in short, president obama leverage the power of his office to the detriment of u.s. policy when missile defense in order to influence the 2012 election. solely to his advantage. and we never would've known if president obama realized that the microphone was on, there was a hot mic. one could easily substitute president obama's 2012 exchange with president medvedev into article one of the house's impeachment articles into president trump. using the powers of his high office, president obama solicited interference of a foreign government, russia, in the 2012 united states per residential election. he did so through a scheme of our course conduct that included soliciting the government of russia to give them space on missile defense that would benefit his reelection and influence of 2012 united states presidential election to his advantage. in doing so, president obama use the power of the presidency in a manner that compromise the national security of the united states and undermine the integrity of the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the

we talked about his obsession with barack obama earlier. he links biden with obama. he knows that coalition is still out there, that worries him a little bit. more than that, he thinks biden is the one candidate here who could siphon away some of those working class white voters who went for him in the rust belt the last time around, where he knows his margins were so very slim in 2016. he thinks biden does have some appeal there, he speaks their language and so on. this is what the president has told people around him. he thinks that is someone that could disrupt it. he's always had a real low pressure -- real respect for bernie sanders. he doesn't attack bernie sanders like he does some of the other candidates. i think there's a little overlap there, some of the populist ideas between trump and sanders. i think that's another one who he feels might play pretty well in the midwest. >> mika, there's another way donald trump fears joe biden. he held up military aid to get dirt on joe biden and was impeached for it. >> he was impeached in the house because of his obses

obama gave them blankets. that was statements made by some of the witnesses they brought in, like the ambassador yovanovitch. in your monologue you had all these democrats criticizing the president's foreign policy. he was tougher on russia than the democrats. he got us out of the iran deal. moved the embassy to jerusalem, brought the hostages home from north korea. eliminated al baghdadi and this past week eliminated soleimani. i think that's a pretty darn good record. for the democrats to be criticizing the president based on that and as kellyanne conway this morning saying the same thing -- they can criticize all they want. the american people appreciate the work he's done domestically and the foreign policy as well. lou: isn't it strange, on its face, the absurdity of this impeachment inquiry, farce, theater, whatever you want to call it, it persists. and the president might be seeking your help here if this goes forward in the senate. kevin mccarthy, the minority leader actually saying he would like to se

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and the president obama administration. we can see that in the justification that he and his administration have made for this killing of soleimani. yesterday on rush limbaugh's radio show in a 20-minute conversation donald trump brought up barack obama's name four times in the first five minutes, defending what he did by saying that barack obama didn't do what he was willing to do. even secretary of state mike pompeo invoked the mistakes of the obama administration in justifying what the administration did by saying, look, the mess that we found ourselves in is very much one of obama's making. this is very much a part of the way that donald trump approaches governance. it's not simply saying that he disagrees with the past administration, he of course ran against barack obama's foreign policy in the 2016 election. it really is invoking the president and sort of using the president's name, the former president's name, i should say, as a rhetorical crutch to defend his own policy decision-making. >> it's really interesting.

obama. well, we're going to take a look at how trump's obsession with his predecessor drives his foreign policy. >>> also, impeachment standoff. nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell in a tug-of-war over the impending trial. she is holding on to the articles of impeachment and he is refusing to negotiate over the possibility of calling witnesses to testify. who lets go first? >>> and palace intrigue. prince harry and his wife meghan the duchess of sussex throwing the royal family into a tizzy, announcing they are stepping back from their royal roles and basically going their own way, in typical british understatement. the palace calls complicated. >>> let's begin with iran. cnn's fredrik pleitkin is tracking the day's developments. fred? >> reporter: don, i think from the perspective of president trump not hitting back at the iranians even after the iranian ballistic missile strike, that from their perspective is what they wanted to achieve. before the strikes took place, several iranian official

the obama they come as a team. here and michelle prepare some for what's to come this shot was taken just moments before obama took his oath. the 1st lady is always by his side she says the biggest supporter and helps them stay grounded. and this is about the 12th or 13th. ball we've been to more in the news this elevator and i love elevators because nobody can leave when you can take pictures but she's telling her he's so proud of himself he says i'm so proud of myself because i never stepped on your dress not even once she just was pretty funny cause that's your biggest accomplishment today was the fact you didn't step on my dress and he said if. i could mess up this way but if i messed up or dressed i would have had no trouble. also captured the difficulty showing that there is a lonely side to being the president. obama is a person who is very good at taking bad news and kind of listening and so there's a photograph where he's leaning back in a chair in the cabinet room. and they've just told him that the econo

obama is mr. teleprompter. donald trump is a no card and no limits, no boundaries, no editing. >> obama is a tremendous divider-- you can't get muche. wo he's been a great, great divider.in i president obama has been the most ignorant president in our history. he will go down as one of the worst presidents in the history of our country-- iis a mess. isis is honoring presidentam he is the founder of isis. he's the founder of isis ♪ >> he just couldn't believe that the republican party would minate trump. the ideahat the american public would elect twice barack obama, first african-amecan president in history, and then turn around and pick donald p trump, wyed to racial resentment and anxiety, it just didn't compute for president obama-- it just didn't make anyo sensim. he couldn't imagine it. ♪ >> he looks at me, and he says, "you know, what if we we wrong?" he's, like, "you know,ell, what, what if people just want to fall back into their tribe? what if people's identity, their kind of sense of racial or eti

he has been smeared by the people behind obama obama's jcpoa deal, the ben rhodes, awe this will people that gave $140 billion back to a sponsor solve state terrorism the likes of which we haven't seen for decades. but to be honest i'm not surprised that he left the administration. his style is very different from the president. he is not a das startly neocon that wants to invades other people's countries and turn them into cookie cutter versions of america but if there's a choice between intervention and nonintervention, j resident proclivities more often on the intervention side which this he antithesis of the president. it was going to happen sooner or later. >> host: mike in new york. go ahead, mike. >> caller: good afternoon. i want to ask sebastian, what he think about the likelihood of a second american civil war, say, within the next 25 to 40 years if the democrats keep going after the second amendment and/or a war with china, say, within the next 50 years. >> guest: let's recall hat the bloodiest war our republic has ever been involved with wasn't vietnam, wasn't korea, i was o

yet, president obama refused. he refused even the face of support by senior career professionals recommending he provide lethal weapons to the ukrainians. by contrast, what did president zelensky and the russians know? they knew that president trump did, did provide that support. that clearly was the most material thing to him, much more, much more important than a meeting in the oval office. the house managers also make much of then could tension that president trump supposedly wanted president zelensky only to announce an investigation, not conduct anything. but that contention makes no sense. president trump's call with president zelensky was in july of 2019, almost a year and a half before our next election. would only a bare announcement with no follow-up really have no effect on the managers claim? would anyone have remembered the announcement a year or more later. ironically does the house managers who have put burisma and his connection to the bidens front and center in this proceeding? and now the voters

the obama administration was begging for a meeting. >> president obama used to send pillows and sheets. i sent antitank weapons and a lot of things to ukraine. >> al-baghdadi created a caliphate bigger than the state of california. and with obama, you did nothing but get your ass kicked. >> so, kim in iran, you know, when we're dealing with a situation we're dealing with now, what do they make of president trump's obsession with president obama? >> well, to start with, president trump's comment about the missiles being paid for by the obama administration, i think that's a little bit unfair because of course, you know, the missiles were a response to a decision taken by president trump which was, you know, to allow the targeted killing of qassem soleimani. so, as other panels have been saying, the buck stops with the president. and obviously the missile program predates the nuclear deal that president obama signed. but in the middle east, i must say that a lot of americans allies like saudi arabia did think that president obama's policies enabled iran to become more powerful and bolder

anybody who is not cheering for when obama killed osama bin laden. when we took out - - and isn't cheering when a murderous incarnate evil individual like general soleimani is killed, they need to examine their conscience. i don't care what your politics are, what god you pray to, i don't care if you're an atheist who you go to bed with point i don't care what your skin color is. you need to examine your conscience if you think that person didn't deserve to become a pile of ashes. >> sebastian gorka, how did you get to know president trump? next i thought i was at the pinnacle of my career. >> i have special regard for - - i was in my third year teaching at marine corps university. i get a phone call from corey lewandowski who i didn't know from a hole in the ground. he said i'm the campaign manager for candidate trump. he said, candidate trump is preparing for the gop debate on national security. would i consider meeting with candidate trump and perhaps help prepare him for that debate? i said sure. i flew to new york and went to trump tower up to t

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he has a field much weaker than barack obama. >> you confirm he's obsessed z with barack obama? he's obsessed with president obama? >> he didn't decide to run for president because of the 2011 correspondent's dinner. that was a pr stunt for him to negotiate against msnbc. but he decided to run and he was obsessed with the fact that barack obama was able to beat mitt romney. >> donald trump is the angry archie bunker without the anger or humility of bunker. he hates being bested by the black man. and he knows what policy is unraveling because in 1973 he was sued for housing discrimination. he unravelled housing discrimination. he new and took a public stand on the exonerated five going to the death penalty and he's trying to reinstate the death penalty in federal courts. i could go on and on, but this man is not someone who likes black people. >> the consequences are very real. a plane was shot down with 170 people, innocent lives on it, that never would have happened but for a conflict that donald trump started on his own. it was given as the crazy option and he took it. >> righ

obama gave them blankets. that was statements made by some of the witnesses they brought in, like the ambassador yovanovitch. in your monologue you had all these democrats criticizing the president's foreign policy. he was tougher on russia than the democrats. he got us out of the iran deal. moved the embassy to jerusalem, brought the hostages home from north korea. eliminated al baghdadi and this past week eliminated soleimani. i think that's a pretty darn good record. for the democrats to be criticizing the president based on that and as kellyanne conway this morning saying the same thing -- they can criticize all they want. the american people appreciate the work he's done domestically and the foreign policy as well. lou: isn't it strange, on its face, the absurdity of this impeachment inquiry, farce, theater, whatever you want to call it, it persists. and the president might be seeking your help here if this goes forward in the senate. kevin mccarthy, the minority leader actually saying he would like to se

this touches other people in the obama administration. john kerry certainly, his stepson was a partner of hunter biden's. there are many people who have their fingers in what appears to be bad ukraine issues. >> laura: andre was also listed in the visitor log in that original story in 2017. we are going to stay on this story and we think we will have a lot more. coming up, former attorney general jeff sessions, raymond arroyo, byron york, and tom bevan -- that is next. >> laura: republicans have been remarkably unified during the senate trial, only senator susan collins broke ranks and voted in favor of one out of the 11 amendments proposed by chuck schumer. jeff sessions observed with mitch mcconnell for nearly two decades and is also former attorney general. do expect republicans to stay unified on this issue of witnesses going forward? >> i would expect if so, i think mitch has done a really good job. only one vote out of 550 or 60 votes and republicans prevailed every time. i think partisanship, the excessive obvious partisanship in t

they never saw barack obama as a legitimate president. you had an argument from someone like ted cruz -- there is a mirror image of this on the democratic side going on today -- you have some people in 20 on the republican party, the ted cruz argument was republican lose elections when candidate are not conservative enough. we have that reverse argument on the democratic side today. the argument is, there is a conservative majority in the country and if you nominate the right person who is consistently conservative, they will win the election and solving the country's problems. that was the approach of ted cruz. you had scott walker, who tried to be a more pragmatic but still conservative candidate. in a lot of events, donald trump would show up. on one hand, there was an entertainment value. a tv celebrity. on the other hand, audiences connected in certain ways. my carefully cleansed phrase has been that mr. trump always represented the middle finger segment of the american electorate. fed up withho were politics and politicians as usual

they voted for obama because he promised hope and change and who did he meet with straight away he met with the heads of these banks he did not meet with occupy wall street he did not meet with public banking activists he did not meet with the sort of people so what sort of outcome do you think that had on these tarp bills on the federal reserve then intervening as well right i mean no executives went to jail the banks are bigger. today than they were back and so it's clear all of these corporations understand that a cost of doing business is borrowing and building support in washington d.c. and that includes stuffing up with former members of congress put them on your payroll you want to hire a chief of staff from a powerful senator or committee. member get their chief of staff put them on your payroll as a lobbyist this is what washington does. by partisan basis in fact i think it's the only point of true bipartisanship in d.c. is corporate influence over government let me ask you this question and it seems to me as an observer that the cost of lobbying which is legalized corruption

but with all of this it seems this president just can't quit barack obama. obama, obama, obama. marcia, marcia, marcia, obama, obama -- [ laughter ] it's not just the obsession, though. there is that. it's the hypocrisy. the treasury secretary steve mnuchin does president want the secret service to disclose any information on the cost of protecting the president and the trump family when they travel. not until after the election, anyway. the president, who has spent 338 days at a trump property during his 1,084 days in office -- that is 31% -- let's not forget, donald trump tweeted in 2014, and i quote here, "we pay for obama's travel so he can fund raise millions so democrats can run on lies." gees. then we pay for his golf. golf, huh? lies? this president, who hits the links every chance he gets while he is spending those 338 days at his own properties, he sure had a lot to say about president obama's golfing. >> obama, it was reported today, played 250 rounds of golf. >> everything is executive order because he doesn't have enough time because he's playing so much golf. >> ob

no, thatis example barack obama could not. no, that is exactly what barack obama did. he put enormous economic pressure on iran and seriously engaged on diplomacy. resident drum's only pressure. he has not come up with any ideas. he is not said he will meet with them anytime anywhere, it is not serious diplomacy. like his meetings with the north korean dictator. you go to meetings, there is a photo opportunity and nothing follows. iranians wanta opportunity and nothing follows. iranians want a serious conversation about how they want to get out of sanctions. that is what barack obama was saying. if you want to get out of the sanctions, this is a very serious path to diplomacy and they we re serious path to diplomacy and they were secret meetings in mine were both sides jutted out the diplomatic process. “— both sides jutted out the diplomatic process. —— oman. it took three yea rs process. —— oman. it took three years to negotiate the nuclear deal. pressure would lead the iranians to come out with a divide flag that is for him a definition for diplomacy and

let's thank my old boss, president obama. the president often cherry picks a strong month of job growth and implies that it is representative. but let's look at things in the long term which is how economists actually measure these things. in the first 35 months of the trump administration, his economy added 191,000 jobs per month. in the last 35 months of barack obama, his economy added 227,000 jobs per month. that's a 36,000 job per month difference over a comparable 35 months each. donald trump wants you to forget that, but let's not let him get away with it. the job market's strong up employment, 3.5%. but again, he didn't create low unemployment. he inherited it. you can see that in the long term trends. it was a 4.7%, now it's down to 3.5%. but his signature policy impact, the 1.9 trillion in tax cuts, didn't go into effect until 2018. so the unemployment had already dropped to 4.1%. so the last -- that's the obama effect. the 4.1%. so the last .6% cost us $1.9 trillion and it might be much higher than that. was the cou

obama took a different approach. he made things worse. he thought as long as we ended combat operations in iraq, we could bribe iran to get better behavior this iran. $400 million was delivered on pallets january is 17th. that's the same day tehran released 4 american prisons. -- pallets of cash were delivered in the dark of night to the iraqi regime. one of the most disgusting acts i can recall. secretary of state john kerry insisted this was the best we could do and iran signing on to the agreement would be a stabilizing process. nothing could have been further from the truth. any evidence that iran behaved better after the deal? they never released a former cia officer whom they held for 13 years. ditto for five other americans who have been held prisoners on spurious grounds. terrorists act have continued and iran was behind rocket attacks in 2018. the shi'ite rocket attack that wounded 4 u.s. troops 2 weeks ago was the 11th barrage in just 2 months. this doesn't take into account all of the other american blood that they have on thei

heather: at the same time that is the red line president obama allowed to be crossed. >> president obama did a lot of things to empower iran in its pushed across iraq, building a militia that is now causing trouble in the iranian militia in syria, the same people they built strong militias with an allegiance to tehran that was usually disadvantageous to the united states. >> let's talk a little more about that double standard and begin with nancy pelosi announcing the war powers resolution against donald trump, she says as members of congress our first responsibility is to keep the american people safe. for this reason we are concerned the administration took this without the respect for congress's war powers granted to us by the constitutions so the same attitude when it came to president obama? >> he did not. she fundamentally misunderstands the constitution, it grants the president commander-in-chief power which is what he used to act to stop an imminent and ongoing threat. congress can weigh in if we decide we want to declare war but it is not their job to decide whether the presiden

the obama's they come as a team. here michelle prepares him for what's to come this shot was taken just moments before obama took his oath. the 1st lady is always by his side she's his biggest supporter and it said helps him stay grounded. and this is about the 12th or 13th. ball we've been to more on these at this elevator and i love elevators because nobody can leave and you can take pictures. but he's telling her he's so proud of himself he says i'm so proud of myself because i never stepped on your dress not even once she just that's been pretty funny cause that's your biggest accomplishment today was the fact you didn't step on my dress and he said if i could mess up this way now but if i messed up her dress i would have been no more trouble. kelly shall also captured the difficult moments showing that there is a lonely side to being the president. obama is a person who is very good at taking bad news. out of listening and so there's a photograph where he's leaning back in a chair in the cabinet room. and they'v

about trump's obama obsession. first just give us a sense of the kind of just how many policies that either the president hates or that he's actually aversed of obama's that are out there. >> the iran nuclear deal, for instance, the paris climate accords, then there are policy reverse always that president trump has pursued. you look at trade, for instance. president obama wanted to expand trade authority. president trump has reversed that and really pushed for bilateral trade agreements. there is, of course, the north korea policy. very early on the administration was saying very explicitly we reject north korea's policy in favor of engaging with kim jong-un. they have moved away and reversed engaging with tehran in favor of engaging with saudi arabia, sort of doing the opposite of what president obama did. >> it's not unusual for a president to say, this guy left me with a mess, right, or to blame his predecessor. we see that a bit, but it's incredibly ratcheted up as you're talking about president trump as he se

done this just gives you one example of how the kind of more cosmetic language used by obama made sure that the media did not focus on many of his. sort of less. salutary or even less the lack of will policies trump actually speaks his mind does not mince words about what his policies are so while of course i'm very critical of trump i do all come his honesty as opposed to obama as the simulation. and so when you rights of united states abuse realism you normally lump britain in as if britain just follows what do you make of the fact that the newly elected birth johnson is just has to wonder why do the recognized leader of his way in the by the european union the united states what do you make of london hosting one go why do venezuela the well it's just of course following of the footsteps of us imperial policy i think the british since world war 2 having creasing lee and especially since the late 19th fifty's began to follow american policy very very closely they're kind of i guess 2nd lieutenants and this sort of foreign policy game which in many ways accepts american imperial hubris

>> well i think obama is no different than any other past president. look his number one goal right now is to furnish his own reputation. he doesn't want anyone coming up that could make obama look sell iter than he was, so i think he's afraid sanders if elected might say oh, my gosh this is so much better than obama. i don't think it will be. he should probably be campaign ing for sanders in that case to make obama look like tomorrow as jefferson for crying outloud, but i'm sorry. i think obama will and i do agree with john, never come out and say it because he doesn't want his name pinned on someone that might lose, but i think he will position his thoughts so that the candidates that he supports makes him look the best >> i think that's complicated. david: quickly. >> i think jeremycorbin kind of situation. i think bernie sanders is not electable and i can't imagine that obama doesn't understand that. david: moving on, president trump set to unveil his middle east plan on tuesday. has he found something israelis and palestinians can finally agree on

so the only reason i can make this call is because of obama care. because i had a pre-existing condition. another point i want to make but if you read our book called the white party government i don't know what they're teaching at florida state with capitalism and all its wonders but in that was a violent eluding of resources and enslavement of numerous population. this is from the slavery and the colonist. the discovery of gold and silver in america the enslavement the beginning of the conquest and turning africa to signalized the rosy dawn in the era of capitalism. >> there is a lot there to unpack. it did cover pre-existing conditions and then to spot that medical problem that you had. but what i write in the book is the obama administration knew that millions of people would lose their health insurance and therefore they are doctor. while the president was promising over 100 times that that in fact would not happen. and for many years. so to study doctor thomas and specifically about the free and capitalism but that is the best economic system

under barack obama. and the catastrophic nuclear deal the united states allowed between 100,000,000 and 100,000,000,000, 150,000,000,000 dollars to flow directly into iran. the obama administration since 1,700,000,$000 in cash in unmarked bills on pallets in the dead of night in a plane flown into iran later at night, that money come money is fungible and when you flood the ayatollah who is chanting death to america with over 100,000,000,$000, in a very real sense that money the obama administration allowed to flow into iran helps fund those missiles that were attacking our service men and women last night. >> i want to ask about impeachment before i let you go. there to be a trial as soon as next week. nancy pelosi says the process is not only unfair but designed to deprive senators and the american people of crucial documents and testimony, sounds like mitch mcconnell is ready to move ahead despite the demands from the speaker. is there going to be a trial next week? >> i hope so. these articles of imp

guest:guest: the fact that barack obama and george w. bush did not take him out, how much of a factor was that in president trump's copulation? guest: i know that that is the case. i don't know that he was presented with that information and it was -- he does like to take actions that previous presidents did not take. he said he thought president bush and president obama mishandled the middle east. in the idea that he could do something they did not often appeals to him. host: he said he wants to see an end to endless wars. guest: he likes to be tough. he liked the say don't mess with america. he liked to show military force. at the same time he came to office promising to undo the entanglement we've had in the middle east for the last 19 years. the question now is how does he reconcile these competing impulses. host: the debate in iraqi parliament is whether u.s. troops, about 5000, should remain in iraq. guest: the irony is if they throw american troops out we will have helped iran in iraq, given iran carte blanche in iraq which they d

he was held over by the trump team form obama and before that, bush. you see in the counterterrorism sphere there's kind of a lot of, you come out of this tradition. >> true continuity. >> there is a kind of consensus about what we should be doing on counterterrorism. >> except that of course obama was a departure from some of that continuity but you are saying that trump is continuous with that departure. >> i think you are right but i would copycaveat that. >> the prisons were close to 2006 were supreme court rulings allowed prisoners à >> after the second inaugural address, the second inaugural address was the height of the difference in that it paled off. >> by the end of the second bush term when obama ramps up dramatically. actually trump and then we checked this Ãbthe chalk team is actually dial back the program in pakistan for levels that are very large. they ramped it up in places like somalia. >> in fact, that's one thing i wanted to mention to you i noticed throughout the book that there are places where, you are a journalist and certainly

we wanted barack obama to succeed. they should want president trump to succeed, but their hatred knows no bounds. and they can't even see their way to make sure that they cheer while we do well. >> -- [inaudible] -- does lead to blindness so that might be part of it. we appreciate your work. >> thank you. >> we would like to hear your thoughts. share your comments and follow lou on twitter @ lou dobbs. can't follow me because i'm banned. that's another story. like him on facebook and follow him on instagram at lou dobbs tonight. >>> could andy mccabe's leaks to the media come under scrutiny from u.s. attorney john durham? we will take that up and more with our guest after these as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insura

let's not forget, in 2011 when president obama and the u.s. military took out usama bin laden, who general petraeus has said was not even as dangerous as general soleimani, there was cheering, including from jackie speier's who released a very up laudatory statement on her website. so right now the difference between president trump and president obama in these two instances is politics. that's a dangerous position to be playing when we are talking about the lives of our american soldiers and our american personnel serving overseas. >> absolutely not. the entire world book mike wanted to take out usama bin laden and we saw those two towers fall. the whole world was with us and everyone cheered when that man was killed. i didn't see the whole world cheer when -- >> neil: if barack obama had taken this guy out, and he did, would you be as offended at that as you are now at this preside president? >> if barack obama did it and didn't have an explanation and gave a 15 minute speech on a maga path the night before, then yes. >> neil: if barack obam

done many of the horrific things that obama had committed and this includes for example obama's deportation of 3000000 so-called illegal immigrants in the us which has a number larger than all refugees or all immigrants that have been expelled by all previous american presidents combined certainly while trump is seeking to expel and deport more he has not been able to expel 3000000 illegal immigrants as a whole has obama done this just gives you one example of how kind of a more cosmetic language used by obama made sure that the media did not focus on many of his. sort of less. salutary or even less the lack tubal policies trump actually speaks his mind and does not mince words about what his policies are so while of course i'm very critical of trump i do all come on a city as opposed to obama as the simulation and when you rights of united states to be realism you normally lump britain him as if britain just follows what do you make of the fact that the newly elected lawrence johnson is just has to wonder why do the recognized leader of it is way led by the european union of the united sta

yet, president obama refused. he refused even in the face of support by senior career professionals, recommending he provide lethal weapons to the ukrainians. by contrast, what did president zelensky and the russians know? they knew president trump did provide that support. that clearly was the most material thing to him. much more important than a meeting in the ovaloffice . the house managers also make much of the contention that president trump supposedly wanted president zelensky only to announce an investigation, not conduct anything but that contention makes no sense. president trump's call with president zelensky was in july 2019. almost a year and a half before our next election but only a announcement so far in advance with no follow-up really have had any effect on the election of the managers claim? would anyone have remember the announcement or year or so later ? ironically the house manager who put burisma front and center in this proceeding and the voters will know about it and probably will remember

they never saw barack obama as a legitimate president. you had an argument from someone like ted cruz -- there is a mirror image of this on the democratic side going on today -- you have some people in 20 on -- some people on the republican side, republicans lose presidential elections and candidates are not conservative enough. we have that reverse argument on the democratic side today. the argument is, there is a natural conservative majority in the country and if you nominate , the right person who is consistently conservative, they will win the election and solve all of the country's problems. that was the approach of ted cruz. you had scott walker, who tried to be a more pragmatic but still conservative candidate. in a lot of events, donald trump would show up. on one hand, there was an entertainment value. here was a tv celebrity. on the other hand, audiences connected in certain ways. my carefully cleansed phrase has been that mr. trump always represented the middle finger segment of the american electorate. the people who were fed

usaa >> he was designated a terrorist by president obama and obama did nothing about it but give them $150 billion and even more incredibly, 1.8 billion in cash and you hear me talking about that all the time. >> martha: president trump blasting the presidents are today and reports that the president is fixated on the previous administration and "the washington post" saying that trump has burned with the desire to raise obama's foreign policy legacy and proved himself a superior commander in chief. former officials are firing back that the president has done done the work and former deputy advisor ben rhodes writing this up because he promised to kill and achieve this of obama and he's been willing to break his promise to get us out of wars in the middle eas." now, what the hell was going on and fox news contributor and former obama state department double lance who helped implement the iran deal. let me start with you, mark, do you think that's the president's goal? >> adult tickets that goal to undermine obama's legacy he's trying to fix the mess that he inherited from a bomb in the

coming up, did y'all notice that former obama officials last week rushing to defend iran? what might that be about question mike investigative reporter lee smith uncovered shocking connections but we are going to bring him here next. >> laura: my friday interview with president trump didn't just drive impeachment cycle, also broke major news on the strike against qassem soleimani. >> did you have large-scale attacks planned for other embassies? >> i can reveal i believe it would've been four embassies. >> with the president said he believed it probably could've been attacked against additional embassies. i shared that view. >> intelligence shows they were looking at u.s. facilities throughout the region. the threat was imminent. >> laura: we brought up the fact that former obama administration officials were out in force defending the iranians. yeah. and attacking the president. the question is why. joining me now is lee smith, author of the plot against the president and victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. is there a reason why obama officials se