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Anticipate all of those challenges but not just worry about them, work against them. >> joining our discussion now, two veterans of presidential campaigns, ben roads, former national security adviser to president obama, an msnbc political analyst. and a senior adviser to president obama and hillary clinton, ceo of the center for american progress. what those hackers were doing in las vegas was pretty scary. >> it was, lawrence, because what we saw in 2016 was an effort to influence in effect the...

Weakened his position on that. >> ben roads from the obama administration said iran was complying with the deal until the u.s. pulled out and started violating its terms. something notably absent from the trump-bolten framing. whats your reaction to that, christian? >> you know, theres broad framing, okay, theres very broad recognition in the u.s. than it used to be. bipartisan support and concern for what iran is doing. iran sees itself as being at war with the united states since this regime w...

Breakout, north korea, our ability to time when a country is going to gain a nuclear capability is limited. we spend more than $50 billion in intelligence, but its hard to detect specifically which is why i think we need to act sooner rather than later. probably with military force. it doesnt need to be a regional war, it could be similar in the middle east from the past, we have degraded or israel degrades the other countries. >> your thoughts on that criticism of ben rhodes? >> i dont take muc...

She -- also president obama ben roads during the house select committee on benghazi. ben roads during all of that, she represented him and then she represented the clinton foundation in 2015. so she worked for hillary clinton, secretary of state. i mean this is not someone who should be in this special counsels investigation, she also gave 5400 bucks, too. >> i have no idea why mueller picked anyone. >> laura: connected with hillary in the email investigation, and clearly. >> a knowing clinton s...

It was fabricated. and its a disgrace. and i think its going to really show you something come november 6th. >> i want to bring in ben roads, former deputy of national securitiedy adviser to presiden obama. good to have you. >> good to be with you. >> lets start with your reaction to president trump there on the lawn. >> well, i think it just shows you how dishonest their initial comments were after dr. ford came forward. when they were bending backwards to say they wanted to hear from her. now ...

And ben roads is back with us. thanks all three of you for being with us. jonathan, let me start with you. whats the effect of the presidents speech today and others that hell be making? this is his opening sal voe for the midterm elections. but who will come out and vote, perhaps, as a result of hearing president obama? >> well, one of the most interesting things he said in a fascinating speech that i recommend people watch in its entirety was he uses a statistic from the 2014 midterms that onl...

Democracy is you. >> joining us now is jeremy bird, former national field director tor president obamas 2012 campaign and partner. jonathan alter is also here. and ben roads is back with us. thanks all three of you for being with us. jonathan, let me start with you. whats the effect of the presidents speech today and others that hell be making? this is his opening sal voe for the midterm elections. but who will come out and vote, perhaps, as a result of hearing president obama? >> well, one of t...

Trump out of the blue, no one even asked him calling for russia to be invited back into the g7 and sending out a flurry of tweeting this morning. chastising canada, and the european union. i just want to point this out. ben roads put this tweet out before the president spoke. he said if you ever wanted to figure out why putin wanted to help trump win, look at the g7 summit. macron, the one who one ally forging the closest relationship with the president responded with pa tweet of his own sayin...

>> i guess if you see the pictures, he wasnt. i think people were squared -- scared about gun. heather: president trump apparently americans were not ready for him. carley: according to adviser ben rhodes, the former president reacted like this saying this exact quote on election day when president trump was elected saying, maybe we pushed too far, maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe, sometimes i wonder whether i was 10 or 20 years too early. that quote coming from ben roads say...

To the nicer court. he said hes a friend. i will, meet with him. thats redacted as well. we dont know whether anything wrong took place in whatever conversations but it was material evidence withheld from us. byer redacting materials. >> yeah, thats judge contreras. >> there are too many instances of either an appearance of a conflict. perhaps an actually conflict. political affiliations. going back to hillary or the clinton foundation or ben roads and now this. the contreras is a friend of page...