he may have seen some value to what president obama had done. i do not want to overvalue the significance of restricting american travel. that will have a day-to-day .mpact to cubans on the island i think president trump has decided to continue much of what president obama had done. host: we have a tweet from rick -- details of cancellation of obama policy is just for show. a sickly nothing changed. the people liked what obama did. we have rene calling from troy, michigan. to be: i happened listening to british broadcasting, the radio portion, and i understand there is a fabulous shopping center that was actually designed for foreign travelers. marble floors, crystal chandeliers, all the very high and exclusive shops -- hi end exclusive shops. they were preparing for travelers no matter where they came from, and then a couple of small hotels. i do not know what the capacity is but i know we have some in town, 100 people, 120. they are not allowing a trump hotel there. i think that is one of the rubs too. i bet if cuba said, come on, let's build

obama, before i ask you a question, i want to show you a video from april 24 this year with barack obama talking about books about him. [begin video clip] pres. obama: i must have had at this point, six or seven biographies about me. more coming out probably. and generally speaking, one of the frustrations is, my life was not that exciting up until i guess i was president. so i did not have these amazing experiences, i did not really accomplish all that much when i was in high school or in college and so folks go around and they are looking for stuff. then they try to dramatize things that are kind of routine, you know. and, uh, there is a part of you that kind of says, well -- why would you care about this? it's not that interesting. [end video clip] brian: how right is he? david: once you choose to run for president and succeed, your early life is a major part of american history and barack obama actually had a much more interesting, much more richly varied earlier life than we have really to a large extent known up until now. people are aware he grew up in hawaii, lived a bit of it in

he says the obama era policy on cuba did not make sense. you continue watching what he is saying on the bloomberg. much more in a moment on bloomberg markets. ♪ david: this is "bloomberg markets." i'm david gura. it has been a busy week in washington as investigations into his campaign continue. continue to speak in miami on cuba policy. megan murphy is the editor of bloomberg businessweek. sahil kapur is also with us as well as chris strohm. presidenthave the speaking in miami. such a seismic change when ben rose went down to cuba in a many group, unbeknownst to members of the administration affecting the changes he did. what effect does that have on the relationship between the two countries and business generally? >> cuba was always going to be a long haul, a lack of infrastructure, how you set of businesses, the lack of digitalization of the country. it was stuck decades in the past. a move go in there and do heavy investment we have only seen since obama change the policy. what is interesting about this, you have seen american compan

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

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

obama his new ones. and there is no public clamor for either of them in the, well, public mind space. and now joe biden can no longer stand it, apparently missing all that attention he drew as vice president. looking at obama and clinton and saying to himself, no more. crazy joe's now ready to grab his share of the left-wing mind share, launching his own pac. knowing joe as we all do, there's no doubt that he'll get that attention but likely not for reasons helpful to the dems or to biden. and obama has receded now mostly from public view just as we were getting used to his reentry as investigates of his administration's spying pick up more energy. and as long as hillary keeps up her excuses tour, tired and desperate dems will simply shake their heads but not their loser labels. so be it. >>> now the quotation of the evening, this one from george washington carver who said 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. we've noticed that. we're coming right back. >>> president

this time president obama. the real story president trump said is that president obama did nothing. after being informed in august about russian meddling. with four months looking at russia, under a magnifying glass they have zero tapes of trump people colludes. there is no collusion and no obstruction, i should be given an apology, the president is not over stating the case, he deserves far more than an apology, this has been an attempt on the part of the left to subvert his very presidency, and mr. obama decides last september note to take any formal retaliation against russia before the election according to reports of work was war washington post. even. >> i think that administration need to call out russia earlier, and needed to act to deter and punish russia earlier, that was a serious mistake. lou: now, fusion gps, the firm chose cofounder of a clinton donor, responsible for creating false russia dossier on president trump. senate intelligence committee wants to know more about a new set of connection, the russian connection to the democratic party, fbi refuting to confirm wh

obama didn't do anything. he made several private warnings to vladimir putin to stop doing this and ultimately saying it happened and in december he should -- he put in place tough sanctions, could have been stronger but did sanction russia, the same sanctions donald trump wants to roll back. >> let's go to president obama, you are trying to tell our viewers wait a second, president obama did do something, he told vladimir putin on the sidelines of a summit cut it out, and he didn't cut it out and you expect us to believe that was good enough? >> it was not good enough. it absolutely was not good enough. there was a debate in the white house, people close to president obama who wanted him to do more, the secretary of state and others who were reluctant to do this during the campaign, afraid it would impact the campaign and in my view, being too careful. >> it is being investigated, did the trump campaign do anything wrong? has donald trump done anything wrong in office? on this is being investigated but why ha

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

let me ask you about president obama. it seems like he was in a damned if he does and damned if he doesn't situation. how do you address this? >> hindsight is 20/20. >> of course. >> i think he felt that everything was on line for hillary clinton to win and we'd deal with this russian problem. unfortunately, that scenario did not take place. we've got to fix this problem. the problem is what russia did, when they did it, how they did it and how do we prevent them from doing anything like that in the future. so it's clear from this report that the former president put things in place for the current president to take advange of it if he should choose. >> any confidence that he will -- >> he's not done it thus far. we've seen him joking and giving intelligence information in the white house to the very same russians. >> let me ask you quickly, what do we do as a country to protect ourselves from russia? >> i think that number one, what we should do is acknowledge first and foremost what 16 members -- 16 intelligence agencie

worrisome to the obama team was that prospect. part of the reason they didn't throw everything they had at the russians, which appears to be a considerable amount of stuff they could have thrown, part of the reason they didn't do anything to russia about this before the election was because of how it would play politically here in the united states. this question -- an important question of whether americans would have confidence that our election was not being rigged by the outgoing administration in order to install somebody who had been secretary of state in that administration as the next president. there was that domestic concern. the other part of their red sebs to do anything before the election was driven by the fact that they believed, apparently, that russia could blow up the election if they wanted to. that beyond the bots and the propaganda and the stealing the documents from the democratic party and releasing them in a way designed to cause damage, despite beyond all of that stuff, which we all know about now, apparen

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

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

so i think president obama did work with the russian federation. i think clinton's -- putin's reaction to ukraine was not based on any major event the united states had directed to the russian federation. in the aftermath of that we have seen an escalation of the crisis . we have not even yet hit rock bottom. from cnn but it was picked up by the business russia, reporting on having potentially derogatory information about trumps financial information. do you take that at face value or is that something the russian government is putting up just to put out? assumeeranz: one should that, especially in mr. trump's position, that he was a person of interest when he visited russia. he should have assumed that all of his communications were being monitored and all of his actions were being monitored. believe that they they put out something that they have information on donald trump, i have every expectation that it might be true. russian politics engages in the practice of what they call comprising information all the time. hasink since mr. trump visited

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

obama knew of russia plans in advance of the election. >> former obama officials say they did not want to go public with the russian threat because it may play into vladimir putin's hands. mr. obama approved of cyber weapons in the russian infrastructure in retaliation, but it was in planning stages when the former president left office. that means it fell in the hands of president trump. >>> a family of three has been rescued alive from all of this after a landslide in china. state media report 141 people are still missing. 46 houses have been buried. the difficusaster happened in sn province at 6:00 a.m. >>> in north london, hundreds of families out of the homes because firefighters say there is no way to guarantee safety of the buildings. they are in temporary how tausi after the tests show the cladding is flammable on their buildings. this comes a week after the deadly grenfell tower fire. >>> the sarcastic response to the washington post reporting that essentially showed the former obama administration had information on russian meddling, but the question now what did they do and

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

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

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

the obama administration. is that fair? and what has the trump administration, now in power, obviously, done about taking the issue on? let's discuss. cnn political commentators jen psaki and scott jennings. thanks to you both on this monday morning. jen psaki, the president says, yes, it happened. but if it's so urgent, if it's such a big deal for these democrats, where is the criticism for the obama administration that did nothing? fair point? >> it's simply not born out by the facts, chris. last summer when the president was made aware of these attacks by russia, he asked his intelligence community to double down and put every resource toward figuring out what happened. and they put out an unprecedented statement in early october of last year. that was before president trump was elected. now, we were treating it as a cyber attack at the time. we didn't factor in as much as we probably should have the impact of propaganda. we still don't know enough about that. so, that's an area, i think, there could be a redoubling of e

obama over the weekend, seizing on a stunning "washington post" report that quotes a former senior obama administration official. that unnamed official telling the "post," "we short of choked on blocking russia's efforts to influence the u.s. election." >> president trump tweeting over the weekend, saying, "since the obama administration was told way before the 2016 election that the russians were meddling, why no action? focus on them, not t." "t" for trump. ryan nobles with the president's tactic for claims of russian meddling. >> reporter: good morning. president trump spent a lot of time during the campaign and after his election attempting to downplay russia's role interv e intervening in the 2016 election. after the report in the "washington post" that details the obama administration's response that the intelligence community's assessment, he seems willing to admit russia's efforts as long as he can blame president obama for not doing enough. one former administration official concedes in the report that they could have and perhaps should have done more. on "state of the union," a

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

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

they had confidence in president obama. just 23% said they lack confidence in him. this year, same question, about president trump. 74% say they do not have confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs. 37 countriesss the say they do have confidence in him. big shift in terms of how the world sees the u.s. president. we also see in this data that change in who is in the white house has had a big impact on how the world sees the united states. so this is a question about whether you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the u.s. back again the end of the obama era, 64% favorable, 26% unfavorable. as you can see, that favorable line has gone down. the unfavorable line has gone up. a big change in terms of how publics around the world see the u.s. president and a change in how they rate the united states as a country. let's take a look at some specific countries in terms of this confidence measure. so in just about every country we surveyed, we see a significant gap in terms of ratings for obama during the end

president obama and three senior aids. and in that envelope was extraordinary intelligence that had been gathered from deep within the it was highly classified. and it conveyed the specific instructions from vladimir putin himself to the intelligence services to disrupt the u.s. election, not only by undermining campaign of hillary clinton but also to help donald trump win the white house. >> talk about what they decided to do with this information it's getting some criticism from people who say they should have done more but sounds like the administration was really in a tough spot on this explain their thought process behind it >> yes, it was -- it was in a sense paralyzed by complicating desires, one to try to really insure that the election itself was not tampered with, that the vote count would not be altered, and at the same time, the white house determined that they did not want to come up publicly, and point the finger at russia fo make them appear political in too partisan and appear to be backing hillary clinton

is chairing but immediately his -- obama's chief of staff startings arguing against it and then obama argued it and then it was never revised. >> real quickly, can you talk about what's happened since this extraordinary tick tock that you detail in sort of the transfer of power from the obama administration to the trump administration. what happened? >> well, actually i think one of the most interesting details in the story is that there was this secret thing that obama did in addition to the punitive measures that they announced in late december. he secretly signs an order to his u.s. spy agencies to start placing cyber weapons in certain areas of russia's infrastructure or computer systems that the united states could detonate down the road some day if it finds itself in some sort of escalating cyber exchange with moscow. but it's just in the planning stages when obama leaves office. so if those devices are ever going to be triggered it will have to be done by the trump administration which is what -- it's really remarkable given the trump administration's positions toward moscow. >

if they're going to criticize president obama. and not do anything else, in the future, then that's just hypocrisy. >> the senate did pass some measure to impose further sanctions on russia, i want to bring in one more person into this discussion. steve moore, a retired supervisory agent for the fbi. steve, what can you tell us about these "washington post" reports, about some of the critical intelligence that was gathered on the russia hack. coming from a foreign source. in other words an ally that might have had this information. that kind of information has been faulty before. what do you make of it? >> it could still be faulty. it's very, it's very frightening when you start seeing our stuff, stuff that we have, have very carefully compiled. and shared with ally. getting out. it doesn't necessarily mean, though, that we give it to an ally that it's false. so that you can't take it at face value, that's part of the investigation, taking apart every word and every sentence. seeing whether it matches up to actual intel that we sh

so obama moves forward with the plan. and it didn't get implemented because you guys stopped it here is what you got to understand. there is so much nonsense being spoken. the reason that you do not have what you and i both want are people working in the rust belt is because the wind industry which could create a bunch of jobs was stopped by you guys in congress. zboo wait a minute. >> tesla- totally subsidized the wind strie the wind industry wouldn't exist today in america by their own admission it if ittant weren't foi giant taxpayer suddenty? you want to have the rm fight let's talk about subsidy we subsidize big oil by having the pentagon police products around the world in let them pollute carbon for free we massively subsidize fossle fuels and have for a hundred years. all countries subsidize energy because energy is so important. >> that's true except it's louisiana order of magnitude higher subsidies per kilowatt of industry that's produced by the way that was the obama's own energy department that said that the

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

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

they had confidence in president obama. just 23% said they lack confidence in him. this year, same question, about president trump. 74% say they do not have confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs. 37 countriesss the say they do have confidence in him. big shift in terms of how the world sees the u.s. president. we also see in this data that change in who is in the white house has had a big impact on how the world sees the united states. so this is a question about whether you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the u.s. back again the end of the obama era, 64% favorable, 26% unfavorable. as you can see, that favorable line has gone down. the unfavorable line has gone up. a big change in terms of how publics around the world see the u.s. president and a change in how they rate the united states as a country. let's take a look at some specific countries in terms of this confidence measure. so in just about every country we surveyed, we see a significant gap in terms of ratings for obama during the end

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

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

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

so far, president obama has not been taking the bait. athena jones has more. >> reporter: online and on the air -- >> i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election. and he did nothing about it. >> how are you? >> reporter: president trump making it abundantly clear that more than five months after replacing president obama, his predecessor remains top of mind. >> we've been talking about this for a long time. >> reporter: not content with simply undoing parts of obama's legacy like pulling the u.s. out of the trans-pacific partnership trade deal and paris climate accord, trump is increasingly using obama as a political foil. blaming him for not doing enough to stop russian meddling in last year's election. despite calling such meddling a phony story for months. >> the cia gave him information on russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. >> reporter: president trump even accusing president obama of criminal acts. from collusion and obstruct

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

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

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

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

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