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Jolly, former congressman from florida and msnbc political contributor. i will spare you the indignity of singing "happy birthday." a spin of wheel of sorts, each of you gets to pick your topic of those i presented and give me your expert opinions. birthday boy, you first. >> all right, i'll take the g20, specifically as it relates to climate, alex, because i think this is an interesting moment for joe biden and the four years ahead of him, which is this. we have approached climate as this existential crisis where we have these inflection points, where we've moved a dramatic amount of resource...

Does that keep you up at night? >> i wonder how close we came. those are incredible inflection points. but i also, having been a member of the republican party at one point in my life recognize the inflection points at which republicans did nothing that allowed the president to come to the point that gave us the january 6th. and what they were unwilling to do. and it does keep me up at night. and it does concern me. but to john heilemann's question with regard to what this committee is willing to do, i see individuals like liz cheney and adam an zinger who are operating almost as kamikaze's wi...

Place might have meant on the pressure points that our democracy might reveal. i want to go through three of the inflection points he named. the justice department refuses to legitimatize trump's claim. this is what matt is talking about. clark reveils in that power struggle with rosen. pence refuses to use the ceremonial role to reject state's electors. we know from the woodward/costa back pence was on the fence. maybe i will. dan quayle says no, no no. turning point number three, what the white house would have done in a gop controlled more delegations would have gone with trump's plan. i wo...

Congressman barbara lee momentarily about, that breaking news. but i want to begin tonight about talking about where we're at. we're at an inflection points. because donald trump might be gone, but the stress test he's putting our democratic system through is still very much in progress. and what we do right now in this moment, will have a lasting impact on our democracy. and it will dictate whether our democracy survives. do you think i'm being melodramatic? trust me, i'm not melodramatic. ask yourself this question. when else in our history has one party been so concerned only about winning?...

Over time, however, that mission morphed into convoluted counter insurgency and nation building. while the u.s. presence in afghanistan true down significantly over the last two years, the lack of a defined strategy continued to erode the mission. one of the clearest inflection points was the ill-fated decision to go to war in iraq. just as we began to achieve momentum in afghanistan, the bush administration's innovation of iraq through critical resources, troops and focus away from the afghan theater, our best opportunity in afghanistan was squandered and we were never able to get back on tra...