>> obama is having trouble convincing democrats to say, i'm going to go with obama over clinton. they did not want to risk lose thing election. >> i'm not asking that you take me on a leap of faith. i'm asking you to look at the evidence and the record. >> we were feeling pretty good about her prospects, but our polling showed there was this obstacle for her to prove that she could indeed be commander in chief, even though she was a woman. >> when you are attacked, you have to deck your opponents. and that is what i believe. >> so we were running on the fact that she was incredibly experienced, she could start this job on day one and just go. >> senator hillary clinton has more than doubled her lead over barack obama. >> we were as far as 30 points behind in the national polls. our view was, if we didn't win the first primary in iowa, there would be no chance to win the nomination. and so he spent more than 80 days there in 2007. meeting one on one and in small groups. >> are any of these people over 30? >> i'm on my way to mason city, then sioux city, then counsel bluffs, then o

hussein obama. i'm a black man. i'm president of the united states. i get up every day and i feel lucky. let's get this done. now get to work. i was being a little bit of a smart aleck. his response was priceless. >> the man called the lion of the senate, ted kennedy of massachusetts -- >> senator ted kennedy, a member of one of america's most powerful and captivating political families dies after a year-long battle with brain cancer. >> when ted kennedy died, you knew it was going to be one of those moments that united official washington in mourning. this is someone who most people would agree was one of the greatest legislators whoever lived. >> he was a product of an age when the joy and nobility of politics prevented differences of party and platform and philosophy from becoming barriers to cooperation and mutual respect. a time when adversaries still saw each other as patriots. >> the president was deeply saddened by senator kennedy's death. it was a loss of a mentor and a friend and someone w

>> obama: absolutely. well, i mean, i think it was time for him to concede probably, the day after the election, or at the latest, two days after the election. when you look at the numbers objectively, joe biden will have won handily. there is no scenario in which any of those states would turn the other way, and certainly not enough to reverse the outcome of the election. >> pelley: more than the courtesy of a concession, the trump white house is declining to free up the usual funds and facilities for the incoming administration. president-elect biden is not receiving secret national security briefings as mr. trump did when he was president-elect. what in your estimation would our adversaries be thinking right now, russia, china, about the fact that the transition is not moving forward? >> obama: well, i-- look-- i think our adversaries have seen us weakened, not just as a consequence of this election, but over the last several years. we have these cleavages in the body politic that they're convinced they

michelle obama. >> hi, everyone. we are here, digging up soil, because we're about to plant a garden. get up. get some shovels. come on, let's go. let's go. >> i came to help do dinner. but, also, to help her develop a big, health initiative. when you have one in three kids on track to have diabetes in their lifetime. like, doesn't matter what we do with health care if we don't solve that side of the problem. and step one, when we were doing our first planting. kids. everybody's running around and you could just hear all the cameras clicking, constantly. she just looked at me and she said, this better work. >> all, pretty cute. of course, we are all in favor of healthy eating but is this really the best way for the first lady to use her considerable influence? >> let's move! >> now, to first lady michelle obama. she is out promoting her let's move campaign and taking the motto to heart. >> every time we saw her jumping rope, hula hooping, all those fun things, were very strategic ways that we were working to weave in

every time he'd open his mouth president obama would start laughing. i had no confidence he'd keep it forgot together together -- together for the actual performance. >> we count on the press to shed the most important issues of the day and count on . >> you can count on fox news to terrify old people with nonsense. >> you can see some of his speeches begin with couple jokes at his own expense which sets up admission structure to say now let's turn attention to other people too. >> donald trump. is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] now, i know that he's taken some flack lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald, and that's because he can finally get back to focussing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing? [ laughter ] >> if folks just want to understand what a presidential take down looks like watch that. >> and where are biggie and tupac? >> i sat a table across away from donald trump and i had never seen such a pissed off look, it was priceless. >> all kid

what does obama do? he brings the police officer and gates to the white house for a beer summit. >> this has been called the beer summit. it's a clever term. but this is not a summit. this is three folks having a drink at the end of the day. >> it's the ongoing task, whether you are in the white house or you are teaching at princeton or working at the post office, is to figure out how to dampen white fear. i gotta make white america comfortable with me again. let's have a drink. let's create the conditions under which we can at least make the theater of race in the country less threatening. sg >> the table was set. the press was in place. refreshments. diplomatic language. >> we had a cordialp productive discussion. >> it led to a freakout on cable news. ultimately, this very dumb beer summit where obama has to sit there with the cop and gates and look like everything is okay. >> what is this performance? what is he doing? who are they trying to make comfortable? he says something that was obviously true

question if the obama transition, obama congratulated trump one after trump's win. he had trump at the white house giving him briefings for two days, and that was a tough loss for obama. onto socialism, it seems that republicans continue to push this thing. if you are for a few socialist programs that help the poor, the sick, the elderly, it will turn our country into a socialist country. do not vote for a democrat because they will turn the country into a socialist country -- host: we will try and stick to the topic here. vicedent-elect biden and president elect kamala harris are getting briefings because of kamala harris's access for members of the senate intelligence committee. is that a good substitution? not and it is worth looking back at the traditions put into place after 9/11. we saw earlier those comments in the wake of 9/11 and the 9/11 commission report, about unique of aligence challenges presidential transition, which is why george w. bush put intoous time and resources a helpful and collegial and thoughtful presidential transition process in 2008. oba

mcdonough you served as key , advisor to the obama campaign, the obama transition, in addition to other government positions you held. and right now there's lots of , machinations here in washington. all of us have been fielding questions from friends in all corners of the world about what's happening. can you just share your expertise and your analysis from the place you used to occupy in tells of foreign policy, government experience, communications and i mentioned, i should have mentioned too a longtime health staffer as well. walk us through what's happening in washington. denis: thanks so much. it's good to be with you guys. and i hasten to add that most of those things that you generously cited in my bio i did with you or because of you. or because of you. and so it's really good to be , with you and to be reminded of our long professional careers together and the many kindnesses , you have shown me along the way, and the valuable friendship we have developed along the way. it's really good to see you. look, there's this period in the united states called transition. it's the peri

obama, malia, and sasha. i understand you have been under one roof, your daughters are remote learning. how is that working out? >> it's work out for michelle and me. we get to see them every night for dinner. and you know, we love spending time with them. now, whether they feel the same way is debatable. but they have been wonderful. like i think a lot of families who are lucky enough to be together and not suffer from some of the stresses that a lot of people are suffering from, losing jobs or having to figure out daycare issues and so forth. you know, the first couple months, we had game nights and we do all kinds of stuff. you know, i think everybody's feeling a little worn down and cooped up and getting cabin fever. but we know that we're blessed not to have some of the strains and stresses that some folks have including our health care workers and the girls have responded magnificently. so it's been nice to have them home. >> let's talk about some news of the day, mr. president. president trump and his

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under obama. right. of course. yes. what is this progressive left that is pushing biden, that we suddenly on right wing talking points. michael moore, the great filmmaker has been tweeting about, come on the harris can we assume that vice president, a vice president harris will not now be advocating the locking up of innocent people for prison labor like he did in california? well, if you remember who the president is, i mean, joe biden was one of the primary authors of the 1904 crime bill, which was a you know, a kind of signature moment in the history of mass incarceration in this country. he certainly didn't have the reputation of being any kind of advocate for criminal justice reform. heading into this election cycle, the political winds of change somewhat, and both paris and biden have adopted the pose of people who are, are going to be on the side of criminal justice reform. but i, again, i think looking back at their history, it would be unwise to expect that to happen. well, that'll depres

they called it barack obama unleashed. was it personal for you, or did you just think, i've had it. >> it wasn't personal. >> reporter: you didn't have an "i've had it" moment. >> ja i was just stating facts. he wants full credit for the economy he inherited. >> reporter: it was out of character for you to speak up that way? >> i was not in the person in the white house briefing room who said bleech is thbleach is the way te covid? it is not my presence to be out there. we are in an election in which certain norms, certain institutional values that are so extraordinarily important, have been breached. it was important for me, as spousal abuse who had -- it was important for me, as somebody who served in that office, that this is not nort normal. >> they're trying to steal an election. >> reporter: and many of trump's supporters continue to stand behind him. 72 million people voted for donald trump. what does that say to you about the state of this country? >> what it says is we are still deeply divided. the power of that a

what did you make of president obama's intervention? president obama's intervention? president obama's intervention definitely came out an interesting time. i think with his book coming out and the obama team, i think he was trying to draw a contrast and let the american people know how it was supposed to be. you know, he talked about how president george w. bush, even though they very much were on different sides of the political aisle, they still are probably on different sides of the political aisle, they still came together and george w. bush also, you know, almost acted as a bit of a mentor to president obama. we saw after that transition can actually commit that the two became close. he saw that also happened with h w bush and president bill clinton. president obama says this is a unique club you get to be a part of, nobody else really understands what it's like to be president of the united states. so it's important that you show them the ropes. and you saw despite all of the criticism that president trump leveled against president obama throughout president ob

how unpopular it was for michelle obama or with michelle obama. so i want you to listen to this exchange. it was interesting. >> you quote here as saying "the answer is no, i do not want you running for president, god, barack, when is it going to be enough?" why did that not stop you? >> look, it's a legitimate question. keep in mind the context here. just two years earlier i had run for the u.s. senate in an unlikely race, two years before that i had run for congress. >> in a race you lost. >> in a race i lost. a couple years before that i had run for the state senate. we have two young kids. michelle is still working. and i asked myself in the book, you know, how much of this is just megalomania, how much of this is vanity. >> so how much of that did you see during the campaign, reggie? >> well, look, i have to say that the comments around how he and michelle talked about his decision to run for president, those comments were pretty new to me. it wasn't new around this idea of how much stress he was under around trying to maintain some sort of b

obama negotiated a bill to hand over puerto rico to hedge funds, and what did obama do about opioids in rural america? a friend of mine in the administration told me that when the white house finally noticed the aids level epidemic deaths, all the suggestions proffered were dot dot dot round tables. she might have been exaggerating, but not by much. right, something. this is what i've been saying for 9 years, 10 years on the show, then. so we talk about obama in real time. so now people are looking back and saying this is what really happened, but it's too late to do anything. we said already during his administration, exactly what he was doing, the financial terrorism, as i called it rightfully that he was committing. and these are the remedies right . now, but that was put into a bucket called unorthodox, and nothing was done. now they're looking back and saying, well, it's too far, we're going to us. liberals are going to point out that obama was a charlatan and a snake in a financial terrorist. and we can't do anything about it now, but we don't, you know, i'm sick of these peopl

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was to make sure that obama was the one term president. i'm sure mcconnell wants to mak joe biden a one term president as well spew. >> i want to invite our viewers to join in on the conversation about the election and what is next for congress.s. if you are a democrat (202)748-8000, republican (202)748-8001, independent 202748 ###-8002 text us with the city and state with (202)748-8003, this morni bob cusack your newspaper had this headline, democrats lookomo sharpened message after senate setback. explain. >> well, democrats are very disappointed. they have been trying to win back the senate for years and they thought this was the best chance certainly in recent memory and in two years ago when they fell short senate minority leader chuck schumer indicated that 2020 was a very good shot that they could win it back and barring a win in georgia where democrats certainly joe biden has been declared the winner but as far as other statewide races that republican usually win. they are disappointed there was conversations in the senate as well

here's a taste of what obama writes about. the german chancellor. the more i've gotten to know uncle america, the more i've come to like her, i've found her steady, honest, intellectually rigorous and instinctually kind. but she was also conservative by temperament. not to mention a savvy politician who knew her constituency. and whenever i suggested to word that germany needed to set an example by spending more on infrastructure or tax cuts, she politely but firmly pushed back yob iraq. i think maybe that's not the best approach for us. she would say her face pulling into a slight frown as if i'd suggested something a little told it is rare to read such a candid and well written account of a european leader by a former us president. to take advantage of this tonight, we've invited jeff rocca, president of the american institute for contemporary german studies at johns hopkins in washington, d.c. . jeff has worked in the u.s. state department, the white house, and here in berlin at the u.s. embassy, geoff, it's good to have you on the program tonigh

>> i think that this is, what, the thinker book by obama about obama with, apparently, a fourth one still to come. this one clocks in the at 800 pages almost, so there's a lot to say, apparently, from the former president. and i can understand why he bristles at president trump for a number of reasons. i think the birtherrism stuff, he had legit beef there. i think a lot of it though is president trump won in what really amounts to a repiewduation in a lot of ways of the obama presidency. he was expecting his successor, hillary clinton, to carry on his legacy. instead, it was disrupted in a very serious way, and the president, the current president, was able to dismantle a lot of what obama did because obama so often governed by fiat, and you could just undo it with executive orders, a lot of what the former president had done, the previous president, barack obama. so i think the that there's definitely score-settling here. i read another excerpt where he was complaining about senate republicans and again sort of playing the race card there and said, oh, i dispatched joe biden to talk to

michelle obama and her sleeveless dress. >> it was especially unfair for michelle obama because jackie kennedy wasn't criticized for completely changing the look of the first lady. >> michelle obama, baring arms, has a whole new meaning inside the beltway. >> people zeroed in on her arms because they were not the arms of a fragile damsel who was white. nonwhite americans have for years looked at a white first lady and were still able to say that she represented them, but i think it becomes much more challenging for some white americans to look at a black first lady and see themselves in her. >> instead, they simply saw her as an alien. ♪ >> four months into the obama's first term, michelle takes her first official trip abroad, accompanying her husband to london. the next day while her husband huddles with other g-20 leaders, the cameras follow michelle as she meets with their spouses. >> but she wasn't just going to go as a figure head and just as a spouse. she actually wanted to interact with real people. >> and so michelle makes a solo visit to a girls' school a few miles across lo

you can't fault obama certainly for what's going on right now. america just ahead its single worst week of new covert cases and what's his closing argument here we are the worst week this week i mean we've been going through this now for months the federal government has had an opportunity to respond for months and his closing argument this week is that the press and people are too focused on cole that. go over his complaint he's he's jealous of course it's media coverage and now he's accusing doctors of profiting off this pandemic think about this but we are seeing a certain amount. among democratic strategist because in early voting the black and latino turnout just hasn't been that strong and there is a generational divide which we saw in the primaries for example but young black young latinos very much in the boat he saw this cup they want they want systemic change they don't also see like those white working class voters i was saying was talking about a moment ago but in a sort of sort of see that in joe biden so there is that fear that they

obama set some ground rules for us. one was that there is only one elected person in the building and that's the president. so whatever we do should be in service of his agenda because otherwise, why are we doing it? >> michelle's crusade was to empower children and their parents to eat better. >> the president and congress are going to begin to address health care reform. nearly a third of the children in this country are either overweight or obese. >> there will be less of a burden on health care if people did eat better. >> the scope of michelle's initiative is strategically masked by her simple opening move, which she describes as a harmless and innocent undertaking by a lady with a spade. >> hi! elmo and his friends are here with someone very, very special, the first lady, mrs. michelle obama. >> hi, everyone. we're here digging up soil because we're about to plant a garden. get some shovels. let's go. let's go. >> i came to help do dinner but also help her develop a big health initiative. when you have one in thre

but they knew who barack obama was. so there's a photo that i think hung in the west wing of president obama smiling through tears as he took a picture with all the siblings. if people think having a consoler in chief doesn't matter, they are wrong. >> charlotte. daniel. olivia. josephine. anna. dylan. madeline. katherine. chase. jesse. james. grace. emily. jack. noah. caroline. jessica. benjamin. evelyn. allison. ♪ ♪ narrator: upgrade your protectin this holiday season... >>> i'm richard lui with your hour's top stories. tonight the pennsylvania supreme court rejected another gop election challenge. the lawsuit claimed a 2019 law allowing no excuse mail-in voting violated the state's constitution. the court dismissed the motion with prejudice. >>> and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will temporarily suspend in-person lunches for his conference, an aide tells nbc. the daily lunches have been taking place in socially distanced rooms since may while democrats have been meeting by phone. now back to "obama." >>>

in terms of obama's hispanics. obama seems upset that hispanic americans aren't prioritizing what obama wants them to prioritize we have to remember hispanic americans are not monolithic group there is no racial ethnic determinism from them. whether the venezuelans or cubans in florida are different from mexicans in south texas and so forth. and we saw different voting patterns there. and that's something that democrats are going to have to deal with. this is not a monolithic group. they have different priorities. and they are going to have to go out and work for this vote. >> mike: jeff, in addition to covering every day of the trump administration. i also remember you were there for every day of the obama administration. your thoughts on president obama's comments there. and on president-elect biden basically saying he is going to be his own guy? >> well, a couple things. i mean, of course, former vice president and president-elect biden is going to be his own guy. of course he is. he is going to wi run the elect

diplomate in the last -- in the obama administration. not only does he start from the premise that you can't tell somebody else what their interests are, he starts by trying to understand what the other person on the other side of the table thinks their interests are. and then what their political environment is. where their room to maneuver is. and then to try to call the interlocutor on the other side of the table to their higher angels to try to take some political risks together for a better outcome for both countries or for a larger group of countries. and he's fundamentally extremely optimistic in his approach. so just as he, you know, believes that the nation needs healing, i think he thinks the planet needs healing and particularly, that the democratic community has got to come together in a stronger way to address the many challenges that we have. so i think he will start from that optimistic place. he will do a lot of listening, but i also think that the democratic allies need to be ready, that he will be quite, quite demanding

obama term on steroids. dana is right. this administration will face different issues than the obama administration faced but the tactic will be the same. let me give an example once there is pushback on this immigration pursuit, what do you think will happen? they will revert to identity policy, not just the obama administration but the democratic party for some years now. they will call anyone who disagrees with it a racist. i give for example president obama on the breakfast club when he pondered on why latinos voted increasing numbers for president trump he said they forgave "races things" because they are evangelicals and into abortion. >> geraldo: will come a hold on. i think we have president obama saying potus 44. >> there are a lot of evangelical hispanics who, you know, the fact that trump says racist things about mexicans or puts detainees, undocumented workers and cages, they think that is less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion. >> will: he could not be more wrong

, president-elect obama team and president-elect obama vice-president-elect biden and to crystallize that more clearly, the secretary of the treasury then appointed by president obama was tim geitner and weooked at this guy, he looks like he's 30's and wondered who he was and somedy straightened it out for us later. end up being a critical appointment. he has a relationship with secretary paulson because they worked tether at the treasury and fed and not only a working relationship, t president obama had been in close nsultation with the bush white house on these questions and then the treasury department itself, personnel there welcomed the obama trsition team into the building. so that meant that throughout the month of november december, and january, there's coordination on these big questions inhe global, financial system, such that that ndoff from secretary paulson to secretary designate geitner ends up being pretty smooth. and the economy is suffering significantly, but clearly what had been worse if there had not been as efftive a handoff. and that's what we have to ask oursel

obama, by any way, and his vice president joe biden. you know, there's a crisis. we remember had started under bush by basically the bailout, you know, their sell of agent of the big banks was, was all done by obama's team. actually our bomber promised he made 2 promises that he would walk for what can people and that he would take big money out of politics . well, we remember that you know, the underwear bomber stream. it was not just big money or courage in full swing in support. or hillary clinton, obama was the 1st president who allowed secret service, as you know, basically special services to get involved. we remember how they got involved in american politics and suddenly with boys we had this new after the intelligence community, you know, something that even the president cannot contradict. you know, the intelligence community, a sad russia who want to be in power and absurd as that may sound west. we were supposed to believe it. you know, no, the conspiracy theory about, you know, being supported by by then been supported by the new swell and chinese mon

obama, meanwhile, displaced under the new deal. armenians tear down and torched their homes as they are forced out of areas now controlled by azerbaijan. they say they don't want to leave them for who they see as the enemy. when we had a good life and now we are tearing down the houses, we build stuff. so i know one thing for sure. i wouldn't even want my, anybody to find himself in a situation like this. it is very hard because we do not have any other choice. and a surprising twist to the american election results, donald trump gained more minority votes than 4 years ago, while joe biden seems to have won back more white males. we discuss the issue with our guests. identity politics, really. donald trump is great, but show me that you are not great. well, we've got to move forward into the future in it when we see each other, beyond the color of anybody. skin plus israel is in talks with russia over the purchase of the sputnik, the corona virus vaccine. we spoke to the c.e.o. of israel's top hospital, which has ordered over a 100

but obama would ask a question to which he actually wanted an answer. he would listen and ask another question. he genuinely wanted to understand how someone else might view an issue. that unusual politician comes through clearly in his new book, "a promised land." it is well written, the best written presidential memoir i have read. obama has an easy and stylish way with words, describing walking through the white house, it was where each morning i felt the first slap of winter wind, a pulse of summer heat. describing the helicopter ride, he writes, i gazed out of the rolling maryland landscape and the tidy neighborhoods below and then the potomac glistening beneath the fading sun. the most notable feature is obama's ability to see not just both sides of every issue, but to empathize with the vigorous opposition to his own. he writes he could understand hillary clinton's frustration after a long climb to power to be confronting an upstart challenging for the democrat nomination. he understands the motivation of the republican motivations and provides a

but where i see obama, i think there was kind of an ear resolution tone sometimes obama would spend a long time thinking and splitting a lot of differences. i think biden is a bit more decisive as a leader. paul: that is interesting. we will see if that bears out but one of their first actions will be returning to the iranian nuclear deal. they are going to return probably to the paris climate accord. for example, i am still looking for where the differences are. he say decisiveness, located but where are the policies differences going to be. walter: i think they will be greener than the obama administration. or they will try to be. i think they see, this comes out of stuff sullivan has written in conversations he and i have had. i think they see, in some ways, climate as an issue that can unite the progressive wing of the democratic party more closely to the obama, sorry, the biden wing. they're going to count on, they are going to see environmentalism at home leading to a big green infrastructure program degree new deal but the biden new deal and internationally they are going to su

white house alumni. >> this is not a third obama term. >> obama's book from included this criticism of hispanics who voted for trump. >> he says racist things about mexicans, they think that's less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion. >> reporter: immigration reform is something biden plans to address in his first 100 days. >> and immigration bill to the united states senate with a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people in america. >> reporter: biden is hinting bernie sanders and elizabeth foreign are longshots for cabinet spots. >> someone out of the senate, taking someone out of the house particularly a person of consequence is a difficult decision to be made. >> reporter: has more immediate goal is to get people to take personal responsibility this holiday. >> we are at war with a fibrous, not with one another. >> reporter: joe biden barely ever spoke about michael flynn is a candidate but earlier this year he claimed that while in office he had no knowledge of a criminal investigation into flynn even though we found

steve: obama includes it in his book when he picked biden and his runnymede but here is obama's version of the quote, articulate, bright and clean and a nice-looking guy leaving out first mainstream african american and storybook. why would someone who cares as much about racism as obama says he does doctor quote from his own vice president to make it sound less racist? then he goes on and obama goes on to then criticize the media for assuming a racial intent that wasn't there when he himself took out the words african-american from the quote. it's so deceitful. >> bless you for reading the book because i cannot stomach it. also, how many autobiographies has one man need to write which shows you how narcissistic and arrogant this man is. this racist statement from joe biden is one of many and all you have to do is go through some of the things you said and he said you have to go into 7-11 and poor kids can be just as bright as white kids and he made that comment about then candidate barack obama and the list goes on but nobody paid attention to it because again, the media wanted joe bid

here's a taste of what obama writes about. the german chancellor. the more i've gotten to know uncle america, the more i've come to like her, i found her steady, honest, intellectually rigorous and instinctually kind. but she was also conservative by temperament. not to mention a savvy politician who knew her constituency. and whenever i suggested to her that germany needed to set an example by spending more on infrastructure or tax cuts, she politely but firmly pushed back yob iraq. i think maybe that's not the best approach for us. she would say her face pulling into a slight frown as if i suggested something a little told it is rare to read such a candid and well written account of a european leader by a former us president. to take advantage of this tonight, we've invited jeff rocca, president of the american institute for contemporary german studies at johns hopkins in washington, d.c. . jeff has worked in the u.s. state department, the white house, and here in berlin at the u.s. embassy, geoff, it's good to have you on the program tonight. i h

i'm not just the second incarnation of barack obama. i'm just biden and i'm bringing a different approach and it's one in which america is going to be more active than you've seen it be, not just in the last four years but in the last 12 years. and i think that's going to be really his challenge. >> eric, that's a great point. i have long thought the key analytical question about it biden administration is not how is he different from trump but how he is different from obama, getting a leverage on what it might be like, tomorrow, could you come in next on that. we discussed this before, of course, but the way i try to think about it is, are there key assumptions or orthodoxies from the obama administration that are sort of different this time, you know, and i guess, you know, you could address that in the context of the middle east or more broadly, on other issues, but, you know, what do you think those most likely -- i guess maybe not shifts, but debates, what are the debates within the broader sort of foreign policy community around b

going from obama to trump, president obama told president-elect trump that he thought the biggest and most important issue on the geopolitical agenda -- what was going to be the hardest issue for trump to get his arms around -- was north korea. that is still very much the case today. again, you have a country that has a bellicose missile program that apparently in the last couple of weeks unveiled new missiles that we do not have a good strategic sense of, and that this is going to be a key regional concern and geopolitical concern going forward. then, of course, he do have the big question of russia, which is something that trump has been very scattershot over the last couple of years. both in terms of embracing vladimir putin, as well as the general instability that russia has been trying to press across eastern europe, in ukraine, and elsewhere. and, again rising tide of cyber , a issues emanating from russia , like ransomware that is actually hitting u.s. hospitals, u.s. health care systems, u.s. schools right now amidst the pandemic. this is going to be a really, really challengi

, hang his portrait, hang the portrait of michelle obama, and barack obama will get the kind of hearing in front of history that he's deserved since he left, but because of the last four years, he's not gotten. >> happy thanksgiving, my friend, to you and yours. >> thank you, happy thanksgiving to you and your family. >>> coming up for us, the few, the proud, the brave, those of us traveling on thanksgiving. we have a guide, how to stay safe, if you must. right after this. if you must. right after this he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa shingles doesn't care. i logged 10,000 steps today. shingles doesn't care. i get as much fresh air as possible. good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines as you age, increasing your risk for getting shingles. so what can protect you? shingrix protects. for the first time ever, you can protect yourself from shingles with a vaccine proven to be over 90% effective.

we may learn that in the next volume of obama's memoir, which is coming later. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> that will do it for cnn newsroom, thanks for spending part of your day with me. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. our friends sold their policy to help pay for their medical bills and that got me thinking. maybe selling our policy could help with our retirement. i'm skeptical, so i did some research and called coventry direct. they explained life insurance is a valuable asset that can be sold. we

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chief of staff to president obama. former president obama yesterday spoke to the washington post, saying he believes the team the president-elect is establishing will be able to get us out of this pandemic. treasuryu think secretary janet yellen and a state department led by tony blinken will work together internationally in order to turn the corner with the pandemic? jim: a great question. when i was in the white house i worked with all of these people who were getting major jobs. is what you see our competence. these people are incredibly good at what they do and they are well respected around the world. there is not any world economic leader who does not know janet yellen on a first name basis. she is able to bridge the ideologically divide inside the democratic party. she is respected by both sides. tony blinken is one of the most competent people i've ever worked with. he knows every foreign leader around the world. incredibly important coordination will happen with agencies, with governments, with world leaders.