not a lot. donald trump wasn t going to honor his predecessor when he launched his car spreading the racist birther lie at the 44th president of the united states duly elected twice was not born in this country. that was far from normal but what we saw today said a lot about the office of the presidency, the people we elect to hold it and the peaceful transfer of power to one president to the next. i ve always described the presidency as a relay race. you take the baton from someone. you run your leg as hard and as well as you can and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle the runners in that race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer to its highest aspirations. now, just imagine someone else speaking in that manner. let s be honest. can t. that s what a normal presidency is supposed to be about and today we saw a former president not afraid to make fu
foreign countries nuclear capabilities. cnn has yet to come that said, when reached by the post, did not deny the substance of. it instead, he said something that we ve now starting a la ronda fenders of the former president in the last 24 hours, deflecting the facts, focusing set on the lead. for example, here s marco rubio who serves on this this past sunday, exploiting the way the fbi recovering as a storage argument. this is really, at its core, a storage argument that they re making. there are documents there, they don t deny the access to them. i don t think a fight over storage of documents is worthy of what they ve done. now that the washington post published a report about nuclear secrets big involved, senator rubio is focusing more on apparently cause. it doesn t seem like the kind of thing that you should have in your post presidential desk drawer. let s break this down. first of all, we really don t know. let s go back and understand that all this
apple podcast, it s feature there. a week from today on september 14th. you will find an apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. and a quick sign up to make sure you don t miss. it the news, it does continue, we will hand it over to don lemon. this is don lemon tonight and barack and michelle obama. back at the white house today, there was a time when that would be normal. it would be expected. a former president and first lady back at the house where they lived for eight years, for the unveiling of their official white house portraits. hosted by the sitting president. barack and michelle, welcome home. welcome home. but let s face it. how much normal have we seen for the past three years? not a lot, actually. president trump sure wasn t going to honor his predecessor, not after he launched his own political career by spreading the racist birther lie at the 44th president of the united states, duly elected twice, was not born in this country. that was far fro
disaster. cnn s frederik pleitgen is joining me live from ramstein air base. what do we know about the new aid package? reporter: the secretary of defense made those remarks just a couple minutes ago here and you re right, it certainly comes at a really decisive time as the war is dragging on in ukraine. on the one hand the fighting around the zaporizhzhia power plant, but then also you have the ukrainians making gains in south of the country and also in the northeast of the country as well. the secretary of defense says the u.s. wants to make absolutely clear that they remain strong in their commitments to ukraine and are going to give the ukrainians what they need to succeed. he was saying that the package from the presidential drawdown is $675 million and he listed some of the main items on that new drawdown. here is what he said. the latest package includes more gimmlecs, howitzers, artillery munitions, missiles, humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems, small a
wrapping up his first term in office with a tradition that goes back decades, hosting the previous president for the unveiling of his official presidential portrait. on that day, in may of 2012. obama made this statement about the point of these portraits, as an enduring member of the presidents temporary time in office serving the people. now the white house is many things at once. it is a working office. it is a living museum. it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. but at the end of the day, when the visitors go home and the lights go down, a few of us are blessed with the tremendous honor to actually live here. i think it is fair to say that every president is acutely aware that we are just temporary residence. we are renters here. we are charged with the upkeep and tell our lease runs out. but we also leave a police of ourself in this place. we are renters here. charged with the upkeep until our lease runs out. in 2012, we did not know how precious those remarks wer