valerie jarrett, everybody.nd applause ) >> trevor: join us tomorrow night at 11:00. now here it is, your moment of zen. >> now your white house is saying that what we di

please welcome valerie jarrett. ( cheers and applause ) >> thank you! wow. whooo!heers and applause ) >> trevor: they're doing good. they're doing good now that you're here. welcome to the show. you know, any day would be a pleasure having you as a guest. today in particular, though. >> you're on fire. i've been listening to you backstage. >> trevor: thank you very much. thank you very much. there is much to be on fire about. ( laughter ) let's jump straight into it. ( applause ) let's jump straight into it. "the new york times" is reporting that just before f.b.i. director james comey was fired, he asked the d.o.j. for more resources. you know, this was an investigation that was clearly about russia's meddling. what do you make of the latest developments? >> well, every time i turn on the news today, there's a new development. it's kind of hard to keep up with everything going on, right? so this is what i would say to you. look, our democracy is founded on the rule of law, and a part-- an important part of that rule of law is we have an independent f.b.i. we have

valerie jarrett, everybody. applause ) >> trevor: join us tomorrow night at 11:00. now here it is, your moment of zen. >> now your white house is saying that what we did was wrong, but previously, as a candidate, donald trump was saying it was the right thing. >> you're comparing two things that don't belong together. thanks for the trip down memory lane. i was on your show often last fall saying we were going to win mich

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i was seated near valerie jarrett at a high-profile d.c. event.fight with sarah palin, the whole thing. but anyway, i was going up to roger ailes, and i couldn't resist giving him some -- a little guff, as my uncle would say. i say hi, rog, what's going on over at the propaganda machine. he said i remember when you were a friend of fox and friends. i said yeah, that's when me and richard simmons were doing the weather like 15 years ago. then rahm emanuel came up to me and put his hands on my shoulder and said, we're not doing this here. and i think i'm still friends with valerie jarrett because she said that being friends with her makes her daughter thinks she's cool, but i don't know. i may have pushed it. >> it's a weird confluence, valerie jarrett, rahm emmanuel and roger ailes all sitting together. >> it was not the washington correspondents one but the d-list one, tv and radio one. it was a crazy combo. i will say i'm amazed at how these washington people sit around and next to each other. >> what do you think his legacy -- ailes' legacy is g

also, some key obama advisers, including david axelrod and valerie jarrett among others.you said, the venue and this city holds a significant really important special night. the 2004 democratic national convention in boston, barack obama's passionate speech. >> we are one people. >> seemed to reaffirm the american dream. >> all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the united states of america. >> suddenly, a new political rock star emerged, young and idealistic, with the audacity of hope and early endorsements from ted and caroline kennedy, barack obama became the first black president of the united states. now, as we approach the 100th anniversary of president kennedy's birth, his family once again recognizes obama with this year's prestigious profile in courage award. named after john kennedy's pulitzer prize winning book, it celebrates public service. >> president obama really brought in a new generation just like president kennedy did. and transformed this country. >> like kennedy's daring pursuit of space travel -- >> we choose to g

. >> reporter: valerie jarrett was obama's senior adviser. >> he was able to soar above a lot of theind of toxic rhetoric that you hear in washington, and by every single indicator, he's moved our country forward. >> reporter: but now that his signature achievements are challenged by a new administration -- >> make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. >> reporter: how far he moved the country is still an open question. president obama will be joined by first lady michelle and joe biden. inside, more than 700 guests watched as caroline kennedy and her son jack, president kennedy's only grandson, present the profile in courage award. live courage tonight on msnbc. kate. >> thanks so much. still ahead tonight, one city's lack of affordable housing brought into focus by a deadly warehouse fire. tonight survivors cost about the staggering cost of living in the bay area. . >>> authorities in oakland, california, have yet to determine what sparked a warehouse fire that kills dozens of people back in december. the death toll so high in part because skyrocketing rent force

. >> reporter: valerie jarrett was obama's senior adviser. >> he was able to soar above a lot of thed ofox and by every single indicator he has moved our country forward. >> reporter: but now that his signature achievements are challenged by a new administration -- >> make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. >> reporter: how far he moved the country is still an open question. president obama will be joined by first lady michelle and joe biden inside some 700 guests will watch as caroline kennedy and her son jack, president kennedy's only grandson, prevent the profile in courage award. live courage tonight on msnbc. kate. >> thanks so much. >>> one city's lack of affordable housing brought into focus by a deadly warehouse ♪ predictable. the comfort in knowing where things are headed. because as we live longer... and markets continue to rise and fall... predictable is one thing you need in retirement introducing brighthouse financial. a new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities & life insurance. talk to your advisor about a brighter financial fu

valerie jarrett was the most seen a person.ey science who is the office of -- head office of number two, and barack obama was number three. david: i mention we've seen so many executives coming from the white house now. we see them interacting with the president and a very structured way. photo op, then the cameras leave. we don't have the same negation of who is with other members. trump in april, president followed through by saying he was not going to make those visitor logs public anymore. -- concerned about concession security, that there was a grave risk to national security, is what his people said about somehow letting the publicnow, let know, about the business of the white house. i disagree with that but that's what they said. david: i just saw a headline a goldman bloomberg, sachs member speaking on facebook. he said, technology helps lower-cost implements human mistakes. another pair of researchers come -- have looked at looked at where there are more automated job to the u.s. and what that means for workers there.

now the fifth column war room that is probably in president obama's wing where valerie jarrett used to live in. they have a grease board funded by george soros and every day they have a plan for chaos and they have this, a lot of people, the history is replete with things like this, with the clinton group, you know? and this is no different. i don't know if it's true or not. who knows? let's find out if there is actually such a thing. i wouldn't trust a thing "the new york times" or the "washington post" said for that matter. >> i hear what you're saying, a point of order, just to note that fox news has confirmed the existence of this memo, jim. but james comey was invited to testify next week. there could be more memos. he may have written more memos, more shoes to drop. here's my question to you, jim, could have been trump and comey in that meeting and what if donald trump taped the conversations, remember the president tweeted that warning to comey last week? >> well, you know, if either one of them were with the president, i'm sure it is taped. all those things are taped, i would e

didn't valerie jarrett move into the house? it's a nerve central thing. grown people living together, i don't get involved with it. colonel, i have to say, with all of this, why does he need to define a role in a party that just lost 1,000 house -- >> allen: he's sucking the oxygen out of the democratic party. when you have obama running around out there, you have could hillary clinton running around out there, now you have elizabeth warren and bernie sanders saying will you clear the deck so we can get on? the more that he is out there, the more that he has to remind people of why they lost those. he's going to remind people of the failure. >> julie: or he might be remind people that there is no other democrat out there. hillary clinton is probably wanting to kick him right now saying can i have a little bit of the spotlight? she's out there and she has activists that are leading all of these protests against donald trump. she apparently has been behind that too. >> sandra: she is blaming james comey for her loss. you're saying that elizabeth warren and

. >> carrie: the comparison here, in the obama white house, you had valerie jarrett, who basically was barack obama's tell-all. where was the left media there? i went to the harvard kennedy school. when the harvard of all places, there is such biases against conservatives. when freaking harvard says their leftist bias, that means something. >> kat: allegedly wanting to use solely russia's communication gear. in effect, normally you work with the existing administratio administration. >> carrie: the differences is that barack obama took the trump win incredibly personally. the entire regime was turned against him. >> eric: let me add something. very important for you said this is different. general hayden, former director of the nsa under barack obama was on cnn and was asked, did jared kushner, based on what you know, all these allegations, did you do anything illegal? general hayden said unequivocally no, he didn't do anything illegal. it wouldn't have advised him to do that. we have the left-leaning media and people jumping on that bandwagon saying look at all this stuff. ben mention

valerie jarrett wanted comey fired. >> and also think that it was -- >> i have been watching tv all night tonight and nobody is standing up and saying james comey should still be in his job. people might have an issue with the timing possibly. i agree with what kevin said i would have done it on day one so it would have been different and i think president obama should have fired comey last year so there can be an argument about the timing but there's nobody standing up and saying director comey should be in that position. he lost the confidence of his people. >> if president obama had fired james comey. >> he should have. >> what do you think would have happened -- you would have been on cnn screaming to high heaven that this was some sort of political stunt by the obama administration. >> but the indecisive back and forth trying to, director comey trying to rationalize what he was doing with the clinton investigation last year. he completely lost control of what he was doing. we need to get someone in there that's going to follow the rule of law and take the fbi and do what they need to

president obama's advise or valerie jarrett reportedly urged him to fire comey. just yesterday, representative maxine waters said hillary clinton would have fired comey. if you want to talk about people in the dark? our story is consistent. the president is the only person that can fire the director of the fbi. he serves at the pleasure of the president. the president made the decision, it was the right decision. the people that are in the dark today are the democrats. they want to come out, they want to talk about all of these they love comey and how great it was, their statements are all right there. facts don't lie. i think it's extremely clear and frankly i think it's kind of sad in washington we finally had something that i think we should have all been able to agree organization and that was that director comey shouldn't have been at the fbi. but the democrats want to play partisan games and i think that is the most glaring thing being rancisut of all of your process stories. >> all right. we have been listening to sarah huckabee sanders talking about the f

president obama's advisor valerie jarrett urged and the fire comey.just yesterday representative maxine waters said hillary clinton would have fired comey. if you want to talk about people in the dark? our story is consistent. the president is the only person that can fire the director of the f.b.i. he serves at the pleasure of the president. the president made the decision. it was the right decision. the people that are in the dark today are the democrats. they want to come out. they want to talk about all of these -- they love comey and how great he was. look at the facts. the facts don't lie. their statements are all right there. i think it's extremely clear that -- and frankly i think it's kind of sad. in washington we finally had something that i think we should have all been able to agree on and that was that director comey shouldn't have been at the f.b.i., but the democrats want to play partisan games and i think that's the most glaring thing that's been left out of all your process stories. john roberts? reporter: sarah, you said from the pod

valerie jarrett wanted him gone. >> that's not true. >> he wrote last year after the whole e-mail debacle not simply be fired as the director of the federal bureau of investigation he must be barred from any form of public service. so much hate from the left and now to hear this is terrible. >> he would have been credible for firing him. >> the difference is having worked in the obama white house when he went out and made that statement on october 27th our jaws all dropped as well. he wouldn't have won a popularity contest in our white house no question. but fbi directors have ten year terms. there's processes in place including investigations that can review whether or not they acted appropriately the only thing that changed here is the russia investigation heated up and donald trump wanted a way to get away from that to take away the person leading the independent investigation. so i don't think it's more complicated than that. he's being used as a pawn right now. i don't think that he knows that. i don't know that for sure. but the fact that we're looking at his memo as if it's justifi

-- every president has had to some extent a close personal aide for -- president obama it was valerie jarrettident bush it was karen hughes. no one has had somebody who was a blood relative this close in the oval office. and in the west wing. it's something that he find comforting. >> and i'll just tell you a couple of fascinating little sort of color nuggets. she says he calls her father dad, not mr. president while in the oval office and that she gets time with him. she gets time alone with him when she needs it. kick the other advisers out to really have a one-on-one conversation. but i want to show you another quote that she gave "the new york times." she said i'll go to the mat on certain issues and i may still lo lose those but maybe along the way i've modified a position just slightly and that's just great. has she modified his positions? climate change, womens rights, those are her big issues. >> we'll see if they withdraw from the paris climate agreement which is coming up in a couple weeks. what i think is most interesting is she taukzilking about the ref the people in the west wing

i was seated near valerie jarrett near a high profile d.c. event.yway, i was going up to roger ailes and i couldn't resist giving him some -- a little guff, as my mother would say. i say hi, rog, what's going on over at the propaganda machine. he said i remember when you were a friend of fox and friends. i said yeah, that's when me and richard simmons were doing the weather 15 years ago. then rahm emanuel came up to me and said we're not doing this here. and i think i'm still friendly with valerie jarrett because she said that being friends with her makes her daughter thinks she's cool, but i don't know. i may have pushed it. >> it's a weird confluence, rahm emanuel and ailes all sitting together. >> it was not the washington correspondents one but the d-list one, tv and radio one. it was a crazy combo. i will say i'm amazed at how these washington people sit around and next to each other. >> what do you think his legacy -- ailes' legacy is going to be? >> i think truth fully his legacy is going to be the way he treated women, i really do. especiall

let's say bret baier had interviewed a senior female administration official in valerie jarrett a yeargo and continually rolled his eyesri in a condescending, disdainful fashion. what do you think the reaction would be? >> tucker: i don't want to think about it. >> it'd be the apocalypse. that's the only movie i can see here. that was most disappointing to me because i thought anderson cooper was above that kind of behavior and insteados of criticism from the media, you have cbs market watch saying that that was the eye roll heard round the world. you can't hear an eye roll. you see it, and you shouldn't be applauding it, you should be saying as you say, let's raise the discourse a little bit and stop the eye rolls. >> tucker: this is what happens when you work in a newsroom where every single person has exactly the same political views and there's no air in thesr room and you think that your stupid opinions represent the country. they're destroying themselves. >> one more point if we have a second. everybody talks about the timing of the firing as well. but nobody ever offers when a g

did he talk to valerie jarrett ever about it?ent obama, did he talk to the chief of staff of? what you're really asking is can there be that kind of conversation between the white house with and the fbi. whatever happened with those conversations? i always one dowondered why did comey seem frustrated when he went public against hillary clinton's actions. he wanted to public bely indict her. what were the conversations that led to that 37. >> and those conversations might matter more if hillary clinton was president.37. >> and those conversations might matter more if hillary clinton was president.7. >> and those conversations might matter more if hillary clinton was president.. >> and those conversations might matter more if hillary clinton was president. >> president trump just tweeted russia must be lafring up their sleeves watching as the u.s. tears itself apart over a democrat excuse for losing the election. first of all, president trump, thanks for watching. we appreciate it. but michelle, what do you make of the fact that th

valerie jarrett reportedly urged the president to fire comey. just yesterday maxine waters said hillary clinton would fire comey. if you want to talk about people in the dark, our story is consistent. the president is the only person that can fire the director of the fbi. he serves at the pleasure of the president. the president made the decision. it was the right decision. the people in the dark today are are the democrats. they want to come out, they want to talk about all these -- they love comey and is how great he was. look at the facts. the facts don't lie. their statements are all right there. i think it's extremely clear that -- and frankly, i think it's kind of sad. in washington we finally had something that i think we all should have been able to agree on, and that was that director comey shouldn't have been at the fbi. but the democrats want to play partisan games, and i think that's the most glaring thing being left out of all your process stories. john roberts. >> sara, you said from the podium yesterday that director comey had los

and valerie, valerie jarrett got up, and everybody got up, and at the end of the night be, she was like why were the boys on their blackberries. and i knew that i was in good shape and they were maybe in trouble. [laughter] but that was, that was a great, that's a good michelle memory. >> thank you so much, alyssa. >> thank you. >> absolute pleasure. [applause] >> thank you all for joining us here at oblong books and music in new york. iowa his saw's going to be signing books -- iowa lis -- iowa -- alyssa's going to be signing books, and it will start here and go this way. >> it's very organized. >> yes. thank you all. >> lizzie sharp! [inaudible conversations] >> here's a look at some books being published this week. nebraska senator ben sass argues that america's youth are not prepared for adulthood in the vanishing american adult.

president obama's adviser, valerie jarrett, reportedly urged him to fire comey. just yesterday, representative max iine water said that hillar clinton would have fired comey. if you want to talk about people in the dark, the president is the only person who can fire the director of the fbi. he serves at the pleasure of the president. the president made the decision. it was the right decision. the people that are in the dark today are the democrats. they want to come out, they want to talk about all of these -- they love comey and how great he was. look at the facts. the facts don't lie. their statements are all right there. i think it's extremely clear that -- and frankly, i think it's kind of sad, in washington, we finally had something that i think we should have all been able to agree on, and that was that director comey shouldn't have been at the fbi, but the democrats want to play partisan games and i think that's the most glaring thing that's being left out of all of your process stories. john roberts. >> sarah, you said from the podium yesterday that comey

has the press, barack obama valerie jarrett and the never trumpers and the caucus. should do that if that's your feel. but he actually sees the problem with the comey memo story. he saw the -- >> yeah, he was good on that. brian: he saw the jared kushner story. and i think he's been calling it as he sees it. and john mccain, let's see what happens because i think his wife could be working for the administration shortly. let's talk about this. nato. the visit. after he leaves, the president feels positive about it. and now it turns out angela merkel running for reelection comes out and essentially says this about the u.s. relationship and germany. the times in which we can rely fully on others, they are somewhat over. this is what i experienced over the last few days clearly about the meetings with trump. we europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands. >> good. brian: your reaction. >> yeah. i mean, i for one am ecstatic that the europeans are now having to face this bizarre concept, this unusual concept of actually paying their fair share of their own

. >> valerie jarrett said at time in politico, we saw a mushroom cloud rising over "morning joe" and bates, unfolded on tv. general stanley mcchrystal resigned the next day. that story is the basis of the new netflix original film "war machine" brad pitt plays a fictional general inspired by the book "the operators" written by the late journalist michael hastings and loosely based on gener general mcchrystal. here's a clip. >> you boys are where it actually happens. i would go so far to say you boys are the only things that counts. doesn't happen here, it doesn't happen, end of story. yes. >> what doesn't happen, sir? >> it, son. >> thank you, sir. >> does anyone here know what "it" is? anyone? anyone? >> to secure the area, sir? >> to protect people from the enemy so they can go about building their lives. >> okay. okay. thank you, sarge. >> okay. but i can't tell the difference between the people and the enemy. >> they all look alike to me. i'm pretty sure they're the same people, sir. >> i understand but that's the job. >> joining us now is the writer and director of "war machine"

they never would have treated hillary clinton or susan rice or valerie jarrett with such disrespect andre is no equality in -- ashley: if you made that kind of, those kind of jabs against a hillary clinton, to your point, can you imagine the outrage? >> oh, they would be bombarded with women, you know, lining up outside studio and, you know, holding them accountable. maybe we should do more of that as conservative women. but the bottom line is, you know, it's wrong to shame and to be personally talked about her clothes, the way she looks, and it's hard, you know? women on tv get it, women in news get it. it's -- but we're held to a different standard. ashley: what are the left so afraid of? when one makes a at the same time like this it's just their beliefs and how they see the world, it creates such a threat to the left. why is that? >> well, they can't win on the policy argument, they can't win, you know, so you have to get personal. and it happens all the time. ashley: do you think it backfires when they to these kinds of things? >> i think it plays to their base. i mean, bill maher

is valerie jarrett among many others that the campus rape problem is a spreading academic.epidemic suggests more and more of this, in fact the justice statistics found that from 1997 to 2013, the whole period before and just after this obama initiative, campus rape plunged my more than half. >> combined with other violent crimes. one more real case, amber amherst expelled a male student, i'll call him joe based on a claim by a female student, we'll call her hannah in october 2013 that he had forced her to perform oral sex more than 20 nights before. the reality was that she exposed him or at least seduced him by performing oral sex when he was blackout drunk in her room. >>. >> for going to leave this forum with the republican national lawyers association, take you live now to the u.s. senate for a pro formasession , no legislative work is scheduled. >> lawmakers will return it to p.m. eastern life here on c-span two and now we take you my days for him with the republican national lawyers association.>> we ask no questions about the text messages. after being expelled, joe