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served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. >> reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justices son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, its remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was wo...

Hasnt visited a military base yet, and he said, and im quoting the president now -- well, i will do that at some point, but i dont think its overly necessary. ive been very busy with everything thats taking place here. joining us with moyer, historian michael beshlash, he has a new book, "presidents of war." thank you so much for joining us. president trump says hes very busy and as a result he hasnt visited with the troops. >> its another place where president trump is departing from tradition....

Near my summer home. i want to be the graves being dug of the soldiers i sent off to die in this war. it will be very painful for me, but i want to be emotionally involved in the decision. >> my own sense is he hasnt visited, because he thinking those wars were a disaster for the united states. he says the u.s. never should have gotten involved in the middle east, and he would like to pull out, for all practical purposes. >> well, fine, but part of the job of a president, whether you like the wa...

For the "washington post" out with a new piece tonight. its a hard problem inside trumps decision to send more troops to afghanistan. michael crowley back with us as well senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico. and kimberly atkins is with us, chief washington porter for the "boston herald." michael ill begin with you by quoting the always smart michael beshlash. cant think of any other president in history had had who had to start a president on war and peace by vowing he opposed bigo...

My favorites, appeared on martin bashirs show this afternoon, who said gingrich was a lobbyist. he said a lot worse. lets listen to barney frank. >> two "l" words, lobbyist and liar, newt gingrich was reprimanded by the house of representatives for lying and he has a history of doing that. this is nonsense he was being paid $1.6 million, maybe more, to talk about history, to talk about the transcontinental railroads. he was clearly there as a lobbyist. he kind of slipped and acknowledged that wh...

That summer in new york. they ran that guy josh davis, he got trounsed. coolidge won the election, sworn in in march of 1925 and the klan, having flexed its muscles that way in national politics in the lead up to the election, coolidge wasnt their guy. they wanted a democrat in there. but they decided that once coolidge was in there, it was time for them to make another show of political power. and this time they didnt want to make it within one political party, particularly a political party ou...

>> two "l" words, lobbyist and liar, newt gingrich was reprimanded by the house of representatives for lying and he has a history of doing that. this is nonsense he was being paid $1.6 million, maybe more, to talk about history, to talk about the transcontinental railroads. he was clearly there as a lobbyist. he kind of slipped and acknowledged that when he said to justify that large amount of money, after all, id been speaker of the house. you dont enhance your academic credentials by having be...