obama and dr. king's face. obama is a politician, king is a prophet. we will see how obama stacked up on the score card, racism and poverty. we could have a full show on where obama stood on racism, poverty and militarism. you have already graded him on militarism. what do you say to people who have gotten lost in that relationship, that narrative they want to run putting king and obama together and suggesting obama is the fulfillment of dr. king's dream? >> outside the fact they were both incredible aur tors, both black and both won the nobel peace price, there are few similarities between dr. king and president obama. president obama chose to ascend to a throne being in control of nuclear weapons. he had the authority to do what he promised, closing graun ton moe, improving the lives of the poor and the black people in this country. by almost every metric, he failed, except comparing him to donald trump. i think people make a fundmental mistake by not allowing dr. king's political legacy to be as

obama and -- obama foundation that is being set up for a while. was very the press glad to hear from their guy. the speech itself, i am sure did not appease the left as much as they would like. i'm sure they and many of their supporters would like for obama to take more of a piling on and criticism of this president. host: did you expect that type of speech? caller: the piling on type? no, i really didn't, because obama's got to at this point speak to a wider audience than he did when he was president. i think he was one of the most divisive presidents we have ever had. his policies were the only thing that hillary wanted to run on. between he and she, it is more likely the reason they lost. calling him to not be president by name, but by inference in a lot of his speeches. at this point, i think he should take a cue from some of the .ther presidents and be quieter that is going to be a lot of money that he is going to require. host: apologies about that. did mean to cut you off. appreciate the call -- didn't mean to cut you off. appreciate the ca

so what all did obama do? he escaped assad from punishment under the allegation of taking out his chical weapons. he didn't take out his chemical weapons, and he did not punish him. that should raise a lot of questions. that should make people start asking why did he do that? why did he lie to the american people and to the entire world? liz: you wrote aneditorial for the wall street journal titled the rubble of obama's syria policy, and you said you told the obama administration about th why obama did not act in syria. why? >> because he wanted to do anything to make the iran deal possible. he was too worried about his own agenda. president obama wanted to become the president who didn't use force and got the deals done. well, sir, you cannot make deals with dictators. you should punish dictators. you should hold them accountable. he made a deal with iran dictatorship. he made a deal with assad. he made a deal with russians. he made a deal with all dictators. with cuba, with a lot of dictators. this should ra

i'm not like obama where he takes air force one to hawaii., i will not be taking very long vacations, if i take them at all, there's no time for vacations. there's people that go away for weeks and weeks, i don't like taking vacations, obama likes going on vacation, i like working. if i get elected president, i'm going to be in the white house a lot, i'm not leaving, we have deals to make, who the hell wants to leave, right? >> just not a vacation guy, he said, so keeping them honest. take a look, by the end of the weekend, president trump is will have spent 24 days at mar-a-lago since taking office. and by some estimates he's on track to spend as much on travel in his first year as president obama did in eight years. and then there's golf. >> obama, it was reported today played 250 rounds of golf. everything's executive order, because he doesn't have enough time, because he's playing so much golf. obama ought to get off the golf course and get down there. i'm going to be working for you, i'm not going to have time to go play golf. this guy p

>> the obama administration, during the obama administration, under the obama administration. >> youy. just that's all i can say on this one. sean spicer is exactly right. that there may well have been a mess up in the obama administration when they renewed his clearance if they didn't ask the right questions or if flynn didn't provide the documentation. even if he verbally told them as he says he did. verbally told them about these trips and about these payments, the records don't reflect, the paperwork doesn't reflect this was properly discussed and litigated and that happened on president obama's watch. that's true. but he got one of the most sensitive jobs in government under this president and they won't answer question s about dd they look into any of this. >> this is a pattern with this white house sort of distancing people from the campaign. they did that with paul manafort. i think at some point they referred to michael flynn as sort of like a volunteer. and so at this point it is. this is obama's fault. this is obama's guy. in many ways i think it works for the base. if you

to have obama do it for her. all these people crying and complaining about this, that and the other. they did not get their way to a worse life we would have had and it went their way. what those people need to do is grow up, learn how to deal with the situation of losing and move on. leave donald trump alone. so what, he had not showed his taxes. you know what, it's really nobody's business what he paid on his taxes. it's not your business what i paid on my taxes no more your business whether you paid on yours whether you're president or not. i could be wrong. i could be right but it doesn't matter. that's just my opinion. what we need to do is worry about what's happening in our country and pull together as one to try to help that. host: thanks for the call. host: thanks for the call. his and hers pays for your tax dollars. he and melania adding $100 million to the travel tab so she can fly separately to mar-a-lago with son barron to spend the easter weekend with the president. she traveled there separately abo

>> president obama i guess. the -- president obama would get -- i mean, president clinton -- i guess -- the funny hing about both is you can see it'ser one having chosen journalist as a path and that they understand communicating, they understand the power of journalism. they would both get frustrated by journalists that they considered being lazy, taking the easy way out, being cynical in that by dummying down politics to just process. and that would frustrate both of them. president obama had an interesting learned bare, though. so a good example. i had worked at the white house during health care.gov and which back then counted as a huge disaster that the website didn't work. it seems sort of quaint in retrospect. but that was like the the big crisis in the country was that the website didn't work. people weren't getting health care fast enough. so president obama thought it was a wreck. my god, this unbelievable stress. ridiculous now. but we were at a meeting in the oval office one day and i started to walk

obama ought to get off the golf course and get down there.orking for you, i'm not going to have time to play golf. he played more golf last year than tiger woods. he plays more golf than people on the pga tour. i love golf, but i don't have time. if i were in the white house, i don't think i would ever see dorall again. i'm not going to be playing much golf, believe me. if i win this, i'm not playing much golf. >> now, we don't actually know how much golf the president is playing, that's because the white house suspect sisn't sayi they do their best to keep it off camera. but as you can see through the shubery here, he began at west palm beach, his 17th visit to a golf course, outpacing president obama. in fairness, he does do official business at what's been called the southern white house. you'll remember he hosted foreign leaders there, including china's president. and some of his golf outings include foreign leaders, as well. ceos, other dignitaries, so it's not just play and no work. but he might take a lesson from another former preside

when you look at president obama, melissa monaco, a close adviser to president obama says "i think barack still the leader of the democratic party." how much of a problem is that for the democratic party? >> well, look, the problem is not that obama is the leader. i think if democrats had their druthers, president obama would be out there every day leading the charge against the trump administration. the problem for democrats is that that's not what former president obama wants to do. he wants to have the same kind of life that former presidents before him have had -- the memoirs, building the library, doing speaking gigs around the world and all the rest of it. i'm sure he will step up at various times, but obama knows better than anybody else just how mean and tough donald trump can be. i don't think he wants to get in those sights this early. it's too soon. >> what does it say, mark preston, that the most popular, active politician right now across the bored is bernie sanders? 57% say that, according to "the hill's" polling. what does that -- someone who does not identify with the part

president obama: a lot of patels in india. patels e a lot more than there are obamas. harish: agree. so a hussein joke but -- at some point i sort of felt that both or more than -- i don't want to get stuck in this sort of two-party language but there's a lot of different cult of personalities, cult of politics that young people get drawn to and they can't go beyond the questions you are allowed to ask within. i wanted to be able to protest and be able to run for office and run a small business and do the organizing and be able to figure out which is the most effective way that i want to, one, live my life and be happy and also inspire a whole generation of folks that maybe look like me or come from maws limb background and most people of color feel like they can literally do anything. that's one of the major reasons. also, illinois has an establishment politics that is really old. not old in age but old in thinking. there's a monopoly of power, money, ideas that only come from few families, sometime a few zip codes. and i wanted to say that it's not how we should move

the obama administration. is there anything fair about that? these nominees deserve at least an up or down vote. yes or no. republican filibusters deny them a fair vote and deny the -- ident gridlock has consequences. it is not only that -- not only that for president obama, bad for the united states senate, it is bad for our , it's time to change, it's time to change before this institution becomes obsolete. at the beginning of this congress, a republican leader pledged that this congress should be more bipartisan than the last congress. mr. president we are told in scripture, let's take for example old testament, the book of numbers. promises, pledges, a val, one must not break his word. to promise to work with the majority to process nominations in a timely manner by unanimous consent, except in extraordinary circumstances. latery three weeks republicans mounted a first in history filibuster of a highly qualified nominee for secretary of defense. despite being a former republican senator, a decorated war he

is obama's the latest to become the party of the super rich. the obvious question, what can the former president possibly say, a, that we haven't heard and b, that is worth $400,000. >> i'm a former dnc adviser not current. >> tucker: well in spirit. >> thank you very much. when we judge president obama in terms of his record in wall street we should look to the policies he has passed and that is the wall street reform which is a key measure that reins in the abuses of wall street to make sure what happened to the economy never happens again. >> tucker: you fell right into my trap. i was going to wait to hit you with the facts until the end of the segment but here we go. under the president obama the dow jones average rose and that doesn't benefit everybody. the top 1% share of income rose from 17% to 22%. in other words, the majority, the overwhelming bulk of wealth created under president obama went to people that were already rushed. saying he crushed wall street is ridiculous. >> but if you're saying they liked the reform legislation have y

>> that is a comment refrain, everything is president obama's obama's fault. i guess they got used to it during the eight years and now they're not used to actually governing. whatever happened back then there are two big issues number one, what michael flynn did is apparently in clear violation of the law when you are retired officer, you are not allowed to take money from foreign governments. it's very clear and was made clear to him and he did that. second all congressman cummins and chaffetz are looking for are those vetting documents to find out did michael flynn lie about it when he was vetted. now whether or not president obama should've cleared him back in 2016 they probably didn't know about this stuff, now we do know and the documents that are being asked for -- it's pretty simple. >> the white house makes a point, 2015 he went to moscow, he was seen at that event with putin at that r.t. russian television event. he was paid for that and then in 2016 the obama administration went ahead and renewed his clearances. >> it's quite possible the obama admi

do you think president obama liked the job? >> i think president obama liked it. he saw it as a great historical framework and challenge and time to make his imprint on history and rally the country for big causes, legacy of obamacare and his other signature developments. the interesting question is whether trump will after six months still like this job, i can see where he hands the keys to mike pence and say, give me a call to mar-a-lago. i think he will be frustrated by it. as a businessman used to working solo. and different working with the senate. >> you can't fire people. >> i had a sense president obama didn't like the job at the done, frustrated not being able to get things done. he was done, ready to go. >> he was certainly ready to go when i spoke to him in december. i think he was a little demoralized like a lot of people by the election returns. he was tired, as mark indicated earlier. it's exhausting, i asked him, what will you do now? return to your origins as a community organizer? he said, first, i'm going to get some sleep. he's basically been do

president obama's top homeland security and terror adviser also happened to announce the obama administrationan hacking into the election. welcome. we're so proud to have you here. thank you for coming on. >> good to be here. >> let me start by asking you about this breaking news out of russia with this bomb at st. petersburg's metro. who is a bigger target for isis right now, russia or the u.s.? i presume you think this is likely isis. >> it is still early. we have to be mindful of that it's still early in the investigation and no doubt that officials will be doing, but there's two things to keep in mind and there's two potential ways this could go. one is isis. it's got all the hallmarks of isis. an attack on a soft target, a train station, a public area and a well traveled commuter path in st. petersburg. the use of what appears to be a homemade explosive, reports of shrapnel having been embedded in this explosion. it has the hallmarks of isis. we know there have been dozens of video references from isis threatening to undertake attacks against russia and this emanates ever since putin eng

what do we think president obama will do?hat is the million dollar question, how will president trump's name come up and what will president obama say about him. because that is what everybody wants to know. the obama team is signaling that he is not going to take on president trump directly, that that is not what this is about, this is about former president obama sitting down with young people talking about civic engagement, getting involved in their comnity and so forth. but obviously we're in some until chartered waters here, a very unusual situation. you have a very popular former president who is just 55, planning to get out on the public stage in some way and you have president trump whose administration is so die m diametrically opposed dismantle li ing obamacare and policies on the environment. but the signal is that he will not get involved in the day to day give and take between president trump. he doesn't want to set himself up as a foil for president trump. but again, his supporters,s advocates, those who back pr

should obama fire back?o voice your opinions, just grab your phone or grab your laptop and you log on to pulse.msnbc.com/america where you can participate by selecting a response. you can vote as our as you like throughout today's show. we hope to hear from you. but first, happening now, out of north korea where a third u.s. citizen has been detained. and this comes amid rising tensions between north korea and the u.s. kim jong un has been warned not to conduct a sixth nuclear test based on an agreement with the united nations. a leader that he ignores. now in response, the u.s. sent the "uss carl vinson" into the region and today they fired back with a new threat. for more on the developing story, we go to seoul, south korea. kel what have we learned? >> reporter: most is coming from the yonhap news agency here in south korea. they're identifying this man only by the last name, kim, they say he's in his 50s. that he was in north korea for about a month. working -- doing some relief for aid work. and that he

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president obama: there are a lot more patels than obamas. arish: agreed. oy had a hussein joke but -- -- hi a hussein joke but -- -- i had a hussein joke but -- at some point both are -- don't want to get stuck in this two-party lang wafpblg, but there's a lot of different culture perments and politics young people get drawn to and they can't go beyond the questions they are allowed to ask within. so i wanted to be able to protest and be able to run for office and run a small business and do the organizing. being able to figure out which is the most effective way that i want to, one, live my life and be happy, but also sort of inspire a whole generation of folks that maybe look like me or come from a similar background or south asian immigrants. i want most young people of color to feel they can literally do anything. that was one of the major reasons. also we have an establishment in politics that's very old in thinking. this is a monopoly of power, money, ideas that only come from a few families or sometime a few -- i wanted to say that's not how we shou

["what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted." we mentioned our guest is the former human services deputy secretary. all this being said so far how is the president doing after 100 days? tevi: that's a great question and what's fascinating about this administration is that there are really two completely different narratives, both of which have some basis in fact and reality. so one narrative which i think you'll hear in most the newspapers, flipping through my "new york times" and "washington post" is it's a legislation in delay and they lost a number of high profile people like the national security advisor and the nominee as the labor secretary nominee is now the secretary so there have been a lot of problems and issues and some of the tweets were intemperate and caused issues like the one of president obama attacking his wires. that's narrative one. the second narrative you hear on the republican side and the conservative media is goat neil gorsuch confirmed, the second fastest confirmation of a supreme court justice in histor

so we're just like the obamas, but we're not." so there's this way that as wonderful as it is-- this acceptance of the obama girls, this acceptance of michelle-- it still has the impact of marginalizing, for example, the fact that a majority of african-american children are being raised by... in households like mine, where you may have intergenerational women, but where you don't have a present father. it is still true that, for example, gay and lesbian families don't have the same kind of social recognition so if you're a michelle obama but you're in a lesbian household, does the acceptance of the kind of heteronormative, you know, traditional picture of the obamas, does that, you know, kind of continue on and lead to a broader acceptance? i don't know. and i'm certainly, you know, a little distressed that at the same time that we have michelle obama, we have precious. >> hinojosa: and you're concerned about it because... i mean, that movie-- i haven't seen the movie, i read the book when it came out a long time ago-- is so incre

what's really interesting is to see how president obama, former president obama, navigates the shoals this challenging period. president trump violated the rules of the club by attacking -- >> violated the rules of the club. >> by attacking, personally attacking his predecessor when he went after obama for allegedly -- and of course he didn't -- for allegedly wiretapping trump tower. you just don't do that, okay? i don't think that president obama is going to respond. he's going to be above it all. but a lot of his supporters and many people would like him to respond, but he won't. so, the challenge for him is to keep the message -- keep on message, which is, if you don't like what's going on in the united states, participate, get involved, change things at every level. >> what then do you think that with the different pressures and expectations and his own personal goals of what he wants to do and accomplish in his post presidency, and on the unusual front, has many years ahead to do that, what do you think this speech today -- i don't know if some folks are trying to read into the t

barack obama were told us. they could verify it, just like they were sure iran has stopped its efforts toward deliberate nuclear weapons just like they could cut a deal with north korea, this is a lesson for the new trump administration when you sit down across the table with the russians, with the iranians, with the north koreans. they may agree with what you want, they may tell you all kinds of interesting things, they don't have the slightest intention of meeting their obligations. that is where the risk to america really comes in. if >> sean: must question because we have this very public posture by russia and then we saw a russia pulled back a little bit earlier this week when they said of their support for syria was not unconditional. it seems like they are doing a little saber rattling but behind the scenes they do not want to take on this issue of syria and the united states. did they have the capacity to put up their missile defense system and they didn't do it att this air force base? >> i think the o

they said they would not allow those seats to be filled by president obama. in erie precedent with the majority leader repeated with merrick garland. he didn't want to the dc circuit to have obama appointed, democratic appointed nominees, he didn't want that on the supreme court so he blocked merrick garland, he didn't want it on the dc circuit so they wouldn't let any of president obama's nominees come to the floor. merrick garland's nomination was not the first time the majority leader held open a judicial seat because it wasn't the president of his party and that was not during an election year. at the time, i spoke to my good friend from tennessee, senator alexander. i asked him to go to senator mcconnell and say the pressure on our side to change these rules after all these unprecedented number of filibusters, was going to be large. i said to senator alexander let's try to avoid it. senator mcconnell, the republicans, refused all our overtures to break the deadlock they imposed. to be clear democrats changed the rules after 1776 days of obstruction on pr

absolutely. ♪ >> president obama: all right. >> anthony: we're about to eat bún cha. and it is about as typical and uniquely a hanoi dish as there is. these beautiful little pork patties, grilled pork belly. bun cha is served in a broth of vinegar, sugar, and the ubiquitous nuoc cham, or vietnamese fermented fish sauce. chilies to taste. i mean, if you have an important state function after, you might not want to go too heavy on the garlic. >> president obama: you know what, i'm going with this thing. you know? we're gonna do what's appropriate. >> anthony: a little vinegar. >> president obama: all right. >> anthony: and then you just hack off noodles, you just drop them in your bowl. >> president obama: yeah, that's not too elegant, but i managed it. >> anthony: and dip and stir and get ready for the awesomeness. >> president obama: i'm ready. now, is it appropriate to just pop one of these whole suckers in your mouth or do you think that you should be a little more -- ? >> anthony: well, slurping is totally acceptable in this

the obama administration went to secure it. the men released back into a run in a prison swap revealed a national security threat and sadly, there is more. what will all mean for the trump administration? the news of president obama's next big payday. is he selling out by taking big money from wall street fatcats? after the show, you can join our live chat by clicking the overtime tab or go to facebook.com/outnumbered fnc you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. due to your first accident. this this this is my body of proof. proof of less joint pain and clearer skin. this is my body of proo

obama obama was in trouble when he said who knew that -- >> shovel ready. >> shovel ready is a fantasy. these are -- infrastructure is not -- it sounds great, let's build a bridge but a lot of it looks like boondoggles and kickback and profiteering. inside a lot of things that could happen on the infrastructure bill. there are ways democrats could pay a price or capitalize. >> they couldn't get 216 votes in a republican controlled house to repeal obamacare which they said they were going to do for six or seven years. >> and what's the explanation. >> the white house didn't understand the deep division in the caucus. >> how is that possible? do they have alleged affairs department. >> they do. but they are surprised that the freedom caucus and the tuesday group are so far apart. >> have they met john boehner? >> that's the thing. if they are in the position of nooetd he had. >>ing democratic votes to pass their agenda they are not going to get any when it comes the repealing obamacare not going to get any when it comes to lowering the tax rate to 15%. it's misunderstanding leverage. som

also blaming the issue on president obama. >> president obama said in 2012 he would establish a red line against the use of chemical weapons and did nothing. >> reporter: the criticism contradicting president trump's tweets after the last chemical attack in 2013. in which he urged then president obama not to retaliate with military action. just last week, two of trump's top administration officials signaling a sharp change in u.s. policy toward syria. >> the longer term status will be decided byyrian people. >> reporter: these remarks draws sharp rebuke from republicans. >> the bottom line is it is a huge mistake. >> another disgraceful chapter in american history. it was predictable. >> reporter: president trump has been having a high level week of interaction with foreign leaders here at the white house. it continues today with the visit from the king of jordan. chris and alisyn. >> squljoe, appreciate it. we have david gregory here with us. bill richardson. former democratic governor of new mexico and ambassador to the u.n. and michael smerconish. host of "smerconish." david gregory,

she was an obama appointee. she also worked for hillary clinton. >> she is not an vest gator. -- she is not an investigator. she is a political operative. she works on behalf of the president. if it can be shown this was a political fishing expedition, then she is in a world of hurt. liz: this brings calls of an f.b.i. investigation into rice. adam schiff is he would be quote happy to call rice in to testify. they want to know when it started and whether obama was buying on trump a year prior to the election at a time when trump was hammering obama for his failed policies. >> i believe susan rice abused the system. she did the for political purposes. >> i believe she should be called as a witness by the senate intelligence committee. >> it's something congress should look into. if she was the involved in unmass knowledging trump transition officials what was the reason? we'll get to the bottom of it. liz: katrina, special investigation. what do you think? >> i think there should be a special investigation. it wa

he knew obama was president, he knew he was coming in after obama and was actually quite successful.e blames it all on the conditions of the job. >> sean: all right, matthews all these other partisan hacks masquerading as journalists ignoring real facts that president trump did inherent a massive, huge, colossal mess from barack obama both here at home and of course abroad. they refused to report the truth about how he is trying to fix all of this and of course they have the tax day protests so this past weekend, they were spewing all kinds of nonsense. watch democratic congresswoman maxine waters unhinged, leading a chance to impeach president trump. >> his motives and his actions are contemptible and i will fight every day until he is impeached. impeach 45. impeach 45. don't forget who he is. >> sean: not even 100 days and then the insanity in the left showed up in berkeley, california, over the weekend where a near riot broke out during a tax day protests after violent clashes between left-wing agitators and trump supporters. 20 people ended up being arrested there, finally last n

does that sound like barack obama??nd where are we listening to jon ossoff or barack obama?ot the only one who thought that as well. >> sean: the destroy trump media, they are not biased at all, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ultimate left the propaganda media and this extreme bias they have.he we have evidence, a new studya from the media research center, a whopping 89% of coverage during abc, nbc, "cbs evening news" cast has all been negative toward the president, toward president trump. what we're seeing playoff now is the ultimate radical left taking all of this unhinged hatred to a whole new level and they are teaming up to attack the president on all fronts. tonight, i'm telling you it's only going to get worse, it's only going to get more intense. republicans need to do their job and also be ready to fight back. you've got the alt left, they cannot stand this president especially as he checks off his list, continues to fulfill his promises, and enact the agenda that he one on. the opposition will get worse every day, it will get more intense

the fact that if obama knew n about all this, nobody seems to care. this goes right to the timeline until it looked like oh, my god, they are taking him seriously and now what we need to do as we got to stop, we got to get the dirt, we got to pass it around. that's when they really started here. >> sean: the bottom line here under the guise of national security, they are unmasking only the conversations with trump or trump transition team members or then candidate o trus team, that was specifically designed for political purposes, having nothing to do is national security. >> that's what dr. farkas was doings too. you've done a great job of playing this out. dr. farkas, who by the way also getting a criminal defense lawyer right away, what she said wasai in essence -- she wanted to get the information out. how is she getting thehe information? >> jay, who is weak? who is a part of this conspiracy now? they have a group of individuals -- you know what, i'm going with prosecutor and i can do this. >> sean: i gotta say one less thing. for anybody to see

and the obama administration. >> the obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he said the red line in the sand. and when he didn't cross that line after making the threat, i think that set us back a long ways, not only in syria, but in many other parts of the world because it was a blank threat. >> can i just quickly ask you if the chemical attack crosses a red line for you? >> it crossed a lot of lines for me. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal -- people were shocked to hear what gas it was -- that crosses many, many lines beyond the red line, many, many lines. >> how will you distinguish your policy and your actions on syria from the inaction that you criticized of the previous administration? >> i like to think of myself as a very flexible person. i don't have to have one specific way and if the world changes, i go the same way. >> last year you seemed to be reluctant to get involved or to intervene in syria directly. is that one thing that's changed after yesterd

of 2016. >> the obama administration. it went on like that. >> during the obama administration. under the obama administration. >> to be fair, it is a legitimate question as to whether the army and the defense department whether obama renewed security clearance without sufficient diligence, but that is not the same thing as appointing and vetting flynn to one of the top national security positions in the u.s. government and remember, obama fired flynn from a lower position in the national security community. now, you might wonder, why was flynn fired? well, last july when flynn was being considered for the vp slot, flynn wrote an oped, the military fired me for calling the enemy radical jihadis. abusive with staff, didn't listen, worked against policy, bad management, et cetera. he has been and was right wing nutty ever since. joining me now to discuss all this is add myrrh john kirby. he's known him for years. admiral, thanks so much for yjo us. for those people not so cure with the secure clearances and vetting, explain

you are recorded as saying that obama dissuaded you. valerie: i had considered seriously throwing my hat in the ring. closest friends were all supportive of it and thought it would be great to be a u.s. senator, a principal if you will. all for it. what the president ultimately said is i know you, i know the senate. i know what i want in the white house. i think you will enjoy the executive ranch more and will feel as though your impact could be greater in the executive branch. senate. to joining the boy was he right. i am very glad i did not join the senate. those who did work in the senate or in the house, it is extremely frustrating. there are so many people who are putting the short term lyrical agendas ahead -- short-term political agendas ahead of what is the greater good. you talk to our u.s. senators, they will tell you it is frustrating. i think they do an amazing job and i am glad they're fighting for is each and every day. i think i made the right decision to be in the executive branch. >> how frustrated would you say that pr

>> bill: senator paul referring to president obama.ns want to take the trump surveillancerr situation. we'll have information on that scenario. >> [chanting] >> bill: also ahead california moves a step closer to declaring sanctuary for illegal aliens statewide.

, then president obama. i asked him a question about post-racial versus post-obama era and he said i would not equal 8 my election with seminal moment like the emancipation proclamation the passage of the civil rights act of 1964, the voting rights act of 1965, massive changes legal status that represented fundamental breaks in america's tragic history and where is the pillars, the 13th amendment, 14th amendment and 15th amendment, civil rights acts of the 60s, those represent the dismantling of discrimination in this country, nothing will compare to that. moving forward our work is to build on that work, fine tune that work where we see formal discrimination still occurring but increasingly our work has to do with dealing with the ongoing legacy of a divided society. closing the opportunity gaps, closing the achievement gaps, closing the wealth gaps that inevitably have been passed from generation to generation because the's were so wide and that involved no one piece of legislation but requires a host of d

that is the exact strategy that the obama administration had in 2013. they were going to take away a very large part of the syrian air force and change the strategic balance in the middle east by taking their air force away. that would put them at a much weaker position with regards to israel. in this case we decided to just take out the air base where we knew that that aircraft flew out and dropped that chemical weapon. you have to take out its entire capacity to launch and recover aircraft even though i understand that the run way was minimally damaged. we destroyed all of the aircraft or most of the aircraft on the base. you limit their capacity and of course we destroy the weapons storage bunkers. those are the most critical components here. we are very good at that. this is exactly what missiles were designed for. >> the question is how many casualties did we inflict in this strike? we don't just blow up buildings. when you blow up a building with a 500 pound cruise missile system it sends blast effects which kill and injure individuals. we are alr

a lot of inaction by the obama administration. i think what we heard from nikki haley i think the question is does the trump administration want to end up in the same box with having the word look at what the united states says it's just words. this is a decision that the president will make by listening what does it mean with steve bannon, eyebrows raised, from chief political strategist in the administration someone who thinks george w. bush made a mistake in iraq. who doesn't think that it is and should be worried about its economy. the white house says he was there to help former national security adviser michael flynn to organize the place, to send more power back to the pentagon, more power to the state department. they say mission accomplished, i would say that's spin. but you guys sitting at the table for the white house, what does this mean? >> well, part of this is say reshuffling of the white house and then settling in. i think think there's truth from the points about steve bannon. steve bannon likes to have his hands

these are all states that went for obama twice and then for trump in 2016. almost now 100 days into the trump's presidency, how are those voters feeling now? miguel marquez went to find out. >> reporter: what do you think of his first 100 days? >> he's shaking things up. i like it. >> he's stuck in a hard spot. >> i think we're all screwed. >> reporter: three swing states, ohio, michigan, pennsylvania and three counties in them flipping by the biggest margin blue to red. what do the voters think now? >> i think he's sending the right messages in a way but he doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut. >> reporter: tony, third generation farmer and now owner of a vineyards in ohio's wine country, a registered democrat who voted for trump. >> is he the perfect guy? no, he's not. >> reporter: but you voted for him? >> he's the only guy there that showed signs of change? >> reporter: nine county of ohio flipped from obama to trump in 2016, none by more than here, a ashtabula county. trump did even better and beat clinton by 19 points. that's a whopping 31.7-point s

why bother, why get angry about president obama and this -- former president obama and this, when you have the example of donald trump and such bigger questions being raised? >> well, donald trump is a corrupt liar, and so, therefore, better than donald trump is not a suitable standard for the conduct of public figures. i think that one of the most damaging things that donald trump can do to our discourse is allow people to say, i'm not as bad as donald trump, therefore what i'm doing is fine. >> what is your sense, too, of the appetite, of the reaction sort of on the left, the reaction among obama supporters? do you think there's widespread concern over this? or do you think they feel like, yeah, give the guy a pass? >> i think it's mixed. i mean, we've seen comments from bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, the more bank skeptical parts of the democratic party that are kit krrit cal critical. barack obama is popular and popular with democrats. people have warm personal feelings about him. they don't want to criticize him. i think that's fair enough, but i still think that what he ha

he was the best, obama.mp doesn't want to be compared to the comedian in chief, barack obama. >> every time they've been compared, president obama has come out on top statistical on all these things you mentioned the 2011 dinner president obama making fun of donald trump that a lot of people prompted him to run out of revenge. i want to play a little bit of that dinner in 2011. comedian in chief, president obama. >> just recently in an episode of "celebrity apprentice" at the steak house, the men's cooking team did not impress the zbrujz omaha steaks, and there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, mr. trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. so ultimately you didn't blame little john or meat loaf. you fired gary busey. and these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. >> meat loaf. dean, the thing about that is it was sort of poking fun at the frivolity of donald trump as opposed to the seriousness of being president. does it feel to you like donald trump is st

the future plans barack obama and michelle obama. this is about 45 minutes. >> ok, everyone, let's get started. valerie jarrett oversaw the offices of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs and she chairs the white house council on women and girls. throughout her tenure at the white house, she worked to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. she led the efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class, boosting american businesses and the economy. she fought to empower women, economically and politically in the u.s. and the world. she oversaw the advocacy of the administration for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, is in the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare. also led thett campaign to reform the criminal producing sexual assault and criminal gun violence. she has a background in the public and private sectors. she served as the ceo of the in chicago,any commissioner of

guest: many of the gangs didn't appear during the obama administration. they already have been in the united states for many, many years. so as i said before, the f.b.i. under the obama administration did a wonderful job in some cities preventing the expansion of ms-13 and other gangs in many cities. so i think it is important to understand that it's been a long process. gangs have been in the united states for a long time and whatever we do will determine whether these gangs will grow or not. host: dan from florida, republican line. good morning. you are on the air with jose miguel cruz, professor at florida international university. caller: thank you. i am a black man, so i am not going to be a white caller. absolutely president trump -- president obama owned some of this because it's not that he escalated these gangs. it's that president obama was so ineffective trying to handle the situation. trump is not the best thing since sliced bread but doesn't it feel good that we have somebody that said let's attack the gang culture? now, the purpose of my cal

throughout the entire period, however, leading figures to have the obama administration -- of the obama administration including the president and secretary of state and national security advisor susan rice kept insisting that the obama administration, that the deal had gotten 100% of the chemical weapons out, creating an illusion, which by the way the trump administration seemed to share, at least in its first few months, that assad had been defanged of his most dangerous weapons. what we've just seen in northern syria with the sarin attack on this village is that that was untrue and that he maintains the stockpile, and i have to ask mr. blinken, how is it that the obama administration kept going on saying 100% of the weapons without qualification, when they knew from their own intelligence reporting and in fact publicly available sources that that was not the case, that assad was keating on the deal, that he maintained this stockpile and of course the ability to use it. >> rose: the second part is the russians should have known about this and there was complicity. >> of course the rus