taken positions reversing the obama administration a number of key cases. they re now supporting key laws in texas struck down by the court. they re supporting voter purging in ohio that s purged millions from the rolls. and you had in the obama a justice department that protected the right to provote. and in the trump administration, actively trying to suppress votes. we re seeing it at the state level with texas. very interesting, ari berman, thank you very much for staying on top of this stuff. thank you, joy. up next, the white house is on the defensive about trump s comments about aides accused of domestic abuse. details coming up. or make a back seat that feels nothing like a back seat? why give it every feature you could want, along with a few you didn t know you needed? it s simple. you can build a car,
mccarthyism. in another, president trump called obama a, quote, bad or sick guy. the white house has never said what president trump was basing these claims on only that the president was confident. let s discuss this. joining us cnn presidential historian and time mag contributor. i don t think it surprises anyone. jim comey testified before the house intelligence committee committee he had no knowledge whatsoever of any wire tapping at the direction of the obama administration of the trump transition team. it sort of confirms what we already know. it should be noted, though, that the report did say by the fbi that they would not confirm or deny anything that was top secret and that involved national security. so there s a sort of little mini loophole to say if there is any existing wire tapes that have to do with national security, those
is it politics? is it the left flank that is getting it or do they just not like her? hillary? yeah. yeah, i have a met a for, it s people on a left have done an eight mile run called obama a s presidency is. okay. and so, do you want to take, you know, another two mile run being hillary? you know what i mean? you want to continue on the run with the hillary? no, you want a cold shower after a hot run and that is bernie sand er sanders. you say, you just took an eight mile run, do you want to go another four miles. should hillary be worried or is it just kind of the, i don t want to say rand paul, you know, then people are going to be at me. don t kim kick the paul hive. is he the buchanan of the democratic party?
their legacies. i want to acknowledge a wonderful friend, steven spielberg and daniel day lewis, who are here tonight. we had a screening of their most recent film lincoln, which was an extraordinary film. i am a little nervous about steven s next project. i saw a behind the scenes look on hbo. well, let s just check it out. roll the tape. well, i was thrilled that lincoln was a success and i was thinking about what to do next. in the middle of the night i woke up and it hit me. obama. why wait? picking the right actor to play obama a, that was the challenge. who is obama really? we don t know. we never got his transcripts and they say, i needed someone who could dive in and really become barack obama. as it turns out, the answer was right in front of me all along.
and goes back to the main residence building and retires for the night. still no sign of any spontaneous demonstration over the web video obama a would later suggested escalated to a riot. there is information management officer sean smith and four diplomatic security special agents. another agent is at the nearby tactical operation from. some guards at the compound say they could hear up the street explosives going off and people yelling and chanting. a mad mob of attackers breaks through here in the gate a weak pointed and then move on here to the understaffed libya militia barracks. they torch it and light up embassy cars around it and then they move on. witnesses say the fighters are well armed and organized flying the radical islamic flag. an act in a tactical operation