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he pushed obama, obama finally produced the birth certificate and it shows he was born in hawaii. >> and therefore? >> therefore he is an american citizen. >> as per donald trump? >> as per donald trump -- as per me and everyone else. >> has he ever told you this privately, that this president is legitimate? >> he has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got obama to produce his birth certificate. >> i think we have it on the record, mr. mayor, i'm glad you came on, i don't think this is funny. when you accuse the president of the united states of sneaking into the country -- >> not when your opponent in the democratic primary, hillary clinton, who has lied probably a thousand times over e-mails, the clinton foundation. >> let me just tell you there is no record right now, we checked it before you came on because one of our senior producers thought you may say this. there is absolutely no record ever of hillary clinton or anyone in her campaign saying that president obama is not legitimate. >> her campaign raised no -- >> i'm not wrong, i'm right about that. >> look,

president obama shrugged off trump's statement on his heritage and first lady michelle obama says her husband has set an example by going high when they go low. she warned being president isn't anything like reality tv. i'll speak with a trump supporter congressman sean duffy of wisconsin. and our guests will have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with donald trump finally admitting that the president of the united states was born in the united states. jim acosta is in miami for us where trump is due to speak this evening. jim, what was trump hoping to achieve today? >> reporter: i think he was trying to put a matter to rest, it's not working out that way. he tried to take back a falsehood that he has said repeatedly that president obama is not an american citizen. and today he seemed do just the opposite of putting it to rest. >> nice hotel. >> reporter: today donald trump once the leader of this nation's birther movement finally said he accepted the truth, that president obama was boorn born in the u.s. but in doing so, he told more whoppers. >> hillary clinton and

who knows about obama. who knows. who knows. who cares right now? i have my own theory on obama. some day i'll write a book. i will write another book and it will do very successfully. bottom line, two things this morning trying to clear up the controversy, both of which were false. wolf? >> and let me play that clip of what he said to me in january of this year, 2016. listen to this. >> you know, your critics are saying that you're doing a ted cruz what you tried to do to president obama where he was born, his birth certificate. >> who knows about obama? >> hits mother was a u.s. citizen born in kansas. >> can i tell what you? who knows? who knows. who cares right now. we're talking about something else. okay? i mean i have my own theory on obama. some day i'll write a book. i'll do another book. it will do very successfully. >> this suggests he did not drop the issue in 2011, tom, as his campaign claims. >> no. absolutely did not. he kept it alive. year after year. kept bringing it up. uchb a nod and wink, saying, gee, i don't know, but kept that issue out there and driving fol

barack obama was born in the u.s. this is among republicans in the nbc news survey monkey poll. 41% disagreed with that statement. so we're not talking about a small group of just kooks and nut jobs but a good chunk of folks who don't believe that the president was born here. if donald trump comes out and he says, you know what? i've changed my mind. the president is a citizen after all, what does he do to those voters? does he alienate them? >> in a way, craig, i think this is the most sort of significant position of reversal that donald trump has had. he's reversed himself on many policy issues including one of his key issues which is immigration. but in many ways, this birther, because he was the face of the birther movement all through 2012 and not only that but engaging in many conspiracies. look through his tweets. he tries to undermine the credibility of the birth certificate that came out. he notes that the person who had verified the birth certificate died in a plane crash when nobody else on the plane died.

so we may see michelle obama get very personal today about donald trump's declaration of barack obama being born in the united states. i want to get straight to our reporters on this. we have nbc katy tur, hans nichols and kristin welker. i want to begin with katy tur inside the meeting today for the remarks, katy, this is the new trump hotel where this all went down, a stones throw from the white house itself. from your sources inside the campaign, why would trump surrender his obama birther movement now? >> reporter: aides have said that they believe that donald trump understands now why this issue was so offensive to so many african-americans. that is about the extent of why he would do this today. we've gotten from the campaign, but i will note and you should note as well, that he faced a lot of pressure from his own aides and his own campaign in their public statements, the surrogates, many folks coming out and saying that donald trump no longer believes this. the campaign releasing a campaign statement saying as much last night. but everyone was noting that this was not coming f

obama obviously, the democratic base likes obama and loves obama and she needs to really generate the base. why it helps her to be having a conversation with trump about how offensive or inoffensive he is to the guy who is leaving office when she needs the focus to be on her and trying to get her people to vote for her is not clear to me. you guys are wiser enough. >> i have to ask you the proposition, she has raised the stakes of the election for nonwhite voters, right, does this not potentially help her raise the stakes for the election. donald trump is saying, why not try me, it can hardly get any worse. this is a way for her saying it could get a lot worse. >> i never read that trump making a play for black voters. that's a play for suburban republicans to not feel like they're voting for a racist or at least have it tarped down to feel more comfortable voting for him even though they're a little unnerved about where he stands on race. it seems to me a bank shot that she is going to get the momentum or the base enthusiasm that she needs by talking about the outgoing president. i j

senator obama's "lack of american roots," adding that obama's "basic american values and culture are at best limited because he lived in indonesia as a child." penn warned against saying anything explicit. during the '08 race, diehard clinton backers associated emails questioning obama's nationality. clinton disavowed the tactics at the time and pounded trump dodd for having sown political and racial discord ever since. >> for five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimatiz delegitimate ties our first black president. president obama was born in the united states plain and simple, and donald trump owes him and america an apology. >> reporter: members of the congressional black caucus are not letting the issue go. >> this is not just about degrading the reputation of barack obama, it's about degrading the american dream for all african-americans. >> reporter: while promoting the transpacific partnership trade deal with ohio governor and former gop nomination rival john kasich, the president shrugged off trump's attempt to per aside the controversy he perpetuated. >> i was

was he really the guy named barack obama. steve, your response to that kind of talk by your candidate? >> look, chris, i didn't see that interview, so i can't comment on that. what he said today, definitively, period, is that the president is an american citizen. we have really important things now to talk about, security and prosperity. and that's what we're talking about -- >> so you wish he would never say it? so you wish he'd never made this issue for the last five years? >> i wish he'd never gone down that road at all. >> well, he's been down it a long time and not sure he's come back all the way. thank you, joy reid. thank you, katy tur. thank you, roger ailes, i hate to say it, thank you, kellyanne conway. because somebody got to this guy probably and said, the game's up, you've got to stop this crap. katy tur, thank you. you raced in here. >>> why is donald trump putting the birther issue back in the front page and why now as his campaign has regained his footing. does he think he can erase -- i think he does. i'm not

trying to rebuild the obama coalition. african-americans, you know, came out to support the first black president in 2008 and 2012 with president obama. i do think that represents a difficulty for her. i think it's even going to be difficult for her to reach the same amount of support with women voters as president obama did. he was an inspiring candidate. she is not. i think that level enthusiasm is going to be a problem to be her. it shouldn't really surprise anyone for bill clinton to have this level of hypocrisy. clearly there has been a different set of rules with the clintons in their mind and everyone else as well. if you go back to bill clinton he had defended the late senator bird's involvement with the kkk. i think the clinton family isn't necessarily clean on these issues and it does represent an overreaching by hillary clinton. and maybe a little desperation. >> someone we don't talk about on the campaign trail because he hasn't been there for a while is president obama. he will be back out there. and likely th

obama. some day i'll write a book. i'll do another become very successfully. >> and even more recently when asked, trump has refused talk about it. >> you don't talk about the birth certificate anymore. do you regret even bringing it up? >> i don't talk about it anymore. >> i don't talk about it anymore. >> do you regret bringing it up? >> it came to a head when "washington post" read an inte~- saying, i'll answer that question at the right time that sent the campaign into damage campaign control mode, and quickly releasing statement saying trump believed the president was born in the united states and claiming wrongfully the clinton campaign was behind the conspiracy, stating hillary clinton's campaign raised this issue to smear then-candidate barack obama in her very nasty failed 2008 campaign for president. that was followed up by trump's one-sentence declaration today. >> president barack obama was born in the united states, period. >> garytu tuckman, cnn new york >>> all right. back wit

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

president obama's foreign policy. most presidents resist doctrine because they see the world as too complicated to have a one size fits all answer for everything. but there are elements of what i call a foreign policy checklist for president obama. just like checklists are kind of interesting ways to organize your thinking. not just a to-do list or a how-to list, but a set of broad concepts that one would follow in trying to implement in a complex environment. one of the key elements of his check list sustainability. and i think one of the differences -- certainly, with the situation in iraq today versus iraq that he inherited in 2008 is today the united states has a position that is sustainable. that what everyone thinks of the surge in iraq in 2007 and 2008 and the reasons behind the success that we were seeing militarily in iraq during that time, that was not a sustainable posture for the united states to be in. we couldn't resource it. it was a surge, which by definition would recede. this actually gets to the sec

obama and hillary clinton together. they are viscerally outraged. this is his style, this is how he shows it and he cares about balancing talking tough with trying to have an obama view of the right way to fight terror short and long-term. john: we have no idea what one -- what will happen in the next 50 days. i think we all pray that there is not another single terrorist incident, for the next 500 days. the possibility that there will be a ramping up of these kinds of attempts in the u.s. for the next 50 days because a lot of foreign provocateurs want to destabilize our election. i think it is possible. the kind of potentially dangerous eventuality of that for democrats is if things do ramp up and it seems to be more frequently, this calm and measured tone that barack obama has which i think is the right way to govern could be politically problematic and play into trump's hands. it is the right thing from to do calm and keep from exacerbate fears. mark: the other thing i will say in the presidents of for the coronation

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if, indeed, barack obama is not intelligent, if, indeed, barack obama is not legitimate then you striving up the corporate ladder are striving to achieve something in a stake, how can you feel good about yourself as a sixth grader if you're an african-american? this is a dog whistle to all other americans who are not african-americans to say see, you're all right. don't worry about hiring that black woman or that black man because, after all, the most iconic african-american in history is, indeed, not worthy of the american dream. be clear, this is not just about degrading the reputation of barack obama. it's about degrading the american dream for all african-americans and as martin luther king jr. said, when there's injustice done to one of us, there's injustice done to all of us. >> from georgia, hank johnson. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. you know, donald trump created the birther issue long before he became a candidate for the republican nomination. he knew exactly what he was doing and he stoked that issue and he parlayed that issue above the 16, 17 people running in the primar

think about that, the obama legacy is in doubt, obama is excoriated for not doing enough. donald trump is on a roll. - but this is my point, this is the second part of my challenge to you about the middle east not being that important because on the one hand, i actually think the american people care a little bit more than, but i'll stipulate what you're saying. but the second part is-- - i tend to lean on that obama side right now. - but if you don't do anything and then something happens, then you are seen as having not, what couldn't you have done something to prevent this. if you're reactive as opposed to proactive, then everybody gets on you for not having paid sufficient attention. - this is why it's impossible to be president. you've just put your finger on something. no, no, no you put your finger on something because what he knows is, all these republicans, a lot of democratic hawks are saying, get more involved in syria. go take on assad at the same time you're taking on isis. and so let's say he does that and let's say we wake up in the morning we find out that

first president obama campaigning for her and today first lady michelle obama did the same. >> the next 53 days will shape the next 53 years. >> hillary clinton delivering a call to democrats about the election's steep consequences and a warning not to buy the shape shifting of donald trump. >> there is no new donald trump. there never will be. >> tonight clinton and democrats are rising up in fury at trump after he tried distinguishing his long-running effectually incorrect question about president obama's citizenship. member of the congressional black caucus came out in full force. calling voters to action. >> don't walk to the polls. don't jog to the polls. run to the polls. to make sure this hater is not elected as the next president of the united states of america. >> first lady of the united states michelle obama. >> in virginia today michelle obama confronting trump at her first solo campaign appearance for clinton. >> there were those who questioned and continue to question for the past eight years up through this very day whether my husband was even born in this country. >> the

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did you catch president obama today? if you didn't you missed the start of what could be the wildest barn storming presidential campaign ever and certainly a campaign for someone else's. barack obama made it clear today it's personal. he's in the race to succeed him because he wants hillary clinton to win and fanatically wants donald trump to lose, lose humiliatingly, lose in such a way that he'll disappear from the country's public life and a clear sign the press knows how to do it he choose pennsylvania today as the place he would plant his stake in donald trump's heart knowing trump knows he needs pennsylvania. he went there today in the 80 degree heat to rouse philadelphians in the same way he did in getting himself eld

i think we have michelle obama here on stage. >> and let's just go straight to michelle obama. this is her first event since the convention. her first official campaign event for hillary clinton. >> hey! how are you guys doing? wow. thank you, guys. look at you. my goodness. oh, my goodness. well, let's get started here. you guys have been standing up for awhile, right? so let's start talking about some stuff. first of all, let me just say, i'm thrilled to be here today to support the next president and vice president of the united states, hillary clinton and tim kaine. yes! i have to do a few thank yous before we go in. i want to thank henry for that wonderful introduction, for sharing his story i want to thank all of the members of congress who were here today representatives bobby scott jerry connelly, and i also want to recognize our outstanding dnc chair, donna brazil. i hear she lit it up. and i want to thank charity for her fabulous remarks. and of course, i have to recognize another great first lady, virginia right here, dorothy, who is here so glad she can join us and

obama wants this one. he wants it for hillary clinton because she'll protect his legacy personally, protect what he's for politically. she'll do for him what any president needs once he's left the trappings of the white house and the presidency. president obama once said privately that the two things he'll miss when out of office is the plane air force one and the valley who sets out his clothes in the morning but one thing he won't be without is having a president in the white house speaking well of him and carrying on his policies. the last thing he wants is to be the president that the american people rejected with such gusto they were willing to replace him with donald trump. hillary clinton is unmatchable by the other side, one who knows where to strike at the opposition. lee atwater, a smart political operative for the republicans developed a method for breaking the other side's heart. find a state they know they need to win and then early on take it away from them. today we watched the president of

who knows about obama. who cares right now? i have no own theory on obama. he told us that at cnn just this year. so the bottom line is, all of this was generated by donald trump. he says hillary clinton started it, not true, he says he put an end to it, that's not true either. it kept going, and going. no matter how much he wants to say otherwise, those two facts remain true. don? >> thank you, tom. thank you and good night. [ laughter [ laughter [ laughter ] i need to bring in corey lewandowski, former campaign manager, and cnn political van jones, maria car donna, and matt lewis, the athouthor of "too du to fail." how do you fight against that saying hillary clinton started saying factually that's not true. how do you -- what's the defense here? >> i mean, what is factually bl, this was a member of the clinton foundation and one of the closest confidents had a personal conversation with the head of the mcclatchey news services and recommended someone be sent to kenya -- this is he said, she said. this is a personal account that a -- that a media member wh

donald trump's about-face on whether president obama was born in the u.s. now, 53 days before the election, trump suddenly changes his mind. tonight, the angry reaction from members of congress. from hillary clinton. from first lady michelle obama, who late today took aim. >>> the officer tonight, opening fire on a car full of teenagers as the car pulls away. >>> there is breaking news coming in now. the air scare. the smoke on the plane. the passenger's battery. and it comes amid the massive smartphone recall already. >>> the meat cleaver attack here in new york city. tonight, new images. and what we've now learned about the vicious attack. >>> and the 3-year-old adopted, who left behind her best friend in the orphanage. our little persons of the week. >>> good evening. and a very busy friday night here. we begin with donald trump's about-face. after five years of questioning where president obama was born, trump came out today, 53 days before the election, 10 days before the crucial first debate, and changed course. this morning, teasing reporters, tellin

he was being very complimentary of senator obama. making a point that senator obama makes himself all of the time that because of his upbringing and heritage, it's in his view very well suited to communicate with the rest of the world. and he's just said himself he wants a particular outreach to the islamic world. i think secretary kerry was very generous in what he said. didn't hillary dump on obama a few days ago for playing up the roots? is she pushing how great he is or simply reminding everybody about his background, his islamic background. >> which goes right to mark penn's memo. >> it does. i want to tell everybody who mark penn is, a longtime bill and hillary clinton confidant. it wasn't like some summer intern who just didn't -- who just made a mistake. if you look at his memo, he went into great detail about the facts and how to use them to discredit barack obama. also in the original game change book after the 2008 race, they clearly mentioned that mark pen totally missed the obama rise and at a georgetown dinner party at

and when president obama created docca, it changed their lives. right now, 750,000 undocumented young people in america are going to school, working and planning for their future. they are dreamers in much more than name. i have met so many. i've listened to their stories. they have done everything we have asked of them and made our country stronger in return. so when donald trump promises to rip that all away on day one, when he promises to round up and deport all of the 16 million people living and working among us, including american citizen children who were born here to parents who are undocumented, these are the faces i see. i picture astrid silva who i met in los angeles. many of you know her story. she came to this country at the age of 4 from mexico with nothing but a doll, a cross and the dress she was wearing. now she's in her 20s. advocating for the rights of immigrants everywhere. i picture a young man i never met whose high schoolteacher wrote me a few months ago to share his story. his teacher told me that this former student was fu

president barack obama was born in the united states, period. now we all want to get back to making america strong and great again. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. >> had to tell a couple of lies while retracting one lie. donald trump of course refused to take any questions after retracting his five years of non-stop lying about president obama's birth. david fahrenthold of the washington post was there and yelled a question about trump's charitable contributions. david fahrenthold is pursuing the $5 million that donald trump once promised to donate if president obama could prove he was born in hawaii. now that donald trump says he accepts that proof, he owes $5 million to charity, $5 million that according to david fahrenthold's reporting thus far, donald trump will never contribute to charity, because donald trump no longer contributes to charity. he hasn't done that in years. the trump campaign strategy today was to get rid of a problem, not create a problem. trump campaign believed that all they needed was for donald trump to say

>> clearly, president obama is pushing through two messages today. it's two enemies, trump and putin. clearly i think when you look at the case in syria, he last year mentioned in the united nations, same type of speech, saying we need to ensure that assad must be out of power. obviously, the diplomacy has not worked. obviously, the fact that russia does have more influence in the syrian region and assad has more power now than he has in the past, i mean, shows the weak position that -- that the united states is in right now. >> we pointed out on this panel the president has said assad's days are numbered, they happen to number in the hundreds and hundreds as of now. steve, what about this investigation into rahami, this suspect, taken in. the fbi is now saying about this, in august 2014, the fbi initiated an assessment of ahmad rahami fwbased on comments madey his father during a dispute presented to authorities. interagency checks and multiple interviews. none of it which revealed ties to terrorism. >> well, i think the fbi has some explaining to d

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take a look. >> if you want to disagree with obama, disagree with obama. but do not go around putting a lot of money into trying to tell the american people that because we have an african-american who happens to be president today that he is not a legitimate president. that is an awful and divisive and terrible thing to do. and a man who does things like that must not become president of the united states. >> this is one of the advantages democrats have over donald trump. they really are united behind hillary clinton at this point. and there are a lot of people that hillary clinton can look to to help her out on the campaign trail even if she's not able to be out there herself. you also had michelle obama out on the campaign trail yesterday making a little bit more of a personal pitch arguing that hillary clinton is somebody who understands what it's like to be in the white house, to know what kind of weighted decisions you have to make. michelle obama of course talking about her husband and how he couldn't conceive of what the job would consistent of unt

hillary clinton is not president obama. he has a 15% average lead on the people who will support him over hillary clinton. >> so a couple things. one is, i can't tell if it's the third term of barack obama, but i will say the reason why the country thinks -- there's reason why so many people in this country think we're going in the wrong direction has a lot to do with your candidate, corey. we have the most divided country ever. this election them is us versus them, about people who have beenbeen ostercized and trying to find people to blame. >> go ahead, corey because what you have to say is more important than me finishing my sentence. >> that's true. >> actually not, but that's what you think and that's part of the problem. >> people are disenfranchised and people are sad tpp is the gold standard and it's not the gold standard because jobs have been shipped overseas. people are upset america is not being put first -- >> corey, that's your rhetoric. >> i know this is a crazy notion. >> what's crazy is your folks want to g

obama a "son of a whore." meanwhile, while taking questions at a news conference in laos, obama was asked about the dakota access pipeline by a malaysian woman. >> my question is, in your capacity, what can you do to ensure the protection of the ancestor land to provide with clean water and also environmental justice is upheld. pres. obama: it is a great question. [applause] know, the way that native americans were tragic and one of the priorities that i have had restoring inis relationshipnerous with native american tribes. i cannot give ed tells on this particular case. i would have to go back to my staff and find out how we are doing on this one. amy: this comes as resistance to the dakota access pipeline in north dakota builds across the united states. a group of nearly 20 canoes has launched from bismarck and is making its way down the missouri river on a three-day paddle to the standing rock sioux reservation. one of the canoe crew hails from tlingit and haida tribes in alaska. in minneapolis, dozens of

we can criticize obama. it was delegitimizing the first african-american president in the history of our country. >> so dana, will this turn out to be a good day for the democrats? >> you know, we'll see. we'll see what donald trump actually ends up saying. but i think that ron was making the point earlier he doesn't think this is going to sway any voters, certainly not african-american voters and that might be true at the end of the day but there's a finite amount of time for donald trump to make his case, whatever case it might be, to the persuadable voters out there in all the battleground states. what the trump campaign, i can tell you, according to lots of sources, is most concerned about is that he is going to keep getting questions like he got from "the washington post" yesterday about whether or not he thinks that barack obama was born in the united states. and until and unless he says well, yes, yes, he was or at least they hope, this is what they are hoping inside the trump campaign, then the messa

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president obama. president obama cancelling a meeting. you have the philippine president coming out and saying i regret what i said. will this meeting still happen? >> reporter: i mean what the philippine president is saying is that he looks forward to a constructive relationship. he regrets this came across as a personal attack. he used profanity. he called president obama an alternate translation either a son of a bitch or a son of a whore. he said that to reporters when asked what he would do if president obama brought up these suspected extra judicial killings of drug suspects. thousands of people have died in the philippines drug war in the last couple months. he doesn't want it to be taken the wrong way now. he wants to meet with president obama in the future. what the white house is saying, every indication was that this was not the right atmosphere to have such a meeting. they need to be discussing important matters. this is a treaty ally of the united states. the white house took it a step further. this is a disservice to the fil

president obama barack obama was born in the united states, period. now we can get back to making america strong and great again. >> barack obama was born in america, plain and simple. donald trump owes him and the american people an apology. >> lots to look ahead to with the team of reporters. the best in the business covering every development on the campaign trail. i want to start with my fellow road warrior katy tur in washington. also in washington. >> i was confident about where i was born. i think most people were as well. my hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that. >> trump said he wants to talk about the issues here. this birther controversy he's been embroiled in for years that he continued to perpetuate is a major part of his political history. what's the strategy here as he tries to get beyond it? >> well, that's the question. what's the strategy? we are trying to ask donald trump those questions today at this event. he was supposed to take questions from the press. one of the questions being why

president obama did. earlier today he goes, don't we have more important things to talk about than my birth certificate? i think -- he said, i'm pretty sure i was born in hawaii. >> what's that tell you? >> you sure, greg? you saying he wasn't fully sure? >> here we go. >> you are a conspiracy theorist. welcome. >> here's the things -- after seven years in the white house, i'm certainly glad that donald trump is satisfied to know that barack obama was born here in the united states. i'm going to get to hillary in a minute. i want to talk about why this is good politics for donald trump and was well played by him. -- his base is not going to band him. the base that still buys into the fact that obama was born elsewhere, they're not going to leave him for coming out today and acknowledging the truth. but this is where it's good for him. there are people in this country now that are still trying to decide is donald trump a president or a crazy conspiracy theorist? and for those people, this can kind of work

not barack obama. that is true in a lot of different ways. she's not cool, the way that obama was. >> a lot of them weren't interested in politics, they were interested in barack obama. >> for a millennial, she actually isn't cool. you can hear it in hillary clinton's voice there, when she's talking to millennials. she's not talking to them in a way that -- i'm psyched about voting for that candidate. she's got -- >> you're cool enough, hillary. >> she's got different problems with hispanics and different problems with african-americans. but an interesting question will be, when this is all said and done, they decided not to do a lot of hispanic language advertising, the interesting question that they spent a lot of time this summer focusing on, trying to target moderate republicans who are uncomfortable with donald trump, rather than focused on their base and on the obama coalition, on election day, that is now looking to be maybe a dubious strategic choice. >> they do a lot of work behind the scenes

thanks, obama. >> thanks, obama. the president really, you know, taking advantage of the fact that, yeah, the numbers tell one story. but the question for donald trump, has perception become reality for him if he continues to tell people, hey, things are bad. will people start to operate as if things are bad, despite the fact that the numbers don't indicate that? >> well i think what we've seen with this election unfortunately we're in a post fact check culture. what people believe and what the facts are don't always match up. one thing i thought was very interesting about the president's campaigning yesterday, he did spend significant time advocating for hillary clinton but a lot of it was simply fact-checking the ideas that donald trump put out there. it's almost as if he preempted his speech for mothers and working women saying is this a candidate who doesn't have a track record of paying attention to the needs of working class americans and arguing that hillary clinton does. >> we all encourage a big robust discu

obama! obama! >> it speaks of us as a nation that we're ready to be fair, to be open and we feel better about ourselves, i think, because of it. >> barack obama has spent his life straddling different worlds. now he is transcending them to generations of americans who thought they would not live to see an african-american elected president, his victory is especially meaningful. >> some people gave their very life to make tonight possible. i feel very blessed to see this day. >> tonight, we prove once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms but from the enduring power of our ideals. democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. >> in this hour, the personal and political journey of barack obama. >> more than 100,000 people gathered as election day 2008 unfolds into night. they listened for what many have spent a lifetime hoping to hear. >> it's been a long time coming. but tonight, because of what we did on this day in this election at this defining mome

after eight years of the obama economy and president obama's foreign policy, two-thirds of americans think our nation is on the wrong track. more than half think we're less safe than we were before september 11. and 67% rate our economy as not so good or poor. two-thirds of americans. well, mr. president, it's disappointing but it's not surprising. on the foreign policy front, here's where we stand after eight years of the obama administration. terrorism is spreading. the middle east is more hostile and dangerous. iran is counting palates of ransom money, and in a better position to develop a nuclear weapon. north korea is defiantly testing nuclear weapons. russia is more aggressive. china is more aggressive. and i could go on and on. on the domestic front, eight years of the obama economy have left american families struggling. while the recession technically ended seven years ago our economy has never really rebounded. recoveries are usually a period of robust growth, 3% to 4% or more is common in a recovery. the obama recovery, however, has averaged a tepid 2.1% growth. in fact, t

does he believe that president obama is a christian? many of his followers believe president obama is a muslim and a lot of them believe he is not out for the good of the american people of this country. why is donald trump doing it now? he looked at us and walked out of the room and question and tried and failed. let's give a little more context. really only addressing this and let's put the claims he did make into the context. he said two key things in particular. he said that this birtherism, the controversy, the idea that president obama may not have been born in this country, he said that started with the hillary clinton campaign. to put it mildly, that is a thin claim. this is an article from the 2008 campaign, clinton versus obama. what it said is you had an anonymous e-mail that an online supporter of hillary clinton was circulating. this was below the radar and not an official document. this was not something that there is evidence that the campaign was orchestrating. this was something percolating with online supporters. there

obama's trip to laos, the president. laos paid a terrible price during the vietnam war as american bombs rained down in a secret campaign. as the adriana diaz learned, the rules are still fresh. >> reporter: try telling her the war ended 43 years ago. in july the 8-year-old picked up what he thought was a ball. instead it exploded. >> these bombs are just waiting out there on the land to be found by s >> reporter: she has made it her life's mission to get rid of the millions of unexploded bombs littering laos. >> this is a solvable problem. we can get the bombs out of the ground. there wouldn't be death and injury in the future. >> reporter: during the vietnam war, the u.s. dropped 270 million bombs on neighboring laos in part to cut off north vietnamese supply routes. craters from the blasts still laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita. on average, bombs were dropped here every eight minutes for nine years. chamvaongsa, lobbied u.s. congress and raised millions to clear the land. one aecre can t

president barack obama was born in the united states period. now we all want to get back to making america strong and great again. thank you. >> now while donald trump has moved on from the birther conspiracy, hillary clinton and her minuions are falsely puttin forth a claim. according to the atlantic, back in 2007 clinton's then chief strategist wrote a campaign memo about wanting to craft an image of senator barack obama's quote un-american or other. now he detailed the plan writing quote, his rooths to basic american values and culture are at best limited. i cannot imagine america electing a president. he went on to write, let's own american in our programs, the speeches and the values he doesn't. then in 2008, as obama was ascending to claim the democratic nomination, her supporters with, yes hillary clinton's own supporters, they circulated an e-mail rumor that obama was not born in america. the telegraph reported that e-mail said quote, barack obama's mother was living in kenya with his african father late in her pregnancy. she was not al

. >> clinton got a big assist from the obamas with president obama doing a radio interview and michelle obama covering both ends of pennsylvania, speaking in pittsburgh and philadelphia. >> when making life or death, war or peace decisions, a president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally. no, we need an adult in the white house. i guarantee you. we know that hillary's the right person because we have seen her character and commitment not just during this campaign but over the course of her entire life. and for those who question her stamina to be president, hillary's resilience is more than proven, as she said on monday night. she's the only candidate in this race who has traveled to 112 countries, who's negotiated a cease-fire, a peace agreement, a release of dissidents, who spent 11 hours testifying before a congressional committee. and when she gets knocked down, she doesn't complain, she doesn't cry foul. no, she gets back up. she comes back stronger for the people who need her most. >> president obama warned voters about seeking out third-party candidates, calling it a vote

michelle obama was in the battleground state of pennsylvania. listen. >> and then there are those who question and continue to question for the past eight years whether my husband was born in this "courant" country. [ boos ] hurtful questions that were designed to undermine his presidency. questions that cannot be blamed on others or swept under the rug. we also need someone who is study and measured because when making life or death war or peace decisions, a president just can't pop off or lash out irrationally. no, we need an adult in the white house. and trust me, a and can candidate is not going to change once they're in office. just the opposite, in fact because the minute the that individual takes the oath they are under the hottest, harshest light there is and there's no way to hide who they really are. >> we'll talk about the first lady's speech and what she said in a moment but first president obama is getting personal on how much this election means to him. take a listen to what he told steve harvey on his radio show. >> if you don't v