but first term obama and second term obama were different.term obama really dug in a bitmore on race. but i think the first lady has been very consistent in her conversations about race, her frankness about the moments, and particularly this moment as black people are hurting, looking for freedom, freedom that they have not had since the inception of being here in this nation for 402 years. and let's define freedom. first-class citizenship, not being profiled by police. being able to be free like our counterparts in white america. >> yeah. april, i just want to -- or, ashley, i want to play this for you. more of what the former first lady told gayle king. listen to this. >> aren't your girls driving? >> they're driving. but every time they get in a car by themselves, i worry about what assumption is being made by somebody who doesn't know everything about them. the fact that they are good students and polite girls, but maybe they're playing their music a little loud. maybe somebody sees the back of their head and makes an assumption. i like,

there are numerous examples of obama, whites before they hear obama, saying, i cannot imagine myself voting for a black man. they see his eloquence and performance and they too shed their racism and vote for him. the best way to understand obama's political campaign is as an artistic performance, a very successful artistic performance. that is a crucially important thing he has learned from frederick douglass. in many respects, frederick douglass is the most direct descendant of barack obama. both men are children are one white and one black parent. both men became world-famous almost overnight on the strength of their autobiography. both men are among the great writers and orchards of their day during ironically, though, i think obama shares more in common with lincoln. like lincoln, obama defines himself as a politician. as a politician, he is constrained. for him to accomplish anything, he needs to get elected. no matter what he might think privately, he cannot publicly espouse certain things that would destroy his potential for getting elected. he has acknowledged his debt to lin

that's true of obama. in terms of the kind of institutional, grassroots campaign that obama has successfully employed, there was some of that equivalent in illinois. because times have changed so dramatically, it's hard to draw direct parallels. you had a question? >> i was fascinated by several things. john: ok. good. [laughter] >> the one piece when douglas comes to washington to meet with lincoln. [inaudible] john: yes. yes. >> [inaudible] john: right. >> [inaudible] john: they are. [laughter] >> [inaudible] john: that's -- >> [inaudible] john: right. >> [inaudible] john: right. >> [inaudible] john: great questions. thank you. in that first meeting with lincoln, he actually, douglas goes to the white house with samuel pommel, an abolitionist senator from kansas. he was really in the background. they first go to see edwin stanton. stanton was so taken with douglas's debating skills. he promises douglas a commission as an officer, a black officer. that would allow douglas to go south and recruit blacks fr

so then obama leaves and trump comes into office. and assad for whatever reason feels bold enough to use sarin again in april 2017. again we have these images of children in civilian suffering and dying. and trump says i force the redline and do what obama never did and launch the missiles. he got credit to be tough to stand up to syria and punishing them. this happened twice in 2017 and 2018 but if you look at what was achieved it is a little more complicated because what obama was envisioning that's what trump launched in 2017. and to destroy some airplanes but the command and control centers that an airport was disabled for a few air hours. and then he carried out additional chemicals within a few weeks after that. so o he was back to his old ways so if you think about what obama did and the completeness of the mission with the syrian dictator nine more than depriving him of his biggest are tj carson all. the strategic stockpile to use as a deterrent against israel and that will take away the biggest arsenal. and then to give it u

obama reached out to george w. support of the mueller investigation or at least their teams. talk to me. what exactly went on here? >> you have to remember the moment. it's right after the democrats do really well in the midterms in 2018. then trump fires jeff sessions. there's a panic, how far is this going to go, is this going to be another "saturday night massacre." and already obama and his team have been concerned about the path this might take, and they thought, do we have to protect mueller? and an idea started to be talked about among some of obama's advisers to maybe say, okay, get a letter together, a statement together with george bush and say, here's a republican president, here's a democratic president, with boenlt hired this guy, an fbi director. obama extended his term. he was hired under bush. it never got to the level of obama calls bush for it, but there was some testing of the waters among the obama folks with bush folks to see if they'd be interested. there was not interest. bush has been very c

let's go to first term barack obama compared to second term barack obama. states first term keenly understood the historic nature of his presidency. he understood that race and politics will always follow him, but you also have people like mitch mcconnell wanting him out. you had the late rush limbaugh who was alive at the time saying he wanted him to fail. he understood that if he brought up matters of race how the republican party would pounce on him. look at the pendulum from the obama administration to the administration following that. the pendulum was swinging and there was a hypersensitivity on matters of race. that administration understood, that first obama administration understood keenly that anytime they would say anything about race you had the tea party that came to being because of barack obama. they would jump on him. so at the end of the day second term barack obama didn't have as much to lose. he was freer. he was able to talk, and now he is citizen barack obama, but he still, at the same time, was who he was intrinsically. the president,

michelle obama later attended princeton and harvard.and her journey set an example of what could be achieved. in a high school commencement speech into peak at kansas, in 2014, commemorating the brown board of education decision, obama spoke emphatically about the struggle of civil rights activists, to desegregate their children's schools, by going all the way to the supreme court. it was the principle of integration that they fought for. and she reminded those students do not take that decision for. grant speech at michelle obama inspired change and other profound ways as well. helping the nation to understand it's posh complicated past and the relationship between slavery and freedom. in her primetime speech at the 2016 democratic national convention in philadelphia, michelle obama said i week up every morning in a house built by sleeves. her words focused public attention on the history and in sleeved persons in the white house and it crushed the upset of the white house historical association with people looking for more information

let's look at the obama administration. if you could talk about the evolution of the policy of syria why wasn't there more of a response afterwards and why wasn't it happening yet? >> guest: one has to put one's self back in time in 2011. the obama administration when the arab spring is breaking out. i happened to have been back in the late '80s a reporter covering the fall of communism and the perils were amazing. there was a sense of history turning so it was exciting in a way. there were the democracies on the horizon and the obama administration had to quickly scramble what to do about the movement, how to respond with egypt and other places aspiring to be free of dictatorship and so our initial response was condemning violins and dictators and then the president of syria must go. the problem was it was ruled by an extremely brutal family that was prepared to sacrifice anything and destroy the country to stay in power in a way that others were not. russia, number one, and iran. both saw the vital national interest and e

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 personality even people who are trying to demonize him now a hard time getting past that barack obama was a young bla

barbara bush lady bird johnson hillary clinton and michelle obama diana. you're gonna kick it off today. are you with us? i am with you patrick thank you. very excited to have you. i know you've got a great presentation for us. so i am going to pass the screen to you and let you get started. okay. thank you and good evening everyone and thank you for joining about my friends anita and nancy and me. well, we share some first lady history on this last day of women's history month. as a program description indicated this presentation and previously an opinion piece of the three of us wrote for cnn last summer were inspired by events surrounding george floyd's death and responses from first. ladies, melania trump and former first ladies hillary clinton and michelle obama nancy anita and i really saw their comments as a demonstration of the type of leadership first lady's often take in times the national crisis. our work is first lady scholar attempts to show that first ladies are involved in far more than hosting state dinners or being fashion icons, even thou

if we go back to the beginning of the obama administration, president obama and president bush were very different presidents. they saw policy in very different ways. even on one of the most signature policies of the obama campaign in 2008, foreign policy, the wars in afghanistan and iraq, president obama's policy ultimately was not that dramatically different than his predecessors. i think what a lot of people fail to appreciate is just how much continuity there is from presidency to presidency, even during a party transition. this is very different. we are seeing the most -- one of the most, if not the most progressive-minded presidents in our history in terms of the policies that he has laid out and the types of ideas that he has gotten behind versus a president who was conservative by a lot of metrics, but also someone who thrived in political and administrative chaos. and that is such a dramatic clash with who joe biden is as an individual, who he was as a senator, who he was as a vice president and now he who is as a president. just that dramatic shift in itself makes the compariso

if we go back to the beginning of the obama administration, president trump and-- president obama andpresident bush were different, and even the 2008 foreign policy, the wars in afghanistan and iraq, president obama's policy ultimately was not that traumatically different than his predecessor's. what a lot of people fail to appreciate is just how much continuity there is from presidency to presidency, even during a party transition. this is very different. we are seeing the most -- one of the most, if not the most progressive-minded president in our history in terms of the policies that he has laid out and the types of ideas he has gotten behind, versus a president who was conservative by a lot of metrics, but also someone who thrived in political and administrative chaos. and that is such a traumatic dramatic clash who joe biden was a senator, a vice-president and now who he is as a president and i think that dramatic shift makes the comparison more challenging. next, while we've had presidents enter crisis during office and fdr, and president obama entered during a significant finan

i think this is a biden administration which is to the left of obama.urn out to be dramatically less in touch with reality than jimmy carter so if you have a combination of carter's lack of competence and to the left of obama, i think we'ree drifting towards stop very, very dangerous activities in the not very distant future and our enemies know it. and ouren enemies are beginningo mock us as a country which is simply -- failed to be serious. mark: let's swing into another issue united states supreme court -- iou had never seen such a brazen attempt to power grab in my lifetime. i know fdr tried but own vice president party stopped him. here we have the democrats in congress now they want to add four seats the united states supreme court they want to create theirth own ideological bureau if you will. they're going destroy the public's confidence in the judicial system they're going to destroy separation of power. you. know, newt these radical democrats now -- they don't want to play inside the constitutional box. they don't accept the norms of governing

michelle and barack obama, they live in fear, this country is so bad that even the obama's being electedt live here and is there a future and should we leave? >> i think we need to launch a investigation, i need to know which person is oppressing michelle obama, barack obama, the children and i think we need to get to the bottom of it at this point. it looks like her net worth is $47 million, barack obama combined for $135 million. if that's oppression, where can i get some? the fact that people can look at the back of their head -- you mean the secret service agents that are constantly around your children and they probably have not touched their own doorhandle in years and we're believing that you're oppressed like the rest of the country that's actually suffering? please, michelle obama, give that oppression to the rest of america because we sure could use it. >> tucker: haven't touched their door handles in years. i'm stealing that. i noticed a theme here, there's a lot of extremely rich people who are deeply miserable and desperate to have you believe they are victims. what is that?

played by you guessed it, michelle obama. >> these are tomatoes.esh fromhegarden. >> after i read the concept, i thought, this is going to be so good. so, i wanted to be a part of of it. but -- >> you didn't have to be. >> i didn't have to be. i asked the question, i don't want to be mrs. o if there's a better mrs. o out there. >> who's a better mrs. o. >> i had to tell them, i'm not an actor. so i was like, don't give me a bunch of lines. it was fun, because i could be impromptu and working with waffles and mochi, i love that we are trying to find a purpose in it. that is still snagomething important to me. it sends a message beyond food and fun. there's always a theme about love and acceptance and openness, it's a gentle reminder to young kids, we want to teach them this rare gift of empathy. >> and now that mission continues with a former first lady's pass the love initiative. waffles and mochi have teamed up with the partnership for a healthier america to provide meal kits to families in need. inspired by recipes from the show. and today, mrs.

obama campaign in 2008, foreign policy, president obama's policy ultimately was not that dramaticallydifferent than his predecessor. i think what a lot of people fail to appreciate is how much continuity there is from presidency to presidency, even during a party transition. this is very different. we are seeing one of the most if not the most progressive minded presidents in our history in terms of the policies he has laid out and the types of ideas he has gotten behind. versus a president who was conservative by a lot of metrics but also someone who thrived in political and administrative chaos. that is such a dramatic clash with who joe biden is as an individual, who he was as a senator and vice president, and now as the president. i think that a dramatic shift in itself makes the comparison a lot more challenging. and next, while we have had presidents enter office during crises, we talked about fdr and obviously president obama entered during a significant economic crisis, joe biden, you know the four areas of crisis he mentioned. i would add an immigration crisis and crisis of d

well he has a high approval rating as did obama when he came into office obama was also compared to f.d.r. and then turned out to quote the phrase by my friend cornel west to be a black mascot for wall street biden has long serve the interests of the business elites and lead he was chosen by obama to be a vice president because in essence he voted has voted republican they used to call him senator a credit card most of the big credit card companies are based in delaware he has you know he was an author of the patriot act nafta on and on and on and then of course in the clash with bernie sanders the democratic party elite made it very clear lloyd blankfein the former c.e.o. of goldman sachs and other major figures in the democratic party said that if sanders was the nominee they would vote for trump trump was distasteful in that he didn't bring the gravity and decorum to the management of empire that the elites want they knew biden would do that and when you look at his plan remember biden on the campaign trail had said that he would when he got to office right to $2000.00 stimulus checks

it's michelle obama. how did oppressed as obama?ly she's agreed to give her -- get her driver's license renewed. she scared of the whole foods. >> many of us still live in fear as we go to the grocery store or worry about walking her dogs oro allowing our children to get a license. i, like so many parents, black kids, the innocent act of getting a license puts fear in our hearts. >> tucker: yeah, she's afraid to get a license. michelle obama cares deeply about racism. it's kind of the focus of her life. sort of weird, given that, that she doesn't seem worried at all or even aware of the rise in targeted attacks against sasian-americans. and there have been a lot of them. just this week an 80-year-old asian man was brutally beaten in a state of california on tape the suspects have been arrested. the thing is they are probably not what's a premises. one of them was only 11 years old. you never hear michelle obama mention attacks like this. why is that? it seems like the one thing she won't talk about it. author of "chinese girl in the

turns out several obama advisors tried to stop biden from hiring during the obama administration buten fought back. why would biden want them so bad? well he's helped make big bucks for biden and his well connected to corporate america. then there's mike donilon biden senior advisor, he also worked in the obama administration serving as top aid for mvp biden dating all the way back to '81 when biden was a senator. knows him well. doll linn nickname whisperer known as being a message guru just before biden took office, "the new york times" wrote, president elect joseph r. biden jr. is delivering message of corporation and conciliation as he prepares to move into the white house. it is mike donilon's message. donilon probably loses his mind when biden veers from the script that he wrote for him. before coming to the white house, donilon was managing partner of mcdc strategies a media consulting firm where he made over $4 million two of the big clients the democrat national convention committee, and the biden campaign. [laughter] donilon a bit of a -- wait and see about that. biden chie

obama, they were your friends. that's sick.ht we would have a president who sat in the pews of a radical pasture for 20 plus years who said, no, no, no, not god bless america, gd america, america's chickens coming home to roost. take a look. >> no, no, no, not god bless america, god damn america, that's in the bible. >> -- because of stuff we've done overseas and brought right back into our own front yard. america's chickens are coming home to roost. >> sean: i never thought, barack, we would have a president that brought black liberation theology and bought into that. i never thought we would elect a president that hid for his entire presidency his relationship with that radical racist anti-semite from the nation of islam, lewis farrakhan. they hid that picture from america for nine years. what a disgrace. or a president that recounted reverend wright's sermon, white folks greed runs the world in need. here's barack saying it. >> this world, where cruise ship throw away more food in a day than most residents in port-au-prince

of course it worked out for biden and obama has come to see why it did.ugh a lot of the primary campaign, even through super tuesday, obama was very anxious himself that trump lose and skeptical that biden could get all of the way there. >> in terms of swagger, all he has to do is put on his aviators, then i go there he is. >> a lot of people feel that way. >> he wears them a lot and he does look cool. it's a great book. thank you for coming and chatting with me. >> thank you, alex. >> the gop pushing to reduce funding from the 1619 project. g. needles. essential for sewing, but maybe not for people with certain inflammatory conditions. because there are options. like an “unjection.” xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections, like tb and do blood tests. tell your doctor if you

we heard michelle obama say if you want to hang out with the obamas, you got to be vaccinated.well, ucla, the covid-19 health and politics project did a survey to see what would convince people. some of the answers are particularly interesting. and one of the biggest -- money. >> oh. >> money. >> they asked folks if you received $100, would you get the vaccine? and as you see, 34% said yes. in fact, about 28% said they'd do it for like $25. so it tells you that cash is a big incentive. other incentive, 63% said they'd be more willing if it meant they didn't have to wear a mask. >> that's great. >> that's a great one. >> i love the calculation of here's a vaccine, it could save your life, i don't know, but $100 -- >> i'm surprised at that -- >> west virginia's governor, jim justice, recently announced the state would give young people $100 bonds if they get vaccinated. >> final at the point whatever it takes. honestly, whatever it takes. >> exactly. >> now people are going to be holding out for $200. >>> my "talk of the table" is about the gerber company. they are searching at t

now there's articles in the global times advising the ccp to obama's trillium.st pickup at the meeting? >> it's outrageous i'm glad you mentioned that the ice trillium prime minister early last year was raising tough questions about covid origins in china blasted australia they cut back on important to china, ice trillium copper and beef and wine and many other experts. they were delivering that message, don't ask questions or you will be punished. and then for a tough revolution, it got completely watered down and that was the original sin. maria: we know there's retribution. stay with us, we'll take a break and come right back with jamie metzl. stay right with us. this is us talking tax-smart investing, managing risk, and all the ways schwab can help me invest. this is andy reminding me how i can keep my investing costs low and that there's no fee to work with him. here's me learning about schwab's satisfaction guarantee. accountability, i like it. so, yeah. andy and i made a good plan. find your own andy at schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. it's

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

look at this we have obama's top economist jason furman. he is now at harvard.e coauthored a study paying people not to work with bigger unemployment benefits could be keeping people from getting a job. also the threat of getting covid at work so that, jason furman, obama's top economist saying that too. >> clear as day to a business person like me. this is exactly the wrong policy to extend unemployment plus stop unemployment through september, means small and medium-sized businesses are competing with the federal government to get employees back to work. the larger employees, are poaching employees from the smaller companies. a flood of people coming across the border. the small employers do i hire somebody under the table or let myself go out of business. it's a tough situation all around and biden policies are creating this. elizabeth: it is interesting, final point is that the taxpayers are running away from the exact same policies that biden team wants to enact. they're running away from it at the state level. but these are the policies that they're trying

former president barack obama. that's straight ahead. after more than 100 days in office, one overreaching theme is dominating now sippy cup joe's administration. that theme is complete weakness. weakness abroad, weakness at home. a weak commander-in-chief that believes that full scale appeasement of our enemies will bring peace in our time. joe's cowardly response to the russian hack is embarrassing and self-disruptive. now only did he give them a free pass on the russians hacking the pipeline, five days later, get this, joe rewarded his pal, putin, by removing trump era sanctions on a key russian pipeline that hopes our allies in germany and elsewhere in europe. not only is america first's strategy gone, dead, energy independence is now gone. that is dead. now joe is literally adopted vladimir putin and russia first strategies and giving a waiver to vladimir putin to build his pipeline and turning down ours. finds out the real russian collusion, yeah, that would be leading democrats. remember obama, tell putin i'll have more flexibilit

president biden a one trick and other infrastructure offer, 6 trillion or 7 trillion, we have three obama officials slamming biden's policies gina mccarthy, larry summers and jason furman, what do you say that. >> i believe i'm going to say this but i'm in total agreement with the former obama administration official, the biden presidency has been hijacked by nancy pelosi's far left wing of the democrat party. what they say is true his economic policy right now is breaking his promise not to raise taxes, he's going to raise taxes it's affecting everyday americans at the gas station, grocery store groceries are up over 20% sugar is up over 50% you want to build a house or a

in the covid ministry who in the obama administration pushed to lift the ban on federal funding, who for supporting super virus research and who's been putting loopholes in the rules, former secretary of state mike pompeo reportedly headed to israel with the current secretary of state anthony blanket is going, we have s that story. republicans again demanding more from answers why did hunter biden uses secret service and air force to to do these mysterious trips overseas to make dealing with countries like russia and china. plus top democrat gretchen whitmer apologizes for breaking her own shutdown rules, she went maskless, didn't social distance at a restaurant, the governor saying she did not stop to think,uo the debate did she stop to think before slamming restaurants and bars, and breaking the same rose, border townwn say they have to lock don their own schools not because of covid-19 the because of illegal border crossings coming in increasingly with weapons, thank you for joining us, i am elizabethld macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. liz: thank you for joining

obama don't worry. doesn't understand how anybody could be understand about american pipelines shut down and jobs hoss and higher energy prices and putin gets a waiver. take a look. >> i know from is a lot of talk about keystone. i am trying to help people understand this. how is urging other countries it take ambittious action. >> when the president took office 95% of this pipeline was built. >> it seemed like there was the ability by the u.s. government to sanction some officials to stop the project at 95%. but you are not doing that. >> in what way can we stop a project in another country that is built 95%? >> or make it more difficult with sanctions. >> sean: listen to me. this is not complicated. joe gave putin and russia a waiver. he signed off on it. joe is trying to appease the climate socialists in his radical base and appease america's enemies abroad. listen to vice-president harris who cease covid as an opportunity for what? an opportunity to transform america and elections. take a look. >> a

now there's articles in the global times advising the ccp to obama's trillium.glad you mentioned that the ice trillium prime minister early last year was raising tough questions about covid origins in china blasted australia they cut back on important to china, ice trillium copper and beef and wine and many other experts. they were delivering that message, don't ask questions or you will be punished. and then for a tough revolution, it got completely watered down and that was the original sin. maria: we know there's retribution. stay with us, we'll take a break anananan ♪♪ ♪ i want to see you stand up ♪ ♪ i want to feel you be proud ♪ ♪ i want to hear your beating heart ♪ ♪ live out loud, oh ♪♪ to make my vision a reality my varilux progressive lenses provide seamlessly transition from near to far. with every detail in sharp focus. that's seeing no limits. varilux lenses by essilor. maria: welcome back, i'm back with jamie, senior fellow, fantastic op-ed in the hill, which you should check out. real quick, jamie, the final question is why is china trying so hard

obama says they felt compelled to speak out. it's not the first time when trayvon martin was killed, then president obama also had a personal reaction as a black man. >> i said that this could have been my son. >> reporter: now this. >> all those black lives matter kids, they'd rather not have to worry about this. they're taking to the streets because they have to. they're trying to have people understand that we're real folks >> reporter: spoken like a mother, hoping to be heard. rehema ellis, nbc news >>> in just 60 seconds, the flying object that will crash somewhere this weekend on earth >>> a big disappointment today on the jobs front. the economy adding far fewer jobs last month than expected. unemployment now at 6.1% stephanie ruhle now on the challenges of getting people back to work >> reporter: curtis bashaw is gearing up for a busy summer. he usually hires 500 seasonal workers for his hotels on the jersey shore >> it's never been this hard to hire. >> reporter: with just weeks to go he's only halfway there. >> what wo

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and, you know, at this point in the obama-biden white house, 12 years ago obama and biden were not gettingrst year was a rough time. another thing obama reminded him of, the brotherly relationship they developed, so strong and so emotional, and it's something that developed over time. obama would say to biden, look, you need to pick a candidate that will help you win the presidency and this idea that you need to be best friends right away, give it time, it can develop. it happened with us. >> i love this piece where pete buttigieg -- obama saw the call as talking buttigieg down pushing him to consider that as impressive as his caucus wins he should still be thinking ahead. another case of obama's inflated sense of his own jedi powers, he was guiding buttigieg to triabout dropping out. that's not the message buttigieg heard. it's true and i love the way you put it there. he was the first black president, a huge presence in the democratic party but he thinks he has jedi powers. >> all of the candidates were turning to him over and over again and he was checking in in a way that had never bee

obama is a perfect example of it.ments he's reacting to this, he's really upset about what's happening, he's really upset about trump, doesn't like what's going on, and you see it start to come out by the time he's on the campaign trail on fall, almost cursing in public, but not. these are the curses he was using in private. >> it's interesting, you also describe president obama in harsh terms although i've heard other democrats use the same words, as a parasite on the party because he didn't build a bench. you wrote, he oversaw a net loss of 947 state legislative seats, 11 senators, 13 governors. you also say only aides described the former president's treatment of that party in that sense as benign neglect. is biden learning from this? >> it seems like it. when trump won in 2016, a lot of democrats said, how did this happen? it was a total surprise. i started the book by looking into what was rot under the surface and how that was attempted to be corrected by activists, like at the women's march, but also people mov

i'm still sitting here with michelle obama.like a country ham. >> oh, that's sad. >> stephen: and the final score-- and i want to make sure i get this right, unathletic doughy talk show host eight. former leader of the free world who famously three pointer, 0. this is the exact room we did it in. >> okay. >> stephen: and i was wondering if you want to take moment to maybe, you know, defend the obama basketball honor. >> what's in it for me? >> stephen: okay. um, let's make it interesting. >> okay. >> stephen: partnership for a healthier america, do they take donations? >> >> uh-huh. >> stephen: "the late show with stephen colbert"" will donate $1,000 to partnership for healthy america for every basket either one of us makes. so let's run up that score. >> all right. >> stephen: and if i win, you have to have me on one of your netflix shows. >> solid. >> stephen: you're in. >> i'm in. >> stephen: you understand this arm is a rocket, right. >> obviously, you bet my husband so you must do this a lot. >> stephen: here's how it's go

, comments they made about michelle obama even before they were in office.t the time, mark sullivan was so worried about it, he asked for some emergency appropriations and it hardened the perimeter around the white house, and you know, agents on the detail told me repeatedly that they were so worried about him. in part, again, because they knew that the agency was run ragged. they knew their technology was outdated and they knew that training wasn't happening on a regular basis, that rigorous, re-training that we all need but especially we need in our elite security forces. >> well, to your point about the obama administration hardening the perimeter, the 2011 incident where the shots were actually fired at the white house. seven bullets struck the second floor and then you revealed that the secret service was unaware until four days later? how did they miss that? >> well, there were -- it was bizarre. imagine a scenario where you're an officer underneath the south portico and you literally hear gunshots and you are trained to know what a gun shot sounds lik