," peter she vein discusses the childhood of first lady michelle obama. her is interviewed by cassandra clayton, from the university of maryland college of journalism. >> peter she slevin, thank you for joining to us talk about you new book, michelle obama a life. >> thank you. great to be here. >> host: such a simple title for the story of the woman you called the most unlikely first lady in modern american history but it's not just a story of her life. it's the story of modern american -- did you set out to tell the story in that context or did that develop as you found out more about her background and the certain themes emerged? >> guest: cassandra, i covered the obamas for the "washington post" for quite a while. i was living in chicago and working for the "washington post," and i recognized that michelle obama has led a remarkable life, her trajectory is fascinating. i felt it was worth telling a story where she is at the center of her own narrative not just the wife of. when i embarkedden on the project i wanted to figure out where she was coming from. the things she was doing in

which first lady michelle obama gave at tuskegee university over the weekend. this morning we are opening a refund to get your reaction. did you watch and what did you think about that speech? our phones are open. democrats can call in at (202) 748-8000. republicans at (202) 748-8001. independence at (202) 748-8002. you can catch up with us on twitter or e-mail us. a good tuesday morning to you. we begin talking about first lady's michelle obama's commencement address. she speaks of the emotional toll of being the first black, first lady. they wrote, mrs. obama delivered the address to much applause but in intertwining her personal journey she if raised this question, how much has america progressed on race relations and can this generation prevent being defined -- here is a bit from the address in which she specifically talks about being the first black first lady. [video clip] >> back when my husband first started campaigning, folks at all sorts of questions for me. what kind of first lady would i be? what kinds of issues what i take on? when i be more like laura bush or hillary

. the most energized part of the speech was criticism of barack obama. beside the criticism almost anyone would say. it was not particularly well delivered, either, and the room was not electrified. for a guy who is getting high marks in foreign policy, very solid. he answered charlie rose's questions quite well but this is not a big speech that would instill in people a sense of this is our commander-in-chief. john: i thought he was better in the q&a than the prepared speech. he has moved to the right. he used to be thought of as a moderate. this was more conservative, at least in tone. mark: it was not a game changer. john: in congress that trade deal that everyone is het up about, it looks like the fed is striking a deal and there will be a vote tomorrow. where is the standardbearer of the democratic party on this issue? i am not talking about barack obama. i am talking about hillary clinton. an editorial accuses her of making an "dash for the tall grass" and missing an opportunity to find the values of the party she would lead. bloomberg view saying hillary cannot waffle on tra

" race relations in the obama era. in 2008 america took part in an historic election, pro-0 pelling barack obama, the first black president in to office with a sizable majority. many hoped the president would be the uniting force that we desperately needed. seven years later, the country is anything but united. tonight with the help of a studio audience we will analyze racial tensions and look for solutions. as a reminder this is what we saw and heard during the baltimore riots. [ sirens ] breaking news now continuing coverage out of baltimore where the situation appears to be well deteriorating. >> this is a joke? they think this is funny. >> the governor declaring a state of emergency in the city. 15 police officers have been injured after clashing with very violent protesters. now the riotic continuing at this hour with protesters looting stores, attacking police. >> move, move back. >> reporter: we have looting, the burning of building. >> bricks at police officers here. >> reporter: rocks and woulders thrown at police officers. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! >> do n

everyone sit through that dumb dr. seuss book. and a georgia teacher tells her students obama is an evil muslim. in a related story... she's now the frontrunner in the republican primary. time for some pomp and circumstance! this is the "the nightly show"! (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central captioning sponsored by ♪ thank you very much! (audience chanting larry) oh nice! on a monday! welcome to the "the nightly show." i'm larry wilmore. spring is here, which means it's graduation time. but for one georgia principal, things went sideways into randomly racist-town this weekend. it all went nutso after nancy gordeuk prematurely ended thet( graduation ceremony without letting the valedictorian make his speech. she brought him up to speak, but people had already started to get up and take pictures. so she just started yelling, as one does. >> i'm thinking yawl owe this young man an apology, especially that goober that was coming through with his little thing. that was so rude! where are you, you little coward? come on back here and let's talk. y'all are the rudest

castro? he in panama met with the president obama, and the pope is coming to cuba. how did it start? you played a role. cardinal: there are some previous contacts that speak to the possibility of the dialogue between the holy father and president obama. charlie: that is where it started. cardinal: in april or may of last year 2014 because it was a good guy with obama, the holy father has told me -- a good dialogue with obama, the holy father has told me it was a good moment. they were very conscious of each other, of the role of the holy father as pastor of the church and president obama is president of the most important country in the world. and the holy father has mentioned cuba to the president. the president, he has mentioned the embargo. and president obama told him something like this kind of laws were taken before -- charlie: my presidency. cardinal: yes. not before my presidency, but before i was born. charlie: yes, exactly. cardinal: yeah, exactly. and the holy father says to me it seems to me a time for change. and we have some problems. there is the law of the congress a

>> narrator: tonight on frontline... >> president obama found himself exactly where he didn't want to be. >> narrator: the president decides to draw a line. >> a red line for us is chemical weapons being utilized. >> narrator: and then decides to pull back. >> it was all in motion, and at the last minute, the president blinked. >> i will seek authorization from congress. >> extremists were sending the message to the locals that look, you've been betrayed by the united states and its regional allies. >> narrator: frontline investigates the choices the president faced as syria descended into war. >> the president is troubledbl by the outcome. he can't help but look at 200,000 dead syrians, the rise of isis that is now extending to far places in the middle east. >> we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil. >> obama was elected to end >> narrator: tonight "obama at war." >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontline is provided by the john d. and catheri

keeping our military strong, our nation secure, our citizens safe. >> president obama has nominated general joseph dunford current commandant of the marine corps to become the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. if confirmed by the u.s. senate, as is widely expected, general dunford will replace current chairman general martin dempsey. general dunford has already served in key national security roles, notably between 2012 and 2014 general dunford commanded nato forces in afghanistan where he earned president obama's gratitude. the president accepted dunford's recommendation to extend the deployment of u.s. forces to afghanistan. going forward, chairman dunford will have to manage u.s. operations against the islamic state in iraq and syria. he'll have to consolidate nato forces against potential russian aggression in europe. he'll have to provide military options to commander in chief obama in the event that his nuclear negotiations with iran fail. and he'll have to make sure that u.s. military forces in the pacific are able to deter and defeat chinese aggression. and he'll h

for us. >>> a foreign policy triple threat for president obama. trouble looming for the president in some of the world's most dangerous places. this is special report. good evening and welcome to washington i'm bret baier. the u.s. says it will not do for iraq what iraq must do for itself against isis terrorists. the white house is signaling new involvement in ukraine and china is warning the president against what it calls provocations and ins gagss regarded disputed territory. that's where we start tonight with jennifer griffin. >> with more evidence that china is building a military base in the middle of the south china sea on a chain of manmade islands 800 miles off its coast new reports from australia suggest that the chinese have moved weapons on to the contested islands. just a week ago, the chinese military issued a veiled threat to a u.s. navy p-8 poseidon surveillance plane that flew toward the spratly chain. >> please go away quickly. >> reporter: the u.s. defense secretary en route to a security conference in asia signaled a tougher u.s. stance. >> the united states wi

, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. the obama administration has begun another of its patented politically motivated policy reversals. these obama reversals are called variously flip-flops pivots and just plain changes of heart or circumstance. this time the obama pledges to quote, degrade and destroy the islamic state are suddenly inoperative. instead, the president and his administration are rapidly, desperately trying to distance themselves from the war against the islamic state. the president's top spokesman insisted the united states will train and equip iraqi forces but will not be responsible for securing iraq. we'll update you on the new political realities that have led to the president's abandonment of those pledges to degrade and destroy the islamic state. >>> also hillary clinton returning to the scene of her most embarrassing loss to barack obama back in 2008 but her embarrassments continue. she's still not answering questions about her growing e-mail and clinton foundation scandals. the question now is whether foundation donations bought u.s. government favors. we'll have much more on

half of neighbouring syria. in 2011, president obama was forced to confront an arab spring movement. that was sweeping the middle east. four years later the region is in crisis and america's role is unclear. mike viqueira has the story >>> egypt 2011, president obama struggles to react, late to call for the ouster of hosni mubarak, and comparing the protesters to heroes of the american revolution. >> we cannot hesitate to stand on the side of those reaching for their rights. knowing that their success will bring about a world that is more stable, peaceful and just. >> four years later the region is less peaceful and less stable. >> in yemen, a rebel advance, a saudi-led air campaign to drive them back. the u.s. goes along, playing a supportive role behind the scenes. in syria, four years of civil war. more than 200,000 death, millions displace said. they want allies to go after bashar al-assad, but president obama will not >>> since the dawning of the arab spring president obama encouraged regional allies to take the lead. so far the results have been mixed. >> the u.s. has not worr

see. i think in this role, we have seen so many sides of michelle obama. so many worlds in which she can walk with great comfort and confidence and so many ways in which she really is trying to make a difference, and i think it gets back to the conversations about purpose she had as a girl growing up, that she had at princeton and harvard. it reflects the work she did along the way on the south side of chicago during her 20-year professional career, where she is in the white house she is trying to show herself as an example to kids about what is possible in this country that is still pretty darn imperfect but where things are changing, and what one person can do. i think that she certainly will hope that message will be a big part of her legacy. >> host: would you say that michelle obama's story is the story of the american dream? i. >> guest: i think it's safe to say that she represents an important chapter in the country's history. i think we have seen in her and in the times she has inhabited -- obviously great progress towards a world that is a. built more fair, but let's kee

. we have severely criticized the obama administration for going too soft. i'm not soft on the jihad, they deserve to be neutralized and removed from the planet. if the president was serious about fighting the fa tanics he would mobilize the nations that are fighting isis. but it's a big fraud, the world conditions the to do nothing. but to insult a religion does not help the cause. it hurts the cause, does it not? and now for the top story, reaction joining us from washington laura ingraham and you say? >> i have to agree with you, the idea that it is going to be a benefit to us and i come at it from a traditionalist/conservative perspective, we are both roman catholics. the idea that it is a benefit to us as americans to criticize an entire faith in this way. i'm not talking about debate about you know understanding of theology but to do what was done in had the convention. i don't know what all the ins and outs were. it does not not only not accomplish anything, it could make things worse for us and i know conservatives across the country are saying i can't believe we are coddling

president obama's desperate drive to negotiate a so-called framework agreement to limit the development of nuclear weapons. today adamantly insisted as before will never permit foreign expections of iranian military sides or interviews with scientists under any nuclear agreement with any group of world power, ayatollah khomeini. such inspections are suspicious am a nuclear site, they would never be part of a credible framework. in addition to this north korea today announcing it has developed the ability to miniaturized nuclear weapons. it's a key step towards a nuclear warhead. and russia, now threatening the west with enlarging its nuclear arsenal to build more nuclear weapons adding to what is already the most powerful nuclear arsenal. and what did the obama white house do in response? out of our the president response? he did not respond at all. instead today he chose to focus on climate change. and described climate change is the greatest proximate threat to the united states declaring it an immediate risk to our national security. the risk assessment and priority on cl

, mainstream liberal media will not tell you but obama administration is working on a secret nuclear deal with china that could have destabilizing consequences all over the world. the deal giving china access to more of our advanced nuclear technology. what would prevent china from passing it on? we take this up with fox news military analyst general jack keane. also president obama escalating a fight with his liberal base over a massive so call free trade deal that being negotiated behind closed-doors. who is right? we'll take that up with senator james launching ford and nfl handing down tom brady and patriots punishment for deflategate. the three television network carrying nfl are those that will suffer the most. suffer the greatest financial penalty to degreat gate fiasco. -- deflate gate fiasco. we talk with sports marketing director tony pontaro . >> today they briefed lawmakers on a secret nuclear negotiation president obama seeking an agreement with china that would allow klein to buy u.s. design -- allow china to buy u.s. designed nuclear reactors and advanced nuclear technology

president obama will make about it, and it was important the holy father, the key role the holy father has played in this dialogue. i'm sure i have known the holy father himself his interest create a new relation between countries and peoples in order to have a word who can lend that conflict could be resolved by dialogue. >> rose: we are now looking at most recently a visit by rauÚl castro to the vatican where he said maybe he's coming back to the church, rauÚl castro? he in panama, met with the president obama. the pope is coming to cuba. how did it start? you played a role. >> there are some previous contacts that have created the possibility of the dialogue between the holy father and president obama. >> rose: that's where it started? >> in may of last year, '14 -- >> rose: yes. -- because it was a good dialogue with obama. the holy father has told me it was a very good moment. they were very conscious of each other, of the role of the holy father as pastor of the church and president obama the president of the most important country in the world and the holy father has me

about president barack obama. >> larry: okay, if you're playing at home, we're talking about an intolerant teacher in georgia who told her students her personal views on the president. what do you think she told these kids about obama? write down your answers now. (laughter) okay, concern parent, what did this teacher say to your kid in class? >> if your parents voted for obama, they're evil, and i don't see how your parents could vote for someone that's a muslim. >> larry: evil muslim! i almost went with that. i had "huge fan of late-term abortions." but if you had "evil muslims," you win. see our web site for your prize details. man, i used to be better at this. anyway, so these annoyed parents call for a parent-teacher conference and this is what happens. >> jimmy scott says he immediately requested a parent-teacher conference which he says made things more difficult. scott says in that meeting they never discussed the comments made in the class, but instead showed him what he calls propaganda from the internet. >> larry: that's right, the parents went to meet with the teache

books on the first lady's beginning with a look at michelle obama. this is a new book out by peter slevin. after that a book featured by c-span based on the television series on the first ladies we did last year. and finally kissing cousins, a look at elenore roosevelt and relationship. >> and now on booktv's afterwards peter slevin discusses the life of first lady michelle obama from her childhood to the whitehouse. he is interviewed by cassandra clayton at the university of maryland's philip merrill college of journalism. >> host: peter slevin thank you for joining us to talk about your new book, "michelle obama: a life." >> guest: thank you. it is great to be here. >> host: this is the story of the women you call the most unlikely first lady in modern history. it isn't the story of her life but a story of modern american history. did you set out to tell the story in that context or did it develop as you found out more about her background and themes emerged? >> guest: i covered the obama's for the "washington post" for a while while i lived in chicago. i found her trojectory is

than president obama, when it comes to this particular terrorist threat. take a listen. >> i want a leader willing to take the fight to them before they take the fight to us. >> we cannot win a war on radical islamic terrorism with a president who is unwilling to utter the words "radical islamic terrorism." >> fariq, republicans making a last point senator cruz was making in the clip ted cruz. for years don't understand why the president won't use the term radical islamic terrorism. your take? >> an effective political weapon that obama is vulnerable on it but that obama is doing it frankly, paying the price politically for a strategic reason. if you go into the arab world, if you go to the middle east are and you talk to the moderate the king of jordan for example, who i interviewed, and say, do you think we should be calling this radical islamic terrorism? they say, please don't. as a point they are in fact radical islamists. he is trying to be diplomatic here and is paying a price. >> tonight you have a one-hour special on isis. you spoke to a german journalist who isis allowed t

background in and the certain themes that emerged? >> guest: no i covered obama for the "washington post" for quite a while. i was living in chicago and working for the "washington post" am i recognized michelle obama has led a remarkable life a trajectory which is fascinating and i felt that it was worth telling a story where she is at the center of her own narrative not just the. when i embarked on the project i very much wanted to figure out where she was coming from. this thing she was doing in the white house and what were the origins of that and that meant getting into her family history and chicago history and the history that she had lived. >> host: chicagoans up being a major player in her story. going back there and looking at the life of her father whom she called her northstar even after he had died. what was it about her parents her father in particular that gave her that outlook enter values? >> guest: that's right and many people will remember the 2008 campaign that she would say of her father that he is a voice i hear inside my head when i ask him myself but am i making a

, good night. roth. lou: good evening i am lou dobbs, obama administration moving to break up a chinese spy, and espionage ring in this country, u.s. justice department officials today announce arrest of the chinese professor and indictment of 5 there other chineses citizens in what is believed to be a decade long effort to steal the trade effort from two silicon companies. they are chipmakers, they develop wireless technology, often used by our military. we take up china's rising act greg tonight and president's foreign policy collapses across a broad spectrum. also here, hillary clinton breaks what was a vow of silence. she went radio silent 28 days ago, and managed to avoided the pretty until today giving an impromptu 4 minute gaggle. but was it enough to appease her critics. we take it up with chief council for american center for law and just is jay. and new england patriot owner robert kraft changing his position on the deflategate penalties, one day after he met with the commissioner rodger goodell. could. it derail tom brady's appeal of his suspension or was this in trade for co

isis entirely on the shoulders of president obama. it's as if the u.s. invasion of iraq, which broke that country apart, had nothing to do with today's iraqi turmoil. an invasion bush and cheney sold with the now provenly bogus claim that saddam hussein had nuclear weapons and a connection to 9/11. watching the republicans contort themselves in this effort is to watch them prance in front of funhouse mirror. one group says that reality doesn't matter. it doesn't matter that their claims of a nuclear iraq or an al qaeda-connected iraq were bogus. the u.s. invasion wasn't to end the idea they say, even if it's left over $4,000 americans and over 100,000 iraqis dead. another group says that now, because the case made for the u.s. invasion was bogus, you can't blame the people who came up with those bogus claims. i know. this is hard to follow. a third group is similar to the first. it says okay we should have never invaded iraq but it's still cool because we got rid of saddam hussein. well, the fourth argument catch this, sort of covers all the bases. it doesn't think through the horror

powerlessness has contributed to dysfunction. >> and obama and his buddy jay-z bash the country that's given them every opportunity. tonight michelle malcolm will respond. "hannity" starts right here right now. tonight the obama administration continues to betray our fallen troops who died fighting in iraq. they do nothing while isis continues to capture key cities that they won. here's how white house press secretary jorn ernest described the situation today. >> as with any military effort there will be days of progress and there are going to be periods of setback. again, that's what the president said back in october. i think over the course of the last four or five days we've seen all of this. >> would you say overall the strategy has been a success? >> overall, yes. are we going to light our hair on fire every time there is a setback? >> light our hair on fire? this is not the first time the administration has dismissed ramadi's importance. you may remember this. >> the city itself is -- it's not symbolic in any way. it's not been declared you know part of the cal aiphate on one ha

? the question is as it always seems to be what is the obama strategy? we look for answers. we will be talking with fox news strategic analyst colonel ralph peters. also president obama escalating a fight with his liberal base over a massive trade deal negotiated behind closed doors. senator elizabeth warren says that deal could be used to weaken wall street reforms under a republican president. president obama says she's quote, absolutely wrong. who's right and what will happen? we will talk about all of this with pulitzer prize winning journalist michael goodwin and democratic strategist julie radimski. >>> and the nfl handing down tom brady's and the patriots pun shallment for deflategate. the national football league meting out punishment not on concrete evidence of guilt but rather a subjective assessment of abstract probabilities. >>> we begin in china and in washington with more tough talk from the obama administration. the state department now promises there will be quote, absolutely no doubt about washington's commitment to freedom of navigation and flight in the region of

never liked president obama. president obama: the top hedge fund managers made more than all the kindergarten teachers in the country. if we can't ask from society's lottery winners to just make that modest investment, then really this conversation is for show. john: lottery winners? those are the naughty words according to some people and according to this guy the chaser. he's the all-knowing number one money man, ken langone and the raging id of the conservative business class. he was on bloomberg tv early this morning. take a listen. >> all he's doing now with that demagoguery is saying -- the big problem i have with the president is he's engaging in something that cannot be good for america. engaging in the rich versus the poor and that is wrong. that's destructive. john: mark? class warfare, class warfare class warfarer, that's what they always say about obama. the question i have for you is spinning that forward, whether all that ire, is that a problem for hillary clinton or an opportunity? mark: it's an opportunity for her if she takes it. her husband was genius at winning

their intention is yet but are expected to join the fray. u.s. foreign policy under president obama is dangerously out of whak, they can whack, they can agree. >> everybody but rand paul can do better. >> they are the lap dogs for president obama and they are sensitive to that. >> rand paul thinks america should isolate itself from foreign conflicts and cut off all aid to boot. ted cruz would think more forcefully around the world, so force thafl he would order the united ful that he would order theunited states to bomb iran. jeb bush insists he is his own man on foreign policy, different enough from the controversial policies of his brother george w. bush. speaking of president 43, first time since leaving office in 2009 he lashed out. bl lindsay graham who's ready to announce his own candidacy soon, pulling out in 2011 a strategic blunder. obama's critics from the left are cuchg nothing but a continuation of president bush's foreign policy especially in the middle east. republicans of course call this absurd. lawrence korb is a senior fellow at the inner center for american politics,

sluggish economic growth under the obama administration. we're not going to get into politics here. but what we're talking about is are we just looking and trying to fix the symptoms and not fixing the broader root causes of what's causing the unrest in baltimore? in other words, the whole social media thing where you have cops parsing through social media feeds. that just feels like the back end and we're avoiding the problem. >> i think certainly everybody has good points on this regard and definitely the economic conditions could improve. i think one of this that could be included with social media and technology is community policing. every time we have a situation, whether it's ferguson chicago, the answer is like we need to do better community policing. if you are somebody who sees a neighbor posting some crazy thing on facebook call the cops let somebody know. >> should people be banned from social media? >> no unless they're in a crowded proverbial crowded theater, you can't yell fire. no because again, unless you've actually done something -- that's a good point about community

long? kate: i worked for bloomberg news for four years during obama's first term. i traveled around the world and it was a wonderful experience. before that i was at fox as a producer and cbs as a producer. al hunt gave me my chance at bloomberg to go to the white house. but i was in tv first. i wanted to switch to print. bloomberg is a powerhouse of the wire service. it was incredible. the greatest story was under my nose the whole time, these people who you never see. brian: you say you did 100 interviews with people who worked in the white house? kate: more than 50 former resident staffers and one current resident staffer. and 50 plus advisors. more than 100 people for the book. including people like president obama's body man, and katie johnson, who had a unique view of these people and how they served the presidency. brian: how often did somebody say to you, you can't write this? kate: only one person said, you are going to have a lot of trouble. it was very difficult to get them to talk. it took two years, a lot of time and energy. this was my full-time job. but there is one w

>>> hello, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. the obama administration moving to break up a chinese spy and espionage ring. u.s. department of justice officials this week announce the arrest of a chinese professor and the indictment of five other chinese citizens in what is believed to have been a decade-long effort by the chinese to steal trade and technology secrets from two silicon valley companies. the companies are chip makers companies that also develop wireless technology often used by our military. we take up china's persistent and rising aggression and the president's foreign policy collapses across a broad spectrum talking with former nato supreme allied commander admiral james stavridas. >>> also hillary clinton breaking what was surely a vow of silence that she had taken. she went radio silent 28 days ago. she managed to avoid the press until this past tuesday. she gave an impromptu four minute gaggle in which she dismissed her ongoing scandal about the clinton foundation her e-mails and various other conflicts of interest. but was it enough to appease her critics? probably not.

unrest in baltimore as merely part of what mr. obama seeks to describe as a larger, more profound national racial divide. president obama using an appearance on the late show with david letterman to address racism in america. >> we don't have to sort of accuse everybody of racism today to acknowledge that that's part of our past and if we want to get past that then we've got to make a little bit of an extra effort. and i thisnk the vast majority of americans are willing to do that. a residual factor but also a buildup of our history, and we can't ignore that. look, if you had slavery, jim crow, discrimination that built up over time even if our society has made extraordinary strides, then i'm a testament to that. >> well, he was a testament when he was elected. he was when he took office. but mr. obama it seems to me has actually worsened, not improved, race relations at times it seems as though that is his goal. here is the latest on the issue from a "new york times"/cbs poll. 61% of americans now say race relations in this country are generally bad. that number up sharply from 4

president obama. joining me now, the former director of national intelligence john. mr. ambassador, good to have you with us, as always. i'd like to get your reaction to this first in a decade increase in the threat level. john: well obviously i'm not privy to all the intelligence, but there must be indications that these people are communicating through their various means with sympathizers are people who might carry out some kind of copycat activity here in the united states. but clearly there magnum stenomustbe a basis to do this. i'm sure this is a warranted precaution. lou: warranted. yet the fbi itself says there is no specific threat. there is no one element of this. it's the result of what seems to be a shift in attitude at least on the part of the fbi. >> well it could also be though an increased amount of chatter, a noise -- noise in the system that is causing people to be a bit nervous. and that in turn is causing these precautions to be taken. would i expect some dramatic really large terrorist act to be undertaken? i'm not so certain. but could there be a one-off activity in

impropriety. >> so september 15, 2012, mrs. clinton who famously asked if barack obama was ready for the 3:00 a.m. phone call herself slept through the meeting where she was to receive the president's daily brief. the most sensitive document that the intelligence community produces. on that day clinton awoke at 10:30 a.m. lori. lori: it goes on. hillary herself shows the emails to turn over to the state department. while she was campaigning in new hampshire she didn't shy away from the press. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry with this report. >> i'm glad that the emails are starting to come out. this is something that i've asked to be done as you know for a long time. and those releases are beginning. >> this drama started earlier this year with the revelation that hillary clinton had put all of her official email on a private account on a personal server. so it's actually not clear she initially wanted the emails to come out. the state department released the first batch of 55 pages of official emails clinton turned over. there was a new revelation. the fbi deciding

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. [applause] or as president obama calls it the what? [laughter] the fundamental protection that says the powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. [applause] that means that there are core responsibilities -- they need to defend the nation, we need to stand with the military, we need to defend our borders. [applause] but there are other areas the federal government has no business being involved. right at the top of that list, education. [applause] and we need to repeal every word of common core. [applause] education is too important for it to be governed by unelected bureaucrats in washington. it needs to be at the state level, even better at local levels, where we have better control. [applause] and then number 3 -- we need to restore america's leadership in the world. [applause] for the last six years, we have seen the consequences of the obama-clinton foreign-policy. leading from behind does not work. [applause] and we cannot win a war on radical islamic terrorism with a president who is unwilling to honor the words "radcial islamic terrori

report,s a isis sets sites on baghdad, the obama administration shows little signs of changing course. but is blaming the iraqis a solid strategy? and a iran stepping in to fill the void. plus a now poll suggests americans are moving to the left on cultural issues. so are social conservatives an endangered species? what does this mean for 2016 and it's being called the white house's latest power grab. and the big headaches for private property owners. >>> welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paulgy gigot. the obama administration is showing little sign of changing course with defense secretary ash carter blaming the recent fall of ramadi on the iraqi army quote sewing no will to fight. and the u.s. news reporting is u.s. is not responsible. >> the united states is prepared to train them. to equip them. and to back them on the battle field with coalition military air power as they take the feist fight to isil in their own country. united states is not going to be responsible for securing the security situation inside of iraq. >> joining us this week. dan henninger. brett steven

camp david with president obama. on the agenda iran's nuclear deal regional security and the threat from isil. live now to camp david, allan fisher is there. not all of the leaders expected to attend will actually do so. what message does that send to the obama administration? how it is going to impact upon these talks? >> reporter: okay. there's an embarrass there for the obama white house when they issued these invitations, they were accepted the king of saudi arabia said he would be here and then a couple of days later, he said actually i'm not going to be there. the point the white house makes is the people who are here are important the saudi defense minister and the saudi foreign minister they are here and that's important. barack obama will be leaving the white house shortly, short helicopter journey to camp david here in maryland and he'll go straight into session. they will discuss what is going on in yemen and the battle against isil and the continuing negotiations with iran. they are concerned about the growing power iran has in the region. and in an interview, barack oba

now. >>> and -- some are calling it a royal snub. the saudi king not meeting with president obama this week. but what's really behind his decision to skip a summit of arab leaders in the united states? let's talk, live in the "cnn newsroom" newsroom". >>> good morning i'm carol costello thank you so much for joining me. we begin with the severe weather that's devastating towns across the midwest. violent storms ripping through texas, oklahoma arkansas, and iowa. >> first time don't tell me [ bleep ] just been hit. there goes the school. there goes the school. that's the [ bleep ] school. >> a tornado blowing the roof off this central iowa school while at least 100 people were inside, incredibly no one was injured. in arkansas possible tornado ripping through a mobile home park killing two people and injuring two others. in texas, a rural town just east of dallas has been left devastated. a possible tornado cutting a path of destruction. leveling homes, knocking down power lines, and toppling trees. 26 people hurt in what one official called a mass casualty event. meteorologist jennifer

program but it's compounded by the basic distrust of barack obama. >> i want to pick up on something that governor huckabee said. that is that the justice department's inspector general this week issued a report that said the fbi can't report to a single terrorist plot that was broken up as a result of this program, isn't that a really strong argument against it? >> i think that report covers only a small piece of the total picture. that is to say what the fbi is looking at. nsa and others former cia officials have said that of many recent terrorist incidents affecting the homeland the bulk data collection program has been a factor in every one of them. let's be clear how intelligence works. very rare that one piece of intelligence dictates the conclusion. this nsa program is part of a lot of efforts and it is very important. >> you talk about the hysteria what you say is the hysteria against it and also have said that critics are of the program are engaging in mccarthy like tactics trying to scare american public. this week senator rand paul took to the senate floor for almost 11 ho

the dea in 2014 say the white house shelved them. >> why would the obama officials want to stop the announcement? >> i don't know. you never stop exploiting intelligence. >> tonight, u.s. officials disputed the number of documents saying thousands, not over a million, were recovered and the release came today not in response to recent reporting on the raid and the decision to give buzz feed and the french wire surface afp and an advanced look coordinated by the white house. brett bret? >> kratcatherine, thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> here's more from the interview with meek kellichael flynn about the obl documents. >> we were told that there were 1.5 million documents gathered. is that true? >> that's true. the preliminary scrub lasts about three months and probably into about june or so. and then, according to the report of the "wall street journal," the documents went unexploited for a long stretch of time. you know for probably some number of months. it could have been as much as a year. >> why would top obama administrations want to stop the announcement? >> i don't know. you

. the white house brought help for police officers in camden. today, president obama announced an elite technical support team is here to improve the technology. the camden county police department uses. the president just left camden five minutes ago for philadelphia international airport. the commander in chief put camden in the spotlight this afternoon. president obama's first stop was to the camden county police realtime operations center. the president spoke with police chief scott thompson about the murder rate dropping 47%. president obama learned how camden county officers interact with people in the neighborhood and how that has helped with the dramatic drop in crime. >>> then the president had the chance to talk to a small group of children and officers at the community center. they all met in the gymnasium before the president gave his speech on the progress made reducing violent crime and building trust between officers and the community. >> the approach the chief has taken in getting them out of their squad cars, into the communities, getting them familiar with the people t

clear that evil and radical islam are at fault for this rise of isis and people like president obama and hillary clinton exacerbate it. he supposed to attack evil? this is weird. the enemy here is evil. >> it is an exorcist. >> jindal is an exorcist. >> it goes back to the axis of evil and the very grand terms they use to cover up a neo con interventionist approach. he is trying to make it sound like rand paul sought of the mainstream conversation. and then you have people like jeb bush who the other day said isis did not exist until barack obama became president, which was so wrong. it started in 2004 and 2006. so republicans like him and bobby jindal will say. >> try to name any candidate out there who is a capable commander in chief. >> i understand. let me explain my history of following politics. the person who wins the presidency is the man, so far probably a woman next time. still, it's her advantage, hillary clinton, who figures out what is it in the american soul at that time that is really motivating them. what is the thing that you get to? it's like romance. you're trying

discusses the life of first lady michelle obama from her childhood to the white house interviewed by cassandra, broadcast lecturer at the university of maryland college of journalism. >> host: thank you so much for joining us today to talk about your book michelle obama a life. >> guest: it's great to be here. >> host: it's not just the story of a life it's the story of modern american history. did you set out to tell the story in that context or did that develop as you found out more about the background insertion themes? >> guest: i covered it for quite a while when i was in chicago working for the "washington post" and recognized that michelle obama led a remarkable life and the trajectory is fascinating and i felt that it was worth telling a story where she is at the center of her own narrative. when i am barred from the project, i wanted to figure out where she was coming from. what were the origins and that meant getting into her family history ended to chicago history and the history that she has lived. >> host: chicago into being a major player almost a character in her st