shortly after obama was elected in '07 i was asked to do a piece, his formation, growing up in hawaii, at age ten is given a basketball by his father t famous barack obama, senior, who wounded up abandoning his family shortly after that. here he is grappling in a way to come to turn with his identity as a black kid being raised by elderly parents. he goes off to college to law school, it's the way he connected with people, made some of his social connections, people that helped with political field and we heard the story that he was certified by his brother-in-law as a suiter for michelle. he came back and reported and said, your boy is straight. i think that was the exact quote. so looking at the role that the game played during the campaign in '08 as he introduced himself to voters wasn't at all shy at using the game to connect, contrast that with bill bradley, for instance, who was very reluctant to use basketball. he compensated for the fact that he was a hall of famer. but obama was quite willing to lead with basketball. so i decided after the -- he's elected and i did this story

president barack obama delivered his final state of the union address. tonight was less about the past and the future. president obama: let's talk about the future. for big questions. regardless of who the next president is. who controls ask congress. how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy. how do we make technology work for us and not against us especially when it comes to solving challenges like climate change? safe and keep america lead the world without becoming its policeman? how can we make our politics reflect what is best in us and not what is worst? last year vice president biden said that with the new moonshot america can cure cancer. last month he worked with this scientists atve the national institutes of health the strongest resources they've had over a decade. announcing a new national effort to get it done and because he has gone to the match for all of us i'm putting joe in charge of mission control. that is why we need to reject peopleitics that targets use of race or religion. this is not a matter of pol

two, for barack obama, the college students were home. school was out of session. so they were spread around the state, which without getting into the math, is a big deal in the caucuses. for sanders, they're in school, so they're just in a few districts which plays against him. lastly, one thing i was surprised by the ann seltzer poll, the gold standard, is the enthusiasm for hillary clinton is better than or at least the same as bernie sanders supporters. for those three things, i would never predict a caucuses, but they lean towards her. >> you mentioned the college thing. one of the things the sanders campaign will say is that they're trying to convince those college students to go back to their hometowns around iowa because the democratic rules are very complicated. go to cnnpolitics.com if you want to reach them. there will be some chess going on. more about that in a minute. they're trying to get these guys to go home. >> how likely is that a college kid is going to go home to vote? >> it depends what's in the back seat of the van, i guess. you mentioned, yo

netanyahu was invited o speak by john boehner. a row between the obama administration and israel... >> it's rarely somebody who comes to say your president is wrong and you, the congress, in effect, need to stop it. >> growing tensions between the u.s. and israel... >> it was extraordinary for a foreign leader to come into the united states congress and use it as a platform to try and undermine administration policy. it was a really audacious thing to do. >> he is definitely willing to sacrifice israeli-u.s. relations in order to do what he thinks is proper to fight off the iranian challenge. >> narrator: his audience-- the republican controlled congress-- the president's fiercest critics. >> the days when the jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over. (cheers and applause) we must always remember the greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant islam with nuclear weapons. (cheers and applause) >> there was no other time when the israeli prime minister let himself be so deeply involved in america

he was not teeing up the obama re-election in 2012. y thinking, i've got to go out there and start laying the groundwork in a swing state for my guy, the president. i called my friends in the white house that day i said this guy could run against you. he's that unhappy with barack obama. there's nothing wrong with that. david's right, there's some very principled opposition from the left. but hillary was not part of this. she ran against him in the primary, joined his government and has been a key ally. >> or member, s.e., bernie sanders is an independent senator from vermont. he's not a democrat senator from vermont. >> yeah. like i said, i think hillary did great tonight but i think she overdid it on the obama embracing a couple of times. and i think it looked a little petty, a little small, a little desperate actually. when they were talking about health care. and you know, bernie sanders just a couple hours before the debate revealed his health care plan. and all she had to say was your plan is going to raise taxes on middle-class a

both them and the congress and the country, and i think tonight what made it easier for president obama was he was really just speaking to the audience of the country. i mean, he wasn't really speaking to the congress because he's not sure what he can get through there, so he was going over their heads to the country and it simplified matters for him. >> rose: was this a summing up of his presidency? >> well, it did start, you know, long ago it seemed like such a long time ago that he ran for president on the hope and change and today, you know, he brought it full circle and talked again about his hopes for the future and all the changes that have taken place but all the changes that still are to come and how we have to work together to get those. so i think that was sort of -- you know, that was his summation of his presidency in so many words. you know, he did seem to toss it out to the american people, to a great extent, toward the end. not so much -- it was more like it's kind of your job to get this right, that's what i meant when i said i felt like it was all my fault. we have to work

for a split second i was like is obama's african side taking over right now? ught there was like a voice in his head where it was like, obama, it's all yours, take it now, take it now! it's like, have i to get it back-- give it back, it's a democracy. democracy? what is that? take it! so luckily the speech wasn't about a power grab. instead president obama got to reflect on his achievements as president which including reviving the economy, strengthening the military and passing health-care reform. but at the end of the term that was constantly marred by congress' refusal to get anything done, the president spent a fair amount of his speech dreaming out loud. >> we've got to accelerate the transition away from old, dirtier energy sources. we have to make college affordable for every american. >> last year vice president biden said that with a new moon shot, america can cure cancer. >> and because he's gone to the mat for all of us on so many issues over the past 40 years, i'm putting joe in charge of mission control. let's make america the country that cures ca

shortly after obama was elected in 08 i was asked to do it piece for "sports illustrated" about the role became played in his formation, growing up in hawaii. at age 10, given a basketball by his father, the famous barack obama senior wound up abandoning families shortly after that. here he is essentially buried in the island scrap in her way to come to terms with identity as a black kid being raised by alter the grand parents. basketball became essential part of that. then he goes off to college, to law school, the way he connected with people based on the social circuit connections to people who would help his political career and in a famous almost mythic way we heard the story about how he was certified as future brother-in-law, taken out for a pickup game and he came back and reported inside your way straight was the exact quote. the book in of fact and the role that the gameplay during the campaign as he introduced himself was not all shy about using the game with l. bradley, for instance, was very reluctant. they wanted to prove the legitimate policies. after here's a lack good tr

i think the lay of the land, and as richard was saying, the perceived inability of bernie to pivot. the obama campaign and the sanders campaign, the difference was obama was more send wrist. bernie is a self avowed socialist. so there's a major difference there. so i think the centrist nature of the remaining states will make it that much more difficult for bernie to continue his momentum. >> also, please recall on martin luther king day in 2008, obama was welcomed into the baptist church. when rev rend stood next to him it was over. >> byron: now, i guess to wrapping things up here, what are you going to be looking for tomorrow in the iowa caucuses? what things are you going to be looking for? >> i mean you alluded to it earlier. it's trump, it's trump and cruz. who among the remaining can days makes that surprisingly strong showing and then becomes the target for tax return to take that person down. >> the top establishment can daylight. the question is who drops out after iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. and so those bottom tier candidates are desperately fighting for number three.

if you go back and pears what they were saying, what obama was saying, it was quit deliberate. tell a story about how in 2007, august, when senator obama gives a big national security speech at the woodrow wilson center, he was going to say i'm against mill commissions, and jeh johnson, who was pentagon general counsel, campaign adviser, says you don't know what problem outside might encounter as president. you need to maintain flexibility and they rewrite the speech so that he says i'm against the military commissions act of 2006. and people hear that and think he's against commissions but really he said he is against that commissions that were set up that way, which leeches him tone being procommissions under some a other law, kiss exactly what happens when congress pass as new version of the commissions act and he embraces them. so i'll close with a story about -- that sort of ill states the happen toes i've been talking about -- illustrates the themes i've been talking about in 2013 when ed snowden revealed many things, among them the bulk phone roareds program, the patriot

he is what the birther said obama was. he was not born in the country. we knew obama had one american parent. you know, i, too, would like to have an asterisk for canada. >> i'm saying ted cruz can't be president unless -- >> he is not american. i'm waiting for the moment that he gets the nomination and then i will file that beautiful lawsuit saying he is unqualified for the job. he is ineligible. >> this is too wild. you have allen grayson and geraldo. in november upheld the spot after hearing. but the chairman of the commission in new hampshire said this issue is not settled at all. the courts have never said anything when it comes to the presidency and natural borne citizen despite stuff thrown at us. let me go down to this question. what is this? this is the most conservative candidate and he has to defend his americanism. >> it is absurd. i think trump has hit a candidate's weak spot and cruz who has maintained this uneasy detente is put in a difficult place because trump will elbow him. cruz will have great difficulty responding. it's not a totally

. >> reporter: you did compare some people said, obama to hitler, you said obama was hitler. >> which one was he talking about. let me tell you something, i one, >>> the super bowl returns to cbs when the denver broncos take panthers a week from sunday. the super bowl match up comes after a pair of exciting conference championship games. one featured perhaps the final version of peyton manning versus tom brady. the other the emergence of the panthers potential mvp quarterback, cam newton. james brown has a look. >> football fans may have seen the last match up between tom brady and peyton manning. as you mention about carolina, there is a star in cam newton who is shining very brightly. >> here is brady. rolling out. rolling. throwing. tipped in the air. and it is intercepted. >> this may have been peyton manning's most satisfying victory in a long, storied, nfl career. not because he beat tom brady and the patriots team that always seems to have his number, but because the the 39-year-old manning doesn't always beat teams with his arm anymore. >> can you believe it he has a first dow

was she like. >> guest: very strong minded, independent, smart. they ask for barack obama, senior and she spent much of her adult life overseas and raised two children and particularly her son. sometimes it's not abandoned by her and left much of the years with her grandparents but she was in the vanguard of the micro- financing movement and worked through various times in the ford foundation and other enterprises to try to help and empower women around the world particularly in the asian subcontinent and she died very young when he was in his 20s. >> host: today the president is 54-years-old. what was it like in hawaii? >> guest: it wasn't a dysfunctional situation in any way. i think that he had enough to overcome both because of the fact that his mother wasn't there and he was struggling to figure out who he was in the culture but there weren't that many african-americans. the few that were there were mostly affiliated with the military because of the military bases in honolulu. but it's interesting. i don't in any way discount the struggles that he endured at the schoo

obama care. david didn't really, think i think that was a conscious choice. ndeed, part of the reason you do not see a lot of interns flitting about that typically help out these forms is because of obama care. we like to pair interns which i thought the left was in favor of. yet, because we pay our interns, we can employ them for longer than three months at a certain number of hours per week etc., without providing full healthcare benefits. because we don't want to provide that in tire package or nothing, we have to employ them for less time during the year, hence no interns to help out. david also has an interesting chapter -- wives just talking but the consequences of why the role of laws important. -- well okay they'll be the next cato lawsuit once we finish the ones -- david also has this interesting factor on foreign policy that he talked about which is tricky. the scope of executive power over foreign affairs is less clearly defined than it is over domestic affairs. while it is obvious president obama violated the war powers act, i personally i'm not co

that he was playing politics as much as he says that barack obama was. >> they should not be surprised. governor haley is a force and she's going to the what she wants to do. she doesn't necessarily always follow the partisan line. go ahead hugh. >> nikki haley gave a great, great speech and underscored four of the top eight contenders for the presidency are minorities and women. and hugh jackson is now the head coach of the cleveland browns. but she gave a great speech and will be on the short list for the vice presidentsy. i think it will blow over in two days. but there was no grand plan and that was backed up by the washington post that paul ryan and mitch mcconnell had no editorial control. that was nikki haley channelling nikki haley. >> and no one should be surprised by that. and not to be overlooked. she is the daughter of indian immigrants and giving the rebuttal to the state of the union from the president of the united states. dana, you have been with ted cruz in south carolina all day and you were just able to ask him about this new story out about his finances. tell us abo

president obama was presented a gift by the house democrats, a hand-crafted, hand-painted bowl with the words "we have your back" engraved on it. president obama also addressed the progress the country has made, under his leadership the last seven years. a major investigation is underway, looking at the reasons trying to buy tickets for a hot concert or sporting event. investigators say it' s a "fixed game". the new york state attorney general conducted the investigation over three years. they found, many events have a majority of tickets earmarked for pre-sale eventsand not available to the general public. some are using high tech purchasing techniques, to scoop up hundreds of tickets, in a matter of seconds. s a nationwide problem, t think of a state in the country where this isn' t a problem. and it happens at every major concert venue. mark: investigators are now trying to determine, if laws have been broken. the new york attorney general is now focusing on the nfl and its relationship with ticketmaster. the report says, the league could be guilty of anti-trust violations, because o

so i think that what we saw was a self-restrained victory lap by president obama. >> yes. doing it, nuclear deal, done, american families, done, financial deal, done. >> all the things that they said wouldn't get done. he did everything. >> and you don't want to do a victory lap at the beginning of a process. but there was, and this was an important, y'all kept yelling at me about this. and it was happening but i could not talk about it while it was happening because, you know, real g's move in silence. >> the president had a good day today. the proof is going to be in the pudding for the next administration. about what we're going to have to watch in the next two or three weeks is the position of syria and what iran does there. then maybe the president will surprise me, that that's been a big negotiating tool the entire time. the ayatollah are high fiving, much like the castros were high fiving. >> opening cuba is the right thing to do. >> iran, we just gave them legitimacy in the middle east. they've now got their economic power. i will give the president the most credit

obama was acting like bush. distinguished commentator today is michael glennan, profession of international law at tufts university and the former legal counsel to the smart foreign relations committee. his 2014 book "national security and double government" was the most disturbing thing i read that year. in it professor glennan asks the key question, why does national security policy remain constant even when one president is replace i by another who as a candidate repeatedly forcefully and eloquently promised fundamental changes in that policy. he identified three possible causes for this striking degree of policy continuity between the two administrations. one, a rational good-faith threat assessment by political actors, the policies we needed, given the threats we faced. another is the enormous political pressures brought to bear on the presidency, whether rational or not. but professor glennan puns his emphasis on a third cause, what he calls an emergent autocracy made up of national security insiderrers we

sadly, since president obama was elected, republicans have stopped at nothing to undermine the president's team, seeking to undermine the progress by denying the personnel he wants to carry out his agenda. despite obstruction president obama has achieved remarkable progress. i talked about some of that just a minute ago. imagine what president obama could have accomplished if senate republicans took their constitutional duties seriously. regrettably during the obama presidency republicans have done everything within their power to block qualified public servants from serving. in the first year of republican control the senate confirmed the fewest nominations of any first session in memory. this blatant strategy of obstruction is shameful and dangerous to the economy and the national security of our country. headlines around the world remind us each day of the turmoil that exists in the global financial market and basic terrorism that threatens the world. today we learned of multiple bombings yesterday and last night in nigeria. lots of people killed. we can only wait and see where else tha

has deployed dozens campaign staffers and now volunteers, but they were not started as the obama campaign was in february of 2007 to make that kind of effort. host: we will follow your work online at radioi would a, -- radioiowa.com. >> on today's "washington journal," a preview of the obama administration with jeff mason and associated press recorder erica warner. kraushaar looks at some of the key races in the house and senate, and richard lugar looks at some bipartisan work. as always, we take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal," live at seven ago a.m. eastern on c-span. today, former president bill clinton makes his first campaign trip for hillary clinton in 2016. he is in new hampshire for a series of grassroots organizing meetings. he will talk about how hillary clinton will make a difference for families across the country's. live coverage at 5:15 on c-span. >> tonight on "the communicators," consumer technology association president on the major technology issues he expects in 2016, and why the cta changed its name this past fall

. >>> president obama was briefed on the potential threat of the zika virus. yesterday, the world health organization predicted the mosquito-transmitted virus was spread to almost all countries in the americas, including the u.s. symptoms are usually mild, but the virus has been linked to birth defects in brazil. the president called for the development of tests, vaccines, and treatments. >>> the two anti-abortion rights those undercovered videos of planned parenthood will turn themselves in. the two faces charges of tampering with governmental records, a felony. they made an undercover video accusing planned parenthood of illegally selling fetal tissue for research. a grand jury found the organization did nothing wrong. >>> the texas teenager who used a so-called affluenza defense could be back in the united states within 48 hours. ethan couch was fighting deportation from mexico but dropped his appeal. couch and his mother were arrested last month following a more than two-week manhunt. he'll return to texas to face charges stemming from a drunken driving con

presidential campaign in the 2012 cycle his platform, his very narrow platform was that president obama was secretly foreign and had a forged birth certificate. he was an agent of a foreign power. and donald trump sent his investigators to hawaii. and you wouldn't believe what they were finding and they were going to reveal the explosive truth that our kenyan overlords had wrested control of the u.s. government so we'd all be, i don't know, put in camps or given tinfoil teeth covers or something. i don't know. it was, a, a very short-lived campaign. b, it was a very popular campaign among republican voters. people forget how well he polled for the few weeks that he was in the race. and c, his campaign was totally based on this birtherism claim by donald trump. and since then in the ensuing 4, 4 1/2 years, birtherism, this idea that president obama is a secret foreign agent, it has mostly fallen out of favor in most republican circles. the few journalists who have asked mr. trump this time around if he still believes that president obama is secretly foreign, if he still believes in the fake

super inflammatory beyond the pale platform and he ran basically on the platform that president obama was secretly foreign and that he had a fake birth certificate. we talked last night about the fact that he was winning by running on that platform. the short period of time that he was running, he was winning by accusing the current president of being a foreigner, not being a legitimate president. he really was at the top of the polls for the few weeks in which he mounted that presidential campaign in 2011 for the 2012 psych. people have sort of forgotten that about him as a political figure. the reason we unearthed that for last night's show is because i this i it's a good reminder that mr. trump being popular didn't just pop right now. donald trump has something that republican voters like. they liked the last time that he offered to them only for a short period of time. and now they like it this time, as well. it's the same type of significant popularity. it hasn't gone away this time around because he hasn't stopped running this time around like 2012. we unearthed that last night from

obama. part of the reason it has been tough is once the affordable care act was passed without just got votes, it he congressmen rank willed and unproductive relationship between president obama and congress. i think president obama will come out just fine in history. he did not have a lot of scandals in his administration. he inherited the great recession and what does the economy look like when president obama leaves office. if the economy is much better and the indicatorsr we will have to wait. he got our economy going. there is the saving of general mortse, the killing of osama bin laden. there will be trouble spots and think the red line in syria and calling the isis the j.v. team, some of that problem in the middle east is going to hurt the reputation. but i have no doubt that this president is going to go down as a successful american president even though his relationship with congress was not good. host: here's a look at the magazine, calling it the obama issue, when you look inside, the president by the numbers, you can see here there were 1,64 bills from january 2009 to 2015. at is

the moeeting comes days after speculation president obama was supporting hillary clinton. >> there was some discussion the other day about a politico interview tipping the scale toward secretary clinton. i don't believe that at all. >> white house press secretary josh earnest has repeatedly said president obama does not plan to endorse a candidate during the democratic primary nor make public who he vets for in the illinois primary. hillary clinton is in philadelphia to raise money for a campaign. her campaign has been secretive about the exact location. rocker john bn bon jovi will pl for donors who give at least $1,000 to the campaignen the national convention arrives in philadelphia this summer. those putting together the massive event need help now. so far, 7,000 people from around the country are registered to volunteer. the dmc needs 10,000 volunteers for transportation, event support, and to work with the press and social media. >>> grant money will help local students study water purification. nbc 10 at science leadership academy in north philadelphia today the state farm youth

that is what i was trying to find. >> host: david maraniss, you go to the place where barack obama srwas killed in an accident. you also interviewed his last wife. >> guest: ruth, another american. .. >> guest: and at a very, very lift marriage. and it was during my interviews with her that i really started to understand the abuses of the alcoholism that the father suffered from and the, you know, the way that he was physically abusive of his wife. >> host: where does this bookend? >> guest: it ends, you know, really early. [laughter] it ends when barack obama goes back to chicago after being in new york city going to columbia, graduating from columbia, working there for a couple of years. he goes back to chicago as a community organizer and really finds himself, finds his identity in chicago on the south side with the black community there. and it ends with him realizing sort of having an ill human nateing -- ill illuminating situation where he realizes what par really means and how to get real power. he learned a lot from community organizing but decided he needed something beyond t

a lot of democrats say we like obama, but it was not the hope -- change that we hoped for. liked the barack obama democrat, he left me. ed: you talked about how the gop usually goes with the establishment, but the book was written in the fall. things have changed. as we have been talking about. the question is -- did you see donald trump -- back then, 90, 120 days ago, versus the donald trump you see now? mr. scala: no, insistently underestimating donald trump has been a hallmark for me for the last year. ed: you are not alone there. mr. scala: he has gotten an enormous amount of media attention he had to pay nothing for and that is a unique characteristic of presidential candidates. he clearly has a message that is resonating with a group of voters that is important for republicans -- that is white, blue-collar voters. they are the ones that feel they have been left behind by the great recession, and then the economic recovery. trump' s message is not message -- much more of a populist message, a nationalist message -- "make america great again" -- we will see how far he gets with th

and this is something i should say that president obama talked about when he was still senator obama, candidate obama in his election campaigns. he said, look, we need to talk to our adversaries, not that we are friends, not that we are going to agree on anything but that we have the ability, at least, to talk to each other and i think we're seeing the results of that in the events not just of yesterday but also with the incidents of the sailors and the whole tone of interaction is changing. but i would re-emphasize, we are not friends and we are probably unlikely to become friends any time in the immediate future. >> ambassador limbert, to you now joe scirincione. you have had several meetings with president rouhani and he was reported by coming to the microphone hour after hour really saying what an amazing development iran has had in this deal. what was going through president rouhani's mind, do you think, based on your conversations with him leading up to yesterday? >> i've met president rouhani three times. we met in tehran in 2005. as you know, richard, he represents the pragmat

obama care is very unpopular. and some credit that goes to marco rubio. despite the symbolic votes, it was marco rubio in some ways architects of kind of hurting obama care and putting it in trouble by eliminate the risk corridors and bail outs to obama care insurers if they didn't become profitable. rubio is the guy who may have set the path of obama to failure. >> the president refers to the republican attempt to repeal. and he lost count of the attempts and so forth. and some way voters don't like the exercises in fulltility coming out of washington, do they? >> certainly the base of the republican party wants to see these votes. but in a general election, when you are talking on a presidential election, sure it feeds that sensibility that people are spinning their partisan wheels in congress. and so much needs to be done in the economy and foreign policy and instead, we are passing legislation that is not going anywhere, anyways. >> we'll see what happens and it is a fascinating exercise and an interesting year ahead. thank you both p. >> thank you. >>> one american servicemember is de

he was eligible. >> did you go that way on obama being born outside the country? >> my newspaper shot it down. it was raised by hillary clinton. >> if ted cruz is a natural born citizen there would be no problem with obama being born in kenya. what was the issue with that? if he had been born in kenya, no one disputed his american status. >> now anne is dabbling in obama birtherism. >> where would you put trump 50/50? >> from the week after he announced, i said he is going to win the nomination and the president. >> he's your favorite? >> not a favorite. he is going to win. >> anne said mitt romney was the perfect and best republican candidate and she kissed chris christie's backside up the wazoo. >> my ideal ticket is trump/romney. >> that is the proof right there that you are in no way conservative and no way interested in conservative policy. >> would romney join that ticket? >> i wish he would. one of the things i like about romney and trump and ronald reagan is, these are three men by running for president and being president, in two cases, i suspect, made the

senator, but i want to say what a president coming in the middle of the financial crisis as barack obama wasdo you restore confidence, tell people it's going to be all right, now, he was following up on efforts of the bush administration -- >> look -- >> what would you do? >> his response was to pass a stimulus package, which is a huge mistake and his response was to continue to bail out -- continue the auto bailouts, another mistake. from the very beginning i was against the bailouts, den. >> you felt that why win president bush was for those bailouts. >> yes. >> pressure brush was -- okay. that's fine. >> bank bailouts, auto bailouts, i was opposed to all bailouts and was vocal saying so. i'm going to focus on how we can get this economy going by unshackling the economy from the regulatory burden it's on right now, unshackling the economy from the tax burden it's under right now, and i agree with donald trump. i think we have to look at our trade policies and i'm someone who voted for free trade greats but also voted against free trade agreements. i voted against nafta because i didn't thi

it was finalized and the text is out. they may vote on it this year. obama wants it and hillary is against it. keystone was another questionable issue, the keystone pipeline in canada to the gulf -- from canada to the gulf. while obama was still kind of waffling and had not made his decision, there was some question over whether there was a divide between the two of them. turns out there is not, they are on the same page. these two are on the same page, which puts hillary in a tough position because obama is not popular and a lot of these purple districts where democratic votes are going to be necessary to win the white house. she is going to have to make some kind of conservative -- concerted effort to distance herself from the things obama has done. you can see her doing that on foreign policy. as agh thing for her to do former secretary of state when the president was doing some of these things. on a policy basis, there is not a lot of daylight between the two of them. host: you said that the trade is thatht happen and surprising considering an elected ye

obama said he was forced to use his presidential powers in the face of a stubborn congress. gun control is a divisive issue in the u.s., and it is front and center in the presidential campaign. republican contenders were quick to slam the president's new measures. to signtrump: he wants executive orders all the time. it is no good, no fair, and they are not going to screw around with the second amendment. >> if there is an issue, he ought to go to congress to force consensus to make it happen. he does not have this power. the best way to do it is to allow states to decide what kind of gun control laws that they have. marco rubio: i am going to the every onee and repeal of his unconstitutional executive orders. so the executive order that he issued today that undermined the executive -- the second amendment, on my first day it is gone. genie: france 24's washington correspondent philip crowther has more. 20-year-olds,ese it is the very first time. they are excited, a little bit nervous. this is on the day the u.s. president announced new gun control measures. that would not d

navy base in cuba, was created to hold terrorism suspects, particularly from the battlefield in afghanistan. many have been held for years without charges. in 2009, president obama said he was ordering the prison closed but congress refused. 93 prisoners remain down from nearly 700. isis says it was behind the attack today in jakarta, indonesia. bombs and bullets killed two and wounded at least 26. but the five attackers had bigger plans. us tonight. seth? >> reporter: good evening, scott. this is another example of isis trying to extend its reach. as more details are emerging, we're learning that the attack, which involved a series of explosions and a gun battle in central jakarta, could have been much worse. images from the scene show cars with bullet holes and attackers wearing suicide vests. one of those attackers detonated his vest inside a starbucks, but a law enforcement source tells us another attacker died when his vest detonated by accident. indonesia has more muslims than any other country in the world, but it is a country that's known for its mainstream teaching of islam, and the fear here is that isis may be gaining a foothold in southeast asia. >>

by the end of 2008, the last remaining argument hillary clinton could make against barack obama was that she is was competent, you wanted her picking up the phone call at 3:00, whennuan williams isow even saang this was negligence - - >> i think she broke the les. >> the difference in 2008 and now is that last argument she had, even that one doesn't stand any more. >>> so lisa, it's interesting, because the clinton people are now saying even if she were to lose iowa, lose new hampshire, then there's a firewall. you again to south carolina, to the original states before you get to the western caucuses. will be her firewall. do you buy that? >> i just think there's no reasons for sanders to drop out of the race, even if that's her firewall. she won't have enonoh delegagas. the risk i think is whether his arguunt -- he's talksing about her wall street ties, and her paid speeches. do those -- >> speaking fees get at the fundamental problem she faces, which is a question of honesty and truthfulness. it's exactly the problem with the e-mails for voters, was she telling the truth? if his argume

that's what it feels like to me. >> obama was the first black guy. >> larry: i voted for obama becauseack. i make no apologies for that, right? it's true! (cheers and applause) this is why people checked me out. they say, larry, what kind of job do you think obama's done? i'm, like, is he still black? a pretty good job. >> i think that's fair. >> larry: but hillary represents an historic first and seems like there should be more of a groundswell that's not there. >> i think people feel like she's been in the white house before and they're not putting it together that she wasn't the president. to hillary's credit. you look at somebody on paper like with the job interview thing, this woman has the most credentials of any candidate in a long time! >> i know. strategically, if trump is the nominee -- ooh dr. i -- cane sanders -- i look at bernie sanders like nnnnnuu -- >> he's like an old jewish guy. look how outobama got in eight years. bernie will be the crypt keeper in eight years. (laughter) (cheers and applause) he will. >> i love bernie sanders. basic projections of the aging process