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The Bill Press Pod

The Legacy of President Barack Obama (Special Edition)

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Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Young Turks, Donald Trump, Jamie Benson, Progressive, News, Bernie Sanders, Progressive Talk, Liberal, Cnn, Msnbc, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press welcomes Jen Bendery & Justin Sink for a special edition podcast on the legacy of President Barack Obama. From Obamacare to marriage equality, these three veteran White House correspondents take a critical look back at the first African-American president's eight years as commander-in-chief. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Broadcasting around the nation on your radio, on your TV, and online.

0:13.0

This is the Bill Press Show.

0:16.0

It is the Bill Press Show and welcome to a little special holiday chat with a couple of good friends

0:23.7

of ours here from the White House, from Congress, a couple of reporters who are frequent guests

0:29.4

on the Bill Press show. And we want to just take a look here at the end of the year and the

0:34.0

end of the Obama administration and the brink of the Trump administration on what's

0:40.8

going on and what we can expect.

0:44.6

Jen Bendery covers the White House and the Congress for the Huffington Post.

0:48.4

Jen, good to see you.

0:49.5

Thank you for being here.

0:51.2

And Justin Sink, he is is the big time White House reporter for

0:55.4

Blooming Bloomberg news hello Justin nice to see you yeah all right you guys

1:01.0

and so we anticipate a lot of changes and we'll talk about the changes but also

1:10.7

President Obama has been, is very busy, I think, kind of trying to secure his legacy and maybe a little concerned about what part of how much of his legacy will be left after Donald Trump takes office.

1:26.0

Let's start right there.

1:27.3

First of all, when he looks back, what do you think are going to be the he's going to be able to brag about, Jen?

1:32.7

What is the Obama legacy?

1:35.8

Obviously, the Affordable Care Act is his signature issue because it is also known as Obamacare.

1:41.9

So that's his name.

1:45.8

That stands out to me above everything else.

1:48.3

There's also the Dodd-Frank changes that they made to financial regulations.

1:55.0

They're very proud of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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