president barack obama senior writer deputy director of messaging at the white house where he works as a writer designated survivor and with the obama white house and then to developing and from the very public campaign in the evening of the 2016 election to propose to his girlfriend in the rose garden. and then to turn this larger than life. and to say "west winging it" is a poignant reminder of the obama white house and the people working with him and everybody was there for the right reasons to do much good for as many people as possible. and now joining the conversation president obama's press secretary 2014 through 2017 please join me to welcome tee2. [applause] >> good evening it is nice to see you here and it is a pleasure pat cunnane it is remarkable but not as much fun as the two of us that beginning the stay in newwe york city so we have the opportunity but i just want to start giving a little bit of a history why you chose to write this book commenced our callings the white house have written books.a but you take on a project this big but that is not a quick decision. and wh

you are going to find out it goes to the white house. >> no doubt. >> zero doubt. i can't imagine barack obamaf the truth comes out, it will go to the obama white house and power and the rest of them. >> given the way they ran a tight operation. does anyone believe valerie jarrett didn't know this stuff? >> they gave the new york times to spin it. they revealed when the trip took place to great britain, deep negotiations with downer, with our state department, that had to be at the top for him to allow the interview by the fbi. >> the guy we have identified who is not identified and all this bologna who got a million dollars from the deep state. >> two years. you start saying, oh, it's okay -- and what i read was entrapment. >> he's saying to this guy, come on, give me, give me. >> there was even a cute blonde. >> there ain't nothing there. >> hillary wins, notary public onone of thiscomes out. are you confident we have the ability to get to the truth? >> no. >> neither am i. >> what it's going to come down to is whether or not the president can keep focused. >> he is. >> he is now. this is go

the people wanted to overthrow the oppressive regime there and it was not backed by the obama white house. is that something that this white house would like to encourage? >> look, i think this was one of the more powerful moments of his remarks yesterday, he reminded the iranian people that the united states stands with them. one of the most terrible things in this process is how much the iranian regime has squandered away the wealth and the resources of their country and deprived the people of their country, and the president is simply saying that we are with you, we support you and we want something better for you and we hope that that can happen and that this is part of the process of getting rid of the deal that has not been helpful, that has only empowered the regime. they gave up so much in the previous administration and got nothing. they gave up tough and crippling sanctions in exchange for an incredibly weak deal and the president is not going to repeat the same mistakes. >> martha: we will watch in the days and weeks to come into night as we see the plane as it lands at andrews

you'll find out, it goes right into the white house. >> sean: there is no doubt. >> i have zeroed out. >> sean: if the truth comes out, it will go right to the obama and power and ben rhodes and the rest of them. >> given the way they ran a very tight operation, does anybody believe that valerie jarrett didn't know the stuff? >> sean: "the new york times" trying to do catcher, which i thought was vindication in a way but in another way, just trying to spin it, they revealed very early on when that trip took place to great britain, that in fact there were deep negotiations with downer with the state department that had to be at the top for him to allow himself to be part of the fbi. >> is a good on this list, then you have this guy that was now sort of identified, who got a million dollars over the years,, it's okay, -- what i read was entrapment. i mean, he's saying -- >> sean: that is what victoria toensing said. >> they are saying, give me, give me, give me. >> sean: there was a cute blonde. >> there's nothing there. >> sean: are you confident -- if hillary wins, none of this comes out. are you confident we have the ability to get to the truth c

this, by the way, we're talking about the obama white house. did targeting with the irs obama's local opponents and nonprofits. they spied on reporters. obama white house, they bent the rule of law. this is right in their wheelhouse to get probable cause to spy on a political opponent; right? >> well, let me see why john brennan was so exercised when he wrote that tweet because he was probably the coordinator of this spying, and he probably used foreign intelligence to commence it and then transferred it over to american intelligence and then passed it over to his boss in the left wing. liz: i mean, can you imagine a trump white house spying on a kamala harris campaign or cory booker campaign. >> no. could you imagine a george bush campaign spying on kamala harris. liz: or hillary clinton. right. >> if this happened and candidly the stuff about the mole i believe is speculation at this point. if it happened, it is a serious constitutional violation if the fbi sent him there without a warrant. if the fbi sent him there with a warrant as outrageo

you worked in the same obama white house together, and she was as tough as they get for officials in the white house? >> yes, yes. and she was actually my direct boss. so -- i worked for valerie in the office of public engagement, mikha mikhail -- michaela is exactly right. this is what happens when you have a culture that has been permeated by donald trump, where anything goes and there's no repercussion for it, and good for abc for taking quick action, but you know, this really comes from the american story which is that of subjugation of black people, particularly a woman of color. you're able to historically here do anything, say anything, treat black women any way, and if you're a man of color, similar. you're chattel and you're scary and you're something to be feared. so it's a part of our ingrained culture, but donald trump has really given it a public voice and where everyone feels they can do it, and i think it is good that abc took this step, because -- you can do all the trainings you want in the world and i know we'll talk about that, but if there isn't real accountabilit

isn't really addressed here, which everybody wonders how much it factored into it, this was a white house, the obamate house, from the president on down, who really thought that hillary clinton was going to win. and so how much that played into it is not so much delved into here. but we certainly get a better window of what president obama's thinking was at that time. >> it's interesting, i'll give you that. guys, thank you very much. >>> breaking news, just moments ago, comedian and tv host samantha bee issued an apology for calling ivanka trump a vulgar world. she tweeted, i would like to sincerely apologize to ivanka trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. it was inappropriate and inexcusable. i crossed the line and i deeply regret it. on her show, "full frontal," bee said this about a photo ivanka tweeted of her and her son, "one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless" "c" word. "he listens to you." the white house said, "the language used by samantha bee last night is vile and vicious. the collective sil

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but at the end of the day this will go to the top, all the way back to the obama white house. a guest on at the beginning of the program who said the directive came from barack obama and this will point back to him. let's talk about the mueller probe. we entered year two, no proof of collusion. rudy giuliani is saying mueller approached him and he was willing to narrow the scope of the questions president trump would be answering. do you think the president should even speak to mueller at this point? >> no, never. the president told me in june of last year just the two of us, they will find nothing because there is nothing. there is no collusion. the mueller investigation has one goal. we saw this with general flynn and others. it's about setting procedural traps, perjury traps. the president of the united states should never give any interview to robert mueller. the whole thing is collapsing around robert mueller's ears and the president needs to let it fall under its own weight. >> the inspector general's report has been completed. we are expecting it to drop. we might see c

did the obama white house obama white house and a spy to infiltrate the term campaign? >> if they ran a spy ring or an informant rating and they were taking people within the term campaign, if any of that is true, that's an absolute redline. trade to david runa was he with what that means for the russia investigation. what a kickoff. the dow up 227, s&p 16.5. three quarters. anyway, a lot more going on. we'll be right back. ♪ to buy or sell? with fidelity's real-time analytics, you'll get clear, actionable alerts about potential investment opportunities in real time. fidelity. open an account today. ♪ ♪ fight security threats 60 times faster with ai that sees threats coming. the ibm cloud. the cloud for smarter business. the ibm cloud. [fbi agent] you're a brave man, your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my chances. (♪light musical cords) we always came through for our customers. from day one, it's how we earned your trust. until... we los

case, wesident obama's obama was the best writer in the white house. we as writers would say tht even if he weren't but he was. president obama was a writer. and that hasn't happened since i think lincoln, where some eight was a published writer. we were working for a president who had an understanding as a writer and also using language as a means rather than an end, which is more of what a politician is thinking about. i would say there was -- i don't know that it was intentional, but it was important. there is always requirements and one is that it be surprising and original in some way and the other is that it be true to the person delivering the words. to some extent, that is always easiest when it is in contrast to the person who came before you. to some extent, people were and i was so excited about president obama because he spoke in this oratorical style that seemed antithetical to george bush. that is probably one of the reasons of why people were fans of president trump or of bernie sanders were excited about their oratorical style. these wer

i got to the obama white house in 2011 and by that point there was already a quiet "let me be clear" prohibition. what i do think politicians can still do and what president obama had in common with somebody thinking about writing a poem. the first was ways of breaking normal rules about language. one of the things i talk about in my book, and most of the book i wrote was not about the nuts and bolts of speechwriting, it is about times i embarrassed myself in front of the president. one of the things i did talk about is that when writing for president obama you could write run-on sentences in a way i would not for anybody else. that is because the president was able to punctuate sentences that ordinarily you or i might try to deliver and we would get lost in them. he was able to break those rules. if you go back and read his speeches, you will find that a lot of those sentences went on for 40 or 50 or 60 words, which i would never do in my own writing or writing for somebody else. that ability to play with the sounds of the language, even if you are not rhyming or obviously alliterati

the obama white house, you never have this problem. one leaked because they were on the same side of the press. everything that came out of the obama white house was spun positively. >> kimberly: there you go, a water log for you. day now, please try to match that. >> dana: match it? i don't have enough air to say those things. >> kimberly: money. >> dana: when i was there, i would save the white house communications team was on the front page of the paper or leading "the five," i would have been mortified. you don't want to be the news. you want the president to be the news. he is the news. this is part of him. the other way to look at this is that if we are leading the show with this news, that must mean things are pretty good elsewhere. we are not leading with other dramatic things. we are going to talk about israel and gaza in the next block. i think there's a big problem. i think a lot of people believe that if they are talking to somebody in the media and you get a little bit of a thrill when you see yourself quoted, even if it's

there was a sense within the obama white house during the republican primary that even if trump won,s not -- he wouldn't be able to do all of this. and that there wouldn't be as much going along with him as there has been. >> eisenhower didn't get rited of new deal. anyway, a program note, ben rhodes will be the guy who wrote this book, will be a guest on "hardball" next thursday for the release of his new book "the world as it is, a memoir of the obama white house." an inside look at the obama world when they were running the show. up next, three of them will tell me something i don't know. each one of them. you're watching "hardball." what is an act of mutuality? for a single mother, it's preparing her daughters for the curveballs life throws. ♪ and it's guarding a family weekend- letting calls go to voicemail. ♪ it's planning so by the time this little guy's ready for college, she will be too. ♪ and it's sharing this retirement, with those who make life worth living. ♪ every way we look out for those we love is an act of mutuality. we can help with the financial ones. learn more o

another where you've got dictators are autocrats and they are picking up this fake news -- >> the obama white house. >> you may not like it. >> laura: i think your point is what about the obama white house the treatment of the press. james rison is a liberal commentator now for "the new york times." this is not fox news saying it. it's not "the daily caller" saying it. it someone has been a journalism for decades saying obama did more to turn the screws in the press than anyone here remember in a long time. >> the answer is barack obama could travel the world and be celebrated. donald trump cannot go any place -- in england, he cannot go any place publicly because he is stimulating this whole thing. >> laura: the elites don't like trump. give me a headline that's a surprise. >> he can't go out into the public. >> laura: right, they are going to have -- yeah, well, no. name a block, a full square city block in israel after donald trump. i guess he can't go there either. i mean, they don't like the fact that america is back. and when we are strong, a lot of the malcontents on the global front are ups

in the obama white house as a boy i wanted to have a gun but i never thought about hurting anyone. but i changed when i was thirteen. i do already lived a hard life on the streets. and i am happy again there are rumors in the opposition movement that the government is also involved in the illegal drug trade in february twenty seven thousand the u.s. government accused venezuelan vice president saw me of being a drug kingpin blacklisting him and freezing his u.s. assets pretty nice the allegations the government says this is part of a us plant pick. up the lot and as well it will use all means legal diplomatic political national and international even in the us to track down the sources of these false accusations something subtle saying it's mostly not that . every year because hosts the venezuela tattoo expo said to be the largest event of its kind in latin america would. want. to. feel. as if. it was. the big here at this year's show was the band public disorder their lyrics tell of the millions of venezuelans who feel abandoned by the government and who pick. i'm so desperate tha

only hours after her racist tweet about former obama white house adviser valerie jarrett.l media has become both a battlefield and bull horn in our country as it reckons with long-simmering differences over racial, social, and political issues. opposition on each sidearmed not with pitchforks and torches, but keystrokes and hash tags. today's hash tag was #boycottc, some arguing roseanne shoulbe fired. others after the decision was made that she shouldn't have been. >> she was a trump supporter in real life and her character, and there were a lot of people who liked the show because of that. and they believed that's the reason the show was canceled. so abc will still face a backlash because of that. but they will overcome it. and that's a backlash they can endure by being on the right side of racism. >> reporter: and today, while abc faced backlash for roseanne's comments, starbucks was responding to backlash of its own, closing stores across the country midday for an afternoon of anti-discrimination training. >> we're going to train 175,000 starbucks partners, we call our

deal the agreement to restrict iran's nuclear energy program the crowning achievement of the obama white house has finally been terminated by the donald today's action sends a critical message the united states no longer makes empty threats when i make promises i keep them but how much impact is this really having only one country the united states is withdrawing and the rand doesn't seem particularly worried about it i have ordered the ministry of foreign affairs to negotiate with and lobby the european countries as well as russia and china and to carry out the necessary nation with them russia and china are ready to keep things going as it is so are key allies of the united states and the european union and european union is the tournament to preserve it we expect the rest of the international community to continue to do its part to that on t.v. but it continues to be fully implemented but to say about own collective security together with the rest of the international community we would preserve this nuclear deal now this isn't the only global decision the trumpet ministration has made to b

think this how long it took for obama white house and president obama to give away $150 billion to assure a nuclear gift at the end of a 10 year waiting period. that is extraordinary to watch what happening here in the condensed amount of time, under this president. >> secretary kerry gave up leverage almost first negotiating meeting. you know he wanted to have on table, behavior, they said we're not coming, we should have said, we'll see you next year. president has real leverage here. kim jong-unment really wants the summit. i think that is what is in letter. he needs this summit more than united states and president. we have leverage, we should push that leverage even if it means to delay the summit to get concessions we need. lou: is there doubt in your mind that is what president trump is doing? because you say that, kim jong-un needs this. he has a smoldering hole in a mountain, that was a nuclear test site that has chinese scared to death. may not have north koreans scared to death, they live with their mortality every day in that dictatorship. but that is a very big deal to the ch

way on donald trump's campaign as a consequence of politics or any sort of influence from the obama white house, that would be deeply troubling. i am remindedded of the tex meigs between peter strzok and lisa page, the white house is running this, wants to be informed on all of this. it makes you wonder who in the white house were these people communicating with and were they the folks driving the collection of the evidence on the trump campaign. i think there are a lot of questions that obama officials have to answer if we get a second counsel. if we don't get a special second counsel, they'll get off because this justice department is not capable of investigating itself. lou: rod rosenstein was with the president in long island wa as e president was conducting that symposium, if you will, on ms-13, the gang violence that have overwhelmed a good part of long island new york. the see them in the same room agreeing that there need to be new immigration laws when at the same time, the president with the gang of eight, to be in a meeting of fbi and justice officials after the memorial holiday, is

on the ground for sometime, as the obama white house vacillated and talked about red lines and didn'tct to the crossing of red lines, as you know and have done extraordinary reporting on, christiane, what was happening in the background was the pentagon and the cia were running amuck and arming and supporting factions on the ground that often were at each other's throats. it was complete chaos. and i tell the story of members of those various factions going to american command centers on the ground and, you know, o would say, no i'm with the al cia, not the pentagon, you have to talk to the other guy. these are factions fighting each other. this is the chaos that results in the absence of diplomacy. >> let's get back to your own story, because no one can avoid the fact that ronan farrow is also embroiled in one of the big me too stories of the last couple of decades. how much of your experience, your writings about your own father woody allen have informed your zeal on this issue? >> only in a very attenuated way, christiane. i want to be care. to point that out because this idea that

. >> they would correct it if the same letter went out from the clinton white house or the obama whiteeing this go viral with the correction and the edits with the whole deal. she had some fun with it i guess, people seem to like it. it went viral. you see the impetus behind it which was just to try to humiliate and cheapen the presidency. >> that's exactly what it is. the personal pronoun "i" is used a lot, is that legit? >> i think it is. i've defended this president a lot, but i can't defend him on that. it drives me crazy. my mother is an educator, my father is an education. i read these tweets, and it's just gobbledygook. i get that he has a great brain and he went to the best schools but i don't understand why that doesn't come across on twitter. he speaks properly, you just can't write properly. apparently, "the new york times" said he does misspellings on purpose so he is like, one of the folks. i don't know if i buy that. i would say clean it up and that would be my advice. >> george bush was charming sometimes and his lack of sophistication. >> he loved to make fun of himself

the white house most of us don't see what the large larger than life madeo real three-dimensional portraits. jay carney writes it is a poignant reminder that the best part about working in the obama white house was the people working with you and knowing that everyone was there for the right reasons to try to do as much good for as many people as we possibly could. and he will be joined in conversation tonight by the president press secretary from 2014 to 2017 so please join me in welcoming pat cunnane and pat pajosh earnest. [applause] >> it is such a pleasure to be sitting up here with pat. it's fun and we don't have the fun of the tour bus up and down the freeway speed to [laughter] exactly. we would both come in at the same points we had an opportunity to do a test run of the conversation so this will hopefully be even better. many of our cliques from the white house have written books, a couple of which are alec and several more are coming. deciding to take on a project this big and sharing so much of your personal experience is not a quick decision so can you talk about the position to writ decis book and what it was like to sit down and start typing away? >> if one is an a

>> she had the fbi and the obama white house on her side. lou: i mean they drained his blood.d see it happening before our eyes. michael: you asked who do these people think they are? the "new york times," they think they are the elite of the country who should pick the president of the united states. after the "new york times" editorial board met with john kasich, they came out and said we thought that should be the republican nominee. they have never endorsed a republican nominee for president but they want to pick the republican nominee. ed: they picked president kerry and president gore. they never endorsed a republican. michael: not since dwight eisenhower. lou: president obama, they put $50 million, it looks like a payoff. the only thing they knew was politics. what would be the point of bringing them on with $50 million in company money. >> netflix has become an obama administration hopping off point. he said it won't be political but that's what he said about obamacare, too. lou: we wouldn't take obama's word for it. ed: netflix is an ongoing money make machine and it'

committed by mccabe, the line under oath and leaking of information which could go up to the obama white house leaking information, unmasking names and leaking, these are crimes. the american people understand crimes are committed and see them. these two will be an eye-opener. we understand the whole district thing. >> one word, once -- who wins? >> donald trump. >> thank you. >> if you'd like to view other programs online, go to the website at the tv.org. type afterwards into the search bar and all previous episodes will be available. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by the cable television company. and now we bring unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court in public policy events c-span is brought to buy a cable or satellite provider. >> i will look now on books being published six week. donald rumsfeld recounts the presidency of gerald ford and, when the center help. three days in moscow brett bear looks at how to in the cold war. brothers of the gun looks at the arab spring in syria. robert f kennedy junior lo