valerie was senior advisor to president obama and ceo of the obama foundation. great to see you, valley. >> thank you. >> how does it feel to be back? >> glorious day. >> is it? >> what better opportunity to come back and have the privilege of being the guest of president biden, dr. biden, be here with the obamas also coming back together for the first time today to celebrate this historic portrait unveiling. i couldn't be happier. >> how do you think -- or maybe you talked to them. how do they feel about coming back and about the portraits? we do know and michael beschloss was talking about this in the last hour, there were presidents not so happy when they saw the unveiling. >> both of them are very pleased with the portraits and i think mostly they're enthusiastic knowing now on when guests coal through the white house, they'll see the incredible portraits and making this the people's house, incredible eight years of service to our country and the story that tells how it reflects so well on our country. proud moment for them. i'm honored to be here. i've just

biden, president obama, mrs. obama, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this ceremony.house historical association, and on behalf of the women and men of the association, i'm thrilled to celebrate with all of you the presentation of two magnificent american portraits today to honor and commemorate the legacy of our 44th president and first lady. mrs. obama, president obama, it is a privilege to be able to carry forward this time-honored tradition of and welcome them to the white house to be forever accessible and viewed by the public on these historic walls. since its founding in 1961 by first lady jacqueline kennedy, the white house historical association has been of service and our clear privilege to be able to acquire official portraits of those who previously were missing from the white house collection and to commission all of the portraits on record of each president and first lady since our founding. surviving the modern era of photography and film and technology, few mediums can transport us with such immediacy and intimacy than the american portrait, capturing

obama, misses obama, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the ceremony. chairman of the white house historical solution and on behalf of the men and women of the association, i am thrilled to celebrate with all of you the presentation of two and nevis in american portraits today to honor and commemorate the indelible legacy of the 44th president and first lady. misses obama, president obama, it is a privilege to be able to carry forward this time-honored tradition in of unveiling the official portraits and welcome them to the white house to be forever accessible and viewed by the public on these historic walls. since its founding in 19 6215 first lady jacqueline kennedy, the white house historical association has been a service and a privilege to be able to acquire official portraits of those who previously were missing from the white house collection and all of the portraits on record of each president and first lady since their founding. surviving the modern era of photography and film and technology, few mediums can transport us with such immediacy and

barack obama, the former president and form are first lady, michelle obama. interesting that the portrait of president obama almost looks like a photograph. and, frankly, as we were watching this come in, i wondered if that was a photograph. the artist himself makes a point of painting people straight on as they are, just like a photograph. and president obama said he wanted it to be that way because he wanted it known that he was a human, faults and all, gray hair and all, so that presidents they so often do don't take on a mythical status. you can see the portraits right there above the heads of everybody who has gathered. definitely a return to something that we didn't see in the white house for a few years there. president obama was not invited back to unveil this portrait during the trump years, partially because of covid and partially because think a notoriously tense relationship, let's put it that way. joining me more to talk more about this is carol lee, who is at the white house. also is the host of msnbc's "politics nation," reverend al sharpton an

obama. >> really helpful context. abby, tell us your thoughts if you'd like to, about the artwork, but also about what they both said, particularly michelle obama who talked about the bedrock principles of democracy that she still holds dear that, you know, have been challenged lately. >> well, victor and professor powell are here, so i really -- i don't have anything to say about the art except that the port portraits really are beautiful, and you know, first of all, i want to just say i mean, for both barack obama and michelle obama, the undercurrent of today's event is the extraordinary history of it all. the first first family of african descent with portraits now going to be hung on the walls of the white house is an extraordinary moment, and i think each in their own way they are so visually striking in ways that are actually reminiscent of some of the other portraits of the obamas that, you know, as i've said before, are -- they are -- they are tourist attractions, and i think these for those who can come to th

obama and president obama were talking about. it's you do your duty, you fulfill your term, you try to fulfill your oath and you pass it on. and that has been broken in recent years. this is a 40-year, i think, about 45-year tradition that we saw today. i think i'm right president carter is the first president that asked president ford to come back in the 1970s. very difficult 1976 was a very close race. regan and bush did it. they were the same party, obviously and served together but the clintons and the bush, the senior bushes did it and as you mentioned, the obama george w. bush moment where george w said now i'm so glad because barack can look at my portrait and say what would george do? that kind of -- and you can argue it's too insidery or club but there is something that ultimately helps the country if the people in the power have a self-deprecating character personally and a kind of genuine humility which is to submit to the rule of law. which is what their oath, if you believe matters at all which is why we swear to god

barack obama, as mrs. obama said, a mixed race kid with a funny name. he becomes president of the united states. then, to obama, to a new york real estate developer, who has become this populist, divisive, and indeed unconstitutional figure. then an irish catholic kid from delaware and pennsylvania. so you have this panoply of the american experience. not everybody. it's doesn't reflect all experiences, obviously. they are all men. only one is a person of color. but when the history of this air is written you can just do an immense amount of american history, starting from that al gore concession to george w. bush. president obama, to president trump and president biden. >> i want to hear more four from the former president and the former first lady. here it is. >> these portraits have a special significance. because as joe mentioned, they will hang in the white house along portraits of other presidents and first ladies dating back to georgia and martha. >> for me they stay isn't just about what has happened. it's also about what could happen. because a

our first clue is barack obama.time resident of martha's vineyard, as you know the country's greatest of diversity. for years obama told us that immigrants were better than americans. there were holier, they make our country strong. >> america has been and always been a nation of immigrants. throughout our history, immigrants has come to our shores wave after wave. from every corner of the globe. everyone of us, unless were native american has an ancestor who was born somewhere else. that's what makes america special. that's what makes us strong. the basic idea of welcoming immigrants to our shores essential to our way of life. it is in our dna. >> tucker: i was basically the whole presidency right there for eight years. obama lecturing us about diversity, but he didn't just talk about it he spent his two years in office making certain that places like des moines, iowa, and portland, maine, became much less white than the previous had been. because as he so often told us whiteness is bad it's a disease. so we were c

bush's were revealed by president obama and michelle obama.lady said nearly every tradition has been upended including trying the make the american experiment work and a peaceful transition of power. this was just one tiny example. the previous portrait unveilings, those bipartisan moments you referenced were often again bipartisan, warm, fun, spirited. and the last thing i will say is this happened to come at a particularly auspicious time for the biden administration. you can see it watching these clips on tv. i talk to a few people in the room and they said there was such a sense of joy. part of that was what i was referencing, the decency and the camaraderie. and part of that is that biden has finally hit a very positive stretch of his presidency. >> jason, one of michelle obama's comments today was this. it is about telling that fuller story. the story that includes every single american and every single corner of the country so that our kids and grandkids can see something more for themselves. i agree with matt. president obama's comment

i mean, barack obama and michelle obama obviously broke the race barrier. which is why i had to stay in california. when he was very little he had a place mat of all the presidents and obviously they all were a certain gender and race and there's barack obama. at the age of 3, like, wow. but i think, yeah, you saw in the obamas the love of this country, of our institutions, of the rule of law. michelle obama talked when your time is done, you move on and we often would talk about that in the white house, that this was just a relay race and you had the baton for your time whether that's four or eight years and you pass it on. whether you like the person you're passing it on to or not, you know, you pass it on and i think, you know, for the most part historically, and the i've always struck, joy, when i've talked to people who worked in prior administrations, the reference that they hold for that building, for the institution and that sense of history, so we were remind of that today that i think the obamas obviously are unique in their story of they have som

you had the former first couple, president barack obama and michelle obama returning to the white housewith president biden who, by most political accounts, would not be president biden had barack obama not tapped him as vice president. they were there for the presentation of their official portraits. this is one of those lovely ceremonies in washington. these portraits that you see unveiled here will hang in display. they show the legacy of the 41st president and the first lady. you can see the beautiful portraits. you might say on the hall already, on the wall already, i'm a work of heart, a warhol ready. those are some bars from obama's favorite rapper. those portraits will hang on the wall. and today, president biden praised his former boss saying he was one of the most consequential presidents ever. >> barack and michelle, welcome home. welcome home. with barack as our president, we got up every day and went to work full of hope, full of purpose, and excited about the possibility before us. there are few people i've ever known with more integrity, decency, and moral courage than ba

it wasn't actually who barack obama wanted. person that will deliver us a win against john mccain. barack obama and bill clinton very special people, charisma, way they connect with people is almost unrivalled. there is going to be jealousy. same thing at a party. everyone wants to talk to that person. they make you feel like the most important person. so magnetic, so charismatic. i am not going to reduce it to the friendship bracelets. >> harris: who else has that magnetism. in that room that would be charlie. >> jessica: charlie for president. >> kayleigh: it is an understatement. obama said shoot me now when biden was talking, old school, condescending at best. guy can talk and talk. obama reported as saying. >> carlie: i am sure all of that is true. i get so tired of listening to barack obama complain about joe biden. you have nobody to blame but yourself! joe biden laughed off the political stage. he run for president multiple times, caught lying each time. everybody found him insufferable. he was gone. he was taken out wi

next hour, former president barack obama returns to the white house joined by michelle obama, her first trip back to the white house since she left there in 2017. it's the official unveiling of their white house portraits. >>> we begin with justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, paul charlton and tracy wallner. ken, to you out of the gate. this is a significant development. walk us through what new we are learning. >> pete he ", the post" is saying there was a document referencing nuclear capabilities. they are aren't saying whether it's classified. no criticism. these are hard details. it's hard to know from this article how significant this document actually is. there are think tank reports that discussion countries' nuclear defenses. the story goes into what we knew about the sensitivity of the documents. the other documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. we knew as of a couple weeks ago that some were top secret sci and special access program. that's as designation for a really secret program read in only -- known only to a handful of people inside the u.s. governmen

but joe biden saw -- while joe biden needed barack obama, barack obama really did not need joe biden.resident, obama, you could kind edward snowden. that shows you at one point wr barack said to joe, you don't have do this in terms of running for president in 2020, he convinced biden to not run in 2016, you saw history, nixon run for president after eisenhower and -- that is what vice presidents do after they search for 8 years biden was convinced to sit in 2016 because barack obama saw hillary clinton as the heir apparent, she is the ivy league gal, he was history makes in terms of first black president she would be first female president and joe biden was cast aside, hype aground the great relationship between obama and biden that dog don't hunt just based on those fact. >> there were several i came from, me being a media watcher. worst collusion we have seen, we talk about collusion from traditional media, very plate examples in book, abc news with a town hall of independent voters a guy from pennsylvania asked a t-ball question, he was a speech righter in the obama and biden admin

the obamas were, in fact, despised immigrants. so when they moved to a 12 million dollar seaside compound on martha's vineyard, the point is notepposed t to live in luxuy with other rich people. >> no, obviously, the pointe a l is to diversify martha'sow vineyard, to strike a blow for s justice. that made sense to us and ween felt better. but then lashappenedt night hap' and we started to rethink our assumptions about the obamas, about a lot of diings thing, because a planelof highly diverse immigrants arrive ad on martha's vineyard o join the obamas. >> but the obamas didn'ta word welcome them. there was not a word from barack or michelle obama. barack wasn't waiting at the airport to greetgive t the diversifier with flowershe. he didn't issue a statement of l congratulations. he didn't invite a single e venezuelan to his home. how come could it be thatn't re barack obama isn't reallaly actually in real life in favor of diversity at all? could it be that barack obama strongly prefers blond soul cycle moms and lululemon to sweaty

michelle obama has not been back to the white house, right, since obama left office. this is going to be a sort of big moment for her to be back. >> yeah. i think so too. i mean, talk about political celebrities and the democratic party. you can argue that michelle obama has -- has maybe even surpasses her husband in that respect sometimes. but it's actually very, i think it is very complicated for her. this is a first lady who probably would not have gone to the trump white house even if she were invited because of the sort of toxic environment between the trump family and the obama family. so it will be interesting to see how she is coming back now. i think she is probably happy that it didn't happen under trump, frankly because she blamed trump for endangering her family, for endangering her own personal safety and that bad blood, i think, i don't think that could have been papered over for a ceremonial moment like this. for all moments for her to come back to the white house, this will be one of them. also, i'm curious to see what the portraits look like. they hav

the first ladies attended, as well, as well as michelle obama's mom.e portraits, w wolf, they are already hanging in the white house. >> very historic. all of us joining us now cnn political commentator and the former obama adviser, and he was at the unveiling earlier today, and also with us today, nia malika henderson. what was it like in the room as the ceremony was going on? >> it was extraordinary, wolf, much more than i expected when i went, but first of all, was there a huge turnout of former staffers and cabinet members, but there was this sense that time had melted away and the environment of the room was joyful, it was hopeful things that you don't normally hear in washington these days and so it was really something, and then i think when the first lady spoke about her own journey and what it meant to the country, i don't think there was a dry eye in the house. i make one other point, the relationship between barack obama and joe biden, a lot has been written about a lot of speculation about it. i think what you saw today was the real article

that was something that obama did not often like to do.ir eight years today. >> in 2020, part of the reason obama didn't want to weigh in too much. he weighed in as you described, more of a friend, was because he had been against biden running in 2016, and he had really thrown his weight behind hillary clinton. does he under estimate biden at many turns? >> there's certainly a question, if you ask a lot of people around biden, no doubt that is the case. the 2016 experience is such an inflection point for them, not only because barack obama especially behind the scenes pushed clinton to run and dissuaded biden for running but that was a painful time for biden. it was when his son beau was ill and passed away and bideobama w saying to biden i'm not sure you're up for this. for obama it was a clear case that clinton was right to carry on his legacy and biden at that moment was not. that was painful for both of them and continues to be. they don't talk about the experience and it colored the way obama thought about 2020, in 2020 he was open to

obama. the official white house photographer for barack obama, the author of the upcoming book, the west wing and beyond, what i saw inside the presidency, to be published later this month. pete souza, welcome back to the program. what was it like to be in that room today? i watched every minute of it. it looked like a happy high school reunion. >> it was a family reunion. the white house is a family. many of us haven't seen each other since january 20th 2017, on the day that we all went our separate ways. we were gathered back together today. it was just a joyous occasion, for sure. >> i have to get your reaction to the portrait of president obama by robert mccurdy, because it is photo realism in. it looks like it is a big blowup of a pete souza photograph. what was that one like for you? >> i love it. i think it's so different than any of the other presidential portraits that currently hang in the white house. i love it. it reminded me, not other pete souza portrait, but of a richard avid

why do they need obama?you could say if you're the biden team, they've had many more legislative accomplishments than obama did and he had 60 senators. believe me, in the feud, those playing out behind the scenes if you see the private text messages, the biden people were picking up on that and lording it over the obama people quietly. >> oh, interest. >> spicey. >> uh-huh. >> maybe not. i don't know. intrigued. palace intrigued. i just learn that had. up next, liberal intolerance getting worse on campus as conservatives say they're too afraid to speak their minds. ♪ ♪ >> more proof that college campuses are nothing more than a steaming ces pool of liberal intolerance and they're banning conservative speakers from campus according to a new poll. it's no surprise when this is how libs have acted in the past. >> yale has a policy of freedom of speech. [inaudible]. >> and worse yet, 42% of conservative students feel like they can't even express their opinions freely. only a small fraction of lib rams say the sa

in 2009, obama received the nobel peace prize. let me remind you that he was awarded the nobel peace prize with the wording for his great efforts to strengthen international diplomacy of cooperation between peoples. and let me remind you. that during the obama administration, the united states took part in four military conflicts on the territory of other countries in iraq afghanistan syria and libya and set a record for bombing. yes, the inhabitants of the once prosperous europe can tell him thank you for the millions of refugees from africa in the middle east who had to leave from there where democratized 44 us president international sawmill miles emelya your week it was an international sawmill, see you in a week. in the meantime, take care of the country fellow citizens. christ to us dance to dance to dance forever today to apartments together for no one you are always my reflection. it's hard for us to understand with you we don't put anything. so dance with others and the way does not get. all for now, but i'm giving up so

instead, it's the people of obama go themselves. did you see that many men have long hair and beard? this is mandatory for every one who takes part in the play. when was your last time at the hairdresser? for christmas 2026, that's english. 0 and the lady here. it's been a brother of jesus 3 years ago for 20 years ago. i saved money because i haven't cut my hair for ages or i trimmed it 3 years ago with visual lunch role here at the temple guard been preached him who play a high priest who condemns jesus neighborhood. and he's just on. but we're head. it's been, i know i'm one of the 2 people playing jesus, call reservation. so there are 2 jesus that we double up on the main roles to jesus is to mary's to conscious pilot vision often. can i take a healthy with pleasure? you might have guessed that the people of over my go bring the life and suffering of jesus to the stage and they've been doing it for almost 400 years. the passion play is the world hit. anyone who was born obama go, or has lived here for 20 years, can take part in i

when joe used to grandstand in the senate, a young senator obama used to reportedly tell obama bidend to ramble on and the guy can just talk and talk. according to a new book called "the long alliance" barry also reportedly told an aid to, quote, shoot me now during one of joe's floor speeches." i think he speaks for all of us. believe it or not, biden wasn't really a fan of barack's either. the book claims biden used to, quote, roll his eyes behind obama's back and couldn't stand obama's dry sense of humor. and let's not for get this back handed compliment. >> first sort of mainstream african-american who is articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy. i mean, that's a story book. >> jesse: biden tried to patch things up. at one point offered to take obama out to dinner to a simple italian restaurant nothing fancy joe called it. obama allegedly told him that we can go to a nice place. i can afford it. joe took offense. detectived more arrogance and presumous coming out of barack. presumptuousness. the funny thing is obama ended taking joe out tore a burger joint instead. >>

he was an obama appointee. and he loved barry. obama, made him feel special.an his record keeping is just as important as anything else in the government. we were fortunate that president obama in his open government initiative recognized the importance of good record-keeping and, in fact, he used a quote from us in his executive order that the backbone of open government is good records management. and we were just dancing in the streets when we got attention. >> jesse: obama dropped your records in an old furniture store, buddy, do you care? you didn't call the feds on him. only trump guilty until proven innocent. we have records that show that barack obama had classified documents in the furniture store. and had to send them back to the librarian at the archives. mike davis is the president of the article iii project and former senate judiciary committee chief council. i don't think anybody knows about this that they had strip malls with classified information from former presidents. did you know that? >> i did. but, what it shows, jesse, is there is a clea

they failed to stop obama.ight now. we will get to why. we'll return to how the government cracks down on this dissent. but first, lets go all the way back and listen to what has upset so many elites in america whenever in any era black leaders, activists or artists, confront the system we can go all the way back to 1939 when a 23-year-old billie holiday tackled lynching in jt strange fruit", adapted from a foam by a labor organizer. or sam cook whos released the civil rights anthem "a change going to come", back in 1964 ♪ it's been a long, a long time coming ♪ ♪ but aknow ♪ ♪ a change going to come ♪ >> or heron rebuking apartheid in a song to johannesburg and nixon pushing no knock warrants in a song that was essentially also journalism. mr. heron reporting on how those warrants would be used for raids largely targeting black americans. it's the same tactic that led to the police killing of breonna taylor in her sleep. >> we're going to did a poem for one of our unfavorite people who's now the head of the nix

they recruited members threw out obama's term in office. their tactics began more aggressive and violent in 2014 after obama's reelection, that notorious standoff against the federal government at -- since then, the oath keepers have evolved from obscured group to and household name. a primary example of anti government extremism. a group that literally stoned the seat of democracy in an effort to keep its chosen candidate in power against the will of the american people. today, a judge declined to delay the trial of the leader of the oath keepers for seditious conspiracy. that first trial will now go ahead three weeks from now as planned. also today, the anti-defamation league center on extreme, the adl lead, the adl center on extremism fleeced this report and masking jazz who the oath keepers really are. the adl combs through more than 38,000 names listed on leaked oath keepers membership lists. what did they find? they found that more than 370 people who work in law enforcement, they found more than 100 members who are actively in the mi

biden, so much more of an institutionalist than obama ever, was even obama has been cautious about thiset quite that far. in terms of the way that he is addressing the country, there are fundamentally different people. obama was someone who is very powerfully positioned rhetorically. he was very good at giving the big speeches. biden simply understands that his role is not to be the pastor a preacher of the country, but also not to try to get everyone on his side. giving those big speeches is not necessarily who's going to do it. it is also simply not really realistic in such a divided world like we have right now. >> gabe, thank you so much for being with us, again, gabe's new book, the long alliance, the imperfect union of joe biden and barack obama. it is out to. now still to come, president biden takes the international stage abroad, celebrating a bit of good news back home, after this break as the gop uses desperate people as political pawns, american citizens rise to the occasion to show what this country does best. ntry does best you might take something for your heart... your jo

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he said at a very rich partnership during the obama administration. been a lot written about tension among their staff. how do you see it? >> these men weren't particularly close when barack obama tapped joe biden to be vice president. and i watched their relationship grow. when i went to see biden was one of the last people to interview him when we were considering him for vice president -- senator obama was -- and he said, look, i thought i ran for president because i thought it would be the best president. voters have a different idea. now, i want to help barack obama. -- he said, remember i told, you i was wrong. the right guy won. i am just so pleased to be his partner and working with him. he's an extraordinary guy. that is what he believed and they became personally close. so, yes, there is always going to be those kind of tensions. there is rivalry and so on. but at the core, these men had a real friendship. i think, more than perhaps any vice president then in recent history. >> nancy, as you know, talk about this portrait, it would've been u

moments from now, president biden will host former president barack obama and michelle obama in the eastouse portraits. let's go to phil mattingly at the white house. phil, while we wait for this event to get underway, give us a

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there was obama's visit to the white house earlier this year.e called joe biden vice president and totally ignored the poor soul. look at him. today obama put all that behind him. >> someone once said that if you're looking for a friend in washington, get a dog. i was even luckier to have a chance to spend eight years working day and night with a man who became a true partner and a true friend. >> laura, did he just compare joe biden to a dog? i want to be clear. >> laura: that was an odd way to approach their eight year relationship. that's what i thought. raymond, it's all weird when he comes because everyone likes obama but they don't like joe. so it's a very odd dichotomy. it's like the returning hero and then it's wah-wah-wah every time biden speaks. it's bizarre. today it's one of those days when the media pretends that obama was a totally successful president. i mean, we know this in reality. he was the establishment's last real chance. obama i would say blewitt because his administration was to terms but it led directly to the rise of po

. >>> former president obama and former first lady michelle obama returning to the white house together for the first time since leaving office. you will see their official portraits unveiled. what the former president said that led to laughter in the room. and his hope, what future generations will see in those portraits. >>> the american tennis star and he made history at the u.s. open today. >>> and the remarkable and moving image tonight as we make your way back to the u.s. from ukraine. >>> and good evening tonight from warsaw, poland. we are on our way home from ukraine after our exclusive interview with president zelenskyy. he is making news tonight, and so is vladimir putin, and we'll get to that in a moment. >>> but we are going to begin tonight with the emergency playing out at home at this hour. the raging wildfires and historic, record-breaking heat across several states in the west. eight days now in this heat wave and there are several days still to go. not just september records here, but all-time record high temperatures are being recorded from california all the way to

biden are honored to have former president obama and firster first lady michelle obama back to the whiteunveiling of their portraits which will hang on the walls of the white house as a remembrance of hope and change. >> it is a long-standing tradition. >> president clinton and senator clinton welcome back. >> welcome back to the house that you called home for eight years. >> reporter: sitting presidents host their immediate predecessors to unveil their official portraits in a bipartisan light-hearted event as seen when the clintons welcomed the bushes for their unveiling. >> as americans look for ways to come together to deal with the challenges we face today they can do well in looking to the lives of president and mrs. bush. >> thank you, president clinton, for those overly generous words, as a kind assessment of what and so many here in this room tried to do. frankly i needed those kind words. >> reporter: former president donald trump broke this tradition and declined to host the obamas for their portrait unveiling. trump even moved the portraits of former presidents bill clinton an

the obama said they hope their portraits on the white house walls will send a powerful message. it is so important for every young kid. >> who is a doubting themselves to believe that they can to. this unveiling comes after former president trump broke with tradition during his term and declined to host the event for his predecessor in washington. alexandra limon. the staring at them because they're both like really striking portraits. yeah, we're talking to, you rocks. >> looks exactly like a photo almost like picture michelle's is lovely to but it in a different sort of style. so and that wraps up kron. 4 news at 5 o'clock. it does kron. 4 news at 6 is next. pam and ken are. >> here with a look at how our powers to hang in air to go and we'll get through this. and so yeah and grant, thank you both. coming up, a guard has been shot at an east bay hospital. police say the shooter was trying to rob the guard. the latest on the search and the threat of rotating power outages is real. that is the latest message coming from governor gavin newsom has this heat wave continues to. >> p

it is the same, barack obama -- i shame and barack obama, as much as i didn't care for him, even barack obama and -- said, when joe biden announced he would run for office, barack obama said you didn't have to do this. guest: the obama's will be at the white house so there may be drama. i strongly agree with the energy piece. i am from pennsylvania and the keystone state is one of the great energy and particularly electricity exporters. in the country. we have to get product to california now. pennsylvania is facing a very serious decision about -- because our democrat governor and attorney general who is running for governor has demonized these fossil fuel industries in pennsylvania. we need to make a decision and we would be an exporter to new hampshire and the east coast. do we want to continue to be the powerhouse of the northeast are what we just advocate that -- abdicate that advantage and face more situations by california? host: vladimir putin said he would ship for oil to asia because of price caps on other countries. what does that do to the other countries affected by that de

obama is headlining that fund-raiser.rting on how involved obama will be on a crucial election for democrats. that they were expected to lose soundly, and could be gaining. what more are you learning? >> erin, i'm told tonight that the former president is planning to campaign beyond the fund-raisers you mentioned new york. tomorrow night, he heads to the west coast and will do more party fund-raising there next week. as we get into the fall, i'm told that he is going to, as you can imagine, he's got a lot of requests for candidates to come out and campaign with him. he's going to pick the ones that he believes he can be most effective in. and one of the most fascinating things i was told by a source familiar with that the former president's plans, is that it's not just governor and congressional races, but it's secretaries of state. i don't remember efficient a former president thinking about probably campaigning for somebody as far down the ballot as secretary of state. why? you were talking to gabe sterling about the re

michelle obama will be unveiled for the first time.icial portraits that hang in the white house along with their predecessors and so this is something that has been in the works for really quite some time, about five years these portraits have been in the works and typically, these are events where they're bipartisan, where republicans president host democratic presidents, democratic presidents host republican presidents for this unveiling and this has, as you noted, been delayed for some time because the obamas had no interest in having former president trump host them for their portrait unveiling, and former president trump had no interest in hosting the obamas for their portrait unveiling to have this ceremony, which is usually very light, sell bra -- celebration. this is the first time former first lady michelle obama will be returning to the white house since january 20th of 2017, the day of president trump's inauguration and so, we'll see a very light celebration and there will be, we've already seen some of the former obama staf

you supported, obama, president obama. i did. i did. i voted in the first election. i voted for president obama actually worked the polls the for obama was in i was living on the upper east side in new york and i was one of the poll workers. that's right. it's not i didn't change any votes did one handedly of new. so yeah, i've had a i've had like, you know, a journey through through politics and also the more important, i think, philosophy cancel culture that cancel culture. how has that affected you in your profession? um so i think, you know, the the article that they brought up, the wall street journal, how it became a far right radical, obviously can't cancel culture wars looming over my head there i was thinking you know man know people aren't even willing to do the work and and see what you've actually produced or even what you've actually said before passing judgment upon you and. i've always been of the mind that if somebody doesn't want to work with me, i want it to be because of something i actually said or done. so, you know, cancel culture think is you k