it was a little blurry during the obama administration but it is getting more sharply defined.areen: we are mentioning russia a moment ago. the war in ukraine, what we found recently was vietnam did not vote when it comes to the u.n. generally assembly resolutions, vietnam did not vote with the west, condemning russia's invasion of ukraine. there must be growing pressure on vietnam from the west, particularly the united states, to side with them on the ukraine issue. are you surprised vietnam is playing a balancing act here? donald: i would not be surprised by that. there is no reason for vietnam to condemn the russians in ukraine. what does ukraine mean to vietnam? they have every reason to want to remain on half decent terms with russia. there is no reason for them to condemn the russian invasion of ukraine. they can see it as not their immediate concern and why should they get involved. dareen: for the sake of time, i am jumping in. en, -- ian how important is the , russian vietnamese relationship when it comes to trade issues, oil and gas? ian: i think for oil and gas, cert

and the obama administration didn't do it. and it has to be said that today the biden administration doesn't do it in terms of our forces in poland that were mobilized there to deter russian aggression and reinforce naito. i know because i asked and the unit disagreed, but they had higher levels of the biden administration. it was not a i approved, but there were opportunities to get close to the action because this was a war where we worked with a vast array of partners, all in partners who will take you. they didn't have any particular requirements about security, namely your security. and so i was able to go with the peshmerga in mosul in sinjar. i was able to go with the iraqi counterterrorist service. and in in west mosul and i was able to interview general mazloum in syria and also on positive side on the military. well, there was no formal embedding process. i was able to do what they call a battlefield circulation and where you move around the battlefield. but general townsend and people like colonel pat work, who was a

the obama administration said yes. the biden administration says yes. most scholars who work on the issue say, yes you should. this is a global problem that requires global solution. it doesn't make a lot of sense to think about it ending at the borders of our count. but there is some disagreement on that. that's step one. at least when i was in the administration, there was no real dissent over whether they should be a global issue. it clearly shoulde. step two, how do you evaluat damages across the rest of the world? this is one of the more unfortunate features of the framework that the government is currently using. basically the value is scaled to the level of income in the different countries. there is the approach -- it says, lives in sub-saharan africa are worth may be a penny on the dollar of lives in the united states today. >> in a moral sense, they skillet wi income to the people? -- they scale it with income to the people? >> economists try to say is not a moral judgment. but at the end of the day, it comes down to, your scaling what is the

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

he wrote in the op-ed that this is a continuation of what started under the obama and clinton administrationsllary clinton where the obama administration did weaponize agencies using the irs to go after political enemies, using agencies to go after what they didn't agree with, eric holder, his attorney general leading that effort. >> yeah. you saw it across the board over the eight years during the obama administration, maria, that is exactly right. they began to tru true weaponize government. this has gone on longer than the obama administration. this is basically a marxist revolution, it's a soft revolution. but it's one nonetheless. to undermine our country from within. and the best way to do that is to take control over all of our major institutions and corrupt them with the left. so certainly the obama team accelerated that process he's. and then under four years of trump, he tried to bring us back to our foundational principles here and get these institutions back on track but the problem is, maria, that they're so shot-through with so much corruption which runs so deep and all of these

and so the obama administration needs to nominate a fed governor. they've had a couple scrapped because couldn't pass the senate and they are looking around to find who's kind of centrist and who would fit that bill. and they're like, why not jay powell know he's a republican. so the republicans will probably for him and he's just basically helped us out big time. on getting debt limit deal done. and so they'd send around letters, emails to each other, basically saying this is not qualified from an economic perspective, but we think that he's pretty you know, he's pretty smart and he did really did you know a lot help us here. i've got some of that detail in my book and the end conclusion is that they ended up nominating jay powell to a governor role. he they were a little worried. he wasn't ph.d. economist, but they were like, you let's go for it. and he got confirmed and, you know, rest is history. and so he spent several years as a fed governor. there's seven of them under janet yellen. donald trump gets elected. how does he end up in the in the

you know, they were in the obama administration. remember the co of 2014, but them, this is just unfinished business. randy, i think do there is unfinished business. i think it is connected in with cove and to cbd season and there's a number of elements to it. i would say, obviously the tower than the people running the show in washington as anybody could have seen how to avoid this shifter to avoid it. but, you know, the american for the american just is an economic battle, in my opinion. but i think for what i see here from the russians, this is also a, a social and cultural war. absolutely, absolutely. that is not, you know, still believed in extracting resources is seen. products are using energy ethical to, to what we are doing, and with what we're promoting in the, when the values resource extraction, this is a russia and a war for act of the state. and then there's all these other elements drawn in there that such as coal, with the authoritarian measures adopted by the west and the progression to the digital ideas and the she

they were in the obama administration. remember the co of 2014 for them. this is just unfinished business . randy, i think do there is unfinished business. i think it is connected in with the with co it and the c. b c's and there's a number of elements to it. i would say obviously the kids in my chicken group got more brain power than the people. right. and she'll win in washington. absolutely. anybody could of seeing how to avoid this if there was, had been any desire to avoid it. but, you know, the american for the american just is an economic battle, in my opinion. but i think for what i see here from the russians, this is also a, a social cultural war. absolutely, absolutely. that it is not, you know, their way of life. they are still believed in extracting resources in actually building producing products using energy which is all ethical to, to what we are doing and what we're promoting in the west and everything from family values, resource extraction. this is a cultural war for russia and a war for economic domination by the state. and then there's

i'm afraid this administration -- we talked a lot about leading from behind under the obama administration. we're going back to that. again, that invites aggression. weakness always invites aggression. war, strength always peace. that's what we need to do with taiwan. unfortunately i worry the administration has blown our intense efforts in the ukraine but not projecting strength. >> neil: chairman, i know you have to go, sir, but this is a little further than that. right? we might be offended by them following a policy or what have you. this goes a step further to back stab us if it's true what the uae and egypt have done with the revelation of these documents. they back stabbed us. what should we do if that is truly the case? >> i think we have to do a serious deep dive in to our relationships with these countries. are these documents real? >> neil: do you have your doubts as to whether they're real or not? >> if they are, we shouldn't be selling them weapons for starters. when you're looking at foreign assistance, anybody that throws us under the bus and if they're not a friend, they're

as jesse was mentioning, the obama administration decided it wasn't going to prosecute because was going to, was essentially caught between wanting to be seen to uphold press freedoms. i'm finding a way to prosecute the case how much enthusiasm is there in the, by the ministration for pursuing this in your assessment. i think none, but that doesn't mean that they won't continue to have the extradition treaty issue in play or throughout 2024. you got to remember at present in the united states, everything is focused on the next presidential election, and biden is already calculating. all right. you know, if i give a pardon to julian, if i drop the x edition, how is that going to play out with my republican opponent? in addition, we know the intelligence community despises julie innocence. i at one time represented. it's no one's father. i can tell you they julian is a little bit like it's no they want to try to make an example of him. so nobody else will ever do this again. even if it means dropping a nuclear bomb on a fleet. because one of the things that was clear with regard to both mi

the us, the neocons, the obama administration has wanted for years and years. and they've been preparing it for years. and years, we know from a former chancellor, on the la merkel that they had no intention of following mince. they used it as a way to strengthen ukraine's army insulted for except that, and now they're stronger than they were in 2014. that was the intent. it was a war of choice by nature not by russia. well, me, craig, is the, the, you know, we have such diverse information coming out right now. i don't know how much stop you put into these pentagon leaks. i really don't watch much into because i can't read them. why should i believe the media when they lie to you about just about everything here, but then you have a lot of reporting coming out of political, another outlet. i'm very dubious up here. but the by the administration seems to be hesitating on what a big 3 or what have who prevail and how ukraine will prevail. it's very, very murky. now this all could be part of the game plan of just confusing people here. but you have still the bird

i don't see its behavior changing that much from the obama administration, but more so we're seeing a much more confident and assertive china on the world stage. donald, would you say the vietnam is foreign policy? can be somewhat limited due to its sheer proximity to china that vietnam will, will always be keen to keep relations, whether it's nor their neighbor are sort of a level playing field. well, i have to ask to be very concerned about joining the chinese vietnamese relationship goes deep, deep in the region into their history. and obviously they, they want to stand up against china, but they don't want to infuriate join either. just getting back to the point they were about to cough. just getting back to the point that was discussed a minute ago. the battle lines i had state used the word battle line, let's say the line, the confrontation between the us, china as much sharpened in recent years. there's there a couple of, was the alliance, is there not quite alliances? there's a quad floor in good in india, japan, u. s. u k. a quad for which is very much of an anti chinese grou

and ha ha, under of the obama administration, back in 2011. the former president, it announced the pivot to asia policy, which i'm sure you're very much aware of to, to deepen america. strategic footprint across the asia pacific and vietnam stood out as a very important country today. if you fast forward to today 2023. what do you think the u. s. a strategy is for the region as it shifted much from, from what obama had set out to do? well, i mean, i think the u. s. is continue to, to try to strengthen their ties with asia and seeing that the level of bilateral trade with different countries in asia has increased and the u. s. is trying to increase its present. i think that actually the thing that has changed more so than what the u. s. behavior has been china's behavior. the china has become much more assertive, not just in asia, but in latin american and africa as well. and has wanted to kind of push the u. s. out. so we see, well, the u. s. has been increasing, you know, it's, it's bilateral trade ties with a lot of these countries and tryin

but if you think about what these guys were doing, so antony blinken, former obama administration officialstration hopeful official, he organizes an election interference campaign using the former, senior most intelligence officials of the united states, organizes them to sign up to something which they all knew was a complete lie and fabrication because they were all looking for jobs in the next administration. to me this is, this is the deep state run amok. these people were all willing to sacrifice their integrity at the ault tear of their own personal ambition. and if this, if they get away with it, they got a way with it, remember in 2016 with the russia hoax, election interference, claiming that the russians interfered with the election. now they get away with it again in the 2020 election where they claim the hunter biden laptop was nothing to see here, again russian disinformation. you have to wonder if these people are not held accountable for this, what will they do in the next election? what is the plan again? how will they work with the deep state, the media, democrats to make

it's no secret that the joe biden administration has employed countless obama era officials. hence the joke in the u. s. that the biden government is the 3rd term of barack obama tonight, will profile one byte, an admin official, who critics say is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent lives. now, leading america's top international aid agency, find out just who we're talking about next. all right, let's get into the ammo. ah, she's been called the butcher of yemen by some during her stead, as the u. s. ambassador to the when, when she blocked a boat to investigate human rights violations by the saudi, against the air of world poorest country. she's also known as one of the architects behind the destruction of libya during president obama's time as a key adviser on his national security council. her memoir, the education of an idealist, was roundly lauded by political elite despite the book downplaying her role in both international human rights catastrophes. her previous book from 2002 called a problem from how america and the age of genocide won her a pulitzer prize. an

and relied priorities. >> barack obama, the most globally informed palette since herbert hoover, and food became part of a larger culture war during his administration. >> obama was criticized for being an elitist because he liked to eat a regular salad, he was a real foodie. and michelle obama was someone more focused on health, with her campaigns which were very popular and help people start taking about obesity and diabetes, which can lead to all sorts of horrible diseases. and they use food in a shrewd way, but the problem was that barack obama tried to emulate teddy roosevelt, and he messed up some of the big food trusts at failed and the lobbyists and the food companies made that that did not work out. and ultimately michelle obama -- came more effective by planting her white house garden. which i think is a terrific story partly because it seems radical at the time to rip up this beautiful green lawn and plant a vegetable garden. but it was also very retro, the earliest of the white house, presidents often had gardens there, or chickens running around, and even a few of them had cows, some of whom lived in the white house. for the milk. and s

the obama administration? each administration has had leaks, they have been situational and it is usually looking at what has motivated that person or persons to leak. we have had major online leaks before. you mentioned earlier in this interview, there have even be in other leaks on online gaming platforms of weapons and systems that got into the hands of people who were not trying to spy on the government. they were trying to win an argument over whether a tank in an argument was correctly designed. it is looking outweighs the pentagon can better secure a love this classified information. host: our lines are (202) 748-8001. that is the republican line. (202) 748-8000 for democrats, and for independents and others, (202) 748-8002. i had a question for you, tara, from matt on twitter who said "i have heard some edits of the leaked docs -- do they indicate russia as a source?' guest: possibly. some of the slides looks like they had been doctored or the numbers have been changed, which was walking a tight rope f

experiments that produced this virus and in doing so, he broke the rules both put in place by the obama administration and the trump administration. he is the one that needs to be held accountable could not ch china. >> jonathan: so doctor, would you agree that there is a preponderance of information pointing towards the lab leak theory? >> oh, yes, would absolutely agree with what steve has said as well. there is an abundance of information that points this is not a transmission infection that this likely was depleted in a lab with gain of function research which should be eliminated, which we should not be conducting. and it is important that we get to the bottom of so that this does not continue and hold those accountable who are conducting this research illegally and immorally and unfortunately, jonathan, it is going on right now as we speak here in our backyards. boston university conducting these types of research experiments. my turn and pfizer doing it as well under the premise, under the guise of looking for research for faxing advancement. so it is something that we need to take a close look

under the obama administration when mr biden was the vp that was very much a policy of pivot to asia.o you rate mr biden policy toward asia in his first term? i do you rate mr biden policy toward asia in his first term?— asia in his first term? i think his policy nature — asia in his first term? i think his policy nature has _ asia in his first term? i think his policy nature has been - asia in his first term? i think his l policy nature has been consistent. he has had people show up, has been trying to put a strong phase of the us and asia and show as a resident actor in asia so i think that part is appreciated, but i think that is also a degree of may be frustration, to be of circumcision of what to do about us china competition and this would be less among us allies or mutual partners who feel that they don't have as much at stake. so i guess it is a bit of a mixed picture, but it is a lot more appreciated that the us is present and active then when it does not. so in the sense, to have the consistency of biden, to have a relationship that people are the constant that the us is her

more people were prosecuted than leaking information during the obama administration than all previous administrations combined. if you look at the history, it appears this out. the same is true of jimmy carter, bill clinton, all three of these presidents promised they would change the secrecy system when they took office, and if you look at the statistics, the data, in every single case after they passed their own executive orders even more information was getting classified every year. you do not have to depend on government estimates as we have so far. you can also look at for example state department cables from the 1970's, we have millions of them now, that have been declassified. we have the metadata because the tax has not been released. you can look at all of those millions of cables and compare the nixon administration, the ford administration, the carter administration, and what i can tell you is there is almost no change. state department officers were classifying information if anything more so than the carter years than they were during the time of nixon, kissinger, and fo

and the fbi was used during the obama administration and biden administration. a v/biden, to spy, i would argue, on the trump campaign, trump is a choir boy, he never did this stuff, women were in and out john kennedy's office, an east german spy they hustled out. a mob boss' girlfriend, a 16-year-old intern. it is disgusts, and lbj was worse, abuse of women in the oval office. put things in context, ladies and gentlemen, what is going on in manhattan and atlanta. oh, trump called and said can you find votes that is legal. or trump and documents. he didn't sell t them or give them away, they were at mar-a-lago under protecttion of secret service. attempt to tie him to violence on january 6 and presenting transfer of one government to the next. i'll be right back. hey, man. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance. so you only pay for what you need! whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ age is just a number, and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein wit

experiments that most likely led to the pandemic in defiance of rules in place both in the obama administrationstration. he needs to be held accountable for the origin of the virus itself and then the calamity of the response. >> sandra: this time tomorrow we will be watching the hearing and for weingarten to see what she's saying now and what are we doing about those kids who are struggling, who are behind in their reading, their writing, and arithmetic. >> the people who can afford it the least, the most vulnerable, the poorest, those are the families that suffered the most. these are the exact people the democrats say they are fighting for. >> john: cast of the long defunct tv series, "the l word," joined karine jean-pierre in the brady briefing room, there to celebrate lesbian visibility week, ran on show time from 2004 to 2009, the last episode was 14 years ago. followed a group of lesbian and bisexual women, so there we go, as the white house celebrates lesbian visibility week. earlier this afternoon there was another one to add to the president's blooper reel of tall tales. this one abou

and this was known at highest levels of the obama administration, spying on a political opponent atof a presidential campaign. and from there at every turn, they've gone after donald trump with ridiculous, idiotic, stupid things. they've never paid a price for any of these the things, for all of the lying, for all of the abuse of power. they've never, these democrats have never paid a price for this. will: right. >> and you asked a great question, when will it endsome to me, you know, i hate to say it, i think it only ends when voters including democrat voters wake up and say, enough. we're not doing this anymore. and they start pushing back existence this lunacy. -- against this lunacy. you have this lewinic the, alvin bragg, who's literally stepping over dead bodies in new york in order to pursue a crazy political agenda. will: really quickly, when does it end is in part answered by why is it happening. charlie, i'll start with you. there is no doubt that people respond insanely to the person of donald trump. there's also no doubt he's attacked permanent washington. there's also n

both the obama administration and the biden administration are much more process oriented. that has risk both directions process is important you want to consider of different ideas, but president trump was prepared to take a brief consideration, hoping that the team had done the in-depth work and was decisive. i am confident that had we seen it approaching our airspace, we would have prepared for that. we have evaluated the risk. the president biden, you had the risk that we were going to have debris fall on folks like we would have evaluated that risk very, very differently. and i think when we came in, we would have told him, let's take this down. i mean, remember, we wouldn't have known precisely what was in it. to this day, we know exactly. it could have been the communist party has talked about weaponizing. there are lots of risks, lots of things they could have had in there. and think we would have evaluated risk. i talk about risk a lot in the book, inaction is a decision for risk to and i we would have been very decisive. you asked the second question that the bide

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 have been at this for a long time making a great effort on climate change during the obama administration but now see this tremendous investment i cannot be more thrilled. and like that old series you are rescue the woman is tied up on the tracks and then the hero comes just in the neck of time this is just in the neck of time. i could not be more thrilled about that. and it wasn't just a single thing that a comprehensive proposal that has done many of the things at scale. and then i cannot be more pleased about it we have $260 billion and so you almost have to triple that transmission to move that solar powered tour the sunshine. so then two or three times faster to develop. so then they speed that up is it a bunch of other things that need to happen? >> that the whole ecosystem of decision-making for the state levels so with two bills but the state facilities with that public input and then have a decision. and then to have things on the back burner we don't have ten years to get these going. both at the state and federal level to permit reform to move this much more quickly. it is that

the obama administration even told -- >> geraldo: i wonder if that is true. >> jeanine: of course --lawrence: from the obama administration telling hunter, as well as joe biden, you can't be doing this. the white house counsel office told them to knock it off when he was vice president. it has been the quiet secret in washington, how out of control -- >> martha: cocaine use, right? by that point, so it wasn't a secret. drug user. >> geraldo: i got all that. but to think that all of these names, this very impressive list -- >> jeanine: so is there a deep state of? >> geraldo: to thank all of them got together and said -- >> jeanine: they did. >> geraldo: basement politics, rather than some noble -- >> jeanine: is there a deep state? >> geraldo: is there a deep state? >> jeanine: yeah. >> geraldo: i don't know. what there is is shallow people who do everything for political gain. >> jeanine: and who are at the top of the intelligence community in the united states of america? greg, i want you to take a listen to this. >> we are supposed to believe that hunter biden and a drunken stupor

and i spent some time there airing the obama administration entering the trump administration in the minority. and then president biden elevated me to become the first permanent chairwoman of the fcc. it only took 87 years for a woman to run the agency. the way i see it, i'm going to make up for lost time. are we on? >> 87 years. definitely a long time. >> but who's counting? >> we have a workforce here in the u.s. that's 40% women, which were very proud of. i think that's a little bit of an outlier in the industry. any thoughts there do you see things improving and wordy things go? >> i might be biased but i think communications technology is the most exciting sector of our economy. by some measures it's as much as what some of things of the economy a thing it's were all the energy is. it's were so much is happening and i want to see that those employed in this sector reflect the diversity of our country. i think it's important of why i'm in this job right now and i hope everyone here understands the importance of that too study after study shows when we have more diversity at the t

we should remind you the last time they made the playoffs during the obama administration. you never know by the way they've been playing this year. they've been doing a good job. mike brown has the kings looking like royalty out there, grabbing the third seed in the western conference. but if the warriors are nervous, they're not showing it at all in practice. steve kerr says they have bigger goals in mind. >> at this stage, after a decade of this for the core guys, it's just about having an opportunity to win another title and we're -- we've given ourselves this chance and the circumstances are different every year and there's no need for any motivation this year in terms of seeking a reason to be motivated. i think trying to go back to back is all the motivation we need. >> the kings are looking good this year. we need to remind you that the warriors took three of four regular games from the kings this year. and we're going to take you out live to thrive city where the warriors throw a hosting viewing party. that's tomorrow night for game one. stick around for that. we'r