i think many would argue that the obama administration, at least in terms of initial intentions, was the most forward-leaning administration to come into office when it came into the north korea problem, and now it is in line with even the clinton administration took time during their two terms. what can be done in the interim? the most important thing that can be done is to get more information into north korea, more information in terms of what is going on in the outside world, in terms of marketization, in terms of cell phones. this is the only way to make inroads into seeing any change. but from the perspective of the leadership, economic reform is a double-edged sword because on the one hand they need economic reform, they need money, food, these sorts of things. on the other hand, when the regimes like this open up, it releases all sort of political forces that inevitably lead to a loss of political control and even possibly be collapse of the regime. bargain, forot a this leadership, that is inexperienced. that is the last thing they want to consider. so i am not optimistic on

tonight on the story, did the obama administration help keep this man, a top iranian terrorist alive? that's the reporting from kuwait that sparked a twitter war between former obama officials and foreign policy pundits. it is the second story along these lines in recent days. the other was reporting that the obama administration halted something called operation cassandra designed to stop hezbollah drug operations. why would they have done either as these reports suggest? the theory in both is that the obama white house was currying favor with the iranian regime in order to get the iran nuclear deal done. trace gallagher joins us tonight on the story with the back story. hey, trace. >> hey, martha, general kassam is the commander of iran's terrorist quds force. the general is also responsible for the deaths of more than 500 u.s. soldiers in iraq. the kuwait newspaper now claims that three years ago near damascus israel was on the verge of assassinating general kassam but the administration, the obama administration warned iran and twarted the operation in an effort to confirm the sto

the obama administration worked on which was something called visitor logs. that's probably a separate debate. it wasn't perfect and it was hard to use. it didn't capture every visitor. but it was something. it was useful. it was an effort to give some accountability and record of who is influencing discovers with government. the trump administration does not use that practice. there are other ways to judge access and transparency. on a day-to-day basis the president is considerably more accessible in terms of the ability to see him, toss a question and maybe he will decide to answer you. sometimes quickly and sometimes at great lengths. he likes venues that other presidents have not embraced like the newest one is when he's doing self on departure and marine one helicopter is waiting to take them away, he'll walk out of the residence everyone started showing up for these because he sees a camera and he likes the questioners intrigued by he might to five or 15 minutes in front of the camera with the chopper going. he might cover a range of topics from hillary

let's take a look at that: susan rice tweeted: >> mara liasson, you covered both administrations. >> president obamaained than president trump because his administration believed if he showed too much support are in the protestors it would back fire and the regime would paint them as an american puppet movement. donald trump doesn't feel that way. he is going out much strongener favor of them. you have to have a strategy. does this mean he should reimpose sanctions on iran. he de-certified the deal and congress didn't reimpose archingss. what does he do next?sanctions. what does he do next? >> tom? >> keep the wifi networks in operation. the u.s. has the capability to provide some measure of relief there. at the same time, there is an opportunity in the port polio of the iran nuke deal to make the case to the europeans and embarrass them. say the nature of this regime, why don't we go back to the drawing board as they are trying to do at the moment, getting ballistics missiles and restructure this so there is a moral concern about where the sanctions relief money goes. it doesn't go to missiles. it

enator: during the obama administration, i hate to be really y blunt, but we suffered in our military and i don't say this really critically obama, because he's very proud liberal and proud liberals don't care that much about military. had a policy we couldn't do anything to repair the military and sequestration, unless we do thing for social programs. that is not what the institution be , we are supposed to defending america first. i've had three committee earings now on dilemma we're facing and we can still win, we we in battle and will win, will lose a lot of people doing it. eadiness equates to american lives and these right now are ground brigades, for example, a ready to be activated, we are missing 1500 pilots right now, 1300 of those are actually pilots, we have our f-18s those, sees a third of you know, less than half of them are working right now. cover those things up, win, ther vehicles, we can but we're going to take a lot of sacrifices winning. it s important people know, is very important for our officers to let the people in that we have serious problems because withou

never verified. >> you also have the office of the national security advisor and others in the obama administration one a day. >> that's correct, sean. >> the bush administration never did it. the amount of times obama administration did night and day. >> sean: 300% increase. that's one of the early stories we broke. >> sean, i think the american people need to see. it we need to put all of the fixes in so we protect everyone's consitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure. we have to vet out those people who abused this program designed to keep americans safe. >> there is a balance. we have to make sure that people don't abuse the system. we are not using classified information against american citizens in a way that is alleged. we have to make sure it's done in a way that doesn't reveal sources and methods. the house should work with the department of justice to make sure this is done in a responsible way. there is transparency. but we do so in a way that doesn't burn a lot of sources and methods are that used. >> sean: we knew foreign intelligence agencies got ahold of clinton's e

the obama administration did, too. had a lot of work done. the obama administration was coming into two hot wars and antenatal crisis -- a financial crisis. there was no opportunity to be unprepared. we understood also and wanted to help them be prepared as they could. it would happen horrible for them to come in without the people and experience to jump into difficult jobs. -- the word was before this administration came in, it was superstitious about planning for an administration because that would jinx the election or something, so they didn't do a lot of work on that. it was a ramshackle operation of it, too. so, they did and do all that work. -- didn't do all that work. it's hard to build a bike while you are riding a bike. you both talked about how mushrooms grow better in the --k -- i like that phrase negotiations are less effective if they happen in the public eye. would you extend that logic to the tax bill that has just gone through congress? make -- once you decide -- yes, to a certain degree. that ends up being more public than e

and some former obama administration officials will agree to that. that was a myth to get the deal done. in fact, since the deal occurred, there have been violations of your -- of un security council policies. i will be quiet there. thank you. some tremendous answers. demonstration shows just how important the ironic issue is -- the iran issue is for the u.s. i am conscious of the fact that time is always against us. i will move shortly to audience questions. i know a lot of you have a wide range of foreign policy and national security questions. before i do that, if i could ask our panelists to very briefly give us their big picture overview, their overall assessment of the trump administration's foreign policy at the end of the first year. how is the administration doing? is it doing better than the obama administration? have we seen a fundamental change in u.s. foreign-policy over the last year or is there more continuation then radical reform going on? and if i could ask michael to answer the question first. bigt is an impossibly question so i wi

it is the extension of the policy of the obama administration.end line that came right out of the obama administration. he took credit for all kinds of things having to do with the automobile industry tonight. last i looked, the obama administration rescued the automobile industry in the way that the republican party wanted no part of as you recall. i don't think he mentioned that tonight. >> trevor: he definitely didn't mention obama. >> no but he dissed him a number of times. >> trevor: i was surprised he didn't mention the fbi, i'm surprised he didn't mention the memo that the lawmakers had voted to release to the public. >> tonight was not the night. that will come on tweets wednesday, thursday, friday. >> trevor: that's my point, that's an interesting idea, should we compartmentalize trump into two, three different people? it's like hyde and hyde or jesse cooorjeckyl and jeckyl. >> you read off the teleprompter, you get a lot of narratives that touch the heart, we saw a number of those. that's a pattern that you have seen in these speeches s

i think about obama administration did too. had a lot of work done on who, especially because obama administration was coming into two hot wars and a financial crisis. there was no time to be unprepared. there was no opportunity to be unprepared. they had to be prepared, which we reflected and understood also and wanted to help them be as , prepared as they could. it would have been horrible for them to not come in without good people, experienced, to jump into really difficult jobs. so that planning, you know, i don't know whether it's true or not, but the word was before this administration came in, that the president was superstitious about planning for an administration because that would jinx the election or something. -- so they didn't do a lot of work on that. and it was kind of a ram shackle operation a little bit too. and so they didn't do all of that work and it's really hard to do to build the bike when you're trying to ride the bike. questioner: hi. i go to suffolk university in boston. you both talked about how mus

he almost wound up in jail until the obama administration blanked. --blinked. the hour.es risen for all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the trump administration has proposed allowing offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all of the united states' coastal waters. the reversal of the obama-era restrictions would open more than one billion acres of water along the eastern seaboard and in the arctic, and allow oil companies to drill off the coast of california for the first time in decades. the proposal faces opposition from environmental groups and the governors of new jersey, delaware, maryland, virginia, north and south carolina, california oregon, washington, , and florida. the trump administration's proposal to expand offshore oil and gas drilling comes as scientists say climate change may be related to the devastatingly freezing weather currently engulfing wide swaths of the united stateses. some scientists say the melting of the a arctic and the weakenig the jet stream could b

simpson said. >> you also have the office of the national security advisor and others in the obama administrationamericans who were spot on and those names are put out -- >> sean: samantha power the powdered one day is correct. the bush administration virtually never did it. the amount of time that the bush and obama administration -- >> sean: 300 plus increase. to me, sean, i think the american people need to see it and i think we need to put all of -- the fix is in, we protect everyone's constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure and we have got to bat out those people that clearly, purposely abuse this program that was designed to keep americans safe. >> look, i think there's a balance. we've got to make sure the people don't abuse the system, that we are not using government information, classified information, against american citizens in a way that is being alleged. we also have to make sure this is done on a way that it doesn't reveal sources and methods by the house should work with the department of justice to make sure it's done and responsible way, so we get the obje

then you have the obama administration. they are trying to obtain a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign. sources tell us that the first request for the warrant was rejected. they said no which rarely happens. that's when the clinton bought and paid for phoney russian dossier was used. they were granted the fisa warrant and that allow the obama administration to target an opposing candidate in an election. this is part of the importance of fusion gps and the co-founder simpson. this was released yesterday. he didn't verify what was in the dossier. he trusted the person he was paying. a british spy steele. his skilled nature is what? his skill is depension. -- deception. we learned that the clinton campaign and dnc knew he was reaching out to the media to get them to right stories about the fabricated russian dossier. just like we have been telling you, clinton bought and paid for a dossier. $12 million. it was going right through one lawyer to her campaign. right through to the dnc. in it what do we? russian lies. all

this is one of the biggest changes in the geopolitical since between administrations, the obama administration central focus on iran and its foreign policy and this administration's focus on the gulf states and a different position on iran, you want to comment on that? >> is mike pointed out abiding by the nuclear agreement, that is pretty much recognized. i had serious concerns about that agreement and i'm sure mike and the president had serious concerns about that agreement but the reality is they are abiding by at least with regards to the issue of developing nuclear weapon that is something we continue to focus on to ensure that we are enforcing that and abiding by it and that is essential. at the same time we do have to address these other areas and it is important that we put pressure on iran with regards to their support for terrorism, with regards to there missile development, with regards to their undermining of regimes throughout the middle east. they are involved in developing and axis of influence in the middle east from lebanon to damascus and syria to iraq. i am glad intelligence

it makes no sense whatsoever, but that is why the obama administration gave into.ust get those two things to fix the deal, then i think that president trump will go along with her. now we have something that makes some sense. if we do not get that, he will probably walk away. >> shannon: we talked about the leak report from the pentagon looking at the nuclear capabilities and what we would like to add to the arsenal with the flexibility. it talked about a couple of new things that would armed subs with different nuclear actions as far as missiles. we had a reaction from a former obama administration official who works with president obama. john wolf saul, here's what he said about the report. >> i think that the document goes off the rails by calling for the development of not one, but two new types of nuclear weapons that would be deployed to both on submarines and on surface ships. >> shannon: quick reaction? >> first of all we have permitted their nuclear weapons to atrophy except for what we have on the submarines. this is bombers and particularly an account of

is the administration doing better in your view than the obama administration? have we seen, you know, a fundamental change in u.s. foreign policy over the last year? is there more continuation than radical reform going on? i'll ask michael to answer that question, first. mr. o'hanlon: thank you, nile. het me paut couple propositions on the table. i'll be intrigued to see how rebeccah responds as well. i am completing an op-ed with david gordon in "usa today" soon on exactly this question. we're both sort of moderates. he has worked in both democratic and republican in congress. i am sort of a moderate to hawkish democrat. i am personally wary of president trump. make me , his approach nervous and i did not support him two years ago in the campaign. all that said i am surprised in many ways at how much continuity there has been in american policy in 2017. i don't think trupp has been better than president obama. i think president obama was at an individual level a better kind of leader, better diplomatic style, but president trump has assembled such a strong nat

that, they increased trade by over 100% during the obama administration. refugees.ts and i would challenge your under lying assumptions on refugeesr not bringing here is even what the refugees want. into -- if you look at some of the u.n. refugee camps, some polling done in terms of where the folks want to settle again. are not midwestern pro democracy give me the american the campks who were in s in syria. many of them want their country back or want to stay in the region. they just don't want to be massacred. they are still islamic. mean the political ideology as part of their system of government. are not, in my view, great candidates for assimilat ing well in the united terms of bringing in enormous flows of refugees. so that could go on and on. anti- -- i want to talk about --l quick >> i think -- is that it? >> yeah. i think that's that. well done there. you've gone through about half of the answers already. couple of minutes left for michael to respond. then we'll have to bring the event to a close unfortunately. let me do a little bit of what rebec

you are talking about the obama administration did not care? e fbi departmen didn't care, d not insist on forensic exa examg a of the servers of the dnc . >> right, they did not let the fbi, the obama department of justice see the dnc server, but the dnc hack is worse thing that happened. they are running state like hacking is say non-issue. using yahoo!, the most laughably unsecure e-mail providers. at the end of the day, it should is not be considered worse for americans to be able to read e-mails of political party, compared to letting russia or foreign actors see united states government documents. to me, treatment of government documents, in a insecure manner is worse than political peter py e-mail exposed. lou: reporting they have secured sufficient evidence to say that the fbi believed there was evidence that laws were broken. simply by the amount of evidence that they cataloged, there was every reason to believe a crime was committed, salomon doing that reporting. and yet again, we're at point that some want to be in denial of the sorry

what about the attorney general assuming the obama administration and part of the obama administrations on this. do you think the attorney general did the rig thing? what does it mean? >> no one is doing at this time at all. both of the drug czar was horrible idea. so it nis at partisan issue even though it is jeff sessions and donald trump will make it partyson. what it means is a win for public health. so the marijuana industry to no longer we are going to have a harder time raising institutional funding because the investors are not able to hide behind the cold memo whichs with a memo. they are not going to hide behind that any mer and wave that around and justification for vie lag law. before they could say, well, look no one is going to come after us. we're fine. now the is in the air. sessions said that memo is no more. it leaves it to individual u.s. attorneys we have to go from there. >> kay. thank you. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. bill: ok. let's bring in the a plus panel to break it down. we got bill caruso with us who is lobbyist and attorney who favors lel

a very short stack of journalism into the obama administration.'ll be lucky if there is three, four, five reporters are going to the trump administration. bias is deep, it's been there for decades. >> sean: did liberal joe stumble on the truth? >> [laughs] it's probably morning joe is the most anti-trump show on television. that is saying something in this environment. lets to find anti-trump. are they criticizing policy? cabinet selection? >> sean: he had an expert the other day and i guess "the washington post" or where he was going to write some article, they wouldn't publish his source that said that the president was suffering early stages of dementia. >> he wanted to include in "the washington post" op-ed that he writes for the paper sometimess for the president has dementia. the problem for many in our media as they try to play doogie howser or dr. and "the washington post" in this case said no because they said, you can't make a specific medical diagnosis on a specific condition based on one unnamed source who isn't a doctor. good for them

during the obama administration and i hate to be blaintly blunt but we really suffered in our military. and i don't say this really critically of obama because he is a very proud liberal and proud liberals don't care that much about military. so he had a policy that we couldn't do anything to repair our military. the seaquest problem -- the sequestration problem we were facing. that is now the constitution says. we are to be defending america first. ipad3 committee hearings on the dilemma we are facing. a battle but lose a lot of people doing it. readiness equates to american lives. our grand brigades for example only a third of them are ready to be activated. we are missing 1500 pilots right now, 1300 of those are actually combat pilots. our f-18's the marines use, a third of those just really or less than half are working right now. so we can cover those things up, use other vehicles. and we can win. but we're going to take a lot of sacrifices winning. i think it's very important people know it's very important for our officers to let the people in america know that we have a real se

>> there is a 2-headed snake when it comes to the uranium one scandal, during the obama administrationa certain result which was allow the state owned firms to get their piece of the pie, and whether to increase their market share. and anti-to russian activities in the united states. the question is, is there going to be a follow-up with hillary clinton, the same group involved in kickbacks and bribery tied to the clinton foundation and the obama administration. heather: and the massive amount of money they raised was when the this investigation begin and why we just now getting an indictment and to the obama administration know about this at the time the uranium deal was made? >> according to reports in 2009 they understood the russians were funneling money into the clinton machine in order to get a good result on uranium one. the last indictment or a complete deal or conviction was in 2015 and it was buried by the obama administration because they didn't want to tie it to hillary clinton so jeff sessions of the deadly is paying more attention now and this is a sorely needed follow-up

you cannot convince me that the obama administration did not weaponize this for political purposes. president has told me, make sure as many people can go to work on monday as they can. make sure you use every tool legally available to you to get as much of the government open that's what we'll do. >> dickerson: people are saying that's what the -- the word weaponize saying things about military that are not true in order to put political pressure. >> perfectly clear on the military, same is true for the military folks, same true for folks guarding the southern border, fighting fires, they have to go to work, they will go to work, they will be continuing to guard the country and do the necessary and important work that they're doing but they have no guarantee of getting paid that's not right. >> dickerson: but they will get paid at some point. >> every single time congress has voted to go and pay them retroactively and we support that. >> dickerson: any doubt that they will not be paid? >> no. i absolutely believe -- i tell you congress -- i never thought we'd get to this because gi

the president all but accusing the bearer of aligning itself with the obama administration io undermineis campaign last year. that comes in the form of a presidential suite ahead of a vote on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. ed henry is working his sources on that front. meanwhile, white house sources attempting to clarify the president's comments tonight about immigrants seeking special temporary protected status. we have team coverage. leland vittert covering the presidents controversial comments. first, we begin with ed henry. >> good to see you. breaking tonight, president trump told "the wall street journal" that pro-clinton texts exchange between top fbi officials before the last election amounted to treason, an apparent reference to those messages about fbi officials wanting a so-called insurance policy in case hillary clinton lost. those were messages that went back and forth between peter strzok and lisa page. fox news is now hearing from two separate sources tonight that more text messages between these fbi officials are going to be released soon, meaning this case i

a confidential top secret government memo could offer proof that the obama administration did spy on trump campaign. donald trump jr. will join us here on that and more. plus, big news today. news that may shape american history going forward. the state of california has ordered its citizens to hinder federal law enforcement. to disobey federal law. the attorney general of california will prosecute american citizen who refuse to do and help the government maintain our borders. hours away from a government shutdown. ed henry has the latest. >> the house passed a bill to keep the government open until february 16th. the senate will vote in just about 2 hours. the latest vote suggests that would fail. that would mean the first government shutdown since 2013. the last thing president trump wants is to mark his first year in office this weekend with a government shutdown. there is a feeling among some of the president's top advisors at the white house tonight that maybe chuck schumer the senate democratic leader overplayed his hand making this all about daca and falling into a narrative t

the obama administration, many people high up in the obama administration say he's a terrific doctor,eckable a great doctor so i find that fascinating and the media has carved this out because it's a way to again get at trump, score points with their audience which is look if that's what it's about for many. liz: patrice let's get to the government shutdown looks like there may be a deal within the next 24 hours. what's your reaction to the d.c. fight over the shutdown? >> it's d.c. as usual. i mean, i think it's creating a firestorm as a way to kind of get support honestly for the 2018 midterms. democrats are hoping this will be a really strong political chip for them if they can say they shutdown that the government was shutdown to protect illegal young people, and republicans are trying to say no we're not going to blink. unfortunately, both sides are going to shoulder a lot of the burden and criticism and the washington post just found today that most of that burden is going to be held by republicans unfortunately. liz: eric i'm terribly sorry we are running out of time i hope you

people pointed out the obama administration did a lot of these things in a non-legislative way and now the trump administration can undo them in the same fashion. >> right. i mean, that's the plus and minus of doing work by executive action. we saw this across the board on the energy and climate change agenda. i spend most of my time talking to agencies and less of my time talking to congress. we saw it also play out in the paris climate deal. obama went around congress because congress wouldn't have approved a global treaty on climate change given the makeup of congress, so he went around and agreed to it by executive action and, so, that opened up the door for trump to reverse course relatively easily. so i think this is the latest one. offshore drilling is a little bit more substantive and, you know, i think people relate to it because it's right in your backyard. it's the classic saying not in my backyard. >> brangham: they love the energy, don't want it done right by them. >> right and you're seeing it in governor scott and rubio coming out, as the republican who will be leading t

liz: more possible obama administration interference? u.s. attorney general jeff sessions announcing a new probe after a bombshell report and politico detailed how president obama turned a blind eye to drug trafficking and money laundering operations linked to the hezbollah terror group here in the united states. in order to preserve the iran nuclear deal, sessions noted " the justice department will leave no stone unturned in order to eliminate threats to our citizens from terrorists organizations and to stem the tide of the devastating drug crisis." with me now is former utah reprentive and former oversighcommittee cir hes jason chaffetz. congressma good to see you. >> gd to see you liz. liz: wtha is t probabity that president obama gave hezbollah a pass in order to preserve the iran deal? >> well there's an awful lot of evidence out there and i'm glad to see attorney general sessions step up and relook at this, because you have a number of people within the dea and what not who were researched but put on the record there politico hats off t

under the obama administration, the agency had lost its way. in some very high-profile cases, the epa harmed the very communities it pledged to protect. during the last administration, epa administrators created broad and legally questionable new regulations that undermined the american people's faith in the agency. these regulations have done great damage to the livelihoods of our nation's hardest working citizens. the regulatory rampage of the previous administration has violated a fundamental principle of environmental stewardship to do no harm. this failed environmental leadership has contributed to two of the worst government-created environmental disasters in decades, the gold king mine spill and the flint, michigan water crisis. those disasters hurt people, many from low-income and minority community who's can least afford it. under administrator pruitt's leadership, the epa has taken a number of bold steps to protect the environment while not harming local economies. administrator pruitt is a key leader of the president's deregulatory ag

department of justice. >> martha: and the obama administration? >> most goes back to the campaign and election of 2016. you talk about people that were there. some are career. curious as to whether or not they spill into the political appointees. the unmasking is not just necessarily the fbi. it could be others. >> martha: one of the 36 that surprised me in this, given all the leaks throughout the course of this story, is the content of this is not how the there. trey gowdy gave a road maps to what is in there. >> do you want to know whether the primary source in the court proceedings had a bias against 1 candidate and said he would do anything to keep that candidate from becoming an elected president? >> i think one of the things that has been surprising, there hasn't been very much information. a little drip here and. there we don't know what will be in this -- it's only 4 pages. >> martha: it's a summary of the intelligence that nunes and oth others on the committee feel is valuable. >> there will be other documents forming this. this is the fi

now, steven coonan, he was -- he was in the obama administration. he was under secretary for science at the department of energy. so that was -- he was an appointee by president obama. he said -- and this is a quote -- he said the obama administration relentlessly politicized science and aggressively pushed a campaign about that politicized science. in other words, he's using that to make a case that is not true. this comes out of his own administration. in september 2017, the university of alabama huntsville, their climate scientist, john and richard published a study showing no acceleration in global warming for the last 23 years. their research shows that if you remote -- remove the climate effects of two volcanic eruptions and the el nino and la nino systems that occurred over the last 38 years, there has been no change since the early 1990's to the rate of warming and that model predictions from the ipcc are overstated by about double. keep in mind who the ipcc is. that's intergovernmental panel on climate change. that's the united nations. they

because of that we had a mass exodus of border patrol agents, hard to obtain them because of the obama administrationicies. >> the message this administration sent about securing this border might have been the most important thing that happened when you look at these numbers. in 2016 the number of apprehensions at the border of people trying to get into the country illegally was 615,000, you take up one year and look at that dramatic drop, 351,000, that is a huge drop, that has been the president's message to the world. >> what is funny about that is democrats claim to want border security but if that were the case they would have to praise this president for doing as much as he has done but they won't because it is politics. they are using immigration for political advantage which is disgusting. rob: let's talk about the wall, it will be a conversation for some time. the question is how do you think this deal will come to fruition with democrats? if you look at four key issues you are talking about daca, border security, changes to chain migration and ending the visa lottery system. >> when you loo

>> that had to be something left over from the obama administration that sounds like the kind of speechuld make this president has to be a polar izing president. this president is a president of change. the american public voted for him because they wanted something different than what's gone on in washing washington for a long period of time and if you want to be loved by all sides you won't be effective. you have to make the differences he's maying and be tough and this is the kickoff for the 2018 campaign and he has to basically be tough and aggressive and mobilize his base. lou: i can't as i've said here, i give this president absolute credit for being the most effective president in the first year of his presidency, more effective than any president since fdr. all of the list of achievements and we're going to go through them tonight. i know the president will acknowledge a few of his successes as well but when we look at what he's doing with immigration it just doesn't make any sense. he is risking his base. he is risking national security. i don't even understand how if he doesn'

during the obama administration and i hate to be blaintly blunt but we really suffered in our militaryand i don't say this really critically of obama because he is a very proud liberal and proud liberals don't care that much about military. so he had a policy that we couldn't do up up ground brigadse for example only a third of them are ready to be activated. we are missing 1500 pilots right now, 1300 of those are actually combat pilots. we have and our f-18s the marines use a third of those just really or less than half are working right now. so we can cover those things up, use other vehicles. and we can win. but we're going to take a lot of sacrifices winning. i think it's very important people know it's very important for our officers to let the people in america know that we have a real serious problem because without that -- without their awareness we're not going to get the attention of the house members and senate members that will have to make the decision on ultimately a budget for the military or a fix of the dilemma we have right now. >> it looks like the house is going to

saying it was a product of the bad deal made by the obama administration. e move was made by the bush administration. the sale of the actual building, the old embassy was finalized under the obama administration. all of this putting the u.s. ambassador to the uk woody johnston in the position of having to defend the new embassy which he did in an op-ed saying this is bigger and better than the old location. adding it did not cost the u.s. taxpayer a single penny. it was funded by the sale of the proceeds of the sale of other u.s. properties here in london. british politicians, critics of president trump, taking the opportunity to call him out saying it wasn't cancelling because of the bad deal, but because of his lack of popularity in the uk. christine. >> there was concern securing the president against lots of protesters would have been difficult. that would bring optics of the embassy opening. erin, thank you. >>> prospects for a deal on immigration dimming. lawmakers left reeling after the failed proposals or the president's s hole or s house remarks. no

said the obama administration undermining critical task force to target hezbollah as a president pursued a nuclear deal with iran. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. newsnight: fox news confirming that the justice department is opened a new inquiry into the clinton foundation. fbi agents in little rock, arkansas, taking the lead, focusing on one of the clinton foundation engaged and pay to play politics and other illegal activities while hillary clinton was secretary of state. fox news has also learned investigators are looking into whether the clinton foundation violated tax laws. also new details tonight on special counsel robert special counsel robert mueller's inquiry into president trump firing a former fbi director. former chief of staff reince priebus has handwritten notes about how president trump called comey to urge him to say he was not under investigation. also went to lengths to prevent jeff sessions from recusing himself. we'll have more with congressman mike meadows, calling on sessions to resign among the growing number of leaks like

president tweeted, quote, reason i canceled my trip to london is that i am not a big fan of the obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for peanuts, only to build a new one in an off location for $1.2 billion. bad deal.