president obama thought it wasn't a good thing to have russia in. president obama. president obama. president obama. >> and obviously there's some thinking behind this president going after the last one. you saw how it was a point of comparison for matt schlapp. so what does this mean? all right, let's get into that as the great debate. we got two great people for you tonight. show them. who wants to see my face? thanks for being both here. so, anna, let me start with you. why do you believe this president is going after president obama the way he does and what does it mean in the election analysis? >> because he's jealous of him, because he haunted by him, because he's obsessed with him, because he can't stop thinking about him. look, people talk about trump derangment syndrome. well, trump has obama derangment syndrome. and trump always needs a foil, whether it's crooked hillary or pocahontas or sleepy joe or crazy bernie or the squad or whomever. he always needs a foil to keep the flames alive, somebody to fight against. that's just who he is. but he also been obsessed with obama

i loved obama but this is what obama -- obama was great but this is what i would do. how much more progressive do you think this field is than obama. do you think they have to find the balance or should they be, no, i'm doing to it differently. >> overall the field is more progressive. things have moved to the left. even the centrist candidates are embracing policies obama wasn't ready to go for. you saw this in the debate where vice president biden said we didn't jail people, and juliaaÁn castro said, wait, i recall a very different immigration policy and immigration is going to be the issue where there is an attempt to trade distance with obama because a lot of democratic want a more liberal humane immigration policy, but there's a thing of wanting to show that i'm with the obama presidency, obama was a great president, i support him. and that's the thing that i think they're trying to figure out how to do. >> trevor: seems like, on healthcare, they have their arguments where people agree on the universal aspect. the main issue is private insurance, no private insu

and what deals has -- >> i mean obama knows the art of the deal. >> oh, obama, yeah. definitely not donald trump. >> you think it's because he's the first black president? >> maybe. i mean we've already established that donald trump is a bigot. we already know that he looks down on ethnic minorities just based on his career, the way he speaks about people of color. it's clear that he doesn't not see -- he doesn't have the same level of respect. i think that's just obvious. but that's not the -- i don't think that's the only reason. maybe that's part of it, but also, you know, he's just incredibly insecure. he is one of the most thin-skinned, insecure men in the most powerful position in the world i've ever seen. and this manic obsession, it's jealousy. it's envy. he just can't stand that someone is adored more than he is. and something else about his obsession with president obama which i find very strange, it shows the double standard of his ability to tell lies. he just lies about president obama, whether it was about him putting a spy into his campaign or whether i

if you think back to the interview that president barack obama did with jeff goldberg in the atlantic just before he left office, there are really a lot of echoes of what you hear with president trump. he talked about a -- being -- there was this sort of anger and frustration sounding through about the lies and what they do. this has been coming for some time, probably a little bit of exhaustion with the wars and terrorism and vigilance. but the fact is, the american people have, two impulses simultaneously. one is, we are tired of those burdens of leadership, can't somebody else do? it you hear that in echoed by president trump and earlier by president obama, but they also don't want to see syrian babies choking on nerve gas. they don't want to see people beheaded on tv like isis was doing and vladimir putin laying waste to their neighbors or venezuelan stalk because they have a bad government so what the president to do is to activate the part of america that wants to continue to lead, and sometimes i think you get that from this administration. >> brennan: is there an identity that

of barack obama. >> 18 times, barack obama was mentioned, definitely more favorably. >> joe biden is going to make sure everyone knows he is vice president to barack obama and how respect castro said he is fulfilling the legacy of barack obama. i expect that to increase. when will barack obama say who is the legacy and who he supports which he has yet to do which i understand during the primary, it is interesting to see his thoughts on this. we will get to that further down the road. they will bring up barack obama every chance they get. heather: we enjoy having you after the debate. 10 minutes after the top of the, joe biden defending the obama administration's record on immigration. >> comparing this president to the president we have is outrageous, number one. we didn't lock people in cages or separate families or do those things. heather: did he tell the truth? a legal immigrant who fled communism is here to separate fact from fiction up next. remember the kid who was bullied for making this university of tennessee shirt? school made him an incredible offer, a class act that has

nor has president obama. so -- interesting was the contrast between what he said in private and what we've heard before and since in public. margaret: benghazi was a tragedy in 2012. ending the life of several americans including a u.s. ambassador. your mom told you not to do the sunday shows. she said i smell a rat. softball question. do you resent hillary clinton for sending you out there? susan: no. she didn't send me out. the back story is, horrible week. we had lost four of our colleagues in a terrible tragedy. many of our other embassies around the world had been subjected to violent attacks, demonstrations, it's about 10 days before the opening of the u.n. general assembly. i'm the u.n. ambassador. and many of the issues that i work on from syria to palestinian statehood to the iran nuclear issue will be at the fore. and the white house calls me on a friday afternoon. and says you know, we've asked secretary clinton if she would go on the sunday shows. and we're waiting to hear from her. but if she can

the obama administration were pressuring democrats on the fence. there are a lot of democrats supporting the iran deal, a 40-vote threshold because they were worried about being primaried about the obama machine. 40 democrats is what it took to get the iran deal passed to go forward in the senate. it was very concerning. i think the administration used these conversations to put pressure on democrat senators and use it as leverage. liz: the book is yet to be written on what the obama administration was up to. thank you see much. appreciate it, sir. the house democrats' plans to impeach probe as the russia probe goes away. we have the latest on the debate on whether the impeachment push will fall flat. like you, my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher to do. thought surgery was my only option. turns out i was wrong. so when a hand specialist told me about nonsurgical treatments, it was a total game changer. like you, my hands have a lot more

esta fue una promesa que no se cumpliÓ del presidente obama. la situaciÓn hoy es mÁs difÍcil porque necesita el apoyo de republicanos en el senado. estÁ dispuesto a abandonar daca, deberÍamos reconstruir el muro? >> jorge, muchas gracias por la pregunta. estoy de acuerdo que barack obama fue muy diferente a donald trump. donald trump tiene un corazÓn oscuro cuando se trata de los inmigrantes, Él construyÓ toda su carrera polÍtica esparciendo el miedo y socavando a los inmigrantes comer diferente a barack obama, mi problema con el vicepresidente joe biden es que cada una de las veces que algo ocurre con barack obama dice yo estuve allÍ, pero cada vez que alguien le hace una pregunta de parte de la administraciÓn que hacÍa mal el dice eso fue el presidente, quiere tomar crÉdito del trabajo de obama pero no quiero responder a ninguna pregunta. >> vicepresidente joe biden va responder? >> permÍteme decirle, yo fui el primer candidato en abril que presentÓ un plan de inmigraciÓn, y sabe porque porque no le tengo miedo a donald trump

did under the obama presidency. it is important to point out that up until this point, even though trump is well on n his wy to surpassss the number of deportations come up until this point, obama is still the sitting president that is deported the most in u.s. history. it is important we hold biden accountable because he did have a say when he was vice president under president obama. n for want to applaud julia calling that out, for making sure we hold all of the elected officials -- later on in the debate, he said we must hold people accountable for their actions. and that is what we want to do. there have beenen groups that he been calling on biden for his record on deportatitions. and for thehe fact that he cannt deny that there were 3 million people, 3 million families broken up under the obama-biden presidency. our fear is if he does when the nomination, if he does make it into the where -- white house, there will be more of the same thing, more enforcement and obviously, a lot of our folks in our community f

obama. the obama administration recruited out of retirement wendy sherman to be the lead negotiator of the iran deal. i want you to pause and think for a second because you can't make this up. she is literally the only person on the planet who has already screwed this up once. over 7 billion people on planet earth and you could stop someone in the streets and say excuse me sir have you negotiated deal with the dictatorial tyrant that said that billions of dollars and ended up in them getting nuclear weapons? no? then you are more qualified to negotiate this and wendy sherman. to the shock of nobody she came in and negotiated the same deal. in fact the iran deal is even worse. it is designed to end up with iran getting nuclear weapons and the reason it's more dangerous, listen north korea is a profoundly dangerous place. because there is an unstable dictator with the ability to murder millions in the flash of an eye. but kim jong-un at least, we know he is a megalomaniacal narcissist. we know

he's there because use obama's vice president and have yet to hear him offend obama's policy. yet stand up and defend the policies. lou: google, this is fascinating, the justice department has begun an investigation, now 50 state attorney general's have come together to investigate google for antitrust and anticompetitive conduct. i have never seen the like of it. it is a powerful statement, it may not result in much but right now this is one hell of a statement against google and the weight is conducting itself. >> the way it sucks up so much online advertising has changed so many businesses in the question is it too big, unfair, competition. it's a legitimate question and i'm happy to see that it is bipartisan on this part, the issue of censoring conservatives which is not yet bipartisan but at least on the bigness of it. lou: and to look at facebook, twitter as well as google, amazon, these are monstrous large companies without any oversight. >> the reality is, if you have in norma's amount of information on citizens participating, i would guarantee there's more information

himself who like the policy process so much i mean it's harder to give a quick comparison i think obama was much more thoughtful much more careful the libya intervention turned out badly at the time it was a time urgency about it because. gadhafi is forces were heading toward benghazi and they were likely to that he could offer you promise to have a very bitter screw me shoot up all the demonstrators that were going to be there and so it was it was a time when the allies were supporting it so it certainly could do it with a coalition not alone and it was amply you it could be done obviously it was affective to throw out to overthrow gadhafi not effective in terms of any sort of stable regime that followed syria obviously obama did not succeed there but then is a terribly difficult problem obama's very his or his or ran agreement iran's deal was i think the polar opposite of trump's dealing with that he would work very hard and logically he put together a team of analysts he were patient and then when there was an opportunity to get the iranians to make see different commitments to const

>> i'm fulfilling the legacy of barack obama, and you're not. >> i stand with barack obama all eight years, good, bad and indifferent. that's where i stand. >> let's go right to msnbc road warrior garrett haake who is live in houston for us, probably on no sleep. big night, garrett. all of the top polling candidates on stage for the first time. what stood out to you? >> reporter: hey, chris. you did have the three front-runners largely turning in strong performances, well-received performances. joe biden not afraid to mix it up with the other candidates. that line she's for bernie, i'm for barack, is probably as clean of a destill lags of health care on bernie sanders and elizabeth warren as you're likely to hear. the two traded a couple of shots. biden's lines for, as a socialist you have a much higher opinion of corporate entities than i do is what caught my attention. bernie coming back to make a point about what he essentially argued was biden's judgment in voting in favor of the iraq war. eltz conditions to play error-free baseball but not engaging with the other candidates. tha

i also worked for president obama, vice president biden. i know the problem with your plan is it leaves 10 million people uncovered. >> dana: 2020 democrats praising obama last night after slamming his record in the previous debate. he's the host of a new podcast campaign hq premiering september 19. that's next thursday for any of you podcast listeners. david, great to have you. i did notice last night everybody got the memo. we got to talk about president obama in a more positive fashion than the debate before. i'll let you comment on that and give you a sense of where you think the race is at the moment? >> well, great to be with you. i enjoyed that more than the last debate. i don't think there's much profit in attacking barack obama. it is true that presidential campaigns need to be about the future, much more so than the past. it's important for all candidates to talk about what they're going to do. some may be a continuation of some of the things barack obama did. i think criticism is fair. but at the end of the day, if you're just lo

obama administration, valerie jarrett. she's also author of the book, "finding my voice: my journey to the west wing and the path forward." thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you, reverend sharpton, congratulations on the award you'll receive this evening and welcome back to washington. >> thank you very much. let me ask you. i know you stayed out of the primaries in terms of an endorsement, but i was sitting there outraged as somebody who had access to the administration, worked with you on the policies. when i see democrats attacking president obama who i have openly said i think has been a great president, and luckily this time they all took turns, repenting of their political sins saying nice things about the president. but what is this strategy politically that you can see of attacking president obama, who did get the health care bill through, and did it with a lot of work that he had to do on all sides of the political spectrum, who did do things like -- that other presidents could not get done in terms of

and last night everybody embraced obama himself, the obama legacy. you saw the two people worked in his administration sort of vying to be the sort of anointed successor, i think biden had the best of that exchange. it would be a surprise to him if he were not carrying on the obama legacy and if castro were. but, no, obama had a very good night. my -- perhaps he had a better night than anybody else in politics, including the president and all the candidates, obama was the winner. >> so the final question of the night was about the candidates' biggest professional setback over the course of their careers. and joe biden gave this personal response. >> the setbacks were the setbacks. and i think the most critical setback that can occur to anyone is to, um, lose, uh -- well, my dad had an expression. he said, joe, it's not a question of whether you succeed and get knocked down, it's how quickly you get up. right after i got elected my wife and daughter killed and my two sons were badly injured and i had just been elect and not sworn in and i lost my fait

president obama. so president obama. president obama. >> like i said, obsessed. obsessed. let's get right to our big breaking news, at least one of those stories. "the washington post" reporting that the whistle-blower complaint said to be credible and urgent involves trump's interaction with a foreign leader that reportedly included a promise. it's not clear what that promise was. this comes as acting dni joseph mcguire is now agreeing to publicly testify before congress. that will happen next week after refusing to hand over the complaint. and the intelligence community's inspector general who handled that complaint will meet with lawmakers behind closed doors tomorrow. so let's discuss now. jackie speier, congresswoman jackie speier -- excuse me, congresswoman -- who is on the house intelligence committee. she joins me now. good evening to you. thank you so much for joining us. >> glad to be with you, don. >> help us break this down because i know it's a lot of details, and it can be a little bit complicated. this is explosive news from "the washington post." were you a

how is it possible barack obama didn't know about it. >> barack obama didn't know when he was president that you were investigatingub the republican nominee for colluding with the russians to overthrow the election? there are texts, there are transmissions. the white house wants to know everything we are doing. what do you think they were talking about? talking about the bake recipe in potus wants to know everything we are doing. the white house is running this. then we have meetings at the white house. we have emails between andy mccabe, the deputy director of the fbi and lisa page talking about how they are going to coordinate their story with the deputy director of the cia for this white house meeting on this case. again, what do you think they were talking about? none of this is cryptic. they are not special emails i was given privy to. we e put it together in the boo. and you will see all the evidence that the white house is running. i think the final point on this one andy mccarthy made. the sole purpose of counter-intelligence investigations at this level is to inform the preside

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last night, milpitas voted to rename a portion of dixon landing road after barack obama. but as kpix 5's wilson walker reports, an unsavory feature of that is causing the mayor to say pump the brakes. >> reporter: meet walnut grove some pretty empassioned resistance from the mayor. this more a question of perspective. so this is dixon landing road. it goes from the edge right there of 880 and dixon landing. it's going all the way down -- >> reporter: mayor rich tran was outvoted 3-2 last night, the milpitas council moving ahead with plans to make this barack obama boulevard despite what's at the end of this road. that would be the newbie island landfill. >> dixon landing road cannot be the barack obama boulevard or bo boulevard next to the landfill into silicon valley. absolutely not. >> reporter: those who voted for the change see this differently. they say drivers heading southbound on 880, the signs bearing barack obama's name would be an official gateway to the silicon valley. >> it is a good idea. >> reporter: the landfill part doesn't bother you? >> i don't think so

. >> i'm fulfilling a legacy of barack obama and you're not. >> i stand with barack obama all eight years. good, bad, and indifferent. that's where i stand. >> you heard the start of it there, former housing secretary julian castro and former vice president joe biden clashing over health care last night, in an exchange that drew attention for perhaps some plying and attack on biden's age and memory. >> the difference between what i support and what you support, vice president biden, is that you require them to opt in, and i would not require them to opt in. they would automatically be enrolled. they wouldn't have to buy in. that's a big difference because barack obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered. he wanted every single person in this country covered. my plan would do that. your plan did not. >> they do not have to buy in. >> you just said that two minutes ago. you said two minutes ago they would have to buy in. you said they would have to buy in. >> it's qualified for medicaid. >> are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago. are you forgetting already what y

do they take on any of the big legislation of the obama era and the obama/biden record. does castro go back and talk about their sort of spotty checkered record on immigration. >> right. >> does, you know, klobuchar attack, go after biden on any of that? she really has been very, very hard to get her to say anything bad about joe biden. >> she sort of has positioned herself as the person who could rise if he fails. >> exactly. >> you to take the same spot you can't poop all over the spot. >> exactly. >> what about beto, julian castro, they both have to break out. they're both holding rallies. this is their home state. >> right thinking is a big night for them. >> it is. we saw them kind of go out in the first debate, specifically on the question of immigration. we're going see kind of the new beto. after the tragic el paso shooting, he has kind of reformed his campaign into this kind of freewheeling, i'm going say anything, i'm going to do anything approach morally driven campaign. he is going to try to bring that through tonight. i would look for that. and then castro,

as he called to testify, how about barack obama. has he been called to testify, how about any of their documents. any subpoena from their documents. >> obama's making movies, so nothing, they don't want to get to the bottom of anything. >> no, and interestingly enough, joe biden, the washington post himself reported on joe biden going to the ukraine and his son getting this big job right after he. [inaudible] while democratic operatives are working to target trump. nothing to see here. i thought we cared about foreign collusion. the real answer is we only care about it when it doesn't involve democrats. >> are you fiercely telling me jerry nadler, one of the weakest member of congress, a failed politician at every level, jerry nadler is going to uncover on donald trump of the fbi can the cia come the southern district of new york, the district of washington, the eastern district of virginia, basically the entire upper level, no, jerry nadler is going to get to the bottom, he's definitely got to be the one. >> when we get back i want

or you could summarize obama's presidency very simply as pull my finger. once again i guess on top of the 2008 financial crisis and the situation where the creditors are allowed to get bailed out of the debtors 1st time in recorded history that's ever happened he's now responsible for the fracking apocalypse thanks obama to any outsider looking at the cable news and you know partisanship to teens it often leads to this sort of crazy right that you know from the outside you could see that obama is. well much better spoken and trump trump talks like a thug from queens i'm from queens too you know we they talk like thugs there and he talks like that from somebody from new york in the seventy's right that's what he talks like and everybody that screeches at him everybody screeches about the horrible stuff he is doing on the u.s. border with mexico but time and time again for example the photos they keep on using is like obama or so they they hide that they try to find a new one so they're not much difference is just the. only difference and basically delivery

how does barack obama avoid any scrutiny whatsoever? >> there's a term for the kind of conversation you have with a victim. that's called a defensive briefing. you tell them, look, there may be people trying to get into your campaign. you should be on guard against that. interestingly the briefing that mr. comey gave to trump after he was elected was a briefing that addressed only the most scir scl louse parts of sexual misconduct and stayed away from the other allegations. it's interesting also, you want to go back to the obama administration, there is in the house committee report that when carter page became a foreign policy adviser to donald trump, and that was announced, that that subject was taken up at a meeting in the white house, or i believe an actual security council and discussed. i would like n to know who attended that meeting, what the discussion involved and whether that's what led to the fisa application. mark: do you think president obama didn't know anything about anything? >> as i say, i don't read minds but it's dif

: biden giving a bear hug to his obama legacy. this came up and so did gun-control and that is where beto o'rourke stood out having a strong mission on gun-control. here's what he said. >> we are going to take your ar 15, your ak-47s. >> reporter: a few other take aways, amy klobuchar driving the moderate lane, not met traction. kamala harris needed to stand out against anti-trump scripted approach. then the final moment everyone is talking about, andrew yang offering a dividend of $1000 a month to ten lucky american families. more on that throughout the day. todd: bernie sanders's senior advisor with our winners and losers from debate number sorry. who won and who lost? >> here we are in houston, texas. i thought my guy did really good. think about the first hour of the debate around healthcare. everybody was on the same level, barack obama and bernie sanders, the number one issue, bernie sanders was the clear winner. let's talk a few other winners. julian castro had a good night. there will be people in the democratic primary fi

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also criticize the obama administration. so we saw someone like former housing secretary julian castro criticize the obama administration on immigration policy but then also try to make the claim that he is the one who could build that obama coalition and get those voters to elect him to defeat donald trump. i think we might see some of these candidates tone down that criticism if they are trying to win over those same set of voters. and we're already hearing from someone like senator kamala harris, whose campaign has previewed her debate message and said she will focus on donald trump, she will focus on unifying the country and around common solutions, as her campaign spokesperson put it. >> mike, a couple caveats here that i try to include in every broadcast. we don't have a national election. we have 50 state elections. donald trump lost in pure vote terms the last national election in terms of raw votes. so it's with that caveat that i put this new "washington post" polling on the screen. these are head-to-head match-ups

those were kids in cages during the obama administration. >> cages were under obama. we went from 100 family beds to 3,000 family beds under obama. congress threw more money at us than we needed under obama it's you a different show under this present. i'd called them out and of course my time ran out. i couldn't finish my sentence but i did. that was another false narrative. david: why do they keep having you back. you are pretty clear there your views and the way you don't hold back. why do they keep having you back? >> they don't want me there. but the minority gets to have a witness. the republicans know i have been in this game for almost 35 years. i have worked for six presidents. i know immigration better than anybody in that room. they know once they start pushing a false narrative, i'm going to educate the married can people. that's my job. once a cop, always a cop. but they are not under oath. they should be under oath. since they work for me, maybe they ought to let us ask questions of them. the hearing would go better if we did that. david: thank you so mu

she served as president obama's u.n. ambassador and the national security adviser, and previously as assistant secretary of state for african affairs under the bill clinton administration. and you may also know that she's got a book coming out soon. it's "tough love: my story of the things worth fighting for." it's not actually out officially for another week or so, we can have but you can get it today and she will be signing copies of it after we're done here. i think that's at the festival at 800 congress. they asked me to let you know. you do that after this. this book because none of you have read it yet, let me give you a preview is really a book in three parts, it's a book about her personal story, her family life. it's a book about her experience in government and then it's a book about the obama administration's, policies and her explanation and kind of thoughts in the rearview mirror about the policies. to me one of my favorite parts about this book was the personal chapters and want to spend some time talking a

he made a living on outsmarting president obama. president obama built the cells. he built the cages that you people always talk about and attribute them to me. so president obama had separation. i'm the one that brought them together. president obama had zero interest rates. i don't have zero interest. i have real interest rates. and despite that i have a strong economy. >> why can't he quit him? >> there's an obsession, i think, as we were saying, he's jealous, right. and for a lot of reasons. i think one is that obama was popular, at least during part of his presidency. trump has never broke 50% in popularity. it looks like he's heading towards a very tough re-election, if he can make it. obama was re-elected. people still genuinely like obama, both he and michelle, they like them. and that shows up in the polling and he looks at that, this guy who he hates, and people like him, and he's thinking, why don't they like me. >> it bothers him deeply. >> there it is. >> switching to the raging debate over gun control, legislation, recently you had beto o'rourke, we k

obama fundamental change politics in america. obama took the equation that says any primary campaign democrats go for the liberal base, republicans go for the conservative base, and the general they fight over the middle. through that all aside. he said my minority base, not black, but lesser numbers, and republicans, by left-wing minority base is if i can get them more agitated, more mobilized, i can beat up your majority base, to the republicans. and that's just what you he did twice. he used social media to do it. facebook. donald trump reversed that. he did right back to the democrats. he got his base so worked up that his -- he could never get 50% they said in the polls. his base beat up the democrats, and use social media as well. he replicated barack obama. >> host: but to what extent come in 2018 republicans lost the house. you think some of this was related to tone or the persona that is public versus who the man is privately? >> i think it has something to do with that, yes. you can see in the off your, the of income a

what republicans tried to do was beat obama at the ballot box and obama won reelection. republicans continued in a constitutional way, to challenge obama's policy and initiatives, but never once did they abuse the power of the office by trying to call for an impeachment inquiry. i think it is unfortunate we are here talking about impeachment officially. we have talked about impeachment for the last two years. now it has been called and i think democrats really don't have anything to impeach him for. host: phone lines split as usual. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. a reminder, the house coming in at 9:00 a.m. today, so we will be ending our show then and take you there for gavel-to-gavel coverage. frank in florida, republican, you are next. caller: good morning. thank you very much. c-span replaythe last night of the hearing and i noticed the chairman of the keptttee, mr. schiff, he mentioning a manufactured -- manufacture dirt, that was the objective of president trump and i thought that was rather prejudicial. i thought th

black unemployment went down 52% under barack obama. it's gone down 12% under donald trump which is good, but why doesn't joe biden talk about we want to preserve the progress of economic gains in the economy. >> i think i know why. it's not that he's not talking about it. if you're following c-span and all the events he's probably talking about it. but why it's not more front and center, voters are telling you the electability issue with joe biden, that's what the biden campaign is telling you, their ads, their material, they're going to focus on electability and relationship to obama more broadly. voters aren't telling him they necessarily want to hear that from here. >> the dividing line is whether or not you think donald trump is the illness himself or whether you think he's a symptom of the illness, whether he is the aberration or whether he is just symptomatic of larger problems that have kind of, you know, sunken in here in d.c. over the last decade plus. i think that primary falseliult is going to continue to emerge tonight as w

barack obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered. he wanted every single person in this country covered. my plan would do that. your plan would not. >> they do not have to buy in. they do not have to buy in. >> you just said that. you just said that two minutes ago. you just said two minutes ago that they would have to buy in. you said they would have to buy in. >> if you qualify for medicaid -- >> are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? are you forgetting already what that accusation that they would have to buy in and it does appear to be incorrect. here's what biden actually said. >> my health care plan does significantly cut the cost of the largest out of pocket pay. it is $1,000. you would be able to get into anyone who cannot afford it gets automatically enrolled. guess what? of the 160 million people who like their health care now, they can keep it. if they don't like it, they can leave. >> and this is the first debate where front-runner joe biden had come face to face with his closest rivals. progressives bernie sand

to fulfill barack obama's vision for our country. we have to cover everyone and get rid of the filibuster to do it. also a separate wrap up with the winners and losers last night and in the box column, castro is listed as one of the winners in part because of his attack on joe biden. this is what they wrote and some democrats took exception to that as it being mean and to divisive as -- at a time when the party is hoping to come together. polling at 1%,is this could work him. that is from the vox box. said that it is taking on a weird combination of fromrate and mean and this inside elections right after that moment saying castro crossed the line. one more from former obama political adviser david axelrod, hooley and castro is on the -- julian castro is on the attack and accuses biden of betraying the spirit of barack obama on health care, castro is throwing long with great risk. goat -- let's go to the democrat line. they are not discussing anything that will concern me. i have a bladder prolapse and everywhere i am going they are t

we, the obama administration. but i think across the board the sort of dignity deficit for russia in the wake of the cold war, as we were thumping our chests about the victory in the cold war, you know, this was a proud nation with an amazing history, with amazing traditions and just feeling past. as we're moving on, i think about our relationship with china or how the european union is going to be the new partner, so, you know, i think all of us have to look back at the missed moments, maybe there was some initiative, something we could have tried that would have met them where they are. but i think putin's own objective in enhancing his own power led him to basically tear up the envelope of the world. >> and decide that nothing that that western-led order could determine to him with consequences in terms of anything he was going to care about. >> absolutely. >> i have to ask you about today's news that the president is going to be looking for a fourth national security adviser which is an -- >> so far. >> -- unp

because he is tied to the obama legacy. i think you cannot under estimate how important that obama legacy is for him. that is essentially what is propping up his candidacy and what protects him from all these gaffes and mistakes he has made. >> brian: he can't have it both ways and say i was just the vice president and when they like something that president obama did and well i was with him every step of the way. and 100 percent right. >> that's what vice president biden is doing, right? he runs an ad in iowa, basically touting, being tied to the obama administration vice president. he ran a pre-debate ad yesterday also doing that with him and obama hugging. and so but then he divorces himself on the deportations thing and this is what castro had to say about that. >> but my problem with vice president biden and cory pointed this out last time is every time something good about barack obama comes up, he says oh, i was there, i was there, i was there. that's me, too. and then every time somebody questions part of the admini

obama said he just -- obama said he'd meet with leaders of countries america considers rogue countries and he was pilloried by the right. we always say trump wants to do the opposite of what obama did, yet here when obama was trying to negotiate, trump was attacking him saying you're negotiating with our sworn enemies. now trump is negotiating with the taliban. now when he escalated increased troops under pressure from his. he came into office, general mcmaster pressured him into sending more troops. trump didn't want to send more troops. 14,000 american troops in afghanistan. how is that helping? let's be clear about the war. afghanistan is a country plagued by war. this year, the u.n. said in the first six months of this year, more afghan civilians were killed by the afghan government and by american forces than by the taliban. that's a horrific statistic. this war has to end. american soldiers have to come home. there has to be some deal with the taliban, but it can't involve donald trump tweeting about it and inviting them to camp david for a photo op when he probably can't even fi

obama. right? nobody -- >> great night. >> obama had a perfect night. >> the big winner of the debate tonight was barack obama. and everybody had to give him credit and i was proud to be a democrat tonight. on this tough discussion on guns. criminal justice. and war. those are the issues that people have tried to dance around and get away with in our party for too long. just honest. it was beautiful. also, first hour, biden ate his wheatties. and he was good. i'm on the left in the party. biden that first hour, you can say that guy could deal with donald trump. he was good. it's just as you get with the night he makes mistakes and if you are are a moderate looking for a reason to support. you saw it in the first hour. booker and beto are growing. they're growing and they're finding the gear. finding themselves. beautiful. tonight i thought pete shrank a bit. he shrank a bit. he wasn't the pete -- at the end. >> the close was -- >> fantastic. you expect that from him every time. more singles

both for obama's first and second terms. i feel the made us far more capable of understanding the complexities of the issues. unnecessarily we got everything right but we were rarely blindsided by the consequences of our actions because we were able to try to assess the various alternative pathways with some degree of depth. we respected and relied on our intelligence communities, our law enforcement enforcement community. military, career civil servants who are the experts. they fit into the process. i think the most part, in both administrations in which i served, the clinton administration and the obama administration, the same. the process was effective. his of the american people better than a truncated or short-circuited process. twomac with their marked similarities between working in the clinton administration, the obama administration. differences. >> i think they were reverent brother different. the president sets the tone at the top. president obama and president clinton are both incredibly smart people who took t

what the republicans tried to do was beat obama at the ballot box, and obviously obama won reelection. the republicans continued to come in a constitutional way, challenge his policy and initiatives but never once did they abuse the power of the office by trying to call for an impeachment inquiry. i think that it's very unfortunate that we are here talking about impeachment official. i know we've talked about impeachment for the last two yearss but now it's been officially called. and i think the democrats we don't have anything to impeach him for. >> host: about 15 minutes left with congressman comer of kentucky. a reminder the house coming in at 9 a.m. today so we will be ending our show then, take it there for gavel to gavel coverage. frank in fort lauderdale, florida, republican, your next. >> caller: good morning. thank you very much. i listen to the c-span replay last night of the hearing, and i noticed the chairman of the committee, mr. schiff, he kept mentioning a manufactured, what -- dirt, to manufacture dirt that was the objective of president trump. and i thought it was ra

and the government is doing this and obama does that and obama care is terrible. they are who i wanted to talk to. so i went up to one table and then three or four guys are standing around at the table and then they looked around suspiciously. >> you sound like a new york guys was not hard to hide. >> i look like. [laughter] this jewish sociologist. >> a feminist. [laughter] i will not fake and accent. >> could you do it quick. >> i doubt it. but i wouldn't try. and then to say i am an academic. i'm doing research on these organizations and ideas. wanted to look at me suspiciously. and to say i don't get it. here is my job i want to see how you see the world and understand you will not convince me i will not convince you that is off the table. but i want to understand why you think the way you do. roughly half my approach would not talk to me. >> basically i don't want to talk to you. you would never understand. once said something anti- somatic the basically i don't want to talk to you. but here is my pitch. you are the forgotten american you thought the wars and

more extensive operations, obama just set that aside. mattis says this was the shot not heard around the world. i want to switch gears to the squad. congresswoman ilhan omar sent a tweet asking for support. here is the tweet. somali government, peacekeeping forces need to protect her mood. the telecom is the biggest financial backer. it's calling for the somali government to protect a group that wants to destroy it. >> she retreats a voice of america news release. and she basically said they need to be protected. u.s. international freedom commission basically said somalia is one of the worst countries in religious freedom. because these terror players be it al-shabaab or hormuud telecom. when she criticized president trump a month or two ago saying maybe you should pay attention to somalia. she is proving him right. not only is she paying attention to the wrong groups in somalia. liz: dr. zuhdi jasser, we wish we had more time with you. we'll probably call on you again to stay on this story for us. the push by the president and his dono

that's not the obama administration. >> jesse: okay so the obama fbi doj and cia aren't the obama administration? juan, go back to school. all right, here, also, how is this they say this is not even a campaign violation. that's the level of the crime. it's not even a campaign violation. because there is nothing, a thing of value attached to it. there is no -- okay, okay. hillary clinton, the 9 million she sent overseas to get russian dirt on trump that they used to spy on them? that's not a thing of value? but this is? nominee and this is his is on the non-democrat nominee's son getting looked into as a thing of value? >> dana: apparently the obama team at the time during the presidency was uncomfortable with the judgment that hunter biden was exercising. >> jesse: good for them. >> dana: but didn't do anything about it, right? that we know of. maybe they staved off other things. >> jesse: how do you think they would allow hunter biden to freelance in ukraine while his dad is running point? how would they ever allow that? >> dana: and the china example could be worse. and that story was going t