as i indicated she also served the obama administration and undersecretary for policies then worked for the senate for the majority leader charles schumer and daniel patrick moynihan. a warm after welcome to the deputy secretary. [applause] i think we are going to have a really interesting conversation about public transportation and the administration will they are doing to support the industry. obviously we are very grateful for the work in the transportation to harness the potential of the bipartisan and special wall. over the past six months alone the dot has awarded more than 8 billion in competitive grants for public transit and dot. otlet me just say having done ts i know how hard it is. that is a tremendous achievement. [applause] dot also has an additional 22 billion available right now so everybody get your pen out. from the departmental perspective one of the lessons learned for the first year implementing this historic legislation. >> i now live half a block away from the metro station. thank you for your leadership and all of you in the room running the transit systems. tha

learned a lot from your example is the amazing is joining the biden administration i was in the obama administration as well but the line administration hasbeen so clear and focus on equity making the priority . when we tend to this look at transit there's so much about transit which is just inherently on equity from day one. obviously transit systems and to serve more low income communities, people with disabilities. seniors, so many groups that are regular transportation systems that we adequately provide for and also as a major source again of contracting opportunities so there's so much about transit which checks the boxes on equity to begin with but you know this and a lot of folks know this and this room, there's a lot more that we can do. our focus on the teacher transit investments are getting the communities most in need, never stops. one thing to be involved in is when i was on the mte board, things that a lot of you are grappling with now particularly in the most covid area. looking at where investments go, looking at all the ways the system is very equitable. you can be focused on unity

the daily show was able to score this fascinating interview because cal penn worked in the obama administration as, i need to take a deep breathe here. the associate director of the white house office of public office and intergovernmental affairs which is fancy way of saying who is this again.

what happened oh the obama administration. what happened with the trust administration and early biden administration. on thehe basis of that, the authors of the postscripts looked back and what did they get right? what did we get wrong? finally looking back 20 years over forward administrations dealing with the issues and what are they t learned for future presidents and most of those issues and they're still with us today. condoleezza rice and the power of favoring freedom and organizing principle for bush foreign policy and the three outside and brands and left foot looking back at bush administration foreign policy and president bush to obama and the gold standard of gold standard of transitions and acome kay the book. the center for presidential history maintains the archive and what it is is the 30 transitionon memo -- memorandumn the book and nine others that are not in the book but have been declassified and attachments at the national security council and recommendations that theil counl had with global counter parts a

as i indicated she also served the obama administration as the assistant secretary and undersecretary at the u.s. department of transportation. she has worked with the u.s. senate for charles schumer and senators daniel patrick monahan. join me in giving a warm welcome to deputy secretary. [applause] ♪ >> poly, thank you for being here with us today. i think will have a very interesting conversation about public transportation. obviously were very grateful for all the work the public transportation department is doing. over the past six month salon d.o.t. has awarded more than 8 billion in competitive grants for public transit, d.o.t., and other investments. let me say i know how hard it is to get $8 billion out the door. that is a tremendous achievement. [applause] d.o.t. also has an additional 22 billion available right now for everybody, everybody star applying for that money. what are your thoughts on the lessons learned from the first year of implementing this historic legislation? >> it's so great to be here. welcome everyone to washington. i love randy and paul. coming back to

aggressive, and they wanted somebody many there that had a hook, that also had a hook with the obama administrationnto the biden administration and push this woke social agenda. and there's an entire industry that's evolved around this. maria: yeah. >> you know? it gets people political power. of they're spending potentially billions and trillions of dollars on this, on these equity issues. where's all that money going? so people are getting really rich based on this new, you know, industry built around equity and racism in the white house. maria: congressman, i want to ask you your thoughts from your medical background. unfortunately, president biden had a cancerous lesion removed from the president's chest last month. the doctor said that this is a common form, the lesion tested positive for carcinoma, but he's okay. but i wonder about the conversation about his capacity. you have been talking about the president's cog any -- cognitive abilities being a national security risk. tell us more. >> well, look, maria, i'll start by saying that biden is the cancer, you know? he's what needs to be remove

that memorandum are exactly as they were handed over to the obama administration. the postscript takes the history from the bush administration forward, what happened in the obama administration. what happened in the trump administration o for and what te early biden administration? on the basis of that the author of the postscript look back, what does it tell us about how the bush administration did? what did they get right? what did we get wrong? and find that back 20 years of the ford administration dealing with the issue what are the lessons learned for future presidents? most of those issues were confronted in the bush administration are still with us today. so that's what the book is this a memorandum postscript. there is a forward by president bush a preface by condoleezza rice and myself talks about a balance of favor freedom and organize principal for bush foreign policy. three outside essays by del loeffler look in the bush demonstration foreign policy. in a final one bite mark that looks at the transition from president bush to president obama which he ca

and, and they stayed throughout the bush administration, they stating at the obama administration. and they are, they stayed in the trumping station of john bolton, sir, to special security advisor and, and they're in there in the biden administration. so these people who manipulate the defense institutions that are supposed to be constitutionally bound and they're supposed to serve the country and serve the people, the people that pay for them. they don't, they don't do any that they just use those institutions. and so i guess i was, you know, when you've been in the military, we, you know, you've been in service for awhile. you pretty much lose patience with it. and so i, i really had overtime begun to trust my own gut and my own judgment. and yet it was not a problem for me to seek out ways to, to share the information that i had. it didn't even, it didn't bother me and i was eager to do it. you and i both worked with people from the defense department's office of special plans or o s p in the run up to the iraq war. this was an unusual and highly politicized group. in the defens

what happened to the obama administration, the trump administration, the early biden administration? the authors of the post scripts looked back. he said, what is it tells us about the bush administration. what did they get right, what did we get wrong. 20 years over four administrations dealing with the issue, what are the lessons learned for future presidents? most of those issues that were confronted are still with us today. that is what the book is. these memorandums, post scripts, there is a preface via condoleezza rice and myself that talks about a balance of power favoring freedom at the organizing principle at the bush foreign policy. and three outside essays looking back at bush's administration foreign policy. a final one that looks at the jazz issue from president bush to president obama, which because calls the gold standard. accompanied the book is a archive, a digital archive being maintained at the presidential leadership center at fmu university. the center for presidential history maintains this archive. what the archive is, 30 transition memorandum in. the book. the

and, and they stayed throughout the bush administration, a stating at the obama administration. and they are, they stayed in the trumping station of john bolton, sir, to special security adviser and, and they're in there in the biden administration. so these people, the people that pay for them, they don't been in service for a while. you pretty much lose patience with it. and so i, i really had overtime begun to trust my own gut and my own judgment. and it was not a problem for me to seek out ways to, to share the information that i had. it didn't even, it didn't bother me and i was eager to do it. you and i both worked with people from the defense department's office of special plans or o s p in the run up to the iraq war. this was an unusual and highly politicized group. in the defense department, that was led by a close former aid to vice president dick cheney by the name of bill ludy. i found ludy to be a dangerous ideologue and i think you did too. it was ludy and his cohorts in the office of special plans who pushed the idea of admit chelsea, an iraqi dissidents and one of

it is like when you go back to the lois lerner, targeting in the obama administration, there was neverng to be an email from president obama to the irs saying to target conservative groups. they didn't need that. because obama stood in front of the united states congress at the state of the union and went after the citizens united decision while judge alito sat right there in the house chamber. they didn't need the specific thing. they got marching orders as you said from the broader, broader message coming from the administration. liz: it's dog whistle. irs is brutal bureaucracy to work under. there is also treasury employees federal union. they routinely, majority, 90% or more of donations go to democrat politicians. get your reaction to attorney general garland testifying today about the biden white house getting the doj and fbi to target school board parents as domestic terrorists. he appeared to not know key details. watch this. >> internal communications show the doj and the national school boards association extensively colluded prior to your memorandum back on october 4th of 20

in the obama administration they did not even do the phone call they started the phone call because our asking the questions what are you doing to ensure that you haven't sent this child to a child labor situation. no one really asks about the problems related to sexual assault for young people who are brought across the border there are very, very few safeguards enough office of refugee settlement what they developed as a rapid throughput system and as a houston police chief said the other day you have six kids that went to the same address and nobody is there. what is going on here. this is the responsibility of secretary becerra and whoever is in charge the office of refugee resettlement that fired doctor wang a year ago because she was not fast enough for them. what i told her oversaturated energy and commerce we need to get these folks in here they need to answer some very, very hard questions and they need to start doing their job they get a big-budget let's use the dollars for what their intended and that is to protect the american people and number two let's put into this proces

public health or accuracy are trying to cover their tracks in direct violation of what the obama administration directed. second, i think the biden administration at the highest reaches, president biden himself, do not want to reference in this virus in all likelihood came from those labs because they do not want to be forced to take tough action against chinese communists. third, it is political going back to the early beginnings of this pandemic. and donald trump or any other republican was saying these kind of things, then they wanted to oppose it, whatever it was. the fact this virus almost certainly came from labs is just another example. >> john: congressmen, want to change gears a bit and ask about this incident down in matamoros, mexico, in which two americans were killed, one severely wounded and the other seems to be okay and is in a hospital in brownsville, texas. the big question is what do we do about these drug cartels? your colleague senator lindsey graham of south carolina a short time ago said he believes they should be declared foreign terrorist organizations. here is what he'

soviet union collapsed, but the latter half of the bush administration, there were two administrations, the obama and administration, the trump administration, did everything they could to attack russia as a partner and not a junior partner. president george bush was particularly attuned to this. he had to show respect for the russians. you can do the counterfactual. let's say we didn't extend nato. that assumes vladimir putin did not have a certain interests and certain ambitions. at that point if we didn't extend nato, he would have been just fine with the circumstances and he wouldn't have done all the things he is doing now. i could give you the counterfactual's that he would have done them without article five guarantee for the polls and the hungarians and others. they now look like the georgia that fiona just described, which was continuing the state of russia. would that really have been the right, moral case to make for the people of poland and those countries that suffered under soviet occupation for 45 years? when i hear, don't extend nato, i think, the alternative is eastern europe tha

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, show concern of the officials in the obama administration about the optics of this situation and lastly, again, combination of these things arose trust of the american people. they see institutions, white house and vice president of the united states and his family getting personally financially benefited from these types of arrangements and it erodes their trust. we are trying and will continue to expose these documents, try to hold these officials accountable any way we can and these documents are only out there because we sued and we obtained them, they are just the tip of the iceberg, there is more to come. interesting to see what else comes out of this. >> todd: stonewalling by the biden administration, when people try to get information. james comer says witnesses are no longer available and comer is not happy about this. gene, how can joe biden and the biden administration from the top down to treasury continue to stonewall on this? >> well, they are going to keep trying to do what they can, if we're persistent, whether people in congress or organizations like ours issue using to

postscript takes the history from the bush administrationrd forward what happened under the obama administration and of the trump administration and under the early biden administration. and onon the basis of that, the office of the scripts looked back to what does it tell us about what the bush administration did, what did they get right and wrong and then finally looking back now over the administration's dealing with the issue, what are the lessons learned for the future presidents because most of those issues that were confronted inth the bush administration are still with us today. so that's what the book is. the memorandum post scripts, there's a foreword by president bush and a preface by condoleezza rice and myself that talks about a balance t of power favoring freedom and the organizing principle for bush foreign policy and then three outside essays looking back at the bush administration foreign policy. and a final one that looks at the transition from president bush to president obama that is called the gold standard of the presidential transitions. now accompanying the book is an arc

it goes back for about a decade of the obama administration talked about donald trump of course in much starker and memorable terms and his focus on the campaign and the white house and the biden administration has continued to that with china becoming the central issue in american foreign policy that for some time they put this in slightly softer terms but useful this from the chinese president into general secretary just in the last few days when we u.s.ed to talk about efforts so in escalation of an f rhetoric on both sides whichch s sending the relationship into a new phase that is still unsettled and scary for lots of reasons. >> getting that unprecedented third term can you explain how and why he came to power as president and where he came up? >> this is an important part of the story and there's a lot of focus on the extent to which it really changed the system for the leaders immediately before him. there was a norman the politics that stayed in power for two terms for the role of president and general secretary for the chinese communist party. there's au commitment to the succ

administration has gone to the right on asylum. the truth is, for many, many years, both republicans and democrats have a partisan strategy to push for deterrence at any cost, which is why obama brought it back in 2014. that opened up the space for family separation to happen. him doing that, everything that is happened since the clinton administration has been prevtion through deterrence, consequences at the border that includes turning people away, not giving them the right to asylum, incarcerating people, and prosecuting them for just seeking asylum for coming to the border. i think in so many ways, what we are seeing with this administration is you would hope after the trump administration we would see this is not how we want to be as a country. that we want to support people, protect people, care for people. instead, this administration is going ba on that and saying we are going to continue to do the same things. i think the asylum rule that is coming up is essentially a ban is a response to this administration having zero vision on immigration and specifically a lot of people needing safety and seeking safety right now. because of title 42, they waited to end title 42,

i study the reforms in the obama administration in this area. there was not a single scandal in eight years in the obama administration related to lobbying and ethics. why do you think that's the case? mr. bauer: outstanding lawyering. [laughter] oh, when i'm going to say is going to sound like a kind of rank peace flattery of the president, and it is not. i think in any organization, nixon administration, for example. what really matters is we develop management of the ethical culture and it starts with the leadership. it is an anything goes environment or a push the limits environment. you can get favor with the boss by being too clever. there are infractions that are overlooked because those engaged in inflections are rendering other valuable services and weighing it against it, yes, so-and-so is tediously unethical, but, boy, what a speechwriter. if you have a leadership that just decides that the unethical staffer doesn't belong there, and people know there is a consequence for sneaking around in some way, cheating the rules, putting the pr

, but very— mid—after the obama administration, but very exhilarated when donald trump _ but very exhilarated iran that wanted at least a balance between iran's much relationship with the west and east, were pushed out after donald trump exited _ were pushed out after donald trump exited that deal, under the hardliners, who always wanted to make _ hardliners, who always wanted to make sure — hardliners, who always wanted to make sure that iran pivots towards russia _ make sure that iran pivots towards russia and — make sure that iran pivots towards russia and china, with their complete and full support of the supreme — complete and full support of the supreme leader, have taken hold and control— supreme leader, have taken hold and control of— supreme leader, have taken hold and control of the foreign policy. now, both the _ control of the foreign policy. now, both the diplomatic foreign ministry and also _ both the diplomatic foreign ministry and also the security apparatus are in line _ and also the security apparatus are in line in— and also the security apparatus are in line in wanting to

. >> the previous administrations, the bush administration, obama administration, trump administrationouse oversight committee requested bank violations from treasury, they provided access but when joe biden first became president for some reason early on he changed the rule and blocked congress from having access. >> geraldo: the investigations of hunter biden began, 2018, president trump. it has taken forever. five years almost. if they had something, where is it? >> judge jeanine: the investigation i thought started in 2018, 2019. they just announced last summer that they had ended the investigation so there was a a question is whether or not they were going to indict him. and then with the delay, the issue came, they have to go to the deputy attorney general and get permission than there was talk about a possible plea bargain and now it's like eight months later, what you've got is a grand jury that investigated him for years. issues that are violations of the law. without question having to do with that pistol permit application and nothing is being done. when merrick garland says

the obama administration was talking about the pivot and donald trump of course put this in much more memorable terms in his focus on china and the biden administration has continued that with china becoming the central issue in american foreign policy. the chinese for some time put this in slightly softer terms you saw the chinese president in the last few days, when he started to talk about u.s. efforts to encircle or contain china. you've seen an escalation of rhetoric on both sides which is sending the relationship into a new phase that's still unsettled and undefined and scary for many reasons. host: xi jinping got the unprecedented third term. how and why did he come to power as president and we're he came up? >> this is the important part of the story. there is focus on g ching ping tung the extent that in personal ways really changed china's role and their political system for the leaders before him, there was enormous and chinese politics that she only stayed in power for two terms. that was true in the role of president but the more important role of general secretary of the

they wanted somebodyy ththat ine that also had a hook with thenit obama administration that the commencingistration of push this woke social agenda. there is an entire industry evolves around this.y're it gives people political power they are spending potentially billions and trillions t of dollars on these equity issues. where's all that money going? people are getting really richnh based on this new industry built around equity and racism in then whit, e house. maria: i want to ask your thoughts from your medical background, unfortunately president biden had a cancerous lesion removed from the president's chest last month. the doctor said this is a commoc form the lesion tested positive for carcinoma. but he is okay. but i wonder about the conversation about his capacity. you've been talking about thein presidents of cognitiveis abilities, being a national security risk. tell uk. umores more. also look, maria i'll start by saying biden is the cancer but he is what needs to be removedt not the lesion they found. this i hs just another effort fm his physician and his medical team to distra

you have fought the bush administration, the obama administration, the trumpet administration, and now the biden administration. and you're going to keep fighting until you have satisfaction. we've said here on this show previously that washington is full of whistleblowers support groups like the government accountability project, the whistleblower and source protection network, the national whistleblower center, the project on government oversight and so on. have any of these groups been helpful to you? had they been able to help advance your case in the courts are they served a different purpose the government accountability project has been, has been definitely assisting me legally. and then i get a good publicity from the national whistleblower center and also the project on government oversight. but john, i think the best thing, the one thing that has saved me and is just just destroying the government's case and why in this whole vendetta against me is i just keep telling the truth and don't deviate from it because they lie, they, she, they all her documents, they intimidate witn

so thank you for that it's been amazing to join the biden administration i was also in the obama administrationut the has been so clear in its focus on equities in making that a priority. when we came into this particularly looking at transit inherently about equities from day one obviously transit systems tend to serve more low income communities public -- people with disabilities so many groups were adequate transportation is not always provided. and major employers and contracting opportunities there so much about transit which checks the boxes on equity. there's still a lot more we can do. our focus on making sure that this transit investment is hitting the community most in need. when i got to be involved in it when i was on the mta board commissioner a lot of you are grappling post-covid era. looking at where investments go looking at all the ways that even with the system very equitable you can be focusing more on particular communities that need the service. one thing i think so many of us experienced during covid, we got to see who relied on our mass transit systems the most. the essen

took president joe biden was a vice president during the obama administration when this exact appeasemente entire iran team from the obama era is back during the biden administration was the time when iran took a number of hostages or soldiers hostage on the boat and broke the convention by filming them using it for propaganda for purposes. the bottom line is iranians and all of our adversaries have no questions about whether the biden administration will issue a deterrent, iran worried about president biden issuing directive to take out high profile as president donald trump did. it's clear the more you appease iranian regime, the more bad behavior you get and this week we saw the administration wave sanctions waiver that will allow iran to receive $500 million in cash, they was a is from iraq for electricity but they skim that up. for terror reasons. you will see more of this because the posture from the president especially when he says we don't seek conflict rather than saying if you do this again will blow you off the face of the earth like the previous president did. >> the pentagon

we tried that during the obama administration, making solar panels here in the united states. they went out of business because they could not compete with china. i think we need to adopt a policy that japan has, where companies who are manufacturing here in the united states cannot close down the manufacturing here. if they want to open up companies in other countries, fine. they could possibly use the profits they make their to subsidize their companies here. that's fine. and if they decide to close down and go overseas, then we tax whatever they ship into the united states, so that companies that are producing here can make a profit. also what was not discussed during your testimony was what environmentalists played into this problem. with all the environmental regulations and every thing else that goes with it, it makes it more expensive to do business here in the united states. host: ok, peter. let's get a response. guest: thanks for the question. i think it's a good one. during the testimony, i did articulate, i think, how we have what is called the china price. it is an

it was an honor of a lifetime to serve our country and serve in his administration. barack obamand i have a relatively long history. i met him when my kids were five and seven years old. their basketball coach at the lincoln belmont 'y' was michelle robinson's brother, craig robinson. i met barack and michelle when he was a state senator and i think she was working at the university of chicago. i had known them for a long time. i knew what terrific individuals they were. when barack decided he was going to run for the presidency, he contacted me in 2006 and said, would you help me? would you become my national finance chair? would you raise the money for me to run for president? i thought this was a crazy idea. i had never raised money on a national level for a presidential campaign. i had no idea how anyone did that. he said, no, no, i want you to do this role. and i did, but i really almost said no. what happened was i was sitting, talking to my husband after the evening that barack had asked me. he said to me, this is destiny knocking on the door of our nation and you've got t

i want to mention that the obama administration knew exactly, exactly how unsafe i was.point, my captors made it a mission to strip me of any semblance of human dignity. i spend months caged. i spend months caged in a solitary cell that was the size of a closet, being fed in the dark from under the door. honestly, that was the least of my troubles. to this day -- i'm sorry, i didn't realize this was going to happen. >> siamak, under under extreme duress. [indiscernible] >> i suppose the positive side is some day some therapist is going to make -- [indiscernible] >> you are able to make quips, and there's some positivity to hearing that you're still robust and you still have your strength. i want to ask you -- >> absolutely. >> -- about the other americans. because you've said that you just don't understand why you have been left behind, particularly over a period of years in which other americans have been released in deals between iran and the united states. >> yeah. >> there was a release in 2016 around the iran nuclear deal including a journalist. then again in 2019 a

the obama administration instituted a moratorium in 2014 which banned this kind of research and funding for this kind of research. i also think it's important to know, especially in the context of the republican war on, you know, the lab leak theory in all this cultural stuff you talking about, is that this really is an international network. it's happening in china, with the chinese government oversight, but there's also american funding, they're working with american researchers. it's, i think, but had to think of it doesn't international scientific endeavor with particular, you know, national security labs, then it is to think of it as quote just off, separate, chinese research versus american research. that's another thing that's fueled some of the right-wing focus on this. is that you can relay some of this in theory, at the hands of anthony fauci, in the sort of public health establishment, which they're also excited to do. >> right. and that's because the purpose of this, right, is, just to go back to the original sort of thinking here, it's like, sars came out of china. right? t

that's part of ukraine that russia stole in the obama administration. is it likely?g over here close to russia? would the united states have recognizance? >> absolutely. we have done that before. we have gone across this whole area. the war in ukraine, number two, the shumts from odessa that we need to make sure that ukraine gets to continue to do those. and that's one of the reasons we're watching this. >> we're focusing on the breaking news they deleted the software. but the fact that a fighter jo jet would approach unarmed drone, what does that tell you about russias's mood at the moment? >> they are very combative. they have sophisticated jet they are using to go after a really surveillance drone. and they will do anything they can to not only you are tat us, but to destroy our capabilities. >> thank you for your insights. >>> more drama on capitol hill. right a key nomination is in jeopardy. live to the hill, next. >> tech: when you have auto glass damage, trust safelite. we'll replace your windshield, and recalibrate your advanced safety system. so automatic em

a threat to the obama administration.scandal. the irs has done it if the past. there's no reason to believe it's not what they're doing now. maria: possibly not unprecedented. still an upset to democrats. matt taibbi always identified as a democrat. he came on the show on monday morning futures and talked about what he exposed in the twitter files. this is matt taibbi before we learned an irs agent went to his home. >> we have to be on the lookout for government efforts to try to centralize the cleansing of, quote, disinformation from the media landscape which i don't think is the government's job. i believed in free speech my whole life. that's one of the things that attracted me to the democratic party when i was a kid was the idea that we were the party that believed in letting everybody have a say and we'll just make a better argument and apparently something very dramatic has changed in politics in america. the parties have had a complete reversal on how they you view these issues. maria: yeah. adam johnson, somethin