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Occurrence -- >> theyre saying the president got it wrong. i cant imagine sean spicer saying, you know what, we were wronger than that, we had a smaller crowd size than barack obama. >> this does happen in part, and i agree it was handled better today than we have seen ever. a few weeks ago you remember when sarah huckabee sanders was on the podium, talked about the african-american employment numbers, got those wrong. the white house did correct that too, not in the same way. i think part of th...

>> is he able to raise a lot of money for the democrats? >> thats the norm, thats what a lot of his predecessors did. >> dana: is there a concern for democrats -- obviously president obama wont be the president in the future for them. maybe he is the default leader of the party right now but its him taking up all the oxygen and the headlines, and, this will probably knock out at least three profile pieces. but i would also say this, better him than hillary clinton. she is the most toxic asset th...

Ever shed any of the executive power that their predecessors accrued to the office. every president since jimmy carter has expanded the powers to the presidency, and when president obama ran for office, he had, as part of his pitch as a candidate, what was wrong with the expanded executive power asserted by the george w. bush administration, especially on national security issues, things like torture, rendition, and secret prisons after 9/11. hes not begin that power back now that he is presiden...

Lost in our politics. theres a hurricane moving through our politics. its a hurricane of anger, division, personal attacks and disregard for the truth. what were trying to do here is create a place where we model and hopefully advance the idea that you can respect each other and respect the truth. youre not always going to agree, in fact murphy and i are going to disagree on a whole lot of things, but you can do it in ways that make the democratic process work and restore peoples faith that poli...

Grow over 2%. when obama left office growth was 1.6%. here were hitting over 4% in the latest quarter and if you think about it, if you just look at obamas policies, right? are you going to get more growth with higher taxes or lower taxes, right? obama raised taxes. are you going to get growth with more regulation or less regulation? obama raised regulations faster than almost any other president in history. so theres no -- you know exactly why that economy was growing slow with obama, and of co...

Barack obama referenced that he envisioned that he would be following in a long line of former presidents who sort of stayed out of the fray from commenting on their successors, but just like the tradition of the presidents club has sort ever been broken with president trump not really invited into it from his predecessors, so too is broc barack obama breaking tradition and going hard by name after the president. president obama referred to what is going on in this white house as crazy. it doesn...

Much more broader speech. drawing a contrast between fear and inclusion. veiled references. and calling on to avoid -- >> why is he doing this? why is he being careful? >> i think he is mindful, that one, it is unusual for predecessors to comment on sitting presidents. he doesnt want to directly reference him by name and in some extent it will him trump. i think we could fully expect that trump is going to react. but obamas strategy is going to be ignore it and focus on the big picture. >> as yo...

November, i think thats all conspiring to make him feel overwhelmed. >> he has a supreme court nominee on the senate starting today for four days of hearings. these will be fascinating. you, john dean, will be testifying during these hearings and my understanding is you are going to answer questions on the role of executive power here which is one ofhe areas democrats want to push judge kavanaugh because he has an expensive view of executive power. what do you think the big issue is here? >> i t...

That is not lost on trumps predecessors. jimmy carter didnt mince words when he was asked about the president recently. >> i think it is well known that the incumbent president is very careless with the truthful telling the truth has been pretty deeply ingrained in me. and i think that makes it more deplorable to me to see that its been abandoned by some people. >> some people would say thats politics. you have to tell a lie now and again and maybe even more than that. but you can succeed for yo...

That followed a careful strategy over a couple of years. >> the iran nuclear deal. pallets of unmarked bills to putin or anybody else. he hasnt had peanuts and cracker jacks and song take me out to the ball game like your old boss did. lets not exaggerate here. what donald trump is trying to do. hes reached out to north korea, trying to stop the nuclear threat that quite frankly accumulated under obama and bush and his predecessors that hes inherited. but i think its ridiculous to try and say th...