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Stronger political muscle as well as economic, and so its become a place where we could very easily find a flash point that could lead to conflict between, you know, the united states and china. >> and that is -- that would be terrifying, right? you have, you know, obviously, the criticism of u.s. involvement in afghanistan was that the u.s. had no significant interest to be there. what do you think? is involvement worth risking war with china? >> well, there would certainly be an argument that ...

Our next guest has a new book out on managing risk. retired four star u.s. army general stanley mcchrystal was commander of the joint special operations command and later all u.s. forces in afghanistan. he is now the author of "risk: a users guide" along with anna. general mcchrystal, thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with whats going on between china and taiwan, and if you would, just set the table for us. why should americans care about the tensions between taiwan and china rig...

Very surprised if they dont overturn roe versus wade outright. then i guess the question is what the american people, american women, americans who believe in reproductive autonomy, what they do next. so far this issue hasnt been getting people out into the streets like some other issues i think because people still find it really hard to believe that this could actually happen, but if it did happen, you know, i would hope that that would be a flash point and a turning point in american politics...

In this new marketplace of ideas that exists after the trump administration, but that could have far-reaching implications. it certainly has spun out in some areas with bans on teaching critical race theory, which of course impacts the work that both you and i do and helps us understand how policy developed in the wake of american racism and what we can do to improve policy in the future as school boards are challenged, for instance, over issues of whether critical race theory can be taught in o...

Statutes and monuments have become such a cultural flash point in recent years that the mellon foundation took it upon itself to perform a national monument audit the first extensive accounting of the countrys, quote, commemorative landscape. they documented more than 48,000 monuments in the country and reports novelty findings like the fact that america has 22 statues of mer maids but only two of u.s. congresswomen. other findings show how certain demographic groups and events get left out in t...

Whether youre winning, or just doing your best. when youre on the lanes, theyre right behind you. reunite with your team. go bowling. a huge gathering happening today in washington, d.c. right now, thousands are gathering for a womens march in support of reproductive rights. the demonstration is in response to a restrictive antiabortion law in texas, and its one of 600 marches happening across the country just two days before the supreme court term begins. with us now from a similar march, but...

Their state. only two have come out against. so thats south dakota and wyoming. this is sharp contrast to what we saw with syrian refugees in 2015 where 31 governors came out against it. so by and large, i think governors want to just know what numbers of arrivals and when, but in terms of their general support, we have seen a strong response. >> it seems that polling so far suggested that americans largely welcome these refugees, something they believe is important to the national identity of w...

Understand that its not inappropriate for the united states of america to reassure a competitor or enemy were got going to attack them, we dont have any escalation out of control, right? we definitely need those answers. when i talked to this person of what mark es pechlt r is thinking, this all started in october, we dont want a flash point. >> youre talking about secretary esper. did this person have anything to say about general milley? >> this was d.o.d. i dont know about that but they confi...

Dont like with things like elmo asking about race or a rosa parks biography or the 2017 academy award-winning best documentary feature. people who are watching this watch this issue nationally say this york situation could present a new front in this battle in which anything that centers non-white people, their experiences, their lies, their history could be suspect. and they say thats a very, very scary thing to think about. don? >> yeah, lets remember, as they say, theres no systemic racism. t...

From general milley on this. you know, what we have now is leaked excerpts. i can talk in theory here. if -- if there was a real concern about, you know, some kind of flash point between china and the united states, a back channel communication is not a bad thing. however, ive got to be honest with you. the idea that china was scared that donald trump was going to launch a nuclear weapon, or that there was all this fear, general milley could easily have set up, as supposedly he did, hey, were no...