obama had for years. the second term of obama was about europe, and he did not push enough. he was too much of someone who was aloof from the process, and this has cost him friends in europe and friends in the united states. it's the opposite of what franklin roosevelt did, who went out and found allies or what he wanted to do and told people about it. this is the problem of this aloofness of barack obama. christoph: i'm concerned about something else entirely. about donald not trump. he has a clear plan. there are no dividing lines. he will not get the money for a huge infrastructure program or to give subsidies to american firms to create jobs in the united states and abroad. that's not going to happen. what i'm really concerned about --this in predictability edictability, and we just saw it in the press conference. could you imagine we talk about a memo about president meeting with prostitutes -- peter: i want to ask my producer, could we put up pictures of that press conference that took place wednesday in new w york? the first conference president-elect trump had given

obama: thank you, everybody! [applause] pres. obama: thank you. [applause] pres. obama: thank you. [applause] pres. obama: thank you so much, thank you. thank you. thank you. [applause] pres. obama: it's good to be home. thank you. [applause] pres. obama: we're on live tv here, i've got to move. [applause] cheering] [applause] pres. obama: you can tell that i'm a lame duck, because nobody is following instructions. [laughter] pres. obama: everybody have a seat. my fellow americans, michelle and i have been so touched by all the well-wishes that we've received over the past few weeks. but tonight it's my turn to say thanks. whether we have seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the american people -- in living rooms and in schools -- at farms and on factory floors -- at diners and on distant military outposts -- those conversations are what have kept me honest, and kept me inspired, and kept me going. and every day, i have learned from you. you made me a better president, and you made me a better man. so i first came to chicago when i was in my early twe

>> obama: abs... well, you know, the-the-the truth though is is that we've been... >> kroft: have you been spending your own... when was the last time you... >> obama: i-i-i... >> kroft: ...spent your own money? >> obama: well, i-i will say this. you know, i-i mentioned how i've got a pretty thick skin in this job. you've got to have it. one thing that did kind of get under my craw sometimes was people talking as if when we went on vacation or... >> kroft: right, right, right, right. >> obama: you know, that people'd be like, "oh, spending taxpayer money." it's like, "no, no, i actually... i'm paying for all of this. the only thing i don't pay for is secret service and-and-and an airplane." >> kroft: and communications. >> obama: and communications, because i don't have any choice. but, you know, we buy our own toilet paper even here in the white house. >> kroft: really? >> obama: you know, we... it- it's not free. i'm... i've-i've got a grocery bill at the end of... at the end of every month. you kno

named it obama care. hey. they were the ones who named it obama care because what they wanted to do was personalize antipathy d on toward me in their party as an organizing tool. it's politics. but i don't have a pride of authorship on this thing. if they can come up with something better, i'm for it. but you have to show, and i would advise every democrat to be for it, but you have to show that it's better. that's not too much to ask. and that's the challenge. and the question right now for paul ryan and mitch mcconnell is, why is it that you feel obliged to repeal it before you show what it is that's going to replace it? because the majority of americans have been very clear they think that's a bad idea. you now have republican governors, some republican senators who have said, we don't think that's a good idea. and there's been no real explanation why you would actually try to do this before the new president is even inaugurated. what exactly is this rush? particularly if you're going to delay the actu

obama did. when you don't do consensus, when you don't get approval from the house and the senate and pass a bill. when you use executive order. remember he says i have a magic pen. and all the fools clapped. and you implement laws that the country doesn't want and you don't get the proper votes and make it, all of that is going to be unraveled. for the first time in american histrirks average american citizens were forced to purchase a product they didn't want. that is socialism aka done deal. and all of these -- i remember when he was talking about race. the great unifier. it's not a black america, it's not a white america. it's the united states of america. i wished that would have happened. but i remember the first time there was an opportunity with the professor up in i believe boston where he came out before the information and said, the police acted stupidly. and he used trayvon martin and the guy brown and all this. he was the biggest divider of race. and i've got to say for a president

obama: everybody have a seat. [cheers] pres. obama: my fellow americans -- [cheers] pres. obama: michelle and i have been so touched by all the well wishes that we have received over the past few weeks, but tonight it is my turn to say thanks. eyeher we have seen eye to or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the american people, in living rooms and schools, on farms, on , andry floors and diners on distant military outposts -- those conversations i what have kept me honest and kept me inspired and kept me going. and every day i have learned from you. you made me a better president, and you made me a better man. chicago whenme to i was in my early 20's, and i was still time to figure out who i was, still searching for a purpose in my life. and it was the neighborhood not far from here where i began working with church groups in the shadows of closed steel mills. it was on these streets where i witnessed the power of faith and the quiet dignity of working people in the face of struggle and loss. >> four more years, four more years. pres. obama: i can do that. ca

obama's most egregious broken to all americans is when , barack obama, do solemnly swear that i will xecute the office of president of the united states faithfully and will to the best of my preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. he has shown complete and open contempt for the onstitution. stoked racial tensions in america and in the process painted a deadly target noble men s of the and women in blue who risk their ves every day to protect the innocent citizens of this nation. arack obama consistently subjected americans to condescending lectures. oppose obamacare we didn't want people to have health insurance. f we opposed wasteful stimulus spend, we hated school teachers and firemen. if we opposed the nuclear deal we were compared to terrorists sponsoring iranian mullahs. believed in god and exercised our second amendment bitter. if we didn't believe in open, unsecured borders and vetting came into this country we were un-american. we believed in protecting unborn baby girls from being killed simply because they're we were waging war on women. mr. obam

obama and mrs. biden's commitment of joining forces has made a lasting impact, significantly expanded job placement in educational and also benefitted military working spouses, making careers more transportable for spouses who move every few years. the entire obama family has served and it would be impossible to sum up hall their contributions this afternoon. in closing i'll simply say, sasha and malia, thanks for sharing your mom and dad with us and the nation. mrs. obama thanks for improving the lives of our families and veterans and thanks for representing the nation with such class. mr. president, thank you for being a commander-in-chief that we have been proud to follow. thanks for your confidence in me and in all of the senior leaders who have had te privilege to serve on your watch. and now, ladies and gentlemen, it's my privilege to introduce another individual whose made a lasting impact on our joint force and someone we've been proud to follow, our secretary of defense, the honorable ashto

obama. i would never underestimate that sort of genetic inheritance in terms of obama his appeal. his father was an alcoholic. his father was a man who at aspects of success but then failed in the in and died a a young, at a very early age, and i think that barack obama spent that. i'm talking about and then later when he worked -- went to kenya to try to find out more about his father, dealing with what it meant who he was here to his father was part of that. any traditional sense barack obama cannot be called an african-american. he's african and american, so different. he never had, going up in hawaii he didn't have many black friends. it was a very multicultural place, but without many african-americans except on the military base. so he really had to learn that from secondhand from studying about african-american history, and then trying that search to find his father. >> host: april ryan can let me turn to you and talk about the issue of race and what you wrote about in your book, how

was that obama's failure? a lack of political skill, perhaps, though it is equally likely that the currents were stronger than one person could shift. in recent years, america has gone through enormous economic, technological, political and cultural changes and some parts of the country, there has been a backlash to that change and to an african-american president. it remains unclear whether the country was ready for obama's vision. the most dramatic bet he made was health care. he spent the first few years of his presidency and all his political capital on passing it, and i would argue even if trump finds a way to repeal and replace it, remains a historic achievement. obama did what seven presidents failed to do. he made health care a fundamental right. it is the signature achievement of a consequential president. but presidential legacies also exist above and beyond laws and policies. we remember john f. kennedy for energy, vitality, elegance and intelligence he brought to the white house. and in that sense,

[applause] president obama: to joe biden -- [cheers] president obama: you were the first decision i've made as a nominee, and it was the best. [applause] president obama: not just because you have been a great vice president, but because in the bargain, i gained a brother. we love you and jill like a family. your friendship has been one of the great joys. to my remarkable staff, for eight years, and for some of you, a whole lot more, i have drawn from your energy, and every day i tried to reflect back what you display -- heart, character, idealism. i have watched you grow up, get married, have kids, start incredible new journeys of your own. even when times got tough, and frustrating, you never let washington get the better of you. you guarded against cynicism. the only thing that makes me prouder than all that we have done is the thought of all the amazing things you will achieve from here. [applause] president obama: to all of you out there, every organizer who moved to an unfamiliar town, every kind family that welcomed them in, every volunteer that knocked on doors, every young per

questioning obama -- obama looks like a boy scout compared to this man. host: we want to focus on the past eight years, and particularly all the speeches that president obama has given over those eight years. is there one phrase, one values, andsentence, one speechs out for you, that you will remember when you look back at the 44th president? rick in florida, a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. add to the sentiment from the lady for pennsylvania. i really don't give a darn what speeches or what mr. obama has said. our president has served with dignity and has served well as our president. i can't say that for our incoming president. some of the things that he has that have already been proven to be lies, and i don't think that he's going to be able to get to heaven as easily as president obama is. thank you very much. host: president obama, the 44th thatdent, began in 2009 at speech at his inauguration. what president obama had to say that january day. >> today, i say to you that the challenges we face are real. they are serious and they

today marks president obama's last full day in office. on friday at noon supreme court , chief justice john roberts will swear in donald trump as the country's 45th president. on wednesday, obama gave his last press conference as president, during which he warned trump he will not stay silent if he sees what he called the nation's core values at risk. obama also thanked the press and spoke about the role they've played during his presidency. pres. obama: having you in this placeng has made this work better. it keeps us honest. it makes us work harder. howhave made us think about we're doing what we do, and whether or not we're able to deliver on what has been requested by our constituents. amy: the incoming trump administration had proposed moving the press corps out of the white house and instead relocating them nearby to the old executive office building. trump had to back away from the proposal wednesday, after outrage among members of the press and those concerned about press freedoms. during president obama's final news conference we

obama. she's more than the first rican-american first lady, today she's a global icon and a political powerhouse. i'm randi kaye and this is a cnn special report. "history made: the legacy of michelle obama." ♪ january 17, 1964, on the south side of chicago, a future first lady is born. michelle lavaughn robinson grew up in a one bedroom apartment in a working class neighborhood, the south shore. her older brother craig remembers it well. >> we didn't know how poor we were. so it was terrific. >> her mother, marian robinson volunteered at school so she could keep a close eye on her children. her father, fraser robinson, worked for the city's water department. in his early 30s, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. >> we watched a man who was disabled get up and go to work every day. >> he was our provider. he was our champion, our hero. but, as he got sicker, it got harder for him to walk. took him longer to get dressed in the morning. you know, but if he was in pain, he never let on.

obama is a nice man. i do have anything against him personally, but i think trump will be the best president history. host: how do you deal with the tax cut and the president saying he wants to spend billions in infrastructure and bring down a $20 trillion debt? caller: yes. that is a very valid point. when reagan cut taxes, that brings in tremendous revenue. unfortunately, when reagan cut taxes, the congress continued to spend too much money. in my opinion when they cut these taxes, that will bring in a lot more money, a lot more revenue, and you will be able to cut the work on cutting the deficit as well as during the kind of spending i think the tax reagan, weke under had a super economy. the stock market was 800. now it is nearly 20,000. i think cutting taxes and we need to work on the deficit. there is so much waste in government. to nowhere in alaska, that needs to be cut off. cutting the taxes and looking that istting spending totally unnecessary, that will lead to the best economy in american hist

obama. she's more than the first african-american first lady. today she's a global icon and a political powerhouse. i'm randi kaye, and this is a cnn special report. history made, the legacy of michelle obama. ♪ january 17, 1964, on the south side of chicago, a future first lady is born. michelle, lavonne, robinson grew up in the south shore. her older brother craig remembers it well. >> we didn't know how poor we were. so it was terrific. >> her mother, marian robinson volunteered at school so she could keep a close eye on her children. her father, frasier robinson, worked for the city's water department. in his early 30s, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. >> we watched a man who was disabled get up and go to work every day. >> he was our provider. he was our champion, our hero. but, as he got sicker, it got harder for him to walk. took him longer to get dressed in the morning. you know, but if h was in pain, he never let on. he never stopped smiling and laughing. >> he conducted

whether they voted for president obama or not. the president feels an obligation to talk about what he learned over the last eight year, what he's learned about the country what he's learned about governing the country and offer up his advice to the american people about the most effective way to confront the challenges that we see ahead. so that's the -- that's the goal and the president certainly could give a long speech, reciting the many accomplishments of his administration but that's now -- not how he's choosing to spend his time tomorrow night. >> how long is the speech? it's almost sounding like a state of the union, you have drafts and rewrites is that something like that, would you equate it to that? mr. earnest: i would not, it will be shorter and much different. >> like half an hour less? mr. earnest: we'll try to give you some guidance on that. i'm serious too, the speech isn't finished yet. >> is this more heart or more policy? mr. earnest: i think what you can expect from the president is a heart felt expression of

did when he implemented obama care. huge upheaval. it really creates a huge problem. >> i think they will need that. we will see you next sunday. we want to thank you for watching each week throughout the very busy news here. we look ahead to 2017 we want to see these names all of the people that work so hard every week to put the show on the air. chris will be back next week. we will see you next fox news sunday. up next. i'll see you at 12 eastern. happy new year. reporter: happy new year. i hope you enjoy this first edition of "mediabuzz" in the new year. confidence in the press plummeted. we'll look at how the media might repair their tattered credibility with molly hemingway. barack obama takes the stable insisting he could have won a third term.

obama has done? for what up of course. i just made a list. people call up and say he's no friend of israel. he left that yahoo! in the base at. or it didn't help the iranian revolution. that came up a lot. unemployment is at such and such a rate as such and such a time. i just made up on this and i had a list of more than 50 suggestions. i whittled it down to 24 the 25th cap your is a summary chapter. let me repeat the table of contents. i'm not going to go through each of these because after all you need to buy the book. the nightmare of obamacare. a failed stimulus. stimulus to point out. the biggest spendthrift in history. that is true by the way. the committee organizer who collapsed housing. selling the roles of the unemployed, soaring gas prices and read energy scams. the dodd-frank had fake. the fast and furious debacle and cover it. the president's attack on cap, congress and the constitution. standing by is iranian side abandoning israel, howling out of the american military, reset and the b

the problem is with obama, it's his policies. obama, by all accounts, is a good man. i think we could and cried and the fact that he was our first african-american president. the problem is, when you turn to the policies, he pursued aggressively from obamacare to the iran deal to climate change, they are unpopular and they are unsuccessful. i find it telling that when obama is on the ballot, he wins. when he isn't, when it's his policies, it's his legacy, the american voters overwhelmingly reject him in the democratic party gets shellacked as the president himself. >> bill: what is it about barack obama? has he mesmerized people? as i said, his approval rating is better than 50%. yet, two-thirds of the american people think the countries had to get the wrong direction. it doesn't really stock. >> he is young, he is charismatic, the first black president. people want him to succeed. he carries himself more often than not with a certain dignity. so, i don't think it is anything personal. the left wants us to believe that the american people are racist and don't like it

but obama stood his ground. convinced that the american public was as weary of war as he was. >> if one were to look at your statements on syria from the start, the red line, and then your decision at the very last minute not to use military force, wouldn't it be fair for critics to say this shows inconsistency, perhaps it shows your own ambivalence, and yet you have seen it as one of your best moments. >> ambivalence, absolutely, because it's hard. with respect to my red line, we in fact positioned our military to be able to strike assad if he did not give up his chemical weapons. the fact is, he got rid of his chemical weapons in an unprecedented way. >> the world will now expect the assad regime to live up to its public commitments. >> assad's allies in the kremlin helped broker a deal that forced him to give up his chemical weapons stockpile. within a year, syria's declared materials were removed without a shot being fired. but the syrian civil war continued. and extremists gained the upper hand. >> when you

it was obama's foreign policies. ishink the main difference americans foreign policy, obama is a sickly trying to do what he is doing because of americans foreign policy. -- thet goes back question needs to be asked, why -- it seems benefit like that is the only thing we do. we went over there and basically caused chaos in a place that was already chaotic. we can help. though these people fought, there were no suicide bombs occurring in the history of this whole area until the 80's when the united states went over there. so we cause a lot of these problems. and the more people look at the united states, other countries -- so we have a guy who is actually trying to do it different. and a lot of people say, this guys different. and that is my opinion but other people may see different. host: the wall street journal profiled the wall street journal nominee for the protection agency, he is the attorney as the and served oklahoma state attorney general in 2010 saying he had repealed regulations issued by the obama epa inc

brock obama consigned the last piece of cold war legacy to history. -- barack obama consigned the last piece of cold war legacy to history. an extraordinary transformation. he leaves admired and largely popular, not the least were his role in the global climate change agreement. he tried to carve out a foreign policy that he saw as right for the times. as the commander-in-chief was given a traditional sendoff, in his own way he was as destructive to american power and influence as george w. bush. what with the nobel committee make of him eight years on? -- would the nobel committee make of him eight years on? jane: i spoke with the former u.s. defense secretary and bbc global affairs analyst, william cowan. n. william cohe how would you sum up the tone of president obama's presidency? william: the familiar ring is no drama obama. his foreign policy reflects that . he is highly intelligent and well spoken. very calm and cool. a lot of people would like to see more passion at times, and less professorship. think that that reflects the way that he has conducted his foreign policy, very co

they are going to miss michelle obama and they will miss the obama family. i am very, very proud of the president. very proud of his family. >> as the first african-american president, some who felt that president obama didn't focus enough on issues particularly affecting african-american communities or speak about race relations as much as they wanted. what do you say to that? >> i have to remind people that when he came in, he was losing 800,000 jobs. he had to get the recession under control. he had to deal with the ebola crisis and i can go on and on. many of the things have been forgotten, but he had a lot to deal with. he put forth a package that i know he wished could have been more. he had all kinds of opposition going against him. he had to be president for the entire nation. the fact that he brought down the unemployment rate substantially in the general population and throughout the country, the fact that he has made a difference with regard to health care now with the affordable care act. some 20 plus million people now able to get the treatment

>> barrack obama as president was cool. you can't say that about many presidents and if being cool is a emblem of being a president of your time, he sure was. >> obamacare is great. >> he is the first true social media president. using it often to share the political, the personal, and his play list. i'm here with the president >> how good is that? >> his sense of humor helps to humanize him over two terms in office. >> let's get this out of the way. what did you come here to plug? >> have you heard of the affordable care act? >> i heard about that. that's the thing that doesn't work. >> he has the kind of performance chops and comic timing that even some veteran life long performers lack. >> as the father of two teenager daughters i know the whole time you're just like and then he said, girl, i couldn't believe it. >> he's about to go from commander and chief to couch commander. >> [ bleep ] you chuck todd. >> obama. >> he and his family became very important not just to our politics but to our culture over the last 8 year

obama mentioned. through persistence, caring, and support for our students, we make a difference in their lives and they make a difference in the lives of others. we all have stories like this. all of you have stories like this. our students and their stories are why we love what we do. it is why school counseling is less about a career path and more about who we are as people. regards as of the grade levels we serve, no student could fall through the cracks on our watch. we must work to eliminate barriers to success by ensuring to the best of our ability that all students receive the support they deserve. this applies to those with aspirations to attaining community college and college degrees, as well as those seeking to go into the military. this applies to first-generation college goers and those who may never go beyond high school because they struggle with poverty, homelessness, or live in communities where drug use and abuse rips away at the family fabric. we need to be advocates for the studen

es donde saldrÁ barack obama y michelle obama. despuÉs de la juramentaciÓn de donald trump se irÁn en helicÓptero del capitolio. y la parte oeste donde se lleva a cabo la juramentaciÓn se lleva a cabo en esa zona desde ronald reagan. a la base andrews van a tomarse vacaciones en palm spring en california. unas vacaciones de verdad. >>> llevan a donald trump y su familia de la iglesia de san juan, que estÁ justo detras del parque lafayette, hacia la casa blanca, donde tendrÁn estos momentos de tÉ y cafe. >>> intimidad. >>> y el presidente electo que va a cambiar todo en horas, aqÍi en washington dc y mÁs o menos 2 horas y media. va a cambiar y donald trump se convertirÁ en presidente de estados unidos. >>> aquÍ el gran reto es la seguridad, cada ceremonia inaugural tiene sus retos, su personalidad por decirlo asÍ en el 2005 george w bush tenÍa el reto que habÍan pasado los ataques del 911. y en el 2011 barack obama enfrentaba amenazas de odio racial. y sabemos que donald trump estÁ enfrentando el reto de muchas amen

president obama says they get along. i'm not sure i believe that, but it is a relationship they will be talking through, because this incoming president has no experience in government. katty: and they belong to a very small club. as washington gears up for the inauguration, there was news former president george h.w. bush was moved to an intensive care unit in houston. he is suffering from pneumonia. he is said to be in stable condition. his wife was admitted to the same hospital after experiencing fatigue and coughing herself. 40,000 people have returned to their homes in eastern aleppo, the city devastated from years of civil war. the bustling center was divided with regime in the west and rebels in the east. in a few months they were able to take control after cutting supply lines. jeremy bowen sent us this special report. the calm after the storm. the final battle swept through like a man-made, the neville. all sides were prepared to destroy aleppo -- like a man-made malevolent tornado. all sides were prepared to de

obama. she was michelle obama. >> in 2007, she didn't mince words on the trail. saying this about her husband. >> he still has trouble putting the bread up and putting his socks in the dirty clothes. and he still doesn't do a better job than our 5-year-old daughter at mixing his bed. you have to forgive me if i am stunned by this barack obama thing. >> when people are acting like her husband was a political messiah, she knew it wasn't true. we all talked like that and make jokes about our husbands. it is so familiar and comfortable that she can warm up a crowd easily by making those kinds of jokes. >> that are same year, mrs. obama told glamour magazine said their daughters don't want to climb into their parents bed because their dad is too snorey and stinky. >> i loved hearing her put downs and sass and saying in the morning he was not at his best. it was humanizing. >> michelle obama was lampoon and accused of being an angry black woman and targeted after comments she made in wisconsin. >> for the first time in my adult lifetime, i'm really proud of my country

president obama of course is from chicago. his former chief of staff, the mayor of staff the mayor of chicago, ram emmanuel. the mayor now. there are critics that say they reason is done enough, they spoken enough. is there anything you wish they would have done? >> well in the terms of -- in terms of president obama, it's not the president's job to stop violence in chicago. i think that would fall upon the city council. it falls into especially the mayor's hands, mayor ram emmanuel. hud had -- the federal government has allegated $420 million for affordable housing in chicago that has not been released. so what happens to those people who can't afford a place to stay, who are not employed, whose communities have been divested from? why hasn't the mayor released that $420 million of hud funding for affordable housing? you know, this thing that's happening in chicago didn't just happen out of a vacuum. it has a history. you know, the affordable housing, the projects, if you want to call them that, were torn down, you know, deca

people can talk about what obama did. what obama said or this or that. jeff sessions can talk about what he said or what has been in his heart. and actions, action show what has happened. jeff sessions can defend himself and speak in detail about things he actually cares about the orngs that he is lying about is misrepresenting himself as, he can only say oh, it is the law and i'm going to enforce it. but that's not true. enforce thehave to law. he could decide not to enforce it. so i think that we need to be really clear that when it comes to women's rights and lgbt minorities, there will be no support from the attorney general's office. indiana onh is in the republican line. thank you for holding on, you are on. go ahead. caller: good morning. i wanted to make a comment that our country still has a long way to go as far as respecting and honoring each other and fair play. the whole primary, day after day, it showed exactly what felt, personally and to his country. and they had no problem violating your daughters or sisters or mothers. the vulgarity of

obama? >> we assume it was a tiffany box, but we don't know what's in it. >> i may be an autographed picture of donald trump. >> it may be something close to tiffany, with tiffany's so close to trump tower, so hard to get in and out. >> now we have the first ladies, melania trump an michelle obama. both of them fashion icons. >> i was going to say, both of them looking absolutely lovely today. >> do we know who did this dress? >> we know melania trump is ralph lauren. >> we haven't heard about michelle baem's outfit yet. >> john, do you know? >> i was racking my brain for what donald trump is wearing. >> probably a donald trump tie no less. >> but this is -- we should note, this san important moment. >> what's the consensus of the group here, do we think that michelle obama may somehow get into politics? i think it's an open question. >> no. >> i don't even think that's an open question. if i had to vote, and from what i've been hearing, i would say no. this is vice president joe biden, of c

between obama and trump is one very good way for president obama to go about it. lou: is there any way it makes any sense at all if he wanted to have a good relationship that barack obama would be staying in washington, d.c. rather than moving as is customary back to their hometowns, off to a new way. why in the world doesn't -- why doesn't barack obama buy a ran inch crawford, texas next to george bush he would argue he still has a daughter in school, the same reason donald trump isn't moving baron down to washington, d.c. at this time. he lost policy and loves being in d.c. i think he won't be able to help himself. lou: daniel, will people be helping him now and start thinking about other real estate? >> he made his plan a year ago. he thought hillary was going to be elected. he thought his life would be totally different than it will be. lou: as did so many people going back to 2008. daniel, thanks so much. daniel halper and lee carter. we appreciate as we await the president's farewell address. that's it for us. neil cavuto continues our special coverage of pr

obama focused on race relations. let's take a look at that. >> president obama: after my election, there was talk of a post-racial america. and such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic. i have lived long enough to know race relations are better than they were ten or 20 or 30 years ago, no matter what some folks say. we are not where we need to be. and all of us have more work to do. if every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hard-working white middle-class and in undeserving minority, then workers of all shades are going to be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private offices. >> sean: old versus young, black versus white, the policies of the democratic party. the president, refused to address the tragic epidemic of violence that is devastated mostly african-americans in his hometown. an issue that has only gotten worse since he took office. let's look at the numbers. in just the first ten days of 2017, 81 people have been shot so far. last year, a

barack obama has failed america. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: he was a successful businessman and an experienced politician, a former governor. >> i believe in america, and i'm running for president of the united states. >> narrator: but many in the republican base-- especially in the tea party-- could barely stand him. >> verges on hysterical. mitt romney has never done a single thing to favor the conservative cause. >> i swear every time mitt romney opens his mouth, i have no... i think he's running against me. >> i don't think that romney was somebody who understood the angst of the american people. he didn't understand what... what especially the republicans throughout the united states were feeling, how-how disaffected they felt. >> mitt romney just further exacerbates the frustration among the republican base and the tea party wing of the party. how could it be that they end up with mitt romney as their nominee when there's so much anti-washington, anti-establishment energy out there? >> what does mitt ro

president barack obama. president obama distinguished himself as the commander-in-chief of the finest fighting force the world has ever known.an from january 20, 2009, to january 20, 2017. president obama kept our nation face, let a strategic transition in our defense strategy can strengthen our alliances and pursue new partnerships and laid the foundation or a force of the future that will continue to win our nations wars. president obama countered decisively the most immediate terrorism. he directed the operation ton kill osama bin laden, decimated al-qaeda terrorist network.d cou and develop counterterrorism platforms from south asia to north africa. he did so relentlessly, effectively, with increased transparency and in strict accordance with our values.es. simultaneously president obama achieve verifiable nuclear disarmament of iran, the gravest threat to security in the middle east. and while countering proliferation of broad he directed recapitalization of our vitally important nuclear deterrent here

[applause] president obama: thank you. sarah kliff: hi. president obama: good morning. it is great to be here, and thank you so much for all the good reporting you guys have been doing on this important issue. ezra klein: well thank you. ,sarah kliff: so we'll get started. there was an expectation that was shared among many of your staff, many congressional congressional democrats that as the affordable care act goes out, it would become more popular. it would be safe for appeal -- from repeal or substantial reform and it appears that isn't quite true. what do you think that theory got wrong? why did the health care law not become more popular? president obama: well let's back , up and say from the start there's a reason why for 100 years, no president could get expansion of health care coverage beyond the work that had been done for medicare and medicaid targeting primarily seniors. and the reason was that this is hard. the health care system is big. it is very personal. families, i think, recognize the need for health insurance, but it's not something that they think

there was a lot made of republican opposition to obama that peopleking about a few years after obama took office when he pushed obamacare through and whatnot. that's very different than just out of the gate deciding you're going to obstruct. i'm not entirely sure it's the wisest course of action for democrats to take. rather than picking and choosing a few key areas to oppose him, just reflexively hostile approach could give the impression they are being unreasonably difficult for president-elect trumped. president-elect trump would love to send the message he was still fighting washington and that he needs more support from the people. >> there is this push to list these eight, which seems kind of strange. talked to a senior democrat before the holidays who said we can't get apoplectic about every nominee. >> my understanding was that democrats were going to pick and choose their battles. there were some that were important. you want to make an issue out of climate change, ask questions. ask rex tillerson about climate change in russia. russia is such a big issue. you want to find o

if the present president do more than obama, than obama did the worse for blacks. let say this current president don't do well, the racist will tell you, that always refer like the previous caller said, like i said, two examples will stop obama's feeds seeds heme -- obama's eliminating those words. an op-ed piece in "the new york times" -- he planned the poor people's campaign in which millions of american impoverished would gather in washington for an enormous demonstration and called for $30 billion annually in anti-poverty spending. asked commerce to guarantee an income for each american, to many americans, sounded like socialist lunacy. further down in the article, he writes "dr. king's legacy, the meeting of martin luther king and the popular mind, began to change as soon as the man himself left him. groups like black panther and weatherman called for armed resistance. dr. king's peaceful message looked more appealing. embolden him into the gentle champion of colorblindness." that is from "the new york times" this morning. if you want to find that piece, shots

vimos claramente que eran estados de obama y votantes de obama. la misma gente, perdÓname josÉ que buscaban la esperanza en el 2008, de apostaron su fe en este candidato de nuevo, tratando de encontrar esa esperanza. >>> y yo querÍa helen, perdona que te interrumpa, donald trump entra a la presidencia con beneficios importantes con la que contÓ barack obama que es el 2009 la mayorÍa en la cÁmara de representante y el senado. cuando los 3 senado, cÁmara de representantes y presidente es un partido polÍtico se puede lograr mucho. >>> se puede lograr mucho es una gran responsabilidad pero el presidente electo trump estÁ claro y hay que forzar estas nuevas polÍticas. de manera bipartidista para que sea la mejor polÍtica posible y refleje la realidad nacional. y se ha reunido con republicanos y demÓcratas que estaban a favor de Él. y que no estaban a favor de Él pero para unir el paÍs y es un punto importante. a lo que decÍa freddy, gracias por tus palabras generosas. ciertamente en la campaÑa polÍtica. como veiamos como corrÍa al pr

under the obama obama presidency or was it really ripped apart? >> i think there are elements of both. i think what america became more aware of racism. you can look at polls about police abuse, about the clear issuer i think most white americans were just not aware of the scale of the problem. and it's not always obama's doing, cell phone videos made a lot of weight americans aware of the mistreatment of african-american cycle on routinely. i think many of us assumed it must be a rarity. >> and came onto the scene. >> i do think he had success in looking at different vision. he close a look please have a tough job some of them have legitimate reasons for fear, we we can't try them all with the same brush. just because some of them to bed things doesn't mean all of them do bad things. he can can also relate to the fear that african-americans have with the police. he had a a marvelous ability to see all sides of the issue and say here are practical ways we can move forward. >> this is an example of the way he dealt with the racial question no drama

policy where president obama is shifting us. so there are opportunities to work across the aisle on specific issues and committees. >> we'll leave it right there. coming up, the obama administration reportedly rushing in more syrian refugees before trump becomes president. now a former top cop has some advice for vetting these asylum seekers. >>> getting them in before he gets out. a new report says the administration is rushing in more syrian refugees before president obama leaves office. over the past three months there's been a 430% jump in the number of syrian refugees settled into the u.s. compared to last year. now a former police is saying we need new vetting. >> the first prior city of the president of the united states should be the protection of the and security of the american people. the american people don't trust that that literally is the number one priority of the president. you can look at a state like wisconsin, governors like scott walker are asking for amore control over the refugees coming into the states be