well, for the duration of the obama administration. joining us this morning to talk about his new book "the world as it is." you write in that book that the whole reason for coming to washington in the first place and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11th. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> you know, i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns. and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site and had a clear view of the second plane hitting and the first tower falling and i knew whatever i was going to do in my life -- i was 24 years old -- was going to be about what happened next, what the response to this was. i went to an army recruiter who didn't know what to do with an english major. i worked my way into foreign policy but felt i wanted to get involved in politics and that led me to the obama campaign. >> your meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter he brought y

reversal of the obama administration plan, the obama administration imposed limits on certain hunting tactics, on national parks and alaska. lands in not parks, but preserves, the tactics include the use of bait, motorboats in dens, and other provisions. host: the reversal of the rolling back those restrictions and allowing those methods? guest: that's right. as we have been discussing, there is something dispute over how much of an impact it would have. host: while our bus was in alaska we spoke to bruce dale, with the alaska department of fish and dale -- fish and game, this is what he had to say about the common period. >> the ngos that support the national park service are in enormous machines that churns up gathering public input. and promoting input from certain groups and interest groups. and compared to the small number of people who live in alaska, especially the small number of rural users that are relying on these, the numbers of comments and the types of comments are only useful to a point. host: so they are hearing from people outside of alaska? .uest: by the scads and th

they start to mimic some of the same sayings obama administration had, on the run, decimated. don't go down this route, because you are underselling. the american people need a clear assessment. don't go for the cheap political victory. obama deserves credit for ordering the bin laden raid and taking out a few high-value terrorists, maybe, but don't oversell the picture. mr. hayes: that was good for lightning. how do you feel about waterboarding now in light of all this? mr. joscelyn: i revised my system on waterboarding because, what was said about waterboarding was inaccurate. some of the ways the cia explained was that it was no different thanwaterboarding was. what navy servicemen go through in their training. that is not true. when you read the description, it was far more severe. one of the guys waterboarded went into seizures from waterboarding he experienced. he is not typical of someone going through training. there are a lot of people obsessed with this issue. my view was, waterboarding was used on three al qaeda senior terrorists, all with blood on their hands. if we

they have started to mimic some of the same terrible sort of saying that the obama administration had. they started icing phrases, on the run, decimated, this sort of thing. we've been very clear to the trump administration, white house, don't go down this route. you're under selling what is going on. the american people need a clear assessment what is happening. don't go for cheap political victory. you can take credit for victories. obama takes credit for carrying out obama raid and taking out a few high value terrorists but don't oversell the picture. >> that is pretty good for lightning. >> for me that is good as it gets. >> what do you feel about waterboarding now? light of all this? >> actually revised my assessment on waterboarding a little bit because some of what was said about waterboarding was inaccurate. some of the ways cia explained waterboarding is no different than what navy servicemen go through as part of their training. that is not true. when you read detailed description what is happen, it was far more severe than our navy servicemen. one of our guys went into seiz

if you look at the obama administration, they wanted to say it was over. if these groups are connected to al qaeda to lead going forward and this thing is spreading across the globe but it really is part of al qaeda structure, that means your narrative about the 9/11 was being over falls flat. one of the phrases is what obama did is a played disconnect the dots. when you had intelligence that connected bin laden to others around the globe, they downplayed that. let's play the next clip. this is from barack obama and this is stunning. our actions are effective. do not take my word for it. in the intelligence gathered at bin laden's compound, he wrote we could lose the reserves to enemy airstrikes. we cannot fight airstrikes with explosives. other communications confirm this as well. am: obama sites to lines from 17 page letter bin laden wrote. he takes it out of context and ignores all the parts that contradict what he was saying. right here there are lines that are highlighted. if you read the preceding paragraphs, they contradict the point he was trying t

are they now rights we're led to believe the obama administration where these wonderful public servants who fought for truth and justice and say the pledge of allegiance quietly to themselves before masturbating . so where are they now i mean i mean they tell us trump is a fascist a dictator destroying tomography then shouldn't obama and joe biden be like storming the white house on some sort of mad max vehicle with spikes sticking out of it should we see hillary and eric holder like bolted it trumps motorcade with our buccaneer knife in their tasers sextet prior to iran i. or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful peace loving people that nowadays their busy volunteer ring of fire departments. working in homeless shelters it and knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have been married to a week. but no no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now for the obama administration janet johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole propr

is how we do it in 2018. >> reporter: what a marked difference from five years ago when the obama administration were gently and carefully putting together a complicated nuclear agreement. the trump administration pulled out of that and now 48 hours later, distraction again made to bar some of the critics for security clearances. now we are still talking about the possibility of this conflict with iran. on three separate occasions the white house stood by the tweet that was put out on sunday. donald trump had not sorconcern. sarah sanders said they started it and we heard from john bolton raising the threshold for any military actions. the national security adviser says if iran does anything negative at all, it could spur a. the u.s. would like -- spur action. the u.s. would like to see iran do several things. we heard the iran officials calling it silly diplomacy and this is a sign of the withdrawal of the nuclear deal and hopelessness of the u.s. policy in the region. this will not turn into military conflict in any stretch of the imaginati imagination. day two, it looks more like a shouting m

and then when the obama administration changed it, that policy got effectively wiped away and it was removed from the website. what's really interesting is for right now the trump administration has not fully restored the bush administration policy but it very quietly reappeared on the website, the department of education website in the last two days, with no fanfare. so it's now back on the website. it is not official policy, but it's there for colleges to look at. it says don't consider race at all when you are considering who to bring to check. >> and this is consistent with supreme court precedent, going b back to 2003 where the supreme court essentially said you can't take a pile of applicants and divide them. you can't use race as the primary factor. but you can use it as a factor. like this person was in the marching band. this person is african-american. so the supreme court has been chipping away at the notion of using race for a while. although it has upheld these policies. i can't stress enough it has expressed criticism not once but over decades now. >> matt, how much of t

is an important disagreement between the obama administration and the young yahoo! -- and the netanyahu government. >> an important question. i spent a lot of time on this in my book. the reality is that barack obama obviously had a different point netanyahu, not a fundamental relationship in israel. we provide more support for the security that any of ministration in history. issues, howrincipal to deal with iran and his nuclear program and how to accomplish it. we supported a two state solution to the israeli -palestine conflict and were unable to make progress there. and it was a failure of our administration. but the reality is that when you parties who are willing to take big risks as the former is really leaders did, there is only so far you can get. it was really, do we believe we can resolve this issue diplomatically with the nuclear program? our view was that iran was a bad actor. they threaten terrorism. that is why we wanted to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. at the end of the day, prime minister netanyahu didn't want to see that go forward. h

>> guest: these are rules, this is a reversal of an obama administration plan, the obama administration impose limits on certainis hunting texas on national parks and preserve lands and alaska. not parks but preserves, tactics include the use of bait, dogs, the use of light indians, motorboats and a few other provisions. >> host: the reversal would be rolling back those restrictions and allowing those methods? >> guest: that'sho right, and as we've been discussing there are some big dispute over how much of an impact that would really have. >> host: while i bus was in alaska we spoke with bruce dale with alaska department of fish this is what he had to say about the comment period, what they're hearing the public. >> national park service, ngos that support the national park service are enormous machines in terms of gathering public input and promoting input from certain groups and interest groups. and compared to the small number of people who live in alaska, especially the small number of rural users that are reliant on these, the numbers of comments and the types of comments are only

corrupt absolutely and while they want you while the obama administration that you the people used to be there want you to care about stopping donald trump the last administration or enriching themselves in the how low the halls of war profiteers and wall street banks how do you walk to d.c. the fiesta. thank you but well come on only now let's take the news from behind as you know i try to avoid whichever stories attract the mainstream media's frantic idiocy each week but i also know that some of you probably want to know who to trust on the latest hysteria does your for example robert ball are just indicted twelve russians for supposedly orchestrating a cyber attack on the d.n.c. meanwhile a longtime veteran of the intelligence community and former weapons inspector scott ritter has published a column in troop dig this weekend titled the indictment of twelve russians under the shiny wrapping a political act and he points out that there is one major problem with the indictment it doesn't prove that which it asserts and it's not backed up by anything that demonstrates how these connec

and now, and iranian lawmakers claims the obama administration granted u.s.o more than 2,000 iranians including government officials after the iran nuclear deal was signed. upon hearing this, the president took to twitter saying "just out that the obama administration granted citizenship, during the terrible iran deal negotiation, to 2,500 iranians - including to government officials. how big and bad is that?" david, this is more evidence of why the president pulled out of the deal. >> david: we must not forget that iran does not want to be our partner. they want to take everything they can from us. every time we learn something new about this iran deal, there is more outrage of this country of the president getting out of this deal. come on, you tell me, you go to that deal and tell me that it is a good deal for america. you will advocate that there are iranians? >> dagen: a number of people in those roles. >> jessica: the sleaziness of this deal. $7 billion and set in the middle of the night. that relates to a state-sponsored terrorism. and by the way -- >>

whose responsibility, the obama administration or trump administration today? >> today i think obviously the trump administration. but i think julian is right. we heard him in the montana rally recently say putin is fine, he is fine, when he is attacking his own justice department. he is essentially choosing putin over his own justice department right now, even yesterday at a press conference with the prime minister, he was doing that as well, he was bringing up every other issue that he was going to talk to him about, putin about, then threw in meddling at the end, like it was an aside. when he knows the focus and optics are all going to be centered around russian meddling, especially now with the indictment. >> what about the substance, julian, trump will often claim to kind of increase his credibility, saying no one is tougher on russia than trump, speaking in the third person there. it is true the trump administration has taken some tough steps, one being providing lethal weapons to ukrainians fighting, a step the obama administration didn't take. bigger pi

but this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. i heard that they were trying or people were trying to hack into the rnc, too, the republican national committee, but we had much better defenses. i've been told that by a number of people. we have much better defenses, so they couldn't. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. they had bad defenses. and they were able to be hacked. but i heard they were trying to hack the republicans, too, but, and this may be wrong, but they had much stronger defenses. >> brennan: what's your biggest competitor, the biggest foe globally right now? >> well, i think we have a lot of foes. i think the european union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. you wouldn't think of the european union, but they're a foe. russia is a foe in certain respects. china is a foe economically certainly they're a foe. but that doesn't mean they're bad. it doesn't mean anything. it means that they're competitor

speech writer for the duration of the obama administration. talking about his new book, the world as it is. your whole reason for coming to washington and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns, and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site. i had a clear view of the second plane hitting the first tower falling. i knew then that whatever i was going to do in my life at 24 years old was going to be about what happened next. and i went to an army recruiter who didn't know what to make. found my way down here to work for lee hamilton. i worked my way into foreign policy. but felt i wanted to get involved in politics. politics is how you made change. that led me to the obama camp. >> you are meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter. he brought you on board. this is early in his campaign for the preside

you know, look, it is absolutely the case that the obama administration once they found out -- once theinistration found out about this took some time to deliberate and think about exactly how best to address this situation. everyone knows that the obama administration did take significant steps to deal with russian meddling including president obama speaking directly to vladimir putin about this. we have sanctions. we have expulsions from the united states. sought president, president trump, is being a little disingenuous when he suggests that president obama did not do anything. now, i think certainly there's an argument to be made as to whether or not the previous administration did enough. and that's a debate that historians can have. but it's the case now that it's president trump's issue to deal with. president trump has to understand that not only did the russians interfere in the 2016 elections but the intelligence community has conclusive information indicating that they are probing and attempting to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections. so now is not the time to look back a

again, this is during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. i heard they were trying or people were trying to hack into the rnc, too, the republican national committee, but we had much better defenses. i had been told that by a number of people. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. >> reporter: there you have in that clip, what many people are worried about, president trump and vladimir putin will agree, the obama administration was a very bad thing and, actually, donald trump would rub his shoulder and move on once vladimir putin says no, no, i have nothing to do, officially, with the hacking of the american democratic process. that's one of many, many worries. the summit will begin when the two of them sit down without note takers or advisers and just translaters there. donald trump said this would be the easiest part of his european tour after that meeting with nato allies after a meeting with britain's prime minister, theresa m

i think he loved the obama administration. obama refused to get involved in syria. he stated he wouldn't go in response to the war taking place there. putin only needed to hear that so many times before he decided to go in himself ostensibly to fight isis. but now what he's look at is the opportunity to sell weapons around the middle east, to gain new clients around the middle east. he cozies up with iran and his mullah and the assad regime. i think we can expect him to double down on that primarily because when didn't hear much from the president telling him that was not how responsible

you mentioned twitter the story about the 12 russians took place during the obama administration, not the trump administration. why didn't they do something about it? especially when it was reported president obama was reported in september before the election? authorities were informed before the election, there were sanctions handed down a month avl after the election, december 29ing i believe that executive order came down. are you satisfied with the reaction the response? what the obama administration did in response as to what they learned? >> yeah, that's a really good question. let's start with the obviously point. this isn't an attack on our country the first thing we do is we say, go, it didn't happen on my watch. technically speaking, it is correct. i'll say two things about that. the story needs to be told and told again that they when to the nancy pelosi to mitch mcconnell to the speaker of the house and the leadership and said we have a very serious attack about occurring and about to occur. we need to talk to the american people about it. to warn them about it the senate

or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful peace loving people that nowadays they're busy volunteer in the fire department. working in homeless shelters it and knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have never had to a week with. but no. oh no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now for the obama administration jed johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days . these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death so much more aggressive than the doily thing i. hear ya obvious to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient . susie yeah. could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separating c

but again this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. i heard people were trying to hack into the rnc, too, the republican national convention but we had better defenses. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacke hacked. >> this is one of the instances where the president says is as important as he doesn't say. you didn't hear him defend the election system. he attacked president obama and the democrats as he did over the weekend on twitter so as you mentioned the president is making his way here from scotland. he doesn't have official events once he arrives here so here's the schedule with the usual caveat that this is subject to change. 6:00 a.m. eastern he has the one on one sit down with the russian president followed by a meeting an hour later where usual officials would be in the room. we expect the russian ambassador to the u.s. as well as the secretary of state to be in that meeting and it's followed up by that joint press c

trying to right that wrong under the obama administration. national left wing media hysterical over the president's nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. oh, my gosh. the little darlings, here they go. >> slamdunk. >> in the trenches with conservative against clinton. >> cul cut his teeth on the star report, moved in right ring legal circles. >> how do you think he feels? he never got the moment that kavanaugh will get. >> a president under investigation, for possibly colluded with a foreign adversary decides who will make our policy for next generation is absolutely insane. lou: there is some insanity. she was looks beyond it. joining us john malcolm, vice president for institute of constitutional government at heritage foundation, great to have you with us. heritage foundation and federalist society playing a person role in creating that list of 25 names from which the ha--president has been working o great applause for choices he made, two already, to the supreme court. kudos to the heritage foundation, and to the federal soc

this is during the obama administration, they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. >> so he says he hadn't thought about requesting the extradition of 12 officials. what do you want president trump to do when he meets with vladimir putin and the building behind me tomorrow? >> i don't think putin will probably deliver the 12 russian spies. but i sure as heck think the president of the united states ought to ask that these russian spies are actually released to the american government for american -- legal process to continue. they attacked our government. let's take mueller investigation in full over 30 indictments, five guilty pleas and we still have whole questions around obstruction of justice and the various people part of the trump campaign who are now cooperating with the government to see whether there was absolutely collusion. these are still questions mr. mueller's investigation have to answer and i just wish the one thing that president would stop doing was stop calling this a witch hunt. this has been a very productive investigation that put further proo

about that, quote, the stories you heard about the 12 russians yesterday took place during the obama administration, not the trump administration. why didn't they do something about it, especially when it was reported that president obama was informed by the fbi in

of course, the obama administration's policy was much worse than its rhetoric. ama did nothing to counter vladimir putin's aggression and his actions in crimea, ukraine, obama did nothing when russia dropped -- literally, showed up on assad and started helping that dictator butcher hundreds of thousands of syrian men, women, and children. that happened on obama's watch. he did nothing as russia worked with iran to destabilize the entire middle east. instead obama signed off on the insane, horrific, iranian nuclear deal, sending cargo planes with $150 billion with cash and other currencies to the mullahs in iran. while they were chanting "death to america, death to israel," burning our flag and the israeli flag, funding terrorism around the world and all of this meddling, all of this interference was on obama, clapper, brennan, and comey's watch! not donald trump's! he's cleaning up their mess. according to reports, in order to secure the iranian deal, obama even look the other way as the terrorist group hezbollah funded their terrorist activities through drug tra

to be fair, in december of 2016 the obama administration did put forward some pretty robust sanctions17. leland: does it seem a little bit more like sour grapes when a democratic administration knew about this and made a political decision not to talk about russian meddling back in september of 2016 when they knew about it and now all democrats want to talk about is russian meddling with the election. it seems like shall we say convenient logic. >> the problem is this. everybody seems to see all of this through a electoral politics. i think we've got to get rid of that. what we're focused on -- leland: the obama administration did see it through electoral politics. >> i agree. the point is we are here today looking at russians who continue to try to meddle in our elections. i think there's plenty of criticism for democrats and republicans looking in the rear view mirror. but right now as president trump is about to go into a one on one face-to-face conversation with vladimir putin, i think we need to be very focused and i would hope that the president will put this bill of indictment

they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. >> so he says he hadn't thought about requesting the extradition of these 12 officials. what do you want president trump to do when he meets in the building behind me tomorrow? >> i don't think putinwill probably deliver those 12 russian spies. i sure think the president of the united states ought to ask that these russian spies are actually released to the american legal process to continue. they attacked our government. >> it is to put it around the russian interventions. do you have hesitation criticizing president trump while he is overseas that politics should stop at the water's edge? >> listen. i am saying to mr. trump let's make sure we put more people in that meeting with putin, a trained agent. we need to make sure that the americans and for that matter the world gets a straight story of what happens in that meeting. let's also examine the fact that this is a president throughout the last week who is basically treated our allies like adversaries that were totally inappropriate and continue to street our adversar

blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now for the obama administration jed johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days . these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death still much more aggressive than the doily thing i. hear ya obvious to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient that susie yeah hey ben could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separating children from their parents immoral and un-american he's involved in however he's involved in these super american activity of selling weapons to kill lots of people so i'm not sayin don't attack the trump administration go to town i lie like an ass at a golf course go in there like a midlife crisis trying to get his ball out of the

the obama administration had encouraged schools to take a student's race into account to increase diversity. but under president trump, the administration is now urging colleges and universities to adopt standards that are blind to the role of race.ft it comes other case went and it comes as harvardci university is a lawsuit over its admission practices for s legedly excluding some asian- american applica make room for students of other races. for a look at this, i'm joined by nick anderson, who covers this f the "washington post." and marcia coyle, who covers the supreme court for the "national law journal. we welcome both of you to the program. onick schifrin, i'm going start with you. the trump administration is saying the obama administration they are now rescinding what are -called seven policy guidances what were enacted prviously. what does that mean? >> well, what it means is that the federal government's pronouncements on the supreme court's pronouncements haveow changed. so you have to go back to the supreme court here, over a series of rulings over manye s, the supreme court has

in this investigation it is revealing, we already know is that high ranking officials under obama administrationns about russians meddling in the election, before we even knew that president trump was nominee, and president obama did nothing about those red flags, then all of a sudden obama administration make it a top priority whether trump is involved that really reveals a lot that went on in obama white house, was political, rather than policy, what is best for america. liz: president obama said, we dihad nothing to do with russia probe, they did unmasks the trump campaign aides. you know that was going, to but now that, republican congressman rat cliff said that her testimony conflicted with strzok,ly was tryin he was tryin play them. >> from a legal perspective, have you two people telling opposite stories someone is lying, that would be perjury, they are both en under oldsmobi. they are behinds closed-doors, we don't know what she is say, going to text-messages to kelsey's point, we don't know the full context. but one thing that is important is the timing, american people knew through "ne

this is something that started in the obama administration more than three years ago.lion, equipment, men, materiel, and at the same time working closely with nato countries. germany, other countries, in eastern europe in the countries of latvia, lithuania, estonia making sure russia knows that e cannot, cannot continue to act as they did in uukraine. quickly, the u.s. standing within the nato organization. do you feel damage has been done? >> absolutely there's been damage. everybody is trying to paper over a very serious breach that the president created. good that they're papering it over. we've got to move forward. got to stay close to nato. got to be with the european union, all of whom the president has attacked after attacking and then says, oh, everything's fine. we've got to work very, very hard to make sure that everything is fine. that we have strong allies in europe and as well in asia. >> representative john garamendi, so good to see you. up close and personal. thank you so much. >>> coming up next, what potential legal trouble roger stone is facing and wh

interfered with anyways, so certainly i think that things could have been handled better by the obama administrationhowever, that does not exculpate president trump from the way he's reacted to the information that he's had during his administration about the russian hacking, about now the russian government connection to the hacking and what his response has been in terms of interacting with putin and making capricious statements, minimizing the efforts of our intelligent law enforcement individuals. >> criminal defense attorney whitney bone, thank you for your time and analysis. >> thank you, have a good day. mike: when while doj indictments coming days before president trump and vladimir putin to meet days in helsinki, democrats calling on the president to capgel -- cancel the meeting. >> i want to make sure that other americans hear that the makes this issue of russian interference a priority in the meeting and not something that's swift off with a response from putin saying he didn't do anything. and that's why if he and his team are not willing to make the subject of this indictment of russian

when we heard the obama administration condemning the , we d addiction epidemic didn't know that that administration had a chance to end 90% of the heroin coming .nto this country apparently, so much of that flows across our southern border. i realize the leaders in the u.s. senate and the leaders in the united states house did not support the pillars of donald trump's platform that got him elected president of the united tates. every bill that we have brought out of the house or that's come out of the senate, even the couple of times there's been a little bit of money for a border as it t's not as serious should be that this congress should be doing something about the travesty on our southern border. , long as it remains so open the drug cartels will continue to make tens, hundreds of billions of dollars, i read that just the drug money across our southern border the last year e s around $80 billion and hav also understood that projections are that the drug cartels may be making more from human trafficking across our southern border than they are even from their drug money. to that

security clearance revoke not yet but for those six former obama administration ofs,

security clearance revoke not yet but for those six former obama administration officials, tops in national security, may be closer than you think or they think. the administration insists that they politicized and in some cases use their public service and security clearances inappropriately. all six are frequent administration critics, which prompted allegations the president could be launching his own witch hunt. lost in the argument is whether the president can do this, which he can. how is it that so many former top officials now out of power have access to this intelligence, which they do? to kevin corke at the white house on the furious fall-out from this. hi, kevin. >> good to be with you. you can almost hear an audible gasp. i can hear it sitting on the front row when she said it. i can hear people reacting almost immediately to this idea that the president and this administration might revoke the security clearances of a number of former obama administration intelligence officials to hear them tell it, they have not only politicized their information and the access to this materia

that you say that you have fixed this is something that you inherited from the obama administration the occupation of crimea how do you fix it well we're going to see what happens i mean it's a process if i if i knew i wouldn't tell you because that would put us at a disadvantage but we'll see what happens we'll see how it all melds out but i just want people to understand that crimea was a you know it was another bad hand i got handed north korea we're doing very well you saw the letter yesterday and we're doing very well look we haven't had nuclear testing we haven't had missile. which is we haven't had rocket launches some sites were blown up and we got back our hostages our prisoners even before i left so a lot of good things are happening there's some good feeling there will see what happens it's a process is probably a longer process than anybody would like but used a long process as to we haven't taken off the sanctions or sanctions are biting we haven't taken them off but when it comes to crimea that's something i took over john there's nothing much i have to say about it ot

what you saw at the very beginning of the trump administration as opposed to the end of the obama administrationbureaucrats and the administrators went at it immediately trying to things add 34i68, nministrative bothering with congress. you can do things quicker that way, but they're more durable. i'll give you a quick example of that. when you saw the obama administration change the rules on transgendered and being allowed to serve in the united states military, that was done very quickly. that was celebrated in some quarters. questioned in others. but as soon as you had a new administration, they were able to reverse that. and so when you think about lasting and durable changes, you come to the congressional aspect and legislative aspect and that's why these midterm elections are going to be so contentious. not only do we have emotional zee bates about abortion and roe v. wade and what's going to happen with the supreme court nominee, but you also have the very real issue of how you legislate and how you investigate. and that's why i suspect you're going to citi a lot of energy on the democrat