>> no, barack obama is sometimes this person with flowery language. trump is more practical with his delivery and what he is trying to say. i think the pendulum has swung and we will see how the baton and silver in just a few days. >> tucker: since you covered the white house, is there a recognition that as popular as the polls suggest he and his family are personally, this election was really a personal rejection of his legacy. you get the feeling they feel that way? >> they feel very defensive about president obama, they say he leaves with high approval ratings. i don't think that how they explain the loss is what they talk about. >> tucker: interesting. always worth learning something. bret baier, thanks a lot. that is it for us tonight. 9:00 p.m., we will be back tomorrow. sean hannity is next. don't miss it. >> sean: thanks, tucker. welcome to "hannity." the obama nightmare is finally coming to an end. he just finished giving his farewell address in his hometown of chicago and he is already attempting to rewrite the history books about his failed

>> no, barack obama is sometimes this person with flowery language. trump is more practical with his delivery and what he is trying to say. i think the pendulum has swung and we will see how the baton and silver in just a few days. >> tucker: since you covered the white house, is there a recognition that as popular as the polls suggest he and his family are personally, this election was really a personal rejection of his legacy. you get the feeling they feel that way? >> they feel very defensive about president obama, they say he leaves with high approval ratings. i don't think that how they explain the loss is what they talk about. >> tucker: interesting. always worth learning something. bret baier, thanks a lot. that is it for ♪ >> tom: welcome to "red eye" i am tom shillue. let's check in with tvs andy levy over at the "red eye" deck. >> coming up on the big show, white women attending the anti-trump inauguration demonstration told to check their privilege. plus a 9-year-old deer hunter is making news, and happily not for playing russian roulette

they've lost 16 -- under a barack obama left 16 seats. a thousand state legislative seats. our problems roll the house, tomorrow the white house, soon it can conservative supreme co. the democratic party is in a state of crisis, and their response to having been beaten so resoundingly is to put a two by four and this guy's face. they should be trying to work with the president, give him a chance, say here is what -- >> martha: when romulus, republican said we messed up. we have to figure out whye we ae not connecting with people. we have to come-to-jesus moment and see what we are doing wrong. don't democrats need to say perhaps some of the policies are the reasons it's only people migrated from voting for obama to voting for donald trump and ask yourself why. >> democrats should deftly look at what happened in this election. the difference between mitt romney and hillary clinton at that hillary clinton 12.8 million more votes than donald trump. mitt romney lost millions more than obama. >> martha: you are okay that they -- you don't have a problem with the people in the co

why in eight years did barack obama not call for that? >> barack obama called for so many fixes to obamacare. you understand what republicans did when that man was first inaugurated. they set on day one they were going to obstruct and they successfully did in many ways. she and the administration were very clear, there were lots of things he still needed to fix with health care. there were lots of problems. if you don't have anybody in congress, anyone on the other side the knees to put the american people first instead of trying to destroy government because they didn't like barack obama -- >> tucker: this is silly. you are above this. i don't want to relitigate it, but if you're going to generalizations that are not true, democrats held all three branches of government when obama came into office. >> it that is false. the obstruction that the republicans -- >> tucker: i know, the republicans are bad -- >> tucker: if you deny it, that's on you. >> tucker: i am not denying that republicans didn't try to stop obama's agenda. sometimes it w

why did barack obama, then, by 2010, and his party, suffer historic congressional losses? it is because they didn't answer the issue that brought them there. of course, that is a shot across the bow, and a warning to donald trump, he has to heed the issues that gave him the white house. >> tucker: that's right. the estimate go to in his economic promises. it seems like an obvious and correct born, and a lot of smart people in the democratic people, yet, none of them prevailed upon hillary to come up with an economic message. why? why wouldn't they do that? >> it's not the making of a modern democratic politics, appeal to enough norwegian bicycle is, and you will be the president of the united states. the demographics are on your side. the problem is, for all of the hype about political machinations and tv efforts and data on your iphone, that can find a voter, at the bar across the street, the fact is, if you don't have a good message, you don't have an inspiring candidate is, he won't inspire voters. that is fundamentally is what i explain, for example, why african-americ

another man who had big load on all of this, barack obama refused to have any changes to the law at all and when the supreme court stood up the law in 2012, he said this. >> i am as confident as ever that when we look back five years from now, or ten years from now, or 20 years from now,e had the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward. >> ed: julie, why did president obama face the reality? the political reality and policy reality that the law did some good things but was not perfect? instead, every step of the way, he refused to improve it at all and we wasted a few years. >> quite frankly, the president can't do anything without congress putting a bill on his desk. >> ed: he didn't even propose a change. >> the democrats did their part. the past obamacare. >> it wasn't republican care. >> republicans did their part. they didn't like it. they passed what you called obamacare. if her publicans they could've put a bill on the president's desk. he he get assigned it or not signed it. they didn't tell us what they stood for other than repealing the law. >> ed: he pushed it throug

we made it through barack obama. who saw that one coming? we are stronger than we thought we are also in more trouble in some ways than i thought. at least, in eight years ago. we are to a point where megyn kelly leaves and now they're people that instead of celebrating you coming on the air and a new point of view, they're saying she is a traitor for leaving the company. i know nobody there believes any of that. that's ridiculous to think that. we need to stop thinking of each other as traitors if we go work for someplace else or even if we just disagree with each other we've got to be able to disagre disagree. >> tucker: would you recommend this business to your kids? >> i will tell you this, tucker, and you've done it long enough to know and you have kept your soul. you are a good guy. you are not a good guy? >> tucker: i don't know, i think there is a cost to everything. >> you are good from all reports that i have heard, and we've met a few times. you are a good guy. so i'm not speaking generally to you. but i think this job -- i wouldn

with barack and michelle obama. someone who he was all over for years and fought with bitterly, but now, despite all of the attacks back and forth on twitter with chuck schumer and other democrats, hillary clinton and the russians did it and call me did it and john lewis, barack obama and donald trump have kind of forged an interesting if not a friendship. maybe a partnership where they both complement. let's not gloss over that. they have tried very hard to put all the rest of the noise aside and make this a peaceful transition of power, despite all the noise out there. i would want to be a fly on the wall between that cup of tea. of course, they take the limo ride over. 11:00 a.m., they should be at the mall by then. for the 12:00 swearing in. bush 41 is in the hospital and getting better, we all hope and pray. but you are going to have bill and hillary clinton there. watching donald trump be sworn into office and delivering this inaugural address. >> tucker: a rejection of the legacy i think it's fair to say of b

unlike barack obama, just to compare the two, will always talk about me me me. all about number one, the toby keith song. he kept talking about, it's going back to the people. we the people. only mention himself three tim times. >> tucker: what's striking to me in the last year, watching this carefully, was not the people dislike trump, i think it's okay to be tough on the politician. it was the contempt for his voters. undisguised. the left stop pretending that they sympathized. i've never seen that before. >> sean: the intellectual class of the conservative movement, all these weekly standards, actively undermining trump. which would've meant that hillary clinton got to make supreme court appointments. >> tucker: did you lose friends over all this? >> sean: yes. yes. you know me, i like to brawl, and like to fight. i never started one of those fights. but i may counterpunch her. if you hit me, i'm going to hit back. >> tucker: this is really the beginning of something totally new. if donald trump keeps his promises on energy, originalist, bedding, building the

in this case, barack obama who have never liked. >> that he was a muslim, particularly crazy thing you referred to and then later, the questions about his birth certificate. they are the same because they weren't secret, they were out there. people were already hearing them. in a way, it is an analogy i think because for reporters who come from traditional newspaper background, the instinct is what you just said. don't go spreading -- if nobody hasn't heard this before, why would you tell them. i think we moved into a different moment. what i found when i was covering iowa and 2007, 2008. while the voters had heard this stuff. whether it was on the internet or talk radio. we were being to scream u squeamish to refer to. this seems totally insane and here's a bunch of reasons to think it's insane but i'm not going to do the clean enhancings thing of saying i won't touch it. that was appropriate with the muslim stuff, when donald trump started talking about the birth certificate but the media did not say we are going to cut that portion of what he said. here's all the reasons it's nonsen

the people who voted for barack obama in overwhelming numbers, overwhelming numbers, got a president for four years, and they got a new president in donald trump for the next four years, who can just as easily, under his executive authority, and do whatever he wants. >> i know. you're right. you're absolutely right. >> we only have one president at a time. >> but we have a congress that is supposed to be doing this! basically, what obama is doing, by acting and in an 4 may, he s guaranteeing that temple do the same plates . >> you are misreading the law. these are regulations under statutory authority. if congress wanted to undo them, tucker, they could pass a law to undo them. they don't. >> because they are cowards. >> okay. >> we can agree on that. >> let's agree on that. >> on that, david, thank you. good to see you. >> you, too. >> now, time for "twitterstorm," our nightly forecast of social media's most powerful weather patterns. tonight, mariah carey is getting attention on twitter thanks to her poor lip syncing on new year's eve. she wasn't actually singing the song. she was

we hear all kinds of things, i've heard all sorts of things about barack obama's romantic life. i hope they are not true. i would never report on that. isn't it irresponsible to pass on something that you can't verify? i don't know how you don't see that as a journalist. >> "the new york times," "the washington post," some of the leading journalist organizations routinely write stories that are based on information that they haven't verified. "the new york times" verified all the information that was in all the emails that were reported on? no. all the information that they got from intelligent intellige? no, they base those reports on the credibility of the source. it is reportable he credible according to cnn sources, whose information has become part of a document does presented by the senior intelligence chief the united states. comes from a source that according to "the wall street journal" worked in russia for a decade or more, has 20 years of experience in russia, that sounds like a credible source to me. >> tucker: no, i think you've got the story wrong. journalist publi

i had really only perceive one conversation with barack obama. when he was a senator in 2005, we ran into each other at the l.a. sports club gym. which is at the ritz-carlton in downtown washington. i also met and proposed to my wife there. >> tucker: in the gym? >> at the ritz carlton. so there was senator obama, getting ready to work out. he was trim and fit and looked like he belonged in the gym. i looked less like me. i just finished covering 45 straight days of the john bolton committee hearings. i told senator obama i have to be outside of john bolton the happiest guy in america. those finally came to an end. i've nothing else or 45 days. senator obama said -- the republican committee at the time, he couldn't figure out why the bush administration never put up a guy for the john bolton administration for the u.n. we go out, i introduced myself to him again. i say senator, it was nice to meet you. i fully expect going forward on the basis of this brief is encountered that you will see fit to leak to me the most sensitive documents across. an

>> you are the editor-in-chief of the of "the daily caller," for a decade called into question barack obama's legitimacy as a president, based on -- >> tucker: i'm not saying that. >> are you saying you are an illegitimate journalist? you had some pretty racist, terrible junk on that web site. >> tucker: name one. >> lets google it, there is a lot. since 1987, donald -- >> tucker: you are posting that source is legitimate. >> he is been taking all all-expenses-paid trips to russia, on the russian government and then claims to the united states government, populace, that he has no relationship with russia, knows nothing about russia. >> tucker: i just read your peace, alex. >> that is what i'm saying in the piece. he has lied, to the american people and been very dishonest. >> tucker: you are saying the soviets chose him for president. you're going to stand by that. >> you're going to have to reread the article. give it a reread. >> tucker: i'm tempted to end this right now because you are saying linden larouche is a legitimate news source. >> that's not what i'm saying. let me just sa