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

we have extraordinary immigration policy again far more drastic than anything barack obama visits that clearly planning on a mass and a safe and they've removed all of the restrictions on people coming into the country so and i think in foreign policy as well maybe it will come to that i think a very radical foreign policy is in the works so you then are if you ask how did we come about that this apparent moderate was sold to us as a moderate is presiding over a very radical administration well george you knew if you look at being tired and joe biden was. in the senate and we used today's standards and measurements he's a conservative. democrat i'm rather sorry a liberal republican that's when his voting record it's good only for him because if given the corpus of his political life and what we were sold during the campaign once was masts nice ok because george's ounce of will be right the things the executive orders that he signed and we can talk about foreign policy in the border he had we have no idea of his thoughts on any of these issues during the campaign which maybe was intenti

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.

when barack obama and i were in office, that is what we were doing. in 2009, the automobile industry was on its back. we were told we would never be able to sell american-made cars at the same rate we had before, but we did not listen to the naysayers. we even had some in both parties who did not think we should "bailout" the industry, if he remembered. but we bet on the american worker, and we extended a lifeline. and they stepped up, made sacrifices to do it, and we saved more than a million jobs in the process. workers, we sent you efficiency scanners and we provided incentives for people to buy fuel-efficient vehicles. through the recovery act, we made the largest investment in clean energy and battery technology ever made. and then, the previous administration came along, and they rolled back the standards we set. despite bipartisan support for consumer incentives, they also let the federal tax credit expire, penalizing autoworkers wh at the time were selling the most electric vehicleso. they it for every week for four years and not once got anyt

day in office the order that barack obama signed on that day was to close guantanamo prison well . that hasn't changed much so certainly biden has a lot of power there but it's going to be a long hard haul to push through a complete change of policy that he envisages and mike just so you know and we're getting some breaking news that biden has signed executive actions including a document to have rejoined paris. climate accords of any of the things that we have been talking about now interesting the democrats actually now have full power is in they've got the white house and also congress and the senate what pressures do you think that that puts on president biden. well it's immense pressures but one must remember as well that biden was the surprise president during barack obama's 1st term in office when the situation was as is now that is the democrats control both the house and the senate and joe biden as vice president would have learned the problems that lie within that barack obama and many of his detractors insist did not use the capital that he had in the 1st 4 year term to

president barack obama has just arrived there he tweeted a picture saying congratulations to my friend president joe biden this is your time james in our last hour we were talking about mr biden and the relationship between washington and the european union and also to do with we were discussing the g. c.p.o. a the iran 2015 nuclear deal now when it comes to the relationship with russia that will be a completely different relationship because mr trump's relationship with vladimir putin it was baffling at times surely it was inexplicably good to the to the detriment and to the cost of other relationships he worked on having good relationships with a man who i guess it be fair to say represented the antithesis of good u.s. relationships might have had in the past. yes and i think already we're seeing signs that the biden administration is going to be tougher on russia the soon to be national security adviser tweeting in the last few days about the arrest of alexey novell me and you're right during the time of the trumpet ministration the president himself very careful never ever to upset

>> in 2004, barack obama was elected to the senate. i didn't see his 2004 speech at the convention because i was traveling with carrie. >> the hope of the skinny kid with a funny name who believes that america has a place for him, too. >> i remember the editors in chicago said to me, make you get a picture of obama. i didn't even know what he looks like. >> you're on the front page of every paper. you're all over television. everyone's calling you the future, the savior of the democratic party. are you? >> i rang 99th out of 100 in seniority. i'm going to be sharpening pencils the first couple years. >> jeff zeleny came up to me one day and said, hey, i'm pitching a story and saying the editors following obama's fist year in the senate. i love this picture because, you know, he's got half a sandwich in his mouth, and then sasha's eyeing the other half. this is the day i met him. the president said my camera didn't bother him at all, which is not always the case, especially with politicians. >> did they say anything about him to you? >>

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

barack obama chose him to be his running mate. the best buy's president barack has ever had mr joe biden. biden looked resigned to never quite reaching the nation's highest office and tell donald trump came along that's why the day i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. president we have to put with his decades of experience biden said he was the man to restore america's standing in the world that he was the man for the moment i'll be a president will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying up to dictators is over he promised to show leadership in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic it's estimated that nearly another 210000 americans could lose their lives by the end of the year and nuff no more let's just set partisanship aside let's end the politics and follow the signs. ultimately the voters agreed electing by the nation's 46th president but the election was divisive and his opponent donald trump refused to concede instead pushing conspiracy theories ab

he endorsed democratic candidate barack obama for president. that was two weeks before the election in 2008, and some people say that the election might as well have just ended then. if republicans needed permission to cross the aisle and vote for this democrat, barack obama, nobody could provide a more powerful permission slip than colin powell did two weeks before that election. his political impact was profound, and it was complex. of course, in the first sentence of every obituary of general powell today, along with all of the firsts, and there were many of them, there is also the apex tragedy of his time in public life. his 76-minute-long speech in 1973 to the united nations in which he made a long, detailed, fairly impassioned and profoundly false case to the world that the united states needed to invade iraq and urgently. >> every statement i make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. these are not assertions. we're giving you facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. >> i remember listening to that live when it happened

like, i came of age in politics writing speeches for barack obama about us coming together. red states and blue states, that is what i would prefer. if you look at, and it is the case that a bunch of people are living in an information ecosystem in my country, it's notjust fox news. it's online, it's talk radio, and it is very radical. qanon, the conspiracy theory that says a cabal of child sex traffickers is running the world government... it's bigger than some religions. and we shouldn't ignore that. that's a big problem in our society has to deal with overtime. i believe putting forward the belief america should be a multiracial, multiethnic democracy where people from all over the world can share an international identity. that's fundamental. i'm not willing to compromise on that. we are out of time, but it's going to need a really short answer. is america fixable? can it be the america you always dreamed it could be? yes, because america has always been a contest between these different stories. american democracy is doing the work of trying to live up to the story that

president biden: now, i'm not good at what barack obama used to do, to use nine pens to do it, but i'm just going to hand you all -- [laughter] president biden: you won't know which one was signed. [indiscernible] >> somebody's back here, mr. president. president biden: we have two more. who doesn't have one? [laughter] president biden: anybody that doesn't have one, i promise you -- >> i gave them away. [laughter] president biden: would you happen to have one of my pens? come here. ms. jackson lee: here's one coming. [applause] >> look right there. >> i'm going to sneak down. >> one, two, three. president biden: this is one of those deals what they did is literally, not figuratively, going to change the lives of women and children and some men out there. so thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sunday on "q&a," washington post syndicated finance columnist michelle singletary on her book, "what t

obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom and her 60 year career tyson won several emmys and a tony awards. this is all just their own things the top stories the u.s. drug company nowak says it's grown a virus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective during a trial in the united kingdom the company is now expected to apply for regulatory review preliminary analysis also suggest the vaccine is effective against the new variant of covert 901st found in the u.k. germany's vaccine panel looks likely to recommend astra zeneca as jab only for people under 65 years old the committee says there is not enough data on how effective it is on those who are old european regulators are said to issue their decision on the vaccine on friday. brazil's president jaya bolzan otto has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity falls brazilians are angry at the government's slow vaccine rollout want to see an archive has more from rio de janeiro. on the one side he's saying that he's going to vaccinate brazilians fast on the other side he's he and he has c

obama after his expected confirmation lincoln will be tested to rebuild the u.s. is diminished global leadership when we're not engaged when we're not leading then one of 2 things is likely to happen either some other country tries to take our place but not in a way that's likely to advance our interests and values or maybe just as bad no one does and then you have chaos besides immediately having the u.s. reengineer the paris climate accord and the world health organization blinken will have to take on strained relations with iran russia and china as we look at china there is no doubt that it poses the most a given challenge of any nation state to the united states biden will take office wednesday with few if any senate confirmed cabinet secretaries a democratic push to waive some senate rules to expedite the process has already met republican resistance then there's trump's impeachment trial still to be scheduled and urgently demanded the senate now looking to balance those priorities in coming days. castro al-jazeera washington tough a quick break here in al-ja

obama's first chief of staff but it must have been a tough decision to leave your position as a congressman. what is that adjustment is like? how did you think about going from the legislative branch over to the white house and how did you prepare for it? >> look, the truth is i spent probably over the last two years with president biden and then candidate traveling the country and working on plans, figuring out how to best right this ship and how to win because you can't govern if you can't win and so there were questions back and forth about what i would do and then it was an honest conversation with him and i know how ambitious his agenda is. i know he wants to be a transformational president and i know he is serious about climate and serious about racial inequity and systematic racism . he is serious about eating this pandemic and the almanac crisis -- beating this pandemic and the economic crisis that has resulted from it. part of it was, you know, i want you to take this journey with me but it was look, if we will achieve these things than everybody it should be all hands on deck. i c

they know so little about barack obama. they don't know when he's on the truth and when he's not pre-they don't know what should be in there and what is not. so the net result of the reviews, many were very well written the "new york times", washington post, is essentially a compendium of gases and speculation. they don't know. in the real danger, part of the reason why i wrote this book is because fake news is on the verge of becoming. case in point is you may have seen this guy on tv is about six different presidents on the eve of donald trump's inaugural was asked to sum up the presidency. i am paraphrasing here that i close. first of all he said it is that president was almost unimpeachable. that's a quote. he said he governed with honesty and integrity. and then he said this, he leaves us a lasting legacy of eight scandal free years. those of us in the audience to study obama or pay any attention to the news know that is a blow me over kind of comment. what doesn't count? i guess benghazi doesn't count. i guess the sup

barack obama used to be able to do this -- [laughter] pres. biden: one more. everybody get one? [applause] pres. biden: thank you all very much. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause]

barack obama had the occasion. he knew what the problem was and he says if we're honest with ourselves, we'll address the problem. something happens three weeks after obama makes his father's day speech in chicago. now, i had hoped in the memoir obama would have addressed this because it would have been the juiciest part of the memoir, but predictbly he doesn't address it, predictbly, the media do not note that it's not there. and it's the turning point, and what happens is this, three weeks after obama's stirring father's day speech in chicago, jesse jackson, who is still viable as the civil rights movement and authentic african-american whose roots are in slavery and jim crowe, unlike barack obama who's insecure about that, and is on a hot mic, i think people know they're on hot mics. in fox news studio, and the one news studio has the potential to leak, and it's crude, bear with me, i won't go into real crude parts, c-span wouldn't have that, he's referring to barack obama specifically, i want to cut his nuts, t

later, another chance to hear from former president barack obama talking about the impact of the affordable care act. >> here's a look at our live coverage tuesday. at noon eastern, treasury secretary janet yellen and federal reserve chaired jerome powell at a meeting about the economy at this stage of the pandemic. then at 5 p.m., president biden marks the 11 year anniversary of the affordable care act being signed into law at an event in columbus, ohio. on c-span two, the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. to debate and vote on the white house deputy budget director nomination. on c-span3, the senate judiciary committee hears testimony on ways to reduce gun violence. then a hearing with the acting director of the u.s. census >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. >> we never slowed down. schools and businesses went cultural. we are keeping you ahead. >> supports c-span as a public service among these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> the senate judiciary committee held a hearing to consider the equality act, and supporters spoke about the benefit

there is hope it will revive the neighborhood where michelle obama was raised and where barack obama started his career. >> right across the street we're going to be building the presidential center. a lot of our focus will be programming for the young people in the community, boys and girls, young men and young women and given that you guys have all gone through this program, bam, you're in the middle of going through it. you've seen some things. you have a sense of what's going on in the neighborhoods. how do you think we can be most helpful to you guys. what are the things that you think would be most helpful in young people being able to snaf gait their own lives and be successful in school and be positive they can get to 80. give me a sense that what are some gaps that we can fill or some things that are working to build back up? >> for me, i feel like having someone to communicate with or to run to without having to worry about getting injured or shot. >> i believe there should be more opportunities and more intern ships and more things to do in our communities because not ever

the ceremony — at the arlington national cemetery — was also attended by former presidents barack obama, george w. bush and bill clinton — but not donald trump. the ceremony was one of biden's first official acts as the new commander in chief. laura trevelyan joins us live from washington. not too farfrom not too far from the white house, laura, and i think they're going to be arriving, the president and vice president in the next hour or so. i just wonder what the first order of business will be once he crosses the threshold there. that business will be once he crosses the threshold there.— threshold there. that is right. in the next hour, _ threshold there. that is right. in the next hour, you're _ threshold there. that is right. in the next hour, you're going - threshold there. that is right. in the next hour, you're going to l threshold there. that is right. in i the next hour, you're going to see threshold there. that is right. in - the next hour, you're going to see a very truncated parade, usually the inaugural parade takes at least half an hour, sometimes five hours in the c

and so, i made myself develop a relationship with barack obama and we have a good relationship. we have one to this day. it doesn't mean i agree with him on a lot of things, but we have our ups and downs. we got things accomplished in spite of it all. do you continue to have a him today?p with >> i do. i do. >> going back quickly to your last answer on the fiscal deficit and debt issues, can republicans still say there are fiscal conservatives although there hasn't been a balanced budget and when trump was in the white house? >> they will have a tough time making that argument even though barack obama was president and harry reid was majority leader for most of my time we cut the deficit to five years in a row. i would have liked to do more but that is as much as i could get accomplished. what i saw happen over the last four or five years on the spending i have to tell you does not shock me. you can't continue to spend money you don't have. you can't do it at home or in your business but your government can't do it either. at some point, we've got to get our arms around the spen

obama's memoir and it accounts for stuff like and inordinate amount of the book sold in a particular period, but i'm not surprised as you put it that hardcover sales are doing well. i think especially in a pandemic period it may be that folks like to cozy up with an old-fashioned hardcover book. that's how i read. i hate reading digitally. i feel like it's a completely different experience. so for me it's just comforting. all the books behind me are books that i have written about in the "washington post" or elsewhere and i like the physical presence of these books. i can imagine being a digital person and suppose we will end up that way. >> host: nonfiction book critic and pulitzer prize winner and author himself. his book is called what were we thinking, intellectual history of the trump era and he's been our guest on the about books podcast and program. before we move on to some other topics, let's look at some of the other posts books carlos did not mention. in the code breaker, the best-selling author walter isaacson looks at the work of jennifer, who invented and editing techno

i could tell you how i started, i get upset listening to barack obama one night. true story. i went online and did an internet search and he said local republican clock. the elephant club came up. i wound up showing up. the following thursday, a group of probably 12 people and that was the start of this political journey and now i'm here with this microphone on my lapel talking to you little things, right? how do you eat an elephant? no pun intended. one little bite at a time. you've got to show up. just show up. the best place to start. were not done fighting, i'm not done fighting either. my friend always tells me this, she says we are the leaders we've been waiting for. you, it's on here. tag, you're it. before we go, stream the dan bongino shelf, simulcast to my radio show, i hope you like it on fox nation weekdays 12:00 o'clock to 3:00 p.m. eastern. at "unfiltered" on fox. that does it for us tonight on "unfiltered". you back here next saturday night 10:00 p.m. thanks for watching. ♪♪ jesse: welcome to "watters' world." i'm jesse watters. if you are planning to fly t

obama broke obama remains the deporter in chief so he didn't get keep that campaign promise to crack down on immigration as his supporters have wanted an interesting of clarity this you have thank you very much we'll talk you very soon joe biden on twitter saying it's a new day in america if you don't like twitter sorry it had to happen we had to start quoting joe biden on twitter sooner or later back to alan fischer overlooking the white house because alan we're hearing that mr trump has left us to buy a note. on the desk in the oval office the old resolute desk there. it's a note which we went expecting it would be part of the transition which is normal going presidents tend to leave letters for those who incoming very often knows letters remain confidential but having had donald trump speech i would be prepared to bet a significant amount of someone else's money on the fact that the letter will say i wish you well i wish you success we have given you a great base to build on i suspect that's probably what's in the letter but we might never know but it certainly shows that donald t

"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

former president barack obama making an urgent call to action at the un climate summit anne thompson is in scotland tonight. >> reporter: like the football coach at halftime. >> hello, glasgow. >> reporter: former president barack obama rallying the climate change conference. now in its final week. >> we are nowhere near where we need to be at. >> reporter: calling out china and russia for not doing more to cut greenhouse gases then the democrat aiming his fire at the trump administration and republicans. >> one of our two major parties has decided not only to sit on the sidelines but express active hostility toward climate science. >> reporter: but now system some republicans are here to work on solutions >> my name is john curtis, and i'm a republican and i'm at cop. how cool is that? >> reporter: the head of the congressional conservative caucus came >> we know we must reduce emissions now let's have a thoughtful conversation about how we do that. >> reporter: also in scotland, republican senator lisa murkowski from oil rich alaska, conforming twice as fast as the rest of the worl

barack obama had the occasion. he knew what the problem was. he said if we are honest with ourselves we will address that problem. three weeks after obama makes his father's day speech in chicago. now i had hoped in the memoir obama would have addressed this because it would have been the best part of the memoir. but predictably, he doesn't taaddress it. the media do not notice that it isn't there. it was the turning point of his presidency and it goes unremarked by history let alone the media. three weeks after obama's stirring father's day speech in chicago, jesse jackson who was still viable and whose roots are in slavery and jim crow unliken- barack obama is always been insecure about that, is on a hot mike and i don't trust that. fox news studio the one news studio where what he's about to say has the potential to leak, and it does. it's a little crude, bear with me.de i won't go into the parts because i will have c-span appear. telling them to act like man and talking that fatherhood stuff. he doesn't want to take this direction now the m

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

is barack hussein obama. i'm a black man. i'm president of the united states. i get up every day, and i feel lucky. let's get this done. now get to work. i was being a little bit of a smart aleck. his response was priceless. >> the man called the lion of the senate, ted kennedy of massachusetts -- >> senator ted kennedy, a member of one of america's most powerful and captivating political families dies after a year-long battle with brain cancer. >> when ted kennedy died, you knew it was going to be one of those moments that united official washington in mourning. this is someone who most people would agree was one of the greatest legislators whoever lived. >> he was a product of an age when the joy and nobility of politics prevented differences of party and platform and philosophy from becoming barriers to cooperation and mutual respect. a time when adversaries still saw each other as patriots. >> the president was deeply saddened by senator kennedy's death. it was a loss of a mentor and a friend and someone

and say to barack obama and biden served as vice president to stop our always intensified with lady gaga singing the national anthem. jennifer lopez with a medley of this land is your land and america the beautiful. and country singer gulf brooks asked everyone to join in amazing grace. but the future was heralded by 22 year old poet amanda goldman who took up the themes of biden's a new group speech in a poem addressing the problems of the divided nation and offering hope for there was always light if only were brave enough to see it if only were brave enough to be it. and joe biden 46th president of the united states is taking up that challenge. and joining us now is washington bureau chief even as paul you know is let's get down to the details of what to expect from joe biden's administration what are some of the trump policies that he's rolling back on his 1st day in office well it took him less than 2 hours in the white house to rejoin the paris peace agreement to rejoin the old the world health organization and to stop the muslim band so these are all signs that the u.s. under his

we have the condolence book, which is turned to barack and michelle obama. we also have the program from the service, and we have the u.s. senate condolence book, which is turned to mitch mcconnell's signature. we have a photomontage throughout his life. they were married young. he was still in the navy when they got worried, so we had a montage of photos from their life, from his career, and a nice photo from texas as the up 4141 carried the body with it, and a section of road track that was cut out by up, the section that the train actually went over. and then one of my favorite cartoons, this is one of a series of two would mrs. bush died. there was a cartoon of business bush going to heaven and being greeted by her daughter. when president bush died months later, marshall ramsey, a cartoonist from jackson, mississippi, did a cartoon of president bush meeting robin and ms. bush in heaven. and then president bush loved trains. early in the planning process for his funeral, he wanted to be brought from houston to college station, his final resting place her

barack obama on fatherhood, leadership, and legacy. after leaving the white house, president obama mostly stayed out politics although last year did he campaign for president biden. the former president and former first lady have signed a deal with netflix. they've both started podcasts and he continues a program he launched from the white house called "my brother's keeper." its mission is to provide support for what it calls pathways of opportunity to young men of color. it's a deeply personal mission for president obama, who grew up hardly knowing his own father and who by his own account didn't find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book "a promised land." we dropped in on the former president in chicago, in a high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of "my brother's keeper" to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? >> well, you

barack obama chose him to be his running mate. the best buy's president barack has ever had mr joe biden. biden looked resigned to never quite reaching the nation's highest office and tell donald trump came along that's why i do damage to my kids to see the president of the united states. president we have to put with his decades of experience biden said he was the man to restore america's standing in the world that he was the man for the moment i'll be a president will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying up to dictators is over he promised to show leadership in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic it's estimated that nearly another 210000 americans could lose their lives by the end of the year. and nothing no more let's just set partisanship aside let's end the politics and follow the signs. ultimately the voters agreed electing by the nation's 46th president but the election was divisive and his opponent donald trump refused to concede instead pushing conspiracy theories abou

right in the sense that in 20 years will america look like it keeps electing barack obamas or is it not? there's the whole thing. i end the book on these two histories that have coexisted. i'm not sure they can keep coexisting to mix extent. at a certain point, you will become that thing or not. we've reached the moment of decision in a way given our demographics. >> host: it is interesting, you and i were coming in and out of college, the area of peace and prosperity, we, a lot of people thought that was the rule and what happened under bush was the exception and obama was the return to the rule. that's an open question now. maybe we will go back and forth, back and forth, gain inches every four to eight years every time it was trump the aberrational was obama the aberration? that was a unique set of circumstances. are there not been a pandemic, a sitting president not decided to pretend it wasn't happening and contribute to a crashing of the economy and the death of hundreds of thousands of americans he probably -- 40,000 votes, 8000 those of the four states, in some ways it is ju

damaging to places that barack obama needed to win. it energized the anti-obama forces. and they were significant. and for some independent voters, i think it was, wait, do we really know this guy? >> barack was at a dinner. he called me. i said, hey, man, i think this reverend wright thing is a blessing in disguise. they started laughing. marty said it's a blessing in disguise. they started laughing. i said, look, it's a hurdle that you have to clear that nobody else in the field has the opportunity to clear. and so you clear this hurdle, you win. and he said, i guess i've got to give the speech. i said, you have to give the speech. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. reverend wright's comments were not only wrong, but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity. >> i didn't know if the speech was a good idea. but i know we didn't have any better idea. he called david axelrod and i and said he had just done a series of interviews, went on msnbc, fox. that's not going to satisfy, more importantly, i'm not satisfied about this. i