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Holocaust wasnt the subject. i started school in about 1952 or 53. kindergarten. but it just wasnt the subject. and my wife was french. i dont think it was really being taught in the schools either. and i got to say, this is strange, but true, i never did this book to teach anybody anything. i was trying to find a story, important enough to spend time drawing and it turned out to be 13 years to do that. and i -- it wasnt about being didactic. none of that. i knew i had a story worth telling. whe...

Definitely been harm, thats kind of obvious. republicans will try to use this to win back control of congress and if they win back control of congress theyll use it to beat up the biden administration through hearings. thats an ongoing problem. i think we shouldnt be surprised that joe biden has said for years he thought we should be out of afghanistan, he said it repeatedly during the campaign, everybody else in the campaign including then president trump agreed by the way. i think the broader ...

American people can handle a lot of things. they can handle the truth but they have to be told the truth. chris: jerry, ive got less than a minute left. white house officials seem to feel that as many as august of 2021 is, in the end most people are going to be happy were out of afghanistan and thats going to be the political take-out even if this evacuation didnt go well. could they be right about that? >> they could very well be right. most americans forgot about afghanistan a long time ago. i...

Definitely been harm, thats kind of obvious. republicans will try to use this to win back control of congress and if they win back control of congress theyll use it to beat up the biden administration through hearings. thats an ongoing problem. i think we shouldnt be surprised that joe biden has said for years he thought we should be out of afghanistan, he said it repeatedly during the campaign, everybody else in the campaign including then president trump agreed by the way. i think the broader ...

American people can handle a lot of things. they can handle the truth but they have to be told the truth. chris: jerry, ive got less than a minute left. white house officials seem to feel that as many as august of 2021 is, in the end most people are going to be happy were out of afghanistan and thats going to be the political take-out even if this evacuation didnt go well. could they be right about that? >> they could very well be right. most americans forgot about afghanistan a long time ago. i...

This that are going to hurt our reputation our national security . >> we do know that he went explicitly against the advice o the intelligence committee, the department of defense for state department in all of the foreig policy establishment which has been very much in joe bidens camp. >> they couldnt wait for him. >> i could i want to say one thing about the trump compariso in that because i think it was absolutely misplaced right i think the speech in some ways i you were giving a speech abou...

Under some kind of cloud of controversy and returned having regained control of the message. we saw that when he took his first trip to saudi arabia, israel, and europe. he left about a week after firing fbi director comey. he left a few days after the comey memos were coming out. special counsel robert mueller was appointed in the time frame. controversy was reaching what seemed to be a fever pitch at that time. he came back in control of the message. folks were talking about the g-7. they were...

In public, but generally, hearings can be very partisan. and with something like this, i think where you have seen, at least on the house side it become overly partisan, and i think david raises an important point. i think from both sides, probably, it would be better to have an independent investigation, and there are people who say, well, you can never find a non-partisan person in washington. thats probably true, but you can find somebody who actually wasnt advising president trump on the cam...

Chris is back with us. chris, in the next 24 hours, the president is going to be leaving south korea after a security briefing and going to malaysia. right in the center of the storm that malaysia the government has been experiencing over the missing plane. >> when this trip is planned it was a historic visit for president obama. first u.s. president in 50 years to visit malaysia. anything other than the search for malaysia flight 370 has gone out, you know, off the board. theres been a lot of c...

Minutes? how defensive was mubarak? how aggressive was president obama? i think this is pretty transparent for the most part but, clearly, theres a big chunk of that conversation that -- that we dont know about. >> chuck todd, nbc news chief white house correspondent, thank you very much for joining us tonight, chuck. >> reporter: you got it, sir. all right. >> joining our live conversation of the situation in egypt, the executive editor of "the bloomberg view" and chief spokesman for the state ...