i moved over to my barack obama twitter account. he said, when we return, we're going to get back to work. i'm hoping that he gets back in there. and i don't think he's going to stand by, actually, and watch the repeal of all the great work that he's done happen. i believe that he'll have a voice in this. michelle will as well. >> it's so easy to undo a legacy. they may think they can erase these things, but the accomplishments of barack obama happened and you can't make them unhappen. joining me now, emily tisch sussman, the campaign director for the center for american progress. emi emily, tell us what you hope comes out of today? >> i think we're already achieving a lot of what come out of today. the election may have not gone the way we wanted. we may be out of power when it comes to law making, but we are in power when it comes to the culture of this country, moving forward, people moving together and this is one of the most heartening events i've ever been to. it is so positive. and it is one of the nicest gathering i've ever

you reported on barack obama from the very start. what are you expecting the theme to be? >> recount what you just recounted what he viewed his biggest achievement, certainly issue was the aca former care act, obamacare. it is controversial. that's going to figure heavily in how republicans replace obamacare which is a lot tougher than repealing it. same thing with the auto bail-out and other achievement of his career. it's important that he be able to stand there defend himself. he let his achievement speak for themselves. >> i want to play the sound byte from the first speech to congress. it's one of the most iconic movements. >> the reforms i'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. >> you lie. >> it's not true. >> you can hear it there congressman joe wilson, shouting out you lie. it became symbolic of this by vision between republican and president obama. how did that leave disdain on his -- over the nine or eight years. >> it could not have been more important, the republicans made it clear from the start they would oppose and obstruct anything th

. >> 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

barack obama had a lot of stars, and that brings interest from people. trump inaugural activities had trouble with that. the events will be notable this week. >> very interesting to see what happens friday, especially the energy on the mall which often the way we measure how it is. >> exactly. >> that energy you're talking about. kelly o'donnell, great to have you. >> good to see you. >>> congressman lewis cited russian influence, something senate intelligence committee has announcedt will vestigate going forward. professor at the university of texas, rober tranum, political analyst and senior bush/cheney adviser and national political reporter for bloomburg politics, sahil kapur. what's happening, sahil? >> he has gone after john lewis. he is a hero on this cause. nobody has more integrity on this issue and a lot of admirers in and outside the democratic party this really chills the atmosphere going forward for relations with president-elect trump and democrats in congress in particular. trump has a negative approval rating. things like this don't help.

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

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

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

. >> 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

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

>>riting for barack obama is a wonderful struggle. he's so good at that it will kill ourselves on the first daft just to try to get it right, and there are times where i've called him at 2:00 in the morning because i knew he'd be feeding one of these kids and i'd say i'll come over -- a little single malt scotch doesn't hurt. >> sometimes. depend on the season. we're playing on house money here. none of this was supposed to happen. the first night we met in hoolihan's in the chicago office we were down double digits in iowa. >> why did you sign on with him? >> i believed and i still do. >> and i was -- you know, it was a huge bet. but there's just something in what he had been saying this that resonated with me from the very first time i heard him speak. and the opportunity to not just go work for him but to help craft that message was something i knew i could never turn down. >> the stuff we were dreaming about in a bar in 2007 we had been able to watch it made real. so he takes it personally when things get held up, things fail, bec

and preserving the legacy of president barack obama. nbc's hans nicholls was at the rally today and has the latest from the mall. hans. >> reporter: richard, the march is over, the protest is over, but the activists hope their message will continue to be heard throughout the trump presidency. one of the many theme ts here, we won't be trumped, we won't be moved, and something that came up quite often was police brutality. we had parents of those slain, eric garner, tray son martin, parent were there, mothers talking about it, and the reverend al sharpton made the point that police brutality and everything that's going on there needs to be changed. >> we are not here because we didn't have something else to do! we're here because we fought hard to make sure that this administration heard our cry and we are not going away now! criminal justice and police reform must go forward! >> reporter: perhaps a dozen speakers and one thing that was also brought up throughout was the need to continue protest along with sort of consolidating the gains

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

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and barack obama's homeland security secretary jeh johnson who did this country a great service said there's no vetting process in place right now that will assure americans that the deserving refugees will get here, but those who to want harm our countries will be kept out. we are a compassionate nation, steve, we've always reached out. and the syrian people need our help, keeping those people out of harm's way and keeping them in the region is a better idea because of what will happen when syria finally settles and the con sflikt over, it's going to be the syrian people who build their country back up. and if they're too far away, that just won't happen. >> let me ask you about what senator shaheen was just saying, you're talking about the refugee piece of that, let me come back to that, let many ask you about the other piece. that ban, that ban on immigration, that temporary ban from the seven muslim majority countries. and she's saying, the way she can't find a way to look doesn't they looks like targeting of muslims. and i have to say, donald trump invoked 9/11 the memory of 9/1

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

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. >>

. >> 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

tuesday, barack obama, he is giving a farewell address as president. he's going to be out in chicago. his hometown where he launched his career. this is a much anticipated speech in chicago. people already lining up for a chance to see it. this is a much anticipated speechb across the country. not every president does this at the end of his presidency, but barack obama has chosen to do it. and obviously one of the things everybody's going to be looking for in this speech, what kind of message does he choose to deliver, vailed, maybe snot vailed at donald trump, at his successor. that's tomorrow in chicago. but while that's happening tomorrow in chicago, we mention this, on capitol hill, in washington, d.c., it begins. the confirmation hearings. now look, on paper, republicans have the votes. they control the senate, they have a majority, if they all stick together, they can confirm every single one of donald trump's picks. that does not necessarily mean this is going to be a smooth process. look no further right there, than jeff sessions. the senator f

president trump will not overturn a 2014 executive order signed by president barack obama protecting federal employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation. the white house issuing a statement saying that trump is determined to protect the rights of all americans. >>> the boy scouts of america will allow transgender children who identify as boys to participate in it's boys only programs. the organization previously relied on the gender listed on a child's birth certificate. a spokeswoman says that the decision is based on states and communities changing how gender is defined. >>> and today is the last day to sign up for health insurance for this year through the affordable care act exchanges. looming over the end of open enrollment are worries that of course people will be left without coverage if obamacare is repealed. the government says nearly 11.5 million people have signed up for coverage in 2017 alone. >>> and now president trump is starting to put a stamp on one of the agencies responsible for carrying out immigration policy. the president announced last night that

and preserve the legacy of president barack obama. nbc's hans nicholls is in washington, d.c., covering that for us this morning. good to have you with us. what are we expecting to see there? >> reporter: good morning, i have to talk pretty loud because the rally is just starting. there are a couple hundred people here. it's quite cold. the plan is to gather here. they have buses coming in from atlanta, new york, put on byhe national action network. the reverend al sharpton will be speaking around 11:00, then they'll march farther down to the mall and their goal is to bring attention to what they think the gains are of the obama administration. and try to consolidate that. they had some light jazz playing earlier. i suspect we'll get some rabble rounding speeches you might be able to hear. with that, i'm going to send it back to you. don't ask me a follow-up. it's too loud for me to answer. >> hans nicholls with the instructions. thank you very much for that. misha al sin dor, national reporter from "the new york times" and alex seitz

and barack obama coming in and saying to people who hated him, i want to be your president. i've never experienced someone coming in and not saying that, and not even indicating it. it will be interesting to also see the land mines that this president is laying sort of for his successors which i'm not accustomed to. whether it's the deployments to parts of eastern europe to set donald trump up, whether it's the manning commutation when sends -- it throws a monkey wrench into the whole wikileaks attempt to rebrand themselves and gain back some of their support. it's interesting. >> or 20 presidential appointments in the waning hours. andrea mitchell is standing by to talk to us. i heard david gergen speaking last night on television. he doesn't throw around a lot of hyperbo hyperbole. in discussing your work, he said he should be shocked and not surprised by donald trump. he said in his memory, no president-elect has ever done this much harm to american foreign policy in this kind of run-up. >> david gergen, as you know better than anyone, was in a number of white houses, rep

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

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and finish barack obama who apparently the catch all phrase for him was no drama obama. and ever since the election has been nothing but drama obama. and i have to say that i am really outraged. and i -- i cannot believe that, you know, somebody who compromised so much classified information is now being let to walk free. >> we are going to obviously hear more here, john, from the white house probably from the president himself on exactly what the rational is behind this. we heard a minute ago from ron allen suggesting the idea of compassion may have weighed heavily on the president, compassion for chelsea manning who had been through a personal experience, personal journey with the gender reassignment surgery, noting that chelsea manning had cooperated during the prosecution, does that -- should that weigh here at all? >> no. no. i mean, compassion shouldn't even enter into. chelsea manning, for whatever reason, decided that she was going to take information that was classified. now, to be honest with you, i think some of her supervisors should also have been in prison,

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

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

he had obviously the i have a dream speech, then you have barack obama the first black president, now leaving office. let me take it from the standpoint of the last eight years of american history. in terms of martin luther king's dream and in terms of the progress during the first black presidency, what do you think the legacy on the issue of race relations, what is the legacy end up being? >> well president obama has been an extraordinary president, but, you know, on the issue of race relations, he's tried to move the ball forward, in areas where he has executive power. but, in terms of, you know, getting congress to move forward on things like closing the economic gap between african americans and their white co-nationals, president obama really never took on that challenge. and i think it's clearer that he was worried that taking on that challenge would sink his broader agenda. i'm not certain that that's true, but that's the calculation he seems to have made. frankly african americans are today after eight years of president obama in the same economic condition that they were whe

>> 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,

more people thought barack obama would actually win, but again, when asked who their actual preference was, trump did better there. a little bit more unity among republicans behind trump than democrats behind obama. be a heck of a race, trump versus obama. i don't think we'll ever see it unless they change that term limit rule. it's the most important number of the day today. 45. coming up next, newly discovered promise by richard nixon to president lyndon johnson. he said he was not interfering with the vietnam peace talks, but our next guest has discovered that that was not the case. very, very interesting new reporting out. we will have that on the other side. ♪ eyes open? good. because it's here. cue the confetti. say hi to xiidra, lifitegrast ophthalmic solution. xiidra is the first prescription eye drop solution approved to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye. so give your eye doctor a ring, and your eyes just might thank you. one drop in each eye, twice a day. the most common side effects of xiidra include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when the drops are app

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

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's inauguration than it was for barack obamas back in 2009. spicer though holding firm on his claim that trump's was the most watched inauguration of all time. he says you need to count web streaming, youtube videos, things from all around the globe. kristen welker is at the white house. so kristen, obviously quite a backdrop coming into that briefing today after what had happened saturday take us through what sean spicer said today. >> reporter: i think one of the big takeaways, steve, is the fact that his tone was so strikingly different on saturday. he came out saturday, he was combatable, he was angry, level the number of accusations and laid out as you just said, some things that turned out not being necessarily true. today he came out and when he was pressed on this, he said look, i have give it my best shot when i stand in front of this podium just like you guys give it your best shot when you write your stories and he said that it is important to him -- it is critical for him to be truthful when he stands in front of that podium. and i

they've been accustomed to president barack obama standing ready with a veto pen, and that has protected them from having to come up with thoughtful policy that actually works. now they have to come up with that, and i'm afraid that they'll vote to repeal without having anything to replace it with and that will create chaos. >> while i have you here, i do want to get your reaction to this, this ford news as well. you of course represent michigan, ford motor company, the largest if i'm not mistaken, the largest private employer in detroit. i don't think that's your particular district, but your general response to this news that ford has decided to keep these jobs and that money here at least for now? >> well obviously we're happy whenever we have jobs that our american jobs that remain as american jobs, but none of this is a replacement for real policy. we have to have trade policy that permanently protects our manufacturing base, and not leaves it to the whim of the political moment, which it seems to be sort of the tone that we're dealing with right now. i mean, president-elect trump s

. >> 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

obama put them in place. >> as we look back in history, this isn't very different, president bush, w. bush, did the same in mid december as he was putting together iraq strategy and in the end president obama did follow through with that timeline. do you see any of the issues that president-elect trump might keep, too, that are now being put forward by president obama? >> well, look, it's going to be a long leist. on obama in particular, i think congress is going to undo that. fixing obama care is like redesigning a lead airplane. it's never going to fly. you'll have to redo that through reconciliation. their strategy will be to have a communication strategy with the american people. what is going to happen to the 20 million people that acquired health care under obama care? what's going to happen with preexisting conditions? i suspect the republicans will have answers for those and they'll address them in a piece-by-piece basis. they'll appear obama care by reconciliation but they'll put a date on it so people won't immediately lose their health care. i don't think you'll see a comp

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

same question for barack obama. look at the numbers and compare, contrast, look at history, and that's what our poll is measuring. >> sounds like it's probably not rigged. mark murray thank you, kasie hill and hallie jackson, thank you. >>> house republicans calling the democratic boycott of friday's inauguration childish. take a listen. >> show up. >> democratic congressman from new york he is one of the dozens of house democrats who say they will be boycotting friday's inauguration. the number now at 50. congre congressman adler, what do you say to those who charge this boycott is childish, is a waste of time. doesn't really accomplish anything? >> well first of all it's not organized. it's a series of individual decisions by myself, other people. >> presumably you talked to your democratic colleagues. presumably this is something that comes up. >> yes, but no one is organizing, no one is urging people to do it. i decided for myself, other people deciding for themselves. i just don't want to participate, because i

that's president barack obama putting on his political cap, giving a little analysis to house democrats because those democrats are going to have to deal with donald trump for the next four years. craig? >> hans nichols, who does not need questions to provide answers, hans, thank you for answering the question, actually. kristen welker, the intelligence briefing that will happen at this point on friday, we know who is supposed to be in that meeting and we know the president-elect's opinion of their intelligence. what else do we know at this point? >> reporter: well, this is a striking moment, craig. because what you're effectively seeing is the president-elect opening up a pretty big rift with the very intelligence community that he's about to lead. he tweeted late last night that the intelligence briefing had been pushed back until friday. that was something that intelligence officials are pushing back on saying it was always scheduled for friday. he's had a pretty contentious relationship with the intelligence committee and adding to that, the fact that the president-elect is pointing

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

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the speeches of barack obama. that is a timely -- we're going to talk about that in just a moment. let's start with the news of the day. obviously breaking news coming out 15 or 20 minutes ago or so. the language here is important because it speaks to the scope and scale of this review. the justice department's inspector general saying how he is going the rehow the fbi and the justice department handled certain aspects of the clinton e-mail investigation including fbi james comey's news conference in july. and his two letters to the hill in late october and early november. joe, are you surprised at all that the inspector general has decided that this is worthy of review? >> no. i'm not surprised at all. i was quickly looking up michael horowitz's term. how long it is. there is the subject of whether or not he could be fired by the president-elect. he is on a ten year term. >> who appointed him? >> president obama. >> okay. >> here's what we know. we know that the fib's field office, to brian fallon's point was self actualizing an investigation based on a book, based on clinton cash

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

. >> if history is guide do you think we get warnings bells from barack obama tonight and maybe we get some reflection on things that haven't gone as well as he would have hoped. >> for sure, i would expect a farewell address has something about if not a warning then a caution of things to think about and what's to come. andrew jackson did the same thing in his farewell address. he said by the way i'm a little worried about the union, so let's take care of the union. i would also think that president obama would be thinking a little bit about his legacy, a little bit about what he thinks went right. and perhaps some of the things that he wished might have gone better. >> carol let me ask you about your interview last week. i want to play a little bit of sound that you had. this is when you were talking about donald trump and his future prip with the intelligence community. >> i hope is that when the president-elect receives his own briefings and is able to examine the excel jens as his team is -- the intelligence as his team is put together and they see how professional these agencies

we had 16 years of george bush and barack obama. you know something, we're like a doing that has been kicked or 16 years. having said that, though, i think that president trump really needs -- he doesn't have a good grasp of foreign policy, of security policy and intelligence. and he really needs the help of an intelligence counity that wants to serve him and wants to do a good job. and, you know, they have to get off on the right foot. because right now i would say that they're getting off on the wrong foot and that this is going to snowball into a very dysfunctional relationship. >> john nixon, thank you for joining us. >>> when we come back, more on the breaking news this afternoon out of chicago. charges in the beating of a teenager who has mental health challenges. that was broadcast live on facebook. going to have details on that for you next. ♪ everything your family touches sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home don't stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. because no one kills germs better than clor

barack obama. economic stimulus and affordable care in the first two years and the second two years, trying to sell all of that. in a way it's not that different. it's the pace at which he has moved. there is an exhaustion element here. theresa may coming is a giant story on any other day. then we have the mexican president, how that went down, the voting fraud investigation, him speaking to members -- republican members of congress. the supreme court nomination. it's a flood of information, strategic, seat-of-the-pants, i don't know. but this is the hallmark of the early days of the trump presidency. >> chris cillizza. thank you for the time. >> thank you, my friend. >>> service union members in boston are rallying in protest of president trump's executive orders on immigration announced yesterday. that includes his threat to cut off federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities. this comes as boston's mayor marty walsh slammed the order yesterday, one of a number of democratic mayors speaking o