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President is what trump is building upon right now. listen, if anybody wants to pick a fight with barack obama, theyre welcome to do it. he is as good as youve ever seen on the stump. i think hes energized now. he has been patient, and he is going to go out there. listen, to the extent that the trump base needs barack obama to get themselves revved up, let them go. but we need obama in and all of our leaders out there for the midterm. >> van jones, thanks very much. >> thank you. coming up nex...

Goal here, isnt the goal to try to sow chaos and get us all suspicious of each other. >> so what you all getting suspicion of each other? >> no. >> and friday we saw a return of the former u.s. president barack obama keeping in mind that former presidents typically try to stay out of politics or avoid criticizing their successors. >> barack obama made a very public display of warning that democracy is in peril all you because of donald trump. as in athena jones has the story. >> reporter: politi...

And td 9. this could be tropical storm isaac in the next 24 hours. >> oh my gosh. >> you have a busy ten days or so. >> give or take, maybe more. >> goodness. all right. thank you so much. former president barack obama on the campaign trail ahead of midterm elections. coming up, his seering rebuke of the trump administration and his message to voters. >> as a fellow citizen i am here to deliver a simple message and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it. ♪

Midterm record and this is a midterm. >> lets talk about who wrote it, looking for this anonymous senior administration official. first to you this time, brian. should the attorney general call for an investigation into who wrote this? >> i think this is a personnel matter, not a criminal matter. if it is a staffer, we dont know, it is anonymous, and two, with "new york times" for doing something would never be allowed if there was an attack on president obama or any other democrat. >> you think...

In orange county. yes, he is a republican, but hes also had these differences with trump. and again, it depends on the state because north dakota, west virginia where president trump did well, you want to be tied to trump. >> i want to say, i want to know -- people talk about there is sort of a pattern of what happens in midterms. is there a ceiling on the percentage of americans who will vote in a midterm? because part of the strategy i think behind what obama is saying he wants to break that c...

Now, were going to have to -- we the republican party are going to have to recalibrate at some point. this is not a sustainable way to manage a political party for the long term. maybe short term in some primaries, in some parts of the country, this is good politics. but i think this is desat truss politic l disastrous politics g into a midterm in a general election and were going to find that out in november whether or not this has been a smart political play. >> charlie dent, good to see you, ...

Them. so barack obama even though when he was president he lost a significant amount of seats in both midterms, he always he remained personally popular. it is just that his policies werent always popular. and those impacts were felt down ballot. president trump has the opposite sort of impact. he is not personally popular. even the people that voted for him will be honest and say to you, look, i wish you wouldnt do this or that. but what remains popular are his policies among these voters. and ...

And they are also being extremely proactive about doing testing on their systems. and doing way more than a lot of other states are doing but my hope is that these before the midterm in november, or states take that into account and take the advice of colorado. >>kristen: if you could do but ill have a few more seconds. if you could grade the u.s. in terms of where we stand with our cyber security defenses with 60 days until the midterm. >> i would put us at a solid b. i think we have a lot of w...

Candidates running in the midterm. he did the same thing friday in illinois. take a listen. >> heres the good news, and two months, we have the chance, not the certainty for the chance to restore some semblance of sanity to our politics. [applause] because there is actually only real check on bad policy and abuses of power. and thats you. you and your vote. >>leland: democrats hoping to have big pickups in colorado and also their focus on keeping control of the governors mansion. with that, we b...

South carolina. when we come back, president trump hits the campaign trail for republicans in the midterm. now former president obama is doing the same. where hes speaking. what difference it will make an interstellar selfie from the mars rover that made contact after the summer storms on the red planet. you wouldnt accept an incomplete job