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served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justice s son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, it s remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was working in the reagan administration, in the white house, he was helping to prepare her for her confirmation hearing, and then, of course, senator biden was somebody questioning her as part of the process, and who engaged with her and even told her that she should use the fact that she was going to be this trailblazer, this first woman to serve as a supreme court justice as something she could use to go out and push the equal rights amendment forward, for instance, and that s something sand ....
Hasn t visited a military base yet, and he said, and i m quoting the president now well, i will do that at some point, but i don t think it s overly necessary. i ve been very busy with everything that s taking place here. joining us with moyer, historian michael beshlash, he has a new book, presidents of war. thank you so much for joining us. president trump says he s very busy and as a result he hasn t visited with the troops. it s another place where president trump is departing from tradition. the best example was president lincoln. he said he didn t want to get too separate from the soldiers as a result of the decisions he made. lincoln said built the cemetery ....
Near my summer home. i want to be the graves being dug of the soldiers i sent off to die in this war. it will be very painful for me, but i want to be emotionally involved in the decision. my own sense is he hasn t visited, because he thinking those wars were a disaster for the united states. he says the u.s. never should have gotten involved in the middle east, and he would like to pull out, for all practical purposes. well, fine, but part of the job of a president, whether you like the war you re in or not, is to be involved with the soldiers who are waging it, and he really shouldn t there. let me get your thoughts as a presidential historian, last night the president joking about a u.s. congressman who acknowledged body-slamming a journalist, and the president making fun of that. from your perspective, what was your reaction. yeah, you know, maybe it was fine in front of a crowd, but a president encouraging violence, a president who has recently ....
For the washington post out with a new piece tonight. it s a hard problem inside trump s decision to send more troops to afghanistan. michael crowley back with us as well senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico. and kimberly atkins is with us, chief washington porter for the boston herald. michael i ll begin with you by quoting the always smart michael beshlash. can t think of any other president in history had had who had to start a president on war and peace by vowing he opposed bigotry and prejudice. your reaction, michael? pretty amazing. rather unexpected. that marks his third ob maybe fourth bite at this apple trying to get it right on his reaction to charlottesville, brian. and i think the larger picture here is that trump saw this as an opportunity to elevate himself above the chaos and controversy of the past couple ....
My favorites, appeared on martin bashir s show this afternoon, who said gingrich was a lobbyist. he said a lot worse. let s listen to barney frank. two l words, lobbyist and liar, newt gingrich was reprimanded by the house of representatives for lying and he has a history of doing that. this is nonsense he was being paid $1.6 million, maybe more, to talk about history, to talk about the transcontinental railroads. he was clearly there as a lobbyist. he kind of slipped and acknowledged that when he said to justify that large amount of money, after all, i d been speaker of the house. you don t enhance your academic credentials by having been speaker. what you enhance is your value as a lobbyist. i was just thinking, if you work for freddie mac, you must be having a hard time. who should we hire, michael beshlash, david mccullough, what about our house historian on housing? clearly he s the lobbyist in chief. let me ask you this. yeah. here s a guy, and here s where it s really ....