This week on press pass, how the 1988 president ial election rewrote the ground rules of modern politics revealing the stories behind the strategic missteps in do youukakis campaign. Its in above the fray. Robbie joins me now. Welcome to press pass. Thank you for having me. Ive known you for a long time. Youve been obsessed with this moment that there are different moments that sort of change the trajectory of how we fight political campaigns. The moment you were trying to capture here is what . I think the idea is that in 1988 george bush and Michael Dukakis, neither of them were especially compelling as a candidate. Early on the bush team decided rather than raise their positive, their approval they had to attack dukakis to raise his negatives, make him just disqualify him as a candidate. What happened was you saw this election where you had one side using negative attacks and trying to undercut the opponent and the other guy trying to run what he called a positive campaign. He did n
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Consensus is not a given. It will be catastrophic if we turn down and reverse a policy announced by the president of the United States to the world. An action that was going to take place is then negated. I think it does horrendous damage to the credibility of the president of the United States. Its at least 5050 whether the house will vote down involvement in the syrian war. I know because the clarity of where all of this goes. There a lot of risks here. The downsides are great. We cannot make this about the president versus congress or him shuffling off responsibility. We can have all of those debates at another time. This is about the credibility of the United States of america standing up for an antiproliferation and use of chemical and biological weapons. I think members of congress were divided in terms of what does that mean . Is this a treen go to war . What is the objectives of going to war. What authorization are we giving our president . In syria the situation continues to d
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Wont leave . Announcer from nbc World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. With american fighter jets providing cover along with a force of u. S. Marines, more than 150 americans were evacuated from libya after heavy fighting in tripoli forced the closure of the u. S. Embassy there. Libya has been increasingly unstable with rival militias engaged in some of the fiercest fighting of the gadhafi regime todays exodus has large implications which helped topple gadhafi and the threat of the bloody 2012 attack on the american consulate in benghazi. We begin our coverage with White House Correspondent kristen welker. Reporter the evacuation was necessary to protect the more than 150 americans in tripoli. Its the worst violence in the area since the revolution in 2011. Th u. S. Embassy was caught in the middle of intense fighting between the militia causing the americans to be evacuated. John kerry inherits on a diplomatic mission. Because of the f