people are really interested in it knowing what goes on inside this white house, as they were inside the obama white house. the difference is that this white house really engages with our reporters to talk about what is going on in the white house, and even when spicer and some tryrs really push back and to internally say don't talk to a reporters. brian: is that a euphemism for "backstab each other," "leaking." carrie: yeah, they say don't talk to reporters, they say it privately, and yeah, "don't leak." talking about the strategy at 100 days. that is a remarkable level of people leaking and talking to us. i do typically ask to all the sources are. always fascinated -- jon karl, my colleague at the white house, and i talk about lot.a is seems like every story, the number of sources reported are getting bigger and bigger. upe washington post" leaked to 18 sources. it is a sign of how much people are talking. you talk about policy versus palace intrigue, i would say until syria last week, thoroughly percent is out there, 80%, 70% of the content that gets asked about and discussed in these white

>> i cover the obama white house. i started covering him in 2007 and 8 when he was campaigning an covered him for six years. i guarranty you i heard the exact same thing about the obama white house, "politico" cared way too much about palace intrigue and different cover policy. i was a policy reporter covering health care. boy go to them and basically hear the same thing. and sean spicer said it this morning, that they want us to cover policy and not the palace intrigue. the challenge is that the white house itself is very, very focused on palace intrigue and who is up and who is down. it is not just the press that is engaged in this. like cecelia said this is a long-standing complaint. we do cover policy at "politico" itself. we have 125 reporters and editors who cover policy alone and agencies and departments that is a huge invest what is going on in this town. we do that. we give it play. yes i would give them a point in that the palace intrigue stories typically do pretty darn well. people are really, interested kn

there was real concern in the obama white house, andi concern in the obama white house, and i think theregoing on inside egypt was actually fuelling radicalisation, and in a way fuelling terrorism. although for the moment this white house has made it clear it will not raise the issue of human rights, at least in public or in meetings like this one. they will prefer in meetings like this one. they will p refer to in meetings like this one. they will prefer to do it in other ways. what could mr trump get from the egyptians that mr obama didn't? notably there are no egyptian planes flying over raqqa and supporting the coalition against isis, for example. that is true, but not because president al sisi was upset with president al sisi was upset with president obama and with help that. there are two reasons for that, first of all egypt has its own insurgency based in the sinai. it is an indigenous egyptian group and affiliated itself with isis. the egyptian military is tied up with fighting it and terrorism problem andi fighting it and terrorism problem and i have to say not doing it very effe

i've been as resented by the clinton and obama white houses, than i have by the reagan and bush white house and now i guess the trump white house. >> maybe it's a badge of honor. >> badge of honor, officially, bestowed by me. angela mitchell, host reports, congratulations on this interview today. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> all right. we'll be right back. why pause a spontaneous moment? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. >>> just moments ago you heard andrea mitchell say the former acting director of the cia is now

people are really interested knowing what is going on in the white house as they were in the obama white house. the difference this white house really engages with our reporters to talk about what is going on in the white house. that is why, when spicer and some others really pushed back and try to internal say don't talk to reporters when they themselves are talking to reporters. >> engaging is euphemism for back-stabbing each other, leaking? >> yeah. they're saying don't talk to reporters. they say it privately and yeah, don't leak. but, we had a story two days ago where we quoted six people inside of a meeting of 30, talking about the strategy at 100 days. that is a remarkable level of people leaking and talking to us. >> do you know who all the sources were yourself. >> i do typically ask all the sources were, yeah. >> you're confident of that. cecelia, jonathan karl and my colleague at white house talk about this a lot. happening more and more, every story, number of sources being reported gets bigger and bigger. "the washington post" we spoke to 18 sources, six sources. it's a sign

white house this in detail. reporter: susan rice requested the unmasking of names that those close to president trump campaign for bed. though it that the obama white house squarely at the center estimates was president of him is former national security adviser. unmasking is the process of revealing someone's identity for intelligence purposes. if there's no intelligence value, their names are not that these within the intelligence community. the question is that there was sent for legitimate intelligence purposes or if there was some political motive. house intelligence committee chairman congressman devin nunes first raised the question last month. white house press secretary sean spicer was elected to comment on the connection including whether or not her alleged actions were politically motivated. he also shook off my question about the legality of such potential actions. >> the white house believes susan rice may have done anything illegal? >> i'm not that i -- appreciate the effort there. i'm not going to go down that road. as we've said before, we go down one road, we need to go down the mall. at this point we've supported this review

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>> i covered the obama white house and started in 2007 and eight. i can guarantee you that i heard the exact same thing from the obama white house that political cared way too much about other things and do not cover policy. i covered health care and away i guess i would basically hear the same thing and sean spicer said this morning that they want us to cover policy, the challenge is that the white house itself is very focused on intrigue and he was up and who's down. it is not just the press engaged in this so i would say this is like a long-standing complaint, we do cover policy, we have 125 reporters who cover policies alone. that's a huge investment in what is going on. we give it play and yes i would maybe give them up point and that they typically do pretty well, people are interested in what's going on, the differences this white house engages with our reporters to talk about what's going on in the white house. that's what spicer and others push back and try to internally say don't talk to reporters. >> think they backstab each other for leak

white house too. it's a very dangerous thing. you can get consumed. it was something that the obama white house did a good job of ignoring. whatever the press is saying about the staff and were able to keep it to a minimum but can be very, very distracting and that's damaging for everyone. i think it happened because if the they wait for the press -- it's a way for the press resists covering issues in a deep and serious way because if you -- you are either -- in doing so you're -- you're usually coming down on one side or the other. so if you cover -- if you cover process, if you cover personalities, if you just judge the white house on who is getting along or who is not -- or are they excuting well or not and you don't have to the weigh in on what they're actually doing that's a favorite place for the press to the be. i think when i worked in a democratic white house i found -- and it's been changing. i think most journalists are probably leaning more to the left than the right. think about the kind of person that's drawn to do this as a career. they believe in government, they think politics matters. they like it. they

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is less transparent that barack obama's white house. >> reporter: law professor kathleen clark is an expert on government ethics. >> we do not know how much money the president owes and to whom he owes it. >> reporter: white house press secretary sean spicer. >> there are now ethics experts on both sides of the aisle who say this is the least transparent administration in decades. how do you respond? >> well, i think that we have taken several steps to allow people access to this white house in terms of, in particular, the press. we bring people in, we release participant lists, we give the press the opportunity to come in the room. so i would respectfully disagree with that. >> reporter: this white house is even secretive about golf. president trump has already visited golf courses 19 times but scott, in most of those cases, the white house has refused to confirm or deny if the president was actually golfing. >> pelley: chip reid, thanks. well, mr. trump did take a swing at the democrat running in a special election tomorrow in georgia to fill a house seat. it should be

so we went from basically a micromanagement style in the obama white house to almost a hands-off approach in the trump white house. there has to be kind of a happy medium. so that's one thing that's going on. but the other thing is, with these very nasty urban warfare battles that are going on now -- and i was in mosul in october and november when the thing began, and these are really difficult fights -- our commanders, namely general townsend, who is the commander of the american-led task force that's fighting i.s.i.s. and his superior, they decided to make urban warfare work, you had to empower the guy on the ground to call in airstrikes. that started to happen in december under president obama. so some of this, the centralization of authority to call in airstrikes really is not so much due to the trump administration, it's really something that was put in place at the end of last year, and the reason it was done was because mosul and raqqa are such difficult fights, you just had to have the authority to call out airstrikes or the guy who's with the iraqi forces who are trying to move f

white house. it's a very dangerous thing. you can get consumed by it. it was something the obama white house did a good job of ignoring, whatever the press is saying about the staff and we were able to keep it at a minimum that it can be very, very distracting and that's damaging for everyone. i think it happens because if, it's a way for the press resist covering issues in a deep and serious way because you are either coming doing so you are usually come down on one side or the other, right wax so if you cover process, if you cover personalities, if you just judge the white house on who's getting along and who's not, or are they executing well or not and you don't have to wait and what they're actually doing, that's a safer place for the press to be. when i worked in the democratic white house what i found was i think, this is virginia a lot over the last 20 years, i think most journalists are probably plenty more to the left and right. and by the kind of person that is drawn to do this as a career. they believe in government if they think politics matters. they like it. they fi

in 2009, she heard about the job at the obama white house. >> it's not like it's posted on the 1-800-jobs or something. what happened was i sent a letter of inquiry and a resume to the white house. i was so surprised when i got an e-mail that i was a semifinalist. >> reporter: this design won the face-off as the finalists at the white house. laura's first big challenge, the obama's first state dinner for the prime minister of india. >> we felt like it was such a beautiful decor, apple green linens with the purple flower. >> repo all people remembered when it was over was the salahi gate crashers. and generally no one visits the white house who doesn't remember the flowers. no matter the season or the reason, laura shows us a white house filled with the beauty and fragrance of fresh flowers. >> the governor of washington state, my home state, came to the governor's ball a few years ago. he was seated next to the president at dinner and asked president obama, what will you miss most when you leave the white house? and apparently the president said, "well, i'll miss the flowers. they're

when you combine the white house changed what the obama white house was on visitors logs, you don't know who is going in to meet with his aides. >> what's that about? what's so scintillating in the visitor logs they don't want to release those. >> i can speculate. it opens them up to criticism on transparency. rational how it was potential for governing is a head scratcher and i imagine there's going to be lawsuits where if they lose you wonder what the point was. >> we've seen this before. trump in 2012 went after obama, why are you lacking releasing visitor logs, now you're doing the same thing. does the hypocrisy matter? he says under audit. that hasn't changed. we've never seen any proof he's under audit. >> he can still release. >> it is legitimate. can you release under audit, i understand that, but you don't have to. >> there's years that aren't under audit. >> he says he's always under audit. >> hold on. this matter we're going to hear about it. >> they won't comment. >> the irs won't comment. >> he has not shown he's under audit. i get that tax attorneys will say to you if you'r

give the grey national security risks and privacy concerns, it is a position the obama white house successfully defend in the federal court. one senior official telling me, even after president obama, there were some exceptions. which is true. the obama white house, for example, wouldn't release logs of people visiting the first family in some instances, wouldn't release logs when it was highly sensitivity information, or meetings like supreme court justice. but they're already getting blowback for not being trans parent enough. take a listen to what the aclu had to say. elected officials work for the people and we deserve to see government business conducted many transparent daylight. trump has bullied the press when they report on him. he has reported fake and outright information. he has put gags there on federal employees in the earliest days of his administration. incredibly strong reaction there. one administration official saying they were bracing for this reaction. they're ready to take hit. they think it is a matter of national security and they're going to stand by this. >> can i voic

white house for a month now. ever since the president claimed that he is being wiretapped by the obama administration. today, the white house began to see a little light at the end of the tunnel. >> the press secretary today lashed out at questions about white house involvement in providing information to the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> if everyone was treating the president of the administration fairly, you would ask a series of much different questions about the substance and the material. >> after weeks of playing defense, the white house appeared to find a small hole to run through today, intelligence officials telling fox news the two white house staffers who assisted in devon nunez search for intelligence were not his original source. and that nunez has been investigating the surveillance unmasking of trump officials since well before the president sent out these now infamous tweets. >> when he talked to the media, he made it very clear that he had been looking into this, he had stated this much earlier than the president had ever raised this issue about surveillance. >> the

she both performed for and worked with the obama white house on issues like education.ber of last year, she received the web medal from harvard university for her three decade contribution to african american culture. i caught up with her late this week right before her heading next week to speak and be part of national action network's annual convention in new york. >> welcome, mc. >> thank you. the it's an honor. >> well, the honor is ours, and you're being honored at the convention because of your trail blazing activities in our culture and in the country. let me ask you, where do you see? there's a lot of talk about millennials and hip hop having gone mainstream the last decade or so, but i remember when you helped to trail that -- be a trail blazer for that and really set a course where people were saying we don't even know if rap is going to last and we don't know what hip hop is. looking back now, and you're still young, vibrant and out there, how do you look at where the culture has been impacted by hip hop, and where hip hop is today? >> well, i certainly belie

american citizen and want to be helpful in that process if i could. >> do you regret that the obama white house did not decide earlier to blow the whistles before the election. >> we did on october seventh. that came as the intelligence community and all of its component parts, 17 agencies came to a consensus that we took the step of making public that the russian government at the highest levels was involved in an effort to play in our electoral process. that was put out to the american people in a statement from the director of national intelligence and secretary of homeland security. a very unusual act designed to put on notice the american people and the secretaries of our 50 states whose responsibility it is to protect our electoral infrastructure and congress who were briefed as well on the import of this. we did in fact put that information as early as we had the consensus view with high confidence. that was necessary and the right thing to do. >> do you know how president obama feels about the accusation that he eavesdropped? >>. >> i haven't had that conversation with him. >> will we g

the officer says, instead of having her back, the obama white house hung her out to dry. ite house correspondent tonight, fox news exclusive. >> this is more than a witch hunt. >> the former cia case officer is speaking out about her decade-long ordeal after an italian court convicted her along with judas and others connected to the 2003 u.s. government sanctioned kidnappin kidnapping. >> i think it was a symbolic and political against the program. >> he was snatched from italy and flown to europe where he claims to be tortured. the evidence was weak. he was released. but de sousa is still living a nightmare. >> the obama white house didn't help me. >> the trump administration intervened. the sentence was reduced, but she must still return to italy and likely testify before their government. >> several members have been pushing the italian intelligence services for release and declassification of documents related to this case. >> will that be damaging? >> i think it will be damaging for both countries, because at this point right now, italy, the prime minister, over every

and even the obama white house made exceptions. lester? >> kristen welker, thank you. >>> we're getting new details about the u.s. strike on isis in afghanistan, and the unpress dented battlefield use of that massive weapon dubbed the mother of all bombs. dozens of isis fighters were killed, afghan officials claim. we get incredible new video from the moment of impact. richard engel has that for us. >> reporter: new images tonight of the biggest nonnuclear bomb in the u.s. arsenal splashing down on an alleged isis strong hold. the blast from the 21,000 pound 30 foot long so-called mother of all bombs spread over a mile in a valley in eastern afghanistan. >> this was the right weapon against the right target. >> afghan officials say at least 36 isis fighters were killed by the blast. but cautioned exact tolls after so much destruction are difficult to know. some locals seem to welcome the strike against isis, but said it was terrifying for them. >> translator: my house was shaking after the blast described a witness. i saw a big flame, and

sources telling fox news somebody very high up in the obama white house is responsible.y: griff jenkins is with us live this morning. >> it is indeed a bombshell over the weekend. little reported on other than fox news. showing the intelligence official who unmavericked or exposed the name of private citizens with the trump campaign very well known, high up and senior in the intelligence world. sources told fox news as first reported by adam housley. house community chairman devin nunes is leading the investigation into russian meddling into the election and is aware of this obama administration official. the top democrat on that committee, adam schiff, was asked about it yesterday. >> i can't talk about, as i mentioned, the contents of any documents. so, at this point, i can't say whether anything was masked or unmasked improperly. what's at stake here is a foreign intervention in our elections. very serious issue about whether u.s. persons were involved. investigation is being conducted by et fbi into possible coordination with the trump campaign. >> and a lot of quest

. >> congressman tray goudy mentioned trying to get documents out of the former white house, president obama white house. frankly i covered a lot of investigations, i covered the obama white house eight years. they weren't so free wheeling with documents. they didn't make it so easy either. how do we stop this cycle of the white house sort of making the obama administration, this one making it harder to get documents for these investigations? >> well, what's happened in the prior administration, first of all, you know, that took -- he talked about six years, basically one investigation. even though -- and i agree with him that congress does not do criminal investigations. but even after the fbi and others completed their investigation in regards to hillary clinton which he was talking about, they still subpoenaed documents -- >> but there were still relevant documents coming out. one of the reasons sometimes these things drag out is because you can't get information. i mean, look, they're not always -- in politics, not everybody cooperates to make esthings run very smoothly. >> but what's ha

picture suggesting fewer new england patriots visiting the white house this week to celebrate being super bowl champs, compared to visiting the obama house in 2015. but then, the patriots tweeting the facts, saying that the team staff were pictured on the stairs in 2015, this year, they were seated on the south lawn and that's why it looked different. the times ended up deleting the tweet and the writer apologized. so, steve, it's possible to change the media and get nem to do the right thing, no? >> yes, the sometimes admittedly did fumble on that one, but it just shows that anything they can find they'll try to hit the trump administration and the republicans, and that's the thing. anything is blown up to huge proportions. >> there is good choices in media now, but, boy, the msnbc crowd engaging wild conspiracy theories about trump colluding with russia in order to do the things going on in syria, it's insane, they're still engaged in that, that's whack-a-doo. >> with that comment, the last word. the cashin' in gang coming up. eric, what have you got. >> geraldo: mark zuckerberg saying social media needs to do more to keep violen

and they are making a big show of meeting in the obama white house working for criminal justice reformand i guess i feel as a reporter that the public should see the big picture. what personal price have you paid for this? have they are tracking you, chasing you, digging into your life? >> yeah, they have, and i'm not alone. they, actually, it never happened to me before. i discovered later and howard safer started digging through my life and find dirt so they could tarnish my reputation and ruin my work. >> they failed on that one. >> i lived to tell the story but i'm lucky, i'm at a great magazine with an incredible publisher. the koch brothers and others very bullying very super interesting -- there are stories of people felt their phones were beining tapped, they felt they were being followed. and why does it matter? it's not just because you don't want mean millionaires. what i don't want is they take out the press when the press starts telling the truth about them or push their way through the government to get stuff -- policy that is good for them. . >> i can ask what happens wh

white house visitor logs. what is the rsoning there? how do you interpret that? >> well, this one is particularly close to my heart, because i've done investigations of the white house, the obamahite house, based on those visitor logs, and these are logs that become public of who came, what lobbyists came through to meet with what official in the white house. the white house is saying now, a, there was all kinds of holes in the system anyway, and, b, there are security issues releasing that information to the public, which i think is nonsense. but it is a step back from openness, and it worries me as a reporter, because now i can't say that this lobbyist or this person was at the white house, meeting with this person on that day. and six months ago i could do that. >> yeah. let's talk about the special election in georgia, and i'll begin with you, paul, on this. this is happening on tuesday, it's for the health and human services secretary tom price's vacated house seat. democrats are certainly putting their hopes in their candidate, he has raised a ton of money, but, of course, money isn't everything, right, paul? >> right. the problem there, something like 18 or 19 candidate

white house. the kind of thing that happens in secret. and is a part of a negotiating behind the scenes process and they are not shy about comparing it to the obama white house, which had also engaged and tried to secure her release, but did not invite the egyptian president to the white house, kept him out of the country due to humanitarian concerns. so different strategies being highlighted. in a bit of a softer tone against the obama white house, they're not say thing is so directly a failure of the obama team and a win for the donald trump presidency, although they would like everyone to fill that in. but this is a relief to her and her family. and it's something where imagine the extraordinary experience she's had of having been detained and today in the oval office. >> kasie, before i let you get out of here, we are approaching the 100 day mile marker here. some have suggested this is a media concoction, that this is psychological. president trump appears to be acknowledging that the 100-day mark is significant in some way, form, or fashion. this is what he said in kenosha, wisconsin about it on tuesday. take a listen. >> no administration

but really defensive. >> bill: you were in the obama white house, i will play two sound bites with kerry and susan rice. "we didn't negotiate it, we didn't need to go to war," that was the mantra of president obama eight years, we can negotiate anything. and we saw, he probably destroyed some stuff, but he did destroy all stops, and that is when babies are dead. when you are in the obama white house, did you notice there was a reluctance to do what donald trump did? >> well... i don't think you had to be at the white house to notice the reluctance to do it. >> bill: you are on the outside looking out. did you notice that when you were there that reluctance? >> i will go with yes. i think it would be hard to not see, you know -- the decisions that the folks made in the administration in 2013 when i was already gone from the white house, i did not see firsthand. but the results of the conversations they had were seen all around the world. and the effects are felt up until today. so it's obvious there was rekay. colonel wood, when you saw the missiles hit the airfield in syria, did anything

i mean, you see the exact same policy debate that was in more or less dividing the obama white house years. you know, what is the priority? can you fight isis while also toppling assad? and then what comes after assad? these were all debates that were very much alive and taking a huge amount of time and attention inside the obama white house and were never fully resolved. now they have really seeped into the next administration. you see this playing out in real time and on the cameras here in washington and everywhere else. >> do you get the sense, gayle, just a quick follow-up from your reporting that the syrian people though have more hope in america helping them in the wake of this missile strike? >> well, what was fascinating, poppy, is my what's app is full of syrian activists writing, look, trump did what obama wouldn't. now the question we have, they would write, is what comes next? you know, is this one and done? is this simply a shot across the bow or will they be really serious about taking out bashir al assad? what comes next? what is the transition after the syrian regime

the trump family's role expands in the white house, a look at ivanka trump and jared kushner's places in the new administration. >> the bush white house-the obama white house, were stocked with experienced people who had careers as public servants. now, the trumps came in with the promise to change that paradigm. >> yang: and, combating india's trash problem: how one company is trying to reduce the huge landfills that are wreaking havoc on india's most populous cities. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

there are many tools the white house could be using, that the obama white house used to great effect. the alternative ways to reach out to folks through different platforms using the white house media apparatus to do videos and focusedeir own news projects. and i have not seen that yet. we are only three months in. it is early going, but i think we thought more nimble media teams out of the obama white house. --see the typical twitter sean spicer does do media briefings every day. i think that is a good thing. i support that, but that is something he threatened not to do at the beginning. he is doing it. as i thought at the time, you get in there and you realize the power of being able to command an audience for 45 minutes, an hour. thee does, he is changing way he reads off a lot of prepared remarks at the beginning of his breathing to get out a message. and they are using that. when the president decided to bomb syria last week, the value of the press pool was clear. 11:00 at night and he had a press pool ready. that is what we were saying before hand. he will realize the power of h

obama administration. as you point out, he was banned from the white house under then president obama who also withheld some aid from egypt because of those human rights abuses that you cite. that is not the case. very different tone here today. welcoming the president of egypt and also prepared to work with him on a whole host of issues but at the top of that list, fighting isis. of course, that was a key campaign promise that then candidate trump made on the campaign trail. so this is going to be at the forefront today of this meeting, this first meeting that he will have with the leader of egypt. of course, it comes as he is poised to really make foreign policy a key focus this entire week, andrea, he's going to be meeting with the leader of jordan, also the president of china on friday. high stakes for that meeting, as well, particularly as he tries to turn up the heat on china to pressure north korea to stop its recent incursions. but it all starts today with had meeting what's getting under way right now, andrea. >> ayman mohyeldin, the arab spring which you covered of course and now we have mubarak o

been mollified, they've been assisted, they've been facilitated by the foreign policy of the obama white house reasons, number one, the people that made theic decisions believe that america was the problem. secondly, they thought that all use of force is bad. that has changed. donald trumpna understands, as e commander in chief, as the president, that bad actors often only understand one thing. the use of force. secondly, he believes in america and this whole administration does. we are not going to allow people to define d themselves according to values that are antithetical to the founding of the station, we are not going to let them get away with what they got away with during the last eight year years. >> sean: all right, dr. gorka, this is really important because we have a history now of getting a lot wrong here. let's start with the $4 billion that president clinton gave to $ north korea and he got an empty promise that never developed nuclear weapons.we they got the money, they develop the t weapons. we had susan rice, john kerry, president obama all saying they are redlined in the san

in the obama white house, you also understood that the united states -- when you're the biggest kid onyground, you're the one that has to act with a lot more restraint than we're seeing now. >> katie, interestingly it was president who said president obama told him the number one problem he's going to face short term is north korea. >> it was. that was apparently the conversation they had going in. and it's not just president obama who said this. intelligence experts said north korea is going to be the biggest threat that this administration faces. donald trump, on the one hand he's asking for more diplomacy. on the other hand he's talking about an armada that's not really going to the korean peninsula. and yesterday telling reuters that we should prepare for a major, major conflict. and that is a scary and dangerous thing when you're talking about a nation with nuclear capabilities. what does that look like, what are you doing, what sort of message does that send to the north koreans, is that the sort of saber rattling they're going to brush off or are they going to take that as some

they didn't trust the obama white house. just look at the iran deal. so-called arab spring. they supported the muslim brotherhood the grandfather of all of these juwaad groups. so, no, this is where we go from having a fake smoke in mirrors coalition under the last administration to having a real one. and it's people like presidency ipresident si cici a. we are not going to fight this war against isis on ourselves. not on the front line. the president is clear we are going to help our friends like the jordanians and egyptians and iraqis fight their own war for themselves. we are going to be a very good friend to those nations. >> sean: i have got to ask this. if we have investigations, isis, radical islamic investigations in all 50 states, all these incidents that we could talk, about orlando, fort hood, san bernardino, fort hood. how does america root this out? it's like okay where is it coming from? some people are inspired online and we have sympathizers. some people might try to get into the country and lie their way in. how do you possibly judge w

white house. the white house is the people's house. frankly i didn't understand the obama policy of redacting names, too. what are they keeping from the public? what's so classified in the visitor logs? >> alisyn, remember that the obama policy was much more transparent than all the policies before it where the white house visitor logs weren't made public. >> the problem i have with sean spicer's argument that some transparency, imperfect transparency, which is what the obama administration practiced. they did not release everything in an absolutely transparent manner, that some transparency is worse than no transparency. that's a tough sell to make. you know, the argument that people have a right to privacy when they come to visit the white house, i always remind people, we pay literally -- literally we the taxpayers on a day like today pay the salary of the people who the president of the united states, vice president of the united states. so i understand you want to get the best people, the best advice from the president and maybe if you're making those things public, s

they have been facilitated by the foreign policy of the obama white house that simply created vacuumsean. number one, the people that made the decisions believed america was the problem. and secondly. they thought that all use of force is bad. that has changed. donald trump understands as the commander-in-chief, as the president that bad actors often only understand one thing, the use of force. secondly, he believes in america and his whole administration does. so, we're north going to allow people that define themselves according to values that are anti-get anti-founding of this nation. not let get away with what they got away with during the last 8 years. >> sean: all right, dr. gorka, this is really important because we have a history of getting a lot wrong here. let's start with $4 billion that president clinton gave to north korea. he got empty promise they would never develop nuclear weapons. they have got the money they developed the weapons. we had susan rice. we had john kerry. we had president obama all saying their red line in the sand in syria would prevent them from ever