reporter: so much for the pleasantries. donald trump today blasting president obama on twitter. doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o. statements and roadblocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. but this afternoon trump seemed to have change his mind saying the transition was going smoothly. trump and obama had been careful to avoid personal criticism of one another in the weeks after the election. but the more combative tone emerged this week after obama claimed he could have beaten trump the he ran for a third term. i am confident in this vision because i m confident that if i had if i had run again and articulated it, i think i could have mobilized a majority of the people to rally behind it. trump counter punched, tweeting president obama said he thinks he would have won against me. e should say that but i is a no way. jobs leaving, isis, ocare, etc.
president-elect donald trump, somewhat predictably, responded in a tweet president obama said he thinks he would have won against me, he should say that but i say no way, jobs leaving, isis, ocare, et cetera. today president obama tweeted again president obama campaigned hard in very important swing states the. voters wanted to make america great again. an entire generation of democratic party leadership, operatives, staffers are tied to obama s presidency and they are reckoning with just what happened. joining me now, one of those people, the former speech writer for president obama. i wanted to have you on because the interview with ax was interesting for a lot of reasons. how is obama world processing what happened? i think we re figuring this out like everybody else. i m a little bit outside of the other bit in l.a. but i this i what the president said overall was pretty articulate. it was a variety of factors that hal
podcast from cnn.com. and as we said, donald trump gave his response tweeting it out a short time ago. president obama, he wrote, said he thinks he would have won against me. he shouldn t say that, but i say no way! jobs leaving, isis, ocare, et cetera. this jab, the world was gloomy before i won. there was no hope. now the market is up nearly 10% and christmas spending is over $1 trillion. on that note, let s bring in the political panel. political strategist, angela rye. trump supporter and contributor to the hill kayleigh mcenany. matt lewis, steen your contributor at the daily caller. washington post assistant editor david swerdlick. matt, in effect, president obama picking two fights here, one with hillary clinton, at least throwing a jab that way, but at donald trump saying, listen, if i d gone up against you, i would have taken you down. yeah. i would have been able to keep that what a good political athlete should believe. yeah.
a very long time is they would love him whether he won or lost. that, he found, was grounding for him as he went through these very challenging eight years. david axelrod, thanks very much. happy holidays. you can listen to the rest of that conversation between axelrod and the president by downloading the axe files podcast from cnn.com. and as we said, donald trump gave his response tweeting it out a short time ago. president obama, he wrote, said he thinks he would have won against me. he shouldn t say that, but i say no way! jobs leaving, isis, ocare, et cetera. a short time later he threw in this jab the world was gloomy before i won. there was no hope. now the market is up nearly 10% and christmas spending is over a trillion dollar. on that note, let s bring in the political panel. political strategist, angela rye. trump supporter and contributor to the hill, kayleigh mcenany. matt lewis, senior contributor at the daily caller.
obama said he thinks he would have won against me. he should say that but i say no way. jobs leaving, isis, ocare, standing for obamacare, et cetera. of course, donald trump did rein in and hone in on the american anger as it pertained to trade and jobs leaving. and obamacare, seems like he s doing the same thing in his twitter, his tweets overnight. we do know donald trump has been quite busy on twitter and quite biting as well overnight. they ve also been busy, they made an announcement on a new top adviser tore donald trump. what did they announce? well, thomas bosert is a veteran when it compaes to national security issues. he served as deputy homeland security adviser in the george w. bush administration and since 2009 he s run his own national security consulting firm. the trump team is sort of billing this as an elevation of the post which is called