years and fielding criticism of obama's record while obama stays silent himself. we've got a phenomenal group here on set with me to talk about all of this. nbc news correspondent mike memoli is here with this new reporting. matthew miller was an official in the obama administration where he served as the director of the office of public affairs for the justice department. and fad is the campaign manager for bernie sanders' presidential campaign. thanks to all of youfor being here. and of course, mike, i have to start with you in this new reporting. break down the crux of what we're hearing from former obama administration officials today. you and i have been working the phones, and wickly they're saying this is just not smart strategy. >> the obama alumni, which is a very tight-knit crew, they were in the trenches for ten years. they always knew his record was going to be subject to scrutiny. especially on that debate stage wednesday night with former vice president on the stage. that was one of the reasons frankly why some of his advisers were worried about bide

i'm curious to see how many more attacks will be on obama. >> laura: obama is going to make like six phone calls in georgia and you're going to know who's going to win the state of georgia. he had that much power and yet they are playing this interesting game, but it's kind of where they had to go. trump went after the bushes, he took the bushes out, really. i love them as people but their policies didn't work. he had to do that, romney wouldn't do that. he wanted to be the old bush party and try to shoehorn it in, trump said iraq was wrong, china policy bad, immigration bad.i'm. >> it speaks to how unique obama was, he was able to be a radical politician that gave off an appearance ofer being moderate. >> laura: what did obama have they don't have? charm, charisma? he dominated a stage. he lit up the stage. he just lit ite up. i'm saying this is a political observer, i didn't like his policy. i don't think anyone came close to that. >> last night was boring to watch. you can see that in the numbers they aren't getting a lot of people interested in them and there's no way to fight th

now obama is unfazed by these attacks on his legacy. at least that's what the sources told cbs news. if that is true, it makes some sense because obama under saw one of the most liberal administrations ever, it was considered radical a few years ago. today, a little different -- she's a very wealthy man, worth 40 million, 100 million, he pals around with the global elites, jet sets around the world to lavish events. critiquing everyone else's carbon footprint so i can see why he's not too bothered by the criticism between those hot stone massages. perhaps the party should be, even if biden gets the nomination in 2020, the trajectory of the party has moved far beyond the radicalism of obama and even farther away from america. in moments, part two of my angle will explore how obama has been hoisted on his own petard. but first i want to bring in mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and a coauthor of the fantastic new best-selling book justice on trial. there it is. in the makeup room yesterday before we came on i said for t

when you say obama, that brings mrs. obama and mr. obama and president obama into it. it just -- i don't understand it. it doesn't make sense to me. >> they literally are walking into a house saying there is a dragon in this house. we have to get the dragon out of the house. and once they walk in they start looking at each other and being like, you know what? i don't like how you dress. >> i don't like the drapes. can we change the drapes? >> i'm not saying a lot of this stuff doesn't matter. it all matters. but you got to pick your spots and figure out when you use the ammunition that you have because if they think that mr. trump isn't sitting somewhere saying i'm so happy this is coming out now and they're using the same stuff they'll use on me on each other, they're kidding themselves. so at what price will your own ambition be put against your party's ambition. >> that interview -- so you know it has gone from -- in the interview with me i am the least racist person that you'll ever meet or something like that to the least racist person in the world. >> who says th

what obama told him. details coming next. breaking news, company just tweeted out he's having dinner tonight with one of america's most prominent ceos tweeting, having dinner tonight with tim cook of apple. he will spend massive sums of money in the u.s. great. apple said thursday that its footprint across all 50 states has grown to 2.4 million which they are four times the number of jobs attributable to it eight years ago. former president barack obama advising joe biden on how to protect their legacy. obama once reportedly told him that he did not have to run for president in 2020. before biden announced his run, obama warned to biden aids to make sure biden does not embarrass himself or damage his legacy in the 2020 race. obama warned him his advisors are too old and out of touch with the younger radical base of the party. a new cochair of women for trump. thank you for being here. i got to talk about this ruling by court, the most liberal court in america. on the asylum walk. your dropping out of it, there you are. does t

obama had 91. and in the circuit courts the courts of appeals kind of where a lot of the important stuff is decided, environmental, labor, employment, all that stuff, trump has had 43 judges confirmed. most in history. obama had 19 at this point. and it's astounding to me, ari and i think the democrats are guilty of malpractice on in. we've had all these debates over last two days. no one bothered to mention it. i think presidents when they win should have deference in the judges that they appoint and the senate should defer toe it but a lot of these folks are tremendously unqualified. 11 of 19 judges in this latest batch trump wants to put up wouldn't even tell you that brown versus board of education is rightly decided. who are we putting up for these lifetime appointments? these are pretty darn unqualified people particularly at the trial court level. i can't understand for the life of me why democrats aren't talking about this at every turn. >> you lay it all out there, counselor. food for thou

not how barack obama made all of these mistakes. he didn't. >> so, today's big question is, can 2020 democrats criticize the obama presidency without alienating the democratic base? joining me senior director for progressive at sirius xm zerlina maxwell. former congressman david jolly. former spokesman for hillary clinton and former secretary for paul ryan, brendon buck. welcome to all of you, philippe, let's start with you, eric holder was jumping to obama's defense, he wrote as this debate was unfolding, to my fellow democrats, be wary of attacking the obama record. build on it. expands on it but there is little to be gained for you or the party by attacking a very successful and still popular democratic president. now, there were some policies that the president was behind, the former president obama was behind, that are now unpopular with the base. but how is spending the whole night attacking him instead of donald trump productive for the democrats? >> i don't think it is, except for a gotcha, well, obama did it, now you will.

here isp obama. cited -- here is president obama. obama supported single payer in 2003. >> he always tried to have it both ways. people have said obama is too conservative for today's democratic party. he campaigned as a moderate but i governed pretty blue. the healthcare, pushing the obamacare through with no republican vote and so forth. he pretended to be more moderate. he was willing to say you can keep your doctor if you want to and it wasn't true. liz: remember when obama said don't get into a circular firing squad, now it's aimed at him. >> will the higher deportations resume if you are president. >> absolutely not. >> you can't have it both ways, you invoke president obama more than anybody in this campaign. >> open borders is a right-wing talking point. >> the plan does not cover anyone in america by your staff and your own definition. as many as 10 million people will not have access to healthcare. liz: that's joe biden's version of dialing back. i want to get to this. chuck schumer says stop the firing squad. and the media

barack obama knew exactly who i was. he had ten lawyers do a background check on everything about me about civil rights and civil liberties and chose me and said it was the best session he made. >> surprising twist last night it became clear even the obama legacy isn't safe from attacks. attacks from the democrats on the stage. we'll have much more on that in a moment. let's get to detroit where joe biden about to take part in his first campaign event since the big debate. what your hearing this morning? >> reporter: joe biden did what he needed to do going into this debate and that's to survive. after that first rocky debate that exchange with kamala harris on school bussing biden was taking incoming fire from all sides last night on issues like immigration, health care and criminal justice. but he also showed that he was able to push back. he came back calling out element of other people's records when they criticized him. one area of that where you saw the fight play out was over criminal justice between cory booker a

with president obama. a lot democrats are intrigued about what happened last night. you had julian castro criticizing president obama on immigration, others jumping in. joe biden thinking this is the most popular democrat in the country, he happens to be a popular african-american democrat in the city of detroit, let's embrace barack obama and have that fight. and then making the case that he can beat trump in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. so team biden says we did well enough last night, how can we build on that and that's why you see the energy today. >> isn't it interesting that when you look at him there in this scrum with reporters being peppered with questions, i think that you're getting a different joe biden and maybe one that those on team biden would have liked to have seen more of last night. it's something that he seems to excel at more just there on the street than he does under the lights of the debate stage. >> you're absolutely right. and again, senator harris was not as good last nigh

i've praised a lot of the record of barack obama. at the same time, there hasn't been a single administration in history that we could say that we can't learn from and improve over in the future. and so what i said yesterday was that, look, we need to learn the lessons of the past when it comes to immigration. some of those lessons that i hope the vice president does learn is, number one, the next president can't wait to do immigration reform. in 2009, 2010, when democrats had the presidency, 60 votes, effectively in the senate and a majority in the house, that was a time to move immigration reform. i would move immigration reform immediately. secondly, you can't deport your way to the negotiating table and succeed with mitch mcconnell in these right-wing republicans. it doesn't matter how many people you deport, how cruel you are, it's never going to be enough for them. so we need to not be afraid of presenting our own bold alternative and positive vision for how we would handle immigration policy. that's what i've done. but the vic

>> president barack obama. >> thank you, barack obama. >> obama. >> barack obama. >> came under attack to get to his record to get at joe biden. is that risky. former under president obama, be wary of attacking on record. build on it, expand on it, but there's little to be gained for the party by attacking a very successful and still popular democratic president. let me bring back executive director of demand justice and former press secretary fof hillary clinton campaign. also michael singleton and democratic strategist joel payne. joel, is eric holder right? >> eric holder represents a lot of folks concerned about what they felt like was an attack on obama legacy. i don't feel that way. i think there are no sacred cows in a primary. every generation of politicians builds on politicians. cory booker executed that message very well saying the obama legacy is there and it's to be respected but can be built on. that's fair game for people to talk about. bill clinton they talked about his legacy. george bush, republicans talked about it, that's the nature of politics. >> cory booker, no s

they had eight years under obama to do a lot. these cities got worse and worse and worse. >> yes, they did. i grew up in the '60s. in the '60s, we were rioting in the streets, we were getting beat up by the police. we had blights in our neighborhoods. towards the end of president obama's tenure, black people were rioting in the streets, black people were getting beat up by the police. there was history repeating itself. even when you said, don lemon having outdone himself tonight, no, he out dumbed himself tonight. he keeps trying to make raise an issue because they cannot engage the president on policy. mueller was a dud. impeachment is not happening. obstruction is a nonfactor. all they have left is the race card. out of all of their cards, the other cards they can't play pit all they have is the race card and they will try to sneak some climate change in. but i saw in the 2000 campaign, elmer getting al gore told us that we would be submerged under polar ice caps by now. >> laura: what happened to hope and change, dan bongino?

on outsmarting president obama, and frankly, was upset it, obama and he got obama out of what was into the g-7. it's come up, should we put russia back in. a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings. and they are not there. it would be a good thing if russia were there. o we can speak directly, not have to speak, by telephone and ther things, so here's the thing. it's a vote of what's now the g-7. because taken out putin outsmarted on crimea, on he red line, on other things, totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset. out.took him a part hould be of it because we're looking for should have them in like they have always been. [inaudible] --but [inaudible] in 1992 -- president trump: i read the same you.t as i'm not looking to do indexing. longstudied indexing for a time. i think it will be perceived if elitist.s somewhat i don't want to do that. i want taxes for the middle lass, the workers, the people that work so hard, that's where i'm looking. is really exing probably better for the upper income groups. i'm not looking to do that. i wanted to do it, i believe i could but i w

obama's lonely hearts club band. obama gets a ticket to ride and you have to hide obama away. those would be disappointed abo rally he recovered. >> there was some ugliness that broke out in the crowd earlier this evening. you asked whether or not the crowd was chanting send her back. they didn't do that but the hot button issue of immigration was there. trump supporters tried to rip a sign out of a protestor's hands and a brief scuffle developed. >> laura: and the banner they had up during the whole thing. they were wishing for something to be outraged with that banner. >> i think donald trump was smart not to identify the squad or name any of them. he did a broader attack on the cities themselves. the scuffle. that's just the carry over. we will have scuffles. that's still not good. >> laura: yes. we have a lot of scuffles with antifa we could talk about too. panel, thank you very much. breaking news in the covington catholic scandal? who is are the politicians and journalists on the wrong side of that lawsuit? we will name names when we come back. >> ♪ >> laura: it turns

>> barack obama. >> president obama. >> and those mentions were not always positive. candidate slammed joe biden's praise of his 1-time boss. >> looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't. >> you can't have it both ways. you invoke president obama more than anybody in this campaign, you can't do it when it is convenient and dodge it when it is not. >> the former vp says there is no dodging, just praise. >> i'm proud of the job he did. i don't think anything he has to apologize for and it kind of surprised me the criticism. >> former obama chief of staff from emmanuel also came to the 44th president's defense today. >> every element of progressivity from wilson and terry roosevelt of franklin roosevelt to the great society and forward built on the progress of generations, this is enough. >> eric holder summed it up in a tweet minutes after the debate ended. to my fellow democrats, be wary of attacking the obama record, build on it, expanded but there is little to be gained, for you are the party by attacking by attacking a successful

why wouldn't obama want biden to run? >> probably 2016 because it wasn't just reported in 2020 president obama tried to not get him to run, but also in 2016 as well. there were reports president obama thought hillary clinton would be the more formidable candidate and the stronger canada of the two. you know, tried to convince joe biden were convinced him to not run. and the question to the democratic primary voters, why put your faith in a candidate one the people closest to him seem to doubt his abilities? it's not just president obama. i think it is really interesting as well. if you follow him on twitter and what he said on tv as well, he's taking open shots at joe biden. and biden has undercut his candidacy. this is someone who ran 22008-2012 race and so someone with intimate knowledge of joe biden's ability as a candidate who continues to take shots at him publicly. >> tucker: it seems clear biden is not up for it and doesn't have the support certainly of the professional class and the democratic campaign world. i wo

, the conversation took a surprising turn several times. >> president barack obama. >> president obama. >> those mentions of the 44th president were not always positive. candidates slammed former vice president joe biden's praise of his onetime boss. >> looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't. >> you can't have it both ways, you invoke president obama more than anyone in this campaign. you can't do it when it's convenient and dodge it when it's not. >> the former vp says there is no doctrine, there's just praise. >> i don't think there's anything he has to apologize fo for. it kind of surprised made the degree of the criticism. >> former obama chief of staff rahm emanuel also came to the 44th president's defense today. >> in every area of progressivity from wilson, to teddy roosevelt, to the great society builds on the progress of generations before and generations to come. this is nuts. if >> obama attorney general eric holder summed it up in a tweet. to my fellow democrats, be wary of attacking the obama record, build on that, there is little to

and you're critiquing obama? >> well, i don't know how that spin resulted. anybody that watched the debate, i was talking about vice president biden's record, not obama's. heck, i had many conversations with president obama during his time as president about reforming the criminal justice system. it was joe biden who bragged that every crime bill since the 1970s major and minor had his name on it. that's his words about his record. this is not about the obama administration at all. i don't know how that spin came out of this. this is about a guy that championed the bills that created three strikes you're out and incentivizing states to have longer sentences and more jalsz and prisons built from the time i was in law school to the time that i was the mayor of the city of newark. a new prison or jail being built every 19 days. our prison population has gone up 500% in this country with an overwhelming disproportionate between african-americans. this drug war has been incarcerating african-americans at about four ti

is it a mistake to do anything to try to get away from the obama administration? >> i know that joe is proud of his eight years as vice president. look, this is a job interview for who we're going to choose as the next president of the united states. out of 44 years as you be service, his 8 years as vice president is in some ways most important. >> sorry, it's live television, that's -- we have another candidate, senator gillibrand. you were taking a little bit of heat on social media. thank you senator kuntz. you had heat on social media for your questioning of joe biden's record. would you have done anything differently? >> no, i think the starkness of his statements that affordable daycare would lead to the deterioration of the family, and that was avoiding responsibilities, these are quotes from something he wrote, i just wanted to know if he still believed that. if he believed it then, what he meant. because the truth is, my mother worked outside the home, my grandmother worked outside the home, i'm a working mom, not only primary caregiver, but proi mary wag

obama, trade deals. they did it last night too and biden is there saying wait a second, that was the party of hope and change. >> there's a couple things here. first of all, i think we have to acknowledge that some of the deficiencies of the obama administration created the opening for donald trump. as far as health care, there is a real divide. among democrats on health care. and there has been for decades. in 2000 i went to the democratic platform's committee to present medicare for all and it was shot down by the gore campaign. this is -- and the support for medicare for all is growing. you wouldn't know it by tonight's debate, but you would certainly know it from yesterday's with bernie sanders. >> laura: we had to lainey i think john delaney, the only one with his newest experience with other than andrew yang said i went to companies. medicare paid for 80% of what doctors actually need to cover their costs. medicare for all will look great or what is already going to crater, which is medicare. but t

. >> so russia outsmarted president obama. president obama and others brought the families apart. but i'm the one that kept the families together. >> reporter: but that's just not true. separations were rare under the obama administration. the trump administration has only intensified family separations at the border. also on immigration, the president ramped up his rhetoric on constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship. >> you walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations the baby is now a u.s. citizen. we are looking at birth rierigh citizenship very closely. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: the thought of a recession? >> we have a strong economy. >> reporter: but that's not what trump said tuesday. >> payroll tax is something we think about and a lot of people would like to see that. >> reporter: and the president is using a familiar insult to attack denmark's prime minister after she dismissed his idea of buying greenland. >> i thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd. it was an absurd idea, it was nasty pip thought it was an inappropriate state

barack obama actually did it. but in his own words he has said it was a starter house. >> you can't have it both ways. you invoke president obama more than anybody in this campaign. you can't do it when it is convenient and dodge it when it's not. >> i'm not going to sucker punch the vice president. i am not a hard guy to figure out. >> we have a predator living in the white house and i'm going to tell you something donald trump has a predatory nature and predatory instincts. >> mr. vice president it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't. my immigration plan would also fix the broken legal immigration system because we do vary problem with that. >> we can no longer allow a white nationalist to be in the white house, number one. and number two, we have to make america what it's always been, a place of refuge. i've never been a black teenager pulled over in a white neighborhood. i've never been a woman talked over in a meeting. i've never been an lgbtq member subject to a slur

the leader for the past eight years during the obama presidency was obviously president obama. they want someone to step forward in this presidential field and take control. they have deep respect for president obama. but who is going to lead the party in 2019? >> we'll see. i think they need a leader to push -- if impeachment is to go anywhere, it needs a strong leader like tip o'neill against nixon. i don't think they believe in it yet, though. are the numbers still there? are they growing there to get to 218? >> they are growing. they're growing every minute. >> chris. >> 218 is the magic number. ben, i like your cheerleading there so much. you don't even have to be called on. i know because the mayor of new york taught us that last night. don't wait to be called on. ben rhodes, thank you so much. zerlina maxwell, jon meacham and robert costa. >>> coming up, warning that russia is still interfering in our elections. let's listen to his warning. >> over the course of my career, i have seen a number of challenges to our democracy. the russian government's effort to interfere i

, but it was annexed during president obama's turn. if it was annexed during my term, i would say, sorry, folks, i made a mistake. president obama was helping ukraine. crimea was annexed during his term. now, it's a very big area, very important area. russia has its submarine. that's where they do their submarine work and that's where they dock large and powerful submarines, but not as powerful as ours and not as large as ours, but they have their submarines. and president obama was, pure and simply, outsmarted. they took crimea during his term. that was not a good thing. it could have been stopped. it could have been stopped with the right whatever. it could have been stopped. but president obama was unable to stop it and it's too bad. >> "the right whatever." "it could have been stopped, could have been stopped with the right whatever." that's what president obama should have done to prevent vladimir putin from invading and stealing crimea. that's what president obama should have done, the right whatever. if that's your answer to you

he suggested michelle obama. i can promise you that she's not running for president. >> this is the process, is to figure out who that person is. >> was that person on the stage either of these two nights? >> we may be getting more questions than answers. i guess i'm with the conventional wisdom that biden did okay. but to the point that michael moore is making, i don't think he answered very specific questions about whether he can far with trump. you look at some of the reactions from the democratic operative class and it's a bubble, of course, but a lot of the questions are is he on his feet enough, did he look old. those are aesthetics. maybe that doesn't matter. but to michael moore's point, does the candidate have the energy to do so. this is a process. obviously we'll see how it plays out. but i think we are sitting here with more questions than answers. >> i think 2016 is reinstructive for the democratic people in that the republicans tried all sorts of tactics, including rubio who wanted to be like trump

with obama in the cabinet room. respond to that. >> only one of us was critical of some of the things going on in immigration during that administration and that was me. i learned the lessons of the past and the vice president hasn't. those lessons or how cruel you are to these migrants, mitch mcconnell and these white ring republicans are never going to come to the negotiating table. secondly we can't wait on immigration reform. we need to move forward on that and if we want to guarantee that no future administration can truly separate little children from their parents then we need to repeal that section of the law that i talked about. i learned the lessons and the vice president has not. >> thank you for your time, running out of live show. there are candidates all around us marked by these signs, michael bennett is nearby. you can see bill diblasio head and shoulders above everybody else. we are going to continue looking for sounds and we will let you know what we get. >> much like round one, after those round o

the obama record. there is little to be gained by you or the party by attacking successful and still popular democratic president. hammering out differences are part and parcel of any primary in either party and there are real policy differences between democrats. differences that candidates want to make clear so they can distinguish themselves in what is a very crowded field. the question is can democrats figure out a way to pick a nominee without debasing the eventual nominee or harming the credibility of the still popular former standard bearer. that remains to be seen. some of the key moimts from detroit especially on health care and immigration policies show how difficult that can be. >> vice-president biden, i didn't hear your response when the issue came up with all those deportations. you were vice-president of the united states. i didn't hear whether you tried to stop them or not, using your power, your influence in the white house -- >> first of all, mr. vice-president, it looks like one of u

it wasn't just president obama. i was there with first lady obama when she went out to oak creek, wisconsin after the sikh temple massacre there. the anniversary of that is this very week. so it was a whole family who knew about putting others first. but donald trump, again, it all comes back to him, his brand, his reputation. he talks about making america great, but ultimately isn't he just really trying to make donald trump the center of all of these things? and it's hard to mourn, it's hard to grieve and it's hard to come together when the president continues this sort of divisive approach. >> josh, you know, biden mentioned charleston and i can't help but look back to what president obama did after the shooting which killed nine at the mother emanuel ame church. watch this. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me ♪ >> that was such a powerful moment. i remember being there and live as it was happening, being on the air. what goes through your mind when you watch and you remember that

the candidates saw some of the backlash, not only from obama allies but democratic voters who find obama to be a popular president. the polls show that obama continues to enjoy very high approval ratings from democrats and independents and the coalition that obama put together to win in 2008 and 2012 including young voters and minority voters, whoever emerges from this big field of democrats is going to need to put that coalition back together and trashing obama's legacy is not one way to do it, and i think those candidates realize that after the debate. >> some people may think obama is sacred to some degree. they may miss the respect and dignity he brought to office, not necessarily the policy as we saw on wednesday night in terms of what they were looking at but let me ask you this as we move forward, how do you attack former vice president biden which was really their intention without attacking president obama. . >> it's a tough question. you have to do it with a lot of respect. senator kamala harris went after biden on the issue of deportation, she spent a lot of time with a long p

since obama. he changed what was going on. the idea that somehow it's comparable to what this guy is doing is absolutely bizarre. >> i didn't really hear anybody comparing obama to trump. >> also this idea of going after obama, no, joe, they're going after you. the idea that you're going to run with 40 years of experience and people won't pick apart that record? gillibrand went back to 1981. i would go much further to the '70s, which kamala harris did in the first debate. he has a bad record. he has to deal with that. he got a chance to deal with it. de blasio tried to do it. >> in fact, let's run that clip, challenging the fact there were more deportations under up obama/biden. >> did you say those deportations were a good idea? or did you go to the president, saying this is a mistake, we shouldn't do it? >> i was vice president. i am not the president. i keep my recommendations to him in private. >> you invoke president obama more than anybody in this campaign, you can't do it when it's convenie

>> obama. correct. >> and 82% of democrats support obamacare. >> yeah. >> i'm wondering why people who want votes from democrats spent all last night trashing barack obama saying support of barack obama's signature plan, the affordable care act, the greatest step forward toward universal health care in the history of the american republic, i'm wondering why they were trashing that and the defense of that is republican talking points. it is insanity, my friends. >> i know. especially since overall support of obamacare, remember this, it's hard to forget -- >> it was a year ago, though. >> it was a year ago, helped drive democrats to record midterm victories. >> those people talking at you all the time. >> this was too easy for biden. >> really, it's kind of -- i'm so confused. i'm so confused. you have barack obama, by the way, for the record, the most popular democrat alive, the first democrat since franklin roosevelt did it in 1932 and 1936 and again in '42 and '44, to win the majority of the

i got to run but -- higher than obama. you know that. come on. okay, got to go guys there then so i figured if he paired up next, we will call out the rampant hypocrisy among some of the filthy rich socialists running to be tax collector in chief. that and more as ilhan omar "hannity" continues after the tv just keeps getting better. how you watch it does too. this is xfinity x1. featuring the emmy award-winning voice remote. streaming services without changing passwords and input. live sports - with real-time stats and scores. access to the most 4k content. and your movies and shows to go. the best tv experience is the best tv value. xfinity x1. simple. easy. awesome. xfinity. the future of awesome. >> dan: welcome back to the "hannity" special. issues confronting a a man because he is 2020 democrats are continuing to ramp up their calls to tax the rich. part of their plan if coaches spread the wealth around. but what about the wrong wealth? several democratic candidates are multimillionaires, themselves. for example, elizabeth warren. she is wo

joe biden tide himself closely to obama. if anything people sometimes criticize him for that refers to him as barak, not the president. he is making a bet on that. could this hurt him when some of obama's policies which are now seen as positively right-wing by some running for president go unthe microscope. >> the reality is that joe biden is running as barack obama's vice president, if he hadn't been barack obama's for eight years he wouldn't have the support with a lot of the older voters, with some to many african-american voters. that service, those eight years are core to who he is. he has a story to tell about this vice presidency that is very different than what some of the democrats running against him want to talk about. they want to appeal to younger voters and liberals looking at eight years of obama and saw a lot of moderation. they were happy for obamacare but want to go further now. they look at the deportations. i want not trump light but a prolog to what trump is doing now. and they're not happy with what all

even former president barack obama was not liberal enough for some of the candidates. watch this. >> vice president biden, i didn't hear your response when the issue came up of all those deportations. you are a vice president of the nine states. i didn't hear whether you try to stop them or not, using your power and your influence in the white house. >> your electing me to lead. >> mr. vice president, it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't. >> you have invoked president, more than anybody in his campaign. you can do it when it's convenient and then dodge it when it's not hit >> last night president trump brought up the bizarre debate during his rally rally in cincinnati, ohio. take a look. >> i was watching the so-called debate last night. [boos] and i also watched the night before that was long, long television. and the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama then they did attacking me, practically. [cheers and applause] it's true. and this morning, that's all the fake news was talking about. >> jason: is only the pre

a lot was on barack obama. they went after him on his immigration policy almost everyone on the stage outside joe biden was against obama care. that is stunning we wouldn't have obamacare if every democrat didn't vote for it. ainsley: mr. wolf on the set, 97 approval ratings among democrats, president obama. for them to go after him, attack his policies, maybe not the brightest ideas. he talked about pun of-up moments, kristin gillibrand attacking biden for a op-ed he wrote in 1981. women shouldn't be working that was a long time ago. i believe women should work. my light wife worked. my current wife worked. reminder to all of us, late wife, how she tragically died, left him ahope with the children. i was working when i was a seng gell dad. i thought he actually gained points. it backfired on gillibrand. steve: some candidates were trying to tear down what joe biden and barack obama did during the administration. except one of the people actually part of the administration, julian castro, he had a different kin

that president obama did. look, it was an international community decision to isolate russia and make russia have some measure of accountability for doing this. putin doesn't care about not being in the g-8 but what he does care about are the sanctions. to the trump adminisration's credit, they have extended the sanctions president obama put on russia and the rest of the international community has as well. that's what's important here is not him blaming obama and the ridiculous thing about being outsmarted but how much and to what degree will the west continue to hold putin accountable for his violation of ukrainian territorial integrity. >> julie, when you look at these last few days and step back and look at all of these issues, and climate change, does it really emphasize how isolated the u.s. is compared to -- with regards to its allies? >> i think so. previous administrations, previous presidents of both parties have used these gatherings to take a leadership role in garnering these international consens

nobody trashed barack obama. what happened is that there were distinctions made between joe biden's record and everybody else on stage. what you are seeing is the fact that for the last eight years joe biden was vice president to barack obama. >> right. >> joe biden uses barack obama as a shield. >> everyone on that stage loved barack obama and now -- >> we still do. >> now they are talking like they have perspective. >> we cannot talk about the last eight years of the administration and critique some of the things we feel could have been changed or made better. we can't critique the previous 40 years of joe biden's record, then what are we talking about? >> you want to talk a difference between that and critiquing. look, you go after joe biden time and time again. you are not a bigot but look at what you did. how does it not do two things, fatigue the issue. the people you need to persuade that it matters are not you two guys. if they hear about it while you fight within your party, what appetite will you have f

is obama running, or are they running against trump? the sacred obama? i thought somebody spikes my drink last night while he was watching. >> that may happen, too, but that's okay. >> julie: that's possible. [laughter] we are getting new details on what is believed to be the killing of one of the world's most wanted terrorists. we talk about what the death of hamza bin laden could mean for al qaeda. ♪ dealing with psoriatic arthritis pain was so frustrating. my skin... it was embarrassing. my joints... they hurt. the pain and swelling. the tenderness. the psoriasis. i had to find something that worked on all of this. i found cosentyx. now, watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are getting real relief with cosentyx. it's a different kind of targeted biologic. cosentyx treats more than just the joint pain of psoriatic arthritis. it even helps stop further joint damage. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell

unlike barack obama -- oh, the great barack obama. trump hasn't a surveilled "new york times" columnist or fox reporters are 20 associated press reporters, yet they hate him. why do they hate him? because he is pro-america, and they are anti-american. that is the only explanation. that's it. >> sean: do you to pay $0.50 or less for those crappy books? >> well, whatever i paid, it was too much. >> sean: [laughs] number one "new york times" best seller, it's called "unfreedom of the press," lays it out perfectly. sunday nights, 10:00 p.m., right on the fox news channel. when we come back, making mac and cheese last night, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez issued a dire warning: fix the climate crisis or diseases will spread from melting glaciers. wow. straight ahead ♪ -meg! there you are. did you take a picture of the cake to put on our website? i mean i would have but i'm a commercial vehicle so i don't have hands... or a camera...or a website. should we franchise? is the market ready for that? can we franchise? how do you do th

to do is build on obama's legacy. every election is about moving forward and i don't think we saw enough of that from any candidates on the debate stage last night or either two nights but barack obama is at 95% approval rating among democrats. independents love him, women in suburbs love him. he is still a beloved figure so that's a missed opportunity. i think barack obama, when people did bring him up, they were criticizing him to your point. if that was the right strategy to make sure donald trump wasn't in the white house, he would be leading the charge to say attack me, i want one of you to be in the white house. it's not. and hopefully they would have learned the lesson that they can build on, they can give a forward looking vision but they can also talk about the successes that they should move forward from. and i think that was a really missed opportunity the last two nights. >> i have to say and we've got on tv for 14 hours, a long time this morning, and we've talked to a lot of democrats and i get the sense

he's tied himself closely to obama. biden was asked about the attacks on obama's legacy. listen to his answer. >> i was surprised about how much there was about barack, the president. i'm proud of having served with him. i'm proud of the job he did. i don't think there's anything he has to apologize for. i hope the next debate we can talk about our answers to fix the things that trump has broken, not how barack obama made all of these mistakes. he didn't. >> yesterday cnn asked four candidates about the legacy. here is the response. >> we are having an honest conversation about an administration that was incredible. if he were running for a third term, i wouldn't be running. >> i have nothing but praise for obama. i think he did great work. >> i have always had praise for obama. at the same time, let me be very clear, don. i do believe when it comes to immigration and i said this before i joined the obama administration in 2014, there were ways we could improve on what the obama administration was doing. >> president obama was a great president. for a lot of us we're look

they think barack obama most popular? two-thirds thought the direction of the puncher was going in the wrong direction. that's why trump one back. >> sean: do you see any candidate emerge into beat trump? >> yes. i hate to say that. >> sean: you want him to stop with that. >> exactly right, sean. it's republican women that are going to hurt his election campaign. a lot of new people who have never voted before. but yeah, i think the democrats have a problem with moran and the liberalism. sanders and the liberalism. it's a 50/50 election. >> it's a close election. i'm not going to tell you that it's a slam dunk. if donald trump is able to oversee a strong economy and they see america unapologetic, and he's taking on our enemies, he's going to win. >> sean: thank you both. lindsey graham, fired up over cnn's hiring of andrew mccain. straight ahead. let's see, aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills. so why am i still thinking about this? i'll take aleve. aleve. proven bet

we do know what barack obama did. we know that barack obama saved the auto industry. we know that he led the economic recovery. we know that he began the first steps of criminal justice reform. >> but he was hit over the head last night. about deportation and mass incarceration. what does that say in the general? >> no one hit him over the head over mass incarceration. no one trashed the president of the united states. no one trashed barack obama. what did happen last night was there were distinctions made between joe biden's record and everybody else on stage. what you're seeing right now, what this argument is all over, for the last eight years, joe biden was vice president to barack obama. joe biden uses barack obama as a shield. >> and everyone on that stage loved barack obama and now they're talking like they got perspective. >> no, no, no. we still do. we cannot talk about the last eight years of the administration and critique what we felt fast some of the things could have been made better. we can't citizen teak previous 40 years. what can we talk about? this

>> the world has changed since obama of the a obama. and here's the deal. this is about the future. it's about taking the same kind of integrity and moving beyond it. by the time the president's term ended, he was able to begin to focus on ways to not just keeping the car from going over the cliff and us going into depression, he was able to begin to focus, and he focused on immigration. and what he did was serious. he changed the dialogue, he changed the whole question, he changed what was going on. and the idea that somehow it's comparable to what this guy is doing is absolutely bizarre. look, this is three years later. the world has changed. president trump has turned it upside down internationally. he has turned it upside down economically. people are hurting badly. there's no response. we faced a different problem ten years ago when the economy collapsed because of republican policies. now we face a problem that the economy as well as the soul of this country is collapsing because of this presidency. so it's a different problem. but with the same basic principle. we have to be

president obama for the deportations, even though most other times he claims that president obama, says his name again and again and again, to link with him. i had three different moments, shannon, and i think someone who had a good night tonight was cory booker. he attacked vice president biden the number of different times but specifically on criminal justice reform and his record. >> the person enjoying this debate most right now is donald trump as we picked democrats against each other. i was raised by two civil rights parents who told me to always keep your eye on the prize. vice president, you can have it both ways but you invoke president obama most than anybody else in this campaign. you can't do it when it's convenient and dodge it when it's not. you want to compare records? frankly, i'm shocked that you do. i'm happy to do that. all the problems he's talking about he created. you are dipping in the kool-aid and you don't even know the flavor. >> kool aid came up with a tweet saying we know the flavor but i think cory booker had a strong light for him and was the joe biden anta

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kamala harris loves barack obama. he supported her in her first district attorney's race all the way back in 2003-2004. they have a long history together. they have a really warmth relationship. at the end of the day, this is a competitive democratic primary. voters are looking for something simple -- who is the right person to lead us into the future? who is the right person to defeat donald trump? the in the contents of arguments and discussions, you'll have differences on some of the issues. kamala harris, for example, pointed out that biden's health care plan doesn't cover every single american. i think voters need to know about these issues, if they're going to make a decision on the direction of our party. >>> senator harris had this to say about some of the negative attacks. listen to this. >> hey, guys, you know what? america does not want to witness a food fight. they want to know how we're going to put for aed on their table. >> why did she play what was a big role clearly seen by many people as a food fight

and her last name rhymes with obama. in fact, it is obama. michelle obama. everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved american and she would go in there and she would beat him, she would beat him in the debates, he wouldn't be able to bully her, he wouldn't be able to nickname her and she is beloved, all -- just go to c-span and follow her book tour across the country. she's playing 15,000-seat arenas in the midwest. they have to turn people away. she takes the stage and she's so powerful and so good. you just look at that and you think, of course, she could win. but everyone's now saying, well, of course she's not going to run. well, has anyone asked her? i think -- if she were asked -- look. we're sorry about this, we have to come back to you, you have to go back to the white house. your country needs up. if asked to serve, i believe she would serve. if you were asked to serve or i were, whatever our skill set is, wouldn't we do that? i think she would do that. i think they would win, she would crush him. it has to be a crush, though, not jus