what brady s team is looking at is at that point, there s a lot of qualified statements. we think it s likely we think it s probable we think it s more likely than not, but no smoking gun. oh, the gun is smoking like crazy. the language couldn t be you know jordan sharp, because they say fair preponderance of the evidence, people are saying, oh wait, that s not proof. yes, it is. in american courtrooms that is the standard of proof for everything that is not a criminal case. if this was civil litigation if the nfl was suing him, they won. yes, it is. unfortunately for tom brady, i think the legacy question now comes into play. steve, i know you re a big patriots fan. you know i m from seattle. we have to kind of go out of here. i look at it like okay this is going this is probably going on across the whole league. and, you know a lot of teams are doing this. a lot of quarterbacks are doing this. some of them happened to get caught during the playoffs.
historian, michael beschloss, an authority on that legacy question. michael, i ll start with you while we re hearing this powerful performance. lbj is a dif isive figure. do you think this is a opening to recast his legacy? no question. the johnson people hope very much the next few days particularly for a generation of americans who doesn t know much about lbj, to make sure that at least these people know what he did not only for civil rights but education and poverty and did a lot to create the world we re living in. but the other part is for those who are old enough to remember vietnam, it s still a complex legacy. how could the person who did such wonderful things domesticically on vietnam in some cases make decisions that don t stand up that well today. i think one of the challenges for two-term presidents, they don t have the chance to double back on divisive issues in a second term.
regime. i believe intelligence corroborates that. the intelligence is fairly convinc convinces. what is the remedy? people of good conscience on both sides of the aisle are wrestling with that. some prefer to do nothing. my concern is the legacy of that is very dangerous. can i give a counterexample? senator john kerry invoked the legacy question. it was a big part of the argument. saddam hussein used chemical weapons in two different uses. both against the kurds to put down a domestic insurgency against the kurds and also in his war with iran. now, he was never punished with that in the way we re talking about punishing assad. yet no other leader used these kind of weapons until assad did which would suggest to me that it s possible that it s really only extreme circumstances that led to the use rather than this punitively established international norm. by in large for the last 90 or 100 years, these weapons have not been used except in the iran/iraq war and by saddam hussein. i
this chemical weapons, killed to suggest the rebels did that is absurd. they have no such capability. it was clearly done by the assad regime. i believe intelligence corroborates that. the intelligence is fairly convinces. what is the remedy? people of good conscience on both sides of the aisle are wrestling with that. some prefer to do nothing. my concern is the legacy of that is very dangerous. can i give a counterexample? senator john kerry invoked the legacy question. it was a big part of the argument. saddam hussein used chemical weapons in two different uses. both against the kurds to put down a domestic insurgency against the kurds and also in his war with iran. now, he was never punished with that in the way we re talking about punishing assad. yet no other leader used these kind of weapons until assad did which would suggest to me that it s possible that it s really only extreme circumstances that led to the use rather than this
didn t run on in 2000 but that he fully embraced, i think pushed by dick cheney and the neocons in the pentagon. george w. bush got taken off the trajectory of being the kind of republican he was before he was president. he got pulled into this neoconservative wing of the party that made him a disappointment to the third part of the party, evangelicals. he delivered a not and never delivered a ban on abortion. he was pushed away. the one way he was embraced, the idea the media and culture disrespected bush is a lot of the reason the right dislikes obama. conservatives on twitter. i understand if i were a conservative and i watched my opening, i would not like it either. i understand. what s interesting is that there is a degree to which he has been distanced from a conservative movement. if you attack george w. bush, conservatives get incredibly upset. congresswoman, i want to ask you a subsequent question and dillon, i want to ask you about this legacy question. one of the things pr