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Yourself on social media. meaning, youre emotional. its a quick emotional moment. i think that social media is not reflective of what america is, but i think on our politics its reflective of our worst moments and now we see. we experience our worst moment all the time now in american politics. >> when we think of john mccain -- we know there was so many aspects to his public service. as you point out he did a lot of things pragmatically for political reasons. one of the defining things was help...

Omar goes to the airport and theyre cheering welcome home. >> he was jealous about that. >> thats the vision of america that democrats have to put out there. are you with the send back to africa group or people who embrace american values of welcome home, the same words on the statue of liberty, the huddled masses yearning to be free. if we send omar back do we send back the statue of liberty? there was no aoc/pelosi divide. there was one focus. beating donald trump. we are the fire walls protec...

Made. >> to young americans across the country, now is your chance to join our military and make a great statement in life, you should do it. that was the recruitment appeal. it is defense of our airports. he explains by the teleprompter going out. >> well, it is hard to imagine a greater hypocrite. hes a draft dodger. he did not dodge the draft to end the war or sort of a peace core. he dodged it so someone else can go to his place in vietnam. the plane patriot for a day by

Been and is im sick and tired of war. the drum beat of war. especially from a draft dodger, right? we have so many of our brothers and sisters and sons and daughters and uncles and aunts and familyd friends who have ge off. they have been fighting wars for a generation almost, and here you have incompetence with regards to the iran deal. i want to say its incompetence at a base level, chris, right, because you pull out of the iran deal. youthir basically create the fi and then you want all pat o...

You create this atmosphere that we have already seen. theres been two instances now, the guy in florida and the coast guard guy a few months ago. >> im well aware. >> who have sent out bombs trying to decimate the top leadership of the democratic party. all the people trump goes after. they sent out bombs to the obamas, the clintons, biden, eric holder. and in that atmosphere i dont know what is possible and trump talks about we have the tough people. we have the tough people. okay. again, dicta...

Out -- there was a delay because she cut out a swear word. >> its pretty insane. people did give their lives in defense of american freedom and western civilization, feels the need to go after trumps military record and joe biden didnt serve in the military either. bill clinton was presumably a draft dodger. this newfound reverence for the idea that everybody has to serve from the same people who want to undercut the military and defined it is kind of amazing. >> ed: in "the washington post," if...

Domestic political adversaries. he defended the united states as the director of the fbi for democratic and republican presidents. the only person in our countrys history to have his term as fbi director extended to serve additional years. before that he was a decorated veteran. just startling to see anyone sit before graves at normandy and call robert mueller a fool. >> well, i mean, the one thing we do know is that president trump lacks the capacity to exhibit a li-- in a number of different o...

Do you wish you had been able to serve? would you have liked to serve? >> i was never a fan of that war. i thought it was a terrible war. it was very far away. at that time nobody ever heard of the country. >> would you like to have served generally? >> i would not have minded that at all. id have been northehonored. i think im making up for it now. >> joining me is democratic congressman. thank you for joining me. appreciate it. >> thank you so much for having me. >> i want to start right there...

Great about going to vietnam, but they went. thats what we do in this country. we have a war and a draft, people must go. he never admitted that he was a draft dodger and one of the most ridiculous things he said that was beyond embarrassing is it was so far away. like that has something to do with it. >> im sorry. its ludicrous. im lavine i laughing. >> its unbelievable. >> mommy, its so far away. i dont want to go that far. >> we should remember a lot of young men dodged the draft including bi...

Think that. obviously it was a divisive war. david does that justify his comments as a sitting president of the united states? >> absolutely not. and lets be very clear, erin, the only thing that veterans hate more than a draft dodger is a man who lies about it. and thats what this president has been doing about his military, lack of military service for a number of years now, just to review the bidding he had four deferments for education, fair enough. but then he had the fifth deferment that k...