the book but one of the interesting thing is that we talk to people who were high up in the obama white house and foreign-policy apparatus. when you looked at libya and the action they are in their criticism of the 2011 election and you look at 2013 when early 2014 when the obama administration tries to get to a government in ukraine through the ukraine crisis vladimir is out there saying it's a plot plot against me and mighty russia. they all thought that by and large that with him blowing smoke for domestic medical consumption and that he didn't really believe that obama is trying to overthrow him but they came to the realization that yes, he did. he had a paranoid view of the world and had an expansionist view but what he what he wanted and he believed that he had to fight back against to undermine the liberal order that he thought was in a sense attacking him. >> in his mind it was a defensive action. >> not sure you could call it defense against perceived foes and then you russia was not a great country when it comes to economic might in a lot of influence on the world and social media w

in the book, one of the interesting things is that we talked to people who are high up in the obama white house, in the foreign-policy apparatus. when you look at libya, the action there, you looked at their criticism of the 2011 election angelica 2013, and early 2014 when the obama administration tries to get to a new government in ukraine during the ukraine crisis, putin is say this is a plot. this is a plot against me and mighty russia. they all thought that by large that was him blowing smoke for domestic political consumption. they didn't really believe that obama was trying to overthrow him, but they came to the realization that yes, he did, that he had a paranoid view of the world. he had an expansion this is the about what he wanted to do with russia, and he did believe he had to fight back against the west and undermine the liberal western order that he felt was in a sense attacking him. >> so in his mind this was a defensive action. >> well, i'm not sure you'd call it defensive. it may be going on offense against perceived foes, and then, you know, , rush is not a great country when i

white house physician. again, in the interest of fairness and transparency. so, anita, i want to read you a quote from "the new york times" tonight. on one trip during barack obama's presidency, white house staff needed to reach dr. jackson for medical reasons and found him passed out in his hotel room after a night of drinking, tester aides said. the staff members took the medical supplies they were looking for without waking dr. jackson. also anita, cnn out with a report that we have not matched as of tonight, citing four sources. it's about an incident where dr. jackson apparently was banging on the door of a female white house staffer in 2015. secret service intervened lest dr. jackson wake up the sleeping president obama. having said all that, where do you put this nomination as of tonight? >> well, people that i'm talking to do not think that he is going to last very long. so whether president trump tells him or he decides for himself that he doesn't want to go through with it depends, you know, how long it lasts. but obviously the couple that you mentioned are the most serious. there was kind of a power struggle there. you might chuck up some of the work en

we get the very cold analysis of the obama white house and his failure to respond and then not they tie themselves into trying to figure out what to do. >> host: the clinton campaign was disappointed. people within the obama white house were disappointed with the failure of the president to respond more forcefully. they were people inside saying hey we have got to push back. >> host: in his defense he was worried that he'd be trying to tip the election. >> guest: president obama did not want to be perceived as political and there is his own self-image they are. i don't want to be out there and be accused by my foes of trying to tilt the election. >> host: and donald trump wasn't going to. >> guest: we tell that story too about how the president was trying to come up with a bipartisan approach. i don't know if i like the word medaling intervention. he was hoping he could get paul ryan in mitch mcconnell to come together and these were the steps the country had to take. we describe in the book that paul ryan was somewhat empathetic to trying to work together in mitch mcconnell gave been a

guests tonight are well placed to discuss all of this and william jawando is an attorney on the obama white housethe initiative called my brother's keeper designed to help young black men climb up the ladder of life and he is now running for local office in his home state of maryland, and also brie newsom who came to national attention when she removed the confederate flag from the grounds of the south carolina state house and she's a civil rights activist and she joins us from memphis where she's been attending the commemoration of dr. king. welcome, both of you, to the program on this 50th anniversary which is actually a sad day. can i ask you, brie, what it means to you to be a black american today. you heard us, quote, what dr. king said a year before he died. >> i would say there are some things that are new and then there are some things that are very familiar in the history of america. we have a long history in this country of taking two steps foar andne step back. we've seenrogress with the elecon oth nation's first black president and we've also seen steps taken backward. mass incarcerat

up next, the jesse: the obama white house apparently left its fingerprints all over the plot to spy onhe trump campaign. mark levin joins me now. is this the swamp running out the clock or are we moving the right direction this investigation? mark: i would prefer a special counsel. and i would prefer a special commission. you have a criminal investigation going on to determine that side of the ledger. then on the other side we need to fix this. you can't have elections where you have the director of the fbi, the deputy director of the fbi leak all over the place. the abuse of the fisa court. i have never heard of anything like this before. the problem right now is the fbi does all kinds of things to protect the people in this country domestic and foreign. you have had these bad cops, i call them, rogue top officials at the top of the fbi who have besmirched this agency. we need to help the agency get its reputation back. we need a commission to do that. an inspector general does a report. let's say he couples and condemns these people. what then? most of of them are already gone. we ha

given your experience in the obama white house at that crucial time ijust referred to, in 2013, doesthing that is happening today seem grimly familiar? sure it does. there are differences, but there is one core similarity, which is that the assad regime seems to have used chemical weapons in a way to kill a lot of civilians and the united states, mainly the united states along with its allies has to choose how to respond. as you pointed out at the time, president obama threatened and prepared a military strike which i thought was the right thing to do, and he thought was the right thing to do. but ultimately concluded that the united states should only proceed if it got congressional support and legitimacy and, of course, we did not, and we know how that played out with a diplomatic deal but not using force. i do have some sympathy for those in the white house today trying to decide how to handle this matter because there is no simple solution. there are huge risks in acting and huge risks and costs in not acting. i want to hear more about your assessment of those risks. i am rather

are a number of documents that would indicate there was coordination with the white house, coordination. judge jeanine: the obama white house. >> the obama white house, coordination with the state department. it goes well beyond what we know. the reason we know that is we have taken those unredacted documents and gone over and figure out wait said behind the redaction. and these are the things the doj and fbi had been riding in congress. judge jeanine: when the department of justice, our department of justice, donald trump is the president, they resist handing over hillary clinton's emails because they say she is a private citizen. they know the deep state, the shadow government is running things. >> here is the other thing. the speed of which they started investigating candidate donald trump now president trump was at warp speed. nothing happens fast in this city yet they went ahead unbelievably fast to investigate this president during a campaign. if it was coordinated in any part by the white house, we already know that brennan was briefing -- john brennan of the cia was briefing harry reid during august rece

there is a great piece out here now that shows the obama white house's fingerprints were all over thisad harry reid talking to obama's cia director. and, is legitimizing the investigation backwards. mark: way saw underscores what i have been thinking. how is it possible when you have the fisa court application. the direct yoofort fbi involved. attorney general of the united states involved. the intelligence agencies involved. you have the national security advisor unmasking individuals. how in the hell is it possible if the only person on the face of the earth who don't know about this is barack obama? on top of this, the leaks were in the newspaper. you are telling me the president of the united states is sitting there saying, hey, all this stuff is swirling around him, swirling around his different departments and he's not briefed on it? i don't believe that for two seconds. jesse: he was supposed to be the smartest man in the room. wit was bad he read about it in the newspaper. he never had any culpability when there was a problem. you have little rock and the obama cia director cor

white house not vetting the nominee first? >> here is the question, did the barack obama white house -- >> no -- >> no, if there was a major possibleriminal behavior by the physician, bien didn't the barack obama white house discover that and flaghat moment at that moment. >> it is not previous administration's job to vet the nominee. >> how long was he sitting on the information? >> there is no evidence that he was sitting on it at all. people continue to come forward. we don't have names yet, that troubles me t. we should have names on the record. to put this on barack obama, that is ridiculous. >> i want to point out, this talking point how there are too few trump nominees getting through t. is bogus. you have more than half dozen of cabinet members accused of using taxpayer money to office redecorations and spli redecorations a redecorations and flights. they are pushing too quickly rather than slowly. it is not imgrants who need extreme vetting t is cabinet members. >> after barack obama judges were blocked. >> the reality is that the results that these people who have been able to get through is remarkable. that's why -- >> n

but who in the obama white house was going to the doctor and getting free drugs all the time? this doctor was just handing out drugs without prescriptions. oh, really. who to? obviously, the obama white house, that's where i start to think, some of this is getting a little bit extreme. look, if he was doing it or if he had a drinking problem, he's not going to be the v.a. secretary. but some of it does make you wonder a little bit how extreme we've gone in the space of about 12 hours with these allegations. >> this is one person's fault. it's donald trump's fault. you say that about vetting but you know, as a political professional, how many people reach very high offices and then are promoted into a cabinet secretary role or to work in an administration and suddenly you find out things that voters back home, if they're a member of the house or senate, didn't know, and you're just at a much higher level, and that's why the vetting is so important. think of tom dashell when he had to withdraw because he had tax issues. it happens all the time. so i disagree with you that just be

host thehe obamas white house easter egg hunt? >> the president plays basketball, he is a huge fan of basketball. plays on the white house passable court. michelle obama really throw her time was interested in promoting active, healthy lifestyle through good nutrition and exercise. she started something called the lift move campaign. that in the easter egg role during their years during the obstacle course and other fun activities. president, current the trump family, they have one easter egg role so far. what if you observed? >> a little bit of a smaller sample size but they have taken a act -- an active involvement in the activities. the president and first lady started the first easter egg roll by blowing on whistles. to greet there winners of that particular race. activeve also been very in childhood literacy by using a special book where authors will come in and read and enjoy time with the children. >> when you worked on this book together, we have worked her way to the presidents. what did you a for and how did you work with

facts are and move forward. >> one of the things the white house has done overnight is put out past statements of praise for dr. jackson by president obamao by all accounts really did like interest jackson. we have a number of them. let me read you the first i have. ronny's positive impact cannot be overstated. he's a tremendous asset to the white house team, already at a level of performance and responsibility that far exceeds his current rank. promote to rear admiral now. how do you reconcile the man that president obama is talking about there with the man you apparently are hearing about from multiple sources in your committee? >> the reports we have heard is he treated the people above him very, very well. he treated the people below him very, very poorly that's creating the toxic work environment. it's not surprising that the president, the president's chief-of-staff, people that surround the president would think he's doing a really good job, but once again, john, we just need to get to the bottom of it. look, i've got -- ronny jackson was in my office a couple weeks ago and nice guy. i've got nothing against him at all, but our jo

it may even go all the way into the obama white house. that's why it is so important that the investigation that we launched last fall into how the fbi and the department of justice handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the connection between that and how they launched an investigation into the trump campaign that carried on into 2017 when the president actually took office. the contrast between how the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation handled the investigation into all the aspects of what was going on with hillary clinton, with her e-mails, with the clinton foundation and so on, bending over backwards to not prosecute, to not investigate properly, to not continue to investigate, is very disturbing when you compare that to the page strzok e-mail and texts which indicate very strongly an extreme bias against the trump campaign and president trump and his administration. we cannot have this persist. we certainly can't have it go into the next presidential election in 2020. the american people dese

and i don't think you can really say he's he's truly partisan because before he worked for the obama white house he worked for the reagan white house and he took a lot of really iconic shots of ronald reagan and looking at these images now it's interesting because comparing them to the photos he took of obama very very similar i mean he shows reagan in very much the same way as a statesman in these in these sort of iconic poses. bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders and so forth and also quite private moments i mean silly stuff like with michael jackson and problems with his wife nancy but also the photos that we all know of reagan on the ranch the cowboy and so forth our image of reagan was very much of the in. that sosa gave us i think the what you can say is that sosa's image of obama is the public image that we that we know i mean we think we know obama we think you know he's a he's a funny guy sense of humor he's a very close intimate relationship with his wife we don't really know that but that's the image that sos has given us so that's what we believe it's interesting the big

this is the white house physician, the person responsible for the health and -- of the commander-in-chief, whether it is president obama- >> the white house staff secretary -- >> but being in the food chain and power structure, the doctor is outside of that structure. the doctor is there to make sure the president's healthy on the trip and doesn't get sick and takes care of the needs and outside of the power structure so i don't think that -- >> one thing we can all agree on is we need to know a lot more and the public needs to know more about the allegations. >>> coming up, stay here. we have more to talk about. did one of president trump's top cabinet members give us a window into how washington works, the speech that one u.s. senator called this the most corrupt administration ever, next. you know, i used to be good at this. then you turn 40 and everything goes. tell me about it. you know, it's made me think, i'm closer to my retirement days than i am my college days. hm. i'm thinking... will i have enough? should i change something? well, you're asking the right questions. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i

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from the white house, the president will host his first state dinner on tuesday night for france's president macron. we are told that this will be a more intimate dinner than those held in the obamahite house with about 150 guests and 4 congressional republicans attend, no congressional democrats and some democratic governors and mayors were invited and are expected to attend. >>> there's a little-known issue in france some are pressing macron to bring up in his meetings with the president this week. it involves the requirement of people in france paying u.s. tax it is they were born here, even if they only lived in the united states for a matter of days. and this law doesn't only apply to french people. we sent tammy litener to paris to take a look at that issue. >> reporter: olivier is about as french as they come. except he was born in chicago. >> are you proud that you were born in the united states? >> yeah. when i was young, it was very exotic for the guys. in fact, now i realize it was very complicated. >> reporter: complicated because he's what's called an accidental american. his french parents left the u.s. when he was just 13 days old and only discovered his citizenshi

. >> the truth i was working for the real obama white house before i was working for the pretend grant being on the show and having the career that i've had has allowed me to speak at the democratic national convention -- >> none of us can be silent. >> so i may have a voice that more people pay attention to, but i don't participate because i'm on a tv show. i participate because it's required of me as an american. i have to vote, i have to show up, i have to be educated. that's what democracy means. >> reporter: she takes the duty of citizenship just as seriously as her pioneering role as the first african-american woman in nearly 40 years to star in a network drama. >> i get credited a lot with setting the culture around generosity and respect and the work ethic that we instilled on "scandal." but i have to say that tony goldwyn deserves enormous acknowledgement for that. he created a platform for me to be the lead of that show and to lead that cast. and supported me every step of the way. and i think it's a really powerful example for people who find themselves in positions of privi

one of the interesting things is we talk to people who are high up in the obama white house foreign policy apparatus and when you look at the action and criticism of the election in 2013 when they try to get to a new government in ukraine, putin is out there saying this is a plot against me and russia and they thought that was him blowing smoke for domestic political consumption. they didn't believe obama was trying to overthrow him but they came to realize the issue that yes he did come he had a paranoid view of the world about what he wanted to do with russia and did believe he had to fight back against the west and undermine the order that he felt was attacking him. >> said i his mind was a defense action. >> may be going on the offense against perceived foes and it's not a great country when it comes to economic might and influence around the world and with social media does is create an asymmetry so we are more wired than they are and that means we are more vulnerable and he sold the development of research before these other means that this was a front they could fight t fight 22 lea

president trump very much liked and admired the admiral who was well liked within the obama white house as well, not just by president obama by the white house staff who looked to him often for medical advice. yet you brought up the fact that things have come to light that have caused concern for some committee members. do you know what these are and do they cause concern for you? >> no, i only know what has been reported about the conditions in the workplace. so i think we need to get the facts before we respond to it. but you're correct, not only was this nominee not vetted by president trump, it is a nontraditional route to become the head of the veterans administration. so i think all that raises serious concerns that the congressional nomination process really carries much greater weight. >> something very unusual happened in one of your committees overnight, the foreign relations, foreign affairs committee, that was the committee did approve, did pass on the nomination of mike pompeo to become secretary of state. but not without some drama. it required chris coons of delaware to v

shannon: this whole idea is every white house operates differently, we don't know what also meant the powers played in the obamawas she more than you and abbasid are involved - if the unmasking was the same person. all it means is an intelligence report, an american in the intelligence report, to be revealed to her. it could have been the same person. lying to the fbi engaging in bad behavior. talking about mike flynn. shannon: lying about something -- >> export somebody - we don't really know the underlying evidence, what the underlying - i am saying a lot of assumptions. >> the assumption you are making. >> you are operating under the assumptive engaging in bad behavior. >> extremely anomalous, let's find out, shall we? and communications she was bouncing back that she was extremely upset about incoming administration. we have no evidence before the election and when the election happens before inauguration day there was a flurry of activity but that is anomalous. shannon: folks got their hands on this said there was so much rejecting they plan to go to court to find more information. celebrating an anniversa

he is best buddies with domy and had lisa monaco sitting in the obama white house on the page/strzokguy at justice. bruce orr, acting as the personal intermediary and funemming the christopher steel dossier over to mueller. how much more conflicted can it be. >> lou: i want to turn quickly to the caravan. and i want to put it up so that the audience sees the demands that are levied by the car van sponsor and supporters and people without bofrders and left wing radical groups. one much their demands is it specifically to the government of mexico and the united states, that they open borders to us, because we are citizens as the people of the countries where we are. and or travel. that is the level of arrogance on the part of the organizers and the radicals that are seeking to create bedlam at our borders. the president it seems to me, has been because of a cowardly leadership in the house and senate has been forced to deal with this issue and now he's dispatching the national guard and your thoughts as we conclude. >> i would like to see what the rules of engagement are. and not havin

white house to save his job, that's a problem. why is trump having any conversation with an individual whose heading this investigatio investigation? it was a problem with the obama white house, it should be a problem with this white house. >> harris: where are we with judge kimba wood? in terms of getting a third person because some of the information may be classified or protected by attorney-client privilege? the president wants us to be wrapped up quickly. the comey investigation, the cohen investigation. >> it's not going to be wrapped up quickly. there are two separate investigations. the mueller investigation is separate from the cohen investigation. it's being run by the u.s. attorney's office, being run in manhattan. it's not necessarily going to delay the russia investigation. what's happening with kemper world, -- judge kimba wood, there is a taint team of lawyer lawyers. it's another layer of review, going to delay weeks an end months until these prosecutors can see this. >> harris: that's michael cohen, the president's personal attorney, let's talk robert mueller. rudy giuliani says he's joining the legal team for the president and he wants to do som

i know by this time during michelle obama's tenure in the white house, the let's move campaign was in full swing. you know, typically by now they would have a more formalized platform in place. i think because of the chaos of this administration and also because they didn't necessarily expect to win, right, so i think that they kind of were scrambling to find a topic and a platform that is apolitical. and she does face a difficult uphill battle because she follows a very popular first

he's running over to the white house and briefing lisa monico in the obama white house about what they're we know that because is circles back around. and page who is mccabe's girlfriend -- excuse me, strzok's girlfriend says potus wants to know everything we're doing. what's the significance of lisa monico. she used to be mueller's chief of staff. david: it's unbelievable. >> a web of people. david: as close as they were, it's interesting to see how they're tayeinging each other once they're cornered. >> it will be interesting to see if mccabe is willing to flip to go after comey. the more comey talks, the more really he belittles himself. david: well the more contradictioncontradictions bete see. and i got to finally talk about the witnesses that mueller has. you look at the witnesses. comey we see now is deeply flawed in his attachment to the truth. you have sam nunberg, another witness before the grand jury of mueller who has appeared on television apparently drunk or drugged up. you have george nader, another witness for mr. mule whoar i mua convicted child molester. wouldn't a grand

google and facebook glaubius by the way enjoyed unfettered access to the obama white house for just aboutight years for joining us tonight former white house political director "fox business" political analyst ed rollins. ed, i think this is one of the biggest outrage is unimaginable to watch everybody clucked in about cambridge analytica, clucking about russian collusion i mean what obama and zuckerberg and aaron schmidt at google did at that time is outrageous. >> would the did was they basically use tools that they developed that it americans knew 10 or 15 years ago but they turned over to the obama campaign. they knew where their voters were and communicated well with them and-- lou: he ought to communicate well with them. they turned over 200 million users. why shouldn't there be some outrage about that? >> they are praising them on what a brilliant campaign they ran. >> would the i'm saying to you is they used a resource and it's a question of fairness. the romney--the romney campaign knew this was going on and tried to duplicate it on election day and couldn't get anything out. unf

i should mention when the obama white house went back in analysis and tried to figure out when the evil outbreak seeped into the american consciousness, as a scary thing, they pointed to august 1 2014 when somebody tweeted about the evil outbreak and the people coming back and how they shouldn't be allowed back into the us, he said it was great they were able to go over there but they should be consequences. you can guess the person that tweeted that was. by the way, that has been retweeted something like 40,000 times but that moment was a moment where the us started to grasp. we sort of forget what 2014 was life with new cycles so crazy. we also forget in the middle of 2014 not only was the ebola virus raising, there was a murderous gang of thugs called the islamic state that were running rampant over the second largest city. it was a scary time and that was the one moment that codified all of that. the question in the future is will we act to stop this worldwide? will we spend the money on the world health organization that they have desperately requested and demanded? they arein all

ceo, he served in president obama's white house as director of policy.e joins us from since -- from san francisco. welcome. you live within the tech world, in the private sector and the white house. we don't have a lot of tech experts who will ask the questions today but if you were there, what is the toughest question you would want to put to mr. zuckerberg? gentleman whoh a said this is 70% kabuki theater and 30% across examination. that is how the hearings work. there are meaningful questions that can be asked. i am in the white house preparing my boss and questioning with a member of congress -- congress. there are meaningful questions that can be asked. i would be worried about the unanswerable's, posing a question that has no long answer other than i don't know. it could be something like, have you tested a newsfeed algorithm for whether they prioritized divisive issues? if so, will you share the data and if not, it establishes more of a case for oversight. the other question is a pledge. fundyou pledge not to opposition to data privacy or federal

who is trying to paint him in such flattering pictures well i mean he did work for obama obviously work for the white house and he also he likes obama he started taking photos of him back in two thousand and five and obama was still senator and he followed obama around on some of his trips before he became president so he's always got a personal connection there but i don't think you can really make the argument that says as a partisan because before he was the way photographer under obama years before that he was the official white house photographer under ronald reagan and he took all the great iconic photos of that man's presidency and if you see here this is from susan's a website where he posts photos the images that he has of reagan a very similar to that of obama even some ways he sets up the shots they show reagan as well as this grand statesman serious man discussing world affairs the burden of the of the presidency upon him but also private shots with with celebrities and his. wife nancy or the shots that we all know of ronald reagan on his ranch riding horses those are all susan's photographs so