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justice is blind now. that s a lofty standard. sta but because americans have long believed in fairnessndarericans, and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behave d in good faith, this country has, for liv the most part, lived up to its core ideal for two hundred and fifty years, making it the greatest country in the world. but the populist surgthe of 2016 changed everything permanent. washington s suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by american voters than by any foreign adversary, donald trump. dom, seem more dangerous than isis. they panicked and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as thete american intel agencies and if necessary, the u.s. armyopponen. against their political opponents. they felt they had n theyo choin doing this. they abandoned the ancient principld e of equality under the law, and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. opponents of the ....
military talks. listen. china has a history of falling victim of foreign aggression, even today the u.s. and several of its side kicks grocery ininterfere in our internal affairs from time to time. china is not the old china of 120 years ago and we re not iraq, syria or afghanistan. we will not allow any foreign force to bully, suppress or enslave us. whoever wants to do so will be on a collision course with the great wall of seal forged by the 1.4 billion chinese people. we ll get the white house response from john kirby in just a moment. first, we go to greg palkot. he joins us from london this afternoon. hi, greg. hi, gillian. yeah, some tough talk from china and more tough action as the exercises around taiwan continue. first the action. taiwan air force jets scrambled as chinese war planes crossed the median line in the strait separating china and taiwan. it s a key buffer zone. that was pounded by chinese artillery yesterday in addition to the dozen misses t ....
And that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. Katie tur is going to take over. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west, its 2 00 p. M. In washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. Well see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the Iran Nuclear Deal. Even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. Trump was pressed on issues here at home. And at this afternoons joint Press Conference, it was his embattled pick to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. I havent heard of the particular allegations, but i will tell you, hes one of the finest people that i have met. Admiral jackson, dr. Jackson, hes a wonderful man. I said to him, what are you needed for . And as far as ex ....
And his movementthey r because the only time victoria nuland wasn t in government, she was work gov for clinton. then she worked for dick cheney, then she worked for obama. now she worked for biden was when donald trump was elected president . that s the onl donalp way you ge people out of government. and that s why they re single mindedly determinee d to criminalize not the republican party, but donald trump and his movemenize with thi that s what we saw yesterday with his indictment and today with this person who sgoing to w going to prison because off anti hillary clinton. memes, he posted on twittert the pro the problem is in organizing the system thabls int they cut h the majority of the population are the majority of americantio voters of either party in favor, for example, of going an war with nuclear armed russia and china? i don t think there d s any i evidence the majority is in favor of that. y douo you know or for examplei keeping troops in syria, which i would bet yo ....
Been able to do and help supporting ukraine. look how we ve been able to help rally so much of the international community over what s going on with respect to taiwan. look i want to clarify. are you implying that if we hadn t pulled our troops from afghanistan we would not be able to provide support to taiwan and ukraine and other allies? i m not saying that we wouldn t be able to do it. obviously as a super power, we ll still be able to do it but we re able to focus on the threats of 2022 as opposed to the threats of 2001. keeping troops indefinitely in afghanistan was not serving the greater national interests. the threat from terrorism quite frankly has metastasized in content and character and geographic location to other places outside afghanistan. we re going to stay focused on that threat. we took that strike on ....