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Things. he got elected on the economy and covid and he needs to be seen being effective and active on these everyone use and these are meta forces beyond the control any president. we kind of assume that presidents can control everything. they can't. right, but they are held accountable for everything. he needs to be seen as working on those issues and then quietly win what legislative victories he can instead of setting deadlines that get passed and goals they can't achieve. >> number one is the larger issue, the covid exhaustion. the president ran a campaign. presidents get too much criticis...

The democrats to vote on it. he is blocking it. he can say what he wants to say. the facts are it is a filibuster by the republicans that is blocking the 50 democrats plus the vice president. >> yeah. it's tough when the other side doesn't have something they want to negotiate for. you touched on this a little bit i think in your answer just now. it's like there's a debate going on around democrats as you try to figure out how the package will get smaller. and even everyone i think acknowledges it will get smaller. whether that means taking certain programs and saying we're not going to do the...

I quickly wanted to ask you, there's nobody better to talk about this then you. you have covered this at the pentagon for the 20 years we've been there. before their we were based in the middle east. have you ever seen in your career, anything handled the wa that this as been handled so far ? >> i must say i haven't. i've been going to afghanistan since 1993 so even before the taliban we're formed, i lived i islam a bad pakistan. i never thought i would see the day that the u.s. would not learn from mistakes of the past of what happens with you create a vacuum in the middle east. when you pull...

Opinion? >> it is incredible. i don't know how you separate fact from opinion. but this is what rudy guiliani obviously thinks is working. >> it is true. quite telling in that tape. guiliani said nowadays facts are in the eye of the beholder, and i think that's true, but the key thing to understand is that rudy guiliani is not a lawyer in the traditional sense of the term protecting his client from criminal charges. guiliani knows that ultimately he will have to protect trump from impeachment, which is a political matter that plays out in congress. his audience is the broader american public. ...