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His view, if they paid attention. this is something that could have been expected. and i think above and beyond that, you were kind enough to mention presidents at war. the big lesson that you get, if you look at american history for 200 years, is if youre an american president who is conducting a war, the war doesnt work, if americans dont understand it, if they dont support it, and the war in afghanistan sadly, unlike 20 years ago, we did it in response to 9/11, properly in my view, 20 years l...

As an author and historian on president johnson. in fact, there was something written in "the post" yesterday by david ignatius that i wanted to read and get your take on. he writes it this way. the reversals in afghanistan are confounding for a biden national security team that has rarely known personal failure. jake sullivan, the national security adviser, went to yale, oxford, yale law school. antony blinken, secretary of state, attended harvard, columbia law. these are americas best and brig...

>> indeed. marc mackinnon, i have a reading for you, this is by michael cast the historian in the new york times, we just showed the headline of the piece he writes, incited quote the last time a war blew up in the face of a democratic president, it derailed his domestic agenda and stalled the most ambitious social reforms of a generation. two lessons from lbjs downfall are paramount. first, tell the truth, even if it makes you look bad, temporarily. second, keep the coalition that elected you u...

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A substantial ramp up of the civil war with more loss of life and bloodshed. >> reuters reporting the biden administration has been holding secret talks with other nations in an attempt to help afghan refugees, and we quote here, the previously unreported discussions with such countries as kosovo and albania underscore the administrations desire to protect u.s.-affiliated afghanis from taliban reprisals while safely completing the process of approving their u.s. visas. back with us, victoria def...

>> you know, curt, you work -- you advise the dccc. it seems to me we have two competing forces here. we have democrats who can pass legislation and pass what they would consider, what progressives would consider, what many old time democrats would consider historic legislation. and we put joe biden as a transformational president along the lines in many ways of lbj, if you just look at expanding the social safety net. then on the other side of that, if democrats want to win, as you know very we...

Her even from his own experience, here is joe biden, are we lucky that that experience almost 50 years ago, put in his mind this idea that you cant keep on asking young americans, other americans, to give their lives in those of our allies, if the american people dont get with the wars, about and dont support it. >> yes, and its interesting because we talk about the american public not being interested in foreign policy. in presidents are almost defined by foreign policy to buckles, whether its ...

New york times" says that reminded him of lbj back in 1964. here it is. >> we are not about to send american boys 9,000 and 10,000 miles away from home to do what asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. >> so, listen, you just mentioned it in your answer before about the 70% of people wanting the polling, showing that americans want to get out of afghanistan. im wondering if thats going to -- if that will hold up after this and if the president continues to take a stand, saying, i stand by ...

Caught flat footed. >> michael, you mentioned vietnam. the president invoked the memory of vietnam during his remarks as well. have a listen. >> i made a commitment to the brave men and women who serve this nation that i wasnt going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago. our leaders did that in vietnam when i got here as a young man. i will not do it in afghanistan. >> how important do you think the memory of vietnam for biden and other ...