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Not out of arrogance, not out of altruism, but for the safety and security of our children. this is a fact. strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice. isolationism in the pursuit of security is no virtue. >> with that, id like to welcome in my panel. with me, msnbc contributor jon meacham, the author of "destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush." also with me washington bureau chief for the "usa today," susan page. the author of "the matriarch, barbara bush and the...

We have the g-20 meeting down in buenos aires now, he was about building the architecture, even the arab league was with him when we went to war, the iraq war, the gulf war, he had the checkbook powers, japan, russia, germany paying the price of the gulf war because he put it together. >> the greatest generation, if youre a republican, they were coming out of pre-war isolationism, and these guys were internationalists, they believed in international organizations. and what they called collective...

President is saying that racism and mommy issues are contributing to lack of progress in the united states in his own words, obama. >> we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues. [laughter] >> sandra: you were there. >> listen, you have to first understand the audience. an audience of about 500 community organizers, civic leaders, and those people that really are about promoting good. there is a fork in the road in this country, it is clear. you can go down thi...

Isolationism were more ferocious in intimate settings than even the battles over vietnam, but just because somethings happened before doesnt mean its not happening now, and i have a theory about this. theres been a little butt of scholarship on it, that to some extent whats happening is as particularly main line protestantism begins to fade from the center of the country, to some extent political strife and political loyalties have replaced religious belief and religious practice. and when you t...

Of nationalism followed after world war i by over zealous isolationism by the united states. and i think that was part of the message, too. >> do you think, david, that the 44 hours that president trump spent there in paris with world leaders did more to bolster the transatlantic partnership or more to just further expose its cracks? regardless of talking points from either side when you really look at it, what did we get? >> poppy, you got a graphic on television illustration of what weve all h...

Others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, its moral values. to ruin this hope by giving into the fascination for withdrawal and isolationism, violence and domination would be a grave error that future generations would very rightly make us responsible for. now to california where crews are working around the clock to contain those deadly wildfires that continue to burn out of control. the largest among them is in northern california and is known as the campfire. it has wiped out the entire...

Angela merkel and trump upon putins arrival. in his remarks, president macron warned against nationalism, a label president trump has recently embraced. >> translator: as the very opposite of the selfishness of a nation that only looks after its own interests because patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by saying our interests first, who cares about the others? we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and wh...

Good that trump is paying more attention to being close to putin than he is in sort of defending europe against it. so i think what we really got to watch and this gets to michael, having a great historian, we had the head of world war i right a book called "the great illusion." there was no dream there would be world war 1. economic growth was strong. great progress among great nations. no one could imagine this happen. it did happen. it happened because of a rise of isolationism, of nationalis...

And to ruin this hope by giving in to the fascination for withdraw, isolationism, violence and domination would be a grave error that future generations would very rightly make us responsible for. today, here together, let us face the judgment of future generations with dignity. france knows what it owes its soldiers and to the soldiers who came from around the world, it recognizes their greatness. france respectfully and solemnly pays tribute to those from other countries who died for france. t...

Interests interests first, who cares about the others. >> i dont know who has played whom, the president landing in france a couple of days ago, firing off this tweet about comments the french president made in a radio interview several days before the president of the united states saying the french president just said he wants to create a european army, he was upset about that. now this happening after he decided not to go to the commemoration yesterday. your read on whats happening here, i gu...