this is an agreement that was reache by the obama administration. it was voted on after the fact by andctlly a majority of members of the house and senate chose to the agreement, but not enough to be able to stop it. so it went into effect and it has gotten some plays a the president has pulled out the united s involvement in that agreement. what i'm going to talk about this ening is new information that has come from the permanent subcommittee on investigations, which i chair. we began an investigation into one aspect of this agreement nearly two years ago, and it was based on information we received that despite the obama administration's claims to the contrary, there may have been some undisclosed arrangement with iran to grant them access to the u.s. financial system. the deal went like this, in exchange toran ain to certain limitatio regarding its nuclear arsenal,ncding enrisching uranium, the united nations security counsel would -- council lift some sanctionon iran. as part of that agreement, which included ongoing deadlines that need it had

this shows that the obama administration flat out lied about this. was that the administration seemed desperate to get a deal for iran. we know that they give them all sorts of sanctions relief and billions and billions of dollars. and then this, they give them essentially this window in which they have the opportunity to use u.s. financial institutions, basically to turn other currencies into dollars or euro euros. this is completely against what they were saying, and by the way, if donald trump ever needs to say again this was a bad deal, he has one more data point to say so. >> shannon: apparently, susan, members of the obama administration want to send u.s. banks to try to get them to go along with his plan that they had. we are told in this report that two banks said no thank you. these u.s. banks did not want to get involved with a new sanctions were in place and they were afraid of the optics of it as well. >> that's right. i think the iran deal i've been reached at this point but iran was completing that they couldn't get the benefits they've

don't just fly off like -- and it is not mainstream media but the media but covering for the obama administration trumg to make the obama -- much administration to look horppedous and they have been far more caring than the facilities that i saw during the obama administration. they have a lot better facilities. he ones i'm familiar is in southwest texas. and since president trump has been office, they are doing a lot better job for cage for people. and i heard somebody this morning say, wow, there are so many people that are getting outraged about children being ripped from their mother's arms and i believe mr. king had mentioned that nothing does that like abortion. nd somebody reminded me this morning that when children were being ripped from their mother, process called abortion, it appears that the democrats felt like it was ok, at least they didn't say anything about it, not that i heard, when those little chirp's body parts were being sold off after being ripped from their mom in an abortion. politics makes for strange situations to have people that precious raged by little chirled that ar

i think if you think back and look at what the obama administration was trying to president obama comes in, and is focusing on the fight against afghanistan and the war with al qaeda and its affiliates. he enters with the capabilities from the military and intelligence community that have been refined over the past seven years in the iraq and afghanistan theater. we have highly developed ways of identifying and tracking terrorists, and emerging technology which has developed quite a bit at that point. the theaters kind of emerge accordingly, right? we are all-in in afghanistan. in other theaters, like yemen and somalia, we are ratcheting up where we are providing training. the world ends up in many ways looking far more bipolar they -- then i think it is today. let me just unpack that a little bit. on one hand you have afghanistan and iraq. full-scale combat operations. we have u.s. forces engaged in fighting. in that context, a warlike framework, you must abide by principles of discrimination and the principle that underlies armed conflict. when you have u.s. forces in conflict with th

>> 90,000 is the number that barack obama, the number of families he separated during his administrationd democrats going back to the bill clinton presidency had the florez agreement go to the court system and barack obama allowed children to sleep on the floors of cafeterias, the floors of restrooms in border facilities and the list goes on and on. the people who lied to the american people were the democrats on january 11th when donald trump had that live bipartisan cabinet meeting, he said i will sign any bill that comes to my desk. heather: we have to wrap it up. we all agree something needs to be done and both sides need to work together. >> complains of immigration reform. heather: we will be right back, stay with us. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price... is as easy as dates, deals, done! simply enter your destination and dates... and see all the hotels for your stay! tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to show you the lowest prices... so you can get the best deal on the right hotel for you. dates, deals, done! tripadvisor. visit tripadvisor

take a look at some of the court rulings against the obama administration. they talked about inhumane treatment.

josh, you were also in the -- at the tail end of the obama administration, you stayed some time for a little bit of time into the trump administration, so i think you probably got some good perspective there on the mindset and the fill lossfy of th n team. how would y characterize what they're doing right now, even if it's not strategic and it's just tactical, i think it's worth explaining not just to the washington community, but to the american public, given every once in a while you will see a news story of something that happens in niger and somalia and yemen and piecemeal an tick dotes if you will that you have to work hard to put it together into a narrative and given your vantage point during that time, piece that together for us and then walk us through how you see the -- this war on terror as we knew it post-9/11 into the future? what should we be concerned about and what kind of partnerships need to exist to actually get at those challenges? >> before i answer the question, i will abuse the opening minute or so to add myhanks to you, to new america for hosting this, and it's

under the obama and bush administrations they would be released pending the hearing. how many did not show up is a good question. i am looking into that. host: john, republican. caller: yes. i often hear people say that while they are here legally, these are people, their families came here years ago. european-american. i do have a drop of native american in me. if most of my ancestors came 1700s, ihe 1600s and never read were they were invited here. through theer here, brown people on this continent. 1840, california, arizona, new mexico, texas, colorado, wyoming, kansas, that was all mexico. at -- if you ask president trump who his favorite president was. i am sure it would be himself. his second choice would be andrew jackson. if you look to what andrew jackson did to the maid -- native americans, he marched to the most worthless , to on this country oklahoma. host: we have to get a response. comment.at was more a i am not sure there is much to respond to. the trail of tears was incredibly tragic. the native americans who died along the trail. host: lawrence, flori

again in the concontext of the obama administration experience. president obama, who got nowhere with north korea and would have had to go to war with many millions of people being killed, had gotten along with north korea and made the initial steps toward the deal that i have, the fake news would have named him a national hero. again, it's all put into the context of this obsession with doing everything and obama did. >> it is. there's a legitimate complaint, i think, a krcriticism i make o the obama administration that they didn't do enough diplomatically with north korea. they did not impose the sanctions as fully as they could. they made one diplomatic effort briefly. and it fell apart. they didn't do anything particularly bold. they focused on iran. i think the other thing that's maybe going on in president trump's mind is that everybody keeps saying -- many people write -- i have written that part of the test here is he is going to have to get far more out of the north koreans than president obama got out of the iranians. it would be a prett

thank you. >> bill: a shocking new claim the obama administration violating the iran nuclear deal by helping tehran get around financial sanctions. we're getting reaction from the state department on that. and republican john cox get spot on the california ballot and we'll talk to him about his campaign as we march towards the november midterms. n as few as eight minutes. by america's largest mortgage lender. maybe not. maybe you could trust you won't have to actually talk to your neighbor. are you watching the game tonight? or... ...you could just trust duracell. ♪ ...you could just trust duracell. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price... is as easy as dates, deals, done! simply enter your destination and dates... and see all the hotels for your stay! tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to show you the lowest prices... so you can get the best deal on the right hotel for you. dates, deals, done! tripadvisor. visit tripadvisor.com dad! hiding when i was supposed to be quitting. i thought, i should try something that works. i should try nicorette.

the great recession slowed growth in the early years of the obama administration but will we should have seen is at the end of the administration the capital spending and everything else would be going back to normal, that was not happening which was clearly in that data as per the targeting i think one of the things that we've spoken in the room about is that the president talked about, the increasing jobs and goods producing industries, manufacturers and construction. it's a pace a little under 50,000 per month. it goes double under the previous administration precisely the thing the president had been targeting. looking at the disparities across these professions, the goods producing industries partly responsible for the rate > when it comes to the construction, it's known as a force. what specifically will you do for african-americans that you have been talking about? >> the gap is the lowest in history and his policy is going to target goods producing industry. >> the united states as it stands, have you guys at all modeled at all if there's a trade war between the u.s. and china? t

some have argued this started with the obama administration. guest: it did not. two things here. when kids and families have come in the past and the bush administration and the obama administration those families were kept together. a day for be given their asylum hearing. that process would proceed.

at the outset of the obama administration. of the president and his just as staff myself included sought to send messages to north korea to signal that we were interested in. pursuing or reinventing a diplomatic track so you send this message what was it was. the answer was a missile test in the first few months of the obama administration. it was an offensive gesture it was an act of defiance and it's also a task. junkie on nuclear facility expanded its operations the obama administration took note but did not react to the white house so no political advantage and you don't see a preventative strike against north korea and pursued a policy of strategic patience. you know the north koreans used to say to us you're here posses for two three patients that's what this patient is you want to read just build a nuclear program and that's what they did. unfortunately. the talks between the u.s. and north korea continued in new york the participants included robert cullen an expert on north korea's nuclear program who's visited the co

lawmakers in the eyes and lied about the iran deal. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> laura: new evidence that the obama administrationpeople to get the iran nuclear deal done. a senate report shows that obama officials let iran gain access to the u.s. financial system despite testifying to congress that would never happen. joined by victor davis hanson. you wrote a whole column about this administration. before we get to the iran deal. i want to read something specific for viewers. you wrote we are slowly appreciating over the last year that lying under oath was an obama administration requisite for a high position. fbi comey lied. and: wow! i love that column. number 1. number 2, the iran deal fit perfectly into your analysis does it not? >> yes, i think it does. it results from two things. they felt they were so moral and nobel that any means necessary was justified them to achieve them. they created an echo chamber of journalists. there was no independent audit on them. if you were charitable you would say they just misread human nature. more likely the iranians looked at that as weakness to be explo exploited. le

some have argued this started with the obama administration. guest: it did not. two things here. kids and families have come in the past and the bush administration and the obama administration those families were kept together. a day for be given their asylum hearing. that process would proceed. the zero-tolerance policy was the one that was initiated by president trump and it was intended to separate kids from their families, to send a deterrent message as he saw it to other asylum-seekers, and to put pressure on congress in negotiations for him to get his wall and border security. this is a trump administration policy that thankfully he has reversed. host: the republican speaker of the house has referred to court rulings where during the obama administration they were detaining parents and children together. the court said you cannot detain children. the obama administration decided to release the parents and the child with an ankle bracelet. you have to come back and reappear in court. with the trump administration you can't detain children. what are you to do when you want t

i'm wondering what that means because you said the obama administration was lax.ion also had a program that in practice separated families in some cases men would be sent back while wives and children were put in immigration detention centers. it seems what' happening is an extension of what was happening under the obama administration. you keep saying rule of law and mr. ruodriguez keeps saying we need to get back to humane treatment. >> the bottom line is it seems there are certain people and especially a lawyer should believe in the rule of law which he says he does, but then he wants us all to put on our rose-colored glasses and say this is really sad, this is really. responsibility of the people breaking the law? where is their responsibility as parents? why are they putting their chin in harms way? it's not because we are inhumane. in may we had 50,000 illegal crossings into our state. in april -- not our state, in the country. and 50,000 more illegal immigring in april. we can'ttinue to absorb the whole world. if they can find solutions in their countries i

that approach was tried by the obama administration and ultimately and properly rejected by a judge. but even as the trump administration moves to detain migrant families indefinitely, we've seen a couple signs not everyone is on board with zero tolerance. a senior official at u.s. customs and border protection told "the washington post" today the agency will no longer referply grant parents who come here illegally with their kids for criminal prosecution. the official said agents were instructed last night to stop sending parents with children to federal courthouses. the justice department denied there's been any change in policy and said prosecutions would continue. get this according to a source i spoke to earlier today, in the border city of mccallan, texas, charges were dropped this morning against 17 people who had been arrested for illegal entry because those people are heads of households, in other words because they came with children. each of those 17 parents already had their children taken away. the question now is, where those children are. government will not identify wh

was involved in. >> rod spent eight years there the obama administration. he also told president trump to fire james comby. he appointed special council robert mueller. then he signed off so they could wiretap carter page. should he reduce himself? is he a witness? >> he's certainly a witness to the point were both the mueller investigation if it were to result in claims that the president obstructed justice or if there were abuses of someone who signed off on the last renewal. you encapsulated this perfectly. the real question is when he's central to all of this it raises the question look, when we don't get the document we need or timely manner is that because he's just doing his job and trying to protect the department of justice or those documents may reflect negatively on senior members of the department of justice and fbi to include himself. >> yeah, this is why i bring up the point why did he just lean about the rewil -- we will stopm text three seconds ago. was someone sitting on the text. you will have him front of your committee next week, what wi

and how politics drove prosecutors in the obama administration. now, this is critical to understanding what the swamp is trying to do to trump with that russia probe. so stay there. >> laura: you just heard dinesh d'souza tell us about the horrors of the obama administration, which i asked mike about a short while ago. we just heard my interview with dinesh d'souza about the horrors of the political prosecutions, what he believes, by the obama administration. and his experience certainly has some implication, i think, for the russia investigation, as we might look at this unholy alliance of the fbi director jim comey and doj prosecutors. what do you think about, for lack of a better term, this runaway prosecution that a lot of us are concerned about? >> i think that in the normal course, that sort of case would have been prosecuted with the outcome being a fine. it's not one of the brighter chapters that he participated in prosecuting this in the way that he did. we've had a couple of other dings and dents. but that was, i think, a pretty substant

and that was during the obama administration. other administrations have had the same thing. we are keeping the family together. so this is it. and also, there may be some litigation. we are also wanting to go through congress. we will be going through congress. we are working on a much more comprehensive bill amount of lot of good things are happening toward immigration and proper immigrati immigration. but we have to have strong borders. and ultimately we want to see it done right. and it will be done right. but what we have done today is we are keeping families together. the borders are just as tough, just as strong. they can come in through ports of entry if they want. that's whole different story. and that's coming in through a process. and the process is what we want. so i want to thank you all very much. i think this is something that -- thank you very much, everybody. we will get the wall. we will get the wall done. yes? >> ivanka trump show you photos of the children being separated. >> no, ivanka feels very strongly. my wife feels very strongly. i feel very strongly

>> i think the obama administration was a disaster. middle east was a disaster answer we are paying the price today. we would not be in this situation today in syria if obama had kept his word when he said if you cross the red line. and they didn't do anything. the significance of that is it made the u.s. look weak and side that they are threatening without action. the first thing they type to not do that. if you say something, you should act on it. on egypt they sold us out. they supported the muslim brotherhood thinking it would be different from a terror organization. they were the from the office of a terror organization. they dropped mubarak and they didn't try for a reasonable transition and support the muslim brotherhood. iran, too. $150 billion and they can go back to business as usual. maria: what do they do with the $150 billion in cash? >> exactly. maria: do you think that perception has changed with president trump in place? >> except for the moving of the embassy in jerusalem, i don't think this step is good for the peace

we've to the white house more times than the trump first year than whole eight years in the obama administration. does that tell you about the previous administration? >> well, i think the previous had their own objectives. i think the sense is that president obama worked very hard first couple of years in congress. becamecans took over, he more executive than trying to work on the legislative side. >> what prepared you for this? >> i'm not sure anyone prepares you for this. you have to try to come in with this humble perspective as possible. bewing that there's going to members of congress that rupp set or members of the executive branch upset. is to help make sure that you navigate the process. >> you well know, this is a town with lot of egos. of egos ine lot washington d.c.. be frustrating sometimes. hopefully the people on our team try to advanceto agenda.ident's making sure america is strong again on the international stage. president's twitter account. does he give you heads up that say i will focus on this? >> sure he does. many occasions he'll say, i'm thinking about tweeting on this su

this is within the obama administration, and then the trump administration trying to check on the sponsors and unaccompanied children that had been sent into hhs. so, again, jake, this is incredibly complex problem. it's primarily we have -- we don't have the capacity to handle this flood. so the goal of our policy, literally ought to be to reduce that flow, and there's -- we have history in terms of how to do this. micha michael cherdoff, 31,000 brazilians, they called the operation texas hold 'em. they -- you know, they immediately apprehended the brazilians and sent them back home. the next year it was 1,500 brazilians, within three years less than a thousand. we learned from that. if you literally apprehend, quickly process and then return people, trying to get into this country illegally, it discourages. that's not what we have been doing. we have been encouraging illegal immigration. >> is your committee going to hold hearings on the separation of 2,500 children from their parents? is that something that you think that your committee should provide oversight over and try to find out

there are short dip in migration across the southern >> so how did you handle it under the obama administrationcause the trump administration says splitting kids from their parents they said hem it's simple terms. >> one thing we did that was fundamentally different is we weren't russia every person we could to criminal prosecution. instead we aed the immigration system to take its course. we didn't separate families. we certainly did dedicate the resources we needed at the end of the day, a million people were deported just under secretary johnson's watch. but these were not the kinds of steps that we took in the obama administration. >> give me some concrete -- again, i want to come to a consensus here. this is a very important conversation. it's waffle when you hear of kids being separated from their pa i think anybody regardless of your left, right, central, i think your heart would go out to them. so what is the solution here? first mr. rodriguez and then the governor. >> again, i go back to the ideai central america. and until we make a really firm commitment to work with those countries,

available in the natural sleep section at walmart. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> laura: new evidence that the obama administrationrican people to get the iran nuclear deal done. the draft of a senate report shows that obama officials let iran gain access to the u.s. financial system despite testifying to congress that that would never happen. joined by victor davis hanson. you wrote a whole column about this administration. before we get to the iran deal. i want to read something specific for viewers. you wrote we are slowly appreciating over the last year that lying under oath was an obama administration requisite for a high position. until intel community. fbi comey lied. lied by oshg mission to the president and said director of initial intel jim clapper and john brent an may preapproved to be the most revator indicating officials in history of any administration. inconstitutionalized deception as a tool of gentleman. and: wow! i love that column. number 1. number 2, the iran deal fit perfectly into your analysis does it not? what did we learn today n >> yes, i think it does. it results from two things. one, t

it is a step that the obama administration did not take that the trump administration has. ered a lot of the family detention issues. i have spoken just this week with some of the lawyers who represented those families and while they were very concerned about obama, they were a lot more concerned about trump. in your latest piece, outlining lobbies and proposals, we have 20 seconds. what a lobbyist and why do they know what the american people don't? franco: i believe the question was to me. a lot of the lobbyists are the detention centers, groups like cca, groups that will be behind these tent cities that will be hired to man them. the health service organizations that will be there. they will -- they are the ones who will profit from these organizations. amy: thank you for being with us. ççzñvpx]

and so we took immediate action to roll back burdensome obama administration regulations and we got to work on reforming our outdated tax code. and six months ago, this week, we passed historic tax reform. before the tax cuts and jobs act, the tax code was not helping businesses grow and create jobs. in fact, it was doing the opposite. and that had real consequences for american workers. a small business own earl struggling to -- a small business owner struggling to afford the hefty annual tax bill for her business was highly unlikely to be able to hire a new worker or to raise wages. a larger business struggling to stay competitive in the global marketplace while paying a substantially higher tax rate than its foreign competitors too often had limited funds to expand or increase investment in the united states. and so we took action to improve the playing field for american workers by improving the playing field for businesses as well. to accomplish that, we lowered tax rates across the board for owners of small and medium sized businesses, farms and ranches. we lowered our nation's m

russia's claim to crimea as legitimate here is what he said. >> crimea was like during the obama administration, and, you know, obama can say all he wants, but he allowed russia to take crimea. i may have had a much different attitude. but so you really have to ask that question to president obama. you know why did he do that? why did he do that? >> brennan: would you like to respond? >> it is a disgraceful statement. the fact of the matter, is russia had invaded georgia, it then invaded the ukraine. we rallied the entire european union and many other partners to impose tough sanctions on russia for its annexation. we supported tagreedhat russia o longer be part of this community of the g-8. >> brennan: you are saying but russia still -- it was a feet complete. >> that is outrageous, the united states has long upheld international law, this was the most brazen violation of another country's sovereignty that has occurred in recent years, for president of the united states .. to blame his predecessor rather than to understand that russia is our adversary, russia has taken on behavior that is abso

really not well thought out it's it's horrible this is a new low in border policy well the obama administration did deport many more people and it's for a few years than the trump administration has how is what's happening now different to what happened to president obama. that's right what is happening now is they are going after the lowest hanging fruit they are just rounding up everybody they can get their hands on and that's not the way to do things what we did under the previous administration was go after the worst of the worst murderers rapists you know the people who have actually committed a felony and that does take a time on resources and but what they're doing now is just like throwing out our net and catching whoever and that's not the way to do things it's actually public safety threat to do it this way when we focus on the criminals you get the criminals out of the country and i think that everybody can agree on that line but when you go after the dreamers those who are serving in our militaries those who are going to school and going through the immigration process the right way

deportation hearings, so catch and release, which is what the practical effect was under the obama administrationd until this year for the trump administration, that doesn't really work either, does it? >> secretary johnson: without a doubt it's a problem, which is one of the reasons we extended family detention, which was controversial. >> chris: and was knocked down by the court. that's the reason we got this 20 day ruling. it was because of the obama administration's policy. >> secretary johnson: we expanded family detention and then we ran into the issue of the florez case, which you mentioned a moment ago. i disagreed them with the ruling in that case because i think that our border patrol and our immigration enforcement people need those tools available to deal with situations like this, but it's the sheer matter of numbers, chris. it right now we have family detention capability for about three or 4,000 people and you've got over a thousand migrants crossing the border a day in central america. even if you emptied it out completely, it would fill back up in a matter of days. this is not an

the obama administration actually did go ahead and give them a license to do it. you to give the bank the license and they didn't do it. and now we know it but where is the outrage? abby: amazing though, brian, it was the two u.s. banks after the obama administration officials were basically knocking on their door and they said we are not willing to do. this i'm sorry, but this goes too far. brian: remember when the money got delivered on pallets and that was exposed by iranian media and aired on their news to show what a great deal for the iranian people. iran was skeptical about this deal as well. when we found out, their explanation was well, it was just unfrozen money that arrives in the middle of the night without telling anyone. like to add one more thing about the iranian deal. since we left they decided to enrich you uranium. why are you staying in the deal. if you guys are going to stay in the deal and iran is enriching uranium. they just blew up the bad deal signed two years ago. steve: can you trust the iranians? that's one thing. now you have to wonder

but under the obama administration, that began to chanichout anybody paying attention.n the obama administrationy goals. nobody bothered to explain whyio diversity is a relevant criterion for air trafficty controllers. no one will explain it now. we called the faa today and we got silence when wasked that question, ich is the most basic question. but it didn't matter. starting in 2014, they added a biographical questionnaire to the application process. applicants with a lower aptitud1 in science got preference over applicants who had scored excellent in science. applicants who had been unemployed for the previous three years got more points than licensed pilots got. in other words, the faa activelr searched for unqualified air traffic controllers. that is insane and they knew it was insane when they did it but they did it anyway. today we obtained new information, an internal email written by an executive at the firm that devised then biographical questionnaire. hat email, the executive admits that the test he devised has nothing to do with finding the best air traffic controllers. if you want g