. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. >> the first african-american to run the united states. >> failure to act now will turn to catastrophicy. >> how's that hopy, changy stuff working out for ya. ♪ >>> the american people ascent a resounding and unmistakable message of change and new direction for america. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> it's been just five days since democrats took control of both houses of congress but already the focus is shifting to the next big political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007 the climate is good if you're republican. the war in iraq is very unpopular and many democrats think they can win. >> many democrats announcing intention for '08. >> you had a lot of democratic candidates. chris dodd. joe biden. you think it's going to be mcclinto hillary clinton's time. >> today on her website she made it official. >> i'm not just starting a campaign i'm beginning a conversation. >> after six years as a senator people poll she's got the skills to be p

obama came in at 13. reagan is at number nine or 11, and clinton is trailing obama . a poll on thedid most admired living president. clinton,, followed by followed by reagan. those are facts. that is how the american people feel. when we look at the real data, real information, will we see is that your callers -- what we see is that your callers, two-to-one democrat.eus moderate, or conservative. your phoneannot game system. host: let's go to randy on the republican line. caller: good morning. history will prove that obama was the worst president ever. as obama beats the drums the grading trump, there are some things we need to keep in mind, corruption through the irs, corruption at benghazi, corruption at the fbi. impoverished the black community, and isis sympathizer, a trader, a liar -- liar, it was a socialist trying to redistribute the wealth of america. everyone talks about how racist trump is, let's not forget that obama would never waste a tragedy. come to mind trayvon martin, reverend wright, freddie gray, ferguson, baltimore. all of them, he jumped on the wa

the obama care pools. but, to that effect, the premiums will rise in the obama care market as i mentioned. that is not, a problem. that is government transparency and i think that that is a good thing. so, i'm going to stop there. i look forward to hearing chris's comments and taking her questions. thank you. >> thank you to everyone at cato for inviting me to share a few thoughts on this issue today. i completely agree with michael, i think that everyone is a little bit faster it -- underestimating the change, and the impact site is really going to generate for people who need health insurance. sick and healthy across the country. i think that it is best to kind of think about this issue by kind of going back to the whole issue of where did obama care come from? the issue i think, like i said, at the core of this, it was a real genuine problem. uninsurable individuals with pre-existing conditions. either they left their job or did not previously have coverage and were unable to access it in the individual

and then michelle obama has a memoir coming out in november, barack obama's book out next year. and in his center in chicago, it will largely be based the nonprofit part on bringing out the vote, getting people engaged in democracy. so it is his coming out. it happened in illinois yesterday. >> and so michael, as vice chair of the dnc, talk to us about the importance of the former president. because sometimes there is real receipt as soon ticence for the president to be on the campaign trail because the party wants to look at fresh, new. why is this different? >> the exciting part is making sure that we are conveying that yes the speech happened yesterday, but president obama has been clear, we need to have a new generation of leadership that is emerging. when you think about you have a primary next week in new york, opportunity of first african-american woman, you think about what happened in florida with andrew gillum. it is about how do you amplify the new voices to be a part of this process. and that can than by having problem out on the trail to mobilize people and say we h

president obama claimed all of trump's success was started under obama's presidency, even though he had the slowest economic recovery if you can call it that. i don't think it was a recovery, from the great recession. to which you say what? >> that dog won't hunt. if you look at the 8 years of the obama presidency, the on thing that grew robustly was the national debt. we started at $10 trillion at the national debt when obama took office and he left office double that. that is crushing to this country. the other thing that's useful to compare the two presidencies with obama basically slumped along at 2% or less gdp growth year in and year out, nobody said, and i was debating to clinton's people on the campaign trail. nobody said you can get past 2%. guess what? we are well over 3% and they revised the number upward to 4%. it's a beautiful thing. david: you and i remember the late 1970s when we were told the same thing. limits to growth, we'll never get anywhere. you have to be satisfied with zero growth rates. ronald reagan came along and said we are better than that. it was ronald rea

when obama came in, the world was in crisis. you can argue it wasn't a strong enough recovery and trump can take credit for goosing the economy with regulations and corporate tax cuts. not sure that he can credibly say that you can call low energy obama. i mean i don't think that that will fly. but you see two major different world views combatting in really unusually personal terms for an ex-president and incumbent. sign of a fascinating campaign to come. >> and i think it is incredibly smart of the democrats to put president obama out there. quite frankly, the number of socialists and people that turn off independent voters that were getting a lot of press coverage was probably not good to the effort to retake the house. so smart move to put president obama out there. listen, you will see two president trumps go at it, i think that is quite typical. but i think if you talk to anyone who is a small business owner in this country, any corporate ceo, they are loving trump's economy and that is the one thing that i think frustrate

this is poresident obama. moral and ethical and related to civil human rights. >> we are supposed to stand up to discrimination. we are sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivo l unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. how hard can that be saying that nazis are bad? >> michael, will this move the needle and by how much? this sort of messaging to the base and those who might be swingable. >> that's what the president of the united states should sound like. the juxtaposition between barack obama and donald trump couldn't be more startling. on one side you have barack obama, a man who has spoken to our better angels and talked about the ties that bind us and unify and on the other side, you have donald trump. a president and candidate who may be a moral failure and done the what aboutism when it comes to the altright and nazis. president obama is going to be a really good campaign surrogate in georgia and florida where we are trying to turn out more african american voters. like susan said, a lot of rep

so what else did obama do today? he called on americans to find common ground and fight back against what he calls dangerous times. president trump is deploying very different tactics as november approaches. which set of tactics will prevail? what do you say? great debate, next. smiles when they start. how do they finish? this is amazing. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven't worked well enough. and it helps people achieve control that lasts. so you can experience few or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your d

you know, don't forget when you talked about debt, president obama today, former president obama hinted at no debt for students. so taxpayer going to pay that $1.5 trillion in student debt out there? that would certainly be huge. >> neil: what do you think of that? there's debt that goes to good causes in the eyes of the beholder. how is this weighing out? americans are feeling good about the economy. how is it sorting out? >> it's an interesting thing right now. look at the rise of socialism as it's more popular than other ideologies. one of the big reasons is because of student debt. people are saddled. kids out of college with $200,000 of debt. that's how they're starting out. of course, someone that promises that they're going to solve that problem is going to be popular with young people and their parents trying to help them get out from under this. on on the of that, a lot of people with healthcare problems, healthcare issues. insurance premiums are out of control. families paying over $2,000 a month. when you say you have solutions, that's good. but how are you going to pay for i

but you heard president obama yesterday, former president obama, really go on this comprehensive denunciation of trumpian politics, president trump, and also the republican party. former president obama really ticked through the list, given trump's embrace of russia, not acknowledging they're an advocacy, the willing to play in the sand box with white nationalists. for those reasons and more you heard obama say the stakes are too high to sit on the sidelines. up until this point we've seen obama and his aides embrace the sort of cautious logic trying to stay removed from all of this for a couple reasons. one, they didn't want it to turn into a republican foil and have the unintended consequence of driving republicans out in the midterm elections as a proxy vote against him, but he wanted to give some space for new democratic voices to come on the scene. there is still this void on-in the party, and you see president obama is now the one to fill it. >> david, you worked with president obama, you saw his temperament first hand. what is what happened yesterday, him changing course, talking about

the most important thing here, though, is the obama coalition turned out for barack obama in 2008 and in 2012. they did not turn out in the midterm elections in 2010 and 2014 or frankly in 2016 in the presidential election. now there is a chance of that coalition of young people, african-americans, latinos, others to come out and vote because we can see with our own eyes before us every day that the republican party is enabling this radical behavior, this hostility to workers, this hostility to democratic norms that we see from donald trump every day. if that obama coalition can turn out in the midterm elections we have finally some accountability and a check on this out of control presidency. >> jonathan, for people who like barack obama, they can't get enough of this stuff. is there some chance, though, that barack obama becomes the foil that donald trump loves that barack obama becomes the thing that donald trump continues to talk about? >> well, i think there is some worry about that in the obama camp. but remember obama is 25 points more popular than donald trump. that's a pretty

[applause] president obama: any way, i digress. [laughter] president obama: so we made progress, but -- and this is the truth --, my administration couldn't reverse 40-year trends when theight years ems republicans took over the house of republicans and decided to block everything we did. even things they used to support. so we pulled the economy out of crisis, but to this day, too many people who once felt solidly middle class, still feel very real and very personal economic insecurity. even though we took out osama bin laden and wound down the wars in iraq and our combat role in afghanistan and got iran to halt its nuclear program, the world is still full of threats and disorder that comes streaming through people's televisions every single day. and these challenges get people rried and praise our civic trust. and it makes a lot of people feel like the fix is in and the game is rigid and nobody's looking out for them. especially those communities outside our big urban centers. and even though your generation is the most diverse i

office he said obama wiretap me, obama did this, obama did that, it's obama's fault and now that obama has given a few speeches everybody is saying i wish obama stayed quiet. no, it's about time you said something. donald trump has been touted obama's name more than one obama was president. from the "new york times," sunday magazine, teachers just want to teach, but the classroom has become a battleground. the cover story of "time magazine," the persistence of nancy pelosi, looking at the democratic leader so if the house is regained by the democratic could very well become speaker again. from the weekly standard stuntman looking at republicans are the new punk. sailorally sell out or -- savior, senator chuck schumer. kerwin joins us from texas. collarsa lot of the already said what i had to say. americans for all our open their eyes [indiscernible] to open their eyes and sides, exactly what going on in their life. we getting a little feedback but i think we are the callingof what you were about. randall is joining us from springfield, missouri. good morning, republican line. caller: t

liz: that is barack obama in 2017. i guess i have a magic wand 4.2%, we have just begun, by the way president obama was talking about jobs, not the gdp number, joining me now american conservative chair, matt schlapp, your take on this obama versus trump brewing battle. >> it is just nauseating. socialism does not work, during allite years of obama -- 8 years of obama we know our economy was held back because of the, regulations, from obamacare to energy and financial transactions, edge everything that you did. i love obama trying to take credit for the economy. when everyone i know even democrats who voted for him, know that the trump economy is raging mostly because trump stopped all of the pain. liz: you know, matt, here how obama is being criticized of being misleading, recovery started in 2009, but conceivably u.s. should have had 4% growth. federal reserve pumps in 20 trillion worth of help, but growth never hit 3%. something we have not seen and heard since hoo hoover. >> you are right, we have great downturn de

obama did talk to fox news. here's an example. 2009 the obama white house tried to exclude fox news from a press pool interview with administration officials. 2013 the story broke the obama doj under the leadership of mr. holder they actually spied on one of our reporters at the time, james rosen. they looked through his phone calls and e-mails from 2009 while attempting to find a source for one of rosen's stories. so what you heard from obama today was nothing more than fake news and liberal spin. this is why this midterm election is so important. he's right about one thing. it's important. i can't stress enough. yeah, a lot in the country's at stake. democrats win in november, you stay home, well, this is what's gonna happen. they'll rescind the tax cuts. they want their crumbs back. nancy pelosi calls them crumbs. that's the money in your pay check that will be gone. they want to impeach president trump. chucky schumer openly admitted it just this past week. here's him in his own words. >> sooner the better.

>> as you know, obama did exactly that. i think there is a better way to do it, and i think it's as simple as each and every person who had the kind of information that this guy says he has should simply publicly sign a letter say together "new york times," go ahead and release any information you have from me. hard in, freedom from the anonymity this individual claims. i can guarantee you every member of the president's cabinet, these people who worked so hard to change america into the right direction after obama, they would sign on to that and say release any covert statement i ever made. very quickly what you find is there would be few people who wouldn't do it, and they should be gone. it's not about a lie detector. it's about the "new york times" claiming this is a highly placed individual where high-level people in the white house agree with with the president is doing. if they disagree, they do it in the a patriotic way. judge jeanine: there is always going to be back and forth. that's the way you run anything. but

i doubt john tester will want obama in montana. i don't think any of the democratic senators are going to want him. on the other hand, he's an effective messenger in the 25 house districts that republicans represent, that hillary clinton carried in the 2016 election. i don't think we should read too much into barack obama's magic here. the only person this guy was able to elect was himself. he oversaw the utter trucks of the democratic party. he left the dnc in shambles and turned it over to hillary clinton and it wasn't there for her. they lost a net 1,000 seats in state legislatures on barack obama's watch. he destroyed his own party and i don't know why democratic strategists think rolling him out again is going to be any different this time around. >> maria, why is he the most effective voice in 2018? >> i wouldn't say he's the most effective voice. he's one of the effective voices. scott is right. he speaks to our base. speaks to all those communities that coincidentally feel incredibly insulted and incredibly attacked by the

the most important thing here, though, is the obama coalition turned out for barack obama in 2008 and in 2012. they did not turn out in the midterm elections in 2010 and 2014 or frankly in 2016 in the presidential election. now there is a chance of that coalition of young people, african-americans, latinos, others to come out and vote because we can see with our own eyes that the republican party sen abling that radical behavior, this hostility to workers, this hostility to norms. we will have finally some accountability and a check on this presidency. >> jonathan, for people who like barack obama, they can't get enough of this stuff. is there some chance, though, that barack obama becomes the foil that donald trump loves that barack obama becomes the thing that donald trump continues to talk about? >> well, i think there is some worry about that in the obama camp. but remember obama is 25 points more popular than donald trump. that's a pretty good margin. he can go head to head with him and trump can insult him and say he fell asleep in his speech, whatever he wants to say. most amer

that's not the barack obama we saw here. he clearly is trying to -- he understands the power that he has to gin up the base. he had the same kind of message but in a very -- much more pointed way that we heard him give at the mccain funeral last saturday. but the thing about it is that what i'd heard from people around the former president is one of the reasons why he was reluctant to do this is because he understands that donald trump loves a foil. that just was an hour of foil material that president trump is going to use in a big way to gin up his own base. but clearly president obama realizes that the stakes are really big and he wants to do whatever he can. i will also just point out that he gave these kind of speeches in the fall of 2016 when he was still president, saying please do this for me, and it didn't work. >> i think it's also a big moment for obama as someone who, i think, held on for a long time to this idea that former presidents don't attack current presidents. former presidents don't weigh in on current a

will obama help save what obama did and many of us supported him doing? that's what you're looking at. that does it for me. thanks for watching. up next, my colleague alex witt. >> hey, reverend, we'll have the conversation that you talked about, the debate on the pros and cons. and i'm going to say, isn't it somewhat disheartening that president obama had that clear of a crystal ball as to what president trump would do with all his actions? got to say, thank you so much, rev. looking forward to seeing you in the studio. good morning to you, i'm alex witt. it is 9:00 out east, 6:00 out west. here's what is happening, never, the vice president when asking about invoking the 25th amendment on trump and people suggesting that he wrote to "the new york times" op-ed. >>> and he's back and pulling no punches in his first few public appearances. >> the politics of division and resentment and paranoia is unfortunately finding a home in the republican party. >> there's more. reaction to president obama's full-throated attack on the gop and president trump. >>> and

can obama serve that role? i'm not really sure, however there is no question that in his speeches he is saying, hey, we need to do something. this is a moment. this is why i'm coming forward. this is why i'm talking about trump. this is a pivotal moment that we got to do something and if we don't, then we're not going to have the same kind of accountability that we need if we don't take control of the house. that is democrats' message. >> and chris, the current president, president trump is good at this stuff, the media wars, the back and forth. can he win this one out? >> he's good at this stuff. but the re-emergence of obama is a reminder that most presidents learn the hard way and that there is a difference between campaigning and governing and when you campaign you divide and disrupt and then you get things done. i think voters in the midterms will ask what is he really got done other than a stock market booming which affects mostly the wealthy and they're getting hurt with health care. so i think that trum

obama did too. democrats did well when obama was ton ballot. they didn't do as well when obama was not ton ballot. >> right. he was and a political force. his popularity never transferred down the ballot. we saw that given all of the heavy lifting he did on her part. so again, will it make a differen difference? i don't know. you have people saying that former president obama again feels like the stakes are so high that he has to get involved no matter if it does have the unintended consequence. >> and importantly democrats want him to be involved. >> that's right. >> they want him. you're not going to refuse a former president of the united states who has that kind of appeal. democrats flow in these individual districts that they can take some of that but they have to bear down locally and win these raiseces. >> i'm curious what you think. let me play that excerpt from president obama's speech. >> i'll be honest, some times i get into arguments with progressive friends about what the current political movement requires. there are well many fol

and president obama claims to have laid the groundwork. >> the obama thing, it's interesting. i mean, i was on the campaign trail with the president and hillary's surrogates there were always saying how we could never grow over 2%. when obama left office growth was 1.6%. here we're hitting over 4% in the latest quarter and if you think about it, if you just look at obama's policies, right? are you going to get more growth with higher taxes or lower taxes, right? obama raised taxes. are you going to get growth with more regulation or less regulation? obama raised regulations faster than almost any other president in history. so there's no -- you know exactly why that economy was growing slow with obama, and of course, all the trade. he was sending jobs off shore just like his predecessors were at the rate. we lost over 70,000 factories and 5 million jobs since 2000 because of his policies and his predecessor's policies. leland: are you viewing this economic message from the democrats as now running on the trump administration's success? >> what obama is trying to do is claim cr

obama worries endlessly about that is inequality, inequality got worse during the obama years, they seem to think that that's a republican trap, it's not, during the obama years inequality got worse, now we are seeing low-wage workers getting lots of pay increases, bigger than average -- rob: you're talking income inequality? >> exactly. income inequality is narrowing now that the republicans are creating an opportunity economy, and that's a real plus, mr. obama can't lay claim to those accomplishments, he regulated and president trump deregulated. rob: kept interest rates artificially low that was a big complain, we had low interest rates for such a long time that it kept the economy more healthy than it probably should have been? >> there was a very cynical aspect of the obama recovery. the government borrowed a lot at low interest rates but also encouraged young people to borrow a lot for useless college programs, a lot of young people because they couldn't find jobs and took useless programs and now they are burden with debt, he used that to stimulate the economy, this was the worst

had it not been for the policies of the obama administration. and you're right. many businesses took a hit by the obama administration. >> i'm not defending george w. bush. >> let's be clear. >> i don't think it is. and i'm not here to tout republicans, who i attack regularly on this show. i just want someone to stop lying and concede that this is not about racism. it's about the death of our middle class, which sustained the country for 100 years. can you admit that? >> i think the pressure on the middle class has absolutely contributed to our politics. and it's caused people who are under stress to take it out in ways that are not necessarily good. >> yeah, that's probably true. but we should fix the problem. racism, racism. oh, god, all right. we're out of time. >> we should fix the problem. and i don't think that this president is capable of doing it. >> yeah, maybe screaming "racist" will fix the problem. during his speech, president obama said it's time for women to have more power. watch. >> out of this political darkness, i'm seeing a gr

obama: you know -- [cheering] rs. obama: look -- cheers and applause] mrs. obama: you know, we need ou guys. and i am here, and i am here sking you -- i am here asking for this. you all stop this now. here is what we have to do. if we want qualified people who we trust, if we want qualified people that we trust, then people have to vote. because you can't vote some of the time and then sit out, you know. we saw that happened. we experienced that. where we had a great president. cheers and applause] mrs. obama: but every couple of years, folks sat out. and said, well, i did my part. i voted once. i'm done. i'm out. i'm just telling you, democracy does not work that way. as i said earlier, democracy does not wait for you to be bothered. it moves on as it rightly should. and therefore, the people who vote determine the direction of the country. they determine the mood, the tone and the people who stay out don't get a say. and i want every american to feel the power of that choice. so that no matter what happens, people are not thinking, if i coulda, woulda, and

the deep state anonymous situation and now president obama. it's just like you are giving the trump base more fuel to actually have a shot in the midterms. and look, this is all about getting out the base and i have to tell you, with president obama, he has a ceiling. what i mean by that is, the democrats are already enthused. if the anti-trump venom is out there, we know that. they will show up regardless of president obama on the campaign trail. it is up to the white house, president trump and mike pence and the others to make sure that base turns out and matches it or exceeds it. >> that is interesting, keith, what do you think? >> donald trump iss -- is incredibly unpopular and his base will support but our democratic base is -- even though it is excited and motivated doesn't have anybody to respond to donald trump on the same level of donald trump who is at that presidential stature so having president obama speak is incredibly important. remember he got 69 million votes when he ran for office. more than any other person that have run for

with president obama? does it help shore up his base? >> well, it actually might and the reaction from the former president's remarks yesterday indicated that. "a," the first thing he said, he watched the speech but then he fell asleep. and then he said later to a crowd at one of the fund-raisers that he was speaking at, if this doesn't energize you, then nothing will. ievnl i think that he likes to have a sparring partner. if president obama presents himself as that sparring partner, i suspect that president trump will welcome that, as will some of the people around him, as they look to somebody to kind of show his base and show the people who they want to come out, the republicans they want to come out in november, this is what you had and this is what i'm offering. >> yeah, bob, i'm curious from the democratic perspective, is this approach from obama going to be helpful? and by the way, i guess we learned that the president takes naps during the day, right? >> yeah, listen, dental cats have not shown up

president obama mentioned this as well. if the president's tweet earlier this week a sickly chastising, rebuking attorney general sessions for bringing the prosecution on charges of corruption against g.o.p. house members. the president waited to a very popular republican congressmen were brought to a well-publicized charge just ahead of the midterms by the jeff sessions justice department. to go easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. good job, jeff. the president is saying, play politics. protect members of congress even if they have committed acts of corruption before the election. >> vice president pence: i don't think that's what the president was saying at all, chris. the department of justice, as you know, has long-standing guidelines through the success of the administration that says whenever possible the justice department should avoid taking actions that may impact an election. the president was referring to that and the difficulty -- >> chris: at one committing insider trading and the other one

obama. obama's economy created lower wage jobs in department stores, fast food and service jobs because of ul of the regulation of the four major sectors of the economy stymied growth. your reaction there. >> my reaction is that mr. obama is comparing apples and oranges because of the reason you said and because he's not taking the right timeline. let's take a four-year timeline for mr. obama and then generate a projected timeline under mr. trump. the difference is f phenomenal. i don't know why we're having an enormous growth but we are, way beyond anything we've had under mr. obama. is it because of the tax cut, because of derug las vegas, is it just because of the cyclical nature of the recoveries? we don't know for sure. we're having an outstanding recovery under mr. trump and we should have a measure of gratitude. elizabeth: princeton and harvard university economists, ben, they lacked atheylooked at obama's jd one million fewer full-time workers -- in other words there were one million

president obama is fundamentally wrong. they started rolling back the regulation capital loosened up to people. you couple that with the tax reform package and that's what started this economy moving in the right direction and why wages are starting to go up and the federal reserve is having to cool down the economy, it's that hot. >> gentlemen, we'll leave it there. thank you both. >> have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> former trump campaign aide george papadopoulos is spending months in jail after pleading guilty to lying to the fbi. he lied repeatedly and took six months to correct the record. also the mccabe now under a grand jury probe, which is called just a procedural step. they found mccabe lied to federal investigators about his role in a leak. >> they say it will show mueller's probe is politically biased. catherine has more. good evening, catherine. >> shannon, private congressional sources tell fox news they are optimistic that the records will be classified and more significantly new evidence about the highl

but obama wasn't factually wrong. trump isn't wrong about the fact the economy is doing fine. >> you know what else happened. inequality in this country continued to increase. no bank ceo was held accountable for the financial crisis and the voters that elected trump in ohio, michigan and pennsylvania didn't feel their lives were improving. they didn't bargain for this craziness that they're getting with donald trump -- >> but they wanted somebody to try to shake it up. >> exactly. >>> coming up -- president trump under oath? the president has reportedly agreed to provide written answers in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by a former apprentice contestant. we'll explain next on "kasie dc." >>> cbs ceo chairman les moonves >>> cbs ceo chairman les moonves is stepping down today. the new yorker reported that six additional women have come forward accusing moonves of sexual harassment of assault. it ranges from forcing women to perform oral sex on him to unwanted touching and kissing to physical intimidation and r

undoubtedly, obama on the campaign trail will be for democrats. i think there's a double edge sword though. i think while he is going to rile up democrats to come out and vote in midterms which is the key to winning anything is getting people to vote it is baseline. i think he could work to rile out conservatives and republicans. i think republicans can agree on one thing really, it is that they do not like obama. they remember his foreign policy, the member obama care and they remember what it was like eight years under him. i think he has to worry about that.i think if you couple the anti-obama rhetoric with president donald trump 's success rate, his endorsement, batting 1000 in terms of endorsements. it could under work or work against the inflationary pressures that obama could bring to democrats the cycle. arthel: you and you are saying that to your point you're saying that president obama there on the campaign trail could bring some of the moderate and conservative republicans together. something they can agree on which is their dislike for

people questioning barack obama, barack hussein obama's citizenship. and i think when we look at this 10 to 12 year period of history here, certainly interesting to see john mccain's role in it. >> this ties into doug's point about the absence of sarah palin. >> right. >> and joe lieberman's story about their conversation and the reality of 2008 was he couldn't do what he wanted to do. he couldn't be the candidate he wanted to be. because he had to deal with forces within his own party that wouldn't allow him to do it. there was a statement in who was invited, wasn't invited. lieberman spoke to this moment. thin reckoning with that period in our history. >> this is barack obama talking about how important telling the truth is for politicians. something that also will resonate especially right now. >> he understood that if we get in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party orthodoxy, our democracy will not work. that's why he was willing to buck his own party at times. occasionally work across the aisle on campaign finance re

that was after president obama said that. and this in the day is what he said after trump's election. >> we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them. and i will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict. >> i mean, those warnings sound pretty prophetic now. and in his speech today the 44th president also unloaded on the republican party. >> over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the republican party. it sure isn't normal. it's radical. it's a vision that says the protection of our power and those who bachus is all that matters even when it hurts the country. what happened to the republican party? >> that is a great question. what happened to the republican party? what happened? the pa

this is president obama. remember, i said president obama. not barack obama. president obama talking about president trump. listen to him, yesterday. >> it did not start with donald trump. he is a symptom, not the cause. he is just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years. they will promise to clean up corruption. and then plunder away. they start undermining norms that ensure accountability, and they appeal to racial nationalism that's barely veiled. appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another. we are supposed to standing up to bullies. [applause] it shouldn't be democratic or republican to say that we don't threaten the freedom of the press. [applause] because they say things or publish stories we don't like. i complained plenty about fox news. [laughter] but you never heard me threaten to shut them down. or call them enemies of the people. over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the republican party. when you hear how great

obama: thank you. thank you very much. thank you. >> yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! mr. obama: thank you. michelle, members of the mandela family, to president ramaphosa, that you can see is inspiring new hope to this great country. [applause] obama: professor, doctor, distinguished guests, to the family to the people of south , africa -- [cheers and applause] mr. obama: it is a singular honor for me to be here with all of you as we gather to celebrate the birth and life of one of history's true giants. let me begin by a correction -- [laughter] and a few confessions. the correction is that i am a very good dancer. [laughter] i just want to be clear about that. michelle is a little better. [laughter] the confessions. number one, i was not exactly invited to be here. i was ordered in a very nice way to be here. [laughter] confession number two. i forgot my geography and the fact that right now it's winter in south africa. i didn't bring a coat, and this morning i had to send somebody out to the

under president obama. the business community deliberately did not hire, did not expand their businesses because they did not want president obama to get credit -- full credit for the growing economy. if you look at one of the things we talk about in our book. look at what happened the day after the election. look at what happened at consumer confidence. it shot up. the good what happened to business confidence. amongwas a view businessmen and women that was like shaking up a champagne bottle and taking a cork off. there is not any one thing that trump has done that has revived our economy. it is the whole panoply of lower taxes, getting government off the back of business. hillary ran around the country, saying she was going to put, running out of business. trump that i would help rebuild the american coal industry. i think there has been a radical shift in the direction of the economy since november 2016. the american people understand this. i was looking at polling i was t some polling the other day that

you don't want president obama to campaign for you. >> the speeches he is giving in twrorn an faces obama voters largely state home. he can get those swing voters who wish obama was president. those swing voters don't care about omarosa or the op-ed or many things talked about frequently on this network. they still care about health care premiums and their take home pay. i can i think where obama excels is is in talking about how republican legislation can impact voters directly. >> and i think to dave's point, there were seven candidates at that rally. not a single one an incumbent politician which is a fascinating thing we're seeing in a lot of people running for office for the first time. generally those messages out. they are about health care premiums and take home pay. >> if you look at where they're spending their dollars it's around health care. that is an issue front and center for a lot of these middle class, suburban voters. their premium is going up. it's a clear contrast with democrats who want to build and expand and reform the aca and republicans have been voting to repeal

it's trump and not obama. republicans are saying obama is back, great but this is an election about trump. >> you can't be a resistance galvanizing force against yourself. >> i'm skeptical. i got to say, i mean, you know, president obama spent a lot of time on the campaign trail for hillary clinton and wasn't able to translate his personal peel for her voters either. and the other thing is that, you know, there is very little in this republican party that unites republicans across the board. trump republicans and george w. bush republicans. barack obama is the one thing that does. i mean, barack obama is the one thing that republicans of all stripes and especially those moderate republicans who are on the fence, they are not barack obama fans. so if you're one of these sort of middle of the road people that, you know, if president trump is so -- to you their going to come out you probably would come out and vote any way regardless of barack obama's presence and i'm not 100% sure it's smart on politics. >> we w

stick around. >> president obama made a speech. if that doesn't get you out to vote for the midterms, nothing will . a toast, to your demise. wanna get away? now you can with southwest fares as low as 69 dollars one-way. that's transfarency. (clap, clap, ding) ♪ as moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10-25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance we're willing to take. meningitis b is different from the meningitis most teens were probably vaccinated against when younger. we're getting the word out against meningitis b. our teens are getting bexsero. bexsero should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. most common side effects are pain, redness or hardness at the injection site; muscle pain; fatigue; headache; nausea; and joint pain. bexsero may not protect all individuals. te

we know people who in the past have embraced and supported obama has embraced obama. not always his policies and not always the candidates whom he has backed. this is a moment and certainly democrats make the case, they need a party leader who has not yet been identified to be someone other than obama or joe biden. they need someone to step in and say the things that democrats and certainly republicans have not been willing to say in era of donald trump. >> as await the speech, there was a tweet a little while ago from president trump in which he talked about the investigation to chris collins, the congressman from upstate new york. the congressman california as well. and spoke to jeff sessions directly. on twitter. he's fond of doing, he's a favorite target of the president. barack obama yesterday taking him to task for that, saying it should not be democratic or republican, should not be a partisan issue to say we don't pressure the attorney general or fbi to use the criminal justice system as a cajole. the former president weighing in on this. a very contemporary i

what obama was trying to accomplish. i love barack obama, i voted for barack obama. barack obama offered to raise my children as his own. i listened to him -- like, i get it. barack obama's fundamental flaw to me, tragic flaw, that he always expects us, expects people to be better than we are. he expects the democratic party to be better than this. he expects the republican party to be better than it has shown. donald trump on the other hand, his greatest strength is that he knows exactly how craven and stupid this country is, and pushes it relentlessly. when you look at the two speeches or directives side-by-side, donald trump's directive to his base is very simple. hate. be selfish. don't like people. and his base follows that directive. obama's directive was not love. i mean a lot of people thought it was so soft. obama's directive is not love. it's not -- not be civil. obama's directive was, vote. work. vote. right? is his base going to follow his directive the way we know trump's base is going to follow trump's directive? when obama's out there talking about how

obama: look. [laughter] [cheering] mrs. obama: you know, we need you guys. and i am here, and i am here [cheering] mrs. obama: you know, we need you guys. and i am here, and i am here asking you -- i am here asking -- you all, stop this now. here is what we have to do. if we want qualified people who we trust, if we want qualified people that we trust, then people have to vote. because you can't vote some of the time and then set out. you know. -- sit out. you know. we saw that happen. we experienced that. we had a great president. [applause] [cheering] mrs. obama: but every couple of years, folks sat out. and said, well, i did my part. i voted once. i'm done. i'm out. i'm just telling you, democracy does not work that way. as i said earlier, democracy does not wait for you to be bothered. it moves on as it rightly should. and therefore, the people who vote determine the direction of the country. they don't -- determine the mood, the tone. the people who stay out don't get a say. and i want every american to feel the power of that choice. so that no matter w

obama has chosen not to take that path. i questions that's another example -- i guess that's another example how norms are off the table, whether you talk about how the media is going to treat this president or talking about how former presidents treat the president. >> politically? >> i just want to say that is an important point. we're told that donald trump is the only person who violates norms or does anything differently. we have a norm that president's usually speak well of their successors. george w. bush did that. or they're silent. george w. bush did that three eight years of the obama presidency. it's a free country and people are free to say what they want but people notice that people seem to be breaking a lot of norms along with president trump. and it good for the democrats to have some one like obama coming and trying to rally the vote. in the same way that president trump seems to excite both his base and his opponents, the same is true for president obama. people in the democratic party love to hear him spe

and i just think that you have the two quarterback, trump and obama on, and i obama, and if you are a democrat, do you have problems, and we know that obama will be out speaking and that could be a good thing for democrats, but isn't it a big problem for democrats that he is really the only quarterback they have right now? >> well, for one, i think democrats everywhere are rejoicing that barack obama has decided to hit the road. and we also know that joe biden is hitting the road and a few other folks. they couldn't be happier that a former sitting and popular president has decided to come out and campaign hard and really reach out to people. but we also know that there is people have been calling it a blue wave, you can call it a progressive push, we know that there are all of these candidates on the state, local, municipal level who are running and trying new approaches to outreach, going after unlikely voters, voters who haven't come out in the last election, disaffected voters. and one of the most fascinating thing about the speech, barack obama spoke to those people lecturing the