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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

obama even got into politics. so now you fast forward and look at the role that jared cushner could play in the trump administration. you have a person who will become the president's son-in-law, someone who is intimately involved with and knows the president and knows the way he thinks and can also be the president's truth teller, and tell the president the things that not only he doesn't want to hear but the things that he needs to hear. it is a very important role that senior adviser role that goes beyond whatever is written on the piece of paper that is the job description. >> kevin i want to get to you. you spent months traveling with donald trump over the koirs cou the entire campaign. i've been with you at times, often in the pool behind the scenes, you've seen steve bannon off stage at campaign rally, jared cushner with him as well. what's unique that americans now are becoming more familiar with jared cushner should know before this young man turning 36 tomorrow really gets put into a very powerful role s

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

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

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

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

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

it is a different dynamic than obama that john boehner dealt with barack obama in the white house. and not even one that would be similar to a florm or a jeb bush in the white house. this is a guy about who embraces unpredictability and doing or saying that are that not conservative or republican. which adds complexity if you're paul ryan. >> chris alyssa over at the washington post, thanks as always for the time. >>> if have been listening to republicans at all for the last six and a half years, since march of 2010 when the affordable care act was passed through congress and signed into law, chances are, you've heard this once or twice. >> so what we are proving today that is if we have a republican president nooex year, we will repeal obamacare. >> it was the single worst piece of legislation among many bad pieces of legislation passed in the first two years of the obama presidency. the sooner with can go in a different direction, the better. >> every day, the law known as obamacare is destabilizing our health care, really destabilizing it. surging premiums and forces providers o

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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

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

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

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

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

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

nbc special barack obama the reality of hope. 10:00 p.m. eastern on nbc, mtp daily starts right now. >> if it's friday, doubts on the legitimacy of the presidential election hit a new level. tonight, a bomb shell declaration from congressman john lewis. >> i don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. >> why this living civil rights icon and respected member of congress says the russians stole the election. >>> plus, how russia has become a new test of republican allegiance to trump.

was there an unvarnished barack obama at that moment? >> you know, there was just surprise. you know, generally speaking, not just me but my team, had been pretty good at seeing something coming. and partly just because the polling was so off, the data was off, there was a surprise. i think the president-elect would be the first to acknowledge he didn't run a conventional campaign. it's not clear that he or his team thought they were going to win. and so -- so i think more than anything it was just a surprise. >> lester holt joins me now. it's a great interview. it's going to air tonight. we're moments away from the house beginning the vote that is going to start the repeal of obamacare. how is the president dealing with the rolling back of the things he really put his back into? >> sure. first to put it into perspective, we started a brief conversation on air force one on the way to chicago and then we sat down in his favorite restaurant in chicago. that whole issue comes up. the issue that he knows many of his initiatives will be rolled back. his feeling is, look, we have

let's not forget, everything wasn't perfect before barack obama became president. we have 50 million people without health insurance. we were paying the highest prices in the world. the question is saying what people do is saying, okay, what are the problems? what do i think are the problems? how do we address those problems? how do we work together? what you don't do is say, we are going to repeal the entire affordable care act and we got nothing to replace it. >> reporter: they have the votes to repeal it, right? >> yes, they do. but i think there are a number of republicans who are getting a little nervous and understanding that, yeah, it's easy to repeal, but how -- what do you replace it with? is it responsible to simply throw the whole thing out without having another replacement? >> reporter: so, do you think republicans may not have the vote to repeal it in the first place? >> i think -- i can't predict -- i'm not part of the republican caucus, to be sure. but i think there are some republicans who are getting a little nervous to understand you can't throw

. >> 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

obama's was in 2009, and it's an obvious fact. i think he should acknowledge that fact. >> and look, people don't live or die by crowd size. >> no, they don't. >> do you think that today the credibility of the press office is at stake here and i think by extension, i don't want to sioud hyperbolic, democracy isn't truth a basic tenet of democracy and when they make up their own version of the truth those countries are not democracies. >> you do sound hyperbolic. you have to give him a little bit of slack, it's day one. hopefully he's learned a valuable lesson and others at the white house acknowledge that valuable lesson. i don't expect it to happen again. sean has a huge responsibility to eat a little bit of a meal of a crow and that's a hard thing to do. i've had to eat meals of crow working at the white house many times. it's not easy, but you have to have the courage to do that. you want to be able to speak truth to power, which means question the so-called truth that you're being asked to spread around, and then not repeat so