so t so the obama administration restricts the maximum term to three months.om 12 months down to three months. they also banned something called renewal guarantees. a renewal guarantee and this is very important later, a renewal guarantee is from an insurance that your premiums won't go up because you got sick. your premium might go up for other reasons but if you have a renewal guarantee, even if you get cancer you'll stale pay healthy person premiums and insurance have been offering these in the individual market for decades and stopped doing so when obamacare was passed because obamacare essentially banned them. but they charge a little more for this protection and what it means and the economic literature is fairly unanimous that they worked pretty well. what it means is that even if you get a very expensive illness, you could still pay healthy person premiums. so when the obama administration shortened the maximum term of short-term plans from 12 months to 3 months and banned renewal guarantee in the plans, that had the affect of exposing a lot of people

now, then, in 1996 the obama administration made a change in how the federal government addresses these plans. since the premium for short- term plans were about 70% less than obama care premiums, a lot of people generally healthy people, sought refuge from those high obama care premiums by buying short-term plans. they lasted 12 months, if you bought one of these plans would have health encourage -- insurance coverage until the next enrollment period and a lot of people saw this as an attractive alternative rather than paying very high premiums, so the obama administration restricted the maximum term of short-term plans to three months. and took it from 12 months down to three months. they also banned something called renewal guarantees. a renewal guarantee, and this is going to become very important later, a renewal guarantee is the guarantee from an insurance company that your premiums will not go up because you got sick. your premiums michael up for other reasons, but if you have a renewal guarantee the fact that you got cancer will not cause your cancer -- premiums to go up. you wi

but where were they when the obama administration was punishing whistle-blowers and leakers. the obama administration fired joseph from the national security council for tweeting under a false name, blasting the likes of ben rhodes and chelsea clinton. the obama administration arrested eight of the 13 people who have been prosecuted under the espionage act for leaking secrets. obama setting the record for prosecutions against leakers. perhaps obama senior adviser dan favor said it best. of obama he said this. the president is always frustrated about leaks. i think anyone who leaks has to pay the price. you said it, pfeiffer. you said it. and president trump weighing in just moments ago asking this on twitter. are the investigative quote unquote journalists of the "the new york times" going to investigate themselves? who is the anonymous letter writer? that is the question, isn't it? joining me now, congressman todd rokita of indiana. congressman, good to have you with us. let's start with this -- would you endorse the president doing what his predecessor did, that is investig

i think if you took the senior leaders of the bush administration, obama administration trump administration top officials and put them in a room and ask each one of them who are we fighting, what are we fighting about and what does it look like? forget about the strategy. you had as many answers in the room. go to the next level and say what should our strategy be you can have almost as many answers. they've got so many more voices than that i think, what i think about it in the long stretch, that is the core problem. we don't have a clear vision of what the role of the united states in the middle east and what we used to call the greater middle east is in the bush administration, i was in the white house from 2005 to 2007 and i thought we had a very clear idea. looking back i think it wasn't a very good idea, but it was a clear idea that our strategy was to fight the nexus of terrorist organizations, terror supporting states and wmd. we wanted to prevent the goal. it is not a bad idea. it makes a lot of sense in terms of what the big threat to the united state is. it's just too abstract or

animates trump the second thing that animates him is a desire to distance himself from the obama administration from other administrations who he feels were insufficiently vigilant in guarding american interests and poland is a particular flashpoint for this because one of the first acts the obama administration did upon taking over was to cancel a very very well thought out air defense interceptor system that was to go into poland and czechoslovakia that both countries had agreed to accept that some considerable risk and then the obama administration said no and you know we had the famous reset and then it was. view that there was sort of a by trump that there was not a robust enough response to various russian predations exercises the annexation of crimea etc the third thing is economic look the united states government is in a period in which the military in particular and i think the people around trump do believe this the military has been deployed on these endless wars overseas by both republican and democratic presidents that haven't done anything to advance our security interests that w

were issued by the obama administration in 2011 and 2014 were run by the trump administration, and the trump administration is about to issue rulesrules -- proposed that will modify 2011, 2014. the "times" just leaks a story about that. we will find out what those proposals look like. while there are very few things that the trump administration has done that i think is good, the fact that they have got to much more open his door rulemaking i think it's something that we should applaud. -- open participatory rulemaking i think is something that we should applaud. host: we go to twitter. "is congress up to updating title ix to reflect cultural changes?" paul says he would rather let the course do it. guest: i think it will be the latter. these are very contentious issues, and a lot of them are issues that politicians would like to avoid. the trump administration some changes in of these regulations, especially on sexual assault, i think the democrats make proposals to author them, but unless they can have support in both houses of congress and get the support of the president, that is n

if you took senior leaders of the bush administration, obama administration and now the trump administration, just the top officials and put them together in a room and asked each one of them who are we fighting, what with we fighting about and what does victory look like. you'd have as many answers as you'd have people in the room. if you go to the next level and say what should the strategy be, you would have just as many answers. if you open it up to the wider society, you get so many more voices. when i think about it in the lock stretch, that's the core problem. we don't have a clear vision of what the role of the united states in the middle east and what we used to call the greater middle east is. the bush administration, i was in the white house from 2005 to '07. i thought we had a clear idea. looking back it wasn't a good idea. it was a clear idea. our strategy was to fight nexus of terrorist organizations with global reach, supporting states and wmd. we want ed ed to prevent next. that was the goal. it's not a bad idea. it's too abstract. they are going to support over time. and you

obama's first year in office until his last. so those are the numbers, all right? that's why there was a tailwind coming into this administration. is it right for trump to get credit for what happens now? of course. did he do it alone? of course not. so what else did obama do today? he called on americans to find common ground and fight back against what he calls dangerous times. president trump is deploying very different tactics as november approaches. which set of tactics will prevail? what do you say? great debate, next. smiles when they start. how do they finish? this is amazing. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven't worked well enough. and it helps people achieve control that lasts. so you can experience few or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and

are stater the day department designations from the obama administration. it is now the obama treasury and state department, explaining is the their words, iran leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world today. by exposing iran's secret deal with al qaeda we are illuminating yet another aspect of iran's unmatched -- as ishey describe this the core pipeline, or facilitation pipeline for iran. interesting is every time we report on this we see he left on this, when out is the official position of the obama administration as they were searching for nuclear core of iran. this is not coming from some warmongering neoconservative. this is coming from the obama administration over a period of years over and over again. when you see articles written on this topic, that is left out. what our team is saying is not different from what the obama administration was saying. we are saying the exact same thing. this is one of the ways they communicate with the outside world. this allows them to communicate with different entities. as you go through the designation very

and i'm not picking on the obama administration. i said plenty about george bush and my book. it takes a while for them to really gear up and they do so with great gusto by the start of the obama administration. common core was funded by the gates. there is this really weird and it does about high-level education department ties in the obama administration who goes to teach at the ford foundation. he's suddenly starts referring to the gates foundation. everyone in the audience cracks up but the reality was people in the obama administration were gates people so maybe it's not so far off the mark. the gates and the walton family foundation in arkansas quadrupled their spending on k-12 education between 2,002,005 to $400 million. by the way i am focusing out just on those three areas of philanthropy that are not talking about the dark money organizations that the code brothers are now amassing. out ordered million dollars in the last several years has both the spending and influence of these philanthropies exponentially. to illustrate

i think if m you took the senior leaders of the bush administration, the obama administration and now the top administration, the top officials and put themci togethr in a room and asked each one of them, who are we fighting? what are we fighting about? what does they could look like? get about strategy. you would have as many answers as you have people in the room. then if you go to the next level and say what should our strategy be? would have almost as many answers. that's only among our national security elite. if you open it up to the wider society you get so many more voices and that i think is really, when i think about it in the long stretch, that's the core problem is that we don't have a clear vision of what the role of the united states in the middle east and what we used to call the greatere middle east i. in the bush administration, i was in the white house from 2005-2007 and i thought we had a very looking back on it i don't think is a very good idea what it was a clear idea, that our strategy was to fight nexus, the nexus of terrorist organizations with a global reach,

that was under the obama administration.nd they put a nice big picture of nikki haley up on the "new york times" website and in the "new york times" newspaper to say it was her fault and the apology was on page 97 in the smallest possible font. nikki haley had nothing to do with it. the american people have seen this time and time again. that's why the mainstream media has no credibility anymore. jesse: when you think about what happened during the kavanaugh hearing, the handshake, the white power symbol. if they are going to lie about calling a white power propaganda, what else are they doing they are not getting caught doing? it's unbelievable. but like you say, it's par for the course. do you believe the regular people see through this. i think a lot of this stuff comes in people in waves and they don't pay attention. especially to the correction. >> i think they see through it. there was a woman sitting behind brett kavanaugh during the committee hearing who also supposedly flashed the white power symbol. if you scratch

obama's first year in office until his last. so those are the numbers, all right? that's why there was a tailwind coming into this administration. is it right for trump to get credit for what happens now? of course. did he do it alone? of course not. so what else did obama do today? he called on americans to find common ground and fight back against what he calls dangerous times. president trump is deploying very different tactics as november approaches. which set of tactics will prevail? what do you say? great debate, next. smiles when they start. how do they finish? since joining ninehahi, ubmonths ago,o. my priority has been to listen to you... to cities and communities, and to my own employees. i've seen a lot of good. we've changed the way people get around. we've provided new opportunities. but moving forward, it's time to move in a new direction. and i want you to know just how excited i am, to write uber's next chapter, with you. one of our core values as a company, is to always do the right thing. and if there are times when we fall short, we commit to being open, taking responsibility for the problem, and fixing it. t

i think if you to the senior leaders of the bush administration, the obama administration, now the trumpinistration, the top officials and put them together in a room and asked us, who are we finding -- fighting, what are we fighting about, and what does victory look like? forget about strategy. you would have as many answers as you have people in the room. if you go to the next level and say what should our strategy be, you have almost as many answers. that is only among our national security elite. if you open it up to society you get some anymore voices. that i think -- when i think about it, the core problem is that we do not have a clear vision. of what the role of the u.s. in the middle east and what we used to call the greater the least is. in the bush administration, i was in the white house in 2005 to 2007. i thought we had a very clear idea. looking back it wasn't a very good idea, but it was a clear idea. our strategy was to fight the nexus of terrorist organizations with a global reach, terrorist supporting states, and wmd's. we wanted to prevent nexus. the problem was, is no

through the rest of the obama administration and indeed the beginning of the trump administration, the numbers have been around hundred 50,000, below 300,000. the most recent data says 2017 there were 310,000 unauthorized entries so what that means is the crisis we are talking about today is much smaller than what was normal 15 years ago, 20 years ago. another fact that may surprise you, the net outmigration from the united states to mexico house steadily increased since 2012 . what that means is there are more people every year leaving the united states to go to mexico and there are leaving mexico to come to the united states and the demographers this trend is going to continue. so the movements and the patterns are changing enormously , but the headlines in the news don't seem to reflect that. last little bit of data. immigrants arriving in the united states since 2010, 41 percent come from asia compared to 39 percent coming from latin america. that's extremely different, again from what you see in the news. so with these major shifts in patterns, the stereotypes in the public consci

consistent with the aclu's staunch nonpartisanship, i want to draw a comparison with the obama administration on this issue. on one hand, president barack obama himself repeatedly and strongly spoke out in favor of campus free-speech, including four racist speech, including for misogynistic speech. in fact, when i looked at the index for my book, i saw that it quotes from barack obama more than any other person because he was such an eloquent advocate of counter speech, not censorship, as the most effective way to advance equality and diversity and dignity and inclusivity and all of those wonderful rights that the student activists are championing. on the other hand, president obama's department of justice did not follow through. nor did the office of civil rights and his department of education. in particular, these agencies actually undermined campus free-speech in a key respect through a distorted concept of sexual harassment that encompassed even constitutionally protected expression about sex or gender as some leading civil rights and women's rights activists complained about the justice

] now, former attorney general eric holder speaks at tonight's about lgbtq writes over the obama administration and his redistricting process. chad: how incredible was that? the person i have the pleasure of introducing next has had a profound impact on the lives of every single person in this room. in the mostgeneral pro-equality administration in history, he made lgbtq equality a top try worthy of the justice department. forlting in real change countless people all across this country. nothistoric decision to it in federal court brought an end to the shameful and discriminatory law. it laid the groundwork for nationwide marriage equality. he helped lead the charge to people aresgender protected from discrimination under our existing civil rights ins area he was crucial championing and implementing the matthew shepard and james burns junior hate crime prevention act . leadership ofis the national democratic heistricting committee, continues to be a champion of civil rights. helping to dismantle and prevent unjust and it racist partisan gerrymandering across this country and safeguard the funda

everybody knew they were under fire and on friday last week president obama called his administration'se to act, subsequent apparent cover and up nothing more a crazy g.o.p.-led to conspiracy theory. that is the subject of tonight's mini monologue to obama. ♪ a day we can't forget, that is september 11th 2012, the u.s. ambassador chrisor stevens, foreign service officer sean smith, i've met his family, cia contractors thai wood, another great family, glenn doherty, they were all murdered. some of them big heroes and all of this. this was a well coordinated assault. dozens of heavily armed radical islamic militants against u.s. diplomatic position in benghazi. they used automatic rifles,di they used grenades, they used rpgs. and other military style weapons. within an hour the obama administration officials, they were briefed about this attack. u.s. surveillance drone was even sending back live footage. the state department notified the administration that a radical islamic terrorist group was responsible. the militants, they quickly overran the lightly guarded main u.s. diplomatic compo

did the republicans for six years of obama's a administration make people suffer economically with sequestration and with austerity measures where they turned down medicare for all, they did all sorts of things to blunt the economy from obama but he still succeeded. host: thank you for the call. guest 2: i think what henry said is that is a lot of what democrats are going to try to use to motivate their voters, those types of talking points. what republicans did to obstruct obama while he was in office and the feelings about what trump is doing in his office. from a get out the vote perspective, that is a motivating message. host: alan in washington, d.c., independent line. caller: good to be with you. -- first of all, under president obama, $1 trillion in student loan debt was added. in the last presidential election, neither candidate addressed the issue for current borrowers and there were 30 million people out there highly distressed by their student loans. this election could go either way. if the democrats were to champion the return of bankruptcy protections for student loans, they would

eevaluations driven by gates and there's an anecdote but high level education department in the obama administration who goes to give a speech at the ford foundation, and he is talking and suddenly starts referring to the gates administration. and of course everyone in the audience cracks up. but the reality was that many people in the obama education department were gates foundation people so maybe not so far off the mark. the big three philanthropies, gates, the eli and edig rode foundation in los angeles and the walton family foundation in arkansas, quadruples spending on q through 12 education between 2000 and 2005, to $400 million, and by the way i'm focusing now just on those three big philanthropies and not talking about the dark money organizations that the koch brothers brothers and the devos family are now emassing and that $400 million in the last several years has both the spending and influence of these philanthropies has green exponentially. to illustrate what i mean i'd like to take you on a brief journey to los angeles, where eli broads is having an outsized influence on the second l

so it's an absolute outrage that the obama administration stopped the practice of notification.hat's something that should be done automatically any, time that issue arises, and this department of justice could start making a difference by cracking down on those violations and prosecuting them right now. lou: and he made that change through an executive order. can this president simply reverse it? >> yes, he can. he can instruct the department of justice to start prosecuting those and issue the notices of conflict on those numbers. lou: of course, you and i both know that some idiot judge appointed by obama will simply order the trump administration to not notify employers of that breach and mismatch. what do you think the odds are? >> well, they might, i would encourage this administration, if that happens, to just stop the practice in that particular district and contest the ability of any sort of district judge to issue any kind of nationwide injunction. justice thomas laid grounds for that in his dissent in a case that came out a few months ago. lou: and there's really, this

obama deserves credit here? >> i think it's safe to say that close to two years into this administration i think you can quit giving credit to obama for anything. no offense to him. i want to respect the office that he is our former president. but i believe that a savvy businessman like donald trump is the person that's really helped this economy grow. elizabeth: let's get to joe manchin. he's up for election in november. a lot of mining jobs in that state. what's your take on how he is planning to vote for brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. what's your reaction to that? >> it's his only comans of winninchance ofwinning this sta. i ran in the republican primary in the senate race because people are fed up with senator manchin. the whole reason that hillary clinton was in williamson is because he was backing her and it wasn't because of the people of the state. he was backing the person that had the d next to their name and that was her. and you know, he'll probably get the support of the umwa. at this point i believe that if the anti-christ ran on the democratic ticket they would back that person. but honestly,

. >> well and all of that started under the obama administration so the irony in this and it's alwaysd to go back and look at recent history so we get the facts on the table so you have the obama administration who said we're going to reset we're going to actually withdraw troops from europe because the russia threat is no more, and we're going to pivot to asia. now what happens? they completely botched russia and tried to blame it on the trump adminitration and at the same time they've mill tarrized i can't see your map, but building these islands which are essentially stationary aircraft carriers where they have complete military control, command and control of the entire south china sea, so it makes it very hard for the united states to keep those major trade waters open in the event of any type of conflict because on any given day, you have two-thirds of the world's commerce transiting threw that region. maria: we want to keep up with you on this. i'm going to keep checking back in terms of how your investigation is going this is real important and we want to point it out because

many republicans, lindsey graham, the vice president, others who say this is barack obama's administratione of the reasons there is a president donald trump and they go point by point refuting some of the especially economic stats that many believe the obama recovery was hindered by the obama administration. democrats largely like to see president obama campaigning for them across the country. >> harris: what was interesting in his speech last week, the former president was really calling out beyond of the people in illinois in that auditorium, he was saying, evangelicals, libertarians, all the people that don't agree with him to go to the ballot and cast their vote for a democrat in their local races. it was interesting because some of those people he accused of being religious and clinging to their guns. how can he help democrats when they lost more than a thousand seats across the nation with him at the helm? >> exactly. president obama did not do a ton for the democratic party. at the end of's administration, there's no doubt about it that that democratic party had a lot of losses in p

this was something that was clearly a hit on nikki haley, they quote obama and the obama administration official slamming the trump administration while they also admit in the story that the curtains were purchased in 2016. they should've retracted the entire thing because without nikki haley in the headline come without their narrative around this being her problem, there's no story there in less you're going to do a story about whether these curtains belong to samantha power, the former u.n. ambassador, whether they carry state farm and was spending so much money so that was the real story and the issue this correction that said we gave an unfair impression. that was just false. it wasn't a mistake, it was a purposeful political hit job and without the conservative and normal people on twitter saying it was, they would have issued any kind of clarification at al all. >> jessica: they did not think that donald trump is going to be president to who did they anticipate was going to be the next u.s. ambassador to the u.n.? i guarantee you the foresight and the tea leaves did not tell that

hank: the obama administration managed them well, adapted than the market conditions and they worked.hen we look at our flagship bank insurance companies capital program, all the money has come back plus $32 billion. if you look at the tarp in totality, all the investment programs of the tarp excluding the obama administration's spending program for mortgage relief, more than all the investments of come back. they are not a lot of government programs that can say that. >> the banks cut all this tarp money. they are not lending it out. they are not lending out compared to the amount of tarp money they received. give me $2 billion. i will make mortgages without money. >> get our money out on the street. if you don't want to give it back, don't come here and tell me you can't. yes, you can. >>, when capital is infused did you think more thing would happen -- more lending would happen? the biggest reception issue is why were these fatcats part of the problem, being given cash in on losing my house. hank: i was as frustrated as anyone when after leaving government i read that banks reporti

identity of nearly four hundred americans under her own name she was just one player in the obama administration add to that susan rice and many others in the administration of barack obama that were spying on americans and so i think president did the right thing here you look at someone like carter page a private citizen who was clearly dragged through the mud even some of the mainstream media is admitting to that now that after a year of being under investigation carter page may not have been involved in some of these activities as as the obama administration suggested he was and boy i'm glad to see transparency here it's funny when the she was on the other foot you know democrats are always hollering about transparency and accountability in the intelligence agencies when did the roles reverse went when did washington become even swankier than before democrats usually would support this kind of thing but they're not because they don't know you know because their messiah president was the most secretive president in american history lionel jumping right. in one thousand nine hundred seventy on

that was what they forgot, wasn't it, in the obama administration? trengthen the middle class and instead of embracing outsourcing, offshoring, this is the same administration which long made up the majority of the population falling below 50%. guess what year? 2015. the biden people forget that 44 million people were in food stamps. nearly 3 million more than were on it the past may. maybe it was when biden left office. he forgot that the unemployment rate was 4.8%. now down to 3.9%. biden slamming raw, naked nationalism. is he have a nationalistic fantasy of some kind? which nation would he like us to support more rather than our own? joining us james freeman, assistant editor at the quarterfinal, the fox business contributor and the coauthor of a newly released book "borrowed time: two centuries of book, and busts and bailouts." you are the man. first, you are getting a shout out from the president on twitter. >> yes. and a phone call with him. tell us how it went. >> good. i went on the sister network and i talked about to your point what is so ex

most care to ensure that their interpretation is well grounded in the law and actually -- the obama administration defined the word significant during their administration and just two weeks ago on august 24, the district throughout the legal interpretation and said it was imperfect. it is those areas where the terms are that we end up having a degree of controversy and the reason i say that is because here is what i want you to record highs, back to the diagram. when federal administrators stray too far into the red when they ignore the green, that is problematic. that is where we end up with courts explaining to us that we haven't followed the law. we seek to apply the policy outcome or we conversely simply rely on the facts and ignore the law. that is an area where we have impermissibly engaged and so what this was trying to do, this diagram is a simple way to say that when i think of how we should apply the endangered species act and how we should implement it, i say we need to stay as close as possible and the orange. we have to be true to the facts. we have to be true to the law and we have

animates trump the second thing that animates him is a desire to distance himself from the obama administration from other administrations who he feels were insufficiently vigilant in guarding american interests and poland is a particular flashpoint for this because one of the first acts the obama administration did upon taking over was to cancel a very very well thought out air defense interceptor system that was to go into poland and czechoslovakia that both countries had agreed to accept that some considerable risk and then the obama administration said no and you know we had the famous reset and then it was viewed that there was sort of a by trump that there was not a robust enough response to various russian predations exercises the annexation of crimea etc the third thing is economic look the united states government is in a period in which the military in particular and i think the people around trump do believe this the military has been deployed on these endless wars overseas by both republican and democratic presidents that haven't done anything to advance our security interests that

>> the obama administration which i use as a comparison between the two administrations, the obama administratione over the protests, the green revolution of the iranian people who wanted a different way forward for their country, and the us government supports the iranian people, there have been protests in recent weeks and months, protesting the regime leaders, they want peace and prosperity, they don't want this money spent to destabilize the region and the trump administration is trying to crush the iranian regime to the point they say we will go a different direction and help our people and stop this outward view of terrorism and destruction. rob: the president of iran had a response for donald trump which was to make us leadership seem like the evil one. the amount of bs out of the country is staggering. what did you and scarves protesting. the iranian people want peace, their own version what they want to be like. we respect the cultural differences that exist but they can have a peaceful flourishing country of the regime leaders would stop the outward focus on exporting terrorism in the i

this time, they are casting a suspicious light on the obama administration. according to attacks on january january 23rd, strok texting page, they are concerned with over sharing. they do not want clapper -- potentially makes enemies. we are unclear what that stands for, but it may mean the classified raw intelligence. high-ranking peter strzok is concerned that the obama white house may potentially weaponize intelligence and use it against political enemies, the same clapper who spewed anti-trump federal at his cushy gig at a fake news. these text are before they released a report showing approach from interference, one more piece of evidence that those of the highest levels to prevent trump ever getting elected and destroy the president after the election. sadly tonight, we still have people working in our bloated federal bureaucracy actively working against the president bragging about it and are proud about it. we have the proof. james o'keefe, project notice , they have uncovered the deep state anti-trump operatives. day three of their release. they rele