barack obama did it in charleston and other places after the shootings. and that emotional connection which has to do with familiy an a larger commonality of the american experience is something that's very important for every president and it's not at all clear that donald trump has that capacity. >> i have to tell you i feel like i remember watching trump on election night, and i feel like i saw a little piece of it. would you agree? people were waiting to pounce, frankly, and then he -- people were waiting to pounce. >> there's very little in his life that shows it. i don't think you'll see that between he and his wife. she might not even come to washington. and his children, he gets praised for raising his children. we'll see how thatlaysut in terms of his businesses and their involvement in the presidency. there are just a lot of questions there and you can only hope for the best. >> two different men here. i should end with the book, an easy question for you maybe, maybe not, what's your biggest takeaway? you mentioned the fact his try will look bac

. >> of course this marked the departure of barack obama who suggested there is more to be written for him as the leader of the party. >> this is not a period, this is a comma. in the continuing story of building america. >> more first, but whether he start with setting up what is also expected to be a day of real consequence in its own right. the massive march that grass roots organizers say is a message to the white house and congress. women's rights must be protected. we have reporters covering all angles and begin with cal perry on the national mall. people already gathering. >> reporter: yeah, people are already here coming in from all over the country. as you mentioned, this is a small vip area what you will see are we expect tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands packed in down independence avenue. i'll have jim spin around and we'll show you some of the crowd that is already here. we talked for people from charlotte, from the midwest, all the way from the west coast this morning. as you sort of alluded to, this all coming just a day of course after president trump has b

but we also won't see barack obama do the george w. bush thing, it seems, we are just gets to the end of the presidency on january 20th, gets on that hl kopter, goes away. we basically never hear from him again as a political figure. >> a senior couple aides told me he needs to sleep first. he doesn't sprik me as the guy that needs to sleep. >>> before we go, let's take a final look at today's microsoft pulse question. divide on president obama's legacy. will president obama be able to secure his legacy after leaving office? 87% of you say yes, but there is still time to weigh in at pulse.msnbc.com. we'll be right back. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even mer-mutts. (1940s aqua music) (burke) and we covered it, february third, twenty-sixteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> i'm chris jansing coming to you live from the white house. before i let you go, a quick reminder of the big

this, barack obama was not the candidate of the establishment either. hillary clinton was. so, barack obama owed the establishment nothing and people are talking about how the democratic party is decimated now. but we might see that very same thing happen to the republican party. neither of these two men owe the establishment anything. >> amazing, a lot of parallels you can draw between the two men. hugh, final word to you and we're really running ow of time here. on monday, what do you think we're going to see? >> i hope we see a lot of action and executive orders and a lot of movement immediately and i also hope we see president trump salute the women that are there today. 66 million voted for hillary clinton, three of them are staying with me inside the beltway at my home and i'm glad they're there showing the america and the world that the constitution is still in place and everyone is still welcome to speak their mind in america. >> jason, i'm going to give you the final word. do democrats start looking like obstructionist if they try to block ever

hear how he thinks things are going with himself and barack obama. >>e'll see in the days to come as this transition takes place. kelly o'donnell, thank you. >>> and not all of donald trump, what he said in his impromptu remarks. later, we'll hear from a journalist who was at mar-a-lago and get his take on what happened last night. plus, international reaction to the terror attack in istanbul and the search for the gunman. my name is pam. i'm 51 years old. when i was diagnosed with pneumococcal pneumonia, it was huge for everybody. she just started to decline rapidly. i was rushed to the hospital... my symptoms were devastating. the doctor said, "pam! if you'd have waited two more days, you would've died." if i'd have known that a vaccine could have helped prevent this, i would have asked my doctor or pharmacist about it. >>> breaking news out of turkey. police are on the hunt for a gunman who opened fire on hundreds of revellers at a nightclub in istanbul. an estimated 39 people are dead and dozens more injured. you can see from this video here, a l

. >> hallie, you just said it took 11 days for barack obama to comment. i'm not surprised at all had he's an activist by trade, a community organizer. his disdain for the political process is well documented by republicans and democrats. president obama was vehemently opposed of donald trump. the problem was he lost and it didn't help hillary clinton whatsoever. so he runs the risk of becoming illegitimate if he continues to do this in the face of donald trump. if donald trump wins victories, then barack obama could be more insignificant than the executive orders that are now gone in his administration. >> i think we have to leave it there and bring in briefly -- very quickly, corine. >> i think my friend hogan needs to understand that donald trump did not win the popular vote. if anything 10 million people voted against him and not for him. he only got 25% of the eligible voters that voted. so this is about the peep. if you look what's. >> last word to corine this time. hogan, you'll get it next time. i want to go to brad blakeman, you have been inside t

obama. first time carnage has ever been used in an inaugural address. i wonder what you thought about the tone and the message yesterday. >> i found his use of the phrase america first, america first very disturbing. on the one hand, everyone wants our country to be stronger, to feel like their children can have a job, but that phrase comes out of the fascist history of the worst elements of our country, and that coming from a man who said he's a fan of mass deportations. he wants to build a wall. he thinks people are suspicious because of what country their family came from like with the judge or what faith they hold. i think it makes all of us who are,ounow, parts of differing gros that have been historically discriminated against feel more insecure. >> so the question now becomes for democrats, for progressives, for the people who are out here marching at 600 places all around the country, sort of what next? they're making their voices heard today and i think the numbers are by any measur

obama do? >> we must not be silent. we must act. >> you can watch the full interview tomorrow on "meet the press." kelly o'donnell is outside trump tower this morning and kelly, any reaction from trump or his team on this? >> reporter: well, as you would expect when you have a figure who has the wide respect and admiration of both republicans and democrats like john lewis, his use of the words that we just period there saying that donald trump is not a legitimate president are already having repercussions and reverberations because of the standing that lewis has in american life and in politics. so it is already a ccern for republicans who say while the criticism of how the election unfolded, democrats not being happy with the result, questions from what influence the russian hacking may or may not have had on how voters were thinking about the election are legitimate to have. but to use words like delegitimizing and not a legitimate president does raise concerns. we heard that in particular fr

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arou and in his mind it would be standing up to barack obama but it turned out it was donald trump. on the other hand, donald trump is within his rights to fire her. he is. it looks bad. it's symbolic. it shook a lot of people up. but it's his right to do that and she knew that. >> the right thing for her was to resign not to do this. >> i disagree. jeff sessions disagrees, too. >> it was embarrass the president. >> no, it wasn't. it was designed to uphold the law in her eyes. >> absolutely. nobody elected her. >> can i just say the pause in syrian refugees in 2011, what barack obama did with both iraq and syria was to tighten things up. there were -- there were leaks, there were holes. >> exactly the same thing you guys didn't say anything. you're playing politics with tithe issue. >> less is known. then they put in their own extreme vetting. >> let me go to the white house. i want to turn to the white house. nbc's kristen welker has been standing by for us. you have members of the state department who have been circulating a memo opposing this ban as well. let me play what preside

president barack obama delivered his final weekly address. he offered thanks. >> whether we've seen eye to eye or rarely agreed at all. my coveringses wi conversations you at farms and on factory floors, at diners and on distant military outposts, all are what you made me a better president and a better man. >> political reporter for the "los angeles times" and molly hooper for the hill. good afternoon to both of you. >> good afternoon. >> seema, i'll start with you. something went awry on russia's involvement in election hacking. a number of democrats said they lost faith in fbi director james comey. what happened? >> this is a story that will continue to grow. we've seen it and the hearing for rex tillerson, the president-elect's appointee to be secretary of state. questioning russia's role in the election. vladimir putin's direct involved. i think this will continue to grow. he was such a central figure in the election. he spoke publicly about hillary clinton's e-mails but not the other things coming up now, the dossier we don't know wheth

when you think about barack obama's legacy, is it him? is it america? were we not ready for a black president? >> he came in to be the best president, and not standing for a group and standing for america and unite us all. >> when president obama ran in 2008 i had turned 18 and i was able to vote. so i was able to be involved and able to actually have an opinion, and i couldn't be more satisfied with my choice. i think any time there is a campaign or there is an election, it sort of brings to the surface some of those uncomfortable social norms that we've just sort of accepted in society. when president obama ran in 2008 he wasn't the one who brought his race into play. it was the media. it was society. >> that group also reflected on president obama's initial win in 2008. one person telling trumain that she'd grown up unsure whether she'd see an african-american president during her life time. you can watch president obama's farewell address live this tuesday and special coverage begins right here on msnbc. does the transportation safety administration

not only in donald trump's america but in barack obama's america, too. it's a familiar sight for many people. and going into the donald trump presidency, it's something that a lot of people on that side of the border know a lot about. >> you out there should stay a look at jacob's full piece at msnbc.com. it is a fascinating look at what it is going on. truly powerful. thank you so much for joining me. >>> trump and twitter, can they mix in the oval office. a look at the power of words and how a tweeter-in-chief could play out on the international stage when our live coverage from the nation's capital continues. degeneration, amd, he told me to look at this grid every day. and we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression, including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd after 15 years of clinical studies. preservision areds 2. because my eyes are everything. i've got a nice long life ah

i think the reaction to barack obama, a lot of it did fall along not only racial lines but also along the lines of the false belief to be some sort of islamic interloper as if there's something wrong with being a muslim and ao by theayith the tea party there was more of an institutional organatn hind it. it didn't start with just people being terrified by what the new president was going to do to them or what the incoming administration was going to do to them and people like them. it was -- it started on wall street or in the chicago mercantile exchange with a rant about homeowners being deadbeats and the idea that the obama administration was going to essentially give out money to underwater homeowners. people forget the history of the tea party and make it seem it's this, on your screen, when it was really a lot more organized, had more roots in wall street, in the financial community that didn't want to see this president do what they saw as socialism to change the american way of life. it then morphed into a real anti-health care crusade and the thing about the tea party the left

in 2009, when barack obama took office, seven of his cabinet picks were confirmed on the day he took the oath. and it's expected tomorrow there will be a couple of the trump names that will move forward in the senate. chuck schumer, the democrat, in charge of his group, says they want to take their time and not move as many as quickly. mitch mcconnell wants to get more through. they will agree to move forward on some of the national security picks. so, that would mean the secretary of defense, james mattis, and homeland security secretary designee. those two are expected to be confirmed as early as tomorrow. there may be more as senators in both parties negotiate that. in terms of who might be in trouble, there has been cricism, of course, of betsy devos and mnuchin, who is still going through his hearing. that will be a drag on their candidacy. when you have democrats led by chuck schumer saying in certain instances they want more time, more questions, more scrutiny of some of the kinds of issues that in administrations past would sometimes derail a nomination. for example, the pick

bush, a different kind of boomer to barack obama, a law professor, and from barack obama to donald trump, the american tv reality star. so there's something in the american soul that jumps from poll to poll. >> there's a way with our words that sums up our trends. that's chilling. jon, you've written so beautifully about presidents in our past that because of the passage of time you can't possibly come to know. and yet you've also spanned the other end of that spectrum. you've had 41 sit down and say, here it is, all of it. here's my letters, my notes, my thoughts, here's my entire life. now you've heard a tour of the confines of the mind of this young, departing, 55-year-old president, who has his own specific column in history. what do you make of that? >> well, i think he's -- i think obama and 41 actually have a good bit in common. when i interviewed president obama about 41, as you mentioned a moment ago, he spoke in these camera-ready paragraphs, talking about how bush had -- the senior bush had proven to be a gentleman from afar and up close. and that president bush sr. did things

that's what barack obama did. >> barack obama did not have that pr machine behind him. what donald trump does do is communicate this and the idea that people will have less regulation, whether they will or they won't in the end, it gets them enthused. >> barack obama set a record for the most consecutive months of private sector job growth. that's a fact. let's see what donald trump does. i think this is a big stheem for this week though. i think we've seen a transition with a lot of talk. he becomes president on friday, critics like me, his supporters, we have to sit back and see what actually happens now. >> right. >> what is going to happen when he is president of the united states? >> i think there's another thing that we should be looking at going on underneath all of this, which is that walmart announced it was going to add 10,000 jobs. that's pretty much what it normally does in a given year. the other thing they said is they're going to dramatically expand their training academies for workers. that says there's such demand for workers that walmart is going to st

it can't be looked at out of context of the administration of former president barack obama who had a testy, difficult relationship with benjamin netanyahu. donald trump who has known netanyahu personally over the years, is trying to forge a new relationship, he's trying to form a relationship with the ambassador to israel, with a more hard line, with the common parlance of that as compared to the most recent u.s. position toward israel on things like the settlements. so this is a phone call, we're told it will happen in the situation room as is expected. this is one of those gestures that begins a conversation. meetings will happen at some point down is line. this is significant. we can tell you that the first meeting will happen with great britain's prime minister teresa may. they are not just gestures, they're an important part of building relationships. >> and that phone call will be followed by the president of mexico. >>> joining me now, political reporter for the los angeles times and political importa correspondent for "the washington post." good to see you both. i want to get

the trump administration, though, still defending the order saying they're following barack obama's lead. we'll fact check that. and i'll talk live to an activist reacting to a hateful tweet and has turned it around and is using it to help refugees. >> and a mosque shooting in quebec, two suspects now under arrest. >> president trump signed a new executive aimed at reducing regulations on businesses. he met with small business leaders where he also took democrats slamming him over the executive order on immigration. >> i noticed chuck schumer yesterday with fake tears. i'm going to ask him who is his acting coach. because i know him very well. i don't see him as a cryer. if he is, he's a different man. there's about a 5% chance that it was real but i think they were fake tears. >> the president is standing firm on his order imposing a 90-day ban on seven predominantly muslim countries. the president tweeting only 109 people out of 129 were detained. big problems caused by delta computer outage. protests and tears of senator schumer. mass protests broke out as you well know, at airports a

she's now criticizing former president barack obama, calling him, quote, weak. i'll talk live with manning's attorney about this op-ed written by her client. good morning. i'm tamron hall coming to you live. air force i ready to take off with president trump, headed to philadelphia where he will address congressional republicans at his annual retreat. his address comes amid what politico calls deep divisions between the president and his own party on several major issues, leaving them reportedly scrambling to respond after some of his recent announcement. among them discussing his position on torture. during his first sit-down interview as president, here's what he said last night to abc's david muir. >> i have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the high lest level of intelligence and i asked him the question does it work? does torture work? and the ann was yes, absolutely. i will say this. i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group and if they don't want to do it, that's fine. if they do want to do, then i will work toward that end. i want to

the trump administration, though, still defending the order saying they're following barack obama's lead. we'll fact check that. and i'll talk live to an activist reacting to a hateful tweet and has turned it around and is using it to help refugees. >> and a mosque shooting in quebec, two suspects now under arrest. >>

. >> i don't think this is very different than the order that barack obama had with a temporary ban on refugees coming in from iraq. that was a six month ban during his presidency. and we didn't see the same type of hysteria and outrage there we saw here. of course, this will take some time to coordinate with the agencies, to put out the actual details of how this will work. but i expect that we'll have that mostly in place by monday or tuesday of this week. >> sarah, really quickly -- i want to play a clip, it seems like from where i'm sitting, anytime i ask someone -- i say, you know, what do you think about this. and i mean it in peace. i come as a journalist. it seems like quite often the response is when president obama did it or when president so -- it's like, i'm not asking you to compare. i'm just saying what do you think. you have a guy who was an interpreter for the u.s. military, he's here for the first time in the united states. one of his relatives has a problem with his liver. and this happened. all i'm saying, listen people are not able to talk to their attorneys. this g

that's barack obama. when the president comes back here maybe for the last time as president, it's important to remember the first time he came here as president. barack obama came here and made very specific promises to the american people about obamacare. he came here and says if you like what you have, you can keep it. how did that work out? today, millions of americans lost the good health care plans that they like and expected to keep and are not able to today because of the broken promises of his law. barack obama came here and said if his bill passes, health insurance costs will drop dramatically for families. instead, what have we seen? the reverse. dramatic increases in health care costs. in my state of louisiana, over 25% increases that families are paying in higher costs for health care because of those broken promises of his law. i hope he comes here to apologize for those broken promises. but i don't think that's what's going to be the case. he's going to be here more concerned about preservi

. >> by comparison the united states, especially under barack obama, takes very few refugees. what is it specifically from refugees are we stopping that is causing imminent danger to us? >> we know that terrorists are trying to infiltrate the refugee process and we know the immigration process at large is struggling to fill holes in the vetting process. so i'm saying that in principal what donald trump has put forward is not unreasonable policy. i object strongly to the way in which he went about this in terms of rollout. i think he shot himself in the foot in a significant way, but in principal going after the refugee process and trying to strength be the vetting procedure is reasonable. >> most americans if not all would say we do want this country to be as safe as possible. president trump is expected to speak in a moment. to that point you made about shooting himself in the foot with this rollout process, is there something that we don't know that would cause him to take such dramatic action without going through proper checks and balances? >> no, i think this is just the

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. >> it's funny because we talk about people that supported barack obama in 2012 and 2008, the motivations behind that. >> hope and change. >> yes. and when you talk to people in the middle of the country, they bring up these terms. hope and change, that's what we see in him. i said that's how they described obama obama. and he said did they? i didn'tnow that. >> his favorability ratings are not good. i know you got back from the trip a couple of weeks ago, but did you see cracks? if he doesn't come up with building a wall, if he doesn't end up banning all muslims from coming in this country. if there are still terror attacks is that going the make them question donald trump? >> i think on some issues, yes. >> what issues? >> jobs. >> jobs? >> that's the one major thing that everybody said, jobs, we need jobs, we need the economy started again. i know that's so vague but that's what they brought up. pocketbook issues like that. and so i mean we mentioned again like the talk about twitter. i mean people were like put that down, we don't want you warring with other people. we want you focusi

in some ways controversial but in other ways a continuation of what president barack obama has been calling for and that is a morrow bust nato. one final of this, you haven't heard from the pentagon but heard from senator marco rubio. he's been critical on trump, that's significant because rex tillerson, trump's nominee for the secretary of state he could come up somehow caught in the crossfire on this. rubio not indicating which way he'll vote on tillerson. >> the real question is what the role of nato is and whether or not it's a relic. so how are the president-elect's comments being viewed by european allies, and at the pentagon? >> we haven't had official reaction from the pentagon and i suspect we won't get that until we have a new secretary of defense. we've heard from secretary kerry a little bit critical on trump. the german media are questioning what trump is saying on the idea of having a 35% tariff on autos. you had a senior german official saying earlier, look, the u.s. simply needs to make better cars. one note on a lot of german manufactures and autos, also manufactured in the

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the first inauguration of barack obama, remember how cold that was? it was freezing. i ended up with a bronchial infection. in addition to trump supporters descending on washington, d.c., tens of thousands of protesters expected. inauguration security expenses are expected to exceed $100 million. cal perry has been speaking to some groups who are planning to protest. cal? >> reporter: it's har to say exactly how many protesters will be in town on friday, but one sort of indication we have is through the national park service. they say 22 groups have put in for permits. that is an increase of more than ten groups. we saw about a dozen groups four years ago and eight years ago. now, one of the groups that is more vocal than the rest, disrupt j-20. they say they're going to grind the city to a halt on friday, literally putting themselves into the street, their rhetoric fairly bombastic about the trump administration, take a listen to what the organizer said. >> it's an issue -- [ inaudible ]. >> we want to set a tone of resistance for the coming year. we know we need to

pence, that they think they can tag president barack obama for another couple months, maybe a little longer, with owning obamacare. the question no one knows is how much runway they have there. there's confidence on the republican side. whether or not that's actually backed by reality is a different question. the other line we're clearly getting is that they have to proceed in parallel tracks. that means repeal and replace, but not repeal without something in place. listen to how paul ryan had to say it. >> we've been saying all along, we don't want to pull the rug out from people while we were replacing this law. the point is in 2017 we don't want people to be caught with nothing. we want to make sure there's an orderly transition so the rug is not pulled out from under the families who are currently struggling under obamacare while we bring relief. >> reporter: that's the latest on the house side. the senate side you saw mr. pence talking about the importance of making obama own obamacare and what that means in terms of the name, the verbiage. they want to continue to stick that wi

. >> going back to a place where a young community organizer named barack obama turned politician set the world on its ear with his speech at the 2004 convention. many people will be in chicago tomorrow for that farewell address. this is the first of a series of interviews that i'll be doing with those people who know him best, who have, to steal a line from hamilton, have been in the room where it happens. here's part of my conversation. >> i've been here six years and i still get chills walking through the white house gates. >> it never gets old, does it? >> never gets old. >> when you walk into the room, can you sense his mood? >> yes. >> are there tells? >> there are moments when somebody's talking too long and you can see his face go -- he does that. and you start to feel very awkward. it's almost like you want to pass a note to the person. >> what don't people see about president obama that as he's leaving you want them to know? >> there are people, i'm not even sure he's sent all of these, who have written him critical letters that he's hand wrote lengthy notes back to. i don't

i don't see -- seven of barack obama's nominees were confirmed during the inauguration. so this is a process. there are supplemental questions to come afterwards. but the motives are pretty obvious. democrats got rid of the phil buster under harry reed because they were so sure of the election and now they're regr regretting that. >> but to people who aren't democrats, to americans who are saying betsy dejohn vaus voss, wouldn't you work 24/7 to get all your ts crossed and is dotted. it's about the preliminary information they seem not to have done. americans are simply saying i want to know this information, we should have all these questions answered. why wouldn't they? >> let me give you an example. senator sessions turned over 150,000 pages of documents, about 30 boxes, by wear of comparison during holder's nomination he turned over one box. >> we are asking people who are nominated who haven't given the required information. >> yet we have democrats coming over saying he hasn't turned over enough. we can't possibly hold this hearing because we don't have nearly enou

she's now criticizing former president barack obama, calling him, quote, weak. i'll talk live with manning's attorney about this op-ed written by her client. good morning. i'm tamron hall coming to you live. air force i ready to take off with president trump, headed to philadelphia where he will address congressional republicans at his annual retreat. his address comes amid what politico calls deep divisions between the president and his own party on several major issues, leaving them reportedly scrambling to respond after some of his recent announcement. among them discussing his position on torture. during his first sit-down interview as president, here's what he said last

this administration is still commanded by barack obama. so i am skeptical. if this is going to be brought up, this topic, it should be brought up in the next administration with fresh faces that at least start with the presumption that they're honorable. if they say it was the video that started benghazi, then i'll say we have more to discuss. >> i appreciate you doing this on the first day of the new congress. >> coming up, the president-elect hitting everything from congress's move on that office of congressional investigations and ethics to the affordable care act to even one of the icons of the american car industry. we've got kristen welker in new york outside trump tower. you heard a bit of our conversation with congressman king on the affordable care act on the president-elect's new tweets as well. i want to sort of start there. what is your -- we heard kellyanne conway morning say president-elect trump would weigh in on this ethics move by congress if he felt the urge to. clearly he has felt the urge to, right? >> reporter: right. and i thought your

what does that look like, a divided nation, because the rubber band inclusion for barack obama, historians believe him to be a rights president and some say it's broken. we are a countrying to find our footing as people from all sides of the spectrum from every party are feeling disenfranchised and when their money is funny, they are upset. when it's affecting their pocketbook, they are upset. they are not covered. >> but maybe people didn't feel as included as it seemed. they voted for donald trump. >> and i think this is one of the challenges within the progressive movement, the fact that there are so many defections from the movement that voted twice for president obama and then voted for donald trump. it was the sense that, yes, the narrative that the economy is recuperating, many of those people never got their homes or jobs back. there is this idea that they are feeling left behind and in an increasingly this idea they're feeling behind in an increasingly modernized, glob globalized world. there is a huge opiate epidemic that is disproportionately impacting middle class and working c

>> as you remember, kate, barack obama promised to be the change candidate, that you would unify the country. i thought it was interesting that a change candidate comes in hoping for the best, and whatever happens happened to him and he was no longer the change candidatafter a while. and then another change ndidate mes town, and that's donald trump promising a different kind of change. and it was the difference between those two changes that are being promised that i thought that was probably fertile ground for this much air time, four hours over two nights. >> the one thing that really comes across, too, is that you do focus on obama more -- you talk about the republicans as well and sara palin and donald trump and mccain. but you focus in on obama. i want to play a clip to illustrate what i'm talking about. >> as he made the case for re-election, the man who my wiss fulfilled. they talked honestly to us,any of them, for a few hours at a time. i think we have a fairly accurate understanding of exactly what happened to barack obama over those years. he hit a wall, as you know, kate,

obama working together on some of the initiatives that eventually are decided upon by this president, where he wants to have influence moving forward. it's not as if a key is going to turn, another family will move into the white house and these folks are going to scatter to the wind. many of the senior officials will continue to work with obama, either on private staff or as part of his library foundation. those things haven't been announced yet but they will happen. i think there's going to be a long time for joe biden to continue in some way in a different kind of public service, kate. >> chris, stay there. don't move. i want to bring in also lynn sweet, washington bureau chief at the chicago sun "times," that being the president's sort of adopted hometown newspaper. nice to see you. how are you? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. as we wait and look at this room where we expect the president to come out, and we're not quite sure what to expect, but we have been told by the pool note that it will be in honor of joe biden. talk about -- lynn, talk about their relationship and ta

donald trump still owes america apology when it comes to the barack obama birther issue, and he disrespected obama for the eight years, and he owes the president and america an apology for what he did, and what he did was shameful when it came to the birther issue. >> it's kind of rich for donald trump to say lewis was divisive. >> she asked me what my thoughts were on it, and i brought up the -- >> that was not his rational. civil rights icon, and this is not complicated, and it's a free country and he can do what he wants. >> the bottom line is what he was speaking to -- >> you don't get a free pass -- >> i didn't say free pass. you can criticize all you want to, and donald trump also -- you talk about what is unfortunate for the american people, this man still refuses to say anything remotely negative or critical about vladimir putin, so what lewis did say, this man is about to be sworn in and we have issues -- >> i am going to stay on russia. we are going to stay on russia. donald trump spoke about that dossier and maybe some leaks. take a look. >> nothing is ever going to show up, and t

there's a famous picture of barack obama and his first inauguration day. he's actually getting one final check in a mirror. i'm told donald trump will also have a mirror. n for the inauguration, he'll have two bibles, one the lincoln bible and the family bible given to him by his mom in 1955. and when that is all over, he will say good-bye to the obamas on the east steps of the capitol. the helicopter formerly known as marine one. it will no longer have the marine one designation and then the parade attended by the trumps. >> we'll be waiting for you early this afternoon with that big interview you have. or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. my psoriatic arthritis caused joint pain. find out how american express cards and services just like my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. and i was worried about joint damage. my doctor said joint pain from ra... can be a sign of existing joint damage.

we needed john kerry to do that under barack obama's order. i'm hopefuls that the substance of that executive order. we've got billions in capital investment that's being held up for reasons that i think are not legitimate and not valid. if this country is going to move forward, we can't let this being holding us up. >> there's reporting from "new york times" that the president is going to keep james comey on for the rest of his term. is that the right decision? >> i reassessed my decision on comey. when i heard him last week in the confidential briefing, he gave the most definitive answers. i have been skeptical but i was greatly impressed with his skill set. there needs to be an investigation of the 650,000 e-mails, the investigation of the investigation. i'm hopeful the justice department takes it up. if not, we in congress have an obligation -- >> i don't think donald trump wants to go there either. >> but somebody needs to. we can't package this up and say whatever happened happened. how that would be illuminated would tell us about comey

. >> two years ago it was then president barack obama who initially had to drag angela merkel along on sanctions with russia because there's so many economic ties between germany and russia. one other quick note on this meeting here, mattis will be meeting in the tank with the joint chiefs and president trump. they had dinner a couple of nights ago, all they white house about a two-hour meeting to discuss a range of issues. so we'll see whether or not there are actually any tasking orders or presidential directives to the present gone saying come up with some new plans to accelerate the plan. >> and mattis has been sworn in. he got his hair cut at the pentagon. the price is $12. you go in, you ask for a hair cut and they have one question, civilian or military? i'll get back to you on whether he asked for a civilian or military. >> hans, i don't know what we would do without you. thank you, pal. ambassador, hair cuts aside, i want to get your reaction on what we just heard from kellyanne conway. she said the lifting of sanctions on russia is under consideration. overall reaction to tha

so six on one day in 2001 and it happened under barack obama, seven nominees in 2009. they were not cabinet level, though, so that one, hallie, is fake. >> so this is not unprecedently busy, if you will? >> no, not unprecedented but it doesn't happen very often. >> so it's still pretty rare. >> rare. >> i want to talk about the news of ken delaney and president-elect donald trump putting ot tweets, talking about the democratic national convention not allowing the fbi to study their computer systems. so how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? what is our reporters saying about this? >> president-elect is not wrong, they didn't have the server. but he didn't need the computer because they already had the forensics data part of something that's called upstream collection. this should be included in his intel briefing today at 12:30. so he's not wrong. at the same time, they didn't need the server according to our investigative unit. >> got it. there's a headline that's been making the roundabout presi

in 2008 barack obama was the first african-american president and also everybody that lives within metro ridership tend to vote democrat in this area so it was an unnecessary fight. i would recommend obviously focus on your message and maybe it's difficult. i remember after i got elected to congress it takes time to understand the difference between kind of being in candidate mode and congressman mode. i hope that's the situation the president is running into now where he's trying to get his sea legs under him. he has great ideas but this derails that. >> let's go from ideas to action. you're on the house energy and commerce committee. i want to ask you about president trump's decision to pull out officially from the transpacific partnership, tpp. now, it wasn't moving forward whether it was hillary clinton or donald trump. john mccain called trump's decision a serious mistake. >> i'm not surprised by it, nobody is. hillary clinton said she would do the same thing i think we have to retalk about or go back to discussing the basics of trade. 25% of the world's goods are manufactured in th

dow chemical, barack obama was somebody who had valley jarrett, sitting on huge balance sheets and not send spending it, because of the regulatory overhang. this is a positive for donald trump. a meeting like this. >> this is definitely his sweet spot. and not only for his campaign message that he made. you just heard the states he referenced, ohio, pennsylvania, indiana -- >> maryland. >> where he wants the manufacturers to go. so what he is saying, look, we think we can produce regulation by 75%. incredibly popular among corporate america. and we'll strip back your taxes, make america great. again, incredibly popular. i can tell you among the corporate elite, they were publicly gushing in their praise. privately, even more enthusiastic. here's the problem. what donald trump doesn't say in these meetings with ceos and other manufacturing leaders. >> how are you going to do it. >> there has been a reason there has been a decline. that's a structural change in the american work force. and that more and more of these traditional manufacturing jobs have been automated, being done by robot

to the best of our reporting, the president -- the previous president, barack obama, never called mike reynolds' predecessor, jonathan b. jarvis, to talk one-on-one on a certain issue. so it was highly unusual, particularly this soon after taking office for him to receive a call at home from president trump. >> did he say the president attempted to get him to say something different, get him to characterize the photos in a different light? >> the national park service did not want to comment for our story beyond say they go do not discussion internal administration phone calls. so, you know that, would be up to the acting director at some point if he wanted to tackle that. but we talked to multiple individuals who had knowledge of this conversation and the president was delivering a clear message to the national park services in asking for these photos. >> obviously anyone receiving a phone call from their boss would be somewhat intimidated if they knew the boss was not happy. did the park service officials in any way feel that this was a call meant to intimide or to get them to say so

obama after all of this came out about russia being behind the hacking. what do you make of that? >> the first thing the trump team has to do is take a comprehensive intelligence briefing. larger about what russia's aims are to figure out what they're doing in syria, what they're doing in ukraine. what they're doing in the baltic -- >> friday wasn't enough? >> friday was just about the election hacking. and this is a broader issue about russia's aims. they've got to be very tough on russia because vooush going to be very tough on us and try to press us and try to test the new team. >> and your reaction to what we just reported about russia's reaction to the intelligence report saying that it's baseless, saying it's just partisan politics. >> i trust our intelligence professionals who unanimously came to this high confidence judgment that russia did try to influence our election. they did try to put a thumb on the scale. i trust them a lot more than i trust vladimir putin and julian assange and whoever sells making the claims. >> on saturday, a day after t

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i can remember him criticizing barack obama, president obama, for using executive power and executive orders. what do you make of the use of that tool? >> are you surprised, look, i have been asked when i was in philadelphia because the republicans, the legislators, they are at some point they are going to get tired of this the because their job is to legislate and of course a president has a pen and can issue these executive orders. they can be reversed quickly as president obama has seen, that he signed are now being reversed. at some point the new president is going to find out that the congress is not going to like this. they love it right now because it looks like there's a lot of momentum. hang on, that marriage is not going to last. i also think the interesting thing about this military build-up executive order that we are anticipating, we haven't seen it yet, today gorbachev wrote and op-ed. he's seen way too much military build-up and he like warning the world that we're going the rection of a war. so interesting to see gorbachev is putting on the brakes and we're getting mil

we elected barack obama. we had a democratic majority in the house, a majority in the senate and some would argue that we overreached, misread a margin as a mandate and tried to accomplish too much too quickly. do you know what happened in 2009? we began losing democratic officials locally in 2012 we lost 63 seats in the house. in 2014 we lost the senate. if republicans try to engage in massive repeals, undoing critical environmental regulations, undermining ethics as they tried to do today, i watch, you are going to see a very significant -- a different political terrain for them going into the next midterm election. they are going to be defending more seats than they planned on defending. >> former congressman steve israel of new york. always good to have you with us thanks so much. >>> up next, the search for a killer. turkish authorities are getting closer to identifying the suspect in istanbul's deadly new year's eve nightclub shooting. officials saying they have his fingerprints and this selfie video th

look at the -- my best evidence is barack obama's hair color. he's a young man, he's been in office for eight years, you look at every president in my living memory, their hair turns white during their time in the white house. that's a measure of the responsibility of this job. i can't believe it's not going to affect donald trump. >> well, senator, i know you have to head into that meeting. the room is filling up. i can tell you one thing, i'm pretty sure at the end of four years, donald trump's hair color is still going to be orange. thank you so much for joining us this morning. i know you have to head into that meeting, because any minute now, the hearing on russia's interference in our election will begin. we'll take you there live when it begins. this is 100% useful for a 100% fresh mouth.. what's it like to not feel 100% fresh? we don't know. we swish listerine®. as do listerine® users. the very people we studied in the study of bold. people who are statistically more likely to stand up to a bully. do a yoga handstand. and be in a magic