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

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

the night that barack obama was elected president. >> yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! ♪ ♪ >>> now, eight years later, president obama is going home. ♪ >> we joined him on air force one for his last trip to chicago as president, to say farewell to the nation. ♪ ♪ >> the soundtrack for our day, music from the president's own spotify lists. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight you're going to talk to the american people. >> right. >> is this a hard one? do you know what you're going to say? >> i know what i'm going to say. i have to make sure i get through it properly. you know, when you reflect back on eight years, for all of the highs and the lows, the one thing that is a constant is the incredible dedication of the people who got you there, and who helped you do your job. everybody from the staff at the white house to the folks who make sure the airplane flies to supporters who would write me notes when things weren't going well to the people who would say that the work we did made a difference. so i think that that sense of gratitude that i feel for those folks, i just ho

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

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

barack obama presumably has decades ahead in his career. presumably we'll hear him say this is what i think i have done and this is why it's relevant to the country in the future. >> we should also note that the hearing with fbi director james comey has now ended. stay here on mbz to watch complete coverage of president obama's final address. also complete coverage of all of the hearing news we're coming out of today. ahead of the president's speech you can watch all of these different shows on mbz and nbc. and lester holt of "nbc nightly news" with sit down with president obama exclusively. you can watch that conversation friday night on nbc. check your local listings. that does it for this hour of mbz live. kate snow picks thiks up right now. >> we have a lot to cover this afternoon, don't we? we are still informing this extremely busy day on capitol hill in washington. senator jeff session's confirmation hearing continues for attorney general. that's the senate judiciary committee. that's still going on. just wrapped up the senate intell

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i remind everybody, barack obama didn't like the mandate. he didn't like the idea that everyone had to pay for it until he was convinced by the actuaries and mathematicians there's no other way to do it. hans, josh earnest makes a good point that they -- everybody says they've got a plan. they say they've got several plans but they couldn't articulate a plan. what is going on right now is that we understand that the vice president-elect is going to be meeting with joe manchin, senator joe manchin in a few minutes. manchin didn't attend the meeting with president obama on principle. what's going to go on at this meeting? >> reporter: ali, that meeting will take place right after we hear from vice president-elect pence here, moments away. meeting with manchin, conservative democrat, from west virginia. on this whole notion of plan and what comes next, this is the policy process that paul ryan has wanted to reinstall into the house. have things work through the committee process. in this case, the ways and means. i think you're very right to me

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

>>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

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

much like those who criticize barack obama claiming falsely that he might not have been a natural-born citizen and how that eroded people's confidence and was so emotional during the obama years. now for john lewis, who was reveered in the democratic party, a helg hillary rodham clinton supporter, saying this about donald trump provoked donald trump to respond on twitter saying that congressman lewis should focus on his district, which is in the atlanta area in georgia, claiming that it is in real decay and that it's crime-ridden. claims that certainly people who live there would dispute. it is john lewis's history of being a person of action during the civil rights movement and in all the years since. not someone just about talk. this back and forth is an extension of the division we've seen during the campaign season and in this transition period and it's coming just days before donald trump takes the oath of office. john lewis also said he would not attend the inauguration, the first time for him as an elected official, and that is a sign of protest. other democrats doing that as we

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

for a brief moment, i thought joe biden has somehow got into the body of barack obama. but it was a good meeting and the president made it very clear that if the republicans proceed with this wrong-headed plan to repeal obamacare, they will rule the day because they have nothing to present to the american people that will satisfy them. >> congressman, i don't know if you had a chance to hear congressman, your colleague, robert pittenger, on before you, sir, he was talking about some of the negative aspects of bhaum ca obamacare, the mandates shoved down people's throats, that was a huge problem, the fact that the majority of people that are covered are not covered by obamacare but covered by medicaid instead and the number slighted oftentimes by democrats grossly exaggerated. what do you say to those charges? >> first of all, he would need to go and look at the omb report that contradicts what the office of budget and management says, the nonpartisan office. now, the -- what i think is important for us to understand is that as a result of the affordable care act, we do

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

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

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. >>

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

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

no more excuses, no more barack obama going to veto something. republicans have to deliver. that's what base wants. that's what the country wants, ultimately that's what's going to have to happen. >> we are watching nancy pelosi hand that gavel over to paul ryan symbolically, obviously because he was the speaker already. he is taking the podium to a lot of applause from his congressional colleagues and a standing ovation from the republicans you can see on the right of your screen. let's listen in to house speaker paul ryan of the 115th congress. >> thank you. thank you very much. father. [ applause ] >> i'll be relatelybrf. i want to thank madam leader. you know, i stood in this spot very, very many times. today, though, feels a whole lot different. part of it has to do with all the new faces in the house. you look at all the proud spouses, these beaming children, at their best. [ laughter ] people's parents. it's hard, if not impossible to resist this rush of enthusiasm. there is no sense of foreboding in this house today. there is only the sense of potential. it kind of r

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

barack obama in 2008 campaigned against hillary clinton saying he was against the individual mandate, and then once he came into office, he recognized that the only way to get one-half of that to work is with the other. >> congress brendan boyle, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. happy new year. >>> back to our microsoft pulse question of the day, although i think we should abandon this. senator john mccain has branded russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election an act of war. do you agree? to make your voice heard, go to pulse.msnbc.com. we'll reveal where the results stand later in the show. let me tell you, those who disagree are not doing too well on this one. >>> we're following developing news out of turkey where a group claimed responsibility for killing dozens on a bar attack on new year's eve. volunteer for meals on wheels. we had an instant connection. what was that? i said, "delivering to you is always a special treat." oh. company, companionship, food... we all need those things. when we get in that spot in life, it's kind of nice to have 'em there. (

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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,

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

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

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

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

how close has barack obama lived up to the lofty promises that began his presidency? what is his legacy going to look like? the one, the only tom brokaw is going to join us here live to talk about that as we wind down the obama administration. we do begin right now with our top story just minutes ago, president obama wrapping up the final press conference of his presidency. he held that obviously at the white house, he was reflective in some of his answers to the press and the nation. take a look. >>le i was told to wear a tan suit today for my last press conference, but michelle, who is fashion sense is a little better than mine tells me that's not appropriate in january. i have enjoyed working with all of you. that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. you're not supposed to be fans, you're supposed to be skeptics, you're supposed to ask me tough questions. i think it is in america's interest and the world's interest that we have a constructive relationship with russia. if president-elect trump is able to restart those talks in a serious way. i

. >> 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

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

barack obama. it was 2 degrees out. barack obama was a super nova at that time too. but there was still more coverage of the confirmations. to your point. price -- i haven't seen a ton of second-day stuff related to that. because why? because donald trump flew down here. laid the wreath -- >> what he's doing with the news right now. the other thing i wonder about, rick, you think about some of these cabinet nominations that have gone down before. zoey baird. bill clinton's pick for attorney general. she had illegal immigrants working for her. household work. tom daschle. the price thing. i wonder if part of it is the campaign that donald trump ran, the number of things that turned out voter ultimately shrugged at. maybe they were bothered he didn't release his taxes but it didn't keep them from electing them president. all the norms he broke during the campaign and got away with. does it change what's acceptable for a cabinet? >> i think so. he's establishing an entirely new pattern. the tillerson hearing didn't get a lot of coverage. msnbc covered it. we saw it here

with barack obama, and yet this is where it ends up eight years later. and i am hard pressed to think of a president and vice president in history that had a relationship in public this close. can you? >> you and me both, steve. i was trying to think of it just as i was watching this. you go all the way through history, very hard, if at all possible, to find a relationship between a president and a vice president as close as this one. the other thing, as you were suggesting, i think a second ago, is that oftentimes you'll see this relationship began and the two seemed to be close and then competition between the staffs or different political aims or even the vice president wants to run for president at the expense of the president. usually these relationships fray. what makes it even more remarkable is the fact that these two guys are so obviously much closer than they were at the beginning. >> obviously hanging over this -- it wasn't mentioned in the ceremony today, but i think it's something a lot of democrats have been asking themselves since the elec

>> 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

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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

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.

. >> 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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