Barack Obama: “If we're going to be the country we know we can be, we've got to keep doing the hard work of building the future of this…”

I’m going to insist that we can do better than we’re doing right now.

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

The effort, he said, “should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views.”