Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181201:16:15:00
And i have kind of kept it privately until just now. >> fair enough, tom. john, let me ask you about the point that tom made. we have taken for granted until a couple of years ago that presidents had a rule book by which they practice american leadership on the world stage. but to tom's point, in that moment that george bush became president, george h.w. bush became president, it was not a given that east germany would work out or a given what russia's role would be at the time and not a given the role nato was going to play in securing the west. talk to me a little bit about the complexity of...