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Trope, finds a full expression in the pentagon papers. you had a government commission study about how the various administrations had essentially misled us, at every point, through that work. it was published in 1971. i think that was the same weekend as tricia coxs wedding. so nixon was distracted, but not too distracted. to become -- and he lashed out in reaction to the leak, which exacerbated the conditions of watergate, which in turn helped create the suspicion of government. and so, i thin...

Years later reading stories a lot like they came out of 1971 and 1972. >> absolutely. the phrase, most of watergate is white house horrors, right? it was just one thing after another. and the great -- to me, the great lesson of watergate is it was a case where the system broke and then the system repaired itself. and this is hugely important for where we are now, right? because it was barry goldwater, right? it was john rhodes. it was republicans in the house and in the senate, and to go to your...

I think israel has needed a change for a long time. it makes me sad that bibi netanyahu, someone who is very bright and capable, missed every opportunity to lobby for peace and also broke apart the u.s. support, the unanimous bipartisan support for israel. the last four years were pitching to republicans only and i think that will cost america and israel a lot, but i just want to say one more thing, and that is that with this rainbow coalition, the policies of the government will have to move to...

Things. vietnams nixons handling of it. and were still living with the consequences. donald trump. the silent majority -- the way that nixon pitched himself as the man of the regular people against the -- >> i think kurt froze. well get kurt back. susan page, in the pentagon papers and a great point was made, this really wasnt just about richard nixon. in fact, it really was very damning towards lbg and even kennedy. and i talk about the ken burns documentary. but you look at all of this materia...

>> we should have a spirit of criticism within the government. in fact, the commissioning of the study was important. and then we have to have the courage to face facts. we cant become captive to our own ideology, to our own narrative and wishful thinking. the incentive of the american people is wishful thinking. the pentagon papers tell us that we follow the truth, we have to have the coverage to stay after it, pursue it, publish it, and a healthy democracy understands its weaknesses and addres...

Right now the u.s./russian relationship, as important as it is, and biden wants to stabilize it and create a floor under it. in some ways, the reason he wants to stabilize sit china. so over the next couple of days, in the back of our mind, we ought to be thinking, not simply how does this provide a context for a meeting with putin that hopefully stabilizes this relationship. but if you can do that, it freezes up the deal more with china. >> let me ask you about. we had ambassador john bolton on...

Erdogan, with whom he has a tense relationship to this point. >> jonathan lemire, greatly appreciate it. lets go now to james stavridis. hes international security and diplomacy analyst for nbc news and msnbc. admiral, russia invaded crimea, invaded ukraine, interfered with our election, have ransomware attacks, and yet it serves us little purpose to be provocative. so how do we -- for those of us bo want to have a constructive relationship with vladimir putin, how do we do that when

Less than even. >> and admiral, we all remember back in the late 80s, early 90s after the soviet union disintegrated, the concerns about nuclear weapons and where they landed. the concerns about the chaos that can spread across the former soviet union and into russia, obviously, were life and death concerns. >> indeed, they are. and in many ways, joe, we ought to worry more about russian weakness than russian strength. and what i means by that is precisely your point. what happens in this massiv...