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Away from total repeal of obamacare. now, president obamas planning to use the next two months to lock in other policies, making it harder for trump to cancel the iran nuclear deal, and harder to undo progress on climate change. the president is also reminding trump hell face some political head winds. >> the federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. it is an ocean liner. as i discovered when i came into office. it took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy c...

Corruption scandal. her close friend and two former aides have been indicted. the president cannot be charged while shes still president under the south korean constitution. president obama is asking the countries not to assume the worst when it comes to a a donald trump presidency. he expects some tension over trade, he does not expect major policy changes. brazilian military police say four police officers died during a helicopter crash in rio de janeiro on saturday. a spokesperson told br...

I think ultimately he is pragmatic in that way. and that can serve him well as long as hes got good people around him and he has a clear sense of direction. do i have concerns? absolutely. of course, i have concerns. he and i differ on a whole bunch of issues. but the federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat, its an ocean liner. as i discovered when i came into office. it took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years when we ...

Arriving with. i dont think he is ideological. ultimately he is pragmatic in that way. that can serve him well as long as he has good people and a good sense of direction. do i have concerns? absolutely. of course i have concerns. he and i differ on a whole bunch of issues. but, the federal government and our democracy is not a speed boat. its an ocean liner. as i discovered when i came into office. it took a lot of hard work for us to make significant policy changes. even when we had larger maj...

We can focus on the larger issues facing americans and work together. i hope that muslim community will get over its fears. instead of playing the victim game engage with the trump administration to make policy changes. we cant complain in our homes. he will be president-elect for the next four to eight years. you cannot afford to ignore him or his administration we have to accept him as our president and support him to the best of our abilities. >> thank you so much. we have to leave it there. ...

Yorktown." muslim ban day when he called you out. we walked the line and everyone was supporting it. when we first got together in october 2015, waterloo, iowa, afternoon rally, the electric park ballroom, that place was packed. people were there lined up six hours early. this is a year ahead of the election. thats when i knew. everywhere we went, we were freezing cold, minus 10 degrees in new hampshire. people were lined up six or eight hours early freezing cold waiting for trump. >> what did p...

Grow by 2% and all of the hand waving and promising of four, five, six percent wont happen and it is having a free lunch. even if you do grow the economy and his claims are too aggressive about whats plausible, it doesnt fix social security. social security benefits are indexed to economic growth. you need real policy changes. we need candidates to talk about hard choices, something we have not heard at all through this campaign is some of the hard choices that need to be put in place to deal wi...

The white house says it will meet with the president and no policy changes will be expected. the president will make public remarks. the next phase to reassure the public. in the weekly media address, the president highlighted the killing of two isis leaders by strikes. >> our air strikes are hitting isis. we are anythitaking out more fi and weapons and oil tankers. we will hunt down the terrorists where they try to hide. >> the next stop in the presidents reassurance campaign is the visit to th...

Brian williams here in new york. well be going back to andrea mitchell in just a bit. we want to take you to the pentagon briefing room just across the potomac from the white house. the president has held a special national security council meeting there. you see the massive lectern v vacant for now. theres tape on the carpet behind the lectern where various officials will stand. we dont expect any major policy pronouncements or policy changes, but with the war against isis, a kind of slow motio...

Talking about a consult tiff council only advisory in nature. its important to keep in mind the much broader political climate, which is one of extreme political oppression. saudi arabia is one of the top, the worst scoring countries in freedom in the world, which is our annual survey of political rights and civil liberties. thats in large part because its political life is almost non nonexiste nonexistent. given the nature of the bodies that the women would be possibly be elected to, theyre not...