From BBC:
First let’s have a little chat with Cecelia Lynch, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. … “Part of the issue that President Obama has had to deal with more than others, perhaps, is dealing with foreign policy and conducting foreign policy in the context of one of the most hostile oppositions in U.S. history.”

For the full story, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039nl0p. Lynch appears around 1:56 into the clip.