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Right? he can get that. oh, if he didnt get that waiver, theyll be a lot of angry people. such a popular choice. >> that waiver is included as a temporary funding spending bill, if you will, which is critically important. some are saying, why include the waiver in that essential legislation? they say this is really not fair. >> its a continuing resolution that funds the government. sets up an expedited procedure to get him through sooner so he can get that vote. i believe he ought to be confirme...

Re-election bid in a very, very tight race there. tightest in north carolina history losing to his democratic rival by some 10,000 votes. still taking up a lot of meetings today. tomorrow, for his part, wolf, expected to head to ohio meeting with victims and first responders from the attack at osu. >> the president-elect may be softening his hard-line stance on illegal immigration. turned to president obama for staff and cabinet choices, were told as well by the president-elect. those revelation...

Him was -- you know, i said, you are going to go down in history first for not something you did but for who you are. the first african-american president. but actually, youre not really black. youre half white. you were raised by three white people. mother and your two grandparents. and he interjected and dont forget the indonesian stepfather. and we had a very interesting conversation about what it means to be black in america and how important it was for him to be the president who happened t...

>> i think because of his incredible career in the military, the respect all americans have for him for his service. certainly the men and women in uniform respect him immensely. >> you just came back to washington, spent a few days in afghanistan with u.s. troops on the ground. still, what, about 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> yes. >> theyre fighting over there. a very, very dangerous operation and didnt just go to kabul? you went outside of kabul? >> we did. the president says he ended ...

Regard to his selection as person of the year. said this about the children, the kids brought heillegally. he said they got brought here at a very young age. worked here, gone to school here. some were good students. some have wonderful jobs and in never-never land because they dont know whats going to happen. about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the united states. a lot of children as well. president obama wants the children at least to have some sort of legal status, and donald trump, t...

Bring. >> reporter: theycreated a caliphate meting out punishments in the most bar bearing ways possible. the host, fareed zakaria, "the legacy of barack obama" airs later tonight. fareed, thank for doing this and joining us. how much does the president think the war or terror will actually wind up playing into his legacy? >> i think he hopes one of the things hes managed to do is to put terrorism in perspective. by which i mean, you know, he said it yesterday in his national security speech. ...

Differently. mattis, per spect example. incredible erudite well-read warrior creative thinker yet talks and holds himself in a certain way trump likes even though he would execute differently because trumps a different kind of guy. >> i think its peer to peer. hiring people he feels comfortable with. >> i dont think hes worked out what he wants in secretary of state. a window youll agree, wolf, we dont see this in transitions or president-elects, working through all this in a way they pretty tra...

You see, i think, president obama seeing a relationship, building a relationship with donald trump as one way to protect parts of are his legacy that trump attacked during the campaign. one example would be his treatment of the dreamers. this was interesting. this one of the comments he made in the "time" magazine interview being willing to consider a very different step from that, that he lined out during the campaign. >> when you think about it, david gregory, what these two men, the president...

Was determined to draw down in iraq and draw down even in afghanistan, and he did that very skillfully, but it did in some ways produce the vacuum that allowed isis to step in. now, i think he and his administration argue that a lot of that was because of the prime minister of iraq and the policies he pursued, but we, you know, in the documentary, we do try to present both sides, and you see a president whos very effectively drawing down ground troops aggressively using drones, the whole thing s...

Priorities are where they are. the economy being a jobs presen presence. >> i look at this as if it was last seasons show, and this is the new season, and hes recasting the show. this time. so last season was the election. season two is going to be the governing. and -- he is recasting. and not only in people but on issues. >> the problem, people elected him to be president based on positions taken during the campaign. and will his most fervent, core supportering, accept the fact maybe he wont b...