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Historian. great to have you here again. thanks for being here on a friday night. >> thank you, rachel. >> is it fair to say that new presidents, not just the new term of a second-term president but a new president taking over does tend to get some tests from americas adversaries. is that a pattern? >> it absolutely is a question of when not if. and you know, we heard, rachel, i think youve talked about this when president obama met with president-elect trump, he said one of your biggest problem...

Term of a second-term president but a new president taking over does tend to get some tests from americas adversaries. is that a pattern? >> it absolutely is a question of when not if. and you know, we heard, rachel, i think youve talked about this when president obama met with president-elect trump, he said one of your biggest problems is going to be north korea. go back in time. 1969, richard nixon was in office about ten weeks when we americans had a reconnaissance plane the ec-121 shot down ...

Americans had a reconnaissance plane the ec-121 shot down over the sea of japan, all 31 crew on board were killed. and nixon and kissinger, his national security adviser, were boweled over. they didnt expect this. they didnt know why it was happening. kissinger later said we were unprepared and we screwed up. that was a time when nixon had been in public office for -- had been in public life for 22 years. very experienced, very clear about his foreign policy. now we have president-elect trump wh...