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Of fun interviews, and this is when i think the president might have missed, this particular clip. lets watch. >> i have seen the return of c what are called the four horsemen of the apocalypse. populism, i will say nativism not nationalism. isolationism and protectionism. we did that before.it was the pd war i and world war ii. it led to a depression and war. >> the great depression is here. its been here since 2001 when china entered the wto. we lost 70,000 factories 3.4 million manufacturing ...

Agendas of disruption and e isolationism. british lawmakers voted to block the plan of a no-deal brexit and they voted against the bid to call an early general election. heilemann, why does this matter? we talk about other examples of sort of trumpism being tested or sort of thriving in other countries. is this an example of something trumpy failing in the uk? >> yes. i think its interesting at a couple levels. first of all, a special relationship with the british alliances matters a lot, it alw...

Fox is apparently reporting things, had some guests on that the president didnt like. and so the president unleashes a first strike nuclear rhetorical attack against the network. thats emblematic of the way our political conversation goes now. and one thing i would just say with all respect to the generals point in that, he says, were better than our current politics. i would amend that slightly. we can be better than our current politics, but we arent always. and the forces that the president r...

Always. and the forces that the president represents are perennial ones in american life. isolationism, xenophobia, nativism, and those forces either ebb or flow. right now theyre flowing. the next great leader nationally is going to be the leader who puts those forces in retreat. but theyll never be permanently defeated because this is a human enterprise. >> gene, do you think mattis speaking out with his essay, with his book, is there a chance it registers at all with the president? >> with th...

Think it would have been for people who almost -- many of whom were inclined to already agree with him. and i think thats one of the issues we have in the country, is we tend to filter out those with whom we disagree. we saw it today with the president attacking fox. fox is apparently reporting things, had some guests on that the president didnt like. and so the president unleashes a first strike nuclear rhetorical attack against the network. thats emblematic of the way our political conversatio...

>> if youre republican, you see the deficit exploding. >> exactly. >> you see tariffs and nice economic isolationism, all of the things you spent a life rejecting. >> and the bad signs for the economy are happening in states, including -- that include the surprise states that he won in 2016. >> thats exactly it, michigan, wisconsin. >> wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. and its -- theres nothing good in this poll and nothing good about whats going on now. >> real quick -- >> i was going to say, ...

Short-term pain. you can lose your leadership in election over some perceived long-term gain. so i dont think that the other leaders here have a lot of leverage with president trump on this particular issue. hes set his course and hes going to run with the course, because what matters to him. and this goes to the america first, the isolationism. what matters to him. and this is what the leaders here understand, his domestic political standing, his reelection campaign. that is something everyone ...

Our boys and women -- men and women and for everybody on the ground. especially people who support us who are on the ground. so, yes, we have made strides in the caliphate which is as big as great britain in terms of space but that doesnt mean we are done and a doubt any democrat running would say we are done. that is a good strategy. >> and one of the things about this field is you do have three veterans. tulsi gabbard and pete buttigieg and seth moulton have all served in iraq or afghanistan a...

But the idea that we should look at the broader cultural roots of all of this, im not against that at all. >> laura: absolutely, isolationism, connectedness on the internet. but no real human connections. people left behind because of family breakup or breakdown or substance abuse or a combination of all of that. theres no doubt about that. these are deep, complex problems facing a society in many ways i think with lost spiritual center. dinesh, also i want to get to this tonight because in the ...

After pearl harbor it took five days for us to get into the european war. thats how strong the forces of isolationism were in this country. and so -- im not saying, therefore, the bad stuff is fine. but its not a partisan point. it is an historically based point that the struggle is to get to doing the right thing 51% of the time. if we can get there, well have an era were proud of. if we stay where we are now, well have an era that as vice president biden said, we hope its an aberration, but it...