and when you and barack obama discovered that colin powell was going to invoke indoors senator obama for president. when did you find that out? when did president obama find that out? what did it mean to him when he found that a? >> i will tell you lawrence, first of all good evening it's an honor to be here this evening. it's a tough day but i appreciate the tribute that you and so many others have done to a person that i consider great american. it was not until i heard the first come out of his mouth, that i was positive about the way that he would lead. we thought he was leaning in the direction of barack obama, but colin powell keeps his counsel pretty close. and i remember, literally holding my breath the entire time that he was speaking, and what a relief it was. it was not as if i was just voting for, him but the reason why is he thought that barack obama was a leader who would be best for our country in that moment in time. it was very eloquent, he spoke from the heart, and also from the mind, and the experience that he had in public service over so many decades. it was seis

and when you and barack obama discovered that colin powell was going to endorse senator barack obama for president, when did you find that out? when did president obama find that out? and what did it mean to him when he found that out? >> i'll tell you, lawrence, first of all, good evening. it's an honor to be here this evening. it's a tough day. but i appreciate the tribute that you and so many others have done to a person i consider to have been a great american. and it was not actually until i heard the words come out of his mouth that i was positive about which way he would lean. we thought he was leaning in the direction of barack obama. colin powell keeps his counsel pretty close. and i remember, you know, literally holding my breath the entour time he was speaking and what a relief it was that it was no the just i'm voting for him, but the reasons why he thought that barack obama was the leader who would be best for our country at that moment in time. it was very he will consequent. he spoke from the heart. and also from the mind and from the experience that he had in public s

that's something obama said a lot. people may forget this, but when he sent troops back to iraq and syria, at first he said particularly in syria, there will be no boots on the ground. we're not putting u.s. troops on the ground in syria. of course, they did. reporters would say, what do you mean no boots on the ground? we've got pictures literally of boots on the ground, of americans? they would use this to kind of, again, give people this misleading image that we don't have lots of troops there. i do think biden -- i take him at his word that there is this complete troop withdrawal from afghanistan, and we're not going to -- there's no afghan army or government to advise anymore. so that role is gone. there's no purpose for having them there. we're not going to be working hand in glove with the taliban that same way. but does that mean the cia won't send operatives in? i doubt it. i think the cia will try to find a way to have a presence, have proxy forces perhaps. the war is going to continue in a different phase. i

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i think obama and sometimes he told some of the biggest fibs about the war. in december 2014 there was a ceremony at u.s. military headquarters in kabul, and obama put out a statement saying this was the war in afghanistan is coming to our responsible conclusion, he announced the end of the combat mission for u.s. troops. obama and his war commander of the time general john campbell said the u.s. troops there will be a few thousand of them stay in the country but they're only there as advisors. the afghans are ready to take charge of the unsecured and they will be the ones fighting against the taliban. .. and that they shouldn't push for them to the war. he was trying to buy them. again, the deception, it went deeper and deeper as time went on. >> when you raised obama's speech, it reminded me of one of the moments that i had completely missed or forgotten that i -- i saw in your book and that is that that wasn't the first time that we declared the end of combat operations that the same -- at the same time that president bush was, you know, having his mission

it wasn't just obama. it was the whole team. i talked to the national security advisor and at one point he said you know, good policy i'm sorry good process does not guarantee good policy. but bad process guarantees bad policy. and even of this was so closely held and people were not allowed into the discussions like hillary clinton until march and then they could not have staff at all. they literally had to lie to their assistance why they're going to the white house. they could not put meeting on they could not have any staff they cannot take any notes and all of that. it really was a meticulous process there are 17 meetings at that level before obama makes his decision. this is just in march and april of 2011, 17 meetings. various meetings obama would take it bigger and site is it worth it to get him? not just is he there and can we get them is it worth it to get them what are we going to get out of getting him? what is this say about our larger policy in that region? what does that mean for our relationship with pakistan? he

. >> he is my friend barack obama can obama come to biden's rescue this time? >> teen girls developing text doctors say tiktok could be to blame we will explain. >> and leo. >> a classic american comic is taking america out of its tagline will debate superman's new slogan that is rewriting history. alicia: the holiday season is getting closer and dr. fauci is changing his mind again of what will and won't be allowed this year. >> if you are vaccinated in your family members are vaccinated those eligible, that is obviously young children that are not yet eligible, then you can enjoy the holidays, you can enjoy halloween, trick-or-treating and thanksgiving with your family and christmas. alicia: according to dr. fauci you can only trick-or-treat on halloween and spend thanksgiving and christmas with her family ever vaccinated, this week officers in many law enforcement agencies would be required to get the shot or lose their jobs many have had enough of the vaccine mandate california parents and teachers are planning a statewide walkout tomorrow in protest of the

and just said barack obama, like i love barack obama, but he did not focus on this, and one of the reasons why the conservatives in power now is because for eight years obama did not attack the supreme court with the alacrity that was needed to stop these people. >> yeah, and i think the left as a whole, democrats do not make the court an issue the same way the right does. that's a fair point. i want to move away from the supreme court and talk about other cases that could land in court, and that's reparations. so this week attorney demario solomon simmons who represents the tulsa survivors, went to court and used the public nuisance precedent to argue that white supremacy still creates a public nuisance for survivors and descendants of the tulsa massacre. talk about that case and what that means for the long-term case of reparations. >> let me tell you what conservatives are going to do. it should stick in your craw. the conservatives in texas, the abortion law, have decided that private citizens have standing to sue abortion providers over giving medical services to women they don't even

we have president barack obama. let's take a listen to him, everybody, in richmond, virginia, and there he is campaigning for terry mcauliffe. >> it is good to see y'all on this beautiful day. i am so grateful to the young democrats at vcu for hosting us today. it's good to see some young idealism at work. young activists getting out and doing the work. i could not be prouder of you. it's thanks to extraordinary young people like you that i was able to get elected to the u.s. senate. you helped deliver virginia twice for me. i'll always love you for it. you delivered for terry mcauliffe, and now i'm asking you to do it one more time. by electing terry, the next governor of the commonwealth of virginia. in fact, i love you too. i do. over the years, actually, you guys have come through for a lot of great leaders, many of whom are here today. your outstanding governor, ralph northam. your next lieutenant governor, hala. your current and future attorney general, mark herring. my dear friend, first person outside of ill

let's face it, when you elected barack obama, you were like, i don't know. i mean, that -- the kid -- look. you know, maybe you knew, but i have to say, i look at those -- i look at some of that old footage and i'm like, man, he looks really young. i can't believe they trusted him to do all that stuff. he looks like he's 25 years old. that was before the gray hair. some of you who are very young don't remember, but i used to have black hair. but with terry, you know. he's done it. and you know this about terry. he knows how to work hard. this guy is the energizer bunny. he does not sleep. he does not stop. he started his own business at the age of 14. paving driveways to help pay for college. now, i don't remember exactly what i was doing at 14, but i will tell you, i was not starting my own business. and ever since, terry has brought the same grit and determination to everything he's done, from public service to business to being a husband to being a father of five amazing children, so the guy knows how to work hard. and he's persuasive. and terry knows wha

we saw at the time of his reelection of boaters had considered obama and bush to be equally responsible for the country's economic condition, then obama would've been nine points less popular but people seem to be willing to give it president leeway for things they did not necessarily have a lot to do with. difficulty is not necessarily bad thing. because of crises the crises can also be opportunities for greatness. the top three is always the same it's some combination of lincoln, then washington than roosevelt or roosevelt and washington. two of those present served and perhaps the biggest crises america has seen, civil war and then world war ii in the great depression. that gave them an opportunity to do things other presidents who served and calm times might not have to do. did not disseminate meant those challenges they could potentially do others could not. this is something clinton hasn't lamented. after 911 clinton was said to have privately said he wished he would have been a president at that time because to be a great president you had to have a signature moment of leadership

think back to barack obama's affection for kamala harris. you have to be careful to say she is brilliant and dedicated and she is tough and exactly what you want. and anybody administering the law and making sure everyone is getting a fair shake. according to barack obama she happens to be by far the best looking attorney general in the country. and you remember during the debate phase of the presidential campaign, it was reported that joe biden's handlers agreed to a predebate inspection for electronic earpieces. shortly before the debate they reversed themselves and declined. as to the election, when discussing with stephen colbert on what a third term could have looked like, barack obama said the following. >> i used to say, if i could make an arrangement where i had a stand-in, a front man or woman and they had an earpiece in and i was in my basement in my sweats, i could certain of deliver the lines but somebody else is doing all the talking. i would be fine with that. judge jeanine: so i ask you, who do you think is running the white h

so obviously they're going to barack obama. and it's not just in the senate where joe biden's legislation has stalled. terry mcauliffe basically said the same thing, he admitted joe biden was unpopular and that's a problem for his race for governor. todd: we'll get to mcof mcaulin a second. i want to focus on the obama as the savior concept. to me, isn't barack obama a little bit, i don't know, too right for the current iteration of the democratic party? in other words, is he left enough to appease what the democrats in congress are trying to do? >> well, i do think barack obama -- i don't aagree with him, but i do think that he has sufficient standing in the democratic party that he does have some influence and i think it's telling that they apparently calculate he has more influence than the sitting president. one of the problems i think, one of the humiliations for joe biden is that he's done all this, he's aimed big, i think some people would say overreach, in the hopes that he is going to be a transformational president, u

that is what obama -- obama -- president biden saids it's at right now in the negotiations. here is what congressman meyer had to say about that. >> i think that those type of plans are far better executed at the state level where there is a need to have the consistent application across the country is two weeks too little, it's four weeks too little. should it be six? should it be eight? being able to have that alternative and that comparison, and also know what the impacts of that policy will be before it is rolled out across all 50 states. i think we are continuing to seek solutions in washington, d.c. that should be sought in state capitols. >> but, alice, the states have had the opportunity to do this, and a vast majority haven't. and the u.s. severely lags behind other developed countries when it comes to paid-family leave. >> and -- and how is it not bipartisan? >> i think it's critical that states do take this by the horns, and really make progress on this because the more decisions like this we can have done at the state level where the money really makes a tremendo

and obama's recent address and the lowest ratings in twentysomething years. over 31 million people decided and i always like to remind people of this problem of bill clinton in 2000 preparing to give the national address and coming on right after he was to be a millionaire on abc which was a show of the times and people auditioned for it. 19 million people are watching it wants to be a millionaire and the president comes on and immediately ten minutes and ability people change the channel. another problem is the permanent campaign is a permanent distraction running for office today, and reelection, is expensive and it costs money rated these are billion-dollar campaigns the president has to constantly raise money rated barack obama according to research as fundraiser every 7.5 days. and bill clinton attended his first fundraiser as president 12 days into the administration, however president is supposed to govern when they're so busy raising money and engaging in these political activities there too busy try to keep their jobs to potentially do their job read

when you elected barack obama, you're like, i don't know. that, that -- maybe you knew, but i have to say, i look at those, i look at some of that old footage, i'm like, man, he looked really young. i can't believe they trusted him to do all that stuff. he looks like he's 25 years old. that was before the gray hair. some of you who are very young don't remember, but i used to have black hair. but, but with terry, you know. he's done it. and you know this about terry. he knows how to work hard. this guy is the energizer bunny. he does not sleep. he does not stop. he started his own business at the age of 14. paving driveways to help pay for college. now i don't remember exactly what i was doing at 14, but i will tell you, i was not starting my own business. and ever since, terry has brought the same grit and determination to everything he's done. from public service to business to being a husband, to being a father of five amazing children. so the guy knows how to work hard. and he's persuasive. and terry knows what it means to lead. a lot of

and remember george, w and obama. how different they look. last observation on polling versus what i call trolling i staff a booth at the my farmer's market near my house every saturday morning for 4 hours . the republican party in fairfax county, virginia commonwealth. and over the last about 6 weeks, we've seen that we have an election next week of next week and in the commonwealth of virginia for governor, but the intensity and the number of people that are talking about how badly biden and the democrats are doing. it's just ticked up now to republic content, but it's northern virginia and a lot of the republican 10 people would tell me they hated trump and all that. so, but a, if you're just feeling a very different thing than we felt before. and i think again to richard's point, forget about the hard core democrats and harker, republicans not going anywhere. the rest of the country that whatever that number is, they're looking up and seeing this president is an up for the job. the vice president is not up for the job and the country, the

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in fact when obama makes the decision he's really got two choices. one is the raid the other is a drone strike. one of the reasons he did not do the drone strike is that done a lot of them and they missed people. and in addition to which a case like bin laden were not only getting them but being able to tell the world proof positive you got it was tremendously important. you take them out they drone strike you're never able to say conclusively we got bin laden. >> there is a number of questions about the fact the current generation, the younger generation today has not gone through much of this history of the last 20 years and wondering if the experience of younger professionals, younger voters will evaluate terrorism and the process differently than our generation? i'm a little older than you met our generation is thought about terrorism. >> well, yes and no. i certainly think that pre-911 we did not take terror, terror is something that happened in other places. it happened in the middle east, and happened in europe, it did not happen in the u.s. t

and obama in his remarks encouraged people to get out to vote. something we've heard him say before, but he also weighed in on education which has become one of the most crucial issues in this race. >> glenn youngkin and donald trump share a dangerous, divisive agenda that would take our commonwealth backwards on education. leapt me be clear, glenn youngkin wants to follow donald trump and betsy devos' plan and take the money from private schools and send them to public schools. >> reporter: but a poll out this week from monmouth if university shows youngkin leading on education but only by a hair. youngkin has been campaigning heavily against critical race theory and says virginia parents are being shut out of curriculum choices. my colleague caught up with him this afternoon, and he said mcauliffe's decision to bring obama on the trail is a sign of desperation. >> terry mcauliffe wants to make it about anybody other than glenn youngkin against terry mcauliffe, so he's invited everybody to campaign with him to try to shine a light into his -- >>

we talk about brock obama. donald trump, i mean these 2, brock obama was short of a legislator, but mostly was a, an ambitious politician, donald trump, a business man, you know, look job. and as a senator, when afghanistan happened, he went to a senate hideaway camp. david, that's what senators do. if you're a senator, no one can tell you, look, joe mansion is living this a cinema. kristen cinemas living this. no one can tell you what to do, how to vote, where to show who to talk to nothing. and joe biden just is doing whatever he wants and he's failing at, at afghanistan to disaster the borders of disaster. yesterday, we have an excuse me, not yesterday, late. earlier this week we have a document put out a national gender strategy. look, it may, that may please some people in the, in the ivory tower or in the activist camp. but the reality is the american people are looking up and they're saying we've got inflation. gas prices up. the border is, you know, a poor house. we've got a drug problem. people are dying from fennel and joe biden is incapable of being in charge. i'm not all this p

now, to be sure, i didn't promise president obama anything on air force one. he tried to reach me later on that evening and i knew he was calling. i didn't take his call. i had to make it decision based on what was best for my constituents, and frankly in the end i also was concerned that if i turned the tide against the affordable health care act and it was defeated that the obama presidency was going to be in trouble, and i had to make that decision as well. so you know, for one person, and i know what members of congress are going through. you have to weigh against your constituents, and at that moment, i had to weigh what it meant for the obama presidency as well. >> and do you, congressman, think that's on the line here. do you think that president biden's presidency hangs on this, and so should progressives take a page from your book and fall in line if that's the case? >> well, see, here's the thing. you know, progressives aren't the only ones who are party to these negotiations. i'm glad to see there's a counter offer coming over from the senate to get

barack obama. tw, >> it's ironic kamala would distance herself from joe biden. she has low poll numbers. the chant is americans pushing back on the biden tyranny. this time it's organic and happening in stadiums, not hollywood with the elite. it is organic and happening from rural america. >> harris: the [bleep] is interesting. "outnumbered" after the break. i had periodontal disease, and i just didn't feel well. but then i found clearchoice. [ forde ] replacing marcia's teeth with dental implants at clearchoice was going to afford her that permanent solution. [ marcia ] clearchoice dental implants gave me the ability to take on the world. i feel so much better, and i think that that is the key. do you struggle with occasional nerve aches the ability to take on the world. in your hands or feet? try nervivenerve relief from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. ♪ say it's al

when barack obama ran in 2012 only 129 million americans voted. so turnout surged under donald trump because of the interest on both sides in that election, so don't give me this republicans are suppressing. it's the typical thing the democrats say at the end just to rev up their base on the basis of fear. >> sean: that's like al gore that's how long this playbook goes back. s republicans got the wrong agenda for african-americans, they don't even want to count you int the census. but if you want to go to the dnc convention you need a picture i.d., if you want to go to the white house and visit joe you need a picture i.d. if you want to go to the capital you need picture i.d. and now with that these vaccine passport mandates everywhere. joe biden never lifted a fingery to make voting more accessible in delaware so we know it's one big talking point lie here. my question is, you know, is this -- if this is real and we find outut either a week from tomorrow or early on a week from wednesday that in fact youngkin pulls this off, what does that mean?

both for then-senator obama and against john mccain. to hear him say it was because of sarah palin, he understood the dark forces gathering on the republican side. it's such a loss. >> it means a lot coming from you. and as you say, he spoke out on many things when it mattered, and he knew of what he spoke. as with all life cycles, there's a mourning for people who knew him. thank you, nicolle. always good to see you. >> thank you. >>> welcome to "the beat." i'm ari melber. we have news at the insurrection committee prepares to hold steve bannon in contempt. it's a big deal, he could land in jail. we have a special report coming up on how that all works. that's coming up soon. but we begin with what nicolle and i were discussing. the death of colin powell at the age of 84 from covid complications after battling cancer. his career really crossed decades of american history, policy, foreign policy, and, yes, politics. much of this echoing as people absorb the news today. he was america's first black national security adviser, joint chiefs

so where is the trumped up culture war, president obama? maybe you should actually read the papers instead of what terry mcauliffe handlers are giving you as far as talking points because nobody out here believes that for one bit. >> brian: ian, you understand the tide of a case you tried the cases. you know the legal system. when you see how merrick garland handled that inquisition on that committee last week and how he was entire time. he looked lost. and then when you see the apology from the school board union saying they shouldn't say domestic terrorist, i think you got this issue -- i think you really trumped him on this issue. and i think he doesn't understand how deep this runs. >> no, i think that's absolutely right. i think that, you know, people of a certain political persuasion right now. specifically democrats are not picking up on what is going on in this country. and what is going on is that parents, grandparents are concerned for the future of their children, they are concerned for the future of this country that their child

president obama taking the stage in new jersey campaigning for governor phil murphy. talk to me about what is happening with the deal on the hill and how much the shadow of what is happening in virginia and new jersey is factoring into their thinking. >> i was speaking with democrats, i was trying to gauge how much obama visiting to campaign for terry mcauliffe was helping. they said obama is one of the most influential figures in democratic politics and they believe it will help him. but is it enough. but what is tied to mcauliffe is what is happening in washington. they are inching forward. there were so many meetings between the white house and moderates and progressives that they say they are almost there. we don't know the exact date they will say they will have a deal, but it is looking more and more likely after weeks and weeks of negotiation. but like you said, there is also the risk since they pareed down this significantly, you are pulling voters out. if you do that with a dog and a biscuit enough times, voters will stop coming out. that is the fear, if they

nobody could believe when barack obama was elected the first time and reelected and a president would be elected no matter what your politics at a minimum manipulated the tropes of white supremacy in order to gain an attempt to maintain his support. i mentioned this to joe once. i first realized the backlash against having a black family in the white house when i was filming a previous series at the jim crow museum at ferris state university. obama had been in the white house a couple years and already and that museum, they had a space dedicated to racist images of barack obama and i am not talking just with big lips or standard tropes of black inferiority, but really nasty, the scene images, live with one of the things i study is the image, it is good or bad and numerically the bad images outnumber the good. the caricatures to see briefly in the video clip which proliferated in the 1890s. where lithography becomes cheap in 1890. it was invented in the nineteenth century and very expensive. who better for photography than black people, black skin, white eyes, it was made for. the imag

one of the more concerning elements of the polling is that unlike president trump and president obama, who could rely on a rock solid base, 80% or 90% of democrats and republicans during the obama and trump residencies saying that they would support them no matter what. you're not seeing the same degree of support with president biden. he is taking off the left because he is not permissive enough on immigration policies, he hasn't given into the left on everything, he has ticked off the middle because he is trying to pursue trillions of dollars in a spending package and the covid and economy. this is a double whammy. at least with trump and obama they could say we have a base that will show up to the polls no matter what for our parties even though we have a lot of headwinds. biden does not command the same degree of support from his own party, which makes it extra challenging for him. host: midterms are year away, but the off-year elections, specifically the now close race in virginia is weeks away. how does this play out if terry mcauliffe, the democratic former governor of virginia

now democrats are using barack obama for a look backwards. candidates nearing elections are calling upon the former president instead of the current one. >> nothing more to add but getting president obama to come into new jersey is a big deal. more details on that and anyone else who might be coming in for us. >> prominent lawmakers get it. pillars are all stuck in congress. >> democrats make promises. we need to deliver. >> the white house claims not to be sweating progressive pressure like from virginia's mcauliffe and urging democrats to change rules to passion infrastructure which jen psaki said is self-serving. >> mcauliffe has an election coming up. his timeline may be pressed by that. the president would lake to move forward. >> 2018 mid-term circle the most popular surrogate was biden. 2021 democrats are keeping their. >> nancy: for a little bit. >> harris: democrats sending in heavy hitters to boost mcauliffe including barack obama and former georgia candidate for governor stase stacey abrams and the atlanta mayor. ont the list presi

. >>> and president barack obama back on the campaign trail. we'll share his message for republicans, just ahead. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. >>> our top story, hundreds of mourners gathered in new mexico to honor slain cinematographer helena hutchins at a candlelight vigil. many of the mourners were members of the television and film history. police say hutchins was killed, thursday, when actor alec baldwin unknowingly fired a live round from what was supposed to be a prop gun. cnn's lucy kafanov has more from that vigil in albuquerque. >> reporter: well, people have gathered here in downtown albuquerque to mourn the passing of halyna hutchins, just 42 years old. a rising star in the film industry, whose life was cut so tragically short. a lot of the people here were part of the industry. this was organized by the union representing film and television employees. a lot of folks know firsthand what happens on film sets and so many here are affected by this one death, because, again, this is a c

not want that burden be placed on his family. >> how significant then was his endorsement of barack obama in 2008? >> without any question, i think one of america's most revered individuals in the military and political service in the form of general colin powell stepping out and saying, i endorse senator barack obama to be president of the united states, it was monumental. i think it gave a lot of cover for republicans, independents who may have been skeptical of the senator from illinois and he became the first lack president, something i would have to imagine powell and his family a been eternally grateful to have witnessed that trail blazing event for president obama. >> colin powell openly said it was a blot on his record that he presented the false intelligenc that made the case for an invasion of iraq in 2003. does it stay -- what does it say about him that he can admit that? >> it says there is something wrong with our politicians today. he was the firstborn -- the first one to come out and say it was faulty, it was wrong, i acted on erroneous information and should not have done

he krolsz endorsed president obama and president obama was immensely critical of the iraq war. i think general powell, his decision to do that and you're absolutely right, joy, it's the moment that he did it. he had a certain level of credibility. he had a certain level of authority that he was willing to hand off to this u.s. senator who was vying to be the next president of the united states and again, as he said because he is the person who has the judgment to lead this country in a very crucial moment. it was an incredible important moment. i think president obama said it in his remembrance today that general powell helped make him president obama. >> indeed. >> that has not been lost today. >> indeed. it might have been the most important endorsement president obama got by somebody who himself could have been president of the united states. wes moore, thank you for sharing this sad but important day for us. sadly, because nothing is sacred, powell's death is weaponized by covid deniers. he died of complications related to covid-19. powell was immune compromised because of

so, i thought it was kind of classic obama. he looked like he was really enjoying himself. but i also think it was important for him to be able to deliver a message to the voters in virginia that their votes matter. and that they have to show up. and that's been needed on the campaign trail, and i think that it comes at exactly the right moment for democrats and for terry mcauliffe. >> so, the congresswoman makes a really good point here, david jolly, and that is kind of this idea that the former president as well as terry mcauliffe has been doing for quite some time, and glenn youngkin, at that. that this is definitely seeming like more of a national election than a virginia gubernatorial election. and we heard that front and center today. there is a risk to that, and i want to speak first about the risk to the democrats, and i feel like it's more of a risk to the democrats than it is to the republicans because they're the ones in power in washington right now, right? it's this idea that if, in fact, they lose in virginia, then it will be seen as a referendum on the curren