obama also writes, these are her words, she can never forgive president trump for amplifying the birther conspiracy. the president in maybe the most unsurprising move this morning responded to her. i guess she wrote a book. she got paid a lot of money to write a book. and they always insist you come up with controversial. i ll give you a little controversy back. i ll never forgive him for what he did to our united states military. by not funding it properly. it was depleted. everything was old and tired. and i came in and i had to fix it. joining me right now, the grace and power of america s modern first ladies. cnn editor at large and politics reporter, chris alyssa. i find it fascinating that michelle obama opened up in the way she did about her marriage. the first lady memoire is a rite of passage, but hers is
press. remember when he attacked cecelia vega. same darn thing, the way he reacts to a woman asking a tough question. an african-american woman asking a tough question. you can see a different reaction in how the president reacts. if the president s supporters can take off their partisan glasses for a moment, this is not a red or blue issue at all. coming up for us, the president slamming first lady michelle obama when said she trump put her family in danger when he was peddling the birther conspiracy. that s next. hi, my name is sam davis and i m going to tell you about exciting plans available to anyone with medicare. many plans provide broad coverage and still may save you money on monthly premiums and prescription drugs.
well and plans to work from home today. we wish the justice well. everyone was waiting to hear about that. coming up for us, though, president trump also is now taking on a new target. former first lady michelle obama. after she said she would never be able to forgive him for peddling the birther conspiracy years ago. details on that ahead. plus, tensions are rising in the land of hanging chads. florida is now bracing for a pair of recounts. jamie gangel, let s talk about that, the crucial governor and senate races and a razor thin margin right now. republicans alleging fraud. where s the evidence of that? that s next. [throat clears] say hello to your fairy godmother, alice. oh and look they got gain scent beads and dryer sheets too!
yesterday. my colleague filmed a line of people waiting to get into the event there in montana yesterday. the president retweeted it. landing in montana now. at least everybody admits my lines and crowds are far bigger than barack obama s. let s talk about these two leaders in parallel. how does the president see president obama? what s this telling us about that dynamic? i don t think you can extricate president trump from president obama because, as we all remember, it was that white house correspondents dinner roast when trump was in the audience and obama was on stage going after him that a lot of people talk about sort of planted the kernel, the seed for which donald trump said i m going to run for president. and he did. trump ran for president on the backs of the birther conspiracy, an outright racist lie about president obama. these two have had history together. in many ways, this is a proxy war that started, you know, long before obama left office. we were talking about t
not be a reliable source of information, and that s true. michael cohen is an admitted liar. he pleaded guilty to a bunch of felonies. we re not going to take him at his word. on the other hand, there s a record going back years of the birther conspiracies, the discrimination lawsuits that the president had to settle as far back as the 1980s. you know, the reality is omarosa manigault, his former assistant, who made similar kind of comments about what she says the president is like behind closed doors. i would say that what he says in public is actually pretty bad. so that, you know, hearing that he also says some pretty awful things behind the scenes, well, that multiyear birther conspiracy that donald trump peddled was all the information i think most people needed to sort of get his take on where folks are coming from. i ve interviewed innocent kids who were wrongly imprisoned, the