barack obama is a genius. we can be certain of it because we've heard that claimed as fact for 15 years now. yet we know that when barack obama relaxes at his own house, it's not with intellectuals or people that can read books, it's with the kids he watches on tik tok. obama passes around high fives, throws on slip-on shoes and the only gray hawaiian shirt and hits the dance floor. it's party time. wait a second, you asked, a gray hawaiian shirt? is that legal? when you're barack obama it is. the normal rules don't apply to you. remember, this is the man whose staff referred to him as black jesus without sarcasm. when you're part the waves, you don't get hung up on fashion regulations or public regulations. there's a global pandemic out there. may have heard about it. it's getting worse. the cdc says the delta variant is so dangerous that we can no longer have civil liberties. private property rights have been suspended. our children have to wear masks al school again. we should not be allow to go to dinner,

something happened in the era of barack obama, so let's marked that. what do you think about the work those books could do? how do you think about those books over that slightly longer spell, but in a trilogy? how do you master that? in retrospect, "lovely", but i think was a book that had to do with to have the same but ay we have now, that was of cheer institutionalized and justified because of the attack on the twin towers. people,suddenly arab anybody who was wearing a backpack, anything. we were walking around -- that sort of texture in the ear was one of the things i was interested in in "lonely," and how we were pulling ourselves , from trust in each other. "citizen" focused in on anti-blackness in society and policing, and very specifically racism from small to large scale. "justice" i think is an attempt to say we cannot look at these other things without looking at whiteness, without engaging whiteness. because at some level, the people who make up the institutions that govern us are also our neighbors, are also the people we work with. they

joe biden, as barack obama talked about, his empathy, how he complimented barack obama when they were together in the white house. joe biden talking afterwards at length, even when the cameras were off. he talked warmly about hillary clinton, said she would have been a great president. he said he does believe this time, this moment perhaps is meant for him. >> terry moran, barack obama picked joe biden in 2008 after they were opponents. joe biden was not barack obama's choice last time around. >> he was not. it was one of barack obama's misjudgments politically that he backed hillary clinton. he thought she was the stronger candidate and also, of course, joe biden wrecked by grief as he acknowledged from the death of his son beau. biden is clearly proud of the fact that he was barack obama's vice president and now that he has chosen kamala harris as the first woman, black and american of south asian descent to be vice president. joe biden is a bridge from where power was almost exclusively white and male and he's a man that you wouldn't have expected. >> i think that's right. yet, byr

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

., barack obama. we are here today to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the affordable care act. one of the many legacies of president obama's eight years in office. many of you who joined today are veterans of that fights, the fight to pass the aca and the fight to preserve the aca through the last difficult for years. many of you, and millions of others around the country, are people whose lives are better today because of the affordable care act. our special guest with me is brad woodhouse, the executive director of protect our care and himself a veteran of the effort 11 years ago to pass this law. brad, thank you for all you have done and all you do every day for american health care. >> thank you, wesley. and i want to thank you mr. president. we have come a long way from when i was at the vft into thousand nine and 2010 and we were fighting death panels and the coke brothers were bringing medicare recipients to washington to tell the government to get their hands off their health care. we've come a long ways -- way. the aca certainly here to stay. >> thanks brad. also with

barack obama said it he will shut it down and still there. what has gone wrong? >> president obama said he would close it within one year and what went wrong, he didn't anticipate the political backlash he would have by delaying the decisions about how to close it down. president biden will have learned from this and will do this quickly and efficiently to what was just said. the special enjoy does need to be reopened and needs to be staffed in a morrow bus way. negotiations need to go on and that is an important step. >> you commissioned this report, simon and not the first report we have had in the past 15, 16 years or so. do you get as a bushback other than more than plat tudes when presidential prime minister in the countries where people have been taken from, to guantanamo have gotten plat tudes. >> it is such a significant and ongoing human rights violation. but those who are detained, the torture to enforce this and [indiscernible] >> at the base or was it a decision plaps taken in washington? >> during the obama administration there were frusstrations at

for barack obama beating donald trump was a major concern. he wanted trump out of office and he didn't think that the democrats were in a strong position at the start of the 2020 race to get there. he was worried about how it would go. >> sean: biden's praising of segregationists and the issue that kamala harris brought up in the debate, it's amazing to me, number 1 what joe biden said. number 2, joe gets a pass from democrats. i don't believe any republican would get that pass. your thoughts on both those issues? >> well, what you see with joe biden and there is a line in the biden's initial reaction to what harris said to him on stage. he leaned over to beat pete and said that was f-ing bs. but used the full word. with jill biden and her reaction it's the same thing. she is protective of her husband and very much in love with her husband. she was hurt and angry that harris came after him in that way. the context of the quote is important. said with the life he's lead to call him a racist, that's when he said go f-yourself. >> sean: look for

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

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

barack obama campaigned very aggressively for joe biden. that was a little unusual for a former president. but he apparently really wanted this change. your thoughts on that. >> i don't think there is a democrat anywhere who didn't want this change. didn't surprise me. barack obama did that. he did it for hillary in 2016. that comes naturally. i also want to say i think i may be a lonely voice on this. i think donald trump was right not to go today. it would have been so fake of him to go and one thing we all know about president trump he is not a politician. he doesn't fake things. if he feels something he lets it rip. and if he had gone to this ceremony today or the symbolism as it all it would have done a phony thing after what he has done and said. this is who he is, his personality. i think it is wonderful for all the former presidents and vice presidents who are there. it is the symbol of the peaceful transfer of power which is what today is all about. >> dana: ari, six minutes to 11:00 a.m. on the east coast. president donald trump h

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do you think 200 servants seems like a lot even for barack obama? why do you think they will be doing? >> actually, in venice, the butlers and deputy footmen will actually be the only diversity because the 500 guests, the same guests where basically back to medieval era, the same 500 people that go to the parties. but as you know, barack obama oprah, and george clooney, just as oprah and george clooney went to harry and meghan's wedding even though they nevery, met either of them. you have to feel sorry just going to the parties of people who don't know is a really sad and miserable existence, but i have to say when you look at 500 guests, 200 footmen and under butlers, the most interesting to me is the way people actually perfectly happy with this. you have been talking about citizenship on the show, but actually a several number of people are quite happy to be subjects. oh, yes, go to granny's 90th birthday, but it is perfectly fine for barack obama to have 500 people because our rulers are so much better than us. the last 18 months has actually c

barack obama administration so again that this effort. to sell in his presidency term for obama. you know that it is also very clearly in the communication was earlier on so again bringing on board a lot of the obama people seems. i guess naturally if he wants to go back to the obama years. again i. think joe biden did play a very important role and got in the office if that is true and also it is it is problematic because people differ get that if they did not care for trying to have to remember that he. and the terms of obama the american people sent let's go with trump just time let's go with this a reality star let's roll the dice because. obama is not just popular as often he's ok the at least in the european media there's been very deep seated resentment towards this president special on the political right so that also recently obama was followed by trump so this is an effort to recreate that ministration it could be problematic although i would agree that i. don't like to speculate but if i would i would also not expect biden to finish this 1st term. but i would it would

former political employers well 1st of all i'd have to accept your premise that barack obama is solely responsible for the suffering while they were the president i mean he announced as you know an idea and this requires a setting this again requires a setting aside more armor gadhafi is one of the worst tyrants in history so what they have based on john it is saying it's turns out is it doesn't go in the invade it got bombed the country and destroyed the good big government however bad it maybe again i think if we if we want to go back and forth about which major power has invaded which countries in the pursuit of foreign policy objectives i think we could spend the rest of the interview talking as i did i'm asking you a simple question if you believe in the in the balance of enlightenment human life is the ultimate value and yet he found these parameter a little trumps policies foreign policies i'm not talking about he's a basketball is the biggest bat an expert on that but times foreign policy is killed far far less people than obama's policies can do for us policy is that if you wa

(laughs) >> barack obama is projected to be the next president. >> senator barack obama of illinois... >> narrator: he'd turned a political crisis into a relationship, and became vice president. >> 47 years old, he'll become the president... >> he had already squared away in his mind that he understood that barack obama was president, joe was vice president. and joe understood the job of vice president and, and, uh...w. >> narrator: in the obama white house, biden brought with him something the president didn't have: relationships in congress spanning decades. >> these were his recently former colleagues, and he knew that he could call them and they would take his call, and that he could go and thrash issues out with them with a degree of comfort that president obama didn't have, bause he hadn't known them as long as vice president biden. >> narrator: biden became obama's trusted partner. >> the real question isn't what thing did you do, if you're vice president. the real question is, how much influence did you have? and i think binds power and leveraging power. i think he had a genui

member for barack obama beating donald trump was a major, major concern. he wanted trump out of office and he did not think democrats were in a strong position at the start of the 2020 race, to get there and how it should go. >> sean: it to me, biden's praising of segregationists and partnering with the former klansman, the issues that kamala harris brought up in that debate that you quoted joe biden, saying which he said, it's amazing to me. number one, what joe biden said. number two, joe gets a pass from democrats. i don't believe any republican would ever get that pass. your thoughts on both of those issues? >> well, yes he with joe biden and has a line in the book also of biden's initial reaction to what harris said to him on stage. he leaned over to pete buttigieg and said, "that was some with jill biden at her reaction, it's the same thing. she's very protective of her husband and very proud of her husband, very much in love with her husband. she was hurt and angry that harris had come after them in that way. i think the context of the quote is impo

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

why would barack obama do this? it would take a psychiatrist to answer that question fully deep loathing of some kind plays a role it must play a role. today obama took a break from becoming one of the richest people in the world my a subject any for today's killing. a guy who appears to be white shoots a group of white people and barack obama calls it racism. how exactly does that work? can you speak slowly and tell us? well, the former president didn't. he didn't indicate but he didn't need to. barack obama had managed to divide americans a little more than they were yesterday and so from his perspective, mission accomplished. ♪ independent journalist who has been watching all of this now. thanks so much for coming on. i'm struck once again for the second time in two weeks by the instant impulse among people in the media and the democratic party to racialize a crime that has no obvious racial component and to divide the country on the basis of that lie. what do you think is going on here? >> look, tucker, unfort

obama agreed to that and then just in the last days of barack obama's time in the oval office he awarded him the presidential medal of freedom and many people thought that would be the capstone on joe biden's political career but here we are he has no president joe biden the 46 president of the united states and he will soon be the resident in the oval office and making the decisions in the oval office and perhaps taking couple hardasses advice before he makes a final decision but he is aware of the we of the office he's talked about many times about barack obama he's aware of the decisions and he knows the importance of the calls that a president has to make more often than not they are simple clear cut calls but every so often every day once in a while they sometimes involve life or death and joe biden is aware that that is an all.

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

michelle and barack obama, they live in fear, this country is so bad that even the obama's being elected twice, can't live here and is there a future and should we leave? >> i think we need to launch a investigation, i need to know which person is oppressing michelle obama, barack obama, the children and i think we need to get to the bottom of it at this point. it looks like her net worth is $47 million, barack obama combined for $135 million. if that's oppression, where can i get some? the fact that people can look at the back of their head -- you mean the secret service agents that are constantly around your children and they probably have not touched their own doorhandle in years and we're believing that you're oppressed like the rest of the country that's actually suffering? please, michelle obama, give that oppression to the rest of america because we sure could use it. >> tucker: haven't touched their door handles in years. i'm stealing that. i noticed a theme here, there's a lot of extremely rich people who are deeply miserable and desperate to have you believe they are victims. w

i think and there is barack obama and michelle obama who also promised to bring the country together. and he and barack obama won huge majorities was very successful. 2 terms and still the divisiveness remain the partisanship remained because it was politically expedient and we saw of course secretary of state former secretary of state hillary clinton that of course also ran twice for president then it's like joe biden someone who's who long live to see it all trial and that and many of the things that she had not predicted but characterized in debates leading up to the election of former president donald trump proved prophetic. well yeah i mean i think donald trump is probably is maybe one of the most earnest and straightforward presidents the united states ever had it was no secret what he what he set out to do he was very clear what he stood for what he wanted he you know because he was not a career politician or policy politician who really didn't know the levers of government and how government really works and what the role of the president is. he was he made no secret in his ra

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she helped organize a fundraiser for barack obama, she was there when he was an early u.s. senator. as your viewers know, california is a place for politicians is an idea, certainly san francisco is that so state senator, president barack obama came out to california to raise money and she was the to help and then helped. she barely one in 2010 as attorney general and he no doubt helped her raise money for her and held a rally for her so it was a mutually beneficial relationship. i didn't put the i know i talked before she decided to run. i think he probably talked to every candidate running for president by the relationship had any impact on joe biden's decision, i don't know, i don't have insight into. i'd be surprised if president biden for the nominee biden. that would be surprising to me but i don't know. >> but from current these people, that's likely what happened. >> can't imagine. this view that she is a female obama, she deals with that. you can understand what. she's accomplished a great deal on her own. she was the first woman of color to be san francisco district attorn

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best president, barack obama. just think of this pandemic without obamacare and medicaid expansion under obamacare. thing of all those people in west virginia, ohio, indiana, all those people flush with money. trump voters, trump supporters $10 behind. the reason why these people have health care is because of barack obama. the worst president in american history clearly is the foregone donald j. trump. and the first president in american history to attempt to stop the peaceful transition from one administration to another since george washington was our first president. that is an easy call. host: appreciate your call. continue to take your calls and comments. a new paul ranks obama as best all-time u.s. president. trump ranked as worse. -- worst. we continue to take your calls and comments this first hour. democrats, (202) 748-8000. for independents and others, (202) 748-8002. this is the hill with the headline. graham was on fox news sunday yesterday and said the president -- former president's daughter-in-law

leading to genocides and there are multiple causes of those problems and i will defend barack obama to the grave he's he's one of the finest people i've ever in but i mean every decision then they have if they live for her and have this conversation for the time being because you clearly identify a president obama with my comment and many people do you still but mr christie with all due respect one doesn't need to go to harvard it's you understand that forcibly into being in a tribal society is bound to produce no good i'm talking about about his legacy not only in libya but also in syria in yemen etc and you know that tang's of social and to pull logical research about this is not the rocket science even though bomb of ministration was indeed so in light of as it believed itself to be it showed they have consulted some of it should they have for been able to foresee some of those consequences disastrous consequences not only for the specific countries but for several continents. well you know i'm not sure we want to disappear into the weeds of libya in particular but since you rais

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the question i have is will repub republicans -- they did come together for barack obama will they do it for him? >>> the peaceful transfer of power is the corner stone of our democracy. this is nothing like we have seen before here is savannah guthrie. an atmosphere, lawmakers and the president moving on. every four year in office -- >> this is nothing less american. >> your success is the country's success, i am rooting hard for you. it could not have been pleasant for any of them our democracy is better for their grace. president obama made it shown for his support. >> what an important symbol >> you have to go back to 1860. 150 years streak now broken >> historians can describe how different this inauguration is >> the moment that we can't take for granted. sf interesting to look back mike pence did come. people are trying to move forward >>> up next, the critical test president biden immediately faced. >> reporter: the first covid cases involving many lives 100 million americans in the next 100 days on the mask challenge. the president asked all americans to wear a mask the next

they got us in and i blame barack obama because he should've taken us out when he in office. the lesson is, you cannot make people stand up for a government if they didn't want it. the afghani soldiers do not want this government. it is ours. they do not want to govern the way we want them to. they walked away. it is not because they are not a courageous bunch of men. they do not want to fight for a government we put there. we should have learned this lesson and vietnam. the same thing happened then. host: kathy on the afghan government. now the former government. it was yesterday that the nato general make comments on the situation in afghanistan. he said the entire political system and the afghan government -- here. >> the u.s. troops would withdraw by may. after many rounds of consultations, all of our troops agreed to follow that position. ending the military in position was not easy. i believe that seeing the taliban regain control has led to another open-ended combat mission. we were not meant to be in afghanistan forever. the policy for over 100,000 troops that is now

the response to, that was quick and harsh, barack obama is ignoring, covering up rape that took place in loudoun county school system, obama makes this statement, now a judge found this kid guilty of rape. but obama comes in they don't care about the rape victim, they don't care about the education to children or about concerns of the parents. how to we know? terry mccauliffe said throughout the race. that this radical racist ideology is a racist dog whistle, his opponent glenn youngkin is usin to divide the people, a racist dog whistle, now the parents and the rest of us have been watching over last year and a half. when there was virtual education, and we saw what the kids were taught. in people are making millions writing books that are used in classrooms and software that are used in the classrooms, here we have virginia department of education promoting a book, that says teachers must embrace theories such as critical race theory. despite the m fact that terry mccauliffe said we don't do that in virginia. they provide resources for -- equity initiatives with a tab titled what we'

obama the administration did vow to close the facility but failed to do so during 8 years in office let's take a closer look now. but how it all started at guantanamo and where things are now as of today well the u.s. sent the 1st 20 detainees there after the events of 911 attacks in 2001 as part of what the then bush administration called its war on terror they weren't considered criminals or prisoners of war and so were not subject to international human rights law in 2006 top al qaeda members arrived including the architect of those attacks on america khalid shaikh mohammed they were interrogated using techniques such as waterboarding which is widely condemned as torture 3 years later in 2009 president barack obama took office vowing to close the facility within one year fast forward to 2013 it was still open dozens of inmates went to hunger strike in protest mr obama ended his 2 terms in office describing good as a facility that should have never been opened in the 1st place his successor donald trump's at the people there were terrorists and ordered that it should be kept open

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

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>>sean: barack obama and michelle obama, they not only advocated the books, they promoted the books and barack obama we just played it in his own words that everything you need to know about how to treat each other is in the dr. seuss books. >> hang on. did they miss something at the time, because obviously they view them very favorably. >> i think throughout dr. seuss history, we have almost something. when you look at books like thi this has been used for when you take a deeper look. >> you told him on the radio that your kids have a dr. seuss book. why don't you tell the audience that your kids, your children have those books. why don't you tell the audience that your kids have dr. seuss books so you're a hypocrite. you're talking out both sides o your mouth. >> you really think you're goin to out battle me are out talk me . >> any time. any time. on the radio, i will debate you anytime. a personal attack. i will debate you anytime. you got nothing to say. >> we are leaving eight their bright pink you both. when we come back, some advance advice for. texas is fully reopening next wee