obama atelieve that the time could do any more. were holding his hands the entire time he was trying to do stuff to stop it. the only thing he could have done was make sure the people were warned from state to state to state. and what they can do to help in their state. i don't think he couldn't have done anymore. i agree it could have been much worse. if he would have stepped in and tried to do whatever it is he done. as far as i'm concerned she has the word and nobody house. i think if the republicans were holding his hand as much as they were i believe he could have been 10 times more and whatnot. i believe it would have been fair. in one other thing, i believe that donald trump new debt they was doing the hacking. i looked at one of his speeches when he was doing the campaign and the first thing he said was i believe in wikileaks. i love it. that's what he said in his campaign. the whole all this world is laughing at this country. the whole world is laughing at the u.s.. eric is calling in from the independent line. president t

president obama obviously couldn't run again for office. do you thinkjoe biden might, or hillary clinton? i don't think hillary clinton will. as for vice president biden, you would have to obviously ask him. what i would say is that he has just set up a pac to be able to support candidates in 2018. i think he's going to be devoting all his energy in the next two years, not to thinking about 2020, but to thinking about, how do we take the house of representatives back in 2018? what's your guess? do you think he might run for president, joe biden? i have got completely out of the business of speculating or predicting on politics at all. so i really couldn't say. the mayor of chicago, the senior democrat rahm emanuel, when asked about this kind of thing on cnn said, hillary clinton has got lots of energy. but you're saying categorically she would not run in 2020? it's not my place to say anything categorically. have you talked to her about it, for instance? i haven't talked to her about 2020 because it's not even in the realm of contemplation.

absolutely. ♪ >> president obama: all right. you're going to have to -- >> anthony: i will walk you through. >> president obama: you're gonna have to walk me through this. >> anthony: we're about to eat bún cha. and it is about as typical and uniquely a hanoi dish as there is. these beautiful little pork patties, grilled pork belly. bun cha is served in a broth of vinegar, sugar, and the ubiquitous nuoc cham, or vietnamese fermented fish sauce. chilies to taste. i mean, if you have an important state function after, you might not want to go too heavy on the garlic. >> president obama: you know what, i'm going with this thing. you know? we're gonna do what's appropriate. >> anthony: a little vinegar. >> president obama: all right. >> anthony: and then you just hack off noodles, you just drop them in your bowl. >> president obama: yeah, that's not too elegant, but i managed it. >> anthony: and dip and stir and get ready for the awesomeness. >> president obama: i'm ready. now, is it appropriate to just pop one of these whole sucke

president trump criticizing the obama's administration after reports claimed that president obama knew about moscow of cyber-attack. kristin fisher live, good afternoon, kristin. >> hey, jillian. president trump has been reluctant that russia did meddle in 2016 last night, he also placed the blame squarely on predecessor, the tweet reads like this, just out, the obama administration knew far in advance about election meddling by russia, did nothing about it, why -- what he's referring to is washington post that came out yesterday three months before election president obama received evidence of russian vladimir putin direct involvement in cyber-attacks and that they were intended to hurt hillary clinton and help mr. trump. over the next type months the obama administration went back and forth about what to do and how to respond, according to posts they were worried about being seen tipping the scales on such a politically charged issue in the end they settled on sanctions but president obama is now saying that it's all too little too late. listen. >> well, i just heard today for the fi

i guess obama should be investigated. i swear trump can say anything any moment and it's irtd to the very next moment. a few seconds later. a nano second later what he says later doesn't matter. his comments don't make any coherence. they never make any coherence since he's been president. by the way, we're going to get to the part in "the new york times" which authenticates for the first 40 days of his presidency, he told a lie every single day at like noah's flood of lies the first 40 days. then he pretty much made every day after that, too. what a record. let's talk about this. is trump now saying that there was russian intervention in our campaign? and that somebody has to explain their role in that? isn't he now basically 90% of the way towards where the investigators are headed, something bad was done by the russians, we have to find out who helped them? he's where the investigators now all of a sudden seems to me. >> sure. i think he's going to try to steer the conversation in that direction. we've seen certainly o

obama was notified in august of 2016. he didn't want to rock the boat because he thought hillary had it in the bag. with this knowledge, what should we take from that? >> first of all, i think there is collusion within the obama administration. there are departments and agencies involved in intelligence and law enforcement colluded to cover this up and keep it from the american peopl people. they obstruct our knowledge during the course of the election. if they really thought that donald trump colluded, don't you think they would've put of this information way back in august? the president is exactly correct. they figured hillary would win, they sent on this information, and they put it out near the end of the election in order to try and help her, and hillary clinton goes on and on with the collusion and the democrats pick it up and for now some got reason we have the special counsel. i think that special counsel, mr. mueller, audit consider expanding his investigation to include their prior administration with their act

did president obama do enough? >>> president trump's travel ban hangs in the balance as the supreme court prepares to wrap up its current term tomorrow. what's likely to happen there, and they are protected from deportation, but so-called dreamers do not qualify for lower in-state college tuition. i'll talk to one student who fears for her future. to voice your opinion, grab your digital device, phone, laptop, go to pulse.msnbc.com/america. >>> top story, one of the biggest critics of obamacare is adamant he doesn't want the gop senate health care bill to go through, at least for now. ron johnson of wisconsin and four fellow republicans remain the biggest obstacle to president trump and mitch mcconnell. johnson told chuck todd on "meet the press" that he wants things to slow down. >> i would like to delay the thing. there's no way we should be voting on this thing next week. no way. >> are you going to work to stop it, stop a vote next week? >> i have a hard time believing wisconsin constituents or even myself will

number one, obama being smoked. think about that, whether it's obama or donald trump or george w. bush or bill clinton or ronald reagan, they represent the united states of america. that means our entire nation got smoked, and that means that the current president still won't admit in our current election. even though -- >> did you watch last night's show? quan said the same thing and was debunked. >> so it would make -- in six months, that's great for american confidence. when you talk about how you talk about it, jesse, you pick up on the politics that she take the politics out of this. imagine if president obama at the time went to the america people and said that the russians have rigged our election and we've got to stop it, and i'm going to have a full-fledged investigation. folks like yourself would have said that they are tipping the scale for hillary clinton, they are blaming this on donald trump. so the president had to make a calculated decision. do we do everything we can behind the scenes to stop this, including addressing him directly at the g7, or do we go to the am

more directly to former president obama. remember during the election last year, when president obama said it wasn't possible for our elections to be rigged and told then candidate donald trump to stop whieping about it, remember this? stop whining about it. >> there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig america's elections. in part because they're so decentralized. the numbers of votes involved. there's no evidence that that has happened in the past. or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. and so, i'd advise mr. trump to stop whining and try to make his case to get votes. >> sean: really, stop whining? according to a recent report, it was president obama who knew back in august that russia was i tempting to interfere in our election and he did nothing about it. why? because he assumed hillary clinton would win. since hillary lost and president trump is in office, well now election meddling is suddenly a serious issue. joining us with reaction conservative c

the explanation for everything is it is obama's fall. he has been president for six months, elected last november. as your cohost pointed out, done nothing, the whole point of the russian investigation was to get into what the russians are doing in terms of hacking into our election. >> he was the president when these attacks took place. >> he is now and has been for six months and has done not only nothing, he has on more than one occasion said the whole russia stories fake news. he planted the impression that it didn't happen when it clearly did happen, a profound threat to our national security. what i was going to say is we are upset was comey and the other stuff but it started as an effort to figure out what the russians did to put the investigation, to stop at. you want me to say the obama administration didn't do enough, clearly they didn't. why is the trump administration refusing to do anything, even acknowledge it happens? >> you said it is time for congress to take the lead and you feel it is time for congress to take the lead

as we have seen from the bush obama transition but also the obama trump transition. so the world does not end with these changes. in a sense. and the last thing i would say is, i think that you can also argue that even though i would argue this to be clear. that even if favorability ratings were quite high under obama in a place like europe, we will talk about this more, it is a legitimate debate to be had rather obama's policies were better for you. had to be judged by? you can say that the refugee fight in cereals because of obama's in action there in part. lead to serious problems in europe. so there are different ways to look at this. i think what we are seeing now is a kind of natural experiment over the next four, possibly eight years where it is if you're introducing the most offensive problematic president to the world. and then we can now see in real time how much that affects our relationships with other countries. does it lead to things that are very very bad? i think that is a presumption that a lot of people on the left have. after four to eight years of

she claimed she lost because obama served two terms as president p. mr. obama and mrs. clinton are battling with attention. they have their own brewing scandal. mrs. clinton has her old ones and mr. obama has had his new ones and there is no public clamor in the public mind space and now joe biden can't stand it. missing that attention he drew as vice-president. looking at obama and clinton and saying to himself, no more. crazy joe is now ready to grab his wing of the left wing mind share and launching his own pack. and knowing joe as we all do, he will get attention but likly not helpful to dems or biden. obama rey seeded mostly from public view assy we got used to his entry as his investigation and spying. and as long as clinton keeps up her tour they will democrats that shake their heads. president trump is withdrawing for the paris accord. >> it is time to exit the pars accord and pursue a new deal that protects the environment and country and citizens and companies. >> lou: kelli ann conway, counsellor to the president, my special guess here next. >> how did this m

a senior obama administration official says the obama administration choked in its response to the russian efforts to interfere in the election. this is something that the president is seizing on. democrats are coming out and agreeing. they are agreeing that obama didn't get it right. here are just three in the past day. >> i think the obama administration should have done a lot more. >> i think they should have announced earlier that this was going on. >> by keeping quiet, i think president obama allowed the russians to pursue their goal. it's very disappointing. >> does having top democrats agree with him, strengthen the president's hand, chris? >> in this tribal world of politics, erin, probably not. and i think donald -- although it should, frankly. i think donald trump often on twitter does much more harm than good with the words he chooses. so the collusion, obviously that's a word we've heard a lot about but no proof related to russia and donald trump. >> right. >> you know, he chooses these words on purpose because i think he is at heart a prova considka. there's a legitimate criti

president trump reverses of president obama's opening to cuba. we will get reaction from a panel when we come right back. >> effective immediately, i am canceling the last administration's completely one sided deal with cuba. our policy will seek a much better deal for the cuban people and for the united states of america. we do not want u.s. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens of cuba. >> chris: president trump announcing his new policy towards cuba, rolling back major parts of president obama's opening to that country in 2014. time now to bring in our panel. jason riley, "wall street journal," missed an author of the new book "faults black power." amy walter from the political report, and firemen byron york. did you hear that he is rolling back the bad deal that president obama made with the castro regime so we can get a better deal for the given people? does that make sense? >> it does make sense. he wants to curb some of these business transactions that help prop up the regime but don't do much for eve

just joined in october last year announced by president obama. we welcome you and your reaction. 202-8921 for republicans. 202-748-8920 for democrats. 2 --- 202-748-8922 for others. he will cease implement the nonbinding paris accord. mike pence introducing the president earlier. in a minute, we will show you all of the president costs remarks -- president's remarks. we go to john in pennsylvania on the republican line. caller: good afternoon. host: you are on the air. caller: i thought this was the president's finest moment as president so far, putting america first. the prior leaders of our country went against us that take us further down and allow other nations to kind of steel are well or borrow -- our wealth or borrow our wealth. to thes putting a stop madness, and think god we had the opportunity to get business booming again, where there was not level playing field, now it will be more level. i think god for that. made the president announcement and set in motion a three to four year process by which the u.s. would completely withdraw fro

the obama campaign leading to this catastrophe continues. the reason the obama administration would not sell them the specific set h of forms is because they did not have confidence they would be used for purely military targets. so we're asking to hold off on selling these and tell me get some nuclear promise and assurance from the saudis that they will use these munitions only for military purposes and start taking steps, real and tangible steps to address the humanitarian crisis. senator young has ben very articulate what they're doing to stop the relief s there are some pro-active things but what they can do to save millions of lives inside yemen today. but more broadly mr. president, this is an important moment for u.s. policy in the middle east. the saudis are our friends there important stabilizing presence in the middle east east, helping to broker a response between the sunii nations and israel they cooperate wither counterterrorism measures and share intelligence an clearly we have been important economic relationship and this body

he is taking aim at former president obama for one thing, questioning why president obama didn't act on the russia information, based on a "washington post" report that links vladimir putin directly to the hackings. and says president obama knew about it as early as july of last year. we asked former kgb spy jeff possky if he believed it was possible that vladimir putin directed it. >> it was a very secret operation, right? >> uh-huh. >> we're talking about doing something that stabilized another country, you want to keep that secret. that in and of itself is difficult. when you do want secrecy, the fewer people that know about it, the better. in my case, there were about five people that knew about my identity. and the more people you involve in this kind of an operation, you have to very more people involved. the more likely it is that a real leak will come out, and we don't have one yet. >> and also the president dealing with the gop vote, may be voting we should say, on the health care plan in the senate on thursday. the numbers are not in they're favor as of this morning, there

repeal of obama care to eraseuch an taepattempt barack obama's principal legacy.c the same applies to president trump's decision to walk away climate paris deal on change even though this was a nonbinding deal and even though its other signatories including china, european union, said they would stick to it. i think that what really away ted trump to walk from it is it was an obama accomplishment and a couple other examples. policy the ucuba partial opening he undertook toward the end of his presidency trump is beginning to partially close again. deal.here is the iran the iran deal we have to wait and see. but trump s intact has made it very plain during doesn't ign that he like the deem and his -- deal and his trip to saudi arabia month he broadcast that very strongly. there's an hat attempt simply to erase obama, yes. san we will go to bill diego republican line. caller: good morning. i was brought up with the definition of a democrat being and the definition of republicans being guns. remember it.if you but now i understand that the a democrat is someone who is anti-american and of

chemical attack happens in 2013, and obama does nothing. well obama didn't do nothing. well, he didn't do as much as trump did injust two months. what obama did was strike a deal which actually removed 95 or more per cent of the chemical weapons from syria. weapons that could easily have fallen into the hands of isis to be used against europeans, or hezbollah, to be used against israelis. so obama didn't do nothing, now... not to mention the people themselves, the civilians — the syrian civilians in the country. the fact is, at the end of the day, the syrian regime broke that deal, kept some stock of chemical weapons, and the right thing for the united states to do, once broke the deal, was to strike, and which i stood up and said was the right thing to do. well don't. trump is always depicted as someone who makes these intemperate comments and acts in an irrational way, but it actually seems that you are agreeing that he does take advice from professionals, from people in the know? i think he took advice on that narrow decision of the syria strike, which has not been

obama gave year after year. we are no longer in an age when one country can dominate another, and so forth. this is a philosophy that led the administration to reach out to enemies and distance itself from friends. we saw that in the iran deal. president obama's attitude for the middle east is that it was an arena populated by friends and potential friends. he went to a great extent to win over the potential friends like he ran at the expense of our -- friends, like iran, at the expense of israel. to do this, he had to deceive the israelis and the american public in a number of areas. if i had come to you in this forum in 2013, and told you that the consequence of president obama's policies would be the rise of the russian-iranian alliance across the middle east, the development of an iranian territorial corridor, the displacement of 10 million people in syria, the ejection -- injection into europe of millions of refugees, or over one million refugees. if i told you that iran would emerge from the deal with the

right now 51% of those polled have a favorable view of obama care. that's the highest number that the kaiser family foundation has seen. meantime, you can see the gop health care plan is just 30%. obamacare is pop ought lars right now, senator. >> if you're a plummer or a pest control guy and you're trying to buy insurance, in 50% of the country there's only one insurer. we now have many counties where there's no insurers, so i think without question obamacare is a failure. it's getting worse. premiums have gone up 105% since we got obamacare. the insurance companies are pulling out, jacking up their premiums, so really the most important poll is, can you get insurance? for 50% they're stuck with a monopoly, and it's spreading to where, in many parts of the country there won't be many insurance options. obama care is failing in the visible market, but the best way to fix it is freedom. we should legalize inexpensive insurance. that means insurance without any rig laze, insurance that you can buy what you want at the price you want to pay. right now w

topics included president's tweets on obama. senate health care bill an supreme court ruling but got heated there, when spicer was asked why the cameras were off. blake burman was there. hey, blake. reporter: hi, there, trish, it was setting another packed briefing room, just a little while ago, sean spicer talking to reporters probably about 20, 25 minutes or so. trend we're seeing a the white house, off-camara for audio used at later point. not being on cam camera. asked a couple different times, reporters, basically ask why can't these things be on camera. what is the reason for all of us here with the cameras and lights on but not focused and pointed at you? there was a pretty heated exchange back and forth with cnn's jim acosta, trying to get that answer out of sean spicer, the white house press secretary sean spicer. here was the exchange inside the james brady press briefing room just a little while ago here at the white house. >> tell us why you turned the cameras off? why are they off, sean. >> that is legitimate questi

you would think obama was running for office again? >> yes, but this "washington post" article revealed a lot we didn't know before and president obama spent a lot of time before and amp the campaign trying to downplay russia's role in the 2016 election. now after this report in the "post" detailing the response to the intelligence community's assessment, seems willing to admit pruad admit russia play add role as long as he can blame president obama. when they found out it was really too late to stop the impact of russia's efforts and obama was concerned intervening too much might have had a dramatic political ramification giving the impression, perhaps, president obama was work are for hillary clinton's campaign. one concedes they could have done more. adam schiff, ranking member on the intelligence committee seemed to agree. >> the american people needed to know, and i didn't think it was fluff to tell them after the election, but rather given the seriousness of this, i think the administration needed to call out russia earlier. need

a lot of programs are not reauthorized, people in the obama administration, and obama holown hold overs, they really cause i think a lot of damage even beyond immediate political cur of i fluffel. >> two questions, right now it looks like most abused program of that which we know, which is in public view, but -- what happened to american citizens, what has been done politically talk about weaponize intelligence that is an example. >> congress will not reauthorize this right now until we get answers about how this information was used. if we get answers we get prosecutions so people know you can't just use this mompl information, then maybe you will be able to reauthorize, right now, i believe you will see resistance on both sides of the aisle. lou: th is up opennas produce -- subpoenas producing documents is that sufficient? >> i think this is a hopeful sign, when comey testified in march, he talked about russian investigation, he would not acknowledge they were looking into the leaks, this is really first time we know that there is concrete steps taken to get ought the unmasking and at

in looking at this, there's someone in the obama administration now being critical of president obama for not doing something more than the sanctions imposed at the end of december post-election. there's a lot of sort of self-reflection, i don't know if it's 20/20 hindsight, but even within the obama administration, criticism for how president obama handled it. >> it's a legitimate issue. it was a legitimate issue at the time. in fact, adam schiff, ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, and dieann feinstein were urging the white house to forcefully speak out in september about this, and they were trying to get a statement clear. so the whistle could have been blown on russia. at that time the white house was not ready to say anything. on october 7th they issued a written statement, but didn't take action. there were some who argued within the administration, this is not enough. the russians are not impressed by words, they're impressed by actions. those actions didn't come until very late, in late december. and also it's worth pointing out, remember, one of the reasons

where he will roll back some of president obama's major changes. something widely concerned a key part of the legacy were president obama. this is just one of several legacy points. the president has undone at this point. he is working with g.o.p. lawmakers to repeal obamacare as we speak. he withdrew the united states from joining the trans pacific partnership. and he cut off federal funding to fund abortions and those are just a few on a now growing list. >> tom: they need to improve the communication on this. we used the words a couple of times, rollback, undone. these are the words your hearing all over the media and team trump has to start using words like better deal. marco rubio tweeted outcome a better deal. that's what you have to stress, that he's trying to get better deals. if he keeps saying rollback a month that's what they'll use against republicans, they're turning back the clock. >> melissa: when they're talking about what's happening with this cuban policy, it has to do with not doing views and is directly and not doing commerce wi

anthony clark on the building of the obama library. guest: communities can have significant on where library is built. kennedy library was not built where he wanted it to be because of community disapproval. it took 16 years. duke university rejected nixon library, stan ford university rejected reagan library. until the groundbreaking is done or the opening, the community still has a voice. host: twitter viewers with questions on the topic. steve wants to know, what is president permitted to keep private and what is he obligated to make public? on the same issue can you , specify the categories of archive documents that are not available to the public for 100 year? guest: it is not a question of the categories. first five years after a president leaves office, no records may be released so archives has a chance to get a handle on the records and process them. seven years after that, the president can provide a letter to the archivist before he leaves office that says specific types of records i'd like to keep for additional seven years

this is not new for president obama. in 2012 he taps somebody of any and say, just went to the selection is over, i will have a lot more flexibility in dealing with you. he never confronted russia and syria despite russian bombing you and convoys with the regime and bombing hospitals. he never confronted russia in ukraine. he never gave ukraine weapons to defend themselves. and i can probably russia is nothing new. >> gregg: the russian interference collusion probe has reportedly now morphed into abstraction investigation. do you share president trumps concern that the special counsel, robert mueller cannot be fair because of his close personal and professional relationship with james comey? how can mueller be impartial in deciding whether to believe his close friend versus the president who fired his close friend? >> i don't share the president sentiment on this. of what i know of robert mueller, i don't know him personally, but he is a very honorable person. it's not uncommon for people to make friendships, especially

first came into office about his birth certificate and did barack obama show it to him? now he won't show your taxes but he's supposed to be so rich. i don't know where you guys have been. if you listen, mitch romney told you all from day one this is a con man. what part of that don't you all understand? >> guest: consistency has not been a part of the basics donald trump's personality. this the caller raises legitimate points about going after barack obama's birth certificate and demanding transparency there are not beins transparent when it comes to his own finances. >> host: one last call. alabama, republican line. >> caller: i'd like to ask your guest one question.e only p out of everything that i've been watching on the news and all, the only person, the only people i've ever seen during this whole time has been hillary clinton and bill clinton. you all need to kill the whole story instead of part of the story. >> guest: i think we are always learning more about the story almost every day.know the i think the story has not been told, we do not know thed complete sto

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the last president, president obama, i have great respect for him as man. he said tough things about russia in the last few years of his presidency but didn't do anything tough. to hear that the election was attempting to be influenced or ordered to be influenced by vladimir putin and that president obama struggled with something to do is also of zero surprise for me because he did that all through syria, eastern europe and kraen and ukraine. >> in terms of countering with -- >> but let's be clear. you say that president trump has actually done tough things against russia. you mentioned a couple of them. he has not done anything to prevent russia from doing this and this being to -- he has done nothing to stop them from attempting to interfere in a u.s. election in the future. look what he has done in ukraine attacking energy. he hasn't done anything. his administration has done nothing to counter that. >> the administration, i had a great meeting with general mcmaster. they understand there are plans and more things i can't talk about in open source. i thi

they had confidence in president obama. just 23% said they lacked confidence in him. just 22% across the 37 countries say they do have confidence in him. so a big shift in terms of how the world sees the u.s. president. that affects how the world sees the united states. so this is that question about whether they have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the u.s. back again the end of the obama era. 64% favorable, 26% unfavorable. as you can see, that favorable line has gone down. the unfavorable line has gone up. so a big change in terms of publics around the world see the u.s. president and a change in how they rate the united states as a country. now let's take a look at some specific countries. so in just about every country we survey, we see a significant gap in terms of ratings for obama during the end of his presidency and ratings for trump this year. and i can't fit all of them on to the slides. so this is just where we see a 50% gap or greater. so take sweden, for example, at the top up here. 93% in our survey the

i think the repeal of obama care is very much an taepltattempt to erase barack obama's principal domestic legacy. the same applies to president trump's decision to walk away from the paris deal on climate change even though this was a nonbinding deal and even though all of its other signatories including china, european union, canada said they would stick to it. i think that what really motivated trump to walk away from it is it was an obama accomplishment and a couple other examples. one is the un-cubacuba policy the partial opening he undertook toward the end of his presidency and trump is beginning to partially close again. then there is the iran deal. the iran deal we have to wait and see. so far it is intact but trump has made it very plain during his campaign that he doesn't like the deem and his -- deal and his trip to saudi arabia last month he broadcast that very strongly. i do think that there's an attempt simply to erase obama yes. host: we will go to bill san diego republican line. caller: good morning. i was brought up with the definition of a democrat being butter and the de

did president obama fail hillary clinton? >> well, i think a lot of things didn't work right in this last election as it relates to russia. the entire system didn't work. i don't think law enforcement was doing enough. there was a lot of intelligence around that something was wrong. i don't think that intelligence got out to enough people to do something about it, particularly the campaigns. i think everyone agrees the administration should have been more aggressive. and a lot of people have said this. this was really complicated. this was really hard. and i don't think there were any clear choices. but i also don't think it is productive right now to point fingers and say the obama administration didn't get this right. i don't think the media got this right at first. >> did the obama administration get it right? >> i think in retrospect everyone would agree they should have done more. but i don't think it is productive today to point fingers and say they are all to blame for this. we need to be looking forward now and saying

stop blaming president obama. you said about president obama came. stop using bush. host: you made your point. guest: unfortunately in politics we have to look back and see what's been done and what needs to be done. i personally am going to keep blaming the obama administration for the things that i think they did wrong and supporting him for the things i think they did right. i think they did a lot more things wrong. i think your caller has the opposite view. what we need to do is to be respectful of president obama. he was president and he tried to lead the country in the direction he thought was right. i disagree with that. i don't try to trash him or denigrate him. host: we'll hear next from the independent line lexington kentucky, this is christian. caller: from the paris accord is the most short sighted decision that trump could have done. here in kentucky, we have the most lung cancer deaths. we have the most wood river in the united states. after california, we're tops for worst polluted air. we have the most life long minors which by the way big coal thrive

part of obama care is not working, and you can't go back to obama care. >> why? >> can you repeal it? no. do you need to replace it? yes. but the work of -- >> or fix it in. >> or fix it. well, when it's fixed, it'll look very different. >> not necessarily -- no. >> unless you just put the subsidies in. >> no. you could fix obama care relatively easy. not enough healthy young people are signing up because there aren't strong enough penalties for them not to. if you got them into the pools, people would offer insurance. obama care could be fixed but there's no political consensus at the moment -- >> i'm criticizes both parties. the democrats haven't been willing to work to fix balm care, and the republicans haven't been working to replace obama care. they both want to do the same thing. they want to have a better system than obama care. somehow they have to find a way to find a room and play pick it. get locked in the room. nobody leaves until the white smoke goes up the chimney. >> you're schooled in this clearly. if you talk to doctors on the line, and nurses on

but it's inaccurate to say president obama did nothing. this is another attempt by the president, by this white house to shift the story on the russia investigation to say that it's president obama's fault, is just another example of this white house trying to escape accountability on a very important question. anderson? >> jim acosta, keeping them honest. thank you very much. now we're keeping them honest on one other point that spicer made in today's briefing. he said this about an article in "the washington post." he said if you believe the story that is written, that means from august to november 8, two things. one, that if you believe then they did know about this and there are some serious questions about what they did or did not do in terms of acting. and the second is clear, they knew all along, talking about the obama white house, that there was no collusion, and this is very helpful to the president. now, we read "the washington post" article and did not get that at all from "the washington post" article in question. so we though

that's the rack obama of 1985. three years later after the three years in chicago on the far south side living th sheila, day one when barack arrives at harvard law school in 1988 every classmate who meets him without exception thinks that this is someone who will be a public star. so to my mind, the humungous contrast between what people who knew barack before chicago thought of him and what people at harvard see in 1988, that is what really documents the self-transformation he experienced between 1985 and 1988. now, the barack from the community years, barack was a student and then editor of the law view at harvard, a young lawyer, a law teacher, a state legislator in illinois across the 19s, think he is a wonderful, comllg, impressive political figure. one of my favorite moments comes on the floor of the illinois state senate where everythg was transcribed word for word, transcripts are on the web. it takes some work to go through them, but anybody can find everything. and barack is recounting how at their condo

that was their lead rather thanp the obama knew about meddling and hid it. >> juan: he said obama choked. he said it let obama choked because he didn't want to put his finger on the scale or whatever. he acknowledged finally that there was some meddling. but he never -- >> jesse: that's what he just had! >> dana: he said that in january when he was asked about it. >> juan: i want trump to come out and say yes, guess what, russia help me get elected. >> kimberly: why would he make that statement and try to delegitimize his own presidency without any specific -- no, no, no.me admitting there was meddling or interference was not saying there was an outcome specific achieved. why would he do that? try to undermine his own presidency? we won a lot of things. >> juan: we wanted trump to win, these people. >> jesse: coming up, news about the g.o.p. plans to repeal and replace obamacare. that's straight ahead. t >> dana: trump administration is in the midst of a full-court press to get the senate to repeal and replace obamacare, but democrats are universal in their opposition to -- answerl- were

you -- under barack obama. you lost a thousand democrats. >> go ahead. >> i agree with jack kingston, we have lost a thousand legislative seats and that means we need to run on the real issues that are affecting real people. guess what? people out there in middle america, california and everywhere in between, on down in the south they are talking about health care. talking about education. if democrats would like to win we need to run real authentic campaigns so it is not a -- this is a false choice of saying we need to play more to the white working class voter or -- >> well, simone, you're injecting race in this. >> what is the democrat party's key message? does the party have a message it can really own? >> well, i do not work for the democratic national committee, nor any of the other committees but i will say that perhaps it would behoove the party committees and the dnc if the message would get out there that look, the democratic party is a party that stands for all people, stands for working class people

obama since he left office. what impact has that had on you? david: even during the presidency, i was deeply puzzled by his -- the extent of his social interaction with hollywood celebrities. ou don't see anything in through 2004 raise aspiring to hangout with musicians and movie stars, nor is there any evidence of him seeking great personal wealth. has "the new york times" criticized him pretty outspokenly for going this route of $400,000 per appearance speeches. i find this very hard to square with who he was up through 2004. brian: would you turn it down if someone offered you $400,000 to speak? david: yes i would. never signedefully up with commercial lecture agencies as most prominent historical authors do because to me, that is a contradiction of who i believe i am, given my teachings of the martin luther king jr. brian: so you like martin luther king? is the formative influence in my life, and i am deeply grateful for mymmersion in hiseachings and thought, and i try to have that informed the way i lead my

the reality is obama care is dead. this is not a choice between obama care and american healthcare act this is a choice on whether or not we realize what's really happening. obama care is not a functioning option anymore. kelly: be sure to check out the full interview on watters world tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here after the fox report. >>> more than 100 dead and dozens still trapped under a huge landslide. what caused the side of a mountain to collapse burying a small village? a deadly crime wave has engulfed parts of mexico the worst in decades. what's fuelling the violence? it is probably not a big surprise as the trump administration uses the stats to renew calls for the border wall. sarah is a fifth-grade teacher. when it comes to molding young minds, nobody does it better. she also builds her own fighting robots. destroy. but when it comes to mortgages, she's less confident. fortunately for sarah, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. it's simple, so she can understand the details and be sure she's g

and it was not good enough for obama. he instructed the intelligence community to go out and see if they could validate what the c.i.a. was picking up. >> dickerson: michael, the validation happened. give us a sense from your expertise, i know we've talked about this before, but the president has been sceptical about whether this happened, whether it was the russian, it could have been the chinese. put this latest story into context in terms of the intelligence, how solid it was and what really administration officials know. >> one of the important things, john, about intelligence is that the information doesn't come just at one time, right? it comes in very slowly over time, and so intelligence stories build. i don't know about this particular source, and if i did i couldn't talk about it. but this seems to have kicked off the process. and then more intelligence comes in over the months. and by the time we get into the fall, there's high confidence across the intelligence community that russia's trying to interfere in th

how are former obama administration officials responding? >> reporter: well, some are saying that it's not fair to to judge their actions in 206 based on -- 2016 based on what we now know in 2017. others are really placing the blame back on mr. trump for calling this election rigged and the reports of russian meddling a hoax. president obama's former deputy national security adviser, ben rhodes, is also weighing in. he did so earlier today with this tweet. he said: what did trump say when obama administration issued statement in early october on russian meddling? he spent weeks calling the election rigged. but keep in mind another former senior obama administration official told the washington post that he felt like his administration, the obama administration, had choked in its response to russia. james? jamie: all right, kristin fisher, live on the north lawn. thank you. arthel: president trump attacks his predecessor, the white house has also been lobbying against a bipartisan senate bill placing a new round of sanctions on russia. the se

. >> obama tried to reset relations with russia. it expanded moscow's influence. >> it would be wonderful if net health and our country could get along with russia. topresident trump's attempts set a new course, will they fare any better? >> as the debate continues over what president trump's america first policies mean for the u.s. and the world, one thing is certain, the world is not waiting. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our debaters and moderator, michael durand, ambassador wendy sherman and jason isaacson. good afternoon. >> in the 4.5 months since his inauguration in which he promised that from this day forward it would be america first, president trump has put forth policies that seek to reposition the united states on the world stage. america has been taken advantage of. he has taken a series of steps intended to defend u.s. sovereignty. he believes our country has suffered. pledged tont has re-examine 14 other deals. he is proposed shortcuts for the state budget. he has lashed out publicly and mexico, canada, aust

now blaming former president obama. somebody he blames a lot of things on, but show you the latest tweets. here's one of the tweets he posted earlier this morning. the real story is that president obama did nothing after being informed in august about russia meddling, four months looking at russia under a magnifiesing glass, zero people of t. people, trump people, colluding. i should be given an apology. wolf, go back and look at first tweet, the real story president obama did nothing amp being informed. that is not accurate factually. he confronted president putin in september of last year. and the ranking democrat on the house intelligence community adam schiff saying the white house did not do enough. president 's tweet said he did nothing, that is not accurate and also worth noting that the president in these tweets is acknowledging and we noticed this over the weekend, starting to acknowledge on a larger scale that the russians were trying to intervene in the election, and, wolf, a side note. you did mention that t

obama's clean power plant never got implemented. it was put forward because the conservative nixon put forward the conservative clean air act and epa and the right wing roberts court said obama had to use that on climate change. obama moved forward with the plan and it didn't get implemented because you guys stopped it. here's what you have to understand. there's so much nonsense being spoken. what you and i both want are people working in the rust belt, because the wind industry, which could create a bunch of jobs was stopped by you guys in congress. tesla -- >> it totally subsidized the wind industry. they wouldn't even exist if it weren't for giant taxpayer tubsidies. >> you want to have this fight, talk about subsidies. we subsidize big oil by having the pentagon -- their product around the world and we massively subsidize fossil fuels and have for 100 years. all countries subsidize energy because it's so important. >> it's magnitude higher kilowatt of electricity produced. by the way, that was the obama's own energy department