here's former-president barack obama. what he has to say about all of that tonight. >> there are certain right-wing media venues, for example, that monetize and capitalize on stoking the fear and resentment of a white population. that is witnessing a changing america, and seeing demographic changes. and -- and do everything they can to give people a sense that -- um -- their way of life is threatened, and that people are trying to take advantage of them. and we're seeing it, right now, right? where you would think, with all the public-policy debates that are taking place right now, that, you know, the republican party would be engaged in a significant debate about, how are we going to deal with the economy? and what are we going to do about climate change? and what are we going to do about, low and behold, the -- the single-most important issue to them, apparently, right now, is critical-race theory. who knew, that was the threat to our republic? but, those debates are powerful, because they get at what story do we tell a

former president barack obama speaking out on all of it tonight. i want you to listen to what he told anderson of what's going in more and more states across legislation. >> are we more teethering or are in crisis? >> i think we have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislature level where legislatures are basically saying we are going to take away the certification of the election process. he's from scivil servants and secretary of state and we'll put it in the hands of partisan legislatures who may or may not decide the state's electoral votes should go to one person or another. when that's all done it, i guess the backdrop of large numbers of republicans having been convinced wrongly that there were something fishy about the last election, we got a problem. you know this is part of the reason why i think is a conversation

obama and joe biden because barack obama was the first african-american president. >> i'm just saying a lesson in it, just a lesson in it for joe biden. >> even to take a lesson from it, i think it's very different. i think whenever you're the first person, it's very different. 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 p

guy named barack obama who grew up in hawaii. that's what i learned about him on paper. i thought this guy's got to be weird. >> she knows her husband probably seems as unorthodox to her audiences as he did to her back in 1989. >> michelle was involved in recruiting a prominent law firm in chicago. across her desk comes the resume of this hot shot from harvard who is being brought in as a summer associate. the firm asked if she would be his mentor. she meets him the first day. he shows up late but they hit it off. at a certain point barack is interested in something more. he wants to go out on a date. she agrees. >> i learned that he became a community organizer. i was impressed. this guy could have been making money but he's working on the far south side what a bunch of churches. >> the entrance of barack obama into her life really shifted where she was headed. >> i met mrs. obama in the summer of 1991 when she was michelle robinson. her resume was sent to me. it said a brilliant young lawyer exploring opportunities of public se

barack obama was so careful with his words, but it's frightening. he's talking about democracy being chiseled away right in front of our very eyes right now. the interview really reminded me that history is going to look at our times, don, as the battle between barack obama's vision of america and donald trump's. it used to be for a while m jimmy carter became governor of georgia and then president, it was tabout the new south. we've had george w. bush and mccain and romney and republicans. none of it matters anymore. it's really become a decision between whether you believe in donald trump's bigoted, prejudiced, mccarthyite vision of stopping immigration and being a fortress america or you are going to be part of that arc of justice that barack obama spoke about so eloquently as president. they really are the seminal political figures of our time. >> you mentioned the arc of moral justice. but, listen, what about all these -- he's a hope and change guy as he said. he's all about unity. trump made his presidency about division and chaos. do you worr

. >> 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

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let's go to first-term barack obama compared to second-term barack obama. barack obama, as president of the united states, first term, keenly understood the historic nature of his presidency. you also have people like mitch mcconnell wanting him out. you had the late rush limbaugh, who was alive at the time, saying he wanted him to fail. he keenly understood that if he brought up matters of race, how the republican party would pounce on him. look at the pendulum from the obama administration to the administration following that. the pendulum was swinging, and there was a hypersensitivity on matters of race. that administration understood, if first obama administration understood keenly that anytime they would say anything about race, you had the tea party that came to being because of barack obama. they would jump on him. so at the end of the day, second-term barack obama didn't have as much to lose. he was freer. he was able to talk. and now he is citizen barack obama, but he's still, at the same time, was who he was intrinsically. the president who just h

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

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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. and they took. 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. and i think that's what democrats need to realize about the filibuster. as soon as the filibuster stood in mitch mcconnell's way when it dime supreme court nominees, he got rid of it with the flick of a wrist essentially. it would be folly for democrats to decline to pass critically important measures being blocked by the filibuster and will i believe the to be blocked by the filibuster like democracy, like the for the people act, in order to preserve this tool, hoping it would be useful to them if and when they're back in power. you would incur a massive up front cost by not passing

barack obama was so careful with his words, but it's frightening. he's talking about democracy being chiselled away right in front of our very eyes right now. the interview really reminded me that history is going to look at our time in history as a time of a vision in america and donald trump's. it used to be when jimmy carter became governor of georgia and then president, it was about the new south of jimmy carter. then bill clinton won twice in arckansas arkansas, and george w. bush and mccain and romney. none of it really matters anymore, it's become about whether you believe in donald trump's mccarthyism belief of being against america or that rock that barack obama represents. they really are a part of our time. >> he's a hope and change guy, he said. he's all about unity. trump made his presidency about division and chaos. do you worry the division and the chaos view of our country is winning out right now? >> i do, because we saw with joe manchin in west virginia not sticking with the democrats and biden and not making it easier for american

. >> in 2012, barack obama beat mitt romney by 16 points in 2016, trump beat hillary clinton by 16, and as president ally elections are getting closer and closer that texas republicans would be more moderate. that is not what we have seen.

. >> reporter: in 2012, mitt romney beat barack obama in texas by 16 points n. 2016, donald trump beat hillary clinton by nine points. and in 2020, trump won by five. so you might think that as presidential elections here in texas get closer and closer that texas republicans would become more moderate. but that's just not what we have seen here in the texas capital. texas republicans passed a

. >> reporter: in 2012 mitt romney beat barack obama in texas by 16 points. in 2016 donald trump beat hillary clinton by nine points and in 2020 trump won by five. so you might think that as presidential elections here in texas get closer and closer that texas republicans would become more moderate, but that's just not what we've seen here in the texas capital. texas republicans have pass add

remember, when mitch mcconnell vowed to make barack obama a one-term president? that didn't work out, the way he planned. but tonight, the former president is speaking out about justice in america. saying that he went as far as he could in his comments about trayvon martin in ferguson while he was in office. >> i went as far as i could, just commenting on cases, like trayvon martin. or what was happening in ferguson. because as we discovered, not every president follows this, at least my successor didn't. but i followed the -- the basic notion that the justice department was independent. i could not steer them. i did not, in any way, want to endanger their capacity to go in, investigate, and potentially charge perpetrators. which meant that i could not come down or appear to come down decisively in terms of guilt or innocence, in terms of what happened. so, you had institutional constraints. >> are there ten republicans who will stand up for democracy? are there? that's the question for former-republican congressman and former governor of ohio, mr. john kasich. h

>> barack obama would make two versions of his birth certificate public. it didn't matter. >> i think the lesson learned from trump in that entire saga is that he could get away with a lie. >> lighting a fire that will burn all the way to washington. >> trump's rise was happening at the same time a former investment banker and movie producer named steve bannon was building a conservative news site so powerful it would turn the republican party upside dod down. named after its founder andrew breitbart. breitbart news would launch the alt right into the main stream. >> there was a populous power. this was totally different. this wasn't standard republican party and breitbart became the block side for that. >> curt former breitbart spokesperson said the aim was to change america and ban bannon directed it. >> the goal isn't objectivity. it more about what does the conserve ti side believe about this and how do they amplify that? >> breitbart's headlines were built on fear, fear the second amendment was being ing threate and fear of obama and fear of illegal i

he endorsed barack obama in 2008. >> correct. the thing to remember about colin powell he was very much a centrist, whether in the republican party or when he left the republican party in the end because of donald trump. when he endorsed barack obama, i'm not sure it was a difficult decision for him, because he saw it as a moment and i talked to him afterwards, there wasn't a question in his mind that he would endorse barack obama. i think that the other thing to keep in mind is that i always wondered when barack obama won, how colin powell felt about it, because so many people thought that he might be the first african-american president, john. i want to on a personal note add one thing. the last interview i did with him, which was about former president bush 41, we usually saw colin powell as we calm, even. in that interview, he actually broke down and cried when he talked about bush 41, and about what that group was like, the top officials working together but they had a special relationship because he had worked with former p

bush, former president barack obama. an enormous display of good will from these former presidents of the united states. >> a very important display. again, two weeks ago there were thugs, rioters running through that building, attacking the american democracy. today we're watching the former vice president here. we'll see former presidents come out right behind him showing america and showing the world that that building that was the -- it was a crime scene two weeks ago today. it is a stage today for a very important moment in the american democracy. dan quayle, a, a reminder we lost president george h.w. bush, but also, that was the last one-term presidency. george h.w. bush served one term. after that, two terms. donald trump leaving washington today after one term as president. it's a remarkable show of force, a bipartisan show of power here, an american tradition. but as jake was just talking about, an american tradition that was a question mark two weeks ago when that building was being attacked. many questioning

president barack obama speaking in just a few hours? >> rosemary, barack obama's appearance will be a reminder to the world, to each country, precisely what they promised to work towards when they signed the paris agreement in 2015. that is, to cut emissions deeply enough to ensure that average-global temperature increase doesn't go beyond 1.5 celsius by the end of the century. and crucially, at this halfway point into this conference, the needle hasn't moved enough. the commitments are still desperately insufficient in terms of that ultimate goal. so, at this halfway point as the conference begins its final stretch towards the deadline at the end of the week, it's not just about identifying gaps, but specifically which gaps can potentially be closed in the remaining days? because there are still many, and they are still wide. and i think there is no doubt that emissions cuts remains the most important issue because, as i say, countries simply have not committed to do enough in order to keep the goal on track. and not just in the long-t

barack obama came in with an economic crisis. when you add on the pandemic, this is a unique challenge for biden. we're seeing the political limits and realities. he'll have to navigate ask democrats to take back the senate and there's a big tent of democrats across the spectrum in what it looks like. there will be expectations for him to deliver. there's going to be pressure for him to manage his own party and for him to manage republicans. you know, there's this kind of sense particularly among the more progressive wing of the party it's not a honeymoon period. it's not a time where biden will get six months to figure it out before the pressure comes. on day one, he'll be pushed by members of his own party and others because the sense is the crises are so large they cannot -- umm, that waiting isn't an option. >> i spoke with the incoming white house communications director. press secretary. who says, you know, right after joe biden is inaugurated, when he becomes president, they're going to hold their first briefing. and i jok

"ac 360" special "barack obama" starts now. >>> welcome to this "ac 360" special "barack obama" on fatherhood, leadership and legacy. after leaving the white house, president obama mostly stayed out of politics but last year did campaign for president biden. the former president and first lady started podcast and mr. obama continued his work with a program he launched while in the white house called my brother's keeper part of the obama foundation. his 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 knong

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barack obama. you don't usually get language out of him like that. i think he's a former president who is sick and tired of being in exactly the same place and wants to find a way to spur this country to actually demand from their citizens, from their elected representatives, some change here. we just cannot take no for an answer. and, you know, i've had friends on twitter and other things say, oh, it's the same thing. nothing's going to get done. why? why do we accept that? why is it okay this time? why don't once we just put our hand on the ground and say, no. this time's enough. we're going to get something done. even if it's just modicum here, done. we should stop being so cynical and figure out a way to get this done. >> can you imagine if the former president had said cowardly in his time in office? republicans, he's calling us cowards. how dare he call us names considering all the names that the former president president trump called people. i just -- you know, anyways, you know what i'm sa

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and barack obama is not the only president to have benefited from harry reid. george w. bush and there is no love loss between those men, george w. bush and harry reid worked together to deal with the great recession. it was a democratic congress that passed the bush administration's approach to the great recession and harry reid was there doing what he felt was necessary for the nation at a very difficult time. >> i want to bring in david as well. obama made the point that they made a good team, as tim was talking about, and that he wouldn't have gotten most of what he accomplished without reid. tell me about that, the economic stimulus, obamacare. he pushed a lot through the senate, right? >> those are harry reid's finest hours. yes, he was very good during that period of time. obama was enough to the presidency and he needed someone like reid in effect to mentor him to be help him along and help him navigate the complexities of the senate and the house. he did very, very well with that and i think harry reid will always be remembered as a father of obamacare. at the s

. >> let me quote barack obama saying pretty much all the stuff you need to know is in dr. seuss. >> this week alone, they cancelled mr. potato head. you know, this week alone, they cancelled the muppets. they are cancelling dr. seuss from reading programs. >> hitler's mein kampf is on sale, but six dr. seuss books are pulled. >> here we are discussing dr. seuss and hitler in the same sentence. >> people may say, why, why are you covering the dr. seuss story this much? >> why, and why are you mentioning dr. seuss and hitler in the same sentence, you are doing it. i can't believe that we are -- because you are doing it. just, i just want to be clear. i know i say it a bunch of times. the dr. seuss thing has nothing to do with democrats at all. at all. dr. seuss company said, this is not -- they took them out of circulation, democrats had nothing to do with it. the president had nothing to with it. fox is stoking this stupid, i guess you can call it conspiracy theory. it's a lie, let's call it a lie. nothing is being cancelled about dr. seuss at all. do you realize how you lo

obama. >> and the former president, barack obama, said in a statement that he appreciated the way in which powell endorsed him by squashing the conspiracy surrounding his fact. why was his endorsement, you think, so meaningful? >> i think it was important because general colin powell was a part of kind of the old guard in government and certainly in republican circles. he was a moderate republican, but he was well respected beyond the republican party. he was respected as an american throughout the country. so that was a very important endorsement for president obama at that time. >> i had the honor of sitting down and speaking with colin powell. this was in 2009, about the former president barack obama's election and what it meant to race in this country. listen to this. >> many people in the world thought americans aren't ready for this. they won't do it. you're emotional about it now. >> maybe it's because i remember the days when a young black kid growing up in the bronx could only look to a joe lewis or ralph bunch or to a jackie robinson for inspiration. maybe it was because ev

barack obama was trying to put it out with a garden hose and some neighbors and trump came along and sprayed gasoline and kindling on it for four years. here comes joe biden with ten fire trucks. this fire is going to take 100,000 fire trucks to put out, but at least we have firemen on the scene with hoses who seem to care. anyway. it is really messaging from the bully pulpit that this is not a story about starving polar bears. this is about your life, your fortune, your health, your children. it affects everything from food to transportation to housing. every part of us. and i know scientists in universities and labs around the world will sleep better tonight after, you know, being written off, all their hard work. this is the first step. >> the first step. there is understandable concern among some industries that these actions, especially halting oil or gas leases, switching to federal cars, federal fleet of cars to electric is going to result in the loss of jobs by some industries. take a listen to president biden's special envoy for climate, john kerry. this is what he had to sa

so what does barack obama have to say? there's a new interview about his time in office, the times he bit his tongue about the tea party, and where he sees biden taking things. ezra klein got the one on one and he is here, next. when heartburn takes you by surprise. fight back fast, with new tums naturals. free from artificial flavors and dyes. new pronamel mineral boost helps protect teeth against everyday acids. pronamel boosts enamel's natural absorption of calcium and phosphate - helping keep teeth strong, white and protected from sensitivity. new pronamel mineral boost it would be cool to ride a horse on the moon. >>> the big lie is just a rationale for the big lack of contentment among many in white america. and they have tapped into something that is very real. now, how they've decided to expose it and exploit it has been very fake and fraught with a lot of toxicity. but remember, it's not just the right fringe. you have 56% of all republicans who believe that this was a fraud, this election. now, again, maybe. mayb

barack obama was there. donald trump was not even present for the hand-off of power this time around, which is probably for the best given he incited an attack on the capitol itself. it is the responsibility of republican elites to ensure that they adhere to the rules of democracy, which means when you lose an election you allow the other party to take power. and unfortunately, they've convinced themselves both as a matter of political -- both as a party and within the conservative media, they've convinced themselves that it's not really possible for the democratic party to win power legitimacy. so even if they did get those votes, those votes come from people who aren't really american anyway and so the victy shouldn't really count. >> your book is called -- it takes a hard look at some of the former president's politics. but you say cruelty predates trump. what do you mean? give me some examples of them? >> you can look at the aftermath of reconstruction when the democratic party is trying to forge a white

"ac 360" special "barack obama" starts now. >>> welcome to this "ac 360" special "barack obama" on fatherhood, leadership and legacy. after leaving the white house, president obama mostly stayed out of politics but last year did campaign for president biden. the former president and first lady started podcast and mr. obama continued his work with a program he launched while in the white house called my brother's keeper part of the obama foundation. his 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 and balanced governing being a husband and dad in his recently published book "a promise land." we dropped in on the former president in chicago visiting a high school to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? >> you know, probably i'm a little too gray haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be and

>> well, i remembered the relief that came along with barack obama's first trip to europe where he was greeted with kind of rapturous crowds and leaders. i believe it was more than the trump years, but i think it is like points to the challenge of the fact part of what those allies we looking at when joe biden comes. they'll be so glad he's there. he won't disrupt it. he'll try to get business done. he won't shove the prime minister of montenegro. he won't cow tow to putin. he is probably going to stand up to putin. that is all going to be welcome to them. but they also saw joe manchin's announcement. they also see republicans passing restricting voting laws. and they're thinking in the back of their heads, don, hey, we spent years negotiating the paris agreement with obama, the iran deal with obama, and trump came along, he tore that up. what's to prevent that from happening again in 3 1/2 years? so the reality is joe biden can the a lot on this trip and he can do a lot as president. but this is not something that will be solved in one trip or one term. we have to build back that cred

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

barack obama going on to colin . he tried to bring his own life, career and public statements in line with the idea. michelle and i will always look to general powell what americans can and should be if we wish to remain the last best hope of earth. if we wish to remain the last best hope of earth. do we wish that now? is that what the collective wish is? it was just a few months ago colin powell told fareed zakaria he no longer considered himself a republican. the answer to where is that republican today? the ones who actually had the backbone and courage to stand up and say something like he said and live their lives like he lived. where are they? they are develop. the men who once said that he believed he could help the party of lyincoln move back to the spirit of lincoln. to the very end he was a man of character and integrity. don't see that a lot in the gop a anymore. i think it's a good time to go to break. rest in peace colin powell. but if you have diabetes, there can be some not-so-pretty stuff going on ins

certainly barack obama came in with an economic crisis. when you add on the virus to that, when you add on the kind of baseline foreign and domestic any president would have, this is a unique challenge for biden. we're already seeing some of the political limits and realities of it. he is going to have to navigate now -- yes, democrats did take back the senate, but there is a big tent of democrats across the spectrum and what that looks like. so there is going to be expectations for him to deliver, but there is also going to be pressure for him to manage his own party and for him to manage republicans. you know, there is this kind of sense, particularly among the more progressive wing of the party, that there will not be a honeymoon period. that this will not be a time where biden will get six months to kind of figure it out before the pressure comes. on day one, he will be pushed by members of his own party and on others because the sense is that those crises are so large that they cannot -- that waiting isn't really an option. >> i spoke

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joe biden, when he was vice president of barack obama was standing arm in arm. there is a different relational aspect there. >> different vibe. >> very different vibe. is there a connection? are there two separate, i guess, wings of the white house, if you will, beyond the east wing and the west wing? is there the vice presidential wing versus the president's wing? yes, there is. when the issue of haiti came out, she made a ruckus about it. it wasn't taken seriously. she's also talked to people -- >> so some of this is real? >> some of this is real. she's also talked to activists who are out there about voting rights. the president doesn't want to deal with the issue of the filibuster right now. and every time i ask the question, you can see the consternation in the room from the press office. >> a former high-level harris aide told the white house they're consistently sending her out there on losing issues in the wrong situations for her skillset. have they done that a little bit here with kamala harris? i mean, putting her in charge of the border stuff is not

and that's why you see barack obama remembering him so warmly. there is this feeling very much in barack obama's mind that his presidency has a lot to do with harry reid and also nancy pelosi. >> isaac, it feels like we lost so many of the great leaders in washington over the last couple years. i think about people like john lewis, and harry reid is the one who started out with modest means, working nights as a capitol police officer to help pay the bills. we talked about his amateur boxing days. what can today's lawmakers learn from a man like harry reid? >> he was a guy who was always connected to where he came from. even when he was riding around in a motorcade in washington, d.c. and living a much different life. he had his office when he was done in the senate in the belaggio casino. even though he was a former gaming commissioner in nevada, he is a guy who was very different from what you see now in washington in a lot of ways. worked his way through law school at night as a capitol police officer. it's just a very different approach to bei

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he saw that we were ready to elect as our president someone like a barack obama, barack obama himself and made his endorsement accordingly. he saw the larger american interest rather than simply what was good for the republican party. his party at the time. >> the fact that he was unafraid to say what he thought was right, even if it ruffled feathers within his own party speaking out against trump. how special is someone like a colin powell, especially in this day and age? >> i think people in his model are increasingly rare in our society today. we need more leaders like general powell who canries above partisanship and enjoy the start the stature and a solid reputation among democrats and republicans whose word is valued by people of both parties. he's going to be greatly missed. he it's us a lot about the limits of warfare, for example, as a war fighter. he taught us the pottery barn rule always have a plan when you go in. these are things that i've repeated myself numerous teams. much easier to get into an armed conflict than to get out. colin powell get us that so he'll be greatl

reid played an immense role during the obama administration. >> it was essential for barack obama to have harry reid as a partner during the debate over the affordable care act. obamacare would not have happened without the legislative wizardry of harry reid. and barack obama is not the only president to have benefited from harry reid. george w. bush, and there is no love lost between those men. george w. bush and harry reid worked together to deal with the great recession. it was a democratic congress that passed the bush administration's approach to the great recession, and harry reid was there doing what he felt was necessary for the nation at a very difficult time. >> president joe biden called reid one of the all-time great senate majority leaders, and for harry it wasn't about power for power sake. it was about the power to do right for the people. >>> on tuesday, barack obama shared a recent letter he sent to reid. i wouldn't have president been president had it not been for your encourage 789 and support. i wouldn't have got done most of what i got done without your skill and