president obama. >> madam secretary, that is a low blow. the last time i heard a united states senator had the right to disagree with the president, including a president who has done such an extraordinary job. bun of us ran against barack obama. i was not that candidate. >> sanders had the final word. but it opened a new chapter. it exposed deeper lines in their policy and political differences on health care reform clinton presented herself as the keeper of the legacy. >> before it was called obama care, it was called hillary care. >> senator sanders said race relations would be better in his administration. >> we will create millions of jobs for low income kids so they're not hanging out on street corner. >> clinton tied herself to obama and rejected the suggestion she would be swayed by campaign donations. >> let's not in any way imply here that president obama or myself would not take on any vested interest, whether it's wall street, drug companies, insurance companies or frankly the gun lobby. >

. >> president obama, president obama, president obama, president obama, president obama and i. president obama, president obama. >> well, hillary clinton's clinging to president obama last night was pretty tight in hopes that she can score with his supporters in south carolina. and force a real vision of distance between bernie sanders and obama on ideology, without having to say so. much more on the dirty tricks in the campaign trail. it has happened before in south carolina, and they're bracing for another season of dirt ball politics, especially by cruz. there, i said it. as the campaign shifts to south and west, the "hardball" round table is here to tell you something i don't know. valentine's day what it means to your family and mine. this is "hardball," the place for politics. what? wow... yeah! okay... guys, i'll be writing a new language for machines so planes, trains, even hospitals can work better. oh! sorry, i was trying to put it away... got it on the cake. so you're going to work on a train? not on a train...on "trains"! you're not gonna develop stuff anymore? no i

everything president obama does is not just going to be this is what president obama did, and i know president obama isn't that great, do you want president cruz doing it, president rubio doing it, president trump doing it? if they're not president in 2016 someone like them will be president, do you want them to have their powers, and is it worth whatever president obama's achieving right now to risk that in the future? ultimately, the cavalier attitude toward the rule of law can only justify that politics is law by another name and, therefore, just get what you can now, and don't worry about it. if that's what obama and his appointees really believe, maybe the critical legal scholars have won after all. thank you very much. [applause] >> well, thank you, david. at least if -- you're going next? you sure? okay, good enough. if president trump does it, one think we know, it'll be tremendous. [laughter] all right. we're going to now here from ilya shapiro, and you're going -- [inaudible] oh, okay. well, i ask because as you heard, ilya's as of late friday night is a new, is a first-tim

president obama will make a nomination. the republican candidates and senate majority leader have all suggest that they will not act before the election. so my question, if the republicans delay or refuse to approve doesn't that give the democrats more ammunition to get a democratic senate? and then when president hillary clinton is elected she can nominate an obama, biden sanders. is there precedent -- when presidents have an opposition party as a majority in the senate to present more moderate candidates? and if they control the senate a more provocative candidate? so should republicans take what obama gives, which is likely to be more moderate than america in 2017? host: thank you for the call. guest: that's a great point. because in a sense, assuming that the republican position holds as we heard last night, they're really sort of playing for double or nothing. obama is as you say likely to pick someone who thinks is a plausible candidate who, i guess on air might have been a consensus figure as we said justice anthony

however, obama had an edge with younger black voters. but by january, he had an edge over hillary clinton among african-americans in general. 49% to 30%. when you look at the garner family, and the divide there within that family over who to endorse, is there a larger question here? >> yeah, i think that some of it is about the inner generational divide with how faithful people feel the government has been to their needs. i also think there's something, when we met with bernie and hillary, we told them that their concern really should be if people are going to stay home or not. some people feel bernie has not rolled out a plan as much as he's covered a broad range of topics. people have real questions about how. and with hillary, i think people question her sincerity and if she's willing to talk about some of the tough issues especially related to race and criminal justice. i think people are rightly focusing on who people support. i think a bigger question is whether people are going to come out and vote at all. >> yesterday, senator sa

obama's own lawyers say you can't do this. you have to go to congress. these are folks who are representing defense interests. youyou can do this. president obama went trolling around looking for somewhere with authority to say you can do this. he found former dean of yale law school. now, he was known in the academic world for arguing that the president cannot act unilaterally. even better he argued that when president reagan bombed libya that that implicated the war powers act. somehow he came to the conclusion that bombing libya for months at a time 15 years later not constitute hostilities within the meaning of the act and therefore the president can go ahead and do it. >> wasn't more hostilities the military action. >> the argument, american forces are not actually at risk unless they get hit by a stray aircraft. one problem largely meant to prevent cambodia from happening again. so just looking at the history is not make any sense. finally as far as the examples, this to your colleague letter to rewrite their guidelines for them just -- investigati

barack obama. i'm not sure where you are going, i want to make that clear. the reason i did it because i had applied -- i was a member of the white house press corps. i had a standing white house pass, went to the briefings every day. i got out of that for my own program, because i could ask questions. i thought i could expand that opportunity by getting a press credential of the u.s. capitol. i applied, and i was told i had to appear before the full senate reporters accreditation committee, because there were questions about whether or not i qualified. i was told because i gave my opinion -- actually first, i was turned down because i gave my opinion on my show. i am a talk show host, of course i give my opinion. i pointed out there were others on the press corps already who i thought should be disqualified. so they gave me a hearing in front of the full accreditation committee. the vote was 12-1 against me. al jazeera voted against me. fox news voted against me. i had one vote, from c-span, i'm p

>> what is interesting is obama has faced extraordinary levels of obstruction. no other president has been subjected to what he is been subjected to. used in an incredible -- he has done an incredible job. on the other hand, his own self-imposed gag order when it comes to race is not benefited the nation or given us the opportunity to see his mind on the issue of race. amy: and who was behind the publication of yesterday's fake "new york times" declaring the paper was rethinking its coverage of israel and palestine? you will find out here on democracy now! all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. officials in texas have reported the first case of zika virus contracted in the united states, saying it was sexually transmitted. if confirmed, it marks the second known case of zika transmission through sexual contact. zika has continued to spread rapidly across latin america, with chile reporting its first three cases. the mosquito-born illness, while generally not life-threatening , has b

they voted for barack obama twice and gave him eight years in office. i have to imagine that if one of these republicans does become president and wins a second term, that in their eighth year in office that they would feel like they have an obligation and a right to do plenty of things including nominate a supreme court justice. >> john, we used to be so much deference giving the president his or her choice to fill any judicial appointment, whether it's supreme court or appellate court or not. but in the recent years, we've seen in the senate these judicial wars really, really intensify. even republicans would point to democrats filibustering appeals court nominees, even president obama joining a filibuster of john roberts in the senate that's clearly something that, you know, we'll probably hear republicans talk about a lot. if they decide not to hold a vote and keep that seat open for over a year, that will be an escalation to a whole new level. >> and it goes way beyond the politics because the balance of the court's at stake. so many 5-4 decisions.

president obama and i are friends. as you know, he came to vermont to campaign for me when he was a senator. i worked for his re-election. his first election and his re-election. i think it is really unfair to suggest that i am not supportive of the president. i have been a strong ally with him on virtually every issue. do senators have the right to disagree? have you ever disagreed with a president? i suspect you may have. >> senator, what i'm concerned about is not disagreement on issues saying this is what i would rather do, i don't agree with the president on that. calling the president weak, calling him a disappointment, calling several times he should have a primary opponent when he ran for re-election in 2012, you know, i think that goes further than saying we have our disagreements. yes, i was a senator. i understand we can disagree on the path forward. those kinds of personal assessments and charges are ones that i find -- >> senator, would you like to respond? >> one of us ran against barack obama. i was not

it says something about the importance of those issues to obama, but i'm sure obama himself would say that he would like to have done more to both address racial harmony, i guess, and united states and do something on gun violence. president's a clip of obama speaking at reverend pinckney's funeral in charleston. [video clip] drew on aan act that long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, not controlut as a means of , a way to terrorize and oppress. [applause] an act that he imagined would recrimination, violence, and suspicion, and act that he presumed would deepen divisions that traced back to our nations original sin. oh, but god works in mysterious ways. [applause] god has different ideas. [applause] he didn't know he was being used by god to [applause] god. [applause] hatred, the alleged killer would not see the greatness surrounding reverend pinckney and that bible study of love thatght shown as they open the church doors and invited a stranger to join in their prayer circle. the alleged killer could have never anticipated the way the families of the fallen wou

but it isn't just a case of the obama administration being slow or the obama administration not been committed to closing guantanamo. this is a difficult challenge because a lot of these detainees simply cannot be sent back to their native countries for variety of reasons. some of which is related to international law prohibitions on sending individuals back to a country in which they face the likelihood of torture. it's a process to try to find countries to accept them and resettled them, and a long bureaucratic process, when the obama administration has not managed particularly well, but hopefully, in his last 11 months, the president and secretary of defense carter will be able to light a fire under the people in the pentagon who are responsible for doing this and we can get it done. amy: baher azmy, the prisoners you have represented, i mean, how they end up like guantanamo, for example, those that were given money to bring in people. overwhelming majority of prisoners brought to guantanamo bay were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, fleeing the american-led bombing in

president obama has 342 days left in office. even if the senate decided to take as long as it ever has taken to confirm or reject his nominee, president obama would still have time to put forward not one but two nominees with the remaining time he's got in office plus some change. if the senate acted on president obama's nominee as quickly as it has done so on average over the course of our american history, president obama has time to make 13 different nominations. if the senate keeps us a pace on par with the historical average. there's nothing about having a year left in office that precludes president obama from replacing justice scalia on the supreme court. we are at a very unusual time in american history where the republican party appears to be saying with one voice, that they believe a new, for the first time in american history, there can be no confirmation of a new supreme court justice in the president's last year in office and the president should not nominate a potential justice. since the year 1900, in a president'

the white house says obama conveyed the message in a phone call to putin yesterday. he say ceasefire and delivered more humanitarian aide. neither the russian backed syrian government or the rebel factions have siend the ceasefire agreement being discussed at a multinational security conference in moneyic, germ mannee. attending the conference senator john mccain who chairs the senate armed services committee warned a potential treus could weaken opposition forces without ceiling the russian and syrian military campaigns. >> not only will this agreement fail but the war in syria will grind on, more innocent people will die, western credibility and influence will diminish, the refugees will continue to flow out, the terrorists will continue to flow in. >> civilian casualties in afghanistan have reached their worst level in seven years. more than 11,000 civilians were killed or wounded in 2015 according to the new annual report from the united nations. the report says 3500 civilians died and 7500 people were wounded last year. as fighting continued between american-bac

. >> that wasn't about obama. it was clearly talking about t hillary clinton. and we hear from the clinton campaign she's not saying vote for me pause i'm a woman explicitly. but she does say this is the first time of woman on stage. and she says how can bernie sanders say i'm not in the establishment when i'd be the first woman president. this is something she uses a lot. >> but there is a difference. she's not saying it is not the point of our campaign that anybody should make a decision to vote based on gender alone. but it does bare relevance that she water bring a unique perspective. day to day decisions in the oval office and also a sensitivity and tenantiveness to the minds of women voters. >> one other thing hillary clinton said, she suggested you need a long-term relationship with the african american community. she essentially said the relationship is not something you can create just a few months before an election. the inference or implication is she's talking about bernie sanders. didn't bernie sander

neuer has obama to that extent. one of the reasons, speaking to conservatives is that antonin scalia was their guy. he was the intellectual father of originalism in the modern era since 1986. how many candidates on the on republican side have said they would nominate someone in the mold of scalia. he is that big. regardless if the president puts up somebody, absolutely there is going to be a fight. if that nomination goes nowhere. and i think there is a lot of energy on the left in the fall. on the right, i think there will be a lot of energy no matter what happens. i think the stakes of the supreme court become all the more higher in the absence of scalia. it is true now in the nominating primaries as well as in the fall campaign. the question i would ask for jeff is there a danger of a failed nomination for the potential no, ma'am any? sriv is ivasan. if he has nominated is there a reason hillary clinton would not just pick up where president obama left off. >> at a human level, does anyone want to accept a nomina

whether it's president obama or whoever succeeds him. justice scalia commented to me as much as he had differences with people who occupied the white house when he was in office. but he assumed he would always be around longer than they were. but president obama will probably nominate a judge of the united states coast appeals in his or her 40s so the person could serve for 4 some years, who was just affirmed by the senate last year. there is five of them. they are all liberals, they are all academics. they all were affirmed 98-2 or 98-0. so senators have a hard time explaining why they would vote against someone they voted for. once you get into the merits of the nomination the republicans will lose. the president will pry loose enough of them. justice scalia said his greatest fear in life was that he would be succeeded by somebody who would undo what he has done. if he is succeed bid his opposite number, the undoing will not be overnight. the court will not revisit. it doesn't have jurisdiction over its former cases. once a case is dec

obama obama obama obama obama. this is where the race changed. once we got into the state wrz the african-americans are the majority of the population, obama won south carolina with 55%. he came next door and won in georgia with 66%. he came over and won alabama with 56%. he won here in mississippi with 61%. and he won louisiana with 57%. so winning and winning by a healthy margin and as david axelrod and donna were talking about in the democratic districts you pick up big delegates. that is hillary's big goal. bernie says he's in it until the end. he's hoping after sk tonight she proves she can win the most african-american votes, carry the momentum through the south on super tuesday to convince bernie sanders, you're not going to be able to catch me. tone it down. that's her biggest goal. >> in addition to the earned delegates he has a lot of super delega delegates. she starts off with a huge advantage. >> the last thing she wants is so to get to the end and need the super delegates to put her over the top. she needs to win a majority. the way

senate to block anyone nominated by mr obama. they have been trying tribute at their latest presidential debate in south carolina. the u.s. is urging turkey to stop military strikes in syria. the prime minister has ordered fighters withdrawal from the area. turning your attention to mexico where the pope francis has been celebrating mass. he is on a five-day trip to mexico, home to the second largest roman catholic community. >> translation: god awoke and awoke the hope of the lowly of those who suffer of the displaced and discarded and all those that feel that they do not have a dignified place in these lands. in the storm god comes closer and closer to the suffering but strong hearts of so many mothers, fathers, grandparents that have seen their children lost or strachd criminally-- snatched criminally >>> he will hold a mass in what is the largest municipality in mexico and one of the violent areas. >> reporter: this poor suburb on the edge of mexico city. it represents the problems and promise of mexico, and, perhaps, that's

she's like hillary rodham obama, if you don't like the way things are, you're disrespecting obama. i think a lot of black folks like him better than her. that's just reality. >> one thing that van touched upon is media framing it as if there is one or two or three or four black americans who speak for all of us. le the fact is we don't all get together for one meeting. >> didn't van call the meeting? >> that really needs to change. >> it's true because as i talk to people, right, i see people -- i see african-americans and people who don't believe this on social media, i see african-american hogs support ben carson. i haven't seen many who support ted cruz. it's not just one single candidate. there is not just one way to be black and one person to put your support behind. >> let me add to that. just to build on that, there is an african-american left and there's an african-american center and there's an african-american right. what you're see rieing right ina lot of the african-american centrists are grouping around the clintons. john lewis was with hillary clinton against obama al

obama ran against clinton. she was in first. >> but there was a, you know, you could just see, sanders was quicker on his feet. >> he was good as a debater. >> you saw him. >> you saw two heavyweights last night. i thought both were really good debaters. i watched it again. >> she was excellent, and he kept up with her. and that is probably what is now surprising some of the folks. >> she is concerned about her base, not just the african-american vote that they're competing and rolling out different endorsements and different tv ads. >> this is quite eye opening statements. whoa. >> but here's hillary clinton trying to bring back the women. give me the love. >> i have spent my entire adult life working to make sure women are making their own choices, even if that's not to vote for me. >> do you believe you will be the instrument of thwarting history, as senator clinton deeps claiming, might be the first woman president? >> well, you know, i think from a historical point of view, somebody with my background, som

question -- why did president obama propose a budget with no hope of passing? is president obama playing politics with the country's budget? i ask you, pat. pat: the president wants to lay out what would be his agenda if he could get it. it's dead on arrival. the republicans aren't even going to hold hear osgood n it. the more interesting question is donald trump, the winner of the primary down in louisiana went after the republican ohio state and republican senate for having basically capitulated last year and for collaborating with obama and for not fighting, which means he's reaching into the ted cruz wing of the party, which is not necessarily his own. in order to broaden his base for the south carolina primary. loork the real battle here is not tren -- between the president and the republican congress. it's going to be inside the republican party between now and the end of the primaries. john: yell knorr? eleanor: that's right. this is a battle within the republican party about the president's budget. the budget is modeled on the october to atchplaushgs ap

also appointed by president obama. his family migrated when he was very young but has grown up here ever since. a lot of diversity in all the choices, and these are all just speculation. but according to a lot of court watchers, pretty good guesses to start with. >> back with us, jeffrey toobin and jonathan turley. professor turley, you had an article where you talked about president obama using the nuclear option and making a recess appointment. i want to read a part of what you says. the difference is often the exercise of restraint. it's not enough to say you can do something but whether you should do something. do you foresee this getting to that point? >> in the politics we've all been witnessing, there's virtually nothing i'd rule out. this is a toxic relationship between this president and this congress. it's a president who has gone unilaterally in taking actions before, including going too far on recess appointments given the recent canning decision where he was rejected in terms of his claims there. there is

it is president obama, i plan to nominate a successor. and yet, perry, this is one of those moments. that's not really a headline in normal political history. the president always nominates a successor. indeed it would be weird not to. there is an obligation to staff the courts. there have been big fights. fdr famously overdoing and it trying to add seats to the court to break the pushback to the new deal that was coming from conservative members against his economic agenda. and there were times where there were road blocks. certainly, in normal functioning washington governance, it is not news that the president would fill the appointment of a deceased member of the court. >> exactly. if writ october of 2016, i think there would be more, it would seal more complicated. a month from then, a new president would be elected and presumably want to pick someone. we're in february right now. so we're talking about obama is going to be president for ten more months. it is in some ways not surprising that he would want to pick someone for the cou

obama has changed. after years of challengess such as north korea and syria. >> i'm curiousus how the presidency has changed you as a president. now eight years in. how you have changed as a president and how you have changed as a man in the time you >> you know, i think my basic character is unchanged. and michelle and close friends of mine who have known me for years would say, he's the same guy. there is obviously some hard-won wisdom from -- >> uh-huh. >> from overcoming challenges. figuring out really hard problems. i told somebody in, in -- another interview though that, probably the most important thing and maybe this is just a function of age as well as -- having been around the track a while. as president. you lose that fear. you lose that sense of, oh, what if something goes wrong. because there are going to be things that go wrong. you lose that, that tightness that comes from being very self-conscious about not making mistakes. at a certain point, you realize, look, you do your best. you mak

obama was speaking at the presidential election campaign is shifting into a higher gear. response to the anti-muslim statements of republican candidates trying to replace him. they're trying to outdo each other and trying to link president obama with terrorism. >> donald j trump is calling for an entire shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> i was worried when donald trump made those statements and he was leading in the polls. rattled evenas mainstream muslims like hannah, a teenager with confidence in herself and her faith. >> when i leave my house, they say he aware of your surroundings. barbara: president obama pushed back against that kind of fear and division, calling to confront bigotry and appeal to muslim youth. president obama: you fit in here. you are where you belong. you are part of america, too. or american.uslim you are muslim and american. barbara: urging them to have faith in their future as americans, at a time when the future of the country is in flux. barbara plett usher, baltimore. laura: in other news, the iraqi government has begun buildi

then -- obama. i was not that candidate. >> the democratic candidates clash on who is building on the barack obama legacy. bernie sanders in his first interview on "fox news sunday" since starting the presidential campaign. we break down both races as bush xliii prepares to hit the campaign trail for his brother.

obama i said. is that irish he asked? and then in my early 30's at the time, i was a little cocky, i said it will be when i run county wide. [laughter] president obama: now that was a good joke, he said. but he wasn't amused. this bill is still going to die. he went on to complain that my predecessors name was easier to pronounce. i didn't have cookies at my desk like she did. how would i expect to get any votes without having cookies on my desk? i definitely urged the no vote. for the next several minutes they detailed on if i should add an apposition trophy to my name if i was irish and how many trees were killed to print the bill. i said if i survive the event, i will be eternally grateful and consider it a highlight of my legal and legislative career. i asked for a vote. initially it showed it was going down. at the last minute it slipped and my bill passed. but i was duly reminded that i was a freshman in the minority. i want to thank all of my former colleagues in both chambers were not letting me forget it. to be a

more and he last 74 last under barack obama -- seven years under barack obama. what is your analysis? is a goodders: it question, and i do not know the answer. what i do know is the african-american community is tired of police harassment. the african-american community is tired of seeing their people, african americans arrested four times the rate of whites for the possession of marijuana. they are tired of seeing schools deteriorate. they are tired, and this ties in with the economy, of seeing the country make significant gains after the wall street crash, but they have not made the kinds of gains. president obama responsible? bernie sanders: i do not want to get into president obama. he has faced a lot of conflict. this guy has gone on for years and years. president obama is not perfect. i do not know anyone who is. he has tried. if you want some of to blame, look at the unprecedented level of obstructionism we have had from the republican congress. mark: you raise the question of upper -- all they were ,eplacement for justice scalia you wouldyone nominate wo

>> no, i think president obama is going to submit a nominee. and in all likelihood, this person will be out of the mainstream, and they'll be rejected by the senate. that's his prerogative. he has every right to do it. and the senate has every right to not confirm that person. that's what i said. he clearly has the power to do it. but given his choices of supreme court justices in the past, the senate of the united states should not confirm someone who's out of the mainstream. >> but if i could just clarify, right now it sounds as though -- >> yeah. >> -- the republicans who run the senate aren't even going to schedule a vote. you think that one should be scheduled? >> it's up to mitch mcconnell. that's really not important to me. >> you mentioned what kind of supreme court nominee you would pick. you know this. many conservatives still haven't gotten over the fact that your father chose david suter for the supreme court. a lot of them are still smarting over the fact that your brother's choice for chief justice, john roberts, ended up with som

he respects president obama. he has worked with president obama. in fact, president obama's flagship piece of legislation the affordable care act bernie sanders helped prepare and draft that legislation. if we want to talk about disrespect of obama, let's talk about the fact that there is one candidate who ran against him and that is hillary clinton. let's talk about the fact that in 2008 some of the same things that hillary said last night against bernie sanders she said against president obama in 2008. >> mayor, do you think people should give bernie sanders another look? >> the answer is no. let's talk about the fact that she ran against him in 2008, erin. he thought so much of her that he made her his secretary of state and she supported him flat out and did everything she could to see that he was elected. let's also talk about the fact that when you listen to bernie sanders rhetoric, you don't hear him talk about the 14 million jobs that president obama's economy has produced. you don't hear him talk about the 18 million newly insured. you don

barack obama won both of his elections in a landslide. he should be able to choose people who reflect his ideological philosophy to the spring court. -- to the spring court. when really him request -- william rehnquist died on the bench, george w. bush gave chief ip to john roberts. behalf of your liberals. we will win in november. guest: republicans in the senate have the right to block that nomination. --re may be consequences this will now be a big part of the 2016 presidential election. it is unclear who would is going to help. there may be some voters who hold that against republicans. the democrats will try to make it an issue. president bush got two appointments. president obama has gotten two appointments. this is a lifetime appointment. republicans will make the argument that a lame-duck president with less than a year left to serve should not get this third pick. the voters will decide whether or not that is a good idea or bad idea. host: think we showed the chart in a previous segment. it takes less than a year to confirm a sup

you can expect president obama to put forth a nomination. being lori jane. >> we spoke with jeffrey stone, a law professor, who once shared time with justice scalia acknowledge how judgments affected scalia as well as his personal life. >> i think justice scalia did not take disagreement personally and he understood he had a particular position and he argued it with great enthusiasm. but he did not expect everyone to agree with him. at least in the context of interpersonal relationships and because at justice he tended to be far more intemperate. in public speaking he tended to be far more intemperate. in private relationships he was i think terrific in this regard. >> you had a falling out with the justice after you wrote about his religious views and how you thought they affected his rulings on the supreme court, particularly abortion. how did it affect him? >> i think scalia was a deeply religious person and he would reject the proposition that a justice he was influenced by his personal values, whether religious or otherwise. he very muc

ohio in 2012 voted for barack obama for president. in return our democratic colleague brown to the senate but sent 12 republicans to congress and only four democrats. wisconsin voted for obama in 2012 and elected progressive senator tammy baldwin to the senate but sent five republicans and only three democrats to congress. the republican organization behind red map bragged of this achievement. i'm quote their memo. aggravated numbers show voters pulled the lever for republicans only 49% of the time in congressional races. but republicans enjoy a 33-seat margin in the u.s. house seated yesterday in the 113th congress. having endured democratic successes atop the ticket and over one million more votes cast for democratic house candidates than republicans. this gerrymandererring ran wild because in a supreme court case, four republican justices announced that they would no longer question whether gerrymandererring interfered with any constitutional voting rights. one, justice kennedy, left a glimmer of light, but the practical effect was

we got a little preview yesterday from president obama. he spoke about resolving problems through peaceful measures. >> here at this summit, we can advance our shared vision of international order where international rules and norms including freedom of navigation are upheld and where disputes are resolved through peaceful legal means. >> reporter: one of the big issues there, liz, we should point out there is a news conference. so the president will be taking questions from reporters. it is highly likely that president obama is asked about the nomination process in replacing the late justice antonin scalia. he also could talk about -- touch upon business issues that many are watching like the 12 nation transpacific trade deal and the administration officially signing the deal today to open airwaves to cuba. president obama will head back to d.c. tonight. liz: a live picture of the podium. the minute the president gets up there, we will absolutely take that shot. blake, good to see you, thank you very much. as they prepare for that speech,

snapchat didn't exist during the 2012 obama campaign. and it's now number one. and so i think what you'll continue to see is the platforms will continue to change. but what won't change is people getting invoed with leaders they can believe in. and the campaigns who are able to consolidate that and have a message and a vision for this country will do really well on social media. and the ones who aren't and don't won't. karl: these are tools that are most successfully used in it's an avenue, it's not in end goal. and that goal is to return to 1844, when a young lawyer in sagama county, illinois wrote a letter to his campaign committee and said, "make a perfect list of voters, have the undecided talked to by someone held in confidence, and on election day, make sure that every whig is brought to the polls." abraham lincoln was pretty good practical politician, as well as a president, and the important point was "have the undecideds talked to by someone they hold in confidence," which is what social media allows us to do in a powerfully broad fashion. jim: facebook

obama. there was a feisty moment when sanders noted that he was not the candidate on stage, who ran against president obama. bret? >> mike emmanuel, thanks. let's bring in our expanded panel. steve hays, amy stoddardxd and . steve, your thoughts? >> what is fascinating is to hear hillary clinton trying to get to bernie sanders left, yet again. she opened the statement calling for illuminating the influence of wall street and stripping things out of politics. the things that have been the two fold of bernie sanders campaign. i think it's deeply cynical of hillary clinton to be making those arguments given the swirl about her fund raising, both with the clinton foundation and generally. the super pac debate, and the contributions she god from goldman sachs, and she's calling for this to be eliminated? hypocritical. >> there is this hugging of president obama by hillary clinton. but yet, talking about economic troubles that have not been fixed over seven and a half years, it's a tough line to w

president obama: there we go. reporter: one of barack obama pass first acts as president was to sign an executive order to close guantanamo bay. he has been trying to shut the prison since then, those ideas walked by republican lawmakers. with the end of his presidency insight, obama has been giving it another go. president obama: it is clear the prison at guantanamo bay does not advance our national security. it undermines it. this is not just my opinion. this is the opinion of experts, the opinion of many in our military. it is counterproductive to our fight against terrorist because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit. reporter: the guantanamo bay prison was set up to house foreign terror suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. it is still open because the republican-controlled congress has locked an obvious way of closing it by banning the transfer of detainees to u.s. soil. some of the 91 remaining, does not being transferred to their home countries, are deemed too dangerous to releas

obama had 50. and he had something called -- >> project narwol. >> a data program with a code name. >> he named it narwhal. >> we wanted a code name that would be fun to say. it's kind of a joke, really. once it leaked, nobody knew what to do. suddenly there was this mythical narwhal. then everyone was like, what's narwhal? >> meanwhile, romney's team had orica, a database name for another sea creature.ca, a data another sea creature. on election day, it crashed. >> you literally have 35,000 volunteers whose job is to get out the vote, wandering like zomb zombies. have the republicans caught up? >> if they haven't caught up, it's their fault. >> she's definitely considering ted, which is fantastic. >> we have caught up, says the cruz campaign. >> i went and bought a copy of obama's campaign manager's book, the audacity to win, gave it to our senior team. said we are going to nakedly and shamelessly emulate this. that's very much the plan. >> he made it very clear that this was an area, the use of d

the nuance of what president obama said today was really interesting because president obama really did tell matt a couple of weeks ago what donald trump would never be president. what ron allen asked is do you think mr. trump will win the republican nomination. president obama, responded, i don't think he'll ever be president. do we take that to mean that president obama expects that donald trump will be the republican nominee for president this year. that was the end of the press conference. no further follow ups. the available data, at least so far, says mr. trump is the most likely person for the republican party to nominate for president this year. this is the latest south carolina polling on the republican side. this is a cnn poll out showing mr. trump with a 16-point lead in the state of south carolina. 26 of the last 27 polls taken in south carolina show mr. trump leading in that state. the vast majority of those 26 polls that show him leading show him leading by double digits including all the polls taken in south carolina this calendar year. mr. trump came in second in iowa. h