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That lasted a nano second. and they saw the party is -- the base 80% of the party believes trump is really still the president or should be president. you know, they have radicalized their own base. now they cant have those reasonable debates within the party that representative gonzalez wants to happen. so this is a sort of snake eating in own tail type of situation. and i dont see any room for a gonzalez or a liz cheney or anybody else. theyre not making progress anymore. they need to live and...

Cooper. thank you so much for joining us tonight on "the beat." david, ill start with you. theres a large number of republican lawmakers many of whom have publicly backed the insurrectionists, voted against impeachment, but theyre not showing up to this event that could be happening tomorrow. what has changed? >> whats changed about so many republican officials not wanting to show up at this rooly tomorrow? >> thats a really good question. the trump cultive personality is a bit of a weird cult. ...

Events for tomorrow. and we have a strong plan in place to ensure that it remains peaceful and that if violence does occur, that we can stop it as quickly as possible. were not going to tolerate violence, and we will not tolerate criminal behavior of any kind. >> national guard is standing by, and that fence around the capitol is back up. look, since the insurrection we havent seen that much changed. democracy is still under attackch with the republican party still beholden to a blogger and twic...

>> reporter: jennifer, thanks so much. ayman, back to you. >> thanks to you and to jennifer for that poignant story. i encourage everyone who visits new york to make it to the museum. its absolutely powerful. a powerful reminder of what happened and the lives lost. thank you. and david corn of mother jones writes this. though americans felt more vulnerable and feared future strikes there was a new commitment to understanding the world better. that was not to be. one of the enduring tragedies o...

By Ajaz Ashraf When American leaders talk of promoting justice and democracy in the world, the Muslim world hears vengeance and greed The Taliban and the United States of America share an enduring passion for war and mayhem.

But the neo isolationist far right got in his ear as well as the self-loathing far left and told him you need to end this endless war. we are facing real enemies there. >> mcmaster did point a finger at the three most recent administrations, which would include his former boss, but somehow left off george w. bush. he also forgot to mention one more architect of our present mess, himself. in 2017 "the washington post" reported that mcmaster played a key role in getting trump to commit more troops...

To build a gas station with natural gas for a country that has very few cars and none run on natural gas. thats the kind of money people were pocketing. the corruption was endemic. we trained people for an army that never really was real. it was all on paper. it was time for this to end and joe biden had the courage to do it. >> thats exactly right. >> im proud that he did. >> and war is ugly and its always ugly. claire mccaskill, david corn, thank you both very much. up next, lester holts exc...

Explosions this morning, i knew that the next round was going to be an even ramping up of these war hawks. but even before that happened, henry kissinger is back out there thinking we need to hear from him. henry kissinger, whose legacy, whose resume includes destroying countries throughout latin america and africa. we need to hear from him now? the war hawks are back, david. what do you make of it? >> well, listening to henry kissinger is sort of like going to bernie madoff for financial advice...

Govern without the flow of money from the united states and with all of these disparate elements and this very young population. so trouble is ahead for the taliban. we wont need to worry about whether the taliban is in trouble going forward. >> yeah, exactly. well see how good they can figure out how to govern that country. david, one of the things that has bothered me throughout my career in this business is there is -- dwight david eisenhower was not wrong when he said there is a machine. the...

To come because of a possible threat. i was critical and i think its okay to be critical of the decisions made because i think the administration needs to do better. >> yes. i think they are trying to do better and trying to listen to the people on the ground, something that this administration and past administrations have not done so i think its okay to be critical of the decisions made because there are lives on the line american and afghan and our international allies. david you wrote in you...