look, lincoln was the obama of the 1800s. he was divisive and he made controversial decisions that over time will reveal to be for the greater good. freeing the slaves, that was basically lincoln's obamacare. i'm not sure if you know what went down with the emancipation, but lincoln had some pushback too. and that's why i see today as a celebration. when president obama boarded that helicopter and waved good-bye, i saw a man ascend to greatness and that is something to smile about. - i guess so. i guess so, roy. i guess so. you know what? it looks like-- it looks like you're gonna be okay with the trump presidency. - uh, i will eventually. - roy wood jr., everybody. we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] - roy wood jr., everybody. we'll be right back. then he tried tostitos flavored salsas...nline. ...and realized that not all sharing is easy. oooh, roasted garlic... can i...um... stuart... share the salsa, stuart. thanks! roasted garlic, nice. you guys know there's more salsa, right? tostitos. bring the party. is microso

and why is obama bad for black people? obama parts. the unemployment is lower among african-americans now than it 2009. the uninsurance rate fell disproportionately among african-americans. agree mostlyand i on the obama administrations response to ferguson in policing reform. maybe we don't. you are looking at me curiously. the obama administration went into all of these communities, met with stakeholders, community activists, black life matters activists. and has beenground working for this community by community in finding associations to serve policing that could be acceptable and legitimate. i think that is mostly positive. he has never endorsed writing. condemnedys an rioting -- he has never endorsed rioting. endorsed it. he is always condemned rioting. they were brutally honest. they said to a lot of reporters, what you said happened did not happen but they talked about the predatory practices of the government on the community and the predatory practices of the department, well taken points. because it was from besides i think

well, obama, the great debate about obama too eas a great or ? i don't know. this'll be a lot of fun. i can't wait to see. personally i do think obama is great at lots of things, like killing people with sky robots. these amazing at that. he's like the best ever i would say. spending money, he's like a god. it's like any other peoples money, he's like m.j. in 96. untouchable. i'm sorry your i don't, this is usually a more libertarian leaning event. today i think we brought in some of the lefties, jean. there they are, they are laughing finally. it's been years. it's been years they've been suffering through trevor noah. i'm not taking shots at anybody. i'm not sure content. i'm sure is fun in south africa. it's just a cultural barrier. i'm kidding. i like obama a candidate. he was pretty good. he had a lot of great can't remember the 20-year-old had some guy, like right out of college and it was all like hope and change and yes, we can. now today it's just president morgan freeman comes up. there's been another isis attack. it's not as fun. he doesn't really c

that happened under obama. is it because of crimea? that happened under obama. try to remember when the russians did the things you were afraid of and who was president at the time. , naivembling idiot stupid president that people seem to think is the greatest thing that ever happened. host: you have no concerns about michael flynn's actions, then? caller: we don't even know what he said. at least the truth came out. did the truth ever come out with susan rice? host: debbie in ohio. independent line. caller: good morning, c-span. i like general flynn. i don't think the cia should be illegally spying on her president. the american people need to give donald trump a chance. mess obamat a left us in. host: what is it about mr. flynn that you like? caller: he has not been in there a week or two. he served this country more than you stupid people calling in like that black lady, oh, you just -- host: we will leave it there. this is a statement from the white house regarding the replacement for michael flynn. namedent trump has aseral joseph keith kellogg acting natio

obama didn't do that. he just sent them back on their way and they came back again and they were caught again. >> bob: convict them in a court of law, where do you put them? >> eric: you send them back and they can't come back. under immigration reform law, you can say you come back a certain amount of times, you go to jail. >> bob: they are going to come e back. >> kimberly: they were allowed back in. that's different. >> eric: my point is that everybody is agreeing obama did this get the media is acting like it's never happened before. >> greg: to me, that's the crime. the media is acting like president trump came in and rounded up people, never been done before. you even agreed obama did this all the time. >> kimberly: except they were allowed back in. >> bob: allowed? they snuck back in. who was president when that kid, that terrible picture of that kid. >> dana: bill clinton. elias gonzales. >> greg: bob, you are getting hard-core. we have sound on tape, stephen miller. i love jet airliner. one of my

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obama care has failed. talk about your fake news get all the promises liberals made about obama care. president trump is now giving a very public boost to the border adjustment tax. the controversial proposal he once called to complicate it could complicated could lead to more jobs here in the u.s. blake burman has a latest from the white house. >> the white house is not yet throwing its full support behind the border adjustment tax. however it took a small step in that direction on thursday. president trump gave an interview in which he said the following. it could lead to a lot more jobs in the united states. sean spicer then follow followed that up by talking up its merits. it will be the companies were overseas who had chosen to move out of the country that will face higher costs. they spent hours at the white house on thursday with top administration officials. others offered their reservation. the official tax plan is expected to be unveiled next nth in uoming weeks. meanwhile in mexico city. secretar

president obama never approved of mr netanyahu's obama never approved of mr neta nyahu's policies of obama never approved of mr netanyahu's policies of encouraging settle m e nt netanyahu's policies of encouraging settlement growth and a hard line towards the palestinians. mr trump did say, you might have to ease back on the settlements of it.|j did say, you might have to ease back on the settlements of it. i don't think mr netanyahu or the israeli right will enjoy hearing that, because initially they thought they would get a blank cheque from president trump. in the first days after his inauguration, the authorised, with the netanyahu, six and a half thousand units in the occupied territories. and the first all—new settlement in a generation. even the white house said to him, calm down a bit, and that is what trump was saying today. what they we re trump was saying today. what they were both hinting that was some kind of wider agreement involving arab countries. who share their suspicions of iran. that was the other big theme in the news conference. on the moors israel and palesti

i believe that in my honest opinion that barack obama -- president obama has done nothing to take care of this problem. in anare major issues area i live in. the crime rates are soaring, but drugs are pouring through the border. i live in a town of 60,000 people and i am starting to see murder rates climb in the city to a point that there is thatbody is out here people are starting to pack weapons. barack obama is 12 in the survey but in the area of moral authority in the top 10 number, number seven in that. just some of his concerns, also how you see this category of moral authority, what that means in terms of when you do the survey yourself. to me what it meant was someone who had personal integrity, whose administration was free of scandal and we note case for this one that just ended. in terms of immigration issue, i agree with you, it is a serious problem for the country. it is a problem of long standing. it didn't just happen yesterday. it has been with us with -- for a long-long time. our challenge is to come up with an immigration policy that is humane. to see mother separated

those sanctions were impose by the obama administration. the president accepted michael flynn's resignation last night. many say flynn broke diplomatic protocol and potentially the law by discussing u.s. sanctions with the russian ambassador before the president's inauguration. michael flynn did apologize for misleading the president about the phone call. the fight against terror is at stake. russia is the most powerful player in the middle east. it supports iran and syria. blake, we are hearing bob corker on foreign relations and roy blunt, powerful consciousmen, they want an investigation. >> that's part of where this story goes from here. there is not going to be any investigation directed on the government side. the white house press second tear sean spicer saying today that they do not feel white house counselors do not feel that the former national security advisor michael flynn broke any laws. instead they believe this was a trust issue. that the trust had eroded between the former national security advisor and the president and that

>> they took it out of the obama campaign in 2012. it was part of that campaign and they turned it into a 501c4 so they don't have to show their donors. it starts at a training center. these aren't like the rabble from occupy wall street or even black lives matter. these are professionally trained agitators. they are schools in alinsky's triewls for radicals tactics in a program that lasts six weeks. 32,000 have gone through that. they have another 25,000 under training now and another training center coming up in march. and we haven't seen the worst of these protests. these are going to hit hard. but obama is the guy behind all this. he's the master minds. if you look at his website. down in the little print, his new website. two organizations listed. one is ofa, organizing for action, the other is the obama foundation. and eventually he wants to merge them. and if they can get the dnc which obama wants to get his guy tom perez, this radical civil rights chief he had at the helm at the dnc, then they get proprietary data base of the

obama had the media, obama had the you -- judiciary are, obama had all kinds of support. a typical question, what enchants you? obama was never challenged seriously by the media. trump doesn't have any of that. he's got to keep his supporters onboard, he's got to keep 'em revved up. so the rally was great. but the thing that will really make all this russia stuff and all this deep state stuff not take hold is getting to work implementing the repeal of obamacare, getting to work and really doing tax reform and getting to work and really shore up our borders, was that is the -- because that is the primary area where people that voted for trump felt that we were on the way to losing the country. we've even lost the definition of immigration. immigration today, if you listen to the left, equals anybody who wants to come into the country should be allowed. that's not what immigration is. that's illegal immigration. and we ought to all oppose it. we are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate or not. no

obama. legacy ishink obama's tied to trunk, because that is how it ends. endorsed hillary, who was a slightly flawed candidate, if i'm being completely honest. there were signs, now that you look at it in hindsight, that maybe she was not the right person for the job. , and thise at the dnc is not a conspiracy theory, the campaign openly said this. they said the goal of the democratic national convention was to humanize hillary clinton. that was their goal. how terrible is your candidate when she has been in the public eye for 27 years and the big problem we are having is that other people are not believing she is, in fact, one of them. they do not see her as a human. they see her as some kind of pantsuit lizard creature from another planet. the whole convention was trying to humanize her. -- i metton got up hillary 30 years ago, and we fell in love just like humans. very subtle. she is totally normal, i swear. surround her with charming people. that was their plan. she will catch it eventually. but she lost. i don't know. obama said he could've beaten tru

obama left office, obama officials saying, that's not true, what's your reaction to all of that? >> it's silliness, anderson, and what i'll tell you is this raid, like any other capture/kill raid is planned months in advance. details are consolidated, information is gained, there is more observation of the target. it occurs, depending on what the target is, and depending the target packaging, going after either an individual or the site. it takes a lot of time to confirm or deny what's there. this was started in terms of the planning process a few months ago. but as items are collected and intelligence is gained, it's further refined. it is looked at by all the chain of command, the central command, and the special operations command. and they make decisions on it. and it's passed back and forth between the pentagon and the combatant commander. it will eventually get to the white house for final coordination and approval when it has certain elements that need the president's approval, because of things like politics and relationships with other countries. and that's what happened

this was a problem since president obama was in office and president obama tried to put people before politics and republicans said, no, we're going to do political obstruction of infrastructure spending. >> that's not true. >> and passed an infrastructure bill, they did pass an infrastructure bill in congress. eric: let's gets rachel in. >> look, it's clear from the stats you showed and from here in minnesota north of me in minnesota they had a bridge that collapsed a few years ago and people actually died. look, our infrastructure has to be done, people understand that. this is a job for the federal government and this is a promise that donald trump has made very clear to paul ryan and the house republicans, that he intends to keep, and they're just going to have to figure it out and offset. we waste money on all kinds of things. from what i understand, they want to work on repatriating overseas profits and the border adjustment tax and those should go a long way to help offset the cost. eric: lets me add something, i didn't mean to cut you off. there's another way, a public-private

bring in people from the obama administration? >> the fair way to do it, to make sure that you get to the truth in an impartial way is to make sure that the inspector general is leading out. they have tools, they have access. to give you an idea, and all the federal government, there are 72 inspector general's. they have 13,000 employees. the department of justice alone has roughly 500 people working there. as the inspector general to get in there and find the truth. >> martha: you want them to go first, then, you will likely follow up later. chairman chaffetz, thank you very much. joining us now with more, marc thiessen, fellow at the american enterprise institute and fox news' contributor. austan goolsbee and mara liasso mara liasson. welcome to all of you. good to have you here tonight. let me start with you. what is your reaction to the inspector general call from chairman chaffetz? >> it is interesting. congress will investigate this. i want to say, the first time on this show for me, i'm glad to be here with two people i rea

caller: 96% of black voters voted for obama. we arere the people that giving trillions of dollars in two from schools in every conceivable program on earth. they are going to sit there and tell me that they are not bigots when 96% -- they voted for color. i don't want to go into far. host: let's stick to the question we are talking about. retailers talking about -- dropping products. the financial times with the story about donald trump business interests -- the truck brand, the headline of the story . steve, ohio. good morning. caller: thank for taking my call. i think it is terrific that norstrom did. my wife called up and canceled her $5,000 credit card. my credit ranking is going to go up because since these people -- these retailers are going to politicize, we're going to cut our credit cards. our credit cards. pretty soon i will be on cash only. -- i am down to two days a week instead of seven days a week. my wife once a tv guide. she wants the ads on sunday. she is about ready to give up on the ads and if i can get her a

because obama was not going to act. but strategic ambiguity is a good idea. you don't want to announce what you're going to do. the president said we have to be unpredictable but you have to be careful. once you say you are officially on notice, what you've done is established a redline. it's not as dark as the obama redline that he established in syria and then walked away from but you are saying were going to do something and i think we should do something. we are long overdue. the iranians have gotten away with murder. the obama administration was hostage to its own iran nuclear deal and didn't want to disturb the waters. this administration is not hostage but it needs a set of steps, perhaps naval attacks on the proxies of the iranians, the houthi rebels in yemen. perhaps more provocation on our part in the persian gulf when those speedboats go around and harass our boats or perhaps economic sanctions. but i don't think that they can civilly say you are on notice and's and have nothing happen. if you have a set of a

they don't appreciate how kind president obama was to them. not me." so signaling that he is going to take stronger action. his advisers are not taking military action off the table as well. for now, kate, it's sanctions this morning. >> so maybe the first of more steps, especially with that kind of foreshadowing yesterday of not taking military action off the table. but this is the first concrete action. jeff, great to see you, thank you so much. >>> let's go from iran to israel. the white house shifting its posture towards israel's settlement activity. white house press secretary sean spicer put this out in a statement, saying, "while we do not believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal." so for more on this, let's go to jerusalem. cnn's ian lee is there. ian, the trump administration has stood fast in its support of israel and prime minister netanyahu. what does the prime minister have t

>> i do, and in fact when the iranians tested ballistic missiles in the obama administration, the obama administration imposed sanctions this is consistent with steps that have been taken in the past. >> is it a violation, these ballistic missile tests of the iran nuclear deal which you were involved in? >> it's a violation of international law from our perspective. that's why we should impose sanctions. >> explain why it's a violation of international law? the iranians say it's regular ballistic missiles defense, not a big deal. >> testing ballistic missiles -- while it's not technically part of the nuclear deal, it's part of united nations security council resolutions. if they violate those resolutions, there should be consequences. >> give me an example. >> i think sanctions against entities that are involved in iran's ballistic missile program, should be pursued immediately, that's what the trump administration says they're going to do. what i think is a mistake, though. is to saber rattle and to throw around tough talk without a clear strategy for what they're going to do to back t

president obama. they're simply taking his away. it seems to me, anderson, this is something that the administration had to make a statement on this because they are a party to that virginia case that is going to be before the supreme court here, but if the president had wanted to issue something more, it he certainly could have here. they're splitting it about in the middle, but it's essential very controversial, anderson. >> appreciate the update. joining us to talk about it, cnn legal analyst, and cleef political an lust gloria borger, contributor to the hill, former congressional black caucus director angela rooi and also conservative matt, the president of free the people. receip let's start off with you. we have a soundbyte from donald trump when he was on the "today" show with matt lauer talking about the use of rest rooms by transgender people. let's watch. >> very few complaints the way it is. people go. they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. there has been so little trouble. >> do you have people working in y

i think -- look, i agree with president obama. if you've committed a serious crime, you should not be in this country if you're an illegal immigrant and if you're not, you should be punished. where we run into problems is that the new order that the president -- president trump seems to put out doesn't make that distinguishing feature. simply crossing the border is not the kind of crime we're talking about. in fact, in the solution to this is the same solution that we had three, four years ago. which is the comprehensive immigration reform bill senator mccain and i put together, it was bipartisan, it was passed by a large margin in the senate, 68 votes, got a lot of democrat and lot of republican votes. it's much tougher on the border than the wall. it does deal with future illegal immigration and we think in a fair-minded way, which is putting the own us on the employers and it provides a fair but very difficult pass to citizenship for the 11 million people who are here. that is the solution. no one has come up with a better solu

president obama also condemns the action in ukraine. >> no question. is nikki haley speaking for the administration or herself? you have to balance her statement today very much in line with the obama administration view. it does sound like powers in the chair there. balance against the public statements from the campaign and since the inauguration from president trump, praising russia and refusing to criticize them for ukraine and also interference in the u.s. election. keep in mind nikki haley's comments are in response to grave escalation in the violence over the last several days and couple of weeks. it's an open question. as david roed was saying, must gift administration credit for moving to the center as it were on some positions but we have to balance against the previous weeks and months from the president himself and senior advisers. is it a real change? representation or demonstration of a dispute within the administration? different camps there. own choices for senior cabinet positions are contradicting him on policy decisions. where is the

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something the obama administration started. now has 50 countries in it focuses on their own global surveillance capabilities to detective when a new disease e-- detect when a new disease emerges because we have to keep it out before it comes into the homeland. we've learned that something like ebola -- we had plans on the shelf due to in part very good work by the bush administration to combat say pandemic flu or h 1 n 1 but ebola required a different playbook. so we have to be able to adapt to that. charlie: how many times did you have to call the president and wake him up? you or the national security advisor or the chief of staff, whoever wakes him up. lisa: i don't know how many times i woke him up. first of all, there's a night -- he's a night owl so -- but i did specifically have to wake him up my third -- third week on the job. charlie: thank you so much for coming. great to have you here. lisa: thanks. charlie: lisa monica. see you next time. ♪ >> welcome to the best of bloomberg markets middle east. donald trump's se

president obama. boston? president obama. the most consequential decision so far on this executive order is coming out of an obama federal judge in los angeles. its most sweeping order against that executive order. >> well, judges matter. and obama really did transform the judiciary. look, you're around for eight years, you get to do that. you appoint a third of the judges. but when he took office, there are 13 appeals courts in the u.s. only one of them had a majority of democratic appointed judges. and now there are nine. and those are because of appointments obama made. they'll be making decisions on things like this executive order. >> presidency is four eight years. a judgeship is a lifetime. michael grunwald, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> any time. >>> coming up, our next guest, the governor of the first state to sue president trump over his executive. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast

today we will vote to end president obama's obstruction. instead of faithfully executing our constitution demands, the obama administration effectively blocks states from making sure hardworking taxpayer dollars only go to our constitution des. the congress spoke in 2012, before i arrived here, but here's what happened. congress spoke and the president signed a bill into law to give states an option, not a mandate, an option to drug test. stand today to say, let's rollback and you do our previous president's unfaithful execution of the law and allow states like missouri to have the freedom to decide for themselves. this is not a mandate, this is simply about states' rights. with that, mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote in support of this joint resolution and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. i'm pleased to yield two inutes to a tireless protector of the rights of individuals, representative hank johns

harry reid's the one who started it back when president obama was in power. that would allow, even if there's a filibuster, the filibuster to be cut with a simple majority. do you think that will happen? that's what trump wants. >> he only wants it if the filibuster is going to succeed. filibusters have been mounted in the past against justices. david: do you think that the democrats will try to organize one? >> they'll organize one to appease their base. they want to preserve the filibuster, the democrats, if you get a justice on the liberal side who is replaced, they don't want a conservative coming on. they're going to be careful on this. in terms of gorsuch, since he's so good, i think you can peel off eight or nine democrats if necessary, to override a filibuster, but if in the past, up to 25 senators tried to mount a filibuster and it didn't work. i don't think you need to use the so-called nuclear option, but if they do, they will. and the democrats will rue the day they did it. david: e-mack, let's get back to the sort of things that if he does become

this is exactly what obama did in 2011. there were two refugees were building a bomb in kentucky, it was not a massacre. we have to slow down. there was not one month where the u.s. stopped seeking iraqi refugees. the process was slow down, but it was not halted. >> i've got a question. >> is it inhumane to ask people to wait 90 days? is that an unreasonable thing to ask for? >> what we are seeing is a ship that has been sinking since 9/1 9/11. his rolling out wasn't necessarily very smooth, but it's proactive and we need to change our thinking. i think proactive is a way to approach terror. he is taking steps and i think that's important. >> martha: it quickly, last thought then we'll be back. >> leadership in the muslim world matters as well. right now the narrative defined by isis. i want to see proven models versus shallow theories but as a muslim, i want to keep america safe. i thank them for the service they have given but we have to look at proven models. proven models like the worldwide leader have led people in 206

what if obama did that?" president trump checked out today for his first weekend in florida as president. no one has talked about how lazy president obama was every time he touched a basketball or a golf club. and nobody is talking about trump's trip to florida for nongovernmental pumps. and the one of the nagging critics of use of time -- every time president obama used air force one for vacationing. president barack obama's vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars. good thing that guy is not there to criticize president trump's flying down to florida for the w50ekd weekend. and not only did the white house issue a statement in holocaust remembrance day that did not mention jews being exterminated by hitler, but trump wrote a statement and that statement was blocked by the trump white house. what if obama did that? what if president obama refused to mention what happened to jewish people in the holocaust? and would not allow the state department to mention it what happened to the jewish verdicts of

obama had the media, obama had the you -- judiciary are, obama had all kinds of support. a typical question, what enchants you? obama was never challenged seriously by the media. trump doesn't have any of that. he's got to keep his supporters onboard, he's got to keep 'em revved up. so the rally was great. but the thing that will really make all this russia stuff and all this deep state stuff not take hold is getting to work implementing the repeal of obamacare, getting to work and really doing tax reform and getting to work and really shore up our borders, was that is the -- because that is the primary area where people that voted for trump felt that we were on the way to losing the country. we've even lost the definition of immigration. immigration today, if you listen to the left, equals anybody who wants to come into the country should be allowed. that's not what immigration is. that's illegal immigration. and we ought to all oppose it. we are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate or not. no

while hillary clinton saying it's a third term of obama, they're making the obama brand. nafta on steroids, tpp job killing, which folks right through the midwest really despised, making it less reputable, that this lady who had been for tpp still is for tpp. we found swing places that would never vote republican, in the swing states there had been one, two, three cabinet level obama visits pushing tpp. i don't find it a coincidence that these people just said basta. i hate that guy, but i have had it with washington. >> so speaking of molotov cocktails, you may have answered my question. what do i expect looking out my window now, this guy is -- he's the man. >> it is right that our current trade agreements have been really bad for a lot of people, and, you know, look how they were written. he or she who pays the piper calls the tune. you have all these closed deals with all these corporate interests. the question is, if trump is going to make it better or worse. and it could go either way. so there are a bunch of leftover trade agreements that obama had started that did

obama's first years in office. watch this. >> on senator specter's switch to the democratic party, you said you were thrilled. >> during this first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office, and chanted you the most about serving in this office? >> thank you, mr. president. you racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks. are you ready to call yourself the comeback kid? >> martha: joining me now, dana loesch, the host of "dana" and robert moran, democratic strategists. robert, let me give you the first crack. >> let's be clear. you are picking two questions out of a press conference and ignoring the fact that president obama was just tailored over everything from the somali pirates radiated to the automotive bailout to the debate over the stimulus package. bill clinton was eviscerated by the passover don't ask don't tell, the economic passage, including the waco attack by the fbi. that had very tragic consequences. let's be clear. the issue is not about the media. the issue is about who is servi

but this is about president obama's legacy. iran is shooting off missiles that could hit israel basically comments of israel on those rockets. and they're allowed to do the ballistic missile testing under the agreement. again, write expletives all over the missile. this what obama did and they're testing ballistic weapons on them yet. what do you think of that legacy? >> well, that's the issue. i believe the ballistic missile should have been part of the nuclear agreement. and let me be clear on this. reasons the trump administration is acting out is while they didn't violate the nuclear agreement, they did violate a un sanction against the iranians regarding ballistic missiles. they actually did violate one. i don't remember the number. it's two something or another. but there is actually something the un has said you, iran, cannot test these ballistic missiles because of other issues. so that's why you see the sanctions now because they did violate something. so, look, i understand people are nervous about the fact that all o

he's not barack obama. they're not going to have someone turning the cheek the other way as obama has done. i don't believe it's our president's job to clear every statement with various agencies. he's speaking and america supports him. you have to say to iran, enough is enough. you're going to set off ballistic missiles? we feel that's a violation of the nuclear deal. there will be a price to pay for that. no one is going to push donald j. trump around. >> heather: it's going to be a very different administration. thank you for joining us with us. coming up next the trump administration in the middle of a battle over the president's travel restrictions on seven majority muslim nations. some say that much of it could have been avoided. so is the white house thinking of changing tactics going forward? plus, white house press secretary sean spicer getting the full snl treatment. this was great. reviews for actress melissa mccarthy are in. we'll talk all about that. so beautiful. what shall we call you? tom! n

the january numbers is this a thanks president obama or thanks president trump? >> ask it's sort of in a late period. if you look at the length of a recovery, it's probably about eight or nine years. you could argue we're at the tail end of a recovery, whether or not the president's proposed plans can keep that jacked up we'll see. the numbers came in a little better than unexpected. income growth is still slow. and are folks going to have more money in their pockets to spend and keep it going? >> it's clear there's the administrative piece which he was able to sign these executive action and then the legislative piece where he will need his friends in congress, and thank goodness he has in congress. >> to be fair dodd frank was contentious on both sides of the aisle. the republicans hated because they thought it went too far and democrats didn't think it went far enough. it became a little bit of swiss cheese in not getting done what it needs to do. i think you're going to see pushback, one would be the rule to set up risky trading and funding to too big to fail

barack obama is on vacation. yes, the former president and his wife michelle are staying at one of richard branson's private islands in the caribbean's. he tweeted that he challenged obama to a learning contest and posted a video. ♪ ♪ >> tom: great britain, 50. can you come out one obama ran into an old coworker in the caribbean waters, what are the chances? by the end of the trip, obama had become quite good at waterskiing, take a look. ♪ >> tom: remember that gag? >> i can never forget. the one they hugged each other, then they hugged a girl. >> i chuckled. >> tom: he looks like he's having a good time down there, private island. >> first of all, he let the president in, can you believe it? it's like letting a hot girl win when you're on a date. trying to knock the ball's over, when you went to the state fair, you grew up in indiana -- >> tom: i love the state fair. >> you think richard branson let barack obama win? >> tom: he's a competitive guy, he wouldn't do that. >> he let him win. why would he beat

couple executive orsd, one from the obama administration era. called the waters of the united states. basically what the president is going to do is to ask the justice department appealing to the court to put a current court case regarding that waters of the u.s. executive order that was promulgated under an obama administration on hold while it's reviewed here at the white house and the epa. it looks like the president wants to rescind the whole thing. he thinks it was way of an overreach by the obama administration. but he doesn't want the court to go ahead with this while they're reviewing it, so he's going to ask the courts to put that in advance. the other executive or would bring the black colleges and universities initiative inside the white house. it's been residing inside the department of education. president trump believes some of the momentum gets lost within the department of education. he thinks it could be far more effective if he brings it under the white house roof. as to the speech tonight, it's being built as a renewal of the

see, obama did it. this is a decision made by the obama administration don't blame us, blame the usda under obama. the problem is that the people who ran the usda under obama are real people, they're not that old yet, they're around, they can speak for themselves, they can tell us whether or not they did that. so here's the former spokesman for the usda under the obama administration saying uh-uh to that attempt to weasel out of the now-growing backlash to what they just did with the animal abuse reports. "decision by usda to remove animal abuse reports was not required. totally subjective. same option was give on the past administration, we refused." then he adds " #transparency." so the previous administration, the obama administration had the option to take down all of the inspection reports about people abusing animals around the country so you could check to make sure you're not accidentally buying an animal from one of them and so these seven states could use that information to make sure their pe

people are realizing that obama care is -- the affordable care act and obama care are the same thing. i like the affordable care act but i don't like obama care, don't you think the rubber meets the road, and people are going to be listening. what are you going to do about health care? he's got to spell that out tomorrow night. >> governing is hard. and i think there are good obama care reforms, some of the conservatives don't like the idea of that. that's an entitlement. have you to make sure -- persuade parts of your party to go along. these republicans were elected on their own, before trump, they had more republicans in the house and senate ahead of trump. they don't owe that much to him. they want a republican president to succeed. the worst case is, nothing happens. the idea that they're going to accept what he says without being persuaded, brought in, having a lot of work. i don't think the white house has done the hard work of actual legislating. >> do you think these town halls have scared a lot of republicans, or made them think twice about health care? >> i think republican

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administration -- i disagreed with during the obama administration. will the president support that policy? that's yet to be seen. i'd like to see the president say a few things that nikki haley said. >> another thing for you to chew on for us this morning. you said the president had a tough call with the prime minister of australia. i agree with that. administration officials back that up. the president put out a tweet this morning calling that fake news. one of his counselors referenced as an attack of the existing refugee policies and vetting in the united states a massacre in bowling green that never happened. called out a ban for six months of iraqi refugees, that never happened. how do you deal with those types of bold face inaccuracies? >> that's exactly what they are. apparently, according to the trump administration fake news is synonymous with any bad press they get. if they get bad press, it's fake. at the same time they demonstrated a willingness to event facts at will. certainly kellyanne conway talking about a non-existent massacre in bo

after all, obama is no love lost between obama and our president. generale actions of flynn command is that concern you at all -- general flynn, does that concern you at all? guest: general flynn gave 30 years of his life to this country. why don't we get to the bottom and not listen to the likes of nancy pelosi and elijah cummings who never gave respect to our president? i am an american first. the matter who i vote for come i will always respect my president. who i vote for, i will always respect my president. callerhost: "the wall street jo" this morning with a chart of national security advisers. highlighting the longest term was henry kissinger. during the term of george h.w. bush about one of national security adviser. under the clinton administration -- george w. bush, condoleezza rice . under president obama must is an rise served the longest -- under president obama, susan rice served the longest. linda in texas. you are on. caller: thank you for taking my call. i've been watching the selection very closely. i think the democrats are very s

>> no, first of all, the democrats hate obama, and obama is on vacation, he is not looking back. i'm out, let your house burn don't, don't care. the biggest problem is his own party. the flynn thing bothers me in a lot of levels, if you say there was nothing there, flynn being fired for not telling pence, that to me did not seem like a firing. i am a huge supporter. and until i hear facts and something he did other than his job. he did nothing from what i know that was illegal. why was he fired. there is something there i don't know what it is,. i don't like to speculate. greg: i do. >> he lied. >> lon he lied, but he is a gen, a war hero, he follows orders. >> none of us made a big deal of it had hillary lied. >> hillary of a private citizen. this has nothing to do with hillary clinton. >> she is a chronic liar. >> what did she have to do. >> people were mad when fbi lied. other leaks were happening they only focused on the russia leaks other than how the leak happened. >> true. >> fair and balanced. >> she was not fired. >> david? what do you make of this? a massive scandal or