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The politics and not red america, blue america, but one united america. i just felt there was a through line. >> it was emotional speech for him. i was really struck afterwards by the sort of the response from people, both in the crowd in chicago. but also on social media, all over the place. you see people now changing their profile pictures on twitter and facebook to the obama family, and that sort of thing. its been -- i thought his speech was probably one of his -- his better ones. and this ...

Find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. sglrchl "meet the press" end game brought to you by boeing. >> sort of lost this week was president obamas farewell address. the guts of the speech, rich, seemed to be -- i dont know if you want to call it defense of democracy, but a warning, hey, democracy is fra gigile. what did you think of that? >> back in word war 2, there was a broad consensus in our politics. but in the broad sweep of american ...

Thought that jeff syrians were tools of the french and tools of the monarchy and even lately they thought president bush was selected, not elected. republicans tried to get bill clinton out of the gate. so democracy very often is messy, contention, and thats the way it should be. >> so thats an interesting take. do you buy that? the post-world war ii period was anoutlier? >> i didnt think that until this past 12 months, but im wondering if thats the case. i think a lot of things that we thought ...

Is there a new aspect? are you investigating the specific allegations of whether or not there was trump -- any member of the trump campaign was somehow in contact with russia officials? >> well, that hasnt been discussed. and i really cant answer that question right now. i can say that it should be full and robust with respect to who gave the order to do this, who participated in it, exactly what they did and how they carried it out and what it portends for the future. thats my view of what the ...

The thoughts i have about lewis is an operative one. the first thought is rex tillerson or jim maddis going to need special people to monitor trumps twitter feed. its interesting as an operational issue. im curious as to how hes going to use this tool going forward because he is about to become president and he is so easily trolled. when he becomes president, if someone starts trolling him, how he is going to react? >> look, we put together, this is just i am going to scroll the list here. this ...

Compared. and characteristic qualities can be a lot of things. thats what he was talking about, but certainly wouldnt prefer vladimir putin over barack obama as president of the united states. thats ridiculous. to take an old argument about where the president was born has nothing to do with whether or not in a democracy in the united states whether donald trump won the election and whether it was legitimate. james clapper of the intelligence community, i don ow if jo lewis knows more than they ...

Russians and others that help him get elected. thats not right. thats not fair. thats not the open democratic process. >> youre a man of action. you have been your whole life. you believe that this president is not legitimate. what would you tell young folks, young activists to do? >> i would say to young people and i continue to say today and i am going to say it during the next few days as we sell rate and commemorate the birthday of martin luther king jr., when you see something that is not r...

And they have destroyed the candidacy of hillary clinton. i dont plan to attend the inauguration. it would be the first one that i miss since ive been in the congress. you cannot be at home with something you feel that is wrong. i think there was a conspiracy on the part of the russians and others to help him get elected. thats not right. thats not fair. thats not the open democratic process. >> congressman lewis says he believes russia helped destroy hillary clintons presidential campaign and c...

Candidacy of hillary clinton. thats not right. thats not fair. thats not, the open democratic process. >> not a legitimate president. not fair to an open democratic process. do you agree with congressman lewis? >> i there that he is voicing something that frankly, a lot of democrats and a lot of hillary clinton supporters are starting to believe. and first of all, let me just say that congressman lewis has earned the right to say whatever the heck he wants, right? lets just start there. but i wo...

Inauguration taking place. certainly the president will -- the president-elect will become the president. he simply is going to have to govern. what i think would be good is if he would embrace the idea of a full and complete examination, indicate that hes going to fully cooperate with it. because its a bit of heho protested too much, i think by continuing to protest -- and i feel one might feel that theyre trying to delegitimize his prz. b prz city. but this is bigger than donald trump. whether...