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>> julie: tammy bruce, thank you for talking to us today. what should we make of these reports that biden pressured the afghan president, the former afghan president ghani to change the perception that things arent going well in the taliban fight? >> he also said i think as many people now know to say that whether it was true or not. that was acknowledged in the call that this would be false. and the congresswomans comments were right on point. when you are the president, what is so difficult ab...

Theyre responsible leaders and the world should trust them and they are saying hey, we would love to have women join the movement and things like that has the taliban actually turned over a new leaf or is this just spin? >> oh, give it time, steve. give it time. good old fashioned taliban propaganda. what they have a legitimacy advantage and legitimacy problem. their legitimacy advantage was that the afghan government was so corrupt and so incapable that when they rolled in they could prove hey,...

Enough to permit it. indeed, whether this effort does or does not end up happening, a host of bad actors are already laying the groundwork for right now via a simple execution. and greg sergeant joins me now. you know, greg, there are sort of two parallel issues here, and theyre related. but theres the question of, well, did the institutions hold, right? and raffensburger rebuffs trump and jeffrey rosen, the attorney general rebuffs trump. and jeffrey clark, the man who wrote that letter, that u...

Legitimacy seems important here and something i am focused on. there is a legal regime. you can have a legal process in which all of the laws are followed, which is what we had in the last election. >> it was certified. everyone did their job in the end. but the legitimacy problem is deeper. not something that can be corrected. the attack is a deeper attack in some ways. >> well, you are absolutely right. your point about the elections abroad are well taken. those of us that are outside say that...

Choked up. instead of 13 months away, getting control of the senate which means we can have the powerful fight. its an incredibly stupid move. >> do you agree with that, rich? >> i think mike is a little too panicked over here, can barely get his words out. look, its a short-term thing whether the obama care glitches get enough coverage the first week. the key question is whether there are really, over time, enough people signed up to make the exchanges work. theyre very dubious about that. this...

Instead of 13 months away, getting control of the senate which means we can have the powerful fight. its an incredibly stupid move. >> do you agree with that, rich? >> i think mike is a little too panicked over here, can barely get his words out. look, its a short-term thing whether the obama care glitches get enough coverage the first week. the key question is whether there are really, over time, enough people signed up to make the exchanges work. theyre very dubious about that. this law has a ...

Democrats out of office over obama care. when your opponent is in trouble, when theyre drowning politically, you throw them a fire hose. we throw them a lifeboat and a machine gun and now we debate this -- excuse me, im all choked up. instead of 13 months away, getting control of the senate which means we can have the powerful fight. its an incredibly stupid move. >> do you agree with that, rich? >> i think mike is a little too panicked over here, can barely get his words out. look, its a short-...

Did as you suggested as got engaged and managed to force the leaderships to get one. >> theres an institutional set-up. that the u.s. government says were for a two-state solution. thats always the official policy. and then theres a set of ngos and institutions and groups that say theyre from a two-step solution. apec. everything is for a two-state solution. theres no constituency for an actual two-state solution. >> nsa not true. theres a constituency for it and there continues to be among both...

If we did, as you suggested to get engaged. >> this is the spector i worry about. theres an institutional set up. the u.s. government says we are for a two-state solution. its the official policy. theres a set of institutions and groups who are for a two-step solution. everyone is for it. theres no constituency for a tuesday solution. its muldering middle. >> theres con stitch wan si for it. they just dont see their own government institutions or frankly our government institutions being able to...

Fairly significant vote both popular and electoral, and he had some of the same legitimacy problems. president bush lost the popular vote but managed to govern i think relatively effectively. i dont think there was a legitimacy problem for very long. look, i think youre staring at a very potentially likely scenario of mitt romney carrying the popular vote and losing the electoral vote. if you believe gallup, and i have to believe gallup, but if hes by 7 in the gallup poll, theres a chance he wil...