[crowd chanting] obama! obama! obama! - thank you! ♪ - the primaries of 2007-2008 are giving democratic voters a choice between two historic candidacies. hillary clinton comes into the election the presumed front-runner. she has a lot of advantages. for example, in war chest. and a large part of the democratic establishment endorsing her. barack obama comes in with three advantages. the first is, he's not tied to the establishment. as a result, he is a candidate of change. the second is, he is tactically being advised by people who have a better understanding of how the primary system aggregates delegates. and the third advantage is mobilizing the young to take his message door to door, but also simultaneously to use their online expertise to identify those voters. - hey everybody, it's david plouffe, barack's campaign manager, and we just wanted to spend a few minutes today with you, updating you on where the race stands and what our opponents are up to. - i hope that you use this website as a tool to organize your friends, your ne

it was the first time he actually met barack obama. he then went to capitol hill and visited top republicans, and throughout it all he was assiduously civil. our north america editor jon sopel has more. jon: from january it will be air force one, but donald trump flew to washington on his own signature plane, ahead of another extraordinary day in the political story of the. united states. and then the jaw-dropping, rub your eyes moment, donald trump sitting in the oval office with barack obama. loathing put and aside as the president and, well, the apprentice, assured a smooth transition. president obama: well, i have a opportunity to happen next like -- have an excellent conversation with president-elect trump, and as i my priority in, the coming two months is to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful. president-elect trump: i very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel. he explained some of the difficulties, some of the highflying assets, some of the really gre

obama did. i do think foreign policy's probably going to be his biggest learning curve, and that is when the hope comes in that he does utilize some of that business experience as far as delegating, as far as identifying the right people. and this is what he said before, he said this during his acceptance speech, one of his best qualities is identifying the untapped pebble in people -- potential in people. finding the right people, delegating to them, trusting those individuals and trusting their experiences. >> one of the most important things about a successful foreign policy and projecting strength is having your enemy or your opponents believe you will do anything. and that's a very good thing. and nobody believes president obama is going to do anything, and that's why everything is a disaster whether it's in north africa or syria or iran. but there is -- and i get it, donald trump can be some of the things that he says can be very uncomfortable and unsettling, but that's not a bad thing. an

obama showed mrs. trump, the former state rooms and the truman balcony. >>> vice president biden has met vice president-elect mike pence discussing his upcoming duties and looked over biden's policy portfolios that include the nato alliance and expanding access to the middle class. biden and pence have been friends since they served in congress together from 2001 until 2009. there's talk donald trump could be looking inside his own family to find his chief of staff. trump's son-in-law jared kushner was seen walking with obama's chief of staff denis mcdonough at the white house. was also a key adviser during the campaign. >>> the trump team shook things up with the media breaking protocol and bucking a long-standing practice of allowing reporters to track america's new leader. mr. trump left new york city without pool reporters and kept them in the dark during his historic first meetings with leaders in washington including president obama. one reporter says it sets a dangerous precedent. >>> anyone who

the obama policies, and as president obama himself has said. when my policies are always on the ballot, even when i'm not. he's a great vote getter himself. but when his policies are on the ballot they get slaughtered. so he's not on the ballot anymore so i would be careful. >> donald trump has got to be. i think after he has used his opponent for a foil, he won't mind it a bit. >> putin brushed the president aside in the farewell today. the president better put on his seat belt because in six months he won't recognize any of his legacy. obamacare and the 15 years' wars in the middle east will be in a different environment. lou: this will be interesting to see. his choice for defense secretary. i said and i think he meant it, that he knows more about what's happening with those wars in afghanistan than many of the general officers and a 15-year-long war against rad -- radical islamists demonstrates his case. >> he's looking at superb men, great leaders. whether in the military or not in the middle, they are leaders. anybody who gets a star in t

but what president obama is well, what s -- president obama is committed to is an effective transition that helps bring president elect trump and his team up to speed on the current status of u.s. policy, including foreign policy. and there is a long tradition of presidents -- even presidents in different parties -- seeking to preserve some measure of continuity, particularly where those interests align. i wouldn't predict at this point how all that shakes out. the one thing that i would point out is that there are the n situations where downside of unilaterally withdrawing from some of these international agreements is significant. so the consequences, for example, with the iran deal of the g out, you do risk iranians trying to break out. at the same time, there's also a u.n. security council resolution that applies to this agreement. that means this agreement is something that is supported by -- llies but alleges by also by russia. i think that could be a good indication of how united the international community is behind this agreement. and president-elect trump will have to decide

president obama 35 message. the president has confidence because they are made up of patriotic americans. it's important for the leaders to demonstrate. they've served very well. the other observation he would make and he did so in the gard garden. progress that we made in some of these areas. sometimes it is by the late

and obama said obama care wouldn't cost anybody a cent, where it did. >> john, one of the biggest problems with obama care, we all know, we all warned, one size does not fit all, we're a country of well over 300 million. block granting, that is giving states the power over the federal government, how to spend medicaid is at least one way of getting away from that one size fits all, right? >> certainly you don't want a federal solution for what is a local question. but i even don't like block grants, the realty is that if you get government out of the way of this, you have all sorts of insurers coming in, offering all sorts of different health care plans, the problem is mandate, you don't need to m mandate cars, computers. >> john is a pure libertarian and we love it, it may not be practical, but it's awfully appealing, is it not. >> yes, it is awfully appealing. and the real benefit of doing all of this is if we go to a free market system. it's chronic conditions brought on by bad behavior is the cast that ee's blowing our health ca costs through the roof. >> that's the key, getting as lit

obama, the first lady. it sends a message to our brain when we meet somebody that they're likable and trustworthy and warm. if you put a cup of coffee in somebo somebody's hand. mike bloomberg used to do this and and today he's a billionaire. we see melania doing this and this makes her see everyone warm and likable. instead of folding her hands like this. i'm ballotl i'm bottled up and stressed and anxious. it's very likable and polished and professional. >> fascinating to get your take on all this. thanks so much for walking us through it. >> good morning. >> thank you. >> chris? >> would you like some coffee? >> yes, i would. we're following a lot of news. you're scaring me. >> i don't want to lose this deal here. >> i hope you see what i'm doing. >> i'm doing this because i'm really comfortable. let's get right to it. >> mr. president t was a great honor being with you. >> we want to do everything we can to help you succeed. >> we reject the president-elect. >> because if you succeed, then the country s

it got vetoed by president obama. it was the replace part we never had a sense republicans were singing from the same sheet of music on what it looked like. >> we did. that was what our better way agenda was about. 247 house republicans agreed and signed up for a full replacement plan. if you go to better.gop, look at our items, you will see our replacement plan. we are on the same page on these things. it resembled the reforms he was talking about. >> you are not on the same page on immigration. >> i don't really agree with you. we are on the same page on securing the border. that border security is what president-elect trump is talking about. that's something we all totally agree with. >> the deportation -- >> i think right now, we want to secure the border. that's first -- the first priority. >> let's tick down these things. you have a debt ceiling coming up. how is that going to work? >> ha >> thankfully, we're doing it with a republican president and congress. we can tackle our fiscal issues. we can tackle the op

obama is fine. he did great and as you compare them with trump and his approval ratings are so high people love him and pray for him every sunday in church. [laughter] trump is so bad that when something is bad even it looks good. [laughter] i know you didn't ask me all that -- [laughter] >> this focus is about president obama and his administration and you made the point the party also had a part to play in that. michael earlier made the point that though the hope and change was important in terms of the cultural response but certainly america, it still didn't translate into policy that he could pinpoint. a lot of the criticism for president obama was in the rain -- in the range of what he could do regarding policy. there is no emphasis on targeting the policy for african-americans specifically. i know you've been a chief critic about this, so for many people -- this is paramount to opportunities. >> he said in the midst of 2012 in the second run for president just to clarify, i'm the president of

i consider obama jv president. years, dp for eight obamacare, the middle east is on in hise ruled whole time presidency to executive order, amongst all races, everywhere.ots high unemployment, higher unemployment in the black high rate of crime in his own community, chicago. on welfare and unemployment, more illegals have crossed our border. i can go on and on and on. rejectionelection was of progressive policies. you look across the nation, have governors, ublican the republicans control the senate.d the so they can talk all the garbage want, obama koolade drinker and scream about the new elected president trump, but we are going to make america great again and watch and see what happens. greta, have you been exposed by the caller from north carolina this morning, i watch you every single day, you the most biassed host of all. thank you. washington, independent caller. tube, his in you days.a for the first 100 the "wall street journal" reports this morning it included six calls for action on trade, immigration, en

we believed president obama's it wasn't. we believed clinton's successful convention and debates would matter. they did not. there's a lot more. david brooks, trump win, hillary lose, what happened? >> well, it is a good week for humility for pundits. >>> the 21st century happened. it started on 9/11 and it has been a century of counter reaction to globalization. and a good century for 72 nations have gotten more we have a lot of these types around the world. the people who will suffering from globalization are saying, no more. we get a voice. for those of us who believe in it, there has to be a movement that says, we still believe in trade, we still believe in international engagement for america. for those losers or those suffering, we have your back. to me the crucial moment of the clinton campaign was when she gave up on the trade deal that she had helped negotiate. whole life. i'm about to renounce it to win your vote. it was a character issue. she couldn't have an affirmative case for a global world but a supportive wo

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president obama has said elwell to europe after his final tour of the continent. before saying goodbye to his post, chancellor merkel, and the human, he made europeans anxious. meanwhile, washington is bracing for some bruising presidential battles. the president-elect has picked a number of republican hardliners for the top jobs. now back to business news. a huge story in germany, those of us who thought the dieselgate scandal was over, we were wrong. >> is not over and still has consequences for employees. everyone knew it was coming. it was just a matter of time. volkswagen just announced it would cut up to 30,000 jobs. a move of this scale is unprecedented. the savings plan is a desperate attempt to recover from the famous dieselgate scandal. >> a great step forward is how volkswagen management described its plans for the future. it was negotiated within the german carmaker for months. now the direction is clear -- vw workers will bear the burden of the plans which will cost jobs. the pact for the future is the biggest reform program in our company's history.

i think obama had a -- president obama had a few things he needed to say and to tell donald trump about what he has akechieved an what trump needs to keep in mind as he talks about undoing every single thing he has done other the past eight years. i think this was the president's moment to say to donald trump, i know where you're coming from, but let me just tell you a few things and i think it sounds like from donald trump that the conversation was cordial and respectful and donald trump listened to what he had to say and that he comes out of this meeting with what he said was great respect for the president. donald trump may have visited the white house socially in the past, but he sure hasn't had a meeting anywhere approaching this one, and i think that it's kind of stunning, as dana was saying, for these two people to meet face-to-face for the first time after they have been hurling insults at each other. over this last few months. i think that, boy, i think that the american public needed to hear them come out of this with respect to a degree, at least obama saying it was an excell

. >> calling obama a good man. trump talked legislative action with senate republican mcconnell trump campaign now on board. >> hit the ground run to make sure we get this country turned around and make it great again. >> weather it is health care or immigration -- report are the the new boss in washington i'm going the spot that he will dream. the transition team for the president elect moves from trump tower tohi month. they will work on who gets all the big jobs in the trump administration. >> jim: stung images hope it helps heal the divisiveness and the protest we are seeing. i ask we sa melania trump and she had a meeting with the first lady? >> i think she was acompanying her husband on the hill. down at the white house she had got advice from mrs. obama how to raise a child in the white house. baron trump with donald trump is the same age as the obama's johningest daughter. michelle said many times she got great advice from laura bush. laura bush said she got advice from hilary who raised chelsea. baron will

clinton missed obama's mark by a lot. votes. just look at milwaukee, a city the clinton team banked on winning big. clinton got 43,000 fewer votes than obama did. turnout was down overall, which suggests those folks didn't switch parties, they simply stayed home. those folks lost votes in milwaukee alone were enough to cost her the state. she lost wisconsin to donald trump by roughly 27,000 votes. wow. obama coalition to beat donald trump and in states like wisconsin, along with michigan and ohio and pennsylvania, she wasn't able to do that. she needed to make sure obama voters didn't become trump voters. clearly in some states that happened too. coming up, looking forward. how [vo] wells fargo is making changes to make things right. first, all customers who have been impacted will be fully refunded. second, a confirmation will be sent when new personal or small business checking, savings or e've eliminated product sales goals for our retail bankers to ensure your interests are put first. we're taking action. >>> back now with t

[cheers and applause] president obama: vote! and if you do, we will elect hillary clinton, the next president of the united states. we will elect deborah ross, the next senator of the great state of north carolina. we will continue this amazing journey, finish what we started, and remind the world why this is the greatest country on earth. god bless you, north carolina. god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ political events to tell you about tomorrow. melania trump, wife of donald her husbandigns for in berwyn, pennsylvania, outside of philadelphia. live coverage starting at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. in the evening, hillary clinton a campaign rally in raleigh, north carolina. watch coverage at 7:45 p.m. eastern on c-span. up next on c-span, a look at the new hampshire senate race between senator kelly ayotte and governor maggie hassan. a rally inp holds orlando, florida. president obama campaigns for in chapel hill, north carolina. c-span's "washington journal" with

president obama: what is your name? [indiscernible] president obama: nice to meet you. you are a student? >> i am at a student. [cheers] president obama: you have some classmates here. the united states is such a big country that after an election people are uncertain. i think it will be important for everybody around the world to not make the immediate judgments, but give the new president elect a chance to examine issues, to determine what their policies will be, because what i have said is the way that you campaign is not the way you will govern. sometimes when you are campaigning, you are trying to stir up passion. when you govern, you actually have reality in front of you and you to decide, how do i make this work? the alliance between the u.s. and europe through nato is very strong. and the president elect, donald trump, has already reaffirmed our commitment to nato. we have been asking for europe to carry more of the burden of defense spending than they have been doing, because the united states spends a lot more than some of our nato partners. and they recognize

obama won new hampshire, obama won nevada, mitt romney won arizona. but heading into the final weekend, clinton about even with where the president was in all of these states, including the three yellows and the president won two out of three. what about states where she's underperforming the president. where she is weaker heading into the final weekend where she was in 2012. that includes iowa and ohio. these two midwestern states that we have leaning trump's way right now, because hillary clinton is doing nowhere near as well as president obama did four years ago. her lead a little bit smaller than the president's lead was heading into the final weekend. president obama carried pennsylvania. hillary clinton very much needs to keep it this time. significantly for her, there are a few states where she's doing for th better. they include colorado by just a little bit over where obama was in 2012, virginia, where she's a bit ahead of where the president was in 2012. these two are the most significant. president obama trailed in north carolina and in flo

there were obama '12 voters that voted trump. it's clear it was an economic message that they were trying to send. how did this happen? >> well, i think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. you know, the reality is, you got folks in diners and hair shops and barber shops all over this country who look at their own lives and think, you know, my parents did better than i'm doing and my kids might not do as well as i'm doing. that's because wages have been flat for so long. they feel like there's two systems of justice. over there at wells fargo, you had all this scandal going on there, the ceo leaves with a giant package. other folks get a lot of trouble for doing less. the truth is, we have got to make america work for working people again. we have to have a shared prosperity. we have to make that our job number one. chuck, four minimum wage ballot measures succeeded tuesday. people want a better economic playing field for working americans. they're voting for it. our job is to make sure that people know the de

it wasn't as strong as the obama 0 coalition had been. millions of voters voted for a obama that stayed home. >> it was not. i think several reasons. first of all, every candidate is different. i don't think that cool is transferable. and president obama did his level best to be on the campaign trail for secretary clinton. he and first lady michelle obama. they did their part in campaigning for her. in the end some of her surrogates showed she needed them, get the rappers and celebrities out there it detracts from the messenger and donald trump was the best messenger. you can't take that away from him. this was always a change election. people missed something so often in front of them. you can't say 70 prgs of americans want to take the country in a new, different direction and yet they are not going to vote for the guy that represents a new, different direction. they did in fact vote for the guy. also i think in modelling the electorate, there were conclusions in search of evidence. i think politics today puts people in boxes too easily

barack obama is still barack obama. that is a moment where the wage and gravity has hit you. or's. -- has hit you full force. had seen that photo, you would say, well, looks good. john: if jeb bush were president-elect, a similar meeting with have taken place. after trump left today, he spent time with two republicans who, despite the public into relationships with trump over the past months, will be vitally important to executing a legislative agenda. first, house speaker paul ryan. mr. trump: [inaudible] we will do spectacular things for the american people. [inaudible] ryan after that meeting, gave a tour of the balcony a much donald trump will be sworn in january. mitcha meeting with mcconnell, trump told leaders, quote, we are going to work very strongly on immigration, health care, and we are looking at jobs, big league jobs. mark, apart from the fact that he did not say big league and what do you make of the optics and the meetings up on capitol hill? mark: the optics and the way that he'll leaders are bending to the reality of the president well forbodes repairing rel

obama. as far as i know, mr. bush never tried to lobby president obama directly to maintain some of his policies, but you just told us that the president will have the opportunity to talk to the president-elect trump about some of these policies. are you suggesting that mr. obama is going to lobby mr. trump directly to maintain some of these policies that mr. trump has repeatedly excoriated on the campaign trail, and if that's i going to happen, does that mean that the iran deal, immigration limits, transgender bathrooms, all those things are sort of gone on january 21 yakker sjr 21st? -- january 21? i can speak to the nature of the conversations between president bush and then president-elect obama. i don't know if president bush lobbied president obama on any issues or not. i think what i would say in terms of trying to help you get a sense of the comes of conversations i am trying to describe, i would not use the word "lobby." when i would use is i would intent ofsay the president obama and his team is brief p

despuÉs de la reuniÓn de obama y trump. javier:momento especial se une obama con el presidente electo. pasemos con janet para que nos cuente como se vive todo esto. janet:estamos a la espera de esta primera reuniÓn. sabemos que no es la primera vez que ellos hablan, el presidente obama lo llamÓ por telÉfono para felicitarlo. pero es la primera vez que se unen para comenzar el proceso de transiciÓn, en los Últimos 70 dÍas del presidente obama. para que se haga esta transiciÓn para el bien del paÍs, a pesar de las asperezas que ambos han recalcado a travÉs de los aÑos. personas que no se han visto cara a cara en que trump ha dicho que derrumbarÍa todo los pilares que ha construido el presidente obama en cuanto a inmigraciÓn, seguridad nacional, muchos temas que el presidente obama ha recalcado y trabajado muy duro. como polÍtica podría derrumbarlos, pues se trata de estrechar las manos, hacer las paces y buscar la manera de trabajar juntos para poder hacer una transiciÓn y que trump llegue a la casa blanca como

trump meets president obama for the fi trump sitting down with michelle obama. what was discussed at the white house and on capitol hill. and the trump team's one big break from what past presidents have done. >> we're reading the body language and expert analysis from the trump/obama meeting. what their eye contact and seating position said. >>> and caught on camera, a car smashes through a store. a customer inside inches away >> good friday morning, everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm adrienne bankert in for diane. we begin with anti-trump anger spilling into the streets again overnight. >> it is happening right now. the protests in portland, oregon, taking a violent turn escalating into what police called a riot as protesters vandalize cars and buildings, smashing windows, hurling projectiles at police. a live look at portland right now in the early morning hours. you can see police in riot gear are still out there in force and made several arrests. people there in custody, and this is after protesters have been throwing glass bottles at officers. officer

and then eight years ago exactly to this day i joined the obama -- obama biden transition team. working with their teams as they transitioned into the government. taken over from the bush administration. working with secretary clinton did in the white house. in terms of how i got in the room where it happens i ask myself that question oftentimes. but i what i wanted to try to do with this book is not right about my experience. i try to buck the trend. there is usually one of two kinds of books. it's a kind of book that places the author at the center of every pivotal event that occurred while they were in government. also the kind of book that says all of their former colleagues screwed everything up and if they've only listen to the author than everything would be great. some of them try to do both at the same time. i try to defy that in this book. it draws on my experiences serving as a state department. as i think about obama's foreign policy in the america's role in the world. in the debate we've been having. in a challenging question that we have before us on military inter

obama and hopefully will get it to you. the president called it an excellent meeting. >> we talked about some of the organizational issues in the white house and talked about foreign policy and as i said last night. >> mr. president, it was a great honor to being with you. and look forward to being with you many more times, thank you. >> we are not going to take any questions. >> that's call the white house pool spray. send in one camera and a still photographer and at the end they cut the mike and at one point you don't hear it. it was not recorded on the audio, mr. trump said barrack obama is a good man. a lot of the old grudges slowly patched up real quickly. and the job of transitioning to the new president. >> thank you for that. and getting more color as far as donald trump's time in washington d.c. we have producers tracking his movement from the white house to it the capitol club. and trump gave reporters the thumps up. and support issers are on the street and one holding a trump sign and mafrng you, melania sign. a

like obama and affordable care act. while the president talks about trying to make this transition as smooth as possible. i got to believe that at some levels and many levels, it is going to be a tough thing. >> you talked about yesterday of the mood at the white house, just specifically of your point of obamacare, we have these new numbers from the department of health and human services that sign ups for obamacare and the open enroll m periment period i than 100,000 people selected plans on healthcare.gov. that was on wednesday. the fact that there is going to be an executive order that he launches. the mood today is lighter. the sun has returned and people su understand that the earth will continue to spin on its axis. >> has the mood lighten a little bit? >> reality is grasping people. yesterday and right after the election and that night, a lot of people are having trouble. and now the feeling is lets get to work and do what we have to do and make the final 70 some days of the administration productive. the focus i

president obama lands in europe. his new mission, reassure the allies about president-elect trump. >>> power struggle at trump tower. aides at odds over cabinet position. >>> trump's adult children could get top level security clearance. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. the breaking news. air force one has landed in athens carrying president obama on the last scheduled foreign trip of his presidency. you see the pictures of him here descending the plane. this is part of the three-nation tour to take him to germany and peru. the purpose of the trip and the goal is far different. to ease concerns over president-elect trump. the current president serves as an unlikely ambassador. >> in my conversation with the president-elect, he expressed a great interest in maintaining our core strategic relationships. and so one of the messages i will be able to deliver is his commitment to nato. >> this is to the the trip that president obama had initially planned. international diplomatic editor n

sanders and michelle obama. what you said about donald trump is what people have been saying out loud and often for months. and voters in this country decided that that was not the most important thing to them. >> again, they shook up. they said they voted for change by any means and anyone necessary. we cannot forget that. people who went and voted for donald trump, they voted for racism, and kpaccident phob acc f phone -- i'm not supporting donald trump, but i'll hold him accountable. we have to you said those folks that voted for donald trump had a disregard for what it meant for the minority in this country. people voted for their own interests. >> i read this. it was interesting. the press and people who did not like donald trump, they took trump literally but not seriously. his supporters took him seriously but not literally. they don't think they voted for a racist. they don't think they voted for a misogynist. they don't, and that's two different world view and how the press and we missed it. >> that's i

president obama is from chicago, he's here on the show -- >> barack obama? [ cheers and applause ] >> he's a white sox fan but i forgive him. >> jimmy: that's very big of you. >> he's been terrific. you know what that guy ought to do now that he's got some time? >> jimmy: what? >> open a shrimp shack. >> jimmy: a what? >> yeah. a shrimp shack. >> jimmy: a shrimp shack? >> everybody loves shrimp, jeffrey. >> jimmy: jimmy. >> there's something about them. they're tasty. he can call it something like, obama's world of shrimp. >> jimmy: oh, that's -- >> people digging in, enjoying their shrimp. he could come around. how are you enjoying your shrimp? >> jimmy: okay. >> are they hot enough for you? throw in a baked potato wrapped in tinfoil and we got ourselves a road win. >> jimmy: oh, that -- maybe some beer with the shrimp, i remember how much you loved that. do they have beer in heaven? >> hell, yes, they have beer. not just any beer. budweiser beer! [ cheers and applause ] aimed, served in a metal can, just like it's supposed to. give it a sip. >> jimmy: no t

bush to president obama went. i suspect this transition will be smooth as well. >> this is the beginning of an incredibly important ten-week period of time. yes, president obama still has some business he wants to get done. yes, president obama will probably have a few private words with donald trump about i know you promised to change everything i have done. maybe you want to keep this or that. mostly, this is about how this works, pledging cooperation, making sure the teams are in sync with each other and it sounds like little stuff, but donald trump is about to start getting the most sensitive intelligence briefings, about to learn a lot about isis, a lot about what's going on in the middle east, a lot about the china relationship, and as he learns that during the transition, he will probably want to reach out and talk to people who are in government at the moment. some of this is the simple stuff if you will, exchange of contacts. some of it is just the preparation of how the president runs his day and donald

president obama out there. there has been no greater ambassador to the world for the future trump administration than current president obama. listen to what the president said yesterday. >> i also think that he is coming to this office with fewer set hard and fast policy prescriptions. i don't think he is ideological. i think ultimately, he is pragmatic in that way. and that can serve him well. as long as he's got good people around him and he has a clear sense of direction. >> president obama has always said he respected how george w. bush left office. this is that on steroids to quote ellis henican a moment ago. he would not take the bait on steve bannon yesterday. >> i'll give you two theories. one, he is giving the incoming president a name to live up to. thinking donald trump doesn't know how to be president. and if barack obama can be a mentor, maybe he can influence him. the other explanation is that maybe obama said this guy is so different from me. i want to show this difference and emphasize how it i

and the obama coalition is never going to be the obama coalition again. we have to grow our share of electorate, and that has to include more middle-class white voters. we have to be focused on that. like i was hearing that 24 hours ago from the republican party. >> we mentioned before, there's a bit of an irony to run as a populist, and then you move to the white house and you have to be president. from the federal government. how does that play out with donald trump riding in on that rhetorical horse? arriving there, trying to keep the faith with the people that voted him in after saying he would shake up the establishment, but now has to run the place. with some real establishments aryans like -- establishmentarians like all ryan. >> that is what will make or break the first 100 days is the relationship between donald trump and paul ryan. >> i mentioned before, the idea of normalizing donald trump. how a lot of your colleagues and maybe you, criticizing people in the press -- you say that you cannot treat him like a normal president. he is being greete

he talked ton telephone with president obama for nearly one hour on saturday. and is continuing to work on naming more key advisers to his administration. but the drama continues to surround who will be the next secretary of state. and the two front-runners for the chief diplomat reportedly continue to be not the guy on the right but

obama was born in '61. some of the people profiled in the book, first tell us some of the main characters. >> guest: well, the main character, of course, barack obama, even though he was just supposed to be a character, and then, of course, he's president, so he kind of becomes the character. deval patrick, governor of massachusetts. never ran for dogcatcher before he got elected to statewide office in an adopted city, an adopted state, massachusetts. no one thought he had a chance. he was discouraged. he was running against a very popular white attorney general, tom reilly, who had a lot of support but not the same political charisma. if you go back is and look over his campaign, it looked a lot like what happened with barack obama, not by accident because president obama's chief political strategists worked for deval patrick. it turns out it helps to know politics. same thing happened to cory booker. brilliant young mayor of newark, new jersey. all these guys could make a lot of must be doing other things

we saw that with michelle obama, as well. the fact that she has the strong surrogates and spread out a little bit more than the trump campaign. which is why it was striking that you saw pence and trump in pennsylvania yesterday. >> mark, we have a little bit interesting bush family news. this is george p. bush who is jeb's son and he said yesterday that he felt, believe, maybe he had insider information, that his uncle, george w. bush, 43, was going to vote or could likely vote for hillary over trump. and, of course, this follows the news this summer that his grandfather, george h.w. bush was going to vote for hillary over trump. what do you make out of that? >> not aer. look, the trumps and the bush hate each other. a very bitter battle as our viewers all know during the republican primary. at the same time, you had donald trump. he has run this campaign as an anti-bush campaign. he has been very critical of his stewardship of the two terms of the country. george p. bush on the other hand has a future ahead of him. he's look

then you go to the tax obama care issues. i haven't worked too much on the obamacare issues, so i'll laeig that to someone else. on the tax bill, i think we can pass something in the first 150 this is being discussed, not certain -- that you do a kind of jobs bill right out of the gate that has the business tax cuts which is really the heart of the plan, getting that rate down to 15%. we think we can get that through the house in 30 days because it's so similar to what paul ryan wants to do. then you take it over to the senate. as you said, maybe that's infrastructure spending in that package to get some democratic votes. then i think you could get something with perhaps 65 votes in the senate. you may not need the so-called reconciliation -- >> i talked to kevin brady, chairman of house ways and means committee. he said he doesn't want to split corporate tax reform from individual tax reform because he believes that you have to do the two together to make the kind of efficient allocation of capital, number one. number two, p

obama, trump, what happens? josh earnest seemed to be suggesting yesterday that obama will argue with trump, not argue, but present, i should say, the reason for the policy obama as president pure. how will that go? >> probably not all that great because if that indeed the president does. he got elected on repealing obamacare and rescinding barack obama's executive orders. unlikely he will change his mind. the president could impress on donald trump the grave responsibilities of the office and responsibility to remember how policy changes affects all americans, not just ones that voted for you. my guess the talk is high-minded and not specific to obama policies. bill: i think it will will be a fascinating picture. watch the body language afterward and certainly words they use. byron, there is a lot of consumption, political consumption right now, still 36 hours later. how are you explaining what happened on tuesday night? what was the american voter saying, do you think? >> the major, major question of this elec

julie: obama aims to assure europe. brent: joining us now in the studio is nicholas from the jfk institute. no matter where barack obama goes now in europe, his task is to reassure europeans and their leaders that everything is going to be ok when he is gone. nicholas: pretty much. the problem lies not with what he pointed out that for 17 years the transatlantic had -- the 70 years, the transatlantic alliance richard europe, but donald trump has been vague at best. insecurity about what his administration will be his poison. brent: he cannot make any promises because as he says, he will not be in the next president, so it is out of his hands. what about syria? we know it is on the agenda friday, what can obama do their? -- there? julie: nikolas: not much, actually. his commitment to resolving the crisis has been a little lukewarm and is on stand to reason to assume that the trump administration would be more forceful, especially considering that his isolationist kind of approach to politics does not really promise more