a there's a lot of similarity between divide and administration and the obama administration . their rhetoric is similar. there are a lot of, you know, the same people working for that administration. and it is my perception that during the obama administration, while all those tensions were still present in your brain and sarah, in many other parts of the world, that the obama nutrition still managed to avoid bringing it to such an acute blow out. that may be wrong. i, what i want to ask is whether you see any difference between the obama administration and the vitamin nutrition and the ability to predict and strategize about how they deal with russian. i think certainly there is a significant overlap between the obama administration and the by an administration, as you say. and i think the world views probably are not too different. i think maybe there has been some difference in terms of the ecc execution of a number of those policies. you know, president obama times reputed to have said never underestimate, goes ability to ask things up, as we've seen with crawl from afghani

well, i think certainly there is a significant overlap between the obama administration and the by an administration, as you say. and i think the world views probably are not too different. i think maybe there has been some difference in terms of the ecc execution of a number of those policies. you know, president obama time was reputed to have said, never underestimate, goes ability to ask things up. but, you know, as we've seen with crawl from afghanistan, certainly, i think the verdict on the western response to russia's, the russian creating conflict, i think still remains to be seen. i do disagree with a lot of the western narrative that this has proven to be a colossal failure on the part of russia. i think that it's probably too early to tell. so, you know, we have to see they wouldn't diff prince though, is that certainly a wall. obama in the obama administration, there was a talk of the pivot to asia. certainly under the bi invited administration, there's a very clear recognition that china's the quote unquote piecing thread. and again, whether we'll see a significant change

a there's a lot of similarity between divide and administration and the obama administration . their rhetoric is similar. there are a lot of, you know, the same people working for that administration. and yet, it is my perception that during the obama administration, while all those tensions were still present in your brain and sarah, in many other parts of the world, that the obama nutrition still managed to avoid bringing it to such an acute blow out. that may be wrong. i what i want to ask is whether you see any difference between the obama administration and the vitamin administration and the ability to predict and strategize about how they deal with russian. well, i think certainly there is significant overlap between the obama administration and buy it into ministration. as you say, i think the world use probably a lot to different. i think maybe there has been some difference in terms of the execution of the number of those policies. you know, president obama to time was reputed to him, said, never underestimate goes ability to ask things up. but, you know, as we've seen

audience laughing) (train horn blows) >> narrator: trump attempted to roll back the obama climate agenda. his administrationironmental rules and regulations, including those on methane emissions. >> a reversal of tougher obama-era standards for rules on greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy. >> a plan that would dramatically weaken pollution limits on coal-fired power plants. >> new rules making it easier for oil and gas companies to release methane. >> narrator: pressure on the industry eased off even more when president trump pulled out of the paris agreement. >> we withdrew from the one- sided, horrible, horrible, economically unfair, close your businesses down within three years... don't frack, don't drill. we don't want any energy. the horrible paris climate accord that killed american jobs and shielded foreign polluters. >> to pull out raises a question of, where does the whole effort to reduce emissions go? >> that sent a clear message, globally, that the united states was not going to play a role as a leader on climate. i mean, those were very go years for the oil and gas industry in the united

this was the last state arrival of the obama administration. this was the state arrival for italy. this was the first lady of italy, who mrs. obama gave a tour of the kitchen garden. i was lucky enough to be able to join this tour. here they are pointing out some of the new additions to the garden. actually, as we were walking through, the first lady of italy had never seen a yellow tomato before. which is one of the white house favorites. some gold tomatoes. they are delicious, yellow bundles of sweetness. she had never seen one. so we picked a handful and we all shared a handful of some gold tomatoes. maybe they can put that on my tombstone. anyway, so, who takes care of? this this is taken care of by the national park service, but no one does this alone. this was a project driven by the first lady, and her office and her staff and the director of let's move in the white house chefs. so national park service stuff, because they take care of the horticultural aspects of the white house, assets, they're the caretaker of the garden. but there are also volunteers. this is obama wanted

this was the last state arrival of the obama administration. this was the state arrival for italy. this was the first lady of italy, who mrs. obama gave a tour of the kitchen garden. i was lucky enough to be able to join this tour. here they are pointing out some of the new additions to the garden. actually, as we were walking through, the first lady of italy had never seen a yellow tomato before. which is one of the white house favorites. some gold tomatoes. they are delicious, yellow bundles of sweetness. she had never seen one. so we picked a handful and we all shared a handful of some gold tomatoes. maybe they can put that on my tombstone. anyway, so, who takes care of? this this is taken care of by the national park service, but no one does this alone. this was a project driven by the first lady, and her office and her staff and the director of let's move in the white house chefs. so national park service stuff, because they take care of the horticultural aspects of the white house, assets, they're the caretaker of the garden. but there are also volunteers. this is obama wanted

i don't know the answer except that people from the obama administration they're probably calling the shots. she wants me to name names, i wish i knew names because i can assure you biden is not naming names. i don't know. >> what evidence do you have congressman. >> i don't have any evidence. that's kind of an assumption to be quite honest of who's making the decisions. people from the obama administration, i don't know but i guess asked that question quite often about who's making thedecisions . i don't think the biden administration, i know it's not him . >> how do you know it's not him? >> i'm not sure he's capable of making those decisions quite honestly. i just don't have confidence that he is indeed in charge. but then you ask me who is in charge idon't know the answer . and i want to talk about the fentanyl because that's a great point.we can sit here and what bothers me about the southern border and the fact that this administration is paying no attention whatsoever is this president has never been to the southern border. the borders are, she's visited down there a week befor

he had a more than 40 point lead over a former consumer protection advisor to the obama administrationrepresentative ryan now faces jd vance the winner of the republican primary. a look now at congressman ryan's victory speech. dad is here, my stepmom top orion -- poppa ryan and my older brother. there was not one sporting event where we were playing each other where didn't and no fight. he won them all. he has been my defender, my friend, my confidence, my role model in all aspects of my life. he run my political campaigns. i would not be on the stage without my brother. and my mom's home watching all of this. she was crying a little bit earlier. she said you only got 75%, what is the matter with you? someone asked, in 1911 what was the secret of your success? in his answer in his book about the wright brothers, two good parents and be born in ohio. i think all of us understand that sentiment. good parents, born in ohio, opportunity to do just about anything and we are lucky, we had a great family here. like so many of you do and the opportunity here. my knees and her future husband a

and the javelin and that missile to ukraine and the obama administration to do that but trump kathy 2017, his first year in the presidency, he did agree to do that in the course famously comingld he fell hundred and hon the infamous phone call what he asked jorge faber in exchange for my personal political favor. >> celeste backup a little bit because you're already in donbass and you're already in kyiv you're seeing the situation is a big fight inside of the obama administration new must'vn aware about the back-and-forth ander really it was obama personally against the council of his defense secretary and even ultimately a secretary of state john perry, did not want to have this escalatory with putin but he also clearly had putin's number at this point time read so the ukrainians are looking very anxiously trump, so that they thought that while the trump ministration - they were kind of panicked when trump came into office and the president at the time is in ukraine and there looking at them president of the united states is that he wants to have a good relationship with russia sai

and with the vice president of china and during the obama administration of the relationship at whatee and is hunter facilitating the auto manufacturer to china and by the way the chinese company that bought the auto manufacturer they may chinese military jets also trade, ip theft everything that trump was talking about the militarization of the south china sea, to opm hats of all the critical information of people within our government with security clearance and finally look at the infiltration of the chinese communist party under president obama and vice president biden and again he was given a china portfolio with the infiltration of hollywood and we see things like the confucius centers on campus. all of this happened while biden was in charge of china. steve: exactly. a great run down. now let's get down about your visit to ukraine what have you seen and what is happening? >> thank you for having me. it has been an amazing trip we have been at most of the night with the air raid sirens. i do think things are okay right now. i have been here with a group called aerial recovery g

we start from a premise in the democratic party and the obama administration after sandy hook that you ban assault-style weapons. you don't need ar-15s in this country. the compromise position hammered out between republicans and democrats was background checks. that was the thing we could agree on because it doesn't take away guns from people or restrict the sale of guns. i'm not happy with that. that would not be enough to stop the kinds of things we're talking about. but that was where we'll begin. the fact we're sitting there almost a decade after sandy hook and we haven't seen the background checks when 90% of americans support it, it shows the absurdity of where we're stuck here. >> that doesn't get us anywhere where we need to be. you should not be able to purchase ar-15 weapons in this country. as long as that's the case, people are going to continue to be killed by those weapons, as has been the case in most deadly mass shootings in recent years. i hope we start with the lowest-hanging fruit where politically the case is going to have to be made that this is a top priority iss

that share, you know transferring javelins the anti-tank missiles to to ukraine and the obama administration decline to do that. but trump at the end of 2017 his first year in the presidency, he did agree to do that then of course famously he held them hostage in the infamous perfect phone call where he asked for a favor in exchange a personal and political favor. well, that's right. so let's back up a little bit because in 2017, you're already the ambassador. your ordering cave you see the situation there and there was a big fight actually inside the obama administration and the final year of that and you must have been aware of that and you know the back and forth and it really was obama personally who against the council of his defense secretary and even ultimately i think the secretary of state john kerry didn't want to send the web he viewed that as escalatory with with putin but he also clearly had putin's number at this at this point in time. so the ukrainians are looking very anxiously though at trump. it's not that they thought well, the trump administration is going to have good po

his longtime friend from the obama administration. >> and he's been quite a celebrity in these parts, alex. >> i've been reading about. it he's great on tweeting and he always has a very quick report. and come back, that's for sure. okay thank you very much michael emily for that joining me now is victor nbc former director of asian affairs in the national security council during teacher sylvia bush administration. welcome back to the broadcast, victor, it's good to see you. so how do you think china perceives president biden's trip to japan and south korea. does that pay attention to what's being said and discussed? >> oh, absolutely alex. which one is saying is that the united states, even though it is quite involved in preoccupied with the war in ukraine, over the past couple of weeks they have met with southeast asian leaders. gone to korea and japan. as you reported just, said we will announce a new economic framework. a meeting of the quad summit quad leaders in australia, india, united states and japan. next week, blinken was to give a big speech on china. immediately upon the

so the first how did you land a job in the obama administration? given your independent views on climate change well, look, you know one's views evolve as one learns more and as the science and the technology evolves. i joined bp in 2004 to help them figure out what beyond petroleum was. they didn't need me to help them find oil and gas. they were very good at doing that already. and so i educated myself about energy and energy technologies with the goal of helping to develop or caterogative development of lower emission technologies. i wasn't very focused on the science at the time had not looked deeply at it. and i get more or less the same thing in the obama administration. bought in 2013. i had a 2014 early 2014. i had a hard look at the science at the beast of the american physical society. it's recounted in the book of people interested the details and i started to realize this is not a solid as people think it is the political dialogue became more and more hyperbolic the proposed energy solutions became more and more unrealistic after 2014.

>> i was on immigration subcommittee, on judiciary we looked at asylum, starting with obama administrationn where there is real conflict. but obama changed it to hey your boyfriend is beating you up that is good, and climate change that is enough, it turned into a massive abuse. we see streams of people coming across, with notes in their pockets, they get it odd and read it, and people of united states say, you can be here, you have to go through your asylum claim, you will do that 12 years from now. when i was looking at it there were only 3 administrative judges for immigration in the state of arizona, three, it was a joke, it was never ment to have the ajudication process work. trey: if you utter the right allegations with respect to asee lo to asylum, you will remain in this country until your court hearing, and may or may not go looking for you. >> you say, well the judge gave me a date, it is years in advance, but i have to work and go to school and get medicine. all of which american people pay for, you go back to the court, and suddenly you have papers, and you can go and compete a

i went through this in the obama administration where we had to bump people in the queue. i think that is absolutely essential. my understanding is there is an interagency task force focused on the taiwan problem. some of them are affected by industrial base, just. others are placed in the queue. i think there was a concerted effort to do exactly what you are saying with regard to taiwan. the other thing that holds us up is technology release. rather than go through the whole process and at the very end ask the question can we release this technology to this and like. -- base -- this ally. we are going to release this technology to the following partners. i think there are some reforms in process that could be undertaken that could meaningfully improve the performance of the process. >> i would also come up the part where you addressed training ahead of time. i think joint operational plans with taiwan needs more focus and attention. that can also be in conjunction of acquisition of new weapons systems and bringing those online. i think more broadly we need to look at that

we don't know how much access hunter sold into the obama white house and administration. >> and that security risk here. we don't know what was for sale. we still don't know what is still up for sale. i think that is not just a problem we look back, we looked back several years ago what was for sale. that is current problem. the investigation is not closed. it is ongoing. the american people are sick of ongoing investigations. we investigate everything to death. we never get to the bottom of it. i said before, nbc finally putting a dollar figure on this. this will be a passing headline. this is because they no longer view joe biden as the leader of their party. they are okay with throwing him under the bus. the media needs to be asked why they covered up the story when they had evidence there was wrongdoing way back in 2020 when it was not politically convenient. they couldn't report it back then because it could not be verified or because it was politically incone haven't for the candidate they want to be in the white house. they're throwing him under the bus. we need to know more w

i'm curious how you see -- how has governing changed since you were in the obama administration? just governing. ms. psaki: a lot of this is through the prism of my own experience and jobs. but, you know, the job of any president is to speak to the american public, right? that is part of the job, they have lots of other jobs, be commander-in-chief etc. important ones, but when i came to the obama administration we started a department called the new media department, just to give you a sense of how we thought about things at the time. and now, i would say the team that does digital content and digital work is -- i don't know exact numbers, but they are around the size of the communications team. and that is relevant primarily because i do not think we have quite figured it out yet. no one has yet in government, in terms of how you communicate directly to the public and how you can kind of breakthrough what is definitely a world of disinformation, a noisy media environment. some of it is fine-tuning that. and making sure -- i'm not a big believer in the notion that you can only do

. >> was there any debate with the obama administration about whether or not she should continue? darlene: there was debate among some of her advisors. i don't know if it carried over. some of the people thought the idea of her teaching was just crazy but she was insistent. >> she was insistent and determined to do it because it was something she had done her whole life. it was her career and part of her identity. >> the next family crisis was joe biden -- beau biden's stroke. it was five years before he passed away. what was the process like for the family dealing with his diagnosis and treatment and how they managed that personal aspect? >> that was difficult because i think the doctors did not really know what caused the stroke to begin with. it was one of the situations where the biden family closed ranks and support each other and came together and they don't really talk about it a lot. which we saw in the later years when bo came down with cancer. he got better for a while. they began to talk about the possibility of his political career researching and then the cancer diagn

so the underlying objective and this runs from the obama administration through the trump administrationhat president trump said himself, his cabinet kept the same policy vis-a-vis ukraine and all the way to today. our objective has been to protect ukraine's right to its sovereignty, the borders as they exist and their right to associate with nato or the european union. that is steady going but i would agree that there has been a change in the biden administration. they have recognized the only way to stop vladimir putin is not through sanctions, not through trying to appeal to the russian people. actually by defeating ukraine -- defeating pressure on the battlefield. -- defeating russia on the battlefield should judy: continuing that point, iear john saying what it looks like the u.s. is now saying is they want to not just degrade the russian military but almost wipe it out and do the same thing to the russian economy. >> here is where i disagree. i don't think this administration cares whether russia maintains its economic power in principle. whether it maintains its military power in

personnel to financial matters and is -- has formally held senior national security roles in the obama administration, special assistant to the president and was the national security senior director of defense. secretary christine wormuth also served as the deputy under secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and forces, including the 2014 quadrennial defense review. she has also served as the under secretary of defense for politics, advising the secretary of defense on a range of functional and regional issues. i would be remiss not to mention that she also served as the founding director of the resilience center, striving for sustainable solutions to climate, migration, and security problems. sec., thank you for taking on the myriad security challenges now facing the nation. moderating the conversation today is vivian, who serves as a national security reporter at "the wall street journal," having covered foreign-policy and national security for two decades and has reported from 70 nations. before i hand it over to secretary wormuth for keynote remarks, i would like to remind everyone that this

how did you land a job of the obama administration with your independent view on climate change?one's views involved as one grows in the science and technology evolve. ni joined 2004 to figure out the armed petroleum and with energy technologies and to have that development of technologies that wasn't very focused on the science at the time. and then bought in 2013 taking a hard look at the science at the behest of the physical process and then realize it's not as solid as people think it is the political dialogue became more and more hyperbolic and he became are unrealistic. and they have to this more than just writing in the op-ed column. >> you come from the political left. m and with that catastrophic narrative.ti do you see any realistic viewpoint with respect to my own political affiliations i have never registered as a member of any party i have always been an independent serving the obama administration but in view of what scientist should be doing in the political realm is to provide advice and analysis options. i have tried to do that when i wasnk in the private sector

starting with the obama administration. we will continue to support the ukrainian people. sorry we didn't have the latest $40 billion in this bill last week, we have a stalled section of the republican party that is as committed to this mission as the rest of congress is. we have to step out of this moment, and i will leave it for discussion and questions, and recognize how we allowed not just ukraine, but so much of russia's periphery has become vulnerable. these are tanks against tanks and planes against claims, but russia perfected what we have come to call asymmetric warfare. china is perfecting the same. it is using nonmilitary mechanisms whether it be economic power, propaganda, good old-fashioned intimidation and bribery to gain influence. and we are fighting these adversaries with one hand behind our back. we are good at staving off conventional invasion. we are not very good at fighting those nonmilitary tools of power projection. and we've got to figure out a way to fight with both hands, rather than just one hand, because we're in over the next 50 years for some

we had the obama administration tipping the hat to the best practice hope and expectation to stretch the minds of our children. we made the point 11 years ago. i recall saying this at the press conference kicking this off. once a mind is stretched it never goes back to the original form. the college going mind set at a very young age we believed would have a profound impact. little did we know the data collected since in small pilot programs not just san francisco buts across the country and the world have not only proven that construct but have allowed us an opportunity to understand that the impact was far greater than we ever could have imagined. this motion you are three times more likely to go to college even with moders december amount of money in a savings account. four times more likely to graduate with even as little as $500 in a savings account is something that we asserted but couldn't necessarily prove over a decade ago. this program has been incredibly impactful. jose said it well. the notion of all conversations that would have never taken shape with householdses. oppor

foreign relations committee about the impact of the 2015 nuclear agreement made during the obama administration and donald trump's decision to withdraw from the deal in 2018. this is just over 2 hours. >> this hearing will come to order. before i deliver my opening remarks let me acknowledge the senseless massacre at rob elementary school, and overwhelmingly latino community, faced with heartache and despair of witnessing a mass shooting that takes the lives of children who, like any other child in america, went to school to learn, not to be executed. let's be clear, every mass shooting is the result of a policy failure. guns, especially assault weapons equipped with high-capacity magazines don't belong in our communities, to do harm with such weapons, have greater rights than the nation's children to whom we have a precious obligation to protect and while our thoughts and prayers are with each of the families that are grieving this unimaginable loss, we must go beyond thoughts and prayers and take action. every day that goes by without commonsense gun reform is a setback in our ability to prom

apparent that the united states government over the past several years, including during the obama administration trumpet ministration. the more recently in the item administration, they wanted to do something to contain the rise of china, allow me to have the size. first of all, this is parking at the wrong tree. secondly, this will be our field trial attempt because the rise of china is a mega trend of our time. the united states will better serve itself to come to terms with the steady rise of china. now the other point is that in east asia, in particular, the mega tract is peace and stability and development. because we really do not want to have a walk or confrontation because peace will be most important for countries like japan, south korea, or china. and we want to promote peace rather than to follow the footstep of any country which wants to promote confrontation. interesting that the discussion very quickly often escalates into talk about, you know, war versus piece. things very telling, i'm sure going to come back to pick up on that. but if i could bring tunnel, he co in come a he co a

during the obama administration and i want to relive what we went back and forth on whether potatoes shouldin be restricted from school lunches in the school breakfast programs in the wake programs and they were not. when you appeared before the subcommittee last year i questioned the usda proposed elimination of funding for the highly successful potato breeding research program. congress on a bipartisan basis not only reject it the elimination of that program. ratherer than zeroing out it increases to $3 million a year. given the strong congressional support i was very surprised to see that your legit is again proposing to zero out this program especially when the administration is seeking an overall increase of more than $2 billion inan discretionary spending for usda. the university of maine is the leader in research and this program and has worked with growers to develop a new variety called the care of the rest that that's producing hight' yields that is i much more disease resistant and the recent outbreak of the potato bahrain prince island canada. to understand the importance

and she was on the white house council of economic advisories during the barack obama administration. harris cast the tie-breaking vote after all 50 republicans voted against cook why? they argue she does not have sufficient experience with interest rate policy. >>> now at 3:00, construction is on in one east bay island community. kpix5 justin anders has a lot of people with more company in the coming years. >> reporter: for almost 30 years this has been angie's community. >> good schools, neighborhood, the people, she called it my alameta. >> i love it. everyone who lives here knows it is a great place. >> reporter: a place she calls home and so many others will, too, soon. >> when you see these homes being built behind us what do you think? >> i am excited. i am happy. we need housing. so, i think it is great. >> reporter: not hard to notice a lot of construction. that is because over the next eight years the state wants them to build 5300 homes to fulfill regional housing needs. some will be affordable, all to fight the housing crisis across the state. >> you are right, there is a

>> a lot of folks here that are working in the white house now, were also working the obama administrationape or form. so they remember after sandy hook where it felt like there was all of this momentum to do something after that horrific tragedy. and so this feels eerily similar. that there is at one point a lot of inertia for folks to do something about this. but congress is gone. congress is not here to work on that issue in person. and when that happens, folks start to get worried as you know, joe, nothing will happen. but the task force in the senate on some kind of possible gun prevention legislation, gun control legislation, they are talking over the weekend, as you know, senator murphy said over the weekend they have been on the phones working on that. but there is a healthy dose, i think, of pessimism here in the white house and on the senate that something will get done based on past history. you also have this concern from the white house that president biden shouldn't be very involved in the negotiations, not this one, not on social spending bill that they were ever to do some

we saw that before in the later stages of the obama administration where we had accident rates going up and we were at one point in the trump administration, north korea poses a threat and we have to move precision munitions from the middle east to the pay com area and in the middle east commanders start worrying they are short. i agree is not all about top line in numbers, but it does begin the conversation of what capability you have, how much in that budget. frankly i was encouraged to hear her say we will take this plan, we will add whatever inflation is, which is going to be pretty high, and then not lose capability like these ships they want to get rid of prematurely come and build from there. that is probably an approach that does begin to implement the words on this paper. courtney: what other capability gaps that you can point to, specifically with the threat to china that have you concerned right now? michelle: maybe to provoke a little debate, i have a slightly different view. i think that the u.s. does have the objective of being able to deny chinese aggression success ag

i don't know the answer except that i understand that there are people from the obama administration who are calling the shots. i can assure you, joe biden is not making decisions, harris is not making decisions. host: what evidence do you have? guest: i don't have any evidence. that is an assumption to be honest with you. i get asked that question quite often and that is about who is making the decisions, but i know it is not him. host: how do you know it is not him? guest: i am not sure he is capable of making those decisions to be quite honest. i don't have confidence that he is in charge over there. if you ask me who is in charge i don't know the answer to that. we can sit here and what bothers me so much about the southern border is paying no attention, this president has never been to the southern border, never even seen it. when vice president harris went down there she went to the wrong place. fentanyl is coming over the border and causing all kinds of problems. she is absolutely right. this is one of the biggest problems we have got coming across the border. and then, i do s

a lot of celebrities would go when they visited havana during the recent thaw between the obama administrationuba. there have been all manner of different tour groups coming through. press conferences with u.s. senators in that hotel. it is a well-known focal point for tourism and as you said, the colonial era old historic district. a lot of buildings are crumbling around. an exposure of this nature could have an effect on surrounding buildings. >> anything from officials about when we will be getting details about what happened? >> not yet carded. they are putting out information as they have it. there was a call for donations. the injured are being treated in nearby hospitals. the focus will be on pulling anyone else remaininin the rubble, accounting for everyone who is missing. working out exactly how many people have died. this could have an effect on cuba's reemerging tourism industry. the island has been hugely hit by the pandemic went tourism as such the mainstay of the economy. the green shoots of the return of tourism site this could have an effect on that returning. >> thank you for