hope and pride for our entire nation after the election of barack obama. i don't think similar sentiments will be expressed this evening. >> and gordon reed, what about you? what do you look for? >> i am looking for him to defend his legacy and talk about what he tried to accomplish as president. this is a moment to sum up and i think that that is what farewell addresses do. >> it is a president approaches the lectern, matt schlapp what are you look for? >> i think what is interesting is democrats are still looking for their leader and leadership doesn't come from the hill or congress, then i think baron is talking to a lot of democrats

, you know, by default is a hero for freeing -- >> in many ways, and we'll hear from barack obama directly tomorrow when he holds his final news conference. i was surprised and people here are probably surprised. what i find more surprising is some of the contributes, though, of the release of chelsea manning are the same ones who are not coming out and being as forceful about the russians hacking into our systems. it's just a very bizarre situation that we're in right now. democrats the law and order party, political party when it comes to the russians and quite frankly the republicans when it comes to chelsea manning, they're the ones that are law and order. very bizarre.

obama, saying he wasn't born in america, was really the chief advocate of the so-called birther idea. given that history, given that he is about to be president, why swing at this pitch? couldn't he have just let goit by and be the bigger man and let john lewis do his thing, move on, se about to be president of the united states and say all of those chance, bringing the country together, why swing at this pitch? >> well, just as you said, donald trump has every right to defend him receive and to have -- >> dickerson: but he did discount the legitimate city of president obama -- >> well to have someone like john lewis who look i served with john, i disagree with him on most issues but i had tremendous respect for him. i actually, my family and i walked across the edmund pettus bridge on the anniversary of bloody sunday, we honor the sacrifice he made, but part of the result of what happened on bloody sunday and the counsel that he showed was the voting rights act and so for someone of his stature not just in the civil rights movement but in voting rights to make a comment that he did

. >> barack obama is going to be engaged to a degree in partisan politics that we have not seen in a long time. what i think he wants to do is make the country progressive or at least have a hold until the next democratic president comes in. >> one mandatory stop on the post presidential track will be the publication and promotion of a memoir by the former president of a former first lady. the former president should enjoy something of a leg up on his peers. he published memoirs before becoming president. >> bret: there may be more to a terror attack on a saudi arabian ship off the coast of yemen that first thought. and iran may be conducting more missile testing and we've been led to believe. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the specifics from the pentagon. >> a day after the u.n. security council called an emergency meeting to discuss ron's test of a medium-range ballistic missile sunday, fox news has learned of another secret missile launch from the same launchpad used previously by the tehran regime. a ballistic missile was fired based on north korean technolo

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

among the people on the senate that voted for hardiman include harry reid, barack obama and hillary clinton. sean spicer today said though, shep, either one of which of those people donald trump selects to be the nominee for the supreme court, they should get an easy confirmation in the senate. here is spicer again. >> they may not like the political background, but academia, background, time on the bench, the expert tease and criteria meets the intent of both republicans and democrats. >> all right. so where is the money ride something we're getting sources who are suggesting that gorsuch will be the pick. the caveat, nobody has actually confirmed it to us yet. i think white house officials are under threat of severe harmship should they disclose that information before 8:00 p.m. we'll leave it as a strong tilt towards gorsuch with the caveat that he could always pick hardiman. how about that for being confide confident? >> shepard: i can do that. very good, john roberts, thanks for clearing that up. the top democrat on senate judiciary committee says she will vote no on president trump's

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

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

these are the seven countries barack obama. >> four of them. >> barack obama selected four countries, along with congress in 2015 -- 2015, hold on, and three more were added in 2016. his administration did. yes. let's look at this. you just said -- >> i believe they all talked, which is good. >> you just said he didn't select them alone. my point isn't that donald trump implemented this correctly or it should be implemented, my point is people should keep their mouth shut and not be self-righteous when their policies led taos this stage. >> selection of these countries -- excuse me. >> you're fine. >> thank you. the selection of those countries under the obama administration was not accompanied by such nearly lethal language in an executive order that would lead you to believe, they are just edging around the fact. >> what's the word ari used, the boring word. >> again, i agree that this has been handled. >> intergovernmental review process. >> i agree completely. just barack obama doesn't need to be self-righteous about a policy if you just look at the policy is not that dramatically

>> after leaving the white house a week ago, former president barack obama returned to the political arena issuing a statement through his spokesperson saying he was encouraged by the demonstrations taking place around the country. he says in part, quote, citizens exercising their constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when american values are at stake. and the former president also rejected president trump's claim that his travel ban is similar to what president obama did in 2011 regarding refugees from iraq. saying, quote, the president fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion. "the washington post" has pointed out that president obama's policy was in response to a specific threat after iraqi refugees had been found conspiring against u.s. troops. president obama also slowed the refugee process instead of halting it. >>> all right, louis, yesterday we showed you senate minority leader chuck schumer tearing up while discu

so when barack obama came in you may remember that he promised he was going to close guantanamo bay and signed orders along those lines in his first week. and you saw president bush when he came in sign some executive orders to undo steps that had been taken by bill clinton. so that's not unusual. the only thing here that would have justified moving quickly is if there was an imminent threat from these seven nations. and since we know that there has been little to no terrorism we've had in the united states from immigrants to these nations and sean spicer said himself at the press briefing today that there had been no immediate actionable threat they were acting on, i think that would have been the only thing that would have justified taking an immediate step. so here i think they just rushed. and you know, like most things in life, if you rush it, you are going to make mistakes. particularly if you have never served in government, never gone through these procedures, and suddenly discovered that it's a little more complicated than it looks like when you are on the campaign trail. >> da

four of those women, the presidency of barack obama lives on in them. me appointed them to their judgeships and deputy attorney general spot. one of them was appointed by bill clinton. a presidency is only four years or eight years. a federal judgeship is a livetime appointment. there are329 federal judges appointed by president obama, appointed for life. two of them on the supreme court. ann marie donnelly the first of them to stand up and say no to donald trump. she will not be the last. we don't know who will be next. the trump administration's legal recklessness will surely continue. been out of control since its first day of lying about crowd size at the inauguration. lying about millions of illegal voters in the presidential election and now dashing off what the acting attorney general thought was an unlawful order that has thrown the country into chaos. thrown our airports into chaos. and broke this country's word to people around the world who had been granted the legal right to enter and live in the united states. the good news tonight is that

we had eight years of barack obama, who was always willing to take risk for american lives on behalf of people we've never met. anyone who wasn't an american somehow attracted obama's compassion in a way that americans didn't. you now have a president to really take seriously the tremendous threat of international terrorism and who is prepared to take steps that are very tough-minded and that will inconvenience some people. but the people in the orlando nightclub that were killed, they were inconvenienced. the san bernardino shooting, they were inconvenienced. the people in berlin, who were killed when a truck went into a christmas market, they were pretty inconvenienced. we have to recognize as a country, we have a right to protect our own citizens and that is precisely what this is aimed at. >> sean: everyone in the media keeps lying. they keep saying this is a muslim ban. 89% of muslims are not banned from other countries, 40 plus other countries, indonesia, turkey, egypt, i can run to the list, even dubai security chief said we completely support the ban of president trump which

yates is an appointee of barack obama. on monday evening she told justice department lawyers that, quote, i am responsible for ensuring that the positions we take in court remain consistent with this institution's sullen obligation to always seek justice and stand for what's right. he said she didn't think the executive order is lawful. a few hours later the white house issued a statement attacking yates for being weak on illegal immigration. the statement said yates, quote, has betrayed the department of justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the united states. the new acting attorney general is dana, benta. he will remain in office until the senate confirms senator jeff sessions expected later this week. evan perez, cnn, washington. >>> well, alley is a young university student in oregon. he asked us not to use his last name. he joins us on the line. you have dual citizenship with yemen and jordan. no how is this affecting you and your brother who is in a similar situation? >> hi

barack obama came in and he promised he was going to close guantanamo bay and find orders along those lines in his first week. and you saw president bush find executive orders to undo steps that had been taken by bill clinton. so that's not unusual. the only thing here that would have justified moving quickly is if there was an eminent threat from the seven nations. since we know that there's been little to no terrorism in the united states from immigrants to these nations and the trump place who said himself the press briefing today there's been no immediate threat they were acting on, if that would have been the only thing that would have justified taking an immediate step. so here, i think they just rushed. and like most things in life, if you rush it, you're going to make mistakes. particularly if you have never served in government and never gone through these e procedures and suddenly discovered it's a little more complicated than on the campaign trail. >> david sang r, chief washington correspondent for "the new york times," i appreciate your time tonight helping us with this.

in 2011. >> barack obama put a pause for six months on refugees coming from iraq back in 2011. i don't remember protesters and i don't remember lawsuits. so, i think the bigger question, if this is a temporary pause, which is designed for us to improve and look at our vetting processes and temporary, i don't think that is an outrageous idea. >> bill: here in the usa, we have had our share of migrant terror. all 19 muslim killers on 9/11 walked on in here, so, did the boston marathon murderers, muslims from central asia. one of the san bernardino killers was from pakistan. the orlando mass murderer came from a muslim immigrant family, as did the terrorist who attacked a mall in minnesota. it is certainly responsible and logical for a new president to institute updated protections for this country by ordering specific, temporary immigration actions. is it not? however, it is also responsible for a federal judge to order that foreigners with the repot -- the proper credentials already issued not be punished. there should be room for a case-by-case decision making. as republican se

based on their definition, this is just a nuanced fact here, hillary and barack obama ban muslims when they put a six-month moratorium on iraq. jimmy carter ban muslims based on their definition now, he wouldn't allow iranians to come into america during the iranian hostage crisis. all we are saying is we want the right to vet you. make sure you are coming here with peaceful intentions. that does not seem unreasonable in any way to me. >> theriot two parts to that. being allowed to come to america as a noncitizen is a privilege, not a right. therefore we ought to measure it that way. the second thing, and this is what i think is truly historically disturbing by the news coverage over the last four or five days and by the language of left-wing democrats who are totally irresponsible -- millions of muslims around the world, 1 billion plus people heard donald trump supposing a muslim ban. that is a total lie. indonesia is the most popular muslim country in the world, they are not banned. india is the second. they are not banned. go down the list. as you pointed out, you have the king of s

ally, and was representing barack obama. that's to be expected whether it's jeff sessions or jeff sessions got hit by a bus tomorrow and there were another nominee, you bet cha, the white house would want he or she to be representing donald trum. >> the attorney general does not represent the president. the attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer. >> oh, my. >> you think robert kennedy was saying there, mr. president, i know you're brother and i love you, but go to hell? i don't think so. >> that was not the model that most lawyers looked to. >> eric holder and barack obama were very tight. >> i remember every republican in washington saying, they didn't like that. you want judicial independence in your attorney general. >> it's a fact of life. if you think ed meese told president reagan, well, sir, sorry, i don't think so. >> all i'm saying is, the fact that he was such an integral part of trump's campaign and now there is this issue of the independence of the justice department that has been raised, you're go

attorney by president barack obama and we'll all be learning more about dana boente in the days ahead. this is a dramatic move. we just spoke with historian michael beschloss about it and eric from "the new york times" about the shock wave this is sending across washington. i want to bring into the conversation now, lawrence tribe, harvard law school, he's argued before the u.s. supreme court dozens of times. he's one of a few litigators who is also a household name because of his job. professor tribe, but for joining us. >> thanks for calling, rachel. >> how big of a deal is it for the president to fire an acting attorney general s? >> i think it's historic. i agree with michael beschloss. it reminded me of the saturday night massacre. the only difference is how quickly this has happened in the trump presidency. history is being collapsed into a black hole and everything that's happening faster than the speed of light. and it seems to me that because the sessions nomination is already controversial, it challenges who we are as americans and violates important parts of the constitutio

former president barack obama who hadn't spoke out since leaving office supported the protesters saying that he was heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country. joining me now is a associate professor of law. professor, can you tell us what your own refugee experience was? >> hi, thank you so much for having me on the show. yes, i was one of these people who from a country that's a terrorist country, from iran and i had the hijab and shouted death to america when i was a kid because i was forced to. that's what the regime made people in elementary school do. my family was able to get out. there was war. we slept in our basements and there was bombs at night and we were able to get out and we got a visa and we came here as refugees and i've been able to live as a refugee. it's been a dream. this country has welcomed us with open arms but, you know, a lot of iranians are stuck between these two regimes where one says that america is evil and the other tells you that iran is evil. neither is the case. these people, iranians are stuck at the border. t

obama talked about in his time, but to suggest the policy being proposed right now is a natural extension of what we lived with so far, that's just pushing it too far. we're tempted to just call it false, but we're going to give this a verdict of misleading. >> all right, thank you. "outfront" now our global affairs analyst tony blinken, former deputy national security adviser. so you saw the reporting -- trump has in the seven countries banned, calling then countries of concern and saying they were doing it because of the quote growing threat from foreign terrorist fighters. there do appear to be some similarities. >> look, i think tom foreman had it right. trying to compare the things is grossly misleading what happened with the seven countries back in 2015 this is after san bernardino is that we had some concerns about them and what we did in close consultation with congress and with all of the relevant agencies at the table to figure it out was to take them out and affect the visa waiver program. whereas nationals could come here without a visa afterward they had to get one and that a

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

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we had eight years of barack obama who did not understand how to defeat radical islam. you need muslims on your side. your executive order was too broad. you didn't vet it take the time and attention that you need to executive something that you agree w. i'm not trying to start a war. i'm trying to win the war we're in. you are not going to win the war by lumping everybody into a big pot. >> the white house argues that the list of seven muslim majority countries banned from traveling to the u.s. was based on president obama's 2011 iraq refugee poll see. i want to bring in congressman dan donovan. the only republican representing a district in new york city. congressman, we are glad you he here. i bring support for donald trump executive order. you also took issue pertaining to legal residence with green cards. tell us what you like about this. and also there are some things you seem to think were executed too quickly or not clearly enough. >> first of all, there is a lot of hysteria, panic about what has taken place over the weekends. if you look at it, it's just a paus

and i think he would probably believe that barack obama's reaction to it is overblown. he seemed to think that everybody was exaggerating the issue over the weekend, that only 109 people had been detained. and that was surely worth the safety as he put it of 324 million americans. so he thinks that the impact be that blown way out of proportion and exaggerated. and that is the fight that we're going to have. and now the former president has just weighed in on it. >> and he also said with regard to comparisons to president obama's foreign policy decisions -- he is talking about the 2011 pause that we saw that actually a lot of administration first from the obama ds officials from the obama -- they are rejecting the comparison that we've heard the trump administration use because iraqi refugees continued to pour in. pamela, we are hearing how officials and departments who vuv looped in on the travel ban were caught off guard. >> that's right. you heard administration officials in the white house say they had been working with various agencies ahead of this executive order

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

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

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

in fact, barack obama did it and explained it. i think listening to rick talk about this makes you wonder just how badly the president's staff screwed this thing up and how only fools rush in. and they rushed in on this and it caused, sean spicer can underplay it as much as he wants, but it caused chaos across the globe. >> chaos and also risks alienating allies that the president needs at home in both parties. donald trump tweeted, two sentences. there is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter or country. this was a big part of my campaign. both of those things are true. but if you go about doing it in a way that alienates people than you have to with mentality in the white house amongst some official the more negative coverage they get the more it proves they are doing it right. i think rick did make a good case on the merits of certain aspects of what they did but i think as he also said and i believe with both parts of what he said. if you do things that you think are right and you think you have a m

barack obama put a pause for six months on refugees coming from iraq back in 2011. i don't remember protesters and i don't remember lawsuits. so i think the bigger question, if this is a temporary pause which is designed for us to improve and look at our vetting processes and indeed temporary, i don't necessarily think that's an outrageous idea and the bigger question is implementation. did you get it right from the start? >> that's what people are nervous about. >> chuck, some things are true each if donald trump believes them. i think we always have to remember them. one thing is true. we live in an age where there are 65 million migrants traveling around the world and that is the most in history according to you. there is a need to sit back and say how do we respond to that, what is the commercial interest we have, and the historical commitment. you do that carefully and it seems to be one of the terrible signals we may be sending is to a lot of people is just don't go there and let's remember, this is an iphone. >> right. >> the guy who conceived this iphone was

every president does that to a certain -- howard: and you put that in the piece, barack obama and george bush looking at putin's soul. >> and you certainly could have gone back even further. but what was striking for me watching that press conference was how much when each of these very specific policy issues came up, donald trump repeatedly returned to the personal. you sort of got the sense when he was asked about putin that his russia policy would be largely dictated by if he and the president of russia sort of hit it off on a personal level. you know, when he was asked about britain's decision for the brexit vote to break from the european union, donald trump said it was a good idea, but the evidence he gave was that he had once, you know, in his former life as a real estate magnate done a deal there, and he had a lot of trouble getting permits with that group of nations, andt it was easier country to country. howard: you think he personalized it. >> yeah, he absolutely did. how're howard now, i happened to see you in the briefing room on friday evening after trump had signed those t

barack obama put a pause for six months on refugees coming from iraq back in 2011. i don't rememberprotest tors and i don't remember lawsuits. so the bigger question, if this is a temporary pause, which is designed for us to improve and look at our vetting processes and it indeed temporarily, i don't think that's an outrageous idea. but the bigger question should be implementation, did you get it right from the start. >> that's what people are nervous about. >> chuck, some things are true even if donald trump believes them. we always have to remember them. and we live in an age now with 60 million migrants traveling around the world. this is more at any team in history. so there is a need, i think, to sit back and say how do we respond to that? what is the commercial interest we have? what is the ethical interest we have? it really needs to be thought out. you do that scarefully. and it seems to be one of the terrible signals we may be sending is just don't go there. this is an iphone. the guy that con seceived this iphone was conceived by an immigrant. he was steve

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

embassy in berlin instructed foreign service personnel stationed there to not attend senator barack obama's public rally today" which the state department labeled a partisan political activity prohibited under its regulations for those serving overseas. state department official at the center of that decision was this man, patrick kennedy. mr. kennedy got a lot of pushback against that decision at the time, especially by members of the foreign service who wanted to go to the speech. his rationale was "no u.s. government foreign service person serve everything overseas should be seen as advocating for one side or the other." that kind of non-partisan ethos speaks to what the state department is all about. i mean, take patrick kennedy, for example, he was appointed as an undersecretary of state during the bush presidency in 2007. when president obama took over the white house, he was asked to stay on in the state department in the same role. if you look at his job description in the state department website, you can see why they might have a tough time ginning up an easy replacement for him.

president trump has been working nonstop to fix the mess that barack obama left behind. addressing border security, immigration, regulation, obamacare, the federal workforce, spending, pipelines, confirming the cabinets, ending free-trade, the president also announced that executive x the mimike action to keep america se to taking an refugees. on the other words, extreme vetting. >> i'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the united states of america. we don't want them here. we want to ensure that we are not letting them into our country, the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. we only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and love deeply our people. >> sean: the president also hosted one of our closest allies at the white house. here he is with british prime minister theresa may. take a look. >> i think brexit is going to be a wonderful thing for your country. i think when it irons out, you're going to have your own identity, and you are going to have the people that you want in your count

obama." i think the other co-author is joy reid, of that particular book. an opinion columnist for the "washington post." when we hear him talk about torture and last night talking to sean hannity he said that very high level people tell him it does work. it seems it is his obligation to tell us who these people are. we know his defense secretary says. >> he gets these hunches. i hate to think where they come from. i'm somewhat we leaved he seems to be listening to mattis on this. mattis is the grownup in the cabinet. i agree with kelly i hope he will listen to mattis, kelly and perhaps tillerson, as well. >> we have stumbled to the end of week one of the trump administration. there he was standing beside the prime minister who completely disagrees with him about sanctions. she doesn't think it is too early to talk about -- >> she's also been in office a little longer. >> he's been asked about sanctions for a couple of years now. he still hasn't figured out what he thinks about them. >> he ha

the democrats lost 958 slaifts seats during barack obama's eight years. the democrats went into the election of 2016 holding control of seven states with governorship and both sides of the legislature. today, as we sit here, connecticut, rhode island, oregon, california and hawaii are the five states that have democratic governors and democratic legislators. the opposition really is -- marty barron the editor of "the washington post" is the leader of the opposition, david's paper, remainstream media because they're the ones who have to call them account. there are 214 committees -- >> woodruff: steve bannon called the press the opposition party but he meant it, i think. >> whether he meant it or not, he spoke the truth because accountability and fact are going to be maintained, insisted upon, it's only going to come that way. the democrats on the hill are powerless. they couldn't pass salt if they asked for it. i'm sorry. they couldn't pass the sugar. that's how weak they are. >> woodruff: is it that bad is this. >> i think there is another opposition mor

for five years, he had one case of illegal barack obama. he voted illegally, having snuck in the country, he became president of the united states. he did not for five years all the while senng out detectives, getting reports, verifying his claim, then he said on friday, he said, oh, he is american like we are. and everybody let it go. how do you by any time from a guy who said number one guy snuck in the country. no one new him in school. he was a phantom being that did not go to columbia or harvard law, none of that happened. he wasn't there. >> i have to -- go ahead. >> he send his wife out to go on -- this guy who loves conspiracy theories, he is now listening to some crank talk about his theory -- it happened three million exactly the number he loses by but all of them voted for hillary clinton, it wasn't three million who happened to vote for hillary clinton. we have a country near the bottom for voterer town-out but just hillary clinton man managed to get three million to vote for her but was not make them savvy enough to do it in pe

i think barack obama had that and a sense of poism about human nature. and i think he believes that things could get better by the power of reason that people would be restrained and what i think he never quite internalized is that evil can triumph over good, people have agendas, that they're not willing to compromise on. so unless you push back very hard, bad forces can gain the upper hand. i don't think he appreciated the capacity of evil, of ideology, of people's willingness to use military force. you saw it in the middle east. we saw it in europe. in some ways he was more reasonable than the world he inherited. >> so therefore he could not understand the threats to the world that he saw. >> i think he was also for political reasons extremely wary of large scale american commitments. again he came into office promising to undo the commitment to iraq, undue the commitment to afghanistan. he overlearned the lessons of his predecessor. in some ways george w. bush was argueically-- arguably the president who tried to do too much, to remaining the middle e

while barack obama spoke in paragraphs, this new president speaks in sentences. but in his brevity, it was clear the trump agenda is taking hold. >>> the focus at president trump's news conference with british prime minister theresa may was less about the special relationship between the u.s. and britain and more about the frayed relations between his administration and mexico. >> we had a very good call. i have been very strong on mexico. i have great reexpespect for me. i love the mexican people. >> reporter: one day after the mexican leader abruptly canceled his trip to the white house next week, in response to mr. trump's plan to build a wall on the border. during a remarkably brief 18-minute news conference, the president still had no details on who is paying for the wall. >> we are going to be working on a fair relationship and a new relationship, but the united states cannot continue to lose vast amounts of business, vast amounts of companies and millions and millions of people losing their jobs. that won't happen with me. we're no longer going to be the c

barack obama had conflict with fox, so i think the idea of a politician declaring war on media isn't anything new and for steve bannon saying it's time that the media listen a little bit more because he doesn't feel they have acknowledged that they have got things wrong and that a lot of people like donald trump and he feels like the media doesn't give him credit for the fact that he won and the fact that a large part of america really do like his message. >> i disagree on the note that yes, maybe president obama didn't feel so friendly against fox, but he didn't constantly bring it up. >> yeah, he didn't say they were disgusting and dishonest, listen when you tell the media to shut-up, there are places like north korea, we don't do that, nobody is doing to tell us to shut-up and by the way we can also say there's plenty of opposition to every president so for the media to say -- they are a your adversary, and particularly true now because the democrats don't have any particular power, bannon is right in one way, they can speak truth to power, that's supposed to be their job and he's

but i wouldn't think barack obama's administration would want george w. bush's administration putting out statements on global warming. >> no. i think that is not unreasonable. the state department, by the way, is a tremendous bureaucracy where even the tiniest statement goes through this clearance process of dozens and dozens of bureaus. so it's not like people are going to be speaking out officially on their own. they were reluctant to do that any way. that is par for the course not a big deal. >> unlike the bad lands national park clearly in north dakota where they started tweeting things by themselves on climate change and got into trouble. >> that stopped quickly. >> that stopped. >> part of media is everybody has an avenue of communication. >> they can do things by themselves. >> rick, you wrote this piece in "the atlantic." the end of the american century. a line in there trump's administration is the death nail of the american century. what does that mean exactly? >> henry luce in 1941 wrote a great essay in "life" magazine and everybody thought i