. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. >> the first african-american president of the united states. >> failure to act now will turn crisis io a catastrophe. >> it's not health reform. this is control. >> how is that hopy changy stuff working out for you? ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> american people have sent a resounding and unmistakable message of change and new direction for america. >> it's been just five days since democrats took control of both houses of congress, but already the focus is shifting to the next political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007, the climate is not very good if you are a republican. the war in iraq is very unpopular. and many democrats think they can win the presidency. >> senator biden joining a growing list of democratic candidates announcing their intentions for '08. >> you had a lot of candidates like chris dodd and joe biden, bill richardson and in the end you thought, well, this is going to be hillary clinton's time. >> for some time it's been no secret

they were obama's people. and hillary's people missed that. >> at 6:30 on caucus night and in the next couple of hours, obama's ten-month iowa amp would either be won or lost. >> i had no idea what a caucus was before i got there. no clue what it was. >> i think the most important thing to remember about the democratic caucuses is they're not an election. they are a caucus. they're more like a meeting. and people stand up and be counted. >> the best way to describe it is 90 minutes of organized chaos. >> one person for obama. >> you're counting for obama? >> yes, i counted for obama. >> it was so loud in there you could not think. and i'm trying to hold it together, but i felt confident because i know that i had done the work. and i knew every single person walking in that door. i knew their families. i've had "lurclunch in their li rooms. in that moment, they're not thinking about necessarily the speech obama gave. they're thinking about, okay, you're the person asking me. you're representing obama. i believe

obama obviously knew biden from the senate. he served on the foreign relations committee, foreign affairs committee. and he had known him as a candidate on the campaign. joe biden ran against barack obama in 2007 and 2008. they were on the debate stage together. he was impressed by the way biden handled himself there. but he really felt it was an advantage, and obviously biden had other advantages. he had 36 years of experience in washington. obama didn't have that experience, experience with world leaders, a relationship with the voters of states like pennsylvania that were going to be important in the election. but at the bottom line, obama also wanted someone who had experienced the national campaign. because he said, you know, the mailstrom of a presidential campaign is that you can't be prepared for it. ooh owhen mccain picked palin, obama's reaction was, look, she may be the greatest politician since ronald reagan and she can handle this, but i give this in a month, and in a month we'll know whether this pays off. >> on t

what are obama whisperers telling you about that? >> yeah, well, bloomberg is one of the other people in this race that has a really long complicated history with obama, too. lots of people around president obama like michael bloomberg, but there are also a lot of people in that inner circle who sort of find this a little bit annoying, the degree to which obama is being used in these ads, the two strategists behind president obama's '08 campaign have gone on record and said people keep asking them why obama has endorsed bloomberg, which of course is not the case. it's just that the ads make it seem that way. there are people in that orbit who sort of remember and often bring up, well, you know, bloomberg didn't endorse obama in 2008. he only doorsed obaendorsed oba very end in 2012. he's been very critical of his key positions, whether it's obamacare or, well, a wide range of different issues. joe biden today released a video hitting bloomberg on that fact. effectively saying stop pretending that obama supports you. obama is being ne

obama, i 40 years and mr. obama, the government took over our pension. my obama wanted to take from pension to boost the economy. i don't think that is right one bit. mr. trump is doing a pretty good job. everybody is getting a little bit more money. he took the penalty away from people that cannot afford health insurance. i tell you what i would like to see every american do, i would like to see every american call their representative and demand that cap be taken off social security because social security i don't believe is tax deductible like all the other taxes the millionaires and billionaires pay. i think it is time for millionaires and billionaires to help us with social security, take the cap off pay. i pay social security on every dollar and i don't think it is fair millionaires and billionaires do not pay on every dollar. every american, call your representative. worthto follow up on the of the real estate holdings of the top presidential candidates, the democratic presidential candidates, this is the wall street journal story, michael bloombe

rogers. >> pete buttigieg is occupying a little bit of the obama lane. trish: obama? mr. rogers? the liberal media claims mayor pete is a moderate. newsflash. he's a socialist. and i have proof when you get back. stay restless with the icon that does the same. the new rx. crafted by lexus. lease the 2020 rx 350 for $419 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. and when you open a new brokerage account, your cash is automatically invested at a great rate. that's why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. ♪ talk, talk while our competition continues to talk. (woman) no matter what business you are in, digital transformation never stops. verizon keeps business ready for what's next. (man) we weave security into their business... (second man) virtualize their operations... (third man) and could even build ai into their customer experiences. we also keep them ready for the next big opportunity. like 5g. (woman) where machines could talk to each other and expertise could go anywhere. (woman) when it comes to digital transf

so where's president obama? penning's memoirs, spitball and projects for netflix, basking in martha vineyards moonglow, organizing a community of oligarchs too post his post presidential nest? president obama's been a master politician for one person only, himself. he was bad at pulling down ballot dems into the in zone, and blew his two terms by picking wrong declaring i am with her. so what happened? obama will wait too long to make a difference in this race, bernie will further triumph in the primaries joe will have to bow out with no dignity, and his legacy in tatters. the only obama to keep their branded tech will be michelle. and maybe sasha. everyone loves sasha. there is no band-aid big enough to close the chasm that swallowing the democrat party hole, and that is a wonderful thing is damaged establishment gets sucked into the unkind void of what once was totally unable to preserve whatever will be the fading party. and that's the memo. ♪ ♪. kennedy: former president obama is like a haunting ghost to

thanks, obama. when you hear all this talk about economic miracles right now, remember who started it. >> laura: of course, obama's media acolytes, they just echo his empty claim. >> trump's greatest accomplishment is not spring up barack obama's economy. >> 10% less in job creation. >> did he do any of those things for the economy? no, he is benefiting from barack obama's economy. >> by just about any measure, barack obama's economy was much stronger. >> laura: [laughs] every measure? really, joe? what a novel idea tonight, let's introduce a concept called "facts" into this equation. first of all, obama benefited from the natural recovery associated with a terrible recession. but even then, economic growth ground to a halt by the end of his presidency. it shrunk to a measly 1.6% during his last year in office. in 2016, the unemployment rate stood at 4.7%. and real middle-class wage growth was flat. business sentiment was relatively low, probably as a consequence of the $900 billion worth of regulat

. >> looks like obama is' running again. >> all of them have these commercials now with them and obama saying stuff about them. >> it's just the candidate with, like, african-americans. >> your stance cannot be what obama did eight years ago. we want someone who's going to be authentic. >> you want a candidate above all things who cares about you. >> yes. >> and has a good picture with, like, barack obama. >> no. >> you think black people like the white people that have got a white picture with obama. >> i never said that. >> that's what you said. >> you can't ride on obama's coat tail. that's not how we vote. >> which candidate has the best o.p.v.? >> break that down. >> obama proximity value. >> the closer you are to obama, the more black people like you. >> that's a funny question because i personally never considered that. >> who has the best ovp. >> black people don't care about white people in ads with obama. >> i don't know because everybody is running an ad with obama in it. >> that's what black people want to see. >> how do you know? >> i spend a lot of time around my people.

he was one of president obama's longest advisers. he's the author of "untrumping america a plan to make america a democracy again". you have been busy. do you know what time it is? >> i don't know what day it is. i know i'm on cnn. >> this is going to be a great conversation and maybe your last on cnn. let's start with the debate and where things are going to be. bloomberg on the stage. as i said at the top, it's almost like a new race we're looking at. sanders, the clear front runner. bloomberg on the stage. and the attacks that are -- he's got to be prepared for tonight, we've seen forshadow of it. trng apologi apologies. they don't seem adequate enough for the democratic candidates. what can he do about that tonight? >> this is going to be interesting. bloomberg has a lot of questions he has to answer and owes the democratic voters answers around stop and frisk and some of the other issues. and to tell people what kind of president he's going to be. other candidates have been doing this for a year. every time others attack bloombe

>> absolutely right, barack obama would love to take credit for this great success but barack obama was a big government liberal who thought if we take more of your taxpayer dollars to put more government programs that will fix it and the opposite is the philosophy of donald trump and i would cautioned that if we saw big government liberal politics under barack obama imagine what we will see with any of the 2020 democrat presidential candidates, big government on steroids and they cannot wait to get their hands on our taxpayer dollars to create more government programs to have more control of our lives and undo all the great success, a great american worker powered success, great blue-collar come back because donald trump believes in the american people. we would not get that if any of these democrats was able to take office. >> thank you for joining us, we appreciate you joining us this morning, thank you. the time is 20 minutes until the top of the hour, nascar nation praying for ryan newman who got into a nasty wreck at the daytona 500 and a bittersweet moment for the winner of the b

in fact, i ended up campaigning for obama and i'm a strong supporter of all that barack obama has accomplished. >> he said basically this was silly season, that it that it'so discussion of this. and the "atlantic," and i know you take issue with some of this reporting, but it's extensive and well sourced that bernie sanders had told the senior senator from vermont, patrick leahy, that he was planning on it, and so did the top adviser. in that regard it doesn't sound as half baked as sanders makes it sound where he is just outright dismissing this, even though at the time he said he thought there should be a primary challenge to the president. >> as harry reid said, he would be a fool to challenge barack obama and bernie sanders is no fool. the fact is bernie sanders never considered challenging barack obama, bernie sanders never considered running for president before 2015, and the fact is -- >> then why did he tell senator leahy he did? >> we dispute that. it's not true. >> so you're saying he never had that conversation with senator leahy? >> absolutely. >> okay. well, i certainly appreciate

president obama came into office, 6000. when he left it was it 18,000. again, momentum the administration was able to pick up on. during eight years of obama's presidency he reduce the deficit by $1 trillion. instead this administration is increasing and with their tax cuts, tax scam, the benefits are going to the top one%. they increased the national debt by $2 trillion and tried to expose -- pay for itself but they went to medicare and medicaid to try to pay for that. we are not doing that. during eight years when president bush was president, job growth was slow. under president obama we gained 14 million private-sector jobs and during his presidency, that is far more in terms of years than this president has created. momentum, up have to $14 million is not a mess, mister president and during his presidency we rescued the auto industry and all goes back to the economy. during the administration, 20 million people had quality affordable healthcare. in addition to that, 150 million with preexisting conditions got a new benefit that enabled them to have

, this un-american, barack obama hussein of obama, not against the obama that most voters saw who even if they disagreed with him thought he was a good man, an honest man, a family man doing his best for the country. we have to recognize not every voter sees trump the way we do on -- >> the voters see this current president, they're getting -- i guess they're seeing he's -- well, he makes himself a character. >> they have have a nuanced view of him. these are the ones going to decide the election. they know he can be rude and racist and misogynistic but they think he's trying to change the system. i think they're wrong, but it's a start from that starting point to know where they are. >> if you watch fox news, they don't make him into a character, and that's how they see him. so you said don't make it all about trump no matter how egregious and your second point, the economy. and you say democrats need to find ways to frame the economy in their own terms. so talk to me about how that worked for the former president. >> slight. and write in a cap char in the book an entire memo to the n

are you angry at barack obama? >> i am disappointed in barack obama, i am not angry. jesse: do you know things about barack obama that you have not spoken anybody about? >> let me say this generally, i know a lot of things about him and a lot of different people in politics that i haven't spoken about and i would not exclude him from that list. jesse: are you planning on speaking about what you know about barack obama and how we came up in the chicago system. obviously it's a very corrupt city. >> i'm interested in telling him the truth and doing it without any malice but to be truthful and talking about things that might be adventurous and might serve the public good. jesse: is there anything that you want to get off your chest about the former president with regards that you haven't told anybody before? >> also the former president -- let me say this, the current president has trumped the former president when it comes to do the right thing and undo injustice. i went to prison and spent nearly eight years in prison for saying things that are routine politics, a lot

agenda, the obama legacy? >> no chance i'm going to answer that question. >> come on, jim. >> look, i think everyone's going to attempt to claim this and voters are going to have it decide what the truth is. and, you know this is obviously an issue, bernie got asked about it last night at his town hall, will get asked about it again today again. but voters have to figure this out. i think people should look at the record and see who is with the president when it really mattered, who wants to continue his legacy and who is attempting to take down his legacy. >> on that point, some of our reporters here uncovered some audio of mike bloomberg talking about his 2012 endorsement of barack obama and using the word backhanded and essentially saying, yeah, i gave him my endorsement but i thought romney was better at things previously and didn't stick to his values as governor of massachusetts. the way the bloomberg campaign is responding is they're saying, he wanted to push people who were on the fence to support obam

that's not love. >> there's no love lost in the obama camp for bloomberg. they remember all of those moments and remember bloomberg'ses he tans to endorse obama. so, yeah, none of this is going down particularly well. i think we will hear more about it. >> to be continued this time tomorrow. a big debate to talk about. don't go anywhere. brianna keilar starts after the break. home instead offer persos for your loved ones. home instead senior care. to us, it's personal. for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease, stelara® works differently. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you have an infection or flu-like symptoms or sores, have had cancer, or develop new skin growths, or if anyone in your house needs or recently had a vaccine. alert your doctor of new or worsening problems, including headaches, sei

i pray for him, president bush, president obama. it is a heavy responsibility. i pray hard for him because he is so off the track of our constitution, our values, our country, the air our children breathe, the water we drink and the rest, he needs our prayers. he can say whatever he wants but i do pray for him and i do so sincerely and without anguish. udo, the way i pray for everybody else. i thought what he said about senator romney was particularly without class, some people use faith as an excuse to do the wrong things. you remember what he said about romney? what a -- so inappropriate at a prayer breakfast. you want to go to a prayer breakfast, school vouchers, woman's right to choose, all the things it is the right audience for, god bless you. it is a prayer breakfast. that is something about faith. may not be something i agree but -- with but it is appropriate. but to go into the stock market and raising up his approval thing and mischaracterizing other people's motivations, he's talking about things he knows little about. faith and prayer. -- you oftenen

we had at the end of obama. it's not different. that's despite the fact that we have had massive fiscal stimulus in the form of tax cuts and additional spending and the fed has been accommodative. trump blamed the fed for holding back growth. if you look at what his own economic team forecast, the fed would keep rates at. they thought monetary policy would be tighter than it is. the fed has been helping him. he doesn't give them credit. >> we'll be right back. (janine) i used to be a little cranky. dealing with our finances really haunted me. thankfully, i got quickbooks, and a live bookkeeper's helping customize it for our business. (live bookkeeper) you're all set up! (janine) great! (vo) get set up right with a live bookkeeper with intuit quickbooks. and my side super soft? yes. with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. can it help me fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses yo

it was up 32% under obama. it's up 60% -- >> at this point in obama's presidency the s&p 500 was up 59%. at this point in trump's presidency it's up 49%. >> okay. >> so it was actually better under obama. >> i've got to bring in daniel dale for a fact check. what do you have? >> i'll give you another yardstick, gdp growth. we've had growth of 2.9% and then 2.3%. that's an average of 2.5%. under obama we had 2.5, 2.6, 2.3%. this isn't the economy traik taking off like a rocket ship as trump says. if you're a trump supporter you'll also point to the 1.6% at the end of the obama era and say look he was going in a bad direction. that's a fair argument. but these two economies just isn't borne out in key metrics like that. >> the president promised huge growth. is he delivering on that? >> no, once again he promised us 4%, 5%, 6% growth. anybody who knew anything about the economy, who looked at the structural challenges this economy faces including the aging of the population said that was nonsense. trump promised

barack obama. they were all generational agents. and joe biden has a marched time making generational change argument right now.wo >> quick things as i listen, peter. the first is joe biden is someone who was trying to attach himself to barack obama being his vice president and michael bloomberg's ads i talked to some voters who think obama endorsed michael bloomberg. because he's had so much of the second thing is that joe biden as he struggles -- at least wasooking like he was struggling in south carolina, the day after jim clyburn endorsed him he said well, if he doesn't win big here he will be in big trouble. so as he's endorsing himso and aying look, if you don't do well here, you don't really have a pathway forward and that mes telling that even jim clyburn is saying that on the record in front of cameras. robert: jeff, quickly, you covered mayo buttigieg's campaign. what's his next move? >> well, he needs to show that he can win in a place othera than i. he needed to expand his coalition. earlier at the citadel. n the crowd w

administration is to president barack obama. what do you make -- what do you make of this? who benefits in fighting over the obama legacy as you head into the new hampshire prohanew >> the person with the most to lose is bernie sanders. he attempted to primary barack obama in 2012 and in the end didn't, but thought very seriously about it. and barack obama is the gold standard of democrats. and, you know, people are fighting over his legacy. bernie will have some problems here. it is clear bernie is going to win new hampshire. he won by 22 points last time, i think as biden and buttigieg go at each other, it makes sense, they're fighting for the same land, the same voters. buttigieg is the hot thing and biden is saying, as i go into nevada, i have to slow mayor pete down. i think you're going to start to see things get even chippier, which is interesting because democrats don't like the negative campaigning very much. we get all wiggly when people start to do it, it is time to make decisions and people are about to decide betwee

he says he will have obama's backing despite reports obama does not side with bernie because he would wipe out obamacare. and then we have this, liberal, nest of the new york times says medicare for all will not happen. aoc said that now we have senator harry reid saying that. a whole bunch of that in just a second. thus get your reaction. >> medicare for all is a sale policy, we talked about it before. bernie sanders is pushing it forward but it's not medicare for all, it's healthcare for none. it's a government takeover of healthcare and elimination of private insurance, it's a horrible idea, it will never work in the fact the democrats think they can run on this, it shows they have 0 agenda, 0 policy, they will lose the boat to the american people. >> let's listen to what harry reid, an official, we have an interview involved about this. let's listen to what harry reid says about bernie sanders. >> senator reid has not shied away from his opinion and he didn't yesterday either. he was very strong on a big issue medicare for all that is dividing the democrats and he says he does not

has president obama perpetrated con job. >> president obama has not perpetrated a con job by any sense. think about what trump said, greatest economy ever. he took us out of decades of economic decay. that is categorically false. you could argument the economic recovery since president obama took office was slow and steady, which it was, but there is no turn around. we're in the 11th year of an economic expansion so when the president said the gdp numbers are the greatest ever, that is not true. he is rating six out of 11 preceding presidents for economic progress and for gdp he's doing slightly better than obama did but the president promised 4%, 5% gdp and we haven't hit that once and president obama did. and he's done it it through corporate tax cuts and de regulation and if you remember he argues against that when with obama was in office. >> and facts are funny things. president obama did sign the recovery act. that is where it began. >> absolutely. now, fortune 500 ceos would tell you that president trump is more pro-business. when you get record-breaking tax cuts that is a huge

obama. here is president obama saying he is responsible for the economy. president trump didn't hold back. he didn't mince words. the president firing back. did you hear the latest con job and more. my next guest, heritage foundation gerald griffith. your reaction to all this? we did not see democrats including hillary clinton run on the strength of the obama recovery. your reaction? >> i think it is a little ironic, may be slightly awkward for democrats gathered tonight, that president obama seems to acknowledge we are the midst of a record-long economic boom. that will be extremely awkward for a few of the candidates tomorrow night running on a platform of class envy and trying to convince us not to believe our eyes. the bottom line under barack obama we experienced the slowest, most lethargic economic recovery post-world war ii. the tide is now beginning to turn under president trump. liz: it usually takes 27 months on average since world war ii to get jobs back to postrecession levels. u

when he's writing the obama wave -- riding the obama wave. barack obama creating far more jobs over his last three years in office than donald trump's created in his first three years. the lies were preposterous, and for some reason the press keeps feeding into this hype that somehow his economy is so much better than former economies. it's a lie. >> well, the lie he's been telling from the beginning is he inherited a mess from president obama which is objectively untrue. steve rattner is here in a couple minutes with charts. mike barnicle bowed his head when you mentioned mookie bets' name. the state of the union was like a tv show, like an up soed of ellen. you had a military reunion, a fourth grader receiving a scholarship. he gave out the medal of freedom to rush limb b. held the ceremony in the middle of the state of the union. it was theatrical. for my money, the -- all the no handshake, the not saying the distinct honor and high privilege and then ripping up the script at the end is not what the country needs. i know those will be view

that was barack obama. excuse me. >> by the way, i called to make sure that i was prepared -- i never say -- my private conversations but -- >> and the last thing before we go tonight, former president barack obama is officially neutral in the 2020 democratic race. if you have the impression that he weighed in you're not alone. three in five potential democratic primary voters believe that the obama has endorsed a candidate to take on donald trump and maybe it's because of all of these. >> i'm mike bloomberg. >> i'm elizabeth warren. >> i'm tom steyer. >> this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career. she's a janitor's daughter who has become one of the fiercest advocates for the middle class. >> mayor bloomberg and president trump worked together. >> fired up, ready to go. >> we need something different to beat trump. tom steyer can bring. >> it he's been a leader throughout the country for the past 12 hours. mr. michael bloomberg. joe's candid honest counsel made me a better president. elizabe

that was there before then, president obama stirred up the same people. i would like to think it had nothing to do with what the white house was saying but i think they should rain in their comments. they say there will be payback to us for holding the constitution of the united states, honoring vision of our founders and our democracy, a republic if we can keep it. something our men and women in uniform fight to protect, our freedom, our constitution and the aspirations our children who depend on living on the democracy that is unquestioned in terms of that. will we have freedom of the press? to be guardians of that democracy. i am not very fond of commenting on anything they say but it is threatening. it is wrong. >> the house investigating committee indicated they would like to subpoena john bolton. what is your position on that? when should this happen? speaker pelosi: i want to salute first our managers who did a magnificent job in presenting the case for our founders, for our constitution, for our country. we could not have been better served, each

obama has not endorsed him. people are thinking that he is some kind of staunch progressive, when in fact we're finding out more and more each day he's had these really terrible conservative opinions, specifically about some of the most marginalized communities that tend to vote democratic. so i think people need to really do their homework on who mike bloomberg actually is. they're going to find out a lot more when they watch the debate tomorrow night. >> jamil smith, jennifer palmieri, thank you for that round. when we come back, dan fifer, he's been where the candidates are. these worried about it and what could be a do or die presidential debate. when dan fifer was there, his candidate was barack obama. dan fifer joins us next. i'm your 70lb st. bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. my focus is on the road, and that's saving me cash with drivewise. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too l

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she was an obama appointee. it kind of speaks to the continued popularity of president obama. the bloomberg relationship with obama was professional. they were allies on some important issues, like climate change. they weren't particularly personally close but it's a smart move to run that ad because you sure get the sense that they were. >> without obama speaking out in the president, now you have these candidates who can spin what he has said in the past and apply it to today. does obama risk his words and his perspective being manipulated, even his intentions by staying quiet being manipulated by president trump, for example? >> well, president trump, it's incredible that with all the responsibilities that he has that he still has time to be a political commentator. you have to admire the multitasking there. i don't think he much cares about that. i think he is mindful of the appropriate role of a former president and he's mindful of the role that he can play once the race is over. and if you start taking sides in a family fight, it becomes much harder later when a voice to

it does obama have a point about claiming credit? >> jesse: i would say this, you know when you day a girl and you guys break up and she goes on to marry some other guy? you can't take credit for that! you can't take credit for that when you break up with her and she gets married. that is not the point. the point is this, the stimulus was a punch line during the obama administration. he said so himself. he was actually joking, those shovel-ready jobs aren't so shovel ready. think about it this way, they first had the economy was going to tank under trump, then they said it was barack obama's economy, then they said there was going to be a recession and then they said it was only benefiting the rich and now they are back to saying it is barack obama's economy, it doesn't make any sense because they can't talk about the economy because they haven't done anything to help the economy. if there had been a democrat who had taken the reins in 2016 you would've had strangling obamacare regulations, a green new deal, paris climate deal, war o

they are four obama holdovers. they worked in the obama white house counsel's office. one worked for the department of national security. these are political prosecutors, nothing more, nothing less. lou: the president was candidate recently what was his greatest regret over three years. his response was i thought absolutely telling as it was the intelligent answer for a man who is commanding this entire government. that was personnel. the justice department to still be rife with these politically corrupt attorneys, fbi officials and agents is appalling. can anything reasonably be done about it in the near term? bill barr actually makes it clear he intends to. but we are talking about 90,000 people. >> it is a lot of people. it's a big job. but just like robert o'brien at the nsc, there will be reorganization. my only regret as four people resigned today is therein weren't more of them that resigned. the deep state is real, folks. and this is the one regret of the president if the president had fired all the obama holdovers, president trump's job would be easier to do b

. >>> what i said is what barack obama said in terms of cuba. that was barack obama. >> excuse me. by the way, i called to make sure i was prepared. i never say anything of my private conversations, but -- >> and the last thing before we go tonight, former president barack obama is officially neutral in the 2020 democratic race. but if you're somehow under the impression that he has weighed in, you're not alone. a new poll from morning consult finds that 3 in 5 potential democratic primary voters believe that the 44th president has endorsed a democratic candidate to take on donald trump. maybe that's because of all of these. >> i'm mike bloomberg. >> i'm elizabeth warren. >> i'm tom steyer. >> i approve this message. >> he's an extraordinary man with extraordinary service. >> she's become one of the fiercest advocates for the middle class. >> mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together. >> ready to go? >> we need something different to beat trump. tom steyer can bring it. >> he's been a leader throughout the country for the past 12 years. mr. michael bloomberg. >> candidate

no drama obama. former president barack obama is considering what role he will play in a possibly contested convention. remember this? >> are you fired up? ready to go? fired up? ready to go? >> and full-court press. in an extraordinary move, federal judges call an emergency meeting to deal with the president's unprecedented attacks on judges and jurors and attorney general william barr's interference with the prosecutors over sentencing. >> they feel like there's a crisis here. the president of the united states is tweeting and criticizing federal judges. that has not happened before in modern history. >>> and good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a big day in politics. michael bloomberg, his bet seems to be paying off. tomorrow night's debate could be a big showdown. he'll be on the stage for the first time, a showdown between bloomberg and bernie sanders. against a self-declared socialist who campaigns against billionaires and has enormous crowds. a new npr/pbs poll has bloomberg

sanders -- central to his campaign is obama in some ways failed. that's a message that works with sanders, but not the rest -- >> he wanted to replace, right, his central and main accomplishment, right, which is obamacare. adam, let's talk about that "atlantic" reporting joe just discussed. your own boss, senator harry reid intervened to stop sanders from running against then barack obama. do you know anything about this? >> look, senator reid talks to all of the members about his caucus about a range of topics. i think, you know, if you ask senator reid and if you ask senator sanders about the core of their relationship, i think they would both say that senator reid made an extremely vigorous effort to bring senator sanders into the caucus. i don't want to speak for him, but senator sanders, when he was in the house, maybe felt a little bit excluded like he wasn't brought into the democratic family. when he arrived in the senate, he felt differently. he felt brought in. he felt included. senator reid has involved him in leadership. he's involved h

obama said, where is the 23rd? and this person said, listen, he's just too controversial, there's too much out there about him, we cannot include mike bloomberg. and it was a lot to do with these allegations of sexual harassment at bloomberg lp, but also some things he said he's acknowledged were insensitive. it just wouldn't worth having him on that long list at the time of vp running mates. >> and mike bloomberg now in his ads really playing up the relationship that he had with president obama and many people close to president obama saying he's overplaying that, certainly joe biden saying that. but kate, in your op-ed on cnn.com, you make this point, if the billionaire businessman does become the democratic party's nominee, though, then voters will be forced to choose between a sitting president who has been accused of sexual assault and harassment, accusations which he denies, and a democratic candidate who not long ago was considered too controversial to be a running mate in part because of accusations that he

> harris: wouldn't he need obama? it wasn't the biden era. >> dagen: has no intention of getting involved in this race until the convention. he will support whoever is the nominee, but i think that has been clear from moment one. it just looks like, he's running on to be at the soul of the nation, that's part of the rhetoric, also the most delectable. >> harris: what does that mean? >> dagen: exactly. what does that mean? it is not resonating with voters even in south carolina. politico did that larger power it a few days ago. it's not connecting, he is not connecting. he might connect on a personal level. this is my judgment, i watch this man, he doesn't appear as if he has that passion to run the nation, and even the ego it takes to have that kind of passion, i'm hearing that mike bloomberg wants to win, not just the nomination, he is in it to win this. >> harris: when you look at the numbers, the money, and who is bringing it in, bernie sanders generated 25 million in such small increments that he can go back over

president obama bragged about the recovery 11 years ago. joining us now, catherine rapell, a "washington post" columnist and steven moore, an economic adviser to the trump campaign. let's look at economic growth, real gdp growth under presidents obama and trump. we put the numbers on the screen. fairly consistent. of course, that dip there that followed the great recession, 2008. is it an even split here? >> so i will use the disclaimer that i always give when talking about presidents' economic records. they get too much credit when things are good, too much blame when things are bad. they do not control the economy. that said, if we want to look at the numbers, the trump economy is not substantially different from the obama economy. gdp growth last year was about 2.3%. we spent $2 trillion in unfunded tax cuts to get us to what is essentially the average growth rate under obama's second term. job growth was slightly stronger under obama. >> we have those figures, too. we can put them on the screen. >> wage growth was slightly stronger. not

you have politicizization, under obama. and you seen it with justice department and another bits of bureaucracy pursuing trump, and attorney general barr is trying to undo that politicalization. >> and you know in our opening monologue, i agree work you said two very important words that is impartial justice, our justice system has to be impartial, everyone has to recognize a prosecutor sole obligation to do what justice requires, you can't politicize, you cannot look are they a ally or opposition of president trump, you cannot look to see if there is an ro oracle. >> behind their name. and they are still recognizing they are ones who are over politicizing, they are ones that complicit in this they do the very thing that then they suggest that president trump is doing, by calling them out. you see that hypocrisy, because they go forward with the ridiculous sentence recommendation like 7 to 9 years, for a nonviolent crime, then mccabe, who he lied, there was purg perjury, he is nt prosecuted, what about comey, hillary clinto

obama: he's been a leader throughout the country for the past twelve years, mr. michael bloomberg is here. vo: leadership in action. mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. obama: at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions. bloomberg: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >>> a lot of folks waiting for thnyhe e. younger beer is now an sale. >> yep, hundreds of customers lined up all night in santa rosa last night and in i, ndsor to get a taste of that specially brewed beer. >> we got up around 2:00 a.m. and got here around 4:00 a.m. from oakland. i love that it's well balanced. i love the triple hopp iness. i love that it's crisp and refreshing. >> we just got seated about 5 minutes ago, and it's definitely worth the wait. >> we've been up there and tried the pliny the elder. >> i've never ha

yeah rush limbaugh began the obama administration hoping proudly that he would but i'm with you larry in the sense that when the media smells blood in the water it's the story oh that's different and it's not the party so much we have anybody's but when you go in ted kennedy 1st announced he was going to run they couldn't answer roger mudd question why are you running and they ran with that against him media is oh we are hungry for stories to story or was doing this a long time the story always comes 1st if trouble makes himself the story then we attack that all praise it whatever trump has a whole 'd network behind him fox news and the consumers the war on c.n.n. the clinton claimed i was a network we have larry king and hillary for which and michael maloof we're talking about usa optics how we look to the rest of the world and we'll get right back to it after this quick break. this is also very important. to those who can influence. the nature and. in the. churches today just decided to show max. hope for the rest of the life in the ball. boy iraqis now they should we have had a muc

obama: he's been a leader throughout the country for the past twelve years, mr. michael bloomberg is here. vo: leadership in action. mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. obama: at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions. bloomberg: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. while the middle-class continues to struggle. that's what happens when billionaires are able to control the political system. our campaign is funded by the working people of this country, and those are the people that i will represent. no more tax breaks for billionaires. we are going to guarantee health care to all people and create up to 20 million good paying jobs to save this planet. i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message because we need an economy that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors.

however, sanders says president obama made similar remarks in 2016. >> what i said is what barack obama said in terms of cuba. that cuba made progress on education. yes, i think -- [boos] really? really? literacy programs are bad? what barack obama said is they made great progress on education. and health care. >> harris: whew! however, joe biden fired back saying president obama never complemented the cuban regime. i will show you what he said in the second, but here's what joe biden said. >> he did not in any way suggest there was anything positive about the cuban government. he acknowledged that they did increase life expectancy, but he went on and condemned the dictatorship. the fact of the matter is, he, in fact, did not, has never embraced an authoritarian regime, and does not now. >> harris: wow. here's actually what president obama at the time said. "i said this to president castro in cuba. i said, look, you've made great progress in educating young people. every child in cuba get the basic education. that's a huge improvement from where it was." we will check that is a fact for