so this administration is picking up where the obama administration left off. no? at. i have been spending a year and a half trying to get the truth out to the american people that the trump administration is using the facilities i built. that's why i was saying the lies about the trump administration are just that, lies. one more thing the obama administration did. we held families in detention centers up to 50 days to see a judge. 90% lost their case, and they went home. liz: tom homan, wish we had more time. thank you for your service to our country. and thank you for joining us. lou dobbs is next. have a good evening. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. president trump threatening the radical dimms and the deep state. the president making it clear he's willing to do whatever it takes to eliminate corruption and to drain the d.c. swamp. the president tweeted he may fuel everyone responsible for the fiction-fueled farce of the special counsel saying it was all predicated on lies. president trump: i think the mueller scam is just exactly what the people are calling i

administration. and what did president trump do? he did something obama never did. he provided lethal, defensive military aid, javelin missiles that can take out russian tanks. the first ground they allege of delaying aid is legal and permissible and by any measure the trump administration's record on it is much, much better than the obama administration. how about the second ground -- directing an investigation into your political rival. madam president, the most important legal question in this proceeding, the question that resolves this proceeding, is does a president have the constitutional authority to investigate credible allegations of corruption? the house managers built their case on the proposition that seeking an investigation into burisma, the corrupt ukrainian natural gas company, and joe biden and hunter biden, seeking any investigation into whether there was corruption there was, in the words of the house managers, baseless, a sham, and utterly without merit. in their opening argues, the house -- in their opening arguments, the house managers spent ove

ramos had a px*gt shows i pictu was the obama administration >> you have a younger based latino voterso felt the policies during the obama and trump years. he's trailing bernie sanders among them. this could create weaknesses. it's telling he now calls it a mistake having been confronted by it by julian castro and others. now to go to nevada where immigration is a pressing and real issue, i think is proof of how quickly the narrative of these primaries can change depending on the state you're in. he didn't discuss it in iowa and new hampshire. >> i see it differently. i think the problem with the biden administration is the response to it. if he wanted to own that lane, he should defend the obama administration policies on this, saying this is an endemic problem that multiple administrations, democrat and republican have been dealing with. we dealt with it the best we account. trump's strongest supporters are on the issue of immigration. biden needs to win some of those obama trump voters back, and i think explaining and back peddling in a tentative way is a fail for him. >> he has to

and the obama administration talks about a confidence but the eastern province of the shia population in the golf but then you can get those confidence building measures but. >> and then with the obama administration strategy with the equilibrium but the question is why did it looks like. >> one of the issues we have to deal with is that iran decks policy on two levels. it should be state to state but also policy through proxy and support for nongovernmental groups and also across the world. one thing that has to happen from the standpoint of the gulf and then to draw the question some way to a large extent the decision to show there were actual consequences to their policies in iraq. so to rip the band-aid off this idea that in with those supported groups to that will be one of the biggest problems to address security. list to a broader regional security or a paradigm that conceives of the security aimed i think it will be very difficult. it's a golf state we don't know enough but it could be a big leap because but it is the first step to the discussion. >> i would make two points. n

that is the obama administration's strategy. if we let the region come to its own equilibrium but the question is what that journey looks like and whether the equilibrium is one we find desirable, or even acceptable. >> one of the issues that we have to deal with, that is difficult is the fact that iran conduct policy at least on two different levels. it conducts state to state policy negotiations, but it also conduct policy through proxies and support for non governmental groups in many parts of the world including latin america and asia and across the globe. one thing that has to happen from the standpoint of the gulf, maybe israel and the trump administration is to draw this question into the discussion in some way. to a large extent, i think the decision to kill soleimani with a drone strike was to show iran that there were actual consequences for iranian officials to their unofficial proxy led policies, at least in iraq. so, to some extent, the killing of soleimani has ripped the band-aid off this idea that we will, in our

guest: let's blame about the obama administration that has been gone 4 years. this is not the first time there has been concern about the drugs and the fact that they are manufactured overseas and there certainly has been a long time we have, during the trump administration, that big pharma presidentg -- the used that term, price gouging the cost of prescription drugs. it is time we all understand we have been under the trump administration and we just need now to the need we have. it has shown off the shortcomings in the pricing of pharmaceuticals and the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals . let's learn from this coronavirus problem and beef up our national security with the drugs we need and it is time to stop blaming the obama administration for the problems we are facing right now. host: what are you hearing from hospitals and health care workers about their ability to respond to patients? guest: i raise that question with the secretary of health and human services because we were hearing from health-care workers they can be protected, that they have the equi

has been very vocal that in his view we have wasted $8 trillion in the middle east, even the obama administration wanted to rebalance its efforts away from the middle east and toward asia. aboutu are talking competing effectively when we are essentially, their view of two administrations, going to reduce our presence while the chinese and russians -- even if they do small things, are increasing their presence. are there ways that we can while thatectively balances going on in absolute terms we will go down in absolute terms, they will go up? even in relative terms, we remain the preponderant power. the senses we and subways are on the way out and there on the way in. how should we think about that? >> great question. it is real challenge for our people operating in the region. i think we have to stop talking about what we're going to do in this region and what we are going to do in that region. we have to express our strategy in a much more wholesome manner, much more fulsome manner, should say. the strategy is about maintaining our competitive advantage against great power competitors. thatve to

entitled, obama's plan to make the administrative state permanent. e points out that -- this is before the election, a month before the 2016 election, president obama's cronies are being placed into permanent staff positions in the federal government and the administration is not even bothering to follow its own personnel rules which govern the process. apparently there were people in the obama administration that realized, you know, there's a chance trump could win this election. even though we're sure the american people will elect hillary clinton. there's a chance. so there are supposedly around 4,000 people or so that an administration appoints into politically appointed positions. but those people are subject to being fired on a whim of a new president. so, according to this article, the obama administration started taking people who were political appointees and moving them into career appointments where we've seen seen a case in arizona, a federal employee commits a federal crime, is found guilty of a federal crime, and a court comes back later

>> well, you know, let's blame the obama administration that has been gone, it will be four years. and this is not the first time there's been concern about the drugs and the fact that they're manufactured overseas. and there certainly has been a long time that we have during the trump administration, that big pharma has been pretty much gouging, actually the president used that term once, price gouging on the cost of prescription drugs. so it's time now that we all understand, we've been under the trump administration, and we just need to respond responsibly now to the need that we have. it has shown up the shortcomings in the pricing of pharmaceuticals, in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. so let's learn from this coronavirus problem and beef up our national security with the drugs that we need. and it's time to stop blaming the obama administration for the problems that we're facing right now. >> what are you hearing from hospital and health care workers in your district about their ability to respond to patients? >> yes, i raised that question too with the secretary of heal

reach outward and have a more international response like the kind we saw from the obama administration. >> basically donald trump has addressed his extensive public comments on ebola. he advocated keeping and blocking and closing the boarders and keeping american doctors and nurses, really the best among us to reach victims of ebola. he said he won't respond the same way because ebola is more deadly. what is, to you sort of the risk landscape for people who have to travel to work, for people whose families come in and out of the country. what is the nonhysterical reality check on trying to navigate life if it involves travel with a president who, any morning could wake up, see something on fox news and tweet something alarming? >> first, i see linked to this question of how americans are going to deal with this and their domestic lives. it's linked, unfortunately, to trust. in other words, we're going to get our information from this administration. and the problem now is our institutions have been attacked so severely and so frequently by this administration that we're going to have d

the trends, since the end of the great recession, so dating back to the early days of the obama administration, has been incredibly positive. steady. the trend over the last year has been a little less rosy. we have added only about 206,000 manufacturing jobs over all of the last 12 inmonths. and this is in a private sector economy that has added about 2 million jobs over the same period. so you see that's lagged far behind the rest of the economy. there is about a one and a half year boom during the trump administration, but that has dissipated. in over the past few months in particular we have been losing manufacturing jobs. what do you point to for that leg? that's a great question and there seems to be a couple of trends. there has been some uncertainty that has come around as a result of the trade i policy. i think the trade policy has had some benefits but has also added some uncertainties to businesses. they are reluctant to invest and that means and other things are not getting purchasedur and it has a spiral effect in manufacturing. you have seen an oil and gas, ironically when the pr

so let me take us back to 2014, obama administration and in a primetime immigration speech on november 20 2014, president obama explained that his administration, immigration enforcement priorities target felons, not families. terminals, not children. gang members, not a mom who is working hard toprovide for her kids, the president said . resident obama's dissertation is as good an example of resident trumps trite comment about targeting bad hombres and i strive to mimic his pronunciation but i can't area both of these formulations simplify complex human beings. felons are part of families. just like one persons bad hombre might be another's father. it hurts that he was trying to be a dad and he can't. cecilia said about her father, locked up for returning to the united states to reunite with his kids . the easy soundbite makes for politically useful talking points, but they are a lousy basis for public policy. the shifting sands of the political debate about which migrants deserve to live freely in the united states and which don't expose the pernicious edge of sorting the good from t

the obama administration tried to set some cyber norms. they did indict the hackers for hitting the banks with the hacks. the obama administration's sale. they just continued into what they built with this thing. i did blow up and hit us as well. fulfilling every warning of that kind of cassandra who is watching the cyber war and trying to warn that this was a dangerous unfolding phenomenon. the trump administration has her own blind spots about russian hackers. so when it hits and hit american soil they did billions of dollars of damage to the government. it took eight months for the trump administration to even say anything about it. i still kind of scratch my have about. you don't go into the oval office of president trump and talk about russian hackers is not a subject. after sony was hacked there was a statement from the department of justice i think we explored and not only did it take the government years it took until the global cyber's attack fibrous attack for our government to start talking about the cyber war. it took eight mon

happening around the world, what has been decimated in terms of an internal infrastructure by the obama administrationwas built to combat these types of global outbreaks? >> i hope the president and vice president will put the word out to the entire administration it's all hand on deck. every agency has to look to what they can do to help us deal with this. i hate to dwell on political differences but for three straight years the administration's underfunded these key agencies like the center for disease control. we got to talk about putting adequate funding in there to protect american public health. and i hope that all of these agencies in the administration will be part of it. >> you don't want this to be political. the president's son and the president in his tweet suggesting the democrats are trying to blame him and not doing enough but politicizing it. >> it comes as no surprise. on a bipartisan basis we do care and the american people want to us do this together. >> thank you very much. a growing crisis along the turkish and syrian border could increase the possibility of an armed conflict betw

under the obama administration, no reaction.ing charged here. buff how can there be no reaction to these kinds of huge data breaches and cyber attacks against the united states, our government, our companies, our institutions? >> you are right. arresting four chinese who are involved or potentially single handedly culpable for this breach isn't enough. we haved to hold china accountable as a country. president trump has done that through his tough trade actions in holding china accountable. this seems to be part of the discussions. this is just skinning the surface. we are talking about half the american population whose driver's licenses, social security numbers, dates of birth being infiltrated by this breach. there are several layers to this that the chinese takes advantage of the americans. lou: we are getting hammered everywhere. we are getting hammered. and the president has bent only one to stand up and say exactly what's happening here. we are being played for chumps, fools and patsies. secretary of state pompeii over sa

obama and that democratic administration their signature policy was fracking obama brought in fracking to the nation we've seen a doubling of the production of oil because of that joining our us are dan collins and tyson slocum now barack obama championed fracking it has seen since 2008 to 2018 the u.s. crude oil production doubled from $5000000.00 barrels a day to $11000000.00 barrels per day hillary clinton as secretary of state flew around the world trying to get nations like poland for example to bring fracking there so this is the only school the neo liberal policy for democrats that was really championed now the younger generation they're against what do you think about fracking and should we ban it or is it an issue well fracking obviously is sort of the centerpiece of u.s. fossil fuel production there are huge concerns not just about some of the environmental issues related to fracking which involves injecting water because with chemicals in particular it's like sand very high pressure deep into hard rock formations you're basically putting a jet engine on the drill and using w

google basically ran the obama administration.ebook gave the obama administration special deals gave the obama campaign special access. on the left goes up there and says we don't like big tech, really? because you benefited from big tech. you got rich off big tech. now we don't have a real marketplace because these big tech companies, were all liberals putting stuff on the scale against donald trump all these companies get special deals from government and that means there is a real competition. >> it's also beyond social media. so many people talk about that because they're interacting with it so much everyday but you see it with google and gmail do yourselves a favor, subscribe to the email lists of some of the crazy leftists right now subscribe to the trumpet and conservative side and check your junk mailbox. see which side is going where. the inbox thing with her literally saying it's coming from trump going to your junk mail. it's going into your everyday life and this is what they will keep doing. you see it getting worse a

i think the bulk of the credit for achievements of the obama administration is obama. >> that's yourponse to vice president biden in. >> my response to the vice president, if the question is about who can win, we just had an election monday. and we're going into another one. i'm not focused on the past, i'm focused on this moment. the reason the achievements of the obama administration matter is they met the moment. >> there's another mayor running, mayor michael bloomberg, he thinks he is the only one that can defeat donald trump. why should people go with you verse michael bloomberg? >> i had the experience of turning around a community on the ropes, low income community in the heart of the midwest, the place where our party has struggled to connect, and where this president built his base. i have the experience of having my own life shaped by politics. >> you come from a manufacturing center. you know the truth, that the manufacturing sector is shrinking. the president's base who propelled him into office were diseffected blue collar workers. you know the numbers. their lives aren

under the obama administration, no reaction.charged here. buff how can there be no reaction to these kinds of huge data breaches and cyber attacks against the united states, our government, our companies, our institutions? >> you are right. arresting four chinese who are involved or potentially single handedly culpable for this breach isn't enough. we haved to hold china accountable as a country. president trump has done that through his tough trade actions in holding china accountable. this seems to be part of the discussions. this is just skinning the surface. we are talking about half the american population whose driver's licenses, social security numbers, dates of birth being infiltrated by this breach. there are several layers to this that the chinese takes advantage of the americans. lou: we are getting hammered everywhere. we are getting hammered. and the president has bent only one to stand up and say exactly what's happening here. we are being played for chumps, fools and patsies. secretary of state pompeii over saying

those policies began under the obama administration. there's another set of numbers. consumer confidence is at an -- high. it's higher than it was under obama. unemployment is at 3.5%. so even if some of the other claims are untrue, does he have a strong advantage going into this election? how do you balance those numbers when you look at an electorate? >> well, that's true. i mean, these are exactly the tail winds i was talking about, and incumbents have historically done well with those kinds of tail winds. however, trump is pretty far off the line. if you look at a plot between approval and economic conditions, he's -- he doesn't get quite the credit that other folks do. that's part of it. and one reason for that, and we vice president talked about this yet, is because of the vast inequalities across this economy. yes, we have a great low national unemployment rate. but there are still lots of people and places and sectors that have been left behind. and it's up to democrats to make sure that they stress this point that in an age of inequality, the macro indicators

the trend since the end of the great recession, dating back to the early days of the obama administration, has been incredibly positive. slow but steady. the trend over the last year has been a little less rosy. we have added only about 26,000 manufacturing jobs over the last 12 months. this is in a private sector economy that added about 2 million jobs in the same period. manufacturing has lagged far behind the rest of the economy. duringas a 1.5 year boom the trump administration, but that has dissipated. we have been losing manufacturing jobs. host: what do you .2 for that for that lag?to guest: there has been some uncertainty. it has come around as a result of the trade policy. i think it has had some benefits but it is also adding uncertainty to some businesses. they are reluctant to invest and other things are not getting purchased. that has a spiral effect in manufacturing. gas,ave seen in oil and ironically when the prices go down a little bit, that means there is probably reduced employment in the refining and other sectors with reduced opportunity. what has happened with respect

obama years. nearly 6.7 million jobs added in the first 35 months of the trump administration compared to nearly 8 million in the final 35 months of obama's tenure. joe biden, the former vice president, running for office, he took note of the president's claims there. he points out accomplishments of the obama white house and reminds everyone president trump gave a big tax break to the rich. the economy grew 2.3% last year. that's not the 3%, 4%, even 5% president trump promised from his cuts and deregulation. now the election year economy has new challenges. the coronavirus and the boeing max crisis could dent economic growth in the first quarter with many economists predicting growth as low as 1.5%. >>> the senate is set to acquit president trump today in the impeachment trial. he was charged with abuse of power for demanding ukraine announce an investigation of the bidens in exchange for much needed military aid. there are some senators who could have crossed party lines. senator susan collins will not be one of them. the moderate from maine voted to hear from witnesses in the trial but says sh

you worked in this, you worked in the obama administration and we saw when barack obama came in in '08 he defied all odds and was able to win iowa, do well in new hampshire and just on and on. we're not seeing that kind of race here. is that good or bad for the democrats because we're seeing a lot of the democratic contenders shooting at each other and a lot of that i'm sure we'll see on trump commercials in the fall. >> well, i think what we're seeing is the diversity of the democratic party play itself out. and so i'm actually -- i'm comfortable with the idea of iowa and new hampshire not dictating who carries the field because as we know they are not representative of the diversity of the democratic party and of the nation. so i'm excited about about nevada. as you know, early voting is underway in nevada. which is an important process in terms of expanding the electorate and making democracy more accessible to people of color, to low income people, to working people. so the early voting process is underway. nevada is far more diverse than iowa or new hampshire. we know that 30% of

begins for raising concern about hunter biden and burisma but there were concerns under the obama administration kerry's own stepson with top aides of the state department he divorced himself from hunter biden over burisma and then you look at the facts that hunter biden or the obama administration prepped maria jovanovich for her confirmation hearing about potential concerns about burisma. >> i'm sorry we had to leave it there but - will be talking about this again. >> yes, we will. steve: marsha blackburn will stay with. iowa was a disaster for the democrats. is changing things up. with an app that's changing the way we do money. download robinhood now. -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour? the real question is... do you mind not being a mo-tour? -i do. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. >> ♪ steve: welcome back. sarah was laughing about something i'm sure we'll get to it in a minute but let's talk about the democrats and which is probably why she is laughing but we had the fiasco in iowa that is coming to an end now but

. >> with regard to tension between the white house administration and media, that's always been there and to some extent, it could be. president obama during his administration said there's this one neck it network, and his administration he thought was his resistance. to what extent are we now in new ground or a matter of degrees. >> every president thinks they are being treated unfairly by the media. you can look at recent history, brooklyn. we constantly talk about how unfair he thought the media coverage was. in my book on theater roosevelt, which is about a trial which was reliable, at the end of his second term he is the department of justice to charge to media entities grimsley for saying things about him that were true. he sued another media organization etc. the idea of the tension between the media is nothing new. the way this president is using that to try to make all the opinion is different. there's the usual presidential complaining about the media and again, you can talk about the left-wing media which is a fair conversation to have but it's also thought reality that what this president is doing is different. in terms

state department says the ban imposed by barack obama's administration has put the u.s. army at a disadvantage. the land mines are buried in the ground and detonate when stepped on now there are 2 types of such mines the old ones aren't deactivated by themselves or the new type called smart minds have to function have a function to self-destruct or trump use that argument to say land mines are much safer now while lifting the ban most notions are of course against the use of land mines back in 1909 the treaty was agreed on by 160 countries banning and land mines united states however abstained from it former pentagon official michael maloof thinks that such a decision could escalate u.s. tensions with other countries. the trump administration's decision just adds one more layer of. tea to warfare and encourages it it's very difficult to determine. what what where these mines would be laid and and how they could be deactivated even though the they claim they're going to be field in a new and new type that can deactivate on its own but that's not sure certainty the obama a

school and [inaudible] was my major which was very fitting so i worked for john kerry and the obama administrationso i seen firsthand the difference between good leadership and bad leadership, i.e., what we are dealing with now and it's like who among the candidates, there are 11 candidates that are -- there are many of them but to me he stands out as the one -- [inaudible]. jumping on a campaign wasn't an option. [inaudible conversations] >> you are voting monday. >> we might have events coming up with the vp in town. go online and you might be able to meet the guy in person. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you. nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [background noises] [background noises] [inaudible conversations] >> i'm michelle. >> i'm mike. it's a pleasure. >> i assume you are voting on monday? >> yes, i am. [background noises] >> pretty good numbers of undecided. >> yeah, i think in terms of it really happens in some ways people living there are spoiled because they get [inaudible] which is so great because

was a report that came out in the senate taking a look at the 2016 election and what the obama administration knew about russian interference, saying that there is prolonged inter-agency -- were caught off onrd by russian interference fall of 2016, saying they learned of the hack from the dnc from media reports, as a case of routine xp nosh. -- espionage. sharing, interagency has that improved? would say look at the successes of 2018 with a lack of accusation of foreign interference, there's always room to improve and we can always go back and look at what decisions were made, or in this case, in 2016, look at the decisions the obama administration did not make. but i believe we are more prepared, but we have to ensure that other pieces of election equipment that are not following standards and guidelines actually have guidelines in place, so that we protect ourselves even further. the case doess the help america vote act have enough money to provide new machines and make them viable and available by the november election. there's never going to be enough money to provide people the dollars t

state department says the imposed by barack obama's administration has put the u.s. army at a disadvantage in the land mines are buried in the ground and death an 8 under pressure now there are 2 types though the old kind can be the activated remotely but the new so-called smart lad winds of a function to self-destruct trumpet use that argument to say the latest land mines can be removed safely former pentagon official michael maloof told us the decision could escalate u.s. tensions with countries further. trump administration's decision just adds one more layer of. tea to warfare and encourages it it's very difficult to determine. what where these mines would be laid and and how they could be deactivated even though the they claim they're going to be fielding a new and new type that can deactivate on its own but that's not sure certainty the obama administration however had agreed to. even though it would not sign the ban it agreed to deploy them except. along the demilitarized zone in separating north and south korea i think the land mines are just terrible they th

yeah rush limbaugh began the obama administration hoping proudly that he would but i'm with you larry in the sense that when the media smells blood in the water it's the story oh that's different and it's not the party so much we have anybody's but when you go in ted kennedy 1st announced he was going to run they couldn't answer roger mudd question why are you running and they ran with that against him media is oh we are hungry for stories to story or was doing this a long time the story always comes 1st if trouble makes himself the story then we attack that all praise it whatever trump has a whole 'd network behind him fox news and the consumers the war on c.n.n. the clinton claimed i was a network we have larry king and hillary for which and michael maloof we're talking about usa optics how we look to the rest of the world and we'll get right back to it after this quick break. this is also very important. to those who can influence. the nature and. in the. churches today just decided to show max. hope for the rest of the life in the ball. boy iraqis now they should we have had a muc

the obama administration knew full well of this while the president was out of promising people that they would be able to keep their doctor and that they would be able to keep their insurance plans. i don't think that anybody at the time was arguing that there were no serious solutions that needed to be debated and ultimately voted on if americans supported them, but what obamacare did was put a product and mandated that americans purchased it and in many ways economists have argued now for a long time that i but it was a bt to insurance companies and the american citizen got a raw deal in the intervening years they could have done away with, and i speak personally at the time for personal reasons i didn't have health insurance for six months anded then i purchased health insurance the last three months of the year to write a fat check to the federal government just because of a choice that i did not need to purchase a product and so again i wanted to dedicate a chapter to this rscause again it highlights how our lawmakers have an increasing amount of power and influence over the la

taking a look at the 2016 election, what the obama administration knew about russian interference. and the prolonged agency disagreements between senior officials were caught off guard in 2017. according to officials, saying they first learned of the hack at the dnc due to media reports and viewed it as espionage. it's that agency ability, sharing these kinds of concerns, has that improved your experience? >> i would say 2018. and the lack of foreign interference. would i say we're moving in the right direction. there's always room to improve and we can go back in hindsight and look at what decisions are made and in this case, 2016, the decisions that the obama administration didn't make. but i do believe we're more prepared, but we still have to ensure that other pieces of election equipment that are not following standards and not following guidelines actually have guidelines in place so that we protect ourselves even further. >> if that's the case of needed replacements. does that help america vote act that you talked about, does it have enough money for new machines and make th

continued and had an effect over a long period when crocker was in afghanistan in 2011 and the obama administration wanted to pull out the troops and basically everybody in the administration were arguing for going slow and the argument was kind of never fully resolved. it just kept going on. >> that i >> that is a great segue to my next question. the story of the diplomats is also the story of american intervention in the middle east and south central asia to be sure. were their views of these over the role of america in this part of the world or did they have great differences among them? >> there were differences but also a lot of commonalities. most of these foreign service people are traditionalists. they believe in the foreign-policy views they believe they should have a leading role in the world and that our influence is underwritten by force. they are slow to get into conflicts and also slow to get out of them because crocker always says americans are convinced with our influence and military and economic tools we can get in and reshape parts of the world so we try to exert our will but the

but here is this one aspect of the obama administration actually most americans regardless of party want in some form or another so you have donald trump trying to say he also wants this by. in a different way and it gets rather awkward with what exactly he's proposing while the same time trying as we said setting up for the 2020 campaign. hitting on this idea of socialism the socialism maybe thinking towards bernie sanders sanders or elizabeth warren buffett warning that they're going to take away your health care when of course a lot of these social models of health care are based on some element of socialism in a political system alexander you touched on this and this was one of the 1st moments even before you heard a word coming out of the president's mouth before the speech even started and of course this is a moment of extreme bipartisanship in terms of where the united states is right now now there is this moment where. of course nancy pelosi the speaker of the house top democrat was was behind trump and she seemed to extend her hand to try to go for the handshake and it look

at that level it becomes way more difficult to get off it what do you think about this the obama administration could take this is a win i think we've seen the world flip flop from 2008 to today we've basically seen the us go from importing 50000000 barrels a day of oil to down to less than 2000000 barrels a day at the same time china is now importing almost 10000000000 barrels a day so now china has become what we were in the seventy's and we had the oil crisis i mean the next problem with oil come out of the middle east our strategic rival china is going to a big problem and over here we're going to be pretty much self-sufficient so i think in terms of domestic resources it was a win in terms of climate change it was a win the u.s. is the only region in the world that has actually reduced its emissions since 2005 reduced about 7 percent and that's because we're replacing the dirtiest fuel coal with natural gas so this idea of banning fracking is a big gain of pollutants absolute you would watch it you would see number one our living standards are completely dependent on our electricity produc

begins for raising concern about hunter biden and burisma but there were concerns under the obama administration stepson with top aides of the state department he divorced himself from hunter biden over burisma and then you look at the facts that hunter biden or the obama administration prepped maria jovanovich for her confirmation hearing about potential concerns about burisma. >> i'm sorry we had to leave it there but - will be talking about this again. >> yes, we will. steve: marsha blackburn will stay with. iowa was a disaster for the democrats. what can we expect from new hampshire? we break it all down next. ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ and my side super soft? yes. with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort w

financial crisis for both the bush and obama administrations. on this administration, the response to hurricane maria in puerto rico. now it could be coronavirus. in order to manage that, you need government bureaucracy. in some ways a lot of what the federal government exists for. the hundreds of thousands of people who work for the federal government, civil servants with decades of expertise and knowledge, working diligently to get their arms around the difficult situation and prepare and hedge risk. the problem is the president, as a rule, hates those people. he's basically gone to war with them. now he needs those people to handle this crisis. so we are seeing the president marching out these government officials to provide political cover for him and help him manage the risk to try and calm fears about coronavirus. but this is where things really stand right now. we do have the first case in brazil, which is also the first case in latin america. in iraq, they have banned public gatherings. closing down cafes and schools. huge parts of italy

i held the same view under president obama's administration. administration. i spoke up against his plans for airstrikes in syria, and he voted against an authorization for those airstrikes in the senate foreign relations committee. so whether you support war with iran or not, i urge every single member here to stand up for our constitution and vote for this resolution. last month, as we were on the brink of war with iran, the whole nation and the whole world watched on edge, braced for conflict, bloodshed and terror. yet to this date this administration has not provided a serious justification for this strike on general soleimani. the administration claimed the 2002 authorization for use of military force against iraq justified the strike. but the aumf which i voted against authorizes force, and i quote here, against the continuing p threat posed by ir, not any threat posed by iran. and that authorization was passed in in 2002, and here wee 18 years later and it is being used, being specifically used to get us into another conflict. the administration claims

he tried to make a contrast of what he called failed policies of the obama administration. jobs are booming. incomes are soaring. poverty is plummeting. >> the economy is strong. the unemployment rate is the lowest in years. but trump's job market trails the performance of the obama years. really important to note. 6.7 million jobs were added in the first five months of the trump administration. that compares with nearly 8 million in the final 35 months of obama's tenure. joe biden took note of the president's claims. he points out several establi accomplishments of the obama white house. president trump gave a tax break to the rich. the economy grew 2.5%. it's not the 3%, 4% or 5% that the president claimed. the election year company has new challenges, the corona virus and the boeing max crisis could dent the economy in the first quarter. what the president tried to do, and he's been successful in this. i want to be clear. the polls show that americans feel good about the economy and they give him credit. he's tried to take an 11-year -- an 11-year-old expansion and brand

administration. and what did president trump do? he did something obama never did. he provided lethal, defensive military aid, javelin missiles that can take out russian tanks. the first ground they allege of delaying aid is legal and permissible and by any measure the trump administration's record on it is much, much better than the obama administration. how about the second ground -- directing an investigation into your political rival. madam president, the most important legal question in this proceeding, the question that resolves this proceeding, is does a president have the constitutional authority to investigate credible allegations of corruption? the house managers built their case on the proposition that seeking an investigation into burisma, the corrupt ukrainian natural gas company, and joe biden and hunter biden, seeking any investigation into whether there was corruption there was, in the words of the house managers, baseless, a sham, and utterly without merit. in their opening argues, the house -- in their opening arguments, the house managers spent ove

global health security and bio threat infrastructure that had been specifically built up by the obama administrationicularly after that administration's successful response to the 2014 ebola outbreak. that response was headed up in the obama administration at president obama's direction by a top aide to vice president biden named ron klain. joining us now is ron klain. he was chief of staff to vice president al gore and vice president joe biden. mr. klain, it's great to have you here. at some point i'm going to get you here at the desk with me in new york and we are going to have a long talk about how this is all supposed to go. but tonight let me just ask you point blank if you are worried about how the trump administration is handling this crisis thus far. >> of course i am. i mean, i think anything that could be done wrong probably has been done wrong. that starts with the president himself continuing to make inaccurate statements, inaccurate statements about the consequences of the policies adopted, inaccurate statements about the pace of vaccine development, about the likely spread of the disea