actually opened diplomatic relations to china 40 years ago as you, mika, and your family know so well. and also a man who championed human rights. human rights leading in to the 1980s when that call not only from jimmy carter and later ronald reagan and the pope, and margaret thatcher and others, actually eventually led to the fall of the iron curtain. >> thichink about that. then, of course, this president, president trump, just made a huge change in america's approach to the holy land. we will be talking about that. >> actually, that will take us further from peace. >> that's correct. good morning. and this is just a friday, march 22nd. along with joe, willie and me, we have historian, author of "the sole of america" and profess professor jon meacham.