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Presidential historian doris kearns goodwin and u.s. national editor at "the financial times," ed luce is with us this morning. ed, your latest piece for the f.t. is entitled, "trump would burn america before facing justice." that's one way to put it. i think he would. >> he really would. we'll get to that in a second. doris, eight years ago today, donald trump went down the escalator. you had talked to us about this yesterday. let's just revise one of the most famous questions in presidential debate history. are you better off now than you were four years ago? how are we in america, eight yea...

That is the most important question to ask. >> to add to the long list, do you want someone who wouldn't can't hire an administration? every he has hired as either testified against him or he has -- i can't think of a nicer way to say it -- screwed over. he doesn't care. he hires people and dumps them and trashes them. who would want to work for this man? who would want anything to do with him? >> also, the prosecutor's witness list are all people who work for him. >> it'll be tough. >> yeah. >> let's read from ed's piece, "trump would burn america before facing justice." ed, you write, in eac...

Namely, weaponizing justice to go after his enemies. this time, he's not going to have a jeff sessions. >> ed, ed, not to interrupt you, but one of the things that drives me crazy is, 77 million americans voted for him despite the fact he very publicly pressured his own attorney general two weeks before the election to arrest his opponent who was leading him in the poll s, and his opponent's family. barr wouldn't don't. >> yeah. >> but if barr had continued down the trajectory he had been on, he would have arrested joe biden and joe biden's family. that's why i'm saying, the whole thing where ...

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This is elephant givs birth to a mouse situation. what the fuss was about? i don't know. i'm sure, steve, we'll have more breakdown on the numbers here, but the bottom line is biden keeps being underestimated, and he keeps pulling off wins. >> katty. >> yeah, ed, all of that is right, and it is extraordinary he's managed to do this. actually, you know, we saw a moment, god forbid, of republicans and democrats doing the sensible thing. but there is this looming question about how this feeds back onto america's reputation around the world. we're going to go through this again, chances are, in tw...