. >> also in their nuclear development, there was a theory in obama administration by president obama and a lot of people who worked for him, that we had to empower iran, that only way we would get them to modernize, became a nuclear power they would be more open to our philosophical ideas. >> it goes back to the carter administration, that basic flawed thinking. all it has done is imbold -- embolden them can be more troublesome to our arab allies in the region, they are doing things across road is hezbollah, and irgc to put forward a shia view of the world, they are funding the north korean issue, helping them develop thins that we now concerned about, by the fact you have north korea directly threateningu territory in the form of guam. this is no small issue, and we helped fund this. we're funding our own enemies. >> north korea we must assume is sharing their nuclear technology with iran. >>, of course,. david: i am wondering if that could get in hands of terrorist, you mentioned that iranian government is helping to sponsor. >> that is a big concern with the min yeah miniaturizati

to investigate the number of scandals involving hillary clinton and the obama administration.onight i'll talk with one of them congressman ron desantis and senate judiciary committee has given the justice department until this thursday, to disclose whether it is investigating alleged collusion between a democratic national committee operative, and ukrainian government officials. republicans on the house judiciary commit latest week, they voted to demand fbi documents pertaining to clinton e-mail investigation. specifically they want former fbi director james comey's conversations with obama administration officials and journalists, perhaps lawmakers should pay closer attention to white house press briefing. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today laid out the clinton a troubling ties to russia. >> you are focused on a meeting that don jr. had no consequence when democrats actually colluded with a foreign gust like ukraine. took money from russian government and created phony dossier, that is basis for all russia scandal fake news, if you want to talk further about a relat

ambassador power unmasked hundreds in the final years of the obama administration. it was unprecedented for an official in this position. this is the type of things we told you about and warning you about. we learned thanks to our friends sarah carter from circa news that former obama security man

our previous guest served in the obama administration. how do you think the obama administration did in putting some type of stop or at least helping to curb it? -- a: i was a some assert civil servant throughout and i think the obama administration did a very good job raising the alarm bell. the centers of disease prevention and control presented guidelines to providers on went to prescribe opioids. this started to identify ways to increase treatment and treatment capacity and allow more and more providers to actually provide medication assisted treatment. moving the ball forward, there was a general's report on addiction as well. congress through bipartisan action back in december, president obama signed the 21st century cares bill that poured billions of dollars into treatment that is now being of implemented. there is bipartisan movement forward. i think the trump administration thus far -- this is an interim report. the final report is due in october, but i think the commission is looking at some of the right steps. of course, that's

i can tell you about the beginning of the obama administration and the end of the obama administration. can't tell you much else. at the beginning of the obama administration, we had our glass -- even though it's digital, it's still called glass done we had them on standby for the night of the inauguration, so basically all the pictures we took on january 20th, 2009, were hanging on the wall of the west wing the following day because worked overnight. for the obama administration, the last three weeks we essentially hung the best photos of the eight years of the staff, the last couple weeks to reflect on what they had just been through, and then came a point in time where i just take all the pictures down, and it was kind of depressing actually, because all of a sudden the staff walks in the morning of january 20th, 2017, and it's just blank frames on the wall. i left the frame for the next administration. but there was nothing in them. so that was kind of strange feeling to walk out the door like that. >> host: petasos a, your book "obama and intimate portraitedment. a historic presid

i think we need a conference of plan of action that the iran until that the obama administration reached and moved with a trumpolicy administration news is insurance of american power. again to neutralize and rollback influence and hit at some of the same areas of president reagan hit at. the problem with where we are today at iran is that it is not only taken all of our energy and resources in this town, but it is also created a policy paralysis. was verycy paralysis much exploited by iran over the past eight years. i think they have articulated. iranianso afraid of the shadow. we're afraid they would walk away from that nuclear deal that counselnot willing to the aggression. i would argue that the administration has to move away from this focus and moved to and stay. the iranian the lethal and state in 10 years time iran will have an industrial sized nuclear program have to wait for the key restrictions in the program and they will emerge with a legal, internationally recognized compliant industrial nuclear program. we will have near zero nuclear breakout and have been easier sneak out

in 2011, the obama administration issued new requirements for how schools should handle investigations into sexual assaults on their campuses. survivors and advocates had long argued that administrators weren't doing enough to deal with an epidemic of these assaults. a 2016 justice department survey showed that one-in-five women said they'd been sexually assaulted in college, and the obama administration wanted to address that. >> today for the first time ever the administration is releasing guidance under title ix of the education amendment of 1972 explaining how schools and colleges should deal with sexual violence. >> brangham: one of the more controversial changes was the department urged schools to now use a lower standard of evidence in investigating these cases, using a "preponderance of evidence" that a sexual attack had occurred. schools began changing their policies-- those that didn't were threatened with the loss of federal funding. victim-advocates, like fateema goss-graves of the national women's law center, celebrated the new guidance saying it >> 45 years after title ix

i can tell you about the beginning of the obama administration and the end of the obama administration. i can't really tell you much else. the beginning of the obama administration we had our lab even though it's digital it's still called a lab. we had them on standby for the night of the inauguration, so basically all the pictures we took on january 20, 2009, were hanging on the wall the west wing the following day because they worked overnight. for four the obama administration the last three weeks we essentially hung the best photos of the eight years of the staff the last couple weeks. then, there came a point in time where i had to take those pictures down and it was kind of depressing, actually because it all of a sudden once the staff walks in the morning generally 20th, 2017, and it's just blank frames on the wall. i left the frames for the next administration, but there was nothing in them. that was kind of strange feeling to walk out the door like that. host: pete souza your book, "obama: an intimate portrait", will he be what they call a coffee table book? guest: yes. it wil

the obama administration was v very targeted, very policy specific. this doesn't have that same feel, and the administration went out of its way to try to work with companies to make sure that they had a sustainablewith sanctions design with a broad support both in the united s states and europe. i'm not sure that this bill, at least at this point, will meet that test. >> let me flip that question around in a way and give both of you to react to a differentruss question. russia has engaged in all kinds of egregious conduct, seized crimea, supporting rebels in eastern ukraine, intervening in syria, interfering in the u.s.hs elections, harassing our personnel in moscow and elsewhere. i could make a very long list. what is the united states supposed to do about that? how do we respond to conduct like that in a way that might affect russian conduct and defensive u.s. interest,, actually, which is our ultimate objective? >> if i can start on that. that's an excellent question. there's not a short answer to it. i would say the first thing we need to do is t

served as former deputy assistant secretary of health during the obama administration. did you see this happening as far as this crisis of concern, the obama think administration did in putting some type of stop to it or curb it.o guest: i was current civil servant throughout and the obama administration did a good job of raising the alarm bell. issued very important guidelines o prescribers, they know when to prescribe opioid, they ways to o identify increase treatment and treatment capacity to states and allow providers to actually provide medication assisted treatment. forward, move the ball there is a general's report on addiction, as well. congress, bipartisan action back in december, resident obama signed 21st century bill that poured billion dollars into treatment that is implemented. so there is bipartisan movement forward. administrationmp thus far is interim commission eport, final report is due in october, but i think the commission is taking some, looking at some right steps, of that is all just a plan and a report. people want action, i must say, i look bac

i am pleased with what the obama administration did. i think this is a bipartisan issue in congress. the trump administration is also doing a great job. pedro: robert calls from pennsylvania. : i have been prescribed opioids for the past 17 years for a few back injuries at work. i don't see the side that is pushing for opioid treatments here. i don't see them doing anything to cover the people who actually have legitimate pain problems. i have tried different pain remedies and pain clinics. the opioids work in my case, and they keep my pain at a manageable level. without the opioids, i cannot function. i would be bedbound and not able feet.k more than 10 or 15 you are not offering any solutions for the people who have a legitimate pain issue. you are just saying, everyone is abusing opioids and we need to stop dispensing opioids. i would like to know, what answers do you have for people who are actually helped by opioids? >> thank you for the question. i was involved in developing the national pain strategy. certainly, chronic pain is al

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david: taking up obama administration obam -- obama administration inact up next. >> a bird's-eye view i'm david asman in more lou dobbs who is on vacation. new reports show the obama administration was warned at early as 2014 that russia was aiming to disrupt americans elections. they had a highly-kem lynn source. they were quick to dismiss that those efforts could have an effect in the united states. judicial watch filed a freedom of information request seeking detailed account of what sensitive or classified information comey may have signed out. judicial watch said it was the bureau's responsibility to recover documents from comey to keep the documents private. we are joined by christopher farrell, director of investigation and research for judicial watch. we know for a fact he took out his own notes of his conversations with the president. it could be argue those were the property of the united states government. >> those are not his notes. it's government property. he absconded with federal work product. so let's be clear. those are notes taken or made as part of his official dut

i assume that you have seen the unmasking request by members, officials of the obama administration. was there an effort by people in the obama administration to spy either on the trunk campaign or the trump transition? >> -- we will continue to make sure that they can perform their oversight functions properly. >> abusing all of the requests that were made by the obama administration officials to find out when a trump person was caught up in servility front of the person was? have you seen those requests? >> yes. >> we provided that to capitol hill. >> but you will not tell us? >> there is an active investigation going on we will let them complete their work. >> does it merit the investigation? >> is a former member of congress i want to give them all of the headroom they possibly could want. >> finally, there has been criticism. that you are too political. instead of being the honest intelligence that the cia director always is, sometimes you try to bolster their views and opinions, policies of the president. her response to that? >> is fundamentally false. i do have biases. there

that revelation in fact dates back to the obama administration. a defense intelligence report was leaked in april 20th. and president obama denied the content of the intelligence assessment. and joining me to discuss president obama's failure to end the crisis before it could begin fox news contributor ambassador john bolton. >> thank you. >> lou: no any other reason to deny what was in american intelligence that the north koreans had miniature war heads for the nuclear program. >> this is the evidence of politicalizing evidence in the obama administration. his approach to north korea mirrored the policy of bush and clinton. he call would strategic patience which was doing nothing. and the one reason that donald trump inherited the situation with few options to him because of obama's inaction and acts of comission including omission to allow north korea to get to this point. >> lou: this president as he predicted in the interview from 28 years ago, did i say 28, it was 18 years ago, that suggesting that proliferation on the part of north korea was

of disinformation. >> i think that is right, let me tell you after this came out in 2013, obama administrationsaying this is an outlier, other intelligence agents don't agree, even president obama said he did not believe it, why was that? because obama administration had a policy of strategic patience. which really was a policy to do nothing and kick this crisis down the road to next president. now we have a president who wants to get this information out there. not just to inform american people to put as much pressure on china as he can before military action might be necessary. lou: fred, i have to tell you, i am also a great skeptic of almost everything i read, see in media. the fact, i in 6 weeks have learned we have better intelligence about north korea in which we now know. that north korea has icbm's of varying capabilities but one of which will carry their icbm's and warriors head to our -- warhead to our shores, as deep as our midwest, then find out it is possible that north korea have a developed hydrogen bomb, went 6 to 18 months, that seems to be to be extraordinary margins of err

in the end of the obama administration. so the beginning, he had our lab, even those digital still call the lab, we had them on standby for the night of the inauguration. so basically all of the pictures we took on january 20, 2009 hanging in the wall of the west wing the following day, the obama administration so we essentially hung the photos of the last couple weeks we could reflect on what they had just been through. then there came a point time where i had to take those down. it was kind of depressing because all of a sudden the staff walks in the morning of january 20 and it's just blank on the wall. i left the frames for the next administration. but there is nothing in them. that's a strange feeling. to walk out the door like that. >> your book, obama management portraits, district presidency, is it going to be a coffee table book? >> yes, will be 12 inches by 10 inches. 352 pages, it will weigh about r so definitely a coffee table book. there are some words in it too. there's some photographs right tell the complete

bush and obama administrations were in discussion about the impact and implications. this is one hour and 35 minutes. >> if i can find it. >> there. >> all right. everyone very much for joining us today. why don't we get started? also wonders, the executive director of the center for national interest. a bigleased to see such group in the middle of august and washington. the traffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated but the attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise. we appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. i think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u.s. sanctions russia. we have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. to my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u.s.-russia business council. diplomatformer career who was deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. during the previous administration,

the enron deal that the obama administration reached and we need to move to an iran policy and in an st 75 for the trump administration used all insurance of american power to utilize and rollback iranian influence and hit some of the same areas that president reagan had at. the problem with where we are today is that the jcp oh eight is not only taken our energy and resources in this town but it's also created policy paralysis and that policy paralysis was exploited by iran for the past eight years and we are so afraid of the iranian shadow and were so afraid when we reached a nuclear deal that we would walk away from the nuclear deal that we weren't willing to counter iranian aggression and i would argue that the administration has to move away from this myopic focus on the jcpoa and moved to countering the a radiant and state where the regime is headed. what is the legal and state? it is about ten years time iran will have thanks to the steel and industrial size with your program. all they have to do is wait until the key restrictions on the program sunset and they will emerge with

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positive, what we do have now is a market, not facing the onslaugt of regulation like in the obama administration, look at apple, sitting with billions of cash because they feared the uncertainty of what regulation should come. now the trump administration may never get to their agenda but the market is confident. corporate america is confident there are no new regulations coming and that was something that held up profitability and growth in the last eight years. >> it used to be 15 years ago or 20 years ago that if the dow was hitting records, that necessarily meant the economy was strong eeoverall. in the last decade or so we've seen a real decoupling of what the real economy is. part of that is half of americans don't own stocks ats all. many have them in a passive way in their 401(k). the dow hitting 22,000 today is very different than its equivalent 10 or 15 years ago. >> clearly again when president trump about how we don't cover it and what a strong sign that is for the economy, that is absolutely not the case. one other thing, markets are paying less and less attention to the president a

that revelation in fact dates back to the obama administration. a defense intelligence report was leaked in april 20th. and president obama denied the content of the intelligence assessment. and joining me to discuss president obama's failure to end the crisis before it could begin fox news contributor ambassador john bolton. >> thank you. >> lou: no any other reason to deny what was in american intelligence that the north koreans had miniature war heads for the nuclear program. >> this is the evidence of politicalizing evidence in the obama administration. his approach to north korea mirrored the policy of bush and clinton. he call would strategic patience which was doing nothing. and the one reason that donald trump inherited the situation with few options to him because of obama's inaction and acts of comission including omission to allow north korea to get to this point. >> lou: this president as he predicted in the interview from 28 years ago, did i say 28, it was 18 years ago, that suggesting that proliferation on the part of north korea was

the obama administration left office with a plan well underway, but it will take years and years to get to completion, so the idea the president came in and told the generals we need to make our nuclear weapons that are, stronger, faster and harder and it happened in six months, that is not true. host: what does it mean to modernize the arsenal, what is involved? guest: it is based around the nuclear triad, meaning you have air based and weapons. in the current set up, cbms on the ground, submarines that can launch of the nuclear weapons, bombers that can drop cruise missiles essentially, so what is the status of those? those are aging and this was a focus at the end of the obama administration because the pentagon began to realize, we let these things lapse. the cold war was over, we do not need nuclear weapons. as the posture has changed, china has been spending money building up their military, and north korea escalations --north korea relations have escalated, so we need to make sure that we are credible. now there are plans underway, the first part is modernizing the nuclear submar

triple what they were in latter stains of obama administration. so many see this as a symbolic step, the more people who have access to classified information, the more likely that leaks will happen. in 2014, officer of management and suggested that 5.1 million americans are eligible for security clearances, that is 1.5% of the population. a small percentage of that group would ever likely leak anything. it is still a huge number to makes department of justice a task almost impossible. back to you. lou: doug thank you. from the justice department. our first guest said there are already clear trails to the leakers but no political will to do a real investigation. joining us, lieutenant colonel tony shaffer, senior fellow with london center for policy research, good to have you with us. this has to be encouraging to all who are dismayed at what has become a national capital. that reveal the classified information. >> i disagree with do doug on oe point. this is in. could is like blood, it flows, you can trace where it goes. one notable thing about t

heather: during the bush administration and obama administration they continued to build on their nuclear program. here is what john bolton had to say. >> we can blame barack obama for the fix we are and can he go to the blizzard ministration plan for missile-defense and we are very much at risk because of obama's policies. i don't think we have the time. we have months to decide whether we will allow north korea to have that capability to put nuclear warheads essentially anywhere they want inside the united states. >> we are left with the intercontinental missile and miniature missiles as well. rob: we have been kicking the can down the road and it has come to a head and the trump administration will deal with. heather: other news to talk about, breaking news from overnight, massive manhunt for suspected cop killer is over. man charged with murdering a missouri officer in cold blood, convicted criminal captured after years on the run. those breaking details from los angeles. >> reporter: after two tireless days, and accused cop killer is behind bars, captured and cuffed, walking along mi

the obama sponse to administration sanctions was a series of countersanctions of its own. basically banning food and agricultural products from north the eu.and in terms of the impact on russia's economy, i mean, with of 20/20, we can say it was limited. dataf you're looking for a point, i would look at the world banks gdp forecast for russia that looked at an alternate scenario with all russia.s lifted against 0.8% but pump up of only for a year because their real economic problems are reforms that need to addressed. ew major players left the market. his is a very long and complicated piece of legislation. even if you just look at the russia part. 90 pages titled to highlight a would few of those. major thing econd is it mandates the bill ore law a congressional review of sanctions-related actions. basically the president can't really do much in terms of or ease waive sanctions without consulting a h congress during at least 30-day period. i think the third important the bill does is expand the scope of existing imposes new mandatory sanctions notably an services and als

certainly they're following the practices of the obama administration where the obama administratione espionage act to go after, target more leakers than all of his predecessors combined. so you will definitely see an aggressive targeting, likely prosecution of leakers. i'm just saying it might slow it. i don't know that it is going to stop it. there are also non-classified leaks going on from within the west wing of the white house. melissa: sure. >> if you look all over the coverage of h.r. mcmaster, national security advisor last 48 hours, you see his critics have begun a campaign against him. hopefully and their goal is to get him out of his job. so there are leaks going on between warring factions under president trump's nose. until and unless you have people that are working as a team, which maybe general kelly, new chief of staff can do, you will have people leaking against rival factions. that is another nonclassified action of leaking i don't think it will stop. melissa: i want to follow up a couple things you said. you said sounded like they were pursuing already a signific

obama. he gutted the bush administration's plan for missile defense and we are very much at risk because of bama's policies. sean, i don't think we have the time. as i say, i think we have months to decide whether we will allow north korea to have that capability to have nuclear warheads essentially anywhere they want inside the united states. they are not going to be as sophisticated as ours. their guidance system -- so what? they aim for los angeles and hit san francisco. that doesn't make us feel any better. once they really do get that capability, it's much harder and the risk for one of those missiles actually being fired at the united states is greater. we are at the point that we never should have come to -- all of these decades of negotiations. any responsible person could say we still wanted to negotiate. it just defies all logic. we are in a very dangerous point. >> sean: allç right, ambassador. chilling times. we will continue to monitor all that has happened and is happening. these escalating tensions, jay sekulow and gregg jarrett here with new details about the clinton-lynch t