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People are genuinely happy to see you. this is hanois old quarter, but its looking less and less old these days. man, this areas changed, though. the irish/czech-themed pub next door. vietnam is a young country. almost half of vietnamese are under the age of 30. fewer every year even remember what they call here "the american war." those years were a defining time for just about everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back...

This abstraction of the flag and the troops. i understand at the same time there are four service members actually killed in a battle in a place that most americans couldnt tell you we were engaged. and that preference for the abstraction and the symbolism over the actual conversation over where the u.s. is fighting its wars. >> yeah. it is stunning the sort of dichotomy there, the two views of the same symbol, if you will. and in the fact that this administration with respect to those four serv...

>> michael, finely, one of the things, the juxtaposition today is the president talking about players kneeling for anthem. it sort of struck me this perfect juxtaposition of a lot of what has happened and the way this country thinks about war in the last 16 years. this abstraction of the flag and the troops. i understand at the same time there are four service members actually killed in a battle in a place that most americans couldnt tell you we were engaged. and that preference for the abstract...

Novel which shows that youre a kratz can make for wonderful fictional characters. in literary terms how did you go about transforming brussels this iraq receive this abstract power structure into a human story. is it. this is comes in from the initial approach is quite simple working it all out isnt always so easy but starting is you just have to assume that even though its an abstraction its one made by people. and you can tell a story about anything man made thats why i went to brussels for a ...

State. >> and they dont call it foreign relations for nothing. its about relationships. its about consultations. its about negotiations. you need people to do that. one day maybe robots will take on the task but not yet. so we need to increase the number of diplomats we have. theres more than 190 countries in the world. dozens of international and regional organizations. plus you need senior state department people at interagency meetings to decide what the policy of the united states should be....

Relevant that the issue of health care to you and to senator john mccain is uniquely near and dear. you are fighting kidney cancer. so this concept is not an abstraction to you. >> definitely not. and its -- frankly, health care is not an abstract for millions in our country. i would say every family, everybody has dealt with health care in their lives. so its personal to every single one of us. really the guiding principle that we all subscribe to is the principle that health care is a right no...

Thats under constant assault from water and water whose levels we are every day, because of pollution, raising the level. >> youll get a lot of angry tweets about that. but whether or not you believe the argument you just made -- i happen to -- but whether or not you do, it is not really even the point in florida because the water levels are rising. you can doubt why it is happening. but it is happening, and that concrete having replaced those marshes and swamps means that when extra water and e...

He won. theyre doing everything to obstruct him and stand in his way. its a really great big group of people who genuinely want to get him out. they dont want to wait until the next election to get him out, theyll try anything. >> harris: i want to lean on your perspective because you have such great knowledge, having worked with david cameron at a time when he was as part of the establishment and now youve got president trump whose counter the establishment and whatever else is saying. what inf...

This is hanois old quarter, but its looking less and less old these days. man, this areas changed, though. the irish/czech-themed pub next door. vietnam is a young country. almost half of vietnamese are under the age of 30. fewer every year even remember what they call here "the american war." those years were a defining time for just about everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back home, for most vietnamese these days, ...