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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 ultimate example of someone who is reaching out to donald trump, wanting to continue the transitioning ...

Obama said the right things. hillary clinton said the right things in her concession speech. but that doesn't mean that people are not going to be upset. >> david, do you remember, you know, this sort of reminds me of barack obama's race speech, where he disavowed himself from the church and talk about race. there's no doubt white supremacists have attached themselves to trump's campaign. should he give a speech about hate and spell out where he stands on that like barack obama had to do on race? >> yes, he should give a race speech. i don't think one speech will do it. look, trump won the ele...

In terms of the message he puts out from the bully pulpit, i think there's 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 won't 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 he should say something now. he will continue to say things throughout the course of his -- the ear...

>> let's 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 don't think anybody disagrees with that regardless of your politics. but the speech that he gave on friday was the same president obama, the same emotion barack obama speaking truth to this country and bringing everybody along with him. i haven't see...

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 don't 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 haven't seen something like that since 2004. >> really? >> and that's with someone who gives great speeches. but the emotion, the rawness of it, was so real to me. >> it was a weird bo...