Senior adviser to President Obama (2009-2017) - Valerie Jarrett

Published: June 19, 2019, 4 a.m.

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How much responsibility should team Obama take for the course American politics has taken since they left centre-stage? HARDtalk\\u2019s Stephen Sackur speaks to Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to President Obama. It is one of the great puzzles of American politics: how voters could make history by putting Barack Obama in the White House \\u2013 twice \\u2013 and then elect Donald Trump as his successor. Valerie Jarrett is a close friend and adviser to Barack and Michelle Obama from early days in Chicago, all the way through the White House years. How will historians view the Obama legacy?

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