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The gracious tweet from president trump. i think we may have woken up to something else. yeah, plenty of wednesday morning quarterbacking as you d imagine here at the white house. the president trying to frame this the best possible way after a humiliating defeat after picking the wrong horse in alabama now twice. this morning he wrote the following. he wrote the reason i originally endorsed luther strange, and his numbers went up mightily, he notes, is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. the white house really over the course of the last couple of weeks has tried to present this as if the president s hands were tied, that he had to support moore. but what s incredible is that they find themselves in that position just 12 months after republicans swept the white house and congress. the president s initial tweet that you noted overnight lacked the blame, the anger that we typically see f ....
Going to have to deal with that. president obama was talking about himself as a candidate. he ran two times. he won two times. he has a stellar record in many, many areas. and as he said, he would have articulated about the things that he has done. with regard to secretary clinton s campaign, i think the president was speaking in a more global fashion when he talked about it in a sports kind of analogy. every pundit, every poll, every anybody just about who was involved in this, was predicting still toward the end that hillary clinton was going to win and right, but mayor, even david axelrod said he thinks there s an implicit criticism there of hillary clinton coming from obama. david axelrod is the one who did the interview. there will be many people who will weigh in on, you know, what could have happened, what should have happened and the president in another part of that interview acknowledged that it was a little bit of monday-morning quarterbacking. i think to some extent h ....
Coming up at the top of the hour mike barnicle said we missed a key point. we covered it just fine, mike. my god. the transition of power to donald trump is now under way. presidential historian doris kearns goodwin joins us to talk about the magnitude of the moment that most political observers never saw coming. plus right now in every major poll, national poll and statewide poll done in the last month, six weeks, we are defeating trump often by big numbers and always in larger margin than sretary clinton is. thursday morning quarterbacking. could bernie sanders have beaten donald trump? i always thought that was a possibility. i did. some people suggested it. you said beforehand it was a better matchup for democrats than donald trump against the clinton machine just like donald trump against the bush machine. bernie sanders was a wild card ....
gee, that was a lot of candor, she said i didn t see any of them and i guess the follow-up question i would have asked is don t you think you should have? don t you think it was important enough since you chose to put this man in a very dangerous situation. certainly he was willing to serve and we appreciate that we have an obligation to provide adequate safety and security for the people in that area of conflict, in that region. why didn t you think it was important enough to follow up and make certain that they were secure? well i could actually she s remiss in her job duties. in a way, eric, that could be all of us sort of monday-morning quarterbacking. however you pointed out in the first block is that email from huma abedin, hillary s aide, that says hey, madam secretary, the ambassador is thinking of leaving his post because he s worried. so she s aware. unless she didn t see that email. but it seems strange to me. very strong strang. you know what was kind of ....
Hitler [ music playing ] raul castro isn t even fidel castro. it s like jim belusho. est good. he ain t john. he s done jim belushi watch out. nelson mandela will lay in wait three days. the motorcade carrying the former president passed on its way to pretoria. tens of thousands paid tribute at a marathon memorial service. people standing, dancing, singing in the rain. but there s a lot of wednesday morning quarterbacking over this moment. president obama shook hands with foreign dignitaries and reached out to cuban president raul castro, jon stewart said, it s the first subject changed since bill clinton and fidel castro shook hand. senator ted cruz a part of the u.s. delegation to south africa ....