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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 f ....
Trump and his allies were trying to undermine democracy. but people do not accept president biden s legitimate president that is simply because they ve been repeatedly told by trump s allies. so what needs to be done at this point so that everyone trusts and believes the outcome of the results of an election? that is a great and large question. i think every political leader, whether you are president, former president, officeholder, party person, if if you have some level of responsibility in american politics you ve got to be honest with the american people who are under un following you, when the elections are over, about one who lost. i don t think that means candidates and campaigns can t avail themselves of legal mechanisms of four races closer they want to look into something. but at some juncture, the way this works is, somebody winds and somebody loses, we accept it and that we move on and we fight it out again, two years later. that s a beauty of american democracy, is, we ....
National good. that s how this era began. george w. bush, son of a president, grandson of a senator, he passes the baton to barack obama, who i think, i m right spent one vacation with his father in his whole life. so, george w. bush, a man with a dominant father, coming from the highest reaches of the american elite. barack obama, as mrs. obama said, a mixed race kid with a funny name. he becomes president of the united states. then, to obama, to a new york real estate developer, who has become this populist, divisive, and indeed unconstitutional figure. then an irish catholic kid from delaware and pennsylvania. so you have this panoply of the american experience. not everybody. it s doesn t reflect all ....
One time it didn t in recent history. and what s up with that? so, this is how important this speaks to the importance of who is in that office and what the office stands for. what kind of president you want even when you didn t vote for them. even when you didn t agree with them, even when you thought they were wrong. and some level we expect them to take their oath and the office seriously. the oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution. that is what a normal presidency is. the question is, what we still see that in the future? who better to help answer and talk about then all of this then presidential historian john meacham, the author of, ....
Cleared to move them and then stored in a way that comports with, in this case, not just confidential, not to secret, not just top secret, not just sensitive, compartmented information. but human control systems that go to actual human sources overseas. special access programs that are limited to a handful of people who have a need to know. and for all intents and purposes, as best as the investigators have laid out in their documents, it looked like these boxes were packed up in the white house office moved on a moving truck by moving who i am pretty confident or not cleared for this information and put in a basement storage room that is guarded by a padlock, which is not a secure compartmented information facility with lead lined walls and secret code to enter by authorized people. they were kept at a minimum in the former president s office and basement, adore that the fbi had to tell trump ....