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Argue for another decade or two decades or three decades of american military involvement in afghanistan. those folks are arguing, as he said in his speech, that we could just have a low grade or low risk or low cost engagement there and president biden pointed out the very real human cost of staying at war. the costs borne by 1% of our population who fight in the armed forces and who year after year, decade after decade bore those costs in afghanistan. he said no. i'm not going to keep going. i'm not going to keep sending thousands of troops to fight in a civil war in another country for an o...

Readout of the meeting. let me read you a little bit of it just to give you a sense of what they discussed, according to the white house. it says today president trump met with foreign minister lavrov. he briefed president trump in the state of the bilateral relationship between the united states and russia. it does say that president trump warned against any russian attempts to interveer fere in u states election elections. that part notable, because that is at the center of this impeachment, and this impeachment has put the president's policies as it relates to russia and ukraine under incre...

Where advisers and people around the president have a say, have some sway? and your story about the president retreating to his own quarters was also, if you look at all of this, about do i want staff? do i want professionals? do i want advisers? or would i really like to do everybody's job? that's a bit of the wild, wild west, isn't it? >> it is. i wonder if you think americans fully understand what the president did and whether or not it was acceptable. do you think the case has been made and it's permeated the american psyche? >> you know, alex, what's difficult right now is that the word u...

Convincing picture of what happened and how concerning it was to the really impressive foreign policy professionals that we've seen. and at the same time, as you suggested, that it hasn't really shaken even if republicans are shaken in private, it hasn't shaken loose a single republican vote probably in the house or in the senate. i do want to take issue, though, with one thing that my good friend jeff goldberg said. he said everything is known. i think we have conclusive proof of fundamentally outrageous, disturbing behavior that occurred at the direction of and by the president of the united...

Who was a russian defector who- flown his mig over from east germany and i'm a cold war guy and that's why i joined the republican party. to see the people i've spent 30 years helping to elect act like a bunch of truth bending idiots is heartbreaking. this is what's happened under donald trump. we've thrown our honor away. ronald reagan is spinning in his grave and it's a debacle because they don't have an argument. when you don't have the facts and the law, you just make noise. i thought jim jordan would start going with sock puppets. he- nothing left. i think the democrats earned with the tr...