. >> he wrote the great selma speech for barack obama. we have to treat him as peggy noonan time. >> favreau. >> the loftier speeches but these are great. >> back in the beginning in 2006 when barack obama won went to valerie jarrett's office, with the reverse scene of her packing up to go to the white house and pictures here. it's been eight years. been with him for eight years. lot long time. doesn't usually happen. >> i remember in 2009 on the mall. >> 300 degrees below 0. >> incredibly cold and different feeling back then when he was about to take office. certainly different from the feeling everybody at this table is probably experiencing with donald trump. >> do you think feel more like inauguration as the week progresses? i remember being here last two times, more people here, more festive attitude. i don't know why it's different this time. maybe people are waiting until the end of the week to come. we have a very different kind of president-elect this time. and obviously with president obama, even people that didn't vote for him,

barack obama was not. but the dignity in which you carry yourself in the office. ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, none of them perfect but there's a dignity they carried with themselves in office. and the difference between now and 2009, think we're waxing poetic about barack obama on the way out. 2009 night before inauguration attended a bipartisan dinner for john mccain and called him american hero and patriot. don't see that happening tonight with the president-elect. >> you have to remember there were a lot of ups and downs with president obama and we're focusing on a lot of the positives i think because he's leaving and the contrast with trump and approval started going up a lot in the election because people looking even at hillary clinton and options they have, hang on, maybe not so bad with barack obama. but he also has a fundamentally good temperament, a calm person. been criticized for it but bore fruit in this situation. way he thought it through, realized when it happened and behaved in a way, lot of us wondered could i be so gracious to someone who tr

going to miss barack obama. you may disagree with him politically but he's good man at his core. >> speaking about the first lady. >> past 25 years not only been my wife and mother of my children but my best friend. [ cheers and applause ] you took on a role you didn't ask for, and you made it your own. with grace and with grit and with style. and good humor. [ cheers and applause ] you made the white house a place that belongs to everybody. and a new generation sets its sights higher because it has you as a role model. so you have made me proud and you have made the country proud. >> so joe, besides -- it takes a real man to cry when he's talking about his wife and kids. i loved seeing that. characterize that moment and first lady, michelle obama as the first lady. >> i must say, i sat at home and cried because you are looking at man who on martin luther king's birthday will have been married to a woman who is similar for 40 years. and i think what i appreciate most about it is the fact that he accentuated the

"the new york times," the protest media loves barack obama right now. if 60% of the american people have an approval rating of barack obama, the press seems to have an 80% approval rating of him right now. >> and just adding the mainstream media here at cnn, wherever they may be, barack obama and michelle obama often times went around the mainstream media. they would go to celebrity-type shows to deliver their message. and also their administration started at a time when twitter and instant feedback came into full force. they were able to put out their own message and news briefing every week on youtube. so they understand how to manipulate the media. >> they did not have a big scandal in eight years. very rare. >> very classy family. and speaking of the obamas, michelle obama, the first lady spoke so movingly about the importance of electing hillary clinton, but also defeating donald trump. today the president was asked about his daughter's reaction to the election. he spoke at length and ended on a somewhat subdued note. here is what he said. >> man,

it's not justin bieber or barack obama as personality but barack obama who has always seen the hope of what america can be. hope of a more perfect union. >> also a very sobering tone to the speech. think of barack obama who began national political career talking about optimism and hope and change and unity and progress, ended presidency by defending certain things we didn't think a few years ago needed defending, science, basic facts, journalism, the ability of citizens to talk to each other on the most fundamental level. although i heard the optimism you're reflecting, i heard a great level of concern about it. also the shoutout to michelle obama, i've tried to report the story of the obama partnership and how it's affected this presidency. but i believe it's so subtle and deep and fascinating, we have to hand the baton to the historians. michelle obama pushed barack obama to become the politician she wanted him to be. was above it all lofty figure and wanted him to have elevated presidency. and in the way that jackie kennedy was in many ways the architect of the kennedy vision, say

barack obama's move in the final hours of his presidency. we'll hear from him tomorrow but meanwhile, inaugural celebrations begin for the next president. tonight donald trump talking up his new administration. >> i'm very proud of everybody, the cabinet members. we have put together a team i think the likes of which has never been assembled before. >>> cnn justice correspondent perez. president obama decided to commute chelsea manning's sentence. she was the army private who gave sensitive military document said to wikileaks. >> this announcement came as a shock to the intelligence and national security apparatus off the united states. there was a lot of consternation about this simply because of the recent history with wikileaks. the leak of 750,000 documents really launched wikileaks into what we know that it is. and given in the 2016 election, the obama administration made a big deal that they served as an arm of the russian intelligence services which stole documents and released them through wikileaks to harm the campaign of hill hill.

that was barack obama, and to some degree, to barack obama, and michelle, since he has been in office, a thousand democrats, governors, state representatives have lost because his enormous popularity which we saw tonight, at one point somebody yelled out. i love you. it was like a justin bieber concert, i say that respectfully. it was respectful. i won't retract it. what i will say, the love was for a personality, not for a platform or policy. >> you can't argue the democratic party is in some level of confusion at this stage, you might even say disarray. >> yeah, so is the republican party, all of our parties, that has to do with where we are in our country right now, which is people rejecting labels and boxes, all of that. that is a global phenomenon. i think it's really important to take a step back and think about what the president said tonight. he talked about things that are a threat to our democracy. he put on not only his state of the union hat, his constitutional law professor hat, his founding fathers hat and said we have a threat with economic opportunity, an issue with ra

>> i think should use barack obama as model for successful presidency. embrace the way the republicans did to reagan, not to the cult-like extremes they sometimes took it but say this is a president who got it right, changed country for the better. listen to his voice and defend his achievements. >> why do you think president obama in unique position once he leaves office? >> haven't had a president like this, young, popular, hasn't had a scandal, doesn't have a successor protecting his legacy, isn't dead. he's young, he's there. and person who is succeeding him is trying to get rid of his achievements but he's much more popular than the person coming after him. not had anyone like him. even bill clinton, still popular but disgraced by scandal and everyone wanted him to go away. ronald reagan was old and others not that popular. barack obama has unique chance to speak out on important issues. >> jonathan, appreciated it. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> still ahead, president obama's stunning decision commuting sentence of chelsea manning, convicted o

you brought up the point if barack obama would have done this or that. the night before barack obama got inaugurated and sworn in, he was at a din ker honoring john mccain. you had people like mitch mcconnell who said we're going to make sure this was a one-term president. republicans met under cover of darkness making sure his agenda did not exist. that being said, i recall very often people said barack obama was something he even said which he has taken back, being the first post racial president. to hear donald trump is the first post partisan president echoes. >> i'm not talking about going to dinner with john mccain. to me that's not being post partisan. i'm talking how congressional republicans said this is the first president who didn't try to call me and work together on issues. he did not extends and reach across the aisle the way we've seen in the gingrich days. >> 15 seconds. >> but the republicans under barack obama literally said their job was to make sure he was unsuccessful. it's hard to pick up the phone for somebody. for donald trump, he

different from barack obama but you're right, barack obama was very affair and his wife very aware, first african-american couple in the white house and they had to be almost perfect. i think that trump operates with a little more entitlement frankly. >> that's my point asking about history. you have to be aware of history as president and i think the obamas were very aware how history would judge them and how it would look. >> and conscious of how they presented themselves as african-american family. look at christmas photos look like norman rockwell painting but fact it's african-american family sends out message, positive message to the entire world. they cultivated that. >> every president, early days define you. then the early days and last days but you have to be careful about the early days. >> i think you're right. >> sets the tone. >> so if you stumble out of the gate and can't get a victory up there, that sets you behind. and frankly that's why donald trump coming in actually has extra burden now because he's not coming in with wind at his back and honeymoon but coming in with a

. >>> president barack obama making a rare trip to capitol hill tomorrow, trying to save obamacare. this is "cnn tonight," i'm don lemon, donald trump promise s to repeal and replace the affordable care act but how much of the rest of the obama legacy will survive? but first what is wrong with this picture? who is that? joseph cinque, known by colorful name joey "no socks," a convicted felon linked with john gotti, what is he doing sharing the stage with president-elect. get to michelle kosinski with the latest on the long-awaited news conference. president-elect hasn't held one since late july. it's changing. what can you tell us? >> tweet comesous announcing this, will be having a general news conference in big letters january 11th in nyc. thank you. long anticipated by reporters. campaigned constantly criticizing hillary clinton for how long it had been since she had spoken to the press in that format. for him it's gone on about as long. expected to address business dealings, how he's going to handle business interests, expected to add clarity to that but general news conference

brought up if barack obama had done this, night before barack obama got inaugurated and sworn in, what was he doing? at dinner honoring john mccain, people like mitch mcconnell talking about one term president and republicans meeting under the cover of darkness so his agenda wouldn't exist. but that said, often people said that barack obama, something he also said and taken back, being the first post racial president, now to hear that donald trump is the post partisan president. >> not talking about going to dinner with john mccain. congressional republicans said this is the first president that didn't pick up phone to -- didn't extend and reach across the aisle like the gingrich days. >> republicans under barack obama literally said their job was to make sure he's unsuccessful. donald trump needs to reach out. yet to see any olive branchs to anybody. >> and i remember democrats and african-americans criticizing him saying stop trying to work with them. not going to work with you. tried too much. >> donald trump has yet to try a little bit. just give me something. >> listen donald trum

that barack obama's birth certificate is fake. that is a lie. donald trump lied about the president of the united states multiple times. he lies and he lies compulsively. >> i've got to move on. i've got to move on. i've got to move on. >> point out one quick thing, which is we do need to distinguish between political promises and actual statements of fact. >> hillary, i want to ask you this. >> statements of fact. >> we were talking about hillary clinton, laura bush. all the first ladies are going to be there, all the former presidents are going to be there at the inauguration. of course there's no doubt that hillary clinton's going to show up. she has to, she's a former first lady. her husband was president. she's going to have to sit there at this inauguration, it's going to be interesting to watch. >> it's going to be, i think, frankly, extremely difficult for hillary clinton. it with be difficult for anyone who lost in such a close election. knowing that she had the majority of the american people voting for her but lost, you

than what obama was thinking. >> i barack hussein obama do solemnly wear. >> they were counter posing and it was an awkward moment. >> i will execute the. >> faithfully the office of the president of the united states. >> immediately people called it a botched oath and questioned is president obama a real president. >> the next morning an official named david barron called the counsel and said, you know, we might want to think about doing this again. that's what set in motion the redo later that day. >> i would describe the atmosphere in the white house as sheepish. everyone was embarrassed to do this again. four years later, he took it two more times. in 2013, january 20th landed on a sunday. when that happen, the president-elect takes the oath privately in the white house and publicly the next day. >> i did it. >> good job. can i call you dad? >> obama has taken the oath four times. the only other president to take it that many times is fdr because he was elected president four times. a little different. of course obama is not the only one whose ceremony has been a little bit weird.

should barack obama pardon snowden? >> no. he won't pardon snowden. it's night and day between snowden and manning. snowden stole communications intelligence, which is the keys to the kingdom of intelligence, the sources and methods by which we intercept conversations, internet communications, te telemetry, warfare, everything comes down to the sources and methods of the nsa. snowden purposefully took a job to steal these documents and he did. and person who knows this better than any journalist is president obama. because he has all the secret intelligence, same intelligence you're embracing over the russian leaks. same intelligence community has said that snowden has continuous contacts with russian intelligence. there's no comparison in my mind between chelsea manning and sedward snowden. >> can i add one thing. >> i'll let you weigh in after the break. >>> donald trump is still three days away from taking office and new world order taking place, china among others not happy about that. you do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into

barack obama, 19 times. ron, to you, why is it so different now, why are there so many people protesting on the streets? why is this so sdmefrl. >> i think it's -- controversial? >> i think it's the sweeping magnitude and the sent to which both in his own -- the extent to come which both in his own words and executive order, it implies a religious test. his interview with a christian broadcast network over the weekend talking about the -- the president talking about priority to christians from these countries, and look, it is important, what we are seeing on the streets is truly unprecedented. to have the first weekend of the presidency, essentially one in every 100 americans in the streets protesting. following that up a week later over a group that is not inhere inherently, as you noted in the polling, the most sympathetic possible target in american public opinion. a travel -- travelers or immigrants from middle east countries again the backdrop of concern about terror. to have this many people again, it

you never got that sense with joe biden and barack obama. they were definitely an enviable pair, and we would be lucky to have a vice president and president who have a similar closeness in the white house in the coming four to eight years. >> well said. well said. david, of course you know the elephant in the room, what many people were wondering watching, what would have, what could have been if joe biden had been up to the emotional and physical job of running for, you know, the white house after losing his son beau to cancer. >> yeah, don, i am one of those who thinks that both vice president biden and/or senator elizabeth warren would have given president-elect trump a better run for their money than secretary clinton. but just to talk about biden for a minute and that nice moment, take it back to 2007. biden was the guy who said about obama, you know, when they were running against each other in the presidential primary, he was the first african-american bright, clean articulate guy. you know, he got in trouble for it. not only did oba

. >> there's going to be a huge shift in policy between barack obama and president-elect. have we seen abrupt switches between administration? >> sure. harriy truman and eisenhower hardly spoke to one another riding together. and saying that john adsomes got in carriage and didn't attend thomas jefferson's inauguration. president-elects handle these as best they can. one instructive lesson we can learn from the nixon administration is that when he came into office he was very much feared and opposed by the democratic establishment. and pat moynahan, later to become a u.s. senator was adviser and said that nixon tried hard in the first nine months in office to be a good president and reach out to everybody and got no credit for it. by not getting that credit he was hurt and bruised and turned him down towards his darker impulses. so that's maybe something we might want to remember as new president comes in, that yes if you have philosophical and partisan differences with him, should oppose him but that constant wearing down may cause donald trump to decide what's he got to

president barack obama calls the crime despicable. but how could it happen and what breeds this kind of violence? we'll get to that in a minute. but first we have news on a story that we first brought you last night. the marching band from talladega college, a small historically black college in alabama, will march in donald trump's inauguration parade, that in spite of protests from some alumni and students who called for the band to withdraw. joining me now exclusively is dr. billy c. hawkins, the president of talladega college. good evening. thank you for joining us here on cnn. >> good evening, don, thanks for having me on cnn. >> this invitation caused a lot of controversy within your college community. tell us how you reached this decision. >> well, our marching band, they're in the almost five years of existence, we started this band, and these students, we went to our students and we discussed it with them and they were excited about the opportunity. taos ato go and perform on a worldwide stage. and so we weighed the pros and

asking how could it happen, among them, president of the united states, barack obama. lot of people asking about the attack on special needs teen by four black people shouting slurs against white people and donald trump, how it shows race relations gotten worse. >> i came to chicago in '85, you were there, i promise you, haven't gotten worse. but it's true that in part because we see visuals of racial tensions, violence and so forth, because smartphones and internet and media, what we've seen is surfacing a lot of the problems that have been there a long time. whether it's tensions between police and communities, hate crimes, despicable sort just recently surfaced on facebook, i take these things very seriously. >> i want to bring in rosa flores live in chicago, covering the story. four suspects have been charged in heinous attack streamed live on facebook. tell us about the charges. >> reporter: they're charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and of course with a hate crime don. police tell me it took them a while to talk to prosecu

white house fighting back that the crowd at inauguration was smaller than when barack obama took office in 2009. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period both in person and around the globe. >> this is really been a day for the history books. hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets of washington and beyond marching against a new administration one day after the inauguration. here's more. >> reporter: tonight americans of all faiths and walks of life converging on the nation's capital protesting the agenda of the 45th president donald trump. >> it's been a heart-rending time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country. our dignity, our character, our rights all under attack. >> i am unafraid to be nasty because i am nasty like susan, elizabeth, eleanor, amelia, rosa, gloria, condoleezza, sonia, mahle all la, michelle, hillary. >> reporter: a powerful eclectic group. >> we're here representing the majority of the americans. majority didn't want this man in the white house. >> we're not anti-trump but promepr proamerica, inclusion and gr

this is going to be a prebuttal for barack obama to trump. these last eight years can't be cast by the wayside, donald trump is going to have this opportunity on wednesday, not only to talk about jared kushner and these nominees for cabinet positions, he's going to answer these questions about russia, we still don't have a direct answer from donald trump on the intelligence community's findings on russia meddling in the election, the question donds get much bigger than that. this is probably the only chance we're going to have to pepper him with questions so close to the inauguration. >> matt keeps reading ahead in the text back. i did that, actually. i did that in fourth grade, and my math teacher was really upset with me. i had to go back and start over again. >> i want to ask you about -- the president is going to get his farewell address. we know he gives great speeches. this is the speech of his life. what does he have to do tomorrow. he's going to come out and hit it out of the ballpark. the weight will be off of his shoulders. >> i thi

that was something that bill and hillary clinton and barack obama at one time -- >> you did preface by saying 10 or 20 years ago. things have changed. more people were coming in. i'm not saying it's right. i'm just putting it in. >> even reagan's amnesty. >>. >> i think the american people are generous and compassionate and if time after time we are saying we are going to secure the border and we are going to do amnesty and you never secure the border -- >> you have to be honest about the facts just as you have to be about the coal industry. i understand my brothers and sisters are hurting, but some jobs are never coming back because of automation. unless you are going to make a cell phone out of coal, it's not going to happen. >> and manufacturing is a prime example where american manufacturing is more productive and efficient, but it takes fewer people to run a factory. >> there are several reasons behind building the wall. a, the influx of people coming here and taking haven this this country using our goods and services and health care and education without having to pay for it. th

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bill clinton 68%, and barack obama, 83% approval during his first transition. so i do think donald trump has been a divisive figure and he needs to be more presidential and reach out to the john lewises of the world. >> says it's problem for civil rights icon to say this. should donald trump do more to reach out? >> would be great if he would but he's not going to. and i think john lewis is free to choose not to attend inauguration for moral objections but agree with david and little concerned if democrats moving forward with this story as fact that the election -- somehow was swayed by activities of the russians. >> are starting to hear more and more of that. >> i don't think from analysis standpoint that the e-mails had that much to do with why hillary clinton lost the election. so i don't think should start countering trump's fake news with their own because frankly they're going to have to make a better case than just saying it because -- >> how do you explain the poll numbers that david gergen referenced? transition approval ratings? >> i think he's obviou

cnn is reporting that before he left office president barack obama encouraged new prime minister to become close to president trump. could this be the beginning of that do you think? >> yes. i think britain is top ally, always supported us but president trump not started out too well. started out canceling the transpacific partnership, 11 countries he upset. now a potential trade war with mexico and canada. so i hope with prime minister may that the special relationship with britain is retained. need to work together on so many issues. syria, united nations. economic issues, brexit. president obama is right. this is the key relationship for the united states and we started off with the other key country, mexico. this is the lowest i've seen that relation in a long time. >> someone said since 1948 or something close. >> i want to get your reaction to mexican president canceling his meeting with president trump. what do you think of that? >> he had no choice. president trump's idea of negotiating is bullying. bullying ceos, his primary opponents, bullying nations. you can't bully nations bec

it's barack obama. we know who it's going to be after swearing in on friday. but it's a strange intermediate situation with positions being advocated, adopted, renounced and three players in it, and it's confusing. so someone could have placed a phone call before he was supposed to or taken a step that was innocuous trying to set up a phone call, but was done at the wrong time. so it's possible definitely possible mistakes were made, sure. >> that's the reason, flick, we have the one president at a time. >> absolutely. >> rule. unwritten rule that we, you know. >> it seems to me it's not really a legal issue here. the last prosecution was in 1803, but there certainly is an issue of proprietary. it is completely inappropriate to be negotiating policies in competition with the sitting president. >> that's true. absolutely. >> so nick, this, let's talk about the fbi director james comey. i think he's feeling the heat right now. in addition to the inspector general's investigation into his handling of hillary clinton's e-mail, we're learning that the former dnc ch

. >> there's going to be a huge shift in policy between barack obama and president-elect. historically have we ever seen such an abrupt switch between administrations? >> sure. harry truman and eisenhower hardly spoke to one another when they rode in the car for that inauguration. it's the old hbo series that showed john adams got in the horse carriage and rode away from the white house and didn't attend thomas jefferson's administration. so big changes happen. the presidential candidates, or the president-elects, handle them as best they can. i think one less to learn from the nixon administration is that, when he came into office, he was very much feared and opposed by the democratic establishment and pat moynihan who was later to become a u.s. senator, was one of his advisers and said that nixon tried very hard in his first nine months in office, to be a good president, tried to reach out to everybody, and got no credit for it. by not getting that credit he was hurt and bruised and turned him down towards his darker impulses. so that's maybe something we might want to r

obama? >> there's no doubt about that, it's also as we talk about john lewis. the boundaries of what's in bounds and out of bounds. in the trump era as well. it's hard to live by those rules any more, i think that when you are the president-elect as this is to mark's point. the burden is on you to let some pitches go by. and not swing at everything. i think that is where things got off kilter in a big way. even if john lewis said something there's no evidence he's illegitimately elected. donald trump taking a swing at that. that is what causes a distraction for his own inaugural week to smoothly start his tenure. >> especially when you think of how president obama has treated him. raising all these legitimacy questions about him. after all the president welcomed him in, offered him advice about maybe he can take a page out of barack obama's book. >> he's giving interviews to foreign press attacking leaders of germany. >> nato is obsolete. >> he was ab sew heat during the campaign. they were

we saw barack obama who people now say is ady visive president. when he was inaugurated his approval ratings were close to 60% of the country. people want to support their president. i actually think people would want to support donald trump as president but his behavior is pushing people away. >> yeah. thank you very much. i appreciate bowing of you. when we come right back, the man who predpikted donald trump's trump but wasn't exactly happy about it. michael moore on the bombshell report on trump and russia and the trump team's charges of fake news. michael moore live next. (avo) did you know two areas of your brain can make it hard to lose weight? contrave is an fda-approved weight-loss medicine that may help adults who are overweight or struggle with obesity lose weight and keep it off. contrave is believed to work on two areas of the brain: your hunger center... (woman) i'm so hungry. (avo) to reduce hunger. and your reward system... (woman) ice cream. french fries. (avo) to help control cravings. across three long-term studies, contrave pat

breaking news tooptd, vice president joe biden confirming he and president barack obama were briefed last week by intelligence officials on unsubstantiated claims that russia may have compromising information on president-elect donald trump. i want to bring if contributor hillary oesen and a columnist for the new york post. hello, thank you both for joining us. hillary. >> hey. >> we have been hearing trump and his campaign continue to misrepresent the facts, complain about our reporting, and vice president joe biden have both said, so what do you make of this? >> oh,i guess i make that donald trump really doesn't want the american people to focus on this anymore and he thinks that by denying it and distracting it, it will make it go away. i think the problem is, is that people in the media and, obviously, others are just -- are dying for donald trump to tell the truth on this. and he's just not going to i think in many respects, people are going to have to figure out how to move on. because this guy is not going to give a satisfactory answer. he will not hold putin accountable. he w

you never get that sense with joe biden and barack obama. they were isolated raan enviabl. >> we'll saill said. >> david, of course, many people are wondering what would have or could have been a joe biden if joe biden had been up to the emotional and physical job of running for the white house after losing his son. >> i am one of those that senator elizabeth warren would have given president-elect trump a better run for his money than secretary clinton. just to talk about biden, take it back to 2007. biden was the guy who said about obama, you know, when they were running against each other in the presidential prime arary. he got in trouble about it but not only obama -- a year later, he looks around and says, i want this guy to be my vice president and in some ways to me, biden is like the first black president. he road shotguns with obama in multiple times and ends up today with president obama giving him the medal of freedom with extinction. these guys are best friends. >> david is feeling good and kate just around the corner. >> by the

who cares what it is, build upon what barack obama left instead of tearing it down and starting over. why start from square one. >> you're thinking too rationally for politics don. let's not forget a couple of things here, what we call obamacare was originally a republican plan put forward as alternative to hillary clinton's plans in 1990s, first implemented by romney in his state and adopted by president obama under the idea if he picked a republican plan implemented by republican governor he might have a chance. >> you're telling me as all bull. >> people say i love the affordable care act but hoyt obamacare, this bill been demonized. >> i watched a fight on social media. i hate obamacare, it's terrible but affordable care act is great. trying to get them to understand it's the whole thing. >> can i answer your question don, why does it have to be politicized? i don't think it's just brinksmanship at play. i think fundamental organizing principles how the democrats organized -- >> no. >> i'm going to finish. and how republicans would do it. >> why not american care act. >> call it w

during the general election they had the legacy of barack obama and hillary clinton to foil off of. and now that they're in power they need to create another opposition, another enemy, and they're going to make the press that. i also think this is as much about accountability as anything else. they're trying to tear down all of the pillars of accountability that would hold them to the truth so that when the president has bad news, when the president doesn't like a report, they can go into the oval office anddon' us, and it's a way to innoculate themselves and also to continue to narrow who the president listens to where he gets his information. i think it's a very dangerous thing when you have a president who is going to be more specific and not broad where he gets his information to get facts, and when you look at what the advisers are supposed to do to paint a real picture of accuracy so that the president can make the best informed decision as possible, they will try to monitor the data and censor the government. what happens when the jobs are not what they want them to be? what

if i were a performer would have gone to bill clinton or barack obama's inauguration because it celebrations democracy not because i endorse for voted for them. >> i've covered a number of inaugurations and don't feel i got to see the peaceful transition of power up close. just pageantry and marching bands. >> and celebration of the next president of the united states. >> yeah four historically black universities participated in the president obama's first inauguration, grambling, hampton, howard and -- none of them scheduled for trump's inaugust rag. but obama himself says wants a peaceful transition of power. so why shouldn't students participate? >> i love president obama okay? he was first presidential election i cast my ballot for but this is not business as usual. we will not and should not normalize this. young people are the folks that will be hurt the most under a president trump administration. we should be holding the future administration's feet to the power. if you want them to participate, show us the hbcu plan. if you want young people to seemingly endorse the president-elect,

i would have gone if i were a performer, i would have gone to bill clinton or barack obama's inauguration, because i think it's celebrating democracy, not because i endorsed them, or even voted for them. >> do you think people even get to see it? i've covered a number of inaugurations and don't feel i got to see the peaceful transition of power up close. just pageantry and marching bands. >> and celebration of the next president of the united states. that's what this is. >> so, listen, four historically black universities participated in president obama's first inauguration, florida a&m university, grambling state, hampton, and howard. none of them are scheduled for trump's inauguration. but obama himself says wants a peaceful transition of power. so why shouldn't students participate in this historic event, simone? >> look, i love president obama, okay? he was first presidential election i cast my ballot for but this is not business as usual. we will not and should not normalize this. young people are the folks that will be hurt the most under a president trump administration. we should

in 2012, the day after barack obama won the election, donald trump said, we can't let this happen, we should march on washington and stop this travesty, our anything is totally divided. doing that in the midst of calling the president ilt legitimate, not being born in this country, what is different now, why should everybody come together now and he didn't want people to come together in 2012? >> first of all, we should -- >> i'm going to stop right there. >> can i -- >> no, no no. >> charles, i'll give you the last word. >> donald trump is a bad person, he should not have done that. but do two wrongs make a right? >> if we care about this country? do we want to replicate the bad thing donald trump did? and concede -- said, well, if they did that, we're going to do it too? i was against donald trump when he was a birther, when he said that the election was being rigged and it was illegitimate. now i'm against john lewis, because i think he's wrong about this one. >> do not mangle dr. king's legacy, he was not getting in line with george wallace or bull conner, he was not getting in li

barack obama didn't get all of his agenda. you have to set priorities. president trump has priorities. the number one priority is getting criminal illegal aliens out of our country who have taken the lives of many american citizens. he set priorities. i think people confuse the fact that because republicans support the rule of law we're intent on harming children. that was never the intent, and donald trump is right to make that his last priority. >> kevin, the president was asked about his replacement for obama care. let's take a look at that. >> what my plan is is that i want to take care of everybody. i'm not going to leave the lower 20% that can't afford insurance. just so you understand, people talk about obama care. and i told the republicans this. the best thing we can do is nothing for two years, let it explode and then we'll do a new plan and the democrats will vote for it. this year you'll have 150% increases. last year in arizona, 116% increase. minnesota 60% increase. i told them, exempt for one problem, i want to get it fixed. the best thing