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Countries, in democracies, is long—term open—ended military commitments do require public support. with me our political correspondent ione wells. it has made a massive splash today and it came days after president biden claim no allies had been questioning his policy. now it is splashed across all the uk front pages. tony blair is calling the policy imbecilic and that is coming and the west needs to have a policy
. >> he did that as well. unbeknownst to almost everyone, this was -- northern really knew about this. he is just putting this out to announce that the meeting is off, which is a strange move. it's characteristic for him in the way he deals with diplomacy basically on twitter, the way he tries to act tough and look tough, project toughness not just to people around the world and other leaders but people at home and his base looking firm. this seems like something where it's largely a pretext to move away from doing something that is not fully cooked yet. i don't have all the answers on exactly...
And these democrats. i will tell you why. if you hit me with facts and testimonials and logic, i will change my position on things. >> katie: are you changing it? >> jesse: no. not on the border wall. i haven't been convinced. but on things like sweaters, i have changed my opinion and things like guns or gay marriage or military commitments. i am open minded. the democrats, no matter how many facts you explain, they don't move. it leads me to think if they don't want to wall because they don't want to -- they don't want to secure the border. you cannot say you are for border security and be ag...
As you and i learned, victor, along with other a lot of other journalists. what the insiders and pollsters think is one thing. and then what the actual voters think and do can be quite different. but, yeah, there's no particular reason to think that war and peace is going to be central and on the agenda. the reality, of course, we are fighting these long wars we have gigantic military commitments. donald trump capitalized on the discontent that many of us don't focus on. tulsi gabbard seems taking a page out of that book. >> gabbard a few months ago sent a tweet message to the president after ...
Americans feel, if only for a fleeting moment, and i'm sure it's going to be fleeting, because i don't think he's going to change. that somebody is in control and that everything isn't too wacky. and i think it's very important for any president to send that message, especially at a time of so much volatility, both domestically and around the world. >> the -- mona, the "washington post" just last month said this. trump has so far declined to visit those combat regions, saying he does not want to associate himself with wars he views as failures, according to current and former advisers who spok...