we started losing votes during the tea party revolution right after barack obama was elected and we have not been able to regain our footing since then. when i was unable to get reelected in 2018, just one statistic for your viewers, when i was elected in 2012, probably about 20% of republicans would cross over and vote for a democrat. when i ran into any 18, that number -- when i ran in 2018, that number dribbled -- that number dwindled to 4%. when that number gets low, democrats cannot get elected in a state like mine. it is important rural america not be one party america. we started the one country project. it was to reintroduce the democratic party to rural america and rural america to the democratic party. host: do think over the course of the years the policies of the democratic party have fallen out of favor with rural americans, or rural americans themselves have changed their views? guest: i think it is the emphasis. it is not the policy. the economic policies of the democratic already are much more favorable to rural america. where we get into challenges is when this becomes a

the last time the average barrel of oil was more than $100 was from 2010 - 2015 barack obama was in office and his vice president now current president joe biden. david: thank you very much. meanwhile president by did expected to speak later today on strengthening the nation supply chain retail watcher is here on what we learn from shoppers on black friday. it was interesting black friday. first of all happy thanksgiving and happy holidays. we saw a 48% increase in foot traffic at retail stores compared to this time last year. it still 28% lower than it was in 2019. but that's a huge increase in foot traffic. >> is a huge increase. were comparing this to a year where none of us were really shopping last year. i said this a couple of days ago. my family we didn't even give gifts, i barely left the apartment last year. the 48% is pretty significant but compared to the last year where people were really out, this is 2019. it is actually down which signifies one thing, people have gone online more and also they started shopping earlier. i was looking at statistics from oracle and they said 30%

she pulls for barack obama and hillary clinton. work with corporations, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and trade associations. today's conversation will be moderated by iop advisor, the deputy editorial page editor for the washington post. she recently released a book on the first lady, nancy reagan. join me in welcoming today's speakers. cs karen: thank you so much adam. after hearing your experience, i am thinking we should invite you to pull a chair on stage. i am so excited to be here tonight. thank you for coming out. this place is so special to me. of course, as a political reporter there is nothing you enjoy more than talking to people doing it and really at the top of their game. that is why we are doubly lucky tonight. and, the timing of this event was sheer perfection. >> for some people. karen:[laughter] so, we are looking ahead tonight but we cannot look ahead without looking back a week. i think that, as election day was rolling around, it was possible to anticipate what was going to happen in virginia. if either of you

obama's desk as i could. that's what we are going do with the build back better when we send it after it comes back from the senate to joe biden's desk. whether it is closing the gap, paid leave, funding home health care -- florida has the highest percentage of elderly in the country. making sure people can remain in their homes, in the place they are most comfortable, cared for by loved ones, that's out of reach for most elderly. making sure that provision remains in the bill, which i am confident it will, is essential and republicans again are going to do absolutely nothing to help us. >> can i just get, while i have you, your comments in reaction to lauren boneert's islamophobic comments to ilhan omar, the fallout from all of that, and what needs to happen in order to hold her accountable? >> lauren boneert is an absolutely revolting human being. i just cannot believe that those words could come out of her mouth. but that's actually what's sitting in her heart. you know, apparently, she made up the whole s

trump did more than 50 in the same time and barack obama or than 100. now, we get to the papers real gripe about biden, he's not set for interviews with the associated press, "new york times", reuters, washington post, "wall street journal" or "usa today", how day-- how dare he. biden doesn't stir things up on his twitter feed and the conventional wisdom is that his aides don't want the boss wandering off script or making mistakes. whether that is true or not his low-key approach , you know what dealing with the press is part of the job. i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz". ♪♪ howard: ahead, kyle rittenhouse rips the media's sickening coverage of his trial we will talk to brian kiilmeade about that and abc jonathan karl on his interview with trump about the last year of his presidency. and the media complains about jen psaki says president biden takes more questions than his recent predecessor, just not and press conferences and hear some of the brief exchanges he has had with reporters or not in the last couple of weeks >> us mean that all th

i would keep my word and make sure i carried out my duties like barack obama done. i am a little disappointed with kamala harris and joe biden but i think it is a whole lot better than what it was in the beginning. they inherited a total mess. we are still having problems down here in florida, major problems in florida. the first law should be a law against lying and every politician should be in jail for lying. host: appreciate your comments. our open question is about the vice president's performance. on twitter, before vice president harris was assigned to the crisis of the southern border republican leaders were there daily for photo ops. that is all stopping, proving she has fixed it. i give vice president harris a high rating. this one says, she would have to do a job to receive a grade. she was given one year to come up with a solution for the southern border and has failed miserably. she received an unexcused absence for the year. this headline says, why are kamala harris' approval ratings lower than biden's? they ranked vice president favorability and job a

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i would keep my word and make sure i carried out my duties like barack obama done. i am a little disappointed with kamala harris and joe biden but i think it is a whole lot better than what it was in the beginning. they inherited a total mess. we are still having problems down here in florida, major problems in florida. the first law should be a law against lying and every politician should be in jail for lying. host: appreciate your comments. our open question is about the vice president's performance. on twitter, before vice president harris was assigned to the crisis of the southern border republican leaders were there daily for photo ops. that is all stopping, proving she has fixed it. i give vice president harris a high rating. this one says, she would have to do a job to receive a grade. she was given one year to come up with a solution for the southern border and has failed miserably. she received an unexcused absence for the year. this headline says, why are kamala harris' approval ratings lower than biden's? they ranked vice president favorability and job a

obama -esque figure waiting to burst onto the scene and save the party it seems hard to see and with all the speculation and all the media focus on the republican side of the party in charge right now, it's leaderless essentially and this may be the high point for all we know because as the clock ticks as we are almost into december there's no legislative accomplishments to point to and if we go into another discussion and hyperbolic situation about covid and the latest variant it will sidetrack things further. joe biden's presidency is at the mercy of the pandemic and unfortunately that's not a position any politician should put themselves in, but it's the bar he said when he said he would quote crushed about-- a virus when he was running last year. pete: absolutely. he speculated with bernie sanders whose 80 and representative alexandria ocasio-cortez , she's barely 24 and then you threw names out there, hillary clinton and john kerry, i mean, do you really think they would go backwards in 2024 or the name everyone is talking about right now is secretary pete buttigieg. >> right an

yeah i didn't say that wrong and this from former barack obama who warned how can administration loaded with savvy political handle got then critical issue so wrong they can't say they weren't warned we worry that shoveling unprecedented am of spendings on road to recovery would need to lead to too much money -- chasing too few goods. despite everything you're paying more for it joe biden is bizarrely taken a victory lap. >> what's your message to american folks on this thanks give thanksgiving day? >> my message is after two years you're back america is back there's nothing we're untiebl overcome. >> folks inflation is not a joke this is real. devaluing your harold earned money. it doesn't matter what the suits in washington say at the end of the day it is you. you -- flipping the bill for it joining me now for rebuttal is democratic strategist, thanks for joining me. we appreciate it. >> nice to see you, dan. >> so why is inflation the worst that's been in 30 years and what's joe biden doing about it? and why isn't it working whatever he is doing about it? >> i don't have to tell you

that's going to be the new talking point on the left and if he gets the fact that barack obama may have been the first black president but he will be the most progressive president and he wants to cement that. i don't think it's alarmist to suggest that at his age he is probably a one term president. and i think he recognizes that and anybody with eyes and ears and a pulse gets that. he's going to do as much as he can as quickly as he can. >> the impact of this will be profound. >> absolutely. i think one of the things that i like to say is you have to understand what i call the big y? why are they doing all ofthis ? the thing is it in isolation you can explain one or two things and say it's because of this or that. and it's not. they all tied together. everything is about maintaining permanent political power . if you have power and its permanent then you can continue to pass your policies in that item. what do you need to do? one is you need to maintain power in those key areas so you pack the court, too, you make dc a state in puerto rico a state so you get potentially forpermanent d

if barack obama comes out publicly and says there's no such thing as critical race theory. we're not teaching it, you know you are over the target. you know you are right on it that is proof to me of that. and i will tell you, i'm really encouraged by parents and by the way we will have a panel of moms who have been on the forefront of exposing crt. i am encouraged by parents at the school boards but i also think there is two things that we need to focus on besides just crt. we need to focus on school choice. every child and parent should have a right to go to whichever school they want so there could be a marketplace for ideas and values in schools. and, two, while it's great we are looking at schools, don't forget about the most powerful place that crt is being taught. it's on your child's phone big tech is peddling this as well. you have much less control over what your kids with l. see and how it's tucked into virtually every message they get. pete: watch a little bit of nickelodeon or disney which i'm forced to do on occasion and i do like sponge bob. it's not in spong

obama was in office and his vice president was joe biden. i want you to listen to something from vet-- president donald trump speaking on this network about oil in his administration. >> we were bigger than saudi arabia or russia we were energy independent and within a year i would have been bigger than saudi arabia and russia combined and now, we are going back to them and opec and we are begging for oil. >> representative carter, do you believe oil and gas prices are driving inflation or is this an commendation to the other factors pushing inflation? >> no question about it. it's the primary driving force that we see right now in inflation. gas is up 61%, petroleum up 61%. president trump is right. it's more than just nonsense, it's dangerous, not what the strategic petroleum reserve was meant for. it was meant for an emergency, not for joe biden to try to correct his economic policy that's so bad that it's driving up the price of oil. his policies, his roar on fossil fuel, this is his policy, a biting created crisis and that's not what th

trump, when 100 for barack obama in the same period, according to west wing record keepers. if the pulpit is one of the most powerful tools of communication, mr. biden needs to rely on exchanges and taking only a few questions boarding helicopter. he does not have interviews with others, even friendly venues have gone unvisited. the story adding it as rose garden strategy in fun rosie times as his approval ratings have sagged and his party confronts the tough outlook. some democrats have asked if the president has yielded too much control of the public narrative. that is from the new york times this morning. if you want to see that story. there is more if you want to look at it. baltimore maryland, on the line for others, hello. caller: real american citizen here. what the other fellow was trying to tell you about the ruling class or something, the ruling class is basically you folks and the politicians, mainly the democrats. that includes joe biden in the white house. look at all the criminal activity amongst the democrat politicians. it is overwhelming. they spent at least

flag down a young senator named barack obama to get to even open the airport. god's truth. remember that, chris? here, he'd just been there two years. he was on my foreign relations committee. i was chairman. i said, "can you get the airport open for us?" i used to, i'd kid barack. i couldn't understand why he so soundly defeated me in that primary. and then i realized when he'd be introduced, he'd be introduced by the voice of god. i get introduced by johnny scanafrana. so, it took a while for me to figure all this out. luckily, chris, i got to travel on a much nicer plane these days. [applause] and it's yours to travel on any time you would like. i want to thank a few more proud connecticut leaders who have been spending time with me today. governor lamont, you have been, you're one of the finest governors in the country. i'm not being solicitous, that's a fact. [applause] exceeded only by your wife. [laughter] and senator blumenthal, who i mentioned earlier today, i apologize for repeating this, but my son, beau biden, is the one who should be standing here talking to yo

obama but here we are in november of 2021, thanksgiving and we have joe biden. joe biden is showing president obama up big time. he is even more out of touch. he is even more unsuccessful. >> julie: as americans get together for thanksgiving the left want to push their woke agenda. i hate that word but so common these days. check out the headlines. usa today. what is thanksgiving to indigenous people, a day of mourning? tribune with this. pilgrims brought racist genocide and gave nothing. guidance on decolonizing thanksgiving. the "wall street journal" claiming the left wants to cancel -- why did liberals have to rain on every parade, what is wrong with liberals? >> i would disagree with you on that. i think it's creating negative thoughts about the liberals. >> julie: you think it's positive when we've been celebrating thanksgiving all these year. i don't remember politization of thanksgiving when i was growing up. this is something the new hyper woke if you will are inventing. >> well, i would disagree with you on that. i don't see anyone speaking out from the

nantucket seems to be a common theme here with joe biden and barack obama. but, right at the heart of when they are trying to put this mask mandate on every single american. then you have got the president happy birthday, mr. president. hope you have fun. but everybody should be able to have that kind of party. not just the elites. carley: i know. that was the whole thing. great that you are having this birthday party. imthink that everybody should be allowed to have one. but when you are telling other people to mask up and not hang out with each other and then you have this giant party that was supposed to be like hundreds and hundreds of people it was the hypocrisy of 2021 that seeing. also, number 4, i forgot about this one as well. i'm glad you brought it up. the white house posted a tweet and i think it was fourth of july. it says the cost of a 4th of july cookout in 2021 is down 16 cents from last year. shouldn't be touting 1 cents. i don't know. >> america, i hope you invested that 16 cents because you probably gobbled that up in gas prices just pulli

he forgets barack obama may have been the first black president but he will be the most progressive president i don't think that it's alarmist to suggest that at his age he is probably a one term president, and i think he recognizes that and i think anybody with eyes and ears and a pulse gets that,y so he's going to do as much as he can and as quickly as he can. >> the impact of this will be profound. >> absolutely. one of the things i like to say isnd you have to understand why are they doing all of this and the thing is in the isolation you can explain one or two things it's because of this or that, but it's not. they all tie together. everything is about maintaining permanent political power. so think about this because if you have power and it's permanent then you can continue past the policies so what do you need to do? two things, you need to maintain power so you pass the court, to, you make puerto rico a state and get potentially for democratic senators. the district devotes 95-5. it's like a given. guarantees you would never lose the super majority and then you need new voters so you

in short, barack obama, you campaign in 2008 against hillary clinton and the primary and the notorious militaries john cain and the general election, one of the main reasons why his campaign cut such fire was this notion he represented something different than t bipartisan war party. what ended up happening, obama comes into power, let's the cia off the hook, let's donald rumsfeld another torture architects off the hook, a radically expend some of the worst aspects of the so-called war on terror and uses his credibility aa constitutional law scholar, the first black president, as a sort of guy perceived as being a different kind of politician to push the u.s. imperial agenda on a militarist level beyond what john mccain would have done because he got the democratic party to support it. juan: jeremy, i want to ask you, are there any discernible differences you can tell in the approaches to this imperial policy of the united states between the recent democratic presidents -- talking about clinton, obama, biden -- and the republican ones, bush and trump? you see anything in terms of -- ar

was at chauvin coolidge, joe biden or barack obama? >> i would have to go with hazing. kennedy: no, unfortunately that is incorrect. you should have known this one four it was chauvin coolidge. >> what? i named my son after the rapper, cap the president. kennedy: i don't believe your, for a second. you might want to press your luck on this, which of these presidents has two grammys? l clinton, jim carter, barackk obama or mariah carey? you want to press your luck? >> i know mariah has more than two. [laughter] who has two grammys? kennedy: you want to press your luck? >> what the heck, i'll give up the car and press my luck. i'm going to say bill clinton. kennedy: she's got four. gary, you and other you have one. even if you get this right, you're still only halfway home. which of these presidents regularly consulted with an astrologer before making the decision? harry s truman, john quincy adams, ronald reagan or ms. m cleo? >> i will have to go with john quincy adams. kennedy: you'd be wrong. ronald reagan. allpr conferences, most of the state of the union dresses tak

obama, his vice president, david, joe biden. david: don't forget that. edward lawrence, thank you very much. the key may not be how much oil we consume. the key is really how much produce and how much we could produce if we were going full bore. larry kudlow, host of "kudlow" saying this is why we need energy independence listen. >> if you correctly finger inadequate oil supplies, you have to come home to america, let our great companies large and small produce, right? we need more supplies, right? how about america first? drill, drill, drill. remember that. not "spro," "spro," "spro" but drill, drill, drill. now there is a big difference. mr. biden your policies taxing fossil fuels, overregulating fossil fuels, bad-mouthing fossil fuels, denying credit to fossil fuels, appointing a banking commissioner who wants to bankrupt fossil fuels, you will do anything you can to stop the production of fossil fuels and yet you say the problem is inadequate production. get it, folks? make sense? of course not. not even remotely. no anwr, n

barack obama was elected twice. while barack obama was in office, democrats lost, i believe, 1,000 legislative seats nationwide. the consequences of that for the party have been devastating. so if you're sitting out there and you want to get engaged, you want to make a difference, don't just look to congress. this is whether you're a republican or democrat, whoever you are. look to the state legislatures. by the way, the state legislatures, this is so important, we're talking about the big lie. we're talking about january 6th. do you know why that festered? because we were still counting wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, and georgia weeks later. now, leading up to the election, we said on this show time and again, and others said, those legislatures, in order to stop any questions about the legitimacy of the election, should do what the state of florida does. yes, ron desantis, governor of the state of florida, and past governors have done, and that is count all of the early votes before the polls close on election

obama got elected it felt like a historic moment because it. was i am a little, bit i'm gonna take a step back for politics. this feels different, why? and what do you see as the antidote. >> i think it feels different because it is not the people who are stepping back out of the sense of relief, right? i think the people who are pulling back to progressives are really very engaged. but i think plenty of people find this so poisonous that in order to preserve their own sanity the sort of have to take a step. back the total political involvement that was the aim of getting trump out of office. got people threw themselves into for four years isn't sustainable. and so i think in order for people to get involved once again, there needs to be people in the party who say that, if you fight for this, democracy can be saved. and in order to do that you need to have some sort of path to voting reform legislation. you need to have some sort of path for democracy legislation. >> yes i think that's very well said. i'll be here, and i denied out, bad feelin

barack obama and michelle get ready to depart washington and get on marine-1. did you speak to them since then? >> well, not much. initiately right after i took office i did. one or two times. i spoke to them before taking office. that's a ritual. it was 15 minutes and it ended up being quite a bit long tore put it mildy.e it was an interesting conversation. he told me about north korea and the problems and that was the greatest problem we and i to it a large extent solved it. we got along great with north korea after the rough first patch but then they understood we were not playing games and we got along great. not very much.e >> sean: you once told me that you thought we were on a path towards war with north korea? >> i did and so did president obama and that would have been a nuclear war. we met in singapore and in vietnam. we had great meetings and we established a great relationship. i liked him and he liked me. we had some interesting conversations. >> sean: we got back the remains of our soldiers. >> we did. >> sean: i was at both summits. he stopped th

i think barack knew who farrakhan was, and buried by reverend wright, does that mean that barack obama is an anti-semite? does that mean joe biden is a klansman? of course it doesn't, but that's the analogy and it's bogus. i have never seen anybody look so different than what they are portrayed on in the media. i was impressed, he looked like a guy you could have over for thanksgiving dinner, who would you rather have babysit your children? him or roosevelt? i think he wants kyle rittenhouse there, moving from demonizing politicians to demonizing regular people, now they go after the nick sandmann, they go after -- they go after parents for speaking out in the american people have seen that, they are repulsed by it and i hope hunter really did hold ten for the big guy, because joe might have to pony up some dough. >> brian: i saw the jonathan turley came on this afternoon, and set as a public figure, whoopi goldberg and people like the present and are immune to this type of lawsuit. >> jessica: jonathan turley is a better lawyer than i am, i.e. he is a lawyer. my thoughts on this, i th

for example, the, the barack obama administration. they are, they released some 30000000 barrels in 2011, but that there was a disruption in supplies because of the, you know, of the war and libya also the bush administration. i did a similar thing in 2000 fine to help you know, to help with the full out of the katrina. hurricane but so it was all, you know, there was either disruption in supply or, you know, there was, there was a war going on in the middle east or there was a natural disaster. and this time, it figures as a tool that this time there's an economic disaster because some 70 percent of americans, they right now disapprove of the state of economy in the united states. joe biden is right now. we are his ratings. they have been thing for the past couple of months. his more but he's now right now he's more popular than trump ever was. i mean his approval ratings are worse than trumps. you know, at his, you know, at the bottom of his bit so. so he's doing that, but i mean again, it could bring a short term solution, but the

we saw the republicans crush in 2010 and then barack obama was reelected. we saw bill clinton was elected. senate democrats and house democrats don't have that much time. it's going do be extremely difficult for them to change this. we've seen political fortunes change that quickly before with the gop when they were going into the 2020 election. it looked like a year out they were going to crush. a lot of things changed. democrats don't have that same trajectory though, because they're completely in charge right now because it's up of to them -- now so it's up to them to screw up the election. if i was amy klobuchar that called the meeting, i would be worried. maria: they're doing a fine job of screwing up things but how much more damage can they inflict in the next three years. one concern the democrats have for biden 2024 is his age and health. we all watch him. it doesn't bring anybody any joy to point out cognitive issues. the president went into walter reed medical center for a colonoscopy friday and received a mostly clean bill of help. there was an o

obama twice. so, there is something that, there is something to my argument that is making waves within these communities that, for some reason, works and works with people who vote for democrats. these are not people who only vote for republicans. right. so, very clearly, you think that politically this is working... it's working for me. ..you are winning the races that you put money into, particularly in school board... 75... i did 58 races. so, my question to you is, what do you think it's doing to america more generally, in terms of polarisation, in terms of the culture war that we see unfolding in this country? i think that it's actually really helpful because you're looking at areas that were highly polarised towards democrats, highly highly blue, strong blue areas, and they voted for somebody. ..candidates who were conservative. so, clearly, where i'm able to move ca...move voters who sit there and support somebody who don't necessarily have the evil r behind their name and are...and they'r

president barack obama appointed jerome powell to the federal reserve board of governors in 2011, and in 2017, donald trump appointed jerome powell to be the chair of the federal reserve. president biden announced that he will renominate jerome powell to serve a second four-year term as chair of the federal reserve. >> some will no doubt question why i'm renominating joy when he was choice of a republican predecessor. why am i not picking a democrat? why am i not picking fresh blood or taking the fed in a different direction? put directly, at this moment both of both enormous potential and enormous uncertainty for our economy, we need stability and independence at the federal reserve. >> at least three democratic senators, including elizabeth warren have announce they'd will vote against the powell nomination, but that is unlikely to change the outcome in the senate since a majority of democrats and almost every republican senator voted to confirm powell four years ago when the senate vote was 84-13. today jerome powell became president biden's field general in the fight against infla

obama and the guy john edward, they are all the questions. joe biden and chris are upstanding u.s. senators deserve to be treated better, this was how i was treated in 1980, the man on the edge never got any questions so once again i said don't you think senator biden done with think it's art you're calling a republican president, calling them and he said get them on the phone. so we did it he had a great conversation with him. i only tell those two stories because it gives people a little insight, camaraderie that happens behind the scenes between these people who have this shared experience. go ahead. >> he operated well on the telephone and his letters were amazing. not always a great speech maker but you get him in a room with ten people, i think he liked the state dinner so much because with ten people he was amazing. >> that is great. i'm sorry, he was very personable. i do want to go back to the photo of the presidents backstage of hurricane harvey. it's a great archive to pull back up. i have to tell a funny story about that night. th

you go back to bill clinton, i may be wrong about this, but i believe that barack obama reappointed at the fed, now you have the third reoccurrence. that is because you can't trust democrats with money. i think there is a sigh of relief. >> democrats have been around and trust republicans with the money. white house advisor, brian will will not cost a penny. watch this. >> there's no question inflation is high it's affecting american consumers and their outlook. that is actually why we need to move on the bill back better bill right now. experts across the board have looked at it and concluded it will increase inflation because it's paid for. stuart: experts across the board won't increase inflation because it's paid for, take that on. >> if you believe that you probably believe al gore invented the internet. this is very simple economics, this is not complicated. i hope the people in the white house understand this that inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods. the house of representatives passed, we don't know the exact price tag. that is going to increase consumer demand

>> i remember after the affordable care act passed that barack obama owed nancy pelosi flowers for the rest of her life, and i think joe biden joins that now with pelosi's ability to get the votes. this was a really tough passage. we saw all of the division within house democrats, those who didn't want to vote on this until the build back better was actually linked and didn't want to vote on the early infrastructure, the hard infrastructure bill until this bill was going to pass as well. there was a lot of dissent amongst progressives in her caucus. she had to deal with moderates in her caucus at various stages. it was not a pretty process, but she got it, and she got both the hard infrastructure bill voted on and she got the soft infrastructure bill voted on. and we've always said no one can count votes like nancy pelosi, and even when it was looking rough for her, democrats in the white house and on capitol hill were reminding us when she gets these votes through, people won't remember what it looked like getting these votes through. they'll just remember that they passed. now of cou

at the same time, we often hear president biden talk about how barack obama chose him to be the front man on the recovery act years ago and how pivotal it was. he didn't choose the president on infrastructure. he did give her volatile topics like immigration and voting rights which right now don't have the votes to move in legislative ways. so those are all magnets for more criticism from the right. so she has a proef that makes her perhaps drag in more criticism, and she's trying to not outshine the president, and at the same time she is struggling with that noise. they say she's going to focus on working, focus on a good relationship with president biden. could he do more to help her? perhaps he could. >> david, you seemed to imply earlier when we were talking off camera, you think it's harder to be a candidate of color today running for office than ten years ago. >> absolutely. look at the statements released from the white house by the rittenhouse verdict. it's difficult to say something meaningful and at the same time not set you self up for fire from the other side. you asked ab

we will win, though, with the barack obama script that barack obama strategy of addition rather than subtraction, which leads me to my second point which is that after losses with the democratic party does too often is says well, we have to choose between base mobilization and persuasion. any party that forces themselves to choose between the two is guaranteed to lose. we have got to center our message and our strategies around that, which is bold and unifying and we have got to take our messaging as well as most importantly, our policies to the majority of the american people, not just our base. >> debbie, so messaging is important. i think max rose's point is well taken about simplicity in terminology that republicans use versus terminology that democrats use and that can be fixed but underlying that, what about message? because this conversation between base and a broader audience is one that is active within the democratic party now. what should it represent itself as being in the next election in order to prevail? >> i don't think that there is any doubt, ali, that we the democr

former president barack obama shared a throwback photo and a loving message to his former 2 term vice president, the tweet. they're reading happy birthday to my friend and my brother potus, thank you for giving all of us. the gift of better infrastructure grateful for all you are doing to build this country back better. and president joe biden remains healthy and vigorous and fit for duty following his first routine physical while in office for more than 5 hours yesterday the president underwent a number of physical gastrointestinal dental vision. >> and nor logical exams. michael shure has more on the president's health check. >> an early present for president biden 79th birthday today a clean bill of health yesterday army colonel doctor kevin o'connor physician to the president perform in the physical friday and issuing a memo saying, quote, the president remains fit for duty and fully execute all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations. the doctor, those specifically mentioning a few areas of closer examination including the more frequent occurrence of thro

obama in 2008 that have run a truly brilliant campaign but he realized there were some people who were wary about his background and the fact so he went and found the most experienced, harmless white guy that he could find as his vice president. he has never done anything other than racial politics his entire career. maybe it should not even be a surprise in the first instinct is to make it all about race ashraf ghani also the stenographer - - stenographers in the legacy media is an absolute shock. >> absolutely too easy to kill and it came too easily to kyle rittenhouse. >> whiteman field have the right to enforce the law themselves. tammy: we dig into the media bias as kyle rittenhouse learns that he is free. when you're looking for answers, it's good to have help. because the right information, at the right time, may make all the difference. at humana, we know that's especially true when you're looking for a medicare supplement insurance plan. that's why we're offering "seven things every medicare supplement should have." it's yours, free! just for calling the number on your screen.

it is same america that elected barack obama twice, you have donald trump right after that. how do we process all of this? >> yes, this is a question i all-important get from students, i try to remind them that i think we are part of a very long story. and so this story of bright spots followed by darkness, or bright spots together with darkness, are part of our long history, in addition to the things he talked about in politics we can think about slavery in reconstruction. so these things tend to go together, but i think it's important for us to do use those bright spots, to take them and find joy in them as we continue the work. it's important that we don't get bogged down and start to celebrate the price phosphine they happen, because it's necessary to hold on to that kind of thing, when we need to continue to work and we do those work from residents ration and the turnout, when we're fighting against redistricting we were just hurting about. and battle in against covid, we can do those things with a smile on our faces we remember the good times. >> i just want to end on

obama twice, you had donald trump right after that. how do we process all of this? >> yeah, this is a question i often get from students and try to remind them that i think we are part of a very long story and so this story of bright spots followed by darkness or bright spots together with darkness are a part of our long history in addition to the things you talked about in politics we could think about slavery and reconstruction and so these things tend to go together but i think it's important for us to use those bright spots to take them into find joy in them as we continue the work. it's important we don't get bogged down in the dark spots we celebrate the bright spots when they happen because it's necessary to hold on to that kind of thing when we need to continue to work and doing the voter registration and turnout and fighting against the redistricting we were just hearing about or figuring out how not to get covid and can remember those good times. >> i just want to end on a positive note. what does it mean for a howard alumni