Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180902:17:49:00
Chris, thanks for your time. let's start with this. your provocative claims say that the country is facing the inevitable collapse of the american empire. how do you back that up and what do you mean by that? >> first of all, we've extended ourselves militarily 17 years now of warfare into conflicts that are futile that we're not going to win, exhausting trillions of dollars while the country is being hollowed out by the inside, not only in terms of deindustrialization but austerity. and the orchestration of the largest american wealth in history. you can't do that with an oligarchy system and...