now, to 2020 politics in a field of democratic contenders growing to historic proportions, but even as more candidates joined the primary race, the establishment may be looking for somebody from the outside to deliver the big blow to president trump and that potential savior according to politico magazine is former president barack obama. and joining me is two alums of the obama white house. the former obama personnel management, and jesse is a former speechwriter and so, welcome to you both. i wanted to start with you, jesse. what politico magazine is saying how plausible is this scenario to you, and what role do you see president obama playing? well, it doesn t seem plausible that he is going to put the hand on the scale too heavily. this is me reading the tea
carry over to that. it is college football saturday. it s going to be a huge saturday right here in tallahassee. you have fourth-ranked georgia going against 12th-ranked you have the matchup between baylor and oklahoma. i am here at florida university where the rattlers are right in the fcs calls for the first time in a decade. this is a special place. they bring good energy, good enthusiasm. we have a broadcast journalism here. what do you love? i love is that the experience, it s nothing but the experience, it s one you ll never forget. i love that experience. they always talk about something here, family, they say. i have to say it is you can feel it, right? when you come back, the alums, they say welcome home victor christy, it s going to be a great day here in tallahassee. thank you.
focused on the issues. there are people hurting in this country for different reasons. we have significant issues whether it s gun violence or income inequality. i think those issues need to be addressed. what we do at howard is try to produce young people who can go out in the world and solve those big problems. how are young people today dealing with the cost of tuition that come from familys that don t have money? it s difficult. it s definitely an issue. at howard we give tuition rebates. we re starting to create a two-year track. we ve allowed students to go to summer school for free. they are making good progress and have zero balance in the spring. we ve done some innovative things and our graduation is up as a result. we re trying to attack that issue by giving students an opportunity to me tick late more quickly and give parents an alternative from taking up loans such as a tuition rebate. kamala harris, one of your graduates. one of my alums.
morale. people there are just absolutely miserable. you talk to anybody with an ear. this was a challenge for you because it s been so unruly. but it has always been because it s argue blaefl one of the more stressful agencies to work at on good days. and it s viewed as sort of the ugly step sister by the other agencies. people in the fbi look down on dhs. a number of fbi alums have been placed in top positions of dhs. they say why do we have all these fbi guys here? they are trying to undermine us. there s all this internal fighting. it s this messy family. i spent an enormous amount of my time just on basic management reform, improving morale. i remember that you would tell me you would do these very sort of mike mckenzie like sessions. just to remind the workers you are here for an important job.
four congresswoman to go back. and here is what the obama veterans wrote. in part we have heard this before black and brown people in america don t hear the chants in a vacuum. for many much us we felt the full force shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs. scrawled across lockers or hurled at us online. now, president obama said he was proud of his alums for standing up to president trump. but mr. obama has not directly challenged president trump about either case. should he? i think it s very concerning. i mean, look, we are sitting here in an interesting time of america. where we all need to take a step back. i mean, the level of divisive rhetoric coming out on the division, the increase of hate crimes all throughout different sectors of america, this is very troubling times. and we need a leader. we need a president who is going to bring us together, who is going to talk about moving and