michelle obama. [cheers and applause] president barack obama. [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium kim sajet, the director of the smithsonian national portrait gallery. >> good morning. mu name is kim sajet and it is my pleasure as director to welcome you to the national portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. every commissioned portrait involves four people. the first person is the sitter, a person with a larger-than-life persona, who may be curious to see how his are her likeness will be captured in perpetuity. in a spirit of building anticipation, i bid a warm welcome to president barack obama and his wife, former first lady, michelle obama, who we honor today. [applause] the second person is the artist who tries in the face of public scrutiny to stay true to his or her own artistic style and still transmit a sense of the internal spirit to internal audiences. in many ways, as much a reflection of themselves as an insight into their subject, the portrait artist must remain unique and, to quote a

great job, president obama.id not do you do something customers now slamming obama for his tepid response to russia's bizarre behavior, tweeting "i've been much tougher on russia than obama, look at the facts, total fake news." the president is right, the obama administration sucked up to the vladimir putin regime giving them a pass including ths cringeworthy moment featuring the russian reset that never worked. take a look. >> i wanted to present you with a little gift which represents what president obama and vice president biden and i have been saying, that we want to reset our relationship. so we will do it together. [laughs] >> thank you very much. >> you are very welcome. we worked hard to get to the right russian word, did we get it? >> you got it wrong. this says that we share. >> sean: we will just give you 20% of our uranium and hope that you like us. remember that president obama promised to be flexible with the kremlin following the reelection, he said vladimir, tell vladimir more flexibility. take a

michelle obama. [applause] president barack obama. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please theome to the podium director of the smithsonian national portrait gallery. [applause] >> good morning. and it is mym, pleasure as director to welcome you to the national portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. every commissioned portrait involves four people. is the s person itter who may be curious to see how his or her likeness will be captured in perpetuity. in a spirit of building allcipation, i did a warm come to the 44th president of the united states, barack obama, and his wife, former first lady, michelle obama, who be honored today. [applause] the second person as the artists, who tries in the face of public scrutiny to stay true to his or her own artistic style and still transmit a sense of the internal spirit to external audiences. in many ways, it is as much a reflection of themselves as insight into their subjects. remaintrait artist must unique, and to quote baudelaire, realize a character. in the spirit of that braver

president obama, mrs. obama, vice president biden, amy, k kim, the provost, regions, commissioners, and distinguished guests, it is an honor and privilege to share this morning with you. as you probably know, we have to publications to celebrate today. first, president and mrs. obama will unveil their official portraits. and second, today is abraham lincoln's birthday. what you may not know is that president lincoln once credited a portrait with getting him elected. a photograph by the great matthew brady taken before lincoln's famous speech at the cooper union in february 1860. in 1860, thiscans was the only lincoln they knew. the brady image appeared on the ," in of "harper's weekly newspapers across the country, and on buttons and leaflets throughout the campaign. today that photograph is on display here at the national portrait gallery. lincoln may have given brady too much credit. there were probably a few other reasons he won the presidency. for example, i hear he was a pretty good speaker. but his c

remember, obama fired mike flynn. when trump came to the white house to meet obama after the election, president obama reportedly warned president-elect trump about two things. one, north korea. two, mike flynn. and trump decided to keep mike flynn anyway. if you're in charge of the transition, the part of the transition, the national security adviser part of the transition, from yourself to mike flynn, do you hand him all the intel you've got? do you read him in on everything? we've got a spy working in putin's office, would you tell mike flynn the name of that person? might you memorialize in a note to file some of the decision-making processes around this unusual time in american history? in december, right after the election, president obama, you'll remember, he ordered the intelligence community to conduct a full assessment of what the russians did. it turned up tons of intelligence reports about contacts between trump associates and russian officials. "the new york times" last year previously reported on a scram

president barack obama and former first lady michelle obama. many critics have praised the artists for breaking away from previous traditions of conservative presidential portraiture by embracing more colourful abstract themes. so let's begin. with me is rolake akinkugbe, who's head of energy at fbn merchant bank. welcome back. thank you. we are starting with the japan times. we're looking the developing situation with north korea. what is there an analysis of developments? with north korea. what is there an analysis of development57m suggests that the us is pivoting away from its hard—core stands. —— stance. donald trump did a tour of asia. he had criticised rex tillerson‘s less ha rd—core asia. he had criticised rex tillerson‘s less hard—core approach. they said they would welcome talks. they said they would welcome talks. they have also defined it as a strategy of maximum pressure and engagement at the same time. i think the key thing to bear in mind is that they are looking to south korea to ta ke that they are looking to south korea to tak

the obama administration was tough on russia.s secretary of state because she was pushing the economic embargoes. putin's had a honeymoon with donald trump. but i think what really happens is anytime trump's backed into a corner he has two bogeymen to strike at. the fake news, the mainstream media, and barack obama. how much of this is racial, it's hard to divide the quota. but it's the idea of taking the first african-american president and constantly saying you failed, you didn't do anything. unfortunately, yesterday was presidents day. new polls come out and show barack obama is up by ten points where president trump is lying at the bottom of the heap with james buchanan. >> douglas brinkley, thanks very much. appreciate it. >>> the president tweets about background checks for guns and also makes a statement about bump stocks. we'll have the latest on that. i? of course, big brother. but you have to hurry. ♪ show off! experience luxury performance that takes the crown. presenting the all-new lexus ls 500. long live the king. a

obama didn't seem to care. even two weeks before the election, he's lecturing trump, stop whining, it could never happen here. remember, as nbc news pointed out, obama didn't do more to combat russia. he thought hillary was a shoe in. why interrupt this? what's even more disturbing is that there were even earlier warning signs from russia. we have been telling you on this program how vladimir putin had russian operatives inside america right here on our soil and how they were involved in a sophisticated plot that started in 2009. it had a main objective to get a foothold in america's uranium market.s we actually had an fbi informant and now know his name, douglas campbell. we've been telling you about this guy. this guy has testified for three congressional committees and literally was uncovering at the time in 2009 and 2010 that putin and his operatives were involved in bribery and kickbacks and money laundering and racketeering and extortion, all while corrupt uranium one deal was all being approved 18 months

former president barack obama, former first lady michelle obama. this is the official unveiling of their official portraits that will hang in the national gallery. we will see the portrait of michelle obama any second. and then both the former first lady and former president will speak. that unusual in and of itself. we don't hear from them much, particularly not in washington so close to the white house. we will bring you there, the minute that happens. we're going to keep our eye on this throughout the morning. the portraits, by the way, also fascinating from artistic perspective as well. the young artists who have painted these notable and different -- you know what, i think we're about to see the portrait. take a look. [ applause ] we will hear from michelle obama now. >> good morning, everyone. let's just start by saying, wow, again. let me just take a minute. it is amazing. wow. how are you all doing? it is a pleasure and an honor to be here in this beautiful museum with all of you today. let me start, of course, by thanking secretary sporten

that is not what the obama administration was hoping to happen. they have to figure out why did that go down that way? what explains that unusual unprecedented response from putin to what we did? if you're the national security advisor to the president of the united states, the out going president of the united states in this case, you don't have to just wonder. you can actually find out what happened there because you have access to all of these streams of intelligence and it turns out, yeah, the fbi had been listening in when ambassador kislyak was told russia is losing their compounds including the super cute one that he really liked in maryland and having to shut down the mansion they like in san francisco, three dozen russians and their families are being sent home with no warning, get out immediately. the fbi was listening in when he made a call after he came out of the state department meeting. what he did after he got that news on december 29th. he walked out and boop, boop, boop, called mike flynn on vacation with his wife in the dominica

that's four times more that obama raised in his first two years.ou understand this is a permanent campaign. he gets a kick out of running. he loves the rallies. after the november 16 election, he was holding rallies. he had his first campaign rally for 2020 a month after he was inaugurated. >> greg: you are telling me president obama wasn't in love with campaigning. he was an amazing campaigner and a terrible leader. >> juan: i don't think he was a terrible leader. >> jesse: one of the knocks on president obama was he couldn't manage the government very well. when he wasn't on the ballot, his party suffered. he was a great oratory. he loved these speeches. the timing of the announcement. >> juan: if i was to draw out the bottom line, i would say he loves campaigning. he loves the rallies. he is not a governing guy. the second thing is hope hicks was before the house intelligence committee. are we talking about what's going on with hope hicks talking to investigators? no, we are talking about the distraction. >> jesse: taking of investigations, dana

rob: michelle obama does not look like michelle obama. >> this next one, being a young girl at want point around this. people are re-examining what constitutes appropriate behavior. a utah elementary school raising concerns for telling students they can't say no to another student who asks them to a school dance. the kaysville elementary school says they have unconventional rules in place to promote kindness but one concerned mother, natalie richard, says it is sending the wrong message. >> my daughter keeps coming to be saying i can't say no to a boy. that is the message kids are getting. >> social media is sounding off. john says i'm sure it is well intended but sets a bad precedent especially for girls who need to be empowered to say no but ava says there may not be anything wrong with saying unless someone is being mean to the girl they should say yes. what do they have to lose? jillian: the rules to this dance are even more complicated, kids have to write five names on a card and any sort of confusion they will address with parents. they are overthinking the dance. rob: the pc moveme

oh, barack obama said do it by the book. oh, barack obama said do it by the book. why do i read that and say, okay, barack obama didn't say do it by the book. i don't believe it. that memo is so suspicion, the biggest cya i've ever read in my life, and i think there might be something on the other side of that. jessica, are you going to defend that? >> i am, and i'm going to use newt gingrich to help me out because this morning on fox & friends he had a different analysis with that than he did this evening with you. he said to the host this morning that he's done that himself, and gone back to something that's happened weeks before and wrote a memo >> hannity: that's not what he said tonight on my show. he was talking about 15 days later. i don't know anybody in the final minutes in the white house, their final act, let me say barack obama said we're going to do this by the book. i sense a lot of fear in that memo >> yeah, it's crumbling down. she's a liar. she lied about ben gauzy. she lied about burkedaal, she lied about the unmasking. comey lied to the fisa judg

there's michelle obama, barack obama. a lot of mixed reactions. what do you all think?ll go first because i know angela has a lot more to say about it than i do. so, i don't love the michelle obama one. i don't think it looks like her. i think it looks like kerry washington a little bit. i'm not an art expert. my initial reaction was, i didn't love it as much. the president obama one, the likeness is much better. and i was back and forth about the flowers thing going on there. the memes have been funny. i did appreciate the artist to explain how he incorporated the flowers of kenya, hawaii and illinois in that. beauty is in the eye of the beholder. it's artistic. presidents get to pick their artists. they knew what they were getting. >> i love the colors. if i didn't know who they were, i would hang them on my wall. >> i think it looks like the first lady. >> if for no other reason, those biceps. >> what do you think, angela? >> i love these. i love the fact they commissioned two black artists and they were unveiled during black history month. it gives us another moment

it is, it was passed by executive order by barack obama. he did not have the power, only congress has the power. >> even though it may be a technical decision on part of supreme court, to kick it back it 9th circuit court it gets reversed 80% of the time. kick it back to the supreme court -- what sense does this make? they are leaving in place an order by a president that is unconstitutional. gregg: of course. lou: and no foundation. and no record of being right about much. gregg: you said it beautifully. lou: thank you. gregg: if it ever gets in front of supreme court, they will uphold power of president trump. to do what he wants here in getting rid of an an know unof - unconstitutional executive order. lou: as a lawyer you must smile a lot watching this. gregg: i went to law school a couple blocks away from the 9th circuit, they were bad then, and worse now. lou: now to the i.c.e. raids. and the mayor warning the illegal immigrants that i.c.e. will raid them. gregg: she is violating a felony criminal statute. it is again the law to harbo

today, the obama's portraits are being unveiled. you can see the portrait of michelle obama.t is the artist speaking about that. we are expecting to see and hear, as well, from barack obama, the former president. his portrait, yet to be unveiled. we are expecting that in a few minutes. we will show that when it happens. let me bring the panel in here as we continue to monitor the events there. this is an interesting day. i have never seen one of these before. anybody who has been to the smithsonian museums, the national portrait gallery, you are watching something be created and unveiled that is going to stand for history. >> certainly an historic process. the process of what goes into commissioning this painting and the interview process she was talking about and the way she wanted the public perception of her to be portrayed, i thought was telling. >> it's notable. they are the first african-american artists behind presidential artists at the gallery. that adds extra historic aspect to it. >> both of the artists, you could hear them talking about it, interviewed by the firs

oh, barack obama said do it by the book. oh, barack obama said do it by the book.read that and say okay, barack obama didn't say do it by the book? i don't believe -- that memo is so suspicious. the biggest cya i think i ever read in my life and i think there might be something on the other side of that, jessica, are you going to defend that? >> i am. and actually i'm going to use newt gingrich to help me out. because this morning on "fox & friends" he had a different analysis of that than he did this evening with you. he actually said to the host this morning that he has done that himself. and that he has gone back to something that happened weeks before and wrote a memo. >> sean: that's not what he said just tonight on my show. he was talking about 15 days later. i don't know anybody that in the final minutes, jesse, in the white house, their final act, oh, let me say barack obama said we are going to do this by the book. i sense a lot of fear in that memo. >> yeah, i mean it's all crumbling down. she is a liar. she lied about benghazi. she lied about bergdahl. s

obama was tough on russia.r putin despised hillary clinton because she was pushing the economic embargoes. putin has had a honeymoon with donald trump. any time ptrump is backed into corner he has thillary clinton and barack obama. unfortunately, yesterday was president's day. new polls come out and show barack obama is up by ten points where president trump is lying at the bottom of the heap with james buchanan. >> thanks for come on. appreciate it. >>> the president tweets about bump stocks for guns and makes the latest statement on background checks. we'll have the latest on that. u? [man] i have wells fargo. [girl 3] perfect! then you should have zelle! [man] perfect. [girls] perfect! [vo] the number one mobile banking app just got better. [man] does your coach use zelle, too? [boy] of course! [vo] another way we're building better every day. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. believe t

that changed under the obama administration. we have to walk the fbi back from being a political arm of the president of the united states and donald trump is not going to allow that to happen again. trish: thank you so much, dr. sebastian gorka. >>> we're coming back with a whole lot more. stay with us. >>> the house intelligence committee chair launching phase 2 of his nfltion as president trump slams the obama administration for not doing enough to stop russian interference. we take up the anti-trump web of corruption with ed rollins. >>> and the battle for midterms heating up. republicans making gains. we'll have all of those details an so, from the two trucks over here... i want you to pick a new truck for your mom or dad, knowing that they could possibly pass it down to you one day. cool. but before you decide, you should know that chevy silverado's are the most dependable, longest lasting full-size pickups on the road. which means that ford f-150s are not. (laughs) which truck would you pick? the chevy. the chevy. the che

president obama for example, james comey of the fbi. you can argue, the cia, they know this was happening as far as 2014? and if so, what did they do about what they knew was actually happening? you talked about the president, he is continuing to make the argument that when rod rosenstein came out and announce those indictments, 13 russians. basically what he's done is underscore the president's argument that it wasn't the trump campaign and this was happening to america's political

obama was president, knew of the threat and did nothing. thank you adam! the president also added this tweet. one of several before 10 am this morning. i never said russia did not meddle in the election. i said it may be russia or china or another country or group or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting on a bed playing with his computer. the russian hoax he says was the trump campaign colluding with russia, it never did. meanwhile the president is here in the state of florida is imagine, not far from here, not far from where we are. he is over at his estate in mar-a-lago. this of the state of the troubleshooting last week. we are about 40 miles away from parkland where the devastating massacre happened. 17 high school students killed by a former student. there has been strong reaction i should also tell you that the fbi, news of the fbi was apparently warned of the gunman before he killed those students. the fbi is naturally looking for answers to the question of, why or how did the old adage if you see something, say something, failed to stop the killer

president barack obama.eaction senior fellow at the london center for policy research monica crowley, judicial watch's president tom fitton and florida attorney general pam bondi. monica, let's start with this because, yeah, it's all true, isn't it, that she rigged the primary. pam can answer this later. but i have never heard of an exoneration months before interviewing the main people in an investigation. that allows her to continue. she pays for russian government, russian propaganda, that gets used for fisa warrant. that he then the tell the fisa judge she bought and paid for it and it's not verified. that's all in order to disrupt the 2016 election. how does this get to obama? i think the susan rice memo, the grassley graham memo might be giving us some insight. >> yeah, you know, sean, we have been talking about the two sort of surfaced things going on here and the purpose of the weaponization of the doj and the fbi and the obama administration. one was to protect hillary clinton from prosecution and m

trump has been tougher on moscow than president obama. this hour, the false claims versus the facts. >>> downward spiral. after a stunning holiday weekend rant on twitter, the president is add it again, taking on the russia probe, his predecessor and a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. what's driving his latest outbursts online? >>> and rallying cry, students who survived the florida school shooting are confronting lawmakers, demanding action to prevent another massacre. the president just signalled his support for one potential gun control measure, but will he follow through? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking tonight, a new guilty plea in the russia investigation by a lawyer linked to former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and his deputy rick gates and to a wealthy russian power couple. special counsel robert mueller cutting another deal, racking up more charges and possibly signali

to beat obama's record on that. way politics is played in the mind of donald trump. everything that's bad that has happened is because of obama, everything that's good that's happening it because of him. even in the same day. >> but ginger, here's the problem. to pinpoint one day a monday in february a year into your term more than a year in to your term and say this day is obama's fault after saying day after day after day this great news is me, i did this but there one day sean hannity says this is all obama. don't they laugh? don't them have tissue rejection? even i'm a right winger, enough. >> it's important to remember this day came after trump's biggest legislative victory he claims was the reason the market had gone up as far as it had in the last month. there's the ability to just sort of wave your hand and say pay attention over here. don't look what's happening over there. he's banking someone who may be saw the news about what the markets did on monday saw him accusing democrats of treason or blaming obam

the first year than obama was in eight years combined. he's imposed sanctions. he's taken away properties. he's rebuilt their military. he's done a number of things to put pressure on russia and to be tough on russia. just last week there was an incident that will be reported in the coming days in another way that this president was tough on russia. >> it's a coming attraction, if you will. to help us uncover the truth underneath all that trumpian projection, we're joined by the best of the best. from the nooic"the new york tim white house correspondent peter packer. "washington post" white house reporter ashley parker. at the table with us, alyssa, former obama white house deputy chief of staff for operations. who could barely keep a straight face through all that. michael crowley, senior foreign affairs correspondent politico. jim rutenberg with "the new york times." lydia pulgreen, editor in chief. let me start with you, that was sarah huckabee sanders taking on the art of the tease. what's she talking about, what's the new tough on ru

that changed under the obama administration. we have to walk the fbi back from being a political arm of the president of the united states and donald trump is not going to allow that to happen again. trish: thank you so much, dr. sebastian gorka. >>> we're coming back with a whole lot more. stay with us. >>> the house intelligence committee chair launching phase 2 of his nfltion as president trump slams the obama administration for not doing enough to stop russian interference. we take up the anti-trump web of corruption with ed rollins. >>> and the battle for midterms heating up. republicans making gains. we'll have all of those details and more next. stay with us. today, innovation in the finger lakes is helping build the new new york. once home to the world's image center, new york state is now a leader in optics, photonics and imaging. fueled by strong university partnerships, providing the world's best talent. and supported with workforce development to create even more opportunities. all across new york state, we're buildi

hunters have become the hunted and that is going right up to the obama white house.his individual, doug campbell was critical, as a great asset and as you said earlier, they gave him a to $50,000 check for the information he provided them. 's information was coming, the obama white house was making decisions in favor of the russian government. to suggest obama was never briefed on information and intelligence gathered regarding russia, they are being untruthful. a senator of the united states always in on the loop regarding top-secret information especially involving a foreign power. >> russians already they got this deal, controlling the uranium, being able to view that would be a huge advantage. why give him this access, that remains to be seen. >> donald trump all along as a candidate stated we make ridiculous deals, they wanted to give hillary clinton an advantage and it is now falling apart. >> testimony from douglas campbell, a lobbying group expected to give assistance free of charge to the clinton global initiative, and the obama administration made affirmati

michelle obama's didn't really look like her but other people liked it., but i don't like either one, too much -- she said first lady looks like a deconstructed portrait saying i would rather have a more traditional portrait of each one but margaret is beautiful beautiful beautiful in every way the word can be defined. heather: controversy regarding the artist that did president obama's portrait, the artwork he has produced in the past. >> big stories there. a news station accidentally runs pf chang. >> a local news station in chicago apologizing for accidentally doing that. the restaurant is not hosting the olympics. the graphic was created for different satirical piece, for the serious news story saturday by weekend anchor mark rivera, pf chang saw this, contrary to this broadcast we are not hosting the game. another person said this, the same guy who pushed the missile alarm in hawaii. this is an easy mistake, not to get too in the weeds but really small when producers look at them but if you drop a graphic in accidentally i can see this. >> good adver

that changed under the obama administration. we have to walk the fbi back from being a political arm of the president of the united states and donald trump is not going to allow that to happen again. trish: thank you so much, dr. sebastian gorka. >>> we're coming back with a whole lot more. stay with us. >>> the house intelligence committee chair launching phase 2 of his nfltion as president trump slams the obama administration for not doing enough to stop russian interference. we take up the anti-trump web of corruption with ed rollins. >>> and the battle for midterms heating up. republicans making gains. we'll have all of those details an oh, manatees. aka "the sea cow"" oh! there's one. manatees in novelty ts? surprising. what's "come at me bro?" it's something you say to a friend. what's not surprising? how much money matt saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. i tabut with my back paines, i couldn't sleep and get up in time. then i found aleve pm. aleve pm is the only one to com

was obama some sort of a hawk in. howie: they are saying the president should have come out and addressed the widespread choreographed russian attempt. the press thinks it's the president's rest rick which is fairly friendly to putin. emily: there is a lot of coverage of the rhetoric as there should be. but that doesn't mean there couldn't be coverage of the action. what trump has done substantively and on top of that policywise, we have not discussed enough about the failures of the obama administration. maybe we can move forward and use this movement to learn. howie: the obama administration's, i would say tim itity during the election. i know they -- i would say their timidity during the election. they didn't want to upset the cart. mo: i wish the administration of obama had done more and done it sooner. but it did impose sanctions and expelling russian diplomats and seizing russian compound here in the united states. president trump still won't acknowledge in a real way or at least convincingly and substantively h

how does this get to obama?nk susan rice, the grassley-graham memo might be giving us some insight.e >> we've been talking about the two surface things going on here, and the purpose of the weaponization of the doj and the fbi and the obama administratio administration. one was to protect hillary clinton from prosecution and make sure she was in fact a candidate because she was drawing to the hipip to obama. the benghazita attacks, but knowing and repeated communications over her server and by her private email e acco account. they have to protect her in order to protect president obama. if she were guilty of committing felonies, then so was he. they had to insulate her. the other part of it is of course they hated donald trump so they wanted to derail him. nobody is asking the bigger question as to why. that is what i try to get across in this column today at "the hill." barack obama essentially fulfilled the long-held leftist ambition of changing the nation on a leftwardd tradition three. what obama called the

president barack obama on the international stage for the first time three years earlier obama had signaled a desire to reset relations with russia. it was a tense meeting it was not warm in any way putin lectured president obama at length about all the misdeeds of the united states over the years going back to the clinton administration in nato enlargement president obama always engaged mr putin a spirit of logic and the logic that we saw in the relationship was not necessarily the same logic that mr putin saw when somebody is trying to assure you listen i come with my tanks i come with my you know military equipment to your big heart but because that is not against you would you believe and then there was also i think a geo political argument that the west should take advantage of this time to move east and to make sure that poland and hungary and a stone are for ever outside russia's sphere of influence free states should be able to say we're in nato our not in nato we're in the e.u. we're not in the e.u. who is russia to tell them how they should behave. the deployment of the missile de

obama didn't once -- didn't he wants insist he never got involved?> i do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. i cannot talk to fbi directors about pending investigations. we have a strict line and i've always maintained it. >> to buttoned this up. >> i guarantee there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the justice department or the fbi. not just this case but any case. full's. period. >> kimberly: full. dana. >> dana: it could look terrible or it could be he has speaking about the russian involvement and meddling with the election. from these text messages, we don't of that. you could also be briefed and not try to weigh in if you are concerned about russian involvement. the dnc was train we were hacke. the russians did this. i'm sure he wanted to say something. one of the criticisms of president obama from democrats as he didn't do enough talking about russian meddling in the election. if this were really about the mueller probe, that would be one thing to know. we don't know that. if it's about hil

domestically, obama was a mixed bag. trademark legislation, the affordable care act, was a policy idea created by the very conservative heritage foundation. for those who thought obama might be a closet socialist, he surely disappointed when he refused to prosecute in the financial crash. he stacked his deficit commission with fiscal conservatives. meanwhile, president obama was the biggest proponent to date of free market thinking and education, using his department of education to encourage and fund charters across the country. he went so far as to violate pakistan's sovereignty in order to kill osama bin laden. president obama may not have favored the words "radical islam," but he significantly increased president george w. bush's drone attacks in the war against terror. and he never did close gitmo. the list could go on and on. obama didn't violate gun rights the way that conservatives feared. and he was the deportation president on immigration. by nate silver's measure, this political record made him a completely mi

now he's putting the blame at president obama. could be a very tricky situation for the president. remember he wanted a joint cyber commission. how crazy is that? >> i was talking to an attorney today who was very knowledgeable about this. look, in the end, maybe the russian will flip on president trump. because mueller has charged conspiracy in last friday, for example, assets are frozen. and maybe if the russians get upset enough, if, for example, the sanctions are implemented, maybe in the end it will be the russians who say, wait a minute. we don't want to deal with this anymore. >> i remember, we reported when president obama met with putin, he told him, cut it out. when president trump met with putin, he said, i thought putin was sincere in issuing those denials. >> remember last summer vladimir putin himself said, maybe some patriotic hackers did this. so he acknowledged more than president trump did. >> everybody, stick around. we've got a lot more. if you've been diagnosed with cancer, searching for answers may feel overw

president obama did take a tough line on russia. president trump was adding fuel to the fire. >> he did famously criticize his own predecessor but not quite like this. obviously i don't have president obama on speed dial like you do maybe, sir. do you think there is a time where he will just say enough is enough and speak out? >> look, i can't speak for former president obama. i think, as you know, he and certainly mrs. obama have said repeatedly when they go low, we go high. and i think he very much respects the general principle that presidents try -- former presidents try not to engage in politics or speak ill of their successor successors. >> do you think he keeps sitting on his fingers? >> knowing president obama, i suspect the answer is yes. on the other hand he's being impugned on a regular basis with outright lies. this is nothing new. president trump is the one who led the birther conspiracy about president obama for years. >> right. tony blinken, thank you so much for your time. i appreciate you and just a reminder, we're

and reverend jeremiah wright who obama had known since the '80s. he officiated the obama wedding.aid some notoriously anti-american things in the wake of the september 11 attacks and in march of 2008, abc ran an article detailing all of writght's controversial sermons. obama repeatedly had to distance position and finally with his nomination on the line, he gave a major address on race at the national constitution center. i was in the room that day when obama declared that wright's comments were only divisive and destructive, and he also added when rigwright suggests that mie taker farrakhan somehow represents wofrnt gre represents one of the greatest voices of the century, there are no excuses. just imagine if this photo appeared soon after that quote. farrakhan is toxic to a large swathe of america due to black separatism, he is a man with a history of controversial statement, maybe the most drink wo cringe worthy ways about jewish where he said you cannot say never again to god because when he puts you in the oven, never again don't mean a damn thing. in combination with a phot

>> martha: today was the day new portraits of president obama and former first lady michelle obama generatingiews. folks on social media specifically taking aim at michelle obama's modern depiction by amy. some saying it doesn't look that much like the former first lady. here now dana loesch and nationally syndicated radio hosts a you know. dana, thanks for being here tonight. >> good to be with you, martha. >> martha: this is something we watch whenever a president leaves office after a year or so they unveil the portraits and everybody critiques them as we do in america. there is president bush in his. which i think is actually a very nice portrait. and there is laura bush. laura bush's portrait also beautiful. then we have the clintons on the left and right there. can you see their moment when it was unveiled. no doubt when they do this, dana, you know, the person who is -- nobody likes the portrait of themselves completely i would imagine. you feel like it doesn't look like you. and michelle obama looking at hers. what do you think? >> these are your forever portraits and this goes -- the