and the obama administration . their rhetoric is similar. there are a lot of, you know, the same people working for that administration, and yet it is my perception that during the obama administration, while all those tensions were still present, i mean, in your brain and sarah, in many other parts of the world that the obama nutrition still managed to avoid bringing it to such an acute blow out. that may be wrong. i wonder what to ask is whether you see any difference between the obama administration and the vitamin nutrition and the ability to predict strategize about how they deal with russian. i think certainly there is a significant overlap between the obama administration and the bi it in administration, as you say. and i think the world views probably are not too different. i think maybe there has been some difference in terms of the ecc execution of a number of those policies. you know, president obama time was reputed to have said, never underestimate, goes ability to ask things up, as we've seen with wit

a there's a lot of similarity between divide and administration and the obama administration . their rhetoric is similar. there are a lot of, you know, the same people working for that administration. and yet, it is my perception that during the obama administration, while all those tensions were still present in your brain and sarah, in many other parts of the world, that the obama nutrition still managed to avoid bringing it to such an acute blow out. that may be wrong. i what i want to ask is whether you see any difference between the obama administration and the vitamin administration and the ability to predict and strategize about how they deal with russian. well, i think certainly there is significant overlap between the obama administration and buy it into ministration. as you say, i think the world use probably a lot to different. i think maybe there has been some difference in terms of the execution of the number of those policies. you know, president obama to time was reputed to him, said, never underestimate goes ability to ask things up. but, you know, as we've seen

>> there's this great irony of the obama administration. (car door closes) he comes in promising to be the climate president; he's going to address these issues. ♪ ♪ and at the same time, we're in the middle of a recession. and one of the few rays of job growth is in oil and gas. (audience applauding, cheering) >> nowhere is the promise of innovation greer than in american-made energy. >> the country down on its heels, and here comes the oil industry, generating lots of oil, generating tax revenue. it was a great story for the oil industry to sell. >> over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration. >> the potential for natural gas was huge. >> we have a supply of natural gas that can last america nearly 100 years. >> when obama said we had 100 years of natural gas, we panicked, because we knew the climate was changing so fast. (audience applauding) >> we didn't take the alternative path of drastically increasing investment in renewables. >> thank you, god bless you, and god bless the united sta

in 2009, after the obama administration started, mrs. obama had come to the national park service and said i would really like to put in a kitchen garden. can i do this? she was told. yes she can do this. this is her garden. her grounds. so in 2009, mrs. obama started the white house kitchen garden. she really wanted to start a conversation. a national conversation on nutrition, and children's health. so this garden was started a year before. it was the basis of her signature let's move program. so i am going to tell you a little bit about my experience in the garden, and how the previous first lady would work, and have events in the garden. the gardening year started every year in the spring, where she would come out and with school kids and they would plant the spring vegetables. so here is a school group that came out, she really wanted the kids to do the work. park service staff. first lady's office staff would set everything up. the kids would did the work. as you can see, it wasn't perfect. there is some mismatches there. but she d

in 2009, after the obama administration started, mrs. obama had come to the national park service and said i would really like to put in a kitchen garden. can i do this? she was told. yes she can do this. this is her garden. her grounds. so in 2009, mrs. obama started the white house kitchen garden. she really wanted to start a conversation. a national conversation on nutrition, and children's health. so this garden was started a year before. it was the basis of her signature let's move program. so i am going to tell you a little bit about my experience in the garden, and how the previous first lady would work, and have events in the garden. the gardening year started every year in the spring, where she would come out and with school kids and they would plant the spring vegetables. so here is a school group that came out, she really wanted the kids to do the work. park service staff. first lady's office staff would set everything up. the kids would did the work. as you can see, it wasn't perfect. there is some mismatches there. but she d

i don't know the answer except that people from the obama administration they're probably calling the shots. she wants me to name names, i wish i knew names because i can assure you biden is not naming names. i don't know. >> what evidence do you have congressman. >> i don't have any evidence. that's kind of an assumption to be quite honest of who's making the decisions. people from the obama administration, i don't know but i guess asked that question quite often about who's making thedecisions . i don't think the biden administration, i know it's not him . >> how do you know it's not him? >> i'm not sure he's capable of making those decisions quite honestly. i just don't have confidence that he is indeed in charge. but then you ask me who is in charge idon't know the answer . and i want to talk about the fentanyl because that's a great point.we can sit here and what bothers me about the southern border and the fact that this administration is paying no attention whatsoever is this president has never been to the southern border. the borders are, she's visited down there a week befor

he had a more than 40 point lead over a former consumer protection advisor to the obama administration. representative ryan now faces jd vance the winner of the republican primary. a look now at congressman ryan's victory speech. dad is here, my stepmom top orion -- poppa ryan and my older brother. there was not one sporting event where we were playing each other where didn't and no fight. he won them all. he has been my defender, my friend, my confidence, my role model in all aspects of my life. he run my political campaigns. i would not be on the stage without my brother. and my mom's home watching all of this. she was crying a little bit earlier. she said you only got 75%, what is the matter with you? someone asked, in 1911 what was the secret of your success? in his answer in his book about the wright brothers, two good parents and be born in ohio. i think all of us understand that sentiment. good parents, born in ohio, opportunity to do just about anything and we are lucky, we had a great family here. like so many of you do and the opportunity here. my knees and her future husband

we start from a premise in the democratic party and the obama administration after sandy hook that you would want to ban assault-style weapons. you don't need ar-15s in this country. the compromise position hammered out between republicans and democrats was background checks. that was the thing we could agree on because it doesn't take away guns from people or restrict the sale of guns. i'm not happy with that. that would not be enough to stop the kinds of things we're talking about. but that was where we'll begin. the fact we're sitting there almost a decade after sandy hook and we haven't seen the background checks when 90% of americans support it, it shows the absurdity of where we're stuck here. >> that doesn't get us anywhere where we need to be. you should not be able to purchase ar-15 weapons in this country. as long as that's the case, people are going to continue to be killed by those weapons, as has been the case in most deadly mass shootings in recent years. i hope we start with the lowest-hanging fruit where politically the case is going to have to be made that this is a to

administration and the javelin and that missile to ukraine and the obama administration to do that but trump kathy and 2017, his first year in the presidency, he did agree to do that in the course famously comingld he fell hundred and hon the infamous phone call what he asked jorge faber in exchange for my personal political favor. >> celeste backup a little bit because you're already in donbass and you're already in kyiv you're seeing the situation is a big fight inside of the obama administration new must'vn aware about the back-and-forth ander really it was obama personally against the council of his defense secretary and even ultimately a secretary of state john perry, did not want to have this escalatory with putin but he also clearly had putin's number at this point time read so the ukrainians are looking very anxiously trump, so that they thought that while the trump ministration - they were kind of panicked when trump came into office and the president at the time is in ukraine and there looking at them president of the united states is that he wants to have a good relationship

administration and with the vice president of china and during the obama administration of the relationship at what you see and is hunter facilitating the auto manufacturer to china and by the way the chinese company that bought the auto manufacturer they may chinese military jets also trade, ip theft everything that trump was talking about the militarization of the south china sea, to opm hats of all the critical information of people within our government with security clearance and finally look at the infiltration of the chinese communist party under president obama and vice president biden and again he was given a china portfolio with the infiltration of hollywood and we see things like the confucius centers on campus. all of this happened while biden was in charge of china. steve: exactly. a great run down. now let's get down about your visit to ukraine what have you seen and what is happening? >> thank you for having me. it has been an amazing trip we have been at most of the night with the air raid sirens. i do think things are okay right now. i have been here with a group called aer

obama administration decline to do that. but trump at the end of 2017 his first year in the presidency, he did agree to do that then of course famously he held them hostage in the infamous perfect phone call where he asked for a favor in exchange a personal and political favor. well, that's right. so let's back up a little bit because in 2017, you're already the ambassador. your ordering cave you see the situation there and there was a big fight actually inside the obama administration and the final year of that and you must have been aware of that and you know the back and forth and it really was obama personally who against the council of his defense secretary and even ultimately i think the secretary of state john kerry didn't want to send the web he viewed that as escalatory with with putin but he also clearly had putin's number at this at this point in time. so the ukrainians are looking very anxiously though at trump. it's not that they thought well, the trump administration is going to have good policy right? like the

his longtime friend from the obama administration. >> and he's been quite a celebrity in these parts, alex. >> i've been reading about. it he's great on tweeting and he always has a very quick report. and come back, that's for sure. okay thank you very much michael emily for that joining me now is victor nbc former director of asian affairs in the national security council during teacher sylvia bush administration. welcome back to the broadcast, victor, it's good to see you. so how do you think china perceives president biden's trip to japan and south korea. does that pay attention to what's being said and discussed? >> oh, absolutely alex. which one is saying is that the united states, even though it is quite involved in preoccupied with the war in ukraine, over the past couple of weeks they have met with southeast asian leaders. gone to korea and japan. as you reported just, said we will announce a new economic framework. a meeting of the quad summit quad leaders in australia, india, united states and japan. next week, blinken was to give a big speech on china. immediately upon the

so the first how did you land a job in the obama administration? given your independent views on climate change well, look, you know one's views evolve as one learns more and as the science and the technology evolves. i joined bp in 2004 to help them figure out what beyond petroleum was. they didn't need me to help them find oil and gas. they were very good at doing that already. and so i educated myself about energy and energy technologies with the goal of helping to develop or caterogative development of lower emission technologies. i wasn't very focused on the science at the time had not looked deeply at it. and i get more or less the same thing in the obama administration. bought in 2013. i had a 2014 early 2014. i had a hard look at the science at the beast of the american physical society. it's recounted in the book of people interested the details and i started to realize this is not a solid as people think it is the political dialogue became more and more hyperbolic the proposed energy solutions became more and more unrealistic after 2014.

biden-harris administration and obama administration have done everything they can. inviting people to come here. and with the expiration of title 42, a judge put that order in place, i think there are still tens or hundreds of thousands of people that will pour across at 18,000 people a day. trying to come in to the country in addition to millions that have already plowed across the borders. >> not just the pandemic, this is a national security issue, a law enforcement issue. do you think that the pandemic is still a sufficient while danger to health danger to continue triggering title 42. or should they just say, you are not coming to the country for other reasons? >> it is human trafficking, i talked with border agents who believe upwards of 90% of women trafficked across the borderer raped on the way. it say drug problem. the problem with fentanyl. the tens of thousands of americans that have lost their lives. human trafficking, you think that would be enough. would think that drugs would be enough, the cartels are essentially runs the border, i know that secreta

i went through this in the obama administration where we had to bump people in the queue. i think that is absolutely essential. my understanding is there is an interagency task force focused on the taiwan problem. some of them are affected by industrial base, just. others are placed in the queue. i think there was a concerted effort to do exactly what you are saying with regard to taiwan. the other thing that holds us up is technology release. rather than go through the whole process and at the very end ask the question can we release this technology to this and like. -- base -- this ally. we are going to release this technology to the following partners. i think there are some reforms in process that could be undertaken that could meaningfully improve the performance of the process. >> i would also come up the part where you addressed training ahead of time. i think joint operational plans with taiwan needs more focus and attention. that can also be in conjunction of acquisition of new weapons systems and bringing those online. i think more broadly we need to look at that

we don't know how much access hunter sold into the obama white house and administration. >> and that is the national security risk here. we don't know what was for sale. we still don't know what is still up for sale. i think that is not just a problem we look back, we looked back several years ago what was for sale. that is current problem. the investigation is not closed. it is ongoing. the american people are sick of ongoing investigations. we investigate everything to death. we never get to the bottom of it. i said before, nbc finally putting a dollar figure on this. this will be a passing headline. this is because they no longer view joe biden as the leader of their party. they are okay with throwing him under the bus. the media needs to be asked why they covered up the story when they had evidence there was wrongdoing way back in 2020 when it was not politically convenient. they couldn't report it back then because it could not be verified or because it was politically incone haven't for the candidate they want to be in the white house. they're throwing him under the bus. we nee

i'm curious how you see -- how has governing changed since you were in the obama administration? just governing. ms. psaki: a lot of this is through the prism of my own experience and jobs. but, you know, the job of any president is to speak to the american public, right? that is part of the job, they have lots of other jobs, be commander-in-chief etc. important ones, but when i came to the obama administration we started a department called the new media department, just to give you a sense of how we thought about things at the time. and now, i would say the team that does digital content and digital work is -- i don't know exact numbers, but they are around the size of the communications team. and that is relevant primarily because i do not think we have quite figured it out yet. no one has yet in government, in terms of how you communicate directly to the public and how you can kind of breakthrough what is definitely a world of disinformation, a noisy media environment. some of it is fine-tuning that. and making sure -- i'm not a big believer in the notion that you can only do

. >> was there any debate with the obama administration about whether or not she should continue? darlene: there was debate among some of her advisors. i don't know if it carried over. some of the people thought the idea of her teaching was just crazy but she was insistent. >> she was insistent and determined to do it because it was something she had done her whole life. it was her career and part of her identity. >> the next family crisis was joe biden -- beau biden's stroke. it was five years before he passed away. what was the process like for the family dealing with his diagnosis and treatment and how they managed that personal aspect? >> that was difficult because i think the doctors did not really know what caused the stroke to begin with. it was one of the situations where the biden family closed ranks and support each other and came together and they don't really talk about it a lot. which we saw in the later years when bo came down with cancer. he got better for a while. they began to talk about the possibility of his political career researching and then the cancer diagn

during the obama administration, she served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for eurasia. and a political science professor at the university of chicago. he has written extensively about u.s. national security. his latest book is the great delusion. liberal dreams and intnational realities. we welcome you both back to the newshour. john, i'm going to start with you. do you believe u.s. goals for ukraine have changed and if so, how? >> i think initially, the biden administration thought the best we could do in ukraine was to stymie the russian offensive by assisting the ukrainians. but when it became clear the ukrainians were doing very well on the battlefield against the russians, we escalated and eventually greatly escalated our goals. and we are now and on inflicting a decisive defeat on russian forces in ukraine. beating them decisively on the battlefield. and in addition, wrecking the russian economy with sanctions. all of this is designed to greatly weaken russian power. secretary of defense austin has made this very clear. one could argue what he and his colleagues i

how did you land a job of the obama administration with your independent view on climate change? >> one's views involved as one grows in the science and technology evolve. ni joined 2004 to figure out the armed petroleum and with energy technologies and to have that development of technologies that wasn't very focused on the science at the time. and then bought in 2013 taking a hard look at the science at the behest of the physical process and then realize it's not as solid as people think it is the political dialogue became more and more hyperbolic and he became are unrealistic. and they have to this more than just writing in the op-ed column. >> you come from the political left. m and with that catastrophic narrative.ti do you see any realistic viewpoint with respect to my own political affiliations i have never registered as a member of any party i have always been an independent serving the obama administration but in view of what scientist should be doing in the political realm is to provide advice and analysis options. i have tried to do that when i wasnk in the private sec

administration established when russia went into ukraine the first time in 2014. marking the event in the indo pacific, it's called operation pathways and it encompasses about seven major exercises in the region. we have cobra gold in thailand, salic a tan in the philippines, tiger balm in singapore, talisman sabre in australia, garuda shield in indonesia, and [indiscernible] in the philippines again. as we do all of those different exercises, general flynn, our four-star commander of the u.s. army pacific is working closely with army partners in all of those countries to deepen the complexity and expand the scope of those exercises so that they will be more and more useful to us in terms of interoperability with allies and partners. we are also looking in the indo pacific getter as we have done in europe at how we can get the best use of our army pre-position stocks. we are looking at how we can make better use of our aps in the indo pacific since we want to be able to use the equipment for as much of the year as possible. and in parallel with our exercises we ar

the obama administration failed to address and adequately respond to iran's ballistic missile program in the iranian nuclear agreement. on july 7, 2015, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general martin dempsey declared quote under no circumstances should we relieve pressure on iran relative to ballistic missile capabilities and arms trafficking. seven days later the obama administration did the complete opposite of what the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff had stated in terms of what our military advisers recommended. under the iran agreement the obama administration agreed to lift the arms embargo after five these comp lift restrictions on ballistic missile technologies after eight years. so fast forward october of 2020, the international arms embargo on iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, was officially lifted. the restriction on ballistic missile technologies are expected to be lifted next year. what is this administration's strategy and plan to address iran's production of ballistic missiles now? >> senator, we have tools at our disposal to go after

starting with the obama administration. we will continue to support the ukrainian people. sorry we didn't have the latest $40 billion in this bill last week, we have a stalled section of the republican party that is as committed to this mission as the rest of congress is. we have to step out of this moment, and i will leave it for discussion and questions, and recognize how we allowed not just ukraine, but so much of russia's periphery has become vulnerable. these are tanks against tanks and planes against claims, but russia perfected what we have come to call asymmetric warfare. china is perfecting the same. it is using nonmilitary mechanisms whether it be economic power, propaganda, good old-fashioned intimidation and bribery to gain influence. and we are fighting these adversaries with one hand behind our back. we are good at staving off conventional invasion. we are not very good at fighting those nonmilitary tools of power projection. and we've got to figure out a way to fight with both hands, rather than just one hand, because we're in over the next 50 years for some

administration and cuba. there have been all manner of different tour groups coming through. press conferences with u.s. senators in that hotel. it is a well-known focal point for tourism and as you said, the colonial era old historic district. a lot of buildings are crumbling around. an exposure of this nature could have an effect on surrounding buildings. >> anything from officials about when we will be getting details about what happened? >> not yet carded. they are putting out information as they have it. there was a call for donations. the injured are being treated in nearby hospitals. the focus will be on pulling anyone else remaininin the rubble, accounting for everyone who is missing. working out exactly how many people have died. this could have an effect on cuba's reemerging tourism industry. the island has been hugely hit by the pandemic went tourism as such the mainstay of the economy. the green shoots of the return of tourism site this could have an effect on that returning. >> thank you for that

we had the obama administration tipping the hat to the best practice hope and expectation to stretch the minds of our children. we made the point 11 years ago. i recall saying this at the press conference kicking this off. once a mind is stretched it never goes back to the original form. the college going mind set at a very young age we believed would have a profound impact. little did we know the data collected since in small pilot programs not just san francisco buts across the country and the world have not only proven that construct but have allowed us an opportunity to understand that the impact was far greater than we ever could have imagined. this motion you are three times more likely to go to college even with moders december amount of money in a savings account. four times more likely to graduate with even as little as $500 in a savings account is something that we asserted but couldn't necessarily prove over a decade ago. this program has been incredibly impactful. jose said it well. the notion of all conversations that would have never taken shape with householdses. oppor

and she was on the white house council of economic advisories during the barack obama administration. harris cast the tie-breaking vote after all 50 republicans voted against cook why? they argue she does not have sufficient experience with interest rate policy. >>> now at 3:00, construction is on in one east bay island community. kpix5 justin anders has a lot of people with more company in the coming years. >> reporter: for almost 30 years this has been angie's community. >> good schools, neighborhood, the people, she called it my alameta. >> i love it. everyone who lives here knows it is a great place. >> reporter: a place she calls home and so many others will, too, soon. >> when you see these homes being built behind us what do you think? >> i am excited. i am happy. we need housing. so, i think it is great. >> reporter: not hard to notice a lot of construction. that is because over the next eight years the state wants them to build 5300 homes to fulfill regional housing needs. some will be affordable, all to fight the housing crisis across the state. >> you are right, there is a

it's now a decade after barack obama announced a pivot to asia and successive us administrations. of talked about china's growing economic, diplomatic and military clout, will a year ago, secretary of state antony blinkin said china represented america's biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century. but troubles elsewhere have obscured the planned focus on bay ging. now the u. s. is stepping up support for ukraine in its war with russia. so is that conflict challenging the u. s. is long sought strategic and economic shift to asia. how panel will discuss this shortly? but 1st, florence louis reports from sole jo biden's 1st stop in asia. on the ground in south korea, a mixed response to us precedent jo biden's visit. these demonstrate is welcomed him. seeing this as an opportunity to present a united front against north korea. that follows reports leader kim jong and maybe about to conduct a 7th nuclear weapons test. but here, activists concerned about an arms race, a calling for peace. when the 2 presidents met at a summit on saturday, security was high on the agenda. j. i a hurr

including also as a white house fellow in the obama administration. did you two know each other then? no actually two years apart. i think it is just in the first administration and as a speech writer to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. his work on race relations has appeared in prominent national publications across the political spectrum. including the new york times magazine the atlantic washington post wall street journal the national review and several other publications a native of north carolina. he is a graduate of hampton university in virginia and harvard university. and holds a doctorate of law and policy from northeastern university. he is the author of the book. we are highlighting today. when the stars begin to fall overcoming racism and renewing the promise of america, please. join me in welcoming ted johnson. gentlemen, welcome welcome. as you can see i'm with a faith-based organization and i want to begin by having you tell a little bit about your upbringing. and also as you might imagine, i'm especially a curious about your

during the obama administration and i want to relive what we went back and forth on whether potatoes shouldin be restricted from school lunches in the school breakfast programs in the wake programs and they were not. when you appeared before the subcommittee last year i questioned the usda proposed elimination of funding for the highly successful potato breeding research program. congress on a bipartisan basis not only reject it the elimination of that program. ratherer than zeroing out it increases to $3 million a year. given the strong congressional support i was very surprised to see that your legit is again proposing to zero out this program especially when the administration is seeking an overall increase of more than $2 billion inan discretionary spending for usda. the university of maine is the leader in research and this program and has worked with growers to develop a new variety called the care of the rest that that's producing hight' yields that is i much more disease resistant and the recent outbreak of the potato bahrain prince island canada. to understand the importance

>> a lot of folks here that are working in the white house now, were also working the obama administration in some way, shape or form. so they remember after sandy hook where it felt like there was all of this momentum to do something after that horrific tragedy. and so this feels eerily similar. that there is at one point a lot of inertia for folks to do something about this. but congress is gone. congress is not here to work on that issue in person. and when that happens, folks start to get worried as you know, joe, nothing will happen. but the task force in the senate on some kind of possible gun prevention legislation, gun control legislation, they are talking over the weekend, as you know, senator murphy said over the weekend they have been on the phones working on that. but there is a healthy dose, i think, of pessimism here in the white house and on the senate that something will get done based on past history. you also have this concern from the white house that president biden shouldn't be very involved in the negotiations, not this one, not on social spending bill that they were

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