and gallup began surveying americans on the approval of barack obama's presidency the day after his inauguration, the day after his inauguration. so started immediately and of course there are all of these benchmarks that are in presidency where we stop and consider their legacy, their 100 days, how is the presidents first hundred days compared to franklin roosevelt or any other election and the midterm election and the reelection campaign focusing on the voters to pass judgment on the presidential formants along, you have comments and colonists were asking how anything a president does affect their legacy and their place in history. even though we like to do this ranking the presidents is actually really hard to do. so they're assisted in a systematic reasons why it is difficult to try to rank the presidents, difficult to bring their performance in number one, we are not - will have our own opinions and our biases and that will affect how we evaluate any president's performance, the research has shown that ideologies plays a role in acceptance of the presidential race which i am sure does not c

they like barack obama? oh we don't know. well it -- that he is very religious and knows the bible better probably than a lot of the people who were criticizing him. and in this speech this is the white house easter prayer breakfast 2015. he talks in very, very, very direct terms, very specifically christian terms. about his beliefs. >> you know, that reflects. imam no preacher. i can't tell anything to this crowd about easter that you don't already know. i can offer just a couple of reflections very quickly before we begin the program. for me the celebration of easter puts our earthly concerns into perspective. with humility and with all we give thanks to the extraordinary sacrifice of jesus christ our savior. reflect on the brutal pain that he suffered, the scorn that he absorbed, the things that he bore. this extraordinary gift of salvation that he gave to us. and we try as best we can to comprehend the darkness that he endured so we might receive god's light. and yet even as we grapple with the sheer enormity of jesus' sa

among the presidents who talked about it most was barack obama. during the 2008 campaign there were people saying, oh, we don't know what his religious beliefs are. you know, a name like barack obama, we tonight -- we don't know. which is e call car given that he is very religious and knows the bible better probably than a lot of people who were criticizing him. and in this speech, this is the white house easter prayer breakfast 2015, he talks this very, very, very direct terms, very specifically christian terms about his beliefs. >> -- a better place. i'm no preacher, i can't tell anything to this crowd about easter that you don't already know. i can offer just a couple of -- very quickly before we begin the program. for me, the celebration of easter puts our earthly concerns into perspective. with humility and with all we give thanks to the extraordinary sacrifice of jesus christ, our savior, reflect on the brute alpine that he suffered -- brutal pain that he suffered, the scorn that he absorbed, the sins that he bore, this extraordinary gift of

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

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

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

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

bush or barack obama or donald trump or now joe biden to decide the political decision to get involved in afghanistan or to stay there a while or withdraw, these were policy decisions. what underlies that policy decision is an assumption of conditions in the world and whether the tools you have, u.n. dispatches and security council, stamens from the white house, -- statements from the white house or military power, how useful they are. it is hard to wage war by committee, it never works well. in article two of the constitution, the first paragraph -- well, second one -- talks about the role of commander-in-chief, given to the president to be that person to whom the nation looks for using the military tool to secure u.s. national interests. later in article one, congress is supposed to provide for these tools, and army and navy, now a space force and cyber command and those sorts of things. when we have a situation life afghanistan and we have the secretary of defense, chairman of joints chief -- joint chiefs and so forth saying we can and can't do things, it should call people to quest

they were ready for barack obama yet. as a grain of guy is was i thank you so much stronger than obama. and he was running for the polls in iowa. >> he had pretty i would say moderate conservative views. but you remember that at that convention when he talked about affirmative action and he got some booze and if you had put them on your ticket, there would've been but you would've had a movement. >> and you get somebody like they wanted a black president but anyway, i was looking at and as somebody i thought was capable. >> that's interesting you never pick someone who might rival you or overshadow you read their own constituencies you known me. that is been made. >> why don't think you really i go out and take smarter people and you are but as long as you got pretty good political sense, may be much smarter in the field they are in, and that is what you want. and i just thought that powell had a great touch with the market people, more than i had an eye can see him reaching out to the independence of the moderates. becau

they weren't ready for barack obama yet. as great a guy as powell was, and i think he's much stronger than obama, he was running fourth in the polls in iowa. >> well, he's in the wrong party. >> yeah. >> if he wants to run for president. >> yeah. but he had -- well, i'd say moderate-conservative views, you know. >> but you remember at the convention when he talked about -- >> yeah. >> -- affirmative action and he got some boos. i mean, if you had put him on your ticket, it would have been -- he would have been nominated, but you would have had a rough movement on the floor of the convention. >> yeah, probably. then you got something -- something happens to bob dole, there's going to be a black president. >> yeah. >> but anyway, i was looking at somebody i thought was capable. and had some -- >> see, that's interesting because, you know the rap on presidential pick running mates because you never pick someone who might rival you or overshadow you or have their own constituency, you know what i mean, that complaint has been ma

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

he covered live the election of barack obama as the president of the united states. he gave millions of americans the chance to relive genius comedy of martin lawrence, and his award winning series "unsung" brought tears and smiles to african-american baby boomers all around the globe. >> the people that he employs and the people that work for him, particularly his confidants or direct reports are people that give him comfort, and there's comfort in knowing that they've got it covered. alfred is very much focused on the fundamentals of the business, and he wants to know that you care about the business just as much as he does. he's the person that will look up and see the pot of gold, everyone saying we should go after it. he will go after it, but he's going to go after it very methodically. i think he's very successful at what he does because of that. >> 40 years ago my mom set out on a mission to entertain and empower the community. >> urban one was launched by his mother, cathy hughes, with one station, wol in washington, d.c. >> we are proud to be black-owned, bl

we can see how particular groups of religious activists who favored hillary clinton, barack obama, joe biden, i'm going to talk a little bit more of the roots of that, or some of that hatred comes freud five focusing on franklin tilda roosevelt. one of the reasons it's not gone this much attention from historians as i think it probably should, as there has been a real problem in history augur for you, there has been a sense that when jerry falwell came on the scene in the late 1970s and organize the moral majority it was at that point that white evangelicals began to critically mobilize it. that is just wrong. anyone has read the literature knows that is wrong. but it perpetuates itself continues to spread that evangelicals are apolitical until the last couple of generations. what is going to show you today's how the rise of new deal liberalism inspired a new evangelical political activism which organized itself into real hatred for president franklin delano roosevelt. why did they hate roosevelt what was the issue? the real issue behind this is they believed franklin roosevelt was ult

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

we can see how particular groups of religious activists have hated hillary clinton, barack obama, and others. and we will focus on franklin delano roosevelt. there's been a little problem in the histriography. there is this sense that when jerry fallwell came on the scene, it was at that point that white evangelicals began to politically mobilize. that's just wrong. what i'm going to show you today is how the rise of new deal liberalism inspired a new kind of evangelical political activism, which organized itself or fomented itself into real hatred for franklin delano roosevelt. so why did they hate roosevelt? what was the issue? the real issue behind this is that they believed that franklin roosevelt was ultimately setting the stage for the rise of the antichrist. this diabolical world leader who is going to take power in the end times. they were convinced that we were living at the end of history and that we are living at the end of history. and, so, in their minds, in their churches and in their magazines and on their respects, they were continuously looking for signs that would te

and that was part of how barack obama won re-election in 2012, was basically saying to working class voters, you know, i know you don't love cultural liberalism, but the republicans are going to cut your medicare, and i'm going to protect it. so if trump, in the trump era republicans took those issues off the table. basically said, you know, yeah, we're sort of notionally committed to medicare reform. we'll put something this our budget, you know, that supposedly will change the system over 20 years, but basically we're not going to make those kind of cuts. we're not going to do the paul ryan agenda anymore. and at the same time, trump also made a lot of promises, some of which he kept, some of which he didn't on trade and infrastructure where he, you know, sort of pitched himself directly to working class voters who felt like they had been left behind by the the agenda of both political parties under globalization. so in both of those ways, he moved the republican party a little closer to a lot of working class voters on economics. and that still happens now. like, if you look under

and the honorable -- lute who served under barack obama. [inaudible] and the national security council and -- as a u.s. ambassador to nato. we are all -- to have you on the house foreign affairs committee in front of us. -- main part of the record. i now recognize the witnesses for their testimony. i'll start with mr. armitage. you are now recognized. >> yes? >> mr. armitage? >> you are on mute. you are on mute. >> can you hear me now, chairman? >> now i hear you. >> i apologize. thank you for submitting our opening statements, along with my colleagues this is not my first rodeo. so with your permission i will let you get about your job of asking questions and i will do the best i can to try to answer them. thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. mcmaster, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> chairman meeks, representative mccaul and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to be with you on this panel. i focus my statement for the record on describing the causes of ourself defeat in afghanistan, based on

he covered live the election of barack obama as the president of the united states. he gave millions of americans the chance to relive genius comedy of martin lawrence, and his award winning series "unsung" brought tears and smiles to african-american baby boomers all around the globe. >> the people that he employs and the people that work for him, particularly his confidants or direct reports are people that give him comfort, and there's comfort in knowing that they've got it covered. alfred is very much focused on the fundamentals of the business, and he wants to know that you care about the business just as much as he does. he's the person that will look up and see the pot of gold, everyone saying we should go after it. he will go after it, but he's going to go after it very methodically. i think he's very successful at what he does because of that. >> 40 years ago my mom set out on a mission to entertain and empower the community. >> urban one was launched by his mother, cathy hughes, with one station, wol in washington, d.c. >> we are proud to be black-owned, bl

under barack obama, 11.6 million jobs. far more than under donald trump, the ex-president. this bill that we are debating tonight has tax cuts for families with children and it has health insurance for everyday americans. affordable housing for seniors, environmental resiliency and safeguard sustainability. negotiating with drug companies for seniors. jobs and workforce development. and the ability to continue to learn for life. so lifelong learning, because we all know things change so fast, we have got to have these things. this has prepared us for the future. and i have heard complaints about the price tag, and mr. rice, i appreciated some of your comments. i talked to mr. brady about this on thursday as we went through all of this, but quite frankly, just the new york stock exchange by itself is up 10,000 points under joe biden. that's $1.4 billion per point, $14 trillion this year, alone. compared to the price tag of this bill, which is transformational but is over ten years. so, you know, $200 billion a year, which is a lot of money, but compared to $14 trillion with

for eight years under barack obama, the department of justice was politicized and weaponized. when you came before this committee and your confirmation hearing, you promised things would be different. i asked you specifically, quote, will you commit to this committee that under your leadership, the department of justice will not target the political opponents of this administration? it was your answer, quote, absolutely. it's totally inappropriate for the department to target any individual because of their politics or their position in a campaign. that was your promise just a few month ago. i'm sorry to say you have broken that promise. there is a difference between law and politics. and general garland, you know the difference between law and politics. law is based on fact. it is impartial. it is not used as a tool of political retribution. this memo was not law. this memo was politics. on wednesday, september 29th, the national school board association wrote a letter to the president asking the president to use the department of justice to target parents that were upset at