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And in the last few years, youve seen him struggle when ive been covering him in the senate, reporters that weve confided in each other how mccain seemed out of step with his own party. defiant as ever, stubborn, committed to his own causes but his causes really drifted away from the republican party in a way that they were not drifting away under president reagan and president bush. >> robert costa, moderator of "washington week" on pbs and "the washington post" correspondent. thank you. michae...

And andrea, one thing that i think shows that so well, go back to 2004 when john kerry was the soon to be nominee of the democratic party. he was thinking of vice presidential candidates. you and i have talked about this. for a period he seriously thought of asking the democratic party to nominate john mccain, although a republican, as the democratic candidate for vice president. for a while that looked as if it might happen. then you get to 2008 and john mccain is nominated by the republicans, ...

Legacy, this moment in time, to -- for republicans to take stock of what theyre role is of putting party above -- of country above party and that will be one of the many themes of the week as this day plays out. >> thank you, mike. that 08 campaign was a great snapshot of the two men, biden and mccain on opposite sides but still preserving that friendship and that civility in politics. michael, when you think about that, the roles that they played and how mccain could have become president but s...

Work along the 405 freeway that was forwarded and broadcast the most today. it seems to tell the story of life struggling to go on in a huge teeming metropolitan area that is operating under crisis. the largest of these four fires has burned 90,000 acres. now, quickly, on another front tonight, this will get a lot of people talking. our ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley made some news today when she said right now it is an open question, whether or not u.s. athletes will attend the winter olym...

We are so fortunate to be joined here tonight by our friend the celebrated author michael besh has who once again got our attention on his twitter feed this week by quoting lincolns second inaugural address in the wake of our conversation about the role of commander in chief and those who lost their lives serving our countries and their families. to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow. michael, did you ever believe that this part of the job of president of the united s...

Of approaching this. he obviously wanted to console the family, and one of the ways he did this was he wrote a letter to, as he said, whoever is president of the united states in 1956, 15 years later. and he asked whoever that would be to nominate colin kellys at that period one-year-old son to west point, give him an appointment to west point. and roosevelt released the letter and he said im making this request as an act of faith in the destiny of our country, essentially im saying i think ther...

Percentage. and the other thing is that the military tends -- i was so struck by what you and jack jacobs were talking about. >> yeah. >> one result of this is if you and i walk down lets say kt avenue in waushtd in the year lets just pick a year 1949, you know, we were after world war ii, you would have seen a lot of people in uniform walking down the street from every branch. you know, how often would you see that nowadays? >> thats a great point to end. michael besh has. michael, thank you as...

The battlefield. and i think one of the most important things for a president to do is, you know, if a president does not intend to push for victory, at least be frank about that. thats one thing that lyndon johnson did not do. he sent a lot of american soldier to vietnam privately saying i dont expect to win. i hope against hope that what were not seeing tonight is donald trump sending americans into harms way and privately essentially saying, as he did in 2012, the second we get out i expect t...

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Balance. >> this is absolutely lesson one of kissingers state craft. its clear that jared kushner and i think also clear that president trump has understood that, internalized that. up next well apply all of this to the big foreign policy challenges right now, including the north korea standoff and the massive bomb dropped on isis fighters in afghanistan yesterday. well also be joined by presidential historian michael besh loss to help put the week in historical perspective. national security ...