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Time pcontinued to offer repeatd advice of this hotly contested campaign season that he send signals of outreach. he was saying especially women and minorities, groups that felt so offended by the trump candidacy. you could hear obama. it was as if the oval office was still continuing today, that he was trying to guide trump through this without commenting directsly on directly on bannon but how important it was that the president-elect continue to send outreach. >> president obama being the ult...

Obama said the right things. hillary clinton said the right things in her concession speech. but that doesnt mean that people are not going to be upset. >> david, do you remember, you know, this sort of reminds me of barack obamas race speech, where he disavowed himself from the church and talk about race. theres no doubt white supremacists have attached themselves to trumps campaign. should he give a speech about hate and spell out where he stands on that like barack obama had to do on race? >>...

In terms of the message he puts out from the bully pulpit, i think theres potential for him to change tone and turn around. >> does that happen while you are president-elect or does that need to happen after inauguration? >> it has to has been in stages. here is the thing, trump made enough ugly, divisive comments it wont be just one speech. he should give a race speech. >> something now? right now, you have protests. right now you have the headlines we showed you across the nation. >> i think h...

>> lets talk about the speech he gave on friday. stephanie, your first encounter with him was when you were working for john kerry in 2004. you said to me talking about this, that the obama you saw friday is the same one that you and other democrats fell in love with years ago. >> absolutely. the president has given many, many good speeches and i dont think anybody disagrees with that regardless of your politics. but the speech that he gave on friday was the same president obama, the same emotio...

Obama you saw friday is the same one that you and other democrats fell in love with years ago. >> absolutely. you know, the president has given many, many good speeches. and i dont think anybody disagrees with that regardless of your politics. but the speech that he gave on friday, was the same barack obama, the same emotional barack obama speaking truth to this country, and bringing everybody along with him. i havent seen something like that since 2004. >> really? >> and thats with someone who ...

After-school program or food pantry. today, you can help your cousin fill out her college financial aid forms so that she can be sitting in those chairs one day. >> that was first lady michelle obama speaking last weekend at the tuskegee university commencement. last weekend, we were talking on this show about then-senator obamas race speech in philadelphia and we were kind of saying, is it time to do that again? im wondering if first lady obama was giving the speech that we wanted while we were...

African-american rates that are twice that of white americans. >> they have always been that. >> its a trap to ask obama to talk about race. whenever we talk about race and we want to talk honestly about it, youre going to get into the divisiveness reaction in the public. black people want obama to talk about race so they can say something to the people basic live punishing them. you remember the 2008 race speech. there was a lot of backlash after that speech. >> sure. >> obama talked about how ...

Much talk about president obama and why he didnt go to baltimore. why didnt he launch his initiative in baltimore, right? theres been talk on the other side of the aisle that president obama is inflaming racial tensions. other people say hes not doing enough. in your mind give us some perspective here from your point of view. >> number one, when youre president of the united states theres no way that you can win. so no matter where you put your attention or focus, there will be somebody that say...

Congressional black caucus, another symbolic protest in favor of whats happening in ferguson. michael brown and his family and the protests, we saw the gestures, we saw it by the st. louis rams during the football game. this is america, you have free speech rights, you have rights. whether you disagree or agree. this is a symbolic gesture, you wrote about the substance of what the president has been trying to do. you made the point hes trying to strike the right balance. >> yeah, thats right. i ...

One thing in the presidents favor is he does nuance better than perhaps any other leader weve had. i think hes almost at his best when hes being nuanced. i think people disagree. the first time addressed the drone program and didnt offer a definitive answer but said these are moral questions, and i have erred here. i thought that was a great moment on a thorny issue. >> hes intellectual enough and not knee jerk, when pushed into a situation where he has to give his opinion -- you think about his...