray-bans -- >> we recovered on our show that rain bands. they could make it to hollywood now, the ray-bans, and celebrate him. >> there was a backup quarterback in the nfl that was retained by a cantankerous coach for mike many years. while he didn't want him to play, he didn't want anyone else to have him. the

they were baffled by other obama. executive orders could happen. >> and it is true that if the executive. >> acts quickly, it takes. >> a long time for the other, other branches. >> of government. >> to. >> act. >> as you. >> were saying. >> in this case, the one of the branches legislative. >> might not. >> act at all because. >> it wants. this to continue. >> yeah. >> and they're certainly acting incredibly fast. >> peter, one of the things. >> that. >> i've heard from. >> democrats is that the focus. >> in the. >> house particularly. >> is, is. >> laser focused on. >> retaking the. house back. >> in two years time. >> they're spending. >> money already. >> in districts where they think. republicans might be vulnerable. >> which is. >> early in the cycle. >> to. >> try and soften up those districts, to try to win back the house. but if. congress is abdicating its. >> power and. >> its responsibility and the power of the purse so dramatically at this stage. how much benefit can. democrats get by taking back the house

he sought to blame his predecessors, president obama and president biden. sought to lay the lay the blame for this at the feet of several individuals and several agencies. we must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system. i changed the obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary. you remember that. only the highest aptitude, they have to be the highest intellect, and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. that was not so prior to getting there. when i arrived in 2016, i made that change very early on because i always felt this was a job that, and otherjobs too, but this was a job that had to be superior intelligence and we didn't really have that. he raised many questions as to why the aeroplane and the helicopter were flying at the same altitude, as to why those in the helicopter hadn't looked out the window to try and see the aircraft, as to why the air traffic controllers hadn't been able to divert the helicopter away he seemed to also lay the blame for this cr

i worked on obama 2012.hat was a machine built really early and the people knew us when i say the people what is is those running organizations are leading in the communities those are the people you are attracting when you're physically. there. and they help to bring other people in it is a hand in hand piece the doorknocking is different that doesn't work as well as it used to so we got to move away from that it's critical a presence but we did nothave a feel that there's a general election happening. >> zeroo presence. >> he was all digital. i am talking more about our folks, what they expected and what they needed to galvanize is not one and done. i know he's been able to be this magician from the wizard of oz and being able to manipulate and dodo things and digitally only. i don't think we have the luxury of doing that we have to do all of the above. >> i would like to suggest not just a messaging problem we have that immediate problem to for those of a certain age in this room may be old enough to reme

he blamed potentially by demonstration, the obama administration, people to judge the red uptime and there are literally pulling the bodies out of that water and not all the people have even been identified yet. does that go to the idea that trump can't help himself? [laughter] click some of it is. i'm a good friend of james. i've liked him for a long time. certainly like his wife a great deal and love their back-and-forth. i think sometimes james comes across as very negative. but i think one of the probes we have in politics today is both sides are running negative campaigns. what both sides are doing is teaching voters what to be against it. not what you before. and until we get our politicians to start talking about what they are for. if you look at what james is saying, most of what he is saying is what you should before is a democrat. even though he mixes it with banter which everyone loves. my feeling about trump is i don't talk about him like he is a disease. he is a symptom of where our country is today. and the main thing our politicians do wrong is they don't understand ba

it was signed by barack obama in 2015.t legally binds almost 200 countries to limit global warming. from the agreement. the agreement on his first day in office in 2021. united states out. and in yet another twist in this tale, the billionaire and former republican mayor of new york mike bloomberg has said his philanthropic agencies will give the united nations climate body, which oversees the agreement, the funds on the campaign trail, he made clear his plans to get oil and gas flowing in greater quantities and killjoe biden�*s multi—billion—dollar support of the green transition, to further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate greatest scam in history, probably. a $10 trillion scam. in the last few days of his presidency, joe biden�*s administration legally protected almost $100 billion so, other than leaving the paris climate agreement, up permits for oil and gas exploration and roll back environmental protections. he's making drilling for oil and gas in the arctic and along and he reversed president biden�*s target

barack obama used mr. crapo's policy baseline to keep the george w. bush tax cuts in place.called it a permanent baseline, it was a policy baseline, they should do the same thing now, obama was a smart fellow, we have exhausted that, you are american hero, a great service record, a west point grad. couple things on this mr. wesley hunt. recruitment in month of january, is at a 15 year high. what do you make of this. >> shocking. it is amazing what you see with a president that believes in america. imagine this, only about changing how we feel and the motive about what it means to make america great again this is good, a reason why there are 20 million people that have entered illegally, and people want to be here, because we're in an amazing country, i have young people that are willing to fight for trump and fight for america first, what has been missing. someone that searched in combat, that served 20 years ago in baghdad, i loved seeing young people reinvigorated to want to serve, it happened in the last two months, amazing. >> probably not peaked yet, my hunch your fello

stuart: remember the solar company that obama gave billions and they went bankrupt.ar company. reporter: this failure costing us more with a handout of 2.2 billion so companies that didn't need for unproven technology that couldn't compete commissionly and imposed by a environmental group and obama administration ignored that and taxpayers left holding the bag. jaire not in china or india but in california. >> solar plant went live 10 years ago and supposed to produce for clean power for at least 30 years and instead of solar panels, using giant mirrors to concentrate the june's energy on the towers that boil water generating steam creating electricity. >> it's going to put about a thousand people to work build ago state of the art facility. reporter: part of the climate agenda, president obama gave ivanpah $1.6 billion in federal loans and $535 million grant and 35% tax credit worth about $600 million and accelerated schedule to allow investors to write out capital investment in five years. >> the fact of the matter is american taxpayers wind upholding the bill whet

barack obama sent $6 billion of cash, $100 bills loaded on pallets over to iran. maria: great point. >> so we are finally putting a foot down and saying no, iran, this is not acceptable. we talk about an axis of evil with iran, russia and china. what about an axis of security. i think it's a wonderful vision that may ultimately save lives and provide security for millions. maria: i'm glad you brought up the 6 billion. john kirby was saying we'll allow the money to go back to iran but they're not going to use it for terrorist activities and then the re head of iran cos out and says we're going to use the money where we want to use the money. trump's cabinet picks have cleared key hurdles. tulsi gabbard and rfk junior both voted out of their respective committees yesterday, that's a big positive. they're headed to the senate floor for the full confirmation votes. both can afford to lose three republican votes. president trump has 11 cabinet members confirmed. the senate voted for pam bondi last night to be the nicks u.s. attorney general and doug collins to be the n

so obama gave president obama gave admiral mcraven a tape measure on a plaque. okay, that's about killing a guy. i'm very glad we killed him. so i, i give the prime minister the president, a pass on this. fair enough. well. >> i don't want one. if you want to, either. >> don't want a pager. >> or a tape measure or a golden pager, but i have lots of other gift ideas for you. for me? thanks to both of you. appreciate it. perhaps the most legendary and influential broadcaster of all time once warned what tv could do for good or for ill. and now his former network is being sued by president trump. trump, the parent company paramount, is barreling towards a decision that could have a drastic impact on freedom of the press. stay with us the boeing 747. >> has crashed. >> in the lockerbie area., trying. >> to find out the why of it became everything. >> nothing is what it seems in the lockerbie story. lockerbie, the bombing of pan am flight 103, february 16th on cnn. >> so i got you a little. >> something. >> warming for him, tingling for her. >> should we, uh. >> expe

barack obama was thought of as the facebook election, that he used that so effectively. now it seems to have flipped. anybody to want weigh in on the biggest issue of our time? >> he likes to call himself a great communicator. i work for the great communicator, ronald reagan, and i watched him when trump wants to talk about how big he won this election, biggest victory in 50 years. he needs to remember reagan, who won 49 states and 515 electoral votes. i used to brief him once a month when i was congressional committee, national campaign director. and i grew up with a speech impediment. and i walked in every month. i did it for two years. i had 30 minutes. and i was scared to death. with my speech impediment, i was only 30-something, and he would take five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes and talk to me, tell jokes, and he had a sense of telling when i had calmed down, and then he said, ok, what do you have to tell me? and he never once said, this is a waste of my time, cut it to 15 minutes or 10 minutes. but i saw the sign. man who truly had compassion, who truly underst

so i think when you follow the money, you want to go all the way back to the obama administration and equipment foundation. you want to start there and then move forward because you're going to see a lot um as you recall victoria newland but her cookies. she didn't just have cookies . she had millions of dollars in her suitcases. i'm sure. and allegedly, she was quite involved with the regime change in 2014, one of donald trump's big pledges was he was going to end the war in 24 hours. obviously that's not happening. we now hearing that it's likely to be 100 days. this is coming out from keith kellogg. do you think that don't move from is really aiming to bring peace to ukraine and if so, how do you think that's going to go down without military industrial complex is hugely benefited from this war. in the past, it's 3 years or so. we have tulsa gabbert about to be confirmed and she's very much, you know, i, i met her and was with her at the rage against the war machine. and she spoke very clearly against this proxy war against russia via ukraine. and you have a lot of people surroundi

right now we're joined by obama campaign veteran jay komanduri.ttles washington, i just gave a lot of not all of the recent developments. jay, your view? >> yeah, i mean, usually. >> ari. >> i come on here. >> and. >> i do historical. >> comparisons. >> i do movie references. >> but to. >> be honest, at this point, i. >> don't know if any. comparison applies. you know, when joseph mccarthy was on his witch hunt, he was an elected u.s. senator. >> i was thinking. >> of the movie j. edgar, where you see leonardo dicaprio. >> and the movie directed by clint. >> eastwood, as. >> hoover, working for the attorney. >> general, mitchell palmer, and. >> he deports a u.s. >> citizen. >> emma goldman. >> something that's. >> incredibly illegal, except a mitchell. palmer was the lawful attorney general of the united states. >> appointed by the elected president, woodrow wilson. >> elon musk is a private citizen. he has no legal standing to do what he is doing. >> he is. >> doing things that are patently illegal, gutting usaid, getting access to federal data o

president obama was designee the deporter in chief as from immigration advocacy groups. president bush as well started a program called mÉrida initiative, which was a carrot and stick diplomatic approach to getting countries to come together along the path migration, to work to solve this issue. it was such a good program that a democrat president, president obama, not only that program, but expanded. so both democrats and republicans have historically agreed that you cannot homeland security unless, you have border security and enforce the immigration laws of this country. let's look the consequences here since the biden administration's tenure in office and again i'm going to throw out some here. let's keep in mind, there's no way to many of these numbers that i'm talking about. we seen over the last four years anywhere from. 10 to 15 million and illegal encountered at our borders. that does not include the 2 million plus gateways where they are not encountered and taken into custody in some way, shape or form. then there's a third bucket that never gets spoken about,

they do not go away simply because bad things happened in the obama or biden administration's. we've got a bad situation here with respect to the administration of justice and president biden did try to take some steps to rebuild it, but once the january 6 prosecutions got going obviously that proved difficult. and furthermore, president biden , all these recent presidents have arguably abused their pardon power in such a way as to make people cynical perhaps about the administration of justice. that is a serious problem. host: democrats line, you are on, good morning. caller: i wanted to ask if the president can send funds that have already been appropriated by the previous congress and can he allow a visitor to run the social security funds. guest: i really can't speak to social security, but i wish i had said more about this impoundment situation. this badly worded order from the office of management and budget which has now been enjoined or rescinded, but there is -- it is a troubling feature. there is a more general issue which is president trump has acted as if since he w

you served in the obama administration.did you think when you heard presto talk -- president trump talk about diversity programs that go back to the obama and stray and suggested that has made air traffic less safe? randy: i thought it was a grossly misstated words, nowhere near the facts. to be an air traffic controller is a rigorous -- the hiring, screening and school, they wash out about 30% of those who enter, 70%, it is a two-year program before their controlling aircraft and to suggest there is anything but the best and brightest, it is a tough job. they do it well. at any given moment there are 7000 airplanes in the air over this country controlled by aircraft controllers in coordination. to suggest anything different in my opinion was horribly misleading. john: for years the ntsb and faa have called -- talked about close calls or near misses. do you think this tragedy will spark a rethinking of the larger air traffic system, the safety of it, the role of controllers? randy: you can always look for improvements, but

the obama administration.nd then they now said this is a counter terror program because women -- feminist women are key fighters in the battle against terrorism. >> jesse: oh, yes. yes. what happened when you raised concerns that this thing was just a big corrupt money pit? >> yeah. so i reported one of my subordinates for criminal conflict of interest and the first discouraging sign was i was told that's nice you want to do that. most people don't want to report corruption. they didn't tell me why. later figured out it's because you get in a lot of trouble. so i was accused of publishing classified information in something i had written two years earlier, which had never been subjected to any prior question. and so they ultimately used that to fire me. now, the people who were engaged in the corruption managed to hold onto their jobs. and so there's a culture of corruption that says if you are going to criticize anything corrupt, we're going to come after that you and use the tools that are supposed to be use

the obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary and then when i left office and bidener, he changed them back, the faa hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. that is amazing. today i'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at guantanamo bay. most people don't even know about it. the release of deepseek ai from nai chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win because we have the greatest scientists in the world. catriona: hello and welcome to "the context" with me caitriona perry. we are focusing on trump's second term and we are at the end of president trump's second week in office although he's been working so hard, it feels like a lot more than that. tonight throughout the program, will be reflecting on how it's gone and what it might tell us about his next four years in office. numerous executive orders have been signed to add to the 33 from last week as well as

obama, biden, the democrats put policy first.y put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen. >> reporter: the starkest claim, the one behind the oval office signing ceremony that diversity programs had caused the crash that killed 67. >> you have a presidential memorandum titled meade assessment of aviation safety. in light of the damage done to aviation safety by the biden administration's dei and woke policies. >> when asked what proof he had that diversity was the culprit, the president said he had no proof but didn't need any. >> how you can come to the conclusion that diversity had something to do with this crash? >> because i have common sense, okay, and unfortunately a lot of people don't. >> the president's certainty about the crash, despite the lack of proof, suggested for many americans, that the common sense he was referring to means diversity means things go wrong when people of color are in charge. in one press conference he traveled the length of the emotional register from asserting the differences between ameri

later by top democrats like obama. and then after united states majorities did turn on that war and occupation, which is back in the news tonight, only then did donald trump start following the lead. in fact, he attacked his rivals, the bushes on that point and the hawkish republican foreign policy over the years. ultimately, trump did shift gop foreign policy against some of those hawkish records. by the 2024 campaign, he was routinely vowing to end foreign wars and u.s. spending blood or treasure abroad, and especially in the middle east. and let me just tell you up front, because i try to keep it very direct here. many voters believed him. many trump voters believed that they accepted his claimed policy against u.s. involvement occupation as a positive. and we heard that in surveys and interviews. now, two weeks into returning to the white house, president trump is floating a plan. however, unseriously which breaks that vow. his comments alongside the israeli leader about plunging the u.s. into another mideast occup

and mitch mcconnell said to the republican caucus, barack obama gets not one thing now. he made with 41 votes our life miserable. we start with 47. and what, in my own view, in the senate and four votes away in the house from a majority. now, the other piece i would note that i think is relevant here, and donald trump is making in his presidency his administration a classic mistake. he did not get a majority. he got a plurality, no matter how many times he says he's gotten a mandate, he never got a mandate. and all the data shows that. and three, he is dropping in the poll numbers. he is not invincible. but as we build up as a democratic party and show and contrast where we are differ from, i think there are places to do that that are advantageous. classic example. the secretary of treasury, when testifying the very week in which ceos were announcing that their pay packages were going up 30, 40, 50%, he came out against the minimum wage. now, that is definitional for the democratic party. and it's a definitional fight. you mean we're against the minimum wage and ceo pay

did obama barack obama had, you know, put put in place economic tariffs that will impact the americanhink he kind of grew us out of an economic crisis. donald trump is creating one. so i don't know where the wall street journal i mean, now now they want to sit back and call the thing what everybody knew it was. anyway, there was a document, wall street journal, i don't know if you're familiar with it. it came out, it was about 900 pages. and in those 900 pages, i they had a little thing in there that talked about exactly what's happening right now. >> but michael but michael, he distanced himself from project 2025. >> yeah. >> he had nothing. >> to do with it, anything about it. even though about 100 people, 100 people who worked on directly authoring project 2025 now work in the federal government, even though one of the main authors of project 2025 is on track to again be his omb director. this is this, this this is very specific. >> okay. >> very clear. >> we've talked about the tariffs and i want to and i do want to hear sort of if either of you thinks that it changes anything for

if this feels different than trump's first term or most presidencies, it is in the obama era. it took over a year for the first major court ruling against his policies. a judge actually found obama had exceeded authority, relying on an executive order to boost stem cell funding. now these executive orders are just flying in fast all over the place. some of these unlawful bids are just raining down. some of it will take time. some of it may work when courts look at something and say, well, this is within the presidential authority. he was elected. he can do it. a lot of it is also being trimmed, as i showed you, by other parts of our functioning government, even if they want you to be bewildered or think that the other parts of the government don't or shouldn't exist, others, other bids, other efforts here by trump officials will get some results because of the way they are breaking things faster than our current long standing system can contain. the efforts at breakage. you probably know the term justice delayed is justice denied, and that may apply. unlike the court rulings i

if i'm not mistaking, that is during the obama administration.lly had rap sheet of doing horrendous acts togu children. my question is, why is this guy reading now in 2025? >> laura: vashon, it seems to me it is time for president trump to make a trip to chicago. i really want him to be seen in these blue cities and to deliver a message personally to the peoplee. there that i'm here for you, we left america cities, weh want to help rebuild them. frankly, focusing on america first. that is what he is all about.he and i think he would be welcomel if he actually did that. i really, i think, the left would kick up a fuss.he but i think he would find so many allies in the south side and inglewood. i think he would find a lot of support.or >> the people of chicago, we love trump. the members spoke for themselves during the election.rump i just want to say we wanteded h trump to come here and we actually loved him here at the end bj.hese so i don't want these blue lives to act like he is not welcomego here.. we love trump and would love trump to come to

a lot of them were beholden or had ties to the previous administration, the obama administration in the laryngomajority of them voted for hillary clinton in 2016. large majority of them voted for hillary clinton in 2016. >> this is the obnoxious deep state at work. liz: no accountability and beholden to they want to keep in power when we pay their paychecks. the american people pay for this and now they're paying more taxes and paying for inflation and higher mortgage rates because of what the deep state -- the swamp has been doing. final word, lisa. >> by the way, clinton administration wanted to merge usaid with the state department and trump administration is not the first to consider this. beyond that, democrats use a lot of foreign entanglements as guise to enrich themselves and friends and clinton foundation and penn biden center with a lot of chinese money flowing in and it was a place for classified documents being held and what exactly were they trying to buy with that influence or just the way the biden family enriched their office in the foreign relationships as well. digging

it was signed by barack obama in 2015. from the agreement. on his first day in office in 2021.nd in yet another twist in this tale, the billionaire and former republican mayor of new york mike bloomberg has said his philanthropic agencies will give the united nations but president trump is seeking to reverse more than just on the campaign trail, he made clear his plans to get oil and gas flowing in greater quantities and killjoe biden�*s part of the former president's inflation reduction act. in the last few days of his presidency, joe biden�*s so, other than leaving the paris climate agreement, on day one, he declared a national emergency to speed up permits he's making drilling for oil and gas in the arctic and along the coast of the united states possible again. new electric vehicles. in the cost of living. to increase production and, in his words, bring so, could it work? council, a life member of america's council of foreign relations and sits on the board of directors free up oil and gas permits and leases... so, he's back to "drill, baby, drill," and he's talking once ag

but obama's time was marked by a disappointing lack of grip.rld, the weakness revealed by george w bush's invasion of iraq continued. the long post—war period of american dominance looked as if it was coming to an end. donald j trump. donald trump managed to harness the resentments and anger of americans who sensed they were weaker and poorer than they once had been. he launched a roller—coaster ride of a kind that americans had never seen before. by 2020, he seemed finished, and, out of office, was lucky to avoid a jail sentence. but the feebleness of presidentjoe biden seemed, if anything, worse than the chaos of the trump administration. within months of taking office, biden went ahead with the doubtful agreement donald trump had made with the taliban over afghanistan, and the taliban came pouring into kabul. americans decided that donald trump would be more effective than either joe biden or kamala harris, and he returned last november as the clear outright winner. he might be the oldest us president ever inaugurated, but his energetic, upb

there was a modest rebound under obama, trump and biden. that dip is covid.s are back. >> you don't know how much you love going to work until you can't go there anymore. >> reporter: stacey dahle, michelle lopez, and matt frantzen are among 1,200 workers laid off in 2023 when the belvidere, illinois auto assembly plant shut down. >> this is my home. and when they told me that we were done, it hurt. it really did. >> we've got a community of 24,000 people. and there's probably not a street you can't -- you can go down that somebody's not tied to this plant. we've been here since 1965. it's a good job. provides a great living. and we would just like to see it come back. >> reporter: come back from mexico. in 2016 car maker stellantis moved one of belvidere's jeep models south of the border. in 2023, belvidere closed. >> we've lost electronics. we've lost textiles. we've lost chemicals in a large way. we invented the semiconductor. now we make 8% of semiconductors for the world. and none of the really high-tech ones. more than half of the cars sold in america a

>> to band the corporation donations which obama had a ban on. being involved in being involved in primaries. not to criticize anybody who did it. it would be nice if you said these people agree with us. people talk a huge amount of how we are going to communicate. if you want to do real work, that is really hard to do. i know it is not a very big issue. but if we cannot talk to each other, we cannot solve anything. >> i want to ask specifically about something that came up. we are going to continue to go forward. i want to talk about something that came up during the election. i will direct this question to you. we will continue to go forward. about one third of donald trump's advertising campaign. we will wait a second. >> do you work for billionaires or working people? >> thank you. we will continue. about one third of the trump campaign advertising was dedicated to gender changing surgeries. these particular -- >> democrats are still taking money from the arsonists. >> you know. >> this should have been done 40 years ago. >> don't shake your

in the first trump administration and lots of reasons why the sequestration deal between president obama and republicans repeated government shutdowns, the pandemic, all of that hiring did increase under president biden of air traffic controllers. we just put up a chart there. and i guess one of the questions i have is one of president trump's first actions in office was to implement a government wide hiring freeze, offered blanket buyouts to federal employees, which did impact faa and ntsb. i'm not saying it had anything to do with this accident, but it did impact it has impacted those agencies. >> no, it didn't. >> it hasn't. well, i was going to say there is a report that there's a report that you that you lifted the freeze and that you lifted the buyout offer. so tell us, tell us more about that. >> so i will so in regard to the, the the employment freeze, we had almost 1200 positions that were critical safety positions that were exempted. those included air traffic controllers. actually this this last week we had new air traffic controllers that were hired. we also had postings onli

barack obama, george bush, mark milley, you know, pick a whole host of.former presidents, former military officers, if indeed they're inclined to do this, which they have not shown to be. >> up to the election. i no. >> no, no, i know, but. >> this is. >> how else do you get people's attention? >> i mean, you. >> need the most famous, the most powerful, the most moving figures in recent history. if you are looking for some leadership among the opposition to stand up and say something together, not just an. >> off. >> and you. >> don't think. >> the american people. >> are going to say we're done with elites? >> wasn't that? >> i don't know about that. not those people, not necessarily. there's some that they would say that about, but i don't i think if they spoke with. >> one voice, i think they're looking for courage. they're looking for courage, not partizanship. i mean, look at someone like like colonel vindman when he stepped forward, like widely celebrated, even somebody going back to the iraq war, like cindy sheehan, they're looking for courageous p