under the united states the obama and trump administration has been focusing sanctions on nonnuclear activities in the aftermath of the nuclear deal. that would be about terrorism, ballistic missiles, and human rights abuses. we will hear from former president obama in a moment. walk us through why this deal was put in place and the benefits for the u.s. in that region of the world. guest: what the deal does is cause iran's nuclear program. host: for how many years? guest: different aspects. basically the answer is seven to 10 years. deal woulds this wi empower iranian moderates and iran decide to engage with the world on other areas as well. it did not work out so well. certainly, the trump administration thinks that was a foolish hope. host: here is president barack obama in july of 2015. [video clip] president obama: i strongly believe our national security interests now depend on preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon which means without a diplomatic resolution, either i or a future u.s. president would face a decision about whether or not to allow iran to obtain a nuclea

and again, at the end of the obama administration i probably would not have done the un security councilution, but i was no longer in the administration and again, i think it was out of a sense of frustration and wanting, in my view, probably not appropriately to set the table for the next the ministration. what concerns -- next administers and print what concerns me now --administers. what concerns me now but president trump is not that he went to the middle east to meet with leaders. i think that was a good thing to do. even an arms deal with saudi arabia is something worth considering, and it is falling on plans that obama had begun. it is nothing new. what matters is, what is the strategy? a strike in syria is a good thing and i applaud it. but what comes next? what is the strategy? it is not clear to me at all that there is a strategy. said whatnt obama had president trump did about settlements, you would have been protesting. outside of the white house. i see no protests by the community against president trump's comments about settlements, nothing, zero. i believe there is a doubl

this is shaking up to be a heavy week for testimony from obama administration officials. formeform susan rice at heart of the unmasking investigation will testify, this week before the senate intel ye intelligence committee, closed door, it will be on probably thursday, tuesday or thursday. also former chief of staff for white house mcdonna is willing to tough before house intelligence panel, today we had testimony from the former director of national intelligence, he is nation's intelligence chief, james clapper, he testified behind closed-doors before the house and senate intelligence committees. this issue of unmasks will be central to the line of questioning. unmasking is identification of american citizens in intelligence reports. >> this is not anything political has been alleged. allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political importance, that is false. reporter: republican chairman of house intelligence committee nunez separately issued subpoenas to three agency, requesting records about unmasking of americans by rice

again, at the end of the obama administration, it probably would not have done the un security council resolution but i was no longer the administration and, again, i think it was out of a sense of frustration and wanting, in my view, probably not appropriately -- to set the table for the next administration. what concerns me now about president trump is not that he went to saudi arabia and met with leaders. i think that was a very good thing to do. i think even an arms deal with saudi arabia is something worth considering if quite frankly, it is falling -- it is following through with plans obama made. but what is the strategy? a strike in syria is a good thing and i have thought the president for that strike. but what comes next? what is the strategy? it is not clear to me there is a strategy in israel. quite frankly, if president obama had said what president trump did settlements, you all would've been protesting outside of the white house. i see no protests by the community against president trump's comments about settlements. nothing. zero. zip. so i believe there is a double and

that was all put in place by the obama administration. i also mentioned this idea of onerous regulations that the trump administration talks about. if you look at the numbers of what happened during the obama administration, the u.s. was producing about 5.4 million barrels per day. he then goes forward with his has beengenda, which described as everything from the death rattle to u.s. oil production in the u.s. oil industry, and went from 5.4 million barrels per day to about 9.4 million barrels per day. ,t's expected to go over shattering records. .e should step back a bit all of that was during the obama administration. host: we are talking to brian scheid. host: this week smart -- this week marks four months since rick perry became the energy secretary. what impact has he had on the future of energy production in the united states? what has been his role in the trump administration here? -- guest: hereally has really push this idea of getting to our full potential as a global user of oil. coal.l gas, sixalked about the different things,

there is much to learn about the collusion between the russian attorney and the obama administration. the political motivations of the obama department of justice are readily recognized. it's all about partisan politics. in fact more than $400,000 in donations, clinton and trump during the election during d.o.j. employees. 97% of their money went to hillary clinton. special counsel robert mueller isn't even looking at the obvious misdeeds of the obama justice department itself, and it's clear washington swamp will never be drained unless we the people demand the truth on something called justice. our quotation of the evening, then i'll be glad top share with you who said it. first the quotation. those who fight corruption should be clean themselves. none other than vladimir putin saying that. those who fight corruption. you have got to love it. president trump defends his son's don, jr.'s meeting. congressman ron desantis says he sees no criminal activity at all and congress should spend its time investigating the clintons and the clinton foundation. these daring daredevils take their

i can say or tell you about the beginning of the obama administration and in the end of the obama administration i can't really tell you much else. the beginning of the obama administration , we had our lab because even though it's a digital, it's still call the lab. we had been on standby for the night of the inauguration so basically all the pictures that we took on january 20, 2009. they were hanging in the wall. >> of the west wing, the following day because they worked overnight. >> so the obama administration, the last three weeks we essentially on the photos of the eight years of the staff the last couple weeks to reflect on what they had just been through. and then there came a point in time where i had to take all those pictures down. and it was kind of depressing, actually because it all of a sudden when the staff watson in the morning of january 20, 2017 and it's this black frame. i left the frames for the next administration. but there was nothing so that was kind of strange, a strange feeling to walk out the door like that. >> to your book, obama, and intimate portraits, the histori

the bush and obama administrations tried to have a reset with russia. every single time it did not work. it did not work primarily not because the united states wasn't genuine or we did not try to have a better relationship and solvspecific problems -- specific problems togethere. the russians at the end of the day for the domestic politics need united states as an enemy. if anybody who watches russian television over the last 20 years, you would be shocked at the what you hear about the united states. ask the average american to watch, there are a couple of clips about things being said about america in russian state media, i think people would change their minds quite quickly about what russian intentions are towards the united states. host: crystal on the independent line in pennsylvania. just a few seconds left. what is your question for alina polyakova? guest: caller: good morning. i just have a question. what you think the relationship is between trump and russia? i personally believe the dossier was correct and accurate. why do you think trump su

where the hell was he for 8 years of the obama administration?f calling out the dems and the left wing national media by name, dimon chose to blame featureless generic gridlock for the glacial pace of putting through the president's nominees. >> have one of the most bureaucratic litigious societies on the planet. it's almost an embarrassment being an american citizen traveling around the world and listening to the stupid [bleep] we have to deal with in this country. he doesn't have the guts to acknowledge what the president who has been in office less than 6 months has already accomplished. all of this from a bank that paid $40 million in fines from violating sanctions to manipulating securities. which at times it was the largest settlement between the government and an american corporation. sometimes it's just tough being an american, mr. dimon. dimon's jpmorgan chase settled a case with the justice department. dimon has a short memory but no shortage of hubris. dimon doesn't credit president trump with the $4 trillion runup in our equities mark

pressing for answers on the obama administration's unmasking of trump associates. susan rice has agreed to testify before the house intelligence committee about her role in the unmasking scandal. joining us with reaction mother sara carter and gregg jarrett. what should the president do about these leaks? they are very disturbing. >> they should encourage the department of justice to investigate. susan rice has a lot to answer for. she is queen of the false narrative. she lied about benghazi, she says she doesn't know anything about incidental actions. i never asked for the unmasking of troubled officials. in no that appears to be a lie. there is potential crimes, trying to make use your office for political unmasking. she better get herself a good criminal defense attorney. >> i can tell you this, i've heard her recent report that she said gender and race had something to do with targeting her. we broke those stories of unmasking. it wasn't based on gender or race. it was based on fact. it showed the obama administration did so in 2015. what we saw was an increase

rob: some leaks came from obama administration political holdovers, people still working in the currentn those who want to hurt donald trump's agenda. heather: house republicans focusing on james coming back according to the washington post, the judiciary committee passed an amendment relating to his communication with the obama administration, interested in handling the email investigation and the alleged a leaked memos with meetings with the president. two democratic pennsylvania mayors epicenter of a pay for play probe indicted, the mayor of allentown and former mayor of reading with bribery and fraud charges saying both abuse their citizens trust. >> they put a for sale sign in front of city hall in redding and allentown to sell their offices to the highest bidder. heather: 11 people tied to those cases have pleaded guilty. rob: immigration and customs enforcement cleaning up the streets of new york arresting 114 immigrant criminals in 11 days, 97 out of 114 have serious criminal conviction like sex crimes and drug crimes, this before donald trump's arrival in long island to discuss

administration is going. a 2.9% economic growth. president obama averaged 1.4. fueled by the fact that consumers are spending money. consumers spend money when they are in a good mood. >> be careful about taking credit for the economy this soon into the administration. the obama administration has been at 1.5 they would have been saying, oh, my gosh, we are parting the ocean and we are the reason for this. >> it's great that the economy is doing well. nobody even knew that this week because of all the turmoil in the white house. >> americans night because they are out spending money. they know exactly where the economy is. judge jeanine: the left-wing media is the one focused on this so-called dye chaos. house judiciary republicans are calling on the attorney general for a special counsel to investigate the obama administration. loretta lynch's role in meeting with clinton and the tarmac. comey agreeing to mislead the american people with the matter and not investigation, and that beacon' honesty, hillary clinton. what do you think, david? >> this is a pretty --

secretary carter oppose that in the last six months of the obama administration. 2,400, 2,500 soldiers gender. they were serving honorably and faithfully before that, and i assume they are serving honor blaine faithfully now. i don't believe we can break faith with those soldiers by imposing this adverse action on them now. secretary mattis extended a study for six months to look at this situation because they knew they had issues associated with transgender. i hope the president in talking to secretary mattis to wait for that assessment before he issues a directive the department of defense would have to respond to. without that directive the department of defense does not have to take any action. melissa: thank you for that. let me move you on to iran and this rocket launch. how worrisome is that to you? >> the iranians have never giive up on nuclear weapons. the newer jar deal has delayed their acquiring nuclear weapons. they want an intercontinental ballistic missile capability. this rocket used today could be used to launch that kind of missile. they look at russia, china and the

committee and the senate intelligence committee discover that other than susan rice, people in the obama administrationnmasked potential persons in the trump administration in order to embarrass, humiliate, frustrate. >> martha: it will be a fine line. we'll go back to "the new york times" story which basically said that there was a big effort in the obama white house during the end of their administration before president trump became president to get all the little things they could and with all the breadcrumbs they could on the russia investigation because they were very concerned about connections between the administration and russians. they wanted to do that, they wanted to unmask those names, they got michael flynn's name out there, which we know. >> andrew: and somehow a portion of his conversation ends up in the newspaper. that portion humiliated him, started the fbi investigation, -- >> martha: all right, but is it -- when they talked of these committees and they say we were concerned about their interactions with russia and so we need to know whose names were on those, just assuming that for

this happened under the obama administration's watch. does the obama administration have some responsibility for this russian meddling that you say is settled backs to happen? >> there are two different issues. did the obama administration do enough to deter the russian involvement in the election? probably not. you've seen other people who worked on this and say that. that doesn't mean that excuses what may have been illegal behavior by the trump campaign. these are separate things. i don't think you can exonerate the trump people, it would be like saying a criminal committed a crime, the police should have been more aggressive about stopping him from committing it, that doesn't exonerate the criminal from committing the crime in the first place. what the campaign appears to have done was wrong. the obama administration should have done more, it is true. >> leland: are democrats making a mistake by using the treason word? >> absolutely. there is no basis, i have heard democrats say it and also scholars at say it in legal community. ther

the stability during the eight years of president obama's administration? greta, could you get your people behind the scene to look up tapes to see if we have mark sanford on tape calling for civility then or any republican leader? world doon, how in the you republicans continue supporting a man who obviously is not working with the full deck and i say that with some respect because i could say man is childish. this man continues to break rules. continues to ignore protocol. advocates time for you to put him in check. you will need to get him out of this office before he kills us. and what does he want with that voters registration think? is it to give it to prudence of you can make sure that he wins again? i am very upset and i'm fed up with this whole thing. host: ok, brenda. >> i have long believed instability. in civility. after president obama was elected saying we need to see it for what it is which is the shattering of a glass ceiling and we need to celebrate that. not that i agree with his politics. i believe in the notion of shattering glass ceilin

what we have seen in the last several years -- and again this is not just with the obama administration. we are going back to the bush administration. we have seen people that will toe the political line solely so their current career trajectory will continue. we need people to step in and say this is how we will do it, this is how we can do it most efficiently. unfortunately, that is pushing back against the political machine. that is part of why president election.this people are tired of the same political rhetoric we get you in and year out. host: who is heading the cbp right now? guest: right now we have an acting commissioner but we don't have a real commissioner. i hope that we have a confirmation. it was a postmeal last week, it was postponed. we are waiting to see those reasons. intelligent,emely extremely articulate, and he has that outside of the box thinking that will do cbp well. i think he has the potential to be the best commissioner we have ever had. far as the political aspect, is that just top leadership, middle management, at the state level, all the way around? is a:

they'll say, for example -- and this happened early in the obama administration. they would come up to me and say, all right, explain this to me, inhofe. we have a president who has a war on fossil fuels, trying to do away with fossil fuels. he doesn't like nuclear either. and yet, it's nuclear and fossil fuels, which is oil and gas and -- accounts for 89% of the energy it takes to run this machine called america. so if he's successful, how do you run the machine called america? the answer is you can't. with the election of a republican-led congress and a republican-led white house, we should be working together to address concerns of the industries that provide cheap, reliable fuel for american energy. unfortunately, as what always seems to be the case when we're in power, republicans can't seem to get together and work toward a common goal, dividing themselves over some of the issues, and this health care thing is no better example that we have. but the threat against the industry, the fossil fuels, should be a priority to all republicans and democrats, whether

he's been very critical of the obama administration's handling of russia and he tweeted last week, the real story is president obama did nothing after being informed in august about russian meddling. that's not totally factual, but he's talking about that "washington post" story. my question to you is how can he then get away with not focusing on the russian hacking of the u.s. election with president putin? we know he'll focus on ukraine and syria. we don't know according to those in the white house whether he'll bring up russian meddling in the election. >> yeah. you know, it would be very difficult for him to handle this and have it come out well. just starting down that packet, that would be a bad forum. he will attempt to keep it focused the large policy issues. certainly russia is one. possibly syria and elsewhere. there are a lot of problems in the world, and they're tough to solve in any case. they're even tougher if the great powers aren't all together on the same page. there's plenty to talk with russia about in the areas of cooperation. anything said about the elections, tha

lawmakiers on the hill are also pressing for answers on the obama administration's unmasking of trumptes. the former national security advisor susan rice has agreed to testify before the house intelligence committee about her role in the unmasking scandal. joining us now with reaction from circ news, sara carter and fox news anchor and attorney greg jarrett. greg, i want to begin with you about this. what should the president do about these deep-state leaks? they are incredibley disturbing and can you imagine if it was happening in another administration, the uproar? >> greg: he should encourage congress to investigate and susan rice has a lot to answer for. she is sort of the queen of the false narrative can is a polite way of saying lies. she not only lied about the benghazi case and bo bergdahl but tells jeweledy woodruff i don't know anything about incidental collection, when she's caught redhanded she says "i knew all about it but i never asked for the unmasking of trump transition officials." now the n.s.c. has the goods on her and that appears to be a lie as well. >> kimberly:

i just heard where general flynn got his clearance from the obama administration. when general flynn came to us, as you now know, he already had the highest clearance you can have. i think the same clearance as the president of the united states would have. >> had actually the president has an instinct many situations like this, if he feels he's on his heels at all, to deflect some blame back to the obama administration. i think he's done with it hillary clinton. when you see it in this case, is he falling back on his instincts? or does that reflect a wider strategy by the white house? >> i don't think it reflects a wider strategy by the white house but i will say, it is classic trump to float something publicly. as he said today, he doesn't know fits true. he's heard maybe it has happened or to float something that isn't true. the i think that's the president riffing and freelancing and not something senior white house officials are encouraging. this is a family issue in addition to being an issue of his presidency. this is his son who had this meeting. this is hi

this is a complete reversal of an obama administration policy.s comes from his generals and his military experts. is this a move that you support from a president who vowed to support the lgbt community more than hillary clinton during the campaign? >> that would be a reversal of the current policy. the current policy is a big tent for people who want to serve. you have to remember, our military forces is a volunteer force. i will have to see what he is actually said, read his tweet and go from there. >> are you concerned about the 4,000 transgender people currently serving or up to 6,000 based on what rand says serving in the military right now, what happens to them. >> you ought to treat everybody fairly and you ought to give everybody a chance to serve. >> in that answer, it sounds like you are saying you don't agree with his policy, because this is not treating everyone equally to serve. would you agree with that? >> i would like to see the words of his policy and what he said. >> let's read it for you. after consultation with my generals and

public and officials in 10 states are threatening to take legal action against the administration if it does not and the obama era program that grants deportation reprieves. nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants that arrived in this country has children. attorneys general want them to -- gave the administration until september 5 to phase out the 2012 arrivals program. what is your reaction? guest: president trump promised to end daca on day one. he should end daca. all credit to john kelly to get into the daca program. we oppose both of them. we understand prosecutorial discretion and law enforcement has to prioritize. they have limited resources. typically there are more, in the case of integration -- immigration, they have to allocate resources. they don't have resources to deal with the entire situation. we understand prosecutorial discretion. when we have an issue is that the obama administration issued recipients, and they were offering work permits as well. we don't see that as federal law . we don't see what the president has the authority to issue work permits on a class basis across an entire class.

one thing to say, you predicted something, and that did not turn out, but we know from the obama administration themselves they knew these promises were promises they knew they could not keep. >> thank you karl rove, come back soon. liz: we have two big earnings reports after the bell. we'll stay on the stocks for you, media trumpets a new poll showing trump declining national support, but we have a poll they are not talking about, they are ignores that shows the opposite. but first, respected wall street ceo jamie dimon calling out the dc swamp, harming you and i and economic growth and jobs. now another respected economist is joining jamie dimon. after this. >> we need help out here, we have been struggling for years under obama. we need tax cuts. a couple extra dollars in my paycheck every week, we need jobs. these days families want to be connected 24/7. that's why at comcast we're continuing to make our services more reliable than ever. like technology that can update itself. an advanced fiber-network infrustructure. new, more reliable equipment for your home. and a new culture built aroun

mostly in retaliation for moves by the obama administration in its final days when the u.s.zed two russian compounds out in long island and maryland, expelled 35 russian diplomats. why retaliate now? >> reporter: well, because i think that's just part of the timing. the reason for the timing of this retaliation. the other part is decision by the congress to pass that new u.s. sanctions bill so overwhelmingly. the russians calculated that, you know, the situation was just not going to improve. the domestic opposition to improvements in the relationship between russia and moscow is so great in the united states, they decided to strike now. they did it just after that congressional vote and before president trump had the chance to sign it into law, and so they could sortit on the congress as well. it signifies the fact the russians moved on from this idea that the trump administration would be able to deliver significant improvement in the relationship between moscow and washington. this is a sign and the scale of this retaliation is dramatic. 755 people. the number of people t