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With just three weeks until he turns the white house over to donald trump, president obama seems to be making a pretty fast dash for the finish line but not before enacting a series of moves that could have an impact on how trump carries out his role as president. among those, the sanctions against russia, abstaining from the u.n. vote on israeli settlements and then making a push to boost obamacare enrollment. in the next month, a farewell address a few days before trump's inauguration. here to discuss all of this, david cantonese from "u.s. news and world report" and david swordlick, assista...

Post-election conversation, how much it affected the election. i think going forward the big question is does he strike back and repeal the sanctions obama just put in place and does he have any support on capitol hill for it because remember, this is an issue where he is really opposed to members of his own family. >> i had the very same thing. you have two world leaders coming out in support of donald trump. it's not just u.s. tensions with russia of course that's already been highlighted by the other david, it's also the way forward in the middle east after the u.s. allowed a u.n. resolutio...

Netanyahu, reach out to putin, try to at least initially establish more friendly relations at least on the surface with these two countries and with some other countries. i take a slightly different view of what obama has done. i think obama actually reached out to a great degree with both russia and israel or to their regimes in the early days of his administration, but things definitely soured more on a personal front with netanyahu and then more over issues with putin and now president obama is sort of unleashed because he only has three weeks left, he's about to leave office and he is taki...

They're a very loud minority. they were able to get rid of speaker john boehner. they haven't been able to pass any legislation. you end up with a situation where in paul ryan's case he's doing what he thinks is best protecting the senate and republican majority. there is a pitch fork group that is outraged. how dare you side with our opposition? how dare you back away from trump? >> it's just these attacks one after another, david. it never lets up. now it's paul ryan. before it was somebody else. it's just -- actually, i know this is going a little deep, but i want to -- i want to quote some...

>> he's supposed to look like donald trump but he's actually much too good looking. you are really handsome. are you having a good time tonight? >> night. >> where's your daddy? and your mommy, right? do you want to go back -- do you want to go back to them or do you want to stay with donald trump? >> trump. >> all right. that was a very cute moment, right? but then trump went fall bannon, as in steve bannon playing dirty attacking clinton, the media, and his fellow republicans. bannon is on leave as the executive director of breitbart and serves as the ceo of the trump campaign. with me to di...