pope francis came to the united states to visit with not only president obama, but the catholic church here, and i was asked if i could accompany him to philadelphia. i did, but it was -- the wounds were still raw. i had my extended family, they are always around, my grandchildren, children, wife, daughters in law. before he left, the pope asked whether or not he could meet with my family. we met in a hangar at the philadelphia airport and he talked with my family for a considerable amount of time. about my son. he didn't just generically talk about them, he knew about him. he knew what he did, he knew who he was coming he knew where he went to school. it had such a cathartic impact on his children and our family that it meant a great deal. i meant what i said, i didn't realize you already able to fill what i was doing when i gave him a command coin. i meant what i said. this is a man who is someone who is looking to establish peace and decency and honor. not just to the catholic church, but generically. he called me to tell me how much she appreciated the fact that i would focus on th

virginia by 10 points, virginia turned blue, yet democrats are worried, worried enough to bring in barack obama, and kamala harris and president biden in closing days of the campaign, will it help? doe virginia voters care what people outside of virginia think? is this a referendum on the biden agenda? for the latest on ground, we begin with our correspondent rich edson in richmond, virginia. reporter: even as national democrats come to virginia and campaign for terry mccauliffe, they acknowledge this is a bell weather election, a good indication of the mood of the nation heading into the 2022 campaigns. terry mccauliffe has been campaigning here in rich mond area, and just finished a halloween parade in leesberg. he has been trying to tie his republican opponent to former president donald trump who lost virginia by 10 percentage points, claiming he would be a mess for the state. >> he is clueless, he is dangerous, very dangerous. been endorsed by trump 9 times, trump is calling into his town hall meeting tomorrow night. trump said the other day, quote. glen will do whatever we tell him to do.

when obama care couldn't be reversed all at once. then the trumpet, ministration worked on a variety of other tactics to take it apart, piece by piece. donald trump signed multiple bills into law, each targeting a different aspect of obamacare, you think will help you. yeah. you know, one thing i really learned is that learn with you as you would have started with infrastructure at the beginning of this year, the trump administration came in and made the tack 0 so that now there is no obligation for people to get insurance. so healthy people won't get insurance and that will make it more expensive for everyone else at symbolically it was kind of, you know, ha, you know, we're going to pull apart as much as we can. and i think obamacare is, is over. this is something i'm very proud of. great for our country. great for the american people. thank you all building on this momentum. donald trump has continued his attack on obamacare, and the number of uninsured americans is on the rise again. oh it is cost, some people their lives like sh

he brought in barack obama. he brought in the current president and the first lady. doesn't that swing a lot of voters? >> you know, i don't think that will be swinging many voters. what it does is it may energize his base and that's really his only strategy at this point. you look at the latest fox news poll that shows that youngkin is doing extremely well with ikt independents. -- well with independents. bringing in the past, bringing in joe biden and kamala, look at their approval ratings. the country is disenchanted with how they are doing, and certainly virginia is. you know, it's interesting that barack obama comes in and says that oh, you know, parents are out there pushing trumped up conspiracy theories on the very day that the individual was convicted of sodomizing a young girl in a public school which was then covered up by loudon county schools. you know, i think they are out of touch. i know the cliche is often overused in politics. i think that's something you can describe terry mcauliffe and his surrogates coming in, they are extremely out of touch. >>

forty-fourth president barack obama for which he served on the national security council chief of staff and ambassador to the united nations. san francisco giants halfway through the 2021 season did go giants. welcome, jeremy. last but not least, this conversation, she is the international policy director at the cyber policy center and the international policy fellow at stanford. ten years as a representative in the european parliament, two years at stanford including one and a half remotely. first book she is writing. 24,300 people on twitter. still used to refer to the city. so glad to have all four of you here today. we are looking forward to your conversation. over to you. >> thank you so much. a warm welcome to everybody joining. a real celebration today as well. i want to welcome jeremy and rob on the launch of their book where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot it. i cannot stress enough how important it is to hear such a diagnosis, well researched, well argued from americans. i say that being in europe now. of course, the world is looking at what the united states is doin

. >> i can confirm that analysis is correct having been a field organizer for president obama in 2008. basically until 10:45, it's like what's going to happen? and then northern virginia, they run up the score a little bit. we'll see if those dynamics are still at play on tuesday. traditionally for the past two presidential cycles, that has been the case. tyler, to the point of enthusiasm, part of the reason why some activists are not so enthusiastic right now is because they're disappointed with president biden on certain issues including climate which we just talked about with the congresswoman. jade becay, a climate activist said, quote, president biden started very strongly by rejoining the paris agreement, but it's been frustrating the last few months, things have slowed down. joe manchin is holding hostage our survival on planet earth for his own political career, and people are really questioning if biden will stick to his promises. tyler, how can biden do more to show that he's actually going to live up to some of those promises he made on the campaign trail? >> yeah. i think

a one man learned from this barack obama elected president of the united states in 2008. he made health care reform a priority. it has now been nearly offensive. nearly every president and congress, whether democrat or republican has attempted to meet this challenge in some and that is the issue of health care. i'm not the 1st president to take up this cause, but i am determined to be the last obama knew he would be attacked from all sides to succeed. he decided to negotiate with the 3 powerful players and the health care system. the insurance companies, hospitals, and drug companies all were given a seat of the table that only a seat there were given the responsibility of actually writing big parts of the legislation. so he gave away a lot of things that were valuable. i think to him personally, in order to get something, anything done that was important, the obamacare compromise imposed 3 core principles with, with the individual mandate, every american was required to have health insurance would pay a penalty. the purpose of this measure was to increase policyholder nu

the number of people -- he's bringing huge numbers, 11 or 12 cabinet members, former president obama set to make an appearance as well. and just to remind people, the kyoto protocol back in the mid-'90s was the first time rich countries says, yeah, we should cut down on our pollution. but then a republican president backed away from that. and and then of course the paris accord of 2015, donald trump did the same. sort of the wide golds are to keep the hope of that 1.5 degrees warming alive. right now we're at 1.1. even if all these countries keep the promises of paris, it will be put us at between 2.7 and 3 degrees. anything close to 4 means pretty much the end of life as we know it. so it's never too late to try to save as much as we can. there's the coal piece, unabated coal. stop digging it. leave it in the ground. providing that $100 billion fund. they're years behind on that promise to help those countries. and then methane is a big one. it's sort of the 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term and much easier to control in the short term. you got to tackle met

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the night that obama was elected as president, the sign disappeared. polls and everything. the magazine and the news media covered that disappearance of that sign and 30 days later the board of supervisors met and at that meeting the room could not hold the people that were there and they ran the article and the words came off the page as if why did he think that the sign was vandalized and he said because man was elected as president of the united states. so 30 days later the room was filled to the brim with individuals wanting him to resign. in the local paper there was an editorial page that said that shame on him for saying that but he told them at that meeting, i will resign as president of the board of supervisors but i will not resign as an equalizer. to know jerome was to love him. jerome was a big tall black man that didn't mind getting into anybody's face. jerome was known for pushing tables across the room. he had this not squeaky voice but it was a unique voice that when he was screaming he was not as loud as i am but he had a presence about him and i talk all t

you were in the thick of it in the obama white house when that happened. you saw the congress change hands over to the republicans, and that was a shellacking as i recall barack obama describing it as at one point during his presidency. should president biden be more concerned about these sliding poll numbers, or do you think he's taking some of that experience you both had into consideration? >> well, i'm sure he is concerned. i'm not sure he should say how concerned he is about polls. i think he gave the right answer, which is my job isn't to watch polls. my job is to follow through on the commitments that i've made. the one difference i would say, jim, between what we faced in 2009 and 2010 and what he's looking at here is that we knew that the economic recovery was going to be slow and arduous. that was the nature of the kind of crisis we faced, which was the collapse of the financial system globally, and we were warned even before the president took office that this was going to take a very long time to unwind. there is still the prospect here that if

joining me now to discuss, alana beverly, former obama white house aide and host of the our mayors podcast. and senior adviser for the lincoln project, former gop communications director, and resident scholar at the uva center for politics. so, alana, first, i want to look at the issue of paid family leave from a global view. because the u.s. is just one of seven countries without national paid maternity leave. we are showing everybody a map of -- of the other countries. some of 'em are hard to see. is this a missed opportunity if this stays out? >> well, it's certainly disheartening. i know, eight out of ten women are not provided some form of family medical leave by their employers and it's also an equity issue if you think about it this has disproportionate effect on women of color, black and brown women. according to mom -- moms rising, african-american moms just earn 52 cents on the dollar for what white fathers earn. and so, we are often living on the margins and can't afford to take off and this paid leave would be so critically, critically important. you know, we shouldn't have to

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for both the bush and obama administration during a transition period that is something i can try to do again. i felt like our house was on fire. i figure out the russians are not the half of it. the problem is what is happening in our domestic politics. the white house politics. let's just say any skills over my eyes, pretty much quickly dispelled. i realize i'm in a very similar situation. kind of what i was writing about when i was writing about russia and the kremlin. >> what this quickly revealed to you about president trumps interest in expert advice on the subject like love shack. >> this is a fairly silly story. one that i'm sure a lot of people can relate to. in the book, my daughter got food poisoning the night before being at the white house. she threw up all night. she threw up on me. i gave myself a black eye. i was going out in the morning. the first orientation session at the white house. i ran to the metro. i did not trust myself driving after being awake all night. i run to the metro and i realized my shoes. i had left my dress shoes behind every woman's nightmare. l

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pope francis came to the united states to visit with not only president obama but with the catholic church year. i was asked if i would accompany him to philadelphia. anyway. i did. the wounds were still raw of the loss of my son. i had my extended family. they are always around. my grandchildren, my children, my wife, my daughters-in-law. before he left and got in the plane the pope asked whether he could meet with my family. we met in the hangar at the philadelphia airport. he came in and talked to my family. for a considerable amount of time, 10, 15 minute about my son. he did not just generically talk about him. he knew about him. he knew what he did. he knew who he was. he knew where he went to school. he knew what a man he was. it had such a cathartic impact on his children and my wife and our family that it meant a great deal. i meant what i said. you were able to film what i was doing with the pope. i gave him a command going -- command going. and i meant what i said. this is a man who is someone who is looking to establish peace and decency and honor, not just in the catholic chur

and then even over obama getting credit on the world stage for actions on climate the clean power plan never went into effect and then donald trump that pulled the u.s. out of the deal and the countries want to see what the u.s. is going to put on paper. they follow the back and forth in washington as closely as we are and see this is not a done deal and president biden can't get all of his party 100% on board much less the republicans and want to know when the u.s. asks them to step up on emission cutting and to put up a pretty penny to help with adaption and that's where the biden administration is struggling to prove they'll be able to do this. not only through the legislation and the 555 billion but through executive action they hope to be able to take and has to go through the courts. they hope that states will the ep up and corporations will step up with money. but whether president biden can credibly make that argument could go a long ways to determine whether the summit is a success. >> thank you for joining us. we have watching right now that live shot in rome. we'll take a qu

bush, former assistant secretary of state under obama and executive director of the jewish congress, welcome, let me start with you, it does seem pretty mild stop public financing of a cold generating plant try to get carbon neutrality by 2050. , china seems to be having none of this there not stopping the coal production. their building work. do you think this was a success or a lot more needs to be wanted? >> it's great to be with you first and foremost what joe biden is doing is leading on the world stage for american jobs, that is really been the core of this focus and there is integration between the engagement abroad and what he's trying to get done in washington with the build back better bill where than half a trillion dollars going into clean energy. the hope here that this will stir innovation and movement amongst our allies in 26 meetings in the next couple of days for concrete agreements back by subsidence investment to not only deal with climate change the build jobs china and russia they want to be on the outside they will be watching with her nose pressed up against th

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what got us to the paris agreement in the obama years was obama and xi jinping coming together behind the emissions reductions targets that allowed the rest of the world to come into the deal and xi jinping was in paris for those talks. now you have through no fault of joe biden over the course of the last five years steady deterioration in u.s./china relations, a more belligerent xi jinping who feels much less concerned about appearing with world leaders in a photo on or seen to be working constructively at a summit and yes, you have provocations, in terms of china flying into taiwanese air pace with its aircraft, or china testing new missiles, a potential nuclear arms race, those things are difficult to manage in their own respects, but what they also make more difficult, alex, getting china more invested in the international climate change process, getting china more invested in the g-20 agenda like cracking down on tax evasion around the world. those things require cooperation. the balancing act for the administration going forward, how do we talk to these guys and find some areas

experts of former secretary of the treasury under bill clinton under the top economic advisor to barack obama, larry summers has been talking about inflation for months and a lot of people worry when you take an inflationary overheated economy and you have $3 trillion which is what these 2 billion bills would do, 3 trillion in government spending you will make it worse and there's a lot of economic experts that say pass or not pass it, inflation will continue well into 2022. >> let's break this down, long-term and short-term, that is definitely true 17 nobel prize-winning a economist are those that we talked about doing things to allow americans to get back to work, putting money in their pockets and making childcare more affordable will help with inflation in the long run, there is a short-term transitory the ones that we are already seeing slow down a little bit but very mindful because that's impacting americans. that is a consequence of the economic effects of the pandemic. there are so many things that are happening in our economy, distortion, disruption, things in our supply chain that

people and how often does a former president show up as these conferences, almost never and to have obama there also adds credibility to t.push back from the right, two beats on this, phil, i want to talk about what he's going to get hit on domestically, but on this the right's counter to everything that bill said which was completely germane is but we're so far ahead of everybody else on coal. you know, we've done things that nobody else in the world wants to do, why do we have to sign on to these things? why don't you make everybody else catch up? how does biden deal with that? >> that it's the u.s. responsibility to lead and this is -- bill lays out a great timeline of what has transspired which leads to a lot of skepticism from world leaders and to some degree when u.s. officials they want to leverage that saying this underscores the urgency of making real, tangible conkeith commitments now. you don't know what's going to happen four years from now or where we'll be in 2025. this is the moment to do it, obviously the movement to do so when you look around the world, climate disasters

ah, prison front is determined to try to get rid of anything that president obama did. he's trying to undo the obama legacy piece by piece, including the affordable care donald trump proposed his reform. trump care who's a was to replace obamacare, which was to socialist for his liking. continuing the republican tradition, he wanted to keep state intervention to a minimum. once elected president, trump carried out his plan. he launched a charm offensive to get through congress. ah, action is not a choice, it is a necessity. so i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding. obamacare disaster predominantly republican, the house of representatives passed the reform bill. mister johnson, i had one last obstacle to hurdle the vote of the senate, which was much more divided needed every vote that they could get to undo obamacare and john the k, whose conservative republican, who was the last one to vote. and he voted by lifting his hand and threw in thumbs down. ah, the eyes are 49. the names are 51. motion is

maybe three if you include president obama, that thought they were not willing to escalate that much, and they thought what we were doing was not sustainable. >> there were charges made that even if you had to withdraw, the biden administration mishandled the withdrawal badly. do you think that that's a fair criticism? >> well, nobody is happy with the way the final phase of the withdrawal happened with the rush of the population out of fear because a lot of people, including many in the government, argue that the taliban moves into kabul, there would be a bloodbath destruction of kabul, what happened in the '90s could be repeated, so there was fear as the taliban were coming into kabul. and then there was an opportunity where a message spread across afghanistan like wildfire that anyone who can make it to the airport will be taken to the united states. so you had this massive rush of thousands and thousands of people to the airport and with though scenes. nobody was of the view this was very positively done. in terms of the logistics of getting everybody out, there's no suggestion th

the obama administration was enormously stu porttive and they spurred the development of the commercial crew program which did launch humans and that mission which took place last year happened under president trump's watch. it's interesting. you've seen over the years the white house typically, were it's republican or democrat, has been pretty supportive of commercial space. >> nasa has caution built into its dna. it's obviously accomplished amazing things, even recently with mars, but it's often seen as plotting and slow and spacex is sort of cutting edge and scrappy. spacex hasn't killed anybody yet. it takes just one dead astronaut for nasa to say, hold on, we need to stop and make sure we know what we're doing. i'm not for a second saying spacex engineers aren't incredibly careful and incredibly professional. losing an astronaut is a way of sobering an administration. >> that's a risk going forward. they're going to launch five human missions and that is taking out a lot of area. nasa's culture is risk averse, rather plotting. spacex is going as fast as they can moving forward and

the climate envoy has said that, president obama sas said that. you held a meeting with the -- t >> the european partners are being partners. theory athey're announcing some the oil production -- >> brennan: you are meeting with some of the top oil executives in the country. what is the end goal? >> the end goal is to have transparency. they're saying they're for climate action, great. but what are they doing to hit those targets. why don't they be honest and say, here is where we're going to invest in clean energy. here is where we're going to transition. they shouldn't say one thing and do another thing. i want them to actually be partners. i want them to own up to some of the past erroneous statements. they said that fossil fuel does not cause climate change. and he wasn't willing to say that isn't an outrages outrageous statement. >> brennan: thank you, congressman, for coming on. we'll be right back in a moment. so remember this: now is the time to get your eyes checked. eye care is important to your long-term diabetes management. see a path

this pull, keep in mind, gerry started the day after obama had gone to a rally. the shift is so significant. democrats don't seem to understand this. so many forced errors, afghanistan, the border, the economy even covered that perhaps to rethink how americans are viewing this mad -- to spend, spend, spend when our own lives are reflecting the inflation and economic trouble we face. gerry: you works in the clinton white house. i don't quite understand, biden came in he had a very, very narrow majority bill clinton did quite successfully for relatively measured small achievements. he kind of shot it looks like it's not what he wanted to achieve a looks like half a loaf, a failure. why did they make this mistake? lexi caucus has just endorsed the biden plan as manchin and cinema. it looks like a breakthrough. i would certainly agree democrats don't seem to want a victory. right now consensus on over $3 trillion of spending on infrastructure which president trump tried and never succeeded in doing. it looks like that is one 100% in agreement. in addition to social s

when barack obama campaigned for terry mcauliffe, he dismissed the toni morrison book controversy as a conservative media creation. >> we don't have time to be wasting on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage that right wing media pedaled to juice their ratings. >> let me tell you about how business works in tv, barack obama. fox news covers the culture war that you started because it's real news. so people come to fox to watch real news. howie: and the pundits pick sides over what liberals painted as a racially divisive issue you. >> the republicans have followed trump's lead, pouring high octane gasoline on cultural anxiety, weaponizing anything that makes white christians feel icky. >> even if it was a crumb -- clumsy, ineffective plea, it was how glenn youngkin decided to end his campaign nonetheless. the horrors, the horrors of toni morrison. >> i think it is so potent, democrat or republican, when parents are talking about what their kids are learning inless schools that it's a big issue, culture war or not. howie: joining us to analyze the coverage, emily jach

this is a county that has constantly voted for a democratic presidential candidate since barack obama but at the same time keeps elected a republican congressman. for all these reasons, we'll dive into the issues that matter here in washow county. >> very hard for democrats to win a race without carrying washow. finally shaquille brewster in du endangered species, the swing county. tell us about duval. >> duval county, essentially jacksonville, florida, is a sprawling suburban area that is as purple as purple gets. it wasn't always that way. this is a traditionally republican stronghold that democrats flipped in 2018 and president biden won in 2020. now it's the source of a major battle between both political parties. republicans are trying to reverse the trend they've been seeing, pointing to issues like immigration, inflation and the labor shortage, hoping moderate voters will end upcoming home, and democrats are pointing to congress and pleading with them to pass president biden's agenda saying inaction could threaten the trends that's i've been seeing, especially with the increase

democrats ended up getting shellacked, the words of barack obama, they were shellacked in part because there was a lot of disillusionment from voters who said, look, we were promised help. we didn't get help. if you fast forward to today, a lot of the media coverage presumes democrats need to pare back their agenda in order to appease so-called moderate voters but the historical context in fact says the exact opposite. >> so we have to infuse what we know from history into the daily coverage. and what we need is a little bit less of the kind of hysterical minute by minute and a little bit more of the broader story here. where can we find "meltdown," by the way? >> it's on audible right now. >> there we go. thanks for coming on the program. good to see you. >> thank you, thanks for having me. >>> up next, the one and only kara swisher here, and we are going to get meta. ♪ ♪ no two dreams are the same. but there is one van equipped to handle them all. for over 120 years, mercedes-benz vans have been built, upfitted and ready to go. because we believe dreams - should never stay that w

you are going to see projects from the obama administration. it's a lobby list of entitlements we cannot afford. and add to the debt it adds the deficit spending but from my point increasing inflation we are to have a huge problem in terms of inflation, working out wage against making everybody poor. also entitlements will encourage people to not work. twenty years ago, maria, in 2000 the labor participation rate was over 67%. it's almost six points lower than that. businesses cannot hire people. we have not only the supply chain disruptions, we have shortages of workers whether it's healthcare workers, truckers, whether it's longshoremen, manufacturers having to shut down shifts. we have all the ingredient's i mentioned this before on previous programs we have all the ingredients for stag inflation. we take a look at the meager growth in the third quarter were 5% inflation which will probably keep growing. that is what it is. it is ugly very difficult to get out of this but i heard your early comments some democrats of the biden administration

annual oversight hearings were the norm under the obama administration and i am pleased to restore this tradition. i thank attorney general garland for appearing today. time and again trump appointees overroad the professional judgment of the department's non partisan career attorneys to advance the president's agenda. the efforts took a dark and dangerous turn in the waiting months of trump term when doj political appointees aided president trump's big lie efforts to challenge the integrity of our election. first attorney general barr cast aside decades old policy to prevent the department from impacting elections. he directed u.s. attorneys and the fbi to investigate the election fraud claims of nonetheless rudy giuliani after these claims had been summarily discredited and disproven by countless state election officials. and barr repeatedly, publicly and baselessly claimed that mail voting could be rampant to fraud, a charge he himself rejected when the votes were actually counted. after he lost the 2020 election president trump found another justice department ally in clark. clark p

mcauliffe has had democratic heavy hitters for him, including president biden, former president obama and vice president kamala harris, but this weekend, mcauliffe working to energize black voters. he has had the most powerful black lawmaker in congress by hs side, south carolina congressman james clyburn, the man seen as the key figure in turning around biden's 2020 campaign. meanwhile, youngkin endorsed by key republicans including former president trump has been solo on his own bus tour focusing on northern virginia, these d.c. suburbs, critical for the republican. the big issue appears to be education, and youngkin has seized on the anger from parents over mask mandates and the teaching of critical race theory. president biden won virginia by ten points in 2020. youngkin has been walking this fine line as he tries to shore up the trump base and sway moderate voters. whit? >> all right, kenneth, thanks. >>> let's bring in our abc news deputy political director averi harper. good morning to you. it's always great to have you. we'll talk about the race in virginia in a moment, but as

unexpected: he walked away from acting to campaign for and eventually join the white house staff of barack obama. >> i remember my manager being very perplexed. are you sure you want to do this? i said, sure, it is not a career shift. i'm not going to do it forever. >> reporter: penn worked for two years in the office of public engagement, with a focus on connecting with asian americans and pacific islanders. he details it in his new memoir: "you can't be serious." published by simon & schuster. >> i like public service. that goes back to my grandparents who marched with gandhi, and those were the dinner table conversations we had. >> reporter: one more thing penn writes about in his new memoir, his partner, josh. it was fairly matter of fact. >> yeah. >> reporter: what was it loolike for you to put that in a book for the world to look at? >> josh and i have been together for 11 years. for me, writing about it -- the tricky thing is it is very matter of fact in our lives. when you're the son of indian immigrants who says you want to be an actor, the chaos that concretes in your family and commun

not only did african-american virginians vote at the level they did in obama's 2012 re-election, but black women gave mcauliffe 91% of their votes. he lost white women by 16 percentage points. you know who else agreed with my assessment? terry mcauliffe. i ran into then-governor mcauliffe not long after writing my column to mention my assessment to him, and guess who put you in the governor's mansion, i asked? not expecting mcauliffe to answer, black women, mcauliffe thundered before i could even say it. black women have been saving this republic since its founding. that's especially since the trump era when they helped elect democrats in unlikely places like in alabama and georgia. their votes put president joe biden in the white house, and black turnout will be key if mcauliffe is to win in virginia. they just have to show up. there's a lot of worry about that among democrats because of polls showing a race that is too close for comfort in a state president biden won by 10 percentage points. in the last week, youngkin was able to close the gap by tossing copies of tony morrison's p

look at the way obama care took forever to get done. it got done march 2010. it's more popular now. it wasn't popular then. are they going to see any political benefit from this comes next year? >> i think that depends where the economy is, country is next year. the parallels from '09 and '10 are eerie though. president biden did not sell the stimulus then, i think, to the red of many democrats, very aggressively and while the health care act was very sweeping and popular, in the end was not seen as something addressing the needs of the american voters. i think today we're having the same conversation in part because this is a process-heavy debate but people in this country are focused on getting past covid and rising prices they are seeing all around them. and right now, julie, they don't see how this agenda connects it that. >> i think that's exactly right. even if next year some of the key provisions in this bill ultimately passes and are not being sold by people, this will actually look at it more favorably if the covid rates are down and economy overall improves. it's the macro

i would love to talk about -- i write about barack obama's autobiography. i would love to talk to him about that. much of the autobiography has its own reading coming to a sense of his identity and a lot of them were books that my father also read so i would love to have spoken to him about that and nothing more than to have introduced him to tony because he hadn't read toni morrison, or lately someone like jesse ward. it's not that i had a sense of what he would have thought but conversations i wish i could have with him. >> do you feel like that is a piece of black literature that tends to be forgotten, like what do people not teach that they should? >> i don't know if it's that people don't teach. i think it's for people that haven't taken a course may be there are writers they don't get exposed to. i have a chapter about the poet and abolitionist. she's in the chapter on resistance and i wrote this during the height of the black lives matter protest to show that there is a whole history of protests. when frank harper, again philadelphia was a hotbed of

probably won't be as dramatic asas it was in 2009 at the koppen haggen summit when president barack obama and secretary of state hillary clinton barged into a leaders meeting of the chinese, brazilian and indian leaders to encourage them to do more. we'll see less drama from that. obviously the president will be encouraging these leaders, particularly india, to do more. of course, the united states has its own credibility problem. these leaders are both students of u.s. politics and can push back on president biden despite hises best efforts and say, hey if president trump is re-elected in 2024, he'll roll back these things again likell he did in 2017. there's going to be a lot of headwinds here even as the leaders try e to do what they c to advance this agenda. >> i want to show this headline that reads why the cop26 climate summit won't save the planet. it says there's almost no chance that they'll agree to do what things need to be done. we heard a lot of the pressure is on china. we don't even know if the president will be there. your thoughts on that? >> well, i think that while they

in context, this is $555 billion and the biggest ever climate package in american history under the obama administration was $90 billion. so he has a very powerful weapon in his back pocket that says that america will live up to its pledge and can go back to leading the world in terms of climate. he's in a good position. >> as you know, tom, many of the leaders of the world's biggest polluters, talking china, russia, saudi arabia, won't be at this scotland summit in person. what options are there to try to hold them accountable? they've got to get on board as well. >> you're absolutely right about that, wolf. i mean it is critical. this is global warming. it's absolutely imperative that every country, particularly china, i mean if you look at the numbers, china is the biggest polluter on this basis by far in the world, and it's absolutely critical that they come to the table because otherwise we're never going to reach our global climate goals. i think really, the united states had to get back into the position of, you know, moral leadership and economic leadership. i truly believe that w

us negotiators have been quick to conclude it's small fields be it with russia or iran and obama administration or attempts to do so under the trump administration hr are you listening. with north korea,". your overall point if i take this correctly is that recent administrations have placed too much emphasis on diplomatic cooperation and too little on clarity and forthrightness of principle. have i got that right? >> i think clearly especially when you have nuclear weapons involved, there is a need to negotiateeven with authoritarians . we can't hope and aspire to quick regime change and all of the countries that premise. but there was something obviously to the way that reagan didn'teven as he was sitting down and speaking to gorbachev or other soviet leaders . he had no problem publicly talking about what was at stake and the cruelty and hollowness of what that regime represented and that i think has been missing in many re-recent us administrations and is a huge is challenge in europe going back to what mcmaster was saying. and this is on the mentally part of the problem in europe and germa

and president eisenhower and president obama chose i think the statue of liberty just the torch of the statue of liberty and president clinton chose -- a strange flowering presents. it was a very young staff and when nixon then moynihan met moynihan was 32 when nixon was 56. >> ziegler was 29. >> and larry hague b was -- so what was the urban affair counsel and what did it do? >> here's the urban affairs counsel and this was the first executive order that richard nixon signed signed two days after the inaugural parade and he's with members of the domestic cabinet. he was very familiar with the national security council which was created in 1947. the president was chairman of the vice president was a board member and he had five statutory members. this was a formulating domestic policies in his early iterations with patrick moynihan after the election. he wanted something which in a formal way could manage the process of making policy whether it was rural development or whether was health insurance he wanted some place for it to be discussed at the top level of government and he used it

obama and david kim, the former chairman of the committee. on the top individual side, we proposed successfully 39.6 and if we want to have a long discussion about the salt deduction it was the salt deduction that complicated the top rate being cut to 37.5% largely because secretary mnuchin, in many conversations with me, he assured me time and again they would not cut the previous administration the top individual rate. he called me and he said i want to apologize to you profusely. he said when we saw what the salt deduction turned out to be we had to cut the top rate. the idea that these are all easily done, in the tax world, i think mr. brady would agree with this even if he didn't agree with me in a philosophic tone, it's like squeezing toothpaste with the cap on. some of these things are altered. that's the reality. our best intentions are sometimes offtarget. but we do include tax buyback we provide a minimum international corporate texas of 15%. those are the most substantial changes. smaller change on the adjusted gross income we take

he boosted national politicians like clinton, kerry and obama. but he found a way to make a bigger impact. plow it into local politics. his money . .. 74%. there is a proposition in austin to get the money back. but or owes donated half a million to fight the proposition to keep austin p.d. defunded. orosis buying local prosecutors all over the country. texas d.a. jose garza got elected and he allows aer. to get out who then went on to murder people. another dismissed 800 cases against black lives matter cases. or owes' pacs have given a lot to kimberly gardner. she slapped the mccloskey's with felony charges for protecting their home from that dangerous mob. he propped up kim foxx's campaign, the woman who dropped charges against smollett. or owes spends lavishly to empty jails. he invested a quarter billion into racial justice organizations. his open so side foundation funds groups who push critical race theory big time. if you get in the way of the or owes agenda his network will hunt you down. kyrsten sinema was followed into the bathroom by