there's numerous examples of obama, before whites, obama saying i can never imagine myself voting for a black man. they hear obama, they see his majesty, his eloquence, they see -- i think most people acknowledge obama to be immensely handsome. they see his performance, they too shed their racism and vote for him. i think the best way to understand obama's political campaign is as an artistic performance. a very, very successful artistic performance, which is a crucially important thing that he's learned from frederick douglass. in many respects, frederick douglass is the most direct descendant of barack obama. both men are children of one white, one black parent. both men became famous overnight, world famous almost overnight, on the strength of their autobiography. both men are among the great writers and orators of their day. ironically, though, i think obama shares more in common with lincoln. why? well, first and foremost, like lincoln, obama defines himself as a politician. as a politician, he's constrained by what he can do. for him to accomplish anything, he needs to get elect

it's now part of the obama foundation. its mission is to provide support for what it calls pathways of opportunity to young men of color. it's a deeply personal mission for president obama, who grew up hardly knowing his own father and who by his own account didn't find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book "a promised land." we dropped in on the former president in chicago, in high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brother's keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. >> are you going back to community organizing? >> well, you know, probably i'm a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be. plus secret service still follows me around, so i'm pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. >> one of the things that inspired former president barack obama these days are meetings like t

the obama foundation supports b.a.m. programs in several cities through the my brother's keeper alliance. >> do you think you would have benefitted from having this as a teenager? >> i'm sure i could have. when we came here, three of the guys here, you know, were still in school at the time. we had a chance to have a conversation. part of what he shared with them was -- and i think this spiced some of the guys, was my life wasn't that different from yours, i wasn't that different from you, the main difference was i was growing up in a gentler environment. >> in hawaii. >> in hawaii. the violence and drugs and some of the issues that the guys were dealing with day to day were different. but the mistakes i made, the struggles i was going through, were similar. and i think that it would have been useful for me at that time to have just a circle in which you can talk. and i think that one of the things we all learned from the pandemic was that human connection matters, that we're not all by ourselves, and we don't accomplish

of barack obama. we are in a post obama and post trump era. i think barack obama is ringing the bell and making us all understand that this moment is urgent and we all have to pay close attention. >> so we, not i was -- we are at a time, but in this interview, obama did talk about that backlash you are talking about. he didn't use the same language, but exactly the same concept. selina maxwell, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> we will be right back. >> we will be right back unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a bit differently. wet teddy bears! wet teddy bears here! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ this is a cold call! this is annie. will you turn to cold

much as obama is. and frederick douglass would get up to speak before an audience of whites, and most of the whites in that audience before seeing and hearing frederick douglass assumed that blacks were subhuman. most whites in douglass's day believed that blacks were incapable of self-government. and they would listen to douglass's very rich, deep baritone voice, they'd hear his eloquence, see his beauty -- and frederick douglass was nothing if not handsome, even his enemies acknowledged that. he was majestic in his wrath as one convert said of him. and they'd hear him and see him perform and essentially shed their racism and be converted to cause of abolitionism. numerous examples of that happening. one instance, douglass goes to buffalo, new york, to speak on abolitionism. virtually no one was abolitionist, everybody just wants to make money. in buffalo for ten days and then over half the city comes to hear him on the green, no auditorium can hold the audiences and he's converted the multitude. true

obama, he didn't deserve to nominate federal judges to the bench. he wouldn't get to do that because he's a democrat and republican senators decided they wouldn't confirm judges nominated by democratic president. they would only confirmed judges nominated by a republican president and so for that reason and that recent alone, julien neals, this distinguished, non controversial lawyer and judge from new jersey sales through the substantive part of his confirmation process. he gets confirmation from the judiciary committee on a voice vote but they refused to vote to confirm him on the senate floor. they refused to vote to confirm him or not. they refused to hold any vote on him whatsoever for nearly 700 days. for the whole rest of the obama presidency, they won't vote on him. they hold his nomination until trump gets elected and then they drop him. when trump was elected, republicans having held open judicial seats that way in courts all over the country, once trump got elected they turned on a dime and the republicans in the senate embraced to put tr

the obama administration was on this in 2015, the department of housing and urban development under obama issued a final rule on what it called affirmatively furthering their housing. julian castro, the fair housing goal was simply to enforce the fair housing act which makes it illegal to discriminate housing sales for venting on the basis of race. again, that was on the book a long time and it's not controversial. but that law also requires local jurisdiction is to receive money to take steps to affirmatively further the goal of eliminating race discrimination in housing. this is a complex wordplay, but here's what it means. under the obama administration, one important step further. according to julian castro, the existence of "concentrated poverty and urban centers as opposed to rural centers is de facto evidence of discrimination." as long as there is a place that is poorer than where you live, where you live is racist. on the basis of that assumption, they move forward and local jurisdictions were told to eliminate single-family zoning and increase density and if they didn't comply,

. >> plus, candid revelations from barack obama. what he says about the insurrection, the fate of america's democracy and republicans who failed to be a guardrail. >>> vice president kamala harris with a stern warning to migrants, do not scome to the u.s. and the the progressives in her party not happy. >>> a defamation lawsuit of a woman accusing trump of rape. the surprising move ahead. ♪ >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is tuesday, june 8th. a bipartisan senate report on the capitol insurrection has just been released and it paints a damning portrait of security lapses on multiple fronts during the january 6th riot and in the days, weeks and months leading up to it. the report also outlines evidence of stunning intelligence failures, critical miscommunications and unheeded warnings that ultimately led to a chaotic response that day. >> the report is also notable for what is not included. there's no examination of donald trump's role in the insurrection. in fact, senate democ

there is a hostility at the bottom of barack obama. glenn beck is one of the few people who saw it from the beginning. he is the host of the glenn beck radio program. thanks for joining us. you had a clear picture of who obama was underneath. you felt the hostility underneath him. that was a deep insight back then. >> back then, tucker, you could not call a president racist. back then that was crazy. now that we have gone through the trump era, it's okay. here's the thing. i apologized for saying that about 2 years later because it was unartful. i was thinking out loud. i was on fox and friends and i said i think the president is a racist. no, that's not quite right. i think he has a problem with the white culture. holy cow, what do you mean by white culture? i don't know marxists, tell me what you mean by white culture. i was not versed on critical race theory in the language of maxists. now barack obama i am. i take my apog back. -- you are a racist. if you believe in critical race threy and think what dr. martin luther king said tha

president wants to rip federal spending and taxes he present the idea as joe biden's old boss barack obama did as necessary to fund programs leading to broad prosperity and robust economic growth but the official biden forecast included in the president's budget makes no such promise after couple years of the federal spending splurge the president's plan says for the rest of the decade the economy will expand by less than 2% per year. slower than the pre-covid trump economy, what is in the plan for people working outside of government, more of the workers than expected will eventually face a tax increase you may recall signature promise that mr. biden has repeated again and again, since he was a candidate for president. >> iq. on the press biden's gonna raise your taxes anybody making less than $400,000 will not pay a single penny and taxes. >> the budgets as a trump tax cuts for low and middle income earners will be allowed to expire in 2025. the budget forecast, higher taxes on not just people making $400,000 but people making $40000, mr. biden's plan doesn't forecast a better economy th

i am just saying listening to obama tonight, he's incredibly knowle knowledgeable. >> obama is a nice person, why he was such a great president because he's a kind and decent person. except for the right. i don't see that much from republican politicians. look at who they are standing by and backing, even with all the lying. i don't think the former president, meaning obama, would do that if democrats were standing up. he's criticizing his own party right there. >> he got beat up by his party. >> he got beat up by black people, he's too respectable and not leaning in enough and not hard enough. the pressure came from all sides when he was president. that's why i said the rules are different for him. >> there is no question about that. all you need to do is look at the interview from last week about how his numbers. you can talk to valerie about this. his numbers every time he's talking about policing would tank. white america does not want to hear a black man telling them that they have a problem. >> henry lewis gates. >> yeah, it is interesting tonight. they don't see what's wrong. i

congress that th use of obama care, they front like screw that, we don't want that. that is for the losers on the poor folks out there. these people are frauds. >> and picked up by with that o a lot of issues here. i don't understand o, i guess probably i do, the democratic partyue is just this dual syste of justice we have. for example michael horowitz ca do for people for lying to congress and nobody is held accountable. if you're a republican, another system of justice exists. if you look at, i don't care, how does joe biden allow a waiver from vladimir. to build his pipeline. then fire people at the stroke of a pen building the keystone excel pipeline. how does he raise the price of oil and energy and everybody is feeling the impact up that and then go out and lie and say it' not going to impact you. it seems like we are living in time where of is down and down is up. is just echoed by the mainstrea media. >> i did not planned this, i promise. that is an awesome question. they told us that for 3-4 years that vladimir putin is giving trump back rubs and they collu

. >> obama's a nice person. that's not -- people like president obama and part of why people like him, he was such a great president and people loved him, except for the far right, they didn't like him. is because he is a kind, he is a decent person. i have to be honest with you. i don't see that much from republican politicians. look who they're -- they're standing by. look who they are backing, even with all the lying. i don't think that the former president, meaning obama, would do that, if democrats were doing and standing for -- look. he is criticizing his own party, right there, in that interview. >> yeah. a little bit. look. he got beat out -- he got beat up by his party when he was in there, also. >> he got -- he got beat up by black people. he's too respectable. he's not leaning in enough. he's not hard enough. he's not tough enough. he got all those things, so the pressure came from all sides when he was president. that's why i say the rules were different for him. >> but just hearing him -- well, i me

president obama, of course, is in the white house. but in the senate that was controlled by mitch mcconnell and the republicans. and what mitch mcconnell and the republicans did when they controlled the senate was they just refused to consider president obama's nominees to be judges. they just refused to allow votes on obama nominees. so the seats would just stay empty. republicans in the obama era decided that a democratic president like, for example, president barack obama, he didn't deserve to nominate federal judges to the bench. he wouldn't get to do that because he's a democrat. and republican senators decided they wouldn't confirm judges nominated by a democratic president, they would only confirm judges nominated by a republican president, and so for that reason and that re reason alone, julien neals, this noncontroversial judge from new jersey, he sails through the confirmation from the committee on a voice vote, but then the republicans just let him languish. they refused to vote to confirm him on the senate floor. they refu

even before obama, president obama was running for office who kinda set the record for the number of threats. there are thousands per month but it registered a one way or another. somebody on a stool had a few too many to drink cities in the kill the president to just an e-mail or more frightening in a white supremacy chatter group. or, more often and was true in these case studies a person mental struggles or maybe in a crisis mental health estate decides the way for them to solve their problem is to kill a president. >> everybody has to be taken seriously that is the point. you do not know someone who sends an e-mail is a serious threat or not you got to investigate everything. a number of times in this book we hear more agents, more agents, more agents. we need more ages there's a number of antidotes if you can recount the service itself or others go to congress or they say we need more agents. the problem is were understaffed. is that necessarily after all of your reporting have you concluded the answer to better secret service is it volume, more agents make for better service? >

it is a very on brand for barack obama to conclude the joe biden presidency is really about barack obama. because isn't everything? obama in the same interview by the way took credit for donald trump's economic success singly basically lead to that moment and sort of laid the groundwork for the stability. obama and biden around the slowest recovery in modern history than trump came in with the republicans threw gassing on the fire do regard to cut taxes every things going awesome until china gave us a pandemic. another trying to rewrite history and that they want credit for trumps economy, it's typical but it is ludicrous. kennedy: you say exits a continuation of another admits ration, peter, what is that? >> there's odyssey continuity between the biden administration and the obama administration just because there's joe biden print also because he hired a bunch of obama administrative veterans where there's also some policy continuity between the biden administration on the trump administration. i think in ways that should worry people. what it comes to the border, it comes to trade pol

and obama says the police acted stupidly. something he says that nothing in his presidency no event in the entirety of the eight years drops the support among white voters as that single moment. and never gets some of the support back. >> help us. waiting to unfreeze. how are we on that? okay. he's coming back. and he's gone again. >> let's do this. can you hear me? >> i can hear you. >> don't do that. i'm too old. look at my face. it's hyper tension. >> the conversation is too hot. we're getting hacked. >> we have known each other a long time. i have a will the of respect. i don't agree that democrats would have left obama over him talking about race. that's not a here nor there. that'sth past. it's about the state of play. what does it mean that nothing hurt obama with white voters as much as his saying something that seemed obvious in that incident about policing? the skip gates thing was not a close call. it was obviously bad policing. what does it mean? >> it means in this country is on the one level has a lot of race im

speaking of progressing, president obama talked about the progressive movement. take a listen to this. >> a manifestation of the more progressive views that more people brought to politics in 2008 and 2009, 2010 and i think my presidency helped to solidify a huge tilt in the direction of progressive politics of young people that is now continuing in the 30s, as millenials and gen zers are starting to marry and have families. >> here's what you make of that, and do you think for president biden as being perceived as more of a moderate helps him push through progressive agenda items? >> oh, i think there's no doubt. in many ways republicans have tried to frame joe biden as this radical leftist with this crazy agenda. and i think the great thing about what joe biden embodies is he sounds and looks like common sense america. he doesn't strike anybody and he didn't strike anybody in both the primaries or the general election as something that was deeply radical. look, that's helpful in making sure people understand what you're trying to do and in understanding that so

>> again, more nonsense from obama. he ought to enjoy his retirement and stay out of this and not spread misinformation like he is. the reason that president trump saw the best performance from black voters is the increase in the economy for black americans. we saw the lowest black unemployment ever. we saw median household income go from 39,000 and change-up 15% versus eight years of obama. we also saw the poverty rate fall to 18.8%. the lowest ever in american history. the first time black unemployment has been below 20%. that was not a result of massive spending but tax cuts, deregulation that led to a booming economy. that would have continued unfortunately had covid-19 not ruined it. until then, trump's free markets policies were great for americans and that's why they showed up in bigger numbers to support a republican for president of the united states. >> martha: you can hear in president obama's comments there that they're concerned about that. there's a concern about that drift. he said it wasn't that marked.

i wonder what barack obama thinks about this. he endorsed joe for 2020 and barack obama appeared on fake news cnn complaining with the fear and resentment of white americans. maybe barack obama should direct these lectures at his old friend joe biden. here's what we mean. >> there always been a division along lines of race. >> madam president, we have predators. >> we have 400 years of white house and blacks not being able to have shared experiences because of slavery and segregation. >> my state was a slave state. this terrible stuff happened. the vestages of that linger. >> we will put y'all back in chains. >> the right wing that stokes the fear and resentment of a white population that is witnessing a changing america. >> [inaudible]. >> the single most important issue is critical race theory. who knew. >> if you are for me or trump, then you ain't black. >> sean: here can reaction larry and leo. you are laughing. i don't have to say a word. just keep playing the tapes. >> you can't make this up. the question is how far did th

and so i just want to be clear that i think that barack obama is right. his analysis of it is surprisingly pretty dead on. it's hard for people to be able to self-reflect and see things so clearly. but to your point, i think we're in a different place. i think joe biden is a different person. i think that he could do different things, and i do think in this time, yes, that is actually what should be done. i think in barack obama's time, he did the right thing, if that makes sense. >> absolutely it makes sense. and i know the constraints. i'm just saying what is the lesson in the future >> yeah. >> i don't think the former president is wrong in his assessment and the constraints. i think april is right too. there were different expectations for him by people. the rules were different for him as the first black president. go on. >> i think people are very, very hard on him. there are a lot of people on the left that are hard on him and i think it's extremely unfair in the context. >> and he talks about it in that statement, my own supporters would get frust

barack obama, hillary clinton, and joe biden. now, what could it possibly be about joe biden that does not inspire the same visceral ire of the republican base? that doesn't render him toxic and threatening, in the same way as those other-two figures? joe biden. the 78-year-old, white man, is not a living embodiment of the existential threat that the republican base fears. and that existential threat. that fear, of the country being governed by people, other than them, broadly construed, that's what they really care about. the rest? they couldn't care less. >>> senior adviser to senator bernie sanders. formerly senior adviser to democratic senate leader harry reid. and they both join me now. faz, let's talk about your view of this, as someone who was -- working in democratic staff circles back in those days. like, do you agree that, that picture in the driveway was an impossibility under obama? and, for some reason, is not now? >> yes. they certainly made it almost impossible for obama because of the way in which they demonized h

obama said the police acted stupidly. his advisers told him that no event drops his support among white voters as much as that single moment where he says the police acted stupidly there. and he never gets some of that support back. >> help us. let's wait for you to unfreeze. let's see if we can get ezra back. okay, ezra's coming back. and then he's gone again. all right. so let's do this. can you hear me, ezra? >> i can hear you just fine. >> good. don't do that, i'm too old for that. look at my face, it's already flushed. it's just hypertension. >> the conversation is too hot. >> you and i have known each other for a long time, i have a lot of respect for you on this. i don't agree that democrats would have left obama over him talking more about race. but that's neither here nor there, that's in the past. it's more about the state of play. and the point you just made, what does it mean that nothing hurt obama with white voters as much as his saying something that seemed obvious in that incident about policing? because t

and all of the things that came after obama. in some ways the backlash to obama created the conditions for the country to have honest conversations about race for the first time in a long time. and that's what he's talking about when he says that his kids and his kids' white friends are starting to say actually, no, let's confront this. let's not just paper it over. >> we also seem to say that they are smarter than him or his generation in how strategic they're being which i thought was interesting to hear. abby it is great, as always, to see you in the morning. thanks for being with us. you can catch abby hosting "inside politics" on sunday at 8:00 a.m. >>> up in, the biden administration's new plans to reunite migrant families separated under president trump. >>> and jane fonda with a bullhorn, literally, and a message for president biden. she'll join us next. [sfx: thunder rumbles] [sfx: rainstorm] ♪ comfort in the extreme. ♪ the lincoln family of luxury suvs. the new samsung galaxy s21 this looks different. it is. show m

barack obama, hillary clinton, joe biden. looking to be about joe biden that does not inspire the same visceral ire of the republican base? that doesn't writer him talks again threatening in the same way as those other two figures? joe biden 78-year-old white man is a living embodiment of the existential threat to the republican base fears. that existential threat, that fear the country being governed by people other than them broadly construed. that's what they really care about. the rest? they couldn't care less. a senior adviser of senator bernie sanders, former senior advisor to democratic senator later harry reid. jeffrey reuben an opinion columnist for the washington post. they both join me now. let's talk about your view of this as someone who is working in democratic staff circles back during those days of the obama campaign. do you agree that picture in the driveway was an impossibility under obama and for some reason is not now? >> yes. they made almost impossible for obama because the way in which they demonized hi

obviously they weren't interested in what obama was doing as much as trump. i said this about obama, i said it about trump and i will say it about biden. the cost of the presidency is too much, it costs too much to travel, for him to travel, there's got to be cheaper ways to do it than protect the national security and their personal safety. >> let's hear from connie on our republican line in illinois. go ahead. >> good morning, everyone. mr. fitten -- >> yes. >> -- first of all, donald trump never did anything wrong to be impeached for, and i want to say about joe biden and the trip to russia, his first comment when he was asked about the assault on the white house, his comment was a police officer was killed. that was a lie. someone interrupted him with a question, they wanted to shut him up and it did, thank goodness. the only person killed at the white house was just as you mentioned ashli babbitt. i wonder if her family got 6 or 12 million dollars because of her being killed. we're in a backward country right now. >> tom fitten, do you have a response? >

it didn't matter whether obama or trump was running things. host: let's hear from mike in the new jersey. go ahead. caller: good morning, c-span. thank you for taking my call and always having somebody totally different from my point of view, it makes you think. you said you were not a lawyer. what is your background to make you part of judicial watch? doesn't make a little bit of sense. is there constitutional knowledge that you bring to the table? pardon me. a woman earlier said you were not bipartisan. i think you are trying to make the argument that you work? i have watched you almost every time you are on c-span, because you certainly get my irish up, she is a good thing. you seem to be very partisan. thank you for taking my call. guest: i am just a regular guy. i am running judicial watch. you don't need any special expertise to be concerned about our country and try to use a group in concert with other fine americans who work at judicial watch and our supporters to hold government accountable. our results speak for themselves in terms o

but we're in post obama and post trump era and barack obama is ringing the bell and making us all understand this moment is urgent and we all have to pay close attention. >> i was going to -- we're out of time but in his interview with ezra klein, he did talk about the backlash you're talking about, exactly same concept. zerlina maxwell, thanks very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks lawrence. >>> we'll be right back. he found it in a boy with special needs, who also needed him. as part of our love promise, subaru and our retailers host adoption events and have donated 28 million dollars to support local animal shelters. we're proud to have helped over 230,000 pets so far... changing the lives of dogs like jack, and the families who adopt them. subaru. more than a car company. try one a day 50+ multivitamin gummies. with vitamins c, d & zinc for immunity support. plus 8 b-vitamins for brain support. one a day and done. what are you wearing, dog? they're pants, dog. no, these are pants, dog. no way. my pants are pants, dog. pizza on a bagel—we can all agree with that. uhm whatever those

the filibuster was being used to block president barack obama's nominations. reid lowered that threshold. it was dubbed the nuclear option. then republicans came into power. senator mitch mcconnell took that and then lowered the threshold for the supreme court nominees. so the gop held up obama's nominee, then rolled out the red carpet for trump's. so what happens in the future? what happens in the future if the gop holds the house, the senate, and the white house? what would stop them from passing just whatever they want? >> well, they would probably do it anyway. i think that's what democrats need to realize about the filibuster. as you mentioned, as soon as the filibuster stood in mitch mcconnell's way when it came to supreme court nominees, he got rid of it with the flick o f they won't let the majority senators vote. certainly they wouldn't want the majority people to vote because they know they do not represent the majority of the american people. in fact, they represent in their own states a very small minority. >> i mean is that what you see happening

that is gone. >> or even of obama, quite frankly. you know, i think this is -- we've gone even beyond that. it was bad enough then. you know what mitch mcconnell said, i want to make him a one term president. i've been saying the same sentiment you have that this is just from my point of view and what the evidence shows is that quite frankly, republicans are better at politics, especially when it comes to these issues. i'm not saying that's good than kem democrats and i think democrats are operating with an old playbook and old narrative so to speak. this is the urgency is just not there. we've beat up on the democrats enough at least challenged them enough for this segment but what incentive does a gop really have to protect voting rights for all people, particularly black and brown communities, matthew? when the gop is showing they don't believe they can win with an expanded electricet? >> the constitution for moral documents, fundamentally moral documents that express what people's rights are so the only appeal you can have is doi

barack hussein obama! >> the rise of the tea party movement was supposed to be a response to obama care but in reality was mostly a response to obama's race. >> obama's election was a trigger. >> this president i think has exposed himself as a guy over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for white people. >> the base began not only to hate obama -- >> what is wrong with this president? >> but to despite gop leaders for being unable to stop him. they soured on the bush's, on john mccain, on mitt romney. searching instead for someone who would embody their rage and finally give them their revolution. >> oh, we're going to win. we're going to win so big. thank you very much, everybody. with extra broccolini. my tuuuurrrrn! tonight...i'll be eating cheesy cauliflower pizza and yummy broccolini! (doorbell rings) thanks. (doorbell rings) thank you. ♪ ♪ is that my leotard? no. yes... ehh, you can keep it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ are the color cartridges in you

you remember, i'm sure, covering the barack obama running, then senator barack obama running for president. he was a muslim, right? he wasn't born in this country and so on and so forth. in large part the tea party was started because of barack obama. john mccain having to tell people, you know, that he was not a muslim and all of these things with effigies of president obama or senator obama who became president. i think the makings were all happening with the republican party. this is a progression. i think it's been a slow progression in some ways, but donald trump certainly accelerated it. i think it was happening even while the former president was still a senator and running for president. this is just a natural progression. if you believe a conspiracy theory that donald trump helped to spread about birtherism, then the national progression especially if you elect him as president, that you're going to believe other conspiracy theories. natural progression. >> i agree with you. i thought the anderson interview with the former president was excellent. obama talked to anderson about hi

obama unfiltered. his warning about the state of america's democracy right now. >> and one damming phone call, cnn gets video of giuliani looking into conspiracies to damage joe biden. what does it now mean for the federal investigations? >> a new senate report which is 127 pages long all in reveals stunning details about the breakdowns before the attack and failures that led to the supporters mobbing the capitol that day. the report contains harrowing aaccounts from police officers that were attacked, fighting for their lives. but what also stands out is what is not in the report. it does not describe this siege as an insurrection, nor does it mention former president trump's role in inciting it. this it report may be the first and only comprehensive investigation of that shameful day as senate republicans have blocked the bipartisan independent commission that would have done just that. whitney wild is live in washington. she's joining me now with much more as this is all coming out. can you walk us

that is the obama look at biden. obama there are a lot of conversations in the book that i traced of obama being more involved behind the scenes than anyone realized in talking to all the candidates, not just biden. anyone who got it all serious about running for president he would invite over to his office in washington, d cnb on the phone with them. that meant bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg and beto o'rourke, keeping an open line of communication which continued through the race for all of these candidates and importantly at the moment when each of them was dropping out he would call and congratulate them and also try to see what their plans were for bringing the party together. host: what did you learn about president biden picking senator kamala harris as a vice president as his running mate? edward: there is no question that the first primary debate where she attacked him for his record on busing and said that little girl was me, and that line i know you are not a racist, that left a lead

>> that's an unfortunate view that i have not encountered before but obama sounds a lot like johnson and frankly also a lot like reagan with this idea about the dependency pervading the narrative that he's telling about this kind of lost moments or wrong turn in the 60s. just on the king holiday, it's so interesting that by the ease even that nonviolent civil rights is being arrived and celebrated when much of the response to that nonviolent protest was police violence was german shepherd dog sick on black kids with hoses. so the kind of police violence that i'm dealing with in response to political violence, political rebellion also was the response to the nonviolent direct action protest that is being celebrated. so obama's, the idea that the riots were these kind of mass moments of criminality and that they were examples of criminal behavior again, that sounds very much like johnson because immediately after 64, after a 15-year-old high school student is killed by the new york police department, johnson case the same sex to move that obama did. he says this is not about civil righ