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A U.S. appellate court in September unanimously ruled that the NSA’s program of mass domestic surveillance was illegal, as well as likely a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” The court, and the broader public, knew about this illegal mass surveillance program created by the NSA only because Edward Snowden, while working inside that agency, di...

Out of time. it is even bigger than the emergency of the trump presidency. ask yourself how somebody like donald trump ever gets within cheating distance of the oval office in the first place. it doesnt happen unless america is already in a crisis, an economy not working for everyone, endless war, climate change, we have lived this in my industrial midwestern hometown, my generation has lived this as long as we have been alive, and its only accelerated. science tells us we have 12 years before w...

Briefed on this. the hardest thing is diplomatic instrument of power. i want to commander in chief that does the hard stuff without sending our troops back into harms way. into another cycle of o endless war. we have kids that will take an oath to the constitution today and all they know is conflict in the middle east for the last 18 years and were sitting on the abyss of the another conflict in the middle east. exactly to your point the economic consequence could be staggering. a fifth of the w...

Trump is a fight with fellow democrats. >> mike, thank you. well see you again on "morning joe." mayor pete buttigieg is outlining his initial foreign policy views as the 2020 candidate. during a speech, buttigieg called for the, quote, endless war, in afghanistan while taking swipes at president trumps own foreign policy. >> i fear some day soon, we may receive news of the first u.s. casualty of the 9/11 wars born after 9/11. it is not just to say we wont conduct foreign policy by tweet. nor ...

Afghanistan is something president obama obviously hoped to achieve before he left office. he did not want this to be on the next presidents to-do list. now he said today the next president will inherit this war. was that always an intestify tablet or does this announcement from the president today surprise or concern you? >> i dont think it was always an inevitability but the conditions are such in afghanistan, and i saw this when i visited in february, that i think ease made a difficult but co...

Year and a 17th year to the 14 years of effort already spent there, whether or not you think extending the war even further creates a greater likelihood of success than weve had before, this announcement from president obama today that he will not be the one, he will not be the president to end americas afghanistan war, that throws down a gauntlet for us civilians to figure out through our political system such as it is whether any of these people who are trying to become the next president woul...

Mistake in afghanistan. >> having served four tours in iraq and having such close ties to other veterans you served with but also the veterans community, can i just ask you as a vet how this resonates. what you think this is going to mean and how this is going to sound not just to those still serving in afghanistan and their families but to the people who have served there over this incredibly long, historically long period of time that weve been at war in that country. >> its the long yet war i...

But now that president obama has officially announced as of today thael not end the war in afghanistan and the next president is going to inherit thousands of american troops there on large military bases in that country, well, now all of a sudden it newly becomes really important to know what the candidates who want to be the next president plan to do about that war if theyre elected. this really wasnt on their next president to-do list before today, but it is now. and as a country were great a...

War. and she stands alongside jim webb, who wasnt even in congress at the time but as a public figure and a former secretary of the navy he was on the record at the time opposing the iraq war. to be fair, im not sure anybody thought to ask martin omalley, who was mayor of baltimore at the time, but at least he certainly didnt vote for the war the way then senator clinton did. and so now hillary clinton has come up with a way to talk about that vote and apologize for that vote in a way that hones...

Afghanistan. congressman, thanks very much for your time tonight. its nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me back, rachel. >> so ending the war in afghanistan is something president obama obviously hoped to achieve before he left office. he did not want this to be on the next presidents to-do list. now he said today the next president will inherit this war. was that always an intestify tablet or does this announcement from the president today surprise or concern you? >> i dont think it w...