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President Donald Trump made the same mistake as his predecessor by not being more involved in the details of health-care legislation, a former assistant Commerce secretary told CNBC on Thursday.

Trump and then-President Barack Obama should have been more engaged in the legislative process, said Mary Jo Jacobi, a former aide to President Ronald Reagan and a member of the George H.W. Bush administration.

"He just left it to the House and Senate," she said, referring to Obama. "President Trump has made a similar mistake with what may or may not be 'Trumpcare' leaving it to the House and Senate."

Referring to Congress, she said: "They've had 7 years to come up with a replacement once they repeal. Now they haven't repealed, they haven't replaced and it doesn't look like they're going to do either."

Obama signed an overly complex bill that was likely to be unworkable in the real world, but at least he got a bill, Jacobi later added.

"The lesson is that the executive and legislative branches need to work together on big affairs of state to ensure protection of the public interest and a workable outcome," Jacobi said in an email.

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Q: Did former President Barack Obama follow President Donald Trump to the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany?

A: No. That claim was made on websites that dont make any warranties about the reliability of their information.

I read a posting on Facebook that said Obama showed up at the G-20 conference and is shadowing Trump. It sounds like fake news to me. Is it?

Former President Barack Obama didnt attend the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in early July as headlines on a viral story falsely claim. Several readers asked about the story, which Facebook users also flagged as potentially fake news.

Obama Goes to G20 Summit, reads the headline on one version of the story published July 8 on World-politicus.com. The same story, published on Wetheproudpatriots.com, was headlined, Obama Shows Up In Germany For G20 Acting Like The President Look What He Did To Screw Trump.

Obama is a shadow president that will not leave the current administration alone, the story says. He has been doing everything he can to mess up what Trump is doing. And being a liberal elite, he can get away with it. Everywhere President Donald Trump goes, Obama shows up too. A little odd, no? This concerning practice has gotten on the last nerve of the Trump administration and it shows that they are concerned with what Obama is trying to do. Obama needs to realize that he is no longer the president, no matter how much he wants to be.

But neither website provides any evidence to support the headlines stating that Obama was at the 2017 summit, where leaders from 19 countries and the European Union gathered to discuss international cooperation on financial and economic issues.

Instead, those websites point to aJuly 7 storypublished by the Young Conservatives website, which only faulted the Obama administration for not making hotel reservations for the U.S. delegation. BuzzFeed, followed by several other media outlets, had reported that the Trump administration couldnt find available hotel rooms in Hamburg. The president stayed at the city governments guesthouse.

In fact, the terms and conditions page of the We the Proud Patriots website says the site does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. And a disclaimer policy on World-politicus.com says it does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (world-politicus.com), is strictly at your own risk. That makes both websites unreliable sources for genuine news.

Other sites that published the story about Obama attempted to bolster their false headlines with photographic evidence.

Snoopack.com, for example, included a photo of Obama standing near German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but its an image from the 2015 summit in Turkey. The photo that Xbn-news.com published along with the story shows Obama talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2016 summit in China.

The official group photo from the 2017 summit includes Trump, not Obama.

In an email to FactCheck.org, an Obama spokesman confirmed that the former president was not at the G20 summit, Germany or even Europe and was never scheduled to be there. Obama was last in Germany in May for an event with German Chancellor Merkel, his spokesman said.

Editors note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebookto help identify and label viral fake news stories flagged by readers on the social media network.

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CNN gave three times more coverage to the alleged secret meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin at a G-20 dinner than former President Barack Obama's infamous hot mic gaffe with Russia's former president in 2012, according to a study by the Media Research Center.

The study, released on Wednesday by Newsbusters, showed that from the time the news broke late Tuesday afternoon on the previously undisclosed Trump-Putin talk through around midnight, CNN spent over 75 minutes covering the discussion.

Trump and his aides pushed back hard on the media's coverage of that meeting, downplaying its significance and suggesting there was nothing 'secret' about it.

The MRC study, meanwhile, contrasted CNN's coverage with that of the March 2012 conversation between Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

CNN COMMENTATOR WON'T CALL TRUMP HER PRESIDENT

Obamas microphone was on during the exchange where he told Medvedev that This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

Medvedev responded: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir [Putin].

According to the MRC study, during the same timeframe on March 26, 2012, CNN spent roughly 25 minutes discussing Obamas misfire.

CNN host Wolf Blitzer described the incident in 2012 as awkward, while the networks hosts used the Trump-Putin talk to discuss the presidents credibility and his posture in regard to Russia.

The context for Trump's interactions with Putin is different than it was for Obama and Medvedev, given the special counsel probe examining allegations of Russian meddling in the election and possible coordination with Trump associates. This backdrop helped make Trump's separate and official high-profile meeting with Putin an international news event.

But Trump later called the intense coverage of the dinner conversation "Fake News."

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Keegan-Michael Key revived his beloved Key & Peele character Luther, Obama's Anger Translator to criticize the Trump administration during the actor's Tuesday night visit to The Late Show.

"There is very few things we've heard from President Obama since he left office. Literally, just a couple sentences out there talking about policy," Stephen Colbert told Key. "I was wondering if I could read what Obama has said and Luther could translate that."

Key played along and after bugging his eyes out and upping his intensity transformed into Luther as Colbert read him Obama statements regarding health care and the Mexican border wall.

"Trumpcare! More like 'Trump Don't Care!," Luther yelled at the audience before taking aim at the Republicans. "Y'all gonna kill some people, but you know what? Most of the folks in America want this country to still have people living in it! I would say you people make me sick, but I can't afford that because I have no damn insurance."

Luther then poked fun at Donald Trump's nonsensical statement that the Mexican border wall must be transparent so people aren't crushed accidentally by 60-pound bags of drugs being tossed over the wall.

"I've seen a lot of movies from the Eighties, and I ain't seen nobody die from a head injury. Scarface, nope! Less Than Zero, nope! Cheech & Chong, drugs yes, but head injury, nope," he said. "And 60 pounds of drugs? Who they got throwing these things over the wall? You telling me John Cena got a Mexican cousin over there?"

Not even six months into the Trump administration, Luther concluded his rant by promising to keep a vigilant eye on the White House on behalf of Obama.

"Everyone of y'all in the White House has lost your damn mind! Imma tell you one last thing: I thought I was on a forced retirement y'all, but it look like Obama still need me, so I am back," Key's character said.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday disputed a new book's depiction of a bitter election-night exchange between him and then-candidate Donald Trump.

According to Devils Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency, by Joshua Green, a senior national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, Trump lashed out at Christie after the governor allegedly offered Trump his personal cell phone for the candidate to receive a congratulatory call from then-President Barack Obama.

Obama, the book reported, called Christie's cell phone to congratulate Trump, but Trump wanted to take the call on his own phone.

And Trump let Christie then serving as Trumps transition team chief know he was angry. "I don't want your phone," Trump said, according to the book.

Christie, however, disputed the entire account Tuesday.

"There was no call from President Obama to me," Christie said during a wide-ranging interview on MSNBCs "Deadline: White House."

"The book is wrong fundamentally in that there was no call from President Obama that evening," he added. "I didnt speak to the president that night at all."

Christie said on MSNBC that he received a call "from a member of (Obamas) senior staff" and that that person asked how the president could get in touch, "if your guy happens to win."

"And I said, Just call my phone and Ill give you his number,'" Christie said, adding that he then told Trump of the call because he felt it was a good sign.

"I said, I think they think at the White House you're going to win, because theyre calling and asking how to get in touch with you after that happens," Christie explained.

In his interview with MSNBC, Christie also said Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya because hes not "a sophisticated political actor."

"Hes not sophisticated in this stuff," Christie said.

Trump Jr., Christie said, should have consulted with the campaigns lawyer after receiving an email from music publicist and acquaintance Rob Goldstone, who wrote him that a Russian lawyer had information that would "incriminate" Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton and would be "very useful to your father."

What they should have done when the email first came in was to go to Don McGahn, Christie said. McGahn was the Trump campaign's chief lawyer and is now White House counsel.

"If they had gone to Don with that, I am willing to bet you everything Ive got in my pocket that Don would have said to them, Dont take that meeting and lets alert the FBI,'" Christie said.

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