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Pulling up the drawbridge of international engagement undermines U.S. interests where we still have sway in dictating a course of action.

Of problems in this kind of crisis moving forward. >> yeah, i mean think about the isolationism that we were facing in 1939 and 1940, and before pearl harbor, fdr was able to tell a story to the american people about why it was important to support england, who was standing alone against the nazis in western europe, and he talks about len lease and makes it a metaphor, your neighbors house is on fire, lend them a hose to save your house which then saves yours. so somehow thats what a story does....

0 the majority of votes. that is the economic payoff for the money to leave, that is been funding this racism, as a way to drive their agreed. ultimately, we are at "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. much appreciated. and thanks for joining us this hour at home. the chief federal judge in court in washington, d.c., made a ruling tonight concerning one of the defendants facing criminal charges for his alleged role in the january 6th attack on th...

Off, they aims to produce 2 billion doses this year to poorer countries, that has been revised down because they were never going to meet the 2 billion target. so on the vaccine, on the way out of the pandemic, mario draghi and others have talked about multilateralism and also on climate. because there is a sense here that in a time of crisis, i suppose leaders have been worried about a retreat into isolationism and protectionism. but particularly the people likejoe biden, mario draghi and emman...

He said we shouldnt withdraw to isolationism and protections but use it as a moment of conversion to building together. he said that the political decision—makers who will meet in glasgow are urgently summoned to provide responses to the crisis and offer hope to future generations — and we can all play our own part in trying to impact what he called the unprecedented climate threat. lets go to our correspondent at the vatican, mark lowen. mark, the pope is due to meet the us presidentjoe bid...

The kind of speeches that during normal times are unremarkable. but is this a president who has to bring along the country against isolationism which was the constant refrain of his predecessor. >> you know, thats exactly right. those do seem like words from a speech that a republican or democrat president would have delivered in decades past. but certainly, the last one didnt. of course, you remember, of course, a couple years ago that donald trump was actually laughed at by the world leaders g...

Been like japan on korea. no. what this was like is like being in vietnam. >> was there potentially a better way or inevitable, what weve seen in the past with whi special immigrant visas were issued. there was underlying intelligence here that was incredibly flawed. but lets look at that intelligence for a moment, do you think that was the first time intelligence was flawed in afghanistan? the absolute errors of that intelligence, which is no fault of our intelligence organizations. reflects th...

Can accomplish the mission and what do we do next, all eyes are still on the united states. what do you think the united states should be doing? >> strong words from tony blair. when you think about it biden came to the g7 in the uk, america is back and we got rid of donald trump and we got biden and it is all going to be great. what biden has done is taking america back to total isolationism because not only has he offended us, the british and we have a shift and nobody could trust the american...

Nato to up its game, to contribute more. donald trump took a military in the united states that was pretty well depleted and made it as strong as its been since ronald reagan. we can argue about... crosstalk. lets be honest — donald trump was the america first president. donald trump planted the seeds of isolationism that we see today in your country. well, i would say lets judge him based on what he did. he destroyed the caliphate. 0k? it rose on 0bama and biden�*s watch and trump sent the ...

On that close relationship with the united states pretty much since world war ii and churchill? it does mean we have to look again but i dont think we should delude ourselves, you know, and be defeatist into american isolationism. it is not isolationism, but it is certainly a moment where america, as you rightly say, under the last three presidents, and actually, had it not been for 9/11, probably the last four presidents, would have had a roughly similar trajectory of gradual withdrawal from th...