Duty, honor country, earn your metals many of the countries where, generals colonels and then other groups or lawyers. and when you are a lawyer, you are supposed to understand the constitution of law and order. trump is this bizarre one offe who is for spent his career as kind of a grift or it s like a reality tv star yes reality tv star so, dark i hear what you ar saying about this point abou the spectacle of the america president. there are scholars out there and even some historians tha argue that the founding father deliberately did not put tha kind of provision in the constitution because it implie that the president is above th law. what is your interpretation of that , look presidents are no above the law and particularly once you leave office as an ex president, it s true we d be sitting presidents on th latitude i mean we talk all the tim about a presidents ability t pardon, donald trump and
West point, duty, honor country, david, when you think about what that means, not just to young cadets what do you reflect on. we look at western honor versus eastern philosophy honor two different things. you know we put so much emphasis on perception of how other people see us. and if you give me 20 men and women who believe inside, what motivates me is how i see myself. my own integrity, i am my own compass, i can do anything with 20 men and women who are committed like that if our honor is controlled by culture and society that is one thing, that honor has what to be inside you. tim. it is for me, being worthy to stand next to
West point, duty, honor country, david, when you think about what that means, not just to young cadets what do you reflect on. we look at western honor versus eastern philosophy honor two different things. you know we put so much emphasis on perception of how other people see us. and if you give me 20 men and women who believe inside, what motivates me is how i see myself. my own integrity, i am my own compass, i can do anything with 20 men and women who are committed like that if our honor is controlled by culture and society that is one thing, that honor has what to be inside you. tim. it is for me, being worthy to stand next to
About partisanship it was he and tip o neill, democrat speaker they famously jarred with but they had a friendship. there was a core of reservoir and respect, love for the united states of america, the founding documents, its constitution, its principles, you could disagree but at the end of the day could agree on that core. we are an american experiment entering into a dangerous chapter of our experiment as keeping our republic as we teach our young people america want good from the beginning. i love those words and i agree with him. i think we re in uncharted water, how we educate them, bringing them to ceremonies like this to remind them how exceptional this country is. rachel: i grew up on a military base as you well know. i come from a hispanic family, i hear more talk about race and what divides us that makes us different now, what is that 30 years later than i did growing up in the military, in the