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Why didn't anybody in the trump administration do anything better than what was handed to biden? >> i don't -- i don't have any idea why the biden administration didn't go forward with the plan. it's been seven months. i can understand getting your feet on the ground and figuring things out but at the end of the day, we certainly had the ability to do a responsible drawdown and departure from there through some additional planning. i can't answer that. but we weren't going to execute the final withdraw so i have no way to answer your question on that, sorry. >> no, not on the biden side, on th...

Be set up or have a problem getting out of there. i don't understand why nobody ever took any of the other steps that you are outlining. well, the afghan allies and when we get people out. that wasn't in there but we were going to do it later. the deadline when we'd be out. those were all soft points, we were going to deal with it later. why didn't anybody in the trump administration do anything better than what was handed to biden? >> i don't -- i don't have any idea why the biden administration didn't go forward with the plan. it's been seven months. i can understand getting your feet on the...

Russia? >> well, first, joy, i just was watching your show and i can't help but link what you were just talking about to the global stage. what happened on january 6th, the erosion of our democracy, and how people that won't stand up for it, that hurts the united states of america when we go into meetings with guys -- with leaders like mr. putin or xi jinping, and i just -- it frustrates me that people, domestically, don't see how that hurts us on this global stage. we want, as president biden rightly said in his previous meetings here in europe, to bring together the democracies of the world,...

Wanted it to overtake the agenda. because of all that, because of all the reluctance to do that, we saw vice president harris, she was flippant at one point, she was like, i've not visited europe as well, i've not visited the border, and then she said she would. inside the white house, there is very much -- it's a two-person shop. this is not one unit, necessarily. the west wing has been really planning and preparing for president biden's trip here and a separate group have been working on vice president harris' trip to guatemala and mexico city. there are been harsh assessments of her perform...

Or public option. but many voters say that the thing they are most interested in is ways to bring healthcare cost down by reducing prescription drug costs and reducing premiums. >> well, our road warriors have been crisscrossing the country as well with the candidates for months. three of them voin join me now. ali vitali. so, mike, let me start with you on healthcare. it does seem as if in the last three months, the -- the moderates or the pragmatists are suddenly winning the fight over the progressives. six months ago, the progressives were winning and medicare for all looked like it was on....