barack obama's memoir sold over 3 million copies in the first month. christie is not looking at obama numbers or looking at a million or half a million or 100,000. the results are in and this book moved about some saying it's kin to not publishing a book at all. it looks like the publisher won't even break even. the book is a money loser and has some in the party thinking christie or mr. 2 k looks like a loser of a potential candidate. his media tour featured him meanwhile trying to claim independence but also defending maga figures like trump and tucker carlson. >> the book is called it's about conspiracies and lies and you really don't take on fox news. why not? >> look, because the book -- >> tucker carlson -- >> because the book -- i don't watch it. >> are you aware of what he does? >> not really. i don't pay a lot of attention to it. >> christie says he doesn't pay a lot of attention to fox news. well, the news tonight is republicans and most americans are paying zero attention to chris christie. we'll be right back with one more thing. we'll be r

obama at the time, that donald trump would be inheriting as his covert actions on inauguration day. michael flynn got that brief from the cia along with vice president pence becoack on decer 7th of 2020. trump didn't. it wasn't until several weeks into his administration that trump got briefed on all of the covert actions that he was now responsible for. it was quite a revelation. >> you mean when flynn was briefed in 2016? is that what you meant, to be clear? >> yes, 2016, not 2020. >> i wanted to be -- >> 2020, michael flynn was in a different circumstance. >> that would have been a headline. so he actually didn't get -- trump didn't get a briefing in the last month of the presidency. >> that's how it appears. it's a little bit dodge y, the way it is written. it is almost as if it didn't want to be said that bluntly. but before donald trump left for mar-a-lago for the holidays, which was somewhere around december 23rd, 2020, that he had his last briefing with his regular pdb briefer, and said, "i'll see you later." she wasn't planning on going down to mar-a-lago and briefing him d

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

obama and i were like hiding out, cooked all this up and then got south africa -- it's nuts. >> nobody believes just one conspiracy theory. you got to collect them all. >> what's so damaging about this, too, beyond the multiple falsehoods in that one tweet is that he does have the title of doctor. doctors, nurses, medical professionals are broadly, widely regarded as they are trusted by the public. there's a reason why earlier this year or some time last year republicans -- the republican doctors caucus did kind of a psa add encouraging people to get vaccinated because the public trusts doctors. when you have that additional title on top of elected official, on much to politician, it's egregious for him to be spreading these conspiracy theories. >> beyond obviously the falsehoods in that tweet, what it seems he's trying to do here are sort of hone in on two things. one, you know, voter fraud which we know not to be true. in 2020. but what we're seeing from republicans as they think this motivates the base. we're seeing him sort of go after that. and then also there's clearly an exhaust

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%

joe biden used to tell barack obama all of the time in 2009 and 2010. it is the difference between compared to the almighty and the alternative. so those were words from vice president biden and i think you'll make that turn. obviously there is a lot of government business that has to get done in the next four, six, eight weeks, once you get into the state of union particularly, you're going to see a sharper, more contrasting president biden. >> we'll be watching. robert, heidi, jake and ali, thank you so much. we're going to leave it there. any minute now, market sets to open after having their worst day since last october. what you need to know as wall street reacts to this new covid variant. their only friend? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at $79 a year. well, we're new frie

adore country and to barack and michelle obama we are forever grateful for you and i can't wait for liz to open it and of our journey together. we love you guys hope to see you soon. >> please welcome mayor lori lightfoot. >> hello everyone and thank you all for being here today braided today is today for celebration and gratitude we are here to celebrate in this important milestone groundbreaking of the obama presidential center and we are faithful to the former president obama and first lady michelle obama for choosing chicago to make what i know will be a transformative investment on this historic southside of our beloved city braided it marks the next chapter in a journey began several years ago. but with many twists and turns due to the first parents dedication and hard work of many, we've arrived at this momentous day in the presidential center and complementary investments, in the surrounding neighborhoods will be bringing to life the promise of true equity and inclusion investment and development on the south side. and that's why i'm proud to be here to break ground in incredibl

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

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

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

barack obama won the state yes but state is generally speaking but republican state, including two wins for donald trump. already we have seen some impact from this map drawing. gk butterfield who will is a democratic member of congress said he's not running again because hi district went from safely democratic to a toss up. wo we'll see what other decisions get made there. two states to look at. two big ones. one is florida. this is state that republicans control all the mechanisms of redistricting. we expect them to sure up the gains they made in south florida in the 2020 election. make those districts a little more solid. maybe go after seat like charlie crist. he's running for governor in the 13th district. val demmings is run for the senate. then there's california. california is the largest delegation in the country. the largest state by population in the country and has not been all that competitive. they have an independent redistricting commission. no politicians at all. they are not supposed to look at incumbency as a factor in drawing lines. why is that important? you draw th

but it was a big enough deal that it is something the newly-elected president, barack obama, reflected on publicly when he trotted out on inauguration night, on that big night, to what was then called the youth ball, to share how he knew that and what it meant for the future. so on this journey tonight, thinking about this set of generations and the youth, he gets the last word. >> young people everywhere are in the process of imagining something different than what has come before. [ cheers and applause ] where they imagine bigotry, they imagine togetherness. where there is disease, they imagine a public health system. i can't tell you how many people have come up to michelle and myself and said, you know, i was kind of skeptical, but then my daughter, she wouldn't budge. she just told me, i needed to vote for obama. and so a new generation inspired previous generations. and that's how change happens in america. [ cheers and applause ] >>> coming up next we are joined by a global music sensation. his name is lil baby. his music is popular among all generations around the world. he's a

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

obviously when barack obama was the face of it, it went into overdrive and you began to see this sort of massive peeling away of majority white for things like action on climate change, which used to be not thatat political, partisan or racialized. i think now what you're i seein in terms of the sort of red state white resistance to vaccination is more the core -- as george would put it in his book,as the don't trail on me freedom from government is inherently suspect. which has been a thread in our society for a long time but did not capture the sort of visceral kind of identity fused caption it does now until government became thern one who could take away youred freedom to do whater you needed to do to feel better than the undeserving. >> in other words, there was no massive resistance to the polio vaccine. >> iyeah, i mean, at one level the vaccine story -- so, george, you talk about these sort of four american narratives and the way -- they're not the causal predicate, for balkanizing the country. there aree stories these different groups tell themselve to be. on the flip side of

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

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

obama who in fact he launched his affordable care act and osawatomy, kansas where theodore roosevelt spoke and of course john brown, you know is more famous. john brown that site, but but roosevelt is a is a is a nonpartisan figure that every president has invoked in some stage some more than others, but every single one is used to well if i've always thought that if hollywood had movies had really been invented a few years earlier had been a thing in 1900. teddy roosevelt would have been the perfect action hero he would have eclipsed john wayne and tom cruise and all those marvel heroes, right? well, i mean he certainly has the charisma of a hollywood actor and you know if you see him in films you'll you know, my students all think robin williams is theodore roosevelt from the movie a night at the museum and there of course, he is a man of action, but there's so many films about theodore roosevelt many of which include that rough rider image the cowboy on horseback storming up a san juan hill or something like that. so, yeah, absolutely and the charisma he knew roosevelt in his own

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

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

bush, bill clinton, and barack obama who, in fact, he launched his affordable care act in kansas where theodore roosevelt spoke and, of course, john brown, for that site. but roosevelt is a nonpartisan figure that every president has invoked in some stage. some more than others. but every single one is used. >> if -- i've always thought that if hollywood movies had really been invented a few years earlier, been a thing in 1900, theodore roosevelt would have been the perfect action hero. he would have eclipsed john wane and tom cruise and all of those marvel heroes, right? >> well, i mean, he certainly has the charisma of a hollywood actor. if you see him in films, my students all think robin williams is theodore roosevelt from the movie "a night in the museum." but there's so many films about theodore roosevelt that include that rough rider image, the cowboy on horseback. so, yeah, absolutely. and the charisma, he knew -- roosevelt -- the power of motion pictures. and he tried to capture that essence in many ways. >> and he was a man of the tomb. it was such a period of change. >> 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

president barack obama, appointed general powell, to the federal reserve in 20 2011. and in 2017, donald trump appointed him to be the chair of the federal reserve. president biden announced that he will anomaly him to serve a second for your term as chair as the federal reserve. >> someone no doubt questioned why i'm renominating jay. when he was a choice of a republican president. i'm not picking a democrat. why i'm not picking fresh blood? or taking a fed in the different direction. directly, at this moment both of the enormous potential an enormous uncertainty for a comedy. we need stability, and independents at the federal reserve. >> if these three democratic senators, including elizabeth warren, announced they will vote against the paul nomination. but that is unlikely to change the outcome in the senate and the majority of democrats, and almost every republican senator voted to come from paul four years ago. when the senate vote was 84, to 13. today he became president biden's fuel general in the fight between inflation. >> we know that high inflation takes a

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

she was under secretary for the treasury under barack obama and reserve board of governors sinc whoever he picked would disappoint someone and that the decision really came at a lousy time when he is trying to unify democrats around build back better, not split them apart. but in the case of build back better, now that it's passed the house, satisfying conservative democrats is probably way more important than making the liberal wing happy. >> thanks, scott. you can see scott mcgrew and the rest of our morning team every week day. "today in the bay" runs 4:30 to 7:00 here on nbc bay area. >>> up next you're probably used to seeing security dogs but these aren't sniffing for explosives. we'll tell you what they're out looking for. >>> the cashier says buy now. pay later. what should you say? i'm consumer investigator, nbc bay area responds, next. >>> no airport delays across the west. we'll take a look at any national delays and get you ready for thanksgiving in about ten minutes. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i

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

obama, states and cities were very slow to get their projects going, so it did not have as much of an impact. probably the bottom line is both will be relatively neutral in this situation for inflation, but there's a lot of other factors that people have been talking about that the president has to pay attention to. you notice in the president's statement today, he welcomes powell's views on inflation and maximum employment, putting inflation first. i thing that is going to be the emphasis from this administration going forward. guy: it is going to be interesting to see exactly how he articulates that and how the message shifts as a result. thank you very much, indeed. bloomberg's annmarie hordern and ira jersey on the market set up right now. a little shift higher in yields. we will continue our coverage of jay powell's renomination on bloomberg television. nobel laureate paul krugman, laura tyson, rafael bostick all on deck as we work our way through the day. 1:20 is when we are going to hear from the president, the chair, and the vice chair. what are we going to talk about next? we

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

you remember in 2009 when barack obama came out with his then-roughly $800 billion stimulus bill, smaller than this -- smaller than both of these bills and republicans even many elements of that bill were very popular. republicans ran against it saying this was big government run amok, too much spending too fast, and every single republican in the house voted against it in 2009. they ran that, and the opposition health care into a big victory into the midterm elections in 2010. that's what they're trying to do here. >> it's inflation now with that panel, how do democrats handle that? >> that's why republicans feel that they can go against this bill even though the elements of the bill are popular. they will point to inflation which everybody senses and everybody feels. it affects every household, and they will say, inflation is because of what joe biden and the democrats have done. now the economics of that may not be accurate at all, but they will push that argument and they will push it relentlessly. between now and next november. >> you see the white house trying to address that, right

caller: i was a democrat and then barack obama came along and that ended that. i will never vote democrat again, never in my life. this joke with joe biden and kamala harris, he never wanted her as vice president. he was pushed to have her as vice president. all these people talking about racism in the republican party, the democrats are the biggest racists. they just want to hide behind -- in fact, the vice president thinking they are doing something big for the country. this economy is a mess, the border is a mess, the last woman that spoke if you are a democrat you should always be democrat, those people need to wake up. i am tired of being called the trumpster and a racist. they use the racist word as bad as the n word. i would never vote for another democrat again. host: are you in the 19th district of florida? caller: yes i am. host: do you know who represents you? caller: yes i do and i am going to vote for them again. the thing is this is just getting ridiculous. these democrats get on here and they speak. they don't even know what they are talking about

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

caller: i was a democrat and then barack obama came along and that ended that. i will never vote democrat again, never in my life. this joke with joe biden and kamala harris, he never wanted her as vice president. he was pushed to have her as vice president. all these people talking about racism in the republican party, the democrats are the biggest racists. they just want to hide behind -- in fact, the vice president thinking they are doing something big for the country. this economy is a mess, the border is a mess, the last woman that spoke if you are a democrat you should always be democrat, those people need to wake up. i am tired of being called the trumpster and a racist. they use the racist word as bad as the n word. i would never vote for another democrat again. host: are you in the 19th district of florida? caller: yes i am. host: do you know who represents you? caller: yes i do and i am going to vote for them again. the thing is this is just getting ridiculous. these democrats get on here and they speak. they don't even know what they are talking about

presidents and the first lady's and fx former president barack obama and former first lady michelle obama break out of the presidential center in chicago. >> every years in the white house, michelle and i know joins all of you. we want to thank you once again from the bottom of our hearts for giving us the incredible privilege of serving the country you love. and i'll tell you a little bit about what we will be up to next. >> i will be right there with you as a citizen for all of my remaining days. >> rock and i, there is a strategy printed. >> mice foundation, that is really my focus over the next several years trying to create a platform for younger people to inspire and mentor and convene and learn which is even more powerful in place for younger people aspire the skills the connections they needed to match their aspirations and reveal the opportunities pretty. >> the reason i know i could do it is because i had seen it in my campaigns have seen it during the presidency and incredible talent, i and idealism imagination innovation and people all across america in all across the world pr

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.