obama. >> barack obama is surging here 9 pounts ahead of hillary clinton. we're just a few days ago they were tied. but senator clinton is fighting back hard. >> i don't know since when experience became some kind of liability in run ining for the highest office in our land. >> she is got gritty and was like i'm going to fight this thing out town by town. >> it turned into a day unlike any other for hillary clinton. >> she's taken aback by what's happened. she's losing against this guy named barack obama, who no one had heard of months before. and she's frustrated. you can tell. it's palpable. >> as a woman it's hard to get out of the house and to get ready. my question is personal. how do you do it? >> how do you keep upbeat and look so wonderful? >> it's not easy. it's not easy. and i couldn't do it. i didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do. i have so many opportunities from this country. i just don't want the to see us fall backwards. >> all anyone is talking about is hillary clinton this that rare display of emotion. >> some are wonder

instead barack obama had to concede. however, they're not throwing in the towel by any means. >> the energy is all on barack obama and hillary clinton. so we get through all of these first primary and john edwards and his two americas are not getting any traction. >> it's time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path. >> it is now certain that for the first time in america a major political party will nominate either a woman or an african-american to be its candidate for president. >> i feel change in the air. what about you? >> the united states political royalty was endorsing this first-term senator and turningeturning its black on the clintons. for the clintons it was personal because they had worked for ted kennedy, they were friends with ted kennedy and it was a real blow for us. hillary said where do we go from here, and frankly we didn't have the answer. >> hillary clinton never anticipated to have a well financed opponent and well organized opponent like barack obama. >> her strategy is winning ear

>>> i'm voting for barack obama not because he's black. i'm voting for barack obama because he's brilliant. >> this is very personal for me. >> presidential campaigns are tough. >> i feel change in the air. >> the democratic party has thrown us women aside. >> we are going to go washington and shake things up. >> i can't trust obama. >> the first african-american president of the united states. >> failure to act now will turn crisis into a catastrophe. >> it's not health reform. this is control. >> how is that hopy changy stuff working out for you? >>> american people have sent a resounding and unmistakable message of change ask new direction for america. >> it's been five days since they took control of congress, but the focus is shifting to the next political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007, the climate is not very good if you are a republican. >> the war in iraq is very unpopular. and made democrats think they could win the presidency. >> senator biden joining a growing list of candidates announcing th

barack obama! [cheers and applause] - barack obama, the senator from illinois, the junior senator from iinois, has won the iowa caucuses. - he's got good ideas, good qualities and that's wha need. - we'll win new hampshir in five days and--and then we'll feel really good. - hillary clinton is coming back to a state that she's spent a lot of time in and is seen on television in a diner where a woman basically asks, "how do you just keep on going?" and hillary clinton almost looks as if she's not gonna beueble to answer theion. - you know, i have so many opportunities from this country, i just don't want to see us fall backwards you know? so-- [applause] - i remember thinking at that moment, i doow how this is going to play, because one of the things that had plagued her was the sort of lack of authenticity, and humanity, and here was this human moment and whether she was crying because she was losing or not, she was showing an emotion people could relate to. - here's when democrats in new hampshire

say these things about barack obama. a phrase of paling around with terrorists took hold. >> our opponent sees america as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who target their own country. >> the crowds got angrier and angrier. any mention of barack obama's name would trigger a chorus of booing that john mccain was deeply uncomfortable. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him. he's not -- he's an arab. he's not -- >> no ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. that's what this campaign is all about. >> i remember thinking that john mccain has no idea what he just did. he just stood up against the darkest and ugliest forces in american politics. >> i knew that was the end of the campaign. it was really a surrender to the inevitable by the man who is furthest thing from a quitter you can ever imagine. >> the weeks leading up to the election, obama had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead. >> i think it really became a change electio

and really, any mention of barack obama's name would trigger a chorus of booing and vitriol that john mccain was deeply, deeply uncomfortable with. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he's not -- he's a -- he's an arab. he is not -- >> no, ma'am. no, ma'am. no, ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. and that's what this campaign is all about. >> i remember thinking that john mccain has no idea what he just did. but he just stood up against the darkest and ugliest forces in american politics. >> i knew that was the end of the campaign. it was really a surrender to the inevitable by a man who is the furthest thing from a quitter that you can ever imagine. >> in the weeks leading up to the election, obama had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead. >> i think it really became a change election on the heels of the wars and the economic collapse. i think the appetite for change was almost insatiable. >> it is now 11:00 on the east coast. and, keith, we can report history. >> barack obama is projected

obama you would swear society , donald trump it minimizes what they thought barack obama would be. he's everything they swore he would be. he's ignorant, he's belligerent, he is impetuous, he is quick-tempered. he's promiscuous, he's a liar. all these things they ascribe to us he embodies and they are proud of it. you make an observation in chapter 17 that you elaborate on, you say trump is america's first blatant affirmative action president. explain that. >> guest: he was hired. he's incompetent, never did the job, wasn't worthy of the job but he got the job because of the color of his skin. white america loves what he said. and they got him and he was hired specifically for that. he ran against a host of people who were politically qualified but they gave the job to him because of the things he said. the things he said about immigrants, the things he said about women, any host of issues, those things were what appealed to them and now he's president. that along with russia but pretty much primarily he was america's first quantifiable, quantifiable affirmative action candidate .

barack obama, who ran against him in 2008, said... the former president, vice president, joe biden, who said in the senate with him for many years, said... donald trump tweeted my deeper 70s and respect go out to the family of senatorjohn mccain. our hearts and present with you. and the democratic party leader in the senate, chuck schumer, said... that is all we have time for. we will be back again soon. thank you for joining will be back again soon. thank you forjoining us. good morning. fewer showers are more sunshine on saturday, but it did not feel warm. is how we ended the day, shown by one of our weather watchers. already the skies of change. everything coming in from the atlantic, you would expect to be a little warmer. it may not be the case. this cloud already spilling in. overnight bridge is not quite as low, but it will feel quite chilly, i think, during sunday ‘s eye because it is going to be dull and is going to be a bit rainy as well. studied at least in scotland and is in england, but we will see the rain elsewhere, p

he hooked up with with me because he want to the work with barack obama and he can never work on this campaign. [laughter] and he never did. if you wonlder where pfeiffer is a feminist, he is. okay. so first -- talk of the day -- >> did something happen? >> so i saw -- where we mention a third branch of government everyone groans. i know. but -- funny. what do you think about this -- what do you think about this kavanaugh person and all of his baggage and by baggage i mean shady shit? [laughter] >> never written synagogue. >> thanks for giving me the heads up. >> it was in the invite. >> i'm sorry. [laughter] there are everywhere -- like lifer streaming. okay. [laughter] anyway -- what do you think? >> so i would say that i'm personally not a fan of brett kavanaugh. and i think if he were to be confirmed he would be -- i think that's a analysis qowld say he would be to the right of -- roberts alito had is pretty far right. as everyone knows and upset about is this the swing and swing with vote on the court so how new swing vote will be jen roberts also ben. now, i see a couple of thin

barack obama has just released the statement and let me read it for you now. john mccain and i were members of different generations, came from completely differ backgrounds and competed at the highest level of politics but we shared for all our differences of fidelity to something higher. the ideals for which generations of americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched and sacrificed. we saw our political battles even as a privilege on the nob noble. an opportunity to serve as stewards of the high ideals at home and to advance them around the world. we saw this country is a place where anything is possible and citizenship is our patriotic obligation to ensure. few of us have been tested the way john once was. we are required to show the courage he did but all of us can aspire to the courage the but the greater good above her own and at john's best, he showed us what that means. for that, we are all in his debt. michelle and i send our most heartfelt condolences to cindy and their family. once again, that's a statement from president, former president ba

say these things about barack obama. a phrase of paling around with terrorists took hold. >> our opponent sees america as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who target their own country. >> the crowds got angrier and angrier. any mention of barack obama's name would trigger a chorus of booing that john mccain was deeply uncomfortable. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him. he's not -- he's an arab. he's not -- >> no ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. that's what this campaign is all about. >> i remember thinking that john mccain has no idea what he just did. he just stood up against the darkest and ugliest forces in american politics. >> i knew that was the end of the campaign. it was really a surrender to the inevitable by the man who is furthest thing from a quitter you can ever imagine. >> the weeks leading up to the election, obama had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead. >> i think it really became a change electio

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barack obama and his team went after young people. and at the time we thought that's just ridiculous. that is never going to work. it hasn't worked before. sure enough, we were wrong and he won iowa. >> because history might tell you that it's not the young people who get out and vote. it's the older people that you can rely on at the polls. what about his message do you think really resonated with voters enough to steer them away from a former senator, former first lady with significantly more political experience and clout? >> at the time a lot more money and a lot more traditional support, hillary had. his message just resonated. remember, it was the right after george w. bush's presidency or we had gone through an iraq war, the horrible katrina response and 9/11. people were not happy. so the message that barack obama was hope and change really resinated with the american voter. and particularly, those voters in iowa. >> after hillary clinton lost, the democratic party in 2008 you went on to work for barack obama's campaign. i alm

barack obama offered substantially more input in the conversation. as the economy cratered, the campaign struggled to maintain mow men tunnel. sarah palin was much more willing to be the person on the stump to say these things about obama. and a phrase of palling around with terrorists took hold. >> our opponent is someone who sees america as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country from. >> the crowds got angrier and angrier and really any mention of barack obama's name would trigger a chorus of booing and vitriol that john mccain was deeply, deeply uncomfortable with. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he's not -- he's an arab. >> nope. >> no in. >> no, ma'am, he's a decent family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about. >> i remember thinking that john mccain has no idea what he just did. that he just stood up against the darkest and the ugliest forces in american politics. >> i knew that was the end of the campai

ultimately, he was to lose to history in the form of barack obama. i wish the outcome had been different, my friends, the road was a difficult one from the outset. but your support and friendship never wavered. in the divisive and aggressive world of american politics, there was always respect shown between president obama and john mccain. but donald trump didn't always show mccain such courtesy. he's not a war hero. he is a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, 0k? i hate to tell you. he was a war hero because he was captured! his influence was still obvious in the twilight of his career. after brain surgery, he walked into the senate and stopped donald trump's attempts to get rid of the obamacare health reforms. with a grand gesture, he turned his thumb down. john mccain was a fighter till the end. he lived longer than expected after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. his family said it was with his usual strength of will that he chose to stop receiving medical treatment, but he was a man who n

obama, you would swear society -- donald trump epitomizes what they thought barack obama would be. he's everything they swore he would be. he's ignorant. he's belligerent. he is quick tempered. he's promiscuous. he's a liar, all the things they ascribe to us, he embodies. and they're proud of him. >> you make an observation in chapter 17 on that point that i want you to elaborate on. you say trump is america's first blatant affirmative action president. explain that. >> absolutely. he was hired. he doesn't -- he's incompetent, never did the job, wasn't worthy of the job, didn't deserve the job, but he got the job specifically because of the color of his skin. white america loves what he said and wanted him and they got him. and he was hired specifically for that. specifically. he ran against a host of people who were at least politically qualified, but they gave the job to him specifically because of the things he said, the things he said about immigrants, the things he said about women, the things he said about any host of issues, those things -- appealed to him. and now he's pres

barack obama was able to pull together the other. there's never, whether it was barack obama's election or donald trump's election, the majority of white never voted for obama, never. the majority of whites never did but there were so many others that they would form this coalition where it happened. it's interesting, i find myself like i forget what in your present but we must not be racist can we put donald trump -- we put barack obama in office. i said that's not true because the people who say that didn't vote for obama. went on talking to these most white men did not vote for obama. most white men voted for trump. most white women did not vote for obama. most white women voted for trump. what you had was the other parts of the coalition were energized, the young, the youth were very important. black women have always consistently voted, the highest percentage of any group in the country so that always have voted. they have always shown up. where he lost was the people that were, you know, kind of not motivated to do it. in other

bush and barack obama both of whom were. political opponents one time or another of john mccain will be invited to deliver eulogies according to the reports that we're seeing the vice president mike pence will be invited but donald trump will not be invited again according to those reports as you mentioned and finally john mccain was a military aviator he graduated from the naval academy in annapolis as a midshipman and that is where it is planned will be john mccain's final rest. please thank you for that rob reynolds live for us in washington d.c. and as a rob mention there john mccain had more than three million followers on twitter and tweet almost every day sarah what's been the social media reaction to his death well just as it was mentioned i mean there has been a huge reaction from all around the world and mainly in support from your u.s. politicians as well as world leaders and more and if you take a look at this trends map it should show you when the news first broke you can see those people talking about it especi

bush, barack obama. they were always rivals, never enemies. >> michael beschloss, as a presidential historian as you put it in context how he'll be remembered, how will senator john mccain be remembered? i was playing a little bit earlier whether he tom brokaw sat with him. >> right. >> and it was so simple as a public bent. right? that is, simply all he wanted. how will he be compared to the other as was said earlier, the other lions from the senate? >> well, one way of looking at it, in the late 1950s, there was in the senate painted on the wall they had places on a mural to paint what they wanted to be the great senators in american history and john kennedy who was a senator at the time was asked to help choose who had be the great senators. people like robert lafollette and daniel webster, all these grand figures. if we were doing that nowadays, john mccain would be one of the first portraits we would paint there. you're doing the history of the senate. this is one of the great leaders in 200 years.

he got angry at barack obama. he was angry at barack obama throughout much of that campaign and through his early days as a senator. looking beyond the senate toward the white house. but he had a deeply rooted sense of decency and character and he was aware of his own weaknesses and aware when he might get carried away and when he knew he had to calm things down. that's what we saw in that moment. he knew there were lines in politics that you couldn't cross even when you were angry, even when lost your temper. even when you were running for the highest office of the land. he demonstrated that again and again and again. especially during that moment during the campaign. >> george, your thoughts on the moment. he loses the nomination in 2000, he loses the election in 2008, but he didn't go away and that's something rare in politicians. he didn't go away. he did keep fighting. >> reporter: he tested out how to fight as well. when he lost that election back in 2000 when he lost the nomination by george w. bush, he was

she sank before jimmy carter and president barack obama. she received a presidential medal of honor. she won 18 grammys spiritual was the first woman induducted i ino the rock 'n roll hall of fame, and the list goes on and on and on. christopher: indeed, we e have a slightly difficult link up with you but we will continue anyway. aretha franklin wrote in her autotobiography, she aretha-ized the song's shshe sank. what i is the essence of virginia's? -- essence of her genius? k.j.: you have to live orr she had a four-octave range in her voice. that is distinctive. whether it wass popop, even couy music, she had a way of doing something and when you heard the song, immediately you knew it was an aretha franklin saw. you could be in the supermarket and hear a song and say yes, that is aretha franklin, i can just tell by the voice. christopher: she inspired d a whole gerarationf femamale singers, dididn'tt she? kk.j.: absolutely. jennifer hudson just gone on twitter sank she got to know aretha franklin as a person, and aretha franklin gave her

you have barack obama elected not once but twice and than donald trump. how do you contextualize this? >> guest: i think that if you look at the things we have gone through a, barack obama was able to pull together the others. the majority never voted for obama, ever. but there were so many others that form this coalition when it happens. i find myself like we must not be racist we put donald trump, he put barack obama in office. that isn't true because people who say that didn't vote for obama. most white men didn't vote for obama, most white women voted for trump. you have the other parts of the coalition effort energized. they consistently voted for the percentage of the group in the country so they always showed up. he lost a those that were not motivated to do it. people were making a false equivalence. hawaii is the same so why should we care and i think that there were a lot of people who just didn't believe that donald trump was going to win. it was kind of childish and our part in immature. there are all of these elements at play and ultimately b

obama is projected to be the next president... >> senat barack obama of illinois... >> narrator: when john mccain's quest for the presidency ended, on the conservativela airwaves, theyd him. >> this campaign never had a prayer and everybody knew it from the get-go. john mccain is a daster. a complete, unmitigated disaster. >> theccain campaign was one of the biggest, ridiculous disasters in the history of campaigns. >> a little while ago, i had thl honor ofng senator barack obama to congratulate him... (crowd booing) please. to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. (crowd booing) >> narrator: john mccain's time as leader of the republican party was ending. >> i am also, of course, very thankful to governor sarah palin, one of the bestca aigners i've ever seen. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: but mccain'ssi de to choose palin would go on to shape the future of the republican party. >> thank you and god bless you... >> i'm glad at least he didn't blame palin. f >> tsh of brilliance was choosing sarah palin. >> i know the people around

and that's what barack obama's statement focused on he talked about how little in common she and mccain had but he still said for all our differences we shared a fidelity to something higher which of course talking about public service but particularly notable here is obama's qualifier towards the end he wrote at john's best he showed us what working for the greater good means at john's best which many obama probably included would say over mccain was not always at his at his best well over a span of nearly sixty years of public service so many things you mention some of them how do you believe mccain is likely to be best remembered it well how he liked to be seen which was as a maverick as we do. i really love that maverick name his straight talk express from the two thousand presidential campaign has become stuff of legend in u.s. political history he went he went to get his party on torture during the bush administration years he stood up for some environmental policies that were against his party's line i was probably best known for pushing through bipartisan campaign finance reform

bush and barack obama will be the yuewe gists. some voices are so vibrant, it's hard to think of them still. what a great way to put it. president obama released a statement saying john mccain and i were members of different generations, but shared in our differences something higher, ideal of which americans and immigrants alike marched and sacrificed. he's buried in annapolis. we have a panel here now. susan paige, and white house correspondent halle jackson, and, look, i want you guys to share, but i want to share a moment of john mccain in 2000, regretting that he standing up for the confederate flag in 2000. this was 15 years before the debate got back. here he is. >> fought on the wrong side of american history. that, my friends, is how i personally feel about the confederate battle flag. that is the honest answer. i never gave to a fair question. >> susan page, what's that say about him? >> a reminder that john mccain was not a perfect person, that he made mistakes in his life and in his political life, but he would come ar

but barack obama praised his courage and his service for the country said we were from different generations different worlds had many different opinions but we both agreed that we had to do a service for this country and many other people have also shared stories about mccain about his humor his rage. but also his decency and saw the human side of john mccain also isn't the focus of many people here and cost was the time mention of this loss how big a role most mccain playing in u.s. politics. john mccain was basically the last of the so-called lions of the senate those big towering figures like a ted kennedy maybe on the democratic side politicians who didn't just so with the party line who really follow their conscience and were able to reach out across the aisle and also work with the opposition or with the opposing party and so this is definitely unique someone like him will be missing him and just briefly cain of course was president trump's fiercest critic howard heinz donald trump in reacting. donald trump sent out a short and rather unconvincing treats saying that his thoughts and p

that moment just a few weeks before election day, no, don't have to be scared of barack obama, disagree with him on the issues but he's perfectly capable of being a good president, we need to honor that. that was a powerful moment. first time i interviewed him was in 2000, when i was local reporter. camera man i was working with, jeff pierce, was a vietnam vet. they to the to chatting with vietnam, deployment and units. quickly determined where they both fit in there. mccain turned to him at end of that and said, welcome home. it was a really powerful moment. >> david, thank you. terry moran in sedona, covering what's been happening. you've talked to supporters, final thoughts as we wrap up. >> there's two things that come to mind, listening to my colleagues and looking at magnificent pictures. one, a life lesson, one, a country lesson. resilience, think of how much john mccain went through, how often he came back. went to war, baby one year old. came back, she was six, didn't recognize him. scared when he hugged her. he went through that, came out on the other end, positive about life.

former president barack obama. last year, as trump was publicly attacking obama, some of trump's advisors thought he should take the extraordinary step of denying barack obama access to intelligence briefings available to all other predecessors. >> a top pentagon expert on russia under obama and one of the officials who signed the letter condemning trump's move. thank you for reporting on this. what do you hear what they were talking about with respect to barack obama and his security clearance? >> you have to look back to that spring, late winter, early spring of 2017. you had these warring factions within the white house. you had the nationalists who saw basically the obama holdovers and obama himself as the enemy. they were the ones they thought really threatened trump and threatened his agenda. they were looking for ways to strike back. they looked at that point of stripping the security clearances for some of the national security officials that had worked for obama and basically h.r. mcmaster, the national se

bush and barack obama to eulogize him. to me i was like that is huge. >> i think that exemplifies the bipartisanship that john mccain dedicated his life to. let's remember how bitter the 2000 election was in which he lost the republican nomination to george w. bush. in south carolina it got really ugly where the bush campaign was spreading rumors that john mccain had an ilegitimate african-american child. i know he was furious about what happened. he got over it and understood that for the good of the country he had to get behind president bush. the 2008 campaign was also a bitter one in many ways. it was hugely disappointing to mccain that he was ahead in early september and wound up losing. he got over it for the good of the country which is what his whole life was about. i think the way he was able to reconcile with bush and obama was a great example that i wish donald trump and others would pay attention to. >> he took the high road. this one couldn't find the high road with a gps, a driver. >> he doesn't do it. low ro

former presidents barack obama and george w. bush will deliver eulogies at mccain's funeral at the national cathedral. mccain's family has asked that trump not attend the service. for more, we are joined by three guests. and washington, d.c. mehdi , hasan, columnist for the intercept and host of their deconstructed podcast. he's also host of "upfront" at al jazeera english. he's been tweeting in response to mccain's death and wrote a piece last year headlined, "despite what the press says, 'maverick' mccain has a long and distinguished record of horribleness." also in washington is medea benjamin, co-founder of codepink. and here in new york we are joined by norman solomon national coordinator of roots , action. he's also executive director of the institute for public accuracy, and author of "war made easy: how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death," among other books." we welcome you all to ♪ norman, let's begin with you. your response to the death of senator mccain, his life and his legacy. >> it is natural to hav

barack obama an lady michelle also sharing their >>> former president barack obama and former first lady michelle obama are also sharing their condolences, in a statement saying few of us have been tested the way john was or required to show the kind of courage that he did, but all of us can aspire to put the greater good above their own. at john's best he showed us what that means. for that, we are all in his debt. michelle and i send out our heart felt condolences to as i understandy, and their family. -- to cindy and their family. >>> turning our attention to the islands. hawaii is not out of danger yet. even though the islands avoided a direct hit by now tropical storm lane nearly four feet of rain fell on the big island. flooding roads and homes. and starting a brushfire, cutting power to thousands and forcing evacuations. >> you could hear it coming. >> i could hear it coming. when i looked outside our porch, the whole yard was already covered with water. >>> thought i was going to wake up to a raging flood and really high winds and high rains. but instead i woke up to a calamity o

there's a view with fiscal stimulus provided by barack obama. a lot of tax cuts on the rest provided down the road by donald trump, but in the middle of that, a zero rate environment, what do you think? >> i think it helped incentivize economic activity but leads to calculations and the fed does have to undo what it did, and that could be a challenge. although i'm generally optimistic where the economy goes. i think one of the big negative drags will be the fed trying to raise interest rates back to normal levels, which if it sdrnths will lead to excess optimism and missed investments like we had in 2005 and 2006. so they have an interesting challenge in that regard. neil: yeah, to put it mildly. john, i've been asking a lot of smart folks over the last couple of days, it could happen again? could we have a financial meltdown? the kind of stuff for which we were rising, 3453 days ago, what do you think? >> i think it's unlikely but still possible. i think that, you know, the fed has stimulated housing again, particularly with a lot of these prog

barack obama said she had helped define the american experience. bill clinton said the country had lost one of its greatest national treasures. the italian transport ministry has begun an investigation into the private operator of the motorway bridge that collapsed in genoa on tuesday, killing at least 38 people. the company has 15 days to demonstrate that it met all its obligations to ensure the properfunctioning of the bridge. rescue teams have said they will continue working in the rubble for another two days. the jury in the trial of paul manafort — the former chairman of donald trump's election campaign — has not yet reached a verdict after a full day of deliberations. mr manafort is facing 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts. ceremonies have begun in spain to mark one year since a terrorist attack which killed 16 people and injured

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what would happen if barack obama or george w. bush or any other president out of the blue stood up in public, in whatever medium, whatever way and said to their recused attorney general, shut down, immediately, the probe into my campaign? >> people would be calling for his head. we know that because we've seen it. when he mentioned things about the hillary clinton investigation, and people's heads exploded. as the prosecutor was saying this is one piece of a larger puzzle that shows that there is certainly a consciousness of guilt. this goes to the question of whether what's bothering the president so much that on the very same day that one of his former campaign chairman has gone on trial, he has the presence of mind to say these things. >> as you say, on the very week the campaign chair is on trial, the first trial that mueller has reached. >> exactly. and the fact that this has happened --. it's not even the main trial mueller will be handling. there's a separate d.c. trial where the stakes are much higher. this is happening a

we are going to show up and work for barack obama. there was a lot of life before anything cool happened. i would say that say really close to the people in your community and see what's up. i think specifically they should get involved with the party. whether it's your local party or state party. practically and an old people's game. they need the young people. it is trying to offer and help modernize the technology of state democratic parties around the country they had been in a bunch of states. the things they found are deeply disturbing -- disturbing. some of them don't have twitter accounts or facebook. the amount of impact that one interject -- is tremendous. in virginia and that reason they were able to tie in the state assembly. it was they decided to run and get involved. in just a running people for office. and being aggressive about it will make a gigantic difference. this is partially why i wrote the book. tell young people your only hope we need you to get involved but politics is not terrible is a great way to make a di

who has covered barack obama longer than anyone else. you know, that will have -- she was president of the white house correspondents association and in that role, she led the fight for press cores to have more access to information from the white house. shewon't degrees from -- holds degrees from the university of alabama and -- [laughter] >> let me look at the alumni database. law school. she is a devoted fan, so welcome. >> thank you. [applause] >> last but not least, kristin nbc news white house correspondent whose hard-hitting political reporting appears across all these news platforms. she has appeared on nbc nightly news for lester halt and anchored the nightly news last night in new york. today, meet the press, nbc news.com. she began covering the white house in december 2011, traveling domestically and internationally with president obama, the first lady, and joe biden. sher to the white house, was a network correspondent in burbank, california. during her first year at the networks, she was nominated for a national emmy award f

bush and barack obama to eulogize him. that is to me -- i was like wow, that's huge. >> that's the bipartisanship that he dedicated his life to. let's remember how bitter the election was in which he lost the election to george w. bush. in south carolina, it got ugly and dirty where the bush campaign had rumors where he had an illegitimate africa know american child. that riled up senator mccain. he was furious about what happened, but he got over it and understood for the good of the country, you have to get behind president bush and the 2008 campaign was bitter in many ways. it was hugely disappointing to mccain that he was ahead in early september and wound up losing and got over it for the good of the country which is what he whole was about and the way he was able to reconcile with bush and obama is a great example that i wish donald trump and others would pay attention to. >> listen, he took the high road. this one couldn't find a high road with a gps and a driver and secret service motorcade. >> low road every time.

obama never saw consistently, and he wants you know, the entities within government to support the strong economy, that is what he wants, but look he understands where the fed is he made opinion known skra. maria: . >> so not first time he talked about fed i spoke with vice

who voted for barack obama in '08 and '12 and donald trump in '16. it's not that president trump is thrilled with the obama administration but he's not talking about him hardly at all. an hour-long speech again last night in ohio, more than that, he talked about him one time. i'm keeping an eye on the fact that at least for now, the president is not talking about his predecessor and almost no mention of obama at these trump rallies. >> you wonder if obama starts campaigning, that might change. >> i think that might change. >> i'll close with this. a couple of races to keep an eye on as we track whether or not 2018 will shape up to be another sho called year of the women. four women could emerge as challenges for the four republican held seats in that state. two of those seats are already held by women. we could see women running against women as they battle for the votes of you guessed it, suburban women. in michigan where john conyers won't be on the ballot for first time in decades after stepping down amid sexual harassment allegations, two women a