Majority of the American People to rally behind it i know in conversations i have had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me they would say the vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one. Axelrod was later asked if obamas comments were a thinly veiled wipe at Hillary Clinton. Is this kind of a harsh judgment of Hillary Clinton he would have been able to do what she could not . Well, he said this until service of a larger point which is he doesnt accept that the election was a verdict on his view of where the country should be going. Shoe got majority of the vote he feels he would have won the election. There is no doubt there is some criticism implicit in his remarks. He went on to say that perhaps the Clinton Campaign took too much for granted. Perhaps they played it too cautiously. For his part, donald trump dismissed the president s claim writing on twitter, quote president obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but i say no way. Jobs leaving, isis o care, et cetera. Unquote. Joining with us reaction is lisa booth, a Fox News Contributor and washington, d. C. Richard good stein a democratic strategist who worked on clintons 2008 campaign. Richard, really, of course, he is going to say that now. Oh i would have beaten donald trump because he couldnt have run obvious question. Is he saying he would have done better against donald trump and this hillary did. Yes. Let me give you an illustration. I was a pole watchner 2008 in entirely black voting place for early voting election day in fort lauderdale, florida. Last day the lines were hours long. Firsttime voter summoned me offer and said, can i just vote for barack i said well you could. Why dont they have express line for people like me . And i dont think he was joking. I think he was serious. If h they had had one he would have used that in a second. My point is you couldnt have paid that guy to vote for Hillary Clinton. 2016 version of that guy didnt really care about her the 10,000 votes that she lost by in michigan. 20,000 wisconsin. 40,000 pennsylvania. That guy and his sister and tens of thousands like him would have come out. They didnt come out for hillary. Very good, lisa. What do you think . Was that president obama taking a shot at hillary. I think it was taking a shot at Hillary Clinton obviously donald trump as well. As you mentioned earlier in the show president obama said his legacy was on the ballot in 2016 and essentially what it was was rejection of that legacy what ca did he do doer rad occasion of president obamas. He talked about unraveling iran deal. Even if you look at Something Like the Supreme Court. 21 of voters said that was the most important issue for them when deciding which candidate to vote for. Those voters overwhelmingly went for donald trump. Thats a rejection of what president obama would have chose Supreme Court nominee as well. Now with that richard, president obama himself said. I remember this on the stump he was saying a vote nor hillary is a vote for my legacy, guess what happened . They lost. Talking about the 2016 that hillarwon by 3 million. It cannot be said that if one candidate stands for x and the other stands for nonx and the x person wins by more than 3 million you cant say public was behind. We can do that blue in the face. If we remove california donald trump. Hillary Clinton could be president of california at this point. Not to mention that donald trump was able to flip 217 counties from democrat in 2,000 and the previous election to republican. You look at the 700 counties. Exactly. Hold on that president obama won in 2008 and 2012 donald trump was able to flip 1 3 of those. I think a large part of that reason is because he ran a campaign as i mentioned before on erratic indicating president obamas policies. You dont think that voters who have felt the economic ramifications of president obamas policies whether its the fact that he is the only candidate in history. Hold on i let you speak. Only candidate in history not see 3 economic growth. We have seen more Small Businesses go under rather than be created. Places like arizona insurance premiums have increased over 100 percent. You dont think that voters went to the ballot knowing that president obamas legacy was on the ballot . Pure repudiation of his legacy and policy. What i think is that having brought unemployment down by a half and having stock market virtually triple under the obama presidency. By having finally middle class incomes go up for the first time in 15 years. I think all those people in counties that went obama and obama in 2008 and 12 would have voted for the real thing in 16 and not the guy making all these promises that we know he cant keep. Fair enough, maybe that is the case. However for president obama to just a month after the election to come out and say by the way i would have won, is he taking a shot at Hillary Clinton. I mean, look, there is no question he was her best surrogate. I would say Michelle Obama and barack obama were Hillary Clintons best surrogates. In hindsight barack obama has to protect his legacy. Is he now trying to distance himself from hillarys loss so thats that his legacy is intact, richard . Again. Owe bomb maps favorability numbers and trumps were the inverse of one another on election day. The fact is as regards hillary, i think if you had Hillary Clinton on this program, eric, she would admit that there were certain things that she would do differently not Just Campaign in wisconsin and michigan and so forth. How about that . Not just that. But that was a big flaw on their part. Of course. Im talking about just the change argument. The fact is i think she and her team could have done a better job. Here is the problem. Im going to bring lisa in. Up until november 8th. President obama is like yeah, Hillary Clinton and i, we are on the same team here, we are both progressive. A vote for her is a vote for the progressive agenda. She loses. All of a sudden he wants no part of it. Also not to mention the fact. You want to talk about facts and numbers. How about the rejection that president obamas legacy has seen from the state level to the federal level throughout the past 8 years. The Democratic Party holds fewer state legislatures than ever before in history. Republicans control the majority of governorships in the country. Republicans have the house and senate under president obamas failed policies. Now they have the white house. Dont tell me that this is not a repudiation of president obamas failed policies. Hold on. But lets just add this. You cant say this is all one team. This is all what we are about until your team loses and say we dont have nothing to do with them. Have a civics lesson for every democrat in the country who doesnt know how the electoral process works . Richard, final thought. On every other planet on the planet what we call popular votes are votes. Excuses, excuse every single woke. I understand if we take comey and russians out of mix, i swear it would be a different result. And lets not leave obama care and deplorables. Lisa, richard, thank you very much. When we come right back, accusations that president obama sold out one of our closest allies. Also,. 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In the impact segment tonight, did president obama sell out one of the United States closest allies . On friday the u. S. Abstained from a vote in the United Nations to condemn israeli settlements in dispute dollars areas this was a dramatic break with long standing history. Benjamin netanyahu called the action shameful antiisrael ambush. Now his government is claiming the Obama Administration was actually behind the u. N. Resolution. We have rather ironclad information from sources in both the abe world and internationally that this was a deliberate push by the United States and in fact they helped create the resolution in the first place. So its deeply disappointing this has been the path of president obama. Israel is not being deterred by the vote. The government says it will move ahead with plans to build thousands of new homes in the disputed areas. And rethink its relationship with the United Nations, organization that critics say is a disaster. It is an organization that exacerbates tension. It does not assuage them. It was born in hope, the end of the second world war. It turned out to be a disaster. I think its Good Real Estate in downtown new york city and trump ought to find a way to put his name on it and turn it into condos. Joining us now from washington former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. John bolton. Mr. Ambassador, thanks for joining us. We were on last week as well. Talk a little bit about that comment. Is this a deliberate push by the u. S. To, i guess, sway the sentiment in the middle east . I think it is. I think its clearly intended to box in the new Trump Administration. You know, these are decisions that fly in the face of half a century of american policy. And obama has brought them forward with a month to go in his presidency. I think its very i will advised. I think if there are any foreign officials or foreign diplomats listening tonight, i would just say dont operate under any allusions here, no matter what else obama does from last friday through to the 20th of january, dont operate under any allusions that thats not easily reversible by Incoming Trump administration in terms of u. S. Policy. Ambassador, you know, it feels like president obama is no friend to israel. Based on this latest act is he set ago personal score with Benjamin Netanyahu by doing this . I think there is personal score there to settle. I think this is a deep reflection of obamas ideology. He sees israel in much the way he sees the United States. He dislikes american exceptionism. He dislikes israeli exceptionism. I think he sees this as his way to set it straight that just one more country, just like the United States is one more country and is he going to try and affect that in his remaining days in office. Thats what this vote was about in my view. Does this assist the Peace Process in israel in the middle east . I think it cuts entirely against it. Look, the whole theory of the United States and the rest of the world, frankly, after the 1967 war was the only way you are ever going to get peace in the middle east is for the parties to the conflict to agree to it themselves. Any attempt to impose peace from the outside would inevitably fail. And because people are frustrated that things havent turned out the way they want, they are now trying to impose a particular kind of solution on israel. As you said, the israelis are defying the resolution already. There is no way this is going to be conducive to peace. And they should have understood it. The president should have understood it. It will actually, i think, boomer rang. But it does embolden the antiisrael faction to push back and some of them frankly are people we dont really get along with, also. No, thats right. Look, this has been a tragedy for the United States and israel and frankly for some of our arab friends in the region. We is indications that a number of countries interestingly russia at the end of last week were beginning to realize that shoving this resolution through was not a good idea. They went ahead and did it anyway. Now were going to have negative consequences. I think there are a number of things that the Trump Administration when it takes office it could do to try to reverse. This i have written about it in the wall street journal this morning. We talked a little bit about it last week. I think beyond anything else in the next slightly less than a month until the 20th of january, foreign governments should not go along with any obama plan or suggestion or idea that they can carry this process any further forward. Enough damage has been done. Dont make it worse. Well, what else is there . What else might president obama do in the next 24 days . Well, there is a lot of speculation. Heres a hard fact. On january the 15th. France will convene a socalled middle east peace conference in paris. And you know, just consider the timing of that, eric. Five days before a new american president takes office, the french are going to convene a peace conference. That was a freudian slip it will be a press conference. Come out with declaration that acknowledges the existence of a palestinian state. They could bring that declaration back to new york and try to ram that through the security council. This whole thing is a big mistake. And i do think it will have negative consequences for people who really want a just and lasting peace in the middle east. Ambassador i only have a minute or. So very quickly, what is our share of the u. N. 20 to 22 percent of the budget. What kind of hard number does that look like. When you add everything together, assess contributions, and voluntary contributions roughly about 8 billion a year. About 3 billion for the u. N. s regular budget in Peace Keeping and we pay 22 of the regular budget. 25 of Peace Keeping. A lot of people are saying push back on that. Maybe cut that in half. Ambassador bolton thank you very much. Thank you very much. Explosion of Christmas Holiday violence in chicago leaves nearly a dozen people dead. Can anything be done to stop the madness . We will debate it momentstststss my heart beats one hundred thousand times a day, sending oxygen to my muscles. Again so i can lift even the most demanding weight. Take care of all your most important parts with centrum. Now verified non gmo and gluten free. In the factor followup segment tonight, there was a violent and deadly christmas weekend in chicago. According to the Chicago Tribune 61 people shot in the windy city over christmas weekend and at least 11 people died from their wounds. Police say these werent random acts of violence. These were deliberate shootings by one gang against another. They were targeted knowing fully well that individuals would be at the homes of family and friends celebrating the holiday. While this is the sickening reality, it shows yet again that our penalties for caring and using guns here in chicago are just not an effective deterrent against repeat gun offenders. According to police, there have been 753 murders in chicago so far this year. A stunning 57. 5 increase compared to 2015. And as you can see in this map, compiled by the Chicago Tribune, the homicides primarily occur on the citys west and south sides which have high minority populations. Joining us now from chicago with reaction former republican congressman joe walsh and matt magill. Both are radio talk show hosts. Matt, chicago, my hometown whats going on in chicago, sir . You know, you look at black chicago. You block at black america, historically these communities have been neglected and not invested. Its real simple. Everything that average americans want money put into education, money put into the business community. Money put into housing and jobs, thats what black america wants and since it has not been getting that for a very long time. Matt, matt i have got to stop you here for a second. I was born and raised in chicago. I was there when the homicide rates were skyrocketing far higher than they are right now. But it got better for a long time. And all of a sudden in the last five years or so, six years its getting substantially worse. What is happening . What changed . Well, i think the economy is changing. Look what happened in 2007. We are still seeing results of that bad economy. People being laid off and jobs not in our community anymore. You can go back 50 years though and track why we are experiencing what we are experiencing today. And that is disinvestment, noninvestment. Whatever you want to call it in the africanamerican communities is going to surface and its going to look like this. Let me bring joe. In the economy is bad in a lot of places. A lot of places are suffering the way chicago has. In fact maybe suffering worse than chicago yet we dont see the spike in murders and homicides and shootings that we see in chicago. Look, eric, this isnt complicated. Its called the ferguson effect. For about two and a half years, ever since ferguson, missouri, we have been hating on cops in this country. A lot of people have. There has been a war on cops in this country. And you can see it most pronounced in chicago. Homicides are up. Shootings are up. And, yet, eric arrests in chicago are way down. Cops are policing less aggressively. They are policing less assertively. Nobody can blame them because from rahm emanuel to everybody on down in the city of chicago, they are getting hated on. When they go in to some of these south and west side neighborhoods, man, they are sworn by some of these folks and everybody pu