President Obama's Interview With NPR's Nina Totenberg - March 2016

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  • In an exclusive interview with NPR’s Nina Totenberg, the president explained his decision to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court and defended his choice, calling Garland “one of the best judges not just in the country, but of his generation.” Obama also blasted the Senate for obstructing the confirmation process, saying if it truly refuses to consider Garland, it would be setting a new precedent and “at that point, the judiciary becomes a pure extension of politics.”
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Komentáře • 197

  • @robblevinsky7900
    @robblevinsky7900 Před 8 lety +23

    boy I will miss this guy, it's going to be a HUGE step downward no matter who wins in Nov.

  • @GopalSinghR1
    @GopalSinghR1 Před 8 lety +62

    Obama is a great speaker 👍and npr doing good job

    • @ghosthunter1945
      @ghosthunter1945 Před 8 lety +2

      true

    • @packbeatsunc
      @packbeatsunc Před 8 lety +2

      +Deadlord spacer ...she asked a great question when she said "why are you nominating a white guy? why not somebody else"
      really taking the true spirit of the great doctor martin luther king to heart in front of the leader of the free world

    • @GopalSinghR1
      @GopalSinghR1 Před 8 lety +1

      +packbeatsunc ya that was really a cool question

    • @GopalSinghR1
      @GopalSinghR1 Před 8 lety +1

      +packbeatsunc ya that was really a cool question

    • @MelindaGreen
      @MelindaGreen Před 8 lety

      +Gopal singh I wanted him to say "If you like my appointment record, you should just give me this one."

  • @nandoGdog
    @nandoGdog Před 8 lety +7

    Love Nina, seen her some years back on a late night talk show and she killed it!

  • @duket.8598
    @duket.8598 Před 8 lety +11

    I appreciate that you showed everything (very C-SPAN, but). I appreciate it because it shows context... that we are human... that cell phones go off even when you're with the president of the United States. Often times when you cut and splice we lose a sense of our humanity, I think... thank you for that NPR. And Hey... you got an extra 5 or 7 minutes on top of the 20 minutes /15+5/, so, how cool is that :-)

  • @paulsalyers4421
    @paulsalyers4421 Před 8 lety +11

    Excellent. Nina rox.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    The eternal question?

  • @aronax4492
    @aronax4492 Před 4 měsíci

    you good man

  • @jhouse770
    @jhouse770 Před 8 lety +2

    At around the 14 minute mark, the President admits to helping to socially engineer the Federal court system by installing a majority of 'minorities' as Federal judges.
    Shouldn't it be based on the content of their character, and not the color of their skin (or sexual preference)?

    • @245194LAC
      @245194LAC Před 8 lety +1

      +Jay H
      It can be said that there is a bias in this country when it comes to race. That is proved frequently when reading the discourse in the media. When a case comes before the court in which race has no part whatsoever, but the person under consideration is a person, are the white components of the court thoroughly willing to turn a blind eye to the color or are they secretly going to be biased? Were a person of color such as is the case with Thomas, would that not be considered as balancing the court the same way as was the case for gender equality? Contrary to what some people may think, all people are capable of having a comprehensive appreciation and understanding the law regardless of their color so, why not put them under due consideration? And, for the record, I am what is considered to be white but, I think that I am more pink . . . .

  • @aronax4492
    @aronax4492 Před 4 měsíci

    you game my game

  • @rokehdokey34
    @rokehdokey34 Před 8 lety +10

    God damn it, I don't agree with everything he does, but I freakin love this guy. He's probably the dad that let his kids stay up with him and watch Arsenio when they were younger.

  • @Fugue602
    @Fugue602 Před 8 lety +1

    Forgot to turn her phone off? You're talking to the president...

  • @lhsouthern1988
    @lhsouthern1988 Před 8 lety

    Politics as a scrum match is a perfect description!

  • @Gwunhar
    @Gwunhar Před 8 lety +1

    What is this? No reassurances about his member? No "that's a nice judge there, it'd be a shame if something happened to his nomination?"

  • @cacimbocacimbo1199
    @cacimbocacimbo1199 Před 8 lety +4

    The plagurist and political partisan Totenberg conducts the interview as one would expect. A friendly chat with the purpose of achieving a mutual political goal. No tough questions nor the slightest hostility. This is an advert as to why NPR needs to get off the public trough.

    • @subgeeze
      @subgeeze Před 8 lety

      +Cacimbo Cacimbo, I'd be interested to hear what question you would have asked.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 2 měsíci

    Gridlocked

  • @benzacct1
    @benzacct1 Před 8 lety +1

    Are there any decent, respectful, unbiased reporters left? Not this one.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 2 měsíci

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  • @mikegraves4155
    @mikegraves4155 Před 8 lety +2

  • @marteenmartinez3684
    @marteenmartinez3684 Před 5 měsíci

    What preschool am I going to?

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Categorical imperative

  • @lhsouthern1988
    @lhsouthern1988 Před 8 lety +1

    the koch brothers are afraid citizens united will be overturned.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Tropist tropical toot -tonic technotronic toe loop

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Al Pacino or Robert Deniro?

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Via negativa sativa

  • @user-bu4ow2he4w
    @user-bu4ow2he4w Před 10 měsíci

    Governança social!

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

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  • @user-bu4ow2he4w
    @user-bu4ow2he4w Před 11 měsíci

    policlínica!

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Math is absurd constructs

  • @laronlemon2723
    @laronlemon2723 Před 8 lety +10

    When Obama ran the first I was extremely skeptical. Every time he speaks, and every action he has taken has slowly whittled away at my skepticism. He has tried extremely hard to compromise with an irrational congress. His nomination of Merrick Garland to the supreme court was excellent, well informed, and a very moderate decision. Should members of congress decide to implement their previously stated plans to not even give this highly respected judge consideration it is not only a failure to the oath they stated when they took office, it is a failure to those whom they pretend to serve. Remember their names when mid term elections arrive.

  • @fyd1872
    @fyd1872 Před 4 lety

    Hello

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Logical positivism

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    The deerhunter

  • @user-bu4ow2he4w
    @user-bu4ow2he4w Před 10 měsíci

    Governabilidade?

  • @hughjames46
    @hughjames46 Před 8 lety +3

    Brilliant man. I'll miss him.

  • @snakething87
    @snakething87 Před 8 lety +3

    Good job Mr. President. I'm glad you picked a possible justice based on who was best for the job and not who would fit the spectrum of political correctness.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Dialectic of history

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 2 měsíci

    Brooklyn yoga school

  • @marteenmartinez3684
    @marteenmartinez3684 Před 5 měsíci

    I went to buffet city and ate good

  • @HaoSci
    @HaoSci Před 8 lety

    Liberal says that Garland is pro-prosecutors, and in some cases pro-corporations. The only thing liberal is pro gun control. First, the president vet their records, see if their opinions match that taste of the president, and see if there is any controversy the candidate is involved in, and assess how the nominee could fair in the senate hearing and the senate vote. Second, the president interviews the candidates about their opinions on some of the issues that the president cares about, and maybe about their health.

  • @tyu3456
    @tyu3456 Před 8 lety +2

    He looks so incredibly tired.

  • @TravisFelix-s2c
    @TravisFelix-s2c Před 9 hodinami

    I think they possess that spirit as insane people who don’t want to be called illegal alien police officer on other people who move rapidly past them

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Pascal’s wager

  • @robertburr9612
    @robertburr9612 Před 8 lety +2

    gotta like this guy....He'd be real third term material if he wanted that.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 2 měsíci

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  • @user-bu4ow2he4w
    @user-bu4ow2he4w Před 10 měsíci

    Fiocruz!

  • @garudakripa2856
    @garudakripa2856 Před 8 lety

    oyee

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Cogito ergo sum

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    1+2=81

  • @TravisFelix-s2c
    @TravisFelix-s2c Před 9 hodinami

    What they are not but they wanted to tell you the truth for they wanted to tell you the truth for they but man the area for instance seems better than the fire department two doors down now for visionary

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    1+3=7

  • @TravisFelix-s2c
    @TravisFelix-s2c Před 9 hodinami

    We had to look at ourselves and moved rapidly past what they ate and selected new people but this is all regulated by a brain surgeon how did we look at ourselves in school at 12 year olds but thinking back the 12 year old camera is your only reference to it. So if you ask what happened in the mountains you go back to a camera image of 12 year olds walking by each other in the hall and he walks into them and she walks by and laughs and then they move her cousin on him in the mountains all I got for example in sharing that crimes later involved in pizza another point at 16 not normal like this to see what black and white looks like verbally to 16 so then no one talks to each other other than the kids and students with one another completely

  • @burtonvigil3481
    @burtonvigil3481 Před 8 lety

    Hello NPR. I found your discussion on Islam this morning on the radio offensive. Saying people shouldn't say this or that about it. It is fascism more than a religion. You should not be promoting Islam in California. thank you.

  • @jamespeterson4275
    @jamespeterson4275 Před 8 lety

    Can someone tell me if there's a hardball question about why Obama picked someone who voted IN FAVOR OF Citizens United!??!?!
    If you're publicly funded by the you need to be asking these kind of questions...
    Six minutes in and I'm not seeing anything. Not giving this any more retention time until someone replies with substance of what I'm looking for.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Abstract realism

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 2 měsíci

    Laughing lotus

  • @donnagjoka2587
    @donnagjoka2587 Před 3 lety

    Nina you are not old 😂 .. untill you use all ..

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Existential ennui

  • @kylemeador
    @kylemeador Před 8 lety

    You have to wonder how this saga would play out if the shoe was on the other foot

    • @ciaranoconnell4783
      @ciaranoconnell4783 Před 8 lety +4

      +Kyle Meador To be fair, the Democratic base isn't batshit crazy like the Republican base is. If a Democratic Majority Senate held a hearing & voted on a Republican president Supreme Court nominee, the Democratic base wouldn't go insane with rage, calling them traitors & go after each Democratic Senator that allowed a hearing & voted in vicious & brutal primary battles to get rid of them because they ''betrayed'' the base..Four Democratic Senators voted for Alito. They weren't targeted by hardcore liberals in primary battles to get them out.
      Bottom line is that the Republican base is insane & treats any hint of compromise as pure treason. As Obama said, Democrats are nowhere near perfect but the Republican obstructionism is the main reason why there is so much gridlock. I don't care what anyone says, Obama did try to compromise with Republicans again & again & what did he get for his efforts? Thrown back in his face.
      It's the reason why Trump is the front-runner of the GOP nominee for president. The GOP base cannot understand that over 2/3rds of the nation doesn't want what they want. Liberals make up a good third of the country. Another third are moderates and independents that can be persuaded with sound arguments from either side if they are bipartisan enough, not insane hardcore political extremism from the right that treats anything different from that extremism as something to be destroyed. That's 66.6% of America that doesn't want what the Republican Senators are doing.

  • @bobbyrios2400
    @bobbyrios2400 Před 3 lety

    6 3 now Conservative???Good job Obama!!!

  • @user-bu4ow2he4w
    @user-bu4ow2he4w Před 10 měsíci

    #Neo, 21!

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Logical nonsense

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

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  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 2 měsíci

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  • @adeliaadel2867
    @adeliaadel2867 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Yank 😘👄,, aku tunggu di rumah,, 😊,, ny,, asia obama's

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Caveat emptor

  • @malex4321
    @malex4321 Před 8 lety

    Take a look America. This is a special type of person that comes along once or twice in a lifetime. We have been so blessed to have him in the White House for two terms. I am going to miss him.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Hanuman

  • @user-bu4ow2he4w
    @user-bu4ow2he4w Před 11 měsíci

    humanístic?

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Big night
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    Pool hall junkies
    The color of money
    Afterhours

  • @OMR6468
    @OMR6468 Před 8 lety +1

    This is the best deal the Republicans in Congress are going to get. We will see if their pride keeps them from realizing it.

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 3 měsíci

    Ontological logical positivism

  • @vietrofl
    @vietrofl Před 8 lety +1

    Shame the people causing this mess will not listen to reason.

  • @shada5840
    @shada5840 Před 3 měsíci

    أوباما

  • @darrylcrane253
    @darrylcrane253 Před 4 lety

    That’s exactly what it is today the court is so political now it has gotten outta hand

  • @samuelfoster4663
    @samuelfoster4663 Před 8 lety +1

    17th like!

  • @wilhelmmercado9831
    @wilhelmmercado9831 Před 2 měsíci

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  • @adeliaadel2867
    @adeliaadel2867 Před 4 měsíci

    😙👨, 🙏🙂,,ny,, asia obama's

  • @carneyyuan6422
    @carneyyuan6422 Před 8 lety

    奥巴马老了不少,做总统压力大呀

  • @lhsouthern1988
    @lhsouthern1988 Před 8 lety

    She needs to be on Bill Maher. This woman is the only person who has the credentials to do this interview

  • @SoCalFreelance
    @SoCalFreelance Před 8 lety

    Figures Totenberg begins by advocating for Garland, what a tool

  • @karmamy9416
    @karmamy9416 Před 8 lety +1

    uh eer eer uh er er arh argh er argh ur argh

  • @bh1520
    @bh1520 Před 8 lety

    19:39 please turn off your phone OK? You are meeting the PRESIDENT,and then where is your RESPECT? HAIL to your president,HAIL to my president.

  • @davidcooper177
    @davidcooper177 Před rokem

    A corrupt system.

  • @nilesboyer2123
    @nilesboyer2123 Před 8 lety +2

    I don't don't have anything against Obama. just think he's intention and plans didn't work out as well as he hoped.

    • @nilesboyer2123
      @nilesboyer2123 Před 8 lety

      +BJ Harvey I've been the action of these politicians. I served underneath bush and Obama.

    • @nilesboyer2123
      @nilesboyer2123 Před 8 lety

      +miles smith actions**

    • @nilesboyer2123
      @nilesboyer2123 Před 8 lety

      +BJ Harvey TACP.

    • @nilesboyer2123
      @nilesboyer2123 Před 8 lety

      +BJ Harvey yup

    • @nilesboyer2123
      @nilesboyer2123 Před 8 lety +1

      +BJ Harvey right on. a wrench turner is what I'll call him. everytime I deployed I was attached with the army. Obama doesn't have a lot of fans in the service. while I was engaging with the enemy, Obama was on his forth month long vacation playing golf in Hawaii.
      don't tell anyone. but i actually want trump in the Oval Office.

  • @pizaz1001
    @pizaz1001 Před 8 lety

    I'm gonna miss Obama

  • @subgeeze
    @subgeeze Před 8 lety +1

    Excellent. Republicans should rejoice that Mr. Obama cannot run again. And it was so good to see Nina Totenberg; I've always been able to hear her smile -- nice to confirm.

    • @guitarhaus
      @guitarhaus Před 8 lety +1

      +Jim Crissman No actually you should rejoice that Obama cannot run again or otherwise we would be living in a Muslim country under "Sharia Law" with the influx of muslims he's bringing into the country

  • @joshmcgill6567
    @joshmcgill6567 Před 8 lety

    out of interest, what do american's actually think of Obama? Over here in Britain the consensus is he's done a pretty good job, but what's the opinion over in America?

  • @nancyevans3207
    @nancyevans3207 Před 8 lety

    President Obama is a brilliant, charismatic , and knowledgeable leader who has relentlessly worked to solve and resolve some of America's biggest problems.