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biden felt he was neglected by obama as vice president was obama was annoyed that biden got out theren 2012 on same-sex marriage before obama did. was not a particularly capable politician, he felt resentment toward obama and wrote about it in his own book after he supported clinton and made clear to biden that he should run. we talk about obama in this book talking to biden campaign aides early on saying not so much he was worried, he expected biden to lose but was worried he would bellyflop, fall flat on his belly and embarrass himself and tarnish obama's legacy and biden is aware of this because they talk to a lot of the same people and obama's hesitation that people in the obama world, are also not getting behind him, i would check in with obama to see what he would do and was not saying nice things about biden behind the scenes. the biden election, his nomination in his election as president and an implicit rebuke of obama, and between trump and obama, he is backtracking politically from where obama was and with biden winning, that will sting a little bit for obama. and and this

i will do what obama never did and launch the missiles. he got praising credit for that and punishing them. and actually this happened twice. 2017 and 2018 using missiles to respond. looking at what was achieved it gets more complicated. the missile strike that obama was envisioning 2013 was very much like trump launched 2017. not a regime change, not decapitation not a no-fly zone but hit a few airports , destroy some airplanes, command-and-control centers and then you are done. very limited. the result of the one that trump carried out in 2017 and airport was disabled for a few hours, airplanes were destroyed but assad had his planes back in the year the same day. he had additional chemical attacks within a few weeks after if it was a deterrent was a very short one. think of what obama did despite the flaws in the incomplete of the mission. no bigger punishment of depriving him of his biggest strategic arsenal. no matter what he kept behind the strategic stockpile to deter against israel doeses not exist. like somebody came to the united

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should the obama administration have done more?nd a failure to meet humanitarian needs. so, this is a political emergency and a humanitarian emergency at the same time. and emergencies don't happen without mistakes and there have been serious mistakes throughout the conflict. mistakes that president biden and his team are clearly anxious to not repeat. biden launched air strikes on iranian—backed targets in syria in late february. a show of strength from the newly invested commander—in—chief. we took the action to be very clear, notably to iran, that they cannot act with impunity against our people, our partners and our interests. the possibility for nuclear negotiations are still on the table. but president biden needs congressional buy—in. i happen to agree with the republican and the trump approach, which is to put pressure on iran and make sure they pay a very heavy price for pursuing their nuclear ambition. look, right now they are enriching uranium at 20%, this is a pathway towards having a breakout nuclear weapon. that's una

i'm also who i would so he is on almost every front not just some things with obama i think one is one would be hard pressed to find any major facet of policy or politics in which joe biden in 2021 is not to the left of president obama basically at any time during his presidency which is remarkable i mean i think it's a remote go ahead liz i would argue it's a remarkable comment that joshua shared that when you do you know even along foreign policy lines you think about economic policy about minimum wage you think about climate of course you know obama was here on climate but i think in that in that area of of you know looking at where they are on the scale biden does seem to come out on the left side. i think that's generally correct but i think that one thing that's a little bit different is i think that biden from his years of experience in washington d.c. he hasn't really as you noted succeeded in getting bipartisan votes on things yet you know he did promise to put a republican in his cabinet then didn't do it doesn't have a lot of high ranking republicans but i think one thing th

josh: i would say on almost every front, not just one with obama.ne would be hired -- one would be hard-pressed to find any major facet of process -- politics in which joe biden is to the left of president obama basically at any time in his presidency. steve: it is remarkable, it is a remarkable comment that josh just shared. even along foreign policy lines, you think about economic policy, you think about climate, and obama was there on climates. but in that area of looking at where they are on this scale, biden does seem to come out. liz: i think that is generally correct. one thing that is a little bit different, i think that biden from his years of experience in washington, d.c., he has not succeeded in getting bipartisan votes on things yet. he did promise to put a republican in his cabinet, then did not do it. one thing that is different between him and obama, that actually does make him look a little bit more moderate is while the policy he is pushing is much more left-leaning, i think in general, he has proved a lot more willing to conduct a

on the point were making about you know biden versus obama one thing worth remembering is that in many ways biden got the job as vice president precisely because he seemed too old to ever to run again. so it was much as bush had with with dick cheney sort of disrupting that model of the vice president being you know having kind of future political interests of their own the big thing about joe biden my mind is joe biden has always always been a consensus democrat he will basically be where the democratic party is kind of wherever it goes and so in that in that sense i agree with liz it does not surprise me greatly that this is where he has ended up i was telling a lot of people in kind of intradermal craddick party discussions you know during the primaries that that this is this is where i thought that you know where i thought that he would be look there's some obvious things with joe biden look joe biden is old he's an old white catholic man who has a very kind of genie all personality even people who are trying to demonize him now a hard time getting past that barack obama was a youn

this is a biden administration to the left of obama. turn out to be less in touch with reality than jimmy carter if you have a combination of carter's lack of come tense and left of own -- competence, and left of obama, we're drifting toward very dangerous activities in the not distance future, our enemies know it. they will mocking us as a country which is simply failed to be serious. >> let's swing to u.s. supreme court. i have never seen such a brazen attempt at a power grab in my lifetime. i know fdr tried, his own party stopped him, democrat in congress want to add 4 seat to u.s. supreme court. they will destroy the public's confidence in the judicial system, destroy separation of powers. these radical democrats now, they don't want to play inside of the constitutional box, they don't accept the norms of governing, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. sometimes you work with the other party, they want to destroy the other party, and any opposition, shut down free speech, change the demographics in this country, this is quite seri

unfortunately, as you know, mark, the obama biden administration decimated our military with budgetst continue to cut into areas that we needed. we spent the last four years in the trump administration rebuilding our military, and gaining the regaining this superiority we need to have this unfortunately really is reflection that biden administration is amounting to essentially a third obama term and we're going back to these -- these budget where is our military is going to suffer. and our adversaries see that. it is not just china. you mentioned russia -- so it wasn't during the trump administration that putin took crimea it was during obama administration and what happened immediately just a few months into this administration? now you see the russians going back into ukraine. and really taking threatening action again, putin like president xi they're going test biden they're going test the redline they were able to cross over repeatedly in the obama administration that they weren't able to cross over during the trump administration. and unfortunately, we're going see all of these

personality even people who are trying to demonize him now a hard time getting past that barack obama was a young black man with a foreign sounding name rooted in arabic. these are very different people right it's not surprising to me at all that that that things you know he is a different person american politics reacts to those 2 different kinds of people differently i think that that's just you know that that is just obvious the other thing is and this is one of those examples of sometimes a flawed person we're all flawed but sometimes a flawed person. meets their moment and the kind of a signature thing about joe biden to his political career has been the politics of empathy. and at many points in our history that is that is all that is of only limited political you know currency political resonance he managed to become president though in a period where it was a central grounding aspect of a political personality both because of covert and because he was succeeding a man who is whose signature characteristic was a radical lack of empathy and a signature of predation so in many wa

sue vicki both mentioned obama. this brings us to again another story about presidential record the public does not understand very well. that is the change in the entire sense of how we preserve records now that the majority are not physical records their electronic records. my understanding was the obama foundation will give axis to elect tronic records in some form but not in a place shifted go to a particular site at the obama foundation. can you explain a little bit to us about what is changed in particular with the obama records? >> in terms of access is still the same thing. you cannot have records of first five years. i don't know of any relaxation of the restrictions yet that might've happened. as far as we know it will be 12 years from the time he leaves office. when it comes to the processing and the digitization it's quite new. some of the details i find alarming. which is that the obama foundation is paying for the digitization of the paper records. according to the memorandum of understanding archives

obama.was far too nice to mitch mcconnell in this one. but sometimes that happens. and then here's a biden, also one of mine. and then a couple more, richard thompson's of laura bush. again, just this lovely, sophisticated -- it looks simple, but the sophistication and the color scheme and the painting of richard's stuff still sort of is annoying and wonderful. and up in the corner, that's our trump that kevin draws for "the economist," did just recently with a twitter bird on his shoulder. a fabulous piece of color art. in the bar probably 75% of the art that is on the walls are really straight caricatures. there are a number of real political cartoons here as well. and this particular corner has got one by me and one by kevin. this is something he did for "the economist" and this is one i did for "politico." and you can tell the difference in that we've got word bubbles, captions. there's a lot more information and opinion being conveyed in these, of course, which is really what we're abou

away it was denounced by the us administration a point i wanted to pick up under president obama. believe you had the view that the just be aware would be the start of normal relations. with iran but i think under biden they are basically trying to fix the current situation and then back on clobbered them in prospect your economic investment picks in the economy are not really interested and broadening and the reopening of the us iran relationship and putting it on them normal. well that's not it's a very interesting point here again you know i hadn't thought about the creation of political facts as we go into this round of negotiations here it's very interesting i didn't know that mohamed again what we heard from our guest in vienna is very interesting is what what is the end goal do you think of the biden ministration because you know the the people around him i call them the b. team from the obama administration not people that are very very impressive at all maybe they just want to take this poker out of the fire and this kind of be done with it because my hope and i think tha

obama, february 24th. donald trump, february 28th. they all maxed out at like five weeks into their first term before they gave this first speech to congress. we all bent over backwards to not call it a state of the union because it was so soon after they were sworn in. fine, i get it, i get it. but even with all those guys, its still a state of the union address. it still functions like a state of the union address. and number two, this year, it's not happening in february. february is long gone, as is march, as is almost all of april. this year, whether it's because of the pandemic or because of the january trump mob attack on the capitol complex or any number of reasons, this year president biden has chosen to wait much longer than any other modern president has waited before he gives this speech. he's waiting until the literal eve of his 100th day in office before he gives this first big speech to congress. tomorrow is day 99 and that's when he's giving this address. and that means that it's not like he's still finding his way aro

during the obama administration. this event was held by video conference with military families around the world. >> hi, everybody. >> hi, dr. bright m. dr. biden: are you ready to get started? >> i am. >> hello. dr. biden: poor katie is already nervous enough. >> go ahead and start. ryan: hello, my name is ryan. i am a student living overseas in germany. earlier this year i was very fortunate to be able to talk to first lady dr. jill biden. we will be discussing the very different life of a married silly -- merit -- military child compared to those in the states. two distinctly different people, we share a lot in common. we both care about the interest of others. now i would like to introduce -- thank you. dr. biden: thank you. when you joined us in february i felt like i knew you from the first words you spoke. you are open, funny and sincere. in fact, it does not surprise me at all that you managed to make friends when you moved to germany, despite not speaking any german. and then you became a mentor so that you

the espionage act yes that dusty old woodrow wilson era 917 law the 21st century leaders like bush obama and donald trump have been using to silence u.s. government whistleblowers that that law raised its ugly head again this time under the reign of u.s. president joe biden's justice department according to the washington post hale shared 8 secret and 3 top secret documents with the journalist believed to be the intercepts jeremy scahill and that the documents detailed in the protocol for ordering drone strikes and shed light on civilian casualties an internal military debates over the accuracy of intelligence in response to hill's indictment betsy reid the editor in chief of the intercept told the media quote these documents detailed a secret unacceptable process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens all through drone strikes they are of vital public importance and activity related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment. you know under the rules we were taught as children ms reed statement would be true but in today's united states of a

or there's barack obama. and once you've done the outline of the face and the ears with obama, even before you completed it, people can tell what you're drawing, so it's a mystical thing. our facial recognition software in our brains is very acute and it's one of the things that caricatures can use to their advantage. >> it takes a little effort to be nonpartisan when you're doing things for the coasters and stuff. i mean my mistake and what i pay for at "politico" is to have an opinion and express it strongly and the same with ann and the same with cal and we have to dial that back which i also understand, it's not just that we don't want to unnecessarily royal people when they're coming in for a drink at the bar or something like that, but one of the nice things about the bar and frankly i've learned about the culture of washington is there's this lovely word that members of congress use called comedy where, comity, where you get along, you figure out how to get along with people you may disagree with the p

i think some people would like to see obama the sainted of a. completely and zone from a responsibility that the you there's no getting away from the fact that he continued the he continued to use the policies of his greatest us. how did that feel after winning and then as family do today i understand he cannot easily travel is a kind of president today well he is a kind of prisoner didn't get a passport for 3 years after he got out that was a deal the u.s. made with mauritania they wouldn't in the passport and now he has not been able to get a misa so far to 2 european only go. and abuse it to south africa we are hoping he and his american wife and baby can someday find a country that will give the give him citizenship and allow them to allow him to travel he's a free man he should be allowed to travel yes because you're representing our dollar right a mile and nashiri who is accused of the u.s.s. cole bombing in 2000 any corrective data from that case well in. you know he's been there a long time he's facing the death penalty the case is not a

attorney could have stopped it i think you have to ask president obama and perhaps mr holder why they didn't but as far as i'm concerned they were speaking out of both sides of their mouth when they said they would close guantanamo mohammed who spent 6 long years in in guantanamo after we won the hay b.s. and only got out through it entirely different non-court process called the periodic review board that obama finally set up where 6 intelligence agencies had. to agree unanimously that he was not a significant threat to the u.s. and its allies and they agreed to that and he got out which shows that frankly he should never have been in in the 1st place where we invite obama in the whole they're on they never seem to want to come on i mean having a bomb and put him back in jail after he wins that doesn't happen in an innocent man narrative plot to a film i think that. that's a terrible twist on the end of the movie and we shouldn't really be giving it away it's actually the part that more people have said to me oh my god because you've been through this incredible and sometimes harrowi

drone assassination program where president obama i mean that's the core of what we owe to him is the talk about what do you release to us. remember barack obama was responsible for killing more people than any other president since the invention of the drone those included multiple american citizens american citizens who had never been charged with a crime american citizens who had never face their accusers in a court of law so daniel hale told us not just that the drone program was responsible for the deaths of americans who had never even been accused of a crime but it was responsible for killing innocent civilians including women and children you know on the rare occasions where we see that the united states initiated a drone strike on someone the media always tell us that it was against a terrorist or a terrorist suspect and we're just supposed to take their word for it well we can't take their word for it because the evidence is out there thanks to daniel hale that we're using drones to kill innocent civilians women children the elderly and we're doing it in most cases in secret

pushback to rename a chicago school after the obamas where president obama is from.r now? there is blowback after one major outlet makes a questionable claim about gender at birth. we'll get into that next. >> it's very easy to tell a boy from a girl. a boy has a penis, a girl has a vagina. i had enough! it's not getting in my way. joint pain, swelling, tenderness...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis look and feel better with cosentyx. cosentyx works fast for results that can last. it treats the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis, like joint pain and tenderness, back pain, and helps stop further joint damage. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if you've had a vaccine, or plan to. ser

obama decided that was not worth it for the united states.here is a good chance biden will also think it is not worth going to war, but prime minister netanyahu is pushing biden to make that choice, and he may have some support within the administration. at the end of the day, will president biden do that? it is an open question. >> what do you think netanyahu's endgame with iran is? >> i hope there is going to be a negotiated settlement. i supported the jcpoa. afterwards there were things done by the iranian regime such as testing ballistic missiles in march 2016, three months after the deal went into effect. i still hope there is going to be a negotiated settlement. biden is not under pressure more than iran. it is the iranian government that only has $4 billion left in its account accessible for reserves that according to the imf, not the united states, it is the islamic republic -- if you go on social media, you see the way people are so angry about the mismanagement and the corruption of the country, huge abuses of human rights, so it is

obama must protect its own existence was it just. happened on the point of. swaying or both the food. bank itself mukti about. closing this way got to dog and so hard not to think in the rather disappointed to see them look like they are one and i know from the start then if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. to. the floor you can feel the feet down this bill frist would have been grabbing hold of even a box to pick it up. but i think it is this is the found that is accompli . welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle we're discussing russia's red lines. ok so back to enter here in moscow and i hope i really really hope that some of biden's foreign policy advisers actually read the speech or watch the speech. because you can look at that speech in many different ways and i think nick allies already brought this up is that is that you know we we're in a position of strength we know what our interests are and we will defend them but at the same time again going back to this kind of patien

now, we convinced president obama that we had a deficit problem that had to be dealt with. we would have to raise the debt ceiling in the middle of 2011 in the increase and the amount of money that the federal government can borrow. we've done this for the last 40 years. it's never an easy vote and i told the president i wasn't going to increase the rate and to do something about the spending problems. all very quietly or at least i thought it was but it kept blowing up in my face. partly in the latter part of july, president obama and i stood in the oval office and all three of us shook hands on the biggest deficit reduction bill the country has ever seen so $5.2 trillion with a deficit reduction over ten years. now maybe the changes being agreed to have long tails to them. tens of trillions of dollars. it would have put us on a much firmer path for the future. unfortunately, two or three days later the president walked away. it was my biggest disappointment as a member of congress. i bend my neck out as far as it could be. at one time my staff said to me you keep talking

biden tripped, obama tripped, mike pence tripped. and the reason isn't because they're old, the reason is because they were running up and down stairs. you shouldn't do that. that would never happen in africa. i mean, mostly because our presidents fly commercial and they have to wait for their boring group to be called, but you know what i mean. the point is we don't think about it because we use stairs so much. nobody thinks about it but stairs are basically an obstacle course, you take one wrong step and you're gonna eat shit, and that's one thing -- one thing that my man trump understood. love him or hate him, but you've got to treat stairs with respect. he understood that. you walk up slowly. you hold the banister and you swear to god if he lefts you survive this you will never walk upstairs ever again. finally, the british royal familiar, aka the world's number one exporter of black daughters in law. the royals have gotten a lot of criticism for some old-fashioned racist attitudes, be uh now they're committing to making a major

didn't go to the negotiating table because of any pressures because the united states under obama except that iran's right to enrichment in their homes in the attacks in all mine in 2003 the information and worse and became the terrorist organization and one matter the 87 year run because of a technicality was on the wrong side of the lot here is legal it by it was said actually run wasn't buying the law so there was never ever any evidence that iran was pursuing a nuclear weapon unlike the apartheid regime and palestine which has lots of nuclear weapons and unlike the part a regime that constantly carries out acts of violence against neighboring countries in syria killing syrian soldiers in gaza and so on so that aside it's quite clear that as europe gets hillary pointed out that these exaggerated attacks they are not going to have any impact on the iranian position it will harden the iranian position in fact be the new york times article was right on the band center abusers were not in that particular har and that's will come out because when inspectors go and see it they will see the

would say, that's george bush or there is barack obama.e you've done the outline of the face and that years with obama, even before you completed, people will know. it is a mystical thing. her facial recognition software in our brains is very acute. it is one of the things that caricaturist can use to their advantage. it takes a little effort to be nonpartisan when you are doing things for the coasters. but i am paid for at politico is to have a political opinion and express it strongly, the same with the others. we have to dial that back, which i also understand is not just that we don't want to necessarily anger people when they come in for a drink at the bar or something like that. one of the nice things about the bar and the culture in washington is there is a lovely word members of congress use called comedy. you get along. you figure out to get along with people you may disagree with, but you can sit down and have a drink with them. that's the spirit of the bar and the spirit we all bring to the coasters. we suspend our political opi

the obama's protect its own existence and. some certainly that china disagrees of america's foreign policy or the china disagrees with america's domestic policies that china disagrees america's monetary policy they don't want all that money printing sell a few things are going to happen number one it's a hash war or a global race to procure as many big quite as possible now on the geo political level china is leading the way this is the sputnik moment for a big point america can answer that last race or can be left behind. welcome back. crosstalk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle we're discussing russia's red lines. go back to enter here in moscow and i hope i really really hope that some of biden's foreign policy advisers actually read the speech or watch the speech. because you can look at that speech in many different ways and i think nicholai has already brought this up is that is that you know we we're in a position of strength we know what our interests are and we will defend them but at the same time again go

they denied barack obama's nominee. pedro: what you think about this idea of expanding the supreme court? he hung up. mr. davis? mr. davis: i think he was talking about judge garland's nomination to the supreme court by president obama during an election year and i would say that in the senate, they follow the 90% rule. when the senate is the same party as the president, 90% of the time they will confirm a supreme court justice during a presidential election year. when the senate is the opposite party is the president, 90% of the time, they won't. that is historically how it has happened. with judge garland, you had president obama a democrat and you had a republican-controlled senate that senate republicans said, we are going to let the american people weigh in with the election and decide how they want to feel that supreme court see. and -- supreme court seat. during that election, the american people voted for president trump and a republican-controlled senate so the american people spoke and now we have just as gors